Calvin’s shorter theological and polemical works, in Henry Beveridge’s translations. The CCEL-sourced texts are clean transcriptions; the works taken from the Calvin Translation Society’s Tracts Relating to the Reformation (Edinburgh, 1844–1849) were converted from archive.org OCR of the printed volumes — mechanical noise has been removed by script, but occasional character errors may remain in those texts.
Reply to Sadoleto (1539)
Calvin’s celebrated answer to Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto’s letter inviting Geneva back to Rome, written in six days from his Strasbourg exile.
Short Treatise on the Lord’s Supper (1541)
Written in French for ordinary believers, to settle troubled consciences amid the eucharistic controversies; 60 short sections.
A Treatise on Relics (1543)
Calvin’s satirical inventory of the relics venerated across Europe, with the 19th-century translator’s notes preserved as footnotes.
The Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543)
Calvin’s defence of the Reformation, presented in the name of all who “wish Christ to reign” to the Imperial Diet at Spires (1544).
Catechism of the Church of Geneva (1545)
A form of instruction for children in the doctrine of Christ, as a Master–Scholar dialogue in five parts.
On the Christian Life (1559)
The “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life” — Institutes III.6–10, long circulated as a standalone devotional treatise.
Of Prayer (1559)
CCEL also circulates Of Prayer — A Perpetual Exercise of Faith as a standalone treatise; it is verbatim Institutes III.20, which is already in this vault as Institutes III.20, so it is not duplicated here.
The source volumes in _sources/treatises/ also contain further tracts
not yet converted (the Antidote to the Articles of the Paris Faculty, the
Paternal Admonition of Paul III with Calvin’s Remarks, the Genevan liturgy
and confession forms, the Westphal controversy tracts, the Antidote to
Trent, and Psychopannychia).