Calvin’s classic short treatise on Christian living (De vita hominis christiani), long circulated on its own as the “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life.” The text is Institutes Book III, chapters 6–10, in Henry Beveridge’s 1845 translation, here in CCEL’s standalone edition (chr_life.xml). See also the same material in its home context, beginning at Institutes III.6.
Chapters
- Life of a Christian Man. Scriptural Arguments Exhorting to it.
- A Summary of the Christian Life. Of Self-Denial.
- Of Bearing the Cross—One Branch of Self-Denial.
- Of Meditating on the Future Life.
- How to Use the Present Life, and the Comforts of It.
Overlap with other editions
Same text elsewhere in this library
On the Christian Life (the “Golden Booklet”) is not a separate treatise but an extract of the Institutes, Book III, chapters 6–10, published on its own since the sixteenth century. The same five chapters are held in full in Institutes of the Christian Religion: III.6 · III.7 · III.8 · III.9 · III.10