In the Argument, Calvin simply outlines his plan for the third book.
He styles his discussion, as he does the entire Institutes, as an exposition of the Apostle's Creed. So, in the third book he is elaborating on the work of the Holy Spirit in redemption applied.
It's interesting that he seems to move from a general consideration of saving faith and repentance, to the Christian Life or Sanctification as the life of repentance in mortification (of the flesh/sin) and vivification (in the Spirit), to prior Justification, to prayer as the "principal exercise of faith" and daily means of grace, to Election, to the Resurrection.
The logic of his discourse might not be immediately obvious. But, there is a discernible flow that becomes more apparent as you go in the way these topics are inter-related elements of God's application of salvation to sinners.
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