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693–700 (and by Rilliet-Dufour, see below); the Latin in vol. V. 355–
362. See also vol. XXII. 5 sqq. (publ. 1880).
Le Catéchisme de l’Eglise de Genève, c’est à dire le Formulaire
d’instruire les enfans la Chretienté fait en manière de dialogue ou le
ministre interrogue et l’enfant respond. The first edition of 1537 is not
divided into questions and answers, and bears the title Instruction et
Confession de Foy dont on use en l’Eglise de Genève. A copy of it was
discovered by H. BORDIER in Paris and published by TH. DUFOUR,
together with the first ed. of the Confession de la Foy, at Geneva, 1878
(see below). A copy of a Latin ed. of 1545 had been previously found
in the Ducal library at Gotha.
Catechismus sive Christianae religionis institutio, communibus
renatae nuper in evangelio Genevensis ecclesiae suffragiis recepta et
vulgari quidem prius idiomate, nunc vero Latine etiam in lucem edita,
JOANNE CALVINO auctore. The first draft, or Catechismus prior, was
printed at Basel, 1538 (with a Latin translation of the Confession of
1537). Reprinted in Opera in both languages, vol. V. 313-364. The
second or larger Catechism appeared in French, 1541, in Latin, 1545,
etc.; both reprinted in parallel columns, Opera, vol. VI. 1–160.
(NIEMEYER in his Coll. Conf. gives the Latin text of the larger Cat.
together with the prayers and liturgical forms; comp. his Proleg.
XXXVII.–XLI. BÖCKEL in his Bekenntniss-Shriften der evang.
Reform. Kirche gives a German version of the larger Cat., 127–172.
An English translation was prepared by the Marian exiles, Geneva,
1556, and reprinted in DUNLOP’S Confessions, II. 139–272).
Calvin had a hand in nearly all the French and Helvetic confessions of
his age. See Opera, IX. 693–772.
*Albert Rilliet and THÉOPHILE DUFOUR: Le Catéchisme français de
Calvin publié en 1537, réimprimé pour la première fois d’après un
exemplaire nouvellement retrouvé, et suivi de la plus ancienne
Confession de Foi de l’Église de Genève (avec un notice sur le
premier séjour de Calvin à Genève, par ALBERT RILLIET, et une notice
bibliographique sur le Catéchisme et la Confession de Foi de Calvin,
par THÉOPHILE DUFOUR), Genève (H. GEORG.), and Paris
(Fischbacher), 1878, 16°. pp. CCLXXXVIII. and 146; reprinted in Opera,
XXII.