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Venerable Company and the Archives of Geneva, in Opera, VIII. 141–
248.—CALVIN: De aeterna Dei Praedestinatione, etc., usually called
Consensus Genevensis (1552)—chiefly an extract from the respective
sections of his Institutes; reprinted in Opera, VIII. 249–366. It is the
second part of his answer to Pighius (“the dead dog,” as he calls him),
but occasioned by the process of Bolsec, whose name he ignores in
contempt.—CALVIN’S letter to Libertetus (Fabri of Neuchâtel),
January, 1552, in Opera, XIV. 278 sq.—The Letters of the Swiss
Churches on the Bolsec affair, reprinted in vol. VIII. 229 sqq.—BEZA:
Vita Calv. ad ann. 1551.
II. Hierosme Hermes Bolsec, docteur Médecin à Lyon: Histoire de
la vie, moeurs, actes, doctrine, constance et mort de Jean Calvin, jadis
ministre de Genève, Lyon, 1577; Rééditée avec une introduction, des
extraits de la vie de Th. de Bèze, par le même, et des notes à
l’appuipar M. LOUIS-FRANÇOIS CHASTEL, magistrat. Lyon, 1875 (xxxi
and 328). On the character and different editions of this book, see La
France Protest., II. 755 sqq.
III. Bayle: “Bolsec” in his “Diction. historique et critique.”—F.
TRECHSEL: Die Protest. Antitrinitarier (Heidelberg, 1844). Bd. I. 185–
189 and 276–284.—HENRY, III. 44 sqq., and the second Beilage to
vol. Ill., which gives the documents (namely, the charges of the
ministers of Geneva, Bolsec’s defence, his poem written in prison, the
judgments of the Churches of Bern and Zürich—all of which are
omitted in the English version, II. 130 sqq.).—AUDIN (favorable to
Bolsec), ch. XXXIX.—DYER, 265–283.—*SCHWEIZER:
Centraldogmen, I. 205–238.—STÄHELIN, I. 411–414; II. 287–292.—
*La France Prot., sub, Bolsec,” tom. II. 745–776 (second ed.).
Against this article: Lettre d’un protestant Genevois aux lecteurs de la
France Protestante, Genève, 1880. In defence of that article, HENRI L.
BORDIER: L’école historique de Jérôme Bolsec, pour servir de
supplement à l’article Bolsec de la France Protestante, Paris
(Fischbacher), 1880.
Hieronymus (Hierosme) Hermes Bolsec, a native of Paris, was a Carmelite
monk, but left the Roman Church, about 1545, and fled for protection to
the Duchess of Ferrara, who admitted him to her house under the title of an
almoner. There he married, and adopted the medical profession as a means
of livelihood. Ever afterwards he called himself “Doctor of Medicine.” He