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àla Theologie, et son père pretendoit de l’y faire employer.” In the
Latin Vita, Beza says that he was “tenera aetate mirum in modum
religiosus.” With this agrees the testimony of the Roman Catholic,
Florimond de Raemond, previously quoted, p. 273.
ft397 Le Vasseur, p. 1158. Beza gives some probability to this report by the
notice that Calvin was “severus omnium in suis sodalibus censor.”
ft398 “Doctor potius quam auditor,” says Beza, who studied in the same
universities a few years later, and lodged at Orleans in the house or
pension of Duchemin, a friend of Calvin.
ft399 Beza (XXI. 122): “Quibus continuatis vigiliis ille quidem solidam
eruditionem et excellentissiman memoriam est consequutus, sed etiam
vicissim, ut verisimile est, ventriculi imbecillitatem contraxit, quae
varios ipsi morbos et tandem etiam intempestivam mortem attulit.”
ft400 Florimond de Raemond (who shows a tendency to discredit the French
Reformation by tracing it to a foreign, German source) asserts that
Volmar first instilled the poison of heresy into the mind of Calvin, and
advised him to exchange the Code of Justinian for the Gospel of Christ.
But Calvin and Beza (Op. XXI. 122), while speaking highly of Volmar
as a teacher and friend, say nothing about his religious influence.
ft401 Opera, XII. no. 814. He apologizes for his long silence. The
correspondence with Volmar is lost, but may yet be found.
ft402 March 6, 1531. Herminjard, II. 314 sq. no. 328; Lefranc, 79 sq.
ft403 In Op. XXI. 190, the degree is dated from the year 1532.”Dans un act
de se jour [Febr. 14]est nommémaistre Jean CAUVINlicenciées lois.”
In a document relating to the settlement of the estate of the deceased
Gérard Cauvin, which Lefranc (p. 202) quotes from Le Vasseur
(Annal., p. 1169), and assigns to Feb. 14, 1631, Calvin is mentioned as
“licentiéès loix.”
ft404 “Absque ullo precio, summo docentium omnium consensu,” says Beza
(Op. XXI. 122). Colladon (f. 54) adds that Calvin refused the offer
(“ce que toutesfois il refusa”); but it is not clear whether he meant the
gratuity or the degree itself, probably the former.
ft405 Gerdes, IV. 201; M’Crie, 63; Dyer, Life of Calvin, p. 8. Burnet, in his
Hist. of the Ref. of the Ch. of England (Part I. Bk. II.), refers to a
letter of Calvin on the subject, which I cannot find in Herminjard.