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ft444 Beza (XXI, 123): “Excepit juvenem [Calvinum] bonus senex et
libenter vidit, futurum augurans insigne coelestis in Gallia instaurandi
regni instrumentum.”
ft445 According to Florimond de Raemond.
ft446 Bayle, Art. Calvin and La Place. Crottet, Petite Chronique
Protestante de France, 96 sqq. Stähelin, I. 32. Lefranc, 120.
Herminjard, III. 202, note 4.
ft447 M. Crottet, Correspondance de Calvin avec L. du Tillet, 1850.
ft448 “Lumen Galliae.” See the Reminiscences of Basel, by Petrus Ramus
(1572), quoted in Op. XXI. 194. Ch. Waddington, Ramus, sa vie, ses
écrits et ses opinions, Paris, 1855. Stähelin, I. 41 sqq. Kampschulte, I.
250.
ft449 See above, p. 219. Ep. 2634, referred to in Op. XXI. 196.
ft450 “Video magnam pestem oriri in Ecclesia contra Ecclesiam.”
ft451 It rests on the sole authority of Florimond de Raemond, p. 890. He
puts the visit in the year 1534, when Calvin was yet in France, and
could not accompany Bucer. Beza and Colladon know nothing of such
an interview. Bayle doubted it. Merle d’Aubigné, III. 203-204 (Engl.
trans. III. 183-185), however, accepts and embellishes it as if he had
been present and heard the colloquy of the three scholars.
ft452 Kampschulte, a Roman Catholic historian, and others, call him “the
Aristotle;” Martin, a liberal French historian, and others, call him—
more appropriately—”the Thomas Aquinas,” of Protestantism.
ft453 Florimond de Raemond: “l’Alcoran ou plutôt le Talmud de l’hérésie.”
ft454 See the testimonies of Bossuet, and especially of Kampschulte, quoted
in 68, p. 285 sq.
ft455 “Videmur nobis agnoscere, dominum instituisse tui ustum ecclesiis
suis uberrimum concedere, eisque tuo ministerio latissime
commodare.” Herminjard, IV. 118.
ft456 Dogmengeschichte, vol. III. 27.
ft457 Kirchengeschichte, p. 405 (11th edition).
ft458 Many editors print, as a motto, the distich of the Hungarian, Paul
Thurius:
Praeter apostolicas post Christi temporachartas,
Huic peperere libro saecula nulla parem.”