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allusion to Zwingli and Oecolampadius, that be never liked the view of
those who in “evertenda localis praesentiae superstitione nimis
occupati, verae praesentiae virtutem vel elevabant extenuando, vel
subticendo ex hominum memoria quodammodo delebant. Sed est
aliquid medium,” etc. In a letter to Viret (Sept. 3, 1542, in Opera, XI.
438) he remarks that he never read all of Zwingli’s works, and hoped
that towards the end of his life he retracted and corrected what first had
escaped him carelessly, but “I remember, in his earlier writings how
profane his doctrine of the sacraments is (quam profana sit ejus de
sacramentis doctrina).”
ft867 See the passages quoted in vol. VI. 679, note 1.
ft868 The ejpi>klhsiv pneu>matov aJgi>ou. The Latin liturgies ascribe the
power of consecration to Christ’s words of institution. See vol. Ill. 513.
ft869 See vol. IV. 549) sqq. and 564 sqq. Calvin refers to the Berengar
controversy.
ft870 See his letter to Bullinger, quoted in vol. VI. 661.
ft871 Questions 76, 78, 79. Comp. Westminster Confession, ch. XXIX. 7,
and Westminster Larger Catechism, qu. 170.
ft872 This characteristic expression he uses repeatedly; for instance, in the
work on the Necessity of Reforming the Church, in Opera, VI. 503:
“Canis, si quam suo domino violentiam inferri viderit, protinus
latrabit: nos tot sacrilegiis violari sacrum Dei nomen taciti
aspiceremus? Et ubi esset illud: Opprobria exprobantium tibi
ceciderunt super me (Ps. 69:9)?” And, again in the same book (fol.
507), with the addition, that a dog would rather risk his life than be
silent.
ft873 In applying the epithet nebulo to Castellio, he translates it by the
French un brouillon, which means a confused and turbulent fellow (not
a scamp). Schweizer renders it Wirrkopf (I. 212).
ft874 Isa. 56:10; Matt. 7:6; Phil. 3:2; Rev. 22:15.
ft875 Henry says (II. 289) that Pighius was converted by Calvin’s argument,
but be died (December, 1542) before Calvin’s reply was published
(February, 1543). The story rests on the authority of Crakanthorpe,
who asserts, in his Defensio Ecclesiae Anglicanae, that Pighius by
reading Calvin’s Institutes for the purpose of refuting them, became
himself a Calvinist in one of the chief articles of faith (he does not say