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ft1228 It is interesting to read the judgment on Calvin’s influence by a highly
accomplished lady, who moved in the best society of England and the
Continent. The Baroness Bunsen, whose husband was successively
Prussian Ambassador in Italy, Switzerland, and England, writes in one
of her letters (Aug. 19, 1865): “I read in the winter a life of Calvin by
Bungener, and a very painful book it is, but the subject is of grand
effect from the display of moral power almost unequalled .... The merit
of Calvin is his own, and he has been the creative instrument of the
strength of England, of Scotland, of the United States of America, not
to speak of the Protestants of France, who have been scattered abroad
to sow good seed in every country into which they fled, as not being
suffered to build up their own.”
ft1229 Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, vol. I 490-501.
ft1230 Stähelin, I. 607.
ft1231 See Letters in Bonnet, II. 382-391; his letter to Bullinger, May 11,
1560; Basnage, Hist. de la Religion des Égl. réf. II. 192-200; Henry,
III, 546 sqq.; Dyer, 478 sqq.; Stähelin, I. 615-619.
ft1232 Stähelin, I. 626 sqq.
ft1233 The cognate Bohemian Brethren continued under a new name in the
Moravian Brotherhood (Unitas Fratrum, Brüdergemeinde).
ft1234 Creeds of Christendom, I. 565 sqq. See also a report of conversations
which Calvin had at Strassburg with Matthias Czervenka, a Bohemian,
about the Bohemian Brethren in Gindely, Quellen zur Gesch. der
böhmischen Brüder, Wien, 1859, p. 68, quoted in Annal. Calv. XXI.
260 sqq. Calvin objected to the Waldenses at that time, that they
claimed merit and did not leave room for the doctrine of justification by
faith in Christ.
ft1235 Baum, Beza, I. 240 sqq.; Stähelin, I. 609-512; Dyer, 193-198.
ft1236 Creeds of Christendom, III. 767-770 (French and English).
ft1237 See Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, vol. I. pp. 529 sqq.
ft1238 Creeds of Christendom, I. 555 sqq.
ft1239 Motley (The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Ill. 617) thus characterizes
William of Orange, the Washington of Holland: “He was more than
anything else a religious man. From his trust in God, he ever derived
support and consolation in the darkest hours. Implicitly relying upon
Almighty wisdom and goodness, he looked danger in the face with a