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ft1270 This incident is related by Drelincourt, Bungener, and others, and
believed in Geneva.
ft1271 Comp. above, § 118, p. 595.
ft1272 · See above, § 92, pp. 413-424.
ft1273 Michelet (XI. 95): “Les martyrs, àleur dernier jour, se faisaient une
consolation, un devoir d’écrire àCalvin. Ils n’auraient pas quittéla vie
sans remercier celui dont la parole les avait menés àla mort. Leurs
lettres, respectueuses, nobles et douces, arrachant les larmes.”
ft1274 Institutes, bk. I. ch. XIV. 20. This whole chapter on Creation is
replete with admiration for the beauty and order of God’s universe.
“Were I desirous,” he says (21), “of pursuing the subject to its full
extent, there would be no end; since there are as many miracles of
divine power, as many monuments of divine goodness, as many proofs
of divine wisdom as there are species of things in the world, and even
as there are individual things either great or small.”
ft1275 This was the old spelling as appears from Beza’s signature. The
modern French spell it Bèze, the English and Germans Beza, which is
the Latin form.
ft1276 The Jesuit Maimbourg, a declared enemy, in his Histoire du
Calvinisme (Paris, 1682, 18mo, p. 217), has thus described him at this
time: “Homme bien fait, de belle taille, ayant le visage fort agréable,
l’air fin et délicat, et toutes les manières d’un homme du monde qui le
faisoient estimer des Grands et surtout des dames, ausquelles il
prenoit grand soin de ne pas déplaire. Pour l’esprit, on ne peut nier
qu’il ne l’eust très-beau, vif, aisé, subtil, enjoûéet poli, ayant pris
peine de le cultiver par l’étude des belles lettres, et particulièrement
de la poësie, oùil excelloit en françois et en latin, sçachant avec cela
un peu de philosophie et de droit qu’il avoit appris aux écoles
d’Orleans.” “He was well made, of good size, having a very agreeable
countenance, a refined and delicate air, and the carriage of a man of the
world, who had won the esteem of the great, and especially of the
ladies, whom he took much pains not to displease. It cannot be denied
that he was very attractive, lively, easy, subtle, playful, and polished,
having cultivated his mind by reading literature, particularly poetry,
wherein he himself excelled both in French and Latin, mingling with it a
little philosophy and law which he had taken in at Orleans.”
ft1277 Baum, I. 60-63.