From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

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3. Bayle, Dictionnarie, art, Marot, notes N, O, P. 4. Apelogic pour les Reformateurs, etc., tom. 1., p, 129; Rotterdam, 1683. 5. M'Crie, Life of John Knox. vol. 1., p, 378; Edin., 1831. 6. Filice, vol. 1., p. 8. 7. Sismondi, Hist. de Francais, 16. 387. Guizot, Hist. of France, vol. 3., pp. 193, 194. 8. Felice, vol. 1., p. 9. 9. Ibid. 10. Galliard, Hist. de Francois I. 11. Laval., vol. 1., p. 8., Dedication. 12. Ibid., vol. 1., p. 22. 70
Chapter 5 The First Martyrs of France Briconnet had recanted: but if the shepherd had fallen the little ones of the flock stood their ground. They continued to meet together for prayer and the reading of the Scriptures, the garret of a woolcomber, a solitary hut, or a copse serving as their place of rendezvous.[1] This congregation was to have the honor of furnishing martyrs whose blazing stakes were to shine like beacons in the darkness of France, and afford glorious proof to their countrymen that a power had entered the world which, braving the terror of scaffolds and surmounting the force of armies, would finally triumph over all opposition. Let us take a few instances. A humble man named Denis, one of the "Meaux heretics," was apprehended; and in course of time he was visited in his prison by his former pastor, Briconnet. His enemies at times put tasks of this sort upon the fallen prelate, the more thoroughly to humiliate 71
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FROM RISE OF PROTESTANTISM IN FRANC
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held a foremost place among the cou
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quick alternations of hope and fear
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about to close and a new age to ope
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The new Pope and the new king were
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inquisitive and capacious intellect
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stood before him -- men who had rec
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salvation by grace. There rose a gr
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Wittemberg are heard ringing the kn
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places of the world, amid the ambit
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now rose a temple of idols. How cou
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The science of jurisprudence now be
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superiority of intellect gave him,
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eloquence, and a rare genius for ju
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dross of earth, and he was sent bac
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Chapter 9 Calvin the Evangelist, an
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their teacher. Calvin was averse to
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The monks looked with but small fav
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days, who knew only to mount their
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whose courage they could not daunt,
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from Scripture. This might have bee
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from the Place de Greve he was to p
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the Sorbonne deliver him from that
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linded the beholder to look upon --
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dying."[20] What though the roll of
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Paris, p. 382. 15. Crespin, Hist. d
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Bourges, whose name, destined to fi
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him. The Church of Pont l'Eveque, w
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escutcheon that she had the misfort
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And, indeed, in one prime quality,
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union of some, dozen of kingdoms un
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Francis resolved on making advances
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Luther raised his powerful voice ag
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and promised so much, came to nothi
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Chapter 11 The Gospel Preached in P
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acknowledged that it was right that
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Every day saw a greater crowd gathe
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filled," says the historian Crespin
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pulpits. Shouting and gesticulating
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home; As God hath commanded, let ju
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civil wars of the sixteenth century
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was, to his other qualities added t
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daunting him, his sentence, contrar
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on their breasts, and bewailing his
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was that the Sorbonne, with the hel
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scale against the sword of Pepin. A
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However, the fame he shunned did, t
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it had existed, of the chief Reform
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the listeners were becoming uneasy
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and Calvin would be on his way to t
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way to Tours, but neither did he ha
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passages. We shall have occasion to
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Etaples had never thought of discar
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Bulletin de la Soc. de l'Hist. Prot
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genius and the extent of his knowle
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enchanted by Calvin in the garden o
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surrounding provinces, and ultimate
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at this day of a city around which
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chimes of its bells have a weird an
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Calvin must sometimes have crossed
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10. In the autumn of 1869 the autho
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styled the second Paul of the Chris
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the adversaries of one another. The
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pushed on the business till at last
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had caught its spirit. He gave inst
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"In gardens," says Hallam, "which T
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were hanging like tempest on the br
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Catherine was the daughter of Loren
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Medici. She possessed, in no small
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6. Those of our readers who have vi
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Pontiff and the king terminated to
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other; the first he engrafted on Fr
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if they were not speedily sent, to
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Calvin from France and the entrance
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ecame the immediate heir to the thr
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the afternoon to the same hour next
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mounting into the horizon, and soon
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France. The. Keys and the Fleur-de-
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the echoes of the bull in which the
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ide post from Rome to Germany, and
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fought. The German Protestants were
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powerful a monarch as Francis and s
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sensation in Paris; a great event w
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priests," but to the "righteousness
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were to be abolished; in confession
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Francis now proceeded to sketch out
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III., on his accession to the Papal
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een lost. Had this compromise been
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separate ground, which presents the
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Chapter 18 First Disciples of the G
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the obedience to which he was viewe
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force to the camp of the enemy in t
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confession that Protestantism rejec
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emerge upon the world kern princely
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St. Denis, and presented himself at
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himself. Gay in disposition and imp
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weary of commending to others that
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picking up some writing or other of
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learning and their titles, and left
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Calvin not a little. It seemed stra
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he might enjoy the quiet denied him
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that did not suffer them to doubt,
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said the first party, is growing ev
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commenced. To Farel they resolved t
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world is and will be by it totally
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majestic lake -- speak of liberty a
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convulsion as would shake the natio
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woe and ruin unless it repented in
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Footnotes: 1. Felice, Hist. Prot. F
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the baseness demanded of him. Morin
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in his rear. The disciples we have
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such wickedness as this. Not a frag
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persecutor, in selecting the poor p
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Antoine, in front of the Church of
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them, and that, at any moment, his
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Margaret wept, but the fear in whic
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The men who were now fleeing from F
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Footnotes: 1. Laval., Hist. Reform.
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which was to be graced by bloody in
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The next part of the procession evo
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penitent. He was the chief mourner
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the king was to pronounce an oratio
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misdeeds you will be partakers of t
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the Church of Genevieve, where now
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innermost recesses and nooks of the
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over again, inasmuch as they come l
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conqueror.[15] Footnotes: 1. Chroni
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Chapter 22 Basle and the "Institute
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themselves when they ascended the a
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etter qualities. The men of letters
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and, in short, the foundations were
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maintained. A yet more friendly off
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months, he took his departure from
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Basle, and declares himself to be p
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at Freiburg, in Brisgau -- the prog
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Protestant side. But when he saw mo
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centuries after. The interview now
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place as President of the Church. I
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had endured these cruel deaths. The
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diu negata fruerer." (Praefatio ad
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Chapter 23 The "Institutes" We shal
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uild them up into a system of knowl
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inductive method which we are to fo
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the Bible into the dark chamber of
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That Calvin's survey of the field o
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six chapters. During all his life a
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The order of the work is simplicity
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ook closes with the collected light
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at the foundation of all progress,
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deplored the prevalence of the rite
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perversion of the one-man power, by
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possessor of my copy has a note wri
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Chapter 24 Calvin on Ppredestinatio
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These doctrines the Reformer embrac
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make the person feel that he is wor
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that refused to unveil themselves t
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contradictory necessity; yet, thoug
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transparency, and power, it was aki
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created a peculiar form of language
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espect for the Fathers. "Despise th
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nevertheless to pray to God for you
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furies, unrestrained by your order,
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martyr-piles into one blazing torch
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