Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

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creatures was the unfailing signal of another golden shower which was about to descend on the priests. But, said the Genevans, before bestowing more masses, let us look a little more closely at these visitors. We never saw anything that more nearly resembled crabs with candles attached to them than these souls from purgatory. Ah, yes! the purgatory from which they have come, we shrewdly suspect, is not the blazing furnace below the earth, but the cool lake beside the city; we shall restore them to their former abode, said they, casting them into the water. There came no more souls with flambeaux to solicit the charity of the Genevans.[15] Footnotes: 1. Ruchat, tom 3, p. 330. Gaberel, Hist. Eglise de Geneve, vol. I., p. 115. 2. Ruchat, tom. 3, p. 348. 3. Ruchat, tom. 3, p. 335. 4. Ibid., tom. 3, pp. 336-337. 5. Ruchat, tom. 3, p. 352. 6. Ibid., tom. 3, pp. 338, 339, 341, 7. Ruchat, tom. 3, pp. 346, 347. Roset Chron., bk. 134
3, chap. 31. Gaberel, Hist. Eglise de Geneve, vol. 1, pp. 125-128; Geneve, 1853. 8. Gaberel, vol. 1, p. 156, 9. Ruchat, tom. 3, pp. 357, 358. Roset, Chron., 3. 35. 10. Spenser, The Faerie Queene, bk. 1, cant. 4, st. 16. 11. Ruchat, tom. 3, pp. 359, 360. Spanheim, p. 79. Roset, Chron., bk. 3, chap. 35. Gaberel, vol. 1, pp. 156-158. 12. Ruchat, tom. 3, pp. 355, 356, Roset, Chron., 3, 35. 13. Ruchat, tom. 3, pp. 375, 376. Roset, Chron., bk. 3, chap. 50. Spanheim, pp. 25, 26. 14. Ruchat, tom. 3, p. 375. -- "Cervi veretrum, pro Antonii brachio repertum est. O sacrum non ridicuhm modo, sed detestabile et vere pudendum!" (Spanheim, pp. 24, 25.) 15. Ruchat, tom. 3, pp. 378, 379. Gabere1, 1. 128- 131. 135
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masses amid which it is placed, we
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and spiritual movement which, whate
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franchises.[2] In the middle of the
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ishop. By-and-by this was done; and
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purpose in hand. The matter had bee
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Prior of St. Victor dealt equal jus
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that were he Bishop and Prince of G
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Such were the men who were now figh
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offer for the blood which its citiz
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Chapter 2 Genevese Martyrs of Liber
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may be heard when the wind stirs up
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Bonne, where the duke was then resi
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the Alps, surrounded by the barbaro
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Which overpower all others, and con
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own country might temper their zeal
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Hist. de Geneve, vol. 2, pp. 318-32
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that of his vassal-bishop in Geneva
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steps toward Switzerland. It is the
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off his disguise, and announced him
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who fed their flocks beneath the gl
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turned away upon another tack.[8] R
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cities and cantons to the Gospel. H
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with one another, they stole some h
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of the Protestant faith. A few week
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inscribed on a pillar of the cathed
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Chapter 4 Tumults - Successes - Tol
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The trick recoiled upon its authors
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and where he longed to plant the Pr
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departed from. One day, when Farel
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altar. he was educated at the Sorbo
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aid popular preachers from the neig
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man, that toleration established in
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evangelised by men who had been bor
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But this fertile and lovely land, a
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would the emperor have put these ha
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Farel, "is the Gospel; and this, an
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eplied by quoting the Divine injunc
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two Reformers escorted them, throug
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evangelist, who had been, like a gr
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for admittance, the cry was raised,
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The inhabitants fortified the walls
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Council), some being the ringleader
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course." Farel had borne the brunt
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chance was it which had thrown him
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the pulpit and the furious men who
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scheme of Church government was --
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Chapter 12 Calvin at Strasburg -- R
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The Council thought to make the two
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sentiments in the purest Latin. He
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Genevans he answered it forthwith,
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scholastic theology," "a kind of se
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feet. I rejoice that God raises up
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eneath the banner on which was insc
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demonstration, the Institutes. That
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een sure of their heads. Meanwhile,
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have been bolder to face struggles,
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Servetus. What a beautiful ordering
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Chapter 13 Abortive Conferences at
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conference, mistrusting the sinceri
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to the conference a book, which he
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We now behold the representatives o
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such, he himself would convoke a Di
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sweep across the Popish world? The
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Chapter 14 Calvin Returns to Geneva
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could, to bring back Master Calvin.
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naturally shy. His organisation was
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compose some differences which had
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when he failed to find it. He must
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sharp-cut, beautiful genius of Fran
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Geneva, the masquerades, indecent s
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Chapter 15 The Ecclesiastical Ordin
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his intellectual vision which exten
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God on the earth. He at the same ti
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eported as guilty of immoralities.
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masters of their own town. The Gene
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offenses against morality, they wer
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5. Ruchat, v., 158,159. 6. Hist. de
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Every Friday a sermon was to be pre
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and counsel the action to be taken
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eggary suppressed, the noise of bla
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protestantise Geneva, but shall he
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Hating the moral restraints which t
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Chapter 17 Calvin's Battles With th
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epublic, set up a gibbet in the Pla
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place at Geneva. But he was not to
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Council excommunication would remai
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as they would from the murder of a
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mightily useful in extending the Re
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liberty which they abused: men whos
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not one of the faithful who have ho
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Chapter 18 Calvin's Labors For Unio
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Lutheranism which attached to him,
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evil qualities of his father, and o
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the people, which could only be by
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was fated to develop into a Nero. t
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answer to the question, In what man
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communion with Christ, and a real p
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land, arrived at the gates of Genev
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piety. Among them may be mentioned
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father, must have been, whatever hi
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empty sign, but in it we truly part
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Chapter 19 Servetus Comes to Geneva
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and establish the world on a new ba
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universal opinion of his age, that
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of July, and took up his abode at t
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different from the noble sincerity
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laughter, "And can you doubt it?" W
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Kingdom of Arragon. 2. Henricus Ab.
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Geneva, says that Servetus had begu
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it. The Consistory stripped of all
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there, flushed with the victory of
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ink to which the decision of the Li
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which had retreated within its last
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St. Peter's, and the man with pale
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words broke like a thunder-peal ove
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was even then lifting up its head a
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Bullinger, at Zurich. The sermon, s
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the penalty of refusal, but exile s
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"But," says Rilliet, "the magistrat
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It appears from the minutes that, a
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ministers, his colleagues, were int
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were not socially dangerous. This d
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This seemed the death-warrant of Ca
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Communion-table. It stripped Calvin
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the jailer, were on the eve of triu
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2. Rilliet (Tweedie's translation),
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Chapter 22 Condemnation and Death o
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Churches were given in, an officer
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Europe, they believed, would not ho
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howl like one out of his senses. In
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who died for the Gospel were upheld
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lords."[10] He was led before the c
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"O God!" he cried, "deliver my soul
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wood which had been placed there fo
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arrival in Geneva; he drew up the a
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entitled to find fault with Calvin.
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great difficulty in understanding.
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heretic," and adds that "he was unw
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all the facts. Now that M. Rilliet
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the mortification, before he went t
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have some order established among y
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why he was refused the collar of th
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the highest usefulness, were so soo
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joyful heart the pile of wood, the
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as, on the one hand, the just sever
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things as necessary to the moral tr
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Holding up to him the example of Jo
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might confess and hold, and which m
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Alba, of Montauban; Peter Ecrivain,
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with the view of establishing a uni
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Letters and evangelists was Calvin
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Geneva. The keen eye of Calvin quic
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Seneca, others of them in French th
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Innocent professed to govern the wo
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workman." When we think of only one
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while, but in a few months it was r
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almost unbearable." We hear him pou
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take care that the Table of the Lor
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harmless kind of worship should go
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those who had forsaken all for the
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foreigners. The better class of cit
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determined the future fortunes of G
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human hands; it was not defended by
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their wants were provided for by li
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Church was agitated, at Geneva it w
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conjectured that there was in all t
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The affairs of Bolsec and Castalio
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endure in the discharge of their mi
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communion with God, and in the stud
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spuriousness has been abundantly pr
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years the evangelization of France
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congregation, which, through their
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destined, he believed, to lead the
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Chapter 27 The Academy of Geneva IN
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little for the object, but much for
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appeals of solitude and silence, th
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His enemies, more just to him then
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accused him of coveting such gifts,
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Chapter 28 The Soclal and Family Li
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epaired to the workshops. The mid-d
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industries flourished, and both the
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Geneva profited immensely in anothe
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the republic." True, it was answere
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The great bell of St. Peter's has s
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And as the devotion of the hearers
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Chapter 29 Calvin's Last Illness an
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he had preached to others. The more
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Calvin longed to appear yet once ag
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Commending them and Geneva to God,
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A few days afterwards the Reformer
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strengthen his spirit, by converse
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less than twenty years a black ston
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how much more moderate he is than h
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Boromeo and the Bishop of Anneci, w
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they please, see a sort of madness
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princes, and the attempts the emper
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silently, but with a deeper power,
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Voltaire of the sixteenth century:
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In what he did in this matter, the
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Melancthon. In a joint epistle to t
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Calvin as regards his Church polity
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lends the two, for it was made to a
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pronounced by the Still-stand as a
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piety in Switzerland, but its frame
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Church power to the French Churches
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chap. 12. 6. Corp. Reform., ed. Bre
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