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Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

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adds M. Bungener, "the Church maintained herself<br />

<strong>at</strong> its side, always free, so far as the Reformer had<br />

intended her to be so. This was, indeed, an<br />

important, an indispensable element <strong>of</strong> her<br />

influence abroad. A Church visibly in the power <strong>of</strong><br />

the magistr<strong>at</strong>es <strong>of</strong> so small a St<strong>at</strong>e would have been<br />

hearkened to by none. But the Church <strong>of</strong> <strong>Geneva</strong><br />

had been put into possession <strong>of</strong> a free <strong>and</strong> living<br />

individuality. Henceforth it m<strong>at</strong>tered little whether<br />

she was small or gre<strong>at</strong>, or whether she was <strong>at</strong> home<br />

under the shelter <strong>of</strong> a small or mighty St<strong>at</strong>e. She<br />

was the Church <strong>of</strong> <strong>Geneva</strong>, the heiress <strong>of</strong> Calvin.<br />

lqone in Europe, friend or foe, thought <strong>of</strong> asking<br />

more."[8]<br />

Footnotes:<br />

1. Paul Henry, Life <strong>and</strong> Times <strong>of</strong> Calvin, vol. i.,<br />

p. 331. Sleidian, bk. xiv, pp. 284-286.<br />

2. Calvin to Farel; <strong>Geneva</strong>, 16th Sept., 1541 --<br />

Jules Bonnet, No. 76.<br />

3. Calvin: his Life, Labour., <strong>and</strong> Writings, bk. iii,<br />

chap. 1, p. 180.<br />

4. Gaberel, vol. i., pp. 255, 256.<br />

256

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