Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

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voices, they said, "Let us beat out his brains." "Duck him, duck him," cried others.[13] They fought with such weapons as they had; their ignorance forbade their opposing doctrine with doctrine. Farel lifted up his voice above their clamor. His preaching was felt to be not an idle tale, nor a piece of incomprehensible mysticism, but words of power – the words of God. Neuchatel was carried by storm.[14] It did not as yet formally declare for Reform; but it was soon to do so. Having kindled the fire, and knowing that all the efforts of the priests would not succeed in extinguishing it, Farel departed to evangelise in the mountains and valleys which lie around the smiling waters of Morat and Neuchatel. It was winter (January, 1530), and cold, hunger, and weariness were his frequent attendants. Every hour, moreover, he was in peril of his life. The priests perfectly understood that if they did not make away with him he would make away with "religion" – that is, with their tithes and offerings, their processions and orgies. They did all in their power to save "religion." They suspended their quarrels 46
with one another, they stole some hours from their sleep, they even stole some hours from the table in their zeal to warn their flocks against the "wolf," and impress them with a salutary dread of what their fate would be, should they become his prey. On one occasion, in the Val de Ruz, in the mountains that overhang the Lake of Neuchatel, the Reformer was seized and beaten almost to death.[15] Nothing, however, could stop him. He would, at times, mount the pulpit while the priest was in the act of celebrating mass at the altar, and drown the chants of the missal by the thunder of his eloquence. This boldness had diverse results. Sometimes the old bigotry would resume its sway, and the audience would pull the preacher violently out of the pulpit; at other times the arrow of conviction would enter. The priest would hastily strip himself of stole and chasuble, and cast the implements of sacrifice from his hands, while the congregation would demolish the altar, remove the images, and give in their adhesion to the new faith. In three weeks' time four villages of the region had 47
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Page 3 and 4: masses amid which it is placed, we
Page 5 and 6: and spiritual movement which, whate
Page 7 and 8: franchises.[2] In the middle of the
Page 9 and 10: ishop. By-and-by this was done; and
Page 11 and 12: purpose in hand. The matter had bee
Page 13 and 14: Prior of St. Victor dealt equal jus
Page 15 and 16: that were he Bishop and Prince of G
Page 17 and 18: Such were the men who were now figh
Page 19 and 20: offer for the blood which its citiz
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Page 23 and 24: may be heard when the wind stirs up
Page 25 and 26: Bonne, where the duke was then resi
Page 27 and 28: the Alps, surrounded by the barbaro
Page 29 and 30: Which overpower all others, and con
Page 31 and 32: own country might temper their zeal
Page 33 and 34: Hist. de Geneve, vol. 2, pp. 318-32
Page 35 and 36: that of his vassal-bishop in Geneva
Page 37 and 38: steps toward Switzerland. It is the
Page 39 and 40: off his disguise, and announced him
Page 41 and 42: who fed their flocks beneath the gl
Page 43 and 44: turned away upon another tack.[8] R
Page 45: cities and cantons to the Gospel. H
Page 49 and 50: of the Protestant faith. A few week
Page 51 and 52: inscribed on a pillar of the cathed
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Page 55 and 56: The trick recoiled upon its authors
Page 57 and 58: and where he longed to plant the Pr
Page 59 and 60: departed from. One day, when Farel
Page 61 and 62: altar. he was educated at the Sorbo
Page 63 and 64: aid popular preachers from the neig
Page 65 and 66: man, that toleration established in
Page 67 and 68: evangelised by men who had been bor
Page 69 and 70: But this fertile and lovely land, a
Page 71 and 72: would the emperor have put these ha
Page 73 and 74: Farel, "is the Gospel; and this, an
Page 75 and 76: eplied by quoting the Divine injunc
Page 77 and 78: two Reformers escorted them, throug
Page 79 and 80: evangelist, who had been, like a gr
Page 81 and 82: for admittance, the cry was raised,
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Page 87 and 88: demanded that its ally Geneva shoul
Page 89 and 90: arquebuses loaded, awaiting the wor
Page 91 and 92: critical moment to mediate. "Blesse
Page 93 and 94: Reformers, mostly armed, rushed int
Page 95 and 96: Strong measures must be taken with
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fleeing when no man pursued, he sec
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true source of the movement, publis
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1533. D'Aubigne, vol. 3, p. 472. 13
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to the Protestants; and the popular
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light on the eye, the Gospel shed i
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devotions might take a militant tur
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the first gleam of the torches, whi
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ultimatum to the citizens. They mus
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of which Bonnivard was prior, and w
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Chron., bk. 3, chap. 27. Registres
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with its precious fruits. It was no
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Roman Catholic Friburg had terminat
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the Protestant Bern closer to its s
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city to unite himself with its most
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the Roman Catholic cause in Geneva.
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Accordingly Bernard offered to main
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assisted by Farel and Viret. The tw
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their unhappy mothers be willing to
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mantled every face around them. The
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3, chap. 31. Gaberel, Hist. Eglise
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een drawn from the darkness in the
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prove from Holy Scripture that imag
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Baptism and the Lord's Supper, cele
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fast their heresy and rebellion whe
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hesitated no longer. She declared w
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double that number of Savoyards. Th
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eligion, he well knew, is the heart
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well as a creed, were brought into
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They enjoined all persons to attend
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paganism, being worshippers of the
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value. Protestantism, now planted o
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4. Ruchat tom. 3, pp. 372, 373. 108
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Reformation as the 27th of August,
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entered Italy," as he himself said,
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Farel experienced some moments of p
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in doing so he gave himself to Gene
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system and organisation began to di
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another name? Far from it. It carri
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Twenty-five, which was by constitut
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We of the nineteenth century regard
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make to them, he firruly maintained
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which they had been deprived. "It w
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his attention. This introduces the
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Gospel preached to them? It was mor
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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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