History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

Tully, De Legibus, in his youth, there came one
who said to him, in the words of the epicure, "God
cares for none of us," and plied Junius with
arguments so subtle that he sucked in the poison of
this dreary belief. Libertinism laid the reins on the
neck of passion. But a marvellous escape from
death, which he experienced at Lyons about a year
afterwards, arrested him in his wickedness. He
opened the New Testament, and the passage on
which his eyes first lighted was this: "In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God," etc. As the stars
grow dim and vanish when the sun rises, so the
wisdom and eloquence of the pagans paled before
the surpassing majesty and splendor of the Gospel
by St. John. "My body trembled," said he, "my
mind was astonished, and I was so affected all that
day that I knew not where nor what I was. Thou
wast mindful of me, O my God, according to the
multitude of thy mercies, and calledst home thy
lost sheep into the fold." From that day he studied
the Scriptures; his life became pure; and his zeal
waxed strong in proportion as his knowledge
enlarged. He possessed not a little of the fearless
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