It is the second series of a work of which the History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, was the first. The New York Observer says: ‘The story of the times in which the Swiss Reformation was wrought is.
CONTENTS
OF THE THIRD VOLUME
TIMES OF HOSTILITY TO THE REFORM IN FRANCE
Dinner at the Bishop’s — The King’s Speech — Effects of the King’s Rhetoric — The Procession on its Return — The Strappado. The Martyrs Cornon and Brion — Letter to the King — The Evangelical Doctrine is Truth — Truth Attacked and not Defended.
STRUGGLES OF THE REFORMATION
Reign of Brigandage — The Invincible Doctrine — Cause of the zeal of the Monks — Is the Doctrine new. Pierre’s — Embassy to Berne — Is followed by Maisonneuve — His Speech to the Council of Berne — The Syndic is Dumb.
CALVIN, THE FUGITIVE, IN HIS RETREAT AT ANGOULEME
My protector’s kindness,’ he said, ‘is sufficient to stimulate the indolence of the laziest of men. God was then setting him apart for one of the great works of the age.
THE EXILE TURNS PREACHER
One day, therefore, the modest doctor appeared in the midst of the Prior of Bouteville’s guests; one idea had absorbed him on the road to Gerac. The moral faculty is that which is first aroused in the Christian, but it immediately provokes the exercise of the intellectual faculties.
CALVIN AT NERAC WITH ROUSSEL AND LEFEVRE
Wearied with the struggles he had gone through, he sheltered himself under the cloak of the Catholic Church. There ought to be only one Church,’ he would frequently repeat, and this idea prevented his.
A DRAMATIC REPRESENTATION AT THE COURT OF NAVARRE
Several comic characters appeared in the interlude, especially a poor monk, who was the soul of the farce. Honors to the Lamb express By whom all the blessedness Of the Father is made known.
CALVIN AND HIS DISCIPLES BEGIN THE EVANGELISATION OF FRANCE
Babinot having reached the batiks of the Garonne and entered Toulouse, resolved to address in the first place the young noblemen who were studying there. As soon as the captains of the young (i.e. the masters) are conquered, the little soldiers march under their colors. These three worthy apostles,’ they said, ‘are the agents of the decrees of the arch-heretic Calvin and the firebrands of France.
A regulation of the Church, confirmed by the council of Trent, fixed this as the age at which those who have received the tonsure were promoted to the priesthood. I would sooner give up not only one benefice, but a hundred, even of the most brilliant. Having broken the last ties that bound him to the Roman Church, Calvin began to speak with greater freedom to those around him of the Gospel.
THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS OF PARIS IN 1534
In the street which lay between the two gates of the law courts there was a shoemaker’s shop. The sword of the Word of God pierced to the bottom of his heart, and his past life terrified him. At certain hours of the day, the poor young man ‘unequalled in the art of writing,’.
He spent the proceeds of his labor in supporting several needy persons who possessed a knowledge of the Gospel. At some distance from this spot, but near De la Forge’s, at the entrance of the Rue St. Alas!’ he added, ‘the bishop has been overcome since then by the enemies of the cross.’.
CALVIN’S FIRST RELATIONS WITH THE LIBERTINES AND SERVETUS
A shoemaker of the neighborhood, who held Quintin’s opinions, having gone to the shop the same day, found the tradesman very uneasy: ‘The man who has. One of the principal articles of their creed is that men ought to counterfeit, whilst even the heathens have said. Born at Villenueva in Arragon, he had studied the law at Toulouse, and afterwards published a daring work entitled, On the Errors of the Trinity.
That French nation which has the prerogative of universality, which succeeds in everything, which is so intelligent, so frank, so communicative, so practical and so active — he will select to be the organ of the second Reformation. Jesus is man,’ he said; ‘the Godhead was communicated to Him by grace, but He is not God by nature. Had Lieutenant-criminal Morin obtained information of the meeting, and was he preparing to catch the two young leaders by one cast of his net.
THE PLACARDS
Many of the opposite party gave way, and the publication of the placard was resolved on. Honore, in the Place Royale, in the city, at the gates of the churches, and of the Sorbonne and the Louvre. Let us read this terrible handbill, as it was read in the streets of the capital.
Finally the practice of your mass is very contrary to the practice of the Holy Supper of Jesus Christ!. It presents to us on the part of the Lord the body and blood of His. O false witnesses, traitors, robbers of the honor of God, and more hateful than the devils themselves.
THE KING’S ANGER
Those who were about him took advantage of the opportunity, and represented the affair as one of high-treason. Denis, to the sign of the Black Horse, and entered the shop of the wealthy. He is one of those who pasted up the papers at the corners of the streets,’ said the.
Next came the turn of the poor bricklayer, Poille, who was captured in his wretched hut. These moderate men were strongly opposed to the act accomplished in the night of the 25th October; they were thrown into prison all the same. The very night of his arrival, we are told, the placards reappeared and were stuck on the gates of the Louvre.
EXPIATIONS AND PROCESSIONS
The enemies of the Reformation, who surrounded the burning pile, listened to the martyr with surprise and respect. The next day it was the turn of Du Bourg, the tradesman of the Rue St. Catherine: it was here the stake had been prepared for the edification of the believers of that district.
Early in the morning a large crowd of citizens and people from the surrounding country filled the streets; even the roofs of the houses were covered with spectators. It was not only living men who figured that day in the streets of the capital to do honor to the mass; but there were St. The crowd regarded these ancient relics with devout admiration: ‘There’s the body of the saint!.
THE ELOQUENCE AND TORTURES OF FRANCIS I
The king with his family, the nobles, and the rest of the procession, having resumed his march, made his first halt at the Marksman’s Cross. The guard drove them back, and the disciples of the Gospel were preserved for a more frightful death. This inhuman punishment was next applied by order of the most christian king to the two other martyrs.
About the same time two or three men were keeping watch, during the night, in the chapel of the Holy Candle, at Arras in Artois. The enemies of the Reformation, feeling that the moment was decisive, redoubled their efforts to destroy it. Already eighteen disciples of the Gospel have been burnt, and the same danger threatens a still greater number.
CALVIN AT STRASBURG, WITH ERASMUS, AND AT BASLE
Calvin knew that, disgusted with the intrigues of the court, he had left the elector of Mentz, and in 1532 had gone to. He was beyond all doubt much more a man of compromises than Bucer; and from timidity, rather than principle, he inclined to the side of the papacy. The young reformer, impatient to hear the oracle of the age, began to ask him numerous questions on difficult points.
Had not the scholar of Rotterdam said that the only remedy for the evils of the Church was the intervention of Christ himself. This was Nicholas Cop, ex-rector of the university of Paris, and now a refugee at Basle. The friends now visited each other and conversed together; but mystery for some time longer shrouded the person of the young reformer.
INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
The gentleness of the Word of God attracted him, but the bitterness of the cross terrified him. The publication of the Christian Institutes was the pitiful cry of a compassionate soul at the sight of those who were going to the stake. The Reformation was not simply a change in the doctrine or in the manners or in the government of the Church: it was a creation.
The Institutes of the Christian Religion is Calvin’s great achievement; it is Calvin himself, and we must therefore describe it. The divine founder of the Kingdom has suffered in the place of the children of the Kingdom. Divine faith which lays hold of the righteousness of Christ upon the cross gives birth at the same moment to the holiness of Christ in the heart.
CALVIN ADDRESSES THE KING AND DEPARTS FOR ITALY
Nevertheless,’ he says, ‘our doctrine must remain exalted, invincible, and far above all the power and glory of the world. Here the enemies persist: they claim the old doctors of the Church as being in their favor. And if they desire the landmarks of the Fathers to be observed, why do they, whenever it suits their pleasure, overleap them so audaciously?’.
It was a Father, Paphnutius, who maintained that the ministers of the Church ought not to be forbidden to marry, and that chastity consisted in having a lawful wife. Pierre, known by the sign of the Black Bear, where there was a printing office belonging to Thomas. It is even possible, that the pleasures and policy of the monarch made him contemptuously throw aside this appeal from one of the poorest of his subjects.
EFFORTS IN THE PAYS DE VAUD
The huguenots, in part at least, were transformed in the city of Calvin by the great principles of the Reformation. It was by the potent virtue of the gospel that this little city, which had been only an Alpine burgh, was so marvelously. The country was not large, its cities were not populous, and the names of the men who.
Calvin was the great doctor of the sixteenth century, and Farel the great evangelist: the latter is one of the most remarkable figures in the Reformation. The monk, whose eye was always on the watch, soon noticed in the middle of the crowd a little man with a red beard and. The orator was filled with joy at the sight of the unusual crowd, and his head was turned.
PLOT OF THE WOMEN AGAINST REFORM;
FAREL’S PREACHING
Arriving in front of the church, he rushed into it; but had hardly set his feet inside, when he stopped in astonishment. Paul; Romain, who experienced ‘this riotous and cruel rage,’ was afterwards a minister of the gospel. Without hesitation the evangelist left Avenches, and departing with the Bernese arrived at the banks of the Orbe, whither the noise of battle attracted him.
No ruins were to be seen there: but seven churches and twenty-six altars testified to the ancient splendor and Romish fervor of the city. You said that those who deny that the books of the Maccabees form part of the Holy Scripture, are heretics.’. The key of the kingdom of heaven,’ he said, ‘is the Word of God — the Holy Gospel.’ One day Farel spoke of the stupid practices imposed upon catholics under the name of penance.
