Embarrassment of the first president — Conferences between king and pope — Bull against heretics — Marriage. They are taken to Paris — The novice confesses the trick — Conviction — End of the matter.
PROPOSES A REFORMATION TO THE SORBONNE
Arrest of the Fiscal Maudolla — The Bishop takes his part — Hastens his Plans against Geneva — Bishop's Appeal to the. The Emperor desires to give Geneva to the Duke's Son - Zeal of the Duke, Firmness of the Geneva - The two Spheres of.
FRANCE. FAVORABLE TIMES
JOHN CALVIN A STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ORLEANS
Calvin thus stood in the front row in the public processions and assemblies of the university. Firmin, the inhabitants of the town of Beaugency, near Orleans, appeared at the church of St.
CALVIN TAUGHT AT ORLEANS OF GOD AND MAN;
BEGINS TO DEFEND AND PROPAGATE THE FAITH
Of the many infirmities to which we are subject," he said, "of the many infirmities we are full of, none should be hidden. On the previous occasion, we tried to discover the generative principle of the Reformation at the heart of Luther. we now endeavor to discern it also in Calvin.
CALVIN CALLED AT BOURGES TO THE EVANGELICAL WORK
This is the first of the reformer's letters to be handed down to us. These people were Catholics, disgusting to the priests, not to the disciples of the Savior.
BERQUIN, THE MOST LEARNED OF THE NOBILITY, A MARTYR FOR THE GOSPEL
On the afternoon of the day of the verdict, Maillard, the. Berquin agreed to ask forgiveness from God and the king in the great court of the palace of justice.
FIRST LABORS OF CALVIN AT PARIS
The science of God is the mistress science,' he said; 'the others are only her servants.' He gave consistency to the small select band who, amidst the crowd of scholars, turned lovingly to the holy scriptures. A modest and devout man, he now carried out a more humble work in the capital's remotest streets and lonely houses.
MARGARET’S SORROWS AND THE FESTIVITIES OF THE COURT
She could not, even in the middle of the court, forget the little angel who had flown away. About the end of the year 1531 the Isle of France was visited by all epidemics. Louisa of Savoy was taken seriously at Fontainebleau, where the children of the king stayed.
In the midst of all these sad professions, Margaret watched over the friends of the Gospel. She breathed her last on the 29th of September, 1531, in the arms of the Queen of Navarre.
DIPLOMATISTS, BACKSLIDERS, MARTYRS
This hope also occupied Margaret, and the powerful party in the royal council who thought, like her, that. When Sunday came, all the court carriages drew up in front of the church of St. Lecoq had none of the qualities of a martyr: he was rather one of those feeble minds which gave backwardness to the primitive church.
Parliament, nicknamed 'the bloody ones', was the docile instrument of the clergy's fanaticism. Such is not the commandment of God.’ The Dominican in his pulpit listened with astonishment; the prisoner preached in the midst of the bailiffs, and the disciples heard him.
CALVIN’S SEPARATION FROM THE HIERARCHY
HIS FIRST WORK, HIS FRIENDS
Did he not say of the Jews that the conquered give laws to their conquerors. There was a similarity (and Calvin had noted it) between the eras of the author and the commentator. Such were the concerns of the great sixteenth-century writer at the beginning of his career.
Every day he attended meetings held secretly in different parts of the capital. Now the only foundation of Christ's kingdom," he said, "is the humiliation of man.
CONFERENCES AT SMALCALD AND CALAIS
On March 29, 1531, the deputies of the Protestant states met at Smalcald, in the electorate of Hesse. This proposal greatly irritated the Landgrave of Hesse, his chancellor Feig and the other members of the conference. One of his powerful letters dropped like a bomb in the middle of the conference.
These peaceful ideas of the Protestants did not harmonize with the warlike ideas of King Francis. The religious movement of the mind gained strength; the electricity was accumulated in the battery; the mine was charged, and the explosion was certain for a long time.
A CULPTIVE PRINCE ESCAPES FROM THE HANDS OF THE EMPEROR
A lamb was playing in the yard; the poor boy, delighted at the gentleness of the animal, ran and took it up in his arms and began to play with it. But a faithful follower, who had observed their movements, called for help, and succeeded in saving Christopher from the hands of the Mussulmans. He was struck by the noble sight of the faithfulness and courage of the Protestants.
True to his resolution, the young prince, in this noble manifesto, uttered the bitterest grievances, and boldly claimed his inheritance in the face of the world. As a friend of the gospel, he would give new strength to the great cause of the Reformation.
THE GOSPEL PREACHED AT THE LOUVRE AND IN THE METROPOLITAN CHURCHES
The Sorbonne closed the doors of the churches against Roussel: Margaret opened to him the king's palace. She said to the friends of the Gospel: 'The Almighty will graciously complete what He has graciously begun through us.'. Would there be no longer any justice in France for the champions of papacy.
Bartholomew; and indeed, not long afterwards, he made a proposition worthy of the Guises and Medici. The blood of men from the Reign of Terror already flowed in the veins of the inhabitants of Paris.
DEFEAT OF THE ROMISH PARTY IN PARIS AND MOMENTARY TRIUMPH OF THE GOSPEL
No one could believe in a doom; the king of France was not the eldest son of the Church. But the pope's disciples did not know the monarch who then reigned over France. Some of the most intelligent people imagined that France would be regenerated and transformed.
But the friends of reform and renaissance indulged in the most exaggerated illusions. During the entire period of the king's absence, Paris was almost like a country under reform.
CONFERENCE AT BOLOGNA. THE COUNCIL AND CATHERINE DE MEDICI
But the emperor knew well that such were the precepts of the famous Florentine. Cardinal de Tournon, the more influential of the two ambassadors, was an able priest, devoted to the Pope and the Papacy, cruel, the accomplice. They therefore proposed an interview with Francis, and even with the King of England, the Prince being anxious to put an end to the difficulties of the divorce.
The previous year, when speaking to Charles' ambassador about the claims of Francis to Italy, the Austrian diplomat suddenly said: 'The Emperor will never surrender Milan or Genoa to the King of France.' His full restoration to the favor of the court of Rome after his marriage to Anne Boleyn was the price he asked.
INTRIGUES OF CHARLES V., FRANCIS I., AND CLEMENT VII., AROUND CATHERINE
He informed the Emperor that everything was settled and the terms of the contract were being prepared. The policy of the King of France was just as interested, but more frank and honest. It was at the very end of February when the emperor received this special opinion from the French king in Bologna.
The marriage of the pope's niece caused so much annoyance to the poor emperor that he deserved to Then the same ambassador, growing bolder, begged a cardinal's hat for the bishop of Winchester in the name of the King of England.
STORM AGAINST THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE AND HER ‘MIRROR OF THE SINFUL SOUL.’
What a contrast between the official religion of the Church and the religion of this spiritual song. In a short time, insinuations and accusations against the royal sister were heard from every pulpit. Monasticism was one of the institutions that the reformers wanted to disappear from the Church, and the Queen of Navarre, despite her conservative character, did not want to preserve it.
The scholars of the college of Navarre, passing from grammar to logic, used to teach a drama. The administrative heads of the college, wanting to make the queen resentful to the people and ridiculous to the court, composed a drama.
TRIUMPH OF THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE
He was impatient to meet the enemies of reform, and the king gave him the desired opportunity. This speech, so embarrassing to the doctors of the faculty, secured the queen's triumph. We will write to the king and ask him to accept the university's apology.' The meeting then broke up.
Thus Margaret, the friend of the Reformers, emerged victorious from this onslaught of the monks. Scripture is above the pope; one of his closest friends is the head of the university; the fanatical doctors are in exile; and the most influential.
CATHERINE DE MEDICI GIVEN TO FRANCE
I will be the daughter-in-law of the glorious King of France," she told herself. At the beginning of October 1533 the ancient city of the Phocaeans was in a state of great excitement; the King of France and the Pope would come; what honor. There were princes of the blood, prelates, diplomats, magistrates, courtiers, and warriors; but the king, though he stood at the gates of the city, kept himself in the background and secluded.
It happened to France when the daughter of the Medici crept into the family of its kings. These two conflicting conferences point out one of the features that best characterizes the versatile and.
ADDRESS OF THE RECTOR TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
What then remains for Mary, except that she is the mother of the Saviour. Theologians who hung their heads in the church of the Queen of Navarre. Calvin was led out of the palace with the same attention he had received when he entered it.
Calvin, trusting in his obscurity and, under God, in the protection of the Queen of Navarre, sat quietly in his room in the Fortret college. Calvin, leaving his manuscripts scattered around, grabbed the sheets and lowered himself to the ground.
