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201 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 120.6 (John Foxe)
… I. Calvin next wrote an apology for the Protestants who were burnt for their religion in France. After the publication of this work, Calvin went to Italy to …
202 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 120.7 (John Foxe)
… , Antony Calvin; but as the roads were not safe on account of the war, except through the duke of Savoy’s territories, he chose that road. “This was a particular …
203 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 120.8 (John Foxe)
… Geneva, Calvin therefore was obliged to comply with the choice which the consistory and magistrates made of him, with the consent of the people, to be one of …
204 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 121.1 (John Foxe)
Whereupon the syndics of Geneva summoned an assembly of the people; and it was ordered that Calvin, Farel, and another minister should leave the town in a few days, for refusing to administer the Sacrament.
205 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 121.2 (John Foxe)
Calvin retired to Strassburg, and established a French church in that city, of which he was the first minister: he was also appointed to be professor of divinity …
206 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 121.3 (John Foxe)
… system. “Calvin burnt Servetus!—Calvin burnt Servetus!” is a good proof with a certain class of reasoners, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not true-that divine …
207 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 121.4 (John Foxe)
… of Calvin. All the other reformers then living approved of Calvin’s conduct. Even the gentle and amiable Melancthon expressed himself in relation to this …
208 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 121.5 (John Foxe)
… to Calvin, “you discharge the office of a friend towards your greatest enemy.” “That Calvin was the instigator of the magistrates that Servetus might be burned …
209 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 121.6 (John Foxe)
… of Calvin’s agency in this unhappy affair.
210 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 121.7 (John Foxe)
… instance, Calvin acted contrary to the benignant spirit of the Gospel. It is better to drop a tear over the inconsistency of human nature, and to bewail those …
211 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 122.1 (John Foxe)
… Luther, Calvin exerted great sway over the men of that notable period. He was influential in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, England, and Scotland. Two thousand …
212 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 122.2 (John Foxe)
Calvin, triumphant over all his enemies, felt his death drawing near. Yet he continued to exert himself in every way with youthful energy. When about to lie …
213 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 122.4 (John Foxe)
… . When Calvin took his leave of Strassburg, to return to Geneva, they wanted to continue to him the privileges of a freeman of their town, and the revenues of a …
214 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 122 (John Foxe)
Calvin as a Friend of Civil Liberty
215 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 122.5 (John Foxe)
… of Calvin has been scoffed at and loaded with reproach by many sons of freedom, there is not an historical proposition more susceptible of complete demonstration …
216 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 214.5 (John Foxe)
… of Calvin’s children.”
217 History of Protestantism (contents), p. 2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… 6: Calvin: His Birth and Education 146 Chapter 7 : Calvin’s Conversion 149 Chapter 8 : Calvin Becomes a Student of Law 155 Chapter 9 : Calvin the Evangelist, and …
218 History of Protestantism, vol. 1
Picture: Calvin refusing the Lord’s Supper to the Libertines
219 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 45.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… and Calvin founded the Reformation of the sixteenth century.” Percini, Historia Inquisit. Tholosanoe. Mosheim, vol. 1, p. 344; Glas. edit., 1831. Hist. de Languedoc …
220 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 62.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… and Calvin. Wicliffe had been a witness of the passage of the destroyer; he had seen the human race fading from off the earth as if the ages had completed their …