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321 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
Calvin goes to Poictiers—Its Society—Calvin draws Disciples round him—Re-unions—The Gardens of the Basses Treilles—The Abbot Ponthus—Calvin’s Grotto—First …
322 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
Picture: Celebration of the Lords Supper by Calvin and his Fellow-Protestants in the Grotto at Poicfiers
323 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 178.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… for Calvin. Thin, pale, and singularly unobtrusive, yet the beauty of his genius and the extent of his knowledge soon drew around the stranger a charmed circle …
324 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 178.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… with Calvin came a new and clearer light, which soon attracted a select circle of firm friends.
325 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 178.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , did Calvin expound to them the true nature of the Gospel and the spiritual glory of the kingdom of heaven, thus drawing them away from idle ceremonies and …
326 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 179.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin here gathered round him comprehended persons in all conditions of life — canons, lawyers, professors, counts, and tradesmen. They discoursed …
327 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 179.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of “Calvin’s Grotto,” was selected as the scene of the future gatherings of the converts. It was an hour’s walk from the town. Dividing into groups, each company …
328 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 179.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… their Calvinism.” Jean Vernon remained at Poictiers, where he found an interesting field of labor among the students at the university. It was ever the aim …
329 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 181.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin has thrown so great an interest, and whose Church, founded by his hands, held no inconspicuous place among the Protestant Churches of France in the …
330 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 182.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, and which may have served as the college amongst whose professors and students he found his first disciples. Its gables, turned to the street, show …
331 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 182.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
Calvin must sometimes have crossed the threshold of this Cathedral and stood under this roof. The interior is plain indeed, offering a striking contrast …
332 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… . Paul—Calvin—Desire to Labor in Paris—Driven from this Field—Francis I. Intrigues to Outmanoeuvre Charles V—Offers the Hand of his Second Son to the Pope’s …
333 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 183.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin had formed to himself of his life’s labours, after his conversion, had Paris and France as its center. Nearest his heart, and occupying the foreground …
334 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 183.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin’s third and last flight from Paris, let us turn to an incident big with the gravest consequences to France and Christendom.
335 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… as Calvin is Driven Out—Retrogression of Protestantism—Death and Catherine de Medici—Death’s Five Visits to the Palace—Each Visit Assists Catherine in …
336 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 189.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin from France and the entrance into that country of Catherine de Medici. Scarcely had the gates of Paris shut out the Reformer, when they were opened …
337 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… Inspires—Calvin and Catherine—A Contrast—The Keys and the Fleur-de-Lis—The Doublings of Francis—Agreement between Francis and Philip of Hesse at Bar-le-Duc …
338 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 190.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… stage — Calvin and Catherine de Medici. The one was taken from an obscure town in the north of France; the other came from a city already glorified by the renown …
339 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… —Pantheists—Calvin’s Forecastings—Calvin quits Paris and goes to Strasburg
340 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 199.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to Calvin, now and henceforward the true center of the Reformation. Wherever he is, whether in the library of Du Tillet, conversing with the mighty dead, and …