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361 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 221.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Rhine, Calvin went on to Basle. Basle is the gate of Switzerland as one comes from Germany, and being a frontier town, situated upon one of the then great highways …
362 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 221.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… like Calvin’s; it must have appeared to him the very retreat he had so long sought for, and fain would he be to turn aside for awhile here and rest. Much troubled …
363 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 222.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Basle, Calvin had an interview with a very remarkable man. The person whom he now met had rendered to the Gospel no small service in the first days of the Reformation …
364 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 224.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , there Calvin found his starting-point. While the shadows of the departing day darkened the face of the sage of Rotterdam, Calvin’s shone with the brightness …
365 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 224.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . But Calvin did not present himself at their door. The purpose for which he had come to Basle required that he should remain unknown, he wished to have perfect …
366 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 225.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . When Calvin had fulfilled his career, and his name and doctrine were spreading over the earth, she was wont to dilate with evident pleasure in his devotion …
367 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 225.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… him Calvin knew he would find a congenial spirit. There was another man living at Basle at that time, whose fame as a scholar had reached the Reformer — Symon …
368 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 225.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… : While Calvin was pursuing his studies in his retirement at Basle, dreadful tidings reached the banks of the Rhine. The placard, the outbursts of royal wrath …
369 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 226.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… that Calvin now set for himself was sublime, but onerous. He would make it plain to all that the, faith which was being branded as heresy, and for professing which …
370 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… Method—Calvin goes to the Field of Scripture—His Pioneers—The Schoolmen—Melanchthon—Zwingle—The Augsburg Confession—Calvin’s System more Complete—Two …
371 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 226.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… preceded Calvin, there had been no lack of theories and systems. The schoolmen had toiled to put the world in possession of truth; but their theology was simply …
372 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 226.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… century. Calvin’s first question was not, “Who am I?” but “Who is God?” He looked at God from the stand-point of the human conscience, with the torch of the Bible in his …
373 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 226.6 (James Aitken Wylie)
… that Calvin turned. He searched them through and through, he laid all the parts of the Word of God under contribution: its histories and dramas, its Psalms and …
374 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 227.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… that Calvin was the first to open this path, but the statement is not to be taken literally and absolutely. He had several pioneers in this road; but none of them …
375 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 227.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… for Calvin to give it this. The Intitutes of the Christian Religion was a confession of faith, a system of exegesis, a body of polemics and apologetics, and an …
376 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 228.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Calvinism of Calvin than Mahommedanism is like Christianity — it would ill become any one, we say, to challenge for Calvin’s system an immunity from error …
377 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 228.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin’s Institutes. At the time, although no perfect copy of the 1536 volume was accessible, the conclusion I came to was that the work first appeared in …
378 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 229.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… aloft, Calvin proceeds on his way, and bids all who would know the eternal mysteries follow that shining light. Thus it was that the all-sufficiency and supreme …
379 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 229.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… it Calvin brings God before us in his character of Creator and sovereign Ruler of the world. But we must note that his treatment of this theme is eminently …
380 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 230.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin advances to the Cross. Arrived there, we have a complete Christology: Jesus very God, very Man, Prophet, Priest, and King; and his death an eternal …