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421 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 284.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… -five. Calvin saw the danger of the step, and conjured the magistrates to allow the Two Hundred to be named at all times by the Council-General. He foretold conflicts …
422 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 284.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… when Calvin became a member of it.
423 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 284.6 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin’s, who has done justice to the Reformer on this point. “A principle,” says Guizot, “we should rather say a passion, held sway in Calvin’s heart, and was his …
424 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 285.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… community.” Calvin learned the idea from a Diviner source. Nor was he quite so successful in extricating the spiritual from the civil jurisdiction, either …
425 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 285 (James Aitken Wylie)
Chapter 11: Sumptuary Laws — Calvin and Farel Banished
426 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… Geneva—Calvin and Farel Refuse to Dispense the Communion at Easter—Tumult in the Churches—Farel and Calvin Banished by the Council
427 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
Picture: Theodore Beza Picture: Calvin Threatened in the Church of Rive
428 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 285.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
Calvin’s theological code was followed by one of morals. There were few cities in Christendom that had greater need of such a rule than the Geneva of that …
429 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 285.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… condemn Calvin for having forbidden dances, little dream of what sort these dances were. Ruchat, the historian of the Swiss Reformation (tom. 5, p. 244), tells us …
430 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 286.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in Calvin’s time, when there were scarcely any amusements that were innocent!Bungener, Calvin,. p. 110.
431 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 286.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin thundered against their vices from the pulpit were intolerable to many, perhaps to most. The population was a mixed one. Many were still Papists …
432 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 286.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… against Calvin for neglecting his office. Appointed to be an expositor of Scripture, who made him, asked his calumniators, a censor of morals and a reprover …
433 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 286.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Communion. Calvin and Farel demurred to the course recommended.Beza, Vita Calvini.
434 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 286.6 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . With Calvin a much greater question was whether the Communion should be given to these persons at all. As Easter approached, the fury of the party increased …
435 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 287.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . Gervais, Calvin occupied that of St. Peter’s. In the audience before them they could see the Libertines in great force. All was calm on the surface, but a single …
436 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 287.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… be Calvin’s turn in the evening. On descending to the Church of Rive, the former Convent of St. Francis, near the shores of the lake, he found the place already …
437 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 287.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… oratory, Calvin was the man of power. In what attribute or faculty, or combination of faculties, his power lay, they would have had great difficulty in saying …
438 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 288.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… and Calvin’s career would have been ended, and not his only — with him would have ended the career of Geneva as the new foothold of the Reformation. Farel had …
439 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 290.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… among Calvin’s foes to recover their senses, and they now remonstrated with the more violent on the crime they were about to commit, and the scandal they would …
440 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 290.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to Calvin, he replied with dignity, “Had I been the servant of man, I should have received but poor wages; but happy for me it is that I am the servant of him who never …