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441 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 290.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . But Calvin’s principle, being Divine, could not perish under the blows now dealt it. It was overborne for the moment, and driven out of Geneva in the persons …
442 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 291 (James Aitken Wylie)
Chapter 12: Calvin at Strasburg — Rome Draws Near to Geneva
443 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… goes thither—No Fruit of the Conference—Calvin and Melancthon’s Interviews—Calvin’s Confidence in Melancthon—His tender Love for him—Calvin and Luther …
444 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 291.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by. Calvin, journeying by way of Basle, and halting awhile in a city which he loved above all others, ultimately repaired to Strasburg, to which he had been earnestly …
445 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 291.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… without Calvin, published some new edicts for the reformation of manners; but, alas! moral power had departed with the ministers, and the commands of the magistrates …
446 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 291.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
Calvin, in his new sphere at Strasburg, preached four times a week, and discharged all the other duties, private and public, of a faithful pastor. He lectured …
447 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 292.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
Calvin being gone, the Pope now drew near. He had been watching the ripening of the pear for some time, and now he deemed it fit to be plucked. Cardinal Sadoleto …
448 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 292.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… sort. Calvin’s reply to Sadoleto was the work of six days, and it remains a monument of his genius. He begins by paying a fine compliment to the cardinal’s learning …
449 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 292.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… strokes Calvin next draws a picture of the state in which the Reformers found the schools and the pulpits: nothing taught in the first but “pure sophistries …
450 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 293.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… cited Calvin and his brethren as criminals before the judgment-seat of God. Calvin obeys this trumpet-summons. He comes to the dread tribunal to which the …
451 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 293.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… did Calvin, though banished, continue to cover Geneva with his shield. The writing ran quickly through Europe. Luther read it and was delighted beyond measure …
452 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 293.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… that Calvin resided at Strasburg, the Popish and Protestant worlds assembled in not fewer than four successive conventions, to try whether it was not possible …
453 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 294.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… and Calvin, were a hundred keen and disciplined intellects ready to expose a sophism, to confront a falsehood, to laugh at folly, and to castigate hypocrisy …
454 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 295.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… conference. Calvin, accompanied by Sturm, went thither, at the urgent solicitations of his brethren, mainly with the view of watching over the interests of …
455 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 296.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… creed Calvin had not a doubt. The unwise concessions into which his love of peace at times betrayed him, though they drew forth Calvin’s rebuke, never shook …
456 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 296.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Luther, Calvin says, “Oh, if I could fly towards thee, and enjoy thy society, were it but for a few hours!” One cannot help asking, had Luther and Calvin met, which would …
457 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 297.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , 268. Calvin’s Letter to Farel, April, 1589 — Jules Bonnet, vol. 1, p. 114.
458 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 297.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… April. Calvin, deputed by the city of Strasburg, went thither, though he expected little from the conference, mistrusting the sincerity of the Roman managers …
459 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 298.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… justification. Calvin was astonished to find the Romanists conceding so much. “We have retained,” says he, writing to Farel, “all the substance of the true doctrine …
460 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 298.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ,” said Calvin, “stood the impassable rock which barred the way to farther progress.” “I had,” continues Calvin, “to explain in Latin what were my sentiments. Without …