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461 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 298.4 (James Aitken Wylie)

… -282. Calvin, Letters, Nos. 63, 65, 67, 70. Paul Henry, Life and Times of Calvin, vol. i., pp. 230-237.

462 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 298.5 (James Aitken Wylie)

… . 340. Calvin, however, calls it apoplexy (Ep. 32). Eck died two years later, of a second attack of apoplexy. (Seckendorf, iii. parag. 112.)

463 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 298.7 (James Aitken Wylie)

… and Calvin erected, they would by the end of the sixteenth century have broken out and swept over Europe in all the fury of a destructive revolution. Protestantism …

464 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 299 (James Aitken Wylie)

Chapter 14: Calvin Returns to Geneva

465 History of Protestantism, vol. 2

… March—Calvin at Strasburg—The Libertines at Geneva—Calvin’s Four Persecutors Perish—Tide Turns at Geneva—Deputations to entreat Calvin’s Return—The …

466 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 299.3 (James Aitken Wylie)

… agreement, Calvin would not have returned to Geneva. There would have been no need to seek a new center for a Reformation which had run its course, and was about …

467 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 299.4 (James Aitken Wylie)

… that Calvin was gone. The year 1539 passed in the most outrageous saturnalia. The Council, helpless in the face of these disorders, began to repent of what they …

468 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 300.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

… to Calvin, “Surely the city-gate was wide enough to let him go out.” The two remaining syndics, implicated in the same charges, had betaken themselves to flight …

469 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 301.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

… out, ‘Calvin, Calvin! we wish Calvin, the good and learned man, and true minister of Jesus Christ!’” Bungener, pp. 147, 148. Ruchat, tom. v., p. 155.

470 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 301.2 (James Aitken Wylie)

… forego Calvin’s services. In addition to the Senate’s advances, numerous private citizens wrote to the Reformer in urgent terms soliciting his return …

471 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 301.3 (James Aitken Wylie)

… in Calvin’s history only, but in that of Christendom; though neither Calvin nor any other man could then estimate the momentous issues that hung upon his …

472 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 302.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

… , could Calvin conquer his aversion. The city on the banks of the Leman was to him a “chamber of torture;” he shuddered to enter it. Bucer stood forward, and with an …

473 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 302.2 (James Aitken Wylie)

… , was Calvin insensible to these glories? And it has been answered, he was, seeing he says not a word about them in his letters. No more does St. Paul in his, though …

474 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 302.3 (James Aitken Wylie)

… exile Calvin was, in fact, sent to school. Every day of his sojourn at Strasburg his powers were maturing, and his vision enlarging, and when at last he returns …

475 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 303.2 (James Aitken Wylie)

… , as Calvin had foreseen, she refused. Another lady was named, and Calvin had made advances, but, happily, he discovered in time sufficient reasons for not going …

476 History of Protestantism, vol. 2

… Cathedral—Calvin’s Address—Resolves to Stem the Tide of Moral Ruin—Proposal to the Council—The Ecclesiastical Ordinances Drafted—Voted by the People …

477 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 304.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

… by Calvin and the Senate and people of Geneva was to bow themselves in humiliation before the Eternal Sovereign. Only a day or two after the Reformer’s arrival …

478 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 304.2 (James Aitken Wylie)

… delay Calvin set about his great task. Everywhere, over the entire face of Christendom, moral ruin was at work. The feeble restraints of the Roman Church were …

479 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 304.4 (James Aitken Wylie)

… did Calvin and his colleagues use in this matter, that the draft of the ecclesiastical discipline was presented to the Council on the 28th of September. Its …

480 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 305.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

… Christendom. Calvin and the Council are seen working together in the framing of it. The Reformer holds that the State, guiding itself by the light of revelation …