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581 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 341.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… more. Calvin himself was prepared at any hour to walk to the stake with the same absence of ostentation, the same obliviousness of doing a grand act, as if he …
582 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 342.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, as he was told that another and another had fallen in the conflict? The feelings of a Caesar or of a Napoleon, as he surveys the red field of his ambition …
583 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 342.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… same Calvin who was by the side of the martyr on the scaffold was also with the statesman in his cabinet, and at times at the foot of the throne giving counsel …
584 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 343.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Gospel, Calvin laid stress upon the manner as well as the doctrine-upon the life as well as the purity of the pulpit. “The people,” says he, “are to be so taught as to …
585 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 344.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… scaffold, Calvin addressed the young king, whose heart was not less set on the Reformation of England than had been that of the Lord Protector. The Reformer …
586 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 344.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin spoke with the plainness and honesty of the Reformer, yet, mindful that he was addressing a king, he adopted the tone not of a master but of a father …
587 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 344.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Geneva. Calvin, in his reply, intimated his approval of his “just and wise design,” and said that for his own part, if he could further thereby the work of union, “he …
588 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 345 (James Aitken Wylie)
Chapter 24 : Calvin’s Manifold Labours
589 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… between Calvin and Knox—The Secret of their Power—Immense Labours of Calvin—Calvin and Innocent III. Compared and Contrasted
590 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
Picture: Calvin Insulted by the Libertines on the Rhone Bridge.
591 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 345.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… shared Calvin’s solicitude. In the year 1552 he dedicated the first half of his Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles to the excellent Christian I.; and the …
592 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 345.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… John Calvin, vol. 2, p. 32; Lond., 1349.
593 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 345.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… was Calvin daily sending to the Church of France. The “Shepherd of Christendom,” he was specially the apostle of the French Church. Born in that land, but driven …
594 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 346.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin quickly discerned what sort of man the stranger was. The leonine lineaments of his soul, the robust powers of his intellect stood out to his view …
595 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 346.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , and Calvin regenerated Christendom, was not an intellectual force, but a moral, a Divine power. Their submission to the Scriptures gave them access to the …
596 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 346.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… did. Calvin-the Calvin that lived and acted on the world of the sixteenth century-lives and acts on that of the nineteenth through these Commentaries.Bungener …
597 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 347.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… was Calvin’s normal condition.” (Gaberel, Hist. Eglise de Geneve, vol. 1, p. 398.)
598 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 347.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… John Calvin of Geneva.
599 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 347.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by Calvin. Innocent cast down thrones; Calvin imparted stability and dignity to them. Innocent’s rule sunk the nations into serfdom, Calvin’s raised them …
600 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… Position-Cannot be Abandoned-Council finally Concedes it-Flank Attack-The Libertines Complain of the Sermons-of the Publications of Calvin-of the …