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641 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… Ravages—Calvin’s Last Participation in the Lord’s Supper— Goes for the Last Time to the Senate—He Receives the Senators— Receives the Pastors—Farel Visits …
642 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
Picture: Fac-simile of Calvins Handwriting. (translation)
643 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
Picture: Calvin Addressing the Council for the Last Time.
644 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 365.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… lengthen, Calvin redoubled his efforts, if so, before breathing his last, he might make that legacy of wisdom and truth he was to leave to the Church still more …
645 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 365.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , was Calvin to display the heroism which he had preached to others. The more violent attacks of his malady were indicated only by the greater pallor of his …
646 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 366.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Geneva. Calvin longed to appear yet once again in that church where he had so often preached the Gospel. “On the 2nd of April,” says Beza, “it being Easter-day, he was …
647 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 368.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… May, Calvin received a letter from Farel, in which the writer intimated that he was just setting out to visit hint. Farel was now nearly eighty. Could he not wait …
648 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 369.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… met Calvin at the gate of Geneva, when he first entered it nearly thirty years before, should stand beside him when about to depart. This time Farel may not stop …
649 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 369.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… meal. Calvin requested that the dinner should be prepared at his house; and when the hour came he had himself carried into the room where the repast was to be …
650 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 369.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… fulfilled Calvin’s own wishes. He had enjoined that he should be buried “after the customary fashion;” “and that customary fashion,” says Bungener, “which was …
651 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 370.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to Calvin. Forgetting his dust we stand face to face with the living, thinking, deathless spirit, and rise to a truer and sublimer ideal of the man. Death has not …
652 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 370 (James Aitken Wylie)
Chapter 30 : Calvin’s Work
653 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… of Calvin’s Death—Exultation of Rome— Despondency of the Reformed—Both Miscalculate—The Reformation is Calvin—Geneva grows still Greater—Luther and Calvin …
654 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
Picture: Farels Last Interview with Calvin.
655 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 370.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… during Calvin’s life-time, they insinuated, but for the extraordinary influence which that heretic exercised over them. The issue of this affair was very …
656 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 370.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin was her triumph, there were Protestants, on the other, who viewed it as the almost certain overthrow of the Reformation. There was just as little foundation …
657 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 371.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, and Calvin’s was necessary to complete and crown that of Luther. The parts which each acted were essential to constitute a whole. Wittemberg and …
658 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 371.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . Under Calvin it appeals less to the senses and more to the intellect: less to the imagination and more to the soul. The evolutions in Calvin’s career are quiet …
659 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 371.6 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, but after a different fashion. In the career of each there is a marked point of commencement, and a marked point of culmination. The nailing of the …
660 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 372.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin accomplished, when we confine our attention to the blow he dealt that great system which had so long kept the intellect of the world in darkness …