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661 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 373.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… that Calvin rendered to Protestantism was to codify its laws, and organise its adherents so as to conserve their morality and holiness-in other words, the …
662 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 374.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin afterwards placed the top-stone. But the German Reformer proceeded no farther on this fundamental idea than to constitute an office of men …
663 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 374.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… anticipating Calvin as regards his Church polity; and yet he missed it. The existence of a Christian magistracy, in his view, modified the whole question. A …
664 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 375.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin. The Reformer of Zurich framed a code of laws and ordinances covering the entire field of social life, and committed their administration to a series …
665 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 376.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
Calvin, doubtless, had studied all these attempts, and profited by them. There is no reason to think that he reached this scheme of Church polity at a bound; it …
666 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 376.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… that Calvin’s scheme was faultless. The Reformer’s views touching the theocratic character of States prevented him doing full justice to his own idea …
667 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 376.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin.
668 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 376.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, in the Cathedral of St. Peter’s, we see the Reformation standing before a licentious and furious infidel mob, who hate it not less than the emperor …
669 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 386.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , and Calvin pass through before they became captains in the army of Christ. They began in a horror of great darkness; through that cloud there broke upon them …
670 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 423.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, sheltered in her palace the disciples of the Gospel, to the ancient Parthenope, which looks down from its fig and aloe covered heights upon the calm …
671 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 423.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, “content with our littleness, and lives frugally according to the habits of the commonalty-neither more nor less than any one of us.” Calvin, Comment …
672 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 423.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… that Calvin was beginning his labours at Geneva, and fighting with the Pantheistic Libertines for a secure foothold on which to place his Reformation, that …
673 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 425.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… 1541 Calvin returned to Geneva, to prepare that spiritual army that was to wage battle with Jesuitism backed by the Inquisition. The meeting of these dates …
674 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 430.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… and Calvin, awaits its full consummation in the ages to come.
675 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 448.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… children. Calvin had not taken his prominent place at Geneva, but he was already enrolled under the Protestant banner. The princes of the Schmalkald League …
676 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 448.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, was asked to undertake the translation, and he executed it-with the help of his great kinsman, it is believed. It was printed in folio, in black letter …
677 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 467.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by Calvin and the Elector Palatine, the latter addressing a spirited letter to the duke on behalf of his persecuted subjects. The Articles of Capitulation …
678 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 476.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… brethren. Calvin, with characteristic promptness and ardour, led in the movement for their relief. By his advice they sent deputies to represent their case …
679 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 498.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin. A deputation of the principal citizens of Geneva, headed by the patriarch GianavelIo, who still lived, went out to meet them on the frontier, and taking …
680 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 525.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , for Calvin, who was consulted on the point, gave it as his opinion that, till they had obtained the services of a regularly ordained ministry, they should forego …