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721 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 365.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ) that Calvin was born. Of a serious turn of mind from his boyhood, he gave himself ardently to the study of the schoolmen, and he so drank in their spirit, that when …
722 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 398.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Luther, Calvin, and Oecolampadius, were against the divorce. The king has sinned in the past by contracting this marriage, said they, but he will sin in the future …
723 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 411.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… and Calvin stood, and from which he could never afterwards be dislodged. Strype, Mem. Cranmer, p. 160. Cranmer’s Catechism, p. 182 et seq.; Oxford, 1829.
724 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 416.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . See Calvin’s letter to Cranmer of July, 1552-Jules Bonnet, vol. 2., p. 341; Edinburgh, 1857.
725 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 416.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, than whom there was no one in all Christendom who more earnestly longed to see the breaches in the Reformed ranks closed, or who was less disposed …
726 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 417.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin to Servetus, with this exception, that Cranmer had more influence with the king and the Privy Council than Calvin had with the magistrates and Town …
727 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 418.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , no Calvin to smite the evil-doers with the lightnings of his wrath. With the death of Edward VI, in his sixteenth year (July 6, 1553), the night again closes around …
728 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 446.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin had so often mourned, and which he had attempted in vain to heal, was widened. In England a dispute which a deeper insight on the one side, and greater …
729 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 464.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ,” said Calvin, “by means of the Gospel.” These words contain the sum of all sound political philosophy. Protestantism first of all emancipates the conscience …
730 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 480.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin at Geneva, instead of discoursing on desultory topics, he opened the Epistle to the Romans, and proceeded to expound it chapter by chapter to his …
731 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 483.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… and Calvin amid lightning and great thundering dawn peacefully on Knox? We do not think so. Doubtless the Scottish Reformer, before escaping from the yoke …
732 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 484.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… done Calvin, “not to refuse this holy vocation.” The flood of tears, which was the only response that Knox was able to make, the seclusion in which he shut himself …
733 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 485.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… see Calvin, to stand beside the source of that mighty energy that pervaded the whole field of action to its farthest extremities, must have been elevating …
734 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 493.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of Calvin, nor the many-toned eloquence of Luther, which could so easily rise from the humorous and playful to the pathetic and the sublime, yet, in concentrated …
735 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 494.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by Calvin and Knox, who were not only the greatest Reformers, but the greatest statesmen of the age, and had a deeper insight into the politics of Europe than …
736 History of Protestantism, vol. 3
… Independence—Calvin demanded a Pure Communion-table; Knox, a Free Assembly—Organization of Scottish “Kirk”—Ministers, Doctors, Elders, and Deacons—Kirk Session …
737 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 496.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin rested it. Calvin said “Take from us the purity of the Communion-table, and you take from us the Evangel.” Knox said, “Take from us the freedom of Assemblies …
738 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 505.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Worms, Calvin before the Libertines in the Cathedral of St. Pierre, and Knox before Queen Mary in the Palace of Holyrood, are the three most dramatic points …
739 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 514.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… made Calvin’s sermons on the Ephesians be read to him, as if his spirit sought to commune once more on earth with that mightier spirit. But the Scriptures were …
740 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 517.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which Calvin had founded ten years before, and which, as regards the fame of its masters and the number of its scholars, now rivaled the ancient universities …