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781 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 490.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… that Calvin had come to Paris. His father, Gerard Calvin, apostolic notary, procurator-fiscal of the county of Noyon, secretary of the diocese, and proctor of …
782 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 490.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
Gerard Calvin, living in familiar intercourse with the heads of the clergy and the chief persons in the province, desired that his children should receive …
783 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 491.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… young Calvin devoted his time. While Luther, who was to act upon the people, was brought up like a child of the people, Calvin, who was to act especially as a theologian …
784 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 491.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… although Calvin might, even in infancy, have heard the voice of God in his heart, no one at Noyon was so rigid as he in the observance of ecclesiastical regulations …
785 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 491.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… to Calvin’s day, the celebrated Mere Angelique of Port Royal was appointed coadjutrix of that nunnery at the age of seven years. Gerard, who died a good catholic …
786 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 491.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… was Calvin called to make trial in his own person of the abuses of the Romish Church. Of all who wore the tonsure in France, there was none more serious in his …
787 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 491.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… after Calvin had quitted Noyon, another individual of the same name arrived in that city. John Cauvin was a young man of corrupt principles, but as he came from …
788 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 492.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… namesake Calvin seemed to incline him.” The dean concludes his strange narrative, the discovery of which is highly valuable to the history of the Reformation …
789 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 492.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… lest Calvin’s heresy should be laid to him. And, accordingly, he clearly assigns incontinence to the one, and heresy to the other. There have indeed been equivocations …
790 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 492.6 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… intellect. Calvin, when called upon to discuss and to prove, enriched his mother-tongue with modes of connection and dependence, with shadows, transitions …
791 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 493.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… of Calvin, and Protestant France comprehends the most cultivated portion of the nation; from it issued those families of scholars and dignified magistrates …
792 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 507.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… of Calvin’s predecessors now hoisted that flag which the powerful arm of the Genevese Reformer was to lift again in after-years and plant in France, Switzerland …
793 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 511.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… and Calvin an organizer, these two qualities, as necessary to the reformers of the Church as to the founders of empires, were not wanting in either of these …
794 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 512.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
Perhaps Melancthon did all that could be effected at that time; but it was necessary for the work to be one day resumed and re-established on its primitive plan, and this was Calvin’s glory.
795 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 512.9 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… wheat, Calvin appeared later, and more thoroughly purged the christian threshing-floor.
796 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 534.14 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… by Calvin, already maintained by some of the Fathers, were considered in ancient times as different views of the same truth. If Luther had yielded, it might …
797 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 595.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… later Calvin was to take his station, and plant the standard of Augsburg and of Nazareth, having failed, all fears were dispelled, and the victory of the confessors …
798 History of the Reformation, vol. 5, p. 701.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… of Calvin. His contemporaries gave him the name of the profound doctor.
799 History of the Reformation, vol. 5, p. 710.6 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… and Calvin are the fathers of the Reformation, Wickliffe is its grandfather.
800 History of the Reformation, vol. 5, p. 728.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… , and Calvin—do not appear in England; but Holy Scripture is widely circulated. What brought light into the British isles subsequently to the year 1517, and …