Note 57 — Chapter XV · CALVIN CALLED AT BOURGES TO THE EVANGELICAL WORK. (1528-1529.)

'Quod tibi promiseram discedens me brevi adfuturum.'—Calvinus Chemino, May 14, 1528, Berne MS.

[58] 'Ea me expectatio diutius suspensum habuit.'—Calvinus Chemino.

[59] 'Nam dum reditum ad vos meditor.'—Ibid.

[60] Calvini Opera.

[61] 'Sed cum medici spem facerent posse redire in prosperam valetudinem.'—Calvinus Chemino.

[62] 'Nihil aliud visum est quam tui desiderium.'—Ibid.

[63] 'Interim dies de die trahitur.'—Ibid.

[64] 'Certum mortis periculum.'—Calvinus Chemino.

[65] 'In litteris missitandis plus satis officiosum, ne dicam importunum.'—Ibid.

[66] 'Utcunque res ceciderit, ad vos revisam.'—Ibid.

[67] 'Factum est ut ad te pervenirem anno Domini 1528, nonis Decembris.'—Letter of Theodore Beza to Wolmar, Preface to the Confessio Fidei Christianæ.

[68] 'Anno Domini 1519 die 24 junii, placuit Deo O. M. ut mundi lucem aspicerem.'—Letter of Theodore Beza to Wolmar, Preface to the Confessio Fidei Christianæ.

[69] 'Ut me quamvis adhuc a nutricis uberibus pendentem.'—Ibid.

[70] 'Aureliæ primum, deinde Biturigibus, quum in eam urbem regina Navarræ te evocasset.'—Ibid.

[71] 'Eique discedenti doctoratus insignia absque ullo pretio offeruntur.'—Bezæ Vita Calvini.

[72] Conrad Gessner von Hanhait, p. 22. Theodor. Beza von Baum, p. 12.

[73] 'Vir fuit corpulentus, proceræ staturæ. Auri avidus habitus est et cibi avidior.'—Panzivole, De claris Legum Interpret. lib. ii.

[74] Théod. de Bèze, Hist. des Eglises Réformées, p. 6.

[75] Ibid.

[76] 'Of Rome in its decline the greatest dread.'—Bezæ Icones.

[77] 'Libros quos e Germania acceperat, mittebat.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. de l'Hérésie, ii. liv. vii.

[78] 'Die quodam cum discipulo magister, animi gratia, deambulans.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. de l'Hérésie.

[79] 'Ut posito Justiniani codice ad Theologiæ omnium scientiarum reginæ studium, animum applicaret.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. de l'Hérésie, liv. vii. ch. ix. Florimond Rémond was so hostile to the Reformation which he had abjured, that he cannot be trusted when his prejudices are concerned; but he ought to be believed when his predilections do not mislead him. I cannot see what object he could have had in inventing this conversation. 'The Calvinists, in order to be avenged of this writer,' says Moreri, 'have endeavoured to traduce his memory.' The most sensible course is to hold a just mean between the Romish apologists and the protestant detractors.

[80] 'Non omnes esse Verbi ministerio idoneos . . . requiritur specialis vocatio.'—Calv. Opera.

[81] 'Tanto proficiendi studio exarsi, ut reliqua studia quamvis non abjicerem, frigidius tamen sectarer.'—Calv. Præf. in Psalm.

[82] 'Acriter exhortans ut de reformanda atque illustranda Dei ecclesia cogitationem ac curam serio inciperet.'—Flor. Rémond, Histoire de l'Hérésie.

[83] Leo Colladon died at Geneva on the 31st of August, 1552. His son Nicholas took refuge there in 1553, and in 1556 succeeded Calvin in the chair of divinity. Germain II., made free of the city in 1555, was the compiler of the Genevese code. Galiffe, Généalogie des Familles Genevoises. Haag, France Protestante, article Colladon.

[84] Théod. de Bèze, Hist. des Eglises Réformées, p. 7.

[85] Calvin, Commentaire sur Mathieu, ch. x.

[86] In the reign of Louis XIV. this lordship belonged to Colbert.

[87] 'Contrefont les marmitons.'

[88] 'Nonnullas interdum conciones in agro Biturigum, in oppidulo quod Linerias vocant.'—Bezæ Vita Calvini.

[89] Bèze, Hist. des Eglises Réformées, p. 7.

[90] 'Nisi me ab ipsis prope carceribus mors patris revocasset.'—Calvinus Volmario, in 2ᵃᵐ Ep. ad Corinth.

[91] Commentaire sur Mathieu, ch. x.

[92] Théod. de Bèze, Vie de Calvin (French text), p. 11. 'In agro Biturigum ... mors patris nuntiata in patriam vocavit.'—Ibid. in Latin text.

[93] 'Repentina mors patris,' says Beza. This sudden death proves that Calvin's father did not die, as some assert, of the long illness described in the letter to Duchemin.

[94] Dédicace de la 2ᵉ aux Corinthiens.