Note 330 — Chapter XIV · INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. (Winter 1534.)
Reading edition
Calvin, Actes, viii. 2.
[331] Calvin, Préface des Psaumes.
[332] Calvin, Actes, vii. 59.
[333] Mézeray, Hist. de France, ii. p. 981. The chambres ardentes were tribunals that pronounced the penalty of the stake against heresy.
[334] 'Grave passim apud Germanos odium ignes illi excitaverunt.'—Calvin in Psalm.
[335] Calvin, Préface aux Psaumes.
[336] Letters of Calvin to Myconius, March. 14, and April 17, 1542.
[337] See my History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, books viii. and xi.
[338] Vie de Thomas Plater, published by M. E. Fick, Doctor of Laws.
[339] Vie de Thomas Plater, published by E. Fick.
[340] 'Videbis quid amicitiæ sit remansurum cum papa et papisticis.'—Myconius ad Bullingerum, March 1534.
[341] 'Cum draconi non aliter est congrediendum, nisi ut penitus occidatur.'—Ibid. in post. epist.
[342] Du Tillet to Calvin, September 7, 1538.
[342a] 'Turbulentos homines qui totum ordinem politicum convellerent.'—Calvin in Psalm. See also Beza, Hist. eccles., p. 14, and Vie de Calvin, p. 19.
[343] Calvin, Préface des Psaumes.
[344] Proverbs xxxi. 8.
[345] Préface des Psaumes.
[346] 'Catenæ Patrum.'
[347] Institution, liv. i. ch. i, ii, iii, iv.
[348] Institution, liv. i. ch. vi. and vii.
[349] Ibid. liv. i. ch. i.; liv. ii. ch. ii. and iii.
[350] Ibid. liv. ii. ch. xvi. and xvii.
[351] Institution, liv. iii. ch. ii.; liv. ii. ch. xii, xix, xx; liv. xiii. ch. iii, iv, v.
[352] Institution, liv. ii. ch. iii; liv. iii. ch. xxi, xxii, xxiii.
[353] Ibid. liv. i. ch. xvii, xviii.
[354] Institution, liv. iii. ch. vi.
[355] Ibid. liv. iv. ch. i.
[356] 'Hic tanti luminis faces primum incensæ, &c.'—Ramus, Basilea, 1571.
[357] The successive additions are easily seen in the first volume of Calvin's Works just published in Brunswick by three Strasburg divines, MM. Baum, Cunitz, and Reuss. We there find the different editions of the Institutes, and the passages peculiar to each are printed in larger type. We refer to the Synopsis in six columns of the editions of 1536-1539-1543/5-1550/54-1559, &c. In its first form the Institutes consisted of six chapters only; in the last, of eighty, divided into four books. Our selections have been made from the complete edition.
[358] M. Nisard.