Note 89 — Chapter V · CALVIN AT POITIERS, AT THE BASSES-TREILLES, AND IN ST. BENEDICT'S CAVES. (Spring 1534.)
Reading edition
Lettres françaises de Calvin, i. p. 119.
[90] 'Tilius haustis animo Calvini opinionibus.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. ii.
[91] 'Miro desiderio eos videndi incensus, qui catholicæ ecclesiæ bellum indixerant.'—Ibid.
[92] See M. Cousin's excellent edition.
[93] Varillas, Hist. des Rév. rel., ii. p. 473.
[94] 'Riotes et cavillations ... arguments cornus et surprises subtiles ... comme s'il était un bailleur de sornettes ordinaires ... au lieu de s'entortiller dans des contestations superflues ... il mettait en avant ce qui est ferme.'
[95] 'Magnæ existimationis vir, præsertim apud regis matrem.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. ii. p. 251.
[96] Flor. Rémond, Hist. des Hérésies (éd. fr.), p. 890.
[97] P. de Farnace, Brief Recueil de la Vie de Messire P. de la Place, p. 11 sqq. Bayle's Dict. Hist. sub voce 'De la Place.'
[98] Calvin, Lettres Françaises, i. pp. 70-71.
[99] Calvin on James, iv. 17.
[100] P. de Farnace, Brief Recueil, p. 11 sqq.
[101] Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. vii. cap. xi. Rémond exaggerates Calvin's opinion about Luther and Zwingle.
[102] 'Inter sylvas Academi quærere verum.'—Horace.
[103] 'In horto illo primum calvinisticum celebratum fuit concilium in Gallia.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. ii. p. 252.
[104] De Farnace, Vie de la Place, p. 11.
[105] La grotte de Calvin. See Crottet, Chronique protestante, p. 105; and A. Lièvre, Hist. du Protestantisme du Poitou, i. p. 23.
[106] 'In locis secretis frequenter convenerunt.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. ii. p. 253. Rémond declares that he had spared no pains to trace out all Calvin's career in France. 'In conquirendis variis quæ eo pertinent documentis, nulli labori peperci.' This has not prevented him from occasionally seasoning his narrative with abuse and calumny.
[107] Flor. Rémond, ibid. vii. cap. xi.
[108] 'Precem magna vehementia et devotione.'—Ibid. ii. p. 252.
[109] 'Per pagos etiam et villas.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. ii. p. 253.
[110] 'Quod sicut simiæ hominum opera perperam, ita hi sacram cœnam imitantur.'—Calvini Opusc. lat. p. 123.
[111] 'Histrionicam actionem appello quod ineptiæ gestusque histrionici illic visuntur.'—Calvini Opusc. lat. p. 123.
[112] 'Monstrato Bibliorum codice, dixisse: Hæc est missa mea.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. ii. p. 261.
[113] 'Ecce enim hic legem tuam.'—Ibid.
[114] 'In locis illis secretis prima calvinistica cœna celebrata fuit.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. ii. p. 253.
[115] 'Non ipse solum explicabat, sed aliorum sententias requirebat.—Ibid.