Note 841 — Chapter XVII · CALVIN'S ARRIVAL AT GENEVA. (Summer, 1536.)
Reading edition
Preface to Calvin's Commentaire sur les Psaumes.
[842] 'Il me fit connaître aux autres.'—Preface to the Commentaire sur les Psaumes. In the Latin edition, 'Statim fecit ut innotescerem.'
[843] Letter to Chr. Fabri, 6th June, 1561.
[844] Beza, Vie de Calvin.
[845] Calvin, Préface des Psaumes.
[846] Ibid.
[847] Beza, Vie de Calvin.
[848] 'Ac si Deum violentem mihi e cœlo manum injiceret.'—Calvin.
[849] 'Piqûres.' The word is Calvin's.
[850] Calvin.
[851] 'In ipso itinere Ecclesias multas offendo quibus immorari aliquantisper rogor.' Calvin to Daniel, 13th October, 1536. Offendo should here be taken in the sense of 'to meet,' rather than 'to hurt.' See Cicero, Fam. ii. p. 3.
[852] On this subject Mons. A. Roget has put forward just views and authentic facts in his writing entitled, L'Eglise et l'Etat à Genève du vivant de Calvin.
[853] Calvin, Institution chrétienne, liv. iv. ch. 7.
[854] Calvin, Institution chrétienne, liv. iv. ch. 22.
[855] 'What is the principle of our strength?' asked an eloquent Dutch writer not long ago. 'I will tell you: it is in our origin. We are the offspring of the Geneva of Calvin.'—La Hollande et l'Influence de Calvin, par M. Groen van Prinsterer, conseiller d'Etat. La Haye, 1864.
[856] Calvin, Comment. sur Matth. xxii. 21.
[857] This was addressed to those who were exciting the protestants of France to acts of violence. See Calvin's letters to the Church of Angers, April 1556, and other letters.
[858] Registres du Conseil des 13 Février 1537, 13 et 20 Septembre 1541.
[859] Mignet, La Réformation de Genève, p. 10.