History of the life, works, and doctrines of John Calvin - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850* Excerpt: ...the clergy with sufficient light to decide it: and the names of Farel and of Calvin came to the memory of the people. The ministers, discouraged, asked to be allowed to resign. This was refused them.:):. Then James Bernard took upon himself to write to Calvin, a letter worthy of an unfrocked monk. "Come, come," said he, "my father in Christ, a true father to us all, come! all hearts long for your return. You shall see, with what joy you will be welcomed! You will learn to know me. I am not such as I have been portrayed by lying reports; but a faithful and sincere friend, a devoted brother. Delay not; hasten to contemplate again, to behold Geneva, that is, a whole people, renovated by divine grace. Farewell; deign to hasten to the aid of our church, if you do not wish the Lord to demand from you an account of our blood and our tears."§ We were looking for some lines in reply, from Calvin, but there See chapter XVIII. j t Obtestamur vos, fratres, cavoatis no hujus opistolee publicatio nobis sit fraud i. Familiarius enim in sinum vestrum quidvis deponimusquam promiscne simus narrnturi. Vestrec itaquo fidei luce secreto commissa momineritis. J Picot, histoiro de Genove, 1.I, p 369 ct suiv. t Veni ergo, venerando mi pater in Christo.... Cognosces me insuper non qualem hactnnus relationo quorumdam, sed pium, sincerum ac fidclcm fratrem ac amicum tuum Vale, occlesue nostrte digneris succurrere, alioqui require! de manu tua sanguinom nostrum Dominus Dous. Tuus Jacobus Bernard j, minister evangelicus. Geneva?, 6 Feb. 1641. were none. We must pardon his silence, or, perhaps, laud the pruderies of those who collected the reformer's letters, and who shall have read his response. How did he manage to praise an intruder? Each day, the field of i...

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