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AUTHOR OF THE
'HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY' ETC.
'Les choses de petite durée ont coutumede devenir fanées, quand elles out passé leur temps.
'Au règne de Christ, il n'y a que lenouvel homme qui soit florissant, qui ait de la vigueur, et dont ilfaille faire cas.'
VOL. III.
FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, GENEVA.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.
1864.
THE time at which this volume appears would seemto require a few words of introduction.
A day which closes a great epoch in the history ofmodern times, will soon be called to the remembranceof Protestant Christians. The registers of the Consistoryof Geneva for the year 1564, bear under the nameof Calvin these simple words:
Allé à Dieu le Sabmedy 27 de May, entre huit etneuf heures du soir.[1]
The author of this volume, having been invited bythe Evangelical Alliance to deliver an address onThe Reformation and the Reformer of Geneva, duringthe Œcumenical Conference held at Geneva in September,1861, observed, in the course of his preparatorywork, this important date, and proposed to the assemblythat on the tercentenary of the Reformer's death,Geneva and the Reformed Churches in general, shouldreturn thanks publicly to God that he had raised upJohn Calvin in the sixteenth century, to labour at thereformation of the Church, by re-establishing Holy{viii}Scripture as the supreme authority, and grace as theonly means of salvation. The members of the Conference,about two thousand in number, adopted theresolution by acclamation.[2]
As Christian Protestants were preparing to celebratethe anniversary, the author desired to contribute somethingaccording to his ability towards reviving thememory of the great doctor. Almost at the very timewhen the idea of this Protestant festival occurred to hismind, he proposed to describe in a special work, TheReformation of Europe in the time of Calvin. Havingpublished the first two volumes more than a year ago,he looked forward to issuing another before the 27thMay, and he now presents it to the public. May itoccupy its humble place among the memorials destinedto commemorate the Lord's work.
The persecuting jesuitry of the seventeenth century,and the superficial incredulity of the eighteenth, havecalumniated the great Reformer of the West. Timeshave changed, and the nineteenth century is beginningto do him justice. His works, even those still inmanus