History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, Volume 1

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Pagina 401 - Another parable he spoke to them : the kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.
Pagina xviii - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Pagina xi - Neander — speaking with the author at Berlin in 1818, pressed him to undertake a History of the Reformation of Calvin. The author answered that he desired first to describe that of Luther ; but that he intended to sketch successively two pictures so similar and yet so different. The History of the Reformation in Europe in the time of Calvin naturally begins with Geneva.
Pagina 194 - François de Ternier, seignior of Pontverre, a violent and energetic man, and yet of a generous disposition. The blood of Berthelier, which was about to be shed, excited a thirst in his heart which the blood of the huguenots alone could quench; from that hour Pontverre was the deadliest enemy of Geneva and the Genevans. But (as pagan antiquity would have said) the terrible Nemesis, daughter of Jupiter and Night, goddess of vengeance and retribution, holding a sword in one hand and a torch in the...
Pagina 423 - Ghost, had thought of nothing all the day long but of worshipping the Virgin and her images. In the quarter of St. Antoine, and at the angle still formed by the streets Des Rosiers and Des Juifs, at the corner of the house belonging to the Sire Loys de Harlay. stood an image of the Virgin holding the infant Jesus in her arms. Numbers of devout persons of both sexes went every day to kneel before this figure. During the festival the crowd was more numerous than ever, and, bowing before the image,...
Pagina 304 - In the name of the most holy and most high Trinity/ said the three free states, i in the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, we...
Pagina 71 - Fear nothing,' answered Berthelier sharply, ' we have good friends ; ' and he added soon after : ' I will go to the Swiss, I will bring back forces, and then ... I will settle accounts with our adversaries.' * From that time the consultations and debates became more and more frequent : the discussions went on in private families, at St. Victor's, in the houses of the principal citizens, sometimes even in the public places : men reminded each other of the customs and franchises of Geneva, and promised...
Pagina 191 - It is the wicked who should beg for pardon, and not the good.' — 'He will put you to death, then,' said the guards. Berthelier made no reply. But a few minutes after, he went up to the wall and wrote: 'Non moriar sed vivam et narrabo opera Domini — I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord.
Pagina 395 - ... 0 God ! thou keepest me bowed down, as if thy bolts were falling on my head.'|| . . . Then he fell at the feet of the Almighty, exclaiming : ' I condemn with tears my past manner of life, and transfer myself to thine. Poor and wretched, I throw myself on the mercy which thou hast shown us in Jesus Christ : I enter that only harbor of salvation.
Pagina 89 - Hugues, who became the principal leader of this party, may have contributed to the preference of this form over all the others. In any case it must be remembered that until after the Reformation this sobriquet had a purely political meaning, in no respect religious, and designated simply the friends of independence. Many years after, the enemies of the protestants of France called them by this name, wishing to stigmatise them, and impute to them a foreign, republican, and heretical origin. Such is...

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