He was not so learned as Erasmus, nor so logical as Calvin, nor so scholarly as Melancthon, nor so broad as Cranmer.

See how it was elaborately expanded by Calvin, how it gave birth to a new and strong theology, how it entered into the very life of the people, especially among the Puritans,into the souls of even Cromwell's soldiers.

We have seen how that great insurrection of human intelligence was headed in Germany by Luther, and we shall shortly consider it in Switzerland and France under Calvin.

He was neither so prominent nor so great a man as Luther or Calvin, or even Knox.

and has been, since the time of Frederick the Great, the hot-bed of rationalistic inquiries; and the Genevan as well as the French and Swiss churches which Calvin controlled have become cold, with a dreary and formal Protestantism, without poetry or life.

These changes called out letters from Calvin at Geneva, who was now recognized as a great oracle among the Protestants: he encouraged the work, but advised a more complete reformation, and complained of the coldness of the clergy, as well as of the general vices of the times.

; he was weak in his recantation; he was not an original genius,but he was a man of great breadth of views, conciliating, wise, temperate in reform, and discharged his great trust with conscientious adherence to the truth as he understood it; the friend of Calvin, and revered by the Protestant world.

The great ideas of the Reformation began now to agitate the mind of England,not so much the logical doctrines of Calvin as the emancipating ideas of Luther.

Calvin's writings were potent, and John Knox was on his way to Scotland.

of England, and rigid enthusiasm, as with Calvin, strengthened the infant reformation; the first led to violence which irritated many, the second to austerity which disgusted them; and it was soon discovered that the change was almost confined to forms of practice, and that the essentials of abuse were likely to be carefully preserved.

Afterward, when he could think for himself and choose his profession of faith, he embraced the doctrine of Calvin.

He accepted the faith of John Calvin, who died in 1564.

The doctrines of Saint Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, the great authorities of the Catholic Church, were substantially embraced by Luther, Calvin, Cranmer, and the Westminster divines.

He who shall be instrumental in incorporating this grand doctrine among those laws, will be equal, or perhaps superior to, a Luther, or a Melancthon, a Calvin, or a Huss, a Cranmer, or any other of the world's greatest reformers.

For the future, the Gospel according to Calvin must be received as the truth.

but only to read Calvin's account of that repentance, without which there is no sign of election, and to call it "the more comfortable of the two?"

So would Bunyan, and so would Calvin have preached;would both of them in the name of Christ have made this assurance to the Barrister'This do, and thou shalt live.'

To what purpose then this windy declamation about John Calvin?

How many Methodists, does the Barrister think, ever saw, much less read, a work of Calvin's?

When do they refer to Calvin?

And his abuse of Calvin displays only his own vulgar ignorance both of the man, and of his writings.

Yet it was a murder not the less: Yes! a damned murder: but the guilt of it is not peculiar to Calvin, but common to all the theologians of that age; and, 'Nota bene,' Mr. Barrister, the Socini not excepted, who were prepared to inflict the very same punishment on F. Davidi for denying the adorability of Christ.

If to wish, will, resolve, and attempt to realize, be morally to commit, an action, then must Socinus and Calvin hunt in the same collar.

" The "Faculty" at present consists of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, D.D., President, and Professor of Theology; the Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature, and Lecturer on Church History; and the Rev. D. Howe Allen, Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology, and Lecturer on Church Polity.

Calvin Coolidge, p.424-434, by Leo Lerman.