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“Or. The following beautiful lines were writ
ten by a ‘poor Scotch shocinaker, and are really worthy of
Fe-publieation,
WHY SHOU] D, MOR’ ris BE PROUD?
Oh,:why should the spirit of mortals be proud? !*
Likea fast Meeting meteor, a last-fleeting cloud—
A flash’ of the lightning,’a break of the wave.)
He He passed from life to bis rest in the gravewd +i
thal)
{ the willows shall fade
eraand and Iggether be laid, .
the old, ithe great and the. ‘high, .
rto o duet and together shall lie,
tod
‘Pho! hond of @ king that d geptre hath borne—
The brow ofa priest that a mitre hath worn, |} 1"!
The eye of the sage, atdsthe heart of the brave,
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tehose brow, in whose eye,
Shone beauty, and pleasure: triumphs are by,) 4.,
And the memory ‘of ‘those who, feloved her and nt rato
@ fromthe minds of th
Whos
The herdstan, whoelimbed with the goats to the
‘phe beggar; who-wanaered in'search of his bread,"
Have ded away like the grass that.we tread.o°1" lf
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“Ayeiate tie bate ‘things tha a our Feb ‘have sig
We se6 the same sights that or fathers have seen,
at! our fathers have ron
‘And we fun the sainé course’
et pL ba Poe
taut
The thoughts we are thinking on, shy loo
From the death we are éhri ig fiom, a
81 shrinks 2
To thé life. we ore'clinging to, they loo, would clin
But it spded:
ould off
Yea; hope and déspondence, and pleaduré and pi in,
Are mingled together like sunshine und rain.—"/ 9! '
And the smile and the tear,and the song and the dirge,
Still follow each other likesurge upon surge.
would think, .
‘Tis the twink of anese. the draught ofa breath,
the pslenersor death,
oe
LIFE, AND. poc TRINES OF CALVIN.
yrie to ‘isgomtinned frown page 31a) 7
oi At, Paris, in. the. bookstore ‘of Etien
principle’as maintained by: Luther; that + he
shad God.with him,?-he inflamed his disciples
with burning: zeal for the new gospel.” From
tvese clandestine night meetings issied forth
a tribe of impromptu prophets “and ‘tissiona-
ries, who undertook: to regenerate thé faith of
fifteen cemturies.«.henee went forth doctors | y
‘without knowledge, Levites without soutan,
transformed. into. aposites ‘by! the breath ‘of
Calving..To these, no principle of religion or
society, was sacred, and thev railed ‘equally
against the prerogatives'of the altar and of the |°
state.” In many of thetowns of France they
excited trouble and: dissensions,and rendered
‘it necessary for: the ivi authority” ‘to re ress
their fanatical zeal: 8 78 warig epres
~«a*t Before, the magistrate they were ‘full ‘of
pride} in, prison, they were’ placidty * serene;
they believed themselves called: by God, and
inspired with his word: Calvin at Paris, bad
| | joyous for the ‘glorification
ne de} 4
‘a Forge, an ardent Lutheran, Jobn of Noyoni | ¢
assembled his hearers, and entertained “them | §
awithor his «discourses. Adopting ‘the! game | a
founded a small, church where he, pr eached,
,| by night, with closed doors, attacking tradition,
in its Catholic organs, faith jn its mysterious
. dogmas, the church in the. papacy, fociety in
ils religious form, and, thus ‘he assailed the
constitution of the country, its , worshi
its, laws, Pasquier, presents | him
midst of his books and his studies, with a na,
ture agitating with the greatest possible ener.
gy. for the progress of his,sect. , We some~
times behold, says he, our: prisons crowded
with poor abused people, whom, without hav-
ing access to them he exhorted, consoled and
» | strengthened . by -letters, and he was inj no
want of messengers to whom the doors were
open, in, spite ot itigence and precautions of
the jaolers. the process by which he
succeeded “the beginning to gain, by de-
tees, a part of our France ; so that, afler.a
long period. ‘of time, seeing the hearts of, men
prepared for. his efforts, he wished, to take
further , measures, and . sent, some ministers,
who were called by us preachers, to; exercise
his religion in secret, even. in our city of
oni where the fires were kindled against
them,
8 menaces were ‘useless : it employed . the
: the, prison converied nobody, The
Lutherans, in’ pamphlets , disseminated... by
_| night, devoted the magistrates to the indigna:
tion of the people, their judges to the execra-
tion of posterity, the prince to the wrath, of
the. Lord, ythe papists to , eternal flames.
Were they banished, they soon’ re-entered
France with an ardour for proselytism, increa-
sed by. the sufferings AMhey..had endured, . in
exile, Was’ a passage read to them from. the
bible, wherein the apostle recommends obe-
"| dience to the ejvil. authority 2 They exhibited
their father in Christ, at'.the Diet of Worms,
urling his defiance at the Emperor and atthe
diferent orders, and preferring rather to obey
od th: n man. Luther,
world from’, the darkness of superstition. ‘If
told that Luther was ‘condemned by the Holy
they answered, by reciting some, verses
mn which had traversed the Rhine; If
iltv of heresy, Christ must, be
The wagistracy, for the, most
part, must have been ignorant of what ace urs
red in the « country. agitated by heresy, else, it
might have’ shown, at the vvery, hour, poor
| Carletadt flying” from Luther's | anger, .and
obliged to Jeave Saxony, and 0 to, beg. his
_ | bread, because he had trusted , vo ithe monk's
word, and, tried io ;iniredy ea new, doeirine
into he reformed, woild.” \ 1
Recourse, was. chad to violence 7 stakes
, an /some fanatics, who perished
were ‘eulogieed as nartys ! Credulous ‘souls,
and more) worthy. of ‘pity,than of anger, who
thought to gain heave by apostacy, and died
nof a letier they did
not, vaderstand, and, in’ behalf of which not
one of Calvin's ‘successors would tc to, day shed
asingle drop of his blood t | For’ the. Chriss
made after Calvin's image, does not this day
resemble the (Christ of certain ministers (of
Geneva. ‘Ihe Christ of John of Noyon, had
adouble nature: he was God and man, and
the Christ of the reformer's’ successors, is. no
more than'a son of ‘Adam, formed. from, the
slime of the at and 9 oly, palin greater than
Alexander ‘or Maho
ciims 19
‘and, who, by, the
J heen, jselected, as a
cor, into, “others, found
"This ‘work,", says Mr. ‘Aut
titled De Clementia bein
the father and son,
the rhetorician and the philosopher, of whom
he has made but ove. Vterary personages liv;
ing a patriarchal ike of 115. yea
“We must pardon Varitlas, for baving ith
sufficient bitterness, reaveled this error, ‘of the
biographer ‘of Seneca the Philosopher, a aud not
grow angry, 4s do the istorians of the refor-
mation, against the proud words of the French
historian, | What Protestant would.1 hot bate
non Pasquier! fecherches url
8 pag
, At fist government had, recourse to’ mena.,|
been commiited bv a Catholic
bis work of Calvin, nat, vaworihiy of the
era of the revival of literature, ‘if regarded me-
rely.as a literary ‘production, gave him- some
1} celebrity, and made him known to the learned
world, ) He received various felicitations :
> 4 Bacer, Capito, GEcolampadius congratu-
lated the. writer: Calvin had, in September
of 1532, from Noyon,’ addressed a copy to
Bucer then at Strasburg.” . ‘Tae person, who
was. _ charged with presenting it, to Bucer was
a _poor, young man, suspected of anabaptism,
and _Wwas flying fom France, Calvin's letier of
recommendation is full of meek, compassion
for, the miseries of the sinner... ** M
ery”) he writes, * you will not be deaf to
my prayers, you, will have regard tomy tears;
1 beseech you come to the ald | of the proserib-
ed, be'a father to the orphan.”
This .was ‘sending the sick toa sad phy-
sician; Bucery by turns Catholic, Lutheran,
Anabaptist, Zuinglian, ,, Besides, wherefore
this proselytisu ofa moral cure? The exile
wag anabaptist, by, the same, title ‘that Calvin
predestinarian,, iv ; Virtue cof a text of
ure: “Go, whoever shall ‘believe, and
be baptised, shall be, saved.” "The anabap-
tists Detieved. in) ‘the, lueflicacy - of baptism,
without faith imanifgsied by an exterior acl,
bat ‘wa’ not Calvin, at that moment, as, much
to be’ pitied as the: al
ed,. ipierrogated ‘his
had discovered the sense of Words whieh , no
nee before bad .been able to seize.
S
intelligence
Whay then was the truthya conquest of which
inspired ‘hie with ‘such dread; that before
propagating it, be must sell his charge of the
chureh of Pont VEveque, and even his. pat:
ternal infieritance ?””
In 1531, Calvin and his. brother “Anthony
had onited 1 in giving to their ‘brother Charles
Calvip. powers to yend the property left them,
by their deceased lather. ||
iime after,’ he resigned his, Chapel de]
sine to Anthony, dela, Marliere for a,
stipulated price, mediante pretio conventionis, |
and hi
for a smiliar consideration.
he was fed by Catholies,
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“ethe storm was ‘gathering # Salvin wished
to expose 10 its fury,some other head than
his own, and chose , that of Nicholas Cop,
rector of the Sorbonne, at Paris.:
German of Be
of scriptural knowledge, his
the monks, and his. ridicule
u As to, the, rest; he was
man of adull heavy mind, understood nothin
of theological subjects, and. would, have been
‘uch better placed in a “refectory than. in
a learned bod 3 at table, than in the
‘ had to provounce his usual
discourse on All Saints day, in presence, of
the Sarbonne® and the, university, , Ie had
recourse to Calvin, who set to work, and
” built him’
oration qu i
were’ *eustomary."(2), Sorbonne and
university. didnot assist, ‘at. the, discourse,
but only some Franciscans, who appeared. to
he scandalized ‘by certain’ propositions of the
ind among others, by one ‘concerning
justifeation by faith’ alone ip “Christ:an old
error, which, for many ages, has been trailed
aloiig, ju all the writings of heretics; often
ad aid, resuscitated, and which Calvin, in
p's dressed out vin tinsel, in or
der io, give it me appearance, of novelty,
But “oor, Frone’ Y had sigbt and) hearing
‘ally good, they détected ‘the heresy easily,
and, denounced | 10 they parliament the evil
sag propositions, which they had taken
pains (q note down in writings, Cop was
greatly embarrassed by hie new glory ; he had
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beld ‘up well, and couvoked the university at
the | Mathurins. ” The-‘university, assembled
ina body'in order to judge’ the, cause. \'The
rector, there commences a discourse, drawn
up by. Calvin, and in’ which he formally dey
nies, having preached the propositions de-
nounced, with the ‘ ‘exception of one only,
precisely ne worst, ‘that concerning justifica-
tion, Imagine the tamuly which, the: orator
excited!” Searcely! could he, make, himself
heard, and ask merey, he old Sort onnists
(2) @) Beza Hist. deBeel. tl, pe Me
church of Pont I'Eveque, to Caim, | 20
| sions into’ the co
. | shuldered on their henchrs 5. The unfortenate
Lop would had been'seized, had he not made
bis escape | ‘to retire no more,
Cy became Kiown that the scholar of Noyon,
was the author of the objectionable discourse,
and the archers, tinder Ligstenant John’, Mo-
rin, was sent, after’ him” to the’ College du
Fortet, where be lay concealed. * Maving in
timation. of this, he effected’ ‘seape.
and hid himself in the Teosbeurg Se
j ‘and placing a wallet of
white linen, and a harrow , on ‘his shoulders,
he tok’ the wad for Noyon. ~ On ‘the’ way’
r| he was met by a Canon of that city, who was’
going’ to Paris, snd who’ recognized the ‘eu-’
rate of Pont VEveque ‘under his’ “disguise.”
“Where are you ering
lemanded, '
naster John he?
iful “'uevontre-!
« Where God vigases,! replied ‘Calvin who
began to explain the reasons of his disguise.’ ‘
‘And would you ‘do better to return ‘oN Noyon
said the Cano nd ‘to God?” he? 4 ded!
looking at him’‘with ‘sadness.’ Calvin ' was’
silent fora moments" fhen taking the’ priest's
hand—"Phank yous said | he, *but’ it. is too!
late.” . :
Calvin’ went'tothe court “of Marg: “ot!
Navarre, who had sufficient Influence to pro.
| cure’ his” reconciliation” with ihe court and?
university of Paris. It ‘the . boast’ of
Francis'1st to be the jason of “imen of letters,’
ahd Calvin. ‘under this “ite deserved ‘somo!
consideration.
The litle court of! Nerac ‘was at ‘that
period © the asylum, of ‘writers, ° who, ‘like’
Desperrinrs there. prépared ' their” Cymba-’
lum mundi; of gallant ladies’ who ‘composed’
love ‘tales, of which’ ftequently they” were |
themselves the heroines; af poetst who’ by
temporized odes after the’ inodel of Reza rs .
clerks “and other gentry ‘of the, Church, who!
ridiculed the Virgt costed whe Saints, and: en-'
tertained packs. ot} ‘i ring dogs, aod’ coutter!
a3 54 ayers J come from’ Italy+
n the Quéen’s r theal presented”
comedies take from the New “estament, iné
é to utter horrible’ “things!
against moaks and nuh} or of imbecile prin-!
ces, like the Queen's” husband, who’ scarcely!
k how to read, cand ‘spoke of: see net
and discipline.” (4) ‘/ £
"There Calvin tound ‘le: Fevre. ‘athapies
who had fled from the anger of the Sorbonne,’
eza says, and” robably" without ‘sufficient
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which Jesus’ was ima
b grounds, that d’Etaples looked upon! Calvin
with a kind eye, “and predicted that he would’
one day become the author of ‘the restoration *
of the chorck.”*
a eathohe,’
‘At Neraé Calvin seems to have b been active!
in’ the disseminatjon of ‘his heretical’ prinei-!
ples, and‘ made fregnent missionary” excur?
one of these he’
made “the: aequatntanes of Louis’ ao “Piller!
register of the parliament ‘of Patis; at whose’
retired country house ‘ut Claix, he’ bond. a’
pleasant and acceptable retreat, where he began’
his most serious HE Canisttan Ine!
sritutions.(5)°#''" wade :
‘The time he could spare front ‘his fiversey!
occupation, he devoted: to’ Precehings in the
surrounding 1 tow id es lally’ a
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“He was living on’ the’ last! benefits ofta!
church’ which he ‘had denied, and denounced
as ‘a stepmother, and a pros:
means furnished by a Queen famous’ for gal+
antry,” whose “mbrals + and piety: be tauded,!
at the Cathelic offices,’
iscourses, ‘which’ were
pronounced out of the’ assembly of © the sfnoi
al the temple of Saint Peter!?) oot .
ve Ue left Margaret, ‘aad reappesred at Ord
leans. tu
The Reformation n Franéa ‘as “ae ‘Gent
oe wherever ft ec itself, roduéed or
all sides disorder'and ‘trouble.’ In place of a
uniiorm symbol, ii brought eontradicinry cons
fessious, which gave tise ‘to interminable ‘dis-
putes.’ * “Ta the Lutheran’: word-
hristiaa’ Re?
Carlstadt,
Schwenkfeld,’ CEcolampadiu winglius,
Manzer, Bockold, , begotten by ‘Lather,’ had
denied their father'and taught hétetoge ous
which? wished “to‘establish’ a
po Hist, Univ. Par. -acutore Buieleos foe, YI,
9.
ey Florimond de Remond,:p, 889.
(5) Dictionaire de Payle art. Calvine
At all evente a Eiaples died’ .
ite,” and on the’ _
eansed a thousand Sects to spring up, each of |
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