jO HN CALVI N AN D The Ge nevan Refo rm atio n i“ A S k fi m , M TH O M A S CA R Y O H N SO N J , J O HN CALVI N AN D he G e nevan R efo rm atio n A S k e tc h . z/ TH O M A S CA R Y O H N SO N J , FES S O R O F EC C LES I A S TI CA L HI STO R Y A N D PO LI TY I N UN I O N TH EO LO G I CA L EM I N A R Y R I C H M N D VA S , O , . C O PYRIGHTED N e t A S . ". H A ZE S cre ar o P u li a ti n J , y f b c o , 1 900 . my fatherand AN D TO IN Sister, O GO D " WH M HATH TA EN, O F O O F S IN EACH WH M MUCH THE PURITY, STRENGTH AND WEETNES S O F C S WAS O O ALVINI M INC RP RATED , THIS LITTLE ACC O UNT O F ’ CALVIN S GREAT S ERVICES TO GENEVA AND THE W O RLD I S AFFECTIO NATELY DEDICATED . C O N TEN TS . B B OG I LI RAPHY, AP E I CH T R . ’ GENERAL S TATEMENT — Divi s io ns o f Calvin s Life — O rigin o f the enevan R e o ma o n — I ts P o es s G f r ti r gr , A CH PTER II . ’ CALVIN S CHILDHOOD AND YO UTH : TH E PERIOD OF HIS TRAIN ING UNDER THE PARENTAL R OOF AND IN S CHOOLS TILL HIS S UDDEN CONVERSIO N IN 1 532 AND DETERMINATIO N To THE — B n P n — H i F . a a s S ERVICE O CHRISTIANITY irth a d re t ge. u n — His o n e s o n and Fu he Edu a n — Hi Ed catio . C v r i rt r c tio s — — Firs t Literary Venture — Determinatio n to the S ervice o f Chri s tianity A P ER I I I CH T . ’ TH E PERIOD OF CALVIN S ELABORATIO N OF THE DOCTRINES O F THE O Y“ S E BO O H L CRIPTURES, M DIED CHIEFLY IN HIS IM M RTAL — — 1 2 1 I . O en B ea h the hu ch f INSTITUTES , 53 54 p r k wit C r o R o me — A Wande n Ev an e s in ance 1 ri g g li t Fr , 533 I n E le in B asle Th P u n u xi : e ro d ctio O f the I ns tit tes . Travelling in Italy and France un der th e N ame O f Charles ’ E e ill 1 — 1 — Th m n n n d s v e 6 . e R e o a o i Ge eva P o p , 53 5 53 f r ti ri r ’ ’ to al n m n 1 2— 1 — 1 n F s e n v s o 6. Ca v s P o d i C i C i g, 53 5 3 i ir t ri - — — n 1 in u . ll Ge eva 6 1 8 . a v n S as S the ead , 53 53 C l i tr b rg ti H O f the Genevan hu ch 1 8— 1 1 C r , 53 54 , AP CH TER IV. TH E P O OF E B DE OF A s S ERI D HIS STA LISHMENT AND FENSE , CRIP OF O R OF E PO O O TURAL, AN DER CCLESIASTICAL LITY, C RRESP ND I N G To S OF F " O P HIS YSTEM AITH , WHICH IS N WN AS RES ’ — - B Y TER I A N I S M 1 l n i d . 1 1 . a v s a o s n h s e o , 54 549 C i L b r t i P ri ’ D n l l -His is ti ctive Principles O f Calvin s Ecc es ias tical Po ity . S truggles With the Patrio ts and Lib ertines in B ehalf o f Dis ci lin — Th De f i in 1 e. W e p e ath O H s if 549 , 4 CONTENTS . A P E C R V . A H T P GE , ’ TH E PERIOD OF CALVIN S GREAT CO NTROVERSIES WAGED WITH THE PURPO SE OF ADVANCING UNIO N A M ONGST BODIES OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AND MAINTAINING THE TRUTH OF ’ - — l n men s S 1 6 . a v s a o s a d Ach eve HIS YSTEM, I 549 5 4 C in L b r i t , — — The A eem en h h u h s o n th e 1549 1 564 . gr t wit t e Z ric er ’ ’ Lo rd s S upp er : An I ns tance O f Calvin s Irenical Effo rts . ’ he o n o ve s h S e ve us an lus a o n O f alv n s T C tr r y wit r t , Il tr ti C i ’ H o no r to Go d s Wo rd as H e Unders to o d and to the Unity ’ — a v n s Dea h — S o me f Hi ha c e o f the Church . C l i t O s C ra t r i ics st , A P CH TER VI . H E F — I m s T INFLUENCE O JO HN CALVIN . N o t Perp etuated b y po m — i n n n H s ue ce n v nd R l u e . i g To b . I fl o Ci il a e igio s Lib rty Th e Co nserving Po w er O f Calvini sm in Pro tes tant Church e — o nclus o n Lif C i , PR EFA C E. WE ff O er to the public , in the present form , our lectures n on John Calvin and the Genevan Reformation , as give — 1 i 1 8 00 . n during the present session , 99 9 They were c - tended to serve as a supplement to lass book instructions , co we mis re res enta to rrect , as see things , some current p ’ to c O f tions , and give emphasis to ertain features Calvin s teaching and life adj udged by us to be O f special value as means to the enlargement O f Christian manhood and the c O f . produ tion holy living Nevertheless , it is hoped that it may be granted that we have fairly called it a sketch O f ’ Calvin s life and O f the movement in Geneva O f which he as w the heart . While the lectures were designed to meet the needs O f c c our students as we on eive them , designed through them to f c O f in a fe t the life our Southern Zion , we hope that telli ent c c g men in our hur h generally, and in other Calvin istic c who o chur hes have not time to read l ng biographies , “ ” “ Will find in our Sketch a c lear outline O f the Great Jo hn ” O f Geneva and his work ; and we are perfectly assured that the men O f our day ought to a c quaint themselves with o c c the character O f Calvin . A thor ugh a quaintan e with Calvin would prove a p o werful uplifting fo rce in all who fo r love God , and would fill with veneration and awe the ’ maj esty O f Calvin s character a large porti o n O f the unre 6 PREFACE . O f generate multitude, and that , too , the nobler portion that multitude . It is hoped by so me O f our wide-awake pastors that his tory classes may be formed amongst their young men and f‘ women for the common study O the past of our own faith , O f po lity , worship and life and thus the life the present church be deepened and broadened by close contact with those great epochs in the Reformed faith in whi ch God Opened the windows O f heaven and poured out his bless ' b een able ings upon his waiting church . We have not to throttle the wish that this little book might come to be SO we used ; and if that should happen , would undertake , with O f c the blessing God , to follow it soon with similar sket hes O n in the Reformation in the Netherlands , in England , and c . Scotland , and in Fran e we c who Finally, pray to the God of all gra e, gave John o Calvin to Geneva and to the w rld , to use these pages in creating in every o ne who shall read them that supreme O f co m love to God, that sense personal responsibility, that O f the bination purity, strength and sweetness which Cal vinistic system , beyond any other, has been creating in the past . T . C . J . U O O O S NI N THE L GICAL EMINARY, R i hm nd D 2 c o Va.