certaine time But when he came thither and was receiued of singuler affection by those poore people which acknowleged their fault hauing a great desire to heare their faithful Pastor they helde him there continually wherunto in the ende the Lordes of Strasbourgh consented vpō condition that he should be alwayes a Bourgeois of their towne They would also that he should haue had alwayes the reuenue of a Prebend which was appointed vnto him for hys scipende of his reading But as he was a man clearely voide of all greedinesse of the goodes of thys worlde so coulde they neuer bring to passe that hee woulde receiue so much as the value of one Denier thereof And in this sorte he was againe established at Geneua the yeare .1541 the .13 of September where forthwith hee framed an order of Ecclesiasticall Discipline which hath alwayes since continued there firmely albeit Satan and hys adherentes haue employed all theire forces to abolishe it Now hee that woulde here declare particulerly all the trauayles paines that thys excellent personage hath endured since by the space of .23 yeares as well within as without hee shoulde haue matter sufficient to fil a great volume For if euer there were towne furiously assayled by Satan and valiantly defended during that tyme it was Geneua the honor belongeth onely to God but it ought and may lawfullye be said that Caluin hath bene the instrumēt of hys vertue power If there be questiō of vigilance Satan his could neuer take him vnprouided but either he hath warned that flocke before hande or else preserued it in the place If wee shal speake of integritie he is yet vnborne that hath sene him cōmit any fault in his office or to yelde be it neuer so little for any man liuing or to haue varied in doctrine or life nor neuer misreported man If we shall speake of labour paine I beleue that his like is not to be founde beside that he preached cōtinually euery daye in the weeke and most commonly and as often as he was able hee preached twice euery Sonday hee did reade diuinitie three times in a weeke hee made declaration in the Consistorie or as it were a whole lesson euery Friday in conference of the Scripture which we call Cōgregation did continue this order thorowly wtout interruption vntill his death in dede neuer did fayle so much as once except it were by extreme sicknesse Further who is able to recite his trauailes ordinarie and extraordinary I knowe not if any man of our tyme hath had more to heare to aunswere and to write nor matters of greater importaunce The onely multitude and number of hys bookes and writings are sufficient to astonishe any man that shall se them but much more those that shall reade them And that which maketh hys labours more wonderfull is that hee had a bodye so weake of nature and so lowe brought with watchings and ouermuch sobrietie yea and being subiect to so many diseases that all men that had sene him would haue thought that he coulde not haue lyued at all And notwithstanding this hee neuer left of day nor night his trauaile in the workes of the Lorde he coulde not endure to heare the requestes and exhortations of hys friendes which they daylye made vnto him to the ende that he shoulde take some rest I wyll alledge onely two examples The yeare .1559 beyng assayled and maruellously greued with a feuer quartane he did notwithstanding in the chiefest of hys sicknesse set forth the laste edition of his Christian Institution and did translate it thorowe oute into Frenche Likewise in his last sicknesses which were the stone the goute the Hemorrhodes a Phthysike feuer shortnesse of wynd beside his ordinarie disease of the Miegrame be did him self translate wholly that great volume of his Commentaries vpon the foure laste Bookes of Moyses examined the translation of the fyrst made this booke vpō Iosue and did peruse the greatest part of the translation and annotations of the Newe Testament in sor◠that he neuer ceased from writing but only eyght dayes before his death hys voice beginning to fayle him Beside hys innumerable paines and his charges in all the mischiefes and perilles wherein this poore Citie hath bene assayled within by many mutinous and desperate Citizens tormented without a hundred thousand wayes threatned by the greatest Kings and Princes of Christendome bicause it was alwayes a refuge and defence for all the poore children of God afflicted in Fraunce Italie Spayne Englande and else where it was so that Caluin bare alwaye the greatest burden to be short he myght well saye with S. Paule who is he that is troubled I do not sorrowe And it was not without cause that euery mā had his refuge to him for God had adorned him with so wyse and good councell that neuer man repented him of the following of it but I haue knowē many fal into great and extreme inconueniences which would not beleue him Thys hath bene founde so by many experiences and proofes namely in the seditions that happened the yeare .48 54. and .55 to breake and disorder the discipline of the Church where he thrust himself naked in among the swordes drawne and with hys presence wordes he so frayed the most desperate mutines of them that they were enforced to prayse God The lyke was in the conspiracie Catilinarie which was the verye yere .55 to haue murdred all the French by the Captaine of the towne named Amied Perrin and his conspirators which coniuration carying with it a maruellous number of daūgers and trauayles in the ende the Lords of hys great grace by the wysedome of hys seruaunt brought it to that passe that it is now at to wyt to the greatest quietnesse and felicitie that euer this Citie did knowe As touching his ordinary life dyet euery man cā witnesse that it was so temperate that ther was neuer excesse in it no more was there of nigardise but a commendable meane sauing that he had alwayes to small regarde to his health being cōtented for the space of many yeares with one repast in .xxiiij. houres and neuer receiuing any thing betwene his meales in such sort that all that euer the Phisitians could persuade him vnto in the point was that about half a yere before his last sicknesse he did take at times about noone a litle wine and would soupe of an egge the causes were the weakenesse of his stomack and the Miegrame for the which he saide hee coulde neuer find any remedy but a cōtinual dyet in suche sort as I haue knowen him oftentimes to eate no meate in two dayes Being of so smal a dyet he slept very little for the more parte he was cōstrained to warme him vpon his bedde whereon also hee hath made the greatest number of his bookes being continually happily occupyed in spirite This is the order that this excellent seruant of God did continuallye obserue forgetting himself to serue
that same very vehemencie I ought not to keepe silent that which is true and that I doe know Besyde his owne naturall inclination to choller hys witte being maruellous prompt the folly of many the multitude and infinite varietie of the affaires for the Church of GOD and towarde the later ende of hys lyfe hys great and continuall diseases had made him vnquiet and frowarde but sure hee was farre of from any delight therein for on the contrarie no man did better perceaue nor so much finde it as did hee Thys be sayde concerning hys lyfe and conuersation in hys house in whome this onely default that euer I knewe was tempered wyth so great and amiable vertues and so seldome or neuer at all acompanied with other vices which are alwayes wont to folowe the same that he neuer offended any of hys friendes neither in woorde nor deede But as touching in publique concerning the charge that GOD had committed vnto him it is there that I muste needes maruell at the great wysedome of God turning all things to hys glorye and chiefely in hys most singuler instrumentes and Organes Such as haue seene and knowen wyth what kinde of men he hath moste commonly had to doe the thinges that God hath declared and done by him the circumstaÌ„ces of times and places they in deede may iudge wherto suche a vehemencie I say a vehemencie in déede Propheticall did serue and shall serue to all posteritie And that which made him â—ore maruellous was that nether hauing nor seeking any thing lesse than that which is so muche required by those that would be feared by meane of an outward apparance the moste obstinate and peruers were constrained to bende vnder the great power of God which did compasse about his faithful seruaunt They which shall reade his wrytinges and shall rightly seeke the glory of God shall there see this maiesty whereof I speake to shine As concerning such as doe at this day handle religion as they doe politique affaires which are more cold than yse in Gods cause and more enflamed than the fire in that which concerneth their particuler causes and which doe cal al the choller which is more frankly spoken than they woulde euen as he neuer sought to please such men euen so doe I thinke it not meete to stand about the answering of them What would these wise temperate men say then seing there is no question but of God if they had more earnestly felt such a choller I am sure they would haue bene also on their part as euill contented as I doe thincke and shall thinke my self happy during my life to haue enioyed so great and so rare a vertue bothe openly priuately Euen as I coulde neuer be weary of solacing my self in the absence of so worthy and excellent a personage in representing him vnto me by the discourse of his rare and exquisite vertues no more can I without very great sorowe make an end of that which resteth and may notwithstaÌ„ding in no wise bee lefte vntouched for so muche as it is as it were the crowne and beautye of all his life Beside that God did place this great wisdom and vnderstanding in a weake bodye and disposed of it selfe to the disease of the Pthysike whereof he also died the studies of his youth had made him verye leane and weake and when he came once to the affaires he had alwaies so small respect concerning the trauaile of his mind that withoute the speciall grace of GOD whom it pleased to builde his Churche by the meanes of that instrumente it had not ben possible for him to haue come to the age which the Phisitians doe call the declining The yeare .1558 being required by the Lordes of Franckfort to make a voyage thyther to appease and prouide remedie for certaine troubles that were in the Frenche Church which was newlye receiued in to that towne at the retourne of thys long trauaylsome voyage he had a terciaÌ„ feuer very sharpe which was as it were the first pushe at hys health in such sorte that in the yeare of our health .1559 hee was assayled with a long and perillous feuer quartane during the which to his great grief he was enforced to abstaine from both preaching and reading but hee was neuer vnoccupyed in his house what counsell so euer meÌ„ gaue him in sort that during that time hee began and ended his last Christian institution both in Latin and in French wherof wee will speake in the conclusion Thys sicknesse brought him so lowe that neuer afterward he coulde recouer his full health he drewe euer afterwarde hys right legge after him which oftentimes did greatly greeue him his auncient diseases put them in order also to wit the head ache and great rawnesses which caused a continuall defluxion hee was also greued with the Hemorrhoides so much the more in that that at some other time by chauÌ„ce that part was made verye weake the cause was for that he neuer suffered his minde to rest He had a continuall vnperfect digestion wherunto he neuer gaue any heede but when the disease compelled him The colliques also folowed and then in the ende the goute and the reast Beside this by strayning himselfe and by a gnawing defluxion hee fell into a spitting of bloud which did weaken him to the vttermost In the middest of so many diseases it is a thing very straunge that this sharpnesse of Spirit was rather letted than diminished and this dexteritie of iudgemeÌ„t nothing altered There was only this euil that the body coulde not followe the spirite albeit that he did sometime enforce himself vntil the time that he was so grieued wyth the shortnesse of his wynde that with great paine hee was scarcely able to remoue hym twoo or thre paces The PhisitiaÌ„s employed all their industrie and he on his side did folow their counsel to the vttermost notwithstanding his griefes so many diseases togither mingled But it was all in vaine as he did alwaies say looking vp to Heauen speaking often these wordes Lorde how long And then in the ende he remained without stirring hauing yet the vse of hys speache but could not long speake or continue any purpose by meane of the shortnesse of his breath yet notwithstanding this he ceassed not to laboure For in this laste sicknesse as hath ben aboue said he did wholly translate out of Latin into frenche his Harmony vpon Moyses did peruse the Translation of Genesis wrote vppon this booke of Iosue and in the ende did peruse and correcte the greatest part of the Frenche notes vpon the Newe Testament whiche other men had before hande gathered Beside this he was alwaies occupied in the affaires of the churches answering by worde and by wryting when occasion required all be it that on our parte wee made request vnto him praying him to haue greater regard to himself but his answer was alway to vs that the whiche he did was nothing requiring vs to suffer that God
A discourse wrytten by M. Theodore de Beza conteyning in briefe the Historie of the life and death of Maister Iohn Caluin with the Testament and laste will of the saide Caluin and the Catalogue of his Bookes that he hath made Turned out of Frenche into Englishe by I. S. In the yeare of our Lorde M.D.LXIIII ¶ Seene and allowed according to the order appointed in the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions Imprinted at London by Henry Denham for Lucas Harrison dvvelling in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Crane The Printer to the Reader FRIEND READER I offer vnto thee this present gathering or summe contayning the Lyfe and Death of the Faithfull seruant of God Maister Iohn Caluin by the which thou shalt see maruellous examples of the assaultes that he hath endured for the Doctrine of the Sonne of God and also what assistance God doth giue to his when his honor and glorye commeth in question In the meane time thinke it not straunge that this discourse doth not agree with the accustomed forme of Hystorians for the purpose of the Auctor who is Master Theodore de Beza a good seruant of God also and a companion of Maister Iohn Caluin in the worke of the Lorde was not to publishe it as an Hystorie but onely for a Preface to the Commentaries of the saide Caluin vppon the Booke of Iosue come to light sith his death I haue thought good to aduertise thee hereof to the ende that thou shouldest not thinke that the memorie of so great and worthie a personage myght be satisfied with so smalle a discourse albeit that it is diligently and truely set forth the which shall serue thee onely to this purpose to make thee to hope and looke for an ample and goodly Hystorie of his actes and doings which shall greatly profite to the aduancement of the Church of God to whom be glory and honor for euer and euer Sobeit Theodore de Beza to the Christian Reader health and peace in our Lord. IF it had pleased God to haue kept longer among vs hys Faithfull seruaunt Maister Iohn Caluin or rather if the peruersitie of the world had not caused the Lord to take him so sone to himselfe thys should not haue bene the last of his labours wherin he hath so faithfully so aptly emploied himself for the aduancement of the glory of God for the edification of his Church And also now this Cōmentarie should not haue gone forth without being as it were crowned with some excellēt Preface as are the reast But it fareth with it as it doth with poore Orphanes which are not so well prouided for as their Brethren bicause that their father is to timely taken from them In this meane time I do see this Orphane to be of so good a house thanks be to God so well resembling his father that without any other Testimonie he wil of himselfe become not onely agreeable but also very honorable to all those that shall see him And therefore also mine intent hath not bene to recommende him by thys Testimonie for what needeth it but rather to lament more with him of the death of him which hath bene as a father both to him to mee forsomuch as I neither may nor ought to esteeme him lesse to be my father in that which God hath taught mee by him than this Booke and so many others which haue bene by him writtē I will then bewayle mee but it shal not be wtout consolation for hauing regarde to him of whom I speake I had rather haue had him lyuing here belowe if the felicitie wherin he is now placed did not chaunge the sorowfulnesse of my losse into reioysing of his gaine and I should smally haue profited by his so holye maruellous doctrine by his lyfe that was so sincere good and by his death that was so happy Christian if I had not learned by al these meanes to submit my selfe to the prouidence of God being fully contented and satisfyed therwith Now as concerning his doctrine wherof I will first speake so farre vnable are the multitude which haue spokē against him to yelde it suspected with all men of good iudgement that on the contrary the same might serue for an infallible argument to approue and confirme the same for so much as none hath at any time stoode against it but he hath well felt that he hath addressed himselfe not against a man but against a very true seruant of God Also he maye lawfully affirme and all those who haue knowen him will be good and lawfull witnesses that he had neuer enimie which in assayling of him made not warre against God For after that God did cause his champion to enter within that lyst or stecade it may be well sayde that Satan hath picked him out euen as though he had forgotten al the reast to assayle him and to plucke hym thorowly downe if he had bene able But on the other syde God hath gyuen him that grace that he hath adorned him with so many trophees or victorious tokens as he hath set manifest enimies against him If then wee shall speake of the combats that hee hath inwardly indured for the doctrine there may nothing make them to seeme easy sleight but onely the diligence which he did alwayes vse bicause he would not suffer his enimies to take breath and the constancy which God gaue vnto him neuer to yelde or bend how little so euer it were in the quarell of the Lorde The Anabaptistes can beare witnesse who shortlye after the beginning of his Ministerie in thys Churche to wit the yere .1536 that he could so wel and happily behaue himselfe in open disputation without the helpe of the Magistrate that immediately the race of them was vtterly destroyed in this Church which is the more to be wondred at bicause that the greatest number of the Churches of Almaigne are yet at thys day greatly hindred by them and if there be any that is free from them it hath bene rather by rigour of Iustice than otherwyse He had an other combat to fight against an Apostate named Carol vpō certain calumnies false reportes who beyng also ouerthrowen as well by writing as by worde and cast out of the Church of God dyed miserablye at Rome in an hospitall as an example to those which do reuolte from Iesus Christ to folow a Maister which doth so wel recompēce his seruants both in this world and in the other And an other time to wit the yeare of our Lord .1553 Michel Seruet a Spaniard of cursed memory happened to come who was not a man but rather an horrible Monstre compounded of the auncient and new heresies and aboue all an execrable blasphemer against the Trinitie and namely against the Eternitie of the Sonne of God This same beyng come to thys towne and apprehended by the Magistrate bicause of hys blasphemies hee was here so substancially encountred that he had no defence but a certaine vntamed
God his neighbour in his vocation charge yet coulde hee not so doe but the Satan did rayse vp against him al the shamefullest slaunders of the worlde but that is no newes for it is the rewarde that the world in all ages hath giuen to those that woulde drawe them from perdition I wyll not aunswere those that doe call him Heretique and woorse than Heretique whereupon they haue forged a name of Caluinistes for hys Doctrine maketh aunswere on the contrarye more than sufficientlye Some haue charged hym wyth ambition but if they be able in anye point to proue it I am content to be cōdemned Is there any man that hath folowed greater simplicitie in the expositiō of the Scriptures and hath more wherewith to set hymselfe forthe if hee woulde haue profaned the Scriptures with subtile and vaine ostentations Hee would rule all saye they O villaine false shamelesnesse what preheminence did hee euer seeke if he had sought it who coulde haue kept him from it with whom did hee euer striue for the first or the seconde place when men haue not giuen vnto him that which the giftes and graces that God had giuen him did require when hath hee bene seene alter be it neuer so little when hath it bene sene that euer hee did abuse his charge and his auctoritie towarde the simplest in the world when did he take in hande any thing without the aduise or against the opinion of hys companions To be short what difference was there euer betweene him and vs but that he did excell vs all in all humilitie among other vertues and also in that hee tooke more paine than all we did was there any man more simplye apparelled or more modest in al respectes was there any house considering the estate of the man I doe not saye lesse sumpteous but more slenderlye furnished with moueables And if men wil not beleue mee and ten thousand witnesses with mee at the least let them beleue the slender wealth of hys brother onely heire and also the inuentorie of all his goods and it shall be founde that all that euer hee lefte behinde him accompting also hys bookes which were dearely solde bicause of his precious memorie to all men that were learned doth not exceede the value of two hundred crownes These maye also aunswere these shamelesse euill reporters who haue talked so largely that the one sorte sayd hee was a Vsurer the other that he was a very bancker a matter so worthie of scorne and so falsely raysed that anye man that euer did knowe him wyll neuer require aunswere to such an vntrouth He was so couetous that hauing in the whole sixe hundred Florines for his stipende which doth not al amount to three hundred liures tournois yea he sought to haue lesse the accomptes of this Seigniorie can witnesse it Hee hath bene so couetous of thys worldely goodes that being in fauour yea honored both of Kings Princes Lordes of many nations and hauing dedicated his workes to them I know not and I think I should haue knowen it if it had bene otherwise that euer he receiued of them to hys vse the value of .xx. Crownes Also he had the sacred woorde of God in such reuerence that he had rather to dye than to vse it as a bayte to Ambition or auarice Hee did dedicate hys bookes to priuate persons acknowledging some benefite or friendship as he did a very learned singuler Cōmentarie vpō the booke of Seneca concerning the vertue of Clemencie gentlenesse which he wrote in Parris being of the age of .24 yeares did dedicate it to one of the Lordes of Monmor wyth whom hee had bene brought vp not at theire charges notwithstanding The like hee did with his Commentaries vpon the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romanes being dedicated to Simon Grinee vpon the first to the Corinthians to the Lord Marques Caraciol vpō the second to the Corinthians to Melchior Volmar his Maister that taught him the Greeke vppon the first to the Thessaloniās to Mathurin Cordier his gouerner in the colledge of S. Barbara at Parris in his first youth vpon the second to Benet Textor his Phisitian vppon the Epistle to Tite to his two singuler friends companions in the worke of the Lord Maister William Farel M. Peter Viret and the booke of offences to Lawrent of Normādie his auncient continuall friend As concerning the others which hee did dedicate to certaine Kings Princes or cōmon wealthes his meaning was to encorage the one sorte to perseuer in the defence of the childrē of God to stirre vp the others to the lyke Wherefore also when he saw that such men did the contrary he made not straunge to put out their names to put in others which onely came to passe in two of his Prefaces This be said as touching this crime of auarice Others on the other side haue reported him to be prodigall a player but it was as true as the report of those the charged him with fornicatiō As concerning prodigality the fruites therof hys bookes wyll well declare euen to the ende of the world of his pastimes of the shamelesnesse of such lyers As cōcerning whoredome it is maruell that any mā durst so farre to stray as to forge the euil report were it not that it is a thing accustomed against the most excellent seruants of God But he is yet vnborne that euer did suspect him of whom we speake in any place whersoeuer he vsed hee liued about nine yeares in Mariage verye chastely when hys wyfe was deade hee continued in wydowerhead aboute the space of .xvj. yeares euen to hys death In all that time who is he that euer perceiued the least token that might be of so vnworthie an acte in him And what woman was there so villaine and shamelesse the durst to beholde without shame a forehead so reuerende and shewing to all men that did beholde it all puretie and fredome Who hath bene a more rigorous enimy to whordome than he It is true that the Lord hath exercised him touching this matter toward such as touched him neare There hath yet worse happened in the house of Iacob and Dauid than to him of whom wee speake and in a more straunge sorte But what did Satan in this behalfe gaine of the faithfull seruaunt of God but only shame rebuke to himselfe in the later daye before the seate of the Sōne of God And now to them that hee had stirred vp to rayse such sclaunder Whoredomes Adulteries and incestes are accompted for pastimes and exercises of the wicked ones in sort that one of the greatest faultes that they finde with the reformed Churches is that there whoredome and adulterie is punished In the meane while if there be any such fault or offence founde among vs albeit that it be extremely punnished they accuse vs with open mouth In so doing if they sayde truth what other thing doe they than
say of the .38 Chapiter of Esay Gemebam sicut Columba I dyd lamente as doth the Doue Another tyme speaking to me he sayd and cryed out Lord thou punnishest me but it is sufficient for me that it is thy hand Many were desirous to come and see hym but it had bene needefull to haue kept the gate open day night to haue fulfylled their desyre But hee foreseing that and knowing that the shortnesse of winde woulde not suffer hym to doe that which willingly he would beside that also not well liking the curiosity of many he besought them to contente them selues and to pray to God for him and to suffer him somwhat to reste yea when I came to see hym albeit that I was very welcome to hym yet notwythstanding considering my charge that I had hee gaue me to vnderstand fully that he would not in any wyse that hys particuler cause should occupy me in any respect in such sort that taking leaue of me hee would often say that he made conscience to let mee were it neuer so little albeit that hee was glad to see me but his nature was alwaies such that he feared to stay were it neuer so lyttle the profit of the church and to trouble the least that mought be his frends although ther were nothing in the world more acceptable to them than to employ themselues to doe him pleasure He continued in this sort comforting himselfe and his friendes vntill the Fryday the xix of Maij next before the Supper of Pentecoste on the which day bycause it was the custome of this Church that all the Ministers should assemble them to yelde as it were an accompt of their life and doctrine and then in token of friendship they take their repast togyther hee was contented that the supper should be made at his house where hee causing himself to brought in a chaire as he entred in among them he spake these wordes My brethren I come now to see you for my farewel for after this time I wil neuer cōe more to table This was to vs a piteous entrie albeit that he himself sayd the prayer as well as he could enforced him to make vs merry not being able to eate but very little yet before supper was ended he toke his leaue and caused himself to be caried againe into his chamber which was at hand speaking these wordes wyth as pleasaunt a countenaunce as he could A wall betwene both shall not let at all but that I wyll bee ioyned wyth you in spirit It came to passe euen as hee had sayde for vntyll that very day what dysease so euer he had hee would be takē out of his bed and brought in a chair to his little table but after this night he neuer shifted from lying vppon his backe so greatly weakned notwythstanding that he was leane of himself that there remayned in manner nothing but onely lyfe sauing that he was very little chaunged of face but chiefly the shortnes of hys winde did so trouble him that it caused his continual prayers and consolations rather to seeme sighes thā words to be vnderstode and he was of such a countenance that hys only loke did plainly testify wyth what fayth and hope he was furnished The daye that hee died it seemed that hee spake better and more at hys ease but it was the laste enforcement of nature for that night about eight of the clock euen sodaynely appeared the tokens of presente Death whereof I had speedily worde for I was but newly departed from him running thither wyth certayn of my brethren as sone as I came I found that he had already yelded vp his spirit so quietly that hee dyd neuer rattle but spake playnely euen to hys very death wyth perfect vnderstanding and iudgement without euer stirring hand or foote hee seemed rather to be a sleepe than dead Beholde as in an instante howe that very day the sunne dyd set and the greatest lighte that was in the worlde for the buylding of the Church of GOD was taken into Heauen And we may well say that in our tyme by one onely man it hath pleased God to reach vs both to lyue to dye well The Night following and the Daye also ther was great lamentation thorowout the towne For the whole bodye thereof did bewayle the Prophet of the Lorde the poore flock of the Church did weepe for the departing of their faythfull Pastor The Schole lamented her true Maister and teacher and all in generall did bewaile their very father and comforter next vnto GOD. Many desired that they might see yet once his face as men that could not leaue hym neyther dead nor liuing There were also diuers straungers newely come from farre of to see hym which when they coulde not for that men thought that he wold not so soone haue died desired greatly to see him deade as hee was and made great instance but to auoyde all euyll reportes and speach he was buried about eyght of the clocke in the morning and at two of the clocke at afternone according as he had appoynted hee was carried according to the custome to the cōmon Churchyarde called the great or large Pallaice wtout pompe or any adoe at al where he now lyeth abiding the resurrection which hee hath taught vs and hath so constantly hoped for The body was accompanied by the greatest part of those that were in the towne of men of all estates which dyd the more lamente hym bycause there was small likelyhode to recouer at the least of a long tyme suche a great losse He liued as touching this mortall lyfe the space of syxe and fyftye yeares lacking one Moneth and thyrtene Dayes Whereof he spent the iuste one halfe in the holye Ministerie preaching and writing without euer chaunging anye thing or diminishing or adding to or from the doctrine that he taught the first day of his Ministery with such power of the Spirite of God that neuer wicked man was able to heare him without trembling nor good man without louing and honoring him There resteth nowe no more but euen as it hath pleased God to make him to speake continually by his so learned and holy writings that he may so be heard of the posteritie to the ende of the world at what time wee shal see our God euen as he is to liue and to raigne eternally with him So be it From Geneua this .19 of August .1564 ¶ Aduertisement FOR bycause that there is none of the Faythfull who woulde not gladlye vnderstand the truthe of the number of Bookes that haue bene written by the late M. Iohn Caluin to the end that hereafter men be not deceyued as is wel knowen that the like hath hapned to the writinges of great and excellent personages that men haue falsely set foorth others vnder their name It hath seemed therefore good to ioyne to thys a Catalogue as well of hys bookes and writings in Latine French already Imprinted as of those that