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A09907	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.; Histoire de la vie et mort de Calvin. English	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Stubbes, John, 1543-1591.	1564 (1564)	STC 2017; ESTC S101757	31,501	80

the same yeare he caused to imprint at Basil his first instructiō as an Apologie dedicated to Fraūces the first Frenche King of that name in the behalfe of the poore faithfull that were persecuted whom they did most falsely name Anabaptistes to excuse them towarde the Princes Protestantes of the persecutions that they then vsed against them He passed also into Italie where he saw my Lady the Duchesse of Ferrare yet at this day liuing thankes be to God who when shee had seene heard him forthwith iudged of him as hee was and euer after vntyl his death did loue and honor him as an excellent Organe of the Lorde In hys returne from Italie the which he had but seene he passe in a happie time thorow this towne of Geneua which not long before had receiued the Gospell by the preaching of M. William Farell and dyd meane nothing lesse than to tarry there but to passe thorow it and to go to Basil or else to Strasbourgh But the Lord being euen then willing to prepare away to his so great goodnesse as his pleasure was to bestowe vpon his Church by the meane of him did put in the heart of the sayde Farel to staye him which thing was very harde for him to doe in such sort that after many requestes desyres he was fayne to vse adiurations Thē he was cōtented to stay not to preach but to reade Diuinitie and this came to passe in the yeare .1536 in the beginning of September When hee was in this sort declared Doctor in thys Churche by lawfull election and auctoritie hee then framed a briefe forme of Confession and Discipline to giue some shape to thys new erected Churche Hee made also a Cathechisme which may be wel called one of his excellēt works and hath yelded maruellous fruite beyng so well framed that it was afterwarde turned out of Frenche into Hebrue to winne the Iewes into Greeke Latin for the scholes also into Italian Dutch Englishe Scotish and Flēmishe also Spanishe for all these nations These prosperous beginnings dyd greatly mislike Satan his who failed not as it was an easy matter to doe in the first change of the estate of Religiō to set himself against the proceding of the Gospel Albeit that it was receiued with an oth by all those of this town Maister Caluin on the other side as he was in deede of a noble minde withstoode firmely constantly with Maister Farel the seditious persons hauing also on his side an other good mā named Conrant a Minister also of this Church being blinde of his bodily eyes but could wel see with the eyes of his spirite whom also the said Caluin had brought frō Basil where he did remaine bicause of the great persecutions that were in Fraunce The ende was such that the Lord being minded euen at once to take his seruant out frō the presse to purge this Towne of certain seditious persōs which did abuse the name of the Gospel to plāt his name else where last of al to frame his seruāt by certain experiēce of things which did afterward stand him in great steade it was ordeined the greater part of the Coūsel not being the best that the forenamed should depart the town wtin .24 houres bicause that they wold not minister the Supper of the Lord in a Citie that was thē so troubled and stirred Whē thys was declared to the said Caluin his aunswere was that if hee had serued mē he should haue bene ill recōpenced but he serued him who in steade of euil recompēcing his seruāts did alwayes giue thē more than they deserued And he might iustly so say for he had folowed the example of S. Paule in seruing of the Church vpon his own charges cost He then departed to the great griefe of all the good first to Basil then to Strasbourgh wher being receiued as a treasure by those excellent mē M. Martin Bucer Capito Hedio and others who at the present did shyne as precious Pearles in the Church of God hee there erected a French Church therin did establish Ecclesiastical discipline in such sort as the Almaignes could neuer yet attaine vnto for their Churche euen to this very daye he did also reade Diuinitie with great admiration of euery man then he began to write vpon S. Paule dedicating his Cōmentarie vpon the Epistle to the Romaines to M. Simon Grinee who was accompted to be the best learned of the Almaigne nation was his great friende he had also this grace among others that hee brought to the faith a great number of Anabaptists which were sent vnto hym out of all partes and among others one named Iohn Stordeur of Liege who within short tyme after dying of the Plague at Strasbourgh he tooke his widow to wyfe whose name was Idelleto de Bure a verye graue and honest woman with whome hee liued afterwarde verye quietly vntyll our Lorde tooke hir away to himself the yeare .1548 without hauing had any childe at the same very time there were holden in Almaigne certaine imperiall assembles or diets for the matter of Religion at Woormes and at Ratisbone in the which Caluin was chosē for one of the chiefe by the aduise of all the Diuines of Almaigne where he did so behaue himselfe that his renoume became great euen among the very enimies and Phillip Melancthon among others did euen then receiue him into singuler friendship which did alwayes laste afterwarde and did then call him ordinarilye the Diuine in token of singuler honor In the meane time the Lord did execute his iudgements at Geneua punishing certaine which beyng in the place of Syndique .1538 were the cause of the banishement of Caluin and Farel in such sort as one of them beyng gyltie of a sedition thinking to saue himself thorow a window did all burst himselfe an other of them hauing committed a murder was by order of iustice beheaded the other twaine being cōuinced of certain vntrouth against the state of the towne fledde awaye and were condemned in their absence When the towne was purged of this froth they began then to bewayle Caluin he was desyred thither againe by sundry Ambassades frō Geneua and by the intercession of the Lordes of Zuriche to the Lords of Strasbourgh who made great difficultie On the other side Caluin seing how he profited in Strasbourgh would in no wyse cōsent therunto albeit to declare the good wyll that he bare to the towne the yeare .1539 a whole yeare after hys banishment hee maintained the cause therof or rather of the truth of God against the Cardinal Sadolet in a large and learned Epistle which is printed among the reast of hys workes In th ende he was threatened with the iudgements of God if he did not obey to that vocation in such sorte that to the great sorrowe of the Lordes of Strasbourgh and especially of Maister Bucer and his companions he was licenced to be at Geneua for a

question of their perticuler thei become Moncks in the that is profitable for the Monkes and on the contrarie they be alwayes seculers when Monkry pleaseth them not thys worthie personage did kisse the Pantophle as the reast haue done bicause the people should be out of doubt that he did it vnfainedly he receiued a good and a worthy absolucion of his king to enter againe into the fauour of his holinesse his Cardinals vnto whom for recompēce of all his euill hap he became slaue If then it cōe in question to haue one to write against vs this is the best Catholique in the world but on the other side if he must frame himselfe to those that are as it were betweene twoo yrons boast them that they holde the meane then this good man spitteth out the reformations of the Romish Church speaketh stoutly of certaine abuses but it is wtout touching the principal in such sort notwithstāding that euery mā which knoweth him not would think he did meane good faith not to purchase him credite This galaunt for his beginning fayled not in the yeare .1561 to set forth a booke of such stuffe wtout any name at the present time the men were at the conference of Poyssy Caluin vnderstanding the meaning of this wicked one made answere briefely according to his vsage but verye paremptorilie and fully giuing certaine attaints to him that was chiefely culpable of this euil Baldwine vpō this begā to chafe afterwarde left not to fome oute his rage against him whom he had so often called father and Maister onely to make it knowen that he was reuolted in deede whereupō Caluin did ouerthrow him by one only silence For as touching the iniuries and outrages against his person he did alwayes esteeme them honorable for the name of the Lorde whom he serued forsomuch as to be blamed by a wicked man is a token of vertue And as for his reprehensions concerning the doctrine the one sort were so slender and so improper in his iudgement that they deserued no aunswere the others were but recitals borowed elsewhere and refuted more than a thousande times And for so much as it is to me that this Apostate hath also addressed him to gratifie his Maisters I haue taken vpon mee to aunswere hym for the seconde tyme which thing I hope also well to discharge with the grace of our God These be the principall combats that this worthye personage hath happily endured for the truth of the Lorde As touching the reast in thys discourse I thinke I haue entreated of the greatest part of hys lyfe for what was hys lyfe other than a continuall doctrine as wel by worde as by writing and by all his manners and order of lyfe the which also will doe very well to be declared perticularly to the ende that euery man may vnderstande the maruels of God in the person of this excellent man Hee was borne in Noyon an auncient and famous towne of Picardie the yeare .1509 the tenth of Iuly of an honest house and of a reasonable wealth his father was named Gerard Caluin a man of good vnderstanding and counsell and therefore greatly desired in the houses of noble men dwelling in those partes by reason wherof his saide Sonne was the better and more liberallye brought vp at his fathers charges notwithstanding in company with the children of the house of Mommor with whom also he was in cōpanie at the schole at Paris Hee was alway of a singuler good wit and aboue all other things of a very good conscience enimy to vices and greatly giuen to the seruice of God as men did then call it in such sort as his minde was wholy to deuinitie which was also an occasion that he was prouided of a benefice in the Cathedrall Churche of Noyon Yet was his father alwayes minded that hee shoulde studie the Lawes and he also on his part hauing alredie by the meane of a cosin and frinde of his named Maister Peter Robert otherwyse Oliuentanus who afterwarde tourned the Bible out of Hebrue into French and imprinted it at Neufchastle tasted some thing of the pure Religion began to withdraw himselfe from Popishe superstitiōs which was the cause that beside the singuler reuerence that he had towarde his father he did agree to go to Orleaunce to the same ende where there did then reade an excellent mā named Peter de l' Estoille who was afterwarde President of the Court of Parliamēt in Paris vnder whom he did so profite in short space that he was not accompted a scholer but as an ordinarie Doctour as oftentimes hee was rather in deede a teacher than a hearer and he was offered to proceede Doctor without paying anye thing which thing also he did refuse And bicause that the vniuersitie of Bourges was then̄ also famous by the meane of that excellent Lawyer Andre Alciat which then did reade there hee woulde him In the meane time he exercised himself also see and heare in holye letters with such fruite and profite that all those whose heartes it had pleased GOD to touche giuing them to vnderstande what the differences were that were then moued concerning matters of Religion did not onlye beare towarde hym singuler affection but had him forthwith in great admiration for the learning and zeale that was in hym Among other with whome he did frequent and companye then at Bourges there was an Almaigne an excellent personage a Professor of the Greeke tongue named Melchior Volmar whom I doe so much the more willingly remember bicause it is very he that was my faithfull gouernor and teacher all the time of my youth for the which cause I will praise God all the dayes of my lyfe Thys good man seyng Caluin not to be well instructed in the Greeke tongue caused him to studie the same wherin he did greatly helpe him as he himselfe hath witnessed dedicating to him hys Cōmentaries vpon the seconde Epistle of S. Paule to the Corinthians and did him the honor to call him his Maister instructer In this meane time his father died which was the cause that he left the studie of the Lawes and returned to Noyon and then to Paris where notwithstanding his youth hee was not long vnknowen nor without honor by all such as had anye feeling of the truthe hee of hys parte dyd then resolue to dedicate hymselfe wholye to GOD and did trauaile wyth great profyte in suche sorte that being in Paris in the tyme of the Rector named Monsieur Copus there happened a seditiō whereupon hee was sent to the Court to be preferred where he was knowen and very well receiued of all those that had any pure affection and sounde iudgement in those affayres In the ende seyng the miserable estate of the Realme of Fraunce hee determined to absent himselfe and to be where he might liue more quietly according to his conscience He then departed out of Fraūce in the yeare .1534 and in

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