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
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
togither present these famous mē Theodore de Beza Raymond Chauuet Michel Cop. Lois Enoch Nicolas Coladon Iaques de Bordes Ministers of the worde of God in this Church and that famous man Henry Scringer professor of Artes al Burgeoses of Geneua in the presence of whom he declared that hee had caused me to wryte by him and after his pronunciation the sayd Testamente in the very forme and woordes aboue written praying me to reade it in his presence and in the presence of them that were ther required and desiced to the same effect which I did all aloud word by word after the reading whereof hee declared that such was his wil and last dispositiō willing to haue the same obserued and for the better auctorizing hereof did desire and request the aboue named to subscribe the same with me which was also done the day and yeare aboue written in Geneua in the streat called the Chanons streat and in his dwelling house In witnesse wherof and for proofe of the same as reason is I haue written in the forme aforesayd this present Testamente to make him ready for whom so euer the execution thereof shall belong vnto vnder the common seale of our very honorable Lords and Superiors mine accustomed Signe manuell So is it signed P. Cheuelat Seing that the shortnesse of his wind did encrease more and more he desired my Lordes the foure Sindiques and the whole little ordinary Counsell as they are called to come and see hym togither and when they were come hee made to them an excellente declaration of the singular graces that they had receiued of God and of the greate and extreme daungers from the which they had bene preserued which he could well declare to them frō poynt to poynt as he that knew the whole better than any man and did put them in minde of diuers necessary thinges concerning God touching the gouernment of their charge to be short hee did the office of a true seruant and Prophet of God protesting the sinceritie of the doctrine that hee had taught them assuring them agaynst the tempests that were at hand if they would cōtinue on frō good to better And then he desired them in generall in particuler to pardon all his offences which none euer found so grieuous as hee did he tooke them al by the hande I know not whether there mought haue happened to these Lordes a more dolefull spectacle or sight which they al dyd esteeme good cause why concerning his charge as the mouth of the Lord in their affection as their owne father seing that he had knowen and framed a great peece of theire youth The Fryday the .20 of Aprill all the brethren Ministers bothe of the towne and countrey beeing aduertised at his requeste came togither to his chamber to whome he gaue a great and long exhortation wherof the substance and effect was that they shuld perseuer in the well doing of they re duetye after hys Deathe and that they shoulde not faynt seing GOD would both mayntayn the towne and his Church albeit they were threatned in many behalfes and also that they should suffer no malice or displeasure to raigne among them but charitie by all meanes possible and that they should be of perfect accord among themselues that they shoulde acknowledge howe greatelye they were bound to that Churche into the which God had called them and that there ought nothing to turn them back for those which haue tasted the truth and wyll leaue it may finde excuses vnder the ground but God wil not be mocked To this he added a recitall of hys entrie and comming to thys Churche and of his conuersation therein saying that when he came thither the Gospell was there preached but thynges were farre out of order that the greatest fruit that the Gospel had brought forth was the breaking downe of the Idolles but there were there many wicked people he was enforced to receiue many iniuries but God did alwayes strengthen him to go thorow with it albeit that of his owne nature he was fearfull and hee repeated twice or thrice these wordes I assure you that of mine own nature I am timorous fearfull Also he put them in remembrauuce that when he came from Strausbourgh hyther hee entred into thys vocatiō as by constraynt and seing no great likelyhoode of anye fruite to come nor yet knowing what God woulde worke in that behalfe and in deede that he had passed many harde things but continuing on styll in tyme hee sawe the blessing of God vpon his labour he would then that euery mā should waxe strong in hys vocation and kepe good order and that they should haue good regard to the people to holde them in continuall obedience of the true doctrine and that they had alwayes among them Godly men albeit that it coulde not bee auoyded but that there muste bee euill persones and rebelles among thē also that this should shew vs very faulty in the sight of God if the things being come to so good passe shoulde afterwarde fall into decay by our negligence As touching the reste hee protested that hee had euer bene of one true affection wyth the company of his brethren and desired thē to pardon hym if that at any time they had sene in him any frowardnesse during his sicknesse and gaue them great thankes as often tymes hee vsed for that they dyd supply hys place in preaching In the end hee toke them by the hand one after another whiche was wyth so greate sorrowe and bytternesse of heart to euery of them that I can not call it to minde wythoute greate and extreme sorrowfulnesse The second of Maij hauing receyued letters from M. William Farell Minister at Neufchastell of whome heeretofore hath bene made mention and vnderstanding that hee was minded to visit him being of the age of foure Score yeare and more hee wrote to hym in this sorte Be it vvell vvyth you my very good and deare Brother and seing that it pleaseth GOD that you shall remaine after mee vvell maye you lyue hauing alvvayes in minde our Vnitie the fruite vvhereof attendeth vpon vs in Heauen according to the profit therof that the Church of GOD hath enioyed I vvyll in no vvyse that you trauayle to see mee for I dravve my breath vvyth great payne and doe continuallye looke vvhen my breath shal fayle me It is sufficient that I liue and dye to CHRIST vvhich is a gayne to his both in life and death I cōmend you agayne to God vvyth all the Brethren in those partes From Geneua this second of Maij .1564 By vvholly yours Iohn Caluin From that time forth his sicknesse euen to hys death was nothing else but a continual Prayer notwythstanding that hee was alwayes in paynes hauing often tymes in his mouth these woordes of the Psalme .39 Tacui Domine quia fecisti I held my peace O Lorde bycause it is thou that hast done it Other times he would
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
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