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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

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