mought finde him alwaies watching and labouring according to his ability in his worke euen to his last breath The xxv of April he made his Testamēt in brief sort as he did alwaies auoid the vse of moe words than neded as much as in him was which doeth containe an excellent and singuler testimony for euer that he spake as he beleued which was the cause that I did willingly inferre this same word by word by the consent of his brother and only heire Antonie Caluin to the end that this acte may remain for euer as it hath pleased God that the Testaments of some of his moste excellent seruauntes haue bene enregistred to be perpetuall witnesses that one very spirit of God did gouerne them both in their life and in their death and also to make the better knowen the extreme shamelessenesse of suche as would beare men in hand that hys death was not according to his life And if any man doe thincke any thing to be herein other than trouth I will not stand much in saying againste him onely I doe gyue him warning whatsoeuer he be to thinke what thing it is that maye be true and firme among liuing men if it be lawfull for a man to dout that which hath bene done in a Towne in the sighte and knowledge of such as wold heare or vnderstand it The Testament and last VVill of Master Iohn Caluin IN the name of God Be it known and apparant to all men that in the yeare 1564. and the .25 day of Aprill I Peter Cheuelat Citezen and Notary sworne of Geneua was called by the famous Iohn Caluin minister of the worde of God in the church of Geneua and Burgesse of the said Geneua being sicke and weake of his body only the same man declared to me that he would make his Testament and declaration of his last will desiring mee to wryte it accordinglye as he shoulde speake and pronounce it which according to his request I made and wrote it by him and accordingly as he spake and pronounced it to me worde by worde without leauing any thing oute or adding any thing there vnto in forme as followeth IN the name of God I Iohn Caluin Minister of the word of God in the Church of God of Geneua feeling my self greatly oppressed with sundry diseases that I can not otherwise thinke but that God wil shortly take me out of this world haue determined to make and put in wryting my Testament and declaration of my laste will in forme folowing which is first of all that I giue thankes to God for that he hath not only had pitie on me his pore creature to take me from out of the bottomlesse pitte of Idolatry wherin I was plūged to draw me to the light of his Gospell and to make me partaker of the doctrine of saluation wherof I was to much vnworthy and that continuing his mercy he hath spared me in so many vices and wickednesse whiche dyd well deserue that I shoulde be caste of from him an hundred thousand times yea and that whiche more is he hath stretched his mercy towardes me so farre as to be serued by me and my labour to beare and to shew forth the truth of his Gospel protesting that I will liue and die in that Faith which he hath giuen me hauing no other hope nor refuge but onlye to his free adoption wherein my whole saluation is laid embracing the grace that he hath giuen me in our Lorde Iesus Christe accepting the merite of his death and passion to the ende that thereby all my sinnes may be buried and beseching him so to wash and purge me with the bloude of this great redeamer which was poured out for all pore sinners that I may appeare before his face as bearing his Image I protest also that I haue endeuored me according to the measure of the grace that he hath giuen me to teach purely his worde as well in Sermons as in wryting and to expound the holy Scriptures faithfully And likewise in all the disputations that I haue had with the enimies of the truthe I neuer vsed cautel nor Sophistry but haue proceded plainly in the maintenaunce of his quarell But alas the wil that I haue had and the zeale if I moughte so call it hath bene so cold and slacke that I finde me greatly endetted in all and thorow all and were not his infinite goodnesse all the affection that I haue had were nothing else but smoke yea those graces which he hath bestowed vpon me woulde yelde me more faulty so that my recourse is to that that he being father of mercy will be and shew him self father of so pore a sinner As concerning the rest I desire that after my deceasse my body may be buried according to the custome to abide and wait for the day of the blessed resurrection Concerning the smal portion of goods which God hathe giuen me here to dispose I doe ordaine and appoynt for my only heir my welbeloued brother Antonie Caluin only for credites sake giuing him for all his part the cuppe that I had of Monsieur de Varranes praying him therwith to content himself as I am assured he wil seing that he knoweth wel that I doe it for no cause els but to the end that that litle which I leaue may remain to his children Then I bequeath to the Colledge ten Crowns and to the purse of the pore strangers asmuch Also to Iane daughter to Charles Costan of my halfe sister to wit on the fathers side the sūme of ten Crownes Then to Samuel and Iohn sonnes to my said brother euery of thē .40 Crownes to my Neeces Anne Susan and Dorothee either of thē .30 Crownes As touching my Nephew Dauid their brother bicause he hath bene alwais light rash I giue him but .20 Crownes for his chastisement It is in effect all the goods that God hath giuē me according to my rate and estimation as well of my Bookes and moueables with vessel and all other things Notwithstanding if it amounte to more I would it wer distributed among my Nephewes and Neeces not excluding at all Dauid if God giue him grace to become more modest and staied But I beleue as touching this article there shal be no great a do namely when my dettes shall be paid wherewith I haue charged my brother vpon whōe I trust naming him executor of this present Testament with reuerend Laurent of Normandy giuing them full power and authoritye to make an Inuentorye without forme of lawe and to sell my moueables to make money to fulfill the contentes of this my will written this .25 of April .1564 So is it Iohn Caluin After that it was wrytten as before at the very instant the said renoumed Caluin did seale it with his owne seale as sone as it was wrytten And on the morowe being the .26 of April the yere aboue wrytten the said renoumed Caluin did cause me to be called againe to him being there
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
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
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
yet are not at the least of as many as may be called to minde Those which are not yet in French are marked wyth thys marke * The Catalogue of the Bookes and wrytings of Maister Iohn Caluin Commentaries and lessons in Latin and French al readie imprinted vpon the olde Testament Vpon Genesis Vpon the other foure Bookes of Moyses in forme of Harmonie Vpon the Booke of Iosue Vpon all the Psalmes Vpon Esaye * Vpon Ieremie Vpon Daniel Vpon the .xij. that are called little Prophetes Vpon the new Testament also imprinted Vpon the three Euangelistes in forme of Harmonie Vpon Saint Iohn Vpon the Actes of the Apostles Vpon all the Epistles of Saint Paule Vpon the Epistle to the Hebrues Vpon the Epistles Canonicall of S. Peter Saint Iohn Saint Iames and S. Iude. The Catalogue of his Sermons imprinted which men gathered when he preached Vpon Iob. Vpon the Commaundements Vpon the Octonaries of the 119. Psalme Vpō the song of Ezechias in the .38 ca. of Esay Vpon the beginning of the Harmonie of the three Euangelistes Vpon the .10 and .11 Chapiters of the fyrst Epistle to the Corinthians Vpon the Epistle to the Galathians Vpon the Epistle to the Ephesians Vpon the Epistles to Timothe to Tite Also many Sermons of the Byrth Passion Death Resurrectiō and Ascension of our Lorde Iesus Christ Foure Sermons entreating of matters very profitable for our time A Congregatiō made in the Church of Geneua of the prouidence and eternall election of God Sermons vpon the olde Testament not imprinted Vpon Genesis Vpon Deuteronomie Vpon the two bookes of Samuel Vpon the first booke of the Kings Vpon many Psalmes Certaine summes of Congregations made vpon Iosue gathered euen as hee did entreate of and handle the textes Vpon Esaie Vpon Ieremie Vpon Ezechiel Vpon the later eyght Chapiters of Daniel Vpon seuen of the twelue little Prophetes Vpon the Newe Testament Certaine Sermons moe vpon the Harmonie of the three Euangelistes Vpon the Actes Vpon the two Epistles to the Corinthians Vpon the Epistle to the Thessalonians Vpon certaine Chapiters of the ende of the Epistle to the Hebrues Lessons in Frenche not yet Imprinted Vpon the Psalmes from the .37 to the ende Vpon Ieremie Vpon the .20 first Chapiters of Ezechiel as well in Latin as in Frenche A Catalogue of other Bookes treatises which he hath made in sundry times and sundry places * A Commentarie vpon the Booke of Seneca touching the vertue of Clemencie His Christian Institution A treatise against the errour of such as thinke that the soules doe sleepe after they be departed frō the body vnto the last iudgemēt Two Epistles the one to flee Idolatrie the other of the duety of a Christian man An aunswere to the letter which the Cardinall Sadolet wrote to the Lordes and people of Geneua A treatise of the supper of the Lorde * Certaine verses in Latin of the victorie of Iesus Christ A Cathechisme for the instruction of Childrē A manner of Administration of the Sacraments with the common prayers and the maner how to celebrate the Mariage A defence of the pure doctrine concerning free will against the calumnies of Albert Pighius Annotations vpon the fatherly aduertisement made by the Pope Paule the thirde to the Emperour Charles the fift Antidote or preseruatiue against the articles of the facultie of the Sorbonistes of Parris A treatise or supplication to the Emperor concerning the necessitie of the reformation of the Church Against the Anabaptistes and Libertines with an Epistle to the faithfull of Roan against a Frier a Libertine An Aduertisement concerning the bodies Reliques of Saints what profit there cōmeth of them if they be diligently kept A treatise in flie superstitions with the excuse of the false Nicodemites with the aunswere of the Ministers of Zuriche Antidote to the Actes of the counsell of Trent The very true meane to pacifie that troubles to reforme the Church against the Interim An Aduertisement against the Astrologie Iudiciall and such curiosities which at this daye heare the swaye in manner thorowoute the worlde An agreement concerning the Sacramēts A treatise of Offences Of the eternall Prouidence of God Against the detestable errors of Michel Seruet a Spaniarde * Three aduertisements to Westphalus * Against Hethusius and the error of Stancarus * Against Valentin Gentil * Aunswere to the calumnies which Sebastian Castalion did sowe abrode * An other short aunswere to other calumnies of the same man A Congratulation to the reuerende priest Maister Gabriel de Sacomā of the Church of Lions chiefe Minister * An aunswere to a certaine fine and subtil Neutre * An aunswere to the outrages of Fraūcis Baldwin an Apostate * A short Aduertisement to the Faithfull of Polonia * An Epistle to the foresaide for the Confirmation of the sayde Aduertisement An aunswere to a certaine Hollander written to the people of the low countrey A Reformation to put to silence a certaine rascall named Antonie Catalan A Confession of the faith in the name of all the reformed Churches of the Realme of Fraunce made during the Warres to deliuer to the Emperor Also a great number of Letters counsels aduertisements and aunsweres as well in Latin as in Frenche to diuers persōs of sundry qualitie and estate wherein is entreated of diuers matters which one day if it please God that it maye be set forth into light men may then better see what was the wisedome promptnesse singuler iudgement and the maruellous and diuine graces that were in this Faithful Seruant of God Finis Faultes escaped in the first Sheete A .iij. leaf ij side iij. line for more reade me A .iiij. leaf first side x. line for that reade the. A .v. leafe ij fide xvij line for anye reade euery A .vij. leafe ij side vj. line for Guise reade Swisse for Guisians read Grisons Imprinted at London in Whitecrosse streate by Henry Denham for Lucas Harrison dwelling in Paules Chuchyarde at the Signe of the Crane Anno Domini 1564 Nouembris .4