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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

obstinacie by reason wherof by the iust iudgemēt of God and man hee ended by the punnishment of fyre his wicked life and blasphemies which he had vomited both by mouthe writing by the space of thirty yeares more About two yeares before there came a certaine deceitefull fryer a Carmelite was sodainly become of a deuine a Phisitian named Hierosme Bolseck of Paris who to get him estimation thinking himselfe to bee in Cloistre and not in a Church of God which he neuer did know but by heare say and afterward being procured by certaine naughtie and euill disposed persons of whom it shal be hereafter spokē began in open Congregation to condempne the doctrine of the eternall prouidence predestatiō as though we made God the auctor of sinne culpable in the condemnation of the wicked Caluin in that very place did stand against this disguised Woolfe did so answere him by word both opēly priuatly afterward also by writing that the aduersarie had no trouth of his syde remaining but a certaine Monkish shamelessenes which made him doth make him at this day filthy stincking to euery man that hath any good vnderstanding yea by his owne iudgemēt as shal be declared by testimonie of hys owne hand whensoeuer neede shal require For this wicked man who had deserued punnishment for a seditious acte beyng vsed by the Magistrate very gentlye bicause that they thought that there might hereafter some remedie be founde for hys sophisticall ignoraunce after that he had done so many offences and wickednesses as he was able in the Churches nere there about seing himselfe three times driuen out of the dominions of the Lordes of Berne in the ende being intollerable to anye man did giue glory to God acknowledging hys errours and especially his euill conscience at Orleance in open general Synode of the Frenche Churches the yeare .1562 in such sort that men had some hope in him But after that being againe possessed by suche a lyke euill spirite is retourned to his first errours and is driuen from all men as hee is well worthy and doth serue yet at this present daye in all places where he goeth for a testimonie of the wrath of God against all such as do resist the truth Shortly after there was a certaine remanaunt of Seruetistes who declared themselues as one being a lawyer of those quarters who afterwarde for the lyke cause was driuen from the vniuersitie of Tubing by the right noble Duke of Wirtemberg and bicause he did cōtinue in his blasphemies for which hee had bene chastized by imprisonments and suffred to recant by the iudgement of the sayd Lordes of Berne with this man there was confederate a certaine man of Calabria named Valentine Gentill an other of Sardegna a Piedmontois named Iohn Paul Alciat a Physition of Saluces named George Blandrata These men wrought vnder ground as well as they coulde shewing their blasphemies againste the three persons in one deuine Essence and beyng vntill the time that this faithful seruant of God withstāding them some vanished awaye others of them acknowledging their blasphemies haue demaūded mercy at the handes of God of the Seignorie But shortly after those wycked ones retourned contrarie to theire othe to theire blasphemies in the ende with their complices conueyed thēselues into Polognia where they haue styrred vp and doe yet at this day innumerable troubles yet haue they notwithstanding euen to in the very place where they are felt perceyued what the force was of the faithfull seruant of God of whom we speake by whose writings the Churches of Polognia haue bene so fortified that the Faithfull haue bene greatlye establyshed the enimies of the truth so weakened that with the helpe of God their ruine is at hande Behold these are the principall combats that he hath fought within for the doctrine which is much more harde to sustaine than to resite as the Bookes shall testifie to the posteritie As for the other enimies they haue alwayes assailed him from a farre of but not so farre of but that he hath touched them more nigh than they would willingly his learned workes against the Anabaptistes and Libertines can make sufficiēt declaration And as for the great Goliath Pighius who was it that did beate downe and ouerthrow him and his Pelagianisme but only the power of the Lord in the hande of Caluin who did shut vp the mouth of the glorious Cardinall Sadolet but only hee who hath more happily fought with ouerthrowne that hierde of Boares gathered togither to destroy wroute vp the Vineyard of the Lord who hath more greuously or more perilouslye in deede wounded Antichrist to the death who hath more boldely more aptlye made answere to the wicked interim which hath so troubled Germanie This is not all for who hath bene of a more cleare sight to knowe and to reproue the wickednesse of false Euangelists who framed themselues to all men meete Who hath more constātly defended the puritie of the doctrine against the most daungerous kinde of enimies to wit those which vnder the colour of peace and vnion doe endeuor thēselues to corrupt the puritie of the same And as touching the miserable contencion that was moued about the matter of the Supper seyng the fire so greatly kindled his whole desire was to quenche it by a cleare exposition of the matter wythout naming of any man the which he hath so wel and so aptly done that he that shal wel consider his writings must confesse the next after God it is to him that the honor of the resolution is due which since hath bene folowed by all men of good iudgement This notwithstanding Satan enforced himselfe by all meanes possyble to haue set deuision betweene hym and the Churche of Zuriche in thys discentyon which among others hee hath alwaye estemed and honored But it was in vaine for on the contrarie when they had in presence conferred togither they continued thorowlye of one accord and then was the consent of all the Churches of Guise of the Guisiās framed imprinted in many tongues to the great edificatiō of the people of God That did much displease certaine obstinate men among whom there was one named Ioachim Wesphale an other Tilemā Heshusius which were the moste earnest and feruent enimies of the truth and concorde He was thē enforced to entre into combat whereby he dyd so maintaine the truth and ouerthrowe and suppresse the ignoraunce and shamelesnesse of such personages that he wonne great commendation and the aboue named great shame yea euen among those of their sect nation and the Church of God hath bene the more confirmed in the true and holesome doctrine In conclusiō I think that there is no heresie auncient nor renewed nor newly forged in our time which he hath not destroyed to the very foundations For among al other his excellēt Graces there were twoo that did shyne in hym to wit a singular

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