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In the religious reforms of that age you see the work of princes and statesmen still, rather than any great insurrection of human intelligence or any great religious revival, although the germs of it were springing up through the popular preachers and the influence of Genevan reformers. Calvin's writings were potent, and John Knox was on his way to Scotland.
He wished it to enter into every part of the life and thought of the people, and when it was proposed to bring over the entire staff of a Genevan university to take charge of a national university here, he threw his influence against it, expressing grave doubts as to the advantage of importing an entire "seminary of foreigners," for the purpose of American education.
As the procession passed down Cheapside, a venerable old man, representing Time, with a little child beside him representing Truth Time always old, Truth always young presented the Queen with a copy of the Scriptures, which she accepted, promising to read them diligently. Presently it was found that two versions of the Bible were taking the field, the old Great Bible and the new Genevan Bible.
Calling him one day into his presence, he broke out in violent denunciation of those ministers who were disturbing the peace of the realm by their 'owersie' dreams and setting up of the Genevan discipline; and on Melville turning the attack against himself and his government Morton flew into a rage 'Ther will never be quyetnes in this countrey till halff á dissone of yow be hangit or banished the countrey! 'Tushe! sir, retorted Melville, 'threaten your courtiers in that fashion.
Away from crowded thoroughfares, from brick walls and dusty avenues, at the sight of these poor peasants I have gone in thought to the vale of Chamouny, and seen, with Coleridge, the morning star pausing on the "bald, awful head of sovereign Blanc," and the sun rise and set upon snowy-crested mountains, down in whose valleys the night still lingers; and, following in the track of Byron and Rousseau, have watched the lengthening shadows of the hills on the beautiful waters of the Genevan lake.
So God worketh all things according to his will, all tending to the good of his church, because his resting-place is the mercy-seat. Ed. Quoted from the Genevan or puritan version. Ed. Ed. Not by the person or body, but mentally.
It would not admit the papal claim to override the secular authority, or the equally dictatorial claims of the Genevan ministry as exemplified by John Knox; the first necessity for it was to assert secular supremacy, the second to make its definitions of dogma sufficiently ambiguous to be reconcilable with the dogmatic scruples of the majority of both parties; with the result however of shutting out both determined Romanists and determined Calvinists, while the Church thus regulated contained two parties, one with conservative, the other with advanced, ideals.
The Genevan philosopher had asserted that Christianity, by enthroning in the hearts of Christians the idea of a Kingdom not of this world, broke the unity of civil society, because it detached the hearts of its converts from the State, as from all earthly things. To this the Genevan minister had successfully replied by quoting Christian teachings on the subject at issue.
What brings in the inhabitants, preserves them, perfects them, but grace? Traill. 'Grace all the work shall crown, Thro' everlasting days; It lays in heaven the topmost stone, And well deserves the praise. Rippon. Perfectly impressed upon their memories. Ed. From the Genevan version. Ed. Bunyan here refers to the marginal note in the Genevan bible, Exodus 30.
Pradier's Greek inspiration has something Swiss about it, one may say he was a Genevan though his figures were simple and largely treated. He had a keen sense for the feminine element the ewig Weibliche and expressed it plastically with a zest approaching gusto. Yet his statues are women rather than statues, and, more than that, are handsome rather than beautiful.
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