. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. quaintedwith the doctrines of theReformation. He thenstudied law at the univer-sities of Orleans and Bour-ges, and in 1532 returned toParis a decided convert tothe reformed faith. Com-pelled to fly from Paris in1533, after various wander-ings he found a protectorin Margaret, Queen of Na-varre. In the followingyear he went to Basel,
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. quaintedwith the doctrines of theReformation. He thenstudied law at the univer-sities of Orleans and Bour-ges, and in 1532 returned toParis a decided convert tothe reformed faith. Com-pelled to fly from Paris in1533, after various wander-ings he found a protectorin Margaret, Queen of Na-varre. In the followingyear he went to Basel, and there completed and published hisgreat work, the Institutes of the Christian Religion. After ashort stay at Ferrara he went in 1536 to Geneva, where the re-form had just been established, and there, on the pressing entrea-ties of Farel and his friends, he remained. In 1538 Calvin andFarel were expelled from Geneva in consequence of some changesintroduced by them, and Calvin first went to Berne and thentoStrasburg. He was, however, recalled three years later, and soonproposed and got established his system of church sought to regulate manners as well as faith, and rigorously cen-sured and punished all wh© resisted his authority. He applied. CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 78 ___^___^_ . ^ himself also to reform the civil government, established an acade-my, fostered literature and science, and made Geneva the metro-polis of the reformed faith. His personal character was spotlessbut austere ; his labors as pastor, lecturer on theology, councillor,author, and correspondent were immense and incessant. The terri-ble rigor of his ecclesiastical rule was most strikingly shown in histreatment of Servetus, who for his theological opinions was burntat Geneva in 1553. Calvin was not present at the famous Confer-ence of Poissy, but instructed Beza and other reformers who tookpart in it. It was after that conference that the differences be-tween Luther and Calvin became
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