A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . ever, and he was deserted by his allies, Eome, France, and 386 PARTIES IN GEKMANY 387 Maurice of Saxony. There had for some time been a demandfor a general council to adjust religious controversies, and in1545 the famous Council of Trent assembled, but did not helpon the Emperors scheme for uniting the conflicting religiousparties. Charless mode of dealing with the German stateswidened the breach between himself and his former of Saxony concluded an alliance with Henry II. ofFrance, and suddenly took the fiel
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . ever, and he was deserted by his allies, Eome, France, and 386 PARTIES IN GEKMANY 387 Maurice of Saxony. There had for some time been a demandfor a general council to adjust religious controversies, and in1545 the famous Council of Trent assembled, but did not helpon the Emperors scheme for uniting the conflicting religiousparties. Charless mode of dealing with the German stateswidened the breach between himself and his former of Saxony concluded an alliance with Henry II. ofFrance, and suddenly took the field, advancing upon theemperor, who was compelled to fly hastily from Innsbruck(1552). The dream of imperial domination vanished. At theDiet of Augsburg in 1554, the religious peace was prince was to be allowed to choose between the Catholicreligion and the Augsburg Confession, and the religion of theprince was to be that of the land over which he reigned. Thislast rule was not to hold in the case of ecclesiastical princes whoshould become CHAPTER LIII CALVINISM IN GENEVA; BEGINNING OE THE CATHOLICCOUNTER-REFORMATION Calvin. — Second in reputation to Lutlier only, among thefounders of Protestantism, is John Calvin. He was a French-man, born in 1509, and was consequently a child when the SaxonReformation began. He was keen and logical in his mentalhabit, with a great organizing capacity, naturally of a retiringtemper, yet fearless, and endued with extraordinary intensityand firmness of will. Espousing the Protestant doctrines, hewas obliged to fly from Paris, and, when only twenty-sevenyears old, published his celebrated Institutes of Theology, inwhich he expounded the Protestant creed in a systematicway. The Genevan Government.— Calvin established himself atGeneva, where, as the result of a revolution, the power passedfrom the bishop into the hands of the people. Calvin andhis associates imposed regulations as to doctrine, worship, anddiscipline,
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