If Calvin had remained in his own country, he would never have been able to fulfil the career to which he was called; he had no other prospect but the stake. And yet, he will indeed be her reformer.... True, he quitted her, but a divine hand fixed him as near as possible to that land of his affections and of his sorrows. From the picturesque valley, whence the Rhone continually pours its waves into France, God was about to scatter by Calvin's means, throughout all the provinces of that great kingdom, the living waters of the Gospel of Christ. [159] _Calvin contre les Libertins._ _Opusc. franç._ p. 652; _Opusc. lat._ p. 510. [160] _Opusc. franç._ p. 664; _Opusc. lat._ p. 520. [161] Ibid. p. 666; ibid. p. 523. 'Unicum esse spiritum Dei qui sit et vivat in omnibus creaturis.' [162] 'Nullam homini voluntatem tribuunt, ac si esset lapis.'—_Opusc. lat._ p. 669. [163] Luth. _Ep._ iii. p. 62. [164] 'Cest _ty_, c'est _my_, c'est Dieu; car ce que _ty_ ou _my_ faisons, c'est Dieu qui le fait.' [165] _Opusc. franç._ p. 662; _Opusc. lat._ p. 518. [166] Calvin, _Matth._ xxii. 29. [167] 'Deum latronem, furem, scortatorem.'—_Opusc. lat._ p. 530. [168] 'Nigrum in album commutare.'—Ibid. [169] _Opusc. franç._ p. 663; _Opusc. lat._ p. 519. [170] 'Scriptura nasus cereus fiat, aut instar pila, sursum deorsumque agitetur.'—_Opusc. lat._ p. 519; _Opusc. franç._ p. 663. [171] 'Se gloriam Dei videre.'—_Opusc. franç._ p. 688; _Opusc. lat._ p. 547. [172] 'Tanquam porci in hara stertere.'—_Opusc. lat._ p. 541; _Opusc. franç._ p. 688. [173] _Opusc. lat._ p. 501. 'Præstabilius sit leoni quam vulpeculæ similem esse.' [174] Ut quemadmodum sacerdotes et monachi cantillando, sic ipsi garriendo vitam quærerent.'—_Opusc. franç._ p. 652; _Opusc. lat._ p. 511. [175] 'Adversus fanaticam et furiosam sectam libertinorum, qui se _spirituales_ vocant, instructio,' &c.—_Opusc. lat._ p. 506. [176] Théod. de Bèze, _Hist. Eccles._ i. p. 9. [177] 'In Serveto multæ notæ fanatici spiritus.'—_Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 660. [178] 'Bone Deus! quales tragœdias excitabit hæc quæstio ad posteros.'—Ib. p. 630. [179] 'Perdat Dominus omnes ecclesiæ tyrannos! Amen.'—_Christ. Restitutio._ [180] 'Declarat Christum esse Deum, non natura sed specie, non per naturam sed per gratiam.'—_De Trinitatis Erroribus_, 1531, fol. 12. [181] Luther, _Ep._ iv. p. 423. [182] Trechsel, _Protestant. Anti-trinit._ i. p. 100. [183] 'Pro suggestu pronuntiavit dignum esse qui avulsis visceribus discerperetur.'—Calvin, _Ep. et Resp._ p. 154. [184] 'Obtuli meam operam ad cum sanandum.'—Calvin, _Op._ viii. p. 511. [185] 'Nec per me stetisse quominus resipiscenti manum pii omnes porrigerent.'—_Ibid._ [186] 'Diutius quidem sed frustra expectavit.'—Beza, _Vita Calvini_. [187] Trechsel, _Die Protestant. Anti-trinit._ i. p. 110. [188] 'Qua ruina immortalitatem suam perdiderit.'—_Opusc. lat._ p. 19. [189] Calvinus Libertino (Fabri). Neuchatel MSS.