accumulated for this purpose, in the hands of the ecclesiastical assembly, who committed to him the principal direction. Endowed eminently with a public spirit, and supplied with that persevering energy which surmounts all obstacles, the valuable life of Beza ranked high among his contemporaries as a public blessing; and secured for him an imperishable monument in the gratitude of posterity. At the advanced age of eighty-six, he terminated, with serenity and confidence, a life of piety and of faith, and entered into the joy of his Lord. Beza (Theodore), his birth and education presented with the freedom of Geneva succeeds Calvin at Geneva exertions in the Reformation death Bolzec, confutation of, by Calvin Bucer, death of Calvin, his birth and education application to the study of the law his journey to Italy settlement at Geneva banishment removal to Strasburg attachment to Geneva re-publishes his Christian Institutes assists at the diet of Ratisbonne 382 383. 385 387 388 390 73 71 27 30 33 ib. 34 39 40 42 45 46 47 ib. 48 Castallio, his acquaintance with Calvin publie dispute with ditto Catharine a Bora, Luther's marriage with his arrival at Augsburg Clement VII. his accession to the papat see Denmark, progress of the Reformation in Edward III. Wickliffe's defence of 246 263 275 214 England, progress of the Reformation in 19 99 |