some regulations respecting ecclesiastical discipline, she was not perfectly agreed with the church of Berne. For the Genevese celebrated the Lord's Supper with leavened bread, and judging that the baptismal fonts were not necessary to the administration of baptism, they had removed them from their places of worship. They had also abolished all the feasts, except Sunday. The church of Geneva having been required, at a synod held at Lausanne, to reestablish the use of the baptismal fonts and the feasts which she had abolished, and the minis ters of Geneva wishing to be heard before they were condemned, it was resolved that all these differences should be settled in a synod to be held at Zurich.

The syndics, who were at the head of the seditious, profiting by these divisions, assembled the people, when, the majority being under their influence, they procured an order from the council, by which these three faithful ministers were commanded to leave the town in three days. This order being communicated to Calvin, Certainly," said he, " if I had served men, I should have been ill recompensed; but, I have served a Master who, far from not rewarding his servants, pays them what he does not owe them.'

Farel retired to Neufchatel, and Calvin to Strasbourg, where Bucer, Capito, and Hedio engaged the council of that town to appoint him professor of theology, and pastor of a French church, into which he introduced his ecclesiastical discipline.

Not long after this unjust banishment, Calvin extinguished a greater evil, which would probably have been attended with the worst consequences, had not this illustrious exile applied a prompt remedy to it. Jacques Sadolet, Bishop of Carpentras, was a man of considerable eloquence, which he employed only to oppose the truth. His morals being regular, the pope made him a cardinal, with a view to give a currency to the false doctrine taught in his church. The cardinal, seeing that the people of Geneva were deprived of such excellent pastors, thought this a favourable opportunity to attract them to the Romish religion, with which view he wrote a long letter wherein he employed all his address and talents to overthrow the reformed religion, and to establish his own. There was at this time no person in the town capable of answering him, and if this letter had been written in French, it is probable that it would have created considerable disturbances amongst a people so much divided

and so ill disposed as they were at this time. But Calvin, forgetting all the injuries which he had sustained, evinced that the love which he had professed for that church was not diminished; and answered the cardinal with so much eloquence and spirit, that he abandoned his project entirely.

This was not, however, the first expression of tenderness which Calvin had shewn for the Genevese; for he discovered the interest which he took in all their afflictions, by addressing to them several letters from Strasbourg, wherein he exhorted them to repentance, to peace, charity, and the love of God; teaching them to hope that a bright light would soon dissipate the fatal darkness in which they were enveloped. The event justified the prediction. At this time he republished his Christian Institutes, with many additions, and dedicated them to his intimate friend Simon Grinée; he published also a piece on the Lord's Supper, highly admired by the wisest and the best of men.

He was also useful in reclaiming many anabaptists who were brought to him from various parts, and amongst others Paul Volse,* who died a minister of Strasbourg, and Jean Storder

* It was this person to whom Erasmus dedicated his book of the Christian Soldier.

Liegeois, whose widow, Calvin afterwards mare ried, by the advice of Bucer; she was a person of extraordinary merit. in' me bad

Such were the occupations of Calvin, until the year 1541, when the Emperor Charles V. convoked a diet at Worms, and afterwards at Ratisbonne, to settle the differences which had arisen in Germany. Calvin, by desire of the ministers of Strasbourg, assisted at the diet, in which he proved useful to the churches, and particularly to those of France, and highly pleased Philip Melancthon, who always spoke with applause of Calvin, calling him the Theologian. He also acquired the esteem of Gaspar Cruciger, minister of Wittemberg, who wished to confer with him in private, and having learned his opinion on the Lord's Supper, declared his entire approbation of it. pro

The faction which had procured the banishment of Calvin being overthrown, the Genevese were anxious to recall him. In the year 1540, they wrote to him at Strasbourg, to offer him the employment of which they had deprived him, but he replied that he could not now dispose of himself, that he belonged to Strasbourg, and that he wished to be replaced at Geneva by Viret. The council then sent Ami Perrin, one of the elder syndics, to Strasbourg, to entreat

the magistrates to restore Calvin to Geneva; being supported by the cantons of Zurich, of Berne, and of Basil, they complied with his request. Calvin was then gone to Worms and to Ratisbonne, whither he had been sent by the German reformers, to assist at the assemblies held there, relative to religion, where he learned what was taking place at Geneva; but he still resisted the offers which they made him. At length, solicited afresh by the council and the ministers of that town, encouraged by Bucer, informed that the council had revoked his banishment, on the 1st of May 1541, and longing to be useful to his enemies, he tore himself from his church at Strasbourg, (who gave him leave of absence for two years,) left Ratisbonne, and set out for Geneva.

Upon his arrival he was congratulated by the acclamations of the people; he then presented to the council, the letters of the magistrates of Strasbourg. The Genevese, charmed at repossessing him, wrote to Strasbourg to obtain his final release. Strasbourg at length relinquished Calvin to the reiterated entreaties of Geneva; bestowing upon him his citizenship, and wishing to continue to him the emoluments he had received, which, however, he refused, though he went to a very diminished income at Geneva.