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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...those of the clergy were as bad, or worse. The canons of St. Peter's, whose office conferred upon, them a share in the spiritual government of the city, were particularly notorious for their misconduct. They paraded their vices with so much effrontery, that in 1530 the Genevese refused to pay them the tithes which were so unblushingly applied to the purposes of debauchery; and they were obliged to sohcit the interference of Friburg, in order to obtain their money. Their ignorance was on a par with their profligacy; and during the progress of the Reformation, the Genevese clergy publicly admitted before the council that they were not learned enough either to maintain or to refute the doctrine of the mass., and the authority of human traditions."0 In this state of things, the first attempts at discipline by Farel were displeasing to the people. Meanwhile, however, Calvin had begun his great work with his accustomed vigor and decision. The Anabaptists had made a lodgment in Geneva, and created a party adverse to the new ministers. Calvin met them, and in public discussion overwhelmed them with argument and fairly drove them from the city. Peter Caroli, a renegade teacher, sought to destroy their influence by public accusations of heresy. He, too, was defeated, and left the city. Secretly, however, there arose a powerful party of independents-and libertines, who struggled fiercely against the discipline of the Reformers. The ministers sought for a thorough moral reformation. The council, in accordance with their wishes, forbade many amusements which tended to the corruption of manners. "A card-player was put in the pillory, with his pack of cards about his neck. A man guilty of adultery was sentenced to banishment for a year, and paraded through the c...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236167775
- ISBN 13 9781236167774
- BindingPaperback
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