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“But God will not suffer himself to be mocked any longer. I am deceived if this year does not produce a very great change of affairs, which may soon take place;” Jean Calvin, Letters of John Calvin, Volume I · insight
“The Council of Trent, so often announced and as often adjourned, only commenced on the 13th December 1545.” Jean Calvin, Letters of John Calvin, Volume I · observation
“This will certainly be the final decision, that it is not lawful to determine anything in the matter of religion except by authority of the Pope.” Jean Calvin, Letters of John Calvin, Volume I · insight
“Superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy, in the minds of men.” Francis Bacon, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · observation
“Will the belief tend to the improvement of any of my moral or intellectual faculties? But before I can be convinced that a faculty will be improved, I must be assured that it exists.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inqui · precept
Calvin continues his view of Europe: he hopes for reform in Germany, warns against new “monstrous” divisions, references a Roman Council at Trent, and predicts major changes soon.
love for me to all the world, by placing my name at the beginning of your remarkable book, where all the world will see it."--*Calvini Opera*, tom. ix. p. 175. As to our own affairs there is nought that I will write. The sole cause which imposes this silence upon me is, that I have so much to tell you that my tale would never have an end. I labour here and do my utmost, but succeed indifferently. And, nevertheless, …
Calvin writes to Viret that the Council of Trent began in December 1545, then discusses a local dispute over excommunication rights, seeking Senate action and warning that delays bring divine judgment.
[397] The Council of Trent, so often announced and as often adjourned, only commenced on the 13th December 1545. Adieu, therefore, O man of most eminent accomplishments, and ever to be remembered by me and honoured in the Lord! May the Lord long preserve you in safety to the glory of his name and the edification of the Church. I wonder what can be the reason why you keep your *Daniel* a sealed book at home. Neither …
In January 1545 Calvin explains that expectations of a Council at Trent are likely unfounded, since the Emperor and Pope will block real reform, while German internal disputes may lead to war.
*January 1545.* And so, just as if the day for holding the Council had been appointed for the next month, you make already arrangements for your departure.[466] This, however, is of itself a proof how rashly and at haphazard everything is done among you, and nothing set about prudently or after deliberation, that when the most able persons in the whole kingdom should be selected, the matter has been entrusted to suc…
He traces the historical development of faith-reason relations from Plato to Aristotle and through Augustine, Boethius, Cassiodorus, and the Schoolmen, concluding with doctrines that continued after the Council of Trent.
philosophical sin, objective precisions, and many other dogmas in speculative theology and even in the practical theology of cases of conscience, came into currency even after the Council of Trent. 7. A little before these changes, and before the great schism in the West that still endures, there was in Italy a sect of philosophers which disputed this conformity of faith with reason which I maintain. They were dubbe…
The commentary applies Aphorism III: theological “resolutions” should be tested by whether they improve moral and intellectual faculties, so doctrinal claims like Trent’s transubstantiation must connect to knowable cognitive organs.
COMMENT. This Aphorism should be borne in mind, whenever a theological *Resolve* is proposed to us as an article of Faith. Take, for instance, the determinations passed at the Synod of Dort, concerning the Absolute Decrees of God in connection with his Omniscience and Fore-knowledge. Or take the decision in the Council of Trent on the difference between the two kinds of Transubstantiation, the one in which both the …
He contrasts atheism and superstition: he prefers disbelief to a contemptuous god-concept, says atheism leaves room for laws and morals, and claims superstition drives states into confusion, guided by the people and prelates.
gentis et terrae domestico nativoque sensu Italos ipsos et Latinos; sed pietate, ac religione, atque hac una sapientia, quod deorum immortalium numine omnia regi gubernarique perspeximus, omnes gentes nationesque superavimus. Of Superstition IT WERE better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion, as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the…