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THE LIFE
OF
JOHN CALVIN,
John' Calvin, Cauvin, or Chauvin, was born at Noyon, a celebrated city in Picardy, or the country adjoining, on the 10th of July, 1509.* His father, Gerard Calvin, and his mother, Jeanne Franc, were in respectable circumstances, and of virtuous unblemished character.! His father possessed a considerable share of judgment, and of skill in giving advice, and was therefore beloved by many of the nobility in
* The RuuiJiiiHH«.ast many reflections on Calvin, for changing his name from Cauvin, as it is in the dialect of Picardy, his native province, or Chauvin, as it is in French. Calvin, foreseeing the disscntions that would arise on the spread of the Reformed doctrines, with the provident spirit of a great genius, prepared his learned and elaborate Commentary on Seneca's Epistle do dementia, in order to impress on the mind of FraDcis, the king, the mild and moderating principles of clemency. As this work was written in Latin, the author, of course, latini
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