God in the rod of his fury visiting Caluin, did horribly
punish him before the feareful howre of his
vnhappy death; for he so struck this heretike with
his mighty hand, that being in despaire, & calling
vpō the Diuel, he gaue vp his wicked soule, swearing,
cursing, & blaspheming. He dyed vpō the dissease
of lice & wormes, encreasing in a most loathsome
vlcer about his priuy parts; so as none present
could endure the stench. These things are obiected
to Caluin in publike writing, in which also
horrible things are declared concerning his lasciuiousnes,
his sundry abominable vices, and Sodomitical
lusts, for which (last) he was by the Magistrate
(at Noyon) vnder whom he liued, branded
on the shoulder with a hot burning-iron; vnto
which I yet see not any sound & cleere refutation
made &c. I haue read Beza, & I know that he writes
otherwise of the life, manners, and death of Caluin;
but since he himselfe is infected with the same
heresy, and almost the same sinne, as the history of
his strumpet Candida witnesseth, no man can in this
matter giue credit to him. Thus farre Schlusselberg.
Theol. Calu. l. 2. fol. 72. The which is likewise confirmed
by Iohn Herennius in lib. de vita Calu. who there affirmeth
himself to haue been an eye-witnes thereof.
while from forth his vlcerous flesh did burst,
