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XXXIX. ON CALVIN.
Caluin , in pay of that despairing sinneHe laid on Christ, himself did dye therein.
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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.
Wormes, stench, & lice, stil swore, blasphem'd & curst,
And on the Diuel without rest did cal.
Which argueth his good nature, and that al
His wits were perfect, since so neer his end
He had so cleare remembrance of his freind.
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