...himself recorded the impression made by this fearful expostulation. " I was kept at Geneva," he says, " not properly by any express exhortation or request,...God had seized me by his awful hand from heaven." He withdrew his objections, was elected teacher of theology and preacher, and rose at once to paramount...

...of need. This, which seemed to Calvin a divine menace, had the desired effect. ' It was,' he said, 'as if God had seized me by his awful hand from heaven.' He abandoned his intention of pursuing his journey, and joined eagerly with Farel in the work of Reformation."...

...of need. This, which seemed to Calvin a divine menace, had the desired effect. ' It was,' he said, 'as if God had seized me by his awful hand from heaven.' He abandoned his intention of pursuing his journey, and joined eagerly with Farel in the work of Reformation."...

...of need. This, which seemed to Calvin a divine menace, had the desired effect. " It was," he said, " as if God had seized me by his awful hand from heaven." He abandoned his intention of pursuing his journey, and joined eagerly with Farel in the work of reformation....

...of need. This, which seemed to Calvin a divine menace, had the desired effect. " It was," he said, " as if God had seized me by His awful hand from heaven." He abandoned his intention of pursuing his journey, and joined eagerly with Farel in the work of reformation....

...every unshuttered window of their souls. In vain did Calvin try to draw back. " It was," he says, " as if God had seized me by His awful hand from heaven." In vain did Melancthon seek to hide himself among his books, and (animated by the gentleness of a Fenelon)...

...rather than that of Christ." "As I was kept in Geneva," says Calvin, in his preface to the Psalms, " not properly by any express exhortation or request,...by the terror thus inspired to give up the plan of my journey, but yet without pledging myself, for I was conscious of my timidity and weakness, to undertake...

...rather than that of Christ." "As I was kept in Geneva," says Calvin, in his preface to the Psalms, " not properly by any express exhortation or request,...by the terror thus inspired to give up the plan of my journey, but yet without pledging myself, for I was conscious of my timidity and weakness, to undertake...

...He still was a friend to Calvin, and offered him kindly aid in the days of the reformer's distress. threatenings of William Farel, which were as if God...by His awful hand from heaven, so was I compelled, through the terror thus inspired, to give up the plan of my journey, but yet without pledging myself,...

...studies, if you refuse your aid to the Church of Geneva in her time of need." " It was," records Calvin, " as if God had seized me by His awful hand from heaven." The result was a Protestant Confession of Faith. It was forthwith proclaimed in the" Cathedral of St....