Excerpt from History and Repository of Pulpit Eloquence, Deceased Divines, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing the Masterpieces of Bossuet, Bourdaloue, Massillon, Flechier, Abbadie, Taylor, Barrow, Hall, Watson, M'laurin, Chalmers, Evans, Edwards, Davies, John M. Mason, Etc., Etc., With Discourses From Chrysostom, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Augustine The moral and intellectual endowments of Calvin marked him out for a man called and qualified to guide the Opinions, and control the emotions of men in the trying times of the Reformation. And few have done more to shape the theological opinions of men for all time. The cautious Scaliger pronounces him the most exalted character that has appeared since the days of the Apostles, and at the age of twenty two the most learned man in Europe. His works first appeared in 1578, in twelve folio volumes. Most of them have recently been issued by the Calvin Translation Society of Edinburg, in some fifty vols. 8vo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.