History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, Vol. 6 (of 8)

J. H. MERLE D’AUBIGNE, D.D.
TRANSLATED BY
WILLIAM L. B. CATES,
JOINT AUTHOR OF WOODWARD AND CATES’S ‘ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF CHRONOLOGY,’ EDITOR OF ‘THE DICTIONARY OF GENERAL BIOGRAPHY,’ ETC.
‘Les choses de petite durée ont coutume de devenir fanées, quand elles ont passé leur temps.
‘Au règne de Christ, il n’y a que le nouvel homme qui soit florissant, qui ait de la vigueur, et dont il faille faire cas.’
Calvin.
VOL. VI. SCOTLAND, SWITZERLAND, GENEVA.
NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, 530 BROADWAY 1877.

The author of the History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century died at Geneva, 21 October, 1872, when only a few chapters remained to be written to complete his great work. Feeling, as he often said, that time was short for him now (he was not far from his eightieth year), and stimulated by the near prospect of the end towards which he had been incessantly straining for fifty years, he worked on with redoubled ardor. ‘I count the minutes,’ he used to say; and he allowed himself no rest. Unhappily the last minutes were refused him, and the work was not finished. But only a small portion is wanting; and the manuscripts of which the publication is continued in the present volume will bring the narration almost to its close.
Ten volumes have appeared. It was the author’s intention to comprise the remainder of his history in two additional volumes. He had sketched his programme on a sheet of paper as follows:—