Conv. Calvin (Whitehead) n. 6

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6. CONCERNING THE PERSONALITY OF CALVIN. HIS QUALITY.

Afterwards I asked Calvin how he could ascend into heaven with an idea of three gods, and with an idea of the Lord as being two. He answered that he had been admitted into a certain inferior society of heaven, and that he had dwelt there among the hindermost who are not much explored; but that when he had been explored, he had descended, because he could not subsist there; and that he had then betaken himself to Luther in the world of spirits, with whom he had dwelt for a certain period, and this because Luther acknowledged the Human of the Lord as Divine, and he did not seem to himself to be safe anywhere else. With regard to Calvin, the priests said that he was an upright man, but simple; and that he had written according to his own simple thought, not considering whether what he wrote was or was not in agreement with Sacred Scripture, as he had not reflected whether it was in agreement with the Athanasian Creed.


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