§ 62. The Gallican Confession. A.D. 1559.

§ 62. The Gallican Confession. A.D. 1559.

Literature.

I. Editions of the Gallican Confessions.

The original French text in Theod. de Beza: Histoire ecclésiastique des églises réformées au royaume de France, Antw. 1580, Tom. II. pp. 173-190; in Niemeyer's Collectio Conf. in eccles. reformatis public. pp. 311-326; and in the Zeitschrift für die histor. Theologie for 1875, pp. 506-544, with an introduction by Dr. Heppe. The shorter recension in the new edition of Calvin's Opera, Vol. IX. pp. 739 sqq. The text, as revised by the Synod of Rochelle (1571), was often printed in French Bibles, and separately. Comp. the Toulouse edition of 1864, entitled Confession de Foi et Discipline ecclésiastique des églises réformées de France (Société des livres religieux, pp. 9-35).

The Latin translation: Gallicarum ecclesiarum Confessio Christianissimo Carolo IX. regi anno MDLXI. exhibita. Nunc vero in Latinum conversa, ut omnino constet eas ab omnibus hæresibus sive sectis esse prorsus aliena. Anno Domini 1566--and often reprinted; also in Corpus et Syntagma Conf. 1654, pp. 77-88, and in Niemeyer's Collectio, pp. 327-339.

A German translation appeared first at Heidelberg, 1562 (see Niemeyer, Præfat. p. 1.); also in Böckel's Bekenntniss-Schriften der evang. reform. Kirche, pp. 461-474.

An English translation in John Quick's Synodicon in Gallia Reformata, Lond. 1692, Vol. I. pp. vi.-xvi.

II. History of the Reformation and the Reformed Church in France.

See partly the Literature on Calvin, quoted p. 421.

Theod. Beza: Histoire ecclés. des églises réformées au royaume de France (1521-63), Antw. 1580, 3 vols.

Jean Crespin (d. 1572): Livre des martyrs (Acta Martyrum), depuis Jean Hus jusqu'en 1554. Geneva, 1560; enlarged edition, Genève, 1617, and Amsterd. 1684.

Serranus (Jean de Serres, historiographer of France, 1540-98): Commentarius de statu religionis et reipublicæ in regno Galliæ, 1571-73 (five parts).

Theod. Agrippa d'Aubigné (Albinæus, a Huguenot in the service of Henry IV.; d. at Geneva, 1630): Histoire universelle de mon temps, 1616-20, 3 vols.

Du Plessis Mornay: Mémoires et correspondance. Paris, 1824-25.

John Quick (a learned Non-conformist, d. 1706): Synodicon in Gallia Reformata; or, the Acts, Decisions, Decrees, and Canons of the National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France. London, 1692, 2 vols. fol. (with a history of the Church till 1685). Much more accurate than Aymon.

Aymon: Tous les synodes nationaux des églises réformées de France. La Haye, 1710, 2 vols. 4to.

E. A. Laval: Compendious History of the Reformation in France . . . to the Repealing of the Edict of Nantes. London, 1737-41, 7 vols.

Smedley: History of the Reformed Religion in France. London, 1832, 3 vols.

G. de Félice: Histoire des Protestants en France. Toulouse, 1851; Engl. translation, by Lobdel, 1851. By the same: Histoire des synodes nationaux des églises réformées de France. Paris.

W. G. Soldan: Geschichte des Protestantismus in Frankreich bis zum Tode Karl's IX. Leipzig, 1855, 2 vols.

G. von Polenz: Geschichte des französischen Calvinismus bis zur Nationalversammlung i. J. 1789, zum Theil aus handschriftl. Quellen. Gotha, 1857-64, 4 vols.

E. Stähelin: Der Uebertritt Heinrich's IV. Basle, 1856.

Ath. Coquerel: Histoire des églises du désert. Paris, 1857, 2 vols.

W. Haag: La France protestante. Paris, 1858 (biographies).

Weiss: Histoire des réfugiés protestants de France depuis la révocation de l'édit de Nantes jusqu'à nos jours. Paris, 1853; English translation, London, 1854, 2 vols.

Much valuable information on the early history of Calvinism and French Protestantism generally is contained in Herminjard's Correspondance des réformateurs dans les pays de langue français, Genève and Paris, 1866 sqq. (so far 4 vols.), and in the Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du Protestantisme français. Documents historiques inédits et originaux XVI ^e, XVII^ e, et XVIII^ e siécles. Paris (3, rue Lafitte), 1854-63; so far 22 vols.

III. General Histories of France touching upon the Reformation Period.

Thuanus (Jacques Auguste de Thou--born, 1553; died, 1617): Historiarum sui temporis libri 138, from 1546-1607 (several editions in five, seven, and sixteen volumes). The author was a moderate Catholic, witnessed the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and helped to prepare the Edict of Nantes. His history was put in the Index Expurg. 1609.

Lacretelle: Histoire de France pendant les guerres de la religion. Paris, 1822, 4 vols.

Sismondi: Histoire des Français, Par. 1821-44, 31 vols. (from vol. 16th).

Jules Michelet (born, 1798): Histoire de France, 1833-62, 14 vols. (vols. 8 and 9).

Sir James Stephen: Lectures on the History of France, 1857, third edition, 2 vols.

Leop. Ranke: Französische Geschichte namentlich im 16. und 17. Jahrh. 1852-68, 6 vols. (English translation in part, London, 1852, 2 vols.)

Henri Martin: Histoire de France depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'en 1789, fourth edition, Paris, 1855-60, 16 Tom. (Vols. VII. to X.).