500 years of Protestant reform
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Return to the Gospel will present weekly articles and biographies of several reformers: Girolamo Zachi (January), Theodore Beza (February), Thomas Cranmer (March), Guilherme Farrel (April), William Tyndale (May), Martin Bucer (June), John Knox (July), Ulrico Zuonglio (there), Joo Calvino (set)
- Translation and editing note: The following debate is a brief excerpt and an edition of Melchior Kirchhofer’s work.
- “The Life of Guilherme Farel.
- The Swiss Reformer”.
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Farel made the following ten proposals that would be the subject of controversy in the Lausanne debate:
Before the arrival of the Berne delegation, Farel addressed the assembly and tried to prepare them for a proper consideration of the topics of the debate. He advised everyone present to pray that God would enlighten them and grant victory to the truth; and to listen to both parties fairly and carefully consider arguments. He urged clergymen and preachers to have a supreme regard for Jesus Christ and to be zealous, not for their own reputation, but for the welfare of their flocks. , with the most convincing arguments, to incite all who heard him to fight for the glory of God and for the salvation of souls.
And he clearly expressed the inevitable misery of those who neglect the Savior; after informing them of a moderate use of Christian freedom and expressing their devoted desires for peace and unanimity, he urged them to seek out and comfort the poor and afflicted, and to find their needs, both spiritual and temporal. And (referring to Papist doctrine) he urged them to make their pilgrimages to saints like these, as true “images of God”.
On the day of the debate in Lausanne, Farel began the meeting and was followed by the sheriff who told those present the object of the dispute: dispeling the unrest that had arisen in the country because of religion. He swore an oath to the presidents, who would listen to both sides impartially, resolve all disputes, and allow the final appeal to be made only to the scriptures.
Both sides were face to face. On the one hand, Farel, Viret, Calvin, Caroli, Fabri, Marcourt and Le Comte; and, on the other hand, the clergy of the cathedral, the Dominicans and Franciscans of Lausanne, the Augustinians of Thonon and the entire priesthood of the conquered neighborhoods. Farel and Viret played the most important role in the dispute. Calvin spoke little, but quite, by the point. His main opponent was Frenchman Claude Blanchrose, one of the king’s doctors based in Lausanne.
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