i\ouveau Journal helvélique, mai 1776, p
Nous avons cru devoir reproduire les parties principales de cette analyse pour faciliter des recherches qui seront sans doute plus heureuses que les nôtres. Ni M. Hogge ni aucun des savants hollandais que nous avons consultés n'a pu nous expliquer la disparition de ce manuscrit, qui appartenait en 1776 à la bibliothèque des Remontrants à Amsterdam et qui ne se retrouve plus aujourd'hui ni à la bibliothèque de l'Université d'Amsterdam (où le fonds des Remontrants a été transféré), ni à Rotterdam, ni à Leyde.
Dénonciation contre le traité de Fide.
Autogr. Britisli Muséum, Lansdowne mss., vol. 33, art. SA.
Sir Francis Knollys to the Lords Biirghley and Leicester, to search for the printes of Castalio's Book freewill men and Family of love compared; Danger ofJesuits, 29 sept. ioSi.
My very good Ll. your liablenes and redynes to do good in theise peryllous dayes of trayterous practises, bothe agaynst God and agaynst hir majestye, dothe bolden me to présume to rememberyour Lordships; that by your good meanes order may be taken, that the towe awthors and favorors ofthe settyng forthe of Castalio bis booke, with the abusers of the bisshop of London in that behalfe, maye be dylygenlly examyned and bowlted owte; that the hypocrysye herein used beyng knone, the pestilent doctryne therof may be the more sowndlye suppressed : for it semeth to me that thèse free wyll men, or anabaptisticall sectaries doe folowe the same scoope that the deified men of the famylye of love do foUowe, savyng that the same perfection that the famyli/e of love doe prétend to obtayne by the vertue of love, the same perfection do Castalio his sectaries prétend to obtayne by the vertue of faythc. But it is not by faythe in belevyng to be saved by the merytes of Chryste, but by a fathe in belevyng that everye man is hable to fulfyll Ihe laws of god, and that the cawse whye men do not fulfyll the lawe is the wante of this Castalio his beleetïe : Nowe bothe thèse sectes do serve the turms of the papistes, as ail free wyll men and Jusliciaries or Justifiers of theym selffes doe; yet this dyfference is betwene the papistes and thèse sectaries; do meane lowchyng theyre practises hère in Yngland; for thèse sectaries are more hypocrylycall, and woU sooner denye theyre doctryne and assertions to avoyde punyshment, then the papistes woll, But the papistes secrète practises by thèse Jesuytes, in goyng from howse to howse to withdrawe men from the obedyence of hir majestye unto the obédience of the falce Catholyke churche of Roome, hathe and wolle indanger hir majesties parson and state more tlian ail the sectes of the worlde, yf no exeqution shall followe upon the trayterous practisors that are for the same apprehended or at the least, yf exeqution shall not followe uppon solche of theym as woll not openly and playnly recante.
Thus desyryng your LLps that are the two headdes of the tuo l'niversities of Yngland, to pardon my boldnes herein, bycawse I that am an unworthie parson and halffe an abjecte, doe expecte great good thyngs
at your LLps handes, which hathe yniboldened me hereunto, and so I take my leave of your LLps. At London goyng into my countrye to the qwarter sessyons at Oxford the 29 of september 1581.
Your good LLps to command F. Knollys.
Adresse : lo the Right honorable and bis ven*- good LL. the L. Tresorer of Yngland, and to the Erle of Leiseyter gyve Iheise.
Lettres d'interdiction du traité de Fide.
British Muséum, Egerton mss., vol. 1693, f. 113 (autogr.).
To Robert Beale Esq., Clerk o^ the council to the Queen Elisabeth.
After our varie hartie comnaendacions unto your L. We bave uf laie seen a certain pamphlet published in printe under your name directed to ail scboleres, as weli within the Diocesse of London as elswhere, that they should cause a certaine dialogue latelie printed in the Latin and Englishe tongue by your licence De vera fide by Thomas Purfoote to be taught in evdie of their Scholes : uppon knowledge wher of we could not but signifie unto your L. that we mavile not a litle that you should so muche overshwte your selfe as to prescribe anie suche thinge to be red or taught in anie Schole of your owne authoritie, seinge we hâve not hitherto knowen anie suche thinge don by anie Bischopp in this reaime unies the same were warranted by commandement froni lier Majestie in respect of her prérogative or els so appointe by Acte of Parlament Besides we are to let your L understande that we are not ignorant uppon Avhat colour sœver you bave suffered the said booke lo be published in a disguised name, that the same was first made by Castalio and printed with bis name in the prête of beyonde the seas and thought at the first meete to be suppressed, for Ihat it corttaineth no sounde doctrines : and we Ihincke that your L. could not but knowe so muche, and also before that time you understoodc with what blêmi shes of unsound doctrine he halbe ben openlie charged by soudrie learned men wherof he never cleared himself. So as to recoramende thés book of such asuspecled author in respecte of the latin phrase semelh to us verie strange. And Iherfore we nmst thincke that your L. did not before the grantinge therof suflîcienllie consider of the matter beinge of so great importance or els lightlie outpasse the due considération therof uppon some private respecte towards some of your servants or the printer. Nevertheles foras much as it is not our dueties to wincke at suche thinges whenas they are come to our knowledge : We hâve for the causes before declared. thought good to signifie so muche unto your to require you uppon the receipt herofe not onelie to use more circumspection in the grantinge forlhe of anie suche writngtes hereafter : but also to revoke that which you bave latelie made and is extant in printe for the teachinge of that booke in scholes. Otherwise we shall bave instranse to doe the same ourselves, which althis présent in respecte of your crédit, we hâve forborne : trustinge that you wili not uppon the receipt hereof faile to doe so muciie as is required. And so bidd you hartciy farewell from Greenwiche.
Lettre de Jean-Jacques Grynée.
Bàle, 2 juillet 1600.
Autographe : Bibliolh. de Bâle. K-A, manuscripta et impressa ecclesiastica. 1598-1630,
t. III, p. 100.
.,.,[De Castalione, quod quaeris, cognomen illi fuit non a fonte poetico, sed a natali apud Allobroges Comopoli. Quum junior esset, in sacro ministerio collega Genevae b[eatœj m[eiïioriae] Calvini fuit. Peste tum grassante, quum sortito illi obtigisset munus infectos adeundi, humani aliquid passus * discessit ^ et ad nos rediit ^. Hac fuit àcpop[xà simultatis quam cum Genevensibus exercere cœpit, semper Ètpwvéywv; susurrones autem ab utraque parte inflammarunt animos etiam fabellis sparsis quibus sois et bonos interdurn affici nimium.
Sed at'xtov offensée D°' Calvini fuit quod hic, ut lu quoque pro tuâ prudentiâ dabis, proprietatem ecclesiastici sermonis nimio latinitatis studio ductus neglexisset, et quod de prsedestinatione liberoque hominis arbitrio cptXoaoçixwTspov quam ferat fidei régula, voce et scriptis privalis, maxime inter juniores aut eliam pontiflciis opinionibus nonnihil imbulos, rhetoricaretur et dissimulanter nigro sale respergeret Christi servos in prima contra Anlechristos acie stantes. Est quibusdam non insuavis ludus paslores Ecclesiarum exercere £tpwv£iai<;. Memini autem et a nostra ecclesia? theologis Castalionem eo nomine ssepius fuisse admonitum et repressum, quum non ita memorem esse vidèrent ejus quod gravissime dixit Augustinus : « Hœc tu, si potes, appréhende, si non potes relinque « valentioribus, scripluras autem sequere. »
Epitaphium Castalionis opinor extare in Basileœ descriptione Urstisianâ. Saxum cui fuit insculptum, quum minus firmum esset, fractum fuit quum sepulcrum iterum apertum fuisset *.
Filium reliquit Castalio Fridericum, Oratoriœ apud nos doctorem.
Fuit illius vita inculpata, fides et dexteritas in docendâ linguà graecà eximia. Usus sum eo prseceptore ante 48 annos. Obiit anno Dei 1563 mense decembri. Hoc habebat ut ruri interdurn accederet cœtus anabaptistarum et inde deflecteret ad patrem meum Thomam qui vocatus a Marchione Badensi Roetelum comraigrârat. Ego etiam eo nomine ejus memoriâ delector quod is in postremo nostro congressu de temperantiâ eruditè mecum contulit....
1. On voit que la légende mise en circulation par les Calvinistes après la mort de Càstellion avait fini par se répandre. Nous avons élucidé ce point t. I, p. 185-192.
2. Grynée a mitigé la version calviniste, il ne parle ni d'expulsion ni de révocation.
3. Est-ce une allusion à ce fait que Castellion paraît avoir été un moment l'hôte ou le pensionnaire de Simon Grynée, en quittant Strasbourg, avant d'être appelé à Genève.
