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Title: Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: McCrie, Charles Greig, 1836-1910 Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605
Subjects: Reformation Reformers Reformers
Publisher: London Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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113 Henry Bullinger (Henricus Bullingerus) BREMGARTEN is a Swiss town in theCanton of Aargau. Here, on July i8,1504, was born Henry Bullinger. Hewas one of five sons of Dean Bullinger,who, like many others in the service ofthe Church at that time, had openly set aside thevow of celibacy and lived in lawful wedlock. Atthe early age of twelve Henry was sent from homein order to obtain the education which his nativecanton could not supply. For three years he wasa scholar at Emmerich in Rhenish Prussia. It ison record that the boys outfit when he left hisparents was simply a suit of clothes, and that duringhis stay at Emmerich he received little or nothingfrom them by way of support. The result was thathe also, like Luther and Musculus, as alreadynoticed, was often dependent for food upon what 114
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Henry BuUinger he could obtain by singing in the streets and beggingfrom door to door. Unlike the German lads, how-ever, this humbling practice was not necessitated inthe case of young Bullinger by the poverty orstraitened means of his parents, for they were ofgood lineage and in comfortable circumstances. Itwas forced upon the Swiss youth by his father, inorder that the son might have practical acquaintancewith want, and so, in after-days, might be ready tohear the cry of the needy and to mitigate the distressof the poor. If the end was laudable, the meansemployed for its attainment were of questionableseverity. From Emmerich young Bullinger moved toCologne, where he became a student of distinctionin classical literature and in mental science, andwhere he graduated B.A. and M.A. At the publiclibrary of Cologne he studied the works of suchGreek and Latin fathers as Chrysostom and Augus-tine, Origen, and Ambrose ; while in the privacy ofhis chamber he read with eagerness and delight th

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