Abstract
"IN our accounlt of these sonls of Geneva, we will begin with the father of the faithful; faithful, I mean, to their old antimonarchical doctrines and assertions; and that is, the great mufti of Geneva, who in the fourth book of his Institutions, chapter 20, section 31, has the face to own such doctrine to the world as this."" In such wise, a royalist sermon of I663 introduced the famous sectioni from Calvin's Inistitutes containing the germ of the Calvinistic theory of constitutional resistance to tyranny through the people's representatives. In the Elizabethan English of Norton's translation, familiar to English, Scottish, and American readers from the Reformation to the American Revolution, Calvin's pregnant sentences ran thus:
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