Life of the Swiss Reformer William Farel
Today’s free book is a biography of the Swiss Reformer William Farel [1489-1565] by Frances Bevan. My thanks to Book Aid/ for making a copy of this public domain work available for digitisation.
Frances Bevan [1827-1909], The Life of William Farel. A Spiritual Force in the Great Reformation Who Noble “The Reproach of Christ”. London & Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, [1921?]. Hbk.pp.405. [Click to visit the download for this title]
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Two Pictures
- The Days of which Paul spoke
- THe child without a Bible
- How God made use of the Turks, the Jews, and the Printers
- How William went to Paris
- The Well of which William drank, and thirsted again
- THe Water which Jesus gives
- The Light shining in Darkness
- How the Darkness began in the Church of God
- How the Darkness Deepened
- The Days of Grace for Paris
- The Happy Days at Meaux
- The Path of Obedience
- The Dark Days at Meaux
- “No Certain Dwelling-place”
- The foolishness of God, that is wiser than men
- “Blessed are ye when Men shall hae you”
- A Dark Year in France
- An Idol Drowned, and a Saint Burnt
- Happy Fellowship; and alone with Christ
- The old Letter
- The beautiful Land of Darkness
- The Village Schoolmaster
- The Rejected Message
- The Begging Friar
- Friends ad Fellow-labourers
- Strange Times at Berne
- Fields White to the Harvest
- The Land that refused the Gospel
- The Siege of Neuchatel
- The Word that is as a Hammer breaking the Rocks in pieces
- His glorious Power
- The Dawn of the Day
- THe old Counties and her Subjects
- “In Weariness and Painfulness”
- Father Michae’s Sermon
- The Lady Elizabeth
- The Weakness of God that is stroner than men
- The Lost Sheep found
- The Breaking of Bread
- The Siege of Granson
- “The Wars of the Lord”
- The Ancient Witnesses
- The Mountain Meeting
- The Dark Days of Geneva
- The Second Onslaught upon Geneva
- The Third Onslaught upon Geneva
- The Bewitched Lady
- An Afternoon at the Parsonage
- The Sermon on the Fish-stall
- The Worship in Spirit and in Truth
- The Priests’ Riot
- News of William Farel
- The Feast of the Holy Winding-sheet
- The Arm of the Flesh and the Arm of the Lord
- An Unexpected Arrival
- Walter Farel
- Light and Darkness
- THe Wolf and the Shepherds
- Light in Darkess, and Darkness in Light
- A Letter that may do for you
- A Narrow Escape
- Sister Blaisine
- The Friends of Geneva
- The Deliverance of Geneva
- How the Lord washed the Feet of MASter Farel
- Works meet for Repentance
- John Calvin
- How Lausanne was taken for Christ
- A Sorrowful Chapter
- A Stranger and a Pilgrim
- Seven Eventful Years