Schaff - History of the Christian Church Vol. 8 - Media Sabda Org

320
Of his masterly answer to Sadolet we shall speak separately.
His many letters from that period prove his constant and faithful attention
to the duties of friendship. In his letters to Farel he pours out his heart, and
makes him partaker of his troubles and joys, and familiar with public events
and private affairs even to little details. Farel could not stand a long
separation and paid him two brief visits in 1539 and 1540.
§ 89. CALVIN AT THE COLLOQUIES OF FRANKFURT,
WORMS, AND REGENSBURG.
Calvin: Letters from Worms, Regensburg, and Strassburg, in Opera,
XI., and HERMINJARD, vols. VI. and VII. His report on the Diet at
Regensburg (Les Actes de la journée impériale en la cité de
Regenspourg), in Opera, V. 509–684.—MELANCHTHON: Report on
the Colloquy at Worms, in Latin, and the Acts of the Colloquy at
Regensburg, in German, 1542.
See his Epistolae, ed. Bretschneider, IV. 33–78, and pp. 728
sqq.—STURM: Antipappus.—SLEIDAN: De Statu Eccles. et
Reipublicae Carolo V. Caesare, Lib. XIII.
Henry, Vol. I. ch. XVII.—DYER, pp. 105 sqq.—STÄHELIN, I. 229–
254. KAMPSCHULTE, I. 328–342.—STRICKER, pp. 27 sqq.—LUDWIG
PASTOR (Rom. Cath.): Die kirchlichen Reunionsbestrebungen während
der Regierung Karls V. Aus den Quellen dargestellt. Freiburg-i.-B.,
1879 (507 pp.). He notices Calvin’s influence, pp. 194, 196, 212, 230,
245, 258, 266, 484, but apparently without having read his
correspondence, which is one of the chief sources; he only refers to
Kampschulte.
Calvin was employed, with Bucer, Capito, and Sturm, as one of the
commissioners of the city and Church of Strassburg, on several public
colloquies, which were held during his sojourn in Germany for the healing
of the split caused by the Reformation. The emperor Charles V. was
anxious, from political motives, to reconcile the Protestant princes to the
Roman Church, and to secure their aid against the Turks. The leading
theological spirits in these conferences were Melanchthon on the Lutheran,
and Julius Pflug on the Roman Catholic side. They aimed to secure the
reunion of the Church by mutual concessions on minor differences of
doctrine and discipline. But the conferences shared the fate of all