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ft565 The preface is reprinted in his Opera, vol. IX. 847-850.
ft566 Henry justly remarks (I. 376): “So free were these rare men of
ambition, love of glory, and littleness of spirit, that they thought of
nothing but the salvation of the world. Calvin wanted France to love
Melanchthon as much as he did, and to be converted to Christ through
him.” Comp. Stähelin, I. 244.
ft567 His “Short Confession on the Lord’s Supper.” See this History, vol.
VI. 654 sqq.
ft568 Bonnet-Constable, I. 442-444; Opera, XII. 98-100.
ft569 Claude de Senarcleus, a friend of Calvin, returned from Wittenberg
with an album full of pious inscriptions of leading Lutheran divines,
which is preserved in the Town Library of Geneva. Bonnet, l.c. I. 444.
ft570 Opera, XIII. 593 sqq.
ft571 The zealous Lutherans at Magdeburg which stood out a long siege by
the army of the Elector Maurice.
ft572 Opera, XIV. 368; Corp. Ref., VII. 1085.
ft573 “Quia et judicium tuum magni facio,et scio integritatem animi et
candorem in te summum esse.”
ft574 w}sper o[nov ejn sfhki>aiv.
ft575 Bonnet-Constable, II. Opera, XIV. 416-418.
ft576 Nowadays a letter from Wittenberg will reach Geneva in less than two
days.
ft577 See below, § 139, pp. 706 sqq.
ft578 Opera, XVI. 556-558.
ft579 Opera, XVII. 384-386.
ft580 Opera, IX. 461.
ft581 “In Romanae illius meretricis gremium,” a frequent polemical
designation of the Roman Church, derived from a misinterpretation of
the apocalyptic harlot which means heathen Rome (Rev. 17:5).
ft582 In the following extracts I make use of the translation of Henry
Beveridge, with a few slight changes.
ft583 See vol. VI, 659. Kampschulte’s impartial judgment on the Answer to
Sadolet is worth quoting (I. 354): “Es ist in Wahrheit eine der
glänzendsten Streitschriften, die je aus seiner Feder geflossen, und