Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

appearance as of two armies. Melancthon, as the
result of his interview with the Reformer at Worms
(1540), had come into somewhat close agreement
with Calvin on the doctrine of the Lord's Supper.
The Consensus of Zurich, he acknowledged, shed a
yet clearer light on the question, and had brought
him still nearer to the Genevan Reformer.[8]
But the more zealous spirits of the party, such
as Flaccius, Osiander, and especially Westphal,
clung to the consubstantiation of Luther with even
greater tenacity than when its great expounder was
alive, and both Melancthon and Calvin saw with
sorrow a union, which would have closed a source
of weakness in the Protestant ranks, and made
patent to the whole world the real Catholicism of
the Reformation, postponed to a day that has not
even yet fully come.
We have seen one companion fall by the side of
the Reformer, we are now to see another raised up
to fill the vacant place. Within a month after the
death of Idelette de Bure, eight French gentlemen,
whom persecution had driven from their native
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