Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

with the view of establishing a union in doctrine
between them and the Church of Geneva. His
watchful eye did not overlook Poland. In 1549 he
dedicated to the monarch of that country,
Sigismund Augustus, his Commentary on the
Hebrews. He exhorted him to give himself to the
service of Christ, which places us "in the rank of
angels," and to follow the footsteps of his father
Sigismund, who, while persecution raged in many
other countries, kept his hands unstained with
blood. Denmark and Sweden also shared Calvin's
solicitude. In the year 1552 he dedicated the first
half of his Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
to the excellent Christian I.; and the second half he
dedicated in 1554 to the son of that monarch,
Frederick.
Amid the crowned heads whom he thus
acknowledges, the friends of his youth and the
refugees of the Gospel were not forgotten. The first
part of his Commentary on the Epistle to the
Corinthians was dedicated, in 1546, to the Sieur de
Bourgoyne; and, ten years later, another part to an
illustrious Neapolitan, the Marquis Caraccioli, a
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