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Accusations against farel

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Often appears with: geneva church · custom and the manners of a people · counsel and advisers to rulers · conrad pellican · bullinger correspondence

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Letters of John Calvin, Volume I primary

Jean Calvin · c. 1540s–1564 (letters collected here; selection dating over Calvin’s lifetime; compiled in the 16th c. by Beza/Jonvillers)
LETTER PAGE > V._, book viii. (22/53)

From Geneva on 18 April 1543, Calvin replies to Conrad Pellican: he will send books if/when printed, urges Bullinger to write, and insists reports about Farel are wildly false and malicious.

CIII.--TO CONRAD PELLICAN.[400] [400] Conrad Pellican, a pious and learned professor of the Academy of Zurich. Born in 1479, he evinced from his infancy an extraordinary taste for the study of the Hebrew language, in which he made rapid progress, and which, at a later period, he taught at Basle and at Zurich. Called to that latter town in 1526, he acquired the friendship both of Zuingli and of Bullinger, w…