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Often appears with: counsel and advisers to rulers · waldenses of provence · religious persecution and toleration · prince’s deputy · geneva church · faction, party, and civil strife · disruptive theologian · custom and the manners of a people · conrad pellican · accusations against farel
Usually: letter or document (2) · deception discovered (1) · injustice endured (1) · censure (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1) · indignation (1)
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…
On 25 November 1544 Calvin writes to Bullinger requesting support for Waldensian brethren in Provence, rebuking a disruptive, self-contradicting doctor backed by a prince’s deputy, and asks Zurich leaders to help bridle him.
GENEVA, *25th November 1544*. You will receive from this brother who has delivered to you my letter, a crown-piece and two silver testons; for this, if I remember correctly, was the amount that remained. Excuse me, I pray you, for not having sent it sooner. As for the reason why this brother has been sent to you, by those of Neuchatel, he will himself tell you. There is, in my opinion, no difficulty, or very little,…