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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · satan and division · faction, party, and civil strife · counsel and advisers to rulers · calvin to bullinger · brotherly unity
Usually: letter or document (1) · reconciliation (1) · exhortation (1) · indignation (1)
“Indeed, Satan himself perceives that very clearly, who while he plots, by every method he can devise, the ruin of Christ's kingdom, plies none more earnestly with all his might, than to sow division and discord among us, or somehow at least to estrange the one from the other.” Jean Calvin, Letters of John Calvin, Volume I · insight
“For Bucer I will answer, that there is no cause why he ought in anything to be suspected by you. Endowed, as indeed he is, with a singularly acute and remarkably clear judgment, there is, at the same time, no one who is more religiously desirous to keep within the simplicity of the word of God, and is less given to hunt after niceties of interpretation that are quite foreign to it, but who actually holds them in more abhorrence, than himself.” Jean Calvin, Letters of John Calvin, Volume I · observation
Calvin, writing 12 March 1539 from Strasbourg to Bullinger, apologizes for long silence, insists on brotherly unity as Satan’s target, justifies Bucer’s trustworthiness, and urges closer accord without hatred or lingering suspicion.
Grace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. RESPECTED BROTHER,--I scarce know how it has occurred, that for nearly a whole year and a half since I withdrew hither I should never have written to you, when it was so often my mind to do so; when there was no want of somewhat to write about; and more than once an occasion presented itself for doing so. But as for the first few months I had scarcely thoug…