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Often appears with: strasbourg relations · diplomacy and embassies · church authority · bucer’s accompaniment · assemblies, councils, and senates
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Calvin tells M. de Richebourg that church authority requires action after the Diet ends, and he expects Bucer’s help in deciding in Geneva while reassuring Strasbourg will not neglect them.
You know, however, that in an affair of so great moment, I can take no step whatever without the authority of the Church of which I am a member; but it is their unanimous opinion, that as soon as these meetings of the Diet are over, we should proceed to Geneva. For they think it is desirable that Bucer should accompany me thither, where we may consult together on the spot what is best to be done. I wish that we could…