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Often appears with: luther’s invectives · justice as a virtue · faction, party, and civil strife · conflict over doctrine · church discipline · censorship and the press
Usually: letter or document (1) · betrayal (1) · crisis of belief (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)
Calvin tells colleagues to moderate their response to Luther’s violent invective, praising Luther’s gifts while warning that internal quarrels help the enemies of the Evangel.
[449] Cabrières, Merindol, et Lourmarin, in the present Department of Vaucluse. I hear that Luther has at length broken forth in fierce invective, not so much against you as against the whole of us.[450] On the present occasion, I dare scarce venture to ask you to keep silence, because it is neither just that innocent persons should thus be harassed, nor that they should be denied the opportunity of clearing themsel…