[1133] On June 30, 1530, to Johann Agricola, “Briefwechsel,” 8, p. 57.
[1134] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 65, p. 207.
[1135] Ibid., Weim. ed., 30, 3, p. 468; Erl. ed., 25², p. 125.
[1136] Ibid., Erl. ed., 26², p. 216.
[1137] Ibid., p. 216 f.
[1138] Ibid., p. 205.
[1139] Calvin also suffered, though in a less degree, from this mania for invective; of him and of the excuse some have sought in the tone and habits of the age a recent French historian says: Even though such abuse was not entirely unparalleled, “yet it cannot but surprise and grieve us in the case of a religious reformer.” H. Lemonnier, “Histoire de France,” ed. E. Lavisse, 5, 2, 1904, p. 230, dealing with French Calvinism.
[1140] See our vol. ii., p. 153 ff.
[1141] In the reply “Auf das chmähbüchlein,” usw., “Werke,” Erl. ed., 25², p. 143, published under Arnold’s name.
[1142] Thus F. Polygranus, O.S.F., in his “Assertiones quorundam ecclesiæ dogmatum,” printed at Cologne in 1571, Bl. 10: “insatiabilis maledicendi libido ... a seculis inauditæ conviciorum voces.”