[762]. ‘Pro religionis christianæ defensione præcipue velut in statione perpetuo fuit.’—Ibid. p. 913.
[763]. ‘Suscipit curam sanandæ doctrinæ christianæ; non tamen violentis remediis, sed vera ratione.’—Ibid.
[764]. ‘Ut potius (rex) det operam, ut illustretur gloria Christi.’—Corpus Reform. ii. p. 916.
[765]. ‘Sadoleti scriptum . . . . . eadem dicit quæ nos defendimus.’—Ibid. p. 917.
[766]. See his treatise: De transitu Hellenismi ad Christianismum, dedicated to the king in 1535.
[767]. ‘Hoc studium nulla mihi eripiet hominum iniquitas.’—Corp. Ref.
[768]. ‘Ad publicam christianæ, reipublicæ pacem spectantibus.’ 2d Dec., 1535. Corp. Ref. ii. p. 1015.
[769]. ‘Nunquam in meliori loco fuit res Evangelii, quam sit hoc tempore in Gallia.’ Sturm to Bucer.
[770]. ‘Maximopere obtestantes ut pro virili nobiscum incumbatis in tam pium sanctumque opus.’ Corp. Ref. ii. p. 1010. Seckendorf says (Hist. Luth. p. 1146) that this letter had been sent to the Elector beforehand; but in the documents of the State Paper Office at Weimar we read: ‘Hæc locutus reddidit principi litteras quas vocant credentiales.’ And the Corpus gives in a note the letter we have just quoted.
[771]. ‘Quæ voluntas, quam amica, quam benevola, quam constans.’—Corp. Ref. ii. p. 1010.