[639] Calvin, Comment. sur Saint Matthieu, xxiii. 24.
[640] Registers of Councils, April 2. Chron. MS. de Rozet, book iv. ch. 18.
[641] ‘Pro retinendo nostro ministerio non minus laboravimus quam si de capitibus nostris certamen fuisset.’—Calvin to the Pastors of Zurich. Prid. Cal. Jun.
[642] ‘Multo facilius tum fuisset, labanti ecclesiæ subvenire, quam penitus perditam restituere.’—Calvin to the Pastors of Zurich.
[643] Eoque rem perducunt, frustra sese Calvino, cum ejusdem sententiæ collegis, ad reddendam omnium rationem offerente.’—Beza, Vita Calvini.
[644] Corneille and Bossuet.
[645] Bèze-Colladon, Vie de Calvin, p. 35. Beza says the same thing in his Latin Life: Majore parte meliorem superante.
[646] Rozet, Chron. MS. de Genève, book iv, ch, 18. Registers, April 23.
[647] Registers, Ibid.
[648] Registers, Beza’s Latin Life of Calvin, the French Life, Rozet in his Chronicles, subsequently the syndic Gautier in his History, all report this answer with unimportant variations.