To conclude, knowing that all my exhortations must be vain and useless, unless God make them effectual by gaining an entrance to your heart, I shall beseech him to instruct you with true prudence to decide upon what shall be most fitting for you to do; to bestow steadfast constancy upon you in obeying his will; to stretch out the hand, and be himself your guide; to grant you such grace, that in leaning upon him, you may perceive his assistance in everything, and all throughout.
Your servant and humble brother,
Charles D'Espeville.
[Fr. orig. autogr.—Library of Geneva. Vol. 107.]
CLXXXIV.—To the Avoyer Nœguely.[100]
Complaints of the misconduct of several ministers in the Pays de Vaud.
From Lausanne, this 12th January 1547.