Your ambassador will give you a fuller and more perfect account of affairs in France than I can compress in a letter. I wish they were of such a kind as it would give you pleasure to hear; but there is nothing except sad news daily. Although he was ordered to abstain from all the abominations of the Papacy, he could not avoid observing a disgraceful profanation of the sacred ordinance of baptism.
Adieu, illustrious sir, and highly to be revered brother in the Lord. You will respectfully salute in my name Masters Pelliean, Bibliander, Walter, and the other fellow-ministers and masters of the school. May the Lord Jesus guide you by his own Spirit, bless your pious labours, and preserve you safe.
All my colleagues also reverently salute you. To your wife and family the best greeting.—Yours,
John Calvin.
[Lat. orig. autogr.—Arch. of Zurich. Gallicana Scripta, p. 8.]
CCXIX.—To Monsieur de Falais.
Obstacles to his departure—delay of some months.
The 3d of April (1548.[191])