Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church...

Dr. Jules Bonnet, ed., Letters of John Calvin, 2 vols., (Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co.), vol.II, 1857, pp.361-362, letter No. CCCIV

Where there is so much division and separation as we now see, it is indeed no easy matter to still the troubled waters, and bring about composure... You will s…