Note 428 — Farther details of the arrangements with the Bernese—recall of the refugees—preparation of several works—disagreements with Castalio.

"It was," says Th. de Bèze, "in this year (1543) that those of Sorbonne, with the connivance of the bishops, usurped the authority of making articles of faith on the controverted questions of our time in the matter of religion."—Hist. Eccl. tom. i. p. 33. It was not Viret who replied to that strange pretension of the Sorbonne, but Calvin. The answer of the Reformer, a model of pith and irony, appeared in 1544, under the title, Les Articles de la Sacrée Faculté de Théologie de Paris, avec le Remède contre le Poison.—Recueil des Opuscules, p. 71.