Note 339 — LXXXVI.—To Farel.[338]
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Two years before, he had a keen religious dispute with the minister Henri de la Mare, and James Bernard had supported his colleague. De la Mare upheld that the magistrate should not punish sins; that no one can have assurance of his election; that no one could go more gladly to his wedding than Jesus went to death. Amy Porral pronounced these opinions to be false and dangerous.—Arch. de Genève, Savion, c. 45. This dispute degenerating into a quarrel, had embroiled the two ministers with the magistrate.