Note 4 — PREFACE.
Reading edition
It is the collection intitled:—Calvini Epistolæ et Responsa quibus interjectæ sunt insignium in Ecclesia Dei virorun aliquot etiam Epistolæ, first published at Geneva, in 1575, reprinted in the following year at Lausanne, and inserted with some additions in the collection of Calvin's Works, Calvini Opera, tom. ix., edit. d'Amsterdam, 1671. This latter edition, one of the sources of the work which we now present to the public, comprises about 420 letters or memoirs, of which 284 are letters of the Reformer.