Note 151 — CCII.—To the Faithful of France.[151]
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Entitled: To our very dear lords and brethren who desire the advancement of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.
During the period that the Reformation was for a while overcome in Germany, and that it had to sustain the rudest conflicts in order to its establishment at Geneva, the most alarming reports were spread among the French Protestants, and carried discouragement and dismay into their ranks. Calvin, addressing his brethren from the midst of the struggle in which he was engaged against the party of the Libertins, reassured and comforted them by his letters, and exhorted them to place their entire confidence in God.