[_Calvin's Lat. Corresp._ Opera, tom. ix. p. 49.]
[179] Calvin had just published his celebrated treatise of the
_Antidote_, (_Acta Synodi Tridentinæ cum Antidoto_, 1547,) which
he translated into French the year following, with changes fitted
to bring it within the comprehension of the people.--_Opuscules_,
p. 881. In this work the Reformer passes in review the decrees of
the Council of Trent, and refutes them with a merciless logic and a
marvellous eloquence. The Catholic theologian Cochlæus replied to
him by personal attacks, which Des Gallars and Beza undertook to
refute.
[180] See Letter, p. 148.
[181] In testimony of regard for Calvin, the Council adopted the
following decree: "Resolved to present to Calvin all the furniture
that is in his house belonging to the city, 29th December 1547." The
preceding year he had been offered ten crowns as a present, but he
refused them, praying the Council to distribute them among the other
ministers who were poor compared with him, "and even to diminish his
stipend in order to benefit them."