[_Calvin's Lat. Corresp._ Opera, tom. ix. p. 49.]
[238] War prevailed at that time between France and England, with
Artois and Scotland for its theatre. Peace was concluded only the
year following (May 1550).--De Thou, tom. vi.
[239] In allusion to the Emperor, who saw his power increase by
the weakness of the English and French monarchs, who were equally
interested in opposing his supremacy on the Continent.
[240] Doubtless one of the ministers of the Church of Berne.
[241] Nicolas Amsdorf, a learned German minister, exaggerated
the Lutheran doctrine regarding Works and the Supper, and wrote
a book, in which he endeavoured to prove that good works are
hurtful to salvation,--_Bona opera sunt ad salutem noxia et
perniciosa._--McIchior Adam, pp. 69, 70
[242] The common formulary, doubtless, on the Supper, compiled by
Calvin, which the theologians of Zurich and Geneva were led to adopt.
[243] While Schaffhausen, Basle, and Bienne acceded to the French
alliance, Zurich and Berne haughtily refused to be the allies of a
monarch who was the persecutor of the churches of France. Moved by
the eloquence of Bullinger, the Seigneury of Zurich declared that
it would lean upon God alone, and dispense with the alliance of the
king.--_Hist. de la Suisse_, tom. xi. p. 308.