Negotiations in reference to the publication of the
_Consensus_--George, Count of Montbeliard.
[GENEVA, _20th July 1549_.]
You ought also to add your judgment to the letter of Bullinger.
The reason which he prefixes for publishing the agreement, has
something or other absurd in it. I fear again that the same
over-scrupulousness will appear in this affair. I shall neglect
nothing, however, which you and Farel think it useful to attempt.
I have written to Paris concerning the Hebrew professor. If one be
procured, he can hardly be present on the day of your assembly, as I
had not fixed upon so short a time, seeing that it would have been
in vain for me to have done so, as two letters had scarcely reached
that place.
Count George de Wurtemberg, brother of Duke Ulrich, is here.[249] We
dined with him yesterday. We had much pious conversation together.
He had said so much to my honour before, that Wendelius was almost
making an ado about it. Plessiacus will give you an account of the
state of France. It is better to talk over our affairs than to write
about them.
[249] George de Wurtemberg, Count of Montbeliard, dispossessed of
his estates by Charles V. He had obtained from the Seigneury of
Berne permission to reside at Arau.
Adieu, most honest brother, together with your wife and little
daughter. May the Lord Jesus ever watch over you all. Salute the
brethren in my name. Excuse me to Renier for not having written
him.--Yours,