[_Calvin's Lat. Corresp._ Opera, tom. ix. p. 75.]
[463] While giving an energetic deliverance against the errors of
Servetus, the ministers of Zurich had paid, in their reply to the
Seigneurie of Geneva, a very beautiful tribute to Calvin:--"We trust
that the faith and zeal--in a word, the distinguished services among
the exiles and the pious--of our brother, your pastor, Calvin, is
too illustrious to be obscured by such very disgraceful calumnies,
whether in the estimation of your honourable Council, or in that of
other good men."--_Calv. Opera_, tom. ix. p. 74.