[_Lat. orig. autogr._--_Library of Geneva._ Vol. 106.]
[160] The magistrates of Strasbourg united themselves to Protestant
princes of Germany to intercede in common with Francis I. in favour
of his cruelly persecuted Protestant subjects.
[161] Sulzer, minister of the Church of Berne. At a later period he
was pastor of the Church of Basle.
[162] Cardinal Sadolet, Bishop of Carpentras, informed of the
troubles of Geneva, had written to the magistrates of that town
exhorting them to return to the communion of the Roman Church.
Calvin wrote a reply to Sadolet, and that letter, dated from
Strasbourg, 1st September 1539, is one of the most remarkable
monuments of the Reformer's genius. See _Calv. Opera_, edit.
d'Amsterdam, tom. viii.; and the _Recueil des Opuscules_, p. 145.