("D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation."- Times of Calvin. Vol. 3:, p. 234.)

We are in the thick of the fight; the conflict is terrible; we are fighting man to man but the Lord giveth the victory. Take up the sword, set the helmet on your head, buckle on the breastplate, hang the shield to your loins, and being thus armed with the panoply of God, rush into the midst of the battle; hurl the darts, throw down the enemy on every side, and put all the army to flight. But, alas! instead of joining the soldiers of Christ, instead of rushing into the Lord's battles, you fear the cross, and the dangers that lie in wait for you. Preferring your own ease, you refuse to come to the assistance of your brethren. Is that the behavior of a Christian …. The holy Scriptures declare that the Lord will exact a severe reckoning for such cowardice . . . Beware lest you bury the talent you have received. Call to mind that you must give an account of all those souls whom tyranny holds captive in its gloomy dungeons. You can set the light before their eyes; you can deliver them from their chains. You must conjure them to throw themselves into the arms of Jesus Christ . . . Do not hesitate . . . Christ must be preferred to every thing. Do not trouble yourself about what your wife wishes or requires, but about what God asks and commands." April, 1531. " Loose him, and let him go." (Jno. 11:)

April, 1531.