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English: Part of a letter of John Calvin to Philip Melanchthon. Text can be found at https://archive.org/stream/epistolaeiudici00bindgoog/epistolaeiudici00bindgoog_djvu.txt . First lines here:
illi persuaserat, Caesarem id in animo habere. Interea consulebat Caesaris 
nomine, ut duos aut tres ex vobis Rex ad se accerseret: idque seorsum: 
quo a singulis aliquid per blanditias eliceret, vel quovis modo extorqueret, 
quod ab omnibus non posset simul impetrari.  Pollicebatur Caesar idem 
se facturum. Hic porro finis erat, ut illis quasi praeiudiciis obstructi [?], 
eo minus possetis, quuin ad seriaim disceptationem ventum eset. Nam quia 
frangi nos in recta et simplici causae actione desperant, nullum vident 
melius compendium, quam si Principes habeant obnoxios, et quasi 
vinctam ac alligatam teneant eorum libertatem. Hoc consiliun quum Regi 
placeret, negavit Castellamus, committendos vobis ad disputationem 
Gallos Theologos, nisi bene ante instructi essent ac comparati. Vos 
homines esse in hoc pugnae genere exercitatos: nec tam facile posse
labefactari. Cuvendum esse, ne Rex prodita suorum inscitia, totum regnum 
magno ludibrio exponeret.  Ambitio Hegis fecit ut praevaleret haec 
sententia. Duodecim sunt delecti, qui Meloduni de capitibus controver-
sis disputent: et tandem ad Hhegem referant quid censuerint. Silentium 
iureiurando promiserunt. Sed illis facentibus [?] certo scio, nihil de opprimenda 
veritate acturos, se qualem eunque reformationem quaerere utcunque simulent: 
certo certius est, hoc [?] urum [?] agitare, qualiter, sepulta sanae doctrinae luce,
suam lyramidem [?] stabiliant. Ego Cardinalis Turuonii consilium & Veo [?]
[218 SUPPLEMENTA ANNI 1545] 
fuisse discussum interpretor: ne quem ex nostris incautum ex nihil tale
suspicantem irretirent. Meministi iisdem artibus se tentatum fuisse,
a Langeo. Verum si in Dominum respexerimus, frustra nos adorientur
omnibus machinis. Vale, clarissime vir et amice mihi
semper observande. Dominus tibi semper adsit, diuque Ecclesiae suae incolumem 
te servet. Uxorem tuam ... et uxoris meae nomine ...
salut.. 12. Calendas Februarii 1545. 

loannes Calvinus tuus. 

Si quid ... , ut multa
... possunt, in ...
..., ut quo subsidio opus hab..., ...
... Spondeo tibi ...
...
Deutsch: Ausschnitt aus einem Brief von Johannes Calvin an Philipp Melanchthon (nach Georg Mentz, Handschriften der Reformationszeit, Bonn 1912, Tafel 25).
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