It is not in vain that he banishes all those human affections which soften our hearts; that he commands paternal love and all the benevolent feelings between brothers, relations, and friends to cease; in a word, that he almost deprives men of their nature in order that nothing may hinder their holy zeal.
— John Calvin Early Modern

Protestant reformer

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Prefatory Address in his Institutes to Francis, King of the French, 1536, regarding the duty of magistrates in enforcing religious law.

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1536

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