Response aux cinq premieres et principales demandes de F. Jean Hay, moine jesuite, aux ministres escossois

sent: I ask by what authority a Master John Knox and such other apostate Priests and renegade Monks have usurped this office? And let them show us the letters patent of their authentic commission, as is necessary in a case of such great importance.

They have none other than arms, fire, and blood, as it is said of Muhammad in his Alcoran, of Arius, and of Luther. That is why Bèze writes to the Queen of England in the epistle of his last annotations on the New Testament: That the foundation of their religion was laid at the battle of Dreux. And to Gaspar de Coligny he says that he planted the faith at the point of the sword and the pistol, and one of their mottos is, "Non veni pacem mittere, sed gladium" original: "I came not to bring peace, but a sword".

There are no (says Calvin in his Harmony on St. Luke, chap. 3, § 2) true Doctors except those to whom God has given the charge to teach, and it does not suffice that a man has the word of God if he does not have, at the same time, a special vocation in his regard. And at the beginning of the 1st sermon on the 1st chapter of the 1st to Timothy, St. Paul, he says, by calling himself an Apostle, wanted to declare that men indifferently should not be listened to, unless they have approval that they speak in the name of God and of Jesus Christ.