. . . it will be well that you
call to mind what the sacred history relates of good King Hezekiah (2 Chron 32.,)
namely, that after he had abolished the superstitions throughout Judea,
reformed the state of the church according to the law of God . . . (John
Calvin, Letter to Edward Seymour (“The Protector Somerset”), October 22, 1548,
in Letters of John Calvin: Selected from the Bonnet Edition with an
Introductory Biographical Sketch [Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust,
1980], 89)
You are aware, Monseigneur, of
what is written concerning the good King Hezekiah, that after having performed
such memorable actions, well for religion and the worship of God and for the
common weal of his country, his heart was lifted up. (John Calvin, Letter to
Edward Seymour (“The Protector Somerset”), February/March 1550, in Letters
of John Calvin: Selected from the Bonnet Edition with an Introductory
Biographical Sketch [Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1980], 115-16)
