In a letter to Landgrave Philip of Hesse, Martin Bucer said, “On our side [i.e., the Reformers’] some of us have come, in the heat of the struggle, to make constant imputations against our adversaries of which they know themselves not guilty, and of which we shall never be able to convict them.”
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