The man who regularly lectured to theological students, preached on average five times a week and authored enough material to fill forty-eight enormous volumes could scarcely be expected o show enthusiasm for correspondence. Yet the Complete Works of Calvin include another eleven volumes of his correspondence.
He wrote to kings and princes, reformers and friends, nobility and common man alike. His letters discuss affairs of the State, but also the most mundane problems of everyday life, and through them all is revealed a man of deep pastoral concern, consistent and exemplary evangelistic zeal, with humble sense of the final authority of God and His word.
