The Necessity of Reforming the Church
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Presented to Imperial Diet at Spires, AD 1544,
in the name of all who wish Christ to reign.
HISTORICAL NOTE
At the request of Bucer Calvin utilized the occasion of the fourth Diet of
Speyer assembled by Charles V in February, 1544, to address to the
Emperor a "Supplicatory Remonstrance" in reference to a General Council of the
Church after the manner of the Early Church. It was also a powerful
jutification of the Reformation, and it met with considerable success in its
impact upon the Diet and in confirming the Emperor in his tolerance toward the
movement for reform.