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I need a book in which John Calvin said: " a dog barks when his master is attacked....?

Dave In Schaff's history of the Christian Church, he gives this quote, and says it was written to the Queen of Navarre.

Here is the footnote: "This charact…moreIn Schaff's history of the Christian Church, he gives this quote, and says it was written to the Queen of Navarre.

Here is the footnote: "This characteristic expression he uses repeatedly; for instance, in the work on the Necessity of Reforming the Church, in Opera, VI. 503: "Canis, si quam suo domino violentiam inferri viderit, protinus latrabit: nos tot sacrilegiis violari sacrum Dei nomen taciti aspiceremus? Et ubi esset illud: Opprobria exprobantium tibi ceciderunt super me (Ps. 69:9)?" And, again in the same book (fol. 507), with the addition, that a dog would rather risk his life than be silent."(less)

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