Note 272 — Chapter XXIII · THE GOSPEL PREACHED AT THE LOUVRE AND IN THE METROPOLITAN CHURCHES. (Lent 1533.)
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'Bacchanalia factis multis regiis conviviis.'—Siderander Bedroto, Strasburg MSS. ed. Schmidt.
[273] 'Exigit invictum fidei robur.'—Roussel to Œcolampadius, Ep. Ref. Helvet. p. 20.
[274] 'Adversus totum inferorum regnum, a dexteris et a sinistris.'—Ibid.
[275] 'Nihil minus in me sentiam quam quod ad evangelicum dispensatorem et ministrum attinet.'—Ibid.
[276] 'Quisque erat clamosissimus et stolido furore præditus.'—Calvinus Danieli, Epp. p. 3. Genève, 1575.
[277] 'Vix enim locus inveniebatur qui satis capax esset.'—Letter dated Paris, May 28, 1533, by Peter Siderander. Strasburg MSS. Schmidt, G. Roussel, p. 201.
[278] 'Adeo ut ter mutare locum coactus sit.'—Ibid.
[279] 'Concionatus est autem quotidie per totam hanc quadragesimam.'—Ibid.
[280] 'Ut nulla fere concio facta fuerit quin hominum quatuor vel quinque millia adfuerint.'—Siderander, Strasburg MSS.
[281] Schmidt, G. Roussel, p. 85.
[282] See Sturm to Montluc, June 17, 1562.
[283] 'Gerardus libere docet Evangelium in ipsa Lutetia ... in aula reginæ Navarræ magna animi constantia.'—Melanchthon, Corp. Ref. ii. p. 658.
[284] 'Hæc certa sunt et mihi, ex Parisiis, ab optimis viris diligenter perscripta.'—Ibid.
[285] Negotiations of Smalcald, Aug. 1531.
[286] 'Allatum est regium diploma quo parisiensi episcopo permittitur præficere quos velit singulis parochiis concionatores.'—Calvini Epp. p. 3.
[287] Théod. de Bèze, Hist. des Eglises Réformées, i. p. 9.
[288] 'Qui inter bonos postremus non erat.'—Calvini Epp. p. 3.
[289] 'In specula nostra, donec appareat quod nunc absconditum est.'—Ibid.
[290] Théod. de Bèze, Hist. des Eglises Réformées, i. p. 9.
[291] Correspondance de Calvin et Du Tillet, p. 78.
[292] Matthew, xxiv. 40.
[293] 'Turba illa scribarum et pharisæorum.'—Strasburg MSS.
[294] 'Non facile contra regem temere ausi sunt certamen suscipere.'—Ibid.
[295] 'Hic aperte eos illusit.'—Sturm to Bucer, ed. Strobel, p. 106.
[296] Isti Thersitæ . . . hi qui possunt nollent, et qui cuperent non auderent adesse.'—Ibid.
[297] One of the stalls in a church at Toulouse represents a similar scene, with these words: Calvin the pig preaching.
[298] Labitte, Démocratie des Prédicateurs de la Ligue, p. 3.
[299] H. de Coste, Le parfait Ecclésiastique, ou Histoire de Le Picard, 12mo, Paris, 1658.
[300] 'Beda sollicitabat suos oratores ut ne cessarent in suis demegoriis concitare populum.'—Sturm to Bucer. Strasburg MSS.
[301] 'Populum stimulare ne hæresim hanc pestilentissimam radices agere pateretur.'—Siderander Bedroto. Ibid.
[302] 'Ad extremum populus etiam mussitare et minari cœpit.'—Sturm to Bucer.
[303] Typographi in suis pægmatis scriptura et pictura et ludo scenico læserunt reginam.'—Ibid. The Moralité de la Maladie de la Chrétienté, 8vo, appeared at Paris this very year (1533). The learned biographer of Roussel and of Sturm supposes, very reasonably as it appears to me, that this is the ludus scenicus, the play of which Sturm speaks.
[304] 'Omnino res cœpit esse θορυβώδης.'—Sturm to Bucer.
[305] 'En rondeur de conscience.'—Calv. Opusc.
[306] Calvin, in Acta xix.