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History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin. Vol. 2 (of 8)

Note 712 — Chapter II · THE GOSPEL AT GENEVA, AND THE SACK OF ROME. (January to June 1527.)

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Acts i. 15; vi. 5; xv.

[713] See above, vol. i. p. 371.

[714] 'Nunc vero cum te Gebennæ reipublicæ gratia abesse constat ... reficiemur. Utilitatem autem non vulgarem recens factis civibus per te comparari.'—Zwingle to Thomas ab Hofen, 4 Jan. 1527. Epp. ii. p. 9.

[715] 1 Peter ii. 9.

[716] 'Hic Genevæ numerus Evangelii doctrinam confitentium augeri incipiat.'—Ab Hofen to Zwingle, January 17, 1527. Zwinglii Epp. ii. p. 15.

[717] 'You shall receive a hundredfold, and shall possess everlasting life.'

[718] 'Clerici queruntur homines neque amplius sacra dona præbere velle, neque tam vehementer ad indulgentias currere.'—Ab Hofen to Zwingle. Zwinglii Epp. ii. p. 16.

[719] 'Quousque meæ vires valeant, in ea re nequaquam me defecturum esse.'—Ab Hofen to Zwingle. Zwinglii Epp. ii. p. 15.

[720] 'In mediis reipublicæ negotiis, Christi negotiorum minime sis negligens.'—Zwinglii Epp. ii. p. 9.

[721] 'Optime de Gebennæ civibus merebere, si non tantum leges eorum ac jura, quantum animos componas.'—Ibid. p. 10.

[722] 'Animos autem quid melius componet, quam ejus sermo atque doctrina qui animos ipse formavit?'—Ibid.

[723] 'Hæ enim ubi crescunt, tyrannorum audacia coerceretur.'—Ibid.

[724] 'Non quasi torpentem sim expergefacturus; sed currentem adhortor.'—Zwinglii Epp. ii. p. 10.

[725] 'In hac urbe clerici sunt ad 700, qui manibus pedibusque impediunt, quominus Evangelii doctrina efflorescat.'—Zwinglii Epp. ii. p. 10.

[726] 'Si prædicatores haberent, fore puto ut pontificia doctrina labefactetur.'—Ibid.

[727] 1 Cor. i. 27.

[728] Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 461.

[729] 'Ne sont-ce pas nos écus qui font bouillir le pot de l'évêque?'

[730] 'Querelaverunt de putanis et certis religiosis qui ibidem affluunt.'—Registres du Conseil du 10 mai 1527.

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