Note 116 — Chapter VI · CALVIN AND HIS DISCIPLES BEGIN THE EVANGELISATION OF FRANCE. (Spring 1534.)
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Théodore de Bèze, Hist. des Eglises ref. i. p. 63.
[117] Lièvre, Hist. des Protestants du Poitou, i. p. 38.
[118] 'Hic Calvino in ecclesiæ navi suæ perversa dogmata prædicare permisit.'—Gallia christiana in loco. See also Lièvre, p. 38.
[119] Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. vii. p. 919.
[120] Ibid.
[121] This family has reckoned, even to our own days, men decided for the Gospel. The interview of Armand-Louis de St. George, Count of Marsay, with Voltaire, in his château of Changins, near Geneva, is well known. Appointed British resident in that city in 1717, he acquired the rights of citizenship (France Protestante, under Saint George). The present head of the family, Count Alexander de St. George, for many years president of the Evangelical Society of Geneva, took an active part in the liberation of the Madiai and in other christian works.
[122] 'Calvinus interim, ferrum sibi in igne esse intelligens.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés, ii. p. 253.
[123] 'Ut miseris papistis oculos aperiendi provinciam susceperint.'—Ibid.
[124] Calvin, Harmonie évangélique.
[125] 'Manducationem quæ a viro illo Dei tradita erat celebrabat.'—Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. ii. p. 252.
[126] Ibid. lib. vii. cap. xii.
[127] Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. vii. cap. xii.
[128] Ibid. cap. xi.
[129] Ibid.
[130] Ibid.
[131] Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. lib. vii. cap. xi.
[132] Ibid. cap. xi.
[133] Crespin, Martyrol. A. Lièvre, Hist. des Protest. du Poitou.
[134] Calvin à l'Eglise de Poitiers, Lettres Françaises, tom. ii. p. 12. See also Lièvre, Hist. des Prot. du Poitou, tom. i. p. 33.
[135] Calvin aux fidèles de Poitiers, Lettres Françaises, i. p. 433.
[136] 'Rasis capitibus sicut sacerdotis Isidis atque Serapidis.'—Hieron. xiii. in Ezech. cap. xliv.
[137] 'Optimis et splendidis sacerdotiis, se protinus abdicat.'—Calvini Opusc. lat. p. 90.
[138] Lettre de Ste Marthe à Calvin, found by Jules Bonnet in the library at Gotha (MSS. no. 404).
[139] Desmay, Vie de Calvin hérésiarque, pp. 48, 49. Levasseur, Annales de Noyon, pp. 1161, 1168. Drelincourt, p. 171. We possess a deed by which Calvin sells to one of the king's mounted sergeants his field of the Tuilerie for the sum of 10 livres tournois.