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History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, Vol. 5 (of 8)

Note 563 — Chapter VI · IMAGES AND THE MASS ABOLISHED. (8th to 11th August 1535.)

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Psalms cxiv. and cxv. In the Vulgate cxiii.

[564] 'Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths but they speak not; eyes have they but they see not. They that make them are like unto them, so is every one that trusteth in them.'

[565] Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 144.

[566] 'Les marmousets des prêtres.'

[567] M. Guizot.

[568] Sozomenes, vii. 15.

[569] Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 146.

[570] Virgil, Æneid, x. 716.

But otherwise the troops, with hate inspired And just revenge, against the tyrant fired.—Dryden.

[571] Matthew, xxiii. 14.

[572] Froment, Gestes de Genève, pp. 144-146.—Registres du Conseil du 8 Août 1535.

[573] 'Bonæ vetulæ mulieres solebant suos chapelettos, in eas quas credebant ibidem esse sanctas reliquias, demergere.'—Registres du Conseil du 8 Décembre 1535.

[574] Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 149.

[575] 'Duo vasta terrea habebant vaginam seu conductum terreum de uno ad alium; adeo ut vasa, sic sibi respondentia, resonarent ad modum murmuris hominis.'—Registres du Conseil du 8 Août 1535.

[576] Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 150.

[577] Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 152.

[578] Ibid. p. 151.

[579] Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 153. An engraving of this picture is given in the edition of Froment published by M. Revilliod.

[580] Registres du Conseil du 9 Août 1535.

[581] Registres du Conseil du 9 Août 1535.

[582] 'Rabats le haut caquet des prêtres.'

[583] Registres du Conseil du 10 Août 1535.—MSC. Chouet.

[584] Ibid.—Chronique de Roset, iii. ch. xxxvii.

[585] Registres du Conseil, ad annum.

[586] Jeanne de Jussie, Commencement de l'Hérésie dans Genève, pp. 144, 145.—Registres du Conseil des 10 et 12 Août.—Chron. MSC. de Roset.

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