[417] Calvin, Preface to the Psalms.

[418] Calvin on 2 Cor. x. 4.

[419] For an account of preceding times, see the History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, vol. iii. bk. xii.

[420] Guicciardini, History of the Wars of Italy, ii. bk. xvi. p. 500.

[421] Guicciardini, Wars of Italy (Despatch of Suardin, ambassador of Mantua, March 15, 1525). Sanuto, Ranke, Deutsche Geschichte, ii. p. 315.

[422] M. Rosseeuw Saint-Hilaire, Hist. d’Espagne, vi. p. 436.

[423] Guicciardini, Wars of Italy, ii. bk. xvi. pp. 510, 511.

[424] Mémoires de Du Bellay, p. 121. Guicciardini, Wars of Italy, ii. bk. xvi. pp. 511, 512.

[425] See History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, vol. iii. bk. xii. ch. xv.

[426] ‘In istum pietatis gradum evasisti, qui vulgo dicitur via crucis.’—Capito, Dedicatory Epistle to the Comm. sur Osée.