Calvin did not place his hope in the powers of the world: 'Our wall of brass,' he said, 'is to have God propitious to us. If God be for us—that is our only support. There is no power under heaven or above which can withstand his arm, and having him for our defender we need fear no evil.'[457] And yet the blows which Francis I. had warded from the head of the queen were to fall upon Cop and Calvin himself. But before we come to these persecutions, we must follow the king, who, quitting Toulouse and Montpellier, proceeded to Marseilles to meet the pope.
[426] Chronique du Roi François I. p. 98.
[427] Lettres de la Reine de Navarre, i. p. 88.
[428] Castaigne, Notice sur Marguerite. Freer, Life of Marguerite.
[429] 'Prætor stipatus centum apparitoribus gymnasium adit.'—Calvini Epp. p. 1.
[430] 'Suis jussis domum circumcidere, ne quis elaberetur.'—Ibid.
[431] 'Sed cum forte in amici cubiculo esset, tumultum prius exaudisse.'—Calvini Epp. p. 1.
[432] 'E quibus per occasionem fugeret.'—Ibid.
[433] 'Autor sceleris deprehendi non poterat.'—Ibid.
[434] 'Dum vult obsistere gymnasiarcha.'—Calvini Epp. p. 1.