'It was God's will,' said Froment, 'to avoid bloodshed, and He ordained it accordingly.'[689]
[656] Froment, Gestes, p. 51.
[657] 'The standards of the king go forth.'—Rambach, Anthologie christliche Gesänge, i. 104. The use Dante made of the first line of this hymn is well known:
Vexilla Regis prodeunt Inferni.—Inferno, xxxiv. 1.
[658] La Sœur J. de Jussie, Le Levain du Calvinisme, p. 53.
[659] Ibid. Froment, Gestes, &c. p. 51.
[660] Council Registers, ad diem.—Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 51. Gautier MS.
[661] La Sœur J. de Jussie, Le Levain du Calvinisme, p. 51. The number is probably exaggerated.
[662] Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 52.—La Sœur J. de Jussie, Le Levain du Calvinisme, p. 53.—Roset MS., liv. ii. ch. viii.
[663] La Sœur J. de Jussie, Le Levain, &c. p. 53.