While conceding something to the times in which the placard was written and posted up, we may ask whether that act proceeded solely from a movement of the mind free from every tinge of human passion, and was one of the arms that the apostles would have employed. In any case it seems to us certain that more moderate language would really have been stronger, and more surely have attained its end. This is what the event will show.
[198] Crespin, Martyrol. fol. 3. Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. viii. ch. v.
[199] Ruchat, Hist. Réf. Suisse, tom. iii. p. 132, after a MS. journal of Jean le Comte.
[200] Chap. vii. 5.
[201] Crespin, Martyrol. fol. III.
[202] Ibid.
[203] Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. liv. vii. chap. v. In the Latin edition we read: 'Famoso libello a Farello, ut creditur, composito.'—p. 228.
[204] This is the date given in the Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 440. Fontaine, in his Histoire Catholique, gives the 18th October.
[205] Calvin, passim.
[206] 'Sursum Dominus est.'—Aug. Ep. ad Dardanum.