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[157]. Registers of the Council of December 27, 1542.

[158]. Roset, Chron. MS. de Genève, book iv. chap. 61. In the middle ages the name of Jesus took an h (Jhesus or Jehesus). It was represented by the letters J H S, with a mark of abbreviation above them. These three letters were subsequently considered to be the initials of the formula Jesus Hominum Salvator.—Blavignac, Armorial Genevois. Mémoires d’Archéologie, vol. vi. p. 176.

[159]. Roget, L’Eglise et l’Etat, Geneva, 1867, p. 7.

[160]. Cramer, Introduction aux extraits des registres du consistoire. Geneva, 1853, p. 5.

[161]. Calv. Opp. x. p. 21, note 4.

[162]. Ordonnances, &c. Calv. Opp. x. pp. 16, 17, 21, 22, 29, 30.

[163]. Registers of the Council, November 9, 1541.

[164]. ‘Alternis hebdomadibus totis concionabator.’—Beza, Vita Calvini, p. 8. Calvin’s letter to Myconius, Geneva, March 14, 1542. Calv. Opp. xi. p. 337. Ordonnances, edit. of 1561. Bèze-Colladon, Vie française de Calvin, pp. 55, 56.

[165]. ‘Multos ex Gallia et Italia.’—Beza, Vita Calvini, p. 9.