[106] Lang, Die Bekehrung Johannes Calvins (1897); Doumergue, Jean Calvin, etc. i. 344, ff.; Müller, “Calvins Bekehrung” (Nachrichten der Gött. Gel. for 1905, pp. 206 ff.); Wernle, “Noch einmal die Bekehrung Calvins” (Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, xxvii. 84 ff. (1906)).
[107] For the history of this Discourse written by Calvin and pronounced by Cop, see E. Doumergue, Jean Calvin; Les hommes et les choses de son temps (Lausanne, 1899), i. 331 ff.; A. Lang, Die Bekehrung J. Calvins (Leipzig, 1897), p. 46. ff. For accounts of the attempts to arrest Nicolas Cop and Calvin, see the letter of Francis I. to the Parlement of Paris in Herminjard, Correspondance, etc. iii. 114-118, and the editor’s notes, also p. 418.
[108] “Magister Gulielmus Farellus proponit sicuti sit necessaria illa lectura quam initiavit ille Gallus in Sancto Petro. Supplicat advideri de illo retinendo et sibi alimentando. Super quo fuit advisum quod advideatur de ipsum substinendo” (Herminjard, Correspondance, etc. iv. 87 n.).
[109] For the Disputation at Lausanne, see Herminjard, Correspondance, etc. iv. 86 f. (Letter from Calvin to F. Daniel, Oct. 13th, 1536); Corpus Reformatorum, xxxvii. p. 876 f.; Ruchat, Histoire de la Réformation de la Suisse, vol. iv.; Doumergue, Jean Calvin, ii. 214 f.
[110] The ten Theses are printed in the Corpus Reformatorum, xxxvii. 701.
[111] Their names were Jean Mimard, regent of the school in Vevey; Jacques Drogy, vicar of Morges; Jean Michod, dean of Vevey; Jean Berilly, vicar of Prévessin; and a Dominican monk, de Monbouson.
[112] Corpus Reformatorum, xxxvii. 879-81.
[113] Wherever Farel went he had instituted what was called the “congregation”: once a week in church, members of the audience were invited to ask questions, which the preacher answered. These “congregations” were an institution all over Romance Switzerland. The custom prevailed in Geneva when Calvin came there, and it was continued.
[114] Bonnet, Lettres françaises de Calvin, ii. 574.
[115] “Il seroyt bien à désirer que la communication de la Saincte Cène de Jésucrist fust tous les dimenches pour le moins en usage, quant l’Église est assemblée en multitude” (Corpus Reformatorum, xxxviii. i. 7); cf. the first edition of the Institutio (1536): “Singulis, ad minimum, hebdomadibus proponenda erat christianorum cœtui mensa Domini.”