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they hope in quieter times to arrange those more serious questions,
which turned on really important points of doctrine?”
ft886 For a description of the character of Moritz, see Ranke, Deutsche
Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation, vol. V. 160 sqq. (6th ed.
1881).
ft887 The holy coat is still at Treves, and was worshipped by many
thousands of devout pilgrims in the year of our Lord 1891!
ft888 Bulaeus, Historia Univ. Paris., VI. 384, and the French text in Opera,
vol, VII., Proleg., pp. ix-xii.
ft889 “ ‘Hoc facite.’ Facere autem est sacrificare, justa illud Vergilii:
Quum faciam vitulâpro frugibus, ipse venito.’ “ (Verg.E. III. 77.)
ft890 This refers to the mediaeval legend which has found its way into
Dante’s Divina Comedia (Purg. X. 75; Par. XX. 109-111), that the
Emperor Trajan, nearly five hundred years after his death, was
disinterred, and his soul translated from hell to heaven by the prayers of
Pope Gregory I., who had learned that he was a just emperor, although
he persecuted the Christians. But the pope was punished for his interest
in a heathen, and warned by an angel never to make a similar request.
Trajan is the only pagan in Dante’s Paradise.
ft891 Bonnet (I. 418, note) conjectures that it was Louis du Chemin, or
Francois Daniel.
ft892 Opera, XII. 61.
ft893 Opera, VI. 617-644.
ft894 On Bullinger’s views see above, pp. 210 sq., and Schweizer, I. 225,
255 sqq.
ft895 Beza: “Senatus ... illum tum ut seditiosum, tum ut mere Pelagianum
XXIII. Dec. publice damnatum urbe expulit, fustuariam poenam
minatus, si vel in urbe vel in urbis territorio esset deprehensus.” Reg.
of the Ven. Comp. in Annal. 498: “M e Ierosme fut banni àson de
trompe des terres de Genève.”
ft896 According to Beza, Bolsec forsook his wife and allowed her to
become a prostitute to the canons of Autun.
ft897 Bayle said in his day: “Bolsec seroit un homme tout-à-fait plongédans
les ténèbres de l’oubli, s’il ne s’était rendu fameux par certains
ouvrages satiriques [meaning his attacks on Calvin and Beza], que les