From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

emerge upon the world kern princely gates. It is in
closets where, on bended knee, the page of
Scripture is searched with tears and groans for the
way of life, that these move. ments have their
commencement. From the court let us turn to the
people.
We have already narrated the sudden turn of
the tide in Paris in the end of 1533. During the
king's absence at Marseilles the fiery Beda was
recalled from exile. His banishment had but
inflamed his wrath against the Protestants, and he
set to work more vigorously than ever to effect
their suppression, and purge Paris from their
defilement. The preachers were forbidden the
pulpits, and some three hundred Lutherans were
thrown into the Conciergerie. Not content with
these violent proceedings, the Parliament, in the
beginning of 1534, at the instigation of Beda,
passed a law announcing death by burning against
those who should be convicted of holding the new
opinions on the testimony of two witnesses.[9] It
was hard to say on whom this penalty might fall. It
might drag to the stake Margaret's chaplain,
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