What became of Calvin during all this uproar? 'What is this madness,' he said on a later occasion, 'which impels the pope and his bishops, the priests and the friars, to resist the Gospel with such obstinate rebellion?... The servants of God must be furnished with invincible constancy in order to sustain without alarm the commotions of the people. We are sailing on a sea exposed to many tempests; but nothing ought to turn us aside from doing our duty conscientiously.[305] The Lord consoles and strengthens his servants when they are thus agitated.... He has in his hand the management of every whirlwind and of every storm, and appeases them whenever it seems good to him.... We shall be roughly handled, but he will not suffer us to be drowned.'[306] [Footnote 272: 'Bacchanalia factis multis regiis conviviis.'—Siderander Bedroto, Strasburg MSS. ed. Schmidt.] [Footnote 273: 'Exigit invictum fidei robur.'—Roussel to Œcolampadius, _Ep. Ref. Helvet._ p. 20.] [Footnote 274: 'Adversus totum inferorum regnum, a dexteris et a sinistris.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 275: 'Nihil minus in me sentiam quam quod ad evangelicum dispensatorem et ministrum attinet.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 276: 'Quisque erat clamosissimus et stolido furore præditus.'— Calvinus Danieli, _Epp._ p. 3. Genève, 1575.] [Footnote 277: 'Vix enim locus inveniebatur qui satis capax esset.'— Letter dated Paris, May 28, 1533, by Peter Siderander. Strasburg MSS. Schmidt, _G. Roussel_, p. 201.] [Footnote 278: 'Adeo ut ter mutare locum coactus sit.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 279: 'Concionatus est autem quotidie per totam hanc quadragesimam.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 280: 'Ut nulla fere concio facta fuerit quin hominum quatuor vel quinque millia adfuerint.'—Siderander, Strasburg MSS.] [Footnote 281: Schmidt, _G. Roussel_, p. 85.] [Footnote 282: See Sturm to Montluc, June 17, 1562.] [Footnote 283: 'Gerardus libere docet Evangelium in ipsa Lutetia ... in aula reginæ Navarræ magna animi constantia.'—Melanchthon, _Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 658.] [Footnote 284: 'Hæc certa sunt et mihi, ex Parisiis, ab optimis viris diligenter perscripta.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 285: Negotiations of Smalcald, Aug. 1531.] [Footnote 286: 'Allatum est regium diploma quo parisiensi episcopo permittitur præficere quos velit singulis parochiis concionatores.'— Calvini _Epp._ p. 3.] [Footnote 287: Théod. de Bèze, _Hist. des Eglises Réformées_, i. p. 9.] [Footnote 288: 'Qui inter bonos postremus non erat.'— Calvini _Epp._ p. 3.] [Footnote 289: 'In specula nostra, donec appareat quod nunc absconditum est.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 290: Théod. de Bèze, _Hist. des Eglises Réformées_, i. p. 9.] [Footnote 291: _Correspondance de Calvin et Du Tillet_, p. 78.] [Footnote 292: Matthew, xxiv. 40.] [Footnote 293: 'Turba illa scribarum et pharisæorum.'—Strasburg MSS.] [Footnote 294: 'Non facile contra regem temere ausi sunt certamen suscipere.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 295: 'Hic aperte eos illusit.'—Sturm to Bucer, ed. Strobel, p. 106.]