Calvin did not place his hope in the powers of the world: 'Our wall of brass,' he said, 'is to have God propitious to us. _If God be for us_—that is our only support. There is no power under heaven or above which can withstand his arm, and having him for our defender we need fear no evil.'[457] And yet the blows which Francis I. had warded from the head of the queen were to fall upon Cop and Calvin himself. But before we come to these persecutions, we must follow the king, who, quitting Toulouse and Montpellier, proceeded to Marseilles to meet the pope. [Footnote 426: _Chronique du Roi François I._ p. 98.] [Footnote 427: _Lettres de la Reine de Navarre_, i. p. 88.] [Footnote 428: Castaigne, _Notice sur Marguerite_. Freer, _Life of Marguerite_.] [Footnote 429: 'Prætor stipatus centum apparitoribus gymnasium adit.'— Calvini _Epp._ p. 1.] [Footnote 430: 'Suis jussis domum circumcidere, ne quis elaberetur.' —Ibid.] [Footnote 431: 'Sed cum forte in amici cubiculo esset, tumultum prius exaudisse.'—Calvini _Epp._ p. 1.] [Footnote 432: 'E quibus per occasionem fugeret.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 433: 'Autor sceleris deprehendi non poterat.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 434: 'Dum vult obsistere gymnasiarcha.'—Calvini _Epp._ p. 1.] [Footnote 435: 'Lapides a nonnullis pueris conjecti sunt.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 436: 'Quod pro scena recitassent jussit repetere.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 437: 'Improbatæ religionis.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 438: 'Longa et acerba oratione.'—Calvini _Epp._ p. 1.] [Footnote 439: 'In reginam virtutum omnium et bonarum literarum matrem arma sumere.'—Calvini _Epp._ p. 1.] [Footnote 440: 'Ut dicant Academiam fecisse.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 441: 'Ne se immiscerent tanto discrimini, ne regis iram experiri vellent.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 442: 'Omnium sententia fuit factum abjurandum.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 443: 'Magnificis verbis regis integritatem.'—Calvini _Epp._ p. 1.] [Footnote 444: 'Fidei animosum protectorem.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 445: 'Aliquos sinistros homines.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 446: 'Se quidem fuisse delegatum Academiæ decreto.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 447: 'Fœminam tam sanctis moribus, tam pura religione præditam.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 448: 'Omnes esse culpæ affines, si qua esset, quantumvis abnegarent.'—Calvini _Epp._ p. 1.] [Footnote 449: 'Nisi oblitus esset suæ theologiæ.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 450: Théodore de Bèze, _Hist. Eccl._ p. 9.] [Footnote 451: This letter is the first in the collection published by Theodore Beza, and will be the tenth in that to be published by Dr. Bonnet.] [Footnote 452: 'Omnes cœperunt loqui liberius.'—Bucer to Blaarer. Strasburg MSS.] [Footnote 453: 'Dominus excitet multos isti heroï similes.'—Bucer to Chelius, quoted by Schmidt.] [Footnote 454: 'Quidvis pati pro Christo.'—Sturm to Bucer. Ibid.] [Footnote 455: 'Admiralius adest, qui unice nobis favet.'—Sturm to Bucer, quoted by Schmidt.] [Footnote 456: _Lettres de Jean Calvin_, i. p. 335, edit. J. Bonnet.] [Footnote 457: Calvini _Opp._ passim.]