[Footnote 791: Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. p. 507. Gautier MS.] [Footnote 792: Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. p. 517.] [Footnote 793: _Mém. d'Archéologie_, iii. p. 201.] [Footnote 794: Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. p. 522.] [Footnote 795: _Journal de Balard._ _Mém. d'Archéologie_, x. p. 189.] [Footnote 796: July and December 1862, between radicals and liberals.] [Footnote 797: 'A belles épées nues on fourgonna dessous, et le malheureux qui y était caché reçut un coup d'estoc.'] [Footnote 798: Registres du Conseil _ad annum_. Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. pp. 520-525. Spon, _Hist. de Genève_, i. p. 425. Savyon MS. Balard, _Mém. d'Archéologie_, x. p. 189. _Le Levain du Calvinisme ou Commencement de l'Hérésie de Genève_, par Révérende Sœur Jeanne de Jussie, publié en 1853, par M. G. Revilliod, p. 11.] [Footnote 799: Registres du Conseil des 2, 3 et 6 janvier 1529. _Journal de Balard_, p. 189. Spon, _Hist. de Genève_, ii. pp. 422-426. Gautier MS.] [Footnote 800: Registres du Conseil du 25 mars 1529. _Journal de Balard_, pp. 216, 219, 221, 222. Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. p. 533. La Sœur de Jussie, p. 6.] CHAPTER IX. THE REFORMATION BEGINS TO FERMENT IN GENEVA, AND THE OPPOSITION WITHOUT. (APRIL 1529 TO JANUARY 1530.) [Sidenote: SUPERSTITIONS IN GENEVA.] While the men of the old times were taking fright and retreating, the men of the new times were taking courage and advancing. They sat down at the firesides of the burgesses of Geneva, and, leading the way to religious conversation, gradually scattered new ideas in the city and new seed in men's hearts. Of these _Lutherans_, as they were called, some were Genevans, others Bernese; and the witty Bonivard occasionally joined in this familiar talk. Some of them, truly pious men, told their listeners that they ought to look for salvation to the cross alone, and that, just as the sun transforms the earth and causes it to produce fruit, so the light of the Gospel would transform their hearts and lead them to perform new works. Others, who were sarcastic and simply negative men, confined themselves to pointing out the abuses of Rome and of its clergy. They said openly what hitherto they had dared to utter only in secret. If they saw a cordelier passing, with ruddy face, long beard, brown frock, and disgusting aspect, they pointed at him and said: 'These monks creep not only into the consciences of the citizens, but into their houses, and defile the city by their scandals and adultery.[801] Our grated windows and bolted doors can hardly keep out their unbridled vices, and protect the chastity of our wives and daughters.[802] God has given them up to the lusts of their hearts.'