For the present, Calvin returned to Du Tillet's. The visits made to Roussel and Lefèvre had taught him a lesson. He comprehended that it was not only souls blindly submissive to Rome that incurred imminent danger; he conceived the liveliest alarm for those minds which floated between the pope and the Word of God, either through weakness or want of light. He saw that as the limit between the two churches was not yet clearly traced, some of those who belonged to Rome were lingering beneath the fresh and verdant shades of the Gospel, while others who ought to belong to the Reformation still wandered beneath the gothic arches of Romish cathedrals and prostrated themselves at the foot of Romish altars. This state of things—possibly approved of by many—Calvin thought dangerous, and his principles going farther, he undertook 'to rebuke freely (as he says) those who yoked with unbelievers, keeping them company in outward idolatry.'[72] [53] Brantôme, _Capitaines illustres_, p. 235. [54] Olhagaray, _Hist. de Foix_, &c. p. 505. [55] Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Heres._ viii. ch. ii. [56] Sainte Marthe, _Oraison funèbre de la Reine de Navarre_. [57] MSS. fol. 2. Schmidt, p. 131. [58] MSS. fol. 89 _a_, 177 _b_.—Ibid. pp. 145, 157. [59] Calvini _Opp._ James iii. 17. [60] 'Ecclesia in pristinam puritatem restituenda propositum ei aperuit, inquiens nihil omnino sani in catholica superesse ecclesia.'—Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Heres._ ii. p. 272. [61] 'Non destruendam sed fulciendam.'—Ibid. [62] 'Vetus illud ædificium planissime esse dejiciendum, et novum instruendum.'—Ibid. [63] 'Ejusdem ruinis sepultum.'—Ibid. [64] Bayle, _Dictionnaire critique_, sub voce. [65] 'Eruditione, pietate, animi generositate nobilissimus.'—Bezæ _Icones_. [66] 'Ut vix illorum manus cruentas effugerit.'—Bezæ _Icones_. [67] 'Futurum augurant.'—Beza, _Vita Calvini_. [68] 'Insigne instrumentum.'—Ibid. [69] 'Cœlestis in Gallia instaurandi regni.'—Ibid. [70] Ne perfervidum hoc ingenium omnia misceret atque everteret.'—Flor. Rémond, ii. p. 272. [71] Freer's _Life of Marguerite_, ii. p. 120. [72] 'Rédarguer librement ceux qui s'accouplant avec les infidèles, leur tenaient compagnie en idolâtrie externe.'—Calvin, _Comm. in 2 ad Cor._, cap. vii. CHAPTER IV. A DRAMATIC REPRESENTATION AT THE COURT OF NAVARRE. (WINTER OF 1533-34.)