[461] 'Homo doctus, pius, et bonus.'—Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 127. [462] John Hutton (the English agent) to Lord Cromwell, 12th August, 1536.—_State Papers_, vii. p. 665. [463] The present prison is built on the other bank of the river. [464] Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 134. [465] _Ibid._ p. 129. [466] Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 114. [467] Cranmer, _Letters and Remains_ (4th August, 1537), p. 344. [468] Cranmer, _Letters and Remains_, p. 346. [469] Strype, _Cranmer Mem._ p. 91. [470] 'Several poor men ... on Sunday sat reading in the lower end of the Church.'—_Ibid._ [471] Strype, _Cranmer Mem._, p. 92. [472] Tyndale's _Works_, vol. i. pp. 27, 317, 373, 463; vol. ii. pp. 210, 260; vol. iii. p. 26. BOOK IX. REFORMATION OF GENEVA BY FAREL'S MINISTRY, AND ARRIVAL OF CALVIN IN THAT CITY AFTER HIS SOJOURN IN ITALY. CHAPTER I. PROGRESS, STRUGGLES, AND MARTYRS OF THE REFORMATION IN GENEVA. (JANUARY TO JUNE 1535.) The Reformation of Geneva, prepared by the restoration of civil liberty and begun by the reading of the Word of God and the teaching of various evangelists, was about to be definitively carried out by the devout ministry of Froment, Viret, and particularly of Farel. Afterwards Calvin, in accord with the Councils, who never renounced their right of intervention, will strengthen the foundations and organize and crown the edifice. The civil and ecclesiastical powers had (especially since the days of Hildebrand) struggled continually with each other in the different nations of Christendom, and stirred up hatreds, divisions, and wars. A better state of things was to take the place of these perpetual troubles. Church and State were not always to be united even in Geneva; but they would show more moderation in their relations, would more frequently have the same thoughts, and would advance hand in hand towards a mutual independence, which would not, however, estrange them from each other. [Sidenote: IS LIBERTY A BLESSING?]