The fall of the mass, which dates from the 10th of August, was regarded by the reformed as a sign of victory, and the Genevan Church, adopting this idea, celebrates every century in the month of August (reckoning from 1535) the jubilee of its reformation. After three years of struggles the first victory was gained; but a fourth year was to pass away before the definitive establishment of the Reform. Let us therefore continue our march until May 1536, and even until the arrival of Calvin. [563] Psalms cxiv. and cxv. In the Vulgate cxiii. [564] 'Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths but they speak not; eyes have they but they see not. They that make them are like unto them, so is every one that trusteth in them.' [565] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 144. [566] 'Les marmousets des prêtres.' [567] M. Guizot. [568] Sozomenes, vii. 15. [569] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 146. [570] Virgil, _Æneid_, x. 716. But otherwise the troops, with hate inspired And _just revenge_, against the tyrant _fired_.—Dryden. [571] Matthew, xxiii. 14. [572] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, pp. 144-146.—Registres du Conseil du 8 Août 1535. [573] 'Bonæ vetulæ mulieres solebant suos chapelettos, in eas quas credebant ibidem esse sanctas reliquias, demergere.'—Registres du Conseil du 8 Décembre 1535. [574] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 149. [575] 'Duo vasta terrea habebant vaginam seu conductum terreum de uno ad alium; adeo ut vasa, sic sibi respondentia, resonarent ad modum murmuris hominis.'—Registres du Conseil du 8 Août 1535. [576] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 150. [577] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 152. [578] _Ibid._ p. 151. [579] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 153. An engraving of this picture is given in the edition of Froment published by M. Revilliod. [580] Registres du Conseil du 9 Août 1535. [581] Registres du Conseil du 9 Août 1535. [582] 'Rabats le haut caquet des prêtres.' [583] Registres du Conseil du 10 Août 1535.—MSC. Chouet. [584] _Ibid._—Chronique de Roset, iii. ch. xxxvii. [585] Registres du Conseil, ad annum. [586] Jeanne de Jussie, _Commencement de l'Hérésie dans Genève_, pp. 144, 145.—Registres du Conseil des 10 et 12 Août.—Chron. MSC. de Roset. CHAPTER VII. PRIESTS, MONKS, NUNS, AND VICAR-GENERAL DEPART. (AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1535.) The Reformation protested against the hierarchy. It denied that Christ had given to the Church or to its heads the power of making laws by the fulfilment of which Christians would be justified before God. The Reformation protested against monkery. It denied that a cloistered life could merit salvation and give a piety superior to what the Word of God requires of all Christians; it reproached the monastic discipline with lowering the divine institutions of marriage, government, and labor; and was an occasion of backsliding and unheard-of scandal. [Sidenote: THE MONKS ARE DUMB.]