'Geneva received her deliverers with great delight,' says an eye-witness, 'and replied to their songs with cries of joy.'[722] The barbarous captain, sent against the huguenots to destroy them, had disappeared; the wild beast, after a roar, had returned hastily to his den. Their goods, their liberty, their faith, their lives were saved. Excited by this great deliverance, the Genevans were not satisfied merely with expressing their gratitude to the Bernese, but looked higher. They knew that a Supreme Power, an Infinite Love, holds the affairs of this world in His hands. It was that faith which was to make the little city grow, and they wished to give expression to it. The council being assembled, they resolved to enrol in the annals of the republic a testimony of their gratitude, and ordered these words to be written: '_The power of God has confounded the presumption and rash audacity of our enemies._'[723] Froment, too, an eye-witness of these things, wrote in his _Gestes Merveilleux_ the following simple and touching words: '_In the year 1536, and in the month of February, Geneva was delivered from her enemies by the providence of God._'[724] [696] Hieronymo Soranzo, _Relazione di Roma_.—Ripenmonte, _Historiæ urbis Mediolani_.—Ranke, _Römische Päpste_. [697] 'Die Soldaten, darunter 4,000 Italiäner.'—Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 82. [698] Beauregard, _Mémoire sur la maison de Savoie_, tom. i. p. 324.—Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 207.—C. Zwick to B. Haller, le 12 Janvier 1536. [699] Veluti numine quodam instinctus.'—Sulzer to Bullinger, le 11 Février 1536. [700] Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 78.—Lettre de Porral.—Mémoire de Pierre-Fleur, p. 140. [701] 'Die armen, verlassen, Christlichen Mitbrüder zu Genf.'— Kirchofer's _Haller_, p. 231. [702] Werner Steiner, _Sammlung_.—_Le Chroniqueur_, p. 202.—Pierre-Fleur, p. 143.—Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 81. [703] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 208. [704] 2 Kings ch. vii. [705] Letter from the bishop of Lausanne to the bailiff of Vevey.—Stettler, _Chronik_.—Mémoires de Pierre-Fleur, p. 145. [706] Mémoires de Du Bellay, liv. v. p. 239. [707] _Ibid._ p. 240. [708] Mémoires de Du Bellay, liv. v. p. 240. [709] Echelle. [710] Mémoires de Du Bellay, liv. v. p. 240. [711] 'Ihre Feinde unerschrocken anzugreifen.'—Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 82. [712] Chron. MSC. de Roset, liv. iii. ch. 59.—Savion, iii. p. 175.—Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 82. [713] 'En bataillant de l'épée à deux pieds.'—Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 209.—Registres du Conseil du 30 Janvier 1536.—Chron. MSC. de Roset, liv. iii. ch. 59 and 60. [714] 2 Kings ch. xix. [715] 'Verstaubt mit solchem Schrecken.'—Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 512. [716] Manuscript archives of the family of Gingins. [717] Life of Guibert de Nogent.—Collection des Mémoires de M. Guizot, tom. ix. p. 346. [718] Manuscript archives of the Gingins family. [719] Registres du Conseil du 2 Février 1536.—Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 82.