[727] 'Epargnons les tyrans; abattons leurs repaires.'—Registres du Conseil des 14 Mars et 4 Avril 1536.—Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, pp. 211, 212.—MSC. de Roset, liv. iii. ch. 61.—Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 82. [728] Registres du Conseil du 6 Février.—MSC. de Roset, liv. iii. ch. 62.—From this day the Council minutes are drawn up in French and not in Latin. The old times are succeeded by the new. [729] Mémoires de Pierre-Fleur, p. 146. [730] Guichenon, ii. p. 212.—Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 214.—Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 85.—MSC. de Roset, liv. iii. ch. 61. [731] Costa de Beauregard, _Mémoires de la Maison de Savoie_, pp. 323-327.—Du Bellay, Guichenon, Calvin, _passim_. [732] 'Respect the bear, or fear his cubs.'—Chant de la Guerre de Genève.—Mémoires de Pierre-Fleur, pp. 148-152.—Stettler, _Chronik_, p. 87. [733] 'J'avois tel loysir de me pourmener, que j'empreignis un chemin en la roche, comme si on l'eût fait avec un martel.'—This pathway is well known to all who have visited Chillon. [734] Bonivard MS.—Mémoires d'Archéologie, iv. p. 207.—Mémoires de Pierre-Fleur, p. 153. [735] Bonivard MS.—Mémoires d'Archéologie. iv. p. 207.—Mémoires de Pierre-Fleur, p. 153.—Registres du Conseil du 29 Mars 1536. [736] 'Era divenuto difforme, con un volto tutto coperto da un gran pelo et da lunghi capelli.'—Leti, _Hist. Giverrina_, tom. iii.—Mémoires d'Archéologie, p. 269. [737] Lord Byron, _The Prisoner of Chillon_. [738] Registres du Conseil _ad diem_. CHAPTER XIV. THE PEOPLE OF GENEVA DESIRE TO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL. (MARCH TO JUNE 1536.) An entire people is not converted to God in a body. The pagan religions were identical with the nation; but the Christian Church is distinct from it. Even the Apostolic Church soon extended beyond the narrow limits of the tribe of Judah; it was founded at Jerusalem irrespective of temple, sanhedrim, and Jews, and subsequently was established among all nations unconnected with the state. A prince cannot decree a religion by a cabinet minute; a people cannot elect it by a majority of votes. There is, however, something grand in seeing an assembled nation declare without constraint that they will take the Gospel as the rule of their faith and the source of their life. This is what Geneva was about to do. [Sidenote: EVANGELIZATION BY ORDER.]