Calvin to Bucer, October 15, 1541. _Opp._ xi. p. 299.
Calvin to Bucer, Oct. 15, 1541.—_Opp._ xi. p. 299.
In a letter to some anonymous correspondent Calvin speaks of about twenty days. ‘Intra viginti dies formulam composuimus.’ This passage cannot invalidate the other account, and is not far from agreeing with it.
Calvin to Bucer, October 15, 1541. Registers of September 29.
Registers, October 25 and 27; November 9 and 20, 1541; and January 2, 1542. Roset, Chron. MS. book iv. ch. 50. Beza, _Vita Calvini_, p. 8. Gautier, book vi. p. 485. Calv. _Opp._ x. p. 15; xi. p. 379.
Calv. _Opp._ x. 15-30. Scheme of ecclesiastical ordinances. This introduction (p. 16) is found at the head of the ordinances in the Registers of the Venerable Company of Pastors, to which they were officially communicated.
Memoir sent to the Council of Constance. See also _Pici Mirandulæ ad Leonem P. M. de Reformandis Moribus_.
_Institution de la Religion Chrétienne_, book iii. ch. 6.
_Ordonnances ecclésiastiques._—Calv. _Opp._ x. p. 17.
_Ordonnances._—Calv. _Opp._ x. pp. 19, 20.
See, for these quotations, _Institution chrétienne_, book iv. ch. 3. sect. 15.
_Ordonnances._—Calv. _Opp._ x. pp. 21, 22.
_Ordonnances_, Calv. x. pp. 20, 21. (The article of the Ordinances appears to say _five_, not _six_.) ‘On work-days, in addition to the two customary preachings, there shall be preaching at St. Peter’s three times a week, to wit, on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, before it begins at the other places.’—Editor.
‘Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.’—Matt. xviii. 20.
_Ordonnances._—Calv. _Opp._ x. pp. 25, 26.
_Introduction aux extraits des registres du consistoire de Genève_, 1541-1814, by M. the Syndic Auguste Cramer. These autograph notes have not been printed.
Registers of the Council of December 27, 1542.
Roset, Chron. MS. de Genève, book iv. chap. 61. In the middle ages the name of Jesus took an _h_ (Jhesus or Jehesus). It was represented by the letters J H S, with a mark of abbreviation above them. These three letters were subsequently considered to be the initials of the formula JESUS HOMINUM SALVATOR.—Blavignac, Armorial Genevois. _Mémoires d’Archéologie_, vol. vi. p. 176.