tempestates et 18 diebus
subtus terram in teterrimo specu inter bufones et serpentes custodivit
(oportet enim me haec alicubi commemorare pro gratitudine erga Deum).
Hic igitur Salvator omnium, maxime fidelium, perficiet id quod per me
facere instituit" (In Alteram ad Timotheum expositio. Autore Alexandro
Alesio. D. Lipsiae, 1551, sign. A 2).]

[284] D'Aubigne's Reformation in the Time of Calvin, vi. 13, 14.
[D'Aubigne is here following, or rather embellishing, the account which
Alesius thus gives in another of his works: "Pueri, me adhuc puero,
quasdam sententias excerptas ex Joanne, scriptas in membrana, ut illam,
in principio erat verbum, Ecce agnus Dei, &c., Sic Deus dilexit mundum,
Ego sum resurrectio et vita, &c., ac similes, vel auro et argento
inclusas circa collum gestabant, non tam ornamenti causa, quam quod
magnam vim et virtutem in his collocarent contra incantationes et
pericula, in quae diabolus saepe pueros incautos solet conjicere. Memini
frequenter, et quoties reminiscor, toto corpore cohorresco, me in
praerupto altissimi montis manibus et pedibus reptantem, ac proximum
praecipitio, subito translatum nescio a quo aut quomodo, in alium locum:
et alia vice ex eminentiori deambulacro aedium patris cadentem inter
acervum lapidum poliendorum ad aedificium, servatum esse divinitus.

"Non tribuo hanc salutem sententiis ex Joanne, quas forsan aliorum
puerorum more circumferebam: sed fidei parentum, qui harum sententiam
mente circumferebant, et pro me orabant. Sed tamen, ut mihi videtur,
magis deceret nobilitatem Christianam, has et similes sententias in auro
et lapidibus preciosis insculptas a collo dependentes circumferre, quam
ethnicorum Regum ac Caesarum imagines" (Commentarius in Evangelium
Joannis. Basileae, 1553. Epistola Dedicatoria, pp. 14-16).]

[285] [In a list of names without a heading, he appears as "Alexr.
Allane na. Lau.," which shows that of the nations into which the members
of the university were then classified, he belonged to Lothian. In the
list of determinants he appears as "Allexr. Alan." Opposite his name and
the names of his class-fellows is the word "pauperes," which shows that
they paid no fees.]

[286] He himself at a later period ingenuously acknowledges that his
arguments in great part were borrowed from the treatise of an English
bishop, namely Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, who at the request of Henry
VIII. had replied to Luther's attack on that monarch.

[287] D'Aubigne's Ref