. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. ve to be deposed !Perhaps none would be left ! . . That is why it isimpossible to assemble this council.—What must be donethen ? Pray the Lord that the day may come for it tobe at last called together, to favour and assist those thatseek to do right, and to combat the wicked. 1 These words clearly prove that Savonarola was waitingfor a suitable moment to risk an attempt to summon acouncil, before which he could make an open attack uponAlexander VI., and endeavour to set on foot the muchneeded reform of the Church. The fury aroused in the * Sermon xiii.
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. ve to be deposed !Perhaps none would be left ! . . That is why it isimpossible to assemble this council.—What must be donethen ? Pray the Lord that the day may come for it tobe at last called together, to favour and assist those thatseek to do right, and to combat the wicked. 1 These words clearly prove that Savonarola was waitingfor a suitable moment to risk an attempt to summon acouncil, before which he could make an open attack uponAlexander VI., and endeavour to set on foot the muchneeded reform of the Church. The fury aroused in the * Sermon xiii. EVENTS HURRY TO A CLIMAX. 623 Pope by these utterances may easily be imagined by the actual extent of his wrath, and his numerous andvaried devices to conquer the Friar, and force the Re-public to lend itself to his sinister purpose, are only to belearnt by following the thread of this history. Fromthis moment the plot daily becomes more and more com-plicated ; and new passions and new schemes combine tohurry it to a
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