Seeing it is dangerous to treat such things before the multitude and in public discourses, I must deem it safest to "speak with the many and think with the few," and to keep in mind the advice of Paul, "Hast thou faith?
Have it to thyself before God."'[12] [Footnote 12: _C.

Calcagnini Opera_, p.195.I am indebted for the above version to McCrie's _Reformation in Italy_, p.

183.] The new religious spirit which I have attempted to characterize as tinctured by Protestant opinions but disinclined for severance from Rome, manifested itself about the same time in several groups.

One of them was at Rome, where a society named the Oratory of Divine Love, including from fifty to sixty members, began to meet as early as the reign of Leo X.in the Trastevere.

This pious association included men of very various kinds.