Protestantism in France From Death of Henry IV to the Revolution - James Aitken Wylie

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man of Nimes. He had just finished his course of theological study when the storm burst. Does he now decline the office of pastor? No: accepting martyrdom beforehand, he writes a farewell letter to those at his father's house, and goes forth to break the silence which the banishment of the ministers had created in France by preaching the Gospel. In a little while he was arrested. On his trial he was promised the most flattering favors if he would abjure, but his constancy was invincible. He was sentenced to be hanged, after having been tortured. On hearing his doom, he exclaimed, "I am treated more gently than my Savior was in being condemned to so mild a form of death. I had prepared my mind to being broken on the wheel, or being burnt to death." Then, raising his eyes to heaven, he gave thanks to God for this mitigation of his anticipated agonies. Being come to the scaffold, he wished to address the crowd, and confess before them the faith in which he died; but, says Jurieu, "they were afraid of a sermon 120
delivered by such a preacher, and from such a pulpit, and had stationed around the gibbet a number of drummers, with orders to beat their drums all at once." He died at Beaucaire, July 7th, 1686, at the age of twenty-four. But the martyr of greatest fame of that era is Claude Brousson. Brousson had been a distinguished member of the bar at Toulouse, where he pleaded the cause of the oppressed Churches. Silenced as an advocate, he opened his lips as a preacher of the Gospel. His consecration to his office took place in the wilds of the Cevennes, which were then continually resounding with the muskets of the murderous soldiery. The solitary hut, or the dark wood, or the deep ravine henceforth became his home, whence he issued at appointed times to preach to the flock of the desert. After awhile he was so hotly pursued that he judged it prudent to withdraw from France. But in his foreign asylum his heart yearned after his flock, and, finding no rest, he returned to those "few sheep in the wilderness." A sum of 500 louis was offered to any one who would bring him to the 121
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PROTESTANTISM IN FRANCE FROM DEATH
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are known in history as the "civil
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possessed all her treachery, bigotr
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Government redress of their grievan
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Moderator's chair being occupied no
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sick; not to let any one from abroa
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property, which had for a half-cent
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against them at the head of his arm
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in an incessant shower upon the cit
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eginning of the sixty-eighth Psalm,
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to be in logical consistency with a
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Chapter 2 Fall of la Rochelle and E
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leading objects of his ambition, th
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put them.[1] The Huguenot body at t
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of the stronghold of the Protestant
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now commenced on the part of Buckin
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France. There seemed no alternative
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After this the Protestants could of
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passing from one victory to another
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throne. The hand of a priest has be
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troubles in which they plunged the
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same superiority in trade which dis
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the overhanging cloud. The probity
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that the year of the Huguenot conta
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In the Protestant Church the sermon
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From the pulpit we turn to the Prot
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Protestants who stood nobly out, an
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struck by a cannon-ball, and expire
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Of these four seats of Protestant l
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prodigious learning, and of equal m
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Chapter 4 The Dragonnades WE now re
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close of his life. Having quieted F
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Abroad he was Powerful, at home he
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their sovereign, trembled before a
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