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

The first of these four seminaries, Montauban,
was famous for the high tone of its orthodoxy. It
was a well of Calvinism undefiled. It was not less
distinguished for the eminent talents of its teachers.
Among others, it boasted Daniel Chamier, a
remarkable man, whose name was famous in his
own day, and is not unknown in ours. Combining
the sagacity of the statesman with the erudition of
the theologian, he had a chief hand in the drawing
up of the Edict of Nantes. He was a distinguished
controversialist, and bore away the prize in a public
discussion at Nimes with the confessor of Henry
IV. At the request of his brethren, he undertook a
refutation of Bellarmin, the ablest of the Papal
champions. This work, in four volumes, has
received the praise of a modern German
theologian, Staudlin, for the stores of knowledge its
author displays, and the searching criticism which
he brings to bear upon the Popish system. The
manner of his death was unusual. During the siege
of Montauban (1621) he was sent to preach to the
soldiers on the walls, who had not been able to
attend church. As he mounted the ramparts, he was
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