Disinterested Sentiments on the Retreat of the Pastors of France

Plan of this Work.

in leaving the Kingdom France, and in abandoning their persecuted Churches there. We are content to mention in passing our agreement of sentiment on other points, or to explain those where we only partially agree.

It is first shown that although the persecutors are wrong to blame the departure of the Pastors—they being the cause of it through their cruelties—it does not follow that the Reformed The Huguenots, or French Protestants cannot legitimately complain about it; even those who have fallen fallen: Referring to the "lapsi," those who renounced their Protestant faith under the pressure of persecution, often referred to at the time as "New Catholics.", who have all the more reason to do so as their fall has rendered them more miserable; although this departure cannot fundamentally serve as a legitimate excuse for them. And we examine in passing what the Author of the Apology said on pages 63 and 64. Next, we offer some disinterested considerations on the letter of the Captives of France, refuted