Disinterested Sentiments on the Retreat of the Pastors of France

Plan of this Work.

Pastors could and should
have done according to the rules of
their duty. We then refute the
two responses that he Referring to the author of the "Apology," likely a contemporary defender of the fleeing ministers. has made to the ob-
jection that he himself proposes
on this subject on page 98 and following;
and, to anticipate the objection that one
might add regarding the obedi-
ence that everyone owes to sovereign
authority, This refers to the authority of King Louis XIV, who had revoked the Edict of Nantes and ordered Protestant ministers to leave the country or convert. we show in what matters
everyone is obliged to obey, and in
what matters everyone is obliged to dis-
obey: we add to this some
remarks which show that the
Pastors, before this final action, The "final action" refers to the mass exodus of ministers following the Revocation in 1685.
had already grown accustomed to
obeying human authority in several things
when it was necessary to
disobey it in order to obey God. We
show next that the Pastors
could not have been legitimately
accused of temerity recklessness or audacity if they had
chosen to remain in
France notwithstanding the orders which
banished them; and after sev-