Disinterested Sentiments on the Retreat of the Pastors of France

Plan of this Work.

deals with their Pastors; but
that on the contrary the reluctance that
the ancient Pastors The author refers here to the early Church Fathers and leaders of the first centuries of Christianity, who often faced Roman persecution. demon-
strated toward flight constitutes a
very legitimate presumption original: "prejugé"; in this rhetorical context, it refers to a logical or legal bias/presumption used to form an argument. against this
retreat. Finally, we also dismantle the
third prejudice, taken from the
marks of esteem that those who
did not fall Referring to the "fidèles" (the faithful) who did not recant their Protestant faith or convert to Catholicism under pressure., and who still
suffer for the Gospel, have
given through their letters to
some of the Pastors who have
left the Kingdom: all this con-
tains the refutation of what the Au-
thor of the Apology says from
page 70 to page 89.

       We then agree with this
Author on the difficulties that op-
posed the remaining of the Pastors
in France, but we maintain that
there being no absolute impos-
sibility, these were difficulties that
one had to fight; and to respond
to the question he asks on page
93, we show in passing what