Disinterested Sentiments on the Retreat of the Pastors of France

Plan of this Work.

-eral remarks that show that
God presented them with a legitimate
calling original: "vocation"; a spiritual duty or mission ordained by God. to expose themselves to all
the dangers that could follow
their remaining in the Kingdom Referring to the Kingdom of France during the period of Protestant persecution under Louis XIV.,
we examine the thoughts of the Author
of the Apology on pages 97 and 98, regarding
the reciprocal obligations original: "engagemens"; the binding spiritual and legal commitments between a minister and his congregation. of a
Pastor Pastor: In the Huguenot (French Protestant) tradition, a minister elected by a congregation to provide spiritual leadership. with his Church, ap-
proving what is true, and re-
futing what is false,
to finally show that the fall of the
Churches of France The organized Reformed/Protestant churches that were dismantled by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. did not break
the obligations of their Pastors
toward them, and that on the contrary it
has committed them to new du-
ties toward them, and to making
new efforts to try to
raise them up and set them back on
their feet. Since all the rest of the
second part of the Apology is
nothing but a refutation of the visions of
Mr. Brueys David-Augustin de Brueys (1640–1723), a former Protestant who converted to Catholicism and became a controversialist writer against his former faith., we willingly
agree with everything
the Author says on this subject, and after