Disinterested Sentiments on the Retreat of the Pastors of France

Plan of this Work.

supposes among these types of persons
that those people who believe that
the Pastors would have done better
to remain in France, & who
regard their flight original: "suite"; here meaning their departure or the act of following the path of exile. merely as
a step somewhat contrary to the
strictness of their duty,
one declares to him here first that
there are also many who believe
that the Pastors did very badly
to leave France, & who
regard their retreat as
a step directly opposed to the
most essential duties of their
Ministry; this is what we
undertake to prove here, both while
examining, and after having
examined this third part.

To accommodate the method
of the book being examined, we
postpone the explanation of the
passages of Matthew 10 & John 10 These biblical references were central to the 17th-century debate: Matthew 10:23 ("When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next") was used to justify flight, while John 10:12 ("The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care for the sheep") was used to condemn it.
to another place, & after
having declared that we have
nothing to say against the
Pastors who were forced out by