Disinterested Sentiments on the Retreat of the Pastors of France

examples, and authorities from the following pages up to 254.

Plan of this Work.

Here we explain the passage from Matthew 10 Matthew 10:23. This verse was a central point of contention between those who argued that clergy should stay with their flocks during persecution and those who argued they were permitted to flee.: If they persecute you in one city, flee into another; and we demonstrate that this command concerned only the first Disciples of Jesus Christ whom this Divine Savior sent into the cities of Judea; we show that it is not this command alone which authorizes the flight of the faithful in particular, and that there are several other reasons and authorities that render it legitimate.

We demonstrate the difference between the Ministry of the Apostles and that of Pastors Pastors: Here referring to settled ministers of a specific local congregation, as opposed to the itinerant, universal mission of the Apostles. attached to a particular Church; we show thereby that the flight of the former provides no precedent for authorizing that of the latter, and we examine everything the Author of the Apology Likely referring to Pierre Jurieu, a prominent Protestant leader who defended the flight of Huguenot ministers following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. says on this subject from page 254 to page 261.

We then move on to the passage