Disinterested Sentiments on the Retreat of the Pastors of France

Plan of this Work.

the primary ones, after those concerning the interests of truth, the advancement of God’s glory, and the edification of the Church, have been: 1. to deprive the Papists Papists: A historical and often polemical term used by Protestants to refer to Roman Catholics. and all the enemies of our religion of the advantage they might seize in the future by attributing the views of the author of the Apology of the Pastors original: "l'Apologie des Pasteurs"; a text written to defend the ministers who fled France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. concerning the duties and obligations of the Ministry to all the Reformed Reformed: Referring to the French Protestant (Huguenot) movement, which followed the theological traditions of John Calvin. people, following their usual custom of attributing the opinions of individuals to the group as a whole. They will not be able to do so once they are shown by this work that these opinions were not generally approved, and that a Protestant author felt himself compelled to refute them; and 2. to prevent the poor example of the French Pastors from being followed by those of other Protestant nations, if they were to come