Huguenots Or Reformed French Church Their Principles Delineated Their Charac
Huguenots Or Reformed French Church Their Principles Delineated Their Charac
William Henry Foote
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A list was made out of books to be destroyed, amounting to five hundred. The books were, as far as practicable, gathered and burned. REFORMED FRENCH CHURCH. 397 And by the Eevocation, all the Huguenot ministers were commanded to leave the country within fifteen days, or change their religion. The greatest lu- minaries of the Romish church had been employed to preach against the Reformed. And all acts of authority were used against them, and every motive of selfish interest brought to influence ...them to aban- don the Reform. And yet the King was not prepared to rest the controversy there. He was not sure of victory till he had banished the ministers and shut up the pulpits in France. The King's acts expressed his sense of the power of the literature and preaching of the Reformed, that they had no superiors in France. 2d. The continual care exercised by the Reformed Church throughout her judicatories to improve the literature and the pulpit would naturally produce ex- cellence. The National Synod, in all its meetings^ showed its anxiety on these matters, condemning hasty productions and unsound books ; commending those that were well done, requiring that all manu- scripts should undergo an examination before publi- cation; and calling on men of acquirements and talents to prepare books on given subjects on which they might be expected to excel.
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