HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION in France, AND OF THE Reformed CHURCHES in that Kingdom. FROM The First Beginnings of the REFORMATION, TO THE Repealing of the Edict of NANTZ. WITH An ACCOUNT of the late Perfecution of the French Proteftants under Lewis XIV. Extracted out of the beft Authorities. A WORK never before Published. Wherein the many Falfifications of the Jefuit Daniel, Author of the Hiftory of France, in Matters relating to Religion, are set forth in their full Light, and proved by his own Quotations. By the Reverend STEPHEN ABEL LAVAL, One of the Minifters of the United Chapels of Caftle-freet and Berwick-street. In THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed by H. WOODFALL, for the AUTHOR, and fold at his Houfe in Hollen's-ftreet, near Wardour-Street, Sobo. MDCCXXXVII. 110. j. 80. To the Right Reverend FATHER in GOD, HENR Y, Lord Bishop of Dromore. My LORD, M Y hearty and unfeigned Zeal for the Religion of my Forefathers, and the profound Refpect I bear to the Memory of those who first planted it in their Country, have been the chief Reasons that moved me to write the Hiftory, which I here take the liberty to dedicate to your Lordship. REFORMATION has been reprefented as odious in all Parts of the World, and the Emiffaries of Rome have left no Stone unturned, to give its Motives a criminal caft, and render its Maxims hateful and abominable in the eyes of the People, in order to A 2 make make them believe, that Libertinifm was the Soul, and Rebellion the strongest Bul+ wark thereof. inveighed againfin reality they never any Nation more bitterly, and with more fury and violence than they have done against the Proteftants of France. -IT is true, that all sthofe, of what Country foever, who have fhook off the Papal Yoke, are findifcriminately and without exception ftiled Hereticks; on account of their refusing to profefs Errors nonless shocking than the following would be, viz. That the Part is as great as the Whole: Or, that two and two are either less or more than fourOr, that that is finite can partake of the Attributes, and fhare the incommunicable Qualities of the infinite Being &c. And be cause they maintain Truths, that are as gla ring and palpable as the oppofite Affertionis to the above Paradoxes.noost adi ya dəridə VAGAIN,it is certain, that they charge the Reformation with being a new Doctrine, quite unknown too uuniverfally rejected by the Church through all the Centuries, that preceded the Age of then Reformers: Though we can easily give an Hiftorical Demonstration, that with regard to the Points debated between us and the Church of Rome, (efpecially thofe effentials Articles, that have occafioned our feparation,) we teach or practise nothing, but what was believed and practifed by the univerfal Church - dins di 51658 dis to almof -isée Le Laboureur, Additions aux Memoires de Caftelnau, bys puncin52 vloH adi yout liv? 1. ch. 3. |