The reformation in France from the revocation of the Edict of Nantes to the incorporation of the reformed churches into the state

Richard Heath

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• Réformation
• France
• History of Christianity
• Huguenot

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The Reformation
IN France
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PREFACE.
This history, the earher portion of which was
narrated in a previous volume, is here brought to
its natural conclusion in the Eevolution of 1789.
That that event was the necessary sequel of the
Protestant Keformation has long been recognised
but for reasons easy to be understood it has not
been fully and clearly brought out in histories deal-
ing exclusively with the Keformation in France.
Hence a certain sadness and perplexity, as if, after
all its terrible struggles, after its long martyrdom of
two centuries and a half, the Reformation in France
failure.had proved abortive and a
The Bible teaches us that God regards nations as
life in thisindividual beings, having a continuous
generation being brought intoworld, a particular
(Matt,judgment for the sins of its predecessors
being so, it is impossible toxxiii. 35, 36). This
in Frenchsuppose that the most stupendous event
one of the most im-history and, we may say,—
could haveof Christendom—portant in the history6 PREFACE.
been other than long-the natural sequence of the
resisted movement for Eeform. That movement
Vi^as not confined to the ecclesiastical sphere alone,
but extended to all that constituted the life of the
nation. Against it all in-the vested interests of
justice and falsehood combined but when at last;
they appeared to have triumphed, the movement
towards truth and justice broke out afresh, and
proved at last a national effort. in theBut, just as
case of an individual man for long yearswho has
resisted the cry of his conscience, the awakening
proved most terrible, reason itself for a moment
seeming to reel.
Seen in this light, the History of the Keformation
in France is lifted out of isolation and perplexity
into the great unity of universal filling thehistory,
mind with light, joy, and hope, because it proves a
kind of first-fruits of the ultimate triumph of right-
eousness, of the final reign on earth of justice and
truth.
K. H.