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tkren of aflY of filfc Christian warifi £ tu Sk of hi A ^ itt&ig that Paul JSs ib&t&en in baptizing Gentiles , if he did baptise them , then , might hk ncrf be equally mistaken in g iving the & f > peiio < Jehtlle 6 , to the laity , pi- to the feinile concerts of the Christian feSth ? iMay hot th £ fbrrfi of words ! ^ isefli iii Christian baptism he olgected to by soine persons , though I think without any reason ? Sit , yotirs , B ; P . SEVERN
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Petsecttfidn qfPrenth Prt&stdrik iti 1765 . 967
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falling ittta the hands of a canrdmalf demoted to the Jesuit , by their inftttence a new declaration was issued Oh the 14 th of May , 1724 , tvhich contains in it whatever was mdst severe in
the edicts of Lewis XIV . J Onthefirtt 6 £ Fer / rti&ry , lity , Lewis XV . tmb * fished Kii Ordonhance against the Fro test&nts > enforcing the former edicts , and making it dekth to the minister who officiated , and perpetual imprisonment for the women , and gallies for the men , who have been present at the meetings « 5 And how dread
fully these cruel orders were obeyed , the attack of religious Protestant assemblies by soldiers who Scrupled ribi to fire in among theirx , the condemna tion of some who Were apprehended to the prison , arid of others to the gallies , arid the murders of minister frbm the year 17 45 to 1750 ; dreadfully testify . Iri the year 1750 , the FrettdR king published an ordonnance at
Versailles , January 17 , willing , that for * met edicts against the J ^ dtetants , and particularly that of 1724 , should be executed ; and enjoining officers ihd judges to attend diligently to their execution . How rigoroosly these edicts have teen executed , take in the fbl » lowing accounts : —
" MxtrCLct qf a JLetter JronuMr . ¦¦ ¦ a Protestant minister qf Lower Langue doc , July 26 , 17 § 4 V ., [ ¦ ¦ * '' About July 5 th , a religious assembly returning home , the rarrison fell upon them , fired , put them to flight , and seized three mqn fwd five women . ( —Another assembly paving broke up were attacked jby a , JWQ ^ of dragopna , who fired . ampnc ^ tne ^ fi , wounded one man , and end 0 a nfs life with their bayonets . ^ Forty ^ ive were taken i ^ mn ^ ~ -Qtixix Recounts qf the assembly inform us , that five or — , —_^ , . — . —i 1- — j * ..... « ¦
and took out of the galHes sixty-eight qf these unhappy-persons , to whom he mure full liberty to go out of the lua ^ lom ^ hei ' eVer J theV tftbugftt - ' ^ Mdtfr /» 7 J O Tv . tlfe ^ tcfwis rsth . i ^ t . -i- / ttW . Jfc 2 « L < f % he j t > uke of 'B ^ tirbotx ^ pririic mihteffcr < bh tJhVR ^ nt ^ d ^ ath ^ U ^ W ^ i but Gaaxiihal Fleuty ' W ^ ls su ^ o ^^ d td ^ itlftufcnfce the ^ ffltos 4 rf ^ oveitod ^ it , b ^ F 6 * 1 iis ai ^ p ^ hit ^ aat to > e ^ dcei ^ ^^ ib 1726 . Priv . Life , « tc . i . 148 , p . —] EL B . t < 4 See this , edjict in Laval ' s History , VoT / W « fWh" tilt appetftll ^ io a |> ampUet ' feiittiSKaL ^^ S P ^^" y « tefew ^ iW 8 Ai « W ? ji ° b * ^ 8-i $ ^ a ^^ ery 5 ^^^ % 4 ^ T wpiidbt , ta <^ C »« i » . r" 7 • -. ¦ . ill >^ 1 . ' * X » X (»* .
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5 jP- ArcUcon , April 30 , I 8 l 6 f Sik , T VE 3 RV litejy » et ^ dth a pam-1 phkt , published more than sixty ^^ ra ago , which contiiiis some particulkrs respecting the suiFeririgs of the French ftotcstents , knd the attention
they excited in this cbtafitry at that period . A recollection of these may not be uninteresting at present : the publication is entitled y " Two Discourses , Occasioned by the cruel oppressions of the Protestants
ia France , and enlarged A ^ ith a recent and particular acconnt of the state of ^ persecution ia thiat kingdom . To which are prefixed some fceriotis reflections on title present situation of these nations , fend our American Co * lonies : by Thomas Gibbons . ' 8 ro .
1 ^ 5 . 5 . The author of these Discourses which appear to have preceded a congi ^ ational collection wa ^ s a Minister aihong the rndependents . He died in
I ? 85 , aced 65 , having been distinguished through life , as I can describe aim ^ from personal aeipiaintiince , by praqtical M ^ p iety and extensive benevo-«» iew i Por the historical particulars « v Gibbons quotes " apamphlet en * t $ ed Annohof the Rise * Progress and
rmecutions qf the famous Reformed Qtofckes in Francef piibliattfed by jhe HevwehdMr , Tsartc Toms ; of Hadfcigh , in Suffolk , in 1753 , " ahd an Appendix by Ac same ' * worthy and excellent mjkr in i $ 56 : g ^ [^ k ^ thWi m ^ wfflilifc bf the \ DiSq ^) ui SeS thus '' During the minority 'of Lewis £$ *> ^ b ^ Wufce . pf Orleans being Reg ^ li th e government Wft 9 more favovir J ^^^^ JP ^ t cstftn ^ tiiait- it had for-^« H y * een * butv the ^ drnitlistraii ^ "" MlifTTn ' -n ¦ o- ^ ^ l -.- > « ? - zix rft frtf i i nn ttd
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1816, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2452/page/15/
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