Memoirs of the persecutions of Protestants in France; before and under the revocation of the Edict of Nantes: to which is added, An essay on providence, by L. de Marolles, tr. by J. MartinBarfield, Wardour Street, printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1803 - 203 pages |
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Page 31
He no longer permitted the greatest lords to address him with the liberty and
familiarity of former times ; admitting only to such freedom , a few young men ,
who had neither experience nor merit . One historian says , He was so proud ,
that he ...
He no longer permitted the greatest lords to address him with the liberty and
familiarity of former times ; admitting only to such freedom , a few young men ,
who had neither experience nor merit . One historian says , He was so proud ,
that he ...
Page 73
In this prison , Mr . Marolles , says , “ the mar : : quis de Chamilly , governor , M .
de la Grange , the intendant , together with the major , and aid major , Bourbon ,
came to interrogate and examine me . I told them the naked truth of things ...
In this prison , Mr . Marolles , says , “ the mar : : quis de Chamilly , governor , M .
de la Grange , the intendant , together with the major , and aid major , Bourbon ,
came to interrogate and examine me . I told them the naked truth of things ...
Page 96
He says , that he always found him in this confinement , with a chain about his
neck , in a place and company the most horrid ; yet with a cheerful glee and smile
upon his countenance ; such as indicated more than a bare serenity of mind ...
He says , that he always found him in this confinement , with a chain about his
neck , in a place and company the most horrid ; yet with a cheerful glee and smile
upon his countenance ; such as indicated more than a bare serenity of mind ...
Page 117
In a letter he wrote to his wife , under the name of a third person , as a stranger ,
he says , “ You desire , madam , to hear from your husband . This is what we
learn from the report of the city . The twelfth of last February , he was taken out of
the ...
In a letter he wrote to his wife , under the name of a third person , as a stranger ,
he says , “ You desire , madam , to hear from your husband . This is what we
learn from the report of the city . The twelfth of last February , he was taken out of
the ...
Page 118
It is an answer to another confessor , who had written to him ; in this note , he
says , " I know not how to express to you , my most hom . nored and dear friend ,
how agreeable were the things which you have communicated , and which you
still ...
It is an answer to another confessor , who had written to him ; in this note , he
says , " I know not how to express to you , my most hom . nored and dear friend ,
how agreeable were the things which you have communicated , and which you
still ...
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Page 187 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 202 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 190 - For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Page x - For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Page xxiii - And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Page 200 - But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me ; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Page 144 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon al the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page xv - I am Alpha and. Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Page 138 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace ; and labour, working with our own hands : being reviled, we bless ; being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed, we intreat : we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Page 184 - Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground. A fruitful land into barrenness ; for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.