. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. of the crown, the Reformation, itself a child of liberty, promised to lend aid. Absolutism on the throne looked on it with jealousy and dread. Alone and unbe- friended, it had from the beginning to confront in France bitter persecution, a persecution instigated at first by the clergy alone, afterwards by the clergy and the monarch acting in willing concert. FRANCIS I. Francis I., the mostpopular sovereign in Eu-rope, who ruled from 1515to 1547, was for some timeindifferen
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. of the crown, the Reformation, itself a child of liberty, promised to lend aid. Absolutism on the throne looked on it with jealousy and dread. Alone and unbe- friended, it had from the beginning to confront in France bitter persecution, a persecution instigated at first by the clergy alone, afterwards by the clergy and the monarch acting in willing concert. FRANCIS I. Francis I., the mostpopular sovereign in Eu-rope, who ruled from 1515to 1547, was for some timeindifferent to the spread ofheresy in his invited not only Eras-mus but Melanchthon tohis court, and applaudeda play in which the popeand his cardinals wereridiculed. He patronizedLefevre, and twice savedLouis de Berquin, who byhis books had roused thewrath of the orthodoxParliament, and who atlast, in 1529, was seizedand hastily executed in Francis absence, ulest francis 1. recourse should be had to the king. His sister, Margaret of Valois, hadmuch influence over him; she favored the new doctrines, and he sharply. 34o THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. resented reflections made upon her by monks, preachers, and the theologiansof the Sorbonne. But in after years he came to believe, what there were plentyto assure him of, that Lutherans were dangerous to the government, andthat nothing but harm could come of tolerating them. After he had marriedhis son to the popes niece, he announced that France should have but one king,one law, and one faith. But his first severities were provoked by the foolishaction of an enthusiast who, in the early morning of October 18th, 1534, coveredthe walls of Paris with placards reflecting in offensive terms on the intolerableabuses of the popish mass. One of these was placed at the door of the kingschamber in the castle of Amboise. Always jealous of his dignity, Francis wasvery angry, and his wrath involved the innocent with the guilty. Many nowsuffe
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