. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. it had seldom done before. If we may believethe chroniclers, he urged his eldest son, then a boy of thirteen, not to avengehis murder, and to take warning by his example. It was all in vain, for theyoung duke was destined to repeat his fathers career and to meet a similar effectual was his advice to the regent to make peace at once : this she waswell disposed to follow. Conde and the Constable Montmorency, each lately held prisoner by theothers friends, arranged
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. it had seldom done before. If we may believethe chroniclers, he urged his eldest son, then a boy of thirteen, not to avengehis murder, and to take warning by his example. It was all in vain, for theyoung duke was destined to repeat his fathers career and to meet a similar effectual was his advice to the regent to make peace at once : this she waswell disposed to follow. Conde and the Constable Montmorency, each lately held prisoner by theothers friends, arranged the preliminaries. Seventy-two Protestant ministers,meeting at Orleans, wished to make no concessions, and insisted on the burningof all atheists, libertines, anabaptists, and disciples of Servetus, who had him-self been burned for heresy at Geneva in 1553. Conde brushed these bigotedsuggestions aside with contempt, and on March, 18th, 1563, the Edict of Amboiseproclaimed partial toleration. It allowed every Frenchman to live at liberty inhis own house, without being forced or constrained for consciences sake; but it. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE SIEGE OF ROUEN. 372 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 373 restricted the public worship of the Huguenots, aud forbade it in Paris. A peaceof four years duration followed, marred by the intrigues of Philip II., and brokenby frequent violences and riots, in which those of the new religiou wereusually the chief sufferers.
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