. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. THE Sufferings of the Protestants. IN theFRENCH GALLEYS. He dismal accounts handed down to us byhistorians, of the torments afflicted onChristians by the heathen Emperors, inthe first Ages of the Church, might justlybe suspected, if the woful experience of ourown, did not put the truth of them out ofdispute. For though it be not easy to con-ceive how men can put off all that is tenderand generous in their natures, and degenerate into the ferity[ferocity] of brutes ; yet it is but looking on the World aroundus, and being convinc
. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. THE Sufferings of the Protestants. IN theFRENCH GALLEYS. He dismal accounts handed down to us byhistorians, of the torments afflicted onChristians by the heathen Emperors, inthe first Ages of the Church, might justlybe suspected, if the woful experience of ourown, did not put the truth of them out ofdispute. For though it be not easy to con-ceive how men can put off all that is tenderand generous in their natures, and degenerate into the ferity[ferocity] of brutes ; yet it is but looking on the World aroundus, and being convinced that they can even outdo their fellowanimals in cruelty to one another. Nay, we may see manyprofessing Christianity, under the specious pretence of zealfor its Interest, commit such barbarities as exceed, or] at leastequal, the rage of the persecutors of the primitive abounds in instances that shew the nature of aspirit of persecution, and how boundless its rage and fury !but the sad effects it hath, of late years, produced in France,as they are still fresh and but too obvio
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