. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. ADiMIUiL COUGNi. tliemselves on their guard. The king had been per-suaded that the Huguenots had designs on his life,and had conceived an implacable hatred against the court endeavoured to gain time, in orderto seize the persons of the prince and the admiral bystratagem, but was disappointed, and hostilities wererenewed with more violence than ever. In the battleof Jarnac, 1569, Conde w^as made prisoner, and shotby th
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. ADiMIUiL COUGNi. tliemselves on their guard. The king had been per-suaded that the Huguenots had designs on his life,and had conceived an implacable hatred against the court endeavoured to gain time, in orderto seize the persons of the prince and the admiral bystratagem, but was disappointed, and hostilities wererenewed with more violence than ever. In the battleof Jarnac, 1569, Conde w^as made prisoner, and shotby the captain de Montesquieu. Colignj collectedthe remains of the routed army; the young princeHenry de Beam (afterwards Henry IV., king of Na-varre and France,) the head of the Protestant partyafter the death of Oonde, was appointed commander-in-chief, and Coligny commanded in the name of theprince Henry de Conde, who sw^ore to revenge themurder of his father. But he was destitute of means,and was unsuccessful. The advantageous offers of 260 MASSACRE OF ST. CATHARINE OF MEDICI3. peace at St. Germain-en-Laye (August 8, 1570,)blinded the chiefs of the Huguenots, particularly theadmiral Coligny who was wearied with civil war. Theking appeared to have entirely disengaged himselffrom the influences of the Guises and his mother: heinvited the old Coligny, the support of the Huguenots,to his comt, and honoured him as a father. The mostartful means were employed to increase this sister of the king was married to the prince deBeam (August 18, 1572,) in order to allure the mostdistinguished Huguenots to Paris. Some of hisfriends endeavoured to dissuade the admiral from thisvisit; but he could not be convinced that the kingwould command an assassination of the Protestantsthroughout his kingdom. August 22, a shot from awindow wounded the admiral. The king hastened tovisit him, and swore to punish the author of the vil MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW. 261 lany; but, on t
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