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Excerpt from History Protestants of France: The Commencement of the Reformation to the Present Time Nowhere is this arrogant assumption of a right to sole rule better seen than in this History of Protestantism in France and nowhere has the resolution to attain the end been more unrelentingly pursued. To what extent abigoted system will lead its followers, the early persecutions of the old Albigenses will show 5 but the renewal of the slaughter upon the inoffensive and industrious Vaudois for their adhe sion to the cause of the Reformation, marks what little pro gress the Vatican, at whose instance it was perpetrated, had made in those Christian principles, of which it assumes to be the only veritable exponent while the persecutions inflicted upon the Protestants of France, in order to force them back into the Romish Church, continued in one form or another down to this very day, amply prove how vain it is to expect that the Church of Rome will ever abandon the notion of universal empire, that has always been its dream and aspiration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.