OF THE

PERSECUTIONS OF PROTESTANTS

IN FRANCE;

BEFORE AND UNDER THE

REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES :

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN ESSAY ON PROVIDENCE;

WRITTEN

By Mr. LEWIS DE MAROLLES,

AND TRANSLATED

By MR. JOHN MARTIN.

BE NOT SLOTH FUL; BUT FOLLOWERS OF THEM WHO,

TII ROUGH FAITH AND PATIENCE, INHERIT THE -

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1803,

DEDICATION

TO THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN KEPPEL-STREET,

BEDFORD-SQUARE.

MY DEAR FRIENDS,

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IN the year 1790, to you, I dedicated the translation of an Essay on Providence, and to you, I dedicate the present improved edition of that Essay. At the period just mentioned, seventeen years, I had been your minister; and now, remember, for thirty years, have I, statedly, been thus employed: so long have you had patience with me; so long, you say, the church has been thankful for my ministrations. Some of you may suppose, that now you have had the best of my labors: you have in quantity; but in quality, I hope you have not. True, I am advanced in years; but of some, God has said, They shall bring forth fruit in old age, and that felicity I a 2

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