Excerpt from The Theological Review, Vol. 2: A Journal of Religious Thought and Life Not only was the Reformation a living thing in France, but it had increased to such an extent as to be no longer able to conceal itself. A fourth part of the kingdom is Huguenot, wrote l'hopital to the Pope the nuncio Prosper de St. Croix went farther, and said, one half. Hitherto worship had only been celebrated in secret, often during the night, in woods and remote places; but from the year 1560, it began to be solemnized in public. The fury of the Guises burst forth at this innovation; orders were issued by them, that the country should be cleared of the multi tude of rabble who lived in the Genevese fashion In some parts, the Huguenots even destroyed the images and the altars in the churches of which they had taken pos session for their own meetings. Calvin found fault with this excess of zeal, which could only lead to an increase of persecution and barbarity.' 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.