Synodicon in Gallia reformata, or, The acts, decisions, decrees, and canons of those famous national councils of the reformed churches in France being I. a most faithful and impartial history of the rise, growth, perfection and decay of the reformation in that kingdom, with its fatal catastrophe upon the revocation of the Edict of Nants in the year 1685 : II. the confession of faith and discipline of those churches : III. a collection of speeches, letters, sacred politicks, cases of conscience, and controversies in divinity, determined and resolved by those grave assemblies : IV. many excellent expedients for preventing and healing schisms in the churches and for re-uniting the dismembred body of divided Protestants : V. the laws, government, and maintenance of their colleges, universities and ministers, together with their exercise of discipline upon delinquent ministers and church-members : VI. a record of very many illustrious events of divine providence relating to those churches : the whole collected and composed out of original manuscript acts of those renowned synods : a work never be extant in any language.

SECT. XX.

Now as well at Court as in the Field each strove to proclaim loudest the Deserts of the Reformed. The Queen Mother herself ingenuously acknow∣ledged, that they had preserved the Government for herself and the young King. This is a Truth that cannot be contested, and yet as true as it is, what I shall add will seem incredible; But the Enemies of the Reformed have told it them an hundred times over, and the sequel hath perfectly ve∣rified it, That this Great Service of theirs in Saving the King and Kingdom was the precise, the principal, and proper Cause of their Ruine, and of all those Evils which have since befallen them. For their restless Adversaries, the Popish Clergy, used all endeavours to envenom the sence of that Im∣portant Service of theirs in the Minds of the King and his chief Ministers; for they never left suggesting to them, That if upon occasion the Reform∣ed could save the State from ruine, they might likewise upon another, and siding with its Enemies utterly overthrow it. That therefore in prudence this Party must be suppressed, and what good they had done, must be no longer regarded, but as an Indication of that Mischief which some time or other they were capable of effecting. This diabolical Policy, which hinders Subjects from serving their Prince, to avoid the pulling down upon them∣selves and children Chastisements instead of Recompences, took immediate∣ly with the ungrateful Court. For as soon as the Kingdom was setled in Peace, the Design was put on foot of destroying the Reformed; and that they might clearly understand, that it was their Zeal and Loyalty for their King which had ruin'd them, Those Cities, which had given the noblest Instances of it, were first assaulted. Immediately, on very slight pretences, they fell foul on Rochel, Montauban, and Milhaud, three Towns where the Professors of the Reformed Religion had most signalized themselves for the Court's Interests. Rochel was plagued with an infinite number of Pro∣scriptions, her best Ministers and Citizens being driven out and exiled. Montauban and Milhaud are sack'd by Soldiers. These were but particu∣lar Strokes, and the beginning of those dreadful Woes, which followed after.