This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...to surrender; and the burghers and pastors assembled in the Hotel de Ville to deliberate upon their reply. The offered terms were fair enough, and many of the burghers were in favour of accepting them, and admitting the royal army; but others indignantly refused to yield their liberty to men who ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...to surrender; and the burghers and pastors assembled in the Hotel de Ville to deliberate upon their reply. The offered terms were fair enough, and many of the burghers were in favour of accepting them, and admitting the royal army; but others indignantly refused to yield their liberty to men who gloried in keeping no faith with heretics. Parties ran high, and something like tumult was threatened, when Marlorat's spare figure rose from one of the back benches. He spoke as he could speak when the inspiration of excitement was upon him. He told them that to surrender now was to betray their country and their cause into the hands of the murderers of Tours and Blois; to dishonour and doubt God, who, they said, could no lonsrer work miracles for them as He had done in the time of old; and to make the deaths of the martyrs useless. With impassioned eloquence he described many of the occurrences then fresh in the hearts of men; the murders and tortures of the faithful who would not deny the truth they held, the rivers red with blood rolling their crowds of corpses to the sea; and he asked them whether they would cause all this blood to have been shed in vain, by yielding now and refusing to trust in God's power to save them. "Rather fight to the last/' said he, "and die one by one of starvation behind these walls, if it must be so, than renounce the cause for which we fight. Not that such a fate need affray you, for the Lord will defend His own, even in the last extremity, and the angel of the Lord will encamp around us and deliver us. Remember what Elisha said to the young man, 'They that be with us are more than they that be with them.' My friends, were the eyes of your souls opened, we should see yon hills," and he waved his...
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