The European Union in Prophecy The EU in Prophecy I | Page 167

The European Union in Prophecy
is," they said, "like one who sits in a temple, and meditates on holy things."--Wylie, b.
13, ch. 9. At the stake, Berquin endeavoured to address a few words to the people;
but the monks, fearing the result, began to shout, and the soldiers to clash their arms,
and their clamor drowned the martyr's voice. Thus in 1529 the highest literary and
ecclesiastical authority of cultured Paris "set the populace of 1793 the base example
of stifling on the scaffold the sacred words of the dying."-- Ibid., b, 13, ch. 9.
Berquin was strangled, and his body was consumed in the flames. The tidings
of his death caused sorrow to the friends of the Reformation throughout France. But
his example was not lost. "We, too, are ready," said the witnesses for the truth, "to
meet death cheerfully, setting our eyes on the life that is to come."--D'Aubigne,
History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, b. 2, ch. 16.
During the persecution of Meaux, the teachers of the reformed faith were
deprived of their license to preach, and they departed to other fields. Lefevre after a
time made his way to Germany. Farel returned to his native town in eastern France,
to spread