Excerpt from The Existence of God Fenelon sought the friendship of Bossuet, who revised for him his next book, a Refutation of the S stem of Malebranche concerning Nature and Grace. H}is next book, written just before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, opposed the lawfulness of the ministrations of the Protestant clergy; and after the Edict, Fenelon was, on the recommendation of Bossuet, laced at the head of the Catholic mission to Poitou. 9 brought to his work of conversion or re-conversion Charity, and a spirit of concession that brought on him the attacks of men unlike in temper. 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.