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B03849 M. Jurieu, the famous French Protestant divine, his account of the present persecution of the Protestants in France. Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713. 1698 (1698) Wing J1198; ESTC R179119 1,839 1

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M. JURIEU the Famous French Protestant Divine his Account of the present Persecution of the Protestants in France HE says That he has assurance from good hands that the present Persecution does not advance Popery in France but on the contrary makes it lose its credit for the Violence of the persecuters and the Complaints of the persecuted hath occasioned many People to enquire into the Reformed Religion that would not otherwise have done it That the seizing of Protestant Books hath occasioned their falling into the hands and the convincing of many Men of Sense that would otherwise never have seen them That the people in many Provinces long for a Reformation That there are great Cities of many thousand Inhabitants where one third of them are enlightened That within this 15 years there have been more Papists converted in that Kingdom than ever And that whereas formerly many of their Ecclesiasticks who pretended to turn Protestants were meer Libertines it is otherwise now those of them that come over being generally Persons of great Parts Piety and that if the Protestant States were as zealous to advance Truth as the Papists are to destroy it many Popish Ecclesiasticks of Note would desert that Church which be begs Protestant Soveraigns to take into Consideration He adds That for 40 years the Papists in France have been divided amongst themselves into Molinists and Jansenists That there 's a new Sect sprung up call'd Quictists and that the Socinians begin to grow very considerable amongst them have for a long time had footing in many of their most famous Convents That he is well assur'd that they generally read Episcopius whence they drink in Pelagianism and after wards that which the Bishop of Meaux calls a moderate Socinianism which is confirm'd by M. d. Valone formerly a Canon of the Monastery of St. Genevive who hath lately renounc'd Popery and join'd himself to the French Church at Nuremborg in Germany he says in his Book that in all the Monasteries of the Canons Regulars of St. Genevive there 's a Party who call themselves Scripturists or the Little Church and either publickly espouse the Socinian Tenets or maintain that it becomes great Wits to be for an universal Toleration That the General and all the great Officers of the Society were of the Cabal That M. de Valone having given Information of this was thrown into Prison by the General where he had like to have lost his Life but being sustained by the Abbot of Vrbec he procur'd an Order by the King to discharge the Abbot of St. Geneviva and the rest and that the Society should chuse others in their place M. Jurieu adds That Popery is in a worse Condition in France than ever that it is in the hands either of the Mad persecuting Clergy who ruine its Credit by their Cruelties or in the hands of Laicks of no Religion who Mock at all their Mysteries and that the number of such is so great at Court and even amongst the dignify'd Clergy that it is almost incredible Then as to the State of the Protestant Religion there he says There are still above a Million of Protestants in France that notwithstanding the last Persecution is more cruel than the first the Zeal and Courage of the Protestants is greater and greater that not only particular Persons but whole Communities have boldly declared they will go no more to Mass and that they have done thus not only in the Hill Country of Languedoc Rochell Saintonge c. but in a hundred other places where they met the Intendants in multitudes in their best Apparel as if they had been designed for Victims at the Altars and cryed out unanimously That they would rather die than go to Mass That the Intendant Baville and his Italian Relation Count Broglio thought to have given a fatal blow to the Reformation at Castres where they Quartered the Soldiers upon the Protestants to live at Discretion to exercise all manner of Cruelties upon them to plunder them and to torment their Bodies that they should have no rest nor sleep that they imprisoned and banished those that had distinguish'd themselves by their Zeal depriv'd the Parents of their Children and committed all manner of Barbarities upon them yet notwithstanding all this they had not prevail'd upon more than 7 or 8 Persons to promise to go to Mass and that the Protestants throughout the whole Nation had shewn the like Christian Fortitude whereas in the first Persecution their Defection and weakness was but too general He takes Notice of the several Methods which have been contriv'd by the Persecutors to expel the Protestant Religion out of France as that of a general Exile which was oppos'd by some of the great Men as prejudicial to the Kingdom And that of a general Massacre for which Orders were dispatch'd to the Intendants and Governors of the Provinces but that the Couriers were re call'd upon the Advice of a certain Grandee He questions the Truth of its having proceeded so far but doubts nor of its having been propos'd and debated And upon the whole draws this Conclusion That there 's no Ground to fear the total Ruine of the Reformation in France God will compleat his Work but Lewis XVIth shall never finish his Printed at London and Re-printed at Glasgow by Robert Sanders One of His Majesties Printers 1698.