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A42500 The bloudy Babylon: or, A collection of some particulars concerning the persecution raging in France against the Protestants from the peace of Reswick, to the martyrdom of the Reverend Monsieur Brousson, inclusively. In a letter to a lord. Gaujac, Peter Gally de. 1698 (1698) Wing G373E; ESTC R210995 22,135 32

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THE Bloudy Babylon OR A Collection of some Particulars Concerning the PERSECUTION Raging in France against the Protestants FROM THE PEACE of RESWICK TO THE MARTYRDOM of the Reverend Monsieur BROVSSON INCLUSIVELY In a LETTER to a LORD Sanguine fundata est Ecclesia Sanguine orevit Sanguine duravit Sanguine finis erit LONDON Printed for George Huddleston at the Black-moor's Head near Exeter-Change in the Strand 1698. My LORD THE last time I had the Honour to pay my Duty to your Lordship you were pleased to give your Opinion concerning the True Relation of what has been transacted in behalf of those of the Reformed Religion during the Treaty of Peace at Reswick with an account of the present Persecution in France lately publish'd Your Lordship approved the Design of the Author in the First Letter viz. to relate with what Warmth and Vigour the Protestant Plenipotentiaries had laboured to procure some Ease to the Distressed Reformed it being absolutely necessary This Nation should have a right Information in that Matter since the Protestants in general had been in the dark till now and were apt to suspect that They had been wanting in their Endeavours to obtain any Benefit for them by that Peace which was designed for the Repose of all Europe But that by the perusal of this Relation it would appear that their Sollicitations would not have proved ineffectual could the French Court have been prevail'd upon or Bigoted Popery persuaded to a Compliance with the Dictates either of Humanity or Christianity As for his Second Letter which contains a Tragical Description of the Persecution Raging in France since the Peace your Lordship who knows the Truth of the several Particulars there mentioned as well as the Impudence of the Papists who make it their Business every-where to give out That there is no such thing as a Persecution did very well apply the way of the Spiritual Babylon to that of the Adulterous Woman spoken of Prov. 30. 20. She eateth and wipeth her Mouth and faith I have done no Wickedness The Church of Rome vents her Fury by inflicting the most exquisite Torments upon the True Protestants in France and yet in England Holland c. saith I have done no such thing To which your Lordship added That it might be serviceable to the Publick to see a Collection of all the Declarations Decrees and Orders of the French Court issued out against the Protestants together with some Particulars concerning the severe Execution of them but such as should be certain as to Matter of Fact that is related either by Eye-witnesses or by Persons of undoubted Credit and publish'd without any Discourse or Reflection upon it and that such a Book would contribute very much to give the World a true Idea of the miserable Condition of the Reformed in France and to encrease that Fellow-feeling all the Protestants should have to one another and to the shaming if possible the Papists out of their usual Trick of Murthering Hanging Breaking upon the Wheel in one Place and stoutly denying it in another Your Desire my Lord is to me a Command and I heartily wish for the sake of our distressed Brethren I could not satisfie your Lordship in this particular so much as I can There is no difficulty in performing the Task and therefore I shall in the first place give an Account at large of all the Declarations and Decrees lately issued out against Them and in the next bring in some unquestionable Instances with what Eagerness and Severity they have been Executed as well as those which have been already seen but at different times as also such as never appeared till now to the Publick View that by the full Prospect of them all together any Judicious or indifferent Person may be convinced of the Cruel Persecution now in France and pity the sad Case of the Reformed there as well as abhor the Barbarity of the Papists The King's Declaration Prohibiting his Subjects to settle in Orange or to Exercise the Pretended Reformed Religion LEWIS by the Grace of GOD King of France and Navar to all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting The Zeal which we have always had for the Only and True Religion having excited in us a desire to Extinguish Heresie which had spread it self all over our Kingdom We still believed That all the Authority which God has put into our hands ought at all times to be made use of most effectually and successfully to succour and defend his Cause For this Reason after we had demolished the Churches of the Pretended Reformed Religion and forbidden all the Exercises of it by those who professed it We omitted nothing that we thought most effectual to bring them back into the Bosom of the Church We took care to have their Children bred up in the Sentiments of true Christians and prohibited under severe Penalties all those who out of a blind Obstinacy-rather chose to abandon their Estates their Families and their Country than renounce their Errors to depart our Kingdom And in regard that all our Care had no other aim then the Glory of God and the support of his Church he has been pleased to assist us hitherto with all the success we could desire and we have with delight beheld that the greatest part of those whose Conversion seem'd to be the most suspected have at length sincerely acknowledged and embraced the true Religion But seeing there are some remaining still who staggering in their Faith might relapse into their former Errors if the Principality of Orange enclos'd within our Dominions might serve them for a Place of retreat to settle there and perform the Exercises of the Pretended Reformed Religion or of any other forbidden Acts. We thought it our Duty precisely to explain our Intention upon that particular Point For these Reasons by these Presents sign'd with our Hand we have made and do make most express Prohibitions and Inhibitions forbidding all our Subjects of what Quality or Condition soever to go and settle themselves in the Principality of Orange under any Pretence whatever We also enjoyn all those who shall be found to have settled their Abodes there to return within Six Months to Commence from the Publication of these Presents under the Penalties set forth by our Declaration bearing date August 1669. We likewise forbid all our Subjects to Perform any Exercise of the Pretended Reformed Religion to Contract any Marriage within the said Principality of Orange or to send their Children thither to be Baptized by the Ministers there or to be by them instructed in the Exercises of the said Religion or in any other Studies and generally not to do or suffer to be done by their Children or others of whom they shall have the Tutelage or Education any Exercises or Acts which are not permitted and used in our Kingdom and all this under the Penalty of Death upon the Infringer of these Injunctions Nevertheless it is not our Intention by these Presents to hinder