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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47986	A letter from a gentleman at London, to his friend in the countrey, &c.	Gentleman at London.	1676 (1676)	Wing L1379; ESTC R10276	16,627	21

thus the Gallant wards the blow He contents himself with bemoaning by way of Raillery the fate of that Minister and only says that to answer bad Writings is to bring them into request Concerning the Testimony in writing about the Divelish Discourse which he had with the Woman wherewith I have already entertain'd you at large he says the carriage of my Lord Bishop and Mr. Beval justify him so fully from that horrible Calumny that ravish'd to see himself so well supported he ventures with an unmeasureable impudence to affirm that the Embassador of France has discovered that the Woman and her Husband were wrought upon by money And thereupon Protests that in case such a deposition were true he deserv'd to be burnt alive But t is not amiss to observe that he talks not of that kind of Punishment till after he was well inform'd that the Ambassador the Bishop and Breval had secur'd him from that Deposition otherwise he would have taken good heed not to condemn himself Mean time the Woman who is at London may depose upon Oath whether the writing be true and whether Luzancy had that Divelish discourse with her at Windsor or not T is hoped Judges will one day examine this Circumstance and give him satisfaction according to the sentence pronounced by himself in his Letter provided he do not disavow it In the sequel he tells us he could alleadg twenty Accusations brought against him but that he will deal with Patience yet protesting withal that if this remedy prove unsuccessful he will write so as to make his Adversaries repent This is what is desired by abundance of People provided there be Judges to make him prove what he brings against them and them what they bring against him Mean time we must pass forward and see what more the Gentleman has put into his Letter Of the other two Ministers of the French Church at the Savoy for as for those of the Church in London they would never come much into his company nor suffer him to Preach among them The one he says is too wise to Print what he hints concerning him both in Conversation and in the Pulpit And the other Mr. Breval is his intimate Friend one much esteemed by the English and to whom he has the greatest Obligations possible As for the first Luzancy acknowledges and in this observe his weakness that he is no more of his side he does not tell the reason but t is easily guest at Mr. de Langle at the request of his Friends gave him the liberty of the Pulpit and took much pains to get him some Clarity from the Consistory He had for some time an esteem for him and changed with the rest of his best friends when they perceived his Cheats and part of his Vices For Breval he is his bosom friend his right hand They understand one another as Thieves in a Market they two contriv'd the b●siness against the Jesuite Breval thriv'd by the trouble it caus'd at the beginning he was made Prebend of Westminster And now say whether he be not an able Man and whether he do not look more handsomly in a Canons far than in a Capucins Raggs He is for all that at present well at ease well Lodg'd well Cloath'd well provided of a Wife courts well the Bishops half beggs half commands Alms at good houses makes good Chear causes himself to be paid from the Savoy out of the money design'd for the Poor This is the Man whom Luzancy sets out as one strangely persecuted by the French at his settlement in the Church and hints the cause thereof to have been his great Learning what he says in this particular is Lamentable since it is certain that Breval Preaches pitifully although as is ordinary with Monks he be ready enough He knows almost no Protestant and but little Roman Divinity He made his entrance into the Church with a plump Concubine and a Bastard and some Money stolen from the Poor of that Communion which he came from deserting Notwithstanding all these Crimes as Novelty is taking he was by Caball settled in the Savoy Mr. Durel after he had done what became an honest Man to hinder him sate down quietly The Consistory allow'd him a Pension as to the other Ministers and because the Contribution of particulars was not sufficient he makes bold with the stock of the Poor although his present Incomes amount to more than Two hundred and fifty pounds per annum and his Wife maintain'd besides by a Knight one of his dear friends who never stirrs from her For the rest he is a Man who Counterfeits so exactly that he plays all parts both in the World and Pulpit and is a much better Tartuff than Luzancy This is his Associate their Crimes make them friends and both the one and other are paid for having made sport with the World In fine not to cast away more time in Confuting things not worth the while Luzancy says in his Letter that he wonders how of a hundred Proselytes there remains one with us this is to answer one of the Articles of Mr. du Maresq's Preface which you know well enough To this it may be said that the Sober Papists who change upon good Motives stay with us tyed by the chains of the Spirit which binds them to the Orthodox Of the bad some leave us to follow the Torrent of their Libertine humors Others leave us not because they are throughly fastened by the allurements of the Flesh I mean Advancement and Marriage as Breval We have for Examples of the first sort Mr. Cottereaw Mr. de la Motte and some others but very few where Life and Conversation are without Reproach As for run away Monks their number is too great to be confin'd to the bounds of a Letter and Mr. de Maresq has not exagerated in his Preface For the last sort we see to our great Grief and the shame of the Church Breval's Luzancy's Solomon's whose Manners are a mixture of all Vices I forgot one Reflexion upon Luzancy's Letter to shew the ●orce of his Judgment he is so afraid one passage of his Writing to the Jesuit should not be believed because the Jesuite says it was not his that he will needs put in a word in his Letter to persuade People of what he had affirmed in his famous Retractation after he had drawn Mr. Breval's Picture in a hideous shape which yet in Truth is very like him he passes to Mr. du Maresq whom he accused to love Wine and Tobacco And in the Letter which I am now examining he unwarily says the same thing alledging for one of the reasons why that Minister loves him not that he neither loves Wine nor the places where it cannot be drunk without scandal He must be blind who cannot in this Conformity of Sentiments perceive a circumstance which makes strongly against Luzancy draw an evident proof that in the dealing betwixt him and the Jesuit there was nothing of

Bishop's resolution and as if it had been a matter of main import for the upholding of the Orthodox Faith they drive on his Preferment without observing the least Measure in the world While this was a Brewing an English Minister belonging to the French Church named Mr. du Maresq full of Zeal for the Truth printed a Sermon which he had Preached during these Bustles and this for the reasons which he gives in his Preface they were no sooner come abroad but my Lord Bishop of London thought both the one and the other deserv'd the Thunder of his Ecclesiastical tribunal To this purpose he caused all the Coppies to be seized The Minister was cited to the Bishops Court where at first they wrangl'd with him about a Licence to Preach which neither he nor any of his Collegues had ever heard of At last after much ado they discovered where the shoo truly pinch'd My Lord Bishop was offended by his falling upon Luzancy And would needs have the Minister to ask forgiveness of God his Neighbor the Church and his Superior This is not enough the Minister must also acknowledg that he is Convinc'd in Conscience that he has offended God and his Neighbor by printing Scandalous things Yet we have not all a Declaration too must be Sign'd and Seal'd otherwise the Minister is undone And because he refus'd a Motion so extraordinary My Lord Bishop presently caus'd him to be publickly Interdicted the functions of his Charge upon a Sunday in the midst of his Congregation A proceeding so severe against a Minister very well spoken of opened the Eyes and understandings of divers who want none they set themselves to inquire attentively what these scandalous things were which were imputed to him but their search was Fruitless they found nothing that look'd towards it In fine like the five Propositions which heretofore at Rome they maintained were in the Book of Jansenius they perceived these Scandals ow'd their birth to sharpness and prejudice Mean time this Minister of the Gospel because he stood firm to the maintenance of Truth was openly suspended for reasons reserved to my Lord Bishop and his Officers They had a care not to say what these reasons were they were too frivolous and would have cover'd the Authors with Shame and Blame But by a slight not welbecoming a Bishop they conceal'd the Account of a proceeding so defective They had much rather People should have Occasion to believe horrible things of this Minister than publish his fault it was so light And my Lord Bishop of London doubtes not but Men will judg by the prerogative of his Dignity that the right is on his side and that 't was enough to make one pass for Criminal to be accused and punish'd by a person so venerable as himself Quis sanctum dubitet quem apex tantae Dignitatis attollit All this as I have been informed past in the most unusual manner in the World The Minister is Condemned without being heard according to the formalities of Law 'T was much to purpose for him to offer to justify himself The Bishop refuses to see him slights the submissive Letters which the Minister writes to him and by his Order the Judges of his Court pass Sentence without saying or knowing wherefore who would have believed a Bishop of London one of a Noble Family and who has no small pretentions to the Archbishoprik of Canterbury had been capable of such a Carriage After so much noise what could we expect from a proceeding so rigorous It was believed my Lord Bishop would never have restor'd this Minister at least on easier terms than very ample satisfaction such as might hold proportion with the Offence which People were made believe the Bishop had received Notwithstanding against the opinion of many by the good Offices of Monsieur Durel together with those of Monsieur Ruvigny who had a mind to Oblige the Bishop and was pleased to Interpose without being intreated The Minister was restored to the exercise of his charge upon a bare acknowledgment that he was in the wrong to print his Preface without Licence from his Superior or any else in Authority c. a poor and dry satisfaction in my opinion after so much ado and which justifies the Minister for as much as he has publish'd against Luzancy and the Monks and condemns the rigor used to him Behold Sir whither Passion carries Men behold a Signal example in the person of a Bishop The Sanctuary is not priviledg'd and we are not afraid to set it awork even in that Holy Place Where is that Charity whereof so unseasonably in respect of Knaves we pride our selves when to uphold them we overwhelm a Minister of the word of God What a horrible use do we in these days make of it When the matters treated on in the Preface were without Reply must a whole Kingdom for a pitiful point of Honor needs have cause to believe that the Minister was a Lyer and Luzancy and the Monks unjustly Attackt Must it needs be I say that on a pretext so slight so heavy a Blow should fall on a Man whose carriage has always been without Reproach and who without consulting Flesh and Blood resolved in discharge of his Duty to speak Truths likely to displease more than one and he be punished so outragiously for a design so generously executed we see well enough how the world goes My Lord Bishop of London had undertaken the protection of Luzancy He had a mind to cherish this Plant which he had newly set in the Garden of the Church and could not indure that England should be inform'd it was of the nature of those Herbs which shew handsomly and yet are full of Poyson He could not see the Child of his care and study wounded especially in that part where Men are most tender without receiving the blow upon himself and the Arrows justly shot at the reputation of his Neophyte have lighted on him Behold the true cause of the Bishop's anger To offend a Knave was to attaque him to attaque him was to blemish the dignity of his See and those immature and hasty decisions were made both to uphold his Person and his Mitre Had my Lord Bishop in the design he had to declare himself the support of this Counterfeit Proselyte consulted the Commands of him from whom he holds both this Life and Character he would have learned not to do ill that good may come of it And that the use of pious frauds is proper only for those places where Religion being destitute of Truth which is its Basis cannot subsist but by foul Play with which those of Wit Amuse and make Shittlecocks of the Common People After all how can we henceforward reproach the Papists with their Inquisition when I have acquainted you with things as strange In good earnest when the wit of Man takes pleasure in blinding it self how considerable soever our Rank is in the world whether in Church or State and