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A78472	Certain letters, evidencing the Kings stedfastness in the Protestant religion: sent from the Princess of Turenne, and the ministers of Charenton, to some persons of quality in London.	Turenne, Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomtesse de.; Gaches, Raymond, d. 1668.; Daillé, Jean, 1594-1670.; Drelincourt, Charles, 1595-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing C1702; Thomason E1079_5; ESTC R16902	21,298	87

qui semble disposer toutes choses à leur accomplissement qu'il luy plaise benir la suite de cet ouvrage le fair reussir a sa glorie a celle de son oint sur tout à l'edification de son Eglise je l'en prie de toute mon ame vous recomande particulierement à sa grace comme estant Monsieur Votre tres humble serviteur DAILLE A PARIS 7 Avril 1660. A LETTER Of Monsieur DAILLE to Monsieur LE ROY SIR ONe of my Friends having desired me a little while since to send him a Copy of the great Bible Printed at London I remembred that the last Winter you proposed to send one to Monsieur Duret myself for fifty Crowns so that I believed that in this occasion I could not make an Address to any with more conveniency then to you that my friend might be provided and I hope you will grant me the favor which I request of you to inform me Whether you can at present perform your promise and send me this Book for the price which you formerly exprest Moreover I cannot but rejoyce with you for the happy news which is conveyed to us from the place where you are whereby we are informed that the Vniversal desire of the people seems with a common voice to recal their Natural and Lawful King Besides that generosity and equity its self obliges us to wish that this Prince may return into his own Kingdom and Inheritance of which he hath been unjustly deprived we ought also to desire it for the honor of our Religion which should be more dear to us then any other interest For when our Adversaries formerly would charge the blame of the death of the late King of England on our Religion you know we could very well guard our selvs from this reproach by casting it intirely upon the Sectaries who indeed were onely guilty of that horrible crime But at present we do not stand upon the same terms since there is such a chance of affairs the Sectarians having lost their credit or at least being faln from that soveraign Power which they had graspt and on the contrary the Presbyterian party which is ours now governing in England So that if they let slip the fair opportunity which God seemes to open to them for the re-establishing of the King of Great Britain in his Dominion and to re-advance him to the Throne of his Ancestors it is most apparent there will be no further ground to excuse themselves upon the Sectaries nor to wash our holy Religion from that spot from which by the Grace of God it hath always bin preserved pure and clean to this present I well know there are dispersed evil rumors concerning the Religion of this Prince and I doubt not but there are some persons at London as well as at Paris who endeavour to perswade the World That he hath forsaken our Communion to embrace that of Rome But who can believe a thing that is so contrary to all probability there is nothing of this appears to us On the contrary we well know That although this Prince hath been constrained by the circumstances of his present condition to reside sometimes in places where the Exercise of our Religion is not permitted yet he hath always had his Chaplains near to him who are nothing less then Papists and who every where have regularly in his presence prayed and performed the other parts of Divine Service Moreover all Paris and all the World hath known the anger and the just indignation which he exprest when he understood the endeavors which have been used though ineffectively for the Apostacy of the Duke of Glocester And if this young Prince rendred his Piety and Constancy admirable by that firm resistance which he opposed in so tender an age to such a violent and dangerous persecution so also in that he retired to the King his Brother and there sought for a Sanctuary to his Religion it is a very certain argument that the King had not quitted that Religion for if this had been true the Duke of Glocester had found him an enemy instead of a Protector and had suffered the loss of his Conscience where he had sought its security where he really found it It is objected against this that during the whole space of time which the King of Great Brittain past in the Court of France he never came to our religious assemblies and that amongst others he never came to Charenton in the days of our worship But although this may at first view appear strange to those who know not the reason of it nevertheless as we are better informed of this then any one we can testifie that Religion was not the cause of it and that he abstained from coming upon politick and prudential considerations which may be peculiar to our Church And the proof of this appears in that when the King of England hath been out of Paris he hath willingly gone to Sermon in the Churches of our Brethren as for instance in Caen and some other Towns and in Holland also he hath several times heard the Sermons of the famous Monsieur More who at present is our Colleague Thus Sir it is more clear then the day That whatsoever hath been reported till this time of the change of his Religion is a meer calumny scattered by the artifice of his enemies for to vilifie him in the judgment of his Subjects and to alienate their affections and good will from him and finally to render fruitless the just prayers which they make at present for his happy return into England God grant their accomplishment by his Almighty Justice and as it is he who hath inspired these good designs into the hearts of his people and who seems to dispose all things for the effecting them May it please him to bless what remains of this work and to succeed it for his glory and the honor of his Anointed but especially for the edification of his Church For this I pray to him with all my Soul and recommend you particularly to his Grace being SIR Your most humble ServantDAILLE PARIS 7 April 1660. VIRO CELEBERRIMO ET PASTORI INTEGERRIMO Richardo Baxtero Raimondus Gacheus Eccles Ref. Paris Pastor S. P. D. ACcedo ad te vir clarissime frater in Christo observantissime neque de fa●cie neque de famâ notus accedo ●amen confidenter quia te opti●mè novi de tua pietate mihi ●lanè persuasum est Legi nem●●e relegi miratus sum docta ●●la parva fateor si ●●olem spectes sed Deus bone ●●uàm pretiosa quàm vero Christianismi succo penitùs ●mbuta quibus Britanniam tu●m beâsti quibus non omni●ò Gallia nostra caruit Quis ●utem vel unius paginae seriâ ●●ctione non protinus intelligat te spiritus Dei aflatum sensisse te infoelicibus hisce temporibus oportunè suscitatum qui grassantem impietatem

able of the tenderness I have for you It is true that I shall be more earnest to give you real and useful proofs of it then I am to let you see these weak assurances and you may be confident my dear Cousin that I shall ever cherish such opportunities and embrace them with all my heart as often as I am able Yet I must complain of you to your self because you have again written to me with ceremonie and did not follow this method which is more frank and more convenient and truly this was the thing which did contribute to my lasiness for I am so unacquainted with formall writing especially to those I love so heartily that I know not how to set my self to it and I was afraid that it would be too uncivil to use such freedome after all those complements you gave me Yet at last Madam my dear Cousin I thought this should not make you suspect that I could fail to join to that affection I have for you all those resentments of honour and respect which are due to you and to which I am more particularly obleiged then another both by nearness in bloud and by many other reasons therefore I am fixed to continue in this way in the resolution to overcome you and to oblige you to do so too otherwise I do declare that I shall take a refusall for such a complement as witnesses more civility then friendship and for a kind of renouncing of this commerce I will therefore Dear Cousin expect a very kinde Letter with little Ceremonie such a one I doe desire and that you would receive this with the same affection wherewith I do write it I long much for the satisfaction to see you again in this Countrey you have already seen many revolutions in that where you are and whatever my longing be for your return I do avow it That I wish with all my heart you may yet see there that change which the present condition of affairs gives us reason to hope very shortly and which all good men desire with an extream passion that is The KINGS return into his former Lustre and Authoritie I have ever wished with great passion the re-establishement of that Prince for divers reasons both for the desire which I think every one ought to have that things be done according to Justice and for the horror of the crime committed upon the person of the King his father which hath since drawn down such terrible judgments on those nations and so fearful confusions in those Churches which God had gathered there and which he had made flourish with so much lustre and purity that one cannot forbear to weep over their ruine as bitterly as Ezra Nehemiah and Daniel did over that of Jerusalem untill it may please the Lord to hear us settle thē I profess I cannot believe that that sin can be expiat nor the interdit removed from among them but by the re-establishmēt of their lawful and Soveraign Lord and by the rendring to him that power which he received from God and which for so long a time hath been usurped over him The same who commands to give God the things which are Gods commands us also to render to Caesar the things that are Caesars So that I believe that he who would content himself with one of these two duties and so separate the things which God hath joined should satisfie weither and that so lame a service should be less acceptable among Christians then a lame offering was among the Jews These considerations make me wish with great passion that God would inspire those Nations to do their dutie but I do avow it that I double my prayers and my zeal when I hear that the present Governours are no more those sectaries but men of our profession They have had the misfortune to be slandered by the adversaries as accessarie to the death of their Soveraign and that infamous accusation seems to have blackt all their brethren Blessed be the God of mercie who presents to them so fair an occasion to clear themselves and to remove that reproach from so holy a profession as ours is which we have ever bragged to have this advantage above all others in that it did teach us better then any other that which we owe to Soveraigns and did not permit that men should under any pretext whatsoever dispense themselves of the Oath of Fidelity which they have taken I have so great an impatiencie to hear that they have there so reestablisht it by so just and so lovely an action that I cannot tell you with how much affection I begg'd it of God on the Fast day which we kept at Charenton last Easter week and how earnestly I do beg it every day And I believe there be few lovers of the Peace of Jerusalem who make not the same prayer and I see that all those of our profession in this kingdom are more earnest in this then ever Whether it be that God inspires this motion to pray more earnestly in a time when he will doe his work as he is often pleased to make the prayers of his children meet with the decrees of his providence or whether they have taken more notice of late of the effects of the Piety of the KING of England which makes them interess themselves more sensibly in his concerns For my own part I profess it that I was exceedingly satisfied when I had the honour to pay my respects to him the last time he past through this Countrey having heard him speak with so great testimonies of piety that I was extreamly edified He was also pleased to give this mark of his communion with our Churches as to go to Sermon at Rochell and at Rouen in his passage and if he had stayed here we had had the honour to have seen him at Charenton There can nothing be added to the regularity which this Prince keeps in assisting dayly at those exercises of Piety which are kept morning and evening in his family In a word I bless God because the marks of God's Election are seen in Him and I hope God will use his service for re-establishing what we have before seen with so much pleasure in his Dominions and that his Subjects will have cause to bless the Lord for putting it into their hearts to render to their King His Crown and as fair as ever he had it and without spoiling or defacing it in setting it on his head I pray God with all my heart that he may give them this Grace and I do so lay it to heart that I take the libertie to write you a long Letter of it which looks like a little volume But it is dear Cousin because I beleeve that as you are on the place it is a point of duty to contribute always what one can to infuse these thoughts in such as have them not and that every one ought to be ambitious to bring their little stone toward that excellent work

que je me pouvois donner l'hōneur de le voir sans que cela peut être tiré à consequence je m'aquittay d'autant plus volōtiers de ce devoir que je s●ccedil eus que non seulement il l'auroit agreable mais qu'il le desiroit le ne vous s●ccedil aurois exprimer combien je sus satisfait de ce jeune Prince Car outre la facon obligeante de laquelle il me receut il me donna divers témoignages de sa pieté de son zele Il me souvient qu'il me dit entr'autres choses que le feu Roy son Pere peu avant sa mort luy avoit recommandê ces trois choses De ne changer iamais de Religion d'obeïr a son Frere ainé qui seroit son Roy comme il eust fait aluy même si Dieu l'eust conservé au Mondé d'obeïr a la Reyne sa Mere en toutes choses excepté en ce qui regarde la Religion A quoyil ajoutoit qu'en perseverant en la Religion il s'aquitoit de son devoir envers Dieu conservoit le repos de sa conscience mais qu'avec cela il obeissoit aux dernieres volontés du feu Royson Pere executoit les ordres du Roy son Frere qui le rapelloit pres de sa personne pour le tirer de la tentation Ce discours qu'il fit de fort bonne grace me confirma dans la creance que j'avois de la Religion du Roy defunt me fit voir ce que je devois croire charitablement de celle du Roy son Fitz. Mais outre cela il a en sa Maison entre ses domestiques des gentils-hommes de nôtre Religion de mes anciens amis qui m'ont assuré a diverses fois de la pieté de ce Prince de sa fermeté en la profession qu'il fait Il est vray qu'il y a des Anglois qui sans y penser luy ont fait grand tort Car sur de faux prejugez ils se sont abstenus de nôtre communion E par là ils ont fait naitre des soup●ccedil ons comme si leur Roy toute sa Cour avoyent leur inclination au Papisme Mais les plus sages n'en ont pas vsé de la sorte Car sachant que la creance de nôtre Eglise celle de l'Eglise Anglicane est une même creance il's n'ont fait nulle difficulté de se trouver en nos Assemblées Et même le premier Chapelain du Roy de la grand ' Bretagne nomme le Docteur Cosin y a souvent assisté avec beacoup de devotion Pour reuenir a mon discours Dieu met aujourduy entre les mains de Messieurs vos Presbyteriens qui ont la souveraine direction l'honneur la reputation de nos Eglises Car si sans aucune intervention des Puissances étrangeres ils rappellent ce Prince le font asseoir sur son trône ils acquierent pour eux pour leur posterité une gloire immortelle Et ils ferment â jamais la bouche a ceux qui nous accusent faussement d'estre ennemis de la Royauté font voir que cest a tort que l'on nous a imputé cette maxime Point d'Euesque point de Roy. Pour ce qui est de ma personne Je vous confesse que comme j'ay pleuré amérement la mort sanglante du feu Roy aussy ce me sera une joye extréme de voir le rétablissement du Roy son Fils pourveu que cela se puisse faire avec des conditions qui n'éffacent point le lustre l'eclat de la Majesté Royale qui soyent a la glorie de Dieu au bien au repos des trois Royaumes C'est dequoy je prie Dieu de bon coeur pour vous M R qu'ilvous conserve vous benisse de ses plus saintes benedictions J'ay creu que vous ne trouveries pas mauvais que je vous ouvre mon coeur et que je vous découvre mes pensées sur un sujet de si grande importance puis que je suis MONSIEUR Vôtre tres humble frere tres-affectionné Serviteur DRELINCOURT Pasteur d'Eglise de PARIS A Monsieur Monsieur Stoupe f. M. D. S. E. A Londres PARIS April the 3 d. 1660. Sr My honoured Brother Nothing hath happened more strange in our daies then the revolutions of England Scotland and Ireland After the tragicall death of the late King hopes were given that a Common-wealth might be established that should become the wonder and admiration of the whole world But the severall changes that have happened since from time to time and the confusions that are to be feared cause many to believe that God will reduce affaires to their first state and set the three Crownes united upon the head of one Monarch That which in this doth most rejoyce and comfort us is that it seems for the doing of this glorious work God will use the Service of those with whom we have more strict Communion in doctrine and discipline For we understand that such as are called Presbiterians are now possessed of the greatest Power and sit at the Helme of State That illustrious Assembly which would have preserved to their King his life and his Royaltie was without doubt very farre from designing to rob his Children of that right which is conveyed to them by a continued succession in their Royall Familie for many ages A report is here that the thing from being recalled to the Inheritance of his Fathers is the Opinion conceived by some of his being turned to the Roman Catholick Profession and the fear that in time he might ruine the Religion now flourishing in those three Kingdoms But Sir you know that we have ever detested the doctrine of Popes and their Instruments who teach that all Princes called by them Hereticks are incapable of succession of Crowns and if in possession to be turned out And more then this I see not any ground there is for calling this Prince a Roman Catholick he making no profession of it but on the contrary hath rejected all the advantages and all the aides offered to him upon that condition Charity is not jealous and if it forbid us to suspect on slight grounds private persons how can it approve jealousies upon Persons so sacred Experience hath taught us how little reason hath in the end appeared for the like and even the greatest apprehensions of that kinde our History doth furnish us with a convincing example The League never pretended other cause for their rebellion against King Henry the Third but for his being an Heretick and a maintamer of Hereticks And thence was inferred that he was no waies affected to the Roman and a Favourer of our Religion In the mean