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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