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A46369	The policy of the clergy of France, to destroy the Protestants of that kingdom wherein is set down the ways and means that have been made use of for these twenty years last past, to root out the Protestant religion : in a dialogue between two papists : humbly offered to the consideration of all sincere Protestants, but principally of His Most Sacred Majesty and the Parliament at Oxford.; Politique du clergé de France. English	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1681 (1681)	Wing J1210; ESTC R18016	74,263	216

concerned I know how to lay under my feet all revenge and particular interest he added that after the Assassinate committed by the League in the person of Henry the Third Henry the Fourth was ready to see himself abandoned by his most faithful Servants because of the Protestant Religion which he made profession of which appears by a Declaration that this Prince made in the form of an Harangue to the Lords of his Army on the 8th day of August 1589 in which he says that he had been informed that his Catholick Nobility set a report on foot that they could not serve him unless he made profession of the Roman Religion and that they were going to quit his Army Nothing but the firmness and fidelity of the Hugonots upheld this wavering Party He must be said my Gentleman the falsest of men who dissembles the Ardour and Zeal with which those of our Religion maintained that just Cause of the House of Bourbon against the attempts of the League And to prove said he that their interest was not the only cause of their fidelity we must see what they did when Henry the Fourth turned Roman Catholick It cannot be said but that they then strove to have a King of their Religion However there was not one who bated any thing of his Zeal and Fidelity the King was peaceable possessour of the Crown the League was beaten down he was Master in Paris he was reconciled to the Court of Rome when the Edict of Nantes was granted and published Our Hugonots were no longer armed nor in a condition of obtaining any thing by force of arms since that the Change of Religion had reduced all the Roman Catholicks to him he would have been in a State of resisting their violence It was the sole acknowledgment of the King and of good Frenchmen that obliged all France to give Peace to a Party that had shed their Blood with so much Zeal and Profession for the conserving the Crown and the restoring it to its legitimate Heirs I avow that we did our Duty but are not those to be thanked who do what they ought How is it possible that these things are at present worn out of the memory of men I am certain that if the King was made to read the History of his Grand-father he would preserve some inclination for the Children of those who sacrific'd themselves to the glory of his House Par. It cannot be denied that this Party has rendered great Services to Henry IV and to the Crown But the Question is to know whether much be owing them upon that Account Have not they been well paid by a repose of so many years which they have enjoyed since that time Prov. I said to my old Gentleman after all in the bottom you have no reason to complain All that is done is with design of Converting and Saving you You ought to consider that it is the Interest of a State to have but one Religion Every one knows that the diversity of Religions is the source of Divisions and that often it causes great troubles You need only read the History of the last Age to be assured of it He thereupon answered me You open me a great field permit me that I stop a little here and that I make you see first That that is a misunderstood Zeal which endeavours at present the Conversion of the Protestants of France in the second place That this Design can never have the success that is expected and in fine that nothing is more opposite to the true Interests of the King than the Conduct they at present hold with us When I had promised him Audience he spoke to me much to this purpose First As for the Zeal which moves at present so many People to make what they call Conversions I must tell you that I never conceived that real Conversions were to be procured by such means They would save us you say in good time but let us be saved by honest means They damn us by endeavouring to save us even though the Religion to which they would bring us were good They make us sell our Religion they make a traffick of Souls threatnings and promises are employed no employ is given no grace granted without adding to it for Condition the Change of Religion The simple are surprized the Children are taken away they lay hold on the irreligion of certain people either Libertines or Brutes who having no sense of God are ever ready to betray their Consciences for Money In effect such people are paid the King is put to great Charges to recompence the Converts that is to say for the entertaining persons who have neither Religion nor Piety It is certain that of a thousand which turn Catholicks there is perhaps not one who does it out of a motive of Conscience The one has lost his suite at Law and his Goods and knows not where to put his head another ready to lose an Employ which kept him alive and which they would have taken from him sacrifices his Conscience for the preservation of his Fortune A Child angry with its Parents who had punished it revenges it self on them by becoming of another Religion than theirs A young Woman who has lost her honour goes to seek it in the strongest Party and is willing to cover all her infamy with the vail of Conversion If the Grandees be excepted who are tempted by pleasures and invited by hopes of some considerable advancement these Converts are almost all such persons as are the dreggs of the people who are drawn in by motives worthy of the baseness of their Birth and their Courage Let the holy Writ be read and see if the Apostles and their Successours ever made use of such-like means for the Converting Pagans and Infidels And with all the pains that are taken they will never succeed in the design of reducing by these kind of ways all the Protestants of France into the Roman Church Great Progresses have been made for some late years but do they believe that that will always last A long Peace had retained in our Party a great number of the ungodly who stuck to our Religion because they did not find themselves better elsewhere Those people who never had any Religion make no difficulty now to change it But our Party will purge it sell and when it is drained of the ungodly ones and when there is none amongst us but honest people who have persevered out of Principle of Conscience it will be no longer seen that so many persons yield to promises and threatnings thus the numerous Conversions will cease Moreover you must know Sir that they take you to be very credulous when they tell you of numerous conversions There are five or six Bigots in France who have erected themselves into Converters keeping a Register of their Converts and from time to time shew the King these Registers but they fill up these Catalogues after a strange manner Besides these Gentlemen

Provinces taken so many Cities made so many Sieges and won so many Battels nothing can be more worthy of him and more capable of rendering the memory of his Reign Glorious than the re-uniting the Religions in France He has hearkned to it and will forget nothing for the accomplishment of this Design The King does not naturally love to vex his people and if he was left to act according to his inclinations things would not be carried on so violently but he is pushed on and is not left at quiet Prov. It is not however believed that violent means shall be employed that is to say Sword Fire and Banishment Par. If some Bigots were listened to nothing should be spared But the general vein of the Kingdom does not go so The King does not love violence Besides how weak soever a Party may be when it is pusht to extremity it is capable of giving a desperate blow It was not observed that this Conduct succeeded in the last age And in fine the King whose principle aim is to make himself formidable to his Neighbours does not design to depopulate his Countries And doubtless they would be considerably depopulated if the Hugonots were destroyed by the Sword or chased away by Banishment Prov. It is well known that the Kings Prospects are very opposite to those for he has made several Ordonnances to hinder his Subjects from leaving the Kingdom It is likely that the Hugonots have a very great share in them they are not allowed to go seek re●ose elsewhere They must stay and be exposed to the ills that are designed them and that they may at length change being wearied with so many Fatigues or invited by such hopes Par. It is so it is not to be dissembled See here then the manner by which it is pretended to compass the great Design of re-uniting them to the Church It has been observed by experience that there are two things that give root to Heresie in a State The first is the great Liberty that the Hereticks have of preaching their Doctrines The Second is the Conveniency of Life when they are suffered to live in a profound Peace and enjoy Charges Employes and all the other Dignities and Priviledges which the other Subjects enjoy Prov. It is certain when a man is born of a Religion and that he finds therein all the Repose Riches Pleasure and Honour that he could wish he has no great mind to change it how little zealous soever he may be Par. That 's true and therefore during fifty Years there was not so many Conversions seen as within these five Years The Edicts given in favour of the Hugonots by Henry the 4th and confirmed by his Successour Lewis the 13th granted them great Liberties In the Cities where they were most numerous they possessed one part of the Magistratures they had Chambers of the Edict in the Parliaments and likewise divided Chambers in the Provinces where they were most numerous They avoqued all their Causes to these Chambers that the zealous Catholick might not do them injustice They exercised all manner of honourable and gainful Professions with the same liberty as the Catholicks They were Counsellors and Attorneys at Law Physicians gathered in a Body of the Faculty They were received into Arts they carried on Trade they likewise entred into the Kings affairs as well as others In War no distinction was made between them and the Catholicks Nothing was considered but Merrit and Fidelity and Service and Courage They were received into all the Military Dignities and had Pensions They were Collonels Brigadeers Major-Generals Lieutenant-Generals and even Marshals of France commanding Armies in Chief On the other part as for what concerned the exercise of their Religion they very freely enjoyed what had been granted them They had places appointed from the time of the Edict for their Sermons Every Gentleman having High Justices was as a little Soveraign in his House He might assemble by the sound of the Bell all the Religionaries thereabouts he made a Parish in his House and no body disturbed him The Bishops were used to suffer those people in their Diocesses They had even engagements with the Principals of this Party The Hugonot Lord made no scruple of visiting my Lord the Prelate and the Prelate on the other part lookt with a good Eye upon the Hugonot Gentleman Thus they lived in a very great Peace But it was visibly perceived that the Heresie took deep root by the favour of that repose as ill Herbs are increased by the gentleness of the Spring Prov. The State the Kingdom had been in for a long time had without doubt contributed to the tranquility the Hugonots enjoyed A War of thirty Years with Spain a long Minority Civil Broiles and Forreign Affairs had hindered the thoughts of them Par. That is certain For after all our Kings who bear with justice the name of most Christian and Eldest Sons of the Church have never lost the design of destroying Hereticks But their Prudence has obliged them to suspend the use of the means they designed to make use of for that end Prov. As for Henry the 4th I do not think this can be said of him He had treated with them with sincerity He was of opinion he had received great services from them he had been a long time of their Religion He only quitted it that he might quite dissipate the League which covered it self with the Cloak of Catholicity And we very well know that this remnant of Inclination that he had preserved for them cost him his Life After his Death during the minority of Lewis the 13th and the Ministry of the Marquess d' Ancre the Affairs of Court and State were in such disorder that there were few thoughts of extirpating the Hugonots It is true that Cardinal Richlieu took from them their Cities of Surety but it was rather out of a Politick prudence than any zeal of Religion He saw that it was a State in a State and that those Cities were retreats for Rebels and the Discontented but in the bottom he sought not their ruin His engagements were too small with the Court of Rome and was too able a Politician to ruin a Party of whose Fidelity he might always be assured It may likewise be said with more assurance that Cardinal Mazarin never thought of extirpating Heresie The Good man though an Italian and a Neighbour of the Church had no great zeal for it Riches were his only Divinity It is very well expressed in one of his Epitaphs Si Coelum rapitur habet He never sought any other way to go to Heaven th●n that of Rapine Especially he never thought of this way to Heaven which is called the Conversion of Hereticks Besides his Ministry was attended with so many Traverses and he was so hard put to it to defend himself against so many Enemies that it cannot be imagined he had ever any other Prospects than such as tended to the establishment