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A30395	News from France in a letter giving a relation of the present state of the difference between the French king and the court of Rome : to which is added the Popes brief to the assembly of the clergy, and the protestation made by them in Latin : together with an English translation of them.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Innocent XI, Pope, 1611-1689. Ad archiepiscopos, episcopos, totumque clerum in regno Galliae. English & Latin.; Fall, James, 1646 or 7-1711.; Catholic Church. Assemblée générale du clergé de France. Cleri Gallicani de ecclesiastica potestate declaratio. English & Latin.	1682 (1682)	Wing B5839; ESTC R21875	22,511	40

behave themselves so toward it that We are sorced with many Tears to make use of these words of the Prophet My Mothers Children have fought against me Though in truth you rather fight against your selves when you set your selves in opposition to us in a Cause in which the welfare and freedom of your Churches is so much concerned and for which some pious and resolute men of your Order having appealed to us We did without delay stand up for defence of the Episcopal Rights and Dignity in that Kingdom which now for a great while We have maintained having in that sought no private ends of our own being set on to it meerly by that care that We owe to all the Churches and the love that We bear to you which is so deeply rooted in our hearts We perceived from the very beginning of your Letter that there was nothing in it that could be either welcome to us or worthy of that name you bear in the world For not to insist on what you said of the Rule that was observed in the calling and managing of Councils We observed that your Letter began from your fears and that is a motive by which Gods Priests are never animated to undertake any difficult or weighty cause that concerns either Religion or the Liberty of the Church with that Courage that becomes them at first or to persevere in it with that constancy which they ought to hold to the last And you were much mistaken when you thought you might pour out your fears into Our breast for the Love of Christ ought always to dwell in Our breast which casts out fear and keeps it at a great distance We have already demonstrated in many and signal instances that Fatherly Love that is kindled in Our hearts towards you and the Kingdom of France which We need not here reckon up And if there is any thing in which our affection has deserved well at your hands We think it has chiefly appeared in this business of the Regale upon which if the matter is well considered it will appear that the whole Dignity and authority of your Order doth depend You were therefore in fear where no fear was Whereas this only was that of which you ought to have been afraid lest you might have been justly accused before God and men for having been wanting to your Station and Honour and the duty of your Pastoral charge And you ought to have remembred the examples of Episcopal Constancy and Courage which in the like cases the ancient and most holy Bishops have set before you for your instruction and which have been imitated by many Bishops in every age from their days You ought also to have reflected on your own Predecessors not only those who flourished in the times of our forefathers but in Our own days You cite the words of Ivon of Chartres but you ought also to follow his actions when there is occasion for it You know what he both did and suffered in those troublesome dangerous contests that were between Pope Urban and King Philip. He thought it became his Function to endure the Kings displeasure to bear the spoiling of his goods and to suffer both Imprisonment and Banishment It became your Function even when others were forsaking the better cause to have joyned your endeavours to the Authority of the Apostolick See and to have pleaded the cause of your Churches before the King joyning the resolution that became Pastors with the humility of Priests and to have informed his Conscience of the whole matter even though you had apprehended the danger of drawing his Displeasure upon you That so for the time to come you might without blushing use the words of David when you address your selves to God in the daily Psalmody I did speak of thy Testimonies before Kings and was not confounded But how much more ought you to have done this when you had so well known and so often tryed the justice and piety of your excellent Prince of whom you your selves write that he hears the Bishops with a singular gentleness and that he is resolved to maintain the Episcopal Authority without suffering it to be entrenched upon which We read in your Letter with great joy We do not doubt that in the defence of so just a cause you could either want Arguments fit to be used or the King a heart tractable and inclined to grant your desires But now since you seem to have forgot both your own duty and the Kings justice and that you have been silent in a matter of so great consequence we do not see upon what probable ground you can found that which you represent to us that you have been induced to do what you have done because you have been overcome in this Dispute and have lost your cause But how could he lose it that never stood to it And how could he be overcome that never struggled Who of you all did plead this weighty this just and this most Sacred Cause before the King Whereas your Predecessors even in the like danger did defend it oftner than once with all freedom both before the former Kings of France and even before this King himself And having carried their cause they were dismist by their most just King with rewards for having so manfully performed the duty of the Pastoral charge But who of you have ingaged in this contest that he might raise a Wall for the house of Israel Who has had the boldness to expose himself to envy Who has uttered so much as one word that savoured of the freedom of former times The Kings Officers have indeed cryed aloud as you write they have cryed aloud in an ill cause for the Rights of the Crown whereas you in the best cause that was both for the Honour of Christ and the Church have been silent Nor is there any more weight in what you say when you render us an account or indeed rather offer us an excuse for the things that have been done by you in this Assembly You aggravate the danger of a breach between the Priesthood and the Civil Power and the ill effects that may follow from thence both in Church and State And inferr that therefore you thought it became you to find out a mean for removing the difference that was encreasing and that no mean appeared more convenient than those remedies proposed by the Fathers of the Church for tempering the Canons by a prudent condescention according to the necessity of the times in such things as might no way endanger either the truth of Religion or the Rules of Morality and that you thought your Order and the whole Gallicane and indeed the Universal Church owed so much to a King that had merited so eminently of the Catholick Religion and who was daily desiring to merit further of it and that therefore you passed from your Rights and resigned them to the King We forbear to mention what you represent to us of the Appeal

of the Apostolick Nunciature in France as in fact she does by these presents protest that the Popes Letters to the Bishop of Pamiers bearing date the 2 of October 1680. and to the Chapter of Pamiers of the same date and to the Bishop of Tholouse bearing date the 1 of Ianuary 1681. and the Letters to the Nuns or Regular Canonesses of the Blessed Virgin of the Nunnery of Charron bearing date the 7 of August and the 15. of October 1680. or any other that have followed since that time or any thing that has been acted or done by vertue of those shall be no wayes hurtful or prejudicial to the Rights of the Gallicane Church and shall turn to no Precedent or Warrant for doing the like in any other time or place and that none may thereupon presume to oppose the ancient Canons of the Church or the established Customs of this Kingdom or the received practices of the Gallicane Church or think that he may lawfully do any thing pursuant thereunto and let none be ignorant that these things notwithstanding the Canons Customs Rights and Liberties of the said Church shall still remain and preserve their ancient Force and Authority entire Hereby the Gallicane Clergy have thought fit to secure and preserve themselves and their priviledges and this this they will have known to all persons that so none may pretend ignorance Past in the Assembly General of the Clergy of France the Sixth of May 1682. A Letter from Paris of the 20th of Iune New-stile containing a further account of the Contests between the Pope and the French King BY my last which I sent by one that went from hence a fortnight ago I gave you a large account of our Affairs here which I hope has come to your hands before this time but the great change of the present prospect We have of that matter from that which appeared when I wrote last needs not surprize you For the secrets of State are not known here so quick as with you and they lie in so few hands and those are so true to the Kings service that the greatest persons here can penetrate no further into the Councils than as they are pleased to lay them open You will not therefore wonder if I now tell you that instead of the adjusting of that Affair of which all people here seemed so assured that it was universally spoken of as a thing done yet it appears now to be more desperate than ever We now know the true cause of the sudden Adjourning the Assembly of the Clergy and that it flowed not from any disposition to compose this difference but that it was done to prevent a stroke that might have put it past reconciling The true reason was this The Old resolute Pope sent a Courier to France to the Internuntio with a Bull of Excommunication which he required him to carry into the Assembly and there to fulminate in his Name against all the Assembly This came to the knowledge of Cardinal d' Estree who to prevent the ill effects of so hardy a Step sent presently a Courier with a strict charge to use all possible hast to get before the Popes Courier that so the King might have timely notice of what the other was bringing and this is now known to be the true reason of that sudden Adjournment So by this you see this matter is further from being composed than ever As for the Affair of the Sorbonne of which I gave you an account in my last it has had another effect than was expected On Monday last the Faculty met where there was great opposition made to the Registring the Kings Edict insomuch that they could not bring the Affair to any Issue at that time but Adjourned the debate till next day yet it was visible enough that those for the Negative were the stronger party so at night the Arch-Bishop of Paris the Marquiss of Segnelay the first President and the Attorney General met and it seems resolved on that which was put in execution next day for when the Sorbonne was again assembled and engaged in the debate about eleven a Clock an Officer was sent from the Court of Parliament requiring them to suspend their debates and to send them 12 of their Number who were named in the Order together with their Clerk and their Register the persons were not left to their choice lest they might have sent some that might have spoken too freely to the Parliament When the persons thus called for appeared the first President made a most terrible harangue to them he accused the Sorbonne of ingratitude and presumption that they who were but a Faculty that had no Authority and had their meeting only by the Kings Connivence should have arrogated an Authority to themselves to have examined the matter of an Edict that was made by the Assembly of the whole Clergy of France and was confirmed by the King and verified by the Parliament He therefore commanded their Clerk to insert it in their Register and charged them not to Assemble any more but as they should be required and authorised to it by orders from the Court And told them that by the first of July the Kings pleasure should be signified to them Thus you see how firm the Sorbonne is in this matter for the proceedings of the Court of Parliament are an open confession that the Majority of the Sorbonne would have refused to receive the Edict I add no more but that I am intirely yours Paris June 20. S. N. 1682. FINIS ERRATA PAG. 8. l. 33. after Constance r. and Basil p. 18. l. 22. r. Nostis quae is fecerit p. 25. l. 8. for from r. with There are lately Published THe Abridgement of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England The History of the Rights of Princes in the disposing of Ecclesiastical Benefices and Church-Lands Both written by Gilbert Burnet D. D. And Printed for Richard Chiswell * Or Dignity