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A36859	A vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant religion in the point of obedience to sovereignes opposed to the doctrine of rebellion authorised and practised by the Pope and the Jesuites in answer to a Jesuitical libel entituled Philanax anglicus / by Peter Du Moulin.	Du Moulin, Peter, 1601-1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing D2571	98,342	178

am not without suspition that when those places of safety were granted to them by Henry the IV. their enemies in the Kings Counsel suggested or furthered that grant for their undoing in the time to come for they might well foresee that on the one side a wise King would not suffer long such a disease in his own bowels as a party of his subjects armed with places of security against him and that on the other side the party so secured would not part with that security for their Religion Liberties and Lives without committing such actions as would make them obnoxious to their Sovereigns anger and their ruine Three or four years after the rendition of all those places to the King the Duke of Montmorancy raised a party against him in Languedock of which he was Governour hoping to find the Protestants which are numerous there prepared subjects for an insurrection yet neither his solicitations nor the resentment of their sufferings could move them to assist him But they joyned universally with the King and did rare service in a battel where that Duke was defeated and taken and with him a Jesuited Bishop And it is to be noted that old Marshal de la Force a Protestant that hardly escaped the Massacre of St. Bartholomew was one of the chief Commanders of the Kings Army The Adversary gives a touch of the wars begun in Germany Bohemia and Hungary in the year 1619. of which he imputes the whole cause to the Protestants I undertake not to justifie their errours I say onely that whoso had looked with an ordinary judgement upon the face of those Countreys as they were then divided and ballanced between the Papist and the Protestant party might have foretold without a spirit of prophecy that they should not enjoy a long peace there being so many free spirits animated to liberty and revenge by the severity of the superstitious house of Austria towards their Protestant subjects If Bethlem Gabor was a prodigious man and a demi-Turk as this man makes him it is nothing to us as Religion justifieth no mans faults no mans faults can condemn Religion The notion under which I fancy that man is that of a cannon-shot without bullet which makes a great and short crack and no effect All that the Adversary saith of his dealing with the Turk sheweth that the Protestants of Hungary were so opprest by the Emperour that they wisht themselves the Turks subjects I pray God they do not so still and with them the other Protestants belonging to the Emperours hereditary Countreys seeing their brethren that live under the Turk enjoy the freedome of their Religion The same reason might make the Protestants of the Empire slow to contribute towards the war against the Turk yet I hear they are as forward as any It is not declaiming against them as the Adversary doth but using them like Christians that will make them joyn heartily with the Emperour in that war The Spanish branch of the house of Austria hath lost great part of Netherlands by the inflexibleness of Philip the II. of Spain to grant liberty of Religion to his Protestant subjects Let the German branch of Austria which useth the like hardness take heed of the like loss The Reformation of Religion in the United Provinces is that upon which the Adversary triumpheth most it being very apparent to his thinking that they brought it in by shaking the Yoke of the King of Spain But there is great difference between reforming and establishing the Reformation The first was done by the Word the second by the Sword and the first forty years before the second The Reformed Religion was spred over the Seventeen Provinces many years before there was any thought of making an Union against the Spaniard neither was that Union made upon the score of Religion but of State for maintaining their Franchises against the oppression of Spain as it was sufficiently justified by their choosing of Francis Duke of Alenson a Roman Catholick for their Prince An. 1583. which they would never have done if the Union had ever marched under the notion of Religion as our Adversary pag. 32. affirmeth or if the Protestants had been the greater number And that Religion was not that which knit the party and that there was no such thing in the Articles it appeared again when some Provinces forsook the Union because the Prince of Orange had put Religion among the causes of their defensive Warre If then the Union was unjust the injustice must not be cast upon Religion since it was not made upon that interest and if it was just it could not become unjust by the accession of the interest of Religion to the other interests So that which way soever the Adversary takes it the Roman Catholicks bear an equal share with the Protestants in the right and wrong of the cause Flanders and Brabant were as guilty as Holland and Zealand The difference is that Flanders and Brabant were beaten to obedience by the Duke of Parma but Holland and Zealand proved too strong for him The World beholds with amazement the successe of that Union that these little Provinces should bring their Prince to be their suppliant that he might be allowed to quit his right over them and acknowledge them Free States yea and to justifie their armes It is that successe not their guilt that makes our Adversary so vehement against them for ill Gamesters will be angry when they are loosers Whether it be out of wilfulnesse or ignorance this Gentleman mis-represents that businesse speaking of the King of Spain as of an absolute Sovereigne of the Low Countries and of the people as of meer Subjects Philip the II. was not their King but their Count. But I have said something of that in my Clamor Regii Sanguinis ad Caelum it is besides my businesse to inquire how the rights of Sovereignty were divided between the Prince and the People which ought to be known before the case be stated If the cause of Religion made the quarrel irreconcileable Philip the II. may thank himself for it Strada the great friend of the Spaniard tells us that the Great Council of Spain represented to the King that unlesse he granted liberty of conscience to his Subjects of the Netherlands the Countrey would be lost and the Warre perpetual whereupon the King fell on his knees before a Crucifix and vowed that he would choose to lose his Dominions rather then to permit heresie so he called the Protestant Religion If many years after they were offered to be secured for their Religion as our Adversary saith which I never heard before it was pag. 39. too late It is an unequitable motion and more advantageous for the Roman party than ours that excesses happening by the ordinary course of humane businesses be not imputed to Religion Oppression will make subjects to shake off the yoke And the prosperity of their defection keeps them from returning to their

rebellion is the enterprise of Amboise An. 1560. But the Protestant Religion had subsisted already forty years in France under the crosse And the Professors of the same though numerous had never fought for their Religion but by their constancy in asserting the truth and suffering for it The enterprise of Amboise was a 〈◊〉 quarrel of State not of Religion and ●●…and●● the Leader was a man most averse from the Protestant Religion The quarrel was this King Francis the II. being about sixteen years of age and younger in understanding then years was altogether governed by some Lords of the House of Guise then lookt upon as strangers and the Princes of the blood were excluded from the businesses of State These excluded Princes plotted to surprise the Court at Amboise and remove strangers from about the Kings person thinking themselves sufficiently warranted by their quality and interest that plot was cried Thuan. Hist lib. 24. Nullos ex conjuratis convictos fuisse alicujus molitionis in Regemaut Reginam sed tantū in exteros sui in Aulâ tyrannicé omnia administrabant nempe Guisianos down as rebellious because it did not take effect and being discovered the House of Guise did not fail to make it a matter of High Treason although the great Thuanus depose for the conspirators that None of them was convicted of any attempt against the King and Queen but onely against strangers who governed all things about the Court in a tyrannical way Who so knoweth the interests of the Princes of the blood in France will never call that attempt treason And if they could do so much by the right of their birth their right was never the worse for their being Protestants Francis II. being dead soon after and his Successor Charls the IX being under age the Princes of the blood had more right then before to claim the management of the publick affairs being intrusted with them by the Laws of the Kingdome in the Kings minority at least in conjunction with the Queen Mother And being excluded from it again they raised an Army to recover their right That right is not considered at all by Jesuites that take upon them now a hundred years after to censure their actions but these Princes and their followers are represented onely as Hereticks and Rebels that made Warre against their Sovereigne After the King was out of minority the Princes and their party seeing that the King was much incensed against them and was of a dangerous and implacable nature durst not come neer him and the frequent Massacres made them keep themselves in a posture of defence and repel force by force To be rid of them at once the King used that famous and unparallelled treachery of a feigned peace with the Protestants sealed with the Marriage of his Sister with the Head of their party the first Prince of the blood next to his Brothers Henry King of Navarre and having invited them to the Wedding he slew them in their beds The number of the slain in cold blood on St. Bartholomew's Day and since within the space of three moneths amounted to about a hundred thousand An action publickly commended by the Pope and the Murtherers rewarded with many spiritual graces by his Holinesse That the relicks of the party after that general execution took defensive arms as it is not to be commended it is not to be wondred at neither Men are not Angels and there is nothing more natural then to strive for life The House of Guise having formed the League pretended for the destruction of Heresie but intended 〈◊〉 them for the pulling down of the Royal House King Henry the III. perceiving this too late made ●●e of Henry King of Navarre then the apparent Heir of the Crown and of his Protestants Army to oppose the League That King being stabbed by a Monk soon after the Head of the Protestant party became lawful King and his Protestant Army the Royal Army yet their arms then though never so just were as much condemned by the Pope as before and as much taxed of rebellion But that praise cannot be denied to their arms that by them as Gods chief instruments the rebellion of the League was defeated and the lawful King preserved raised and setled upon his Throne whilest the Jesuited Zealots exprest their zeal of religion by attempting to stab him and were too good Catholicks to be good Subjects Since our Adversary alledgeth the words of King James of blessed and glorious memory and sets himself forth under the name of Philanax a Lover of the King he must in duty stand to the judgement of that great and judicious King This Sentence his Majesty pronounceth of that cause which this enemy calleth a Defence of the Right of Kings most unanswerable rebellion pag. 14. I never knew yet saith the King that the French Protestants took arms against their King In the first troubles they stood onely upon their defence Before they took arms they were burnt and massacred every where and the quarrel did not begin for Religion but because when King Francis the II. was under age they had been the refuge of the Princes of the blood expelled from the Court even of the Grandfather of the King now reigning and of that of the Prince of Conde who knew not where to take sanctuary For which the present King hath reason to wish them well It shall not be found that they made any other warre nay is it not true that King Henry the III. sent armies against them to destroy them and yet they ran to his help as soon as they saw him in danger Is it not true that they saved his life at Tours and delivered him from an extreme peril Is it not true that they never forsook neither him nor his Successour in the midst of the revolt and rebellion of most part of the Kingdome raised by the Pope and the greatest part of his Clergy Is it not true that they have assisted him in all his battails and helped much to raise the Crown again which was ready to fall Is it not true that they which persecuted the late King Henry the II. enjoy this day the fruits of the services done by the Protestants who are now maligned not for controversies of Religion but because that if their advice was followed the Crowne of the French Kings should no more depend on the Pope there would be no Frenchman in France that is not the Kings Subject there would be no appeal to Rome of beneficial and matrimonial causes and the Kingdome should be no more tributary under colour of Annats and the like impositions Even Cardinal Perron cleareth them from that imputation of rebellion when he saith that the doctrine of the deposition of Kings by the Pope was received in France till Calvin He doth then silently acknowledge that Kings were ill served before and that those whom he calls hereticks having brought forth the Holy Scripture to the publick sight