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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18207	The reformed Catholicque, against the deformed Iesuite. Or A discovering of the trecherie of the Iesuites against the reformed churches of France, and other partes. Written by an inhabitant of Rochill, 1621	Inhabitant of Rochill.	1621 (1621)	STC 4830.5; ESTC S109166	6,312	16

nothing should be innovated in Bearn to leave that busines in suspence and not to speake of the 7. monthes never the lesse all those promises were withdrawne that dewe proceedings from such persons might be broaken and his Majestie was perswaded and that by divers great personages that it was a sinne yea and a great sinne to hold his woord therein and to the contrarie that it is a worke of great pietie to violate his faith These whot spirits these spotted and blacke consciences these disguised Divells these perfidious infernall Hogs these Massacrers of Kings publickely teach such pernicious precepts whereof the death of Chastel serveth for a witnes and an authentike seale unto us They were not content to have done a thousand injuries unto us in Bearn but since that tyme oh unspeakeable crueltie and furious madnes they have taken our deade bodies out of the earth troubled their rest and used violence unto our carcases seing it is a Huguenot wee must pull him out of his grave wee must tye a rope obout his necke and draw him through the streets like a dog Oh most outragious beastlynes and Divelishe furie These Barbarous cruelties were done unto us in the citie of Tours and worse then they they brake downe our churche yeard they defaced our Temple and burnt it and the Bible the holy scriptures the Gospell and Testament of God Whether doe these cruell vilaynes suppose to triumphe against God when they triumphe over his holy woord and not content therewith what have they not done The repetition thereof is most lamentable They animated sedicious persons in all places against us they did us a thousād mischiefes and yet alas wee durst not open our mouthes to complayne thereof that by our teares and sightes wee might pacifie and asswge our greef Some of our people were cast in prison and some were glad to run away and to set a faire shew upon their crueltie they put some of their side likewise into prison that were shassed awaye and the matter winckt at If wee had done the like wee should have bin imprisoned hangd and without forme of processe wee should hav bin punished for an exemple unto others alas will not a good counsell take order in so pitieful a distresse My hart bleedes but I dare not saye that which I know Ne vati noceat esse locutum A great tree in the ende is puld downe to the grownde by pulling one peece this daye an other that daye from it Whie should wee be blasmed for assembling in Rochell by the Kings permission they take this subject to animate themselves against us to come thether to over run us and to put all to fyer and sword wee are pressed and perswaded to separate our selves which wee will never do that weare a meanes to begin againe and to reduce us into the like miserie It must not be so wee must either know the short or the long we have bin sufficiently dalied withall and in a manner afflicted since the lamentable death of King Henrie the great of famous memorie the more wee staye the more wee are vexed the more wee remit the lesse wee are eased If they threathen to put us to death wee are accustomed thereunto if they threaten to burn us wee have past through that allredy If they threaten to cut of our heads wee have tryed that also Is not the river of Seine yet red all over with the blood of our Fathers Is not the River of Loire all bloody by the mesure of our Bretheren Is not the River of Rosne yet purple with the blood of our graund-Fathers Are not the ashes of our predicessors that were burnt still whot are not the high wayes still full of the bones of our Kinsmen that were trayterously murthered for the profession of the reformed Religion and for refuseing to follow the footstepp of Antechrist All this is nothing let us make the rivers shew of a ●ermilion color with the abondance of our blood let us contemne fyer and fagot swords and shot gibet and wheel for Religion sake for the service of God and for professing Iesus Christ for he himself saith He that acknowledged me before men I will acknowledge him before my Father which is in Heaven as to the contrarie he saith to those whome tribulation and feare of death hath made to fall from their profession He that shall denie me before Men I will denie him before my Father which is in Heaven he that is ashamed to acknowledge me before men I will be ashamed of him before my Father which is in Heaven And againe he that loveth his life more then me is not worthy of me They thinke by spoyling one member by destroying one towne by putting a thowsand Millions of people to death that the whole body of Religion is thereby exterminated wee spring up againe out of our ashes our blood hatcheth us againe Those great and cruell Massacres committed upon our Fathers have not deminished us It is Gods cause the Lord will undertake our defence and withstand the rage of our ennemyes They make warre against us which is manifest and evident but pietie is not the principal cause of their deseigne for seeing that Athists and Iewes are suffered to live peaceablie they may wel permit us to live in the Realme indifferently among the common people obediently as they have hetherto done but bycause wee have directly banded our selves against the wicked enterprises of the satanicall instructions of this sodometicall societie and that wee disclose the subtilties the craftines the infernall practises and the antitheticque or contrarie Doctrynes of this communaltie of mamon and publishe and make them knowne to simple ignorant fellowes seducers of the people they are stirred up against us feareing that their state will dekie and wax worse and worse and that in the ende they shall no longer be able to subsist against the truth and also having an aprehension that at the last they shall see the Romishe glorie and profit overthrowne which to maintaine they doe most audaciously strive against God and bycause wee uphold his name and defend the truth they seeke by a Divelishe counsell to destroy us as the most strong and most puisant ennemyes of the apostolike seate These Dipers these Basilickes these Tigers these furious Dragons are the cause of all the mischief which wee see to be prepared generally to afflict all Frannce specially aiming at our destruction like greedy and ravening Lyons Let us stand firme and fast by the tree of faith and let us repose all our confydence and hoape in Gsd without looking or attending for ayde from man for If God be with us who shal be against us Wee make profession of the Reformed religion let not torments martiring rackes nor horror of death make us at any time to waver nor change our Religion let us not feare the World Emperors Kings Monarckes Princes nor whole realmes nor Nations sediciously animated against us let us freely and boldly confesse