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cause_n	great_a	matter_n	see_v	3,060	5	3.1155	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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