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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01189	A letter vvritten by those of the assembly in Rochell: to Monsieur le Duc de Les Diguieres Containing an admonition vnto him, to leaue the enemie, and to ayde them. As also an exhortation and a warning vnto those that forsake the trueth, and cleaue vnto the enemies thereof, to shun that vengeance which God will send downe vpon them for the same.; Lettre de Messieurs l'Assemblee, a Monsieur le duc de Lesdiguieres. English	Eglises réformées de France. Assemblée générale (1620-1621 : La Rochelle); Lesdiguiéres, François de Bonne, duc de, 1543-1626.	1621 (1621)	STC 11304; ESTC S105630	6,562	16

vnto vs by those words that to vs should be as good an assurance as Letters Patents yea and vpon yours also What fault haue we committed that being assembled haue sought by all submissiue meanes possible vnto his Maiestie to obtaine that iustice that had beene promised vnto vs when wee remitted the pursuite thereof to our generall Deputies and desired those that are of the greatest quality and degrees and make profession of the Religion in this Realme to ioyne their intercessions with them And seeing that in stead of finding the effect of the performance of the promises made vnto vs vpon your iust and most humble supplications presented vnto his Maiestie we haue beene proclaimed Rebels and declared to be criminals and that as such our processe hath beene made some of vs haue beene executed by pictures seeing in Viuards they haue risen vp in Armes besieged battered and taken those place's that we held and in them contrary to the agreements made murthered some and vsed great violences vnto vs that at this present they besiege and furiously batter the Towne of S. Iohn D'angely can men iustly blame vs if against such violences wee oppose our defence which nature teacheth euery man and the law of God neuer reprooueth In the meane time God forbid that this extremitie whereinto we are reduced by constraint should in our hearts deface that most humble obedience and most faithfull seruice that wee owe vnto our King wherein wee protest inuiolably to continue desiring nothing more nor so much then that in the iustice and security required by vs for our Churches wee may attaine the meanes of a good and an assured peace in this state which as much as in vs lyeth we haue to our powers doe seek for beseeching God with all our hearts to defend and preserue the King from those dangers which the Enemies of his state expose his person vnto in the perils of warre In the meane time my Lord the iustnesse of our cause which so manifestly appeareth and which God will alwayes make to shine as bright as the Sunne at noone time doth not hinder you by your presence from approuing the proceedings that are taken against vs and which is more blotting out the remembrance of the griefes that our Churches receiue you promise and procure fauour vnto those who leauing vs will ioyne themselues vnto our Enemies as you solicite them by that meanes putting into the mouth of the Church at this day the cōplaint that the Prophet Ieremie made saying That his neerest friends behaued themselues disloyally towards him were become his Enemies The Sauiour of the world teacheth vs that a house deuided in it selfe cannot stand Iudge then my Lord if it please you what punishment they incurre that shall haue beene a meanes to stirre vp deuision in the house of God and whether God will not reuenge the destruction thereof not only vpon those that openly procure it but also on those that in any manner or by any meanes shall haue contributed vnto the same But after we had seene what hath beene done in Bearn Viuarez and against the assembly after that by your presence you haue fauoured a puissant Armie against the Churches of this Realme and the losse of many places that had beene giuen vs to hold for our securities In a time wherein the violence of our Enemies could not be restrained by any authority after you had conducted or accompanied the Armie that is incamped against our brethren before the Towne of S. Iohn D'angely if as wee haue beene assured you your selfe in person went to view the place and vsed all the experience dexterity that God hath giuen you in Armes to make the siege and the meanes to take it more easie what subiect haue not wee to complaine against you who in stead of being sicke for Iosephes affliction feare not to be the greatest instrument of his murthering Is it possible that you cannot apprehend the ruine of so flourishing a Church that God hath here gathered together and that you are not moued at the destruction that men seeke to bring vpon Monsieur De Sobize and vpon so many braue Gentlemen that haue beene the first that presented themselues in the mouth of the breach that is made in the Citie of Dauid that couragiously labour to repaire the same at this day in a manner wholly hindering that course of the destruction already begun in our Churches and proiected against all of them The knowledge that God hath giuen you of his holy name bindeth you to employ that authority whereunto hee hath aduanced you and all the graces that hee hath imparted vnto you and bestowed vpon you to the maintainance of his Church and will you imploy them in the destruction thereof Piety requireth that you should procure all good and liberty vnto those that make profession of Religion and will you approue and allow of their desolation Christian charity can hardly endure without watry eyes that wee should see one man onely put to death and can you with a smooth and smiling countenance behold and see the butcherie and cruell slaughter of so many of our brethren What reputation can they get or procure vnto themselues that fight against that Gospell whereof they make profession What fidelity may our Prince expect from them that being not faithfull vnto God abandon the maintainance of his cause And from whence proceedes this great distaste of vs at this day but only from this that there are some men and those of greatest qualities that giue themselues to affect the Religion as long and no longer then that it serueth their turnes to aduance them vnto dignities and to encrease their riches Is it not easie to be iudged that if couetousnesse and ambition be a meanes to make them disloyall vnto God and to dispise and neglect their owne saluation that the same vices will easily draw them on to infidelity towards their Prince and to the dispising of their owne honours Was it a small matter in your sight to see diuers Ministers driuen away from their dwelling places the exercise of Religion banished out of thos● places where it was established and the inhumanities which haue bin impiously vsed within these few yeares vpon the dead bodies of the faithfull almost in all places of this Realme The burnings and destroying of diuers of our Churches the many seditions and specially that last made in the Citie of Touers besides the entier desolation of those of Bearn haue they not touched nor mooued your soule with a Christian compassion and a iust apprehension in short time to behold and see those horrible cruelties executed vpon vs and our children that after the like proceedings were at other times executed vpon our fathers and that after as at this day they had bin deceiued by words of peace and quietnesse Certainely my Lord if you acknowledge that you hold that honor which you at this present enioy from the blessings that God hath giuen vnto