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A25712 An Appeal to all Protestant kings, princes, and states, concerning the apparent danger of the Protestant religion, and the great decay of its interest in Europe with a most awakening account of the unjust and cruel methods for the destruction thereof, that are practiced in several countries. 1700 (1700) Wing A3567; ESTC R8897 21,558 40

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grow never the Wiser nor consider how soon this may be their own Case Nay they will scarce so open their Eyes as to take notice of those very Arts that are using against themselves by which others have been destroyed And now to Awaken all if possible out of this Lethargy we will as briefly as may be give an Account of what they of the Church of Rome have done in other Countries for the Ruining of the Protestant Religion and Interest and perhaps afterwards of what they are now doing against our own Church To give Instances of their Cruelties and Plicies and of their Success against the Protestant Interest in the several parts of Europe is as easie as it is a Melancholy Task As for those beginnings of a Reformation which were entertain'd and which spread not a little in ITALY and SPAIN the Inquisition was let loose upon them and that bloudy and barbarous Tribunal soon extinguish'd them In BOHEMIA the Reformation was reciv'd with so much readiness BOHEMIA that in a short time the Protestant Religion became almost the Religion of the Countrey Bohemia indeed was ready for it having struggl'd for some Ages before against the Usurpations of the Church of Rome and been prepar'd not onely by the Doctrine but by the Sufferings of their two Countreymen John Huss and Jerome of Prague who had been burnt for their Religion by the Popish Council at Constance expresly contrary to the Faith given them by the Emperor Sigismund This flourishing of the Protestant Religion in Bohemia was a mighty Eye-sore to the Church of Rome and the Ruin of it was their great aim and that which one might have hop'd to have been the Eternal Establishment of it there became the fatal opportunity of the Ruin of it viz. the Election of a Protestant Prince from Germany to be their King To understand how this became the Ruin of the Protestant Interest in Bohemia it will be necessary to look a little into their sad History That Kingdom hd been by their Constitution for many Ages Elective as that great Statesman who had been so often Embassador abroad and to Vienna it self Sir Thomas Roe has demonstrated in a Book of his call'd Regnum Bohemiae Electivum The Emperors of Germany had among others been sometimes elected their King by the States of the Countrey but when the Austrian Family became greater and had Three of them Ferdinand Maximilian and Rodolphus successively chosen Kings of Bohemia they had a mind to joyn it to their other Dominions by making it Hereditary In order to this Matthias who had himself been nominated upon the surrender of the Emperour Rodolphus with the Consent of the States of the Countrey declares his adopted Son Ferdinand Successor to the Crown of Bohemia without any Election from the States at all This the States of that Kingdom looking upon as a manifest infraction and subversion of the Liberties of their Nation They reject Ferdinand as their States had formerly done to Vladislaus 3d. for the same reasons and Elect Frederick 5th Count Palatine of the Rhine a Protestant Prince to be their King This Act of the States is immediately call'd Rebellion and the whole Popish Party catch at this opportunity not onely of being reveng'd on the new King and his Party but of Extirpating the Protestant Religion out of Bohemia upon it Popery Flyes to its best Argument that of Arms. Ferdinand that bitter Enemy of the Protestant Religion puts the new King under the Imperial Ban raises a too potent Army against him and discomifits him at the Battle of Prague Thus Success puts an end to the New King's Power ruines all his Friends and the Protestant Religion in Bohemia and I cannot but say it 's the greatest blot upon the Memory of all the Protestant Princes of that time but especially of King James the First of England He having been so shamefully wanting to so just a Cause and to his own Son in Law in it Thus fatal was this War to the Protestant Interest in Bohemia and to convince the World what Regard Popery has to Rights and Laws the Protestant Religion and the Civil Rights and Liberties of that Countrey were ruin'd together and both buried in the same Grave The Jesuits who had before been expell'd out of that Kingdom for their wicked Pranks the great Governours of that Emperor Ferdinand have reason to triumph in that success against the Protestant Interest since it not only ruin'd the Protestant Religion but restor'd them there and gave them for their pains in it such a share of the forfeited Estates of the Exil'd Barons and Protestants as is almost incredible They that self-denying Order which minds nothing but the Glory of God possessing more Lands and Lordships in Bohemia than the Duke of Tuscany does in Italy They began with Bohemia where the Protestant Religion is quite destroy'd and this success encourag'd them to persecute the same Religion in HVNGARY where it is almost in the same condition The Reformation was so well receiv'd in Hungary HUNGARY and so well settled there in the Year 1567 that there were ten Protestants to one Papist before their late Persecutions and at least 2500 Protestant Churches in that Kingdom The Free exercise of it was establisht by their Laws and their Kings sworn in their Coronation Oaths to maintain and preserve the same but what Laws or Oaths signifie against the persecuting and bloudy Principles of Popery the present State of the Reform'd Religion there will plainly tell us It looks like madness to attack a Religion when it is become the Religion of the Countrey when it has the establishment of the Laws and of the Constitution but the Popish Clergy were resolv'd to leave no way untry'd to ruin the Protestant Religion in Hungary for all that They onely want a tolerable pretext to begin their persecutions of them and such an one they thought they had got in the Year 1670. There was an Insurrection that year in Hungary the Heads whereof Serini Nadasti Frangipani the two Barkoksys c. were known and profest Papists and though it was about matters purely Civil and nothing relating either to the one Religion or the other yet this opportunity was laid hold on by the Jesuits and others the Protestants are accus'd vehemently as being guilty or at least complices in it and assoon as the Emperor had upon this Insurrection Garrison'd all the strong places of the Kingdom with his Popish German Soldiers which was contrary to the Laws and Liberties of their Countrey it was thought high time to begin their Persecution of the Protestants there They began with the chief Patrons of the Protestants that were of the Nobility and afterwards with the Generality of the Gentry and Citizens imprisoning the Persons of such as did not fly and confiscating their Estates as guilty of Rebellion which they prov'd themselves altogether innocent of The rest of the Principal Protestants seeing that Innocence was no Protection