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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25703	An apology for the Protestants of France, in reference to the persecutions they are under at this day in six letters.; Apologie pour les Protestans. English.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1683 (1683)	Wing A3555A; ESTC R12993	127,092	130

to acquaint you with But it is late and I have produced but too much to justifie the French Protestants who forsake their Country from any suspicion of impatience or wantonness You see now what are the Reasonable Means that are used to convert them Those goodly means which have been employed are To despise the most Sacred Edict that was ever made by men to count as nothing promises repeated a hundred times most solemnly by authentick Declarations to reduce people to utmost Beggary to make them die of Hunger in my opinion a more cruel death than that by Fire or Sword which in a moment ends life and miseries together to lay upon them all sorts of afflictions to take away their Churches their Ministers their Goods their Children their liberty of being born of living or of dying in peace to drive them from their Employments their Honors their Houses their native Country to knock them on the head to drag them to the Mass with Ropes about their Necks to imprison them to cast them into Dungeons to give them the question put them to the Rack make them die in the midst of torments and that too without so much as any Formality of Justice This is that they call Reasonable Means Gentle and Innocent Means For these are the Terms which the Archbishop of Claudiopol●s useth at the Head of all the Deputies of the Clergy of France in the Remonstrance they made to their King the last year when they took leave of his Majesty I must needs read you the passage here is the Remonstrance and the very words of that Archbishop Those gentle and innocent means which you make use of Sir with so much success to bring the Hereticks into the bosom of the Church are becoming the Bounty and Goodness of your Majesty and conformable at the same time to the mind of the divine Pastor who always retains Bowels of Mercy for these strayed Sheep he wills that they should be brought back and not hunted away because he desires their salvation and regrets their loss How far is this conduct from the rigor wherewith the Catholicks are treated in those Neighbouring Kingdoms which are infected with Heresie Your Majesty makes it appear what difference there is between Reason and Passion between the Meekness of Truth and the Rage of Imposture between the Zeal of the House of God and the Fury of Babylon In good truth cryed I to our Friend after the reading of this passage this is insufferable and I cannot forbear taking my turn to be a little in passion Methinks they should blush to death who call those Cruelties which have been executed upon innocent Sheep Meekness and that Rigor and the fury of Babylon which we have inflicted upon Tigers who thirsted after our Blood and had sworn the destruction of Church and State They plague and torment to death more than a million of peaceable persons who desire only the freedom of serving God according to his Word and the Laws of the Land who cannot be accused of the least shadow of Conspiracy and who by preserving that Illustrious Blood which now reigns there have done to France Services deserv'd together with the Edict of Pacification the love and the hearty thanks of all true French Men. And we have put to death in a legal manner it may be twenty wretched persons the most of which had forfeited their lives to the Law for being found here convinced by divers Witnesses who were the greatest part Papists of having attempted against the Sacred Li●e of our King and the lives of millions of his faithful Subjects Surely they would have had us let them done their Work let them have rooted out that Northern Heresie which they were as they assure us by their own Letters in so great and so near hopes of accomplishing But we had not forgot the Massacre of Ireland wherein by the confession of one of their own Doctors who knew it very well more than a hundred and fifty thousand of our Brethren in the midst of a profound peace without any provocation by a most sudden and barbarous Rebellion had their Throats cut by that sort of Catholicks whose fate they so much bewail Altho your Transport be very just and I am very well pleased with it said our Friend to me I must needs interrupt you to bring you back again to our poor Protestants What say you to their Condition I say answered I that there can be nothing more worthy compassion and that we must entirely forget all that we owe to the Communion of Saints if we open not our hearts and receive them as our true Brethren I will be sure to publish in all places what you have informed me and will stir up all persons to express in their favour all the Duties of Hospitality and Christian Charity To the end said he to me you may do it with a better heart at our next meeting I will fully justifie them against all those malicious Reports which are given out against their Loyalty and their Obedience to the Higher Powers Let us take for that all to morrow seven-night As you please said I so we took leave one of another and thus you have an end of a long Letter assuring you that I ever shall be Sir Yours FINIS The third Letter The French Protestants are no Antimonarchists SIR SInce you know the reason why this my third Letter comes so late I will not take up your time in excusing my long silence Our Friend being now recovered from his Indisposition which was the main stop hitherto we agreed upon a day when I came to his Chamber at the hour appointed I cannot tell sais he whether before we enter upon this matter to justifie our French Protestants in point of Fidelity towards their Superiours I should not impart to you several Letters which have since come to my hands wherein I have an account of several fresh Persecutions since August last I told him No For besides that what you related to me at our second meeting is more than enough to convince the greatest Infidel That the Mischiefs are at the height in that Kingdom and that there is no security of Conscience for the Protestants who stay there besides all this our Streets are full of instances of the new troubles they give them There is no Man but knows what was the event of the Marquiss Venour's Deputation wherein he gave a List of the cruelties used in Poictou against our poor Protestants He was forced to fly from his Estate and Country Every body has heard how many Gentlemen of good condition and several Ministers have been imprisoned for no other fault but their zeal for a Religion they believe to be the only true and safe one the exercise of which is likewise tolerated by one of the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom as you have already so well made out In short we are assured by a thousand credible Witnesses as likewise by the