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A78472	Certain letters, evidencing the Kings stedfastness in the Protestant religion: sent from the Princess of Turenne, and the ministers of Charenton, to some persons of quality in London.	Turenne, Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomtesse de.; Gaches, Raymond, d. 1668.; Daillé, Jean, 1594-1670.; Drelincourt, Charles, 1595-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing C1702; Thomason E1079_5; ESTC R16902	21,298	87

neither did he disdain to be present at our religious assembly at Roan and Rochel moreover be hath the estimation of godly use among those that are about him I confess he never graced our Church with his presence while he was seated at Paris which truely grieved us but because the Case of those called Presbyterians seemed to concern us who are Presbyterians and because the Kings death was ascribed to the Presbyterians he could not but be strange to us untill the event of things certified him that his instalment was principally hindered not by our brethren but by the Anabaptists for the most part or at least the Independents whom also he certainly understood to have before promoted his Fathers sad death I wish the Odium of that fact wherewith our Churches have so long been loaded might now at length be removed both from us and our English brethren which I know not how it can ever be unless matters may be so composed as the Sonne may bear his Fathers Scepter not violently wrested out of the Presbyterians hands but friendly freely proffer'd Go on Reverend Sir prevent the calanities of imminent warre do you and the brethren like you embrace peaceable counsels and give the like to your Country-men Divine providence will favour and bless your endeavours and will use you as sacred instruments for restoring happiness to your Country Butenough and too much of this for you may wonder that I speak so familiarly to you but I mentioned in the beginning what cause moved me thereto viz. relying on your piety and charity which will take all in good part Further God bless your Studies your labours your Church and all your nay our England which is the Flower and Glory of all the Kingdomes wherein God is truly worshiped Paris Apr. 2. 1660. De PARIS ce 3. Auril 1660. Monsuur tres-honoré Frere IL n'est rien arrivé en nos jours de plus étonnant que les Revolutions d' Angleterre d' Ecosse d Irlande Apres la mort tragique du feu Roy l'on faisoit esperer l'établissement d'une Republique qui seroit la merveille l'admiration du Monde Maisles divers changemens quisont arrivés de tems en tems les confusions qui sont a craindre font croire a plusieurs que Dieu veut ramener les choses a leur Principe mettre ces trois Couronnes unies ensemble sur la tested un seul Monarque Ce qui nous réjouït nous console est qu'il semble que pour faire ce glorieux ouvrage Dieu se veuille servir de ceus avec lesquels nous auons une communion plus étroite de doctrine de discipline Car nous apprenons que ceus que l'on apelle Presbyteriens ont aujourduy le plus de pouvoir que ce sont eus qui tiēnent le timon de l'Etat Cette Illustre Assemblée qui vouloit conserver a son Roy sa vie sa Royauté étoit sans doute bien éloignée de vouloir priver ses enfans du du droit qui leur est aquis par une Succession continuée en leur Maison Royale depuis plusieurs siecles Il court icy un bruit que ce qui pourroit empescher le Roy d'a present d'estre rapellê a l heritage de ses Peres est l'opinion que l'on a qu'il est Catholique Romain la crainte qu'avec le tems il ne ruine la Religion qui fleurit dans les trois Royaumes Mais Monsieur vous savez que nous avons toûjours detesté la doctrine des Papes de leurs supposts qui enseignent que les Princes qu'ils apellent Heretiques sont inhabiles a succeder aus Couronnes que s'ils sont en possession du Royaume ils doivent estre deposez Outre cela je ne say pas sur quoy l'on fonde que ce Prince est Catholique Romain veu qu'il n'en fait point la profession et au contraire qu'il a refusé tous les avantages toutes les assistances qui luy ont été ofertes a cette condition La charité n'est point soubçonneuse Et si elle nous defend de soub●ccedil onner legerement des particuliers comment pourroit elle approuver que l'on soup●ccedil onne des Personnes si sacrées l'Experience a asséz fait voir combien souvent de tels soup●ccedil ons même les plus violens sont mal fondez Nos Histoires ont fait voir un exemple bien convaincant Car la Ligue ne fonda jamais sa rebellion contre le Roy Henry 3. que sur ce qu'il étoit Heretique fauteur d' Heretiques Et par là on vouloit faire croire qu'l n'avoit nulle affection a la Religion Romaine que sous main il favorisoit la nôtre Cependant nous n'avons point eu de plus puissant ennemy et chacun sait qu'il a vêcu qu'il est mort en la Communion de Rome qu'il y a fait paroistre autant de zele qu'aucun de ses Predecesseuss Mais sans passer la Mer vous aves au milieu de vous un exemple sans repartie Carquels soup●ccedil on s n'a on point eude la Religion du feu Roy de la grande Bretagne Cependant a l'heure que la dissimulation n'a plus de lieu qu'il n'avoit plus rien a esperer ni a craindre de la part des hommes il a fait paroître son Zele a la vraye Religion et même cette douceur cette patience admirable avec laquelle il a sousert le dernier suplice de la main de ses propres sujets a bien fait voir que l Esprit de Dieu regnoit en son coeur Il est vray que je ne vous puis rien dire de mon chef de la Religion du Prince dont il s'agit parce que pour des considerations politiques il ne nous a point fait I honneur de venir en nos S tes Assemblées a Charenton qui est le seul lieu où nons pouvons en corps témoigner nos respects aus Princes étrangers de nôtre Cōmunion Pour ce qui est de moy en particulier je suis trop peu de chose pour entreprendre de visiter un si grand Prince Et c'est aussy la raison pour laquelle je n'ay point eu l'honneur de voir M R le Duc d Yorc Mais comme j'apris il y déja quelques années que M R le Duc de Glocester avoit fait paroître sa suffisance a confondre les faus Docteurs qui le vouloyent seduire qu'il avoit eu assez de courage de generosité pour resister à la Reyne sa Mere et a ceux qui ce vouloyent placer en la maison des Jesuites Je creus veu sa grande jeunesse

initio Nempe tuâ Pietate tuâ Charitate fretus quae omnia meliorem in partem interpretabitur Porrò benedicat Deus studiis tuis laboribus tuis Ecclesiae tuae toti vestrae imò nostrae Britanniae quae Flos est Gloria Regnorum in quibus Deus purè colitur Lutetiae Paris Non. April An. 1660. RAIMOND GACHES Pastor of the Reformed Church of Paris to the most Famous man and most Upright Pastor RICHARD BAXTER Wisheth all Health THough I am neither by face nor fame known unto you most worthy Sir and most reverend brother in Christ yet I address my self to you with confidence because I know you very well and am fully assured of your Piety I have read again and again not without admiration those learned volumes little indeed if we respect the bulk but exceeding precious and througbly dyed with the truest tinctures of Christianity wherewith you have blest your own Countrey and with which France hath not been altogether unacquainted Who can seriously read though but one leaf of them and not perceive how you felt the breathing so God's spirit and were seasonably raised up for these unhappy times as one who may with stout courage and invincible arms undertake and curb outragious ungodliness I solemnly profess I never saw any thing studied and come from those commonly called The Ancient Fathers of the Church or from the Doctors of the latter times which doth with equal success breath forth the Authors and also kindle the Readers devotion● Those things which you have al● ready put out concerning Everlasting Rest A Call to the Unconverted justification in which i● you leave the beaten rode a little you do it as far as I can understand not without reason and Scripture Infant-Baptism Peace of Conscience c. do witness most clealy both what your learning is and what your love of Religion Wh● then may forbid me to pour forth my careful and doubtfull thoughts into the bosome of such and so great a man and to declare what runs in my mind concerning the sad and fickle state of your Common wealth Truly I am no pryer into other mens matters and especially as to yours I have been so far from angerly thundring Virulent Declaiming against them that I have thought it an unspeakable fault to dispute curiously of them I will say more I could not but hope well of Britain for I was and am still of this opinion that God hath reserved to himself in England more Elect and more godly men then ever either flourished of old or can be shewn now in any Realm of Christendome Let both fearfull brethren and furious enemies judge your safety desperate and ask in their unbelief Who will give salvation to Israel out of Zion God will provide there are not ten not a thousand just men but entire Millions of godly men I will hear what the Lord God will say for he will speak peace to his people But because the most high Ruler of the world who can indeed without the intervening of means both scatter the darkness and call back the Light yet nevertheless wills not for the most part to put forth his power immediately we ought Reverend Sir to lay together our Studies and all Counsels to establish firmly the safety of Britain I suppose its condition will be perpetually tottering until the Government return into one mans hands Monarchy As the customes of Nations are various and their dispositions various so their manners of Governing publick affaires are various they are not of the same mind One people chooses a popular Government and neither is nor can be accustomed to be ruled by one man Another people being taken with the splendor of Nobility and hating the madness of the Commonalty prefers Monarchy Your Country of England hath been a lover of Kings for almost innumerable ages neither do I know any Monarchy in the world more ancient The same Sun shines upon the present English men the aspects of the stars the quality of the soil hath the same influence upon their affections now as formerly Who then can hope that either a Democracy or Aristocracy will easily prevail in that Countrey wherein Monarchy hath taken such deep rooting But England may some man say hath already changed the form of Government and that as it seem'd with common consent who then can deny that may be commodiously done which hath been done commodiously I have a double answer hereto First I will in like manner query whether that change proved very happy for England Truely if Taxes and Imposts be to be counted they are not only doubled but increased beyond almost all measure If the State of religion be to be considered what a common-sewer of Heresies is there Who ever heard of Ranters Quakers c. under the King Secondly Suppose Britain hath been happy since the change yet it was under the Government of One What matter 's the name this one was a Protector not a King I grant but he was one and such a one as was neither unskilfull in the art of ruling nor behaved himself inferiour to a King in dissolving Parliaments and from his death or at least from the casting out of his Son England never was quiet changes were continual whom yesterday we reverenced to day we loath whom we swore fealty to but now him soon after we damn with curses Shall that most noble Queen of Islands alwayes be so tossed upon the waves and shall no Halcyon fly thither which may calm your seas Truely I fear you will never have peace ascertained either against tumults at home or the attempts of Enemies abroad till he who is the Grand-son of so many Kings at length be restored to his Grand-fathers Throne he hath every where by right of inheritance the title of King of Britain though he yet possess not the thing designed by the Title I know what Odium hath been cast upon him some whether really or counterfeitly are dissatisfied in his constancy to the true religion and alledge that it concerns the Church very much that he who is to rule others should excell them in godliness I will not answer which truly may be said that it belongs not to us to enquire into the Princes religion Be he what he will if his power be otherwise lawfull and the right of reigning belongs unto him Obedience in civil matters must be performed to the King and other matters must be committed unto Divine Providence Let the Bishop of Rome lust to justle Kings out of the Throne unless they order affairs of religion according to his Beck We may not be so proud We give unto God the things that are Gods and to Caesar the things that are Caesars But I pass over all this for which is the thing chiefly to be considered this Prince being born and duly educated in the true Religion never departed from the publick profession of it no not even in those places in which he was likly to suffer loss thereby

time we never had a more potent Enemy and to all mens knowledge he lived and dyed in the Communion of Rome and therein shewed as much zeal as any of his Predecessors But not pass the Seas you have in the midst of you an instance against all contradiction For what jealousies have not been raised against the Religion of the late King of Great Britain and yet at the hour when there was no place for dissembling as being void of feares and hopes from man he made his zeale to the true Religion appear and even that sweetness and that admirable patience with which he suffered death by the hands of his own Subjects hath made it very visible that the Spirit of God reign'd in his heart True it is that from my self I am not able to relate any thing touching the Religion of that Prince Because for reasons of State we had not the honour of his presence in our Assemblies of Charenton the only place where in a formall body wee are able to witness the respect we bear to stranger Princes in communion with us And as to my self I am not considerable enough to have made a visite to so great a Prince which was also the reason why I had not the honour to see the Duke of York But two year since being informd how the Duke of Glocester had manifested his ability to confound the false Doctors that had undertaken to seduce him and that he had courage and generosity enough to resist those who would have placed him in the Colledge of the Jesuites I thought considering how very young he was that I might have the honour to give him a visite without apprehending any disadvantage And I performed it the work freely because I knew that not only he would accept it but did also desire it I cannot express how much I was satisfied with that young Prince For besides the obliging manner wherewith he receaved and he gave me severall proofs of his zeale and piety I remember that among other discourses he tould me how the late King his Father a little before his death had charged him with three things Never to change his Religion to obey his elder Brother who was to be his King in the same manner as he would have obeyed himself if God had spared his life And to continue obedient to the Queen his Mother in all but what related to Religion To which he added that in persevering in his Religion he did not only do his duty towards God and preserve the peace of his conscience but also performe the last will of the King his Father and follow the order of the King his Brother who had sent for him to free him of future temptations This discourse which he delivered with a very good grace confirmed me in the beliefe I had of the late Kings Religion and made me see what I ought in charity to believe of the King his Son But over and above there be in his family among his domesticks some gentlemen of our Religion and my auncient friends who at severall times have given me assurances of the piety of this Prince and his stability in the profession he makes True it is English men have unadvisedly done him great wrong for upon false prejudices they have stayed from Communion with us and so have raised jealousies as if their King and all his Court were inclined to Popery But the more discreet behave themselves otherwise for knowing that the beliefe of our Church and that of that Church of England is the same they willingly came to our Churches and even Dr Cosin the King of Great Britain's Chapplain hath joyn'd with us with great devotion To returne to my discourse God intrusts at this day your Presbyterians the Gentlemen now in power with the honour and reputation of our Churches For if without the intervening of any foraigne power they recall this Prince and seate him in his Throne they acquire to them selves and to their posterity an immortall glory and stop their mouthes for ever who charge us falsly as enemies of Royalty and make appear that the Maxime of no Bishop no King is injuriously imputed to us For my part I confess that as I have deplored with bitter teares the bloody death of the late King So shall it be to me an exceeding joy to behold the reestablishment of the King his Son if performed with circumstances not lessening the splendor of Royall Majesty And which may be to the glory of God and the good and rest of the three Kingdomes 'T is for this that I will offer up my hearty prayers to God and for you Sir that he will preserve and bless you I have perswaded my selfe that you would not take it ill that I open my heart to you and discover my thoughts upon a subject of such moment since I am SIR Your Most humble and Most affectionate Brother and Servant DRELINCOURT Minister of the Church of PARIS A Monsieur Monsieur Stroupe f. M. D. S. E. A Londres FINIS