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A87831 A relation of the distressed state of the church of Christ professing the protestant religion in the great dukedom of Lithuania, presented to the view of all compassionate Christians. Krainski, John de Kraino. 1661 (1661) Wing K750B; ESTC R227274 4,605 10

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for all Dwelling-places and Woods were pulled and cut down and burnt to Ashes One would think that the Land had been by this time chastised sufficiently and that the sharp Rod of our Correction should have been broken but God was not yet pleased to put a period to our Calamities for every year our Countrey had a New Enemy raised upon it and so that little which the former had left the succeeding Enemy devoured For in the year 1655 the Multitude of our Enemies was augmented by the coming of the Swede whose Armies by reason of the vicinity of these three Provinces Borussia Curland and Liefland which they had in their power have for the space of five years afflicted our Countrey also And without any respect of the Protestant Religion they used u● as Enem●es and by their coming into the Countrey they made us lyable to be more hated by those of the Roman Religion then before although after that all the Polis● Armies had forsaken their King and that His Sacred Royal Majesty had with drawn himself out of His Kingdom by reason of the Power of the Enem●●s who pressed all places and being absent for a very long time in Si●●sia yet the Lithuanian Churches all that time remained still constant and faithful to their Gracious King All this came upon us undoubtedly because of the Sins of our Country yet the Wrath of God did still burn against us for a little while after He did send another Enemy out of another Corner to wit the Prince of ●ransylvania in whose Army besides the Hungarians and Transylvanians there were M●ldavians Valachians Servians and other Eastern Barbarous Nations who came with great hopes that they should be enriched with our Fortunes and Goods This brought a new Calamity upon that which remained for they made havock of all wasted and destroyed all without distinction The Churches that remained they robbed the Houses rifled and burnt the People driven into B●nishment and those that could not fly were murthered It cannot be sufficiently lamented much less uttered what in such long continuance of our Troubles amongst so many E●stern Western Northern and other Enemies our Native Country the Church and every M●mber thereof have suffered The dead and the unborn were then accounted blessed the weaker Sex was reputed as the most Infortunate For we have seen many Illustrious and N●ble Families so exhausted and brought to extremitie that they have not had Bread to eat We have seen Noble Men and Matrons Virgins and Children of great Parentage mancipated under the pleasure and servitude of the Muscovians Tartarians Cossacks and others under which both they and many Ministers of the Gospel to this day do groan heavily In consideration of those Extremitis which indeed are extraordinary we cannot but adore the just Judgments of God thus poured upon us by reason of our Sins and deplore our sad condition and the more by reason of the small hopes of Restitution or deliverance from such a Devastation For though we are brought very low already having been made subject to many Wastings great Terrours and Troubles as having had Death before our Eyes continually yet there is still matter of new Troubles at home especially to those that desire to serve God in simplicity and purity to this particularly one Calamity followeth another as the Waves in a tempestuous Sea come one upon another Our very Neighbours do hate and persecute the Remnant of us still with as much eagerness as our foreign Enemies did they deprive us of our Churches yet remaining those Lands which were given for the maintainance of Ministers and Scholes they give away as if they had been their own our Ministers are banished and such as remain are beaten and misused the Threatnings of our total Exilement are encreased In a word all the Reformed Protestans are accounted as the Off-scouring of the World and the original cause of all the Troubles which are hitherto befallen to the Country Hence it is that they are hated abused threatned more and more and whatsoever may be found odious amongst men all that is put upon them for to make their calamities the greater We do not question but that all that shall read or hear of these things and have the least spark of Christian Charitie left in their Hearts or take to heart the affliction of Joseph will take Compassion on us being affected with the truth of that Worship Doctrine and Godliness which did shine amongst us even in the midst of our Troubles For our parts we have no other recourse but to the Goodness of our God and the sympathie of the Members of his Church and therefore following the Practise of the Apostles of Christ and the Example of the Churches in the Palatinate Bohemia and others which being in the same condition some few years ago implored the aid of their fellow-Members of the Reformed-Protestant Church we do likewise make our recourse to your Goodness and Charitie For we are perswaded that God hath in these Times made these Kingdoms and Churches more happy and flourishing then others that they might be a place for refuge and a Port of safety for those that suffer Ship-wrack for the Name of Jesus elsewhere Look therefore we beseech you upon us as Objects of Pitie and for the Love of God for the sacred bonds of unity in Christ Jesus stretch forth your hands that the Vine-yard of the Lord may not be utterly destroyed Send suitable comforts to those that are comfortless strengthen the hands of the feeble support the weak supply the wants of the needy with your liberality not doubting but that the Lord who is the rewarder of all good deeds and who takes all the works of Charitie bestowed upon the Members of his Militant Church as if they had been bestowed upon himself will be your sufficient reward and at the Great day of Accounts will put you in minde of such Works for your eternal comfort These are the prayers and desires of those who in the name of all the Lithuanian Churches have sent their Messenger to you who sollicits this in their Name as having been an Eye-witness in many places of their distressed condition and partaker of their Evils John de Kraino Krainski Minister of God's Word and the Messenger of the Churches