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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40517	Some particular motives of the conversion of Peter Frotte, heretofore canon-regular of the Royal Abby of St. Genevieve at Paris. Prior of the priory and parish of Souilly in the Diocess of Meaux In a letter directed to Mr. James Benign Bousset, bishop of Meaux; formerly tutor of Monseigneur Le Dauphin. Englished by the author. And dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stampe, Lord Mayor of the City of London. And the Honourable Court of Aldermen.	Frotté, Pierre.; Stamp, Thomas, Sir, 1628-1711.; Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.	1691 (1691)	Wing F2247B; ESTC R214641	14,270	38

true opinion of your Doctrine I could not be a witness of the fits of your Anger against the Reformed of your Diocess without pitying them and conceiving some Indignation against you I could not compare the fashion of your Missions with your Pastoral Letter Dated on 24th of March 1686 without being persuaded as many others have been you had no sincerity for you boast in this Letter That none of your new Catholicks have ever undergone any Violence either in Person or in Goods ...... and that they came again to you quietly and voluntarily you appeal to their own testimony for it You know it very well say you O Monsieur How dare you say so Did I not see with my own Eyes the extream violence you exercised in Person against all this People for except a certain branded Woman of the Lizys Town whom for Charities sake I omit to name and whom you called your Conquest and carried as triumphantly in your own Coach to draw others with her as with a Bait except I say this notoriously branded Woman who perhaps abjured willingly her Religion all the rest were constrain'd to do it by the Soldiers whom you caused to pass and repass through your Diocess in the time of your Missions and by continual Threatnings made to them even in the Sermons you have pronounced at Claye before Monsieur L'Intendant whom from the Pulpit you called your Second in this Expedition Was I not a Witness of the power and efficacy of your Preaching of your Art and Industry in honouring the Ministry when they carried violently into your Episcopal Palace all the Protestants of the Villages of Nanteuil Quincy Condé c. For 't is true in less than two Hours you persuaded them of all your Mysteries but all this quick success came of their being without any Minister to defend them in this Controversy from this great Episcopal Luster and Splendor which attended you and dazled their Eyes But more especially from the fierce presence of some Officers of War whom you never wanted and who always helped you very much in your design by sprinkling upon all your Discourses a great deal of energy and strength which took them all up in a moment and constrain'd them to embrace your Opinions You presently gave them your Blessing with a full power of Communicating after the Roman fashion thus you bewitched them but your Charm continued but a little while For every body knows That in going out of your Palace all your converted People abhorr'd your Violence we heard them publickly Recant what you constrain'd them to Sign in your Chamber They methinks shew'd enough their Repentance for a few Days after they met together near Nanteuil to Pray to God and to beg his Pardon for the scandal they gave one to another in surrendring themselves to your Violence But this occasion manifested also you are not in the right to boast of your great Sweetness and Kindness as you do since you were transported with so violent Wrath that you caused many of them to be Condemned to Death 'T is true that calling your self an Imitator of St. Austin who was used to take the Criminals out of the hands of the Judges or caused their Punishment to be diminished you procured to change the Sentence of Death into that of the Gallies but you came short of the Charity of this Holy man For he was not contented to ask the Magistrates for a simple moderation of Punishing in behalf of the Criminals when he could obtain for them a free and full deliverance from it You on the contrary who over-ru'ld the Sentence Monsieur L'Intendant having an order to follow what you should think fit instead of causing those Innocents to be wholly delivered from the inflicted Pains you changed their Punishment into a more insupportable one the Condemnation to the Gallies being worse than death it self If this be your kindness how must we call what you did at Claye When in obedience to your order Benjamin Gode Chyrurgion was commanded to exercise his profession no more when according to your Commands the Widow call'd Testar had her Eldest Son taken from her and in like manner was the woman called Boisseleau taken up for no other reason but because she was very well versed in her Catechism and highly encouraged her companions not to comply with your bad Exhortations When having caused the Cuirassiers Commanded by Monsieur de la Chaise the Nephew of Father de la Chaise to come to Claye you got together all the Protestants in the Monsieur D'Herouville his House and told them Unless they would Abjure their Religion and become Catholicks you would bring into their Houses these Soldiers who would overturn their brains Make Sir make if you can these actions to agree with what you boast of viz. That none of the Protestants of your Diocess have ever undergone any Violence either in Person or in Goods and that they all came again to you quietly Again can this be accounted a great Moderation in you to have procured That a Physician of the la Ferté sous-Jouaire called Monceau Eighty Nine Years old should be thrust into a Monastery with some circumstances full of Barbarity That Eight or Ten Dragoons should be sent to a Wood-sellar called Laviron of the same Town That Thirty of them should be Quartered upon Monsieur de la Sermoise Gentleman of Brie That his Wife and his Daughter should be taken from him and put into a Monastery and thereby notwithstanding Christ's Command put asunder what God hath joined with the fastest bonds Call I say those actions as you please But as to what you did at the same Claye whereof I am witness in order to pervert Isaac Cochart sick to Death Pray Sir pardon me and do not accuse me of Passion if I call it Fury This I must confess made too deep an impression in my Imagination and too sensibly wounded my heart not to be forced to reproach you with it in this place This Faithful Christian seeing the Churches desolation and the falling down of his Brethren feared nothing so much as to si●k with them He encouraged himself night and day with God's Word to Fight the good Fight He look'd upon approaching Death as upon a sure Haven against your Persecution He was contented to depart this Life provided he could carry away his undefiled Faith committed to him and bring it before the Tribunal of his own Judge You opposed Sir his pious design in a strange manner we saw you come to this Patient accompanied with Monsieur L'Intendant with Monsieur le Lieutenant General of Meaux bearing in his hand a Letter Signed by the King the Provost of the Marechaux being present with a band of his Archers a Cart was ready at the door for carrying away the Patient that is to Kill him O what Apostleship Is this the equipage of an Evangelical Preacher You made to him a long Controversy full of Injuries and seeing him constant in