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A10984	A declaration of the Duke of Rohan peere of France, &c. Containing the iustnes of reasons and motiues which haue obliged him to implore the assistance of the King of Great Britaine, and to take armes for the defence of the Reformed Churches. Translated according to the French copie.; Déclaration de Monsieur le duc de Rohan, pair de France. English	Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638.	1628 (1628)	STC 21252; ESTC S116136	14,493	28

intercession or by his power that the Edicts made for our subsistance might be obserued and that the promise which was giuen vs wherein his also was ingaged for our libertie might not be violated and that my brother by his presence and his continuall solicitations had greatly aduanced it Almighty God hath giuen me the grace to bring it to perfection by the imployment of Monsieur de S. Blancard For the King of Great Britaine moued with a feruent zeale for the defence of the Christian faith and with an incessant desire to see the Church of God out of oppression throughout all parts of the earth there being no place where since the small time that God hath called him to the conduct of his Kingdomes that this affection hath not borne his courage and imployed his forces hath imbraced this Cause with great vigour not moued thereunto out of any ambitious desire to intrude vpon others but onely out of the compassion which hee hath of our miseries and the displeasure to see his interuention with so great indignity contemned so farre forth as that they will make it serue for the oppression of those whom he desired to releeue and thereby to adde vnto his Crowne that rich flowre of honour to bee the deliuerer of the Churches of this Kingdome which by their faith and constancie euen in the persecutions haue made themselues to be celebrate throughout the world Moreouer hee hath let vs know that to bee his onely designe to the which hee protesteth to betake himselfe with so great firmnesse as it hath beene religiously confirmed vnto me by men of quality which hee hath done mee the honour to send vnto mee that hee would neuer let goe his hold vntill such time as that it should plainely appeare vnto him that by an intire assurance he hath atchieued vs a firme repose and a solid contentment requiring of vs nothing else but that which the Churches which are in the estate of resistance I should doe my duety not onely to approue the request which the said Seignieur de S. Blancard had made vnto him in my behalfe in the name of our Churches but also to ioyne our selues vnto his armes and not to deport our selues from the generall end for the respect of any particular accommodation and ioyntly with him to obtaine a good firme and assured peace which shall restore vnto all our Churches at the least part of the prosperity from the which they are fallen And this is the cause wherefore in the name of God I doe summon those which haue any remainder of ancient zeale in their hearts and which hitherto haue sighed in attending who should come from any part for the deliuerance of the Church of God and which haue alwayes protested that when they should see any assured grounds of resistance or of subsistance they would make it appeare that they had no lesse affection then the rest for the consolation of so many poore persecuted flocks nor show no lesse resolution to sacrifice all they haue to so holy and so glorious an enterprise Therefore the Cause now in hand cannot be said to be vniust for there was neuer any more needfull nor the resolution to enter thereinto rash hauing for our protector a Prince so religious so faithfull so neare a neighbour and so powerfull neither is the designe impatient in regard that for the space of a whole yeare wee haue to small purpose expected to see the persecution to cease and the promised things to bee obserued nor the execution of this designe criminall forasmuch as wee haue no other end but the restitution of the Churches by the means heretofore vsed by our Fathers fauoured of God and authorised by naturall and politicke right As for mee I should for euer feele my conscience charged before God and mine honour defaced among men if hauing seene so many oppressions vpon the Church for the which the Sonne of God hath shed his blood and indured death I should not seeke with all my power and meanes to ease it and seeing so great a day of deliuerance to offer it selfe vnto mee if I should not follow and embrace so opportune a fauour which wee may iustly say to bee sent vs from aboue and if I had either through consideration or through delayes of slothfulnesse diuerted so great a blessing and refused an occasion so aduantagious to draw vs from the shame and miserie wherein wee are confessing freely that I can no longer liue among so many publike calamities no more then I can suruiue after the full dissipation of the Church wherewith wee see our selues so nearely threatned also I beleeue that all those which hitherto God hath preserued by so many of his powerfull maruailes will not bee slacke to so laudable a worke and I haue too good an opinion of the courage and zeale of euery one to thinke that they would withdraw themselues through impiety or to destroy it through perfidiousnesse And I assure my selfe that time shall make all men to see that I haue not beene moued to this enterprise out of any desire to make my selfe great or to make any profit of the publike ruine For at the same time I see my selfe engaged to trauailes disturbations and continuall watchings to bee incessantly stirred with gree es and exposed to manifest dangers my familie is constrained to seeke by a voluntarie banishment among strangers the repose which it cannot finde with me and as my expences increase my reuenewes doe diminish But my conscience doth so presse mee in this Cause that although I should bee abandoned of all and left alone which I thinke will neuer be I am resolued to pursue it vntill the last drop of my blood and to the last breath of my life and though I should goe begge my bread among strange nations God will giue mee the grace to iustifie vnto the world that I neuer had other intent then to sacrifice mine estate my rest and my life and to lay downe all my particular interests for the deliuerance of the Church without hauing any thought which shall tend to the reuolting from the obedience and fidelity whereunto nature and conscience doth binde nice to the King my Soueraigne Lord. And in this case if that were all I doe offer that if the Church might bee re-established in her first prosperity voluntarily to exile my selfe from this Kingdome and to passe the rest of my life among strangers as a priuate man and to renounce all honour and worldly aduantage and to depriue my selfe of the good and repose which I should procure for others to meditate by my selfe and to celebrate with continuall praises the fauour which God should shew mee to see yet once againe his poore people out of anguish and bondage and to haue gotten so great honour to haue made my selfe the instrument of their deliuerance FINIS