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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

wonderful thing to see a Bishop of the Roman Church as Modest as a Simple Priest Whilst I am making you my Confession I shall tell you some other things that contributed also not a little to my Conversion It appears all your Zeal for the Roman Religion is nothing but policy and an extraordinary ambition to please the Court wherein your interests and your hopes are great For my part when I consider the demeanour of the French Bishops as also other Ecclesiastical Superiors I cannot but look upon you all as upon Stage-Players and upon your Religion but as upon a meer Comedy When the Court commanded you to maintain the Popes Infallibility you scrupled not to Anathematize all those who oppos'd this imaginary Priviledge When the same Court ordered you to dispossess him you soon deprived him of it and doubtless you are all ready to restore it him at the first Order you shall receive But this is no more than what is common to you Sir with all other Bishops in France I had rather to speak of that which is particular and proper to you alone Before the Revocation of the Edict of Nants Monsieur de Meaux was not so vigorous a Preacher against the Reformed but since the Court declared That it would suffer no Religion in France but the Roman and since the Persecution against the Protestants is come to be in Fashion Monsieur de Meaux appears at the head of the extraordinary Preachers and most Cruel Persecutors Whereas indeed by your Function you are obliged equally at all times to promote the Edification of the People of your Diocess but you leave this care to your Vicars when God alone imposes it upon you and you work only in person when you have the occasion fit to get the favour of an Earthly King by obedience to his Order be it never so unjust 'T is then you think your Honour is chiefly engaged for what would the Court say if Monsieur de Meaux who hath such excellent parts to perswade do not promote the Conversion of the Hereticks If you do not make good progress in it you are asham'd you become angry as if you would oblige the Almighty the only Master of the Heart to let be instilled therein the poison which you pour with so much subtilty and Charm into the Ears 'T was doubtless to blot out the shame in which your bad success involues you That in the Convocation of the Protestants that you call'd at Claye in the time of your Missions and in the presence of Monsieur L'Intendant you told all the Assembly in the midst of your Discourse Not they alone were obstinate in their Religion but that they were in this like all the other Protestants of France all the People who were present took notice of these words and made use of them to their own purpose A Person of Quality held me by the Arm and whisper'd me in the ear Was there ever a greater extravagancy Could he have invented an argument less fit to perswade this People but added he Monsieur de Meaux is ashamed of having so slenderly promoted the Jesuits and the Courts design and with this Discourse he endeavours to justifie himself before Monsieur L'Intendant to the end that his report and testimony may keep him in the Court from any Reproach Seriously Sir all this your behaviour sometimes politickly Gentle sometimes passionately Violent scarce ever Sincere and never Christian shook strongly my Conscience But I confess to you I served not my self soon enough of your Missions and Sermons I ought not since I knew you to have remain'd so much as one moment with you under the pretence of any slight difficulties which still possessed me and the truth is I put my self in danger of losing the grace of my Conversion when I delayed so long to accept it It was perhaps God's will it should be so in order both to mine and your Conversion By God's Grace I led you the way in the Race be not ashamed to follow me O how abundantly would your Conversion make amends for your Scandals As for me I am not so considerable in the World that my Conversion should produce any great effect therein It s chief and perhaps its only fruit shall be for me I was brought up unfortunately in darkness in the company of Lazy persons whose society and ill manners kept me unknown As I consumed unfruitfully the best days of my Life the rest of them will be perhaps profitable to none But you Sir who appear almost above all with the Splendor of your Dignity and acuteness of your Wit with your Learning and so many other very rare gifts of Nature and Fortune you may set forth in our days wonderful things in sight of all the World if you please to imploy for the Truth all that Wit you have hitherto made use of to fight against it Your Conversion would be Famous by the enlarging of our Saviour's Kingdom and perhaps by the sudden decay of the Empire of the Antichrist I may assure you That as your dangerous Books hold open the door of the Pit to many Thousand Souls whom you keep from their Conversion Your changing of Doctrine and Religion opening the Eyes of abused Christians would introduce them to Salvation Consider what power God hath trusted you with Are you not afraid lest he require of you a severe account of it at the dreadful Day wherein being exposed to the very Truth and Justice you will not find at the feet of his Tribunal any such Cowards and Interessed Flatterers as will render you praises for the Poison your Books have presented them I would not be obliged to tax you of being not Sincere I fear lest this very Reproach should increase in you this bad point of Honour which makes so many people to perish But for God's sake look with pity upon your own Soul and do not Sacrifice it to humane and worldly respects Time is short Death is not far off Judgment approaches Eternity is at hand if these dreadful things ought to make an impression upon the minds of the youngest what effect ought they not to produce in the Soul of a Prelate above seventy Years old Cast away then this dangerous point of Honour it is a Serpent which you feed in your Bosom for your own ruin shall this wicked Honour this dangerous Reputation that you got in a bad Party be always dearer to you than Interest of the Truth than the Salvation of your Soul than Gods glory Nay to be sure in renouncing this worldly Honour you would find it again and more abundantly in your Conversion for those that you abused with your Writings coming to change in your Company and by your example would give you more solid and more true praises than those which you have hitherto received The moment of your Conversion would be more glorious to you even before men than this long space of your Life which is already past this precious