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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40413	A letter written by His Highness the Prince Elector of Brandenbourgh unto His Most Serene and Illustrious Highness Richard, Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the territories and dominions thereunto belonging : denoting Their Highness's joynt-interest in the protecting and defending of the Reformed Protestant cause ...	Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688.; Cromwell, Richard, 1626-1712.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2110A; ESTC R28025	4,363	10

A LETTER Written by his Highness The PRINCE ELECTOR of BRANDENBOVRGH Unto his most Serene and Illustrious HIGHNES RICHARD LORD PROTECTOR Of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland with the Territories and Dominions thereunto belonging DENOTING Their Highness's joynt-Interest in the protecting and Defending of the Reformed Protestant Cause and the Swedes converting of those Forces and means which they receive from England and their other Allyes for the propagating of the Protestant Cause towards the compassing of their own ambitious ends the subverting of the Protestant Churches and the disturbing of the publike Peace in all parts Translated into English out of the Latine Copy Printed at Hamborough In the Year MDCLXIX Most Serene and Illuctrious Prince Lord and Honoured Friend EVer since it seemed good to the Almighty to permit the pure Evangelical Doctrine to be profest in England the Protestant Churches abroad especially the Reformed ones have at all times in their greatest Adversities and Persecutions rhere met with a signal Reception and assistance which is manifest to the whole world and both the French and Netherlandish Nations do most gratefully acknowledge and cannot sussiciently praise for the same Wherefore being fallen into these infortunate times wherein the Protestant Cause as well in relation to the Ecclesiastical as Temporal affairs seems not only to be disturbed but even subverted in these parts by the Protestant Professors themselves And pondering upon the remedies necessary towards the preventing of such eminent Evils We could not chuse but reflect upon your Highness whose Father of glorious Memory having imparted unto us by his Publike Minister the share he bore joyntly with us in the concernments of the Protestant Professors and Churches not doubting but your Highness retains the same inclinations and thoughts We have the more confidently adventured during these Publike Calamities to treat with you theron and as well joyntly by the Envoy which we have designed towards your Highness as by these our Letters to impart our minde unto you lest by the retardment of the one or the other the Pubilke good might be prejudiced Your Highness cannot be ignorant that this present King of Sweden entred upon a war some 3 years since against the Polanders with a pretence and under a colour amongst other things to promote the Protestant Cause in those parts though the success thereof proved no other save The reducing of some hundreds of Protestant Churhes into ashes The destroying of an infinite number of Protestant Families the dispersing and dissolving of several Protestant Congregations and the exposing of the Professors of the Divine Gospel Truths to all kinde of Ignominie and Infamie Insomuch as since the memory of man the Protestant concernments in those parts never met with a greater destruction and desolation no not under the Papistical Governments as under that pretended Patron and Defender of the Protestant Cause Neither did these Evils terminate within the Confines of Poland but the aforesaid King did among others involve the Prince of Transilvania in the like Calamities and reduced that most zealous Prince for the true Protestant Cause unto such a pass as that he was in danger to lose his whole Country as well as his good Subjects their Livelyhoods and Subsistances for the Liberty of their Consciences And that it may more evidently appear t he said King aims not et Heaven but the World coveting to have the Dominion of the Land as well as to Lord it at Sea He did finally set upon the King of Denmark contrary to the Faith which was plighted and the Peace which was made by the Interposition Endeavours and Authority of your Highness's Father without any foregoing Declaration or Warning a thing which is observed even amongst the Heathens assailing a Prince who is a strict Professor and observer of the Protestant Faith at such an unexspected time when he was deprived of all his Guarrisons and strong Holds and did not in the least suspect much less dream of such a kinde of proceeding by reason of the immediate proceeding peace procured by the endeavours of so many Friends and at so great a disadvantage to the King of Denmark In like manner the Duke of Curland did sadly experiment the effects of these like proceedings One who is a Lutheran of the same Confession which the King of Sweden professeth and by his solemn Oath will only tollerate in his Dominions Yet nevertheless after the said Duke had conferred so great Benefits on the Swedes as that he thereby became suspected to his Lord the King of Poland even after he had made his Capitulations for his Neutrality with them he was by an unheard of example and by a stratagem cast out of his habitation and together with his most Illustrious Lady Dutchess ann seven Children carried away Captives to Riga And as he cannot by the Holy Writ warrant the not sparing of those of his own Profession when he sees an opportunity to seize their Lands and Goods in like manner his Zeal and Vehemency moves him to impose Laws on the Protestant Reformed Professors in matters of their belief and to force their Consciences in Divine concernments by his Proceedings against them an evident Testimony whereof is most apparent at Elbing wherein we the rather instance because it may best be known in England in which place those of the Reformed profession at their being under a Papist King did enjoy the free exercise of their Religion But at present the Lutheran Supravisor being placed there as a wrack to the Consciences of those who are minded to take the Ministry upon themselues doth enforce them by an unheard of example to approve his Confession and to obey him in matters of Religion depriving likewise the Civil Magistrate who are all for the most part of the Reformed profession of the Right and Priviledg which is due to them in the like Cases especially in the ordaining of Ministers Not permitting the Administration of the Communion according to the Form of the Reformed Protestant Churches save unto strangers of the English Nation at the request of the English Resident Moreover his vehemency is so great against the rest of the Reformed professors as that to the prejudice of Men and Gods glory The psalms of David which for several years were sung in their Churches and ought not only to be free unto but enjoyned all Men are totally expunged out of the Church These things being maturely considered we cannot be induced to believe that your Highness as the Swedes do boast will afford them relief and assist them to carry on their unlawful designes since they abound and proceed with so much violence and injustice converting their own Means and Forces and the assistances which they receive from others to the prejudice Ruine and utter detriment of the Church and to the disturbing of the publike peace in all parts And as we have been informed these implacable Enemies of the Protestant Religion make use of the pretence of Religion and