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A94893 A True and authentick copy of the most horrid and stupendious oath, whereby the French king confirmed his alliance with the Turks faithfully translated from the French historiographer, Du Ribier, in his memoirs, whereof the Latin original is here annexed. 1694 (1694) Wing T2414A; ESTC R42929 3,840 4

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if possible For suppose Lewis the XIVth has not taken the same Oath yet it cannot be denyed that he is more guilty for having done without Oath what Francis the Ist had ingaged by Oath to doe but did not actually perform it This took that Oath Transported with a great Passion against Charles the Vth Emperour but the other does it in cold Blood And we do not see by Francis his History he has done any great mischief to Christians in behalf of the Turks comparable to what Lewis the XIVth has done 'T is worse ten times to commit a Crime without threatning than to threaten without committing of it By all the Tenour of this present French King's Conduct we see he has Sworn I know not how many Oaths upon the Holy Gospel and Baptism in several Alliances and Treaties with most States in Europe and with his own Subjects also and has broken as many times his Oaths This is as much as to say the Gospel and the Christian Faith are false and to deny that Christ is Living When he does condemn one year by all his Universities the Pope's Infallibility and his Authority above the Council his Power over the Temporals of Princes and of Deposing them when he pleases and another year admits the same Infallibility of the Pope and his Almighty Power both in Heaven and Earth c. Is it not as much as to say the Gospel is false and the Christian Faith a trifle When he pretends to impose Laws upon Mens Consciences and force them to believe what he pleases and will be called by the Name of Providence of Immortal of Divine Majesty is it not as much as to curse the Gospel and the Christian Faith As for his being a special Friend to the Turks and an Enemy to his Enemies every body knows what mischiefs he has done to Germany in behalf of the Infidels and how he helps them with all kind of Officers and Engineers against the Emperour the Polonians and Venetians and has exhausted almost all the Mony of his Kingdom for their sake postponing his own Subjects Interest to theirs and treating them as Enemies to the Turks So that 't is evident he must have taken his Predecessor's Oath with the Turks or some other more execrable Oath since he has done a great deal worse and is without Comparison more Ambitious and Irreligious than Francis the Ist was and stands in greater need of the Turks help for his unjust Designs We have here also a true Character of the Turks Genius who prescribed the French King such a Contradictory and Blasphemous Oath upon which they could not rely in the least if they had had any Honesty or Judgment For how could they imagine that a Man professing himself to be a Christian and calling the Gospel Holy and the Baptism Holy c. would oblige himself seriously and in earnest to deny all the Truths of the Gospel in case he failed himself of his word that is to believe that God should be false because he should have been false himself For 't is just the same as if a Christian Prince did exact from the Sultan such an Oath whereby the Sultan should Swear by his Holy Alchoran and the Holy Mahometan Faith and by his Great Prophet Mahomet that he would be faithful to Christians in destroying the Mahometan's Interest and in case he did neglect to do it like a Knave Mahomet would be a Knave also and his Alchoran a Fable and that he would hereafter Worship a Hog in his Mosque and commit Adultery upon Mahomet's Tomb. Certainly no Man of any Honesty or Judgment would impose such an Oath upon any other Man The Turks did it only out of a blind and inveterate aversion they bear to the Christian Religion they pretended to raise thereby a great Triumph to Mahomet over our Saviour For how is it possible otherwise to trust to such an Oath which none but a Treacherous and Unworthy Man can take of what Religion soever he may be Licens'd Feb. 22. 1693. D. Poplar LONDON Printed for R. Bentley and are to be Sold by R. Baldwin 1694.