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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26314	Actes of the General Assembly of the clergy of France, Anno Domini 1682, concerning religion translated into English for the satisfaction of curious inquisitors into the present French persecution of Protestants.; Actes de l'Assemblée générale du clergé de France de 1682, concernant la religion, retorquez contre ceux qui les ont faits. English	Catholic Church. Assemblée générale du clergé de France.	1682 (1682)	Wing A457; ESTC R6538	20,579	46

Promises of Christ excuse wash off if you can And because you are not able confess your selves condemned by the Oracle of the Scripture The evil Son calleth himself just but his departure he doth not wash off Why therefore brethren have you not with the whole World remained in the stock why have you together with the Altars violated the Vows and desires of the Faithful why have you cutt off the way to Mediation There was the Ascert to God why have you laboured to take away and by a sacrilegious Hand to withdraw the Ladder from the Stone least after the accustomed manner Prayer might be made to God The other Sectarys hitherto had attempted not to subvert the Altar of Christ but to erect their own such as it was against the same Altar You that there might be no more a Christian Sacrifice have dared by a Wickedness unheard off till these times to pull down the Altars of the Lord of Hosts wherein Christ the Sparrow had chosen himself a Dwelling-place and the Turtle the Church a Nest to herself where she might place her young ones But these last and whatever afterwards ensued either of Outrage against the Church or of Errour against the antient Belief was an effect of Schismatical Fury We desire it may be attributed not so much to your Will as to the genious of Schism This one thing we particularly expostulate with you this we incessantly demand of you why have youmade a Schism Unless you shall answer to this whatsoever you say or write in other things your Talk is superfluous Nor do we doubt but against these things you will use that old and wonted Plea of all Schismaticks Having learnt by Experience it is no wise possible to shake the Doctrine of our Faith you make it your Business to carp at the Manners of all those amongst us with whom pious Men and Lovers of exact Discipline have esteemed it neither consonant to Fame nor safe in Conscience to converse Are these then the things Brethren for which the Unity of Christ is rent asunder by you Fraternal Inheritance slandered the Virtue and truth of the Sacraments of the Church divided See how much you have erred from the Gospel These things which you object and which were by much either fewer and less important or peradventure unkown or indeed not all had they been true and manifest and worse yet Christians ought to spare Cockle of this sort for the wheat 's sake to witt because the Vices of Evil Men are to be tolerated for the society of the good Moses endured so many thousands of men murmuriug against God Samuel endured the Sons of Hely and his own wickedly acting Christ our Lord himself endured Judas and the Devil and the Thief and him that sold him The Apostles endured false Brethren false Apostles who resisted them and their Doctrine Lastly Paul not seeking his own but the things of Jesus Christ conversed with an exceeding patience amongst men that sought their own and not the things of Jesus Christ Yet you beloved Brethren not only have not endured the Church your Mother the Spouse of Christ but have rent but have torn but have violated her Unity And that you might rend that yon might tear that you might violate you have laid the Blemishes of private Men to the charge of her whom Christ washed by the Laver of Water in the word of life that he might present her to himself glorious not having spot or wrinckle or any such thing What remains now Brethren but that for your sakes we obey the Council of the Holy-Ghost Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shall be called the Sons of God And that by the Bowels of Mercy which you have hitherto rent By the Womb of your Mother the Church which you have torn By the Charity of Brother-hood which you have so often violated By the Sacraments of God which you have contemned By the Altars of God which you have demolished By whatever Holy and Divine is worshipped either in Heaven or in Earth we exhort you with fraternal minds to Correction to Return to Concord Yea verily what now remains but that forgetful of Schism and mindful of plenty you return home where so many hired Servants abound with Bread whilst now wandring in an arid and desert Land you gather not so much as crums even to sustain your spiritual Famine why do you demurr why do you resist What then do you blush at the Name of Sons amongst whom the first born Lewis daily erects new Trophys to the Church the best Mother Lewis in this thing alone through your obstinacy not happy enough That although he daily establish many things religiously and piously for Defence of the Christian Name yet he see 's some of his own Subjects who have wilfully faln from theit Countreys worship and apostatized to strange rites Renegadoes of Religion and Deserters of the antient Warfair still persisting in their contracted Error This most Christian Prince who in our hearing lately said he desired with so much earnestness the dispersed and faln parts might be recalled to the Unity of the Church that he should esteem it glorious to deserve the same even with the effusion of his Royal Blood and the very loss of that most redoubted Arm wherewith he hath happily accomplished so many Wars Will you then Brethren To a Prince most august to your King To the Vanquisher of many and most potent Enemies to the Conquerer of most strong Cittys To the Subduer of mighty Provinces To one renowned in all kind of Triumphs Envy that Palm which he prefers before all the rest But Brethren whilst we thus speak to you and exhort to thoughts of Peace do not say Seek us not For this Iniquity suggests by which we are divided not Charity by which we are Christians Remember we are so commanded by the Prophet from the Spirit of Truth and Peace that we do not desist to tell them who deny they are our Brethren You are our Brethren Now what time more opportune can be offered unto us of recalling you to the Roman Communion then when Innocent the Bishop Govern's the Roman Church whose Life and Manners regulated according to the Form of antient and exact Discipline exhibit a perfect Patern of Sanctity to the Christian World That to adjoyne your selves to him so worthy a Professor of all virtue will be in you a grand work of virtue redounding as well to safety as glory Wherefore you who need a Physitian the Members and truly noble Members of Christ redeemed with the same Price but by the wicked Fraud of the Common Enemy of us all divorced from the Head and Body of the Church suffer your selves for the immortal God's sake to be healed Admit the address of our Admonition yea we may confidently say such is our Benignity and Compassion towards you of our Supplication and at length brotherly accept this occasion