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enemy_n	arm_n	king_n	war_n	1,218	5	5.8758	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87270	A letter from Pope Innocent XII to the emperour wherein he indeavours to perswade him to a peace : with his Imperial Majesties answer : to which is subjoyned the resolutions of the confederates in the present conjuncture / done out of French.	Innocent XII, Pope, 1615-1700.; Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing I204B; ESTC R43648	5,224	4

A Letter from Pope Innocent the XII to the Emperour wherein He Indeavours to perswade Him to a Peace With His Imperial Majesties answer To which is subjoyned the Resolutions of the Confederates in the present Conjuncture Done out of French MOST Beloved Son in Jesus Christ We greet you with Health and our Apostolical Benediction When from this sublime post exalted almost to Heaven in which as unworthy as we were of it we are placed We cast our eyes upon so many faithfull People that are committed to Our Pastoral Care We are almost ready to expire with the excessive Grief and Melancholly we are affected with at the view of all those great calamities to which they are exposed by this Cruel War which at present afflicts almost all Christendom And therefore being deeply concerned at the great and piercing clamours of so many Persons thereby exposed to Destruction And being so very well assured of your Majesties pious inclinations and of the great desire you have to promote the advantage of the Christian Common-wealth We have resolved to employ with your Majesty the same Prayer we continually without ceasing address to the Father of Mercies That it would please him to dissipate those dreadfull Storms from whence so many Evils proceed and to make them give place to a succeeding Calm of Peace so much desired We l●●●e that taking into your Consideration the greatness of our Sorrow and having a c●reful regard to the Miseries of so many poor People and the dying groans of those that are dayly slain in the War you will be the more confirmed in the Inclination you have for peace and that you labour to augment it And certainly when you shall have made a serious Reflection upon the ungovernable Licenciousness of Soldiers and upon the contempt that sort of Men have for Sacred things and upon the loss of so many Souls as we have just occasion to fear Considerations which wound us to the heart with grief We cannot doubt but suffering you to be swayed by the motion of your natural Piety you will readily form a Design for the procuring the repose of so many ruined People the Re-establishment of Gods Service and the Salvation of Souls Most sure it is you can in no juster or fitter manner acknowledge those benefits which the Authour of all Good has so abundantly bestowed upon your Majesty's Sacred Person than by Re-establishing the Hereitage which the Lord Jesus Christ left by his Testament to his Church before he ascended into Heaven Wherefore employ your whole endeavours as far as in you lies Most Beloved Son in Jesus Christ towards the easing of the Christian Commonwealth from those miseries with which it is now afflicted And propose for your aim the Glory which they shall receive who by procuring the Peace of that Common wealth shall benefit it with an unexpressible felicity and the Applauses of the People thereby Resettled who will never cease to proclaim the just prises of the Authours of their tranquility As for Us We will put in practice all that we can think of to facilitate to Your Majesty and to all the rest of the Christian Princes the means of putting in execution a Work so useful and so advantageous In this Expectation We most heartily give you our Apostolical Benediction as an assured earnest of our good will Given at Rome at the Church of St. Marie Major under the Seal of the Fisher the 8 th of February 1691. And in the first year of our Pontificat MARIVS SPINOLA The Emperours Answer to the Pope Most Holy Father YOUR Holinesses Letter dated the 8th of last Month has sufficiently informed Us of the cruel disturbances you are affected with at the view of those many Evils which the Christian People is overwhelmed with by the War at present enkindled almost every where and of your Holinesses care to moderate and calm the animosities raging between the several irritated Princes and to dispose them to Peace and Concord And indeed the calamities which the Christian Common-wealth suffers by this War so unjustly enterprised together with those it is farther threatned with thereby no less afflict Us than them do your Holiness But our comfort is That God and our Conscience bear Us Witness that the fault cannot be imputed to Us since We took not up Arms but when there was a necessity so to do for the Defence of the Empire and of the People committed to our Protection against those who attacked them The most inward thoughts of our Heart are so well known to your Holiness by the long acquaintance and converse you have had formerly with Us That you will easily believe there could happen nothing more displeasing to Us than to see the Love We naturally are byassed with for the Peace and tranquility of the Publick to be continually disobliged and forcibly turned towards the contrary extreem by fresh injuries daily perpetrated against Us and above all things by the Ambition and Malitious envy of France For the Respect which is universally granted to be due to the Publick Faith and to Solemn Treaties has not hitherto been of any force to bridle that Crown from violating them as often as they have been sworn to And to pass under silence several other things the Christian World with sighs beholds and posterity with horrour will hear related that it has been possible for a King Most Christian to fix upon a resolution to stop the Rapid Course of our Victories over the Infidels to break those Bands of Amity We had but a little before renewed with him and to make a fresh War upon Us just at the moment when trusting in the Faith of those Treaties so lately made with him We lived in all manner of security and to fill all places with Murthers Rapines and Burnings before he was pleased to inform Us for what Reason he Renewed the War and what just pretence We had given him for it Certainly it must needs have been done upon this principal That it was much more eligible to trample under foot all things both Divine and Humane than for France to have lost the opportunity to extend her Limits to the Rine-ward and to leave to Us and the rest of Christendom the leisure necessary successfully to finish the War with the Turks and to secure our Frontiers on that side And therefore the August Dignity with which We are invested obliged us to make the best Alliances We could to defend our selves and People against the Arms of the Most Christian King and at the same time against the Enemies of the Christian Name who by a shameful union Act in consort again Us. 'T is true the principal Condition of the Alliance by which we are engaged to our Confedrates is that we shall not have power to hearken to any seperate Treaty of Peace without first consulting of it conjoyntly with them but as we can very well answer for them that they no less desire than We to see Peace Re-established