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A66124	The case of the exiled Vaudois and French Protestants stated, and their relief recommended to all good Christians, especially to those of the reformed religion in a sermon preach'd at St. James Westminster, April 5, 1699, being the day of the publick fast / by William Wake ...	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1699 (1699)	Wing W232; ESTC R12313	15,700	34

forth in as Black Characters both with respect to our Faith and Manners as ever these distressed Persons have been Represented to Us on this side the Mountains The short of the Matter is that both They and We freely declare against the Tyranny and Corruptions of the Church of Rome and that is enough to warrant the Worst that can be said to blacken and bespatter both Them and Vs. But I must not insist upon these Matters but having now more fully than I design'd shewn both Who the Persons are who ask your Charity and How they come to stand in need of it shall proceed 3 dly And very briefly to represent to you What just Reason we have to succour and assist them upon the account of These their Sufferings If 1 st We consider either the Cause or Authors of their Persecution it will from both appear that we of the reform'd Religion must Support Them or they must be left to sink under their Afflictions for We may be confident that if we do not help them No body else will Were the Case here that of Christianity in General Did these Poor Men suffer by the Hands of Turks or Infidels One might then hope that the Common Love and Duty we all profess to our Blessed Saviour and his Gospel might move every Church however differing in other Matters yet to joyn together for their Relief But it is the misfortune those for whom we are now concern'd that they are persecuted not by the Common Enemy but by those who are called by the same Name of Christians They suffer not for the defence of the Gospel but for the maintenance of the Truth and Purity of it against those who have either mistaken or perverted the Faith of it And if We who in this are agreed with Them do not relieve them with what Reason can we expect that those whom they Oppose and by whom they are Persecuted should help Them Here therefore is a Case in which the Argument of the Text returns with a double force upon Us. These Persons are not only the Disciples of Christ but of the same particular Faith and Communion with our selves They are our Brethren not only as they are Christians but as they are Reform'd too and which is yet more They suffer for being so They might have believed in Christ and yet have continued in the peaceable Enjoyment of their Country and Possessions But they could not have continued Reformed without quitting them and therefore they readily forsook both And surely the least we can do to testify our concurrence with them in this Profession will be to extend our Charity towards them And thereby to shew that We do own their Cause and account it such as deserves to be suffer'd for But 2 dly It is not only a Matter of Charity but of Interest also to Us to help and relieve them And that is an Argument which where it is once received seldom fails of prevailing with most Men. It cannot be unknown to any among Us what Endeavours have been used and what projects have been laid for these last forty or fifty Years utterly to root the Protestant Interest out of Europe What Progress has been made by our Enemies to this purpose in Piemont Hungary Bohemia France shall I add and here at Home too both in England and Ireland is evident to all of Us. And had the design succeeded as it was verily believed and hoped it would have done I do not see what could have preserved the Reformed Religion from a general destruction But blessed be God! Who in most of these places has disappointed their Designs and we hope will in the End turn them as he has already in part done to their own Shame and Confusion And has effectually convinced us how necessary it is for us to unite together in Interest and Affection against our Common Enemies if ever we mean to support our selves and our Cause from Ruine by their unwearied Malice and Indefatigable endeavours against Us. It is but a little time since we were called upon to receive those of the Reformed Church of France into our Bosoms By doing of this we have preserved so much of the Protestant Interest from sinking And all that their Persecutors have gained by their Cruelties aginst them is but this that they have forced them to change their Country but have not at all lessened either their Zeal for their Religion or their Ability to defend it We are now invited to preserve the Remains of the same Church and of some of those of the Vallies of Piemont with Them A Flock little in Number but of Great Worth And such as we cannot suffer to Perish without fixing an Eternal Infamy upon our Names for our Vncharitableness Whose turn it may next be to suffer in this Cause we cannot tell This we know that be it whose it will Our Charity will have its Reward with God and give a Good Example and Encouragement to the Church of Christ. We may by what we do for these poor persecuted Men prolong our Own Tranquility and so meet with a Reward on Earth But though we should not yet this we are sure that we shall hereby purchase to our selves an Inheritance in Heaven Our Vnrighteous Mamon shall prepare for us an eternal Habitation What we now give for the sake of Christ and to his Disciples in his Name he will one Day return as if we had done it unto Himself And Verily I say unto you ye shall in No wise lose the Reward of it ERRATA PAge 7. Margin r. Hebr. xiii 1. p. 14. l. 15. r. Purity Ib. Margin l. ult r. Imagin p. 22. Margin l. 10. dele Sir Sam. FINIS BOOKS Printed for R. Sare at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holborne THe Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers St. Barnabas St. Ignatius St. Clement St. Polycarp the Shepherd of Hermas and the Martyrdoms of St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp Written by those who were present at their Sufferings being together with the Holy Scniptures of the New Testament a compleat Collection of the most Primitive Antiquity for about 150 Years after Christ Translated and Published with a large Preliminary Discourse relating to the several Discourses here put together 8 o. The Authority of Christian Princes over their Ecclesiastical Synods asserted with Particular respect to the Convocations of the Clergy of the Realm and Church of England Occasioned by a late Pamphlet Intituled A Letter to a Convocation Man 8 o. An Appeal to all the True Members of the Church of Enggland in behalf of the Kings Supremacy as by Law established by our Convocations Approved and our eminent Bishops and Clergy-men Stated and Defended against both the Popish and Fanatical opposers of it 8 o. A Practical Discourse concerning Profane Swearing especially in the two great Points of Perjury and Common Swearing 8 o. The Principles of the Christian Religion Explained in a brief Commentary upon the Church Catechism 8 o. A Sermon at the Dorsetshire Feast 1690. Before the Queen at Whitehall May the 10th 1691. Before the Lord Mayor November 26th 1691. At Grays-Inn upon the Death of the Queen At St. James's upon the Thanksgiving These Ten by Dr. Wake Fables and Stories Moralized being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop and other eminent Mythologists c. Folio By Sir Roger L'Estrange Gal. vi 10. Heb. ixli 1. 1 Pet. i. 22 1 Jo. iii. 16· Mat. v. 44. Matt. xxv 32 33. 34 35 41. 42. Monsieur de Meaux's Variations des Egl. Protestan liv xi Leger Hist. des Eglises Evangel des Vallees de Piemont liv 1. cap. 2. Allix Remarks chap. xix Vide Car. M. Synod Paris Script de Tmagin Catal. Test. veri● lib. ix in Claudio Ion. Aurel. de Cult Imag 〈…〉 Claud. T●u●i● Bibl PP Tom. ●i● Car. à S. Paul Geogr S. lib. ii Ital. n. iv vii.x Allix Remarks chap. xiii Allix Remarks Ch. xiv Baron Annal. An. 1059 Leger Hist. des Vaudoises l. 1. c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vid. Concil Lateran iii. apud Labb To. x p. 1504. Cap. xxvii de Haereticis * Ibid Col. 1737. Concil iv Late●an Cap. 3. de Haeret. Add. La●b To xi p●g 234. * Frederic ii Constit. Sect. 5 6 7 Const. Feud pag. 27 Labb To. xi col 334. Leger Hist l. ii c. 2. Morland l. ii c. 1. Leger Hist l. ii chap. 6. Leger l. ii c 9. c. Sir Sam. Morland Hist. of Piem l. ii Anno. 1633. Memor Recond di Vittorio Siri Vol. vii p. 500. c. See the account of that persecution publish'd at Oxford 4 o 1689. Leger Hist. des Sr. Sam. V●udois Morla●d Hist. of the Evangel Churches of Piem Book ii c. 6 c. Leger Hist. l. 1. c. 30. Leger Hist. l. ● c. 19.30 Allix Remarks c. 26. Leger lib. l. 11. c. 10. c. See Leger before About 11500. Persons