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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01180	The apologie of the Reformed Churches of France VVherein are expressed the reasons, why they haue ioyned their armies; to those of the King of Great Britaine. Translated according to the French coppie.; Apologie ou sont deduites les raisons des eglises reformées de France. English	Eglises réformées de France.; Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.	1628 (1628)	STC 11293; ESTC S102594	40,175	64

THE APOLOGIE OF THE REFORMED CHVRCHES OF FRANCE VVherein are expressed the Reasons why they haue Ioyned their Armies to those of the King of Great BRITTAINE Translated according to the French Coppie LONDON Printed for Nathaniell Butter 1628. TO ENGLAND IN HER REPRESENTIVE BODY The High and Illustrious Court of Parliament LORDS KNIGHTS BVRGESSES YOu haue here in all humilitie presented to you the sighes teares of our sister Church of France who is at this present miserably persecuted by the bloodie power and Malice of Antichrist and his adherents as also the naked grounds and motiues why shee ioynes her Armes with those of our Soueraigne in her lawfull Defence and preseruation For although Rebellon be the false pretect yet Religion is the true cause why the Pope by his Champion the French King now seekes her finall raine and extermination Shee now mournes both in teares and blood and breathes forth her wounds and sorrowes to vs in a fainting yea almost in a dying eloquence Shall wee therefore who professe our selues to be the best of Christians and the deerest of Gods Children permit prophannesse to preuaile ore pietie Idolatrie to triumph ore true Religion and the Church of Rome ore that of God if our Religion be theirs must not their dangers and persecutions be ours For what Peace can we haue whiles they are oppressed with Warre or how can our consciences be at rest and tranquilitie whiles theirs are tovmented with all sorts of afflictions and cruelties Can that Church of France be beaten but this of England is threatned or the Protestants of that Kingdome be extinguished but we are Eclipsed yea doe not their feares presage and predict ours and their dangers fatally denounce and portend ours We haue already seene and suffered Gods Church in Bohemia the Pa●…atinate Selesia and Morauia to bee ruined and shall we not therefore beleeue if that of France goe next that this of England must immediately follow We see the Pope is as bloody in his malice as boundlesse in his Ambition and that with high wrestling and an insulting brauerie he proceedes in his Enuie and power at one time to roote out the name and memorie of Gods Church and Children in all places and Countries of Christendome How powerfully hath he lately preuailed with the Emperour and the King of Spaine and Poland in this bloody quarell who with barbarous hearts and sacrilegious hands haue played their prises in oppressing and de-pressing these Churches in their Countries and now by a policie as subtile as execrable hath likewise drawne the French King to make himselfe guiltie of the same impious and bloody crimes to ruine the Protestants of his Kingdome whose Valours and Fidelities placed the Crowne on his Fathers head and to exterminate those Churches which with so much Pietie and wisedome hee had established in the Meridian of their perfection and glorie The which to preuent and oppose God hath inspired the heart of our Gracious King CHARLES to reach them out the hand and Scepter of his Royall assistance and so to proue himselfe a true Defender of the Faith as well in Fact as Title Knowing therefore that by the Lawes of Honour and Religion we are bound to ayde and asist them and not to suffer the Vineyard of Gods Church to be thus miserably trampled ore and rooted vp by the Champions of Rome and Hell it will be a pious and a Noble worke for you Illustrious Lords and Gentlemen the Great Senators and Elders of our Israell to contribute the meanes as our King hath the Will to the preseruation and building vp of so Religious and glorious a Worke by affecting it tenderly in your selues and by cheerishing it carefully and dearely in the hearts of all the parts and members of this Kingdome For as the Protestants of France call on our King so doth his Maiestie on you who are the essentiall and figuratiue body thereof and God on you all for the speedy and vigorous assistance of this his afflicted Spouse the Church and hee who is the searcher of all hearts the witnesse of all soules and the Iudge of all actions will infallibly iudge betwixt you and him with what true Deuotion and Zeale you performe this part of his seruice and glorie Warres are made as well with Gold as Iron therefore in assisting this our afflicted Sister the Church of France wee must second our words with deedes our promises with effects and our Prayers with our purses Their Enemies are strong and powerfull their afflictions and dangers great so therefore must our assistance be to them They are neere to vs by Cituation but farre neerer in Religion for as their cause and quarell is ours so should the sence and feeling of their calamities and in this sence I may iustly affirme that they are a great part of our selues because we generally belong all to one Church as that Church doth particularly and peculiarly to God As truth is the best eloquence to perswade vs to this assistance so Religion is the best truth and it would bee an act not onely of Impietie but of shame in vs if these our three flourishing Churches of England Scotland and Ireland should not now powerfully assist that afflicted one of France which sues to them for it with teares and prayers But Illustrious Lords and generous Gentlemen my Iudgement prompts mee that I should wrong yours in seeking to perswade your affections to so charitable and religious a worke from which I know nothing is capable to direct or disswade you and in that behalfe I rest hopefull if not confident that you will at least excuse my zeale if not pardon my presumption for proferring vp the sighes and teares of this poore persecuted French Church to your sublime Protection and Patronage or rather to your charitable care and religious consderacion as esteeming it euerie way as worthy of your pittie and compassion as of your knowledge May the sight of her afflictions myseries and calamities teach vs how to preuent our owne May God of his best mercie so operate with our hearts and soules as wee may esteeme and repute them our owne and may England by the Kings royall and your Illustricus example stretch forth her hands to relieue this poore French Church and people so vniustly afflicted and so wrongfully oppressed and persecuted for God and his Cause IOHN REYNOLDS The Apologie of the Reformed Churches of France wherein are expressed the Reasons why they haue ioyned their Armes to those of his Maiestie the King of Great BRITTAINE THERE is none but will iudge that a sicke Patient is extreamely oppressed with his disease when hee frequently takes violent Physicke whereof as yet hee hath his stomach wholy charged and afflicted and therefore loathes and abhorres it were it but onely for the bitternesse thereof Right so wee must confesse that our wronges haue exposed and reduced vs to the last point of necessite since wee are enforced to haue recourse to that remedie wherein wee haue