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A46364	The last efforts of afflicted innocence being an account of the persecution of the Protestants of France, and a vindication of the reformed religion from the aspersions of disloyalty and rebellion, charg'd on it by the papists / translated out of French.; Derniers efforts de l'innocence affligée. English	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Vaughan, Walter.	1682 (1682)	Wing J1205; ESTC R2582	121,934	296

into a condition I dread to imagine for if they Arm the hand of our Soveraign against us and perswade him to spill the Blood of his Subjects the State must be weakned by having drawn from it the most faithful and truest French Blood in its Veins Par. I am a Catholick but none of those who are for Monks and Clergymens intermedling in Civil Affairs Their business is to pray to God for the prosperity of the Kingdom 't is certain that matters are but very little mended since these good men wriggled themselves so deeply into Courts Hug. Law But do you not admire Sir the boldness of the Jesuits and the use they make of it at Court by the man they have there at his Majesties Elbow They were banish'd France by Arrest of the Parliament of Paris being clearly convinc'd they had by the hands of John Chatell attempted to murder Henry the 4th This Prince fearing a stab from them call'd them in again by an Edict in January 1604. One Clause of the Edict was They should be oblig'd to keep one of their Society a French man Born and sufficiently Authoriz'd to attend the King to serve him for a Preacher and to be answerable for the Actions of the Society that is That there should always be a Jesuit attending at Court as an evidence that all those of his Society were look'd upon as disturbers of the publick Peace as Murderers of Kings and Enemies of the State one of whose Chiefs the Court would have always in its Power that he might be responsible for the attempts of his Fellows and remain as an Hostage to receive such Punishments as the Criminal enterprizes of his Society should deserve This is the natural Character which from Father Cotton to Father Le Chaise ought to be given according to the intention of the Edict of all the Jesuits that follow the Court. A Character that ought to make them asham'd and keep them continually humble Instead of which they are become Masters of the Consciences of our Kings the Tyrants of the Church and we may say of all France This gave occasion to Monsieur de Mezeray to make this judicious Remark That this Condition annex'd to the Edict Tom. 6. Hen. 4. An. 1604. instead of branding them as they imagin'd who got it inserted procur'd them the greatest Honour they could desire Philip of Macedon was awak'd every Morning by a Page who told him Remember you are a man I wish our cruel Enemy were awak'd every Morning with these words Remember you are here to be answerable for the Doctrine and Actions of those who teach that Kings may be assassinated when disobedient to the Pope and inspir'd these detestable Sentiments into John Chatel and Clement and Ravaillac and William Parry Robert Catesby Thomas Percy and other Murtherers of our Kings the Kings of England and the Princes of Orange in the last Age and this Par. I see you are no Friend of that good Father and it must be confess'd he is not much yours Hug. Law We find by experience he is not much our Friend And the more unhappy we he hath as much Credit with the King as Hatred for our Party It seems the King cannot refuse him any thing Was any thing ever seen more terrible than the Arrest he had obtain'd whereby our Ministers and Elders were prohibited on pain of Corporal Punishment to go into any House by night or by day on any occasion but to visit the sick By this Arrest as soon as a man was an Elder he was excluded from the Company of all those of his Religion His Majesty look'd on this as so strange a surprize that he thought fit by another Arrest to explain this and declare it was not his intention to hinder the Ministers and Elders to visit their Flocks I will give you another instance how this man abuses his Credit The King upon the Complaint of his Subjects of the Religion of divers Violences burning of Churches and other Outrages done them pass'd an Arrest in May 1681. Prohibiting any Violence by Word or Action to be done to the Reformed A poor Minister of Poitou in one of his Sermons gave God thanks for having inspir'd the King with this Equity and Clemency Father Le Chaise had news of it by Letter and presently obtain'd another Arrest which orders those to be inform'd against who in their Interpretations of this Arrest should say That the Exhortations made in the Kings name to the People to change their Religion are not according to his intention You are to observe Sir that the Exhortations made in the Kings Name in Poitou are no other than strange Menaces and extraordinary Outrages And to prevent their being stopp'd by his Majesties Arrest the Sieur de Marillac and Father le Chaise thought fit to annul it by another Arrest which will give way to all the Exorbitances his Majesty design'd to hinder by this Par. It hath been observ'd there hath been for some months past an extraordinary Emotion amongst you What 's the Reason of it Hug. Law The Reason Sir 'T is because we see things hurryed on faster than we imagin'd To tell you the truth we have been long sensible of a Design laid to ruine us but fancy'd they would not have gone so roundly to work with us We lull'd our selves asleep in hopes the Affairs of the State might occasion a change in ours But ever since last Summer we look'd upon our selves to be very near Destruction The suppressing our Colledges and Academies convinces us effectually we have not long to continue in the Kingdom for if the King were willing we should stay he would allow us our Ministers and permit us to enjoy places necessary for Instruction Hug. Gent. Now you mind me of it have you seen the Arrest against the Academy of Sedan if you have you cannot but think them out of their Wits who draw those Arrests making one of the wisest Princes of the World speak so ridiculously They make the King say he had granted the Hugonots of Sedan an Academy for instruction of their Children and that they had abus'd his Grant by receiving strangers into their Academy Have you ever seen an Academy strangers were deny'd access to I admir'd at the confidence of these Penners of Arrests in publishing falsities so gross I was wishing to see the Edict of Reunion of the Principality of Sedan to the Crown I find it repeated there five or six times that the King Confirm'd to them their Academy with all Rights and Priviledges they enjoy'd under their Princes Is not the King Master of it Is not his Pleasure reason enough Why then are such notorious falshoods impos'd on the World Hug. Law I was more astonish'd at the Declaration that gives all Hugonots who will turn Catholicks three years respit for payment of their Debts It will be easily granted they have not in this been very tender of the Honour of the King or of their

more weight than what is said by an Author without Merit and without a Name Hug. Law The Charge is the same though the Accusers are different By answering either we answer both Save that Dr. Arnaud aims farther than the Anonymus Church-man and lays his Accusation general against all the Reformed of Europe as if they had kindled a War and alter'd the Government where-ever the Reformation was introduc'd The generality of this Charge deserves a particular Consideration and if these Gentlemen please I will let them see how unjust it is Par. We shall gladly give you the hearing 'T is a thing we had to say to you in Justification of the Conduct of the Ministers against you and of the design the King hath to destroy you And I explain it thus You are naturally inclin'd to a Republican Government you hate Monarchy and your Sect hath not made appear that Spirit of Rebellion that animates it in France alone but in the Low-Countries in Germany in England And generally in all places where it is establish'd you have shaken off the Yoke of your Lawful Princes and setled your Religion by taking up Arms against your Soveraigns Hug. Law If a Gentleman so clear-sighted as you can charge us so unjustly what Equity can we expect from those ordinary understandings which are guided wholly by prejudice To hear you speak one would think we had in every place set up the Standard of Rebellion And that like Mahomet we had establish'd our Sect by force of Arms. The ground of all this is no other but that in the time of our Reformation the Low-Countries withdrew themselves from under the Dominion of Spain and the Protestants of Germany had some engagements with Charles the 5th To let you see the injustice of this Complaint I must intreat you to take a short view of the States where our Reformation is establish'd and you will see whether it hath entred every where by Arms and Rebellion As to England all the World knows the Reformation was introduc'd there by Authority of the Soveraign not by popular Sedition Henry the 8th shook off the Yoke of the Pope and enfranchis'd his Kingdom from the Tyranny of the Court of Rome Edward the 6th his Son and Successor finished what he began Mary the Daughter of Henry destroy'd all her Father and Brother had done and brought the Kingdom again under the Dominion of the Roman Church Elizabeth her Sister overthrew all Mary had done restablish'd the Reformation of the Protestants in all her Dominions and strengthned it by a Raign of above forty years Swede was reform'd under the Authority of Gustavus Erikson whom your most Catholick Writers cannot reproach with any thing but his banishing the Roman Religion out of his Countries He was descended of the Ancient Gothish Kings and Grandchild to Charles Chanut King of Swede He was chosen King of Swede by all the States of that Kingdom with universal joy and great acclamation as having merited that Honour by the great Service he had done his Countrey in delivering it from the tyranny of the Danes This then was no usurper but a Lawful King A Prince of so much goodness and wisdom as Swede ever had He Raign'd happily thirty seven years and in acknowledgment of his Merit the Swedes made their Crown hereditary in favour of his Children which had before been Elective This Prince reform'd Religion in his Countries without Violence without Threats but by fair and gentle Means without a Sword drawn or drop of Blood shed Denmark receiv'd the Reformation the same time under Frederick and Christiern the 3 d. his Son without Violence and only by the Authority of these two Princes The last Roman-Catholick King of Denmark was Christiern the 2 d. whom F. Maimburg in his History of Lutheranism describes as a Monster He assur'd himself the Conquest of Swede by the most inhumane and barbarous Action History ever mention'd That is by Massacring the Senate and all the flower of the Nobility of the Kingdom at a Feast he invited them to This Tyrant was driven out of Denmark by his Subjects there who call'd in Frederick Duke of Holstein and plac'd him on the Throne This Frederick was a Prince as eminent for wisdom and renowned for goodness as Christern the last who made profession there of the Roman-Catholick Religion was infamous for his Wickedness Treachery and Cruelty For proof of this truth I rely not on a Witness lyable to suspition but on Father Maimbourg in his first Book of the History of Lutheranism I have already made out a considerable number of the Reformed Countries where it appears the Reformation was not introduc'd by revolt of the Subject but establish'd by Authority of the Soveraign The Swisses were a free State before the Reformation and therefore at liberty to make choice of their Religion and may be added to the number of Countries reform'd without Rebellion Par. Let me advise you Sir to stop there For if you step but a little further you will come to Geneva your Metropolis and your Rome And I believe you will find it a hard task to justifie their manner of changing the Ancient Religion there They expell'd their Bishop depriv'd the Dukes of Savoy of the ancient Rights they had in the City erected themselves into a soveraign Republick against all sorts of Right Humane and Divine Hug. Law I think Gentlemen you have no cause to suspect the History of Geneva lately published by Monsieur Spon He affects a sincerity not very pleasing to the Protestants They of Geneva have judg'd it so little favourable to them they have prohibited the sale of the Book in their City And it has pleas'd the Enemies of the Protestants so well they have given it high Elogies and magnificent Approbations However I will rely on what that Author says If you read that History Sir you will find the Bishop of Geneva was not in any Age Soveraign of the City true it is he had some rights over the temporalties of it as some Bishops of France particularly those who are Dukes Earls and Peers of the Kingdom have over their Sees and Episcopal Cities as the Bishop of Strasbourg had there as the Elector and Arch-bishop of Cologne hath over that City But these are not rights of Soveraignty The Bishop of Geneva never was a Soveraign Prince but the Syndic and Councel of the City have always been Soveraign Magistrates in Civil Affairs The Historian tells you further the Duke of Savoy never had any lawful right over the City of Geneva They have had Judges who were called Vidons but the Judges had jurisdiction over no other but Savoyards settled in the Territory of Geneva And 't was by meer sufferance of the Genevois the Dukes of Savoy had a right of Jurisdiction over the Savoyards in their City 'T is confess'd the Dukes of Savoy have sometimes kept their Court in Geneva but without any Authority other than the permission of the Syndics and