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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49223	An edict of the French king prohibiting all publick exercise of the pretended reformed religion in his kingdom wherein he recalls and totally annuls the perpetual and irrevocable edict of King Henry the IV, his grandfather, given at Nantes, full of most gracious concessions to Protestants : to which is added, the French king's letter to the Elector of Brandenburg, containing several passages relating to the foregoing edict : as also, a brief and true account of the persecution carried on against those of the foresaid religion ... : together with the form of abjuration the revolting Protestants are to subscribe and swear to, and a declaration of His Electoral Highness of Brandenburg ... / translated out of French.; Edit de révocation de l'Edit de Nantes. English	France.; Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1686 (1686)	Wing L3120; ESTC R2487	29,428	42

see I will do it much better than he hath shav'd you And thereupon begins in a most cruel manner to pluck the Hair Skin and all off his Head and flea'd That as the other had done his Chin. Thus making a Sport and Merriment of the extream Suffering of these miserable Wretches By these Inhumane and more than Barbarous means it is that they endeavour to overcome the most resolved Patience and to drive People to Despair and Faint-heartedness by their Devilish Inventions They refuse to give them Death which they desire and only keep them alive to torment them so long till they have vanquish'd their Perseverance for the Names of Martyrs and Rebels are equally odious to their Enemies who tell them That the King will have Obedient Subjects but neither Martyrs nor Rebels and that they have received Orders to Convert them but not to Kill them Sir I beg your Pardon for having so long Entertain'd you with these more than Tragical Passages and that you would not be wanting to recommend the Condition of these Poor Destitute Afflicted and Tortured Persons to the Bowels of Compassion of our Heavenly Father that He would be pleased not to suffer them to be Tempted above what he shall give them Grace to bear Which is the Hearty Prayer of Your Faithful Friend T. G. Since the First Publishing of This some further Particulars representing the Horror of this Persecution are come to hand which take as follow THey have put Persons into Monasteries in little narrow holes where thy could not stretch their Bodies at length there Feeding them with Bread and Water and Whipping them every day till they did Recant They plunged others into Wells and there kept them till they promised to do what was desired of them They stript some Naked and stuck their Bodies full of Pins They tyed Fathers and Husbands to the Bed-Posts forcing their Wives and Daughters before their Eyes In some Places the Ravishing of Women was openly and generally permitted They pluck'd off the Nails and Toes of others They Burnt their Feet and blew up Men and Women with Bellows till they were ready to Burst In a word They exercised all manner of Cruelties they could invent and in so doing spared neither Sex Age nor Quality The Profession of the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Faith which the Revolting Protestants in France are to Subscribe and Swear to IN the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen I Believe and Confess with a firm Faith all and every thing and things contained in the Creed which is used by the Holy Church of Rome viz. I Receive and Embrace most sincerely the Apostolick and Ecclesiastical Traditions and other Observances of the said Church In like manner I receive the Scriptures but in the same Sence as the said Mother Church hath and doth now understand and Expound the same for whom and to whom it only doth belong to judge of the Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures And I will never take them nor understand them otherwise than according to the unanimous Consent of the Fathers I profess That there be truly and properly Seven Sacraments of the New Law instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ and necessary for the Salvation of Mankind altho' not equally needful for every one viz. Baptism Confirmation the Eucharist Penance Extream Unction Orders and Marriage and that they do confer Grace and that Baptism and Orders may not be reiterated without Sacriledge I receive and admit also the Ceremonies received and approved by the Catholick Church in the solemn Administration of the forementioned Sacraments I receive and embrace all and every thing and things which have been determined concerning Original Sin and Justification by the Holy Council of Trent I likewise profess that in the Mass there is offered up to God a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for the Living and Dead and that in the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly really and Substantially the Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ and that in it there is made a change of the whole Substance of the Bread into his Body and of whole Substance of the Wine into his Blood which change the Catholick Church calls Transubstantiation I confess also That under one only of these two Elements whole Christ and the true Sacrament is received I constantly believe and affirm that there is a Purgatory and that the Souls there detained are relieved by the Suffrages of the Faithful In like manner I believe that the Saints Reigning in Glory with Jesus Christ are to be Worshipped and Invocated by us and that they offer up Prayers to God for us and that their Reliques ought to be honoured Moreover I do most stedfastly avow that the Images of Jesus Christ of the Blessed Virgin the Mother of God and of other Saints ought to be kept and retained and that due Honour and Veneration must be yielded unto them Also I do affirm that the power of Indulgence was left to the Church by Christ Jesus and that the use thereof is very beneficial to Christians I do acknowledge the holy Catholick Apostolick and Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all other Churches and I Profess and Swear true Obedience to the Pope of Rome Successor of the Blessed St. Peter Prince of the Apostles and Vicar of Jesus Christ In like manner I own and profess without doubting all other things left defined and declared by the Holy Canons and General Councils especially by the most Holy Council of Trent and withal I do condemn reject and hold for accursed all things that are contrary thereto and all those Heresies which have been condemned rejected and accursed by the Church And then Swearing upon the Book of the Gospel the Party Recanting must say I Promise Vow and Swear and most constantly Profess by Gods Assistance to keep entirely and inviolably unto Death this self-same Catholick and Apostolick Faith out of which no Person can be Saved and this I do most truly and willingly profess and that I will to the utmost of my Power endeavour that it may be maintain'd and upheld as far as any ways belong to my Charge so help me God and the Holy Virgin The Certificate which the Party Recanting is to leave with the Priest when he makes his Abjuration I N. N. of the Parish of N. do Certifie all whom it may Concern That having acknowledged the Falseness of the Pretended Reformed and the Truth of the Catholick Religion of my own Free will without any Compulsion I have accordingly made Profession of the said Catholick Roman Religion in the Church of N. in the hands of N. N. In Testimony of the Truth whereof I have Signed this Act in the presence of the Witnesses whose Names are under Written this day of the Month of the Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King and of our Redemption A Declaration of the Elector of Brandenburg in