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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27402	The history of the famous Edict of Nantes containing an account of all the persecutions that have been in France from its first publication to this present time : faithfully extracted from all the publick and private memoirs, that could possibly be procured / printed first in French, by the authority of the states of Holland and West-Friezland, and now translated into English.; Histoire de l'édit de Nantes. English	Benoist, Elie, 1640-1728.	1694 (1694)	Wing B1898; ESTC R4319	1,288,982	1,631

stifl'd and extinguish'd so many Fires kindl'd to reform and punish 'em and 〈…〉 set up in their room Lights more pure and innocent to illuminate their Consciences and Understandings But for all this ●…ir Beginning he fail'd not to accuse the Reformed of three ●●ings extremely odious The first was for openly violating ●●e Edicts the second was for ceasing to pray to God for the ●…ing in their Psalms and the third for prophaning and blaspheming the Sacred Things The great Proof of the first Accusation was drawn from the Act of the National Synod in the Year 1631 wherein it was declar'd That the Lutherans might be admitted to the Communion to intermarry and present Children to Baptism Which he pretended was contrary to the Edicts because it tended to the introducing of a new Religion into France as if by that Act of Fraternal Communion the Synod had ever pretended to associate the Lutherans in the same liberty of teaching their Opinions and publicly exercising their Religion as the Reformed ha● obtain'd by the Edicts Which nevertheless was so far from th● intention of the Synod that in the Act of the Union itself 〈…〉 was expresly requir'd That such Lutherans as should be made choice of for Godfathers should promise to teach 'em no other Doctrines then those about which there was no dispute How ever the Bishop hung fast upon the Apology for that Reunion which Daillé had publish'd about two years after the Synod broke up That same Minister had taken for the foundation 〈…〉 his Justifications the difference of Errors of which there were some that were not so heinous as others and among whi●● as there are some that are intolerable that brake all communion between the Orthodox and the Erroneous so there an● others that may be born withal as no way tending to such 〈…〉 Rupture He alledg'd for an Example of the latter the Opinion of the Greeks about the proceeding of the Holy Ghose which he did not believe to be of that consequence as to authorize a Schism He endeavour'd also to settle general Rules to judge what those Errors are that break communion by reason of their extreme distance from the Truth This was a very prudent Apology and the Author's Principles were manag'd with so much discretion that it was impossible for any person to be offended at 'em unless blinded either by his Passion or hi● Ignorance The same Daillé publish'd the next year a little Treatise which he entitl'd Faith grounded upon Scripture which destroying the Authority of Tradition when the Dispute lay about Articles of Faith prov'd exactly the Doctrine o●… ●…e Reformed and gave light to the Rules which he had pro●…'d for the discerning of Errors The Bishop attacqued these two Books with extraordinary ●●olence He could not endure that Daillé should think the ●●nathema pronounc'd against the Greeks too severe only for an 〈…〉 considerable deviation from the Doctrine of the Latins ●…uching the proceeding of the Holy Ghost and so insisting upon that Indulgence and some other Principles that Daillé●●d ●●d maintain'd he accus'd him of teaching either in express ●…erms or by Consequences necessarily drawn from his Doctrine ●…at all Heresies would admit of a Dispute except eight of the most important I know not how the Episcopal Charity 〈…〉 that Prelat could accommodate the usual Maxims which ●…each up Union and detest Schism in such vigorous Terms ●…ith this Complaint of a horrid Attempt of a Minister that ●…t no more then eight Reasons of Division among the Chri●…ans as if the grand Interest of public Edification and ●…iversal ought not to make all good men wish that ●…ere had bin less then eight Reasons of Divorce if they ●…uld have bin reduc'd to a lesser number without doing ●…jury to the Truth But the Bishop's aim was to indicate that this was to teach an Indifferency in Religion ●●n●rary to the Edict and that according to Daillés Principles no Man was bound to quit his Sect to embrace a better opinion The second Accusation was still more malicious And the ●…etence which the Bishop took for it was the Alteration made 〈…〉 the 20th Verse of the 20th Psalm which is the 19th according to the Latin and begins with these words Lord save the ●●ing and in the French Paraphrase of the Reformed thus ●…he Lord hear thy Prayer 'T is true that this last Verse had ●…rmerly bin paraphras'd after this manner Be pleas'd O Lord 〈…〉 defend us and preserve the King Be pleas'd to hear our Prayers when we cry unto thee But the Reformed having made ●everal Alterations in Marot's Paraphrase when they ●●ppli'd it to the Public Use of their Devotions because his expressions were a little too harsh too roving and somewhat to●… slight and having made these Alterations at several times an●… upon several occasions it happen'd that this Couplet of the Psalm was corrected among others as having bin translated by the Poet after a manner more conformable to the Vulgar the●… to the Hebrew Original Thereupon this Paraphrase was inserted instead of the former Be pleas'd O Lord to defend 〈…〉 and cause the King to hear our Petitions Encounter all our Fears I make no question but that when this Correction was made the Reformed had a design to have a formal Prayer extracted from the Words of the Holy Ghost to desire of God who governs the hearts of Kings that he would encline hi● to be favourable to their Suits Upon that score the●… found this New Paraphrase more suitable to their Occas●…ons as being in their Opinion more conformable to the Hebrew then the former But certainly he must see with the Eyes of a very Irregular Passion who sees any thing in the Alteration with which a Sovereign Prince could be justly an● deservedly offended Nevertheless the Bishop found as he thought two Gro●… Errors in this Correction The one was That the Sense was corrupted And the other was That the Reformed had put themselves in the King's room and that they had assum'd the Prayer to themselves which the Holy Ghost ha● dictated in his behalf This was branded as a piece of Insolence and an Attempt which abolishing the Prayer that ought to be offer'd for the Preservation of the King ravish'd from him as much as in 'em lay the Honour Fear and Tribute that was due to him So that the Bishop would fain have prov'd from thence That had it bin as much in the power of the Reformed to deprive the King of all the Prerogatives of his Crown as it was to alter the words of the Psalm they would never have scrupl'd to have done it And this Accusation was aggravated with all the Tours the Dresses and Enamellings of a Quaint Wit that Propense Malice and Black Malignity could infuse into a Quick Imagination Nevertheless there is one Reflection to be made upon the Transports of this Outragious Bishop sufficient to ●…scover the Injustice of 'em that this Alteration had bin