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heart_n	harden_v	lord_n	pharaoh_n	7,022	5	11.1206	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00397	A declaration and catholick exhortation to all Christian princes to succour the Church of God and realme of France. Written by Peter Erondelle, natife of Normandie. Faithfully translated out of the French	Erondelle, Pierre, fl. 1586-1609.	1586 (1586)	STC 10512; ESTC S112258	9,822	26

A Declaration and Catholick exhortation to all Christian Princes to succour the Church of God and Realme of France Written by Peter Erondelle natife of Normandie Faithfully translated out of the French ¶ To all true louers of the pure Gospell and holy doctrine of Iesus Christ and to all those that desire the preseruation of the Realme of France Peter Erondelle wisheth health in the Lord. I Doubt not but doe stedfastly perceiue that whosoeuer shall consider of my calling wil disdain to looke vpon this briefe Treatise as proceeding frō a person vnworthie such a worke yea and will maruaile from whence J should gather such boldnesse sith I am not adorned or furnished with any humaine wisedome wherewith to beautifie or rather paint out the same But what aunswer shall J make them For it is not I that haue wrought this woorke but euen GOD himselfe through the vertue and power of the holy Ghost working in mee who word by word hath shewed and enstructed me in all that is herein set downe as vsing mee a poore and miserable sinner to indure and perswade or rather commaund all those that haue the feare of God and doctrine of Iesus Christ before their eyes to succour his afflicted people who are on euery side oppressed but principally in our France by some tyrants vnto whō J present not this briefe discourse for I am sufficiently perswaded that this kinde of people do but seeke occasion to subuert set at va●●●…nce such a Commonwealth as before remayned in peace and vnitie But vnto you my brethren doe J direct the same desiring you not to disdaine the sight therof but in equitie and without al passion other thē reason to reade it notwithstanding therein you finde some fault Neither would I herein seeke to flatter or conceale the aucthors of these present troubles namely the house of Guyze who are the chiefe Captaines and conductors thereof as also I should get nothing by concealing them as being a matter which euery man knoweth better then J can tell them how it standeth Besides I will not delay the time in beautifying this discourse with any painted speech to adorne it withall as some doe when they seeke and goe about to perswade lyes in stead of trueth vnder the colour of a pleasant phrase and painted speech which is sufficient to leade the Readers thereunto and lulling them on sleepe procureth them as afore is sayde to admit lyes in liew of truth euen as the Mermaide who by her pleasant song ouercommeth the Saylers and when they be at rest deuoureth them all J would not therefore imitate them but onely speake plainly according to all the wordes that haue fallen into my mouth whereby God hath holpen me to bring the same to passe To him therfore are we to yeeld thankes and withal to pray him to direct al our workes to the glory of his name and excellencie of his iustice as also that through the blood of his welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ he will vouchsafe vs remission of all our sinnes Amen A Prayer O Lord God almightie who knowest the hearts and thoughtes of al men so as we doe not so son● imagine what to say but thou knowest better then our selues what our tongue should pronounce that there is nothing vpon the earth or vnder the same how secrete soeuer but is manifest vnto thee Wee beseech thee O Lorde in the name of thy welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ that it may please thee to open and reueale whatsoeuer the wicked purposes of the peruerse whereby they may haue no meanes left to persecute thy faithful Neuerthelesse if it please thee O Lord yet to continue the afflictions of thy Church like as we know thee to be a iust and true Iudge we do notwithstanding beseech thee not to punish vs in thy wrath or according to our deserts who deserue onely euerlasting damnation but thy will be done for so it is most expedient We confesse that we haue grieuously prouoked thee against vs and are greatly endaungered to thy most iust iudgement howbeit we beseech thee O Lorde enter not thereinto with vs for our sinnes in thy sight are innumerable euen as the sand of the Sea or droppes of water of the same it may please thee therefore O Lord not to call thē to thy remembrance but through the death and passion of thy welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ to wipe thē away We beseech thee also that it may please thee to preserue those Kings Princes that are endued with the knowledge of thy Gospell and doe dayly fight for the same thereby vnder the shadow of their wings preseruing many faithfull poore persons vouchsafe them the encrease of thy grace Touch also the mindes of such Kings and Princes as doe vexe thy poore seruants and suffer not their hearts to be hardened like as was the heart of Pharao King of Egipt against thy people of Israell and especially O Lord vouchsafe to bring them into the bosome of thy Church so to enioye the cleare light thereof which is to see and knowe the trueth And this do we most humbly beseech thee in the name and fauour of thy dearely beloued sonne our Lorde Iesus Christ as himselfe hath taught vs saying Our Father which art in heauen c. FINIS ¶ A Declaration and exhortation to Princes c. LOng time haue we seene our France thus tormented afflicted with wars miseries and calamities vnder colour of religion and yet euen to this day do we behold how it doth daily waste and decay more and more which causeth mee to thincke that vnlesse God doe speedely set to his hand we shall in short time behold the destruction and dissipation of the most florishing Realme in Christendome at the appetite of certaine perticuler parsons who vppon a desire and vnsatiable thirst to raigne doe seeke no other but the losse or rather vsurpation thereof as seeming to them that God is blind and seeth not the torments which they inflict vppon his people in banishing some and defrauding them of their goods and in putting other some most cruelly to death They might surely thincke that if the Religion which they tearme new were not good it would soone waste and be in a moment swalowed vp but that contrariwise if it be according to God and Christ Iesus al the weapons and power of the world are not able to destroy it no not so much as any whit to diminish the same and therefore they ought rather to followe the counsayle of the Pharisaicall Doctor of the Iewish law Gamaliel who being in the Counsaile house when they sought to put the Apostles to death said that if their Religion were of Man the remembrance thereof would soone perish but if it were of God they should neuer be able to destroy it How many bloody battailes haue we seen Howe much Innocent blood shed not onely in our France but euen throughout all Christian-dome for this onely point and yet doe we see this holy