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A25712 An Appeal to all Protestant kings, princes, and states, concerning the apparent danger of the Protestant religion, and the great decay of its interest in Europe with a most awakening account of the unjust and cruel methods for the destruction thereof, that are practiced in several countries. 1700 (1700) Wing A3567; ESTC R8897 21,558 40

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others did often Charge the Governess and her Assistant with the Murder What follows we have in a Letter from Montpellier November 4 1698. New Stile A great number of Protestants having met together on the Hills of Vivares there were killed on the spot 350 of them one of the Dragoons seeing a Woman lying dead on the ground with her Child still in her Arms drawing near it smiled on him but the Barbarous Wretch was so far from being moved with the Smiles of the Innocent Creature that he thrust his Dagger into its Breast and lifting it up cryed to his Comrade hey dost thou not see this Frog This Diabolical Action being complained of to the Intendant he would take no Notice of it This shall be our last instance But as much haste as we make to be rid of this most grievous and painful work we must farther add that God only knows when there will be a stop put to these fearful Cruelties or the least mitigation of them For whereas the French Protestants had longed most vehemently for the Peace scarce questioning but to have a share in the Blessings thereof never were poor Creatures more lamentably disappointed For the Peace which England and so many other Countries greatly Rejoyced in hath not done so well for them as but to leave them as they were but has made their case far more deplorable than it was for at least some years while the War lasted Which diverted the Persecutors from being so closely intent as now they are on the Prosecution of their Devilish Design And to come to a Conclusion of this Tragical Account As the Prophet thus bewailed his Country-Mens Babilonish Captivity Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by Behold and see if there be any Sorrow like unto my Sorrow wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his Fierce Anger So we may see these poor Christians making their Moan if it be possible even more Pathetically For in a Letter from Castres in the Upper Languedoc Extracts of which with many other are Published by the aforesaid French Protestant Minister dated the 18th of May 98 are the following heart-piercing expressions Who is able to give a full description of our Miseries It is impossible for an Humane Soul to reach it Our Calamities are so great that no body can express them c. Good God! who would have believed that so many Potent Princes who are our Brethren in Christ would have Abandoned us They might at least have Asked that we might have leave to depart this Kingdom or that they would put us to death all at once But they think of us no more than if we were not in the World Surely we must needs have greatly offended God seeing He permits Princes and our Brethren in Christ to forsake us However we must hope that God Almighty will come to us in due time He is a God to help in Extremity Alass He must then Come away very speedily for we are at our last Gasp And the like we have in another Letter from the same Place Dated May 10th 1698. But we will onely recite a Wonderful and as Comfortable a passage here after dismal Complaints viz. Good God! why should we not all persist in the Faith both Men and Women For even Children of Ten Years Old hold out and there is not one among them willing to yield This is a Miracle which God Almighty sets before our Eyes and which we must make good use of And well may We cry Good God! what Tongue can express the Cruelty of those who can find in their hearts to make their Fellow-Subjects we hate to say their Fellow-Christians to bemoan themselves so as to melt a Stone What Fancy can Form a complete Idea of the Savage Fierceness of these Roman Catholicks as they will needs be called what Pencil can draw their Inhumanity to the Life when they have Power in their hands proportionable to their Zeal against what they call Heresie Wolves and Tygers are gentle Lambs compared with those who can be so outragious upon no provocation and without pretending any incitement but that those they Torture dare not make so bold with God and their Consciences as to Abjure a Religion the truth of which they have undoubted Assurance of Who that are but one remove from the Nature of the Infernal Spirits can be so Barbarous towards innocent and inoffensive People to say no better of them Can we call Popery a Religion that makes its Professors such Monsters and Originals of Cruelty as Irreligion it self can make none like them Is that the Catholick Church of Christ or the Chief Synagogue of Satan that can excite her Children to the most Diabolical Practices and pretend to make them not only Lawful but even Meritorious And is it now possible since the State of the Protestant Religion and Interest is such at this day as is briefly Represented in the Entrance into this Appeal that any Protestant Prince or State should want a very vigorous Sense of what infinite importance it is to prevent the farther Growth of Popery in their respective Dominions Can they find it difficult to perswade themselves to provide to the utmost of their Power for their security from again falling under a Bondage in comparison of which that was a very light one the Ancient Israelites felt under the Cruel Pharaoh Can they think it worth their while to be heartily concerned about any Publick Affair and neglect this which is so apparently of the highest importance imaginable both to their own and their Peoples Eternal Welfare and Temporal too nay is as these Leaves have shewn us of absolute necessity to their but Tolerable Condition in this World GOD FORBID We should likewise have given an Account of the late Cruelties which have been Practised by the Papists in the Principality of Orange and in Piedmont but that they are generally the very same with those in the Kingdom of France FINIS ERRATA Page 32. Line 6. for where read when Ibid. l. 20. for Barbarities r. Barbarity AN Account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners in London and Westminster and other Parts of the Kingdom With a Perswasive to Persons of all Ranks to be Zealous and Diligent in Promoting the Execution of the Laws against Prophaneness and Debauchery for the Effecting a National Reformation Published with the Approbation of a Considerable Number of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil over-against the Royal Exchange 1700.