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A01189	A letter vvritten by those of the assembly in Rochell: to Monsieur le Duc de Les Diguieres Containing an admonition vnto him, to leaue the enemie, and to ayde them. As also an exhortation and a warning vnto those that forsake the trueth, and cleaue vnto the enemies thereof, to shun that vengeance which God will send downe vpon them for the same.; Lettre de Messieurs l'Assemblee, a Monsieur le duc de Lesdiguieres. English	Eglises réformées de France. Assemblée générale (1620-1621 : La Rochelle); Lesdiguiéres, François de Bonne, duc de, 1543-1626.	1621 (1621)	STC 11304; ESTC S105630	6,562	16

vnto vs by those words that to vs should be as good an assurance as Letters Patents yea and vpon yours also What fault haue we committed that being assembled haue sought by all submissiue meanes possible vnto his Maiestie to obtaine that iustice that had beene promised vnto vs when wee remitted the pursuite thereof to our generall Deputies and desired those that are of the greatest quality and degrees and make profession of the Religion in this Realme to ioyne their intercessions with them And seeing that in stead of finding the effect of the performance of the promises made vnto vs vpon your iust and most humble supplications presented vnto his Maiestie we haue beene proclaimed Rebels and declared to be criminals and that as such our processe hath beene made some of vs haue beene executed by pictures seeing in Viuards they haue risen vp in Armes besieged battered and taken those place's that we held and in them contrary to the agreements made murthered some and vsed great violences vnto vs that at this present they besiege and furiously batter the Towne of S. Iohn D'angely can men iustly blame vs if against such violences wee oppose our defence which nature teacheth euery man and the law of God neuer reprooueth In the meane time God forbid that this extremitie whereinto we are reduced by constraint should in our hearts deface that most humble obedience and most faithfull seruice that wee owe vnto our King wherein wee protest inuiolably to continue desiring nothing more nor so much then that in the iustice and security required by vs for our Churches wee may attaine the meanes of a good and an assured peace in this state which as much as in vs lyeth we haue to our powers doe seek for beseeching God with all our hearts to defend and preserue the King from those dangers which the Enemies of his state expose his person vnto in the perils of warre In the meane time my Lord the iustnesse of our cause which so manifestly appeareth and which God will alwayes make to shine as bright as the Sunne at noone time doth not hinder you by your presence from approuing the proceedings that are taken against vs and which is more blotting out the remembrance of the griefes that our Churches receiue you promise and procure fauour vnto those who leauing vs will ioyne themselues vnto our Enemies as you solicite them by that meanes putting into the mouth of the Church at this day the cōplaint that the Prophet Ieremie made saying That his neerest friends behaued themselues disloyally towards him were become his Enemies The Sauiour of the world teacheth vs that a house deuided in it selfe cannot stand Iudge then my Lord if it please you what punishment they incurre that shall haue beene a meanes to stirre vp deuision in the house of God and whether God will not reuenge the destruction thereof not only vpon those that openly procure it but also on those that in any manner or by any meanes shall haue contributed vnto the same But after we had seene what hath beene done in Bearn Viuarez and against the assembly after that by your presence you haue fauoured a puissant Armie against the Churches of this Realme and the losse of many places that had beene giuen vs to hold for our securities In a time wherein the violence of our Enemies could not be restrained by any authority after you had conducted or accompanied the Armie that is incamped against our brethren before the Towne of S. Iohn D'angely if as wee haue beene assured you your selfe in person went to view the place and vsed all the experience dexterity that God hath giuen you in Armes to make the siege and the meanes to take it more easie what subiect haue not wee to complaine against you who in stead of being sicke for Iosephes affliction feare not to be the greatest instrument of his murthering Is it possible that you cannot apprehend the ruine of so flourishing a Church that God hath here gathered together and that you are not moued at the destruction that men seeke to bring vpon Monsieur De Sobize and vpon so many braue Gentlemen that haue beene the first that presented themselues in the mouth of the breach that is made in the Citie of Dauid that couragiously labour to repaire the same at this day in a manner wholly hindering that course of the destruction already begun in our Churches and proiected against all of them The knowledge that God hath giuen you of his holy name bindeth you to employ that authority whereunto hee hath aduanced you and all the graces that hee hath imparted vnto you and bestowed vpon you to the maintainance of his Church and will you imploy them in the destruction thereof Piety requireth that you should procure all good and liberty vnto those that make profession of Religion and will you approue and allow of their desolation Christian charity can hardly endure without watry eyes that wee should see one man onely put to death and can you with a smooth and smiling countenance behold and see the butcherie and cruell slaughter of so many of our brethren What reputation can they get or procure vnto themselues that fight against that Gospell whereof they make profession What fidelity may our Prince expect from them that being not faithfull vnto God abandon the maintainance of his cause And from whence proceedes this great distaste of vs at this day but only from this that there are some men and those of greatest qualities that giue themselues to affect the Religion as long and no longer then that it serueth their turnes to aduance them vnto dignities and to encrease their riches Is it not easie to be iudged that if couetousnesse and ambition be a meanes to make them disloyall vnto God and to dispise and neglect their owne saluation that the same vices will easily draw them on to infidelity towards their Prince and to the dispising of their owne honours Was it a small matter in your sight to see diuers Ministers driuen away from their dwelling places the exercise of Religion banished out of thos● places where it was established and the inhumanities which haue bin impiously vsed within these few yeares vpon the dead bodies of the faithfull almost in all places of this Realme The burnings and destroying of diuers of our Churches the many seditions and specially that last made in the Citie of Touers besides the entier desolation of those of Bearn haue they not touched nor mooued your soule with a Christian compassion and a iust apprehension in short time to behold and see those horrible cruelties executed vpon vs and our children that after the like proceedings were at other times executed vpon our fathers and that after as at this day they had bin deceiued by words of peace and quietnesse Certainely my Lord if you acknowledge that you hold that honor which you at this present enioy from the blessings that God hath giuen vnto

A LETTER VVRITTEN BY THOSE of the Assembly in ROCHELL To Monsieur le Duc de LES DIGVIERES Containing an admonition vnto him to leaue the Enemie and to ayde them As also an exhortation and a warning vnto those that forsake the trueth and cleaue vnto the Enemies thereof to shun that vengeance which God will send downe vpon them for the same Printed in Rochell the 12. of Iuly 1621. A LETTER VVRITTEN BY THOSE OF the Assemblie in Rochell To Monsieur le Duc de LES DIGVIERES MONSIEVR IN the pittifull estate whereinto our Enemies haue reduced the Churches of this Realme it would be a great comfort and consolation vnto vs if wee were but to fight and contend against false accusations and to defend our selues against the violent Counsels and courses of those who openly adhearing vnto Antichristian Tirannie esteeming it a title of Honour to be call'd our Enemies for hauing sufficiently satisfied the first by our most humble Supplications and attestations to his Maiestie and by our declaration newly published wee hope that God will blesse and prosper our iust defence and preserue his Churches from the vtter ruine wherewith they are threatned But wee cannot sufficiently expresse with what griefe of heart wee feele and perceiue our selues bound to maintaine our Innocencie against those who as well as wee haue part in the publick interests of our Churches specially vnto your selfe my Lord whose age experience and offices make your proceedings more dangerous and hurtfull vnto those against whom you employ them We haue heretofore laboured therein by the Letters that haue beene deliuered vnto you from vs and perceiuing the small benefit that wee haue thereby receiued wee had resolued with our selues to rest silent if our consciences did not binde and pricke forward vs to stirre vp and quicken yours by setting before your eyes the great hurt and detriment that you bring to the Church of God at such a time wherein it hath most neede of your ayde and assistance It was not without good reason and experience it selfe sheweth vs that the last assembly at Loudun doubted of the accomplishment of the promises that were made vnto vs at the Court But your word interposing it selfe with that of Monsieur de Chastillion together with the consideration of the state wherein you were made vs resolue vpon a new proofe assisting our selues that the effect of the words giuen vnto vs failing you would make yours effectuall for the subsisting of the assēbly which in that case was to re-assemble and cause them to obtaine that iust proceeding that had beene promised vnto them With what displeasure our Churches that sent vs hether haue beene tormented when they perceiue that you disapproue it that you blame it and that by your Letters you preferre the colours and pretences of the persecution at this day raised against faithfull Innocents before the preiudice of our cause The state wherein you were in the precedent voyage that you made to the Court made honest men apprehend that if after you withdrew your selfe from the Court you returned thether againe you should be bound to effect some preiudiciall action against the Church of God and therefore they desired you to stand still in your gouernment during the subsistance of this assembly But without any respect or regard co the requests and intreaties of so many Churches you left your Prouince made another voyage to the Court and for the contentment of our Enemies and the displeasure of those of our profession by your presence you authorise those that incessantly labour to worke our ruine and destruction Your protestation to continue in the same profession the refusall of the dignity that was offered vnto you vpon condition to change your Religion and your reconciliation not long since made vnto the Church at Charenton put vs in good comfort and made vs hope of some good effect for the good and benefit of our affaires and some happy successe of the paines that you should take therein But our Enemies haue gotten this aduantage that your example hauing been made more considerable the blame which you impose vpon this assembly is more notorious and your disunion with our assembly which representeth all the Churches of this Realme is more domageable seruing for a pretence vnto those who vnder hope by that meanes to keepe themselues close during the time of this publike calamity to seperate themselues from our Vnion from the which those that haue designed our destruction seeke to disunite the Prouinces Churches and persons of greatest quality therein vsing your name and authority for the execution of so pernicious a designe pernicious certainely we may well say for to what end thinke you my Lord such proceedings may tend but onely to weaken vs and make our destruction more easie and lesse hazard vnto those that vndertake it Monsieur de Plessis who without any respect of that that had happened to Nauarreux and after throughout all the Country of Bearn being carried away by your Counsell and abused by the particular promises that were made vnto him at this day feeleth the effects of this proceeding In your presence beholding the Towne of Saumur taken from him and put into anothers mans hands The Inhabitants thereof making profession of the same Religion subiected to a Papisticall Garrison The Vniuersitie which he with so much paines and great care had there erected destroyed The Church in the same place made destitute of her first liberty and all those of this Realme depriued of the safety and security that they had in that place Hath not the like dealing beene vsed vnto the rest of the Gouernours of the places that wee had for security in Poictow seeing that in stead of commaund in them as they did for the security of our Churches they are now commaunded by Garrisons of a contrary Religion to the ruine and subuersion of the Flockes of our Lord Iesus Christ Doe these proceedings that followed the sedition in Towers and were accompanied with the taking of Iargeau and the violent disarmings of those of the Religion in diuers places and seconded with the besieging of Saint Iohn Angely at this time furiously battered beare any shew of any good intent that is meant towards vs to doe vs iustice But are they not rather directly contrary to the declarations not long since published and to the particular promises made in fauour of those that would addict themselues vnto that which the Court desireth of them and doc they not make euery man manifestly and plainely see that the obedience whereof they so highly cry out and which is required of vs by demaunding pardon and absolution and that wee should seperate our assemblie before wee haue iustice done vnto vs or any security for our Churches tendeth onely to bind vs to lay our throats open vnto those that haue an intent and desire to our them What faults are we culpable of being assembled vpon the permission that had beene graunted and giuen

your armes then when you employed them for the defence of his Church you ought also to belieue that if now when you draw neere vnto the end of your dayes it is time to crowne your workes with most iust and Christian actions you become an enemie vnto and procure the ruine of those that with you make profession of the truth of the Gospell he will be angry against you and will couer your face with shame and ignomie you shall expose your selfe to be dispised of all men and made a laughter vnto those namely that haue made vse of you to execute their wicked intents and bring that curse vpon your head which he pronounceth against those that curse his people and those most fearefull iudgements which in his wrath he sheweth vpon those that rise vp against and withstand the Kingdome of his Sonne Iesus Christ all maner of the deaths of those whom God loueth are precious in his sight but he will require their blood at the hands of those that shall vniustly shed the same he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye and you are not ignorant thereof With what conscience then can you continue and remaine among our enemies that abuse the affections and conscience of the King for ours and the states vtter ruine giue counsell for the destruction of Townes wherein the holy name of God is purely inuoaked and participate in the forcible action that are done against them would you thrust your sword into the brests of your owne brethren and bath your hands in the blood of those whom God hath redeemed by the blood of his deare Sonne Iesus Christ No my Lord rather in the name of God if there be any care of his Church yet resting in you if there be any charity in your heart towards those that are his members and which is more if you desire not to bring vpon you and yours the wrath and vengance of God for we are bound by the duty of our Offices and the discharge of our consciences to speake in this maner vnto you be mooued to compassion vpon the pittifull dealing which at this day is vsed against the faithfull acknowledge the deceits and impostures of our enemies note the violent courses they vse against your brethren and with a prudent foresight apprehending future mischiefes come out from the middle of them least you be enueloped among the plagues that God will powre downe vpon the vessels of his wrath when he shall haue ceased the vsing of them for the punishment of his children Aide not them that haue no other intent then to destroy vs by making a deuision among vs forsake not the members of our Lord Iesus Christ but rather ioyning with vs bring the rest of our brethren with you who by your example you haue withdrawne from vs and vse the meanes to cause them also to come with you who as yet are asleepe and rest vnder the deceitfull assurances that are giuen them of some quietnesse to the end that being all according to our duties most stricktly vnited together by the sacred bands of pietie peace and charitie we may effectually labour together for the publique Tranquility and quietnesse of Gods house And seeing that there is no other meanes left vnto vs we employ a iust and couragious defence which being blessed by God stayeth the violent courses of those that persecute vs deliuereth the Towne of S. Iohn D'Angely from their hands and preserueth all the rest shall not so many persons of good quality who acknowledging the vnfaithfulnesse and the intents of our enemies consecrate their blood to empeach the destruction of the faithfull prouoake you to a holy iealousie by their example You haue heretofore bin a puissant instrument in the hand of God to defend his Church from oppression be the same againe my Lord at this day and that the rather and stronglie because God hath giuen you many blessings in aboundance And if you dispising these exhortations that we giue you by the compassion of Christ be still in this time and faile in the succours which you owe vnto all good men God will not cease to raise vp peace and deliuerance by other meanes vnto his children But it is to be seared that he will reuenge the dissipation that you shall make of your brethren vpon you and yours We beseech Almighty God with all our hearts to touch your heart by his holy Spirit to inspire you with God and godly connsell to doe that which we require of you according to his will and that receiuing you into his protection he will take pitty vpon his Church send peace vnto this State and tranquility and security to those troupes that he hath assembled therein We rest my Lord Your most humble and most affectioned seruants the Deputies of the reformed Churches of France and the Soueraignety of Bearn assembled in Rochell Bessay President Rossell Lieutenant Guerin Secretarie de la Por●e Secretarie In Rochell the 12. of Iune 1621.