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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85865	A true relation of what hath been transacted in behalf of those of the reformed religion, during the treaty of peace at Reswick With an account of the present persecution in France.	Gaujac, Peter Gally de.	1698 (1698)	Wing G374; ESTC R230535	61,066	68

A TRUE RELATION Of what hath been Transacted in behalf of those of the Reformed Religion During the TREATY OF PEACE AT RESWICK WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE Present Persecution in France Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them and them which suffer adversity as being your selves also in the body Hebr. xiii 3. LONDON Printed for Sam. Lowndes over-against Exeter-Exchange in the Strand and to be Sold by E. Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1698. To the Right Honourable CHARLES Earl of Macclesfield Viscount and Baron of Brandon Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster and of the Six Northern Counties of Wales Major General and Colonel of a Regiment of Horse in His Most Sacred Majesty's Army c. My LORD HE is a great Stranger in the World who doth not know how Kind Generous and Charitable Your Lordship has been to all the French Refugees in General and in a Special Manner to many of them whom You have put in an Honourable Way of Serving at once His Majesty Your Lordship and Themselves And indeed My Lord the Nobleness of Your Birth is Supported by the Greatness and Solidity of Your Virtues The Greatness of Your Titles and Dignities Adorned with an Unparallel'd Conduct and Undaunted Courage Your Conduct and Courage united to a Tender and Compassionate Generosity towards the Unfortunate and all these Indowments attended with a steady and unweaned Constancy which is the Proper Character of Great Souls And therefore My Lord the true Account of the Present Sufferings of the Protestants in France which I give to this Nation will I hope obtain a Favourable Audience and Reception from Your Lordship and You will undoubtedly Pity their Lamentable Case as well as be Pleased to vouchsafe the Continuance of Your Protection to those who have both the Honour and Happiness of being already sheltered under it I am My Lord one of those who have obtained a great Share in Your Generous Liberality and am very glad to have this Opportunity to Acknowledge Publickly how much I do Respect Your Person Esteem Your Virtues and am Thankful for Your many Favours which I find my self under an impossibility of Answering any other way than by being as long as I live My LORD Your Lordships Most Obliged and most Dutiful Servant and Chaplain P. G. D. THE PREFACE A Little Book needs no Preface nor a good one any Commendation The former carries an Excuse in its Brevity and the other 's own Worth will sufficiently recommend it to the Judicious The Papers which we here present to the Publick have a just Title to both these Characters as containing in a little room many important Transactions and Circumstances relating to the French Protestants which the World has not hitherto been acquainted with so that a true Englishman will not think an hour or two mispent to be informed as well of the several Motions that were made at Reswick though without success by Persons of great Zeal and no less Ability for the Relief of the French Protestant Church as of the lamentable Condition she hath lain under ever since the Peace by a most Violent and Barbarous Persecution And therefore he will not take it amiss if we give him before-hand an Abstract of these Papers with the Design of the Reverend and Learned Author in their Publication which is to relate the past and present Condition of the Protestants in France and to give them some good Advices for their future Deportment As to the time past he informs the Protestants as well those who are now persecuted in France as those who are dispersed for Christ's Name over the face of the whole Earth and who expected that the end of the War would have put a Period to their Miseries that the Protestant Princes and the States and all those who could either by the Eminence of their Stations or Learning or Zeal be useful to them have done what they could towards their Deliverance and Comfort And by this faithful Relation he undeceives them of the Error they were in viz. That those who could and ought to have relieved them had quite forsaken them and only minded their own Concerns but neglected theirs He tells them that one must not measure the Conduct of an Affair by the Event but by the Integrity and Industry of the Persons imployed in it If when thus qualified they do not speed they are not to be blamed for it but rather we ought to be Thankful for what they have done already and had a desire to have done further And if God Almighty did not think fit to bless them with success in the Management of a good Cause we must submit to his Will possess our Souls in patience and conclude that it is now the Hour of the Papists and the Power of Darkness As to the present time the Author makes a sad but true Representation of the Barbarous Persecution which rages now in France and the several Instances he gives of the Inhumanity of the Papists on one hand and of the unparallel'd Sufferings of these poor Protestants on the other do plainly discover that Popery is in this Particular worse than the Heathen Religion and that they have outdone the Pagan Emperors and even the Ferity of the wild Beasts in the Amphitheaters The principal End of this Discourse is first to acquaint all those who being grown weary of their long Exile may have a mind to return into France what welcome they are like to expect there Our Author clearly demonstrates that unless they fully resolve to turn Papists they ought by no means to expose themselves to the unavoidable danger of so great and certain a Temptaion Secondly The Author's Aim is to Confute those Papists who either for shame or because they have received some secret Order so to do make it their business to give out in all Protestant Countreys and chiefly here in England that there is no such thing as a Persecution in France and that the Protestants are not molested there but on the contrary permitted to live quietly But what Monstrous Impudence is this to give the Lie not only to Thousands of Travellers and many of them Persons of Quality who are every day Eye-witnesses of these new Cruelties as well as Abhorrers of those Miscreants that execute them but also to several rigorous Declarations of their own King issued out since the Peace against the French Protestants still in his Kingdom Is it Shame that prompts them to it if it be so then their groundless denial argues in them a tacit Horror and Condemnation of these Proceedings A Highwayman doth not use to Confess but rather deny his Crimes though evidently proved against him But the Mystery of their Policy is this The French Court is very unwilling to lose so many Subjects witness the Bills that were set up at the Doors of several French Churches in London whereby the Refugees were invited to apply themselves to the French Ambassador and promised that they