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A52455	Dr. Burnett's reflections upon a book entituled Parliamentum pacificum. The first part answered by the author.	Northleigh, John, 1657-1705.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Reflections on a late pamphlet entituled Parliamentum pacificum.; Northleigh, John, 1657-1705. Parliamentum pacificum.	1688 (1688)	Wing N1298; ESTC R28736	98,757	150

impartial Author for the sake of the reform'd Religion I am so sorry to relate were occasion'd by this Disorder The Protestants held a Consultation at Prague where among some of their Grievances was propos'd That the Edicts of Rudolphus which we recited before not being by the Catholicks stricktly kept for their being bound to a better Observance the Reform'd did agree to represent it at a Meeting of the Imperial Ministers to be redres'd but finding there two Men of Note to withstand them and to make much of Opposition they were so incens'd that they took occasion to throw both these Persons out at Window as they stood next to the Secretary Fabritius himself Firing at them as they fell upon this great Outrage which could not but with more force be defended they united immediately into a League of Lives and Fortunes against GOD's the King's Enemies as they call'd them and their own went streight to the Listing of Souldiers order'd 30 Directors or Administrators for the management of the Affairs of the Kingdom and as if incens'd with Dr. B. against the whole Society banisht all the Iesuites out of Bohemia and publish'd a Manifesto to justify these Outragious Proceedings the Emperor Matthias as mild as he was as gentle even as our prejudiced Dr. can allow him could not but resent these great Indignities be alarm'd at the Disturbances that were made and provide against a total Revolt and Rebellion that did more than threaten him by being already commenc'd those of Silesia siding with them sent under the Marquiss of Brandenburg a considerable Force to their Assistance Count Mansfield set up for their General and it was time then for the Emperor to seek out for his his mildness had try'd to make them before to lay down their Arms and so for their persisting in Hostility had the more right to declare them Rebels they had besieged the Budeweis before the Emperor had order'd to proceed against them as such and taken another Town by Storm and even of his Intentions to attack them gave them timely notice when nothing could prevail with the Bohemians and the Emperour bear nothing more the Count de Bucquoy march'd against them and in Battle beat them and in this in thus manner began that cursed Disturbance as our Author calls it that cost all Germany so dear This Account I have faithfully translated from our Dutch Authors Chronology their own Country-man their own Protestant who laments the very Disturbance themselves created and all the Miseries and Misfortunes that so justly follow'd Dr. Heylin an Historian as fam'd too for Reformation as our Reflecter we Revy on as much a Member of the CHURCH of ENGLAND and whatever are the Censures he must suffer an Author as honest and sincere and only more impartial he gives us his sence of these Transactions to this effect Discoursing of that more Memorable Battle of Prague that follow'd afterward in Ferdinand the Seconds Time to which he even himself was forc'd for he before had admonished them to lay down their Arms says he cannot decide who had the juster Cause neither ought success of War to decide it but of this he 's sure that ever since the erecting of that Kingdom by the Sclaves or Croatians it depended upon the disposal of the Emperor and observes that on the day that the Battle was decided the Gospel appointed for it had in it that Memorable Text of rendering unto Coesar the Things that are Coesars but such is that inconsiderate Zeal praepossession or downright Sedition of some that set themselves only to contest it with a Crown that the specious names of Reformation and Religion must sanctify any sort of Rebellion and Revolt 't is too much one would think that it should excuse it much less make it lose its Nature and forget its Name The good Emperor Matthias soon after the first Defeat was given them to which he was by their own Confession forc'd departed this Life and left Ferdinand a more furious Prince in Military Matters and more zealous in Ecclesiasticals to follow and pursue it This producing of such a Popish Prince for a president of Perfidiousness and Persecution whom himself confesses so mild and relenting as to become a Protector to the Distressed States even to revolting Protestants against a revengeful Prince will make men distrust the weight of such an Argument that carries Contradiction and Boldness in triumph before it The Dr. does not deserve the Protection of the Dutch for defaming thus their best of Protectors but he deals with him as kindly here for the sake of his Religion as the Dutch his new Masters themselves did when he assisted them in the defence of their Liberties for they fell upon him and his Followers in a solemn Procession at Antwerp on Ascension day kill'd some upon the place forc'd their Defender to fly to the Church and take sanctuary for his Life 't is hard I confess to decide whither it was the result of Zeal in the Reformation I will not say of the spirit of Rebellion but this is certain this Protector was very scurvily treated and but ill us'd insomuch that he protested if they serv'd him so he 'd leave them to themselves and return into Germany which afterward for other Indignities Offer'd he was forc'd to do But this Author I cite being one of the Society will supersede all Credit with the Dr. for Prejudice with some people will spoil the best of Authority but then the most impartial Thuanus whose sincerity even himself has applauded I hope will be better believ'd and truly he says but the same that this Catholick Defender of the Protestant Cause had but little thanks for that Assistance which of his own accord he brought the States if Protestants will not be oblig'd to Roman-Catholick Princes for Redress or Preservation pray don't let the Fact be libell'd and their Principles traduc'd against positive Proof as if they were alway ready to root them out and study'd to destroy them Here are Presidents from History and such too as that to some of them himself does give a sort of Approbation that in former Reigns in forreign Countries where the Catholick Religion has been generally receiv'd that by Princes of that Perswasion the Protestants too have been countenanced and protected and the Peace we here do now enjoy at this present in this Kingdom in the same Circumstances and the thankful Acknowledgments that are so universal for its Enjoyment is an Additional Evidence That the Dr. may be mistaken in his Arguments from Fact as well as malitious in his Inferences when they truly will appear both spiteful and false so that his seditious Insinuations against His Majesty's Indulgence and his ungrateful Dealing with the KING that as he says advis'd him once of his approaching Danger help'd him to prevent it and perhaps protected him too are no more an Argument against the Mildness and Clemency that may be