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A58486 Remarks by way of advertisement upon the Bishop of Grenoble's letter to the clergy of his diocese, concerning their behaviour towards the new-converts together with the lettter it self. 1687 (1687) Wing R928; ESTC R33990 7,006 16

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Religion wherein they had been Educated there are but very few sincere Converts by their not coming to Mass and refusing to participate of any of their Sacraments when they are not compell'd to it which the Bishop in this and in the 8th and 11th Articles condemns and by their taking all Opportunities to leave their Native Country and to seek for Relief and Protection among Strangers where upon their Repentance they may be again receiv'd into the Communion of that Church from which through Fear and Coward●se they had Apostatiz'd as appears by the vast numbers who daily come out of France and take Sanctuary in England Holland Suitzerland and other Protestant Countreys The Ninth Article is an Insinuation of the Abuses that are committed in Auricular Confession and the Impurities which usually accompany it and which are almost inseparable from it when one of the frail Sex is forced upon pain of Damnation to lay open her own shame with all the Circumstances that attended her sin and especially when the gentleness of a favourable Pennance is made a fresh encouragement to her for the Repetition of the same Crime The Twelfth Article is a Condemnation of that barbarous Inhumanity which has been and is still practised all over France towards the dead Bodies of those pretended Converts who refus'd their Sacraments before their death by dragging them about the Streets and not suffering their Friends to bury them but carrying them into the Fields and there setting a Watch over them till they are devour'd by Dogs and other ravenous Creatures A Practice unknown to the most barbarous Nations who never extended their malice even to their greatest Enemies beyond death and which nothing but a Religion that delights in nothing but Cruelty could ever prompt Men to The remaining Articles are an earnest Exhortation of the Clergy of that Diocese to whom the Letter is particularly addressed to painfulness and watchfulness in the discharge of their Duty to meekness forbearance condescention and a Universal Love and Charity which shews that the Author is a Person of a truly Evangelical Spirit and deserves a better fate than to live any longer in the Communion of that Church which is by its very Essence and Constitution apt to inspire its Members with Principles of a quite different and contrary Nature Those things which the Reverend Author mentions as having been constantly of Faith and the Belief of his Church in opposition to the Doctrine of the Schools I must beg his Eminencies leave to say that it will hardly be proved that they were always the Faith of his Church and that his meaning is he wishes they had always remain'd in the same Purity wherein Christ and his Apostles left them And now let N. Thomson who was the first Publisher of this Letter in English make the most of it he can for the honour of his Church which besides a little respect to his own gain was the main design of Printing it in English nor is it to be doubted but his Translation is as Catholique as the letter it self But I have one word of Advice to him and then I have done That when he publishes a Second Edition of it he would alter the Title and call it A Catalogue of some Corruptions of the Roman Church both in Doctrine and Practice by an Author of that Communion A COPY OF A LETTER OF Cardinal Camus BISHOP and PRINCE of GRENOBLE TO THE CLERGY of his DIOCESE Concerning the Conduct they are to observe with regard to the New-Converts SIR THough I have sufficiently declared to you in our last Synod the Method I would have you use in my Diocese with respect to the New-Converts nevertheless I have thought good to set down in Order the principal things to which I think you ought to give a more particular attention 1. You are to explain every Sunday the Gospel or Epistle for the Day after having read it distinctly in the French Language out of the time of Divine Service And that you may be the better qualified to instruct those that are under your Care you are to apply your self with all seriousness to the study of the Word of God being provided of a good Commentary which explains the Text in a Literal and Moral Sense 2. Upon Holidays and Sundays you are to use the short Catechising by way of Questions and Answers and engage the New-Converts to bring their Children and Domesticks to it And do not fail to have the Prayers both Evening and Morning upon Holidays and Sundays in the French Tongue 3. You are never to disguise or mis-represent the Doctrine of the Church and the Truths which it proposes to be believ'd by a false Condescention under a pretence of obliging the New-Converts the more easily to come in to our Communion Neither are you to teach them any other Doctrines than such as are constantly of Faith and have been decided in the Council of Trent and have a care of proposing the Opinions of the School as if they were the Doctrine of the Church 4. Make it your business to disabuse them of those false Prejudices which they have taken up against the Roman Church by letting them see that she does not give the Worship of a true and sincere Adoration to any but to God only that it is in the alone Merits of Jesus Christ that she places her Confidence that she puts no trust neither in Images nor in the Relicks of Saints and that it was never her Belief there was any particular Vertue affix'd to these Images or Relicks 5. You are to hinder in your Parishes any from Preaching up or vouching for fabulous or uncertain Miracles and that they do not speak of Indulgences after any other manner than they are spoken of in the Council of Trent But Preach and cause to be Preach'd solidly the Truths of the Gospel in all their Purity and with the greatest plainness that is possible 6. Take care that in some measure every New-Convert does his Duty as becomes a good Catholick but without Constraint and without Violence God would have the Service that we render him should be voluntary And therefore you are never to use any harsh or reproachful Language nor any threatnings in the publications you make in the Church in your Sermons or upon any other Occasions to oblige them to come to Church or to receive our Sacraments 7. Do all you can to bring them to assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass but be not too severe in taking notice of them and do not place Inspectors at the Church Doors to observe those that fail to be present at it 8. You are never to administer the Sacraments but to such as you judge in every respect rightly and duly dispos'd to receive them and who have declared to you that they firmly believe all that the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Church believes and that they will live and dye in her Communion And let not any Humane Consideration prevail