nature herein I believe it is necessary for their content by way of prelude thereto unanimously and in a publick way to demand a Session of the States General of France to effect the establishment of the Common Liberty which will be unanimously embraced by the three Orders of that Estate and in the consequent explication of the means of Security for its maintenance it will not be absolutely impossible to attain our purpose of the second part of my Proposal Now all the Confederate States with the House of Austria and that Illustrious House are more than positively concluded of this point in this present Conjuncture not to hearken to any Peace but in doing what heretofore the Kings of England and Dukes of Burgundy practised in common with the Kings of France and States General of his Realm for this Imperial House and all its Allies have more than sufficiently proved by what succeeded upon the Pirenean Peace that no security can be re-established by any Treaties made with the present Ministers of that Realm by the most solemn Oaths and straitest ties of Consanguinity which were not strong enough to hinder the violation of that Peace there is therefore a necessity to reduce him thereto in the manner aforesaid and no other way which will infallibly draw after it such consequences as will be wholly for the advantage of the said Confederation and the Protestant Party in France These Propositions are too advantagious to the House of Austria for them to reject them and it is certain that if all the aforesaid States act in Combination and with a perfect Union to procure all these benefits they will be able fully to attain them and bring all France perhaps into a mutiny to make their Monarch consent thereto But as it would not be just that the Protestant States should act in the foresaid Union to bring about all these benefits for the Illustrious House of Austria and all the People of France and forget themselves but that at the same time they should procure for those of their Body all the advantages that so favourable a Conjunction could procure I am bold to say that all those States by the Principles of their Faith of their Interests and of their Glory should bring them to an Unanimous Resolution to labour in this Conjuncture two things in favour of the Electoral House Palatine of the Rhine with a pure and truly politick respect unto the said Confederation and other particular Managements The first is to procure to this Illustrious House a Justice that speaks sufficiently for it self it being certain that the same Reasons which caused it to lose part of its Establishments ought to cause a Restitution thereof to be made unto it in this Conjuncture and if the League of the Protestant States were solidly made and they would act with necessary vigour they would without doubt be in an Estate to do all things that were just and reasonable in this point The second is not to neglect by pressing Instances to urge his Palatine Highness Prince Robert to a suitable Marriage which might give hopes of Successors to this Illustrious House least by an unpardonable neglect the Estates and Electoral Dignity may fall into the hands of a Prince of the Roman Communion And these are two Capital Points whereunto all the said Protestant States as well they who have openly armed themselves as those who have been content to supply their several Quota's to the Arms of the Circles as being all naturally interessed in the Cause ought to apply themselves as to a point which capitally concerns them all and whose consequents if not prevented must needs be fatal to the whole But as there is no Rule so general that admits of no exception it may be gathered from all that I have written above that notwithstanding my Scruples against Confederations made with Princes of the Roman Communion I am far from blaming those Protestant States who in this last Conjuncture embraced the Interests of the House of Austria I am perswaded they could not dispense therewith without betraying their true Interest it being certain that since the Providence of God hath suffered the Houses of Austria and Bourbon to ascend in Europe its necessary that all the Protestant States should since then be Confederated and should put themselves into a condition to ballance these two that whensoever the one should invade the Estates of the other his Corrival he might not be able to subdue all the rest to his blind obedience and as it is manifest that France at the present is the unjust Aggressor and by the principles of a devouring ambition alone without any Right but that of his own Honour or bienseance would raise to himself the Title of the Conquerour by invading the Soveraign Dominions of his Neighbours the Empire Austria Holland and Lorrain it may be truly said that all the Protestant Princes who have listed themselves with the opposite Parties by all the Rules of a judicious and strict Policy have ranged themselves without contradiction in the Line of their true Interests First of all it ought to be considered that in the Modern Irruptions which the Arms of France made into Holland four years since by the manner whereby France attempted it and management precedent to it or which followed on the Enterprize the Monarch of this Nation hath plainly taken off his Mask and made us visibly to know that he ought to be considered in this Conjuncture not only in the same Character of Conquerours of former Ages towards all Estates who had the unhappiness to have Dominions adjacent to their Frontiers but that he ought also formally to be look'd on as the declared Protector of the Tyrannick Designs of the Papacy and so the premeditated and positive Enemy and Destroyer if the matter had been possible for him of all the States and People whose Faith is naturally opposite to that Tyranny The second thing is that the Imperial House of Austria forced by the threats of its utter ruine having in this occasion now Leagued and Confederated its politick Interests with the greater part of the Protestant States of Europe to oppose it self by a joint endeavour and force to the ambitious Designs of France it is for the Honour of all these States to cause this Imperial House in this Conjuncture to acknowledge that Justice Reason and Equity hath been the Base the solid and unmoveable Foundation whereon they have laid all their motions and that it is also in the Protestant that all the oppressed Powers of Christendom may find the Bulwark of their Security For Considerations of this force serve to confirm the respects of Interests and Glory which establish the Justice of these motions of all the Protestant States in favour of the House of Austria in a solid manner and these motions are so much more glorious for these Princes and they may draw from thence so much the more happy Events because the Houses of Austria and
so far that the Cities of France may be seen as well provided of Fortresses and Colonies of the Papacy under the names of Covents Religious Houses Colleges and Abbeys as those of Spain and Italy which may be called the Triumph of the Papal Policy it being infallibly certain that in process of time if God redress it not The Successors of these Monarchies must by all the Rules of a Judicious Policy together with their Subjects become the Miserable Slaves of the Despotick Monarchy of the Papacy In the fourth place Spain being no longer in a condition to patronize the Emissaries of the Court of Rome with a real Establishment in Amsterdam nor in the remaining extent of the whole United Provinces nor durst any more enterprize any thing openly against England nor the Protestants of Germany hath not Rome now served it self of the opposition which reigneth betwixt these Houses sacrificing impudently that of Austria at this blow to the violation of all sorts of Treaties to make his most Christian Majesty to attempt in our dayes in this particular what all the Forces of the House of Austria could not do heretofore and well it was that God was pleased to blow upon all these Designs for otherwise the States of the United Provinces had not been the only miserable but all European Christians must have changed Face as to the Liberty of their Faith and Estates in a very little space of time In the fifth place as Rome hath the Art to subtilize all the advantages that it can draw from all Conjunctures and as it embraceth nothing more readily in all its Projects than any Design to destroy the Protestant Party from their Heads to the meanest member of them that the poor Protestants of High Hungary might not escape this general Persecution was it not an effect of the opposition which rages betwixt those Houses that Rome being about to draw a cruel storm over the Protestants the Emissaries of the Papacy had the craft to make his most Christian Majesty to understand that there being none but his Imperial Majesty who could vigorously traverse his Designs on Holland it was his Interest to give him Business in his own State and that this could not be done by any probability otherwise than by somenting the Revolt on the Coast of High Hungary therefore he must of necessity purchase the Heads of the Protestants in that Country to his part Now at the same time that these Emissaries caused this Doctrine to be solicited in the Court of France and by their solicitation obtained Money and Treaties in France and insinuated themselves into High Hungary the Brethren of the same Emissaries who are as puissant in the Imperial Court as the former in the Court of France by Intelligence and Conspiracy with the former had the dexterity without notice it may be precisely given thereof at first to his Imperial Majesty to cause it to be determined at the Court of Vienna that cruel Persecutions should be raised against those miserable People we must not wonder then that those poor People Members of our Faith persecuted on one hand and flattered on the other are fallen into the trap set for them by the Court of Rome with so great dexterity and that thereupon we have seen the Protestant Body in that Country in this last conjuncture agitated with such furious Convulsions In the sixth place the Tripple League of England Sweden and the United Provinces having made Peace between France and Spain in the Year 1668. because by the continuance of this League the Protestant Party might have made themselves really the Figure in the Number of the true Arbiters of the worldly Powers is it not by an effect of the same opposition that Rome in this last Conjuncture making use of the Ambitions Forces and management of the Ministers of France knew by its charms cast upon England and Sweden to dissolve this Gordian Knot of Peace and force out of the hands of the Protestant Party the advantage to them so glorious and which might have been so profitable to the Repose and Tranquillity of all Christendom And that Posterity may not be ignorant of the Success of these Managements in this Point was it not in the seventh place by the infallible consequences of the aforesaid Breach that for a Praeludium to all the Advantages which this Mother of Tares might hope from this dissolution which we have seen she knew to arm England against the Republick of the United Provinces with so much cruel obstinacy that at the same time when this last was hurried by the Land-flood of one of her Ministers passionate or corrupted and was to sustain on the Continent all the Forces of France and its Allies after an unhappy Invasion upon 46 or 47 Places the former joyns all its Sea-Forces with those of France and gave fiercely in one Expedition three cruel Battles to this later capable to have wrought its total Destruction if in this conjuncture God had openly declared himself for their Protection For the eighth consideration is it not from the natural consequences of the said management that we now see since the last Campania the three Puissent Protestants of the North have entred into the entanglement of a War which cannot but prove fatal to one of those three Potentates and so to the general Protestant Body which we may say is to know very well by a dexterity worthy of their Principal to make their Enemies destroy one another a Policy which a thousand Experiments one following the other have taught us very vell to know that Rome doth possess in greatest excellency and whereuuto without doubt she ows her Elevation But if the Court of Rome from such an opposition as ought in all Appearance to be fatal unto it if the Protestant Party knew to make use of it hath notwithstanding the dexterity to draw from thence such real Advantages for the advancement and maintenance of its greatness and is by the same means arrived at a Power to draw to its self such considerable ones as it hath already or would have attained had the Invasion of the United Provinces succeeded then the Protestants themselves ought not to doubt if for their sins God should ever permit the effective Union of these two Puissances whether by some Treaty advantagious to both as the division of some Protestant Estates may be or naturally by right or Succession which may happen in the greatest part that in such case Rome will know to take its Advantage and infallible Measures if God hinder not to destroy at once the Protestant Party in Europe And from thus much I think every man who is but a little clear sighted and makes reflection seriously on the Conduct of the Papal Court must needs be put out of doubt concerning this matter Rome besides hath found out an infallible means by the disposal of its Purple without being at a penny charge to acquire the suffrage and protection of the greater part
Court His Imperial Majesty his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg and the Count Montecuculi know if I speak true in every particular which hath come to their notice in this Affair I know that scarce one of these three or perhaps none of them yet know well the Original nor the Principles of these secret Engines which have been set at work in this Conjuncture and what I know thereof is not from them but from a place where no particular of this whole Negotiation is unknown nor of the Principles that animated it it being most certain that if the Catholick Account had not been found in England France could not have brought about this Cheat so easily but upon the feasibleness of this last Principle the venerable Society having voluntarily taken on them to act all the principal Seenes of this Tragi-Comedy they applied themselves with so much greater ardour thereunto because besides that they expected thence to prosper in their Capital Design they hoped also by that success to find some means to blemish in some sort the Reputation and Glory of a Prince who in the latter part of this Age hath been the principal mortification of the Court of Rome By the four rehearsed Examples to which I could joyn many Modern ones if some Respects hindred not the Protestant Princes of Europe may see what the Emissaries of the Court of Rome can do in the Courts of their Communion whenever the Interest of Religious matters are concerned And since these Emissaries have been and are as History convinces us in full possession of the power of promoting the greatest part of the Wars which for many Ages past have from time to time molested Christendom and that all these Wars as well as the present have been kindled by them only in prospect to some particulars conducing to dilate the Papal Dominion and to work the destruction of the Powers and People who are naturally opposite to such Projects and Designes I leave it to all the Protestant Princes of Europe to judge if their safety can be solidly established in their Leagues and Confederations with the Princes of the Roman Communion as it may be undoubtably effected by their Leagues and Consederations amongst themselves if the matter be practicable and all these are so many Arguments to prove the necessity they have to reconcile without delay and loss of time all the different Interests which divide them I know by the Engagements that have been made since the last year against the Swede it will be very difficult to reconcile this Affair so much the more because it is without doubt the Interest of the Empire to expulse out of all the extent of its Territories all forreign Powers amongst whom the Swede is unhappily comprized under his prejudice with so much the more Justice in that by his unhappy Conduct he hath imprudently drawn the storm on his own head nevertheless I dare say speaking as a Protestant and pretending to speak to Protestants that I believe all the Protestant States of Germany ought to yield somewhat to the memory of the great Gustavus that Hero of our Faith did so great things to sustain the Protestant Communion throughout the whole extent of the Empire c. Here I have omitted the Apology for the Swede which this Author pursues heartily and largely from his 65 to his 84 page wherein he excuses the King by his Minority corruption of his Council and power of his Unkle Count Magnus de la Guardie But Page 67 he would have Restitution to be made to the Dane and Brandenburg that is Wismar and Schonen to the one and Stetin to the other As for Brunswick and Osnaburg he pretends they had no ancient quarrels with the Swedes but have particular reasons to favour him and that they are heroically generous and would sacrifice some part of their Estates for the Publick Peace Page 69 he saith that whilst France retains a sooting in Alsatia the Swede ought also to be retained in the Empire to balance and that Denmark Brandenburg and Brunswick united cannot avail so much as the Swede And Page 70 that he will at least enjoy Deux-Ponts and therefore ought not to be so much provoked by extreme rigour by reason of his Alliances with the Palatine and French Families Page 71 and 72 he represents the danger of the Families of Austria Newburg and Bavaria united by League or Marriage the Palatinate Family for default of Heirs to fall to Newburg and the Austrian to the same or Lorain who by Combination with the Ecclesiasticks and other Romans may endanger the Protestants divided and watched by Rome Page 75 He Apologizes for his Apology and would have it to be understood upon supposition the Swede should change his Conduct forsake France and adhere to the Empire So Page 76 and 77 Brandenburg's Arms may assist against France with the Dane and Brunswick also and all together make a diversion hasten Peace recover Flanders Page 78 and 79 Otherwise whilst Sweden adheres to France Peace cannot be attained without restitution to Sweden And Page 82 and 83 Sweden expelled from Germany will be better able to prolong the War in Denmark and so draw succours out of Germany to the weakening of their forces against France Page 83. The Hollander will not willingly suffer the Dane to be sole Master of the Sound nor the English if the Hollander were content Page 84. He saith the Swede ought the rather to make the desired satisfaction because the first breach of the Articles of Munster were made by the Enterprize of France upon Treves Colmar Schelstead and all the Banks of the Rhine c. to the violation of that Peace Ibid. He proceeds Now this Peace betwixt the Protestant Princes of the North may be made for ought I can see to hinder it and being England and Holland have accorded their differences all the Protestant Powers may make also a Politick Union for the preservation of every one of them in particular which Union as to the Protestant States which are Members or Vassals of the Empire under which I comprehend also the two Northern Crowns may be establish'd as I conceive on these Conditions First for the maintenance of the Interests of the Empire and his Imperial Majesty Secondly for their own particular preservation and that of their Allies and in the matter of the second Article they may make a Politick Union with Reservation for the Interests of the first with his Majesty of Great Brittain and the United Provinces for their particular preservation and principally for the preservation of the Protestant Religion in all places wherever it should be assailed or oppressed by the Artifices of the Court of Rome or Princes of that Communion And as to some ancient grudges upon some Pretensions betwixt some Protestant States in the Empire which are yet to be regulated it should be ordered that every one should continue in his Rights and that no armed hostility should be practised betwixt
these States but they should rather endeavour to clear and avoid their differences by the moderation of their Friends Allies and Confederates For this being established in this manner his Imperial Majesty and the whole Empire could not but well approve that a Body so considerable should unanimously agree for the first Article of their Confederation to sustain one anothers Interests against all and it would naturally follow upon this agreement that as the Republick of Venice hath very judiciously taken for its particular Interest the general of all Italy the Protestants of Germany taking for their principal Interest that of the Empire in general this would necessarily follow thereupon that the Emperor and Empire would be politically oblig'd to take for their Interest the preservation of the Protestant States which would by consequence draw on very favourable successes to the advantage of the Protestant Body through the whole extent of the Empire and elsewhere and the Emperour and Empire ought so much the more cleave to this Interest for that it is certain that if this great blow were once given the Emperour and Empire needed no more to fear the practises or secret workings of France with the Electors and private Princes of the Empire of the Roman Communion nor of all their armed attempts on that part and this being not established the Emperour and Empire shall be in a perpetual condition to fear every thing as they both have at present if the principal Princes of the Protestant Body in the Empire had not generally joined their Forces to those of his Imperial Majesty and the Empire in that juncture when France by its formidable Armies and publick and secret Leagues with the greater part of the Princes and Electors of Roman Communion in Germany thought to extend his Victorious progress to the Danube or beyond which without the assistance of the Protestants he had doubtless executed too well Being then an Union of this nature can produce such good effects by all these Reasons according to the small Intelligence I have I conclude afresh that if the Northern Peace be a thing possible and the Union of the Protestant States in the form and under the clauses and reservations aforesaid in as much as to establish the repose and glory of the Empire on the side of France no more is required than to force the French Army to repass the Rhine whoever counselleth the Emperour and Empire and all its Allies according to the pressing sollicitation of a certain party to treat with France in the Estate things now stand should do the same thing with a Physician who seeing his Patient assailed with a mortal disease if not fundamentally cured should notwithstanding advise him to take no other than palliative Remedies And one of the first truths which ought to be considered is that all the Arms of the Emperour and Empire Spain Holland and their Allies have not hitherto taken one single piece of ground of the Ancient Patrimony of France and that France brought its Arms actually into Campania and in the places of the Empire Flanders Brabant Haynalt Luxemburg Limburg Lorain and Burgoigne and hath actually advanced its Conquests in some of these Provinces Now to make an honourable and sure Peace it 's necessary to imploy solid means for the Expulsion of the French Armies from the said Countries and to force them to submit to such a Peace which may work the security and satisfaction of all the said Estates and this satisfaction and assurance if it must be such as I have declared it must herein essentially consist First as to the Empire that he willingly reduce himself to the Fortress of Brissac unless his Imperial Majesty shall choose rather to consent that this place if it be conquered from France should be absolutely demolished or together with its dependences given to some Prince of the Protestant Communion for in this second case it cannot but be altogether safe and wholesome to expel all the French out of the Dominions of the Empire the same is to be concluded of the Bishoprick in the Country of Metz. Secondly as to what concerns Spain France should be content to reduce it self to the State of the Pirenean Peace Thirdly that to recompence Holland for Mastrick which this Republick is obliged to concede unto Spain to save shipwrack and for satisfaction for the dammage of the unjust War which France had made on them Dunkirk or some other place of equal value shall be given them And in the fourth place that his Highness of Lorain shall be fully established in his Dukedoms of Lorain and Bar. I must be excused from speaking of what remains to be speculated in favour of other Confederate States because I have no good nor precise cognizance thereof But to come to a Peace both sure and honourable there are preliminaries without which it is certain our end cannot be attained and when it doth succeed all that cannot be called solid and sure To attain to the one and assure the other we must proceed to means to establish in France what would so settled make France to contain it self modestly in its just bounds without unreasonable interposing and attempting on its Neighbours The one and only means to reduce France to this point is to re-establish as I have said above the Civil and Protestant Liberty throughout the whole extent of that Estate the one of the said establishments being notoriously inseperable from the other and that all the Confederate States should stifly stand not to hearken to any Propositions of Peace till this double Establishment were made and that for the securing it the Protestant Party should be possessed of some of the strong and maritime places they formerly had Neither ought any person to imagine that I am herein carried only with passion for my Religion for I absolutely affirm that withont a real execution of the said two Articles nor solid Peace can be made with France and that it is the only means to stop at once the ambitious Sallies of the Monarch of that Nation by a total incapacity whereof this establishment only can be a possible execution And that the Reader may more sensibly apprehend this Truth I intreat him to read with a little consideration before he proceeds any farther my particular observations of the effects which followed in Europe upon the fatal Surrender of Rochel the reading of that alone will make him understand that which we are about and the solidity of my precedent Proposition But notwithstanding all the unhappy mischiefs successively befallen the House of Austria by this only error of State on its part for not having imployed all its Forces to hinder this surrender it will for all that perhaps not be easie for that Illustrious House such is the Zeal it unhappily reserves still for the Interests of a Court which hath caused all its misfortunes to be perswaded to favour the Establishment of the Protestant Party in the Kingdom of France to help
Bourbon by what hath happened in Times past and present cannot hinder it but must needs thereupon make reflexions sufficient to open their eyes and make them know in the conclusion In the first place their Imprudence in regulating their Councils and Sallies by the passions of the Emissaries of the Roman Communion Secondly the temerity and danger of attempting the ruine of any Protestant People Prince or Estate Thirdly what the United Forces of this Party are naturally capable to execute And fourthly the Honour Candour and Constancy of that Party when they are concerned to oppose unjust Enterprises or to maintain the part of Equity and Justice Reflections of this nature ought in consequence teach these two Houses the regard esteem and respect which they ought to have and reserve for a Body so Puissant and Illustrious as is by God's grace that of the said Protestant Powers and the people whereof they consist and if this Party were always so managed as to insinuate into these two Houses the Doctrine of these four particulars we should certainly not see those who are Natives and Inhabitants of the Estates of those two Potentates France and Hungary handled any more in the manner they now are nor would these two Families whatever Solicitations should be made on the behalf of Rome attempt with so much injustice as they have both done at divers times the ruine of the Principal Members of this Communion But if in this present Conjuncture all the Protestant States except England and Sweden have followed their true Interest I persist affirming that the same Interest engages them Capitally to rectifie the Conduct of England and Sweden so as to neglect nothing to gain unto them these two Crowns in prospect of using all possible endeavours to effect an Union of all the aforesaid Protestant States that when by many happy Successes the Arms of his Imperial Majesty the Empire and all the Confederate States have reduced France to that abatement that their said Interest can require and in almost in the manner which I have above unfolded all these States may be in a condition to nail the Wheel and to produce an Universal Peace in Christendom with all the advantages and solemnities aforesaid both for their own particular and general Interests and for their particular of their Brethren through the whole extent of the Empire and without it which by the said Union they may be capable to effect if God permit without any Impediment from any Power and without this Union it may be some Nuncio or Emissary of Rome may possibly at a moment when they think least of it secretly manage some Marriage betwixt these Families so as to reconcile their principal differences and they not be in an Estate to oppose them nor to gather the Fruits which they might have justly expected And I insist so much the more on this that the Protestant States should put themselves in such a condition as I have said above because it being certain that the Emissaries of Rome have been the Instruments of the underworkings which have raised this War and of the League of France with the Electors of Colen and Bavaria the Bishops of Strasburg and Munster and the Princes of Newburg and Hanover and of the measures taken for the destruction of the Protestant Party in Europe as is too well proved we must not doubt but that Rome will make all its uttermost possible endeavours to procure it self the honour of making peace But that all Europe may know how far the Morality of the Protestant Faith is distant from the black and earthly malice of the Papacy I think it belongs to the Reputation of the Protestant States without any mixture with the Nuncio or any Emissary of the Court of Rome to procure to themselves the glory of establishing an Universal Peace in Christendom to the satisfaction of all honest men which by the foresaid Union they will find at one blow to be in their power to effect if by their private Interests and Jealousies they bury not the Talent which God hath put naturally in their hands not only for obtaining so great a present good but also for coustituting themselves for ever the infallible Guardians and Preservers thereof which is the Capital point at which all these States ought to aim as which will give them the inestimable Character of the Supreme Arbiters of all the Potentates of Christendom and invincible Bulwarks of their Security And if I may be allowed to continue to unfold my apprehensions as ingenuously as I have begun as to what I believe will be consequence of a Success of such force for the good and advantage of the Protestant Body through the extent of the Empire and by relation to them in several other places I conceive that all the aforesaid Protestant States having laid down their Arms ought seriously to apply themselves to solid means to obtain of his Imperial Majesty a modification of the Article touching the Bishop of Osnaburg in such manner as this Bishoprick may be successively enjoyed by the Successors of his Highness of Osnaburg without any mixture of Roman Catholicks it being certain that as his Imperial Majesty is very full of a generous benignity he seeing with what vigour this Illustrious House hath acted in this conjuncture for his Interests he will certainly be very easily perswaded to testifie toward that House his Imperial resentment and acknowledgement I doubt not but that a matter of this nature will be entangled with many difficulties but the said Union compleatly made or to the greater part will be a Rock to all the Slights and Machinatious of the Roman Court against which they shall effectually split and miscarry But if an Article of this force may and as I believe it would also be very easie for the said States to cause to be inserted in the same Instrument of Peace which shall be made some little Negotiations which are necessary to pacifie and lay asleep all matter of Jealousie and discontent betwixt the two Protestant Communions tollerated in Europe so as to deliver them both from some sensible displeasures For Example in some Imperial Cities of the Protestant Body to the shame of the Princes of that Communion the Pastors of the Lutheran Congregation are obliged to wear with a kind of Ignominy a Bonnet like the Jews it seemed to me a just thing to dispense with them in this for the future and leave them to their liberty there being no reason to constrain them to the like Infamy this being only an unnecessary mark of the animosity which reigned heretofore amongst the Princes of different Communion which ought upon all Principles of a judicious policy be entirely suppressed and abolished throughout all the extent of the Empire In other places in many Imperial Cities where the Magistracy is of the Communion of Ausburg it is ridiculous to see that whilst the Jews have there all liberty in the exercise of their Religion the Reformed are forced