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A00397	A declaration and catholick exhortation to all Christian princes to succour the Church of God and realme of France. Written by Peter Erondelle, natife of Normandie. Faithfully translated out of the French	Erondelle, Pierre, fl. 1586-1609.	1586 (1586)	STC 10512; ESTC S112258	9,822	26

A Declaration and Catholick exhortation to all Christian Princes to succour the Church of God and Realme of France Written by Peter Erondelle natife of Normandie Faithfully translated out of the French ¶ To all true louers of the pure Gospell and holy doctrine of Iesus Christ and to all those that desire the preseruation of the Realme of France Peter Erondelle wisheth health in the Lord. I Doubt not but doe stedfastly perceiue that whosoeuer shall consider of my calling wil disdain to looke vpon this briefe Treatise as proceeding frō a person vnworthie such a worke yea and will maruaile from whence J should gather such boldnesse sith I am not adorned or furnished with any humaine wisedome wherewith to beautifie or rather paint out the same But what aunswer shall J make them For it is not I that haue wrought this woorke but euen GOD himselfe through the vertue and power of the holy Ghost working in mee who word by word hath shewed and enstructed me in all that is herein set downe as vsing mee a poore and miserable sinner to indure and perswade or rather commaund all those that haue the feare of God and doctrine of Iesus Christ before their eyes to succour his afflicted people who are on euery side oppressed but principally in our France by some tyrants vnto whō J present not this briefe discourse for I am sufficiently perswaded that this kinde of people do but seeke occasion to subuert set at va●●●…nce such a Commonwealth as before remayned in peace and vnitie But vnto you my brethren doe J direct the same desiring you not to disdaine the sight therof but in equitie and without al passion other thē reason to reade it notwithstanding therein you finde some fault Neither would I herein seeke to flatter or conceale the aucthors of these present troubles namely the house of Guyze who are the chiefe Captaines and conductors thereof as also I should get nothing by concealing them as being a matter which euery man knoweth better then J can tell them how it standeth Besides I will not delay the time in beautifying this discourse with any painted speech to adorne it withall as some doe when they seeke and goe about to perswade lyes in stead of trueth vnder the colour of a pleasant phrase and painted speech which is sufficient to leade the Readers thereunto and lulling them on sleepe procureth them as afore is sayde to admit lyes in liew of truth euen as the Mermaide who by her pleasant song ouercommeth the Saylers and when they be at rest deuoureth them all J would not therefore imitate them but onely speake plainly according to all the wordes that haue fallen into my mouth whereby God hath holpen me to bring the same to passe To him therfore are we to yeeld thankes and withal to pray him to direct al our workes to the glory of his name and excellencie of his iustice as also that through the blood of his welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ he will vouchsafe vs remission of all our sinnes Amen A Prayer O Lord God almightie who knowest the hearts and thoughtes of al men so as we doe not so son● imagine what to say but thou knowest better then our selues what our tongue should pronounce that there is nothing vpon the earth or vnder the same how secrete soeuer but is manifest vnto thee Wee beseech thee O Lorde in the name of thy welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ that it may please thee to open and reueale whatsoeuer the wicked purposes of the peruerse whereby they may haue no meanes left to persecute thy faithful Neuerthelesse if it please thee O Lord yet to continue the afflictions of thy Church like as we know thee to be a iust and true Iudge we do notwithstanding beseech thee not to punish vs in thy wrath or according to our deserts who deserue onely euerlasting damnation but thy will be done for so it is most expedient We confesse that we haue grieuously prouoked thee against vs and are greatly endaungered to thy most iust iudgement howbeit we beseech thee O Lorde enter not thereinto with vs for our sinnes in thy sight are innumerable euen as the sand of the Sea or droppes of water of the same it may please thee therefore O Lord not to call thē to thy remembrance but through the death and passion of thy welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ to wipe thē away We beseech thee also that it may please thee to preserue those Kings Princes that are endued with the knowledge of thy Gospell and doe dayly fight for the same thereby vnder the shadow of their wings preseruing many faithfull poore persons vouchsafe them the encrease of thy grace Touch also the mindes of such Kings and Princes as doe vexe thy poore seruants and suffer not their hearts to be hardened like as was the heart of Pharao King of Egipt against thy people of Israell and especially O Lord vouchsafe to bring them into the bosome of thy Church so to enioye the cleare light thereof which is to see and knowe the trueth And this do we most humbly beseech thee in the name and fauour of thy dearely beloued sonne our Lorde Iesus Christ as himselfe hath taught vs saying Our Father which art in heauen c. FINIS ¶ A Declaration and exhortation to Princes c. LOng time haue we seene our France thus tormented afflicted with wars miseries and calamities vnder colour of religion and yet euen to this day do we behold how it doth daily waste and decay more and more which causeth mee to thincke that vnlesse God doe speedely set to his hand we shall in short time behold the destruction and dissipation of the most florishing Realme in Christendome at the appetite of certaine perticuler parsons who vppon a desire and vnsatiable thirst to raigne doe seeke no other but the losse or rather vsurpation thereof as seeming to them that God is blind and seeth not the torments which they inflict vppon his people in banishing some and defrauding them of their goods and in putting other some most cruelly to death They might surely thincke that if the Religion which they tearme new were not good it would soone waste and be in a moment swalowed vp but that contrariwise if it be according to God and Christ Iesus al the weapons and power of the world are not able to destroy it no not so much as any whit to diminish the same and therefore they ought rather to followe the counsayle of the Pharisaicall Doctor of the Iewish law Gamaliel who being in the Counsaile house when they sought to put the Apostles to death said that if their Religion were of Man the remembrance thereof would soone perish but if it were of God they should neuer be able to destroy it How many bloody battailes haue we seen Howe much Innocent blood shed not onely in our France but euen throughout all Christian-dome for this onely point and yet doe we see this holy

doctrine florish and augment all ouer the worlde Besides it was neuer seene neither in the time of the holy Patriarkes or Primitiue Church that Religion was decided confirmed or disputed vpon by force of Armes but onely by the Sworde of godlinesse the pure word of God conteined in the Bible Howe many errors did spring vp in the Primitiue Church and yet there needed no other weapon then the holy scripture neither did we euer know false doctrine but the same immediatly vanished through the power of Christ Iesus Wee may therefore easely presume that the aucthors of these ciuill warres couering themselues vnder the vizerd of religion doe seeke no other but the vtter ruine of this Realme wherof they were to make their profite and commoditie Wee know that before the decease of the late Lord Duke of Anieow and Alencon the Kinges onely brother there was nothing spoken of But they will now say that the Crowne belongeth to them then should they greatly deceiue themselues for in liewe of benefiting the Realme they consume all the substaunce thereof in the charges of the Warre If any man aske who bee these goodly aucthors of these present ciuill Warres I will answere that it is the house of Guize which saith that in cace it shoulde so come to passe that the King should dye without issue the Crowne can not belong to the King of Nauarre because he is a Hereticke But truely any man endued with the feare of GOD which will iudge vprightly may well know that Popish Religion is meere error besides that in the Primitiue Church the sheepeheards and Bishops liued not in so greate pride and superfluitie as doe the Popes for since that Christian Emperors Kings and Princes permitted them libertie to rule they haue not onely abandoned the true Church of Christ Iesus but also haue embrased falshoode in stead of trueth and liued ouer losely and dissolutely Neither is it the office of a Bishop to seeke the dominion of a whole climate of the earth but rather onely to instruct his flocke according to the holy scriptures and the true doctrine of Iesus Christ Let vs consider whether Saint Peter whose successer the Pope chalengeth himselfe to be or the other Apostles sought to rule Monarkes No no but contrariwise Christ himself said that no man could serue God and Mammon But let vs returne to our purpose for I am not to meddle in matters which so many learned Parsons haue debated vpon in presenting to the view and palpably feeling of the Popish errors neither is it the marke that I leuell at who doe pretend only to shew vnto you what iust occasions we haue to take armes for our necessary defence For it is extreeme crueltie and meere tyranny to banish the poore and vsurpe their goods as in these doyes they doe in our France I doe therefore most humbly beseeche all true louers of the Gospell and such as desire the preseruatiō of this crowne not to suffer for want of taking armes and succouring of vs so florishing a Realme as ours to be lost for all men may see and it is most euident that the aucthors of this warre doe seeke the onely decay thereof Haue wee not seene all Germany England Scotland and the most part of Europe troubled for this onely cause of Religion and yet nowe wee find that at this day they doe enioy most blessed peace through such agreements and order as on either part haue beene taken These men cannot excuse themselues of seeking the vtter destruction of this countrie for we haue had so many Peaces and Agreementes in time past that now it is a most manifest matter that the onely point of Religion is no cause of present troubles but rather an enuious desire to vsurpe They minister cause neuer to repose confidence in whatsoeuer promesse or peace which properly be tearmed a Childrens pastime who may say and vnsay and all with one breath what soeuer they ●…st How many holy and iust edicts haue we had and especially the Edict of Ianuary made in the yere of grace 1561. vnder King Charles the ninth which was both good and lawfully made to the benefite as well of the one as other religion Was not the same sufficient whereby wee might enioy an assured peace as doe other the bordring realmes our neighbours But what It was of ouer great importance to the enemies of peace What shal I say more haue we not since that had many other edicts by y e last was not the French Nation assured to enioye a blessed peace though to the great preiudice of our reformed religion and very beneficiall to the contrary as wanting more then halfe the libertie of that of Ianuary which notwithstanding the wicked could not continue in that Peace This sufficiently sheweth their peruerse and mischieuous mindes as also that they haue no other desire but to destroy or vsurpe this Crowne of the Flowerdeluce But what neede I so largely describe a matter which all the world knoweth better then my selfe Wot wee not that this house of Guize and their associates are the chiefe Captaines and Conductors of all this alteration See wee not that they seeke to deliuer and abandon as it were in praye this poore kingdome to the Spanish nation Moreouer haue we not already found howe they haue endeuoured and still doe goe about to bring all Christiandome into confusion And howe In Scotlande haue they not sought to drowne the Realme in troubles and Ciuill warres so as we haue seene the Nobilitie and Commons so sore bent one against another that no peace could bee obtained without most grieuous and horrible bloodshed Yea had it not bene by meanes of the most sacred of GOD the Queenes Maiestie of England the troubles had yet cōtinued and al through the Guizes Vndoubtedly we can not thincke but that after so many mischiefes God will powre out his iust iudgement vpon that Family notwithstanding many tymes we see the perturbers of publicke peace and ennemies to the trueth prosper more then the good neither are we to meruaile when we see the wicked exalted before our faces for God will sometimes vse such instruments to trie the pacience of his elect Nowe haue I sufficiently shewed you the iust causes that wee haue to defend our selues there resteth no more but to open vnto you the end whereto I doe pretend which is to desire all true louers of the Gospell not to suffer the tyrannizing of the faithfull flock of Iesus Christ who saith that his shalbe knowen by the brotherly loue that they shall beare one to another but what amitie is it to see his brother or neighbour dye truelly before his eyes vndoubtedly if wee would consider what charitie and brotherly loue to our neighbour is we should feele our consciences wonderfully oppressed I we see a thiefe or robber take a pooremans purse in the wood and doe not our endeuours to deliuor him from the said oppression shall not we be guiltie