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The Negotiations of the embassadors sent to the Duke of Savoy by the Protestant Swiss-Cantons, in favour of the distressed Vaudois wherein there are many things very curious, and some letters never before published / translated out of French.
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Boyer, P. (Pierre), 1619-ca. 1700.
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Wing B3919B; ESTC R43065
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see as to this World our ruin is inevitable but we hope God will revenge his Quarrel and that good People will not quite forsake us Our confidence next under God is in your Excellencies we cast our selves into your arms and Fatherly Bosoms beseeching you by the Mercies of God and in the Name of his Son Jesus Christ our Common Father and Saviour that you will not withdraw from us your Charity and good Wishes but look with your Eyes of Compassion and Fatherly tenderness on so many poor Families little Children and other infirm and in this World miserable People and be pleased to make them feel the favourable effects of your Christian Bounty Praying the Lord will perpetually protect your Excellencies and abundantly reward your pious and Christian Charity We are most High Mighty and Soveraign Lords with all imaginable Veneration your Excellencies Most Humble most Obedient and most obliged Servants the Pastors Elders and other Directors of the Valley Churches of Piemont S. Bastie Moderator Gr. Malant Minister The Letter which the Ministers wrote to the Embassadors was Penn'd in these following terms My Lords WE will still Communicate your Excellencies Letter to our Communities it were to be wish'd they had given better ear to the wholsome Counsel given by your Excellencies to draw them out of a danger which in Humane probability seems unavoidable God grant against all appearances that their Resolution may succeed well and shew his power in their weakness and infirmity I belive all their Pastors are resolved to live and dye with them since your Excellencies are not against it it cannot certainly be honest or excusable to forsake them in such a conjuncture and it must infallibly be a reproach to us to leave them seeing the good Shepherd is call'd to lay down his Life for his Sheep We give your Excellencies all possible thanks for the indefatigable care and pains you have taken for our good and for our preservation and we beseech you by the Mercies of God and the Love of Jesus Christ not to forget us but during your stay at Turin and after your return to the most mighty Evangelick Cantons to testifie your Affection and Christian Chairty towards us by all good Offices We pray that our good God and Saviour will recompence your Excellencies Pains and Charity towards our Churches with his most Holy and Precious Blessings both of Heaven and Earth and cover your sacred Persons with his continual Protection which is the most fervent and sincere Wish of yours who are with a profound respect My Lords Your Excellencies most humble most obedient and most obliged Servants the Pastors of the Protestant Churches of the Valleys of Luzerne Angrogne Perouse St. Martin c. in Piedmont and in the name of all S. Bastie Minister at Angrogne the 17 th of April 1686. The Vaudois being resolved as we have told you and the Duke of Savoy gone to the Army the Embassadors thought they had no more to do at Court and therefore now might return home but because it might happen that the Valley-People seeing their danger near and the Troops ready to fall upon them might by the Mediation of the Embassadors have recourse to the Clemency of their Prince they resolved not to be far from them till they saw the Army entred into their Country and had heard what was the success of this Expedition But being informed that so soon as the French appear'd in the Valleys those of St. Martin ran quite away and that the Duke's Troops having forced the Passages on the side of Angrogne found resistance no where they plainly saw they had nothing more to do in Piedmont and therefore went away extremely griev'd that they could not hinder the desolation of the precious remainder of the Valley Churches And being come back to their own Countrey they gave an account of their Embassy to their Soveraigns who judging of their Negotiation not by the success it had but by the Embassadors Conduct after having declar'd they were satisfied with the Zeal and Address which they had made appear during the whole course of this nice Negotiation they thanked them for the care they had taken to discharge so worthily the Employment wherewith they had been honoured FINIS Some BOOKS Printed for R. 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which could be urged were not able to prevail with them so that after having debated the question almost a whole day they separated without being able to agree in one opinion Those of the Valley of St Martin of Perouse of St. Bartholomew of Parastin of Rocheplatte of Villard of Roras and one part of de la Tour were willing to make the submissions required of them and having deputed for that purpose six Persons who had order to go to the Court of Turin they gave them Procurations in due form whereby they promised to do all that they thought fit in the Negotiation which they had undertaken for the Interest of the Valley Churches But those of Boby of St. John and part of those of Angrogne flattering themselves with the hope of imaginary Succours resolved with Swords in their hands to defend the exercise of their Religion and sent to the Ambassadors their Deputy named Bianchis who delivered to them the following Letter Most High Mighty and Soveraign Lords PVrsuant to the Letter which your Excellencies have been pleased to write to the Vallies some days ago our Churches of St. John Angrogne and Boby throw themselves at your feet to assure you of their most humble respects and of the due sence they have of all those favours which your Excellencies endeavour to obtain and procure for them from his Royal Highness our Soveraign for the continuance of the exercise of our Religion in these places and as for the proposition now in question seeing our People cannot agree in the same opinion with other Churches We cannot send to your Excellencies the consent we desire and therefore have charged the Sieur Daniel Bianchis Syndich of the Community of St. John to tell you by word of mouth our thoughts and most humbly to beseech you that you will be pleased to continue to us the effects of your Extraordinary and Paternal Charity especially by your powerful Intercessions with his Royal Highness for the above-mention'd Exercise of our Religion earnestly praying that the Lord will bless your Negotiation and bountifully reward all your care pains and travels which your Excellencies have had the goodness to take for our poor Flocks in whose names with all imaginable respect and due submission we are proud to bear the Title of your Excellencies Most Humble most Obedient and most Obliged Servants the Deputies of the Churches Deputies of the Church of St. John Michel Purise Jean Muston Jean Putta for Angrogne Of the Church of Boâ—y Marque de Daniel Negrin N. Sindic Francis Dane Counsellor Stephan Pertin Deputy The Sieur de la Bastie Minister of St. John troubled at the division of these unfortunate Churches wrote to the Embassadors in the following Terms My Lords I Take the liberty to present my most humble duty to your Excellencies by the Deputies who are going to Turin to make the submission to his Royal Highness and to present to him the Petition which your Excellencies have thought fit I am with my Collegues in very great consternation and affliction to see our People so much divided about our leaving the Country fearing that this will prejudice your Excellencies Negotiation with his Royal Highness in our favour and render your pains unsuccessful We have not fail'd to do all we could to make them understand that in this present juncture of time it was the safest course could be taken but we have not been happy enough to succeed and satisfie all if we did not know your Excellencies unparrallel'd Charity we should have cause to fear this indiscreet conduct might lessen your Friendship and Zeal for our good We most humbly beseech your Excellencies to shew in this occasion so much goodness and clemency as not to slacken the indefatigable pains you take and I humbly beg your Excellencies Pardon for the Liberty I take and with all reverence respect and submission I assure your Lordships that I am your Excellencies Most Humble most Obedient and most Obliged Servant Sydrac Bastie Minister at Angrogne April the 4 th 1686. This diversity of Opinions made the Embassadors fear that the Enemies of their Religion taking advantage of the Vaudois Division would prevail with his Highness to destroy the innocent with the guilty and to suffer none at all to go out of the Country They therefore sent back to the Vallies the Deputy of Boby with a Letter which they wrote to those that resolved to take Arms conjuring him to use all his Power to make them agree in opinion with the other Churches The Letter was penn'd in this manner Sirs IT is true that a Man 's own Country hath very great Charms and the greatest part of Mankind have a natural desire to live and dye in it but yet the Children of God ought not to set their Hearts upon it seeing they are strangers upon Earth Heaven being their proper Country so that you will be guilty of distrusting Divine Providence if you fear you shall not be able to find another Country where you may conveniently live and adore your Heavenly Father In what part of the World soever a Man is he ought to think himself happy if he there have liberty to serve God according to the Dictates of his own Conscience You ought to follow the Example of the Patriarchs who drew down God's Blessing on themselves by relying on his Promises and by abandoning their Houses and Lands when he commanded them to go and dwell in a strange Country The like Confidence cannot but be acceptable to God and it is without doubt more conformable to the mind of the Gospel to forsake a Man's Country than to take Arms against his Soveraign Christians are called to suffer and not to resist and we do not find that the Apostles or the Primitive Church made use of any other defence but Prayers and Patience against their Persecutors These are the Considerations which obliged our Soveraign Lords the Evangelick Cantons to give us order to procure from his Royal Highness your lawful Prince free leave for you to depart with permission to dispose of your Goods in case he will not any longer suffer the Exercise of your Religion And tho' you look on this retreat as an intollerable Mischief yet our Soveraign Lords consider it as a favour when they reflect on the sad Condition whereto you are reduced they also think it will be very difficult to obtain it from his Royal Highness If he grant it at their intercession You ought not only to accept it with submission but also to be very thankful for it After this you cannot doubt but that we have been very much surprised to hear that you have resolved not to take this Course but intend to resist two mighty Potentates who have oblig'd themselves to extirpate you in case you do not submit to their will And herein you do not only act against your Duty against Christian Prudence and against your own Interest but you give us just cause to complain of you seeing