A letter from the Arch-Bishop of Paris, to the late king James Harlay de Champvallon, François de, 1625-1695. 1694 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A87116 Wing H776A ESTC R42520 36282219 ocm 36282219 150082 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Great SIR , AS the King is truly sensible of Your Majesty's firm adherence to his Interest , even with the loss of your Three Kingdoms , so he has redoubled his Care , and has left no stone unturned to restore Your Majesty to the said Kingdoms again ; not only by endeavoering to reduce them , but by making War also against all the Consederates who opposed him in this his Undertaking . And although the King beyond hopes has not been successful in the first , though there was a very good prospect of it , yet he succeeded in the other , in having enlarged his Dominions very much , and by encreasing the same still by the Great Conquests he makes every Year , by the great and continual Victories he obtains over his Enemies from time to time ; but all this is not such a satisfaction to his Generous Mind , as that would be , if he could restore Your Majesty to Your Throne again . This grieves the King , and sticks so much to his heart , that he does not value the smiles of Fortune , so long as it frowns upon Your Majesty . And as good Offices claim Gratitude , so the King not only Royally received Your Majesty into his Kingdom , but maintained and Cherished you too in that Grandeur to this very hour , besides his Kindness he shewed to that great number of your Subjects which he Maintained , and Employed . No less was expected from the Holy See , whom Your Majesty so highly Obliged when Reigning , who instead of out-doing the King's Kindness towards Your Majesty , stands now marked with Ingratitude . But now the King seeing his Kingdom Exhausted of Money , by the immense Charges he has been at , and his own Subjects Croaning under the Miseries that attend a War , and then considering the Effusion of Blood of so many Thousands of Christians , and that a Prince who will reap the Benefit of his Arms , must make Peace when he is the most Victorious . Therefore the King amidst his great Victories stretches out the Scepter of Peace , to all his Enemies ; which as he has done at first , in particular to the Duke of Savoy , out of Compassion to withdraw him from his Ruine : So he does now in General to all the Confederate Princes . But These , as well as He , being pufft up with great Hopes , and expecting the turn of Fortune , refuse the King 's fair Offers , and stand upon so high Terms , which amount even to the Pyrenean Treaty ! A thing not to be expected from so Victorious a Prince , as our King is . Yet , the King being desirous to see the Peace of Europe Established , for the Reasons above mentioned , is willing to grant them more ample Proposals ; such as he does not doubt but would he accepted of by the Confederates ; and he meets with no other Difficulty , than the Re-inthroning of Your Majesty . Which as it is the Thing the King takes the most to Heart , so he has laboured for it , more than for any other thing : But it seems Heav'n is against it , and will have it otherwise . It lyes therefore in your Majesty's Power to remove that Obstacle and to further that so much wished-for Peace ; by following the Laudable Examples of that great Emperour Charles the Fifth , and Casimire King of Poland ; who quitting their Empire and Kingdoms , chose rather to live a Religious , and Retired Life , a Life which the King was a commending much t'other day : A Life , I presume to tell Your Majesty the advantages of , by mentioning the dangers of t'other . Your Majesty was seated upon a Precipice , and the more you are Elevated , the more dangerous will prove the Fall. In that Retirement you will be safe as it were upon a Plain , from whence you may look back upon the dangerous Rocks behind you . Descending from the Throne , you mount to the repose of a private life . And as there is nothing to be esteemed a pleasure , or a happy state without a perfect safety ; so your Your Majesty will find , that you will then be more contented , more happy , and consequently more high than you was before . There you may secure your self from the dangers of a troublesome Kingdom , and bewail the perilous condition of Worldlings , and purchase an Eternity of Joys . No other Earthly condition can equal that : 'T is a Heaven upon Earth , separating us from the rest of the World , and contented with its own Tranquility , and Delights . Such a one it will be to Your Majesty , if you embrace it voluntarily , and withdraw your heart from all worldly Cares and Creatures , and contemn a Worldly Diadem . Which that you may do , the Author of all good grant that Your Majesty's Affections , Actious , Thoughts and Desires may be ordered by him to that end , that they may begin and end in him , who is the Abyss of Happiness . Paris the 22d . of June 1694. Great SIR , Your Majesties Most Humble , and Most Obedient Servant , FRANCIS , Arch-Bishop of Paris . Superscribed thus , To His Most Excellent Majesty James the Second , K. of Great Britain , &c. LICENS'D , July 12. 1694. LONDON , Printed , and are to be Sold by Rich , Baldwin in Warwick-Lane , 1694.