Discourses on the present state of the Protestant princes of Europe exhorting them to an union and league amongst themselves against all opposite interest, from the great endeavours of the court of France and Rome to influence all Roman Catholick princes, against the Protestant states and religion, and the advantage that our divisions give to their party : wherein the general scope of this horrid Popish Plot is laid down, and presented to publick view / by Edmund Everard ...
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           Discourses
           ON
           THE
           PRESENT
           STATE
           OF
           THE
           
             Protestant
             Princes
          
           OF
           EUROPE
           :
           Exhorting
           them
           to
           an
           UNION
           and
           LEAGUE
           amongst
           themselves
           ,
           AGAINST
           ALL
           Opposite
           Interest
           ,
           From
           the
           Great
           Endeavours
           of
           the
           Court
           of
           France
           and
           Rome
           to
           Influence
           all
           Roman
           Catholick
           Princes
           ,
           against
           the
           Protestant
           States
           and
           Religion
           ;
           and
           the
           Advantage
           that
           our
           Divisions
           give
           to
           their
           Party
           ;
           Wherein
           the
           General
           Scope
           of
           this
           
             Horrid
             Popish
             Plot
          
           Is
           laid
           down
           ,
           and
           presented
           to
           PUBLICK
           VIEW
           .
        
         
           By
           EDMUND
           EVERARD
           Esquire
           .
        
         
           Kept
           four
           years
           close
           Prisoner
           in
           the
           Tower
           by
           the
           Contrivance
           of
           some
           English
           Subjects
           plotting
           against
           us
           in
           France
           ,
           whom
           he
           five
           years
           since
           discovered
           ;
           and
           was
           lately
           justified
           and
           released
           by
           his
           Majesty
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           
             Dorman
             Newman
          
           at
           the
           King's
           Arms
           in
           the
           Poultrey
           ,
           1679.
           
        
      
       
         
         
           
             May
             the
             First
             ,
             1679.
             
          
        
         
           I
           have
           appointed
           Dorman
           Newman
           Citizen
           and
           Stationer
           of
           London
           to
           print
           this
           Treatise
           .
        
         
           
             EDMUND
             EVERARD
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
         ESSAYES
         of
         Politick
         Discourses
         ON
         THE
         PRESENT
         STATE
         OF
         THE
         Protestant
         Princes
         OF
         EUROPE
         :
         Exhorting
         them
         to
         an
         Union
         and
         League
         amongst
         themselves
         ,
         against
         all
         opposite
         Interests
         .
      
       
         
           PART
           I.
           
        
         
           THe
           Ancient
           and
           Modern
           Histories
           furnish
           us
           successively
           with
           very
           good
           Examples
           ,
           that
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           Monarchies
           ,
           Kingdoms
           ,
           Common-wealths
           ,
           which
           have
           heretofore
           flourished
           with
           great
           Glory
           ,
           and
           have
           afterwards
           for
           the
           most
           part
           been
           entirely
           demolished
           ,
           fell
           into
           that
           miserable
           destruction
           by
           two
           defaults
           ,
           especially
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           by
           degenerating
           and
           totally
           abandoning
           their
           pristine
           virtues
           ,
           and
           a
           soft
           negligence
           in
           not
           applying
           themselves
           to
           those
           means
           which
           might
           have
           re-established
           them
           in
           the
           practice
           of
           the
           same
           virtues
           as
           the
           principle
           whence
           their
           former
           puissance
           was
           to
           be
           derived
           ,
           and
           from
           the
           practice
           whereof
           they
           might
           be
           in
           a
           condition
           to
           preserve
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           secondly
           ,
           by
           internal
           Divisions
           ,
           which
           Ambition
           ,
           Jealousie
           ,
           Avarice
           or
           Vain
           glory
           fomented
           by
           the
           Artifices
           of
           their
           
           Enemies
           ,
           have
           frequently
           produced
           amongst
           Princes
           ,
           or
           the
           Directors
           of
           their
           flourishing
           Estates
           .
        
         
           Now
           then
           ,
           since
           these
           pernicious
           courses
           have
           caused
           the
           ruine
           of
           all
           the
           greatest
           Puissances
           of
           the
           World
           ;
           I
           conceive
           that
           no
           man
           will
           be
           so
           imprudent
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           be
           of
           accord
           with
           me
           in
           this
           point
           ;
           That
           it
           is
           the
           wisdom
           of
           those
           in
           whose
           hand
           God
           hath
           trusted
           the
           direction
           of
           any
           soveraign
           and
           lawful
           power
           ,
           diligently
           with
           all
           their
           care
           and
           might
           to
           avoid
           falling
           into
           such
           accidents
           .
        
         
           And
           I
           also
           believe
           ,
           that
           every
           wise
           man
           will
           likewise
           agree
           ;
           That
           they
           more
           especially
           have
           the
           strongest
           Reasons
           to
           keep
           themselves
           most
           exactly
           on
           their
           guard
           ,
           who
           cannot
           be
           ignorant
           by
           many
           pressing
           experiences
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           on
           their
           necks
           very
           many
           both
           secret
           and
           publick
           ,
           armed
           ,
           subtle
           ,
           powerful
           and
           active
           enemies
           ,
           who
           are
           perpetually
           in
           motion
           to
           take
           advantages
           of
           all
           favourable
           conjunctures
           to
           procure
           their
           ruine
           ,
           which
           they
           endeavour
           with
           very
           great
           care
           ,
           and
           by
           all
           sorts
           of
           means
           to
           procure
           and
           foment
           .
        
         
           This
           foundation
           being
           laid
           ;
           let
           us
           briefly
           examine
           whether
           in
           the
           modern
           conduct
           of
           the
           Protestant
           States
           in
           Europe
           ,
           they
           have
           strictly
           guided
           themselves
           in
           every
           thing
           which
           may
           be
           called
           the
           Interest
           of
           their
           Preservation
           ,
           according
           to
           such
           Rules
           as
           are
           sufficient
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           contribute
           to
           their
           maintenance
           in
           their
           Estate
           ,
           but
           to
           procure
           unto
           them
           the
           most
           considerable
           Augmentations
           therein
           ;
           or
           whether
           a
           good
           part
           of
           them
           have
           not
           rather
           been
           visibly
           engaged
           by
           the
           Modern
           Artifices
           of
           their
           natural
           enemies
           ,
           into
           such
           paths
           as
           are
           capable
           not
           only
           to
           enervate
           their
           principal
           Forces
           ,
           but
           by
           consequence
           to
           draw
           them
           on
           ,
           like
           the
           aforesaid
           States
           into
           an
           entire
           destruction
           .
        
         
           No
           man
           can
           deny
           ,
           as
           it
           seems
           to
           me
           ,
           that
           God's
           blessing
           was
           abundantly
           powred
           out
           on
           the
           labours
           of
           those
           great
           Persons
           ,
           whom
           his
           Providence
           was
           pleased
           to
           make
           use
           of
           in
           the
           last
           Age
           for
           the
           advancement
           of
           the
           work
           of
           Reformation
           and
           extirpating
           out
           of
           the
           Christian
           communion
           ,
           all
           the
           abuses
           and
           Idolatrous
           errours
           ,
           which
           the
           Spirit
           of
           darkness
           ,
           by
           the
           Ministry
           of
           the
           Papacy
           had
           established
           throughout
           the
           whole
           extent
           of
           the
           Western
           Church
           .
           By
           this
           success
           it
           came
           to
           pass
           that
           two
           Parties
           were
           formed
           ;
           which
           in
           what
           concerns
           Spirituals
           and
           Temporals
           ,
           divided
           all
           this
           part
           of
           Europe
           ,
           which
           composes
           the
           said
           Church
           .
        
         
           Now
           being
           the
           First-Fruits
           of
           this
           Reformation
           were
           such
           as
           suddenly
           stopped
           the
           progress
           of
           the
           Papacy
           ,
           and
           broke
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           measures
           which
           the
           Bishops
           of
           Rome
           had
           
           taken
           up
           ,
           successively
           since
           the
           Reign
           of
           the
           Parricide
           Phocas
           ,
           to
           establish
           a
           despotick
           and
           universal
           Monarchy
           over
           all
           Christendom
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           Temporals
           as
           Spirituals
           .
           This
           Truth
           being
           perfectly
           well
           known
           by
           the
           See
           of
           Rome
           ,
           it
           were
           extreme
           folly
           to
           doubt
           of
           the
           true
           Resentments
           which
           those
           Bishops
           have
           against
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           especially
           against
           the
           Kingdoms
           and
           States
           that
           protect
           and
           profess
           this
           Faith
           ;
           so
           that
           it
           ought
           to
           be
           the
           more
           observed
           ,
           that
           since
           the
           providence
           of
           God
           gave
           this
           overthrow
           to
           the
           Papal
           Tyranny
           ,
           this
           Beast
           which
           hath
           horns
           like
           those
           of
           the
           Lamb
           ,
           is
           in
           a
           condition
           to
           speak
           with
           the
           power
           of
           the
           first
           Beast
           ;
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           ,
           with
           the
           Title
           of
           
             Servant
             of
             Servants
          
           ,
           which
           they
           craftily
           affect
           to
           assume
           ,
           have
           so
           well
           ordered
           their
           Conduct
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           thereby
           been
           enabled
           no
           less
           than
           the
           ancient
           Caesars
           by
           sword
           and
           fire
           ,
           (
           as
           Greg.
           7.
           
           
             Urb.
             2.
             
             Paschall
             2.
             
             Boniface
          
           the
           Eighth
           did
           )
           to
           attempt
           to
           make
           themselves
           to
           be
           acknowledged
           for
           despotick
           and
           universal
           Monarchs
           of
           Christendome
           ,
           as
           well
           over
           Temporals
           as
           Spirituals
           .
        
         
           And
           to
           prove
           in
           a
           few
           words
           ,
           and
           in
           an
           uncontrolable
           manner
           ,
           what
           we
           have
           propounded
           we
           may
           conclude
           for
           certain
           ,
           as
           to
           temporal
           concerns
           ;
           that
           since
           the
           Reign
           of
           Charles
           the
           Bald
           ,
           the
           Roman
           Bishops
           after
           many
           Debates
           and
           cruel
           Wars
           ,
           which
           they
           caused
           to
           be
           raised
           on
           all
           hands
           against
           the
           Emperors
           of
           the
           West
           ,
           have
           not
           only
           been
           dispensed
           with
           from
           being
           named
           ;
           or
           approved
           by
           the
           Emperors
           themselves
           ,
           as
           the
           ancient
           custom
           was
           ;
           but
           having
           by
           succession
           of
           time
           and
           a
           thousand
           unjust
           ways
           ,
           so
           highly
           advanced
           themselves
           above
           them
           ,
           that
           these
           Monarchs
           have
           been
           forced
           afterwards
           ,
           as
           History
           assures
           us
           ,
           until
           Charles
           the
           Fifth
           inclusively
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           acknowledge
           the
           Roman
           Bishops
           for
           their
           Superiors
           ;
           but
           unless
           they
           would
           incur
           their
           Indignation
           (
           which
           usually
           was
           followed
           with
           their
           ruine
           )
           to
           abase
           themselves
           unto
           that
           abjectness
           of
           spirit
           ,
           as
           to
           go
           and
           kiss
           their
           feet
           ,
           in
           all
           humble
           prostration
           ,
           or
           as
           they
           mounted
           to
           or
           lighted
           from
           their
           Horses
           ;
           and
           the
           most
           part
           of
           them
           durst
           not
           take
           upon
           them
           to
           be
           Emperors
           ,
           till
           after
           their
           Approbation
           or
           Coronation
           by
           their
           or
           their
           Legates
           hands
           .
        
         
           The
           chief
           Monarchs
           of
           all
           Christendom
           being
           reduced
           to
           this
           pass
           ;
           is
           it
           not
           true
           ,
           that
           the
           Bishops
           of
           Rome
           ,
           who
           hold
           it
           for
           a
           Maxim
           ,
           never
           to
           let
           go
           their
           Pretentions
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           every
           thing
           that
           falls
           out
           for
           their
           advantage
           ,
           a
           Prescription
           ,
           have
           really
           usurped
           and
           effectually
           enjoyed
           the
           Superiority
           over
           the
           Principal
           Temporal
           Dominion
           of
           Christendom
           ?
           And
           this
           is
           so
           true
           ,
           that
           before
           the
           holy
           work
           of
           Reformation
           this
           petty
           Priest
           
           hath
           been
           seen
           insolently
           many
           times
           to
           take
           the
           Imperial
           Crown
           from
           the
           Father
           after
           he
           had
           trod
           one
           of
           the
           most
           Illustrious
           Emperors
           as
           a
           Basilisk
           under
           his
           feet
           ,
           to
           transfer
           it
           to
           his
           Son
           ;
           or
           if
           indeed
           the
           Emperor's
           Children
           were
           more
           careful
           to
           observe
           the
           Law
           of
           God
           in
           this
           point
           ,
           than
           that
           of
           this
           man
           of
           sin
           ,
           and
           would
           not
           recede
           from
           the
           respect
           and
           obedience
           due
           unto
           their
           Father
           ,
           then
           to
           transfer
           it
           to
           the
           first
           ambitious
           person
           ,
           who
           could
           be
           found
           of
           a
           seditious
           humour
           ,
           his
           presumption
           being
           risen
           to
           that
           Insolency
           ,
           that
           he
           made
           not
           more
           difficulty
           in
           the
           quality
           of
           a
           Supreme
           Dispenser
           both
           of
           the
           Imperial
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           Crowns
           of
           Christendom
           ,
           than
           to
           dispose
           of
           them
           of
           an
           inferiour
           order
           ,
           albeit
           they
           were
           Hereditary
           for
           the
           most
           part
           ,
           in
           favour
           of
           whom
           he
           pleased
           :
           of
           this
           Navarre
           affords
           us
           a
           living
           example
           ,
           which
           abides
           entire
           unto
           this
           day
           .
           Passing
           by
           (
           to
           avoid
           prolixity
           )
           the
           Subsidies
           and
           burdensome
           Homages
           which
           have
           been
           established
           on
           the
           Kingdoms
           of
           
             England
             ,
             Poland
             ,
             Hungary
             ,
             Naples
          
           and
           Arragon
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           what
           they
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           execute
           on
           all
           the
           other
           States
           of
           Christendom
           ;
           this
           may
           suffice
           (
           as
           seems
           to
           me
           )
           to
           make
           all
           these
           States
           to
           see
           the
           Interest
           they
           have
           unanimously
           to
           oppose
           the
           progress
           of
           the
           Papacy
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           prove
           what
           I
           have
           above
           propounded
           ,
           what
           these
           proud
           Bishops
           have
           attempted
           upon
           the
           Temporal
           Dominion
           of
           all
           Christendom
           until
           the
           time
           aforesaid
           .
        
         
           To
           prove
           what
           progress
           the
           same
           Bishops
           have
           made
           in
           their
           Usurpations
           upon
           the
           Spiritual
           Power
           ,
           it
           is
           sufficient
           to
           read
           their
           own
           Decretals
           ,
           and
           what
           they
           have
           been
           able
           to
           cause
           to
           be
           decreed
           in
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           the
           last
           Councils
           ,
           and
           to
           know
           the
           Doctrine
           which
           all
           the
           Sophisters
           of
           the
           Vatican
           do
           openly
           teach
           and
           Preach
           more
           or
           less
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Places
           where
           they
           reside
           ,
           and
           which
           is
           universally
           received
           (
           save
           in
           the
           Estates
           of
           the
           Republick
           of
           Venice
           )
           in
           all
           the
           extent
           of
           Italy
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Monarchy
           of
           Spain
           ,
           and
           hath
           taken
           but
           too
           pernicious
           roots
           in
           all
           other
           States
           where
           the
           Magistrate
           is
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           Protestant
           States
           flatter
           themselves
           extreamly
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           perswaded
           ;
           That
           by
           the
           Progress
           which
           the
           work
           of
           Reformation
           hath
           made
           in
           Europe
           ,
           and
           the
           infeebling
           which
           in
           its
           process
           it
           hath
           caused
           in
           the
           Papal
           Power
           ,
           this
           Enemy
           is
           so
           far
           weakned
           ;
           that
           he
           is
           not
           to
           be
           feared
           any
           more
           :
           for
           it
           is
           so
           far
           from
           being
           so
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           the
           more
           dangerous
           ,
           as
           well
           for
           its
           formidable
           Power
           wherein
           it
           still
           appears
           ,
           having
           in
           some
           degree
           abated
           its
           Politick
           Severity
           ,
           as
           not
           judging
           it
           necessary
           any
           longer
           since
           the
           checks
           that
           have
           befallen
           it
           by
           the
           advancement
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           
           or
           Imprudence
           of
           some
           of
           its
           Bishops
           ;
           so
           also
           for
           that
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           is
           now
           more
           than
           ever
           rectified
           in
           its
           refined
           Policy
           ,
           to
           be
           able
           by
           imperceptible
           and
           secret
           ways
           to
           recover
           its
           self
           to
           its
           first
           glorious
           Lustre
           .
           And
           being
           Rome
           cannot
           attain
           thereto
           but
           by
           the
           total
           ruine
           of
           its
           natural
           Enemies
           ,
           which
           consist
           (
           as
           I
           have
           shewed
           above
           according
           to
           my
           supposition
           )
           in
           the
           Protestant
           Party
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           admired
           if
           after
           this
           shock
           ,
           they
           have
           stirred
           every
           Stone
           to
           bring
           about
           the
           destruction
           of
           that
           party
           ,
           and
           that
           so
           long
           as
           there
           are
           any
           Roman
           Bishops
           ,
           Rome
           still
           labours
           it
           with
           all
           its
           forces
           ,
           and
           all
           its
           diligence
           .
        
         
           For
           this
           reason
           ,
           when
           the
           Imperial
           House
           of
           Austria
           was
           in
           condition
           by
           its
           great
           Inheritances
           ,
           which
           successively
           fell
           to
           it
           in
           the
           two
           last
           Ages
           ,
           by
           its
           immense
           Indian
           Treasures
           ,
           by
           its
           greatness
           and
           dignity
           of
           the
           first
           and
           most
           considerable
           Monarchy
           of
           Christendom
           ,
           and
           by
           its
           numerous
           and
           formidable
           Armies
           to
           push
           on
           the
           Progress
           of
           its
           great
           and
           vast
           Designs
           of
           an
           Universal
           Monarchy
           :
           The
           Court
           of
           Rome
           was
           subtle
           and
           happy
           enough
           to
           perswade
           it
           that
           it
           could
           not
           attain
           thereto
           ,
           but
           by
           taking
           on
           it
           the
           quality
           of
           its
           principal
           Protector
           ,
           and
           in
           being
           the
           cruel
           Executioner
           of
           the
           establishment
           of
           its
           Authority
           ,
           and
           all
           its
           freques
           .
           
             France
             ,
             Germany
             ,
             Hungary
             ,
             Bohemia
             ,
          
           and
           the
           Princes
           of
           the
           Low-Countries
           know
           what
           Rivers
           of
           blood
           have
           flowed
           from
           this
           pretence
           ;
           and
           all
           Europe
           knows
           the
           enfeeblement
           which
           this
           Illustrious
           House
           hath
           brought
           on
           it self
           by
           being
           surprised
           by
           Maxims
           so
           little
           enlivened
           by
           the
           spirit
           of
           true
           Christianity
           ,
           and
           of
           so
           little
           Discretion
           and
           Judgment
           .
        
         
           For
           this
           same
           Reason
           also
           Rome
           after
           it
           had
           served
           it self
           of
           the
           Puissance
           and
           Forces
           of
           this
           Imperial
           House
           so
           far
           as
           to
           have
           reduced
           it
           to
           an
           extenuation
           and
           feebleness
           capable
           to
           draw
           on
           its
           total
           destruction
           ,
           if
           the
           providence
           of
           God
           by
           the
           generous
           Succours
           of
           its
           Allies
           had
           not
           prevented
           ;
           knowing
           otherwise
           that
           this
           House
           was
           not
           any
           longer
           in
           condition
           to
           serve
           and
           advance
           its
           Projects
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           quality
           of
           a
           suffering
           Party
           ,
           and
           that
           its
           diminution
           seemed
           to
           give
           place
           to
           his
           most
           Christian
           Majesty
           by
           the
           formidable
           power
           of
           his
           Forces
           ,
           and
           his
           numerous
           Treasures
           to
           pursue
           with
           success
           the
           career
           of
           the
           Universal
           Monarchy
           .
           Rome
           I
           say
           ,
           which
           hold
           for
           a
           Maxim
           from
           the
           time
           of
           its
           first
           progress
           ,
           to
           spend
           the
           Forces
           of
           the
           most
           puissant
           for
           its
           own
           Elevation
           ,
           hath
           been
           also
           crafty
           and
           fortunate
           enough
           to
           perswade
           this
           Monarch
           against
           all
           the
           Rules
           of
           a
           Judicious
           Policy
           ,
           that
           he
           could
           not
           attain
           his
           great
           and
           vast
           Designs
           ,
           but
           by
           attempting
           at
           the
           same
           time
           (
           as
           the
           House
           of
           Austria
           had
           before
           
           done
           ,
           the
           ruine
           of
           the
           States
           and
           Protestant
           Religion
           in
           Holland
           ,
           and
           by
           taking
           contrived
           measures
           without
           the
           privity
           of
           His
           Majesty
           of
           Great
           Britain
           ,
           with
           many
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           to
           re-establish
           the
           Romish
           Religion
           in
           England
           ,
           and
           also
           to
           ruine
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           in
           Germany
           ,
           and
           all
           his
           own
           Dominions
           .
        
         
           And
           to
           speak
           the
           truth
           ,
           this
           last
           enterprize
           ,
           which
           by
           this
           principle
           hath
           been
           in
           a
           great
           part
           managed
           by
           the
           Emissaries
           of
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           ,
           hath
           been
           so
           subtly
           conducted
           ,
           that
           it
           may
           be
           said
           nothing
           hindred
           his
           Majesty
           the
           most
           Christian
           King
           for
           many
           days
           ,
           but
           that
           by
           the
           surprise
           of
           Amsterdam
           ,
           after
           that
           of
           Utrich
           and
           Naerden
           ,
           he
           might
           have
           made
           himself
           in
           less
           than
           four
           Months
           ,
           absolute
           Prince
           of
           the
           principal
           part
           of
           the
           Seventeen
           Provinces
           of
           the
           Low-Countries
           ,
           and
           thereby
           to
           have
           become
           in
           one
           Campania
           ,
           the
           absolute
           Arbiter
           of
           all
           Christendom
           both
           at
           Sea
           and
           Land
           :
           And
           those
           who
           more
           specially
           understand
           the
           errour
           of
           Estate
           ,
           which
           this
           Monarch
           hath
           made
           on
           this
           occasion
           ,
           may
           know
           somewhat
           of
           the
           true
           Reason
           of
           that
           great
           Traverse
           of
           State
           in
           particular
           ,
           which
           for
           my
           part
           I
           attribute
           to
           a
           formal
           Protection
           of
           the
           King
           of
           Kings
           ,
           who
           in
           his
           Supreme
           Councils
           had
           doubtless
           ordained
           otherwise
           ,
           of
           that
           affair
           ,
           and
           understand
           that
           if
           his
           Majesty
           after
           he
           had
           surprised
           Utrich
           and
           Naerden
           ,
           had
           sent
           only
           500
           Horse
           to
           Amsterdam
           ;
           it
           was
           probable
           that
           the
           Magistrate
           and
           Burgesses
           of
           that
           Town
           in
           the
           Consternation
           into
           which
           the
           Rapidity
           of
           his
           Conquests
           had
           put
           them
           ,
           would
           have
           delivered
           up
           the
           Keys
           and
           Gates
           thereof
           purely
           and
           simply
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Conquerour
           .
           Yea
           ,
           I
           am
           assured
           from
           good
           hands
           ,
           the
           major
           part
           had
           concluded
           to
           send
           him
           them
           without
           staying
           for
           Summons
           ,
           had
           not
           a
           Doctor
           of
           Physick
           in
           their
           Company
           threatned
           to
           call
           and
           mutiny
           the
           Common
           People
           against
           them
           ,
           and
           so
           compelled
           them
           to
           change
           their
           Resolves
           .
           Now
           they
           who
           know
           the
           Treasures
           and
           Sea-Forces
           of
           this
           single
           Town
           ,
           may
           thence
           deduce
           solid
           proofs
           of
           the
           consequences
           ,
           that
           would
           thereupon
           have
           followed
           .
        
         
           By
           this
           only
           blow
           ,
           and
           the
           manner
           after
           which
           the
           Ministers
           of
           France
           had
           begun
           thereupon
           to
           behave
           themselves
           in
           the
           States
           of
           the
           
             Palatinate
             ,
             Cleve
          
           ,
           the
           Marquisatte
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Protestant
           States
           in
           Europe
           ;
           all
           they
           who
           love
           their
           Faith
           and
           their
           Liberties
           may
           see
           the
           fatal
           point
           ,
           whereby
           they
           were
           about
           to
           be
           deprived
           of
           both
           ;
           for
           the
           most
           part
           ,
           and
           all
           this
           ,
           by
           the
           Ministry
           of
           the
           Emissaries
           of
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           by
           their
           own
           neglecting
           too
           much
           the
           solid
           means
           of
           their
           Conservation
           .
        
         
           
           Awake
           thou
           who
           slumberest
           ,
           that
           thou
           be
           not
           surprized
           with
           Sleep
           ,
           which
           will
           draw
           on
           thee
           Ruine
           and
           Desolation
           .
        
         
           Making
           a
           serious
           reflection
           on
           the
           active
           conduct
           of
           the
           Roman
           party
           ,
           for
           the
           extension
           and
           maintenance
           of
           their
           Faith
           ,
           and
           the
           soft
           effeminateness
           and
           indifferency
           wherewith
           the
           Protestant
           party
           are
           accustomed
           to
           act
           in
           the
           propagation
           and
           support
           of
           theirs
           ;
           I
           think
           I
           may
           say
           ,
           that
           the
           former
           may
           be
           justly
           compared
           to
           an
           Army
           not
           only
           numerous
           ,
           but
           very
           well
           disciplined
           ,
           provided
           of
           very
           good
           Leaders
           of
           excellent
           counsel
           ,
           who
           marching
           in
           the
           Field
           make
           their
           Scouts
           to
           advance
           carefully
           on
           their
           right
           and
           left
           ,
           to
           make
           all
           sorts
           of
           Discoveries
           ,
           who
           when
           encamped
           retrench
           themselves
           always
           very
           well
           ,
           who
           cause
           every
           night
           their
           Rounds
           and
           Guards
           to
           be
           made
           very
           regularly
           ,
           and
           who
           as
           persons
           accomplished
           in
           worldly
           wisdom
           know
           subtly
           to
           foment
           in
           their
           Enemies
           Camp
           perpetual
           Divisions
           amongst
           their
           Chieftains
           ,
           and
           cause
           an
           infinite
           number
           of
           crafty
           ,
           subtle
           and
           faithful
           Spies
           to
           slide
           in
           amongst
           them
           ,
           who
           render
           a
           most
           exact
           account
           of
           all
           their
           motions
           and
           condition
           .
        
         
           On
           the
           contrary
           ,
           I
           think
           that
           the
           Protestant
           party
           ,
           may
           be
           compared
           to
           an
           Army
           very
           numerous
           indeed
           ,
           and
           provided
           of
           excellent
           Commanders
           ,
           who
           want
           neither
           Experience
           nor
           Courage
           ,
           but
           who
           are
           by
           some
           unhappy
           Jealousies
           ,
           fomented
           for
           the
           greatest
           part
           by
           the
           Artifices
           of
           the
           contrary
           party
           ,
           divided
           amongst
           themselves
           ,
           and
           so
           reduced
           to
           that
           misery
           ,
           that
           this
           Army
           which
           is
           capable
           by
           the
           Excellency
           of
           its
           Captains
           ,
           and
           nature
           of
           its
           Forces
           to
           fall
           upon
           what
           part
           it
           could
           desire
           ,
           of
           the
           Enemies
           Army
           ,
           having
           abandoned
           all
           use
           of
           Retrenchment
           ,
           and
           of
           
             Corps
             de
             Guard
          
           to
           secure
           its
           safety
           ,
           and
           also
           neglected
           all
           the
           means
           whereby
           it
           might
           be
           informed
           of
           the
           motions
           of
           the
           Enemies
           Camp
           ;
           so
           great
           disorder
           is
           thereupon
           ensued
           ,
           that
           the
           Army
           of
           the
           Enemy
           doth
           often
           ,
           to
           their
           shame
           ,
           beat
           up
           their
           Quarters
           ,
           and
           make
           them
           actually
           fall
           into
           confusions
           ,
           unworthy
           the
           honour
           and
           courage
           of
           the
           Heroick
           Commanders
           ,
           which
           the
           providence
           of
           God
           hath
           established
           in
           the
           Head
           of
           their
           Army
           .
        
         
           
             Every
             Kingdom
             divided
             against
             it self
             ,
             comes
             to
             destruction
             ,
          
           saith
           the
           Saviour
           of
           our
           Souls
           :
           In
           truth
           this
           is
           a
           Lesson
           of
           which
           all
           the
           Protestant
           States
           ought
           very
           carefully
           to
           make
           their
           advantage
           ,
           and
           on
           the
           account
           of
           their
           Glory
           ,
           their
           Faith
           ,
           and
           their
           Interest
           think
           a
           little
           more
           seriously
           then
           hitherto
           they
           have
           done
           ,
           for
           the
           
           last
           half
           Age
           ,
           of
           the
           means
           to
           procure
           their
           Union
           as
           the
           fundamental
           point
           of
           their
           preservation
           .
        
         
           The
           providence
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           is
           miraculous
           in
           all
           the
           cares
           it
           taketh
           for
           the
           conservation
           of
           his
           Children
           ,
           hath
           established
           a
           natural
           opposition
           betwixt
           the
           two
           principal
           Puissances
           of
           Christendom
           ,
           which
           same
           are
           the
           two
           principal
           Balwark●
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           in
           this
           part
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           〈◊〉
           〈◊〉
           so
           great
           are
           the
           depths
           of
           Satan
           ,
           that
           this
           crafty
           and
           sub●●●
           spirit
           knows
           to
           suggest
           never
           failing
           means
           to
           this
           Roman
           Court
           to
           make
           this
           Division
           (
           which
           were
           capable
           to
           bring
           about
           us
           entire
           ruine
           ,
           if
           the
           Protestant
           States
           knew
           how
           to
           use
           their
           advantages
           )
           turn
           to
           its
           profit
           ;
           so
           that
           whatsoever
           opposition
           or
           disunion
           hath
           hitherto
           happened
           ,
           betwixt
           these
           two
           States
           ,
           Rome
           knows
           the
           secret
           thereof
           effectually
           to
           make
           an
           advantage
           as
           it
           designs
           .
        
         
           For
           in
           the
           first
           place
           is
           it
           not
           by
           the
           effect
           of
           this
           opposition
           ,
           that
           Rome
           ,
           as
           the
           great
           Rohan
           observes
           ,
           doth
           preserve
           its
           temporal
           Authority
           entire
           in
           a
           great
           part
           of
           Italy
           ,
           which
           would
           be
           in
           a
           pitiful
           〈…〉
           of
           these
           Monarchs
           after
           he
           had
           defeated
           his
           Concurrent
           ,
           had
           free
           Elbow-Room
           in
           that
           pleasant
           part
           of
           Europe
           ?
        
         
           In
           the
           second
           place
           ,
           during
           the
           sitting
           of
           the
           Council
           of
           Trent
           ,
           the
           Cardinal
           of
           Lorrain
           being
           the
           chief
           mouth
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           so
           qualified
           became
           the
           head
           of
           that
           party
           of
           the
           Fathers
           ,
           who
           in
           this
           Council
           insisted
           on
           a
           real
           and
           actual
           Reformation
           to
           be
           made
           in
           the
           Church
           ;
           Rome
           was
           too
           clear
           sighted
           not
           to
           perceive
           that
           this
           single
           Proposition
           carries
           in
           it
           the
           means
           to
           undermine
           at
           one
           blow
           all
           the
           Foundations
           of
           its
           Monarchick
           Designs
           ,
           as
           manifestly
           did
           appear
           in
           that
           troublesome
           conjuncture
           ;
           for
           at
           that
           time
           more
           than
           half
           Christendom
           had
           shoke
           off
           the
           yoke
           of
           its
           tyranny
           ,
           and
           had
           openly
           embraced
           the
           Reformation
           with
           little
           difference
           in
           the
           less
           or
           more
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           half
           extremely
           disposed
           to
           receive
           it
           ;
           nevertheless
           in
           this
           extremity
           ,
           Rome
           know
           to
           mannage
           her
           Interest
           with
           so
           great
           dexterity
           by
           means
           of
           the
           jealousie
           which
           raged
           betwixt
           these
           two
           Houses
           ,
           that
           having
           promised
           Philip
           the
           Second
           ,
           the
           Destruction
           or
           Conquest
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Cardinal
           of
           Lorrain
           to
           make
           the
           Crown
           of
           France
           fall
           into
           their
           House
           ,
           the
           League
           which
           should
           have
           destroyed
           France
           being
           signed
           thereupon
           ,
           by
           this
           diabolical
           expedient
           ,
           Rome
           made
           not
           only
           all
           the
           Pretensions
           of
           the
           Council
           illusory
           ,
           which
           it
           disposed
           of
           afterwards
           how
           it
           pleased
           ;
           but
           by
           the
           opposition
           it
           raised
           by
           Philip
           the
           Second
           ,
           and
           the
           House
           of
           Lorrain
           to
           Henry
           
           the
           Third
           ,
           and
           Henry
           the
           Fourth
           ;
           Rome
           brought
           the
           business
           so
           about
           that
           it
           was
           impossible
           for
           the
           later
           to
           Reign
           in
           France
           without
           embracing
           its
           Communion
           ,
           and
           by
           that
           means
           Rome
           continues
           there
           triumphant
           unto
           this
           day
           ,
           and
           the
           Protestants
           have
           been
           and
           are
           still
           most
           severely
           dealt
           with
           .
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           an
           effect
           of
           the
           Jealousie
           that
           reigns
           betwixt
           these
           two
           Houses
           ,
           that
           Rome
           hath
           had
           opportunity
           to
           inspire
           them
           so
           strongly
           to
           contend
           mutually
           in
           making
           out
           whether
           of
           them
           were
           more
           zealous
           of
           the
           Worship
           of
           the
           Roman
           Faith
           ;
           so
           that
           contrary
           to
           all
           the
           most
           essential
           Rights
           of
           their
           States
           and
           Crowns
           ,
           the
           former
           to
           preserve
           himself
           in
           the
           quality
           of
           the
           Catholick
           King
           ,
           hath
           suffered
           the
           new
           Emissaries
           of
           the
           Papacy
           in
           less
           than
           one
           Age
           to
           invade
           many
           very
           good
           Inheritances
           ;
           so
           that
           the
           Church
           at
           this
           day
           enjoys
           near
           a
           third
           part
           of
           the
           Temporal
           Estate
           through
           the
           whole
           extent
           of
           that
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           to
           maintain
           the
           Quality
           of
           the
           most
           Christian
           King
           ,
           though
           he
           hath
           seen
           two
           of
           his
           most
           Illustrious
           Predecessors
           assissinated
           by
           their
           Parricides
           or
           Ministers
           in
           a
           very
           short
           time
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           his
           Kingdom
           are
           repugnant
           to
           such
           Establishments
           ;
           yet
           nevertheless
           hath
           and
           doth
           still
           every
           day
           tollerate
           the
           same
           ,
           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
           of
           all
           the
           Ministers
           of
           State
           to
           the
           most
           Crowned
           Heads
           of
           their
           Communion
           ;
           for
           as
           they
           are
           commonly
           men
           of
           mean
           Birth
           ,
           so
           ,
           If
           they
           were
           of
           the
           most
           Illustrious
           ,
           a
           Cardinal's
           Cap
           by
           the
           corruption
           of
           blindness
           of
           these
           last
           Ages
           ,
           is
           so
           
           great
           a
           glory
           to
           a
           Family
           ,
           that
           there
           are
           very
           few
           who
           to
           procure
           this
           vanity
           to
           their
           House
           in
           causing
           it
           to
           be
           conferred
           on
           a
           Son
           ,
           Brother
           ,
           or
           Nephew
           ,
           would
           not
           submit
           and
           render
           themselves
           slaves
           to
           this
           Court
           as
           much
           as
           the
           most
           passionate
           of
           all
           their
           Monks
           ,
           and
           as
           those
           Ministers
           are
           for
           the
           most
           part
           persons
           corrupted
           with
           the
           Affairs
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           who
           know
           perfectly
           the
           weaknesses
           of
           their
           Princes
           ;
           it
           is
           no
           wonder
           if
           they
           know
           and
           will
           take
           exactly
           the
           favourable
           moments
           to
           perswade
           them
           what
           they
           please
           ,
           so
           that
           Rome
           hath
           infallibly
           all
           the
           satisfaction
           it
           desires
           by
           the
           Counterpoise
           of
           the
           Principles
           of
           these
           Interests
           to
           cast
           all
           the
           Princes
           of
           its
           Communion
           when
           it
           pleases
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           by
           these
           Maxims
           which
           cannot
           rise
           but
           from
           the
           bottomless
           pit
           ,
           that
           we
           see
           the
           Protestants
           so
           cruelly
           persecuted
           in
           many
           places
           of
           Christendom
           ,
           as
           in
           
             France
             ,
             Hungary
          
           and
           Savoy
           ;
           and
           hence
           it
           was
           that
           our
           Grandfathers
           saw
           or
           suffered
           in
           the
           execrable
           day
           of
           Saint
           Bartholomew
           in
           France
           ,
           with
           the
           Massacre
           ;
           that
           have
           been
           made
           in
           
             Bohemia
             ,
             Hungary
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Low
           Countries
           ,
           Ireland
           the
           Valley
           of
           Piedmond
           ,
           the
           Valtoline
           ,
           without
           setting
           in
           the
           Particulars
           of
           this
           reckoning
           what
           the
           Ancient
           
             Hussites
             ,
             Vandois
          
           and
           Albingois
           have
           suffered
           in
           their
           times
           on
           the
           same
           accompt
           in
           divers
           Places
           in
           Europe
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           will
           infallibly
           come
           to
           pass
           ,
           that
           unless
           the
           Protestant
           States
           ,
           with
           regard
           of
           what
           I
           give
           them
           to
           know
           ,
           do
           restifie
           their
           conduct
           at
           the
           moment
           they
           least
           suspect
           ,
           and
           when
           they
           have
           consumed
           their
           principal
           Forces
           by
           their
           Wars
           and
           Divisions
           amongst
           themselves
           ,
           or
           perhaps
           by
           maintaining
           the
           Interests
           of
           some
           power
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           ,
           and
           when
           they
           confide
           in
           the
           Faith
           of
           some
           Treaties
           ;
           this
           Roman
           Dame
           (
           by
           her
           Managers
           reuniting
           all
           the
           Forces
           of
           her
           Communion
           )
           will
           feed
           them
           with
           a
           dish
           of
           her
           cooking
           ,
           to
           their
           total
           destruction
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           principal
           Butt
           of
           all
           her
           Applications
           and
           all
           her
           Labours
           ,
           the
           Sallies
           and
           Retreats
           of
           all
           her
           Guards
           ,
           which
           she
           sends
           out
           into
           all
           Parts
           ,
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           all
           this
           while
           till
           a
           blow
           come
           ,
           the
           whole
           Protestant
           Camp
           sleep
           all
           in
           perfect
           rest
           ,
           or
           at
           most
           ,
           they
           are
           but
           half
           awake
           ,
           or
           perhaps
           busie
           themselves
           to
           cooperate
           by
           the
           destruction
           of
           its
           own
           Members
           unto
           its
           own
           ruine
           ,
           as
           they
           of
           the
           Republick
           of
           the
           United
           Provinces
           in
           the
           conjuncture
           of
           the
           Siege
           of
           Rochelle
           ,
           and
           England
           in
           the
           last
           place
           against
           that
           Republick
           ,
           have
           furnished
           us
           with
           two
           capital
           and
           lamentable
           Examples
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           England
           and
           Holland
           on
           the
           foresaid
           occasions
           have
           provided
           us
           of
           unhappy
           proofs
           of
           what
           I
           above
           propounded
           ,
           what
           hath
           the
           Swede
           done
           in
           an
           almost
           equal
           case
           ?
           for
           what
           had
           the
           Swede
           more
           to
           desire
           than
           to
           preserve
           peaceably
           the
           glorious
           Conquests
           which
           the
           Great
           Gustavus
           had
           made
           in
           Germany
           ,
           and
           
             Chartos
             Gustavus
          
           had
           made
           
           in
           Poland
           and
           Denmark
           but
           to
           see
           himself
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           by
           his
           confederation
           with
           England
           and
           Holland
           ,
           to
           be
           one
           of
           the
           Principal
           ,
           who
           was
           in
           a
           condition
           to
           regulate
           the
           Bounds
           and
           Frontiers
           of
           all
           the
           Powers
           of
           Christendom
           .
           All
           which
           advantages
           this
           Crown
           had
           naturally
           preserved
           to
           it self
           ,
           if
           acting
           as
           a
           true
           Member
           of
           the
           Empire
           ,
           it
           had
           put
           it self
           in
           a
           posture
           ,
           as
           their
           Electoral
           Highnesses
           of
           
             Brandenburg
             ,
             Saxony
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Palatinate
           ,
           to
           oppose
           it self
           with
           the
           Head
           and
           other
           Members
           against
           the
           Enemy
           ,
           who
           did
           invade
           it
           with
           all
           his
           force
           ;
           it
           being
           certain
           ,
           that
           by
           one
           advance
           of
           this
           nature
           ,
           the
           Swede
           had
           infallibly
           brought
           about
           three
           things
           which
           had
           been
           very
           profitable
           and
           glorious
           for
           him
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           He
           had
           taken
           away
           all
           lawful
           pretence
           from
           the
           Emperor
           and
           Empire
           ,
           whereon
           they
           could
           assail
           his
           Estate
           in
           Germany
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           He
           had
           raised
           no
           occasion
           to
           the
           King
           of
           Denmark
           to
           put
           him
           in
           condition
           to
           recover
           his
           Estates
           ,
           which
           the
           Swede
           had
           possessed
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           his
           late
           Majesty
           of
           Denmark
           his
           Father
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           If
           France
           had
           not
           flattered
           himself
           into
           a
           perswasion
           ,
           or
           rather
           had
           not
           been
           assured
           by
           his
           managery
           and
           tampering
           with
           some
           corrupt
           Ministers
           of
           that
           Crown
           ,
           that
           the
           Swede
           was
           engaged
           in
           his
           Interests
           ,
           he
           durst
           never
           have
           attempted
           what
           he
           enterprized
           upon
           the
           Empire
           ;
           and
           thereby
           this
           War
           ,
           whereof
           God
           knows
           when
           we
           shall
           see
           an
           end
           ,
           had
           probably
           been
           immediately
           concluded
           after
           his
           Irruption
           into
           Holland
           was
           defeated
           ;
           which
           would
           have
           given
           an
           infallible
           means
           to
           the
           Swede
           and
           England
           ,
           to
           reassume
           their
           true
           Interest
           ,
           to
           renew
           much
           more
           strongly
           than
           ever
           the
           Tripple
           League
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           become
           again
           the
           Pillars
           of
           Peace
           in
           Europe
           ,
           from
           which
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           are
           very
           far
           removed
           ,
           if
           God
           provide
           not
           a
           remedy
           ;
           the
           Swede
           for
           his
           part
           seeing
           himself
           in
           this
           unhappy
           condition
           about
           to
           loose
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           ,
           in
           a
           very
           little
           time
           ,
           (
           by
           suffering
           himself
           to
           be
           seized
           by
           the
           Current
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           carried
           away
           to
           the
           management
           of
           the
           Papal
           Emissaries
           )
           all
           the
           Conquests
           which
           the
           great
           Gustavus
           had
           gloriously
           made
           ,
           for
           having
           opposed
           with
           all
           its
           Forces
           the
           Establishment
           of
           its
           Tyranny
           .
        
         
           Let
           it
           not
           displease
           the
           Swedish
           Ministers
           of
           State
           ,
           that
           were
           of
           the
           opinion
           to
           declare
           themselves
           against
           the
           Empire
           ,
           to
           understand
           that
           there
           was
           a
           very
           great
           difference
           of
           the
           time
           of
           great
           Gustavus
           from
           this
           .
           That
           Heroick
           Monarch
           leagued
           himself
           with
           France
           for
           the
           advancement
           of
           his
           Progress
           in
           Germany
           ,
           because
           he
           entered
           into
           it
           in
           the
           quality
           of
           a
           Restorer
           of
           the
           Protestant
           and
           German
           Liberty
           ,
           and
           when
           France
           at
           the
           same
           time
           declared
           for
           sustaining
           the
           same
           Liberty
           .
        
         
           But
           in
           this
           juncture
           the
           Swede
           himself
           was
           an
           Essential
           Member
           of
           the
           Empire
           ;
           and
           whereas
           France
           formerly
           imployed
           his
           Arms
           to
           sustain
           
           that
           Liberty
           he
           in
           this
           juncture
           imploys
           them
           to
           oppress
           the
           same
           .
           It
           is
           hence
           evident
           ,
           that
           the
           Swede
           joyning
           himself
           unto
           his
           own
           true
           Interest
           ,
           ought
           in
           common
           ,
           with
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Empire
           ,
           Head
           and
           Members
           ,
           to
           have
           opposed
           all
           his
           Forces
           against
           this
           Puissance
           ;
           and
           so
           much
           the
           more
           ,
           because
           he
           might
           see
           by
           what
           France
           had
           endeavoured
           to
           execute
           against
           Holland
           ,
           and
           their
           Electoral
           Highnesses
           of
           the
           Palatinate
           of
           the
           Rhine
           and
           Brandenburg
           ,
           what
           he
           was
           himself
           to
           expect
           of
           France
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           prospered
           in
           their
           first
           Invasion
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           his
           vast
           Designes
           against
           the
           Empire
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           the
           Swede
           ,
           to
           secure
           all
           in
           case
           that
           France
           ,
           by
           the
           sequel
           of
           the
           War
           ,
           had
           lost
           its
           Establishments
           in
           Alsatia
           (
           which
           is
           the
           point
           that
           seemed
           to
           have
           produced
           this
           Declaration
           against
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           of
           Brandenburg
           )
           had
           desired
           any
           president
           and
           particular
           Stipulation
           of
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           and
           his
           Allies
           ,
           it
           is
           very
           probable
           that
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           War
           ,
           when
           all
           sorts
           of
           Events
           were
           dubious
           ,
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           and
           his
           Allies
           ,
           would
           have
           given
           that
           Crown
           all
           the
           satisfactions
           and
           securities
           which
           it
           could
           reasonably
           desire
           in
           that
           point
           :
           and
           that
           which
           may
           justifie
           this
           against
           all
           Objections
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           very
           remarkable
           and
           manifest
           ,
           that
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           and
           his
           Allies
           ,
           did
           not
           ,
           till
           the
           very
           last
           Extremity
           ,
           take
           those
           strong
           Resolutions
           of
           opposing
           his
           Enterprise
           :
           So
           that
           it
           is
           certain
           ,
           that
           if
           the
           Swede
           ,
           by
           his
           Invasion
           of
           the
           Estates
           of
           Brandenburg
           ,
           had
           not
           drawn
           on
           him
           the
           Storm
           which
           at
           present
           overwhelms
           him
           ,
           he
           had
           till
           now
           ,
           according
           to
           all
           appearances
           ,
           been
           in
           the
           peaceable
           possession
           of
           all
           his
           Estates
           and
           Establishments
           through
           the
           whole
           Extent
           of
           the
           Empire
           .
        
         
           But
           whatever
           have
           been
           the
           Counter-marches
           of
           Holland
           ,
           and
           England
           ,
           and
           Sweden
           ,
           on
           the
           said
           occasions
           ,
           it
           being
           impossible
           to
           hinder
           what
           is
           already
           done
           ,
           I
           believe
           it
           becomes
           the
           generosity
           and
           prudence
           of
           Protestant
           Princes
           ,
           to
           strip
           themselves
           from
           all
           prejudices
           which
           might
           divide
           them
           ,
           and
           apply
           themselves
           seriously
           to
           all
           the
           means
           that
           may
           unite
           them
           ,
           as
           the
           fundamental
           point
           of
           their
           preservation
           ;
           and
           which
           may
           render
           vain
           all
           the
           deceits
           their
           common
           enemies
           can
           project
           or
           take
           in
           hand
           for
           their
           destruction
           :
           and
           so
           much
           the
           more
           ,
           because
           they
           ought
           formally
           to
           conclude
           it
           for
           a
           positive
           Truth
           ,
           that
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           principle
           of
           its
           Interest
           ,
           neglects
           nothing
           that
           may
           procure
           their
           destruction
           ,
           directs
           indifferently
           in
           certain
           Cases
           ,
           the
           State-Councils
           of
           the
           Monarchies
           of
           its
           Communion
           ,
           though
           otherwise
           cruelly
           divided
           by
           their
           particular
           Interests
           ,
           or
           will
           find
           an
           infallible
           secret
           to
           delude
           their
           deliberations
           ,
           when
           they
           find
           them
           contrary
           to
           their
           Interests
           and
           Intentions
           .
        
         
           And
           to
           prove
           this
           truth
           in
           an
           uncontroulable
           manner
           ,
           I
           will
           make
           it
           good
           ,
           without
           departing
           from
           this
           Age
           ,
           by
           four
           positive
           and
           cogent
           Examples
           upon
           this
           Subject
           .
        
         
         
           
             Example
             1.
             
          
           France
           neglects
           nothing
           in
           the
           conjuncture
           of
           the
           last
           Troubles
           of
           Bohemia
           ,
           to
           perswade
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           the
           Elector
           Palatine
           of
           the
           Rhine
           ,
           to
           attempt
           the
           Conquest
           of
           that
           Realm
           ,
           ingaging
           himself
           for
           that
           purpose
           ,
           to
           furnish
           him
           with
           all
           sorts
           of
           real
           Assistances
           and
           Succours
           ,
           which
           in
           that
           Conjuncture
           ,
           by
           all
           sorts
           of
           Circmstances
           ,
           appeared
           to
           be
           the
           true
           Interest
           of
           France
           ,
           without
           all
           contradiction
           ;
           notwithstanding
           ,
           when
           the
           Prince
           was
           ingaged
           in
           the
           Affair
           ,
           because
           the
           matter
           of
           Religion
           was
           concerned
           therein
           ,
           Rome
           knew
           so
           well
           to
           manage
           the
           Councils
           of
           France
           ,
           by
           the
           means
           of
           Spanish
           Pistols
           ,
           that
           France
           did
           not
           only
           fail
           of
           all
           those
           points
           in
           this
           matter
           ,
           but
           by
           an
           imparallel'd
           treachery
           ,
           (
           the
           Palatine
           House
           being
           oppressed
           in
           the
           consequences
           through
           the
           evil
           Suits
           of
           that
           War
           )
           made
           a
           private
           League
           with
           the
           House
           of
           Bavaria
           ,
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           ,
           who
           had
           invaded
           the
           state
           of
           the
           former
           ,
           and
           in
           consequence
           thereof
           ,
           France
           was
           the
           capital
           and
           principle
           cause
           ,
           which
           hindred
           that
           his
           Serene
           Highness
           ,
           the
           Elector
           Palatine
           of
           the
           Rhine
           ,
           hath
           not
           been
           fully
           re-established
           in
           all
           the
           Estates
           and
           Dignities
           of
           his
           House
           .
        
         
           
             Example
             2.
             
          
           A
           fatal
           experience
           ,
           as
           I
           have
           else-where
           observed
           ,
           hath
           been
           but
           too
           apparent
           in
           the
           most
           Illustrious
           House
           of
           Austria
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           surrender
           of
           Rochel
           ,
           hath
           felt
           that
           fatal
           point
           which
           hath
           broken
           all
           its
           Forces
           ,
           when
           in
           its
           greatest
           state
           of
           glory
           ,
           and
           reduced
           it
           to
           such
           an
           abasement
           ,
           as
           was
           capable
           to
           have
           drawn
           on
           it
           a
           total
           destruction
           ,
           if
           two
           thirds
           of
           Europe
           had
           not
           generously
           confederated
           with
           all
           their
           Forces
           ,
           in
           this
           last
           conjuncture
           to
           sustain
           it
           .
           The
           great
           Spinola
           who
           past
           by
           Rochel
           in
           the
           time
           of
           the
           Siege
           ,
           fore-seeing
           the
           Surrender
           of
           this
           place
           ,
           [
           by
           the
           means
           he
           foolishly
           suggested
           of
           shutting
           them
           out
           from
           the
           Sea
           ]
           if
           it
           were
           not
           readily
           relieved
           ,
           and
           therewith
           the
           losses
           that
           thereupon
           would
           follow
           to
           the
           prejudice
           of
           this
           House
           ,
           insisted
           like
           a
           man
           of
           worth
           ,
           at
           the
           Council-Table
           at
           Madrid
           ,
           pressed
           it
           with
           all
           his
           Judgment
           and
           Experience
           ,
           to
           cause
           that
           place
           to
           be
           relieved
           ;
           his
           Reasons
           were
           strong
           ,
           and
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           the
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Council
           were
           convinced
           ;
           nevertheless
           ,
           because
           the
           Affairs
           of
           Religion
           were
           concerned
           ,
           or
           rather
           a
           point
           of
           the
           Roman
           Mummery
           and
           Bigottery
           ,
           one
           single
           word
           of
           the
           Pope's
           Nuntio
           overbore
           all
           ,
           and
           caused
           Rochel
           to
           be
           abandoned
           on
           that
           accompt
           ,
           and
           with
           it
           the
           most
           essential
           Interests
           of
           this
           Imperial
           House
           ,
           were
           sacrificed
           at
           the
           only
           appearance
           of
           a
           Papal
           Emissary
           .
        
         
           
             Example
             3.
             
          
           The
           three
           United
           Grisons
           were
           oppressed
           by
           the
           House
           of
           Austria
           ,
           this
           Common-wealth
           put
           themselves
           under
           the
           Protection
           of
           France
           ,
           who
           for
           some
           time
           ,
           by
           the
           help
           it
           sent
           by
           the
           Marquess
           of
           Coevres
           ,
           
           and
           the
           Duke
           of
           Rohan
           acted
           with
           vigour
           enough
           for
           their
           Protection
           ,
           so
           much
           the
           more
           ,
           for
           that
           the
           latter
           in
           a
           few
           Months
           did
           such
           things
           in
           the
           Valley
           of
           Valtolline
           ,
           as
           surpassed
           all
           imagination
           ,
           and
           have
           immortalized
           his
           memory
           .
           But
           because
           Rome
           by
           a
           principle
           of
           its
           Interest
           made
           it self
           a
           party
           to
           the
           Event
           of
           this
           War
           ,
           as
           gave
           in
           this
           conjuncture
           most
           real
           proofs
           of
           its
           Authority
           in
           these
           Courts
           ;
           France
           made
           its
           Treaty
           so
           with
           the
           House
           of
           Austria
           ,
           without
           concerning
           the
           Grisons
           therein
           ,
           for
           excluding
           the
           exercise
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           from
           the
           Valleys
           of
           Borneo
           ,
           the
           Valtoline
           ,
           and
           County
           of
           Chavanes
           ,
           that
           these
           two
           Powers
           were
           reconciled
           upon
           this
           point
           in
           effect
           to
           force
           that
           Republick
           to
           pass
           it
           by
           Articles
           before
           provided
           by
           the
           Pope's
           Nuntio
           ;
           which
           caused
           the
           Grisons
           ,
           seeing
           themselves
           betrayed
           by
           the
           French
           ,
           through
           timerousness
           ,
           corruption
           ,
           or
           otherwise
           ,
           to
           make
           a
           second
           Treaty
           with
           the
           House
           of
           Austria
           with
           very
           burdensome
           Clauses
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           concern
           of
           these
           Exercises
           ,
           whereof
           I
           shall
           speak
           hereafter
           in
           the
           Sequel
           of
           this
           Discourse
           .
        
         
           
             Example
             4.
             
          
           In
           the
           Year
           1672
           ,
           when
           the
           Arms
           of
           France
           were
           in
           so
           high
           a
           point
           of
           prosperity
           ,
           that
           all
           Europe
           looked
           on
           the
           Republick
           of
           the
           United
           Provinces
           as
           an
           Estate
           almost
           undone
           ;
           his
           most
           Serene
           Electoral
           Highness
           ,
           the
           Duke
           of
           Brandenburg
           ,
           who
           judged
           profoundly
           of
           all
           consequences
           which
           were
           to
           be
           expected
           from
           the
           ambitious
           Enterprizes
           of
           France
           ,
           if
           no
           opposition
           were
           made
           to
           the
           Current
           of
           these
           prosperities
           ,
           acquired
           to
           himself
           both
           the
           glory
           of
           being
           the
           first
           Prince
           of
           Christendome
           who
           generously
           drew
           his
           Sword
           for
           the
           protection
           of
           this
           distressed
           State
           ,
           and
           did
           also
           by
           his
           most
           vigorous
           Representations
           at
           the
           Court
           of
           Vienna
           ,
           cause
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           (
           rising
           out
           of
           his
           unhappy
           Lethargy
           ,
           whereinto
           some
           corrupted
           Counsellors
           had
           plunged
           him
           )
           to
           resolve
           to
           arm
           vigorously
           ,
           and
           League
           with
           his
           said
           Electoral
           Highness
           ,
           for
           the
           maintainance
           and
           protection
           of
           this
           Republick
           .
           In
           consequence
           of
           this
           determination
           ,
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           being
           advanced
           to
           the
           Bank
           of
           the
           Rhine
           with
           a
           considerable
           Army
           ,
           the
           Count
           Montecuculi
           commanding
           an
           Imperial
           Army
           ,
           marched
           therewith
           to
           that
           end
           ,
           and
           were
           in
           prospect
           of
           doing
           together
           some
           considerable
           thing
           in
           favour
           of
           that
           Common-wealth
           .
           France
           allarmed
           with
           the
           march
           of
           these
           two
           German
           Armies
           ,
           sent
           away
           Marshal
           Turenne
           with
           a
           Body
           of
           an
           Army
           ,
           who
           might
           observe
           the
           motions
           of
           these
           two
           ;
           but
           by
           the
           divers
           Marches
           and
           Counter-marches
           which
           these
           two
           Armies
           made
           ,
           and
           specially
           that
           of
           Brandenburg
           ,
           sometimes
           making
           as
           if
           he
           would
           pass
           the
           Rhine
           in
           many
           places
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           as
           if
           he
           would
           fall
           on
           the
           Allies
           of
           France
           on
           the
           other
           side
           the
           Rhine
           ;
           the
           Army
           of
           Turenne
           was
           so
           beaten
           out
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           end
           of
           the
           Campania
           it
           was
           in
           a
           manner
           
           wholly
           dissipated
           ,
           and
           was
           indeed
           in
           so
           pitious
           an
           Estate
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           certain
           ,
           that
           all
           what
           Turenne
           could
           have
           done
           in
           that
           conjuncture
           ,
           was
           onely
           to
           bring
           himself
           into
           a
           condition
           to
           defend
           himself
           against
           one
           of
           these
           Armies
           ;
           but
           if
           their
           conjunction
           had
           really
           followed
           upon
           a
           publick
           confidence
           and
           appointment
           ,
           
           Turenne's
           destruction
           had
           been
           notoriously
           inevitable
           :
           and
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           of
           Brandenburg
           ,
           who
           knew
           how
           easie
           it
           was
           to
           destroy
           Turenne
           ,
           and
           the
           consequences
           which
           might
           ensue
           ,
           made
           all
           these
           things
           to
           be
           vigorously
           represented
           at
           the
           Court
           and
           Council
           of
           Vienna
           ;
           this
           Representation
           took
           effect
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           positive
           Orders
           were
           expedited
           and
           sent
           to
           Montecuculli
           to
           joyn
           with
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           ,
           and
           in
           conjunction
           without
           delay
           to
           fight
           Turenne
           ;
           which
           by
           that
           single
           success
           would
           have
           dissolved
           all
           the
           secret
           and
           manifest
           contrivances
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           by
           this
           blow
           alone
           have
           withdrawn
           the
           whole
           Empire
           and
           Holland
           from
           oppression
           .
           But
           for
           the
           interest
           of
           the
           Roman
           Court
           the
           matter
           was
           carried
           quite
           otherwise
           ;
           His
           Majesty
           of
           Great
           Britain
           suffered
           himself
           to
           be
           perswaded
           in
           this
           Juncture
           to
           consent
           ,
           by
           an
           express
           Declaration
           which
           he
           reported
           himself
           to
           his
           Parliament
           ,
           to
           give
           liberty
           of
           the
           Exercise
           of
           Religion
           in
           favour
           of
           the
           
           Non-conformists
           of
           his
           Realms
           ;
           which
           was
           not
           done
           so
           much
           ,
           as
           we
           may
           easily
           conceive
           ,
           to
           favour
           the
           Conventicles
           of
           some
           particular
           Puritans
           or
           Anabaptists
           ,
           as
           under
           this
           name
           to
           indulge
           somewhat
           with
           the
           Roman
           Catholicks
           .
           Now
           as
           this
           Counter-march
           of
           England
           was
           one
           of
           the
           First-fruits
           which
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           had
           promised
           it self
           from
           the
           ruine
           and
           destruction
           of
           the
           United
           Provinces
           ,
           we
           must
           not
           be
           surprised
           ,
           if
           that
           Court
           have
           ,
           and
           then
           did
           actually
           move
           every
           stone
           to
           make
           this
           destruction
           solidly
           real
           :
           but
           as
           that
           which
           capitally
           opposed
           this
           design
           ,
           consisted
           in
           the
           success
           of
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           of
           
           Brandenburg's
           Success
           in
           his
           undertakings
           against
           Turenne
           ,
           (
           the
           destruction
           of
           that
           Army
           being
           sufficient
           to
           re-establish
           the
           Republick
           of
           the
           United
           Provinces
           ,
           and
           its
           re-establishment
           to
           overturn
           all
           the
           Progresses
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           in
           England
           )
           it
           was
           here
           that
           the
           Jesuite
           took
           up
           his
           Rest
           to
           break
           off
           that
           blow
           ,
           in
           which
           he
           succeeded
           too
           well
           ,
           against
           the
           Universal
           Interest
           of
           all
           Europe
           ;
           for
           Montecuculi
           ,
           instead
           of
           receiving
           an
           Order
           to
           joyn
           with
           the
           Army
           of
           Brandenburg
           ,
           and
           to
           fight
           Turenne
           ,
           received
           one
           quite
           contrary
           ,
           which
           formally
           forbad
           him
           both
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           ;
           and
           as
           nothing
           is
           comparable
           to
           the
           Impudence
           of
           these
           venerable
           Fathers
           for
           pushing
           forward
           this
           affair
           to
           their
           end
           ,
           their
           first
           endeavours
           were
           by
           different
           attempts
           to
           make
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           of
           Brandenburg
           to
           suspect
           the
           sincere
           Intentions
           of
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           ;
           which
           was
           so
           much
           the
           more
           easie
           for
           them
           to
           do
           ,
           because
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           of
           Brandenburg
           had
           received
           formal
           Letters
           from
           the
           Court
           at
           Vienna
           ,
           which
           
           related
           unto
           him
           precisely
           the
           very
           Order
           which
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           had
           sent
           to
           Montecuculi
           to
           joyn
           and
           fight
           ;
           and
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           having
           thereupon
           summoned
           Montecuculi
           to
           execute
           the
           Order
           ,
           Montecuculi
           ,
           who
           knew
           he
           had
           received
           an
           Order
           quite
           contrary
           ,
           and
           had
           no
           knowledge
           of
           the
           former
           ,
           could
           do
           no
           less
           than
           refuse
           both
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           of
           his
           Electoral
           Highness's
           Proposition
           ;
           nor
           could
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           otherwise
           than
           doubt
           of
           his
           Imperial
           Majestie
           's
           sincere
           Intentions
           upon
           this
           refusal
           :
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           that
           they
           practised
           to
           inject
           these
           Suspitions
           into
           the
           mind
           of
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           ,
           the
           same
           Emissaries
           neglected
           nothing
           that
           might
           bring
           Montecuculi
           to
           suspect
           the
           sincere
           Intentions
           of
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           ;
           which
           Suspitions
           were
           but
           too
           much
           impressed
           upon
           him
           for
           his
           part
           :
           so
           that
           it
           was
           not
           to
           be
           wondred
           at
           ,
           if
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           did
           at
           last
           suffer
           himself
           to
           be
           perswaded
           ,
           as
           these
           Emissaries
           had
           insinuated
           by
           a
           third
           hand
           ,
           that
           the
           House
           of
           Austria
           did
           privately
           carry
           on
           a
           particular
           Treaty
           with
           that
           of
           France
           ;
           which
           seemed
           so
           much
           the
           more
           likely
           ,
           because
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           saw
           daily
           the
           miserable
           condition
           of
           
           Turenne's
           Army
           to
           increase
           ,
           and
           yet
           Montecuculi
           to
           continue
           in
           his
           obstinate
           refusal
           to
           fight
           it
           .
           But
           as
           all
           this
           was
           nothing
           but
           mis-understanding
           ,
           so
           yet
           notwithstanding
           these
           Emissaries
           had
           the
           means
           to
           imploy
           his
           Serene
           Highness
           the
           Duke
           of
           Newburg
           to
           busie
           himself
           mightily
           to
           manage
           a
           particular
           Peace
           for
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           with
           France
           ;
           which
           this
           Prince
           in
           suspition
           and
           despight
           of
           the
           Imperial
           Conduct
           ,
           suffered
           himself
           to
           be
           drawn
           to
           accept
           ,
           with
           so
           much
           the
           more
           reason
           ,
           because
           on
           the
           part
           of
           Holland
           ,
           it
           was
           pretended
           they
           had
           not
           performed
           all
           they
           were
           ingaged
           to
           ;
           and
           as
           for
           the
           Empires
           Interest
           ,
           he
           should
           preserve
           his
           entire
           Liberty
           if
           France
           should
           attack
           it
           .
           Now
           by
           the
           whole
           sincere
           Warp
           of
           this
           History
           here
           related
           ,
           we
           may
           see
           how
           rash
           a
           thing
           it
           is
           to
           judge
           of
           the
           Actions
           of
           a
           great
           Prince
           ;
           it
           being
           certain
           ,
           that
           in
           this
           Juncture
           ,
           all
           Europe
           found
           themselves
           extremely
           divided
           about
           what
           they
           were
           to
           judge
           of
           the
           proceedings
           of
           his
           Electoral
           Highness
           .
           But
           as
           this
           Prince
           for
           his
           own
           Honour
           would
           have
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           well
           to
           know
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           a
           just
           resentment
           of
           the
           proceedings
           of
           Montecuculi
           ;
           so
           this
           General
           was
           greatly
           surpriz'd
           at
           his
           return
           to
           Vienna
           ,
           that
           his
           Master
           demanded
           so
           rigorous
           an
           account
           of
           his
           Conduct
           ,
           and
           the
           Reasons
           why
           he
           had
           not
           joyned
           the
           Army
           of
           Brandenburg
           ,
           and
           fought
           Turenne
           ,
           after
           he
           sent
           him
           precisely
           an
           express
           Order
           :
           but
           if
           Montecuculi
           was
           surprised
           with
           this
           demand
           ,
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           was
           no
           less
           ,
           to
           see
           what
           his
           wise
           General
           replied
           for
           his
           entire
           discharge
           ,
           a
           precise
           Order
           of
           his
           Majesty
           in
           very
           good
           form
           ,
           which
           forbad
           him
           all
           conjunction
           with
           Brandenburg
           ,
           and
           fighting
           with
           Turenne
           ;
           and
           for
           certain
           ,
           this
           General
           had
           then
           need
           of
           all
           the
           Justice
           of
           his
           Cause
           ,
           and
           of
           
           the
           knowledge
           his
           Master
           had
           of
           his
           fidelity
           ,
           to
           extricate
           himself
           from
           this
           troublesome
           Affair
           .
        
         
           I
           know
           very
           well
           that
           this
           Intrigue
           was
           one
           of
           those
           Engines
           which
           we
           never
           could
           have
           well
           penetrated
           ,
           had
           not
           the
           Author
           thereof
           voluntarily
           given
           us
           the
           Key
           .
           I
           know
           that
           it
           is
           from
           this
           foundation
           that
           one
           of
           the
           most
           unhappy
           of
           this
           Court
           hath
           been
           formally
           accused
           to
           be
           ▪
           the
           Principal
           of
           this
           Cheat
           ;
           but
           to
           speak
           truth
           ,
           he
           was
           not
           culpable
           at
           all
           in
           this
           Affair
           ,
           but
           to
           those
           Emissaries
           of
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           in
           this
           Court
           ,
           in
           combination
           with
           those
           of
           France
           upon
           the
           aforesaid
           principles
           ;
           the
           chief
           of
           whom
           found
           means
           to
           intercept
           the
           said
           Original
           Order
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           transmit
           by
           the
           same
           dispatch
           ,
           a
           false
           Order
           ,
           but
           very
           well
           counterfeit
           both
           in
           the
           Sign
           and
           Seal
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           those
           people
           who
           have
           not
           begun
           now
           first
           of
           all
           to
           contrive
           such
           surprizes
           ;
           it
           being
           certain
           that
           High
           Hungary
           had
           not
           been
           so
           often
           in
           flames
           ,
           had
           it
           not
           been
           that
           these
           Emistaries
           had
           held
           so
           great
           credit
           and
           relation
           in
           the
           said
           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
           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
           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
           with
           great
           inconvenience
           to
           walk
           to
           the
           exercises
           of
           their
           Devotion
           without
           the
           Wall
           of
           the
           City
           ,
           who
           agree
           with
           Lutherans
           in
           all
           the
           principal
           Doctrines
           of
           the
           Christian
           Faith
           ,
           and
           are
           ,
           together
           with
           them
           ,
           the
           common
           Butt
           of
           all
           the
           Impressions
           of
           the
           Papal
           malice
           ,
           which
           neglects
           nothing
           which
           might
           foment
           their
           division
           ,
           and
           thereby
           to
           walk
           on
           to
           solid
           means
           of
           their
           destruction
           :
           Wherefore
           I
           conceive
           ,
           that
           the
           States
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Communion
           ,
           though
           of
           different
           belief
           in
           certain
           points
           ought
           unanimously
           to
           endeavour
           to
           cause
           an
           Article
           to
           be
           inserted
           in
           the
           said
           instrument
           of
           Peace
           ,
           which
           might
           for
           the
           future
           redress
           such
           Incongruities
           which
           whilst
           they
           continue
           ,
           can
           be
           only
           seeds
           of
           Divisions
           which
           both
           their
           proper
           Interest
           and
           their
           Charity
           oblige
           them
           to
           suppress
           continually
           in
           the
           Protestant
           Body
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           all
           that
           appears
           in
           Christian
           Faith
           is
           commonly
           animated
           with
           the
           Spirit
           of
           Charity
           ,
           which
           engages
           us
           not
           only
           to
           adhere
           to
           what
           is
           our
           peculiar
           ,
           but
           to
           what
           respects
           our
           Brethrens
           interest
           ,
           especially
           theirs
           ,
           whom
           we
           cannot
           be
           ignorant
           to
           be
           actually
           in
           tribulation
           :
           I
           think
           the
           aforesaid
           Protestant
           States
           should
           do
           a
           very
           heroick
           Act
           ,
           if
           by
           their
           mediation
           ,
           the
           interests
           of
           their
           poor
           Brethren
           might
           be
           regulated
           in
           such
           manner
           ,
           that
           at
           least
           the
           Emissaries
           of
           Rome
           might
           not
           have
           so
           ample
           matter
           ,
           whereupon
           to
           raise
           persecution
           against
           them
           .
        
         
           For
           Example
           ,
           now
           for
           a
           whole
           Age
           ,
           Europe
           hath
           heard
           no
           discourse
           but
           of
           the
           disorders
           which
           from
           Time
           to
           Time
           have
           risen
           in
           high
           
             Hungary
             ,
             Silesia
          
           ,
           and
           other
           the
           Hereditary
           Countries
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Austria
           :
           I
           commend
           not
           those
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Body
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           who
           for
           their
           private
           Interests
           or
           Ambition
           may
           be
           the
           cause
           of
           these
           revolts
           and
           seditions
           in
           those
           Countries
           ;
           but
           if
           a
           great
           part
           of
           those
           disorders
           arise
           from
           the
           discontents
           which
           the
           want
           of
           means
           to
           attend
           their
           spiritual
           Exercises
           do
           cause
           ,
           which
           without
           doubt
           is
           almost
           the
           
           only
           cause
           ,
           I
           conceive
           it
           were
           a
           work
           very
           pleasing
           to
           be
           able
           by
           humble
           Representations
           to
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           to
           cause
           him
           to
           establish
           an
           Order
           which
           might
           for
           the
           future
           banish
           from
           that
           Country
           all
           matter
           of
           discontent
           ,
           which
           I
           judge
           to
           be
           very
           feasible
           .
        
         
           For
           if
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           shall
           consider
           the
           merits
           of
           all
           the
           Successors
           whom
           all
           the
           said
           Protestant
           State
           should
           leave
           behind
           them
           ;
           so
           that
           for
           Politick
           Reasons
           which
           engage
           him
           to
           prevent
           such
           disorders
           ,
           he
           would
           make
           an
           establishment
           for
           the
           future
           ,
           that
           so
           oft
           as
           in
           any
           Country
           ,
           or
           in
           any
           particular
           place
           ,
           Protestants
           should
           be
           found
           to
           a
           certain
           number
           ,
           and
           should
           desire
           to
           have
           a
           free
           exercise
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           they
           should
           be
           qualified
           to
           procure
           it
           without
           other
           Obligation
           ,
           then
           that
           of
           signifying
           by
           a
           simple
           act
           their
           number
           and
           desire
           to
           the
           Magistrate
           of
           the
           place
           ;
           I
           conceive
           that
           by
           such
           an
           expedient
           his
           Imperial
           Majesty
           might
           cut
           up
           the
           root
           of
           all
           those
           unhappy
           Revolts
           which
           engage
           him
           to
           extraordinary
           Expences
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           perpetual
           cares
           and
           alarms
           ,
           and
           other
           practices
           ,
           which
           the
           Court
           of
           Rom's
           Emissaries
           furnish
           and
           trouble
           him
           with
           to
           redress
           these
           mischiefs
           ,
           which
           are
           more
           proper
           to
           cast
           those
           Countries
           into
           flames
           then
           to
           establish
           their
           Repose
           ,
           as
           fatal
           experience
           of
           a
           whole
           Age
           cannot
           but
           have
           too
           well
           taught
           him
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           the
           Peace
           which
           shall
           intervene
           will
           infallibly
           be
           an
           Universal
           Peace
           to
           all
           Christendom
           ,
           and
           so
           different
           Interests
           which
           concern
           its
           Tranquility
           may
           therein
           be
           regarded
           ,
           following
           still
           my
           intent
           ,
           which
           is
           to
           respect
           the
           extent
           and
           advantage
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Faith
           ,
           I
           must
           say
           that
           it
           will
           be
           of
           great
           Importance
           for
           the
           said
           Protestant
           States
           to
           obtain
           of
           his
           Catholick
           Majesty
           a
           Modification
           of
           the
           Instrument
           of
           the
           last
           Peace
           ,
           which
           France
           made
           with
           the
           Republick
           of
           the
           Grisons
           ,
           as
           touching
           the
           matter
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           in
           Chaveine
           and
           the
           Valtoline
           ,
           for
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           both
           parts
           of
           that
           Religion
           who
           are
           in
           the
           said
           places
           though
           their
           Magistrates
           are
           for
           the
           greatest
           part
           reformed
           ,
           are
           obliged
           by
           a
           corruption
           inserted
           in
           the
           Treaty
           of
           Peace
           to
           walk
           at
           least
           three
           or
           four
           Leagues
           on
           the
           Lord's
           days
           to
           attend
           their
           Exercises
           of
           Devotion
           :
           It
           is
           most
           certain
           that
           it
           is
           a
           considerable
           interest
           of
           his
           Majesty
           to
           consent
           to
           the
           Modification
           of
           this
           Article
           ,
           if
           he
           would
           preserve
           the
           Amity
           of
           this
           Republick
           ;
           and
           of
           this
           I
           have
           very
           precise
           knowledge
           ;
           for
           if
           the
           Abbot
           of
           St.
           Roman
           ,
           Embassadour
           for
           his
           most
           Christian
           Majesty
           in
           Switzerland
           in
           the
           Propositions
           he
           made
           to
           some
           of
           the
           Republick
           ,
           had
           been
           advised
           to
           let
           fall
           a
           word
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           his
           Master
           would
           consent
           to
           a
           free
           Exercise
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           in
           those
           places
           ;
           I
           know
           that
           the
           League
           of
           that
           Republick
           with
           the
           House
           of
           Austria
           had
           been
           in
           danger
           to
           be
           dissolved
           :
           for
           thus
           I
           judge
           that
           this
           represented
           and
           maintained
           in
           such
           manner
           as
           it
           may
           by
           the
           Plenipotentiaries
           
           of
           the
           Protestant
           States
           ,
           it
           will
           not
           be
           absolutely
           impossible
           to
           annul
           this
           Article
           ,
           which
           will
           be
           of
           extraordinary
           consideration
           for
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Faith
           in
           that
           Quarter
           ;
           many
           good
           Souls
           which
           profess
           that
           Religion
           ,
           though
           they
           reside
           in
           Italy
           ,
           ardently
           desire
           this
           Consolation
           ,
           and
           this
           I
           can
           say
           of
           my
           certain
           knowledge
           .
        
         
           But
           we
           have
           insisted
           long
           enough
           upon
           some
           Accessaries
           ,
           let
           us
           go
           to
           the
           Principal
           ;
           it
           is
           so
           common
           with
           very
           many
           Protestants
           of
           all
           Orders
           who
           enjoy
           peaceably
           according
           to
           their
           wish
           all
           conveniences
           temporal
           and
           spiritual
           ,
           not
           to
           be
           able
           to
           dispose
           themselves
           by
           the
           Principles
           of
           Charity
           to
           compassionate
           the
           miseries
           and
           afflictions
           of
           their
           oppressed
           Brethren
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           for
           this
           Reason
           that
           I
           have
           applied
           my self
           to
           make
           them
           know
           whereunto
           they
           are
           engaged
           in
           this
           particular
           for
           their
           temporal
           Interest
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           in
           the
           first
           Point
           I
           have
           prospered
           somewhat
           to
           make
           known
           the
           connexion
           and
           indissoluble
           bond
           of
           Interests
           which
           the
           Providence
           of
           God
           hath
           established
           betwixt
           the
           subsistence
           of
           the
           Politick
           Interests
           of
           all
           the
           Potentates
           of
           Christendom
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Protestants
           more
           especially
           with
           the
           re-establishment
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Party
           in
           France
           ,
           by
           the
           sincere
           Rehearsal
           which
           I
           am
           about
           succinctly
           to
           make
           of
           the
           miseries
           wherein
           that
           Body
           of
           our
           Brethren
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           are
           plunged
           ;
           I
           would
           shew
           the
           Protestant
           States
           for
           my
           second
           Head
           whereto
           their
           Pity
           ,
           their
           Charity
           and
           their
           Glory
           ought
           to
           engage
           them
           .
        
         
           To
           make
           known
           sincerely
           the
           Estate
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Body
           in
           France
           ;
           I
           will
           not
           amuse
           my self
           in
           expounding
           what
           is
           publickly
           known
           to
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           understanding
           persons
           who
           have
           travelled
           through
           that
           Realm
           ,
           or
           who
           have
           taken
           the
           pains
           to
           get
           some
           Information
           thereof
           ;
           I
           will
           content
           my self
           only
           to
           observe
           that
           the
           Emissaries
           of
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           having
           successively
           insinuated
           into
           the
           spirits
           of
           the
           Monarchs
           of
           this
           Nation
           ,
           that
           they
           could
           not
           think
           of
           advancing
           their
           Progress
           abroad
           till
           after
           they
           were
           solidly
           assured
           of
           all
           at
           home
           ,
           and
           that
           therefore
           it
           was
           necessary
           for
           them
           wholly
           to
           exterminate
           the
           Protestant
           Party
           out
           of
           their
           Kingdom
           ;
           this
           Counsel
           hath
           so
           strongly
           prevailed
           in
           the
           Councils
           of
           these
           Monarks
           ,
           that
           since
           Cardinal
           Richelieux
           Ministry
           ,
           nothing
           hath
           been
           omitted
           to
           make
           it
           fully
           succeed
           .
        
         
           For
           this
           purpose
           all
           the
           Bishops
           in
           every
           Diocess
           have
           had
           order
           to
           give
           Instructions
           to
           all
           the
           Parish
           Priests
           ,
           to
           hold
           an
           actual
           eye
           on
           all
           solid
           means
           to
           proceed
           unto
           this
           destruction
           ;
           and
           the
           Governours
           ,
           Counsellours
           and
           Intendents
           of
           the
           Provinces
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           all
           the
           Officers
           of
           Justice
           have
           had
           like
           order
           to
           concur
           with
           the
           Solicitations
           of
           those
           Bishops
           ;
           wherefore
           we
           need
           not
           admire
           at
           the
           Tribulation
           which
           these
           poor
           miserables
           do
           suffer
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           from
           these
           fomentations
           
           that
           we
           see
           dayly
           in
           all
           parts
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ;
           Children
           rebel
           against
           their
           Parents
           ,
           Wives
           against
           their
           Husbands
           ,
           Vassals
           and
           Subjects
           against
           their
           Lords
           ,
           Houshold
           Servants
           against
           their
           Masters
           ,
           for
           what
           ever
           injury
           or
           violence
           is
           committed
           in
           these
           sorts
           of
           Rebellions
           ,
           he
           that
           embraceth
           the
           Religion
           of
           his
           Prince
           hath
           always
           reason
           on
           his
           side
           ,
           and
           he
           that
           persists
           in
           the
           Protestant
           Faith
           hath
           always
           wrong
           .
        
         
           So
           that
           as
           it
           is
           very
           hard
           in
           a
           House
           to
           regulate
           every
           thing
           so
           well
           that
           there
           should
           not
           naturally
           arrive
           some
           accident
           betwixt
           the
           said
           Parties
           ,
           these
           Emissaries
           never
           loose
           any
           occasion
           directly
           or
           indirectly
           to
           bring
           about
           such
           Contests
           to
           kindle
           the
           fire
           more
           strongly
           ,
           and
           thence
           the
           heat
           more
           fiercely
           ,
           and
           if
           this
           succeeds
           ,
           to
           insinuate
           their
           Poyson
           .
        
         
           Hereby
           it
           may
           appear
           what
           bitter
           potions
           the
           most
           happy
           and
           wise
           of
           the
           Reformed
           in
           Popish
           Dominions
           are
           forced
           to
           swallow
           .
        
         
           More
           than
           two
           thirds
           of
           their
           Temples
           have
           been
           demolished
           within
           these
           ten
           years
           :
           more
           than
           half
           their
           Colledges
           supprest
           .
        
         
           No
           Protestant
           can
           have
           the
           least
           place
           in
           the
           Offices
           nor
           Troops
           of
           the
           King's
           Houshold
           ;
           and
           if
           in
           the
           common
           Troops
           persons
           of
           the
           highest
           merit
           rise
           to
           the
           place
           of
           a
           Lieutenant
           Colonel
           ,
           it
           is
           rarely
           seen
           that
           they
           pass
           farther
           :
           What
           hath
           befallen
           the
           
             Mareschal
             Schomberg
          
           ,
           is
           not
           an
           Argument
           to
           prove
           ,
           that
           the
           French
           Protestants
           that
           deserve
           well
           may
           rise
           thither
           ;
           he
           is
           at
           present
           that
           Phenix
           which
           appears
           but
           once
           in
           an
           Age.
           
        
         
           But
           if
           any
           Protestant
           be
           so
           unhappy
           as
           to
           have
           any
           Suit
           against
           any
           Roman
           Catholick
           ,
           he
           may
           assure
           himself
           ,
           how
           little
           dubious
           soever
           his
           Cause
           is
           ,
           his
           Affair
           is
           lost
           .
        
         
           If
           two
           Protestants
           have
           any
           Suits
           ,
           he
           that
           Apostotizeth
           is
           sure
           to
           carry
           it
           against
           him
           that
           persists
           in
           his
           Faith
           ,
           who
           shall
           never
           fail
           to
           loose
           his
           Cause
           .
        
         
           But
           all
           this
           abovesaid
           is
           nothing
           at
           all
           to
           that
           which
           was
           provided
           for
           them
           ,
           if
           the
           Invasion
           of
           Holland
           had
           succeeded
           ,
           for
           warrant
           whereof
           I
           can
           alledge
           one
           of
           the
           most
           Heroick
           Princes
           of
           all
           Europe
           ,
           who
           read
           himself
           the
           Declaration
           ready
           provided
           ,
           and
           who
           thereupon
           was
           struck
           with
           an
           Horrour
           ,
           and
           spoke
           immediatly
           with
           liberty
           his
           thoughts
           upon
           that
           point
           to
           considerable
           Persons
           ;
           but
           the
           ill
           success
           of
           that
           Irruption
           and
           some
           other
           Respects
           have
           caused
           that
           Monster
           for
           the
           present
           to
           be
           laid
           up
           in
           due
           darkness
           .
        
         
           First
           of
           all
           the
           King
           declared
           himself
           by
           this
           goodly
           Declaration
           ,
           Tutor
           of
           all
           the
           Infant
           Pupils
           of
           Protestant
           Fathers
           ,
           and
           so
           condemned
           all
           those
           poor
           unhappy
           Creatures
           to
           be
           sacrificed
           to
           the
           adoration
           of
           Idols
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           second
           place
           all
           the
           Temples
           and
           Colledges
           of
           all
           the
           
           Royal
           or
           Episcopal
           Cities
           or
           places
           belonging
           to
           Catholick
           Lords
           were
           suppressed
           throughout
           all
           France
           .
        
         
           In
           regard
           that
           by
           the
           Edict
           of
           Nantes
           every
           Lord
           having
           right
           of
           Fee-simple
           ,
           might
           have
           at
           his
           House
           the
           Exercise
           of
           Religion
           more
           or
           less
           extended
           according
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           his
           Fee
           ;
           by
           this
           Declaration
           it
           was
           expounded
           not
           to
           extend
           to
           any
           places
           but
           those
           ,
           which
           at
           the
           time
           of
           that
           Edict
           did
           belong
           to
           Protestant
           Lords
           ;
           now
           for
           that
           many
           Lords
           had
           since
           changed
           their
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           the
           Lands
           had
           by
           a
           natural
           vicissitude
           of
           things
           changed
           Masters
           ,
           thence
           it
           would
           have
           followed
           that
           no
           exercise
           of
           Religion
           in
           those
           Fees
           would
           have
           been
           preserved
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           those
           only
           that
           ,
           so
           many
           as
           they
           be
           ,
           have
           in
           the
           furious
           overthrows
           of
           Protestant
           Temples
           made
           the
           Exercises
           of
           Religion
           to
           subsist
           abroad
           in
           the
           Country
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           fourth
           place
           ,
           all
           the
           Chambers
           of
           the
           Edict
           or
           Miparties
           ,
           were
           by
           this
           Infamous
           Declaration
           suppressed
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Miparti●●
           Mayoralties
           which
           were
           established
           in
           former
           times
           in
           favour
           of
           those
           of
           the
           R.
           Religion
           .
        
         
           And
           to
           complete
           their
           misery
           by
           the
           same
           Declaration
           ;
           all
           Children
           born
           in
           Marriages
           ,
           not
           blest
           by
           the
           Priests
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           after
           the
           publication
           of
           that
           Declaration
           ,
           were
           declared
           uncapable
           to
           succeed
           their
           Fathers
           and
           their
           Mothers
           in
           their
           Goods
           and
           Possessions
           .
        
         
           Note
           that
           by
           a
           former
           Declaration
           all
           the
           Protestants
           in
           France
           ,
           who
           had
           received
           a
           blessing
           on
           their
           Marriage
           by
           the
           hands
           of
           a
           Priest
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           with
           Abjuration
           ,
           in
           case
           they
           returned
           to
           communicate
           in
           the
           Exercises
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           wherein
           they
           were
           born
           ,
           were
           declared
           Relaps'd
           ,
           and
           their
           Goods
           Confiscate
           .
        
         
           I
           forbear
           to
           set
           down
           here
           some
           other
           Articles
           not
           so
           considerable
           as
           the
           former
           ,
           which
           yet
           were
           no
           less
           unjust
           nor
           malicious
           ;
           the
           reading
           of
           the
           preceding
           seem
           sufficient
           to
           me
           ,
           whereby
           the
           more
           sound
           Party
           of
           the
           Protestants
           of
           Europe
           may
           examine
           (
           as
           I
           do
           with
           all
           my
           heart
           intreat
           them
           )
           the
           pernicious
           fare
           which
           the
           Papal
           Council
           had
           prepared
           for
           the
           Protestants
           of
           Holland
           ,
           at
           that
           very
           time
           ,
           wherein
           they
           pretended
           to
           make
           them
           submit
           unto
           the
           Dominion
           ,
           Protection
           ,
           or
           Discretion
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           that
           England
           and
           Sweden
           in
           particular
           may
           see
           the
           surprize
           ,
           which
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           by
           the
           Channel
           of
           
           France's
           Ministers
           had
           provided
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           the
           Iniquity
           of
           the
           Cause
           they
           have
           put
           themselves
           into
           a
           condition
           of
           protecting
           ,
           in
           authorizing
           the
           Irruptions
           ,
           Burnings
           ,
           and
           ambitious
           Enterprizes
           of
           France
           on
           the
           Low-Country
           Provinces
           ,
           and
           the
           Empire
           .
        
         
           And
           all
           these
           States
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           People
           of
           their
           Dominions
           being
           instructed
           in
           their
           Interests
           ,
           which
           engaged
           them
           to
           sustain
           the
           cause
           
           of
           the
           Re-establishment
           of
           Liberty
           in
           France
           ,
           both
           Temporal
           and
           Spiritual
           ,
           which
           as
           to
           the
           second
           Head
           consists
           in
           the
           common
           cause
           of
           their
           Brethren
           in
           this
           Estate
           ;
           all
           these
           Benefits
           cannot
           be
           effected
           but
           by
           a
           positive
           Union
           of
           their
           good
           will
           and
           Forces
           ;
           I
           leave
           them
           to
           consider
           whether
           I
           had
           ground
           to
           insinuate
           this
           with
           all
           my
           power
           ,
           praying
           the
           good
           God
           with
           all
           the
           ardour
           of
           my
           soul
           that
           he
           would
           inspire
           into
           this
           Illustrious
           Body
           Sentiments
           and
           Resolutions
           of
           Piety
           and
           Glory
           ,
           such
           as
           a
           Cause
           so
           solid
           ,
           so
           just
           ,
           and
           so
           holy
           requires
           .
           I
           finish
           the
           first
           part
           of
           my
           Discourse
           ,
           reserving
           my self
           to
           press
           home
           this
           matter
           more
           strongly
           ,
           assaying
           in
           good
           earnest
           to
           open
           the
           eyes
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Body
           in
           Europe
           ,
           to
           make
           them
           sensibly
           apprehend
           what
           they
           are
           to
           expect
           from
           their
           Enemies
           ,
           and
           what
           they
           are
           in
           condition
           to
           do
           by
           the
           Forces
           ,
           which
           God's
           providence
           hath
           put
           in
           their
           hand
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           deliver
           themselves
           from
           all
           these
           Judicious
           Apprehensions
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           become
           the
           indisputable
           Arbiters
           of
           the
           Fortunes
           of
           their
           Friends
           and
           Enemies
           .
        
      
       
         
           PART
           II.
           The
           Error
           of
           Estate
           made
           by
           many
           Potentates
           in
           the
           Business
           of
           the
           Reduction
           of
           Rochelle
           ;
           the
           Consequences
           whereof
           have
           been
           the
           cause
           of
           most
           considerable
           Conversions
           of
           Estate
           ,
           Wars
           and
           Disorders
           of
           Europe
           ,
           which
           we
           have
           seen
           since
           that
           time
           .
        
         
           CArdinal
           of
           Richelieu
           ,
           who
           without
           doubt
           was
           the
           greatest
           Person
           and
           Minister
           of
           State
           that
           France
           hath
           of
           many
           years
           produced
           ,
           or
           which
           it
           may
           be
           it
           shall
           have
           hereafter
           for
           a
           long
           time
           ,
           was
           he
           who
           first
           laid
           the
           Axe
           ,
           to
           the
           foot
           and
           roots
           of
           the
           Imperial
           Family
           of
           Austria
           ,
           and
           having
           in
           an
           admirable
           manner
           pierced
           into
           the
           knowledge
           of
           that
           wherein
           the
           true
           Interest
           of
           France
           might
           consist
           ,
           to
           raise
           the
           glory
           of
           its
           Kings
           to
           the
           highest
           degree
           of
           all
           greatness
           ;
           he
           knew
           also
           to
           adhere
           only
           to
           essential
           Maxims
           ,
           whence
           so
           glorious
           a
           Work
           ought
           to
           be
           commenced
           :
           And
           this
           is
           so
           true
           ,
           that
           we
           may
           positively
           conclude
           as
           a
           most
           certain
           thing
           ,
           that
           whatever
           Mazarin
           hath
           executed
           since
           ,
           and
           whatever
           
             Messieurs
             Le
             Tellier
             ,
             Colbert
             ,
             Louvois
             ,
          
           and
           
             de
             Pompone
          
           have
           since
           performed
           in
           our
           days
           for
           the
           Grandeur
           and
           exaltation
           of
           their
           Monarch
           ,
           are
           no
           other
           
           than
           the
           fruits
           of
           the
           Heroick
           Labours
           of
           that
           great
           Minister
           ,
           and
           the
           Execution
           of
           the
           Memoires
           and
           secret
           Instructions
           of
           his
           Ministery
           ;
           it
           being
           certain
           that
           so
           far
           as
           they
           have
           not
           departed
           therefrom
           ,
           their
           Glory
           and
           Success
           have
           been
           inseperably
           united
           to
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           their
           Expeditions
           ,
           and
           so
           far
           as
           they
           have
           departed
           from
           them
           ,
           their
           Enterprises
           have
           many
           times
           been
           attended
           with
           loss
           of
           Glory
           to
           their
           Master
           ;
           these
           are
           things
           which
           we
           observe
           sometimes
           by
           the
           way
           ,
           whilst
           we
           confine
           our selves
           to
           the
           pursuit
           of
           our
           Observations
           and
           Remarks
           upon
           some
           Errors
           of
           Estate
           in
           the
           Ministry
           of
           France
           ;
           but
           our
           design
           at
           present
           is
           to
           begin
           to
           observe
           for
           our
           private
           satisfaction
           that
           Point
           alone
           for
           the
           Reduction
           of
           Rochelle
           ,
           a
           Capital
           
             quid
             pro
             quo
          
           of
           Estate
           of
           the
           most
           part
           of
           the
           Potentates
           of
           Europe
           ,
           who
           might
           have
           hindered
           it
           ;
           if
           they
           on
           that
           occasion
           had
           known
           their
           true
           Interest
           ,
           and
           the
           excellent
           Conduct
           of
           that
           great
           Minister
           at
           the
           same
           time
           .
        
         
           And
           first
           of
           all
           we
           will
           apply
           our selves
           only
           to
           observe
           what
           is
           but
           too
           well
           known
           ,
           I
           mean
           the
           misadventures
           ,
           which
           have
           successively
           fallen
           out
           in
           Europe
           ,
           to
           the
           prejudice
           of
           the
           most
           powerful
           Estates
           therein
           ,
           by
           this
           Reduction
           only
           ,
           and
           those
           greater
           which
           are
           ready
           to
           befall
           them
           ,
           if
           some
           part
           of
           them
           redress
           it
           not
           .
        
         
           The
           Siege
           of
           Rochelle
           being
           settled
           about
           it
           ,
           the
           Town
           was
           but
           weakly
           relieved
           by
           the
           English
           ,
           so
           that
           we
           may
           affirm
           that
           their
           last
           expedition
           which
           seemed
           to
           be
           set
           out
           for
           that
           purpose
           after
           the
           death
           of
           Buckingham
           ,
           was
           rather
           a
           succour
           of
           show
           and
           appearance
           than
           reality
           ,
           if
           it
           might
           not
           be
           said
           rather
           that
           the
           good
           King
           then
           could
           not
           do
           all
           he
           would
           for
           their
           Relief
           ,
           Holland
           blind
           to
           their
           enemies
           own
           true
           Interest
           upon
           this
           occasion
           lent
           their
           Maritime
           Forces
           to
           advance
           this
           Reduction
           .
        
         
           Spain
           who
           ought
           more
           than
           any
           other
           Potentate
           to
           have
           known
           and
           apprehended
           the
           consequences
           thereof
           ,
           thought
           it
           better
           to
           give
           credence
           to
           its
           pretended
           Council
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           then
           to
           great
           Spinola
           ,
           who
           having
           personally
           visited
           Rochelle
           in
           the
           conjunctures
           of
           the
           Siege
           ,
           and
           perceived
           the
           Infallibility
           of
           its
           Reduction
           ,
           unless
           speedily
           relieved
           (
           for
           it
           was
           he
           that
           gave
           that
           advice
           to
           the
           Cardinal
           to
           shut
           it
           out
           from
           the
           Sea
           ,
           the
           Infallible
           means
           of
           its
           Reduction
           ,
           and
           repented
           thereof
           too
           late
           )
           he
           prophesied
           punctually
           at
           the
           Council
           at
           Madrid
           ,
           all
           the
           misadventures
           which
           befel
           them
           ,
           and
           followed
           upon
           this
           Reduction
           ,
           to
           the
           prejudice
           of
           the
           greatness
           of
           the
           Austrian
           Family
           .
        
         
           All
           the
           Roman
           Catholick
           Party
           of
           France
           made
           it
           so
           strong
           a
           Point
           of
           Religion
           to
           contribute
           what
           lay
           in
           them
           to
           this
           Reduction
           ,
           that
           we
           may
           say
           of
           them
           as
           sometimes
           the
           deceased
           and
           very
           wise
           Marshal
           of
           Bassompiere
           ;
           They
           were
           great
           fools
           who
           gave
           themselves
           no
           repose
           until
           by
           the
           sacrifice
           of
           their
           goods
           ,
           blood
           and
           lives
           they
           had
           effected
           it
           .
        
         
         
           Let
           us
           now
           examine
           apart
           in
           a
           few
           words
           that
           which
           consequently
           did
           happen
           upon
           this
           Error
           of
           Estate
           to
           the
           Imperial
           House
           of
           Austria
           ,
           to
           Holland
           and
           France
           it self
           ;
           I
           speak
           of
           State
           Affairs
           ,
           and
           also
           by
           the
           consequences
           thereof
           to
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           the
           rest
           of
           Europe
           .
        
         
           For
           England
           we
           need
           only
           take
           a
           small
           tast
           of
           the
           Travels
           and
           Addresses
           of
           the
           late
           Monsieur
           President
           
             de
             Thou
          
           ,
           Embassadour
           of
           France
           in
           England
           ;
           to
           understand
           that
           upon
           the
           King
           of
           
           England's
           failing
           to
           succour
           Rochelle
           ,
           was
           the
           foundation
           whereon
           that
           insinuation
           was
           advanced
           into
           the
           spirits
           of
           the
           People
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           that
           his
           late
           Majesty
           of
           Great
           Britain
           had
           in
           secret
           by
           the
           perswasion
           of
           
             Henrietta
             de
             Bourbon
          
           his
           Wife
           ,
           embraced
           the
           Roman
           Religion
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           designs
           tended
           to
           nothing
           more
           then
           to
           procure
           the
           destruction
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           in
           England
           as
           well
           as
           in
           France
           ,
           if
           it
           could
           possibly
           be
           done
           ;
           which
           supposition
           though
           doubtlesly
           false
           against
           that
           pious
           and
           learned
           Prince
           ,
           yet
           it
           was
           ocasioned
           by
           that
           unhappy
           slackness
           of
           supplies
           for
           the
           relief
           of
           Rochelle
           :
           we
           may
           say
           that
           it
           was
           upon
           this
           foundation
           that
           France
           ,
           by
           the
           means
           of
           the
           said
           Lord
           Thou
           ,
           gave
           life
           to
           the
           universal
           revolt
           of
           all
           England
           ,
           and
           to
           that
           unfortunate
           Catastrophe
           which
           all
           Europe
           have
           beheld
           with
           horrour
           and
           astonishment
           ;
           and
           this
           is
           the
           very
           truth
           ,
           that
           the
           departed
           
             Monsieur
             de
             Thou
          
           ,
           who
           was
           not
           a
           Person
           that
           would
           speak
           untruth
           ,
           did
           affirm
           before
           his
           death
           to
           several
           of
           his
           Confidents
           ,
           of
           which
           some
           are
           yet
           alive
           ,
           that
           he
           protested
           that
           he
           died
           with
           sore
           regret
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           intermedled
           with
           that
           unfortunate
           Affair
           .
        
         
           As
           for
           the
           most
           Illustrious
           Family
           of
           Austria
           ,
           in
           examining
           what
           hath
           befallen
           it
           on
           these
           two
           Heads
           ,
           since
           that
           fatal
           Reddition
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           with
           respect
           to
           the
           Imperialists
           ,
           the
           King
           of
           Denmark
           ,
           the
           Elector
           of
           Saxony
           ,
           the
           Elector
           Palatine
           of
           the
           Rhine
           ,
           the
           Princes
           of
           Transylvania
           ,
           and
           all
           their
           Confederates
           being
           humbled
           or
           destroyed
           ;
           we
           may
           truly
           say
           it
           was
           in
           a
           condition
           to
           do
           what
           it
           could
           reasonably
           desire
           in
           Germany
           ;
           but
           by
           the
           Consequence
           of
           that
           Reduction
           ,
           France
           was
           in
           condition
           to
           send
           its
           Aids
           abroad
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           Alliances
           ,
           and
           having
           in
           consequence
           thereof
           subscribed
           to
           the
           Swedish
           League
           ,
           it
           is
           easie
           to
           see
           what
           ,
           after
           the
           Great
           Gustavus
           did
           set
           foot
           in
           the
           Empire
           ,
           did
           happen
           through
           the
           whole
           extent
           thereof
           to
           the
           prejudice
           of
           this
           Illustrious
           House
           till
           the
           Peace
           of
           Munster
           and
           Osnaburg
           .
        
         
           The
           eight
           Electorate
           ,
           Brisac
           and
           Philipsburg
           ,
           with
           all
           the
           Conquests
           of
           the
           Swede
           in
           the
           Empire
           ,
           and
           the
           enfeebling
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           German
           Church
           for
           the
           Recompences
           made
           to
           the
           Elector
           of
           Brandenburg
           and
           Prince
           of
           Meckleburg
           ,
           are
           the
           living
           Monuments
           of
           the
           failures
           on
           that
           side
           .
        
         
           For
           Spain
           we
           may
           say
           ,
           that
           till
           the
           Reduction
           of
           Rochelle
           it
           was
           not
           always
           triumphant
           ,
           but
           it
           had
           thitherto
           supported
           the
           weight
           of
           its
           
           greatness
           with
           glory
           ;
           and
           was
           in
           an
           Estate
           to
           make
           all
           them
           to
           fear
           it
           ,
           who
           did
           not
           love
           it
           ;
           till
           then
           
             Flanders
             ,
             Italy
          
           ,
           and
           Germany
           beheld
           a
           numerous
           Armies
           on
           their
           side
           ;
           the
           Sea
           also
           beheld
           their
           Nval
           Forces
           of
           some
           consideration
           ,
           and
           the
           Frontiers
           of
           the
           Pirennes
           with
           the
           two
           Seas
           were
           their
           only
           Neighbours
           and
           Frontiers
           through
           all
           the
           extent
           of
           Spain
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           Isthmos
           acknowledged
           their
           Laws
           from
           the
           Pirennes
           to
           Hercules
           pillars
           and
           farther
           ;
           till
           then
           they
           preserved
           to
           their
           advantage
           Friends
           and
           Pensioners
           secretly
           in
           all
           the
           Courts
           of
           
             Europe
             ,
             France
          
           it self
           not
           excepted
           ,
           but
           as
           if
           all
           that
           glory
           had
           been
           buried
           in
           the
           reduction
           of
           Rochelle
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           truly
           said
           that
           whosoever
           shall
           examine
           the
           ruines
           of
           the
           greatness
           of
           Spain
           ,
           with
           their
           miscarriages
           in
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           their
           Designs
           almost
           perpetual
           since
           the
           reduction
           of
           this
           petty
           Carthage
           ,
           so
           that
           the
           astonishing
           dismembrings
           which
           this
           Puissance
           hath
           suffered
           ,
           and
           the
           hard
           Treaties
           which
           it
           hath
           been
           forced
           to
           subscribe
           will
           evince
           that
           its
           glory
           seems
           to
           be
           interred
           in
           the
           ruines
           of
           the
           fortifications
           of
           this
           Town
           ;
           for
           whether
           it
           were
           through
           its
           Military
           Expeditions
           ,
           or
           the
           Conduct
           of
           its
           Ministers
           ,
           or
           the
           little
           care
           it
           hath
           had
           to
           keep
           its
           intelligence
           amongst
           its
           Enemies
           ,
           and
           after
           with
           its
           Allies
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           facility
           wherewith
           the
           Ministers
           of
           France
           after
           Richelieu
           ,
           pierced
           into
           the
           most
           secret
           deliberations
           of
           the
           Council
           of
           Madrid
           ;
           it
           is
           most
           true
           that
           after
           the
           Error
           of
           Estate
           on
           their
           part
           ,
           this
           Puissance
           did
           flutter
           only
           with
           one
           wing
           ,
           which
           gave
           courage
           together
           with
           other
           accidents
           of
           a
           different
           nature
           ;
           to
           the
           
             Catalonians
             ,
             Portugese
          
           and
           Neopolitans
           ,
           and
           likewise
           to
           the
           Messinese
           of
           late
           to
           enterprise
           by
           incitation
           and
           puissant
           Succours
           of
           France
           ,
           what
           they
           have
           hitherto
           attempted
           ;
           it
           being
           most
           certain
           that
           without
           vigorous
           Succours
           from
           its
           Allies
           ,
           it
           would
           be
           at
           present
           exposed
           to
           an
           entire
           invasion
           of
           the
           most
           considerable
           part
           of
           its
           Estate
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           the
           old
           as
           in
           the
           new
           World.
           
        
         
           For
           Holland
           ,
           the
           Case
           is
           so
           hot
           and
           fresh
           in
           the
           miseries
           which
           have
           befallen
           them
           within
           these
           four
           years
           by
           their
           Error
           of
           Estate
           in
           the
           conjuncture
           of
           that
           Siege
           ,
           that
           certainly
           it
           is
           needless
           for
           me
           to
           make
           a
           long
           discourse
           to
           evince
           this
           truth
           ;
           for
           I
           believe
           there
           is
           not
           any
           man
           of
           perfect
           understanding
           ,
           who
           knows
           not
           readily
           ,
           and
           is
           not
           well
           perswaded
           ,
           that
           if
           Rochelle
           in
           the
           time
           that
           his
           most
           Christian
           Majesty
           did
           attempt
           to
           subject
           Holland
           ,
           had
           been
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Protestants
           of
           France
           ,
           in
           such
           manner
           as
           it
           was
           before
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           probably
           might
           have
           been
           if
           this
           Republick
           had
           not
           furnished
           out
           its
           Sea
           Forces
           to
           make
           this
           Reduction
           ,
           his
           most
           Christian
           Majesty
           had
           never
           dared
           to
           enterprise
           an
           Expedition
           of
           that
           nature
           ,
           and
           that
           for
           two
           unanswerable
           Reasons
           .
           The
           first
           because
           Rochelle
           by
           its
           subsistence
           gave
           life
           to
           two
           millions
           of
           Reformed
           Christian
           Souls
           which
           are
           yet
           in
           France
           ,
           whatever
           the
           Jesuits
           please
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           there
           are
           but
           1500000
           ,
           France
           
           having
           in
           its
           bowels
           so
           considerable
           a
           number
           of
           Protestants
           ,
           would
           never
           have
           determined
           to
           have
           undertaken
           the
           destruction
           of
           a
           Protestant
           Republick
           ,
           which
           by
           its
           scituation
           so
           favourable
           as
           it
           had
           to
           Rochelle
           ,
           was
           in
           condition
           to
           put
           France
           it self
           into
           disorder
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           they
           would
           have
           found
           themselves
           without
           a
           possibility
           or
           force
           to
           have
           attempted
           this
           enterprise
           ;
           for
           the
           Liberty
           of
           France
           (
           I
           mean
           that
           of
           Estate
           )
           being
           in
           force
           and
           its
           prime
           (
           as
           without
           doubt
           it
           would
           have
           been
           to
           this
           time
           ,
           had
           Rochelle
           been
           unsubdued
           )
           the
           Ministers
           of
           France
           and
           their
           Monarch
           would
           have
           been
           more
           cautious
           than
           to
           have
           attempted
           it
           :
           if
           then
           this
           foundation
           be
           truly
           laid
           ,
           as
           I
           shall
           prove
           it
           more
           largely
           hereafter
           ,
           my
           Masters
           the
           Estates
           of
           the
           United
           Provinces
           ,
           who
           are
           persons
           that
           commonly
           understand
           strictly
           to
           take
           the
           account
           of
           their
           interest
           ,
           may
           calculate
           ,
           after
           they
           have
           set
           on
           one
           side
           the
           profits
           which
           they
           received
           from
           France
           for
           Vessels
           which
           they
           lent
           or
           sold
           them
           to
           advance
           this
           Reduction
           ,
           and
           have
           set
           on
           the
           other
           side
           the
           loss
           which
           by
           the
           late
           Expedition
           of
           his
           most
           Christian
           Majesty
           against
           them
           they
           have
           sustained
           ,
           that
           which
           arises
           of
           gain
           or
           loss
           at
           the
           foot
           of
           the
           account
           in
           this
           Commerce
           of
           theirs
           ,
           and
           the
           
             quid
             pro
             quo
          
           of
           Estate
           in
           this
           Juncture
           shall
           be
           plain
           .
        
         
           As
           for
           France
           considered
           in
           it self
           ,
           I
           speak
           of
           its
           State
           in
           its
           three
           Estates
           ,
           we
           may
           admire
           in
           this
           point
           the
           wonderful
           light
           of
           the
           deceased
           Monsieur
           Marshal
           
             de
             Bassompiere
          
           ,
           which
           I
           quoted
           above
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           a
           truth
           no
           more
           disputed
           ,
           but
           generally
           known
           of
           all
           persons
           of
           worth
           and
           intelligence
           in
           France
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           ;
           That
           the
           Liberty
           of
           all
           France
           was
           buried
           in
           the
           reduction
           and
           demolition
           of
           the
           fortifications
           of
           the
           Town
           of
           Rochelle
           :
           It
           was
           this
           City
           that
           sustained
           the
           dying
           liberty
           of
           France
           since
           the
           Reign
           of
           Lewis
           the
           Eleventh
           ,
           and
           which
           was
           in
           a
           condition
           to
           re-establish
           it
           ,
           and
           with
           its
           liberty
           to
           uphold
           also
           the
           liberty
           of
           all
           Europe
           ,
           both
           in
           their
           Religious
           and
           Civil
           Concerns
           .
           If
           the
           aforesaid
           Powers
           as
           well
           as
           France
           it self
           ,
           ignorant
           of
           their
           true
           interest
           ,
           had
           not
           by
           their
           connivance
           or
           by
           their
           Succours
           brought
           about
           the
           aforesaid
           Reduction
           ;
           for
           to
           what
           purpose
           serves
           it
           for
           the
           Gentry
           of
           France
           to
           see
           their
           Monarch
           triumph
           over
           all
           his
           Neighboury
           Princes
           ;
           if
           this
           only
           tend
           to
           increase
           the
           number
           of
           Slaves
           under
           his
           Dominion
           ,
           or
           rather
           to
           give
           them
           the
           sensible
           and
           tormenting
           displeasure
           to
           see
           the
           Forces
           and
           Power
           of
           some
           Estates
           broken
           in
           pieces
           ,
           who
           by
           their
           Subsistence
           and
           Ayds
           might
           have
           had
           time
           and
           place
           to
           have
           holpen
           them
           in
           some
           favourable
           conjuncture
           to
           break
           the
           chains
           and
           shake
           off
           the
           yoke
           which
           oppresseth
           them
           ;
           whereas
           if
           no
           Power
           be
           in
           a
           condition
           to
           make
           Head
           against
           their
           Prince
           ,
           who
           shall
           be
           able
           to
           lend
           them
           assistance
           to
           free
           them
           from
           their
           oppressions
           .
        
         
           But
           that
           it
           may
           not
           be
           thought
           that
           I
           advance
           a
           strange
           notion
           ,
           in
           
           that
           I
           would
           build
           the
           safety
           of
           a
           whole
           Realm
           ,
           and
           also
           of
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           Europe
           on
           the
           simple
           surrender
           of
           one
           Town
           ,
           which
           hath
           been
           entitled
           with
           the
           name
           of
           a
           Rebel
           ,
           we
           must
           examine
           it
           :
           And
           to
           penetrate
           into
           the
           bottom
           of
           this
           matter
           ,
           I
           consider
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           Estate
           the
           King
           of
           
           France's
           Authority
           now
           is
           there
           can
           be
           no
           other
           then
           the
           re-establishment
           of
           one
           of
           the
           three
           means
           which
           I
           shall
           after
           expound
           ,
           or
           some
           equivalent
           ,
           which
           can
           hinder
           these
           Kings
           absolutely
           to
           dispose
           of
           the
           Lives
           and
           Goods
           of
           their
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           that
           thereby
           they
           may
           not
           be
           able
           by
           the
           formidable
           multitude
           of
           people
           of
           all
           degrees
           which
           are
           in
           France
           ,
           their
           Industry
           ,
           Courage
           and
           Martial
           Activity
           ,
           to
           hold
           all
           their
           Neighbours
           in
           perpetual
           and
           well
           grounded
           alarms
           ;
           I
           would
           be
           understood
           to
           speak
           of
           the
           means
           which
           France
           hath
           had
           or
           may
           have
           in
           it self
           to
           maintain
           or
           establish
           its
           liberty
           .
        
         
           The
           first
           of
           these
           means
           is
           as
           ancient
           an
           Institution
           as
           the
           Office
           and
           name
           of
           a
           King
           in
           France
           ;
           for
           it
           hath
           been
           since
           the
           time
           the
           ancient
           Franks
           did
           conquer
           the
           Gauls
           ;
           that
           is
           the
           Election
           of
           a
           Palatine
           or
           Major
           of
           the
           Palace
           ,
           who
           was
           the
           Consul
           and
           Head
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           the
           true
           Protector
           of
           the
           Liberty
           of
           his
           Country
           ,
           who
           had
           Power
           to
           deal
           as
           an
           Arbitrator
           betwixt
           the
           King
           and
           his
           People
           ,
           and
           to
           regulate
           and
           decide
           all
           their
           differences
           ,
           and
           in
           truth
           the
           ancient
           Kings
           of
           France
           were
           no
           other
           to
           speak
           properly
           than
           the
           chief
           Captains
           General
           of
           their
           Realm
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Palatine
           resided
           the
           Principal
           charges
           of
           the
           Estate
           ;
           as
           the
           Chancellour
           ,
           Constable
           and
           Admiral
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           very
           true
           that
           in
           this
           manner
           the
           Authority
           was
           very
           well
           parted
           betwixt
           the
           King
           and
           his
           People
           ,
           who
           were
           represented
           as
           for
           this
           last
           regard
           by
           the
           Palatine
           :
           but
           
             Hugh
             Capet
          
           knowing
           very
           well
           by
           the
           consequence
           of
           what
           he
           and
           Pepin
           had
           done
           ,
           that
           the
           same
           Palatines
           might
           one
           day
           act
           the
           very
           same
           against
           their
           Successours
           ,
           he
           with
           dexterity
           suppressed
           the
           Office
           of
           the
           Palatine
           ,
           and
           annexed
           it
           unto
           the
           Royalty
           :
           see
           here
           the
           manner
           wherein
           appears
           the
           first
           means
           whereby
           the
           liberty
           of
           Estate
           in
           France
           hath
           subsisted
           during
           the
           two
           first
           Races
           of
           its
           Kings
           ,
           suppressed
           and
           abolished
           by
           a
           Palatine
           himself
           ,
           in
           whose
           Person
           the
           third
           Race
           of
           those
           very
           Kings
           did
           commence
           ,
           whose
           Successours
           have
           reigned
           in
           a
           continued
           Succession
           unto
           this
           day
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           
             Hugh
             Capet
          
           could
           not
           come
           to
           this
           Crown
           but
           with
           the
           satisfaction
           of
           all
           the
           Principal
           Members
           ,
           and
           especially
           those
           of
           his
           own
           degree
           ;
           this
           was
           the
           cause
           that
           the
           evil
           consequences
           which
           would
           have
           arisen
           from
           the
           Office
           of
           Palatine
           were
           not
           perceived
           nor
           redressed
           ,
           as
           the
           interest
           of
           State
           without
           doubt
           required
           ;
           and
           that
           he
           might
           take
           away
           all
           resentments
           thereof
           ;
           
             Hugh
             Capet
          
           being
           too
           subtle
           and
           refined
           a
           Politician
           to
           leave
           any
           suspicion
           in
           his
           peoples
           minds
           ,
           he
           made
           use
           of
           this
           contrivance
           to
           substitute
           the
           Sessions
           
           of
           the
           States
           General
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           under
           the
           name
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           of
           which
           we
           find
           very
           little
           mention
           during
           the
           Reign
           of
           the
           Kings
           of
           the
           two
           first
           Races
           :
           for
           in
           as
           much
           as
           the
           Deputies
           of
           the
           three
           Estates
           compose
           this
           Assembly
           ,
           it
           may
           seem
           at
           first
           view
           that
           
             Hugh
             Capet
          
           had
           not
           suppressed
           the
           Office
           of
           Palatine
           for
           other
           purpose
           then
           to
           diffuse
           all
           the
           Authority
           of
           this
           Eminent
           Charge
           upon
           the
           particular
           Members
           of
           the
           said
           Assembly
           ;
           but
           these
           good
           souls
           did
           not
           reflect
           that
           the
           Office
           of
           Palatine
           was
           perpetual
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Session
           of
           the
           Parliament
           was
           only
           then
           held
           when
           the
           King
           had
           a
           fancy
           to
           assemble
           them
           ;
           albeit
           it
           is
           true
           that
           the
           States
           General
           of
           France
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           in
           possession
           would
           understand
           it
           otherwise
           ,
           notwithstanding
           by
           the
           consequence
           we
           may
           understand
           ,
           how
           dangerous
           it
           is
           to
           change
           under
           what
           pretence
           soever
           the
           Fundamental
           Laws
           of
           Estate
           ,
           let
           the
           appearances
           be
           never
           so
           specious
           that
           the
           same
           advantage
           is
           retained
           ,
           it
           being
           certain
           that
           they
           who
           have
           the
           courage
           or
           dexterity
           to
           modulize
           or
           conquer
           Sovereign
           Estates
           know
           better
           than
           any
           other
           by
           what
           Maxims
           their
           Successours
           may
           be
           enabled
           to
           maintain
           themselves
           therein
           ;
           for
           when
           the
           French
           first
           conquered
           the
           Gauls
           they
           chose
           a
           King
           out
           of
           the
           number
           of
           their
           Generals
           ,
           they
           also
           wisely
           devised
           as
           I
           touched
           above
           ,
           all
           that
           might
           hinder
           their
           Kings
           from
           ever
           becoming
           Tyrants
           .
           Now
           in
           the
           Estates
           Generals
           or
           Parliaments
           consisted
           the
           second
           means
           whereby
           the
           publick
           Liberty
           in
           France
           did
           subsist
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           their
           Sessions
           were
           frequent
           ;
           but
           in
           process
           of
           time
           Lewis
           the
           Ninth
           having
           reunited
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           particular
           Principalities
           which
           were
           in
           France
           unto
           the
           Crown
           ,
           Charles
           the
           Eighth
           having
           accomplished
           that
           great
           Work
           by
           his
           Marriage
           with
           Anne
           the
           Heiress
           of
           the
           Dukedome
           of
           Britain
           ,
           these
           Princes
           believing
           and
           finding
           themselves
           above
           all
           accidents
           ,
           the
           assembling
           of
           the
           Estates
           General
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           hath
           been
           so
           long
           discontinued
           ,
           that
           at
           length
           all
           use
           of
           it
           hath
           been
           as
           it
           were
           quite
           lost
           ;
           and
           thereby
           the
           second
           means
           of
           maintaining
           the
           liberty
           of
           France
           through
           the
           whole
           extent
           thereof
           is
           vanished
           and
           dissipated
           as
           the
           former
           ,
           then
           the
           publick
           liberty
           was
           in
           a
           pitiful
           Estate
           until
           such
           time
           as
           the
           Reformation
           began
           to
           get
           footing
           in
           France
           :
           for
           as
           the
           Reformation
           of
           Luther
           was
           doubtless
           the
           means
           of
           saving
           the
           German
           liberty
           ,
           so
           the
           Reformation
           of
           Calvin
           in
           France
           did
           not
           help
           a
           little
           to
           revive
           the
           dying
           liberty
           of
           that
           Estate
           .
        
         
           Now
           by
           the
           following
           cruel
           and
           bloody
           persecutions
           wherewith
           the
           reformed
           were
           thereupon
           pursued
           in
           France
           ,
           the
           Head
           of
           that
           Party
           being
           inclosed
           in
           Rochelle
           ,
           and
           from
           thence
           giving
           life
           to
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Party
           through
           the
           whole
           Extent
           of
           France
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           truly
           said
           that
           Rochelle
           in
           the
           defect
           of
           Palatines
           and
           General
           Assemblies
           with
           the
           rest
           of
           its
           Party
           did
           little
           less
           in
           France
           then
           what
           a
           pit
           or
           excellent
           
           Cistern
           of
           pure
           water
           doth
           in
           a
           dry
           and
           parched
           place
           ,
           in
           the
           times
           of
           greatest
           heat
           ,
           for
           the
           use
           of
           water
           being
           of
           an
           indispensable
           necessity
           for
           the
           service
           of
           life
           ,
           and
           these
           dry
           places
           in
           the
           most
           ardent
           heat
           being
           destitute
           of
           Fountains
           or
           Rivers
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           defect
           of
           these
           natural
           means
           we
           think
           our selves
           happy
           in
           the
           comfort
           of
           Cisterns
           ,
           though
           they
           be
           means
           extraordinary
           ,
           so
           of
           the
           like
           nature
           was
           the
           subsistence
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Party
           in
           France
           :
           for
           the
           Palatines
           and
           Sessions
           of
           the
           States
           General
           in
           France
           by
           their
           total
           or
           tacite
           suppression
           ,
           being
           not
           able
           to
           sustain
           any
           longer
           the
           liberty
           of
           the
           State
           ;
           Rochelle
           and
           its
           Partisans
           as
           an
           extraordinary
           means
           so
           long
           as
           it
           subsisted
           ,
           did
           in
           one
           manner
           or
           other
           maintain
           this
           accidental
           Liberty
           ,
           which
           hath
           entirely
           disappeared
           since
           the
           reddition
           thereof
           ,
           so
           that
           at
           this
           day
           all
           France
           is
           wholly
           fallen
           into
           a
           domination
           purely
           despotick
           ,
           and
           to
           speak
           the
           truth
           being
           a
           Body
           sick
           of
           ill
           humours
           which
           subsisted
           by
           one
           only
           sort
           of
           nourishment
           ,
           and
           wholly
           excluded
           from
           it
           ,
           its
           death
           by
           consequent
           is
           inevitable
           .
        
         
           As
           to
           the
           tacite
           interest
           which
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           other
           Powers
           of
           Europe
           might
           have
           had
           to
           oppose
           themselves
           against
           this
           rendition
           with
           as
           much
           vigour
           as
           
             Spain
             ,
             England
             ,
             Holland
          
           and
           France
           it self
           ought
           to
           have
           done
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           followed
           their
           true
           Interest
           ,
           for
           this
           they
           need
           only
           in
           the
           first
           place
           see
           into
           what
           Estate
           all
           the
           Potentates
           of
           Europe
           would
           have
           been
           reduced
           ,
           if
           the
           irruption
           into
           Holland
           had
           succeeded
           ,
           and
           if
           the
           Sovereign
           Lord
           of
           all
           things
           had
           not
           taken
           away
           their
           light
           and
           spirit
           from
           the
           Ministers
           of
           France
           ,
           after
           they
           had
           taken
           Utrich
           and
           Narden
           ,
           to
           make
           themselves
           Masters
           of
           the
           Town
           of
           Amsterdam
           ,
           which
           might
           have
           been
           done
           for
           some
           days
           more
           easily
           than
           the
           Commonwealth
           of
           the
           United
           Provinces
           could
           by
           means
           of
           this
           place
           alone
           preserved
           have
           recovered
           unto
           it self
           in
           a
           small
           time
           the
           possession
           of
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           their
           conquered
           Estate
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           second
           place
           we
           must
           examine
           what
           by
           the
           loss
           of
           the
           Liberty
           of
           the
           People
           of
           France
           ,
           this
           Monarch
           disposing
           absolutely
           as
           I
           have
           said
           before
           of
           the
           wealth
           and
           industry
           of
           all
           his
           Subjects
           is
           able
           to
           do
           and
           execute
           against
           all
           his
           Neighbours
           ,
           with
           relation
           thereto
           against
           all
           the
           Potentates
           of
           Christendom
           ,
           and
           by
           this
           Reflection
           all
           the
           Powers
           concerned
           to
           deliver
           themselves
           from
           such
           apprehensions
           may
           see
           how
           much
           it
           imports
           them
           to
           redress
           such
           an
           Evil
           ;
           as
           this
           cannot
           be
           done
           without
           bringing
           about
           an
           Establishment
           of
           the
           liberty
           of
           Estate
           in
           France
           ,
           and
           that
           re-establishment
           cannot
           probably
           be
           effected
           without
           restoring
           life
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Party
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           being
           that
           Party
           cannot
           re-establish
           it self
           without
           Puissant
           Forreign
           Aid
           ,
           all
           these
           Powers
           interessed
           in
           this
           re-establishment
           may
           see
           ,
           that
           if
           so
           terrible
           a
           
             quid
             pro
             quo
          
           of
           Estate
           have
           been
           rendred
           them
           for
           suffering
           the
           Protestant
           Party
           to
           be
           subdued
           by
           the
           Rendition
           of
           
           the
           Town
           of
           Rochelle
           ,
           they
           shall
           make
           it
           altogether
           irreparable
           ,
           if
           before
           they
           dissolve
           their
           Confederacy
           and
           put
           off
           their
           Arms
           ,
           they
           hearken
           to
           any
           Propositions
           of
           Peace
           until
           they
           have
           by
           Succours
           and
           real
           encouragements
           brought
           about
           so
           desirable
           a
           re-establishment
           ;
           for
           without
           this
           Foundation
           neither
           Peace
           nor
           Precautions
           can
           be
           found
           ,
           which
           may
           possibly
           deliver
           the
           Christian
           World
           from
           the
           apprehension
           of
           changing
           as
           to
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           it
           ,
           the
           State
           and
           face
           ,
           both
           temporal
           and
           spiritual
           ,
           wherewith
           I
           conclude
           my
           small
           Observations
           concerning
           the
           aforesaid
           Error
           of
           State.
           
        
         
           Though
           in
           these
           Observations
           nothing
           was
           said
           of
           the
           Lords
           ,
           Bishops
           and
           Clergy
           of
           France
           ,
           nor
           of
           their
           great
           and
           absolute
           Master
           the
           Pope
           ,
           yet
           it
           will
           be
           very
           easie
           from
           the
           Principles
           here
           laid
           down
           compared
           with
           the
           Attempts
           this
           King
           of
           France
           hath
           made
           for
           reforming
           his
           Subjects
           into
           a
           neutral
           Religion
           contained
           in
           the
           following
           Articles
           ,
           to
           evince
           that
           the
           Pope
           and
           Clergy
           both
           of
           France
           and
           other
           Neighbour
           Countries
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           they
           hate
           the
           Calvinists
           can
           hope
           for
           no
           other
           than
           a
           mongril
           and
           precarious
           Religion
           ,
           Discipline
           and
           arbitrary
           maintenance
           and
           tolleration
           from
           the
           Kings
           of
           France
           ,
           if
           once
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           were
           expelled
           out
           of
           his
           Dominions
           ,
           besides
           that
           if
           any
           one
           King
           of
           France
           should
           at
           any
           time
           change
           his
           Faith
           ,
           or
           this
           King
           pursue
           his
           intended
           Reformation
           and
           re-union
           ,
           their
           utter
           ruine
           must
           thereon
           necessarily
           ensue
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           was
           for
           this
           reason
           the
           present
           Pope
           did
           herein
           imitate
           the
           wise
           Counsel
           of
           his
           Predecessors
           ,
           and
           did
           enter
           the
           League
           with
           this
           present
           Emperour
           ,
           the
           King
           of
           Spain
           ,
           and
           other
           Catholick
           and
           Protestant
           Princes
           against
           the
           Kings
           of
           France
           and
           Sweden
           to
           procure
           the
           liberty
           of
           France
           ,
           as
           he
           did
           with
           the
           King
           of
           France
           against
           Charles
           the
           Fifth
           ,
           Emperour
           and
           King
           of
           Spaine
           for
           the
           liberty
           of
           Germany
           ,
           remembring
           how
           unkindly
           his
           Catholick
           Majesty
           detained
           his
           Holiness
           in
           captivity
           ,
           and
           what
           Reformations
           he
           designed
           and
           had
           certainly
           made
           ,
           had
           his
           design
           taken
           effect
           in
           Germany
           ,
           a
           Body
           though
           greater
           yet
           not
           so
           united
           as
           this
           of
           France
           .
        
         
           The
           Articles
           of
           a
           New
           French
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           follow
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             A
             Confession
             of
             Faith
             shall
             be
             drawn
             up
             in
             general
             terms
             ,
             which
             shall
             comprehend
             the
             Faith
             professed
             by
             both
             Religions
             without
             touching
             at
             all
             upon
             these
             Points
             in
             which
             they
             are
             not
             agreed
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             There
             shall
             be
             no
             Disputes
             about
             controverted
             perswasions
             ,
             and
             the
             Preachers
             shall
             be
             forbidden
             to
             preach
             pro
             or
             con
             ,
             and
             the
             reading
             of
             the
             School-Divines
             shall
             be
             prohibited
             in
             the
             Schools
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             There
             shall
             be
             a
             Patriarch
             created
             ,
             who
             shall
             depend
             on
             the
             King
             alone
             ,
             who
             shall
             not
             be
             married
             nor
             the
             Bishops
             .
          
           
             4.
             
             The
             Patriarch
             shall
             dispence
             with
             vowes
             and
             degrees
             of
             Consanguinity
             ,
             and
             shall
             be
             Head
             of
             all
             the
             Clergy
             .
          
           
             
             5.
             
             The
             Archbishops
             and
             Bishops
             shall
             be
             chosen
             by
             the
             Clergy
             of
             their
             Respective
             Diocesses
             ,
             who
             shall
             name
             three
             Venerable
             and
             Learned
             Persons
             of
             the
             Age
             of
             thirty
             years
             at
             least
             ,
             of
             which
             the
             King
             shall
             choose
             one
             .
          
           
             6.
             
             In
             like
             manner
             Benefices
             shall
             not
             be
             any
             more
             resigned
             ,
             but
             they
             shall
             be
             all
             in
             the
             King's
             nomination
             ,
             except
             the
             Rectors
             and
             Parish
             Priests
             ,
             who
             shall
             be
             chosen
             by
             their
             Chapters
             ,
             together
             with
             the
             Parish
             Priests
             ,
             and
             those
             of
             the
             Cathedrals
             or
             chief
             encorporated
             Churches
             of
             each
             City
             where
             they
             inhabit
             ,
             the
             Bishop
             or
             his
             Vicar
             being
             President
             ,
             and
             the
             Prebendaries
             shall
             be
             fitted
             with
             learned
             and
             pious
             men
             of
             the
             Age
             of
             thirty
             years
             at
             least
             ,
             whereof
             some
             shall
             be
             Preachers
             and
             Professors
             of
             Divinity
             ,
             to
             the
             intent
             that
             they
             may
             instruct
             the
             Youth
             ;
             others
             shall
             visit
             the
             Diocess
             and
             have
             inspection
             over
             their
             manners
             ,
             their
             Revenues
             shall
             be
             distributed
             according
             to
             the
             first
             intention
             .
          
           
             7.
             
             There
             shall
             be
             an
             University
             established
             in
             every
             Bishoprick
             ,
             which
             shall
             be
             furnished
             with
             the
             best
             learned
             Professors
             that
             can
             be
             found
             ,
             which
             may
             be
             composed
             partly
             of
             the
             Clergy
             and
             Canons
             ,
             and
             shall
             be
             only
             a
             School
             .
          
           
             8.
             
             A
             Seminary
             shall
             also
             be
             established
             in
             every
             Bishoprick
             on
             the
             same
             Foundation
             ,
             to
             instruct
             those
             that
             are
             Candidates
             of
             the
             Priesthood
             ,
             if
             it
             be
             not
             found
             more
             ,
             convenient
             to
             imploy
             the
             Canons
             therein
             according
             to
             their
             first
             Institution
             .
          
           
             9.
             
             The
             Parochial
             Priests
             alone
             of
             all
             the
             Clergy
             may
             marry
             ,
             and
             shall
             not
             be
             received
             without
             first
             undergoing
             a
             Severe
             Examination
             of
             their
             Capacity
             and
             shall
             be
             obliged
             to
             make
             a
             Sermon
             or
             Exhortation
             of
             half
             an
             hour
             at
             least
             every
             Lords
             day
             .
          
           
             10.
             
             The
             Ministers
             shall
             be
             provided
             of
             Cures
             in
             the
             places
             of
             their
             Residence
             ,
             and
             where
             they
             cannot
             be
             provided
             they
             shall
             part
             the
             Service
             with
             the
             Curates
             of
             the
             Place
             ,
             and
             shall
             be
             in
             the
             mean
             time
             provided
             on
             the
             place
             with
             wages
             as
             formerly
             ,
             and
             some
             of
             them
             shall
             also
             be
             imployed
             in
             the
             Universities
             and
             Schools
             of
             Divinity
             ,
             according
             to
             their
             Abilities
             ,
             and
             to
             take
             away
             all
             doubts
             from
             the
             Scrupulous
             ,
             they
             shall
             be
             obliged
             to
             assist
             every
             Lord's
             day
             in
             the
             Service
             of
             the
             Parish
             ,
             and
             to
             communicate
             on
             yearly
             Festivals
             by
             the
             hands
             of
             such
             as
             shall
             be
             in
             Orders
             .
          
           
             11.
             
             The
             one
             half
             of
             the
             Cloisters
             shall
             be
             suppressed
             ,
             and
             none
             of
             the
             Female
             Sex
             shall
             be
             suffered
             to
             make
             a
             Vow
             ,
             unless
             they
             be
             above
             thirty
             years
             of
             Age.
             
          
           
             12.
             
             The
             Liturgy
             shall
             be
             reformed
             ,
             and
             put
             into
             an
             Intelligible
             Language
             ,
             whereunto
             extraordinary
             Prayers
             may
             be
             added
             according
             to
             occasion
             ,
             and
             the
             Curates
             and
             Preachers
             may
             also
             make
             prayers
             of
             their
             own
             Invention
             in
             the
             beginning
             and
             at
             the
             end
             of
             their
             Exhortations
             .
             The
             Vespers
             or
             Evening
             Prayers
             shall
             be
             composed
             of
             Hymns
             and
             Psalms
             in
             French
             ,
             and
             some
             part
             only
             of
             ancient
             use
             shall
             be
             retained
             in
             another
             Language
             .
          
           
             13.
             
             A
             good
             part
             also
             of
             the
             less
             needful
             Ceremonies
             shall
             be
             reformed
             as
             Torches
             at
             Funerals
             ,
             part
             of
             the
             Canonizations
             ,
             Procession
             and
             Pilgrimages
             ,
             and
             the
             Postures
             of
             the
             Priest
             at
             the
             Altar
             ,
             and
             the
             Spirits
             of
             the
             People
             shall
             be
             taken
             off
             as
             much
             as
             can
             be
             from
             the
             Exteriour
             of
             Religion
             .
          
           
             14.
             
             Images
             shall
             be
             taken
             out
             of
             Churches
             .
          
           
             15.
             
             The
             Communion
             shall
             be
             delivered
             to
             the
             People
             on
             their
             knees
             before
             the
             Host
             in
             both
             kinds
             .
          
           
             16.
             
             Confession
             shall
             be
             made
             before
             the
             Communion
             ,
             and
             the
             Communion
             shall
             be
             administred
             only
             on
             the
             Lord's
             days
             .
          
           
             17.
             
             Every
             one
             shall
             be
             obliged
             to
             Communicate
             once
             every
             year
             in
             his
             own
             Parish
             Church
             ,
             on
             pain
             of
             Excommunication
             the
             first
             and
             second
             time
             ,
             and
             Banishment
             the
             third
             .
          
           
             18.
             
             No
             man
             shall
             be
             obliged
             to
             fall
             on
             his
             knees
             before
             the
             Host
             ,
             save
             only
             at
             the
             Communion
             .
          
           
             19.
             
             Confession
             shall
             not
             be
             so
             frequent
             ,
             and
             none
             other
             save
             the
             Curates
             and
             Ancient
             Preachers
             shall
             take
             Confessions
             .
          
           
             20.
             
             Baptism
             and
             the
             Eucharist
             shall
             be
             the
             greater
             Sacraments
             ,
             Confirmation
             shall
             be
             a
             consequent
             of
             Baptism
             ,
             or
             an
             Examen
             in
             order
             to
             the
             Communion
             ,
             and
             shall
             be
             
             administred
             by
             the
             Canons
             or
             Parochial
             Priests
             ;
             the
             extreme
             ,
             Unction
             shall
             be
             a
             Sacrament
             ,
             Orders
             and
             Marriage
             shall
             be
             administred
             by
             those
             who
             have
             right
             to
             Confess
             ,
             Penance
             shall
             be
             a
             necessary
             Work
             ,
             which
             the
             Bishops
             ,
             Curates
             ,
             and
             Confessors
             shall
             appoint
             unto
             Sinners
             according
             to
             the
             greatness
             of
             their
             Crimes
             ,
             and
             when
             the
             Scandal
             is
             publick
             the
             Penance
             shall
             also
             be
             publick
             ,
             but
             with
             Moderation
             and
             Discretion
             .
          
           
             21.
             
             The
             Festivals
             shall
             continue
             ,
             but
             shall
             not
             be
             observed
             with
             the
             same
             exactness
             as
             the
             Lord's
             day
             .
          
           
             22.
             
             Lent
             and
             the
             Fasting-days
             shall
             be
             observed
             ,
             but
             there
             may
             be
             exception
             made
             of
             all
             the
             Lord's
             days
             in
             Lent
             ,
             the
             Saturdays
             of
             all
             the
             year
             and
             all
             the
             Vigils
             .
          
           
             23.
             
             The
             Saints
             shall
             be
             honoured
             ,
             but
             without
             invoking
             them
             directly
             ,
             and
             all
             Prayers
             shall
             be
             directed
             to
             God
             alone
             .
          
           
             24.
             
             Pardons
             and
             Indulgences
             shall
             be
             reformed
             ,
             and
             endeavours
             shall
             be
             used
             to
             instruct
             the
             People
             as
             much
             as
             possible
             to
             make
             them
             apprehend
             that
             they
             ought
             to
             ground
             the
             Remission
             of
             their
             sins
             on
             the
             blood
             of
             Christ
             .
          
        
         
           All
           this
           and
           what
           else
           they
           can
           agree
           on
           shall
           be
           approved
           by
           an
           Assembly
           General
           ,
           which
           shall
           be
           composed
           of
           the
           most
           learned
           Divines
           of
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           Religion
           ,
           and
           they
           shall
           prepare
           the
           Confession
           which
           is
           spoken
           of
           above
           .
        
         
           But
           herein
           is
           the
           difficulty
           ,
           that
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           the
           Catholicks
           fancy
           that
           is
           too
           loose
           ,
           and
           they
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           think
           it
           too
           little
           ,
           and
           are
           afraid
           they
           shall
           be
           deceived
           in
           what
           is
           promised
           them
           .
        
         
           These
           Articles
           were
           testified
           and
           made
           notoriously
           known
           through
           all
           France
           by
           those
           to
           whom
           they
           were
           addressed
           ,
           by
           him
           who
           was
           sent
           by
           the
           King
           to
           sollicite
           the
           Re-union
           ,
           a
           Reformade
           of
           the
           King's
           Guards
           ,
           Bacary
           by
           name
           ,
           and
           Nephew
           (
           as
           he
           saith
           )
           of
           the
           deceased
           Mr.
           Gauches
           Minister
           at
           Charenton
           .
           His
           Warrant
           from
           the
           King
           was
           in
           these
           Words
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   The
                   Bearer
                   of
                   this
                   Paper
                   having
                   order
                   to
                   make
                   some
                   Propositions
                   on
                   my
                   part
                   to
                   the
                   Ministers
                   of
                   the
                   Pretended
                   Reformed
                   Religion
                   ,
                   they
                   may
                   Confide
                   in
                   whatsoever
                   he
                   shall
                   say
                   unto
                   them
                   ,
                   and
                   perswade
                   them
                   that
                   it
                   is
                   not
                   my
                   intent
                   to
                   do
                   any
                   thing
                   against
                   the
                   Edicts
                   and
                   Declarations
                   I
                   have
                   made
                   at
                   
                     Ath.
                     June
                  
                   18.
                   1671.
                   
                
                 
                   
                     LEWIS
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           His
           Certificate
           all
           written
           in
           Marshal
           
           Turenne's
           own
           hand
           ,
           hath
           these
           Words
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   You
                   may
                   give
                   entire
                   Credit
                   to
                   him
                   ,
                   who
                   shews
                   you
                   this
                   Paper
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   what
                   he
                   saith
                   ,
                   having
                   order
                   from
                   the
                   King
                   to
                   tell
                   you
                   ,
                   that
                   he
                   will
                   perform
                   all
                   the
                   things
                   which
                   he
                   shall
                   promise
                   you
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   this
                   comes
                   in
                   the
                   behalf
                   of
                   his
                   Majesty
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     TURENNE
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           The
           Bearer
           of
           this
           Paper
           tells
           the
           Ministers
           to
           whom
           he
           applies
           himself
           ,
           that
           4●
           Bishops
           have
           promised
           the
           King
           ,
           that
           for
           the
           advantage
           of
           the
           Re-union
           they
           will
           cut
           off
           the
           Adoration
           of
           Images
           ,
           Invocation
           of
           Saints
           ,
           Purgatory
           ,
           Prayers
           for
           the
           Dead
           ,
           that
           they
           will
           establish
           the
           Service
           in
           the
           Vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           Communion
           in
           both
           kinds
           ,
           and
           that
           for
           the
           real
           presence
           ,
           the
           Divines
           on
           both
           Sides
           shall
           accord
           thereon
           ,
           and
           that
           if
           the
           Pope
           oppose
           himself
           ,
           he
           shall
           be
           removed
           ,
           and
           a
           Patriarch
           established
           in
           France
           .
           These
           are
           the
           Reformado's
           own
           Words
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .