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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85865	A true relation of what hath been transacted in behalf of those of the reformed religion, during the treaty of peace at Reswick With an account of the present persecution in France.	Gaujac, Peter Gally de.	1698 (1698)	Wing G374; ESTC R230535	61,066	68

Cruelties have they not used in the Spanish Netherlands to Extinguish the Reformation there and have not as yet compassed their Design Not even since the time that the French Court hath added to the Yoke of the Protestants These People have but a step into Holland which is a Free-Country but worldly Interests keep them still chained to that spot of Ground wherein they were Born and Bred. 'T is true they save themselves as much as they can the trouble of going to Mass and if sometimes they yield 't is out of pure Necessity Therefore we shall not determine any thing about their Condition The Question now is not whether they be good Protestants or no and whether they are in the way of Salvation but however this at least is certain that they are by no means Papists And consequently we may be assur'd That the Protestant Religion will never go out of France unless the Protestants themselves be gone first so that Imprisoning them within the Kingdom is the sure way to Immortalize their Religion From what hath been said it is manifest that the present Persecution is by no means advantagious to Popery And by what follows it will be as evident That the Romish Religion loses its Authority and Reputation in France and Peoples Eyes begin to be more and more open every day Both the Outrages and the Persecutors and the Complaints of the Persecuted make them very intent upon the great Concern of Religion which perhaps they never would have troubled their Heads with had they let things continue as they were a Hundred years since They have taken away from the Protestants all their Books but have not been able to Burn all these Books They are Treasures which have been dispersed by our Shipwrack and Religious Men have had a more favourable opportunity of making advantage of them because others have not been apprehensive upon that Account In short Let the Cause of this be what it will 't is certain that there are whole Cantons and Provinces full of People who earnestly desire a Deliverance from Popery We have been well assured by honest and credible Persons that there are great Cities of Threescore or Fourscore Thousand Inhabitants whereof one third have some knowledge and very favourable Sentiments of the Truth This we know for certain because we see for these 12 or 15 years Proselytes come over to us from Popery in greater number than ever We will not deny but that among these Fryers Priests and Clergy-men who heretofore left the Romish Religion there were but few who were not moved by a Spirit of Libertinism but at present the case is much altered For now we have daily come over to us new Converts of that Character which are very good Men and have a sincere and earnest desire to work out their Salvation nay some of them are very Eminent for their Ability and Merit So that there are now among these Proselytes as few Cheats as there were many heretofore We are informed by them that were the Protestant States as Zealous for Propagating the Truth as the Papists are for their Superstitions they would see flocking to them many able and worthy Clergymen It might be wish'd That the Protestant Sovereigns would mind this great Concern and consider how much it would contribute to their Honour to provide Sanctuaries and Maintainance for so many Learned Men and who are besides enlightned by a Supernatural Grace a Supernatural Grace I say for one must be willfully blind not to discover herein the Finger of God which rouzes up Consciences that lay fast a Sleep and communicates his Light at the same time that the Devil endeavours to spread his Darkness But we must confess That the great necessity these Clergymen are threatned with by forsaking both their Native Country and Religion is a powerful Temptation that few are able to overcome 'T is indeed a great Affliction to a tender and compassionate Man to be forced to send away Persons of a good Character and sincerely Converted because he is not in a Condition to keep them from Starving But these things may alter when God Almighty shall be pleased to move the Hearts of the Higher Powers All we can do for them is to help them with our Prayers which God will we hope hear in due time If we consider how much Popery is divided and decays in France we shall the better comprehend the ill Condition it is reduced too it being crumbled into several Sects The Controversie between the Molinistes and the Jansenistes has made a great Noise for these forty or fifty years and now a new Sect is risen up under the Name of Quietists besides other impious ones like that of the Socinians begin to make a considerable Body there We were long since well informed that this wicked Heresie is spread amongst the most famous Societies and have it from the best hand that the Works of Episcopius are diligently perused by them in which one discovers first a meer Pelagianism and secondly that which the Bishop of Meaux calls a Mitigated Socinianism And all this is made good by one Mr. Vallone a Prebendary of the Church of St. Geneviefue and who appears to be a Man of Parts and Merit He has publish'd a Confession of his Faith and prefixed to it a Letter giving an account of his Conversion where he tells us that he chose rather to be a Fryer of St. Geneviefue than of St. Bernard He was not long there before he discovered a Party which called it self The Scripturists or Little Church agreeing openly with the Heterodox Opinions of the Socinians or Believing at least that in order to be a fine and delicate Wit one must allow a great liberty of Opinion These are what we call Latitudinarians according to the Tenents of their Masters Courcellus and Episcopius And this Cabal was spread in all Places where the Regular Canons of St. Geneviefue had Houses The Heads and Chief Members of this Society were the same to the Cabal as the General his Assistant the Visitor Ormessac Prior of St. Martin of Ruricourt the Abbot d'Essiat Polinier and many others Mr. Vallone was Informer against them and had very like to have lost his Life in a hideous Dungeon into which he was thrown by the General But at last after having undergone many Trials finding himself countenanced by the Abbot of Urbec he convinced the Court of the Truth of his Information Thereupon the French King sent by the Archbishop of Paris a Letter under his Privy Seal enjoyning the General Chapter which was to be held the next day to chuse another General declaring withall that he did Depose the Abbot of St. Geneviefue and all those who had any hand in the Cause of the Accuser Their Names were particularly mentioned and they were Commanded to lay down their Places In the same Work of Mr. De Vallone one may see a new instance of what we have already said concerning the multitude of those