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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

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either Idols of them by calling upon them or to commit Abominations in your ways by falling down before their Images But we want Books you will say How shall we instruct our Children Have you no Books You have at least the Bible by you What! Do you not know that so many Papists have been these last years illuminated by the reading of this Book only and will it not be suffieient to keep up in your House a light which is already kindled Finally though they be never so careful to take away all your Books you may save some and those that are the most useful and necessary are very small and of little consequence in the Eyes of your Enemies You need desire for this purpose only some familiar Instructions such as are to be found in our Catechisms and particularly in Mr. Direlincourt's Abridgment of Controversies wherein you have the most material Texts of Scripture against the Church of Rome Make your Children learn them by Heart and repeat them so often unto them that they may never forget them By the Commerce now open with Foreign Countreys you may furnish your selves with such Books as are necessary to your Comfort We wish it may please Almighty God to put it into the Hearts of some of our Brethren to send you some good Instructions in single Sheets which you may use as an Antidote to preserve your Children's Souls from Corruption We know very well the Sophisms and Fallacies of the Romish Catechists and what they teach their Catechumens or young Beginners and so it would not be a difficult matter for you to provide your selves with such Means as should be able to keep your Children from the Errours they intend to instil into them In these small Treatises great Learning and Eloquence are not so much required as evident and pertinent Places out of the Holy Scripture with some short and substantial Reasons to shew the strength of them and restore the Texts which have been alter'd and perverted from their true meaning by the Malicious and Erroneous Interpretations of our Adversaries This is the sum and substance of the Advices we promised you we might further inlarge upon them and add several others but since we are not in a condition to do all we refer you to those who either have already or shall hereafter undertake to Comfort and Instruct you yet without derogating from the Right which all your Ministers have to speak to you when they think it fit we have but one Advice more to give you which is to turn to God with an hearty and sincere Conversion with great and bitter Weeping with a sorrowful Repentance for so many Crying Sins that have drawn Gods Wrath both upon you and our Church and in fine with frequent pious fervent and reiterated Prayers and that you may the better understand how your Prayers should in our Opinion be expressed we have drawn up a Form which may serve you as a Patern if you think good A FORM of PRAYER for the Persecuted Church O Almighty God Father of all Light and Compassion thou only makest the Night and the Day Prosperity and Adversity thou disposest all Events with the most profound Wisdom and perfect Justice thou speakest and the thing is done thou Commandest and it standeth fast Ps 33. thy counsel standeth for ever and the thoughts of thy Heart to all G●nerations but thou bringest the Counsel of the Heathen to nought and makest the Devices of the People of none effect therefore thy Compassions cannot be reckoned up Ps 103. The Lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger and plenteous in mercy he will not always chide neither will he keep his anger for ever for as the Heaven is high above the Earth so great is his Mercy towards them that fear him To whom shall we go for succour O Lord but to thee who hast the Words of Eternal Life Of whom should we ask Relief but of him before whom the most Mighty Men are but Dust and Ashes Ps 2. he breaketh them with a Rod of Iron and dasheth them in pieces like a Potters Vessel Whom should we implore for Grace and Mercy but him who is abundant in Mercy and Compassion O great Shepherd of Israel Ps 80. who leadest us like Sheep turn us again shew the light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole Remember the Wonders which thou didst for this Israel who is now become the Prey of the Nations This Church was born in Egypt and had been long detained Captive in Babylon But thou with a strong and stretched out Arm hadst brought her out of Egypt about two hundred years ago Thou hadst transplanted this Vine and set it in a very fruitful Hill and watered it with the Due of Heaven and nursed it with the Fatness of the Earth Thou lookedst that it should bring forth Grapes Esai 5. and it brought forth Wild Grapes We have been all along barren and unfruitful under the care of this good and mighty Hand Es 64. We are all as an unclean thing and all our unrighteousness are as filthy rags and we all do fade as a Leaf and our Iniquities like the Wind have taken us away The sins of our forefathers fasten us to the Earth Ezech. 18. for our Fathers have eaten sowre grapes and our teeth are set on edge But alas we are Vipers Children of Serpents and hatch'd out of Cockatrice Eggs. We being wicked followers of our Ancestors Works have corrupted our selves as they have done and daily increased our Corruption Ezech. 33. Thy Word hath been to us as a very lovely Song and we have heard it according as it pleased our Ears and gratified our Senses We have been forgetful Hearers Matth. 11. and they have Piped unto us and we have not Danced they have Mourned unto us and we have not Lamented We have heard thy Servants who de-declared thy word unto us but have not answered by such motions as were agreeable both to their words and thy designs Gen. 6. Isai 1. All Flesh among us had corrupted his way upon Earth Thou hast looked down and the whole Head is sick and the whole Heart faint From the sole of the Foot even unto the Head there is no soundness in it but Wounds and Bruises and putrifying Sores they have not been closed neither bound up neither mollified with Ointment We our Fathers our Children our Shepherds our People have been all as Sheep going astray Psal 119. every one wandring in his own way And therefore thou hast searched us out and found him who rejoyced in his Carnal Pleasures and those who did shamefully and at their Ease lie down under their Vines and the shade of their Fig-Trees We fell asleep and the Enemy the Philistine is fallen upon us and because thy strength was departed from us Judg. 16. we remained bound with Cords and Fetters of Brass Therefore O Lord Dan. 9. Righteousness belongeth