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religion_n	king_n	kingdom_n	majesty_n	5,039	5	6.1083	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81851	A warning to the Parliament of England. A discovery of the ends and designes of the Popish partie both abroad, and at home, in the raising and fomenting our late war, and still-continuing troubles : in an oration made to the generall Assembly of the French clergy in Paris, / by Monsieur Jaques du Perron Bishop of Angolesme, and Grand Almosner to the Queen of England. Translated out of a manuscript copy, obtained from a good hand in France, and now published for the opening their eyes that hate not the truth, and that desire to be thankfull for such a discovery. And for caution to those, to whom the Divine Providence hath intrusted the transaction of affaires, that they may most accurately take heed there be a sound foundation laid, of the so generally longed-for peace of the kingdome.; Discours fait de la part de la reyne d'Angleterre. English	Duperron, Jacques Davy, d. 1649.	1647 (1647)	Wing D2639; Thomason E410_11; ESTC R204452	9,116	12

A WARNING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND A Discovery of the ends and designes of the Popish Partie both abroad and at home in the raising and fomenting our late War and still-continuing troubles In an ORATION made to the generall Assembly of the French Clergy in Paris By Monsieur Jaques du Perron Bishop of Angolesme and Grand Almosner to the Queen of England Translated out of a Manuscript Copy obtained from a good hand in France and now published for the opening their eyes that hate not the Truth and that desire to be thankfull for such a DISCOVERY And for Caution to those to whom the Divine Providence hath intrusted the transaction of Affaires that they may most accurately take heed there be a sound foundation laid of the so Generally longed-for Peace of the KINGDOME Sed si populus iste vult decipi decipiatur London Printed for R.W. 1647. A Discourse made on the behalf of the Queen of England in the Generall Assembly of the Clergy at Paris concerning the present Affaires of the Catholike Religion in the Kingdom of England By Monsieur Jaques du Perron Bishop of Angolesme Grand Almosner to Her Majesty IF the King of Great Britain be constrained by the necessity and exigency of his Affaires to come to an Accommodation with his Rebelled Subjects as he will at last be inforced and that in a very short time if He receive not speedy and effectuall succors That Accommodation will necessarily bring with it the totall destruction of the Catholike Religion in that Kingdom For as the first and principall Pretext which the Parliamentarians serve themselves off to dresse and colour over their Rebellion withall and to Animate Arme and Unite all the Subjects together against their Lawfull Soveraign hath been to make them believe that he was a Catholike and that he would introduce and bring the Catholike Religion into that Kingdom And as the first Article of all the Treaties that have been set on foot and put forward by them hitherto hath alwaies been that of the Ruine and Extermination of the Catholikes it is not to be doubted they will never conclude any Accord or Agreement with their Prince but upon that rigorous Condition that the little Catholicisme that yet remaines there should for ever be Banished from thence and that all the Arms and Forces of England and Scotland shall be joyned together as they have long since resolved amongst themselves and published in Print to execute this unhappy and wicked design plainly that is to Massacre and cut the throats of all the poor Catholikes as they have already begun to do in divers places And to drown and extinguish for ever in their blood the Remainders and reliques of Religion not only in England and Scotland but also in Ireland where they have been almost all preserved in the Orthodox belief notwithstanding all the persecutions that have been raised against them for these hundred years last past Now the destruction of Monarchy in England and the Establishment of a Republike and especially of a Puritane Republike which is the end that the Parliamentarians aime at carrieth with it the greatest prejudice that may be to the Catholike Religion for the Extent of it will not be only in England in Scotland or in Ireland but in all other parts of Christendome For if this Popular and Puritane State shall once be formed in these three great Kingdoms and after that shall Unite it self with the Hereticks of Germany Holland and France as is most agreeable to all Maximes of State Religion and Interest and which to effect they are especially concerned and which is a design which the Parliamentarians had formed in their mindes from the instant of their Revolt and of which they now spare not to make a clear and open profession All these powers thus United by the Interests of State and of Religion the most strict and sacred bonds of humane society will render themselves so formidable to all the rest of Christendome as they will be able in succession of time if God shall not mightily interpose his hand to undermine and utterly to ruine all the Catholikes And this is that which the Parliamentarians hope to come unto at last when they shall have rooted up Monarchy from among themselves for they hate the Church yet more then they hate Royalty And is it not to be feared that if the Catholikes of other Countreys shall shew themselves so little sensible of the ruine of Religion in England and shall not be ready to give their assistance for the maintenance and preservation of the same that God by his just judgement should permit that themselves should fall into the same unhappinesse and misery of Schisme and Heresie from which they have had no heart to preserve and defend their brethren and their neighbors And is it not to be feared that God to punish our regardlesnes loosenes in the things of his service and of his glory and our little zeal for the Augmentation and Conservation of the Catholike Religion should permit the same Catholike Religion to be wholly ruined and rooted out of the rest of those Countreys in which it yet continueth in Europe as in the Ages past to chastise the sins of those that lived before us he hath permitted that it should be wholly destroyed in all Asia Affrick and the greatest part of Europe it selfe and to transplant it wholly into America and that new world which were the greatest unhappinesse that could befall us and which we ought to endeavour to hinder by all the meanes we can all the dayes of our lives The King of England hath promised by a Letter which he hath written to the Queen his spouse to revoke and repeal all those Laws which have at any time been made against the Catholikes in England in case he can receive from the Catholikes any assistance to put him into a Condition of power and Authority to be able to do it There is now no danger to declare this promise which hath been kept secret hitherto for that the Parliamentarians having surprised the Copie of the said Letter have Printed and published the same to render the King the most odious to the People that they can to render the Catholikes the most suspects And were not this now the greatest good that could possible come to the Catholike Religion For were not this to give and establish in a sort the liberty of Catholike Religion in England which if it were once established there it is most certain that we should shortly see the greatest part of that Countrey re-united to the Church for there are now already a fourth part yea even near a third part who are Catholikes either secret or open There is one other third part who are held in Schism only from the apprehension of temporall punishment and the losse of their goods and by the fear of the Laws which being once revoked as the King of England promiseth now they shall in case he

war should cause them to fall into the hands of their enemies who no doubt would forthwith imbrue their sacrilegious hands in the Royall bloud to see her at the very point now in the flower of her age about 35 or 36 years to be reduced she and all her family into a prodigious calamity into which shee had been already fallen as to her own person had it not been hindred by the charity that hath been extended to her by the King and Queen Lastly to see this Princesse suffer all this for the most just cause in the World and that which hath made all our Saints and Martyrs that is to say for that she is a Catholike and re-established and made to flourish again the Catholike Religion in England behold this is all her Crime in the opinion of the Parliamentarians this the only fault of which they can convince her and of which they have declared her guilty by all their Printed Pamphlets after they had with greatest malice and diligence made a more accurate sear●n into her whole life then into the life of the most wicked Malefactor even of those who are guilty of treason it self And this seems to me to be a motive that should so much more excite us to Contribution in this cause for that it depends upon us for succour and relief It is not without the greatest regret and with very much unwillingnesse and shame that shee is brought to this point to ask and importune your aide but her own Affaires and the whole Catholike cause especially in England are at present come to that State that she believed it was her duty on this occasion even to offer some violence to her own disposition to overcome the greatnesse of her spirit and to put out and lay by all sense of that shame confusion and repugnancie which hath hitherto deterred her Ne● turpe putat quid quid miseros fortuna jubet She knows your hearts so filled and flaming with the zeale of the Catholike Religion she knows that you are so deeply affectionate to the Royall blood of our Kings she knows you so Christian-like charitable and tenderly compassionate to the miseries of all afflicted even those of lowest quality and condition how much mote then of Crowned heads whereof her self is one cast down into and overwhelmed in the Abysse bottom of all manner of misery unhappines that she believes it cannot be a thing unacceptable to offer you this an occasion the most glorious before men and most meritorious before God to give to all Christendome a publike Demonstration that these good and laudable dispositions do dwell and worke in you For how can you ever better imploy your Liberality and your Alms then to hinder the progresse of Heresie to advance Religion and to retire out of a totall ruine all the Catholikes of England to deliver from misery from almes from beggery it self I make no difficulty to use these tearms for that the Queen of England hath held it no dishonour to use them and to write them with her own hand in the memoriall which shee gave me of those things which I should represent unto you on her part to deliver therefore I say from almes and beggery a Queen and Princes who are the children of those who have founded and endowed our benefices and who have bestowed them upon us The assistance which the Queen of England desires of you is what in your own prudence you think fit both for the sums you shall lend and of the manner of furnishing thereof whether at one intire paiment or at divers as being desirous to be as little but then some to the Clergie as shee can which also shee desires not in free and pure gift but only by way of Loan and that only untill God shall please to restore her affaires into some better estate This if you shall do you will have a great part of the glory of the happy re-establishment of the Catholike Religion and of Monarchy in the Kingdome of England you shall be the cause of the salvation spirituall and temporall of an infinite number of persons who now stretch forth their hands unto you out of the midst of their perils and from the darknesse of their prisons imploring your assistance as doth also all the remainder of the poor Catholike Church in England no more now triumphant as I have sometimes seen it no more simply militant but if I may so say suffering persecuted expiring dying which implore your assistance by the mouth of their Queen and by me And who by their prayers and teares and it may be also by their blood if God shall give them grace to consummate their Martyrdome by the losse of their lives will draw down upon you the benedictions of heaven and will cause you to merit immortall praises among men and a crown of glory to Eternity This Speech was made the 19 of February 46. FJNJS