SInce
't
is
usual
for
most
Men
to
regard
their
private
,
rather
than
the
publick
Interest
,
the
present
rather
than
the
time
to
come
,
I
am
not
at
all
surpriz'd
to
find
so
many
,
who
tho
they
easily
see
that
the
safety
of
the
Church
depends
wholly
on
the
greatness
of
France
;
yet
notwithstanding
,
are
not
wanting
to
prefer
their
Soveraigns
Interest
before
the
general
Good
of
all
Christendom
,
under
a
pretence
of
defending
the
Liberty
of
their
Country
:
which
nevertheless
't
will
be
impossible
for
them
to
do
without
the
assistance
of
France
.
But
one
might
have
pardoned
their
indiscreet
Zeal
for
their
Country
,
if
they
had
not
given
themselves
the
Liberty
of
reflecting
upon
the
Kings
good
Intentions
.
For
my
part
,
though
I
am
〈…〉
German
,
yet
I
am
a
great
admire
of
the
French
Vertues
,
and
havin●…
invincible
Arguments
to
confoun●…
such
indiscreet
Persons
,
I
thin●…
my self
obliged
in
Conscience
t●…
make
them
publick
.
I
cou'd
wis●…
indeed
that
some
of
the
bes●…
Writers
of
France
wou'd
take
thi●…
task
upon
them
,
since
they
wou'●…
not
be
expos'd
to
those
censures
as
a
Natural
German
must
of
necessity
be
.
But
I
see
we
must
no●…
expect
hereafter
any
Argument
from
a
Nation
which
will
make
good
her
Title
no
other
way
〈…〉
but
by
the
Point
of
the
Sword
knowing
that
the
good
Fortune
or
rather
the
Justice
of
the
King
will
procure
him
Advocates
enough
in
other
Countries
.
't
has
been
resolved
on
in
France
ever
since
the
year
1672
,
that
the
King
shou'd
not
for
the
future
give
any
reason
for
his
Enterprises
by
publishing
vain
useless
Manifests
,
as
his
Ancestors
and
the
other
Potentates
had
formerly
practis'd
.
Wherefore
it
being
agreed
on
to
attacque
the
Hollanders
,
the
Declaration
of
War
was
instead
of
a
Manifest
,
wherein
no
other
Reason
was
given
,
but
the
Kings
Will
;
to
wit
,
his
Displeasure
at
the
States
Conduct
and
Behaviour
:
the
ill-affected
People
gave
out
,
that
it
was
unjust
to
meddle
with
those
,
who
offered
all
imaginable
satisfaction
,
and
wish'd
only
to
know
what
the
King
desired
of
them
.
Others
suspected
that
the
Advocate
The
Title
of
a
Book
made
to
prove
the
Right
of
the
French
Queen
upon
the
Spanish
Neth
rlands
.
of
the
Rights
of
the
Queen
having
been
ill
handled
,
by
Baron
D'Issola
,
they
found
it
not
convenient
to
venture
a
second
Disgrace
,
but
they
are
all
in
the
dark
;
for
they
did
not
want
good
Reasons
in
France
,
and
I
know
that
a
Learned
Person
having
drawn
up
a
Manifest
,
wherein
he
clearly
laid
open
the
Conduct
of
the
Hollanders
,
he
presented
it
to
the
Ministers
of
State
,
who
thought
fit
to
suppress
it
,
saying
,
That
no
other
Reasons
but
those
which
Cardinal
de
Richlieu
calls
the
Final
Reasons
of
State
,
were
suitable
to
their
Masters
Grandure
.
After
that
,
the
Hollanders
and
their
Allies
mightily
urged
the
French
Plenipotentiaries
at
Cologne
,
to
communicate
to
them
,
the
Reasons
upon
which
their
King
grounded
his
Pretensions
;
but
the
Ambassadour
rejected
this
,
as
a
thing
unworthy
of
their
Great
Master
,
and
said
,
They
were
not
come
to
plead
like
Advocates
,
but
to
treat
of
Peace
as
the
Ministers
of
a
mighty
Monarch
,
and
to
declare
his
Will
in
whatsoever
he
would
or
would
not
Consent
to
.
They
observed
the
same
Method
likewise
at
Nimiguen
▪
for
they
laugh'd
at
the
good
Bishop
de
Gorck
,
and
took
him
for
a
very
simple
Person
for
demanding
of
them
any
Reason
of
their
Actions
:
Nay
,
even
the
Marshal
D'Estrades
,
and
the
Marquiss
de
Croissy
told
him
flat
and
plainly
,
(
the
Hollanders
having
made
a
separate
Peace
)
that
they
must
content
themselves
with
what
the
King
granted
them
,
and
receive
it
as
a
pure
Favour
of
his
Majesty
.
The
late
French
Ambassadors
at
Frankfort
cou'd
not
indure
to
be
told
of
the
Paragraph
of
the
Instrument
of
Peace
of
Westphalia
,
which
begun
thus
,
Teneatur
Rex
Christianissimus
.
I
cannot
tell
whether
that
rude
word
,
Teneatur
,
sounded
harsh
to
their
Ears
,
or
whether
they
were
offended
with
the
Text
;
however
,
't
is
certain
that
they
had
no
less
aversion
for
this
passage
,
than
the
Devil
has
for
Holy
Water
:
and
one
of
them
cou'd
not
refrain
from
saying
to
a
certain
Person
,
who
spoke
to
him
of
it
:
Let
me
alone
with
your
Peace
of
Munster
,
it
shall
neither
add
nor
diminish
any
thing
.
't
is
not
that
they
mistrusted
the
goodness
of
their
Cause
,
or
that
they
wanted
Reasons
to
strengthen
it
,
but
they
resolved
to
stand
firm
to
the
Resolution
which
has
been
long
since
taken
in
France
,
of
acknowledging
no
other
Judge
but
the
Sword
.
Not
as
that
Atheist
who
said
,
Dextra
mihi
Jupiter
&
telum
quid
missile
libra
.
But
because
they
imagine
very
well
,
quod
Victrix
causa
Diis
Placuit
,
and
that
there
needs
no
Reason
to
be
given
for
a
Victory
,
which
is
as
a
sentence
given
by
the
Gods
themselves
:
but
since
this
way
of
deciding
useless
Disputes
does
not
agree
with
the
Constitution
of
our
Germans
,
who
are
more
accustom'd
to
the
Wars
of
the
Pen
,
I
am
resolved
to
enter
into
the
List
with
them
,
thereby
not
to
betray
a
good
.
Cause
by
silence
,
which
most
People
unadvisedly
impute
to
the
illness
of
it
.
I
hope
to
undeceive
them
,
and
to
give
them
clear
Demonstrations
,
that
the
King
is
to
be
accused
rather
of
an
excess
of
Moderation
than
of
Ambition
,
since
the
Insolence
of
his
Enemies
proceeds
from
nothing
else
,
but
his
too
great
mercy
and
Clemency
towards
them
,
and
that
in
Consideration
of
Christendom
,
he
stops
sometimes
in
the
full
carreer
of
his
conquests
,
when
nothing
in
all
probability
can
hinder
him
from
making
greater
.
But
I
hope
the
King
will
one
day
open
his
Eyes
,
and
that
he
will
totally
ruine
those
Turbulent
and
Malignant
Persons
,
who
pretend
to
hinder
the
Christians
from
having
one
head
against
the
Infidels
,
the
Hereticks
from
being
destroyed
,
and
there
being
likewise
but
one
King
,
one
Faith
,
and
one
Law
.
Some
Body
will
object
to
me
,
that
I
expose
the
Kings
Rights
too
nakedly
,
and
with
too
great
freedom
,
and
that
I
discover
the
secret
before
its
time
,
but
I
have
good
reason
to
think
,
that
it
will
not
be
disliked
of
in
France
,
where
there
needs
no
further
dissimulation
,
and
the
Monsieurs
give
enough
to
understand
,
both
by
words
and
deeds
,
that
they
value
not
the
Censure
of
the
Vulgar
,
under
which
word
,
they
include
all
those
who
side
not
with
them
,
since
none
at
present
can
be
accomplisht
,
or
any
ways
distinguished
from
the
Common
sort
,
whose
Inclinations
are
not
altogether
Frenchified
.
Besides
I
have
several
Instances
,
to
induce
me
to
believe
,
that
France
makes
no
Mystery
of
divulging
what
she
has
so
long
kept
secret
;
whereof
here
are
some
:
About
15
or
18
years
past
,
some
inquisitive
Persons
had
discovered
,
by
what
means
I
know
not
,
the
Intreagues
of
the
French
to
get
Casall
into
their
hands
.
These
reports
coming
to
the
Kings
ear
,
and
seeming
dishonourable
to
him
,
he
ordered
Monsieur
Grevell
to
assure
the
Germans
in
the
word
of
a
King
,
that
he
was
far
from
having
any
such
thoughts
.
't
was
that
things
were
not
as
yet
Ripe
,
to
declare
their
minds
upon
that
Point
.
Except
you
will
say
to
excuse
France
,
that
't
is
only
since
that
time
that
she
begun
to
think
on
any
such
design
,
and
that
those
slanderers
were
themselves
the
occasion
of
it
,
their
King
supposing
it
to
be
all
one
,
whether
he
did
it
or
no
,
since
he
should
be
no
less
exposed
to
their
Malicious
Censures
,
so
that
these
Gentlemen
might
have
hastned
what
they
fear'd
,
as
those
Astrologers
,
whose
predictions
have
been
the
occasion
of
the
Evils
they
have
foretold
,
however
't
is
apparent
,
that
in
France
they
see
no
cause
why
they
shou'd
any
longer
make
a
scruple
of
any
thing
.
Here
is
another
Example
,
the
late
Elector
Palatine
,
sent
one
to
the
King
,
to
demand
the
restitution
of
some
places
,
which
his
Officers
had
seiz'd
on
.
This
Envoye
,
in
his
audience
of
the
King
,
insisted
much
on
the
Justice
and
Faith
of
Treaties
;
the
King
answered
him
with
a
great
deal
of
Moderation
,
that
he
pretended
nothing
,
but
what
he
thought
in
Conscience
belonged
to
him
,
and
that
he
had
appointed
Comissioners
to
examine
the
matter
fully
,
and
to
Confer
with
the
Parties
concerned
.
This
answer
was
conformable
to
the
times
,
for
the
face
of
Affairs
being
since
much
chang'd
,
they
derided
those
who
immagined
,
that
Common
Reason
shou'd
have
any
force
upon
the
Assessors
of
the
Chambers
of
Metz
and
Brisac
,
and
ridicul'd
likewise
those
who
were
so
simple
,
as
to
suppose
that
if
the
French
Ambassadours
at
Francfort
,
wou'd
enter
into
a
formal
dispute
with
them
,
and
maintain
these
in
Law
;
from
whence
one
may
judge
,
that
France
begins
to
throw
off
that
so
ill
becoming
shame
,
or
that
Clownish
modesty
which
she
formerly
had
,
and
that
on
the
contrary
she
Acts
with
a
certain
Noble
Freedom
,
peculiar
only
to
persons
well
bred
and
born
.
This
the
French
Ministers
in
several
places
do
not
dissemble
.
For
the
Ambassadors
at
Francfort
,
seeing
themselves
Importun'd
by
some
who
desired
to
know
,
why
France
had
never
demanded
before
Strasburg
,
and
a
great
many
other
places
which
he
now
possesses
,
and
why
she
had
not
made
any
Mention
of
her
Pretensions
,
when
the
occasion
seem'd
to
require
it
,
as
in
the
Treaty
of
Munster
,
Nuremberg
,
or
at
least
that
of
Nimeguen
,
These
Gentlemen
were
not
ashamed
to
answer
,
That
Affairs
were
not
then
in
a
Condition
to
negotiate
about
such
matters
.
It
will
not
be
amiss
perhaps
,
to
Consider
by
what
degrees
France
is
arrived
to
this
greatness
of
Soul
,
according
to
which
she
Values
not
to
disclose
to
the
world
the
Designs
which
she
formerly
held
secret
.
The
King
having
lost
his
Preceptor
at
the
death
of
the
Cardinal
de
Mazarine
,
did
govern
himself
notwithstanding
for
some
time
acaccording
to
his
Counsels
,
as
if
he
had
been
yet
alive
,
the
rather
because
Monsieur
de
Lionne
who
had
been
trained
up
in
the
same
School
,
follow'd
the
same
Maximes
,
they
treated
at
that
time
the
German
Princes
with
some
respect
and
Civility
,
they
observed
at
least
apparently
the
Law
of
Nations
,
and
seem'd
not
willing
to
infringe
the
Peace
of
Munster
and
of
the
German
Liberty
.
But
Lionne
being
dead
,
Monsieur
de
Louvois
remonstrated
to
the
King
,
that
the
League
of
the
Rhine
,
had
been
rather
Prejudicial
to
France
than
any
thing
else
,
that
they
ought
not
to
regard
so
much
henceforward
the
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
that
they
could
not
employ
their
Money
worse
,
than
in
giving
it
them
,
that
the
Empire
was
an
empty
name
,
which
they
might
without
danger
Molest
,
and
not
want
persons
neither
to
approve
of
it
in
Germany
it self
:
These
Counsels
having
pretty
well
succeeded
Monsieur
de
Pompone
:
proposed
to
the
King
another
new
Doctrin
of
his
own
Invention
,
he
said
that
that
scarcrow
of
the
Peace
of
Munster
had
already
but
too
long
limited
the
Kings
progress
,
and
that
there
was
now
a
new
Peace
,
altogether
his
own
,
which
might
be
much
more
plausibly
Insisted
on
,
than
that
of
Munster
,
which
the
Germans
cou'd
not
in
Reason
alledge
in
their
behalf
,
since
they
were
the
first
who
had
Violated
it
:
That
the
Peace
of
Nimeguen
being
a
pure
favour
and
Grace
of
the
Kings
,
it
belonged
to
him
only
to
explain
it
.
If
now
France
is
oblig'd
to
Monsieur
de
Louvois
for
making
her
sensible
of
the
weakness
of
the
German
Princes
,
if
Monsieur
d●…
Croissy
has
disingaged
the
King
from
that
troublesome
Peace
of
Munster
;
I
think
I
shall
deserve
no
less
than
these
Gentlemen
,
if
I
satisfie
the
Consciences
of
some
of
the
Kings
Council
,
who
have
yet
any
Scruples
remaning
,
as
to
the
Ecclesiasticks
,
and
the
Canons
of
the
Church
.
I
will
let
you
therefore
see
,
that
these
things
Oblige
indeed
ordinary
men
,
but
that
there
is
a
certain
Law
superiour
to
all
others
,
conformable
notwithstanding
to
the
Soveraign
Justice
,
which
dispenses
Kings
from
these
Rules
.
For
you
must
observe
,
there
is
no
Law
for
a
Just
Man
,
and
he
who
has
the
Character
of
an
Extraordinary
Power
,
is
exempted
by
virtue
of
his
Commission
from
all
common
and
Humane
Obligations
.
It
remains
therefore
for
me
to
demonstrate
,
how
the
King
has
such
a
Character
,
and
that
there
's
not
a
man
in
the
World
at
present
,
who
hath
received
from
Heaven
,
and
even
from
the
Antipodes
them●…
elves
,
a
greater
Power
than
Louis
the
fourteenth
.
And
that
I
may
acquit
my self
so
much
the
better
,
of
what
I
undertook
to
prove
,
I
will
first
lay
down
some
new
Law
Positions
to
refute
at
the
same
time
,
what
I
foresee
will
be
opposed
against
me
,
by
too
sorts
of
People
,
to
wit
,
the
German
Civilians
,
and
the
Cannon
Lawyers
of
Italy
.
I
have
the
greater
hopes
of
succeeding
,
in
this
my
design
,
because
I
have
in
some
manner
on
my
side
,
the
Casuists
or
the
Authors
of
the
Moral
Doctrine
,
and
particularly
the
Jesuites
,
who
cannot
chuse
but
see
,
being
so
subtle
and
cunning
as
they
are
,
that
they
have
more
to
expect
at
present
from
the
French
,
than
the
Spanish
Monarchy
.
I
lay
down
therefore
for
a
Foundation
,
That
all
things
below
upon
Earth
are
subject
to
the
Soveraign
Right
of
some
very
great
and
Powerful
King
,
which
he
has
by
a
certain
Destiny
upon
all
other
Creatures
.
From
this
particular
Right
sprung
that
of
Moses
upon
the
Vessels
which
he
borrowed
from
the
Egyptians
,
and
that
which
the
Israelites
exercis'd
upon
the
Bodies
and
Goods
of
the
Canaanites
.
And
't
was
in
Quality
of
Vicar
upon
Earth
,
that
Pope
Alexander
the
sixth
pretended
to
divide
the
new
World
between
the
Spaniards
and
the
Portugals
,
tho'
his
power
did
not
reach
so
far
as
to
Temporal
things
;
when
on
the
contrary
,
I
will
make
appear
,
that
the
Most
Christian
King
,
who
reigns
at
present
,
is
the
only
and
true
Vicar
of
the
World
,
in
respect
to
Temporal
Affairs
;
to
this
Foundation
,
I
must
add
the
definition
of
what
is
just
,
or
unjust
,
which
Plato
very
well
explains
,
under
the
Personage
of
a
certain
Thratinaque
whom
he
introduces
,
●…
aying
that
Justum
est
Potentiori
●…
tile
,
which
agrees
very
well
with
what
we
have
already
said
of
the
Right
of
some
very
great
Monarch
upon
the
Temporals
of
all
Mankind
.
The
most
Powerful
in
the
World
,
excepting
always
the
Divel
,
is
without
dispute
the
most
Christian
King
;
and
there
goes
a
good
saying
of
the
Emperor
Maximilian
the
First
,
who
said
one
day
,
that
if
he
was
Jupiter
,
and
was
to
make
his
will
,
he
would
give
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
to
his
Eldest
Son
,
and
that
of
France
to
his
second
.
If
this
was
true
in
the
Reign
of
that
Emperor
,
it
will
be
much
more
now
.
For
Louis
the
Fourteenth
alone
,
has
added
to
his
Crown
,
so
vast
an
extent
of
Country
,
from
the
Alps
of
the
Switzers
to
the
German
Ocean
,
that
those
Conquests
are
of
themselves
sufficient
to
make
a
Considerable
Kingdom
.
There
needs
no
great
Art
to
prove
the
Most
Christian
King
to
be
the
true
Vicar
,
for
the
greatest
part
of
the
Arguments
which
Cardinal
Bellarmin
makes
use
of
to
prove
the
Popes
indirect
Power
upon
Temporal
things
,
may
serve
incomparably
better
to
prove
the
direct
Power
of
the
Kings
.
All
that
is
foretold
of
the
Reign
of
the
New
Testament
upon
earth
,
must
be
understood
of
the
Reign
of
the
Most
Christian
King
,
and
you
must
not
think
that
the
holy
't
is
a
Viol
wherein
is
kept
(
at
Rhemes
)
the
Ointment
with
which
the
Kings
of
France
are
anointed
at
their
Coronation
,
and
was
brought
down
from
Heaven
(
as
the
French
say
)
by
two
Angels
.
Viol
came
down
from
Heaven
for
nothing
,
or
that
the
King
receiv'd
in
vain
the
Gift
of
doing
Miracles
and
healing
the
sick
,
for
that
's
a
Mark
of
those
who
are
imploy'd
upon
earth
to
extend
the
two
Kingdoms
.
I
know
very
well
that
some
Physitians
cannot
believe
the
Miracle
which
the
King
does
so
often
by
Curing
the
Evil
;
but
there
is
no
heed
to
be
given
to
the
little
Faith
of
those
Men
,
whose
Religion
is
even
now
become
a
Proverb
:
some
do
object
that
the
Duke
D'Epernon
,
Favorite
to
Henry
III
,
was
troubled
with
the
Disease
which
the
King
shou'd
cure
.
But
suppose
this
to
be
true
,
does
not
every
one
know
,
that
the
Saints
themselves
wou'd
not
always
heal
all
the
Sick
.
Besides
,
't
is
visible
that
all
the
Prophets
never
meant
any
other
,
but
the
Kings
of
France
to
be
one
day
the
Pillars
and
Protectors
of
the
Church
.
And
not
to
make
mention
of
several
other
Passages
,
can
there
be
any
thing
more
clear
than
this
,
in
which
they
say
,
Lilia
agri
non
nent
,
which
signifies
without
doubt
,
that
Women
must
not
succeed
in
the
Kingdom
of
France
,
that
so
the
Scepter
remaining
in
that
Warlike
Nation
,
it
might
never
be
brought
under
the
subjection
of
Strangers
and
Women
,
since
the
Temporal
King
or
Hero
,
whom
all
People
will
follow
,
must
come
from
thence
.
I
have
not
read
of
any
Kingdom
,
which
can
bring
so
good
proofs
for
its
fundamental
Laws
out
of
both
Testaments
,
as
the
French
can
.
That
the
Turks
are
to
be
ruin'd
by
France
,
is
known
by
an
old
Prophesie
which
one
Bartholomew
Georgiewiz
,
who
had
been
for
a
long
time
Prisoner
in
Turkie
,
brought
with
him
from
the
Eastern
parts
.
There
is
a
Prophesie
de
Rege
quodam
illustris
semilii
,
in
Pareus
his
Commentary
upon
the
Apocalypse
,
which
confirms
the
same
thing
.
I
am
not
ignorant
that
Grotius
,
in
his
Book
de
jure
Belli
&
Pacis
,
does
not
approve
of
the
alledging
of
Prophesies
,
thereby
to
ground
any
Right
upon
.
But
Grotius
his
Law
is
much
different
from
ours
;
for
besides
that
,
he
speaks
of
Prophesies
whose
explanation
is
uncertain
.
Ours
on
the
contrary
is
out
of
all
dispute
;
and
since
the
Pope
,
to
make
good
his
Right
of
the
Church
,
proves
it
by
Prophets
,
why
shou'd
not
the
most
Christian
King
do
so
likewise
,
who
is
without
Contradiction
the
true
Vicar
upon
Earth
,
there
being
no
other
King
in
the
World
to
do
Temporally
,
what
the
Popes
have
done
Ecclesiastically
,
nor
to
Establish
upon
Earth
the
Kingdom
of
the
New
Testament
;
happy
according
to
the
Flesh
,
which
the
Millenarian
Hereticks
foolishly
expected
,
according
to
their
false
Notions
.
Moreover
the
Right
which
we
attribute
to
the
most
Christian
King
,
is
dayly
confirm'd
by
Providence
it self
;
for
is
it
not
a
great
Miracle
,
that
a
Prince
involv'd
in
so
many
different
Wars
at
once
,
shou'd
nevertheless
abound
in
Money
:
some
are
so
foolish
to
think
that
he
has
that
Blessed
Stone
,
which
is
alone
capable
of
making
Rich
all
the
Kings
of
the
Earth
:
Others
seeing
him
thus
prosper
in
all
his
Undertakings
,
and
that
he
is
informed
of
the
most
secret
designs
of
his
Enemies
,
are
so
vain
to
suppose
him
Conversant
with
a
familiar
Spirit
,
a
thing
not
only
Ridiculous
,
but
even
Impious
,
to
attribute
to
the
Devil
the
effects
of
a
Divine
Inspiration
,
in
which
the
People
are
not
unlike
the
Jews
,
who
said
,
That
Miracles
might
be
made
by
the
means
of
Beelzebub
.
What
clearer
demonstration
can
be
given
of
the
good
will
of
the
Gods
towards
our
Monarch
,
than
what
we
dayly
see
before
our
Eyes
;
to
wit
,
a
continual
assistance
from
Heaven
in
all
his
Actions
,
insomuch
that
Mankind
,
and
even
time
it self
,
seem
to
Conspire
to
add
to
his
Glory
and
Happiness
?
For
that
which
some
call
Fortune
,
is
nothing
but
a
Decree
of
Providence
,
and
't
is
Contra
stimulum
calcitratre
,
to
oppose
it
.
Do
not
we
see
that
the
Emperour
Leopold
is
endued
with
several
great
and
Excellent
Virtues
,
that
all
the
World
admires
his
fervent
Zeal
and
Piety
,
that
there
's
not
a
Prince
more
assiduous
in
performing
his
Office
,
nor
who
hears
more
willingly
,
or
who
examines
with
more
attention
all
Petitions
and
Memorials
,
which
seem
of
any
Importance
.
He
is
always
in
Action
,
sometimes
in
Council
,
sometimes
in
his
Cabinet
making
his
dispatches
;
in
a
word
,
one
may
say
,
that
there
is
not
a
Minister
who
takes
the
pains
that
he
does
,
yet
notwithstanding
all
things
go
contrary
to
his
desire
,
when
,
in
the
mean
time
the
King
of
France
,
who
makes
his
Business
a
Pleasure
to
him
,
succeeds
in
all
his
Enterprises
.
What
other
Consequence
may
we
draw
from
hence
,
but
that
this
King
is
destin'd
to
do
some
great
things
;
for
the
Souls
of
Heaven
receive
Blessings
even
asseep
,
whilst
others
toyl
and
labour
to
gain
something
,
tho
in
vain
.
We
wanted
another
Jeremias
to
declare
to
all
the
Powers
of
the
Earth
,
tha●…
those
who
withstood
the
King
,
op●…
posed
at
the
same
time
the
Heavenly
Decree
,
as
those
who
hop'd
t●…
defend
themselves
against
Nebuchadnezzar
,
and
lean'd
upon
the
broken
Staff
of
Egypt
;
not
unlike
those
Princes
,
who
put
at
present
al●…
their
trust
in
the
House
of
Austria
.
But
lo
here
another
Jeremias●…
that
so
the
Germans
may
have
no
excuse
left
them
:
't
is
one
who
from
a
Curate
of
a
certain
Village
in
Germany
,
is
suddenly
become
a
Prophet
,
and
proves
infallibly
by
the
Apocalypse
,
that
all
the
Enemies
of
the
King
shall
Perish
:
The
event
has
confirm'd
his
Predictions
;
for
the
Italians
,
Jealous
of
the
Kings
Glory
,
suffer
no
little
dammage
by
the
great
Drowth
,
and
the
Excessive
heat
of
the
Sun
:
the
Hollanders
,
envious
of
his
Happiness
,
are
punished
by
Inundations
,
which
put
them
in
hourly
sears
of
their
utter
ruine
.
The
ingrateful
Sweedes
have
been
almost
frozen
to
death
with
cold
,
the
House
of
Austria
torn
to
pieces
by
Civil
Discords
:
The
Germans
feel
already
on
one
side
all
the
Rage
and
Fury
of
the
Turks
,
and
on
the
other
are
threatned
by
the
Forces
of
Denmark
,
all
which
shou'd
make
them
think
of
preventing
their
Punishment
by
a
speedy
Repentance
,
in
throwing
themselves
into
the
Arms
of
the
King
.
All
Rules
of
Policy
cease
,
in
respect
to
this
Great
Prince
,
and
tho
he
seems
to
do
many
things
against
Prudence
,
he
still
prospers
,
because
the
good
Spirit
is
with
him
,
and
the
Wisdom
of
this
World
is
but
Folly
in
Heaven
.
The
People
make
Disturbances
,
and
frame
Designs
against
the
King
and
Gods
Anointed
:
't
is
no
wonder
therefore
that
the
Heavenly
Power
rising
up
against
them
,
disperses
them
in
his
Wrath
.
When
the
King
chose
to
humble
the
Hollanders
,
rather
by
force
of
Arms
,
than
to
grant
them
a
Peace
,
which
they
were
ready
to
receive
from
his
hands
,
the
Wis●…
Men
of
this
World
fear'd
some
fata●…
Catastrophe
,
especially
when
they
saw
England
separated
from
France
and
on
the
contrary
,
Germany
an●…
Spain
joyn'd
with
the
Hollanders
but
Providence
had
ordered
it
otherwise
:
The
Danger
was
really
great
,
and
France
would
have
soon
perceiv'd
it
,
if
Sweeden
had
not
sav'd
her
,
by
drawing
the
storm
upon
her
own
head
.
This
was
writ
in
the
Book
o●…
Fate
,
and
the
Sweedes
having
done
it
against
their
will
,
push'd
on
by
some
Superiour
Power
,
deserve
as
little
thanks
,
as
the
King
does
blame
,
for
abandoning
them
ever
since
they
began
to
be
importunate
to
him
,
and
(
as
we
believe
)
useless
.
But
let
us
return
to
the
extraordinary
Actions
of
the
King
,
which
are
often
disapprov'd
of
,
by
those
who
think
themselves
very
Wise
:
Can
there
be
any
thing
more
contrary
to
Reason
in
all
appearance
,
than
what
he
did
the
last
year
,
when
he
provok'd
and
despis'd
at
the
same
time
Heaven
and
Earth
,
Europe
and
Asia
,
the
Pope
and
the
Protestants
,
the
Emperour
and
the
Sultan
,
the
Kings
of
Spain
,
Sweedeland
,
and
Poland
,
the
States
General
,
and
the
Princes
of
Germany
,
Italy
,
and
,
in
a
word
,
almost
the
whole
World
?
It
might
have
happened
at
the
same
time
,
that
the
Pope
might
have
Excommunicated
him
,
his
Subjects
risen
up
in
Arms
against
him
,
the
Turk
might
have
caus'd
all
the
French
Merchants
and
Merchandizes
to
be
Arrested
;
that
the
Emperour
,
with
the
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
might
have
attack'd
his
Frontiers
,
the
Hollanders
aided
the
Spaniards
to
recover
all
the
places
that
they
have
lost
;
that
the
Princes
of
Italy
,
allarm'd
at
the
getting
of
Cassal
,
might
have
taken
some
vigorous
Resolution
for
the
defence
of
their
Liberty
:
and
yet
none
of
all
these
things
happened
;
which
cannot
be
attributed
to
any
thing
,
but
a
Miracle
from
the
Hand
above
,
which
ties
the
Arms
of
the
one
,
and
blinds
the
other
,
as
it
did
the
Arof
the
Syrians
,
at
the
Prayer
of
the
Prophet
.
I
suppose
I
have
now
sufficiently
proved
,
as
well
by
Prophecies
as
by
Miracles
,
the
Kings
extraordinary
Mission
for
the
Reforming
the
Temporal
Affairs
of
the
Christians
,
and
that
grounded
without
doubt
upon
much
better
Reasons
,
than
that
of
the
first
pretended
Reformers
of
the
Catholick
Faith
.
From
whence
it
follows
,
That
all
Kings
and
Princes
are
oblig'd
in
Conscience
to
bear
respect
towards
him
,
to
chuse
him
for
their
Arbitrator
in
all
their
Differences
,
and
to
leave
him
the
management
of
the
general
Affairs
of
Europe
;
and
that
those
who
do
not
so
,
resist
the
Decree
of
the
unavoidable
Destiny
.
If
they
remain
obstinate
,
and
despise
the
Brotherly
Correction
which
the
King
uses
towards
them
,
their
Subjects
are
absolv'd
from
their
Oaths
of
Fidelity
ipso
jure
,
and
may
lawfully
put
themselves
under
the
Kings
subjection
.
Some
perhaps
will
apprehend
the
dismall
example
of
those
of
Messina
,
who
having
obtained
the
Kings
Protection
,
were
afterwards
shamefully
abandoned
,
against
the
Honour
of
the
King
,
and
his
Faith
so
often
given
,
and
and
that
with
so
much
precipitation
,
that
they
scarce
gave
time
enough
to
those
who
were
concern'd
in
it
,
to
save
their
Lives
and
Fortunes
,
leaving
several
to
the
severity
and
Mercy
of
the
Spaniards
.
I
must
needs
confess
,
that
't
is
very
true
,
and
that
this
very
proceeding
might
dishearten
the
wellintention'd
;
but
this
must
not
be
imputed
to
the
King
,
but
to
the
Disasters
of
those
Times
,
which
are
much
changed
at
present
;
and
one
must
consider
,
that
this
great
Sect
must
have
its
Martyrs
in
the
beginning
.
Principally
the
Catholicks
of
Germany
must
acknowledge
him
their
Redeemer
,
since
't
is
certain
,
that
the
Arms
of
France
are
destin'd
for
the
Propagating
Religion
,
rather
then
extending
its
Territories
.
All
the
World
knows
that
the
King
made
War
upon
the
Hollanders
,
upon
no
other
account
but
to
help
the
Bishops
of
Cologne
,
and
Munster
,
to
pursue
their
Rights
of
their
Churches
.
If
the
French
have
since
ill
treated
the
Diocess
of
Cologne
and
Leige
,
one
must
believe
,
that
that
was
done
against
the
Kings
will
,
or
by
the
Electors
consent
,
or
at
least
by
reason
of
War
,
and
for
the
Publick
good
.
Do
we
not
know
how
earnestly
the
French
Ambassadours
at
Nimmeguen
'
insisted
on
a
Tolleration
for
the
Roman
Catholick
Religion
in
the
United
Provinces
?
and
how
many
times
have
they
been
just
ready
to
break
off
the
Treaty
,
upon
no
other
account
?
And
the
success
has
answered
their
pains
and
trouble
,
that
is
,
they
never
meant
it
,
because
that
one
must
first
seek
after
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
,
and
afterwards
be
assur'd
that
the
rest
will
follow
.
If
there
is
any
one
who
doubts
yet
of
the
Kings
sincerity
,
and
good
intentions
,
seeing
he
studies
always
how
to
persecute
and
torment
the
House
of
Austria
,
who
are
good
Catholicks
,
let
him
consider
,
that
those
of
that
Family
,
are
now
become
the
Favoures
of
Heriticks
,
ever
since
they
thought
that
they
should
be
able
to
maintain
themselves
by
their
Assistance
.
So
that
we
must
begin
with
the
Ruin
of
that
House
,
to
root
out
the
Heresies
which
Charles
the
5th
.
by
his
Complaisant
Politicks
first
brought
in
.
It
will
be
objected
to
me
,
That
the
King
has
assisted
Count
de
Teckley
and
the
other
Hungarian
Rebels
,
notwithstanding
they
were
Protestants
,
and
tho'
he
saw
at
the
same
time
,
what
an
irreparable
loss
it
wou'd
be
to
the
Christians
,
and
on
the
contrary
,
of
a
vast
advantage
to
the
Turks
.
They
will
likewise
say
,
That
Louis
the
13th
.
did
the
same
thing
for
the
Hereticks
of
Germany
,
who
subsisted
only
by
his
means
.
But
I
answer
,
That
such
a
little
present
damage
,
which
the
Christians
and
Catholicks
suffer
,
is
not
to
be
compared
to
the
extraordinary
advantage
and
profit
which
will
one
day
result
to
them
from
these
things
.
For
the
King
having
thus
humbled
the
House
of
Austria
,
and
remaining
the
only
Umpire
of
the
Affairs
of
Christendom
,
it
will
be
an
easie
matter
for
him
to
settle
the
Church
for
ever
,
and
to
overthrow
at
one
and
the
same
time
both
Turks
and
Hereticks
.
He
has
already
given
us
some
Proofs
of
this
his
good
will
and
intention
,
at
Gigeri
and
Candie
,
and
in
several
other
places
,
(
for
as
to
the
Algerines
he
never
design'd
the
utter
Ruin
of
that
Base
Cannale
)
Tempus
enim
veniet
quo
devorabit
Zelus
ipsius
&
hos
&
omnes
Mamamuschos
.
And
without
doubt
,
he
will
not
stop
there
,
when
he
once
sees
himself
in
a
condition
of
giving
Laws
to
Germany
,
Italy
,
and
the
rest
of
Europe
,
there
being
no
other
Power
to
make
Head
against
him
;
&
I
make
no
question
,
but
we
shall
quickly
see
this
Blessed
time
.
The
Inferiour
sort
of
the
Catholick
Clergy
in
Germany
,
which
has
been
ill
us'd
by
the
Protestants
,
and
abandon'd
by
the
House
of
Austria
,
sings
already
Osanna
at
the
approach
of
its
Redeemer
.
The
Bishops
indeed
being
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
are
yet
in
suspence
,
and
are
afraid
lest
there
should
be
brought
in
amongst
them
those
ill-nam'd
liberties
of
the
Gallican
Church
,
which
may
be
indeed
Liberties
towards
the
Pope
,
but
only
a
Slavery
in
respect
to
the
King
.
Those
nevertheless
who
will
not
prefer
their
Temporal
Rights
to
the
Publick
good
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
ought
to
joyn
with
the
King
,
and
to
follow
the
example
of
those
two
good
Bishops
of
Stratsbourg
,
whose
Zeal
was
so
great
for
the
Catholick
Faith
,
that
they
made
no
difficulty
of
Sacrificing
to
it
their
Temporal
Principalities
which
were
annexed
to
their
Churches
:
for
since
Charity
commands
us
to
think
the
best
,
we
must
not
suspect
them
to
have
had
any
other
designs
.
The
other
Bishops
of
Germany
may
follow
their
Example
,
the
rather
that
they
need
not
fear
any
Alteration
will
be
made
in
their
lives-time
,
and
that
they
may
with
a
safer
Conscience
enrich
their
Nephews
,
since
't
is
not
only
lawful
,
but
even
Commanded
us
,
to
provide
for
our
Kindred
,
and
those
who
do
not
,
are
worse
then
Heathens
.
As
to
the
German
Monks
,
't
is
another
case
;
for
since
I
make
profession
of
being
sincere
,
and
that
I
have
no
design
upon
any
one
,
I
dare
not
counsel
them
to
adhere
to
France
,
because
the
Fryars
of
St.
Benedict
,
St.
Bernard
,
the
Carmelites
,
the
Dominicans
,
and
several
other
Orders
,
who
live
very
well
at
their
ease
in
Germany
,
have
been
oblig'd
not
long
since
in
France
to
Fast
and
go
Bare-footed
.
The
secular
Princes
of
Germany
will
think
it
something
hard
to
be
forced
to
surrender
up
their
almost
Royal
Authority
into
the
hands
of
the
King
;
and
because
't
is
known
how
difficult
a
thing
it
is
for
the
Rich
to
enter
into
Heaven
,
therefore
those
who
are
Powerful
,
seem
unwilling
to
accomodate
themselves
with
the
most
Christian
Kingdom
,
or
its
Temporal
Vicar
,
who
is
the
King
.
But
they
shall
come
to
,
sooner
or
later
;
and
as
all
Rivers
do
at
last
disembogue
in
the
Sea
,
whatsoever
turnings
and
windings
they
make
,
so
must
all
the
Powers
,
especiall●
those
of
Italy
and
Germany
,
be
swallowed
up
by
this
Fifth
Monarchy
.
The
Hollanders
feel
already
their
approaching
Ruin
,
by
the
lessenning
of
their
Trade
,
and
the
unavoidable
loss
of
the
Spanish
Netherlands
;
so
that
't
is
to
be
hop'd
,
that
this
nest
of
Secretaries
will
quickly
be
destroy'd
.
Denmark
and
Brandenbourg
being
animated
against
Sweeden
,
Saxe
,
and
Brunswic
,
will
soon
consume
the
remainder
of
the
Protestant
Forces
.
The
Bishops
of
the
Rhyne
,
Westphalia
,
nay
,
even
those
of
Franconia
,
one
day
will
not
oppose
the
Kings
Zeal
for
the
Catholick
Faith
.
Austria
and
Bavaria
will
not
be
able
to
withstand
him
,
being
weakned
or
terrified
by
the
Neighbourhood
of
the
Turks
.
There
is
no
great
heed
to
be
given
to
the
Italians
,
who
are
ready
to
receive
the
Yoke
,
and
who
have
so
much
degenerated
from
the
Vertue
of
their
Ancestors
:
For
what
did
not
the
Venetians
for
Example
do
,
when
formerly
the
House
of
Austria
had
some
design
in
the
Country
of
the
Grisons
?
And
now
that
France
has
got
footing
in
the
very
heart
of
Italy
,
they
are
mute
,
and
dare
not
say
one
word
.
I
do
not
question
but
this
is
an
effect
of
Providence
,
who
takes
care
to
blind
them
,
thereby
to
inflict
the
greater
punishment
upon
them
.
Certainly
when
Germany
is
at
the
Kings
Devotion
,
it
will
be
too
late
for
them
to
wake
from
this
deadly
Lethargy
,
for
where
wou'd
they
raise
Men
,
there
being
but
few
disciplin'd
Troops
in
all
Italy
?
Money
alone
being
not
sufficient
to
make
War
,
when
't
is
not
employed
in
time
.
I
believe
the
Italians
will
make
some
effort
,
before
they
give
themselves
quite
up
,
and
that
they
will
fight
non
pro
aeris
&
focis
,
sed
pro
lectulis
,
for
fear
of
the
Horns
which
the
French
are
preparing
for
them
,
with
whom
they
know
that
their
Wives
do
already
secretly
combine
,
which
begun
to
appear
ever
since
the
Envoy
of
France
,
among
some
other
harsh
Conditions
,
propos'd
to
those
of
Genoua
,
That
it
shou'd
be
permitted
henceforward
to
the
Women
of
that
Country
,
to
live
after
the
French
Fashion
,
and
to
receive
Visits
from
French
men
;
so
that
the
Italian
Ladies
do
not
less
expect
of
them
their
deliverance
from
their
Husbands
Yoak
and
Tyranny
,
than
the
German
Priests
from
the
Insults
of
the
Protestants
.
Such
is
the
Fortune
of
France
,
which
finds
Powerful
Favourers
amongst
her
Enemies
themselves
,
as
that
of
the
Clergy
in
Germany
,
and
of
the
Sex
in
Italy
;
and
who
dare
resist
henceforward
the
two
most
dangerous
of
Enemies
,
Priests
and
and
Women
,
when
once
combin'd
together
?
I
think
it
will
not
be
amiss
,
while
I
make
the
Kings
Apology
,
to
make
that
likewise
of
some
Germans
,
Gallo-Grecians
,
my
Brethren
(
who
are
not
insensible
to
the
Powerful
Charms
of
the
Louis
d'Ors
.
)
The
ignorant
Multitude
call
us
Traytors
,
saying
,
That
we
sell
our
Country
,
and
that
we
do
our
endeavours
to
bring
it
under
a
Forreign
Subjection
.
But
I
believe
that
the
greatest
part
of
those
who
reproach
us
with
these
things
,
cou'd
wish
they
were
capable
themselves
of
the
same
Crime
,
and
what
they
do
is
purely
out
of
Envy
,
since
they
have
not
the
Art
or
the
good
Fortune
thus
to
bring
Grist
to
the
Mill
.
I
except
some
simple
Persons
,
who
might
perhaps
scruple
such
a
thing
;
but
their
number
is
so
inconsiderable
,
that
they
ought
to
be
laugh'd
at
for
their
Folly
.
In
the
mean
time
we
are
not
so
much
in
the
wrong
,
as
some
think
us
to
be
:
the
wisest
Politicians
do
unanimously
agree
,
that
the
Republick
of
Germany
is
so
monstrous
and
so
corrupted
,
that
it
necessarily
requires
one
absolute
Head
to
Establish
a
good
Government
.
Witness
the
Writings
of
the
greatest
Wits
of
our
time
;
Lundorpius
,
Conringius
,
Piazcius
,
Rhinpingius
,
Oldendorpus
,
Tupetius
,
à
Lapide
,
Monzambanus
,
Cittosario
,
and
others
,
the
three
latter
being
of
Switzerland
,
from
their
true
Names
,
to
wit
,
à
Lapide
,
who
is
Monsieur
le
Comte
d'Oxenstern
;
Monzambanus
,
who
is
Monsieur
Puffendorf
Secretary
of
the
Court
of
Sweedland
;
and
Cittosario
,
Monsieur
le
Baron
d'Edelstein
in
the
Low
Countries
.
What
is
this
German
Liberty
,
but
a
Licenciousness
of
Frogs
,
who
do
nothing
but
croak
,
and
leap
here
and
there
,
and
must
have
a
Stork
,
since
the
Logg
,
which
made
so
great
a
noise
at
its
fall
,
is
now
become
despiseable
to
them
?
They
ought
therefore
to
think
themselves
indebted
to
us
,
for
endeavouring
to
destroy
such
a
Liberty
.
I
know
that
the
major
part
of
my
Confrators
do
not
discourse
so
freely
,
fearing
rather
the
Name
of
a
Traytor
,
than
the
thing
it self
;
and
seeking
to
colour
their
Proceeding
by
some
specious
pretences
drawn
from
the
Peace
of
Westphalia
and
Nimmeguen
,
the
Capitulations
of
the
Emperour
,
the
Order
of
the
Circular
Executions
,
and
the
other
Laws
of
the
Empire
;
relying
besides
upon
the
Liberty
of
Peace
and
War
,
and
of
Alliance
,
and
upon
the
Law
of
Nature
for
our
proper
defence
,
accusing
even
the
Emperour
and
the
Empire
for
ill
using
,
defrauding
,
and
abandoning
some
Princes
to
whom
these
Gentlemen
belong
.
But
I
,
who
deal
more
sincerely
,
and
who
have
stronger
Reasons
than
all
these
,
I
will
not
imitate
them
;
for
I
know
there
is
no
solidity
in
all
these
Pretences
,
and
that
none
was
better
inclin'd
to
the
common
Cause
of
the
Allies
,
than
the
Emperour
,
who
sign'd
not
the
Peace
of
Nimmeguen
,
till
being
deserted
by
the
Spaniards
and
the
Hollanders
,
and
that
he
saw
the
Allies
strive
with
each
other
,
who
shou'd
best
and
soonest
accommodate
his
Affairs
.
I
find
therefore
but
one
thing
for
which
the
Emperour
is
to
be
blamed
,
and
for
which
others
perhaps
wou'd
not
accuse
him
;
that
is
,
he
maintains
with
so
much
obstinacy
the
Rights
of
the
Empire
,
by
not
acknowledging
a
Power
Superiour
to
his
own
,
which
the
most
Christian
King
has
received
immediately
from
Heaven
,
as
we
have
just
now
sufficiently
proved
.
There
are
some
Gallo-Grecians
who
imitate
Judas
,
by
taking
the
thirty
Pence
,
because
they
suppose
Germany
will
be
sav'd
by
some
Divine
Providence
;
and
that
in
the
mean
time
,
they
shall
have
the
Money
,
and
that
one
day
they
shall
have
Reason
to
laugh
at
the
easie
belief
of
the
French
.
But
let
them
laugh
that
win
:
Have
a
care
,
my
Freinds
,
and
see
that
you
do
not
deride
in
vain
the
Gods
,
nor
the
Kings
whom
Heaven
has
destin'd
for
your
Punishment
.
I
found
my self
not
long
since
in
a
Company
,
wherein
an
old
Gentleman
burning
with
Zeal
,
terribly
exclaim'd
against
the
Gallo-Grecians
,
whom
he
call'd
the
Plague
of
their
Country
,
and
the
shame
of
Mankind
,
whom
the
French
flatter
at
present
,
but
really
think
to
be
the
vilest
of
Men
;
in
a
word
,
he
had
like
to
have
sent
them
all
to
the
Devil
.
Some
of
our
Order
,
who
were
with
me
,
and
who
had
a
squeamisher
Conscience
than
the
rest
,
were
so
moved
at
this
good
Mans
Discourse
,
that
they
trembled
at
the
least
noise
,
fearing
every
minute
,
lest
some
Devil
or
other
shou'd
come
and
take
them
by
the
Back
:
As
for
my
part
,
who
am
something
more
resolute
,
I
did
in
this
occasion
what
is
recommended
to
us
,
that
is
,
Confirmavi
fratres
meos
,
in
accusing
them
of
little
Courage
,
and
telling
them
how
much
it
imported
to
have
ones
Conscience
not
wavering
nor
scrupulous
,
but
steady
and
fix'd
upon
good
Reasons
.
I
let
them
see
how
we
laboured
for
the
Church
,
that
the
Name
of
our
Country
was
but
a
Scare-crow
to
Fools
,
that
a
Man
of
Courage
finds
his
Country
every
where
,
or
rather
,
that
Heaven
is
the
common
Country
of
all
Christians
,
and
that
the
general
good
of
all
Christendom
,
and
the
Decrees
of
Fate
,
must
be
preferr'd
to
the
particular
Interests
of
Germany
.
I
do
acknowledge
,
and
consider
very
often
,
how
miserable
Germany
wou'd
be
under
the
French
Yoak
:
they
despise
our
Nation
even
now
,
when
it
makes
some
Figure
in
the
World
;
how
will
they
therefore
value
it
,
when
't
is
vanquish'd
and
overcome
?
't
is
then
they
will
reproach
us
,
not
only
with
our
Simplicity
,
but
our
Cowardise
,
so
unworthy
the
former
Reputation
and
Glory
of
our
Ancestors
.
They
will
take
from
us
our
Arms
,
as
Persons
not
fitting
to
bear
them
:
They
will
destroy
all
the
Illustrious
Families
,
or
Transplant
them
to
France
;
The
Benefices
,
and
Offices
of
consequence
,
will
be
for
none
but
Frenchmen
,
or
some
base
servile
Souls
among
the
Germans
:
Those
of
a
Noble
Spirit
,
and
who
seem
to
retain
some
Reliques
of
the
ancient
Vertue
,
will
be
afflicted
with
a
thousand
Evils
,
till
at
last
,
being
all
subdued
,
they
shall
have
renderd
the
Nation
an
Object
of
Pity
,
rather
than
of
Fear
:
With
such
like
thoughts
as
these
does
the
Devil
often
tempt
and
torment
me
:
For
our
Mind
is
apt
to
receive
such
Ideas
,
and
't
is
a
hard
matter
to
devest
ones
self
of
Opinions
,
which
seem
to
be
born
with
us
.
But
I
cast
off
these
scruples
,
when
I
raise
my
Soul
to
Heaven
;
for
I
consider
,
that
what
we
look
upon
as
Misery
,
is
our
true
Happiness
;
That
the
Righteous
are
tryed
by
tribulation
,
that
the
Church
never
florishes
more
than
when
i●…
is
oppressed
.
You
will
be
happy
my
Friends
in
Heaven
,
when
the●…
French
shall
have
made
you
Miserable
in
this
World
;
for
you
wil●…
goe
thither
so
much
the
more
willingly
,
that
you
leave
without
any
sorrow
this
Valley
of
Miseries
thrust
therefore
your
Necks
into
the
Yoak
which
France
offers
you
,
and
make
haste
to
merit
Heaven
by
your
Readiness
,
Obedience
,
Patience
,
and
other
Christian
Vertues
,
in
putting
the
most
Christian
King
in
a
condition
of
subduing
the
Turks
and
Hereticks
.
If
this
cost
you
your
Liberty
,
let
this
be
your
comfort
,
that
't
is
for
the
increasing
of
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
,
that
you
suffer
so
great
a
loss
.
But
I
return
to
my
Discourse
,
and
assure
my self
,
that
the
most
Christian
King
has
receiv'd
from
the
Almighty
Soveraign
a
full
Power
to
do
more
then
what
we
have
seen
him
do
hitherto
;
for
we
must
confess
,
that
he
uses
it
with
a
great
deal
of
Moderation
,
considering
the
Right
he
has
to
put
in
execution
what
ever
he
thinks
will
conduce
to
his
Glory
and
Greatness
.
For
he
is
the
Vicar-General
upon
Earth
,
to
exercise
Soveraignty
,
and
all
Jurisdiction
and
Temporal
Power
,
since
Heaven
has
declared
him
the
Redeemer
of
the
Christians
,
and
Protector
of
the
Church
against
Hereticks
and
Infidels
.
Let
the
Pope
honour
and
respect
the
King
of
Poland
,
as
the
most
Martial
and
bravest
Prince
of
the
whole
Universe
,
it
is
but
an
Italian
flattery
,
and
,
to
speak
down
right
,
but
to
deride
our
King
,
who
is
the
true
and
,
only
Vicar
of
the
World
,
and
the
Pope
his
Church-Warden
;
't
is
a
high
and
mighty
Office
,
he
is
not
bound
by
the
Common
Laws
,
and
his
greatness
is
the
only
Rule
of
his
Actions
:
since
whatever
serves
to
increase
it
,
is
for
the
Glory
and
good
of
the
Church
.
He
cannot
therefore
err
,
but
by
an
excess
of
Moderation
,
and
all
that
he
does
with
an
intention
to
make
himself
Great
,
will
be
just
.
I
imagine
that
the
Reverend
Father
de
la
Chair
,
Jesuite
,
Confessor
in
Ordinary
to
the
King
,
whose
Learning
and
Wisdome
is
generally
so
well
known
,
is
not
averse
from
these
Sentiments
;
for
had
he
not
this
general
Remedy
to
satisfie
all
Scruples
,
how
could
he
,
being
a
man
of
Conscience
,
approve
of
so
many
things
which
are
done
in
the
Kings
Name
?
Some
are
so
vain
,
as
to
think
,
that
they
can
defend
the
Enterprises
of
France
by
Reasons
drawn
from
the
Common
Law
;
but
they
are
mightily
deceiv'd
:
and
when
ever
they
happen
to
engage
in
such
Disputes
,
they
are
soon
nonplust
;
which
makes
the
wisest
amongst
the
French
avoid
them
as
much
as
is
possible
,
and
reason
only
like
Politicians
extolling
with
a
great
deal
of
Justice
,
the
happy
and
Prudent
conduct
of
their
Monarch
,
who
knows
so
well
how
to
turn
all
things
to
his
advantage
.
For
several
are
ignorant
,
and
others
will
not
declare
what
they
know
of
the
absolute
right
which
the
King
has
receiv'd
from
Heaven
,
they
make
use
of
it
,
notwithstanding
,
privately
amongst
themselves
,
when
occasion
requires
.
Witness
that
French
Minister
,
who
,
reasoning
upon
the
Peace
which
was
afterwards
concluded
at
the
Pireneans
,
boldly
advises
the
King
to
consent
to
whatever
renunciations
should
be
demanded
from
the
Infanta
,
and
to
ratifie
it
in
the
most
authentick
manner
,
as
they
could
wish
,
nay
even
by
any
solemn
Oath
,
and
that
he
might
notwitstanding
be
free
to
act
,
as
he
should
Judge
most
suitable
to
his
Interest
,
after
the
death
of
the
King
of
Spain
.
For
no
good
Frenchman
,
says
he
,
would
Counsel
the
King
to
neglect
the
advantage
of
his
Crown
,
for
which
he
is
responsable
to
the
World
;
and
to
Posterity
;
this
is
a
true
touch-draught
of
the
Law
and
Morals
which
we
have
established
;
that
is
,
that
the
Greatness
of
the
King
,
and
the
Crown
of
France
,
is
above
all
other
Rights
and
Oaths
of
what
nature
soever
.
But
since
't
is
so
,
they
do
ill
to
dissemble
a
Truth
which
should
be
preached
up
,
that
it
might
be
believed
;
and
there
is
the
greater
necessity
for
its
being
publisht
,
that
the
enterprises
of
France
cannot
be
maintain'd
by
Reasons
of
common
Law
,
as
I
have
already
observed
;
and
to
make
this
out
more
plain
,
I
will
produce
here
some
things
which
are
commonly
objected
by
the
Enemies
of
the
Crown
of
France
,
to
the
end
that
every
one
may
understand
how
unexcusable
wou'd
all
the
Actions
of
this
Crown
be
,
if
the
King
had
not
the
Priviledge
of
doing
what
he
thought
fit
,
in
the
Quality
of
Temporal
Vicar
of
the
World
.
I
will
begin
by
what
was
done
in
the
Reign
of
Lewis
the
XIII
.
The
Cardinal
de
Richlieu
,
to
satisfie
the
weak
Conscience
of
that
scrupulous
Prince
,
made
several
French
Doctors
approve
of
the
Alliances
which
he
had
with
the
Hereticks
,
against
which
a
certain
Author
in
disguise
,
by
the
Name
of
Alexander
Patricius
Armanus
,
who
was
supposed
to
be
the
famous
Jansenius
,
Bishop
of
Tpres
,
writ
a
Treatise
call'd
Mars
Gallicus
;
all
the
little
French
scribling
Pens
split
against
this
Rock
;
and
persons
who
are
indifferent
,
have
judged
that
none
ever
fully
answered
his
Reasons
.
In
effect
,
when
France
declared
War
to
the
House
of
Austria
,
nothing
oblig'd
her
to
come
to
those
Extremities
.
For
the
Imperialists
,
even
after
the
gaining
of
the
Battel
at
Nordlinguen
,
were
not
backward
from
hearkning
to
a
Peace
,
having
felt
the
inconstant
Fate
of
War
;
and
if
France
had
been
minded
to
be
a
Mediatrix
,
rather
than
a
Party
,
it
had
been
no
hard
matter
for
her
to
have
procur'd
a
firm
and
lasting
Peace
,
most
of
the
Princes
of
Germany
being
averse
from
it
:
But
France
design'd
no
such
thing
,
she
had
a
mind
to
fish
in
troubled
Waters
,
to
overthrow
the
House
of
Austria
,
which
already
staggered
,
to
ruin
the
Empire
with
its
own
Weapons
,
which
was
the
only
obstacle
to
its
Greatness
.
But
she
wou'd
not
see
(
though
she
pretended
to
be
so
zealous
a
Catholick
)
that
the
Emperour
had
undertaken
this
War
,
only
to
defend
his
own
Country
,
and
afterwards
(
the
occasion
seeming
favourable
)
to
force
the
Protestants
to
restore
what
they
had
possessed
themselves
of
,
directly
contrary
to
the
Transaction
of
Passal
:
So
that
since
it
did
,
and
does
still
lye
in
the
Power
of
France
,
to
give
Peace
or
War
to
the
Christian
World
,
the
most
zealous
impute
to
her
all
the
Blood
which
has
been
spilt
in
Christendom
,
ever
since
that
time
till
now
.
't
is
thought
that
the
French
fomented
the
Dissentions
in
England
,
and
that
they
were
not
altogether
innocent
of
that
horrid
and
infamous
Parricide
which
insued
.
The
Rebellions
of
Portugal
,
Naples
,
Catalonia
,
Hungaria
,
are
the
effects
of
their
Works
,
and
which
they
do
not
conceal
;
what
endeavours
did
they
not
use
to
hinder
the
concluding
the
Peace
at
Munster
,
between
the
Spaniards
and
the
Hollanders
?
What
shall
we
say
of
the
Pyrenean
Peace
,
and
the
Renunciation
of
the
Queens
,
which
was
so
solemnly
sworn
to
,
and
which
was
an
essential
point
of
the
said
Peace
?
Certainly
,
if
one
may
put
any
surety
in
the
Treaties
of
Men
,
if
the
publick
Faith
of
Kings
is
of
any
effect
,
if
Religion
and
Conscience
are
not
empty
Names
invented
to
cheat
the
Simple
,
this
Peace
must
be
firm
and
lasting
.
But
since
it
has
been
broken
and
trodden
under
Foot
at
the
first
opportunity
,
one
must
confess
,
say
they
,
that
they
are
very
silly
and
fit
to
be
imposed
upon
,
who
rely
henceforward
upon
the
word
of
France
,
wherefore
the
Hollanders
,
the
Spaniards
,
the
Emperour
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Allies
,
who
treated
at
Nimiguen
,
have
already
felt
the
smart
of
their
being
too
credulous
.
For
had
they
believed
that
the
French
would
have
undertaken
upon
the
Empire
and
the
Low
Countries
,
in
the
middle
of
the
Peace
,
more
than
they
durst
in
the
heat
of
War
,
they
would
have
been
very
blind
indeed
,
or
they
would
have
chosen
to
fight
together
rather
than
to
die
separately
.
If
we
go
back
to
the
beginning
of
the
last
War
,
can
there
be
any
thing
more
violent
and
unjust
,
than
their
Proceedings
against
the
late
Duke
of
Lorrain
:
His
only
Crime
was
,
that
he
wou'd
not
depend
upon
some
French
Governour
,
or
Intendant
,
and
that
he
indeavoured
to
secure
himself
by
defensive
Alliances
,
the
most
Innocent
that
cou'd
be
.
The
War
against
the
Hollanders
,
was
so
far
from
all
Reason
,
(
I
speak
under
the
personage
of
the
Enemies
of
France
)
that
they
could
not
find
so
much
as
the
least
pretence
for
it
;
and
in
the
mean
time
all
the
Violences
which
France
had
since
committed
in
Germany
,
in
the
Low
Countries
,
and
in
other
places
,
cannot
be
excused
,
because
they
were
a
necessary
consequence
of
that
War
.
't
was
upon
these
Grounds
that
the
French
Armies
travers'd
Germany
,
to
hinder
the
Princes
from
sending
any
Succours
to
the
Hollanders
,
or
making
any
Diversion
to
France
,
that
they
took
Treves
,
surpriz'd
and
dismantled
the
ten
Towns
of
Alsatia
in
an
unjust
manner
,
exercis'd
all
sorts
of
Hostilities
in
the
Palatinate
,
upon
the
least
suspicions
,
which
had
nothing
to
authorise
them
,
but
only
reason
of
War
,
and
that
the
most
unjust
that
ever
was
undertaken
.
Nay
,
they
had
the
insolence
to
declare
to
the
Emperour
,
that
he
must
first
withdraw
his
Forces
out
of
the
Empire
,
and
that
the
King
wou'd
do
the
like
when
the
Emperour
should
have
given
his
word
,
(
whereof
some
Princes
shou'd
be
Guarantees
)
that
they
should
not
march
again
out
of
his
Hereditary
Countries
.
This
is
to
say
,
that
the
King
of
France
had
more
right
in
the
Empire
,
than
the
Emperour
himself
.
Every
one
ought
to
rely
upon
the
word
of
the
French
Ministers
,
who
gave
out
every
where
,
that
the
King
design'd
nothing
by
this
War
,
but
to
chastise
the
Hollanders
for
some
pretended
insolence
;
as
if
the
same
Fancy
might
not
take
him
to
humble
others
likewise
in
their
turn
,
and
as
if
he
alone
had
the
right
to
act
the
Personage
of
a
Master
,
who
with
his
Rod
in
his
Hand
,
treats
all
others
like
little
insignificant
School
boys
.
But
we
have
seen
that
all
his
Preparations
tended
to
something
more
than
a
simple
Bravado
,
since
he
seized
on
the
Posts
on
the
lower
Rhine
,
by
putting
into
them
strong
Garrisons
,
that
the
Hollanders
were
only
guilty
of
saving
Flanders
from
its
total
ruin
;
and
finally
,
that
the
Kings
Ambition
was
not
without
some
mixture
of
Interest
,
and
that
it
thirsted
no
less
after
Profit
than
Glory
.
As
to
the
Dependencies
,
and
the
Dependencies
of
those
Dependencies
,
in
infinitum
,
which
surpass
the
Principal
,
they
say
,
That
they
must
be
very
foolish
indeed
,
who
let
themselves
be
deluded
by
such
Reasons
,
that
there
is
nothing
more
unjust
,
than
that
Chamber
of
Justice
established
to
the
King
himself
,
which
fails
not
to
give
Sentence
always
in
his
Favour
,
and
which
pretends
,
that
those
who
stand
not
to
their
Judgment
,
are
fallen
from
all
their
Rights
;
that
't
is
an
unpardonable
insolence
,
to
make
their
Wills
pass
for
a
general
Law
,
to
prescribe
to
the
Empire
a
fatal
term
of
some
Days
and
Weeks
,
in
which
they
must
determine
about
the
yielding
up
the
eighth
part
of
Germany
,
and
if
the
Empire
is
never
so
little
backward
,
they
will
impute
to
it
all
the
Evil
which
shall
ensue
;
and
the
King
washes
his
hands
of
it
.
On
the
one
side
,
the
Spaniards
must
be
oblig'd
to
accept
of
the
Arbiter
nominated
by
France
,
and
on
the
other
side
,
they
refuse
the
Empire
to
enter
into
an
Arbitrage
,
or
a
Mediation
equally
concerted
on
by
both
Parties
.
They
maintain
that
the
taking
of
Strasburgh
is
the
most
unjust
and
barbarous
thing
as
ever
was
committed
by
a
Christian
Prince
,
and
that
't
is
the
heighth
of
Impudence
to
go
about
to
excuse
it
.
That
this
was
done
in
the
middle
of
Peace
,
without
any
pretence
whatsoever
,
contrary
to
the
Faith
so
lately
given
,
that
all
things
should
remain
in
the
same
condition
,
as
they
were
at
the
departure
of
the
Kings
Ambassadour
for
Francfort
;
that
all
judicious
Persons
did
believe
,
that
after
this
it
would
be
useless
to
build
any
Foundation
upon
the
Rules
either
of
Law
or
Honesty
.
That
Conscience
,
Faith
,
and
the
Law
of
Nations
,
are
empty
Names
,
and
vain
shadows
,
since
Violences
and
Injustices
are
committed
open-faced
,
and
without
any
sort
of
pretence
;
for
formerly
those
who
studied
so
exactly
the
niceties
of
the
French
Law
,
were
not
likely
of
thinking
of
Strasbourg
,
lest
they
should
be
looked
upon
as
Men
whose
Brains
were
stuff'd
with
Chimeras
,
or
as
Sophists
taken
in
flagranti
delicto
,
since
the
words
of
the
Peace
of
Munster
are
too
plain
and
clear
,
to
leave
any
room
for
vain
disputing
,
that
one
would
think
that
the
Ministers
who
made
the
Draught
of
it
,
had
by
some
Prophetick
mind
foreseen
and
prevented
all
the
subtle
evasions
,
which
the
most
impudent
Sophister
could
ever
devise
.
But
if
they
were
cunning
enough
to
stop
the
mouths
of
those
who
had
yet
some
shame
still
remaining
in
them
,
they
could
not
tye
the
hands
of
those
who
so
scornfully
trampled
under
Feet
all
sort
of
Reason
;
for
it
has
availed
them
little
,
to
have
expresly
determined
,
that
nothing
of
all
Alsatia
should
be
yielded
to
France
,
but
what
the
House
of
Austria
possessed
,
to
have
specified
the
Places
by
their
names
,
and
surnames
,
to
have
excepted
expresly
those
very
Principalities
and
States
of
the
Empire
,
which
France
will
at
present
include
,
to
Wit
,
the
Bishoprick
,
and
City
of
Strasbourg
,
the
Princes
of
Petite-pierre
,
the
Comtes
of
Hanau
,
and
the
free
Nobility
of
Alsatia
.
Some
French
Advocates
seeing
themselves
press'd
by
the
Peace
of
Westphalia
,
withdrew
into
another
intrenchment
,
and
finding
nothing
which
is
favourable
to
them
in
these
Ages
,
they
have
recourse
to
some
Imaginary
rights
of
Dagobert
and
Charles
le
Magne
.
I
wonder
that
they
do
not
demand
of
the
Great
Turk
,
the
Conquests
which
the
Gauls
formerly
made
in
Grecia
,
and
Galatia
,
and
that
they
do
not
bring
their
Action
against
the
present
Romans
for
the
money
which
their
Ancestors
had
promis'd
the
Gauls
,
to
save
their
Capitol
,
and
whose
payment
was
interrupted
by
Camillus
.
In
effect
those
Authors
amongst
them
who
have
any
gravity
,
are
asham'd
of
their
rediculous
Impertinencies
;
for
if
they
subsisted
,
it
would
be
in
vain
henceforward
to
alledge
the
Treaties
of
Peace
of
Munster
or
Nimmeguen
,
or
to
contest
about
any
Place
or
Country
with
an
Emperour
,
King
,
or
Prince
,
who
ought
to
be
dethron'd
or
dispossessed
of
their
Lands
,
as
downright
Usurpers
,
since
all
Germany
,
with
the
Low
Cuntreys
,
and
almost
all
Italy
,
would
be
swallowed
up
in
this
General
Pretension
of
the
Empire
of
Charles
le
Magne
,
if
he
was
now
to
be
raised
from
the
dead
.
There
are
some
,
nevertheless
,
who
suspect
that
the
Most
Christian
King
does
mean
these
vast
and
determin'd
pretensions
,
when
he
offers
to
the
Empire
,
that
in
case
they
will
yield
what
he
has
lately
taken
,
he
will
renounce
all
his
other
Rights
,
which
notwithstanding
he
does
not
explain
;
wherein
he
does
wisely
,
for
we
commonly
think
best
of
things
not
known
,
and
oftentimes
secrets
being
made
publick
,
are
exposed
to
Laughter
.
I
have
thus
ingenuously
represented
,
all
that
is
objected
against
the
Kings
Pretensions
,
that
one
might
see
that
there
was
no
other
way
left
to
defend
them
,
but
the
Medium
which
I
took
,
by
which
the
King
is
exempted
from
answering
to
all
the
reasons
of
Law
,
how
strong
so
ever
they
are
:
but
because
this
fine
invention
is
unknown
to
the
Vulgar
,
we
must
not
marvel
if
those
who
have
been
lately
stript
of
their
Estates
,
torment
themselves
,
and
stir
up
Heaven
and
Earth
against
us
.
If
they
shew
us
Fields
drowned
in
Christian
Blood
,
to
satisfie
the
Ambition
of
one
Nation
,
which
alone
disturbs
the
Publick
quiet
;
if
they
let
us
see
thousands
who
have
lost
their
Lives
by
Fire
,
Famine
,
and
Sword
,
only
that
there
might
be
writ
upon
the
Gates
of
Paris
,
the
name
of
Louis
the
Great
,
in
Golden
Letters
.
France
can
,
they
say
,
give
Peace
and
Happiness
to
all
Europe
,
what
greater
Crime
can
there
be
imagined
then
,
to
load
ones
self
with
all
the
Evil
of
Christendome
,
so
much
Innocent
blood
spilt
,
scelerate
actions
,
the
groanings
of
dying
men
,
finally
the
Tears
of
Widows
,
and
of
Orphans
,
who
cry
to
God
for
vengeance
,
that
great
God
,
whose
judgments
are
so
terrible
,
whom
the
Hypocrites
and
Sophists
can
not
deceive
,
and
who
makes
no
distinction
between
the
King
and
the
Plowman
,
but
to
encrease
their
Pains
according
to
the
greatness
of
their
Crimes
?
In
this
spacious
field
do
the
Enemies
of
France
so
loudly
declaim
against
her
,
but
they
surpass
themselves
now
that
the
Turk
is
ready
to
over-run
all
Christendom
,
two
hundred
thousand
Christians
destroyed
by
the
Sword
,
or
what
is
worse
,
led
into
Captivity
to
the
Perpetual
damnation
of
their
Souls
,
this
they
say
,
cries
Vengeance
to
Heaven
,
against
those
who
incited
and
aided
the
Rebels
of
Hungary
with
Money
and
arms
,
tho'
they
foresaw
of
what
a
dreadful
consequence
it
wou'd
be
to
the
poor
Christians
,
who
were
most
exposed
to
the
danger
.
And
that
no
one
may
fancie
that
the
Authors
of
these
hopeful
designs
do
repent
themselves
of
them
,
't
is
observed
that
they
,
now
the
danger
is
the
greatest
,
when
Vienna
was
upon
the
point
of
surrendring
,
the
Church
drowned
in
tears
,
and
covered
with
Cinders
and
Sackcloth
,
to
crave
pity
and
mercy
from
Almighty
God
,
't
is
observed
,
I
say
,
that
these
Incendiaries
do
incite
the
King
to
divide
,
by
the
Means
of
his
Allyes
,
the
Forces
of
Germany
,
so
necessary
to
repel
the
common
Enemy
,
and
,
what
is
worse
to
attack
openly
the
House
of
Austria
;
at
a
time
that
she
was
like
to
be
oppressed
by
the
Ottoman
Power
,
to
the
great
astonishment
of
all
Christendom
;
and
all
this
without
any
apparent
reason
,
upon
frivolous
pretences
,
of
some
little
Dependencies
,
which
are
not
able
to
stand
a
discussion
at
Law
,
not
being
Law
proof
.
From
whence
will
follow
in
all
probability
,
that
either
Vienna
will
be
lost
,
or
that
the
Emperour
must
be
obliged
to
make
a
peace
no
less
shameful
than
pernicious
to
Christendom
,
and
which
will
render
him
contemptible
to
all
the
World
;
or
finally
,
that
there
will
be
an
immortal
hatred
,
in
case
the
Turks
are
happily
repuls'd
,
since
the
Emperor
must
necessarily
judge
,
that
he
cannot
save
himself
from
the
snares
which
France
prepares
for
Him
,
but
by
an
implacable
,
and
a
fatal
War
,
which
will
not
end
,
but
by
the
utter
destruction
of
one
of
the
Parties
,
whereby
one
of
them
will
be
rendered
incapable
of
either
giving
or
resenting
any
farther
affronts
,
which
cannot
be
compass'd
without
the
effusion
of
much
Blood
.
If
the
King
,
say
they
,
had
been
pleased
,
when
Christendom
was
in
so
much
danger
,
to
let
the
World
see
the
greatness
of
his
Soul
,
by
sacrificing
a
few
handfuls
of
earth
,
in
the
low
Countries
,
to
the
Publick
good
,
by
comporting
himself
towards
the
Germans
,
who
have
been
hitherto
esteem'd
Generous
,
so
that
they
needed
not
have
been
forced
upon
some
desperate
Action
,
to
provide
for
their
own
honour
and
safety
:
If
the
King
had
been
pleased
to
have
consented
to
the
just
demands
of
the
Emperour
,
who
desired
to
have
terminated
at
the
same
time
the
differences
which
were
between
France
,
the
Empire
,
and
the
Low
Countries
,
of
which
they
are
a
Member
,
without
designing
by
subtle
devices
,
or
by
an
unsupportable
imperiousness
to
separate
Allyes
,
which
are
link'd
together
by
all
the
strictest
Bonds
of
blood
,
right
,
and
interest
,
thereby
to
ruine
them
each
part
;
lastly
,
if
his
behaviour
had
n
such
after
the
Peace
of
Nimeguen
,
that
one
might
have
hop'd
for
some
Quiet
;
if
the
Most
Christian
King
,
I
say
,
had
been
pleased
to
have
yielded
these
things
to
the
prayers
of
the
Holy
Father
,
to
the
Tears
of
the
Church
prostrated
at
his
feet
,
he
might
have
quietly
possessed
the
greatest
part
of
what
he
has
taken
,
laid
a
Foundation
of
a
solid
,
and
lasting
Peace
in
Europe
,
of
which
he
would
have
been
the
Author
and
Arbiter
,
gain'd
the
hearts
,
and
the
publick
acclamations
of
all
;
in
a
word
,
made
such
progresses
against
the
Infidels
,
that
would
have
been
,
perhaps
,
of
greater
importance
,
and
of
much
more
Honour
and
Glory
to
him
,
than
all
he
could
have
performed
in
Europe
;
but
the
conduct
of
France
being
directly
contrary
to
these
good
Counsels
,
she
forces
others
to
take
desperate
Resolutions
,
and
makes
it
an
unpardonable
Crime
for
any
one
henceforward
to
put
any
confidence
in
her
word
,
or
to
hope
for
a
good
Peace
,
since
neither
the
Renunciation
so
solemnly
swore
could
guarant
that
of
the
Pyreneans
,
nor
the
Kings
word
,
that
nothing
should
be
altered
after
the
departure
of
his
Ambassadours
for
Francfort
,
could
hinder
the
taking
of
Strasbourg
,
and
since
the
declaration
which
this
Prince
made
,
that
he
had
raised
the
Blokade
of
Luxemburg
upon
no
other
account
but
that
Christendom
was
threatned
with
the
arms
of
the
Turks
,
has
been
found
false
and
Illusory
,
since
at
present
that
the
Turks
are
come
from
threats
to
Blows
,
it
restrains
not
the
Officers
of
that
Crown
,
from
taking
the
advantage
of
a
general
consternation
,
whilst
all
Germany
trembles
,
and
all
Europe
remains
astonish'd
,
to
advance
the
affairs
of
their
Master
,
to
lay
waste
the
Low
Countreys
,
and
to
kindle
without
any
concernment
a
new
War
,
an
action
which
none
can
defend
without
an
extreme
Impudence
or
Folly
.
Some
hope
that
Heaven
will
not
let
France
go
unpunished
for
so
black
and
detestable
a
Crime
,
that
the
publick
hatred
,
the
undeceiving
of
Men
of
worth
,
who
had
yet
some
good
Opinion
remaining
of
the
French
conduct
,
and
the
Infamy
which
will
descend
to
posterity
,
are
Punishments
great
enough
,
that
among
the
French
themselves
those
whose
Consciences
are
not
quite
smothered
by
a
long
habit
of
Crimes
,
will
tremble
at
the
sight
of
so
great
a
wickedness
;
that
the
remorse
of
Conscience
of
a
bad
Cause
,
is
not
always
without
effect
even
among
Souldiers
and
Common
People
,
whom
the
least
reverse
of
Fortune
,
is
able
to
reject
or
animate
,
to
put
in
execution
the
dangerous
designs
which
lye
hid
in
the
breasts
of
several
Malecontents
,
and
which
a
long
Series
of
happy
successes
,
has
rather
stifled
than
extinguished
.
They
flatter
themselves
that
it
will
not
be
long
before
France
repents
her self
of
her
deportment
,
and
that
all
the
evils
will
fall
upon
the
heads
of
those
who
have
been
the
occasion
of
them
;
for
say
they
,
France
must
have
done
one
of
these
two
things
,
to
wit
,
either
have
taken
hold
of
this
occasion
,
to
shew
her
Generosity
,
by
giving
the
Empire
and
Spain
a
tollerable
peace
;
or
have
cast
off
all
respect
and
shame
,
by
entring
with
all
her
Forces
into
Germany
,
to
oblige
her
to
take
her
choice
,
either
of
Mahomet
the
Fourth
,
or
Louis
the
Fourteenth
,
and
since
France
who
has
no
regard
to
Piety
,
and
who
dares
not
make
a
publick
Profession
of
a
down-right
ungodliness
,
has
lost
this
fair
opportunity
,
by
keeping
the
mid-way
,
which
Machiavil
observes
to
be
so
dangerous
to
all
great
designs
,
they
hope
that
the
Turks
being
repuls'd
,
she
will
soon
repent
of
her
indifferent
Piety
,
or
her
down-right
Witch-craft
.
These
are
part
of
the
things
which
are
said
against
France
;
for
I
cannot
induce
my self
out
of
the
veneration
and
the
respect
we
owe
to
great
Princes
,
to
make
mention
of
all
those
bitter
and
violent
expressions
,
which
are
us'd
either
in
Books
,
or
private
Conversations
.
These
Objections
cannot
be
answered
by
those
who
endeavour
to
defend
the
proceedings
of
France
by
Common
Law
.
But
my
Principles
clears
them
of
all
Doubt
,
and
brings
a
Confusion
upon
those
who
pretend
to
Criticise
the
actions
of
the
best
and
greatest
of
Kings
,
of
whose
Holy
and
Sanctified
Intentions
they
are
altogether
ignorant
.
For
could
they
look
into
the
bottom
of
his
Heart
,
or
did
they
hear
him
argue
with
his
Confessor
,
I
believe
they
wou'd
soon
put
a
stop
to
their
malignant
Reproaches
.
This
great
Prince
has
foreseen
all
things
,
knows
the
Evils
which
he
does
himself
,
or
suffers
to
be
done
by
others
;
it
grieves
him
,
when
he
considers
the
loss
of
so
many
thousand
Souls
.
But
what
help
,
how
can
he
resist
the
unalterable
Decrees
of
the
Fates
above
,
who
force
him
to
it
:
He
sees
that
all
other
ways
to
Cure
the
Evils
of
Christendom
,
but
Fire
and
Sword
,
are
vain
and
useless
;
the
Gangreen
cannot
be
stopp'd
,
but
by
Remedies
which
are
cruel
in
themselves
.
Our
miseries
must
be
cut
up
by
the
roots
;
habeat
aliquid
ex
iniquo
omne
magnum
exemplum
quod
utilitate
publica
compensaturum
.
Since
therefore
,
not
only
the
light
of
an
internal
Vocation
which
was
sufficient
for
the
pretended
Reformers
,
but
moreovethe
external
Marks
of
an
extraordinary
mission
,
to
wit
,
Miracles
,
and
a
perpetual
assistance
from
Heaven
,
do
confirm
the
King
in
the
Justice
of
his
Cause
,
nay
,
and
oblige
him
to
pursue
his
point
,
he
must
necessarily
obey
the
Commands
of
the
Soveraign
Power
,
who
calls
upon
him
to
be
the
general
Restorer
of
the
Affairs
of
Christendom
:
Let
him
seek
after
Greatness
,
as
a
necessary
accomplishment
for
so
great
a
design
;
let
him
ruine
the
House
of
Austria
,
for
whilst
that
subsists
,
Christians
cannot
be
united
under
one
Head
,
nor
Hereticks
reduced
.
Some
will
imagine
that
the
King
would
do
better
to
begin
all
these
rare
designs
,
by
the
overthrow
of
the
Turks
,
than
by
afflicting
the
poor
Christians
;
but
these
Persons
do
not
see
that
't
is
the
Germans
and
Flemmings
who
border
upon
France
,
and
not
the
Turks
.
That
one
must
pass
from
ones
Nighbours
farther
on
,
and
arrive
to
great
things
by
sure
and
solid
Degrees
,
rather
than
by
over-hasty
and
dangerous
leaps
.
But
that
I
may
not
trouble
my self
any
longer
with
Reasons
of
Policy
,
see
here
is
one
of
Conscience
,
which
is
,
That
the
King
will
follow
the
Rules
of
the
New
Testament
,
which
commands
us
to
begin
with
the
Jews
,
and
then
to
proceed
on
ad
gentes
,
wherefore
,
in
imitation
of
it
,
that
King
will
by
the
overthrow
of
the
Christians
,
make
himself
one
day
a
secure
passage
to
the
Infidels
.
FINIS
.