WHAT deep and ſorrowful Impreſſions the great Calamities and Miſeries of the preſent War, which all Chriſtendom groans under, have made on Your Mind, as alſo the great and ſpecial Care Your Holineſs takes to Reconcile the exaſperated Minds of all Chriſtian Princes, in order to the promoting of an Univerſal Peace, has been given Us to underſtand at large by Your Holineſs Letter, from the 8th of the laſt Month. And truly the great and increaſing Miſchiefs, attending a War that has been rais'd under ſo frivolous Pretences, moves no leſs Our than Your Holineſs Fatherly Heart. Yet ſince We did not take up Arms till We were forc'd to it by an unavoidable Neceſſity, We have this Conſolation left us, that (calling God and Our Conſcience to witneſs) we are wholly free from the Cauſe of it: Beſides Your Holineſs, by a long and ſolid Experience, is ſo well acquainted with the Remoteſt Inclinations of Our Heart, that You'll eaſily conceive, that We can ſuffer nothing with more Uneaſineſs and Impatience, than to ſee the effects of Our Natural Tendency to Peace and Quietneſs, obſtructed by the Ambitious and Envious Endeavours of France.
As yet no Obligations, Promiſes, no not the Moſt Sacred Oaths could prevail with that Crown to keep it from the breaking of the moſt Solemn Treaties as ſoon as they were made; for to paſs over all the reſt, the Chriſtian World knows it; and future Ages will relate it with Aſtoniſhment, that the Moſt Chriſtian King has cauſed himſelf to be ſeduced ſo far as to obſtruct the Glorious Courſe of Our Victorious Arms over the Infidels; and when we were relying on his Friendſhip but ſo lately renewed, and conſequently not at all ſtanding on Our Guards, to invade us upon a ſudden the ſecond time with his Hoſtile Arms, putting all to the Fire and Sword before he had acquainted Us with his having the cauſe for it; and indeed, all Divine and Humane Laws are Violated, rather than France ſhould let ſlip any occaſion of enlarging her Frontiers, or to hinder Us from the ſecuring of Ours, and to deprive Us and Chriſtendom of all Means to end the War with the Turks with Succeſs and Advantage.
Thus have We been obliged by the Moſt Sacred Tye of Our high Office, by reaſon of that moſt Ignominious League between the moſt Chriſtian King, and the Sworn Enemy of the Chriſtian name, to unite our ſelves with Our Friends and Confederates againſt France, to the defence of Us and Our People; which Union and Confederacy is of ſo high a nature, that We can do nothing towards the Concluſion of a Peace without their Advice and Counſel But ſince we are wholly convinc'd that their Inclinations are no leſs tending than ours to ſuch a Peace, by which all Chriſtendom, according to the Weſphalian and Pyrenean Treaty (ſince violated by France) may be reſtor'd to its former Quietneſs and Tranquility, all will be reduced to this point, that Your Holineſs will be pleaſed to employ to the utmoſt, Your Fatherly care to prevail with the French King as the ſole Author of this War, to reſtore both the abovemention'd Treaties, which he himſelf has broke.
In caſe Your Holineſs can obtain from him theſe ſo juſt Demands, there ſhall be wanting nothing on our ſide to render effectual this ſo Holy Deſign of Your Holineſs, tending to the good of Chriſtendom, and Your proffer'd Fatherly Service for the promoting of a General Reconciliation, ſo acceptable to Us, and ſo much wiſh'd for by all the reſt of Our Confederates. This We have thought fit to reply to Your Holineſs's Letter according to Our Zeal for Your Perſon, Praying God Almighty long to preſerve Your Holineſs to the benefit of Us and the Church.
Vienna,Jan. 30. 1691.
* ⁎ * Truth brought to Light: Or the Hiſtory of the Firſt Fourteen years of King James I. In Four Parts.
Bibliotheca Politica: Or a Diſcourſe by way of Dialogue, whether Monarchy be Jure Divino. Collected out of the moſt approved Authors, both Antient and Modern. Dialogue the Firſt. The Second is now in the Preſs, which Treats, Whether there can be made out from the Natural or Revealed Law of God, any Succeſſion of Crowns by Divine Right. And will be Publiſhed in few Days.
Utrum Horum: Or, God's Ways of diſpoſing Kingdoms: and ſome Clergy-Mens Ways of diſpoſing of Them.
The Devout Chriſtian's Preparation for holy Dying. Conſiſting of Ejaculations, Prayers, Meditations and Hymns, adapted to the ſeveral States and Conditions of this Life, and on the four laſt Things, viz. Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell.
A New, Plain, Short, and Compleat French and Engliſh Grammar; whereby the Learner may attain in few Months to Speak and Write French Correctly, as they do now in the Court of France. And wherein all that is Dark, Superfluous, and Deficient in others Grammars, is Plain, Short, and Methodically ſupplied. Alſo very uſeful to Strangers, that are deſirous to learn the Engliſh Tongue: For whoſe ſake is added a Short, but very Exact Engliſh Grammar. The Second Edition. By Peter Berault.
Sold by Richard Baldwin.
LONDON: Printed for Richard Baldwin. 1691.
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