The Novelty of Popery Opposed to the Antiquity of True Christianity, Title page – Dedication 1
THE NOVELTY OF POPERY, Oppoſed to THE ANTIQUITY Of True CHRISTIANITY.
Againſt the Book of Cardinal Du Perron, Entituled, A Reply to the Anſwer of the moſt Serene JAMES King of Great Britain.
By PETER DU MOULIN D. D. once Miniſter of the Reformed Church of Paris, and ſince Profeſſor in Divinity in the Univerſity of SEDAN.
Tranſlated out of French by the Authors eldeſt Son PETER DU MOULIN D. D. Canon of Canterbury.
PSALM 109.28.
Let them curſe, but bleſs thou.
LONDON, Printed by Robert White, and are to be ſold by Francis Tyton at the three Daggers in Fleet-ſtreet, near unto the Inner Temple-Gate, Anno Dom. 1662.
MVNIFICENTIA REGIA. 1715
GEORGIVS D.G. MAG BR. FRET HIB. REX. F. D.
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS The moſt Illuſtrious and Magnanimous Prince IAMES Duke of York and Albany, Lord High Admiral of England and Ireland, Conſtable of Dover-Caſtle, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Governour of Portſmouth, &c.
SIR,
THis work made for the defence and by the expreſs command of your bleſſed and glorious Grandfather King JAMES, and after his deceaſe preſented by the Author to your incomparable Father, our great King and holy Martyr, is now humbly preſented to your Royal Highneſs by the Tranſlator, ſon and heir of the Authors Zeal to the vindication of Gods Truth, and the Rights of your ſacred Family. The enemies we had to wraſtle with in the late deſolation of our beheaded Church and State, are the ſame that are impugned in this Book. For although the Kings enemies and yours were at open defiance with the Court of Rome, yet they were acted by that Court, and played the Popes game. Their common intereſt, which was moſt earneſtly followed, was to force our King and our Princes into the Romiſh ſuperſtition. And as the one ſide had made of Davids complaint a Motto for them, They have driven us this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord, ſaying, Go ſerve other Gods: So the other party left no way untryed to work upon the diſtreſſes of your ſacred perſons, and inrich their party with ſo great a prize. But God indowed your pious and magnanimous hearts with ſo much heroick ſtrength, that the great Tempter offered in vain unto you, as unto Chriſt, the greatneſs and glory of the world to make you fall down to him and worſhip him: And your valour in the field, which hath got an immortal fame to your name, was yet inferiour to your valour in the temptation. By thus fighting the good fight and keeping the faith, you are become Conquerers of three Kingdoms, beſides that of Heaven, and have engaged God in the defence of your Cauſe by ſticking to his; with ſo much glorious ſucceſs that all ages ſhall adore the excellency of his love in the miracles of your reſtitution. Go on, Generous Prince, in the ſtrength of God, and in conjunction with our gracious King, to be the Protector of true Religion, the maintainer of Juſtice, the comfort of good men, the terrour of the evil, and the pattern of all vertues, the true way to be the example of all bleſsings. That all the bleſsings which heaven can ſhower down, and make the earth bring forth, may ever flow upon your Princely head, is the daily prayer of
Your Royal Highneſſes moſt dutiful and moſt humble Servant, P. Du Moulin.