The Novelty of Popery Opposed to the Antiquity of True Christianity, Dedication 2 – Errata
To the Kings moſt Excellent Majeſty, CHARLES By the grace of God King of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. Defender of the Faith.
SIR,
HAving undertaken this work by the command of your Royal Father of glorious memory, I thought my ſelf bound in duty to dedicate it to no other then his Son, the true heir both of his Crown and vertue. That great Monarch having honoured my pen ſo much in his life time, as to employ it for his defence, I ſhould be unthankful to his memory if I forſook his Cauſe after his death; ſeeing eſpecially his Cauſe to be that of God, and the heavenly truth aſſaulted in his perſon: Seeing alſo that the Cardinal againſt whom I write, who hath found out many new ſhifts, and laid freſh colours over the idol, is the great Teacher of thoſe Seminaries whoſe reſtleſs labour is to ſubvert the conſciences of your Subjects. By aſſiſting them in that danger, I thought I ſhould do an acceptable ſervice to your Majeſty, who being filled with the true knowledge of God, burns alſo with the Zeal of his houſe. For a King whom God hath endowed with his knowledge and fear, muſt be firmly perſwaded that God hath raiſed him to an eminent place, that he may diſcover afar off the plots and workings of that grand enemy of our ſalvation, who hath a particular malice againſt Kings that are no ſervants to his Empire. As Ravens will build their neſts on the tops of high trees, Satan likewiſe endeavours to neſtle himſelf in the top of Empires, and in the houſes of great Kings, and there to hatch his brood, which are errours and vices, that they may be conſpicuous and borrow authority from the place they ſtand in. Whence if he be thrown down and defeated of his hopes, no doubt but he hates ſuch a King more then any man on earth, and will ſpare no ſtrength and no devices to diſturb his reſt and ſhake his conſtancy.This came forth, An. 1626. In this ſhort time that your Majeſty hath been ſitting upon the throne, you have found already that the frame of great Kingdoms herein differs from that of the great building of Nature, that in the ſupream part of the Univerſe there is a perpetual reſt and tranquillity, but the loweſt part is the region of trouble and confuſion: whereas Kingdoms and Empires are like trees, whoſe top is the moſt ſhaken. And it is without queſtion that many Kings would have quitted their place, if as there are ſtairs to get up to an Empire, there were ſome to come down from it. If this be true in all Kingdoms, much more in thoſe where the Ruler hath ſubjected his Scepter to the Croſs of Chriſt, and by an holy magnanimity hath ſet himſelf to wage war with the Devil. Wherein, Sir, we acknowledge the work of God, admiring his providence and exalting his goodneſs, that while he called your Majeſty to theſe tryals, he endowed you alſo with ſtrength to overcome them: Having filled you with the Spirit of his fear, and ſet you forth in the eyes of the world as a rare example of vertue and holineſs in your converſation, of prudence above your age, and of meekneſs below your greatneſs. In all which your praiſe is the greater, becauſe you apply your ſelf to do the will of God, while your dignity gives you more power then to the reſt of men to do your own. This fills us with hope that God will make uſe of your Majeſty to do great things, and that the ruines of the Church, happened in the time of the King your Father, will be repaired under your happy reign. We know Sir, how ſenſible you are of the wound of the Church. We know that your Majeſty hath the lively zeal of Gods glory; As indeed of all the men of the world none hath more reaſon for it, ſince of all men in the world you are the moſt evidently favoured of God. For hath God poured his bleſſings upon any Countrey of the world ſo bountifully as upon your England? A Countrey which in a profound peace of many years, in a great plenty, and in a ſafe poſture from all fears round about, enjoyes the ſaving light of the Goſpel, whileſt a black ſmoak from the bottomleſs pit over-ſpreads well nigh the whole face of the earth. Certainly for one to raign where Chriſt raigneth, and to have the Church of God under the ſhadow of his Empire, it is twice raigning. A Monarch that employeth his power to eſtabliſh the Kingdom of God, is a Ruler of men, not only as they are men, but as they are Gods children. One flower of ſuch a Crown, is a thouſand times better then the three Crowns of the Prelate of Rome. For which heavenly favours, it is not only convenient but neceſſary for your Majeſty to raiſe your heart with a holy glory, whereby God may be glorified. He will pour down with a liberal hand his graces from above upon your Royal Head, whence they may flow about upon your whole Kingdom: He will direct your counſels: He will proſper your armes: He will make you the love of your Subjects, and the terrour of your enemies, and will prolong your dayes in his bleſsing; employing your authority, that in your Kingdoms his pure ſervice be maintained; and that the Paſtors of the Church by their reſidence with their flocks, their vigilance in their work, and their ſimplicity and modeſty in their habit, may edifie Gods Church. Our part will be, after the example of Moſes, to help with the lifting up of our hands the ſword of Ioſhua. And the Lord will take compaſsion of his people, hearing the prayers for your Majeſties proſperity and preſervation, which are poured by him who is and muſt be all his dayes,
Sir, Your Majeſties moſt humble and moſt obedient ſervant P. Du Moulin.
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