Chief Points in Controversy Between the Reformed Churches and Rome, Title page – Dedication
A SHORT VIEW OF THE Chief Points IN CONTROVERSY Between the REFORMED CHURCHES And the CHURCH of ROME.
IN Two LETTERS to the Duke of Bouillon, upon his turning PAPIST.
Written by the Reverend PETER DƲ MOƲLIN, Profeſſor of Divinity in the Univerſity of Sedan.
Newly tranſlated out of the FRENCH Copy, which was never Printed.
LONDON, Printed for Benjamin Tooke, at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1680.
To the Honourable Sir NORTON KNATCHBƲL, Knight and Baronet.
Honourable Sir,
THeſe Letters written fifty years ago to reduce the Duke of Bouillon to the Proteſtant Religion which he had forſaken, never were put to the Preſs, for Fear of provoking that great Lord to confute them with Arguments of Power, againſt which thoſe of Truth and Learning too often cannot ſtand. That they now come out in Engliſh, the Church of England is obliged, Sir, to you, who having by your diligent Search made your ſelf Owner of a fair Manuſcript of the ſame, were pleaſed to beſtow it upon me, the Authors Son; adding your Requeſt, which to me is a Command, that I would tranſlate it into Engliſh, and give it to the Publick. I have now obeyed your Order, which I could not have done in a more ſeaſonable Conjuncture, and I cannot in Duty but return this Tranſlation to the bountiful Giver of the Original. Sir, you have by your excellent Labours already publiſht, ſhewn to the World how well you can match hearty Piety with eminent Learning. Now you are pleaſed to give another Inſtance of your Affection to both, by procuring the ſetting forth theſe following Treatiſes. Short indeed they are, but as compact with the Sinews of Reaſon and Learning, as any that ever came from the Study of that ſtrong Champion of Gods Cauſe. May God be glorified by it, his Truth aſſerted, his Oppoſers converted, and your Zeal for Gods Truth and Glory be rewarded by God, and imitated by men. So prayeth
SIR, Your true Honourer, and moſt humble Servant. PETER DU MOULIN.