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LETTER VI. (Book 6)
Of the Unjust Complaints of the French Clergy, against the Reformed in France.
My Lord,
THE Ruin of the Reformed in this Kingdom is as much precipitated, as that of a Protestant Church is designed some∣where else, and which I believe your Lord∣ship, by this time, is pretty well per∣swaded of; and to this end the Popish Cler∣gy have accosted the King with a severe Remonstrance against them, the sum where∣of, for want of more entertaining News, I shall write to your Lordship at this time: They began with the hardiest Lie they could have invented, saying, That there was nothing included in their Complaint, but what was most necessary, and could be most clearly jnstified and made good. Whereas it is most evident, that every ti∣tle of it tends to Destroy and Persecute, and is grounded upon the most manifest Falsities in the World: then they begin to charge the Reformed with Calumniating, and falsly Accuting the Catholicks, that they did not believe the Truths of the Faith, as they express it; whereas the Protestant Divines here, have so far been complyant, as to testifie from time to time, that the