The history of the League. . nances The Hiftory of the League. 6% dinances and Laws, and to transfer it *^jZZto the States, according to the projeftof the League. This undoubtedly furprizd theKing, but he was yet much more a-mazd when at the fame time, therewas fhewn him the Memoires of oneDavid an Advocate, which containdcertain proportions the moll villa-nous and deteftable that can poffiblybe imagined. For that Fellow who was onely apitifull wretched Advocate, a Defen-der of the worft Caufes, and fuch aswere given for quite loft, lays downat the firft for an undoubted Prin-ciple, ThattheBen
The history of the League. . nances The Hiftory of the League. 6% dinances and Laws, and to transfer it *^jZZto the States, according to the projeftof the League. This undoubtedly furprizd theKing, but he was yet much more a-mazd when at the fame time, therewas fhewn him the Memoires of oneDavid an Advocate, which containdcertain proportions the moll villa-nous and deteftable that can poffiblybe imagined. For that Fellow who was onely apitifull wretched Advocate, a Defen-der of the worft Caufes, and fuch aswere given for quite loft, lays downat the firft for an undoubted Prin-ciple, ThattheBenedidHonofP^x, and principally that of Stephen the Second, was beftowd on the Race of Charlemain alone, and not exten- ded to that of Hugh Capet, an U- furper of the Crown ; And that on the contrary, he by that Ufurpation has drawn on his Defendants thofe Curfes, the deplorable effeds of which have been {tm in fo many Herefies ,• and above all others, in that of the Cafoinifts , who have laid wafte the Kingdom by Civil Wars. The Hiftory of the League. Wars, which after the fruitlefs Vlt- tones gaindagainftthem, have beena fiicceeded by a Peace, moil advan- tageous to thofe Heretiques : that, this notwithftanding, God Almigb-u ty whofe property it is to draw good out of evil, has made ufe ofiC that extreme horrour which all good Catholiques have conceivd for that un-iC happy Peace, to reftore the Princes of Lor rain to their rights, who are as thatu Advocate pretends, and as the people were made to believe, the true Pofte^a rity of Charlemain. After this hemakes a fulfome panegyrique of them,extolling them infinitely above thePrinces of the Bloud, againft whomhe moft fatyrically declaims. Farther,he propofes the means which ought tobe employd, to animate the peopleagainft them, and to opprefs them inthe States, as well as the Huguenots ;advifing that the King flioud beobliged to declare War againft them,and to give the command of his Armsto the Duke of Guife. Then adds ,that wh
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