IT is the French Church at the Savoy, which now craveth Your Royal and Favorable Audience: And I bring along with me to it, all the Hearts and all the Vows of those of that Na­tion, who help to compose that Body.

As I have the honor usually to speak on their behalf to GOD; so have they given me the honorable Commission to speak this day in their Names to His VICEGERENT, one of the most August Lieutenants of the DIVINE MAJESTY, whereof Yours is a most living Character. Neither was it possible (SIRE) [Page 4] to be silent, where there is so great cause to speak, considering the fresh Testimony of Your most Royal Bounty, which we have so lately received by Your Majesties Declaration in favour of our Nation, whereby You are pleased to suffer their abode in Your Dominions, under the shadow and protection of Your own Throne. How could we forbear after this surprizing GRACE, and extraordinary FAVOUR, at the least to evidence in some measure unto Your Sacred Majesty, what our Hearts are big with on this eminent Occasion; and in this Important con­juncture, to testifie some part of our Duty and Acknowledgments? Which (SIRE) are so full, that we cannot possibly produce them all together, nor in their reall extents, for they loose considerably whilest they are rising from our Hearts but to our Lips, such are our transports and our joyes within.

Each good French-man within Your King­domes, is doubtless full of this sense, and espe­cially such whom You permit here to enjoy the greatest and most deare of all Interests, and to be as it were linked unto Your own Crown, by the Sacred tyes of Religion, and by the Sym­pathy of the same FAITH. But (GREAT SIR) suffer us, we beseech You, to presume that our Church and Congregation may chal­lenge a Right for her particular Application upon the occasion of this Your General De­claration; and that she ought to behold it with an Eye and Light much differing from the rest of the French; and that discerning therein a more especial concernment and interest, she hath with reason imposed on her self a more singu­lar way of acknowledgment.

No doubt (SIRE) but all Men will ob­serve no less then we do, an infinite Charity in this Your most Prudent Declaration: All Strangers, Your generous Hospitality; And all French, an incomparable Generosity. The wise and knowing, will admire in it Your wonderful penetrating Spirit, as well as Your preventive Poli­cy, which foils and disappoints all the pernicious designs of that of Your Enemies, who must now be obliged to confess, That Your Majesty under­stands the Art of Reigning in our Hearts, and hath found out an infallible way how to make good Subjects of Natural Frenchmen, even while they remain such. Certainly all Christendom will discover in every part of it, the perfect Genius of Christianity, and will be surprized to see the Spirit of Peace, thus reigning in a Declaration of War. All of the Protestant Profession may learn by it; that Your Majesty doth indeed consider Your Di­vine Title of DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, as the most beautiful Flower of Your Diadem.

They must consider You, Great Sir, from All the ends of the Earth, where Divine Providence hath placed them, as the Supream Head of the Reformed World, as the Angel of the Church, and the Light of Israel: And especially the Pro­testants of our Nation, who remain within Your Majesties Dominions, and have embraced with us the Reformation, and Discipline of the Church of England, have already, doubtless, with ex­tream satisfaction observed, in this Your Majesties Declaration (or rather Oracle) all the Illuminati­on, Piety, Prudence, and Moderation, which every day they so earnestly pray to GOD for upon [Page 6] Your Majesty, in their holy Prayers and De­votions.

Permit us (SIRE) to repeat it once again, but in few words, lest we abuse Your Royal Patience; That our Church upon this occasion enters into further and more particular thoughts and reflections; and that she enjoys the taste of this Your Majesties benignity, with more delight and sweetness, then the rest of the French, who have it common with us, because it is a Church which hath the honor to be Your own Work­manship, and ows its Establishment and Subsistence to Your Self.

She looks upon You (GREAT SIR) as her Founder and Patriarch. It was Your Majesty, that like another Apollo, did fix this floating Island; You provided rest for this Ark, and when we have the Blessing there to present our selves frequently be­fore the Throne of Grace, we remember, that it is evermore under the blessed shadow and auspi­cious protection of that of Your Majestie. Therefore as this Church hath been confirmed in her first Priviledges by that Your Majesties wise, Christian, and Protestant Declaration; and that withal, Your Majesty doth thereby sustain her, even when in appearance she was at the point to fall; and that some were prone to believe, that the very Interests of State required her entire de­struction;

Is it not so (most Gracious Soveraign) that she is under a double Obligement to Your Ma­jesty for her conservation and settlement? And that You are now, as it were, a second time her Founder and her Father? And that therefore, albeit the Oracle, by which she subsists still, were [Page 7] pronounced in behalf of all the French, it ap­pears how much more especially it touches and concerns those Members, out of which her Body is framed? And it is also most evident and cer­tain, That our Acknowledgments ought to be, and are much more strong and passionate then those of others.

But (Gracious Sir) what is there we can do, that may in any measure express it? We have nothing but faint words, and useless thanks to present You with, for that Royal Word (in the terms of Your own Declaration) for that great and saving Word issued from the Royal Mouth of our Cyrus, in favor of all our Tribe. Such yet as they are, these thanks, these words, we are bold to offer them to Your Majesty, as we do most humbly; as sincere, as faithful, as true, as are the words of the Soul it self, her thoughts and motions.

In this sort onely it is, that we presume to tell Your Sacred Majesty, (though in terms, it may be, like Hearts filled with Zeal and Submission) that we render You Declaration for Declaration; and that we think we can not better answer that which Your Majesty hath been pleased to publish in our Favor, then by that we now make to Your Majesty; which is, That we shall never cease to have for Your Majesty, all the Loyalty and Reve­rence, all the tenderness, zeal, and utmost duty, which the most humble, most obedient, and most faithful of all Your Majesties Subjects and Servants do ow You.