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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<HEAD>Mon&s;ieur St. Ruth's SPEECH TO THE IRISH Army,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">On the 11th of <HI>July,</HI> 1691. Being the Day before the Battel at <HI>Aghrim,</HI> as it was found among the Papers of his Secretary, who was killed in the Battel.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen and Fellow-Soldiers,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Suppo&s;e it is not unknown to you, and to the whole Chri&s;tian World, what Glory I have acquired, and how Succe&s;sful and Fortunate I have been in &s;uppre&s;&s;ing Here&s;ie in <HI>France,</HI> and propagating the ho|ly Catholick Faith; and can without Vanity boa&s;t my &s;elf the happy In&s;trument of bringing over Thou&s;ands of poor deluded Souls from their Errors, who owe their Salvation to the pious Care of my thrice Illu&s;trious Ma&s;ter, and my own Indu&s;try, a&s;&s;i&s;ted by &s;ome Holy Members of our Un|&s;potted Church; while great numbers of tho&s;e incorrigible Hereticks have peri&s;hed, both Soul and Body, by their ob&s;tinacy.</P>
<P>It was for this rea&s;on that the mo&s;t Pui&s;&s;ant King my Ma&s;ter, compa&s;&s;io|nating the mi&s;eries of this Kingdom, hath cho&s;en me before &s;o many worthy Generals to come hither: not doubting but by my wonted Diligence I &s;hould e&s;tabli&s;h the Church in this Nation on &s;uch a Foundation as it &s;hould not be in the power of Hell or Hereticks hereafter to di&s;turb it.</P>
<P>And for the bringing about of this Great and Glorious Work, next to the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of Heaven, the unre&s;i&s;tible Pui&s;lance of the King my Ma&s;ter, and my own Conduct, the great dependance of all good Catholicks is on your Courage.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t confe&s;s that &s;ince my coming among you things have not an&s;wered my Wi&s;hes, but they are &s;till in a po&s;ture to be retrieved, if you will not betray your Religion and Countrey by an un&s;ea&s;onable pu&s;ilanimity.</P>
<P>I am a&s;&s;ured by my Spies, that the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI>'s Heretical Army are re&s;olved to give us Battel; and you &s;ee them even before you ready to per|form it. It is now therefore, if ever, that you mu&s;t endeavour to recover your lo&s;t Honour, Priviledges, and Fore-Fathers E&s;tates: You are not Mercenary Soldiers, you do not fight for your Pay, but for your Lives, your Wives, your Children, your Liberties, your Countrey, your E&s;tates, and to re&s;tore the mo&s;t Pious of Kings to his Throne; but above all for the propagation of the Holy Faith, and the Subver&s;ion of Here&s;ie. Stand to it therefore, my Dears, and bear no longer the Reproaches of the Hereticks, who brand you with Cowardice: and you may be a&s;&s;ured, that King <HI>James</HI> will Love and Reward you, <HI>Louis</HI> the Great will protect you, all good Catholicks will Applaud you, I my &s;elf will Command you, the Church will Pray for you, your Po&s;terity will Ble&s;s you, Saints and Angels will Care&s;s you, God will make you all Saints, and His Holy Mother will lay you in Her Bo&s;om.</P>
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<P>Printed at <HI>Dublin,</HI> and Re-printed at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> 1691.</P>
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