felves at firft, raised a Mift, and produced the good Testimonials in the Contract. I myself "was near feduced by the near Acquaintance I had "with you and other Guardians (24); but my "Office, and the Negociations I had with you " and others, gave me Occafion to make this Ef"fay (25; and there I found, that external Pomp

can't give Weight and Conviction to erroneous "Doctrine and falfe Tranfactions (26). It has "been discovered, that your Conftitution opposes

Scripture, and ftrikes at the Rights of Sove"reigns (27). Let you and the other Guardians "lay afide Prejudices and deny it if they can. In "the mean time that a thousand Proteftations of "Love and Fidelity were made to the Sovereign,

they intended a Procefs with him at Wetzlar, and the Army of a neighbouring Prince was in"vited to take their Quarters in this Country (28); their other innumerable Fallacies I pafs

over (29). And fhould they who are in an in"diffoluble Connexion with you do any thing "without your Privity? It can't be believed; "but this I am fure of, the Evil intended against "Budingen has fallen on their own Heads (30). "Your Renunciation is of no Confequence, if the "Inhabitants don't renounce you; they ftill re"main Herrnhuters, i. e. a Sect that has no Title "to Toleration. My Sovereign has fent fresh "Orders not to recede in the leaft from the Edict,

(24) See Note, 13, 17, 18.

(25) and (26) This we have already proved.

(27) See Count Zinzendorf's Statutes, Sect. 16---33.

(28) They addreffed themselves at Wetzlar, as foon as they found that the Sovereign was in good earneft for putting a Superintendant, at their Head.

(29) By demanding the Loan fo foon they only wanted to cramp Budingen, and force him to agree with their Views.

(30) All Count Zinzendorf's Devices to hurt the Sovereign have had a quite contrary Effect,

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"therefore I cannot accept of your Offer. It is true, Budingen by it lofes the Donation of your "fine House, many wealthy, and poffibly all the "Inhabitants of Herrnhaag, and at laft the Place "itself. But this is the Lofs of a thing of which " he never had due Poffeffion, and of a fort of "Inhabitants who came in Sheep's Cloathing with "the Inclination of Wolves (31). This Ferocity << lurks under the General-Deaconry, and other "Inventions. But now we are upon our Guard, "and put our Truft in God. His Direction

can fend Budingen many or few Evils (32). "Such is the Lenity of the Edict, that three "Years longer are allowed them, in which Inter

val they must juftify themselves, and their "Failure will be Budingen's Triumph. People "that will come and live here must be firft ex"amined, and you will do well to recommend "fome, if you knew any. They will find that "the Intention to clear and repeople Herrnhaag, "quadrates entirely with the Rules of Religion " and the Welfare of the Country, &c. (33).' Count Zinzendorf answered :

"When you, as I wish, fhall come to ftand at

(31) This hard Expreffion is yet very true. Who at their firft Reception could imagine that they wanted to fet up a fourth Religion That Count Zinzendorf fhould have the Intention to make the mortgaged Lands his Property? That they would establish a College here which fhould have the Management over so many difperfed Colonies? About which Article Count Zinzendorf writes the 29th of January 1747, when he was about bringing Mr. Beuning's Administration over to his Side:

"I thought proper to remove him from the particular Ma- ' a Man of "nagement of these Farms, but to retain him as "Abilities, under the Title of a Counsellor; and if the Con"cerns of the Lands purchased in Penfylvania, Georgia, Ca"rolina, and Maryland, and others given to me and my Heirs, "by a new Act of Parliament made in favour of our Church.' (32) No bad Confequences had as yet been seen.

(33) Budingen published the Edict for their Emigration as the least of two Evils.

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against those who have cheated, who have de

fpifed my Labour, and calumniated me, you "will be confounded at the Fables and Nonfenfe "that you have written to me (34). You will fee that no Herrnhuter Community has been at "Haag, and that this Town has not been ruined by following, but by not following me.

"I fhall then have forgot the Benefactions I "have done to the Houfe of Yfenburgh, and "others which, through their own Fault, I could "not do them; but he who knows me, and who "hates the horrid Ingratitude of Man, knows " and will manifeft them (35). You have no "Occafion to write me fo much of Herrnhaag. I "fhall not mind it if the Place is well peopled or "not (36). That I never approved its Conftitu"tion every body knows that has had to do with "it, and especially Mr. Brauer (37); but it is in"decent to make a Jeft of Contracts.

"Mr. Damnitz's Story I send by this Post. I ἐσ never heard nor could imagine fuch Thoughts "had been in Man (38). But Day and Night "have I watched for Budingen's Profperity (39).

"I am no longer to be deceived by him: I "know him now, and however he may flatter himself, if he likes it, here my private Cor"refpondence with him fhall end (40)."

(34) Here the ftyle is fuddenly altered.

(35) Count Zinzendorf must think all his Benefactions overpaid, if he recollects what he wrote to Mr. Bulfinger, Se&. 21, Note 1.

(36) His Letter to Mr. Reich proves how far he was here in Earneft.

(37) See the End of Sect. 7.

(38) This was their addreffing themselves to Wetzlar. (39) The contrary of this has been often proved.

(40) Count Zinzendorf knew him well enough, but he always hoped to bring about a Change in Mr. Brauer's Mind.

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this Correfpon

"I am forry that you give the Name of Fables " to what I wrote to you; but this teaches me "ftill more of your way of thinking. This I "recommend to your Confcience; mine dictates "to me that I have written nothing but the "Truth I further wish that the Lord may illu"minate you with his holy Truth, that you may joyfully appear before his Tribunal. I know "I must appear there and tremble, convinced that "in me is no good. But my Confidence in the "Merits of Chrift is unfhaken; I rejoice in them: "But as to the Proceedings against the Herrnbuters "there, I am fure they will not turn to my Con"fufion.-I can't tax myfelf with Ingratitude. I "never defired any thing of you in ecclefiaftical

or civil Matters, nor received any; once indeed "I dined with you at your Invitation, and thank "God that he has given me Power to refufe your "Gifts and Offers, which you were for preffing on me and others."

Count Zinzendorf now wrote to Mr. Reich.

"I have had a long and fincere Correfpondence "with Mr. Brauer. This has now feen its Period, "and by his own Direction. I am to fignify my "Thoughts to another Member of the Council,

though at firft little inclined to it. Yet I could "have wifhed still to believe Mr. Brauer to be "the Man whom I always (except till the Letter "before his laft, notwithstanding. fo many cross "Incidents) ufed with Pleafure to commend. "You will, in the annexed Letter, fee feveral "Novelties, all very odd, and not to be paffed "over in Silence (41).

"He mentions Prefents that had been offered to

(41) This he calls fo because Mr. Brauer had not written the Letter himself.

"him, and I can't deny but that I would have "made him fome. The firft was a Watch, and "it pleafing me, and according to my Humour "of giving Things that I like (for I have no such

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Things, and will have none) to him that is next "to me, and he was the Perfon (42.) The other "Prefent was a Set of English Paper Hangings; "but he refused both, and with Serioufnefs.

"He had done well to accept both, his Cha"racter would not have suffered. For, 1. I had "nothing to follicit from Budingen, but they "wanted several things of me (43). 2. To refufe "fuch Trifles is no Proof that a Man is above "Corruption; and fome malignant People will "take it as if the Temptation was too flender.

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"If the late Counsellor N. of whom fo much "has been faid, was corrupted in the Way that I tempted Mr. Brauer, I believe him innocent be"fore God and Man. But this is not my Bufi"nefs, for Reasons to be mentioned hereafter.

"The other Error in Mr. Brauer's Letter is, "that he calls Herrnhaag, which I had deftined "and bought for the Community of the Reformed "Brethren, and of whom Mr. Meyerhoff has made "an Epifcopal Moravian Church of Herrnbut "(45); at a time wherein even the greatest Enemy

(42) See Sect. 15.

(43) This would be a hard Matter to prove.

(44) The Herrnhuters have tempted this Man more than in one Way, Sect. 15. And Wenceslaus Neiffer muft remember, that he faid to Mr. Brauer, who was to decide a Cause, they would not mind 13000 Guilders to get the better of their Adverfary.

(45) Count Zinzendorf has not bought the Ground. The new Comers have done this; and one Hofer amongst them has paid the Money, and all what is in the Contracts about the Epifcopal Church cometh from themselves. And Mr. Brauer had Reason to call the Herrnhagers Herrnhuters. Count Zinzendorf gave them the fame Appellation, 15th January 1741 Sect. 19.

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