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A01600	The life and death of Mr. Edmund Geninges priest, crowned with martyrdome at London, the 10. day of Nouember, in the yeare M.D.XCI.	Geninges, John, d. 1660.; Baes, Martin, engraver.; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?, attributed name.	1614 (1614)	STC 11728; ESTC S103059	35,374	114

affici pro Christo quàm honorari à Christo. These and the like cannot but comfort a good Christian and cause him to esteeme his captiuity to be a principall feedome his prison a heauenlie harbour and his irons an ornament and comely badge of Christ himself These will plead for him and the prison will protect him God send me withall the prayers of all good folkes to obtayne some end of all miseries such as to his holie will and pleasure shal be most agreable I haue beene longe tyme indurance indured much payne but the many future rewardes in the heauenlie payment make all paynes seeme to me a pleasure And truly custome hath caused that it is now no griefe to me at all to be barred from company desiring nothing more thē solitarinesse but rather I reioice that therby I haue the better occasion with prayer to prepare my self to that happy end for which I was created and placed heere by God assuring my self allwayes of this one thinge that how few soeuer I see yet am I not alone Solus non est cui Christus comes est When I pray I talke with God when I read he talketh to mee so that I am neuer alone He is my chiefest companion and onelie comfort Cum ipso sum in tribulatione I haue no cause to complaine of the hardnes of prison considering the effects therof and the rather because I fasten not my affection vpon worldlie vanities whereof I haue had my fyll to my great grief and sorrow I renounced the world before euer I tasted of imprisonment euen in my Baptisme which being so how little doth it import in what place I be in the world sith by promise I vowed once neuer to bee of the world which promise profession how slenderly soeuer I haue kept heretofore I purpose for the tyme to come God assisting me with his grace in my commenced enterprise to continue to my liues end Mūdus mihi crucifixus est ego mundo Absit mihi gloriari nisi in cruce Christi I vtterlie refuse all commodities pleasures pastimes delightes sauing onely the sweet seruice of God in whom is the perfection of all true pleasures Vanitas vanitatū omnia vanitas praeter amare Deum Bound I am and charged with guyes yet am I loose and vnbound towardes God And far better I account it to haue the body bound then the soule to bee in bondage lyuing at liberty But what meane I to make so many wordes to you that know this better thē my self Beare with mee I pray you for my boldnes pardon me if I be ouer tedious Hoc solùm efficit amor To conclude with some other matter So it is that I haue heere inclosed a Letter of a contrarie effect to this directed to a man of a contrary Religiō wherin you may peruse my estate vnderstand my request In case yow shall so thinke good you may deliuer the same and further the matter I would not haue sued to be ryd out of this most vile and chargeable prison if I had wherewith to defray so exceeding great expences for the more vile and hard vsage the more merit I am hardly threatned which danger of death But if it be no worse I will not wish it to be better God send me his grace and then I waygh not what flesh bloud can doe vnto mee I haue answered vnto many curious and dāgerous questions but I trust with good aduisemēt not offending my conscience What will become of it God knoweth best to whose holy protection I commit yow è Carcere Catenis ad Regnum Tuus dum vixero Sw. VV. Loe heere the Heroicall resolution of this noble mynd see to what sublimitie of Christian perfection his holie sufferinges soone aduaunced him Briefely his euer memorable deedes far surpassed his wordes How vnconquerable was he in the greatest heat and fury of his persecutions How vndaunted at the dreadfull sentence of death of all terribles the most terriblest How religiously disposed how zealousely prepared how compleatly armed did he enter the feild to fight the battaile of our Lord like a vailiant captaine of Christes well-ordered Army For euen in the way to his execution seing by chaunce an old aquaintance of his he could not forget his wonted myrth but saluted him in these words Farewell deare friend sayth he farewell all hauking hunting and old pastimes I am now going a better way Finally being now come to the place of execution which for his greater terror and reproach was contriued before his owne house in Grays-Inne-field on the North side of Holborne as one ouer-ioyed with the burning desire of holy martyrdome he was so far from intreating any least respite of life as that he rather hastened the executioner to accomplish his greatly expected death Dispatch M. Topliffe quoth he dispatch are you not ashamed to suffer an old man to stand heere so longe in his shirt in the could I pray God make yow of a Saul a Paul of a Persecutor a Catholike Professor And in these other like sweet speaches full of Christian piety charity and magnanimity he happily consummated the blessed course of this his mortal life with the Crowne of a glorious Martyrdome the 10. day of December in the yeare 1592. O blessed life O happy death The whole Church triumphāt of heauen reioyceth in your victories the whole Cath. Church militant on earth exulteth in your triumphes Let then our Cath. Nobility and Gentry emulate imitate this rare example Hence may they learne how sweet the yoake of Christ is which seemeth to worldly myndes so hard and difficult how easie and light the burden is which seemeth so heauy insupportable This magnanimous spirit inflamed zeale our holy martyr learned in the schoole of tribulation persecution growing with the great Apostle then most strong when he was most weakened then most cheerfull when he was most afflicted then most couragious when he was most fiercely assaulted Let not then your generous hartes bee dismayed let not your noble courages be quayled cast your selues securely and confidently into this heauenly fornace where your fayth and constancy being once tried shall like most pure and refined gould giue a far more glorious luster shining before Men and Angells to the greater glory of your eternall Father who graciously vouchsafeth magnificently to Crowne all these transitory momentary sufferinges with eternall rewardes FINIS * a Book so called Iob. 12 Psal. 67 Motiues that induced the Author to wryte this discourse Why this Booke was not published before this day Prou. 19 cap. 6. Sap. 1 Psalm 5 Ioan. 8. Iob. 12. His parents their names concealed for speciall reasons He was borne with a tooth in his head A propheticall speach foreshewing his end His grauity in his childhood A vision foretelling our Countryes persecution His vertuous educatiō How he became 〈◊〉 to Catholike Gentlemen His leauing of his Friends M Rich. Sherwood Hi fidelity to his maister His first step towards heauen His Maisters confidence in him His happy successe in his Maisters businesse His Maisters going beyond seas In vita Sancti Laurent Luc. 22. His griefe that he must forsake his Maister Matt. 6. Matt. 19 Luc. 18. His passing ouer the seas His vertuous conuersation at Rhemes His praises written by his Superiours His sicknes at Rhemes His departure towards England His lying sick at New hauen His earnest desire not to go back into England Exod. 8. Psal. 76. His sudden recouery of a languishing disease Psal. 3.2 Sap. 81. His zeal towards his afflicted Countrey His earnest desire of Priesthood A dispensatiō obtayned frō Rome for his Priesthood His strange apprehension of the worthines of Priesthood His preparation to Priesthood Iob. 31. His deuotion in celebrating Masse Act. 8. Rom. 8. Act. 20. His taking of shippe How he was set on shore How they separated thēselues for feare His departure from his Companion His repayring to his owne Countrey A suddaine feare came vpon him as he went in the streets at the sight of his Brother The second tyme of the same feare His first knowledg of his brother His communication with his brother His brothers feare to incur the law for not reueling him His departure from his brother and farewell His meeting with M. Plasden Their cōference of spirituall matters His preparation to Masse and celebrating of the diuine Mysterie His saying of Masse the officers entrance His manner of taking His examinatiō before Iustice Yonge Maister Wells his apprehension His imprisonment and examination His arraignement How the Iudges put a fooles coate on his backe at the Bar. Falsely ●laundered Act. 7 His patience in suffering iniurious wordes His seconds arraignmēt at Westminster His encouragement of his fellowes in the Combat His finall condemnation with the rest Matth. 5 Their ●laces of Execution appointed Offer 〈◊〉 v●to him of 〈…〉 go to Church Luc. 9. His constancy after his cōdemnation His words to M. Topliffe on the ladder Act ● His casting off the ladder and vnbowelling His felicity in heauen Psal. 126. Many particulers of his life omitted for breuity sake The veneration of Reliques Iohn 10 1. Thess. 5. Desire to get some of his Reliques His quarters shewed to the people A miracle The Virgin vpō the forsaid miracle became a Nūne The māner of his brothers Conuersion The obstinacy of his brother before his Conuersion The occasion of his brothers Cōuersion His brothers vow and perfomance His finall Cōuersion The Cōclusion Chap. 8. 9. His birth family His vertuous education His exercise in riper yeares His imprisonment His courage cōstancy in the Catholike fayth His ioy in suffering for Christ. His hard vsage in prison His resolution to dy for the Cath faith His martyrdome An Apostophe to the Cath. of England

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF Mr. Edmund Geninges PRIEST Crowned with Martyrdome at London the 10. day of Nouember in the yeare M. D.XCI Pretiosa in conspectu Dnī Mors Sanctorum eius Psal. 115. AT S. OMERS by Charles Boscard S. Cyprianus Epist. 9. in fine O beatam Ecclesiam nostram quam temporibus nostris gloriosus Martyrum sanguis illustrat Erat antea in operibus Fratrum candida nunc facta est in Martyrum cruore purpurea Happy is our Church which the glorious bloud of Martyrs doth in these our dayes illustrate It was made white before in the workes of our Brethren but now is become purple in the bloud of Martyrs THE AVTHOR TO HIS BOOKE GO mournfull Muse the trumpet of my cares Sound out aloud this dolefull accident Tell all the world how ill the matter fares T' is hard if none will help thee to lament A Tygers hart such sorrowes will deplore His teares I wish that neuer wept before VVhen as the noble Romans made returne From forrayne conquests and great victoryes They on theyr Altars sacrifice did burne Their famous actes therby to memorize And thus they left vnto posterity The due reward of worthy chiualry Shall then the sufferings of our Champion sleepe His glorious combats and victorious stryfe No no deare Muse thy pen thou now must steepe In bloudy accents of a martyrs lyfe A lyfe indeed for when his dayes had end Eternity of lyfe did death amend THE BOOKE TO HIS READER AFfected wordes or Courtly complement Do not expect who euer reades this story Vertu 's my ground it needs no ornament And to deceyue you so I should be sory If any such there be post to King Liere He hath applause seeke not contentment heere Poets may paynt and diuersely adorne Theyr feygned passions and Chymera's strange Teaching theyr pennes to weepe as one forlorne And vp and downe in barren deserts range But if true griefe do once possesse theyr mind They feele theyr combats in another kind My authour's playne nor is his griefe a fiction The world can witnesse what himselfe doth proue Read that ensues t' is writ for thy direction And ease thy passion as desert shall mooue It it be pen'd according to thy fancy Then learne to suffer by his constancy To the very R. my euer Deare and VVorthy Friend Maister I. G. P. WORTHY SYR This ensuing Relatiō which of late I receaued frō you in writtē hand I now returne againe in Print by way of dedication My reasons for so vnusual a thing are two First for that I iudge your selfe before all others only Worthy to patronize the same it being the subiect of him in whome before all others you euer had and haue still most right interest Secondly that as in his vertuous life tyme you were neerly conioyned vnto him both in Affection Bloud so now after his glorious death his memory might be liuely represēted vnto you both in Hart Mynd The which I haue heere endeauoured to expresse to my best power Turne then ouer the leafe behould that mirrour wherein you most delight And so I rest Yours euer most assured I. W P. Edmundi speciem spectat quicumque Geningi Robora virtutem spectet et ille fidem IpsVM ter DVrae fera LeX fera neXVe bearVnt Terque cruenta dies dena Decembris erat Numque tenet raptum dum cor è corpore lictor Gregorij è caelis numina lingua petit Huic dens ex proprio vix nato nascitur ore Roboris hoc signum proque fideque Deo Mart ba●f THE PREFACE SACRAMENTVM REGIS caelare bonum est opera autem Dei reuelare cōfiteri honorificū est It is a good thing saith the holy Scripture to cōceale the secret of a King but it is most honourable to reueale and cōfesse the workes of God Like as this sētence Courteous Reader is verifyed touching all the diuine works of Almighty God himselfe in generall so the truth of it is most apparent concerning his admirable workes in iust men and Saynts in particuler The reason of this is manifest because the relation of such workes doth not only tend highly to the honour of God who by this meanes is shewed to be admirable and prayse-worthy in his Saints but also to the glory of the Saintes themselues and of Gods militant Church on earth of which whiles they liued they were liuely members Hence it hath bene euer a laudable custome of liuing Christians to report and make knowne to the world the noble actes of Gods Saints departed cut of this vale of miseryes But is this the onely good that ariseth of such endeavours No for the historyes of the Liues of Saints doe confirme our fayth stirre vs vp to imitate them and haue sundry other most profitable effects And although these motiues may suffice to perswade any Christian to penne and publish the famous actes of holy Martyrs yet not onely these but others also mooue me to vndertake this labour touching the life and death of Edmund Geninges Priest who amongst many others in defence of Christs Holy and Apostolique Church not many yeares since hath in this our Iland most gloriously shed his innocent bloud and lost his temporall life to gayne eternall Of which motiues one is my owne exact knowledg of many particulers concerning this Blessed man wherof others better able to performe this matter then my selfe perhaps are ignorant which particulers being memorable would peraduenture therby be buryed in perpetual obliuion if I should not deliuer them thus in writing to posterity Another motiue is my particuler loue and deserued affection to the party of whom I am to treat The third is the perswasion and intreaty of some speciall friends whose requests in such a matter I cannot well either neglect or withstand Finally some secret motiues haue often assaulted my mind and inuited me to this enterprize which in mature consideration seeme to me to haue proceeded from God himselfe who would not haue the memory of his Saints so long obscured forgotten These reasons as they vrged me forward so others also contrariwise hitherto kept me backe disswaded me from such proceedinges First a feare or suspition of being accounted ouer partiall by reason I haue bene so much linked vnto him in friendshippe and fauour for which cause my Relation perhaps vnto some might seeme in part faygned through affection and consequently of doubtful truth Secondly my owne insufficiency and want of experience in penning such a worthy discourse as this deserueth These two conceits haue hitherto kept me backe from publishing of this intention But now the former motiues are demeed by me more forcible and weygh downe these opposit obiections especially seing that both these letts obstacles in the sight of an indifferent Reader may after a sort be eyther much weakened or altogeather remooued The one by a protestation of truth and sincerity The other by another meane of like