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Wonderful prodigies of judgment and mercy discovered in above three hundred memorable histories ... / impartially collected from antient and modern authors of undoubted authority and credit, and imbellished with divers curious pictures of several remarkable passages therein by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, and the Remarks of London &c.
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that his dream had nothing in it he returns both to his bed and sleep when the same Person appears to him the second time all bloody and requested him earnestly That seeing he had neglected him as to the preservation of his life yet at least â—e would not be wanting to him in the revenge of his death declaring That he was murdered by his Host and that at this very time he was carried out in a Cart toward the Gate of the City covered over with Dung The Man overcome with these intreaties of his Friend immediately runs out to the Gate where he finds the Cart he had seen in his dream which he seizes and searching it finds there the body of his Friend and drags the Inn-keeper to his deserved punishment Dr. More Immortal Soul XII Mr. Morison an English Gentleman in his Travels gives this Relation whil'st I lived at Prague and had sate up very late one night drinking at a Feast early in the morning the Sun-beams glancing on my Face as I lay in my Bed I dreamed that a shadow passing by me told me That my Father was dead at which awaking all in a sweat and affected with this dream I arose and wrote the day and hour and all circumstances thereof in a paper book which book with many other things I put into a barrel and sent it from Prague to Stode thence to be conveyed into England And now being at Newemburgh a Merchant of a Noble Family well acquainted with me and my Relations arrived there who told me that my Father dyed some months past I design not to write any lies but that which I write is as true as strange when I returned into England some four years after I would not open the Barrel I sent from Prague nor look into the paper book in which I had written this dream till I had called my Sisters and some other Friends to be witnesses where my self and they were astonished to see my written dream answer the very day of my Fathers death Morisons Travels p. 1. XIII The night before Heury the Second King of France was slain Queen Margret his Wife dreamed That she saw her Husbands Eye put out there were Justs and Turnaments at that time into which the Queen besought her Husband nor to enter because of her dream but he was resolved and there did great things when all was almost now done he would needs run a tilt with a Knight who refused him his name was Montgomery but the King was bent upon it whereupon they broke their Launces to Shivers in the encounter and a splinter of one of them struck the King so full into the Eye that he thereby received his deadly wound It is observed of this King That one Ann du Bourg a Noble Councellor and a man of singular understanding and knowledge making a Speech before him a little before his Death in defence of the Protestant Religion and against persecuting the Professors thereof he therein rendred thanks to Almighty God for moving the King's heart to be present at the decision of so weighty a Cause as that of Religion was and humbly entreated him to consider thereof it being the Cause of Christ himself which of good Right ought to be maintained by Princes c. But the King instead of hearkning to his good Advice was so far incensed against him that he caused him to be apprehended by the Count of Montgomery Constable of France and to be carryed to Prison protesting to him in these words These Eyes of mine shall see thee burnt and presently after he sent a Commission to the Judges to make his Process In the mean time great Feasts were preparing in the Court for Joy of the Marriages that should be of the King's Daughter and Sister The day whereof being come the King imployed all the Morning in examining the President and other Councellors of the Parliament against Du Bourg and other of his Companions who were charged with the same Doctrins intending to glut his Eyes in seeing his Execution but that very Afternoon he received that fatal blow in his Right Eye which so pierced his head that his brains were perished which wound dispising all means of cure killed him within eleven daies whereby his hope of seeing Du Bourg burned was frustrated Clarks Martyr P. 231. XIV There was one who dreamed that he was bitten to death by a Lion of Marble that was set at the entrance of the Temple and being the next morning to go to that Temple and beholding the Marble Statue of the Lion he jeastingly told his dream to those that went with him and putting his hand into the Lions mouth he said laughing Bite now my valiant Enemy and if thou canst kill me He had scarce spoke the words when he was stung to death with a Scorpion that there lay hid and thereby unexpectedly found the Truth of his dream Crescentius the Popes Legate at the Council of Trent 1552 was busie writing Letters to the Pope till it was late in the night whence arising to refresh himself he saw a black Dog of a vast bigness flaming Eyes and Ears which hung down almost to the ground enter the room which came directly toward him and laid himself down under the Table frighted at the sight he called his Servants in the Antichamber and commanded them to look for the Dog but they could find none The Cardinal hereupon fell Melancholy and afterward sick dying in a short time at Verona crying out on his death-bed Drive away the Dog that leaps upon the Bed Wanly Hist Man XV. In the year 1154. Frederick Aenobardus being Emperour of Germany Henry Archbishop of Mentz a pious and peaceable man but not able to endure the dissolute Manners of the Clergy under him determined to subject them to sharp censure but while he thought of this he himself was by them before-hand accused to Pope Eugenius the Fourth The Archbishop sent Arnoldus his Chamberlain to Rome to make proof of his Innocency but the Traitor deserted his Lord and instead of defending him traduced him there himself The Pope sent two Cardinals as his Legates to Mentz to determine the cause who being bribed by the Canons and Arnoldus deprived Henry of his Bishoprick with great scorn and ignominy and substituted Arnoldus in his stead Henry bore all patiently without appealing to the Pope which he knew would be to no purpose but openly declared That from their unjust Judgment he made Appeal to Christ the Just Judge there said he will I put in my Answer and thither I cite you The Cardinals jeastingly replyed When thou art gone before we will follow thee About a year and an half after the Archbishop Henry died upon the hearing of his death both the Cardinals said Lo he is gone before and we shall follow after But their Jeast proved in earnest for both of them died in one and the same day one in an House of Office and the other gnawing off
about her That that Woman was but a dead Carkass carryed about by the Devil and presently he took from under her right Arm-pit the charm which he had no sooner done but she fell down a dead Carcass Phil. Melanct. X. Not long since at Stetin an University of Pomerania there was a young Student who upon some discontent gave himself to the Devil and made a Bond upon the Contract which that it might not come to the knowledge of any he laid up in one of his Books but it pleased God some time after that another Student wanting that Book upon some occasion knew not where to get it at last he remembred that such an one had it and thereupon went to him and borrowed it of him the young men having forgotten that he had put his Bond into it The other when he came home began to turn over the Book and there met with the Bond and reading of it was much affrighted and not knowing what to do he went to Doctor Cramerus Professor of Divinity in that University to ask his Advice who wished him to keep the Bond the other replyed he durst not then said the Doctor Bring it to me and I well keep it Some few nights after as the Doctor was in his Study the Devil came rapping at his Study door saying Cramer Cramer Give me my Bond for it belongs to me and thou hast nothing to do with it To whom the Doctor answered Satan Satan Thou shalt not have the Bond thou hast nothing to do with it I have put it where thou canst not fetch it for it is in my Bible at the third Chapter of Genesis where these words are The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents Head Upon which the Devil went his way taking the Chamber window with him and the young man never heard of him afterward Beards Theatre XI A young man at Wittenburg in Saxony being kept short of Money by his Father was tempted by the Devil to yield himself Body and Soul to him upon condition to have his wishes satisfied and his necessities supplied which he being pinched with want consented to and confirmed it by a Bond written with his own Blood But presently after he began to decay in his bodily health and being thereupon brought to Martin Luther and by him examined he at length confessed the whole matter to him which when Luther heard he Assembled the whole Congregation together and all of them joyned together and prayed for him whereby the Devil at last was forced to bring the Bond and to throw it into the window amongst them bidding the young man to take it to him again On a time as Luther was walking in his Garden the Devil appeared to him in the likeness of a black Boar but he slighting him and not regarding him he vanished away Luther likewise telleth us That when he was lodged in the Castle of Warteburg in a Chamber far from any Company he was many times molested by noises made by the Devil in his Chamber and on the Stairs But I saith he Encountred him with that sentence Omnia subjectisti pedibus ejus Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet and so I laid me down and slept in safety Another of the German Divines in Luther's Time as he was sitting at his Book in his Study the Devil appeared looking over his shoulder which the Minister perceiving took a piece of Paper and writ in it The Son of God came to destroy the works of the Devil and so holding up that Paper he immediately vanished Luther Colloq Mensal XII In the Life of Mr. Richard Rothwell a famous Preacher at Mansfield in the County of Nottingham about the year 1627. we have this remarkable Account as it was drawn up by Mr. Stanly Gower of Dorchester There was one John Fox living about Nottingham who had no more Learning than enabled him to Write and Read this Man was possessed with a Devil who would violently throw him down and take away the use of every Member of his Body which was changed as black as Pitch while those Fits were upon him and then spake with an audible voice within him which seemed sometimes to sound out of his Belly sometimes out of his Throat and sometimes out of his Mouth his Lips not moving and thus he continued for a considerable time many prayers were put up to God for him and great resort was made to him especially by several famous Ministers as Mr. Bernard of Batcomb Mr. Langly of Truswell and others betwixt whom and John Fox there passed many Papers in Writing he discovering his Temptations and they writing him Answers because he was struck dumb as ye shall find afterwards Among the rest Mr. Rothwell went to see him and before he came the Devil told all that were in the House of it saying Yonder comes Rothwell but I will make a fool of him before he goes whereupon the People looked out and saw him coming about a quarter of a mile from the House As soon as he entred the Room the Devil said Now Rothwell is come and as some say added Thou sayest there is no Possession What thinkest thou now Here is a man opens not his lips and yet he speaketh And after a while he said Say nothing to me of this man for I tell thee he is damned and he added thereto many fearful Blasphemies Rothwell Thou art a Lyar and the Father of Lyes nor art thou so well acquainted with the mind of God concerning this man which makes thee thus to torment him therefore I believe thee not I believe he shall be saved by Jesus Christ Devil He is a Murderer and thou knowest no Murderer must come into Heaven Rothwell Thou lyest again for David murdered and is in Heaven and the Jews with wicked hands crucified the Lord of Glory yet Christ prayed for them And St. Peter exhorted them to Repentance that their sins may be hlotted out Devil But this man hath not cannot shall not Repent Rothwell If he had not Repented thou wouldest not have told him so but if he have not I believe God ' will give him Repentance and thou shalt not be able to hinder it Devil Thou art a Murtherer thy self ' and yet talkest thou thus Rothwell Thou lyest again I have fought the Lords Battels against his known Enemies the Idolatrous and bloody Papists in Ireland Rebels to Queen Elizabeth my Sovtreign by whose Authority I bore Arms against them otherwise I have killed no man nehT the Devil swore and Blasphemed saying thou â—â—dst murther one this day as thou camest hither and â—here is one behind thee that will justify it upon which Mr. Rothwell looking over his shoulder the Devil set up â—n hideous laughter that nothing could be heard for a great while and then said look you now did not I tell â—ou I would make Rothwell a Fool and yet it is true â—hou didst murther one this day for as thou camest oâ—ver such