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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

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