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A41150	Christ ruling in midst of His enemies, or, Some first fruits of the churches deliverance budding forth out of the crosse and sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres sufferer, and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ : together with secretarie Windebanks letters to Sir. Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle ... : wherein also the reader shall find in severall passages, publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great designe of Christ, for setting up of His kingdome, and the ruine of antichrist / by Lievtenant Collonel John Fenwicke.	Fenwicke, John, Sir, 1579-1658?; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir J. Ashley.; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir A. Davison.	1643 (1643)	Wing F719; ESTC R13870	22,886	32

CHRIST Ruling in midst of his ENEMIES OR Some first Fruits of the CHURCHES DELIVERANCE Budding forth out of the Crosse and Sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres Sufferer and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ Together With Secretarie Windebanks Letters to Sr Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle through which the violent prosecutions of the common adversaries to exile and banishment are very transparent Wherein also the Reader shall find in severall passages publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great Designe of Christ for setting up of His Kingdome and the ruine of Antichrist By Lievtenant Collonel JOHN FENWICKE Apoc. 7. 14. These are they that come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lambe and Chapt. 12. 11. And they overcame by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of his testimony and they loved not their lives to the death LONDON Printed for Benjamin Allen in Popes-head Alley 1643. The Epistle DEDICATORY TO NEWCASTLE upon Tyne NEWCASTLE though not the place of my birth or much of my breeding for I have herein been more beholden to other parts of the world yet none may challenge from mee more interest in this Dedication Newcastle famous for thy mocking and misusing of Christs Messengers and ill entertainment of his Servants ever since our Reformation witnesse that famous Knox great Reformer of Scotland his Sermons preached there witnesse learned Vdall thy faithful Monitor whose innocent blood cryes yet from the ground whom for writing against the Prelates thou prosecuted as a Traytor to bonds imprisonment and sentence of death under which he died before execution witnesse Reverend Balmford whom in like manner thou expulsed though thou couldst not touch his life thou pricked his sides as well as Christs in his hearers with the reproach of Balmfordian Faction and Schisme witnesse Alder Jennison Murton all godly Ministers expulsed by thee witnesse others of Christs servants ill entertained of thee yet alive to witnesse all that is alledged against thee and much more and last of all hee that sends these things unto thee his wife and children who have received their birth and breathing in thee make up that long and blacke roll of bitter things writ against thee from heaven O Newcastle how hath God dealt with thee by his divine waterings of his Word many yeeres how has God spoke aloud to thee by his judgements and forewarnings of ruine and desolation after thou hadst refused all instructions from his Word and Messengers hast thou forgot how loud God spake to thee in that great plague Anno 1636. when there died in half a yeere about seven thousand which made thee almost desolate thy streets growne greene with grasse thy treasurie wasted thy trading departed as thou never yet recovered it thy wounds increased thy madnesse thou wentest not to heaven for a perfect cure What thinkst thou was the meaning of that strange fire brake out none ever knew how in thy secret chamber of thy Townes house or Common hall where the next yeere after that great plague thy Rulers like Wolves of the evening were lurking all that day in plotting the new project about Coals Salt to devoure thy poore inhabitants and also new devices to suppresse sound preaching and strave your soules How is it after many more warnings too large to recite that thou art still hardned and the cry of thy sinnes like Sodome is come up to heaven in thee is found the blood of the Prophets the blood of the Saints oppressed banished and hunted to death in thee is found the blood of thy inhabitants oppressed and impoverished by unlimitted authoritie and arbytrarie government so court-like as an Aple is like an Orange In thee is found the uncleanesse of Sodome Adulteries and Fornications in thy Rulers houses thy filthinesse in thy skirts transparent to strangers round about thee in thee found drunkennesse and excesse with melodie to see the Church laid desolate in thee is found the two grand sins that will sincke a whole state a whole kingdome without repentance and reformation superstition in worship and oppression in government which has brought upon this Land that bloodie sword which now threatens to devoure thee I meane thy wicked Magistracie and Rulers who have wrested all thy power into their own hands and all that wicked crue of their confederacie O Newcastle when wilt thou learne the dialect of heaven speaking loud in thine eares O Newcastle Newcastle wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be Jer. 13. 27. If thou wilt not hearken to heavens counsell heare thy sentence Thou art defiled with blood and cannot be cleansed but by the blood of them that shed it Numb. 35. 33. O Newcastle what shall I say to thee what hath inraged thee against him that writes this complaint against thee whom have I wronged of you bring forth your evidences and plead your cause I hope ere long wee shall have a faire and free hearing and just proceedings not at the barre of your Court Law of hanging Excom. imprisonment and banishment but at a bar of right judgement I have ever sought thy good in spiritualls and temperalls even to my owne hurt and losse I have seene sometimes thy plagues a farre off and wept insecret for thee as the place of my habitation though my Meseck and Kedar the place of my sorrow and never of my joy how oft have I assayed to have left thee in thy rebellion against God but heavens counsels did not favour mine when the great plague began Anno 1636. Consider what might be Gods mind to make mee one day weepe bitterly over thee riding alone about a mile from the towne with many sad thoughts and when I lookt up and see Newcastle before mee my heart burst out with grief with the same words bo●●ing within me wherewith the Lord Jesus wept over Jerualem O Newcastle Newcastle would God thou in thy dayes had remembred the things belonging to thy peace often revolving these thoughts with me but when I came to the next words with many reasonings within mee shall they be hid from thine eyes shall thy habitations be laid desolate My heart was like to burst within mee for a good space assuring my selfe to heare ill newes for I had been in the Countrey and comming to towne I heard presently of the increase of the plague and that the night before some six and thirty died of it and from thence it daily increased to foure hundred a weeke till it had swept away about seven thousand at least in seven or eight moneths time O Newcastle before thou hadst recovered this blowe which I mourned to see comming upon thee what ailed thee to begin to plot the ruine of me and my wife and children I had seen many habitations laid desolate though I returned safely to my owne with all my family praise

to my God often strangely preserved from that deadly infection was it that thou grudged me thy corrupt ayre to breath in that thou sought my life and pursued my wife and mee both as traytors till thou drove us out of the kingdome God made mee require thy malice with the like pitie as before that morning I escaped thy malicious designe against me as I passed the gates in the darke of the morning and being a little passed from the walls the towne being still in my sight God made me weepe over thee the second time in the same manner as before and with ruminating and reasonings within me upon the same words of Christ over Jerusalem and how soone after was the bloody sword drawne which has wasted thee not a little and well if the worst be not yet behinde What hast thou got now by all thy discourteous and harsh dealings with mee who has ever sought thy good I have served thee divers yeeres in a publique office wherein though I could doe thee little good the streame run so strong against mee yet I have sometimes kept out some evils from over-spreading thee untill thou began to stretch out thy necke against God in the Scottish Cause and then ever since how 〈◊〉 an inundation of all evills overwhelmed thee and God I feare left thee to some fatall fall Repent repent O Newcastle lest the Lord depart from thee and send a revenging sword to avenge his quarrell against thee if so take heed of what was threatned to a wicked Citie Afflicton shall not come the second time which the Lord avert and give thee a heart to repent and turne to him that has long smitten thee that hee may repent him of the evill which otherwise will befall thee For all the strength and power of man wherein thou still dost boast and glory I have thought it my dutie to present thee with a briefe view of thy harsh usage of mee and mine to see if at any time God may give thee an heart to repent which should be to mee greater joy then to see thee laid desolate when these papers I now send thee shall be as a flying roll through thy streets and dolefull habitations filling your fainting hearts with errors and shrikings to think of all your wickednesses and amongst the rest your bloodie plots and practises against one that has ever sought your good John Fenwick To the READER Courteous Reader I Had beene silent concerning my selfe in this evill time had not the importunity of some friends and the unthankefulnesse of this apostate age imposed a necessitie upon mee of publishing somewhat to the world of my late troubles and sufferings to many extremities these five yeeres compleat 〈…〉 about the great worke of God begun in Scotland finding by others as well as in mine owne opinion that I have suffered much by my silence The stormes and tempests of this troubled time having tossed mens wearyed minds out of their right course and motion and the many buffets and blowes in these common calamities upon this kingdome have so malld the heads and dulled the spirits of men that they have almost lost their hearing and understanding and as slow to remember what they have heard and known of former sufferings the new sufferings wearying out the old so that a necessitie is laid upon mee to publish somewhat to the world of my late troubles for these reasons First my dutie to God to declare his mercies in midst of mine enemies malice in thankfulnesse of minde and spirit to leave it to posteritie as it is expressed Psal. 102. this shall be written for the generations to come Secondly if God bring out good to my Countrey out of these troubles the world may see that I have suffered somewhat for it Thirdly Being called out to the field in the publike service of the State from the first going out of our armies and having lost some blood in this cause already in Keynton-field where God gave me I may say a new life being sore wounded and stript and left for dead upon the ground among the dead almost an houre senslesse and being still resolved to be prodig all of my blood if God assist me in this his cleare and undoubted cause wherein the bloody sword makes no difference but my lot may be to fall as soone as another my children may be somewhat comforted from my former deliverances to trust the same God who hath strengthened me with resolution rather to die honourably then live a sordid life in slavery and when they shall enjoy their precious priviledges and find them dyed in their fathers blood they will more prise them and be more carefull to preserve them in their integrity to the generation following as their ●●st inheritance that still God may have his due honour and glory and a constant succession of faithfull servants to the worlds end Fourthly having lost my whole estate in these late troubles and not enjoying the benifit of 100l of mine owne at home or in f●●raigne parts in five yeeres time and spent my selfe further in the publique service and not able to provide for my children if God shall call mee before things be settled I leave to them I hope hereby a title and ininterest in the publique good whereby they may bolaly and justly challenge a share from that rule of common equitie That those that have borne the hea● of the day and tasted deeply of the sowre ought drinke of the sweet and be comforted with the coole waters of repast and rest it not being for the honour of my Countrey to leave mine to sincke under my burthens for the publique good wherein I have spent my selfe without the least publique support Good Reader beare with my plaine and simple stile my desire being to speake in plainnesse to the weakest capacitie not curious to studie words and sentences quaint termes or elegance but that plainnesse and simplicate may set forth truth in her owne proper colours without dimnesse or obscuritie if any thing here may adde the least strength or courage in thee to prosecute this great worke of Christs Kingdome give God the praise if any thing beare the character of my weaknesse and infirmitie burie it in that love that suffers all things and thinks no evill and remember in thy prayers Thy Servant for the Kingdome of Christ Iohn Fenwicke Epitaphium in hoc tenebroso mortalitatis tempore ab Authore scriptum ac posteris relictum THe Lord 's my Life he lengths my dayes My tongue my pen shall spread his praise From dangers great by sea by land From pestilence from enemies hand From fruits of sinne from hellish feares From folly of my tender yeeres He has preserv'd and heard my cry Assuredly if death draw nigh Christ my Joy shall soone destroy Both death and sinne which mee annoy And bring me safe into his barne In season as a ricke of Corne I. F. TO THE HONOURABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the

Majestie and signes of Gods presence as ever I saw in any publique Assembly where Job served some ancient and white haired men to water their cheeks and wipe off the teares with one hand while they held up the other hand in token of assent to the Covenant as their custome was Now all this yeere in England mens cares and mouthes were exceedingly taken up in listning after and speaking of newes and discourses of the Scots affaires And my correspondence with the Scots as a Merchan● for at least 15 or 16. yeeres before being generally knowne in Newcastle my adversaries begun to set watches for to trap mee about the Scots and my Friends began to forwarne mee of it at last about the 15. of Decemb. 1638. Mr. Robert Anderson an Alderman of the town and my good Friend came to me privately and told mee Now your Enemies have got their desire they have long looked for they have got Witnesses sworne against you of such things about the Scots as will undo you and so wished me to look to my selfe I thanked him for his love but I regarded not much their malice being so well accustomed to it nor did I so much as speake of it to any not to my wife till after the plot broke out The same day another Gentleman of good quality gave mee the the like warning but I will spare his Name because hee is yet living and now a sufferer under the Marquesse of Newcastle And upon 25. December after being a time of much profanenes and excesse in Newcastle I tooke that time to ride into Northumberland and Barwick where I had moneyes owing me and so into Scotland there being no restraint of commerce with the Scots and bargained with the aforesaid Earle of Winton for another Barkes lading of wheate but before I got home to Newcastle a Warrant was sent out to apprehend me by Mr. Alexander Daveson and Mr. Iohn Marloe * and the Constastable watched my house three daies before I came but comming home late about ten of the clocke at night they missed of their purpose Observe here Gods providence over mee for I knew nothing of this dangerous plot to apprehend me but was stayed by the way about businesse and relying on the Moones light stayed by the way somewhat the longer But being come home late I found my wife in a very sad posture and was not sit downe untill some friends came in and gave me notice of the danger assuring me that the plot was of such extent as my life was strucke at and that there was no abiding in the Kingdom for me some advising me to goe for France some for Holland and some for Scotland none of my friends daring to be seene in it or interpose their interest to stop their violence no not so much as for two dayes safely in my house to order and settle my affaires both at home and abroad all struck dead in one instant Well I saw there was now no dallying provided for my escape in the morning early where I passed the Guard and the Gate with some difficultie and passing along in sight of the Towne of Newcastle God made me weepe over it the second time as is expressed in the Epistle Dedicatory with many sad thoughts of the place and of my Wife and Children I had left in a disconsolate condition amongst my enemies So rode into the Country where I stayed among Friends some 8 dayes using meanes to see if the businesse could be accommodated but all meanes failing and the businesse carryed so high as none of my friends durst meddle in it I took my leave of them in a sad condition and took my way for Scotland I had not been above eight dayes in Edenborough untill I was watched by the Lord Traquire then Lord Treasurer of Scotland and had the whole power there for the King giving out threats against mee in severall places that the Kings Dominions should not hold me long so as I was forced to lurck very privately that winter in Edenborough and the Country in a disguised manner and so wee returne to what they were doing in Newcastle My Adversaries having missed of their purpose of mee fell withall violence upon my wife and friends with much inhumane usuage of one of her Sex as is set forth in my Petition to the Parliament hereunto annexed wherein Mr. Alexander Daveson Major Mr. Iohn Marley Mr Thomas Rydle Town Clerke Mr. Ralph Ceck Alderman and Ralph ●●ows the Clerke of their Commission from the King for that businesse were the chiefe actors It would be too tedious to relate the molestations of my poore wife and friends and examinations about me and of the imprisonment of others meerely for my cause but my wife especially for correspondence with me till at last they were plotting her life too for that very thing and so hunted her as she durst not come in her owne house for a week together or see her children but through a glasse window that they might not see her and so at last forced her to escape into the country where none of my friends durst keepe her two nights together but conveyed her into Scotland to me where she abode untill after the pacification at Barwick and then about the end of October 1639. she returned to Newcastle great with child but I being excepted out of the pacification by the Earle of Arundale who treated on the Kings part I was forced to abide in Scotland to expect a calmer season but how calme it proved I shall tell you presently after I have told you a little more of my wifes troubles The unfound peace with Scotland being broken quickly the next Summer produced new preparation to warre on both sides and upon the newes of the Scots armie advancing into England Master Robert Bewick the Maior sent his officer into the countrey out of his jurisdiction and brought in my wife where she was searched examined and divers papers taken away and a guard of about a doozen Musquetiers set upon her well the Scots approach with their armie and her aboad in Newcastle was so troublesome on both sides to her and our adversaries as 't is hard to say whethe rs feares were greatest her sex may excuse her flight with her children unfit to be left amongst such monsters of men and women as Newcastle now was full of all sorts from all quarters to fight with the Scots Reade more of this in a little Tract I published two yeeres agoe entituled The Downfall of the Hierarchy Well being got away by water into the countrey she found cold entertainment all being afraid of trouble by her untill the Scots armie came neer to Newburn and then there was flying indeed to purpose the swiftest flight was the greatest honour to the Newcastilian new dubd knights a good Boat a paire of Oares a good Horse especially that would carrie two men was more worth then the valour or honour of new knighthood Surely Vicar

Alvey too would have given his Vicaridge for a horse when he for haste leapt on horseback behinde a countrie-man without a cushion his faith and qualifications failing him he might well feare to fall from grace by the Scots comming we leave him in his flight to the grace of Conterbury and the new dubd knights and others to the Courts grace for full twelvemoneths untill the cots were gone home againe They no sooner returned to Newcastle but the first Sabbath Day after the Scots were gone Vicar Alvey appeares in publike againe new drest up in his pontificalitie with Surplice and Service-booke whereof the Churches had been purged by the Scots lads and therefore now become innovations and very offensive to many who could digest such things before but my wife being lesse used to have her food so drest growing stomack-sicke set some other weak stomacks on working who fell upon the Vicars new dressing the Surplice and Service-booke which set the malignant superstitious people in such a fire as men and women fell upon my wife like wilde beasts tore her cloaths and gave her at least an hundred blowes and had flaine her if the Maior had not stept out of his pue to rescue her he and his officers both well beaten for their paines such was the peoples madnesse after their Idols as God wonderfully preserved her life and brought her to me to London I returne now to some remarkable passages of divine providence towards me in Scotland in Edenburgh and in my travell in the countrey from place to place to avoid the Lord Traquires prosecution God being never wanting to fill up the emptie soules of his servants in their bitter suffrings did often fulfill that promise of the hundred fold to such as forsake father and mother house and lands for his names sake which promise I sued out at my first escape out of Newcastle and had it faithfully re●●●●tly performed and therfore when I speak of the fulfilling of a promise let none carp or catch or tax the to countenance fantasies and revelations yet doe I not deny but will with all humilitie and modestie maintain divine raptures in divers cases especially in the Saints bitter exile and sufferings and when God comes neerer to his Saints then is ordinarie thinke it not a vaine thing or a fantasie as some too wise men doe but rouze up our selves and looke about us for somewhat more then ordinarie yea sometimes some great things are neer but will stay no longer in the Apologue for any thing shall follow which I hope shall be expressed with that reverence and feare of God and modestie towards men as no man not malicious shall have cause of offence One day as I was riding over a solitarie heath in Tividale my mind much exercised with musings and meditations on the word and works of God to see two neighbour nations so neere conjoyned in many bonds both divine and humane readie to clash together so neere imbruing their hands in each others blood about so poore a quarrell as for Bishops and Service-book as was at first pretended yet a deeper designe of Rome and all her consederates was in it these things strongly possessing my troubled spirit occasioned some ejaculations as I fate on horsebacke and not with drie eyes thinking on these unnaturall ware between my countrie-men and the Scottish nation I often prayed Oh that we might joyne in one against our common enemies Oh that we were one I had answer and assurance from God that we should be one yee shall be one yee shall be one was as strongly inculcated vpon my spirit as if it had beene spoken from heaven Another time when I was travelling from the pursuite of the Lord Traquire towards the evening there fell a showre of small rame and after the raine broke out a Rainbow cleare and bright before me as I rode and at last so low upon the ground about me that I rode in the cirle of it a prettie space which occasioned some thoughts within me of this as a signe of Gods covenant of peace and mercie towards me now in midst of mine enemies plots and malice And often in the company of men of severall rancks and qualities I conversed with upon severall occasions my spirit being exalted above all the troubles of the world in many high thoughts of the workes of Christ he is about to doe in the world in there later dayes from those small beginnings in Scotland I spoke often to their encouragement that it was the morning of the day of Christs power Psal. 110 though darke and cloudie and full of troubles wherein he would doe great things for his distressed Churches and when some more readie to appropriate that worke of Christ to Scotland upon severall occasions I used as frequently to interpose these answers that Christ the bright morning Star is not risen for Scotland's cause alone but for his Churches full deliverance one after another adding withall Christ is first come to visit you in Scotland first to deliver you of all his Churches in the world O strive to give him kinde entertainment this was my humble request often to them to welcome Christ with a full reformation that he might delight to dwell amongst them And at some other times when their spirits were oppressed with difficulties at home and the great forces and preparations from the King and menacings from abroad I used these incouragements I had received from God that this is the beginning of that earth-quake wherin the tenth part of the great Citie that is England Scotland and Ireland Rome shall fall though she call up her Astrologers and Wise men to take craftie counsell as Herod did against the Lord Jesus and his workings and to trouble him in this his comming to deliver his Churches it should not be able to hinder his worke who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working And at some other times I said This worke in Scotland makes Rome to shake in Aguish fits fearing great alterations from Christs working here And when the pacification was concluded at Tweed neere Barwicke I being then at Dunse Law in the Scottish army a godly Minister with whom I was familiar having often heard me speake confidently of the large extent of that worke begun in Scotland asked me in this manner what thinke you now of this worke I can see no further into it it would seeme to terminate here meaning in that pacification to which I speedly answered no Sir it will not end thus God will bring it about some way or other it must go over your borders Christ has a great people in England and other parts of the world hee has a tender respect to and he will not arise and sit downe againe untill hee have delivered them as hee did his people in Egypt their cry has helped to bring him downe from the habitation of his holinesse and he will hear their cry and help them for he is