gave command to his Reverend Chaplain to preach abroad and to let all men know how severely God had disciplined him for his sins by his afflicting hand that his sufferings were most just tho he had laid ten thousand times more upon him and how God had laid on him one stripe upon another because of his grievous provocations till he had brought him home to himself and declaring that from the bottom of his soul he did detest and abher the whole course of his former wicked life and admired the goodness of God who had given him a true sense of his pernicious opinions and vile practises warning all men in the name of God and as they regard the welfare of their souls no more to deny his Being or his providence or despise his goodness no more to make a mock of sin or contemn the pure and excellent Religion of the ever Blessed Redeemer through whose Merits alone he who was one of the greatest of Sinners did yet hope for mercy and forgiveness and in this Penitent and Religious temper and frame of Spirit he sometime after gave up the Ghost Rechesters Life and Sermon XIX I shall conclude all with some brief remarks out of the Life of that Excellent and Worthy Person the late Lord Chief Justice Hales as lately published by a Reverend Divine This Gentleâ—an was descended rather from a good than a Noble Family and about the Seventeenth year of his Age went to Oxford where he was placed under an able Tutor and was an extraordinary proficient but the Stage-Plays coming thither he was so much corrupted by seeing many Plays that he almost wholly forsook his Studies of which mischief being sensible he at his coming to London resolved â—ver to see a Play again to which he constantly adhered but one â—rruption of the mind draws on another so that he fell into many â—uthful vanities and kept too much ill Company with some vain â—eople till a sad accident drove him from it for he with some other â—oung Persons being invited out of Town to be merry one of the â—ompany called for so much Wine and went on in such excess that though Mr. Hale would have prevented it he fell down as dead â—efore them so that all that were present were not a little affrighted 〈◊〉 it who did what they could to bring him to himself again This â—â—d Particularly affect Mr. Hale who thereupon went into another â—om and shutting the door fell on his knees and prayed earnestly 〈◊〉 God both for his Friend That he might be restored to life again â—nd that himself might be forgiven forgiving such countenance to so â—uch excess and he vowed to God that he would never again keep â—â—mpany in that manner nor Drink allealth while he lived His friend recovered and he most Religiously kept his vow till his â—ying day and though he was afterwards pressed to drink healths â—rticularly the Kings which was set up by too many as a distinâ—uishing mark of Loyalty and drew many into great excess after â—is Majesties happy Restoration but he would never dispence with is Vow though he was roughly treated for this sometimes which â—â—me hot and indiscreet men call obstinacy This wrought such an â—â—tire change on him that now he forsook all vain Company and â—vidâ—d himself between the duties of Religion and the studies of â—s Profession in the former whereof he was so regular that for six â—â—d Thirty years time he never once failed going to Church on the â—â—rds day though he was acquainted with all sorts of Learning â—â—t he seemed to have made the study of Divinity the chiefest of all â—hers He was a very merciâ—ul and upright Judg and would hear no â—auses but in open Court which a great Peer once complained of 〈◊〉 the King But his Majesty bid him content himself that he was no â—rse used and said He verily believed he would have used himself no â—ttâ—r if he had gone to sollicitâ— him in any one of his own Causes He â—ade it as a Rule to himself That in the administration of Justice 〈◊〉 was intrusted for God the King and Countrey and therefore ought 〈◊〉 do it uprightly deliberately and resolutely and yet was much conâ—rned that though it was his duty to serve in the Office he was calâ—â—d to yet was it a great consumer of that little time we have here â—â—ch he thought might be better spent in a piâ—us Contemplative life â—â—d a due provision for Eternity J. Hales Life To conclude The most learned wise and sâ—â—ious Persons in all aâ—es have all concurred in their Judgments as to a future State and â—â—ve thought it to be the greatest wisdom in this world to be truly â—eligious and to work out their Salvation with fear and trembling FINIS There are lately published Three very useful anâ— necessary Books which are sold by Nathâ— Crouch at the Bell next door to the Widow Kemp's Coffee-House in Exchange-Alley over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill I. HIstorical Remarques and Observations of the Antient and Present State of London and Westminster shewing the Foundation Walls Gates Towers Bridges Churches Rivers Wards Halls Companies Government Courts Hospitals Schools Inns oâ— Court Charters Franchises and Priviledges thereof with an Account of the most Remarkable Accidents 〈◊〉 to Wars Fires Plagues and other occurrences for above 900 years past in and about these Cities and among other particulars the Poisoning of K. John by 〈◊〉 Monk The Resolution of K. Henry 3. utterly to destroâ— and consume the City of London with Fire for joyning with the Barons against him and his seizing their Charters Liberâ—â—â— and Customs into his hands The Rebellion of Waâ—â—â—yler who was slain by the Lord Mayor iâ— Smithfield and the Speech of Jack Straw at his Execution the deposing of R. Rich. 2. and his mournful Speech at his resigning the Crown with the manner 〈◊〉 his being Murdered The Dâ— of York's coming into thâ— Parliament and claiming the Crown in K. Henry 6. time The Murder of K. Henry 6. and likewise of Edw. 〈◊〉 and his Brother by Rich. 3. called Crook-back Thâ— Execution of Empson and Dudley the Insurrection iâ— London in K. Henry 8. time and how 411 Men and Women went through the City in their Shifts and Ropes about their necks to Westm Hall where they were pardoned by the King The Speeches of Q. Ann Bullen 〈◊〉 Lord Protector and Q. Jane Gray at their several Deaâ—â— upon Tower hill With several other Remarques in all the Kings anâ— Queens Reigns to this Year 1681. And a description 〈◊〉 â—e manner of the Tryal of the late L. Stafford in West Hall â—llustrated with Pictures of the most considerable matters â—uriously Ingraven on Copper Plates with the Arms of the â—5 Companies of London and the time of their Incorâ—orating by Rich. Burton Author of the History of the Wars of England c. Price One Shilling II. The Wars in England Scotland and Ireland Or AN Impartial Account of all
stood amazed thereat Acts Monu XXXIV Felix Earl of Wurtemburg one of the Captains of the Emperor Charles the Fifth being at Supper at Ausburg with many of his Companions they breathed out horrible threatnings of what Cruelty they intended to exercise upon the poor Protestants and the Earl swore before them all That before he died he would ride up to his Spurs in the blood of the Lutherans but it happened the same night that vengeance overtook him for he was strangled and choaked in his own blood before morning and so he did not ride yet bathed himself not up to the Spurs but up to the throat not in the Blood of the Lutherans but his own blood and so miserably ended his life Flaccius Illyricus John Martin of Piedmont continually boasted how he would root out the Protestants and in much Gallantry cut off a Ministers Nose of Angrogne but immediately after he himself was set upon by a Wolf which bit off his Nose as he had abused the Minister whereupon he grew mad and died miserably which strange Judgment was much discoursed of by all the Country round about because it was never known that this Wolf had done any hurt to any Man before Acts Monu XXXV The Lord of Revest who was President of the Parliament at Provence and by whose means many innocent Protestants were Martyred was a while after put out of his Office and returning to his own house he was visited with so dreadful a sickness accompanied with such mad and furious fits that his Wife nor Friends durst never venture to come near him and so like a furious Mad-man he in a solitary inraged humor ended his wrerched Life About the same time there happened a very strange Judgment upon one John Cranequin an Antient Lawyer of Bruges who was so violent and furious in the Popish way that he turned Promoter against the Protestants informing Ovy one of the cursed Inquisitors against them whereby many were taken and martyred But Divine Justice struck him with a very strange Phrensy insomuch that whatsoever his Eyes beheld seemed in his Judgment to be crawling Serpents and though all manner of means and Medicines were used for curing him yea though they used the help of wicked Conjuration and Sorcery yet his Senses were quite benummed and he was bereaved of his Reason and so miserably died Beards Theatre XXXVI John Morin a cruel Enemy to the Professors of the Truth who busied himself continually at Paris in apprehending and accusing the Protestants whereby he caused multitudes daily to be sent to the High-Court of the Pallace This Man himself soon after died in most grievous and horrible torture and the Chancellor Prat who gave out the first Commissions to destroy them died swearing and blaspheming the Name of God his stomach being most strangely gnawn in pieces and consumed with Worms Poncher Archbishop of Tours pursuing with all violence the burning of the Protestants was himself surprized with a Fire from Heaven which beginning at his heel could never be quenched till one Member after another was cut off whereby he miserably died Gaspard of Renialine one of the Magistrates of the City of Anvers in France having condemned certain poor faithful Souls to be burned received ere he moved out of the place the terrible Sentence of God's Judgment against himself falling immediately into desperation and was led home to his house half distracted where roaring out That he had condemned and destroyed the blood of the Innocent he presently died French Hist XXXVII Lambert a Frier in Leige a very cruel Persecutor one of the bloody Inquisitors for Religion whilst he was one day bitterly inveighing against the Protestants he was on a sudden in the midst of his Sermon struck speechless so that he was fain to be carried out of the Pulpit to his Cloister in a Chair and was shortly after found drowned in a Ditch Albertus Pighius a great Enemy to the Gospel insomuch that he was called The Lutherans Scourge being at Bulloigne at the Coronation of the Emperor to behold the Pomp and Glory thereof it happened that the Scaffold whereon he stood fell down with the weight of the People and Pighius came tumbling headlong amongst the Guard that stood below and fell upon the points of their Halberds which ran quite thorow his Body the rest of the Company escaping without any great hurt French Hist XXXVIII In the Reign of King Henry the Eighth one Adam Damlip a very worthy Protestant Preacher was condemned to be Executed as a Traitor pretendedly though in truth for nothing but defending the Christian Religion against Popish Superstitions Now there was one Sir Ralph Ellaker Knight Marshal of Calice who was to see him Executed there and was a very great Enemy to him so that he would not permit him to make any Confession of his Faith nor the Cause for which he died but still cryed out to the Hangman Dispatch the Knave make an end not sufering him to speak a word in his own defence nor clear himself from the Treason with which he was charged but not proved against him yea this bloody wretch swore That he would not stir till he saw the Traitors heart out A while after there happened a skirmish between the English and French at Bulloigne where this Sir Ralph was slain with divers others whose death only sufficed not his Enemies for after they had stripped him stark naked they cut off his Privy Members and pluckt the heart out of his body and so left him a terrible Example to all merciless and bloody Men for there was no cause ever known why they should use him so more than the rest but only to discover the Just Judgment of Heaven upon him Beards Theatre XXXIX James the Fifth King of Scotland by the Instigation of the Popish Bishops was a great Persecutor of the Protestants the Light of the Gospel breaking forth in his time and gave Commission to Sir James Hamilton his Treasurer to prosecute all Persons which should be found guilty of Heresie and to inflict punishments upon them the King being also heard to say That none of that sort should expect any favour at his hands nay not his own Sons if they should be found guilty But this continued not long for Sir James Hamilton was accused of a Design against the King's Life for which he was shortly after Executed And a War afterward breaking out with England the King found his Nobility very averse in assisting him therein which much discontented him These thoughts with some fearful Visions which he had by night much terrified him and altered his Mind from those Extremities which the Clergy had put him upon For one night as he lay at Linlithgow it seemed to him that Thomas Scot Justice Clerk came to him a with Company of Devils crying Woe worth the day that ever I knew thee or thy service for serving thee against God and against his Servants I am now Judged to Hell
day there appeared the Form of this Epicure sitting with a great many Guests drinking carousing and making good Cheer the Table being furnished seemingly with all manner of Delicacies and attended on by many Persons together with Fidlers Trumpeters and the like so that whatever he delighted in while he was alive was there daily to be seen God permitting Satan to deceive mens sight by such Appearances to deter others from living in such a course of Atheism and Impiety Theat Hist VIII At a Village called Benarides in Spain two young men one whereof was noted to be an outragious Swearer and Blasphemer of God's Holy Name being together in the Fields on a sudden there arose a terrible Tempest of Rain and Wind accompanied with so impetuous a Whirlwind that it amazed all that beheld it the two young men seeing it furiously coming toward them to avoid the danger ran away as fast as they could possible but notwithstanding their haste it overtook them and for fear it should carry them up into the Air they fell flat down upon the ground where the Whirlwind whilked about them for some time and then passed forward one of them arose so affrighted and in such an Agony that he was scarce able to stand on his feet the other lying still without motion some that stood under an hedge hard by came to see how he did and found him to be stark dead not without some wonderful symptoms of Divine Justice for all his bones were so crushed that the Joynts of his Legs and Arms were to be turned every way as though his whole Body had been made of Moss and besides his Tongue was pluckt out by the roots and could not by any means be found though it was diligently sought for and this was the miserable end of this wretched youth who was made an Example to the World of God's Vengeance against Swearers and Blasphemers Beards Theatre IX Mirtiques Governour of Brittany in France in the War against the Protestants persuaded them to yield to the King since their strong God had now forsaken them and scoffingly said It was time for them to sing Help us now O Lord for it is time but he soon found that their strong God was able to defend them and to confound the Proud he himself being presently after slain in the Siege Acts Mon. Remarkable is the Relation of one Libanius who was a Sophistical Atheist he being at Antioch demanded blasphemously of a Learned and Religious Shoolmaster What the Carpenters Son did and how he employed himself To whom the Schoolmaster full of the Divine Spirit replyed The Creator of the World whom thou disdainfully callest the Carpenters Son is making a Coffin for thee to carry thee to thy Grave at which the Sophister laughing went away and within few daies after died and was buried in a Coffin according to the Prophecy of that Holy Man Beards Theatre In the 〈…〉 an Arrian Bishop called Olympius being in the Baths of Carthage openly scoffed and blasphemed the Holy and Sacred Trinity but Lightning fell down from Heaven upon him three times wherewith he was burnt and consumed to Ashes There was also in the time of Alphonsus King of Arragon and Sicily in an Isle toward Africa a certain prophane Hermite called Antonius who impudently and impiously belched out blasphemous speeches against our Blessed Saviour and the Virgin Mary his Mother but he was struck with a most grievous and tormenting Disease so that he was eaten and gnawn to pieces with Worms till he died Aeneas Sylvius X. Neither hath Divine Vengeance left itself without witness against Cursers and those who by denying God give themselves to the Devil as may plainly appear â—y the following dreadful Examples A Souldier travelling through Marcia a Country of Almaign and finding himself not well went to an Inn where he lay to recover his health and delivered to his Hostess a certain sum of money which he had about him A while after being recovered of his Sickness he demanded his money again but the Woman upon consultation with her Husband denied the receipt of any and accused him of wronging her in demanding what she never received On the other side the Souldier was much enraged accusing her of cheating him when the Man of the House heard the noise though he was privy to all before yet he dissembling the matter took his Wife's part and thrust the Souldier out of doors who seeing himself thus abused drew his Sword and ran against the door with the point thereof whereat the Host began to cry out Thieves Thieves affirming that he would have entred his House by force and have robbed him whereupon the poor Souldier was taken and cast into Prison and by process of Law was ready to be condemned to death but the very day wherein this heavy Sentence was to be pronounced and Executed the Devil entred into the Prison and told the Souldier That he was condemned 〈…〉 dye nevertheless if he would give himself Body and Soul to him he would promise to deliver him out of their hands The Prisoner replyed That he had rather dye being innocent and without cause than to be delivered upon that account The Devil then represented to him the great danger of death wherein he was and used all manner of craft to delude him but finding all his Arguments uneffectual he at length left his suit but yet promised him both assistance and revenge upon his Enemies for nothing advising him when he came to his Tryal he should plead not guilty and declare his innocence and the wrong which he suffered and to entreat the Judge to grant him the favour That one in a Blew Cap who was in the Court might make his Defence for him now this one in the Blew Cap was the Devil himself The Souldier accepted his offer and being called to the Bar and Indicted of Felony he presently desired to have his Attorney who was there present to plead his Cause which being granted him this witty crafty Lawyer began very cunningly to defend his Client affirming him To have been falsly accused and consequently would be unjustly condemned and that his Host did withhold the money and had offered him violence and to demonstrate the Truth of what he asserted he reckoned up every Circumstance of the whole Action yea the very place where they had hid they money The Host on the other side very impudently denied all wishing withal That the Devil might take him Body and Soul if he had This subtil Attorney in the Blew Cap finding now the advantage which he had hitherto looked for left off his pleading and immediately seizing upon the Host carryed him out of the Sessions-House and hoisted him into the Air so high that he was never after seen nor heard of And thus was the Souldier wonderfully delivered from death to the astonishment of all the Beholders who were Eye-witnesses of this terrible Judgment upon this perjured cursing Host Wierus of Spirits lib. 3. XI
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
his own Fingers in the madness of his Distemper Arnoldus likewise who was accessary hereunto was assaulted in a Monastery butchered and his Carcass thrown into the Town-Ditch Chetwind Hist Collect. 1 part p. 21. XVI One Philibert Hamlin a Popish Priest in France was in the year 1557. Converted to the Protestant Religion and thereupon went to Geneva where he exercised the Art of Printing and published many Books After which he was made a Minister of the Reformed Religion and Preached with good success at the Town of Aleuart and other places At last he with his Host a Priest whom he had Instructed in the Protestant Profession were apprehended and cast into Prison at Burdeaux and whilst they lay there in came a Priest with all his Accoutrements to say Mass But Philibert inflamed with Zeal against such ridiculous Fopperies went and pluckt the Garments from his back and overthrew the Chalice and Candlesticks saying Is it not enough for you to blaspheme God in the Churches but you must also pollute the Prison with your Idolatry The Jaylor seeing this fell upon him and beat him with his Staff and also removed him into a Dungeon loading him with Irons which made his Leggs to swell where he lay eight daies The Priest his Host terrified with the Prison and fear of Death renounced his Profession and was set at Liberty whereupon Philibert said to him O unhappy and more than miserable man is it possible that you should be so foolish as for to save your life a few daies you should so start away from and deny the Truth know you therefore that although you have hereby avoided the Corporal Fire yet your life shall be never the longer for you shall die before me and yet shall not have the honour to die for the Cause of God and you shall be an Example to all Apostates Having ended his Speech and the Priest going out of Prison he was presently slain by two Gentlemen who formerly had a quarrel against him Philibert hearing of it protested seriously That he knew â—f no such thing before but spoke as it pleased God to guide 〈◊〉 Tongue Philibert being condemned and carryed to 〈…〉 they endeavoured to drown his voice by sounding of Trumpets and so in the midst of the Flames praying and exhorting the People to Constancy in the Truth he rendred up his Soul unto God Clarks Martyrol p. 228. XVII When by the counsel and persuasion of Philip the Fair King of France Pope Clement the Fifth had condemned the whole Order of the Knights Templars and in divers places had put many of them to death there was a Neopolitan Knight brought to suffer in like manner who espying the Pope and the K. of France looking out at a window he with a loud voice spake to them as followeth Clement Thou cruel Tyrant seeing there is none now left among Mortals unto whom I may make my Appeal as to that grievous Death whereunto thou hast most unjustly condemned me I do therefore appeal unto the Just Judge Christ our Redeemer unto whose Tribunal I cite thee together with King Philip that you both may make your Appearance there within a year and a day where I will then open and defend my cause Pope Clement died within the time and King Philip soon after him in 1214. Lipsius Mon. l. 2. XVIII A Master of the Tâ—â—tonick Order whose name saith our Author I forbear to mention proposed a Match between a young Merchant and a Woman of a doubtful Fame in respect of her Chastity the young Man refused the overture and the rather because he that persuaded the Marriage was supposed to be no hater of the Woman the Master resented this refusal so ill that he determined the life of the refuser should pay for it he therefore contrived that the young Man should be accused of Theft for which being condemned he commanded he should be hanged prayers and tears were of no avail and therefore the innocent had recourse to the safest Sanctuary of innocency and as he was led to Execution said with a loud voice I suffer unjustly and therefore appeal to the supream Lord of Life and Death to whom he that hath so unjustly condemned me shall render an account thirteen days after this very day The Master scoffed at this but upon that same thirteenth day being taken with a sudden sickness he cryed out Miserable Man that I am behold I must dye and this day must I appear before the All-seeing Judge and so died presently after Wanly Hist Man XIX A poor Labourer at Calice who had been an hearer of Mr. Adam Damlip a famous Protestant Preacher at Calice when it was in the hands of the English said among some Company That he would never believe the Priest could make the Lords Body at his pleasure whereupon he was accused and condemned by one Harvey a Commissary there who also with opprobrious and abusive words railed upon him calling him Heretick and saying He should die a vile death the poor Man answered That he was no Heretick but one that held the True Faith of Christ and whereas thou sayest said he that I shall die a vile death thou thy self shalt die a vile death and that shortly The poor Man was burnt and Harvey within half an year after was hanged drawn and quartered for Treason Clarks Martyr p. 427. XX. In Sweden Johannes Turso gave Sentence upon a certain Man that he should lose his head who when all other defence was denied him fell down on his knees and with great earnestness spake as followeth Behold I die unjustly and I cite thee unjust Judge to Gods Tribunal there to answer for my head within this hour These were looked upon as frivolous words but scarce was the Man beheaded by the Executioner when the Judge himself fell down dead from his Horse Delrio Disquisit l. 4. Otho the first Emperor of Rome being freely reprehended by his Son William who was then Bishop of Mentz for his Marriage with Adelaida the Emperor was so offended that he sent his Son to Prison whereupon the Bishop cited his Father Otho to the Tribunal of Christ And said he upon Whitsunday both of us shall appear before the Lord Christ where by Divine Judgment it shall appear who hath transgressed the limits of his duty In pursuance of this appeal the Emperor Otho died upon Whitsunday suddenly in Saxony his Son the Bishop deceasing some short time before Drevel Op. XXI Rodulphus Duke of Ausiria being grievously offended with a certain Knight caused him to be apprehended and being bound hand and foot and thrust into a Sack to be thrown into the River the Knight being in the Sack and it as yet not sown up espying the Duke looking out at a Window where he stood to behold that spectacle cryed out to him with a loud voice Duke Rodulph I summon thee to appear at the dreadful Tribunal of Almighty God within the compass of one year there to shew cause
bloudy for so they seemed to them Some that saw them went and informed the Senate who immediately sent Officers to apprehend him when he was brought to the Guild-Hall and asked where he had those mens heads He answered That he bought them in the Shambles The Butcher being sent for said He sold him Calves not Mens heads The Senate being amased at the thing sent him to Prison where being strictly examined he confessed the former Murders whereof he was guilty and suffered for the same When the Heads were taken out of the Net they were then seen to be but Calves heads Clarks Mirrour 2 Part p. 460. LIV. A murderer at Tubing was betrayed by his own sighs which were so deep and incessant for grief not of the Fact but of the small booty and being asked the question readily acknowledged his Crime and was Executed Another Murderer in Spain was discovered by the trembling of his heart for when many were suspected of the Murder and denyed it the Judg caused all their Breasts to be open'd and him in whom he felt most trembling of his heart he was condemned who could not deny the Fact but presently confessed the same and suffered Death accordingly Beards Theatre LV. At Isenacum A Young man being in love with a Maid and not having wherewith to maintain her used this unlawful means to accomplish his desire One night he killed his Landlord and throwing his body into a Celler took away all his money and then made hast away but he had not gone many steps when the Terror of his Concience and the Judgment of God so stupified him that he could not stir a foot further till he was apprehended Martin Luther and Melanchton were eye witnesses of this miraculous Judgment who likewise brought the murder to confession of his sins and repentance for the same Beards Theatre p. 214. By these Examples we see how hard it is for a Murderer to escape the Justice of God though the Justice of man be not sometimes able to find them out neither have lustful nor lascivious Persons gone unpunished as examples in all Ages testifie and therefore we shall conclude this Chapter with a few Instances among many of the dreadful Effects which Lust hath produced upon those who have been overcome thereby LVI Novellus Carrarius Lord of Pavia of great renown for his valour but of great infamy for his wickedness This Man after many cruel murders and bloudy Practices which he exercised in every place where he came fell at last into this crime for lying at Vincentia he fell in love with a Virgin of excellent beauty but more excellent Chastity an honest Citizens Daughter whom he commanded her Parents to send to him that he might have his pleasure of her but they more regarding the credit and modesty of their Daughter than the Tyrants command refused to send her whereupon he took her violently out of their house and forced her to his Lust after which to add cruelty to his Villany he chopped her into small pieces and sent them to her Parents in a Basket for a present wherewith her poor Father astonished carried it to the Senate who sent it to Venice desiring them to consider of the fact and revenge the cruelty The Venetians undertaking their defence made War upon the Tyrant and besieging him in his own City took him at last Prisoner and hanged him with his two Sons Beards Theatre LVII One principal motive of the Danes first arrival here in England who afterward conquered the whole Land and exercised horrible cruelties on the Inhabitants was by occasion of Lust For Osbright a Deputy King under the King of the West Saxons as he was one time travelling went into the House of one of his Nobles who having a Wife of great beauty the King dined with her in the absence of her Husband and after dinner being allured by her beauty took her into a private Chamber where he forcibly ravished her the Lady was extrearly concerned and made woful complaint of this outrage to her Husband at his return The Nobleman forthwith studies revenge and going first to the King and resigned all his Lands and Offices into his hands and then sailed into Denmark where he had been brought up and had great Friends and their making complaint to Codrinus the King who was ready enough to entertain any occasion of quarrel against his Land The King presently raises a mighty Army and sends it under the command of his two Brothers into England who landing first at Holdernes in Yorkshire burnt up the Countrey and slew Men Women and Children without Mercy then marching toward York they met with wicked Osbright himself where he with the most part of his Army were slain and destroyed a just reward for his Villanous Act and also one of the main causes of the Conquest of the whole Land by the Danes Beards Theatre P. 251. LVIII In the year 955. Edwin succeeded his Uncle Eldred King of England this man was so shameless and impudent that on the very day of his Coronation he suddenly withdrew himself from among his Nobility and in the sight of several persons openly ravished his own Kinswoman the Wife of a Noblemani of his Realm for which Fact he became so odious to his Subjects and Nobles that they joyntly rose against him and deprived him of his Crown when he had reigned only four years Lanquets Chorn. LIX A Nobleman of Piedmont married a Wife of mean birth and fortune yet notwithstanding the Honour she received by him she shamelesly abused her Lords Bed by continual Adulteries with a Gentleman his Neighbour which he having notice of and designing to take them in the Act caused a Packet of Letters to be brought him as from his Prince calling him to Court and as if sending him in Embassage to a Forreign Countrey Having imparted these Letters to his Wife and providing all things necessary for his Journey he departed with all his Train but at night he stays at a Castle of his own to the Governour whereof he discovers his misfortune and design and being only followed by him and a Groom of his Chamber in a dark night they came to the Chamber where his Adulterous Wife was in Bed with her Gallant The Governour called at the Gate and told the Porter he had Letters from his Lord which he must presently deliver to his Lady The Porter opens the Gate and they all suddenly enter The Lord forbids the Porter to make any noise but commanding him to light a Torch he presently got to his Ladies Chamber where the governour knocking told an old Woman her Baud That he had Letters from his Lord which his Lady must speedily answer The Lady drunk with Lust commanded the old Woman to open the door and receive the Letters The Lord with the two others suddenly rushed in and presently siezed on the two Adulterers naked together and after some furious words he commanded his Wife with the help of the