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A70386	A relation of the beginnings and proceedings of the rebellion in the county of Cavan within the province of Ulster in Ireland, from the 23. of October, 1641. untill the 15. of June, 1642. Whereof hitherto nothing hath been reported. Whereunto is added, the acts, and twenty nine conclusions of that great and generall congregation of archbishops, bishops, and others, all of the Romish clergy in Ireland, met in the city of Kilkenny in that kingdom, on the 10 11 and 13 of May, 1642. Concerning the present state of the warre in Ireland; and for the ordering of matters appertaining to the same, both there, and by negotiation with forraign princes. Written, set forth, and presented to the most honourable the Houses of Parliament, by Henry Iones, D.D. There is also added a letter written from Dublin, August 4. 1642. containing some late and very remarkable passages in Ireland.	Jones, Henry, 1605-1682.; Culme, Hugh, 1599 or 1600-1644. aut	1642 (1642)	Wing J942B; ESTC R200914	331,124	447

or the God of Moses They said the miracles that thou hast seen have they not touched thee He that created us doth things which are not in thy power to performe thy power extendeth only in this world we believe in God our Lord who will pardon our sinnes thou art the cause that hee abhorreth us with our magick hee is more powerfull then thou and eternall Hell is prepared for Infidels they shall finde repose neither in their life nor death and the righteous that shall do good works shall eternally enjoy the pleasures of the gardens of Eden wherein slow many delicious rivers such is the reward of them that are purged from their sins We said unto Moses go out by night with my people and make them a drie path through the Sea fear not that thine enemies may overtake thee neither be afraid of being drowned Paraoh shall follow them with his troops I will overwhelm in the sea and will mislead him with his people he shall not follow the right way O children of Israel we delivered you from your enemies and conducted you towards the mountains of Sinai we caused Manna and Quailes to descend upon you and said eat ye of the good things that we have given you and be not ungratefull otherwise my wrath shall fall upon you he upon whom mine indignation shall fall shall be thrown headlong into the fire of hell I will be mercifull to such as shall convert do good works and follow the right way O Moses who pressed thee to absent thy self from thy people He answered behold he that followeth my steps I am come up to receive thy Commandements We after thy departure estranged thy people from thee and Samery seduced them from the right way he returned upon his steps to his people in great displeasure and said O ye people did not God promise to you all manner of content he protracted the effect of his promises because of your sins will you that his wrath fall upon you wherefore have ye transgressed what ye promised to me They said we have not transgressed our promises of our own accord we took the most weighty ornaments of the people and cast them into the fire Samery himself did cast them in he made the body of a bellowing Calfe and said with his followers behold there your God the God of Moses whom he hath forgotten Saw they not that this Calf spake not to them and that it had not power to do good or evill Aaron had said unto them before the comming of Moses O ye people you have been seduced by this Calfe the mercifull is your God and your Lord follow and obey me They said shall we abide here untill Moses returne Moses at his return said unto Aaron what hindred thee to follow me when thou sawest them to turne aside from the Law of God wherefore hast thou disobeyed me O son of my mother said Aaron drag me not by the beard and haire I feared to displease thee if I forsook the children of Israel and disobey thy Commandements Moses said unto Samery what was thy design he answered I saw what this people seeth not I took an handfull of the earth of the footsteps of the Messenger of God and made the Figure of a Calfe the fairest that I could Moses said unto him goe get thee from among us thou shalt fly the presence of men all the dayes of thy life thou shalt say unto them come not nigh me touch me not the time of thy punishment is appointed thou shalt not escape it behold thy false god behold the Calfe which thou hast adored I will cause it to burne and will cast the ashes thereof into the sea your God is one God and there is none other God but the God that knoweth all things Thus doe I relate to thee things past we have sent thee the Alcoran such as shall abjure it shall beare their burthen at the day of Judgement and be eternally tormented I will one day require an account of their burden and will assemble them with all their subtilities when the Trumpet shall sound they shall demand of each other how long they have continued in the world they shall say that they have remained there but ten dayes and ten nights I know all that they will say the most prudent among them shall say that they have been but one day They shall enquire of thee concerning the Mountains Say unto them God shall teare them up and levell them with the Earth thou shalt see them levelled and beaten downe then shall men without retardment follow him that shall summon them to universall Judgement they shall humble themselves before God thou shalt that day heare low and humble voyces that day shall prayers be ineffectuall except of them that shall be pleasing to God whom he will permit to speak He knoweth whatsoever men doe in this world and what must befall them in the other and they know it not they shall humble themselves and hang down the head before the living and eternall Lord all Infidels shall be damned and the righteous of True-believers that have done good works shall not feare injustice We have sent the Alcoran in the Arabique tongue it teacheth men our Commandements peradventure they will feare impiety it teacheth them what they ought to know Exalt the glory of God King of the world he is truth it selfe presse not thy selfe to read the Alcoran untill thou hast well understood it Say Lord encrease my knowledge We heretofore prohibited Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit he was unmindfull of our Commandement I found in him no perseverance Remember thou that we commanded the Angels to humble themselves before him they humbled themselves except the Devill who refused to doe it Remember that we said Adam the Devill is thine enemy and the enemy of thy wife he will endeavour to make you miserable to cause you both to goe out of Paradise where thou sufferest neither hunger nor thirst nor cold nor heat The Devill tempted them and said oh Adam I will conduct thee to the tree of eternity a treasure that shall never perish they did both eat of the fruit of that tree then knew they their filthinesse and took the leaves of trees to cover their nakednesse Adam disobeyed his Lord and became miserable neverthelesse he heard and pardoned him and shewed him the right way he said discend from Paradise ye enemies of each other I will hereafter send you a guide he that shall follow him shall not erre and shall be blessed He that shall goe astray and will not believe in me shall be miserable in the world and blind at the day of Judgement that day shall he say Lord wherefore hast thou made me blind I had good sight when I was in the world I did this day forget thee as thou didst forget my Commandements thus doe I intreat Infidels The torments of the other world are more grievous then those of the Earth and of longer

wicked will depart from the obedience which he oweth to God Make your prayers at the time appointed pay Tithes and obey the Prophet God shall give you his mercy Beleive not that the Infidels are more powerfull on Earth than We they shall be precipitated into the fire of Hell O ye that are True-beleivers your slaves and servants of Free-condition shall require leave of you to enter where ye shall be thrice viz. Before the prayer at break of day after noon and after supper they shall not offend in entring without leave where ye shall be at another time they enter there to serve you In this manner doth God teach you his Commandments he knoweth the humor of his Creatures and is most prudent in all that h● ordaineth It is ordained to your children when they shall be at age of discretion to demand of you permission to do what they shall desire as did your pred●cesso●s Thus doth God teach you his Commandments he is gracious and mercifull The old and d●cr●pit women shall not offend God to quit their vails and discover their faces provided it be without vanity and design to shew their ornaments If they abstain they shall do well God hea●eth whatsoever ye say and knoweth all that is in your he●rts The blinde the lame the sick See Kitab el tenior and you also shall not sin to eat in the house of your children at the house of your Father and Mother brothers sisters Vncles Aunts Friends and in the house of your servants ye shall not offend God if ye eat together or apart When ye shall enter into any house salute each other from God with blessing and affection Thus doth God teach you his Commandments peradventure you will learn them When those that believed in God and his Prophet repaired to the Prophet they retired not without his permission Such as required leave to depart believe in God and his Prophet if they require leave of thee for any businesse licence whom shall seem good to thee and p●ay to God for them See Kitab el tenoir he is gracious and mercifull Call not the Prophet as ye call one anothe● among you God knoweth such as shame ully depart out of the Temple and the French Such as disobey his Commandments ought to take he●d least some mischiefe befal them and that they suffer not great tormen●s Whatsoever is in the Heavens or on Earth is Gods he knoweth if ye are zealous in your faith See Gelaldin or be hyp●crites ●e knoweth the day wherein a●l th● wor●● shall be assembled bef●re him to be j●dged ●n th●● d●y shall men see what what they have done he knoweth all things CHAP. XXV The Chapter of the Alcoran containing seventy and seven Verses wrinten at Mecca IN the name of God gracious and merciful praised be he that sent the Alcoran to his servant to instruct the world he is King of the Heavens and Earth he hath no Son nor Companion in his rign he created and ordained every thing The Infidels worship Gods that can create nothing and are things created they can neither do them good nor evil they can give neither life nor death neither cause them to rise again They say that the Alcoran is but a fable of thine invention invented with the assistance of some other person but they lye and blaspheme They say that it is but an old Song and a fable of the Ancients that thou writ●st and that thou studiest morning and evening Say unto them it was sent by him that knoweth all ●hings in Heaven and Earth alt●gether gracious and mercifull They said wh● is this Prophet He eateth bread and meat and walketh th●ough the streets we will not beleive him unlesse an Angell descend from heaven to preach to us with him unles that Angel enrich him and that he have a Garden full of good and savory fruits he is but a wizard or one possesed of the Devil Consider to what they compare thee certainly they are in error and cannot find the right way Praise and bless him that is able to bestow on thee a greater good when it shall seem good to thee to wit Gardens wherein flow many Rivers and houses of pleasure They have denyed the certainty o● Universall Judgment and we have prepared the fire of Hell to punish them wrath shall carry them away with terrible cryes when they shall behold the place of the assembly of judgment when they shall there appear they shall be desperate and shall cry O misery Cry not O misery cry O mis●ries in the Plu●al ask of them which is better and more advantagious that or paradise which is prepared for the recompence of the righteous where they shall dwell e●ern●lly with al manner of felicity this is it that God hath prōised that which was impetrated of his divine Majesty for them that have his fear be●or their e●es I wil one day ass●mble I dolate●s with their i●●ls God shall say unto them you are they who have seduc●d my creatures from the right way They shall say praised be thy name we ought to have worshipped non● but thy divine Majesty but the weal●h that thou gav●st to our Magistrates and their life which thou did prolong caus●d them to fo●get thy Commandment● they were pernicious men in that they a●jured thy Law they cannot this day be exempt from the punishment of our crim●s neither protect us against thy wrath The Idolaters shall be rigorously punished The Prophets that we sent bef●re thee did eat bread and meat and walked through the streets we prove them one after another Persevere God beholdeth them that are patient Those that beleive not in the R●sur●ect●on have s●id The Angels are n●t ●escended from Heaven we have not seene G●d they are become proud and are fallen into an exceeding great error but the wicked shal one day be without comf●rt when they see the Angel they shal cry help help We will set before their eyes all the sins that they have commi●ted the good works which they shal think to hav● do● shall be like to dust which the Winde carryeth away and the blessed shall enjoy a most certain good they shall hear of nothing but what contenteth them When the Heaven and the aire shall divide themselves and the Angels shall descend then shall the truth appear and the mercifull shall raigne that day shall be tedious to Infidels they shall bite their fingers and sa● would to God I had f●llowed the Prophet and his Apostle Oh misery would to God I had not contracted amity with such an Infidell he seduced me from the right way he hind●ed me to beleive in the A●coran which God sent certainly the Devill hath tempted men Then shall the Prophet say Lo●d such as have followed me have obe●ed what is written in the Alcoran and the Infidells have rejected it we have appointed an enemy among the wicked to every Prophet of them that were before thee but it

Christian vertues and indeed if Christians will but diligently read and observe the Lawes and Histories of the Mahometans they may blush to see how zealous they are in the works of Devotion Piety and Charity how devout cleanly and reverend in their Mosques how obedient to their Priests that even the great T●rk himselfe will attempt nothing without consulting his Mufti how carefull are they to observe their hours of prayers five times a day wherever they are or however imployed how constantly do they observe their ●asts from morning till night a whole moneth together how ●o●●ng and cha●itable the Must●●mans are to each other and how carefull of strangers may be seen by their Hospitalls both for the poor and for travellers if we observe their justice temperance and other morall vertues we may truly blush at our own coldnesse both in devotion and charity at our injustice intemperance and oppression doubtlesse these men will rise up in judgement against us and surely their devotion piety and works of mercy are main causes of the growth of Mahometanisme on the contrary our neglect of Religion and loosenesse of conversation is a main hindrance to the increase of Christianity is it not a shame that they should read over their Alcoran once every moneth and we scarce read over the Bible in all our life that they shall give such reverence to their Alcoran as to honour the very Camell that carried it to Mecca and to lay up for holy reliques the napkins and handkerchiefs that rubbed off the sweat from his skin and we shall prefer lascivious Poems and wanton Ballads to the sacred Word of Almighty God do we not make our selves unworthy of such an inestimable treasure 12. The Turks are our neighbours and their territories border upon the Dominions of Christendome there have been continuall warres and will be still between us it concerneth every Christian who makes conscience of his waies to examine the cause and to look into the grounds of this war whether they be just or not which cannot be known but by reading the Alcoran in which we see the Mahometans to be the enemies of the Crosse of Christ in denying his Death and of his Divinity also Euseb. in vit Const. l. 9. c. 9 Hist. Theod. l. 5. c. 24. S●crat l. c. 7.18 Aug. l. 5. de civi dei c. 13. in that they deny his Godhead we shall find so many passages in it repugnant to and destructive of Christian Religion that Christian Princes are bound to oppose the enemies thereof after the example of those glorious Emeprors Constantine who made war against the Heathen Princes Maxentius Maximinus and Licinius of Theodosius the elder against the Tyrant Eugenius the worshipper of Hercules of Theodosius the younger against the Saracens of Honorius against the Goths all enemies of Christ by whose assistance they got notable victories and glorious triumphs 13. We cannot do better service to our Countrey-men nor offer a greater affront to the Mahometans then to bring out to the open view of all the blind Sampsons of their Alcoran which hath mastered so many Nations that we may laugh at it of which even their own wise men are ashamed and are sorry it should be translated into any other language for they are unwilling that their grand Hypocrite should be unmasked or that the vizard of his pretended holinesse should be taken off whose filthy nakednesse must appear when he is devested they know that words and works of darknesse cannot endure the light Trepidántque immisso lumine manes the infernall Ghosts tremble at any glimpse of light and the wild beasts returne to their dens saith David Psal. 10.4 Vt jugulent homines surgunt de nocte latrones when the morning appeares not daring to seek their prey but in the dark night of ignorance this great thief Mahomet hath destroyed many thousand and under the Lions skin this Asse hath affrighted his beastly minded Saracens therefore let us take away the ring from this Giges by which he hath made himselfe invisible and let us with Hercules pull out this theeving Cacus out of his darke den where he useth to hide and shelter himselfe and expose his deformed carkasse to the publike view that we may wonder at it and in detecting his Errours wee follow the practise of CHIST who discovered to the world the damnable Tenets of the Scribes Pharisees Mat. 13. Hypocrites 14. The Turks are preposterously zealous in praying for the conversion or perversion rather of Christians to their irreligious Religion they pray heartily and every day in their Temples that Christians may imbrace the Alcoran and become their Proselytes in effecting of which they leave no means unassaied by feare and flattery by punishments and rewards Now is it fitting that they in charity and zeale should exceed us wee are bound to pray and endeavour heartily for their conversion from darknesse to light from error to truth but how shall we do this if we know not the dangerous and damnable estate they are in which we cannot know but by reading their Alcoran 15. In reading the Alcoran we shall see what is the force of superstition and with what violence men are carried head-long in the defence and maintenance even of the most absurd and impious opinions what Hecuba is more deformed then the Alcoran yet how do the Turks fight and struggle toil and care hazard life and liberty estates and all for it as if it were the most beautifull Helena in the world these men cannot endure the Image of Christ or of a Saint in their Temples calling this Idolatry and yet they are the greatest Idolaters in the world themselves for never was there such an Idol as the Alcoran no man must touch it till first he be washed and that being done he must not touch it with his naked hands but with a clean linnen cloth the Priest must kisse it and bow to it he must when he reads in it hold it up on high for it is a sin to hold it lower then his girdle Every piece of paper that a Turk findes he must use reverendly because the Alcoran is written in paper the Mule that carries it to Mecca is held in great veneration so that he or she is sanctified all the year after that can but touch him and that handkerchief which wipeth off his sweat is a holy relique thus do they strain at a gnat and swallow a Camell Rev. 20. 16. In reading the Alcoran and Turkish Story we shall see who were Gog and Magog that made warre against the Saints even the Turks an obscure people of Scythia therefore called Gog because they were hid and unknown a long time and the Saracens who were a known people and the open enemies of the Church therefore called Magog these treacherously combined together oppressed first the Persians and afterward the Greek Empire with the famous Churches of Asia Greece and Egypt we shall also find that by