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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13111	The looking-glasse of schisme wherein by a briefe and true narration of the execrable murders, done by Enoch ap Evan, a downe-right separatist, on the bodies of his mother and brother, with the cause mooving him thereunto, the disobedience of that sect, against royall majesty, and the lawes of our Church is plainly set forth. By Peter Studley, Master of Arts, and minister of Gods Word, in Shrevvsbury.	Studley, Peter, 1587 or 8-1648.	1634 (1634)	STC 23403; ESTC S117932	73,005	313

of selfe pleasing purity in matters of religion for there is no man so devoid of reason but he will freely grant and confesse that it had beene a fairer answer for Enoch to have made to my Brethren of the Ministrie and to my selfe if truth might have justified it that under the violent invasion of some raigning and unresistable passion to which hee had beene formerly accustomed he committed these facts then to cast them upon prepensed cogitation deliberate malice resolved purpose watching opportunity for the execution thereof And all these to spring and arise from the inward boiling ●● wrath in his rancorous heart conceived onely in matters ●● Church-ceremonies And he● though I name facts in the Dual number I desire all Re●ders to know and to take ●●tice therof that the death of brother only was by recognition contrived in his hear● without any intention harme at all to the person his mother though filial lo●● and reverence naturally ●●● from him unto her was whe●●ly dried up and extinct in ●●● soule For I asked him th● question whether he intende the same death to his mother by contrivance plot wh●● he resolvedly purposed to the person of his brother He answered mee and I conceive he gave me the truth therein that all his wrath as farre as malice and rage were adjoyned thereto was levelly and solely directed to the person of his brother without any reference at that time to his mother for had shee not come into the roome when the rage was upon him he had not gone forth to seeke for her But the unhappily rushing hastily upon him before his fury was rebated his distemper allayed and his affections better composed with the eye of reason to look into what hee had done hee strucke at her and slew her as is formerly related 24 Vpon the fifteenth day of Iuly I had occasion to rid● from Shrewsbury to Eccleshall to see the most Reverend Father in GOD the Lord Bisho● of our Diocesse newly place● in government over us and to make my selfe knowne un●● his Lordship And at that time the infamous rumours of these accursed and loud-crying murders were quicke and fresh in all mens mouths His Lordship askt me thereof in the presence of an eminent Knight of our County Sir Richard Newport whether such a murdere● were now in our Gaole and whether I had seene him and conferred with him To whom I related what passages in these matters were the knowne unto me And being further required by his Lordship to lay down in writing under mine owne hand and subscription of my name the truth of such particulars as I had received from the Prisoner his owne mouth I truly and faithfully performed the same and left in writing with his Lordship according to his appointment 25 After my returne from this most Reverend Father the next time that I vifited Enoch I found that some persons affected to Non-conformity had beene tampering with him and had very politikely brought him from his former confessions to mee of the onely cause moving him to these murders perswading him that it would be infinitely to his own discredit and to the reproch of the professours of the Gospel wh●● truly affected religion if such a bloudy crime could truely be charged upon him in reference to his dislike of Church ceremonies The inconstant heart o● this light fellow more sensible of personall infamie than of the feare of GOD by confirmation● of truth began to shift shrink away from his former reports And yet for all their perswasions and workings therein such was the over-ruling hand of GOD's power and providence over him that still he persisted in affirming that never any cause of variance fell betweene him and his brother in all their life-time but only difference in opinion touching the Gesture at the Communion yet he began to wave the matter and to qualifie the rigour and acrimony of his former termes not yeelding that hee slew his brother onely because of his kneeling And with this answer being a senselesse mitigation of his former true report and containing in it Contradictionem in adjecto as Logitians speake a contradiction in the report it selfe hee greatly pleased both his blinded selfe and deluded perswaders And herein they who are commonly called Puritanes much insulted and gloried in this subtile peece of their owne dishonest policie that they had foiled Mr. Studley the knowne Antipuritane of the County But now to check this master-peece of their subtill art by making sensible and palpable the errour and absurdity contained therein I will propose to their second thoughts and more p●●dent considerations these ●●●● friendly and familiar Arg●ments By the light and conviction whereof undoubtedly they will become sensible o● their owne foolish errour a●● let goe their hold 26 First the Apostle ha● told us of Enoch's elder brother called Cain in these word● l 1 Iohn 3.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cain was 〈◊〉 that wicked one and slew 〈◊〉 brother And wherefore sle●● hee him Because his own workes were evill and his brothers good Here the conj●ction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is causall as the lea●ned know and referres us to the sole and totall cause and not in part assignes the cause why Cain slew his brother Because Abel was a righteous man and the LORD approved his sacrifice and Cain a wicked man and the LORD rejected his sacrifice therefore and onely therefore the wicked man slew the righteous And if they please to examine deliberately every small circumstance of this matter recorded in the fourth of Genesis they shal find that Cains d jection of countenance and his inward wrath towards his brother arose from this cause and Only this cause that the LORD approved of the faithfull sacrifice of Abel and contemned his owne hypocriticall offring So that if any man shall pretend another cause over and besides this which moved and inflamed Cains wrath to the murder of his brother Abel he shall thereby wilfully deceive his owne soule although the word Only be not found in the whole contexture of that historical Narration A better conclusion therefore naturally flowing from the words of the Apostle because expresly contained in the words is this As Cain murdring of his brother was from the instinct of the Divell in his wicked heart onely because the LORD approved his sacrifice So the murthering of Iohn ap Evan by Enoch his elder brother proceeded from the same satanical instinct and impression of rage into his wicked heart only because he kneeled at the sacred Communion And this is all that politike se●● hath got by denying this word Onely in the cause of this late murder And then by true consequence it may be justly concluded that Satan hath instigated a Non-conformist to as unnaturall and bloudy a fact as ever was committed 27 My second Argument is this Enoch ap Evan slayes his brother either for this cause onely that Iohn would kneele at the Communion or for some

uniforme regiment of GOD'S people hee disliked the superiority and government by Bishops the gesture of kneeling in the sacred Communion the signe of the crosse in Baptisme and such like 7 Hee would never upon any remonstrance perswasion or pregnant conviction of his errours and folly be drawne to confesse For though I pressed him often and seriously therein and left him destitute of all reply or colour thereof yet in the impadencie of his spirit and bold resolution of a stubborne minde I could never draw other answer from him but that b●● his reading the holy Scriptures he had apprehended these opinions his reading being enlightned and sanctified unto him by the Spirit of GOD. When I told him that all true illuminations of GOD'S Spirit in the hearts of his children did ever hold an exact consonancie with the letter of the Scriptures and never varied from them according to the words of our Lord ſ Ioh. 14.26 When the Comforter the HOLY GHOST whom the Father will send in my Name i● come He shal teach you al things and bring to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto your And againe Ioh. 6.39 Search the Scriptures for in them yee thinke yet have eternall life and they art they which testifie of me And further Esa 8.20 To the Law and to the Testimonies if they speake not according to this Word it is because there is no light in them When I pressed those Scriptures unto him which plainly demonstrate that the teaching of GOD'S Word and of his Spirit are one and the same in substance and nature And whē I requir'd him to produce some place of sacred Writ whereon he grounded his extravagant conceits He answered me that his judgement and mine might haply differ because the true Spirit and the measure thereof were not given by GOD to all alike but in speciall manner measure and degree both for the grace of Illumination and sanctification to GOD'S peculiar ones And for proofe hereof hee aimed at certaine words of o●● Lord which he could not remember till I perceiving 〈◊〉 scope furnished him with th● place and that was t Matth. 13.11 It is g●ven to you to know the myster●● of the kingdome of heaven b●● to them it is not given for whosoever hath to him shal be given and he shall have more abundantly c. And from these word of our SAVIOUR IESUS CHRIST he had raised 〈◊〉 himselfe a very strong a●● pleasing imagination that h●● himselfe in speciall was a person elected of GOD inspire with His Spirit and continually guided and directed by 〈◊〉 same Spirit And this con●● hee so hugged and cherish in himselfe that many time when any preacher utted a●● point of doctrine which arrided unto him and relished his pallat hee would seeme to those who were neere unto him in the Church to be even wrapt up into admiration and transported with spirituall delight And on the contrary if any thing was delivered which hit not point-blanke with his toyish fancie of inconformitie he would visibly discover by his stamping on the ground by his inward fretting and the contracting of his forehead the impatience and rage of his fantasticke spirit 8 These things being perceived in him by his mother who according to those reports I have heard of her was a discreet woman of very good understanding and of a stout spirit she tooke occasion gently to reprove these thing● in him and told him man● times in very loving manne●● That the end of these thing● would bee nought Vnto th●● dislike of his mother Iohn 〈◊〉 younger brother adjoyned h●● endevour to reclaime Eno●● from his wilde and irregul●● opinions and peaceably to●● him That hee saw no men●● good honest and faire condi●●ned as they who were peaceable Religion and free from selfe 〈◊〉 ceited opinions Which wo●● of Iohn as the event declare●● shortly after cost him the lo●● of his head for though th●● perswasion was no more but sweet remonstrance of br●● therly affection and ought charitie and conscience so 〈◊〉 have beene taken yet it so irritated the secret rage of the spirit of Enoch that he inwardly boiled with rancorous malice both against his mother and his brother and for no other cause contrived the death of his brother Iohn but because he would not entertaine his opinions and comply with him in his schismatical courses From this time of conference and parley as Enoch himself ●old me he so distasted his brothers resolution in religion that hee resolved in his desperate and wicked heart to doe him a mischiefe only his purpose being yet but new had not attained to full growth and maturity 9 Now know here friendly Reader that this Enoch and Iohn had continued bed-fellowes together in their fother house from their infant years and weaning from the brests o●● their mother to the one an●● thirtieth yeare of age of th●● younger of them And during all this time as Enoch assured me and engaged his truth and salvation upon it there had never fallen out any verball quarrell or dissention between●● them no not so much as the terme Thou had ever passed in anger from the one to the other And being both of them arrived to years of judgement and experience able to manage affaires of life for their own●● profitable thriving they wer●● so well perswaded mutually betweene themselves of the integrity and soundnesse of lov●● in both their hearts each unto other and also of an upright and faithfull disposition of minde free from guile in their temporall affaires that they became Co-partners in occupying of ground in their neighbourhood and also in stocks of cattell and sheep yea their very money which oftentimes breeds jars betweene brothers themselves they kept in one chest together each having a key to himselfe and they never differed in one penny of account 10 Yet observe I pray in the middest of this sweet harmony of brotherly accord the truth of the words of our LORD and SAVIOUR u Matt. 10.34.3 Thinke not that I am come to send Peace on earth I came not to send Peace but a sword for I am come to set a man at variance against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter in Law against her mother in Law and a mans foes shall be they of his owne houshold For Enoch now puffed up with an high conceit of his spirituall estate his inspirations from GOD and his unchangeable assurance of his owne stablishment in the favour of GOD imagined himselfe warranted by these words of our LORD not onely to hate but to persecute to bloud and death whosoever should oppose contradict or refuse to concurre with him in not admitting his inspirations These illusions of Satan anciently entertained by the Manichees Messalians and of later times by the Anabaptists so blinded the eyes of his understanding and perverted the quality of his will that he judged himselfe called of GOD to vindicate the cause of GOD

and by effusion of his owne brothers bloud as he reported to me To draw the children of light out of darknesse and to declare his owne Zeale to the Word of GOD. 11 A controversie therefore happening undoubtedly the worke of Satan in the house of Edward ap Evan upon Sunday the thirtieth day of Iune last past 1633. betweene Ioan the mother and Enoch her sonne whereat Iohn was present touching the most convenient gesture in the act of receiving the sacred Communion stirred up by Enoch as that sect is alwayes prating of such matters Ioan the mother and Iohn her sonne according to their unlearned and plain manner pleaded for our Church gesture of kneeling in that holy act Enoch a fellow of hasty furious and proud spirit defended stoutly according to his blunt and rude fashion that to sit and bow the body was the most Convenient posture The opposition in opinions grew so sharpe between them that Ioan told her sonne Enoch that hee was a very sorry fellow and desired of the LORD to Instruct and amend him Iohn also very mildly as his manner was signified his dislike of Enoch's opinion and made knowne his owne resolution to remaine constant in his obedience to the King and his Lawes This purpose of Iohn concurring with his former dislike of Enoch's courses added new flames unto his wrath and malice formerly conceived and now growne inveterate that from that very instant of time he waited an opportunitie to execute his secret and maligne rage against him Yet he grew not to a full resolution to murder Iohn till the Friday morning after this unfortunate conference betweene them Iohn called up his fathers servant and they together yoked up their cattell and betooke themselves to their worke in the fields Enoch later up wayted the comming of Iohn from the fields whose custome was after 〈◊〉 wearinesse with labour 〈◊〉 take a small repast of me●● and drinke and to repose himselfe in slumber for an hou● on the end of the table-boo●● upon a cushion This custom● of Iohn being very wel know to Enoch he sets in a readine●● a great hatchet with an edg●● very broad and sharpe way● his time and finding a calm●● opportunity free from all like●● lihood of resistance Iohn being in a deepe and peaceful slumber Enoch strucke hi●● with the head of the hatch●● upon his bare head and t●● wound thereof being not dee●● by impression because th●● feare of a wounded conscience for so inhumane a purpose abated the strength o●● his armes and made him with a trembling hand to perpetrate that villany Iohn fell instantly from the boord to the floore astonied with the blow yet not so wounded or disabled from rising but that hee scrambled for help to raise up himselfe which Enoch fearing desperately strucke him with a second blow in the necke with the same hatchet and the edge thereof being very broad and sharp he therwith at one blow more as he himselfe told me separated his head from his bodie 12 Vpon this stirre and rumbling noise in the house Ioan their mother being in the next roome came presently in and seeing to the infinite griefe of her soule the head and bodie of her younger son separated one from the other she lift up her voice with a shri●● and sharpe sound and said 〈◊〉 Enoch in a passion of terror a●● griefe O thou Villaine 〈◊〉 some such like words of pr●● voked indignation for Enoch could not remember them What hast thou done hast the killed thy brother Vp●● these words Enoch still en●●ged with diabolicall furie a●● having the hatchet in his han●● struck at her very face with a●● his force And she being a w●● man of threescore and twel●● yeares of age put by two 〈◊〉 three of his blows by claspi●● and closing with him and th●● by turning away the streng 〈◊〉 of his violence and mak●● way for the asswaging of 〈◊〉 fury had not the Divell himselfe beene outragious within him But she wanting strength by reason of her great age to hold conflict and wrestling with him and crying for help and calling to him to remit his rage hee nothing mollified with her fearefull cries strucke her betweene the left shoulder and the neck foure inches deep into her brest with which mortall wound shee fell downe on the floore ready to expire her soule into the hands of her Creator And he not satisfied herewith ragingly dragged her wounded and bleeding body to the threshold of the doore and thereon at five strokes more hee divided her head from that brest and those paps which gave sucke unto him 13 These furious out-rag●● and crying murders thus pe●● petrated hee instantly barre●● the doore where the dead be●● dies lay hee takes the head●● wraps them in a course linne●● cloth which hee drenched●● water that their bloud still●● suing thorow the veins of the●● heads freshly bleeding mig●● not so sensibly appeare as th●● row a dry cloth it would ha●● done The wet cloth with t●● heads he enwrapped in an o●● russet jerkin bound and k●● fast And laying this bund●● on the table-boord he goes●● to his chamber shifts his bre●● ches and stockings which we●● stained with the aspersion 〈◊〉 the bloud comes down aga●● beats out a large clay-wall 〈◊〉 the roome and thereat he 〈◊〉 sues forth and makes his escape into the fields Thinking by this his practice of breaking the wall to colour and cover his fact and to transpose all suspition thereof from himselfe to an opinion that some passengers that way or theeves had committed these furious and desperate murders In the time of his escape in this manner a young black horse of the old mans by the negligence of a servant boy of the house got into the roome at the gappe or broken wall where the dead bodies lay And being found there a rumour was scattered over all the countrey and entertained of light and credulous persons that the Divell in the shape of a blacke horse was found in the roome where the headlesse bodies lay 14 Enoch having thus escaped into the fields conveyes the heads secretly away and hidde them under a heape of loose Fearne ready cut to bee burned After this he walked forward almost a mile and came to a Kins-mans house of his one Goodman Howells and enquired for a young man of this house the sonne of this Howells answere was made him that if he could stay halfe an houre he might speak with him for hee was gone forth and would be returned by that time Vpon this answere Enoch goes into the house and waites the comming of his Cosin and in the interim h●● tooke a Bible which hee saw upon a shelfe and sate him downe and read the first chapter of the Prophecie of Isaiah and by that time he had read through the whole chapter the young man whom he had expected came in After salutations betweene them Enoch desired him to lend him the booke called the Practice of Piety his