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A42725	Nevves from Poland wherein is declared the cruell practice of the popish clergie against the Protestants, and in particular against the ministers of the city of Vilna, in the great dukedome of Lithuania, under the governement of the most illustrious prince, Duke Radziwell / faithfully set downe by Eleazar Gilbert ...	Gilbert, Eleazar.	1641 (1641)	Wing G705; ESTC R9201	20,227	38

that the Protestant Ministers were cleare of that fact neither knew any thing thereof nor were they shot from their Church but from the dwelling house of one Naborowski nor did they any wayes ayme at the Papist Church to disgrace that Religion but in sport and merriment they shot at a bird which was upon the top of the Protestant Church although contrary to their expectation their Arrowes were driven aside by the wind yet behold good Reader what a great fire a small sparkle kindleth what a great mischiefe did insue upon so small occasion For that nothing might bee wanting to expresse the fury and malice of the Romish Prelate of the VVild and Jesuites against their innocent and harmelesse brethren Although they knew their cause to be unjust and the oath which the Nunnes had taken to be false yet did they proceed to irritate and exasperate the Judges to execute the Sentence according to the former Decree which in the moneth of Aprill 1641. followed in this manner viz. That for as much as the parties convicted were not only guilty of the aforesaid ryot as turbule●t persons and breakers of the peace of the Kingdome but also by their hereticall preaching disputations and conferences did seduce and draw away many from the Catholicke faith that therefore they esteemed them guilty of death yea more worthy of punishment then the most wicked malefactors It is therefore sentenced by this honorable Bench that the delinquents shall be taken to the market place of the City of Vilna the City where the fact was committed and there be executed publickly as Traitors to his Majestie and troublers of the publicke peace the manner of their death to be left to his Majesties pleasure their lands and goods to be confiscated to the use of his Majestie or Assignes Item that the exercises of the Protestant Religion shall altogether cease and be suppressed within the walls of the Royall Citty of Vilna and that the Churches where these exercises were had shall bee converted altogether into dwelling houses or to some other civill use and that upon no pretext or cause whatsoever there shall be preaching in that place or anywhere else within the said Gity under the penalties formerly mentioned The Illustrious Duke Radzivil perceiving the injustice malice and cruelty of these Romanists and condoling the estate of his distressed servants and Ministers a little before the publication of the Sentence about midnight sent for them to his Palace where after some houres private conference he wrote letters commendatory to the Duke of Prusia and having furnished them with money and a guard of a hundred Tartarian horsemen they were conveyed to the Town of Keydan from whence within 2 or 3 dayes after they departed to the Tilz from thence to the first great Castle Town in Prusia belonging to the Duke of Prusia from whence shortly after the death of the Illustrious old Duke Radzivil and the Duke of Brandeburgh this Duke of Prusia his father who both dyed in one moneth viz. in the moneth of August 1640 fearing further persecution they were removed to the Towne of Memble a great strength upon the Sea side under the Duke of Prusia nor long after unto Konisberg and at length unto Dantsk where they remaine unto this day being banished from their places Countries and families without maintenance and separated from all hope of future reliefe unlesse the Lord worke it by the charitable care and affection of their reformed brethren as appeareth more fully by that most unjust Decree of proscription since published against them the coppy whereof shall God willing be imparted to the Reader Neither can I omit in this Historicall Relation that barbarous cruelty of the Jesuites Scollars in the Wilde in the day of the aforesaid tumult against that good man Master George Hartlib Rector of the Protestant Colledge a man for learning innocence and integrity famous and excellent yea the Popish Bishop of the VVilde his great enemy in a publicke meeting did not onely acknowledge his worthinesse but also with great griefe although it was too late condole his distresse more then any of the others Moreover one of these Jesuites travelling lately through Dantsk into Germanie did confesse that hee was innocent and the reason why he was condemned and proscribed since was no otther but that hee disputed in publicke against the Popish Religion and seduced the Nobility and Gentry committed to his trust in which regard they esteemed him to be more worthy of punishment then any malefactor This good man I say walking peaceably from the Protestant Colledge unto his owne house was by these Catholicke Christian Schollars apprehended as a thiefe beaten with trees buffered and most dangerously wounded with stones in foure or five places of the head not contented with this as if it had beene too gentle a punishment they threw him over a bridge into a deep river from whence having once escape they threw him in againe at last perceiving that hee had escaped the second time and that they could not thereby take away his life they followeth him into a Bathstove or hothouse where some pittifull-hearted men and women although Papists commiserating his condition had sheltered him and assaulted his life and those that tooke his part with most inhumane and diabolicall fury but he being hidden by a good old woman under a washing tub continued there untill midnight and at last taking upon him the habit of that woman by Gods providence he escaped their outrage Moreover as if these things were too little to expresse their insolencies against the Evangelick Protestants they have proceeded further and that by the same aforesaid meanes namely by cavils tricks of Law and perjury to abolish and take away all the Protestant or Evangelick Churches that were and are within the Kings Regall Townes and chiefest Citties throughout the whole Realme of Poland such as were the Church of Krakovia Posenania Looblene Sendomerzee Polocia Bresta all great and Regall Townes and chiefest Citties of the Kingdome besides that of the VVilde formerly mentioned So that now there remaine no more Protestants Churches throughout the whole Kingdome of Poland except two in the Citty of Dantsk the Duke of Brandeburg Church in his Konisbergh called the Sole so it may well indeed for there is no more in all the Citty of Konisbergh and the Lutherians will suffer no more but the Church of Vitepsia the Church of Minski the Church of Novoguard and the Church of Roseyn all which also the Popish Jesuites and Priests are daily plodding to take away So that unles it please the Lord to use some meanes to prevent their Jesuiticall enterprises the whole number of Protestant Churches and consequently the whole publicke exercise of our reformed Religion throughout the whole Kingdome of Poland within few yeares is like to be extirpated and extinguished To conclude of late and since the death of our Illustrious Patron Duke Christophe Radzivil formerly mentioned the

NEVVES From POLAND Wherein is declared the cruell practice of the Popish Clergie against the Protestants and in particular against the Ministers of the City of Vilna in the great Dukedome of Lithuania under the Governement of the most Illustrious Prince Duke RADZIVILL Faithfully set downe by Eleazar Gilbert Minister to the foresaid Prince and Preacher to the Scots Congregation in Keydon Read it over and you shall find it a most unparalelld story for barbarous Treacherie NOLI ALTVM SAPERE LONDON Printed by E. P. for Nathanael Butter and are to be sold at his shop at St. Austins Gate 1641. To the Right HONOVRABLE ROBERT Lord Bruce Baron of Byfleet and onely Sonne to the Right Honourable Thomas Earle of Elgin Eleasar Gilbert wisheth all possible Happinesse Right Honourable I Have placed you here in the Frontispiece of my Dedicatory first because you have a chiefe place in my affections as one whom God hath graced with a more than ordinary portion of his Image for to speak without Flattery what Grace what Vertue what endowment either of body mind or fortune Finally what Perfection or Excellency can make men truly Honourable on Earth and eternally happy in Heaven which doth not shine in your Lordship in the fullest lustre so farre as your condition and yeares can be capable of insomuch that if it please the Lord to addc yeares unto your life as hee hath gifts unto your person a starre more radiant then your selfe I conceive in our age will scarcely appeare in our Brittish Firmament moreover your Lordship may justly challenge the first fruit of my publike labors because I had the first encouragement tomy ministerial studies in your Honourable Familie under your Right Honourable most pious never without much Reverence to bee mentioned Grandmother Magdalen Ladie Bruce where I have beene an eye-witnesse of your vertuous education ab imis as I may say incunabulis from your very infancy and where I have often observed the most vigilant and religious care of your Right Honourable Parents in your vertuous education which to this day doth most spectably appeare as a pattern of imitation to all the Nobles in the Land Goe on therefore most Noble and hopefull Lord good luck have you with your Honour continue that course in these paths of Vertue w●ich you have begun to tread especially seeing you have already made so good a progresse for Dimidium facti qui bene coepit habet And you shall find that although the way bee thorny yet the end shall be Honourable that paines which you now take and have taken to please and serve God and your right Honourable Parents shall produce unto you at length not onely the favour of God the love of your Soveraign ●ōmendation of your equals praise of all good men but also contentment to your mind peace unto your conscience protection to your person a blessing unto your estate and a sweet relish to all the honours wealth and pleasures which you shall afterwards enjoy Which that you may doe I shall never be wanting in my best devotion to implore the gracious assistance of that Father of lights the Watchman of Israel to double his spirit upon you and wheresoever you goe for good to be present with you to guard you by his Providence guide you by his counsell and when he hath here satiated your Lordship with honours and pleasures temporall bring you at length unto ioyes and happinesse eternall So prayeth he who desireth to bee reputed as he is One of your Lordships most ancient and affect onately devoted Servants Eleazar Gilbert From my Study in St. Mary-Axe this 8. Decemb. 1641. A True Description of the present estate of the Reformed Protestant Churches within the Kingdome of Poland c. THe industrious policy or rather politick industry of the Roman Clergie for advancing their cause and promoting the Papisticall Hierarchy is as much if not more commendable then was that of the injust Steward Luke 16. 8. did it not crosse the word or Law of God which is the rule of righteousnesse and breake the bond of charity which is the complement and perfection of that Law For what pains doe they not take How doe they stretch their wits What Countries peopled or worthy to be knowne or inhabited have they not peragrated to accomplish their designes and zealous if I may so call them devotions So that if their cause were good and their laborious indeavours to manage that cause guided by a good Spirit or squared to the rule of Justice they should certainly be no lesse then that which they call themselves and pretend to be namely The onely true Catholike Church of Christ that Royall Priesthood and chosen Generation mentioned by the Apostle Peter But true wisedome which is from above is onely justified by her children who doe judge and estimate things especially in matters of Religion and Divine worship not as men value them but as God esteemeth them For God seeth not as men see man oftentimes by reason of the corruption of his heart weakenesse of judgement perversion of will and imperfection of knowledge and understanding may both deceive be deceived but so cannot God who being all eye estimateth and knoweth all things perfectly and essentially as they are as having within himselfe the expresse and true paterne and Ideas of all things that ever have beene are or shall be That therefore men I meane onely Christian men who are within the Pale of Gods Church may be the better setled and persuaded in the truth of that Religion which they doe professe It will be most necessary and profitable for them to take speciall notice of some markes and symptomes whereby the true and orthodoxe Religion or Church of Christ may be distinguished and discerned from all false Antichristian phanaticall inventions traditions enthusiasmes and in a word from all hereticall pragmaticall schismaticall or diabolicall opinions imaginations doctrines and professions in the world which for brevities sake and that I may sooner come to my intended scope I will onely at this time name leaving the more large explication of them unto some other Treatise 1 The first is the purity or rather as I may say the spirituality of a Religion as it is cleansed from the drosse of externall ceremonies and exorbitant superstitions for Almighty God loveth best that Religion or manner of his worship which is most like himselfe and agreeable to his word who being a Spirit will be worshipped in Spirit and truth the more therefore that a Religion hath of outward and gaudy Pompes and Ceremonies to dazle and delude the fancies eyes and affections of the ingorant and simple it is the farther from the nature of God the more contrary to his will it hath more drosse and is the more to be suspected of falshood and to be Antichristian and idolatrous 2 Secondly the more that the grounds doctrine discipline tenets of a Religion are adverse or to do crosse the corruption