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A25653	The Antichristian principle fully discovered in a brief and true account of all the hellish plots, bloody persecutions, horrid massacres, and most inhumane cruelties and tortures, exercised by the papists, on the persons of Protestant dissenters from the Church of Rome, for the cause of religion only, as well as abroad as here in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the very beginning till this present year, 1678 ...		1679 (1679)	Wing A3485; ESTC R38626	46,886	49

detected as it were by the immediate finger of God Thuanus Foulis Hist Hist of the Gun-powder plot who pointed out their treasonable practises even within their dark vaults and cellars ●hen the very train was laid and fire almost put to it And for this horrid Conspiracy not only Catesby Percy Faux Digby Garnet Hall c. Priests great contrivers and promoters of the business and all sworn to secrecy with horrid Oaths and imprications and taking the holy Sacrament and engaging themselves one to another thereby and their Faith by the Holy Trinity never to shrink from the execution of this their hellish intention till it was performed The King of Spain having also promised them Ships and men and ten hundred thousand Crowns to carry on their work though perhaps he might be ignorant as to the way they had intended to begin the execution for I cannot conceive any Royal breast could have admitted the perfect knowledge of so wicked and monstrous an Act without detestation and abhorrancy It is not my designe to give you any Narative or Relation of this horrid Conspiracy that has sufficiently been manifested and the truth asserted and made plain though at first an usual artifice with them and learnt of Nero who when he had set Rome on fire lay'd it on the Christians they intended to have lay'd the wicked Acts upon the Puritans and since that they have endeavoured to make the world believe 't was only a plot of King James his Contriving seeking by these means when they could not blow him up with Gun-powder at least to blast his good name and to make him odious But three Kingdoms are not so easily to be deluded nor our Governours so horridly Impious to mock God so solemnly with annual prayers and thanksgiving for the deliverance from nothing from danger of their own making and to execute and take away the lives of men for false intended crimes yet these are the stories these sort of people relate and buz about endeavouring to take off the Odium and scandall from themselves and to lay it upon their adversaries King James is no sooner gone but they begin new disturbances these Protenses now vary their shapes and transform themselves into Angels of Light many of the Jesuits were known to be among the Presbyterians and there is none of the Sectaries without them in their conventions they can whine and pray with the one they can rant and thunder with the other they can cant and speak nonsence with these they can blaspeme and speak loud with those they can as well speak in the Tub or at the Table as in the Pulpit and in the Desk they are all things to farther their designes And we are not now to learn that the indulgence granted them in the time of the late King instead of making them quiet gave them fresh hopes of turning all into a flame and it is sufficiently manifested that these people had no small hand in our late troubles and in subverting a most glorious Monarchy and bringing in an Anarchy and confusion in pushing forwards the business of Religion till they had brought all to propha●●●ess in turning a flourishing and peaceable Kingdom into a dismal stage of Blood and Warr and exasperating the subjects of 3 Kingdoms till they turn'd Rebells and by their means brought one of the best Kings that ever reign'd on the English Throne to the Scaffold and to his Martyrdome There are no light proofs of all this that I have mentioned and we may boldly affirm that it was these sort of men that Converted the most famous City of Europe into ashes and were the Incendiaries who gave fire to London confessed by Hubert the French-man that was Executed and others and it may be more than suspected it was by the same hands that Southwark was also fired But nothing can quiet these sort of Beautfous what is it they would have Could they in reason expect or desire greater Indulgence and favour than hath been shown them by the best and most merciful of Kings have they not been admitted to Honours to places of Trust and profit in this Kingdome have they not with the rest enjoyed a perfect tranquillity and happiness not in the least molested nor their Consciences oppressed has not all the fair means that could be invented been used to with these people to fidelity and loyalty and yet see it will not do nothing can convert them from their principles they must reign that they may persecute and will still endeavour though with the overthrow of a Kingdome to attain their desires It is not the favours of a mer●iful Prince can win them 't is not the kindness of Governours and Magistrates can perswade them 't is not mercy or Indulgence can invite them from their Treachery their Plots and Contrivances They are still the same people and have still the same ends and we are still lyable to all those dangers which their Hellish plots do threaten us with Witness now this new Plot no question deeply lay'd in the foundation with Jesuitical mortar and daubing and which we are not yet able to see into and which has been years in contriving but the same God who hath still waked for England and has hitherto in a great measure subverted and confounded all their designs has in some measure manifested and made known miraculously their horrid designes against the King and Government and against the state and Religion and will I hope in a short time more fully bring to light the depth and fullness of their malice and pernicious designes which no doubt were very bloody and abominable by the little essay which they have given on the Body of Sir Edmondbury Godfry so barbarously murthered for his Loyalty to his King and for his activity in doing his Country Service and endeavouring to finde out and detect the bottom of this most horrid and bloody Couspiracy and to bring to condign punishment those who would have turn'd the peaceable Reign of a merciful Prince into Blood and slaughter and Confusion and who would have chang'd the face of a flourishing Nation to Horror and Sadness who would have overthrown our Altars and our Religion who would have enslav'd our Consciences or else have burnt our Bodies who would again have set up the Monster of Persecution and have made us all slaves and miserable This is it they would be at and to this end they sacrific'd the life of that worthy Gentleman and would have done as much to the person of his Sacred Majesty as is sufficiently proved against some of those execrable wretches had not the hand or the Almighty which defends the persons of Kings and Princes interposed as a shield and proved his defence I have thus given you a draught of the bloody Beast but it is but in little what a horrid sight would he be drawn at his full proportion But look upon him as he is view him and behold the ferror of his Looks his eyes are flames that consume the Bodies of so many thousand Martyrs see his mouth like Hell gaping for his prey Blood gusnes out of his open jaws like Rivers his bloody Tusks are Racks and tormenting Engines wherewith he grindes the bones of the Saints His tail is arm'd with the Stings of Scorpions wherewith he lashes Kingdomes from his throat he belches forth Curses and excommucations and denounces Judgements and Death upon all that oppose him It is this monster of persecution that the servants of Rome have set up in all places where they have any power and authority and by this you may best judg of their principles and Religion by these evil Fruits you may judge of the Tree and of what Spirit they are Their hopes doubtless were great and their confidence mighty but Heaven has blasted their designes and overthrown their machinations and redeemed his people from slavery for which we have cause to rejoyce and to bless the Lord of Heaven and Earth and to praise him in the Congregation Let there be no more difference and disagreement in opinions but gather your selves together as one man to oppose this armed Beast of Persecution and let us conclude in the words of the Royal Psalmist Psal 5.10 11 12. Destroy thou the wicked and murtherous Persecutors O God let them fall by their own counsels Cast them out in the multitude of their trangressions for they have rebelled against thee But let all those who put their trust in thee rejoyce let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest them let them also that love thy Name be joyfull in thee For thou O Lord wilt bless the righteous with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield Amen FINIS

distinction of Age or Sex In the year 1213. near Muret a Town upon the Garronne Muret. there were slain in battle in the pursute and afterwards about two Millions of Albingenses with the King of Araagon who then took their parts In the year 1215. Fryer Conradus of Marpurg the Popes inquisitor most horribly tortured all that made profession of the Gospel or were but suspected marking them with red hot Irons and then giving them to the secular power to be burnt so that neither Noble nor Ignoble Clerks Monks Nuns Burgesses Citizens and Country people escaped the slames by the-means of this bloody Inquisitor The Town of Miromand being taken by Prince Lewis of France Miromand he destroyed there of the Albingenses for the same cause to the number of five thousand men women and children In the year 1234. many of these Albingenses being fled into Spain Spain the Pope caused a Croisado to be preached against them whereby a great Army of Pilgrims assembled together were sent by Pope Gregory against the Albingenses whom they slew with their Bishops and Teachers burnt their houses destroyed their Towns and plunderd and carried away their goods And about the same time those who retired into a fenny place on the borders of Germany were also all slain At the same time also many of them were slain and burnt in Millain and other parts of Italy beyond the Alpes In the year 1242. there were burnt in Tholouse 200. of these Albingenses Tholouse being taken in a certain Castle hard by and the year following 220. more in the same place In the year 1281. a great persecution was raised against them in Albi by one Gourdon so that they were almost all extirpated and rooted out and forced to fly for safety of their lives to all parts Albi. At the same time by the Popes Order many of the chief preachers of the Albingenses bones were dug up and burnt 20. and 30. years after they had been buried Luthers Forerunners and Cades Justification The perse cution of the Bohimians Ex-Hist Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohem The persecution of the Bohemians begun betimes even neer the year 977. by Pope Hildebrand and afterwards by Celestine continuing down to the times of Mathias of Frague 1375. and to John Hus and Jerome of Prague who were both burnt in defence of the Gospel at Constance notwithstanding the publique faith of Germany given them for their security At Cuttenburg where there are many deep Mines in the year 1420. they threw into one of them 1700. persons and into another 1038. and into ● third 1334. persons In the year 1421. at Litomeritia twenty four of the chief Citizens among whom was the Son-in-Law of the chief persecutor and Magistrate of the City were thrust into a great Tower and almost famished to death from whence being at last drawn because they would not abjure their Religion they were condemned to be all drowned in the River Albis which was accordingly done their hands and feet being bound and so thrown into the midst of the River and if the stream brought any of them to the sides of the bank they were goared to death with Iron forks and Pikes The daughter of the chief persecutor seeing she could not move her Father by her tears and prayers to save the Life of her Husband flung her self after him into the River and embracing his body perished with him and was found the next day with him fast in her Armes and were buried in one grave About the same time at Prague 4. men 4 boys and a Minister were then burnt in one fire because they administred and received the Sacrament in both kindes Many and indeed innumerable were the Murthers and torments and unheard of babarities executed both publiquely and privately on those poor wretches by those bloody Executioners About the year 1523. Martin Luther began to shine as a great light in Germany and his Doctrine to overspread those parts even to Bohemia which caused more violent persecutions wherein multitudes of Saints lost their Lives by the means of Ferdinand the first and Charles the 5th so that it wou'd be almost endless to enumerate every particular In the year 1549 there were no less then 200. Ministers banished out of this Kingdom and the Baron of Schanow because a Lutheran but under the pretence of a Conspiracy was laid upon the Rack but he magnanimously cut out his own Tongue and being asked the reason he wrote that it was lest the torments of the Rack should make him speak falsly against himself or others In the year 1617. Ferdinand the Second being obtruded upon by the Bohemians he siding with the Papists raised up a very great persecution against the Protestants which was the cause of Electing Frederick Palatine of the Rhine King of Bohemia and the cause of all those Wars and embroylments In which suffered many a godly Minister and other holy pious and harmless men by the sapistical Souldiers with that barbarous cruelty that Christian Ears cannot hear nor Tongue relate without indignation and abhorrency For some of them were stoned to death others hanged upon a beam with a soft fire made under them rosted to death others cut peace-meal And one Minister they laid on his back ramming his mouth full of Compowder set fire to it and blew his head all to peeces Another they hanged up by the privy Members being 70. years old and burnt his own books under him and at last shot him after he had endured a world of torment and pain In the year 1621. all the Ministers were banished out of Prague and out of the Kingdome of Bohemia and all the provinces thereunto belonging never more to return and made it death to harbour or conceal any one of them Also at Cuttenburg 21. Ministers were banished about the same time Anno 1624. a Popish Captain caused a Ministers hand first to be stricken off and then his head his bowels to be taken forth and wrapt in his shirt and his 4. quarters to be set on 4 stakes and his head on another At that time also 50. of the Nobility were condemned some to death some to perpetual banishment and some to perpetual Imprisonment 27. were executed some of their right hands and heads were hung upon the Tower of the Bridge who all dyed with great constancy of minde and fervency of spirit sealing to the Protestant cause with their blood whose heads were afterwards solemnly buried by Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden Next came forth an Edict to banish all the Protestants and to take away the children from them that they might be bred in the Romish Religion And then another to banish all the Wives of such as were Catholicks from their Husbands unless they would turn Then they enacted that those who were not Catholicks should be prohibited all traffick and commerce with them There was hardly a City or Town that escaped their barbarous cruelties And at Prachatice