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A63676	The true relation of the bloody attempt by James Salowayes to cut his own throat in the compter, upon Sunday the 21. of June, 1663 together with Satans attempt and overthrow, in a sermon preached upon the occasion in Wood-street-compter, upon Sunday the 21. of June, 1663 / by R.F. ...	R. F.	1663 (1663)	Wing T2935; ESTC R39734	26,039	39

the last he shall compass the City seven times At the first he draws forth his temptations which may be named after him Legion for they are many give thy soul an Alarum proffer thee fair conditions draw a league betwixt you proffer a truce if thou wilt pay him tribute promise to remove hostility if thou wilt pay him homage but all this time he waits but an opportunity of approaching nay of entering It was a prudent and safe piece of advice which a Councellour gave to his King That it was only safe for a King to treat with a sword in his hand And it is safe for every Christian we have a dangerous enemy to deal withall Judas was their General and led those that took Jesus he comes unto him with a kisse when he brought them to kill him we have no safer way then to keep him at the swords point A noble and judicious Peer of this Realm was wont to say Prevention was cheaper then recovery our armour avails us little after the wound be received that which timely put on had kept out the bullet now serves but to increase the wound and to that purpose● though Saul's Armour will not fit David yet is it not fitting that David should combate with Goliah wholly unprepared We must observe that Sauls Armour another man 's will not serve us in this day of battel and why sayes David For that I have not proved 1 Sam. 17.39 Christ Armour by which he repels Satan was his own Armour which he hath proved we may say it himself for he was the Word and this is temptation proof one job one syllable of this shall no● sail Holy Job n● had special Armor the Devil considered him considered what way he might enter him but he finds God had made a hedge about him his goods they were abroad in the fields the lives of his children they were in the house of their eldest brother only the life of Job was inclosed was hedged about Satan attempts a nearer assault moves that his bone and his flesh may be touched and yet can he only fire the subburbs but the City he cannot take his body may be plagued but his life and soul is protected The Church the Spouse of Christ hath Armour of proof she is builded upon a Rock and that Rock is Christ like a good Wife she is under covert the gates of Hell though they labour her discomfiture yet shall they not prevail against her The Dragon may and will make war against the Woman he may like a resolute Souldier rally his forces prepare his batteries pour out his poyson floods and waters crosses and persecutions schismes and heresies yet shall he not prevail Christ shall break his head but let his members be prepared wrath and war is against them he will though he shall not break we bruise his heel he will labour to se● the Bush on fire though blessed 〈◊〉 God it shall not be consumed this fire of the Church shall give light though it doth not burn but Satans ●ell fire shall burn though it gives no light And thus I am come to the Application Nunquidego Domine was the Disciples Is it I Lord Who is it that Satan does thus assault No lesse then Christ and if this befall the Master 2 Cor. 16.15 what may the servant 〈…〉 If Sat●● dare assault Christ his servants will dare to 〈…〉 ●●sciples If Satan be transformed it is no gre●● 〈…〉 ●●nisters be transformed If no man can be 〈…〉 ●ration then no man but he is concerned in thi●●●ex●● a●●●●e sad example which occasions this Sermon conc●●ns us and to good and evil is an admonition the time place and condition of the person tempted doth concern us The time when Christ had begun the great work of our redemption when he was entering into the execution of his divine Office it is not for man to appear in the field of God without he be armed for all encounters shrubs may be unmoved when the tallest Ce●●ars are shaken and privacy doth supersede from several attempts whereunto those of publick concernment are exposed He that espouseth the Lords quarrel cannot but expect many adversaries and few men though they may put themselves forward are fitted for this conflict Gideons Army of thirty two thousand are reduced to three hundred and serves to inform ●at as God can do his work by few so few are sitting for doing Gods work how few will stand lap water in their spiritual mar●●● not y●el an inch of ground ●u●e ● 6 not loose of their neight in time of danger How many will kneel and bend for water in the fiery tryal and though they be armed and furnished to the field yet like the children of Ephrams they prove but broken bows and start back in the day of battel but Christ hath not to taught us Saul ●e killed his thousands and David his ten thousands but Christ doth more for though his person meets with Legions his word ejects them s●●yes them Lord thou h●st given us thy Word give us thy Spirit and we shall not be afraid if thousand be against us 2. The place doth concern us it was in the Wildernesse Eli●ah was much dejected when he was alone and the place doth not a little contribute to the lessening or augmenting of misery Adam had a Para●ise Christ finds a Wildernesse Jos●●h a Prison Jeremy a Dangeon Daniel a ●●ons Den the three Children a fiery F●●●●ce Peter and Paul a Prison but ●●l●x●●●o passio cum Christus ingreditur careres happy prison 〈…〉 unhappy paradise where Satan inhabits 〈…〉 are in the Wildernesse how weary we are of 〈…〉 ●e dye sayes Elijah when Peter was left alone 〈…〉 ●ith began to saint and going afar off gave 〈…〉 ●n to interpose temptations Hold up our 〈…〉 ●derne●s of this world with that comfortable 〈…〉 with ye in life in death thus shall the Desert be leli●●●ome to us 3. The condition He was hungry Sometimes want and sometimes wealth are in laqueum Agar prayed against both ●●ve m● neither poy●● 〈◊〉 nor riches not poverty least I be poor and steal not riches least I b● full and forget God Pread● the bait which he laid before Christ if that would have temp●● him Christ had turned thief and ●ob'● God of his honour I●●ness was Judahs yes and Sodoms sin and hath been my and 〈◊〉 our iniquity It we want we murmure if we have plenty we lift up our hearts against God and our ●●lness ●erve●● ●in to the full against God And we have great cause to impect the sins of our fulness when we do but ●●ll●●t upon Christs ●●●er 〈◊〉 by his fasting seeing therefore for our sakes and sins that righteo●sness did hunger Give us Lord for thy sons sake hearts to hunger after righteousness Again it is the Tempter which comes unto Christs surely we cannot though he assumes several forms but understand him Wouldst thou know him by his appe●latives Names are predictionary so are ●is not one but it hints the evilness of ●s nature W●●l 〈◊〉 judge of him by his works they are like the authour and speak not his pr●●se but his s●ame in the gates Is it any thing would tempt thee to unlawful acts it is 〈◊〉 thou canst but suspect him Is it any thing would diver thee from thy God it is the Devil thou hast cause to 〈◊〉 him Is it any thing would tempt thee unto si● it is the deceiver Is it any thing would make ship●v●●ck of thy saith it is the son of perdition Is 〈◊〉 my thing may 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 of one precept the commision of a s●n ●n 〈…〉 of the D●vil thy unto him as Christ unto Satan tempting Peter 〈◊〉 thee behind me Satan But if he presumes to come unto Christ how shall I withstand him Christ promised 〈◊〉 ●eave 〈…〉 le●s what he promised he hath performed That a●●our w●●h hep●●●d wherewith he prevailed as a legacy of his l●ve is tendeth bequeath'd unto thee Scripium si it is written was Satans weapon this proud Goliah's sword ●ath our better D●vid t●ken f●●● him cut off ●●s hea● with his own sw●rd and turned the 〈…〉 himself The while panoply the compleat ar●●●● 〈◊〉 ●roved furniture are afforded Christians must the C●●●● 〈◊〉 med from top to toe Ephe● 6.14 there is a he●met and a breast-plate a shie●d and a tried ●word and if your enemies be principalities and powers your armour is experienced your engines 〈…〉 as powerful not parleys and surrenders but prayers 〈◊〉 supplications these ordnance does gall your adversaries 〈◊〉 with an acceptable violence opens the gates of heaven 〈◊〉 only place of refuge to the conquerors the choicest Centinel is perseverance In this quarrel our Captain is before us that valiant J●nathan who through temptations hath prevailed ascended up the hill and having in his fathers house prepared Mansions calls to us for our following good souldiers will not fail the expection of their Captain loyal subjects will go wheresoever their King goeth in life and death they will be with him O blessed Captain glorious King thou hast conquered Satan for us thou hast left us thy Spirit to conduct us thy Word to comfort us the sword of thy Word and Spirit to de●end us let the same spirit go along with us in this conflict and in our selves though we are unable yet through thy strength we shall be more then conquerours In this battel be thou with ●s who by thy blood hath overcome our enemies and give us hearts to ascribe the glory of this conquest unto thee that when this painful time of our militancy is ended we may become members of the Chur●h triumphant praising thee with Songs of Salvation and victory for evermore Amen FINIS

THE TRUE RELATION Of the bloody Attempt by JAMES SALOWAYES To cut his own Throat in the Compter upon Sunday the 21. of June 1663. TOGETHER WITH Satans Attempt and Overthrow IN A SERMON Preached upon that occasio● in Wood-street-Compter upon Sunday the 21. of June 1663. B R. F. Minister of Gods Word Deliver me from blood-guiltiness O God Psal 51 14. LONDON Printed by R. Dickinson Anno Dom. 1663. To the Honourable Sir William Turner Knight and Baronet Sheriffe of the City of London SIR IT is the occasion not the opinion of any worth in this work which presumeth a necessity to become publick for seeing the best of men are not exempted from and the worst do too willingly admit temptations it is my desire that this example may not only be printed in this paper but imprinted in our hearts Actiones Precedentium sunt succedentium libri The Actions of our Predecessors are our books much more may this exemplary act become a book to us who are present wherein we may read Mans frailty the Tempters malice Gods great and ever to be remembred restraint The Press and the Pulpit have of late been too guilty of light Wares and traded too much to our shame and sorrow in triflls and unhappy troubles Truth hath rather been suppressed then printed not commended to the print but condemned to the Press for silence we have had papers stuffed with words of a new stamp cruel murders vizarded with the title of signal victories Faelix prosperum scaelus virtus vocatur and those sheets may now serve for the Authors pennance And it hath been the delight of the troublers of our Israel to enlarge their Pamphlets with a list of their murdered Brethren As I cannot but sorrow for their sin and protest against their practice so I cannot but conceive the printing of this haynom act may be no lesse then necessary Here is not one 〈◊〉 against another but which is worse a more unnatur●● war a man fighting against himself the Tempter here designing the final discomfiture of soul and body Nobis est in exemplum these works are warning-pieces our sins and Satans wiles do assume his name Legion for they are many Many sad blows do we receive from Satan Peccata sunt totidem vulnera and every day whilst we are in the field of this world presents a Duel unto us our members warring against the Spirit we stand in need of Armour and this presents unto us Armour like Davids which we ought to prove and Christ is here presented as a Champion through whom we are only conquerours This is all I presume to present to you it is no pride that puts me upon it but that warrantable ambition to do the weaker people service which I hope may beseech your acceptance and excuse SIR Your unworthy but oblidged Servant R. F. The true Relation of that strange attempt by James Salowayes upon himself to cut his own Throat in Wood-street Compter Sunday June 21. 1663. UPon Saturday the twentieth of June he was brought prisoner to Wood street Compter his debt was about three pounds but his grief was more then his debt He was observed to besid● which was rather imputed to his condition then his constitution few men come there but are accompanied with sadness The next day being Sunday he was present whilst divine Service and Sermon comma●d and afterwards invited by a Friend to dine a kindness not to be denyed in that place where he eat little and as was observed spake less after dinner some words not so well understood as heard were spoken by him to his 〈◊〉 ●●●er in love then a Prisoner viz. That he wondered that people in the prison should talk of him and something of ●●●ni●e but so imperfect that his ●rother was ●ather 〈◊〉 then serupulous to know 〈◊〉 meaning He r●●●●●d himself without suspition of any his brother supposing only he had gone to sleep but a voyce as he afterwards confessed uttered within him Thou shalt be burned in this Prison therefore it is better for thee to make away thy self then be burnt He presently went to a House of office a little distrant from his chamber where with a knife broken in the edge he wounded himself in the throat and took the gullet by which the meat passeth into the body in his hand and cut a piece of it and threw it in the House of Office he widened the wound four wayes and leaned upon his hands to let his blood run into the House of office some Prisoners which heard a noise came near but suspecting nothing only supposing his sickness and vomiting withdrew which gave him further time to execute his purpose then he layes his knife by and takes his band with which he wiped the blood from the boards and stopped his band into his wound whereby you may conceive the largeness of it but finding not so sudden a dispatch as he desired he willing to put an end to it draws his band from the wound throws it into the House of office and betakes himself to his knife resolving as he sayes to strike home and cut the wind-pipe when loe the Power of God whilst he was lifting it to his throat the knife though as he sayes firmly holden dropt out of his hand into the House of office where he could not recover it This continued till Evening-service was begun at which time some Prisoners having oocasion that way found him all bloody and speechless It was forth with made known to the Officers who readily sent for a Chirurgion the skin was stitched but the part of the gullet wanting he continued for full six hours speechless yet while we were in prayer he did by lifting up his hand answer to our desires and when I urged unto him the danger of his condition and necessity of unfeigned repentance he did by shaking his head evidence his sorrow I desired him to keep his thoughts a work in praying unto God he lift up his hand and looked earnestly upon me about eight that evening it pleased God to give him strength to speak and he did assure us he understood and remembred what we had said whilst he was speechless he said he was sorry for his hainous fact and told me he hoped by the morning to be better able to satisfie me further That night was troublesome to him and passed without rest but in the morning he s●ept for some hours and upon his waking I came to him and spake to him he presently thanked me for my pains and told me he had great cause to give God praise for the addition of that mercy to add one day more to his life and he desired to live to glorifie God I found it not requisite to trouble him with many questions those few I asked were first if he were not very sensible of his sin how much he had offended the Mercy of God in offering to commit that horrid act He told me he had finned grievous●y