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A01600	The life and death of Mr. Edmund Geninges priest, crowned with martyrdome at London, the 10. day of Nouember, in the yeare M.D.XCI.	Geninges, John, d. 1660.; Baes, Martin, engraver.; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?, attributed name.	1614 (1614)	STC 11728; ESTC S103059	35,374	114

affici pro Christo quàm honorari à Christo. These and the like cannot but comfort a good Christian and cause him to esteeme his captiuity to be a principall feedome his prison a heauenlie harbour and his irons an ornament and comely badge of Christ himself These will plead for him and the prison will protect him God send me withall the prayers of all good folkes to obtayne some end of all miseries such as to his holie will and pleasure shal be most agreable I haue beene longe tyme indurance indured much payne but the many future rewardes in the heauenlie payment make all paynes seeme to me a pleasure And truly custome hath caused that it is now no griefe to me at all to be barred from company desiring nothing more thē solitarinesse but rather I reioice that therby I haue the better occasion with prayer to prepare my self to that happy end for which I was created and placed heere by God assuring my self allwayes of this one thinge that how few soeuer I see yet am I not alone Solus non est cui Christus comes est When I pray I talke with God when I read he talketh to mee so that I am neuer alone He is my chiefest companion and onelie comfort Cum ipso sum in tribulatione I haue no cause to complaine of the hardnes of prison considering the effects therof and the rather because I fasten not my affection vpon worldlie vanities whereof I haue had my fyll to my great grief and sorrow I renounced the world before euer I tasted of imprisonment euen in my Baptisme which being so how little doth it import in what place I be in the world sith by promise I vowed once neuer to bee of the world which promise profession how slenderly soeuer I haue kept heretofore I purpose for the tyme to come God assisting me with his grace in my commenced enterprise to continue to my liues end Mūdus mihi crucifixus est ego mundo Absit mihi gloriari nisi in cruce Christi I vtterlie refuse all commodities pleasures pastimes delightes sauing onely the sweet seruice of God in whom is the perfection of all true pleasures Vanitas vanitatū omnia vanitas praeter amare Deum Bound I am and charged with guyes yet am I loose and vnbound towardes God And far better I account it to haue the body bound then the soule to bee in bondage lyuing at liberty But what meane I to make so many wordes to you that know this better thē my self Beare with mee I pray you for my boldnes pardon me if I be ouer tedious Hoc solùm efficit amor To conclude with some other matter So it is that I haue heere inclosed a Letter of a contrarie effect to this directed to a man of a contrary Religiō wherin you may peruse my estate vnderstand my request In case yow shall so thinke good you may deliuer the same and further the matter I would not haue sued to be ryd out of this most vile and chargeable prison if I had wherewith to defray so exceeding great expences for the more vile and hard vsage the more merit I am hardly threatned which danger of death But if it be no worse I will not wish it to be better God send me his grace and then I waygh not what flesh bloud can doe vnto mee I haue answered vnto many curious and dāgerous questions but I trust with good aduisemēt not offending my conscience What will become of it God knoweth best to whose holy protection I commit yow è Carcere Catenis ad Regnum Tuus dum vixero Sw. VV. Loe heere the Heroicall resolution of this noble mynd see to what sublimitie of Christian perfection his holie sufferinges soone aduaunced him Briefely his euer memorable deedes far surpassed his wordes How vnconquerable was he in the greatest heat and fury of his persecutions How vndaunted at the dreadfull sentence of death of all terribles the most terriblest How religiously disposed how zealousely prepared how compleatly armed did he enter the feild to fight the battaile of our Lord like a vailiant captaine of Christes well-ordered Army For euen in the way to his execution seing by chaunce an old aquaintance of his he could not forget his wonted myrth but saluted him in these words Farewell deare friend sayth he farewell all hauking hunting and old pastimes I am now going a better way Finally being now come to the place of execution which for his greater terror and reproach was contriued before his owne house in Grays-Inne-field on the North side of Holborne as one ouer-ioyed with the burning desire of holy martyrdome he was so far from intreating any least respite of life as that he rather hastened the executioner to accomplish his greatly expected death Dispatch M. Topliffe quoth he dispatch are you not ashamed to suffer an old man to stand heere so longe in his shirt in the could I pray God make yow of a Saul a Paul of a Persecutor a Catholike Professor And in these other like sweet speaches full of Christian piety charity and magnanimity he happily consummated the blessed course of this his mortal life with the Crowne of a glorious Martyrdome the 10. day of December in the yeare 1592. O blessed life O happy death The whole Church triumphāt of heauen reioyceth in your victories the whole Cath. Church militant on earth exulteth in your triumphes Let then our Cath. Nobility and Gentry emulate imitate this rare example Hence may they learne how sweet the yoake of Christ is which seemeth to worldly myndes so hard and difficult how easie and light the burden is which seemeth so heauy insupportable This magnanimous spirit inflamed zeale our holy martyr learned in the schoole of tribulation persecution growing with the great Apostle then most strong when he was most weakened then most cheerfull when he was most afflicted then most couragious when he was most fiercely assaulted Let not then your generous hartes bee dismayed let not your noble courages be quayled cast your selues securely and confidently into this heauenly fornace where your fayth and constancy being once tried shall like most pure and refined gould giue a far more glorious luster shining before Men and Angells to the greater glory of your eternall Father who graciously vouchsafeth magnificently to Crowne all these transitory momentary sufferinges with eternall rewardes FINIS * a Book so called Iob. 12 Psal. 67 Motiues that induced the Author to wryte this discourse Why this Booke was not published before this day Prou. 19 cap. 6. Sap. 1 Psalm 5 Ioan. 8. Iob. 12. His parents their names concealed for speciall reasons He was borne with a tooth in his head A propheticall speach foreshewing his end His grauity in his childhood A vision foretelling our Countryes persecution His vertuous educatiō How he became 〈◊〉 to Catholike Gentlemen His leauing of his Friends M Rich. Sherwood Hi fidelity to his maister His first step towards heauen His Maisters confidence in him His happy successe in his Maisters businesse His Maisters going beyond seas In vita Sancti Laurent Luc. 22. His griefe that he must forsake his Maister Matt. 6. Matt. 19 Luc. 18. His passing ouer the seas His vertuous conuersation at Rhemes His praises written by his Superiours His sicknes at Rhemes His departure towards England His lying sick at New hauen His earnest desire not to go back into England Exod. 8. Psal. 76. His sudden recouery of a languishing disease Psal. 3.2 Sap. 81. His zeal towards his afflicted Countrey His earnest desire of Priesthood A dispensatiō obtayned frō Rome for his Priesthood His strange apprehension of the worthines of Priesthood His preparation to Priesthood Iob. 31. His deuotion in celebrating Masse Act. 8. Rom. 8. Act. 20. His taking of shippe How he was set on shore How they separated thēselues for feare His departure from his Companion His repayring to his owne Countrey A suddaine feare came vpon him as he went in the streets at the sight of his Brother The second tyme of the same feare His first knowledg of his brother His communication with his brother His brothers feare to incur the law for not reueling him His departure from his brother and farewell His meeting with M. Plasden Their cōference of spirituall matters His preparation to Masse and celebrating of the diuine Mysterie His saying of Masse the officers entrance His manner of taking His examinatiō before Iustice Yonge Maister Wells his apprehension His imprisonment and examination His arraignement How the Iudges put a fooles coate on his backe at the Bar. Falsely ●laundered Act. 7 His patience in suffering iniurious wordes His seconds arraignmēt at Westminster His encouragement of his fellowes in the Combat His finall condemnation with the rest Matth. 5 Their ●laces of Execution appointed Offer 〈◊〉 v●to him of 〈…〉 go to Church Luc. 9. His constancy after his cōdemnation His words to M. Topliffe on the ladder Act ● His casting off the ladder and vnbowelling His felicity in heauen Psal. 126. Many particulers of his life omitted for breuity sake The veneration of Reliques Iohn 10 1. Thess. 5. Desire to get some of his Reliques His quarters shewed to the people A miracle The Virgin vpō the forsaid miracle became a Nūne The māner of his brothers Conuersion The obstinacy of his brother before his Conuersion The occasion of his brothers Cōuersion His brothers vow and perfomance His finall Cōuersion The Cōclusion Chap. 8. 9. His birth family His vertuous education His exercise in riper yeares His imprisonment His courage cōstancy in the Catholike fayth His ioy in suffering for Christ. His hard vsage in prison His resolution to dy for the Cath faith His martyrdome An Apostophe to the Cath. of England