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A67835	A breviary of the later persecutions of the professors of the gospel of Christ Jesus, under the Romish and antichristian prelats through Christendome, from the time of John VVickliff in the year of God 1371. to the raign of Queen Elizabeth of England, and the reformation of religion in Scotland: and of the cruell persecutions of the Christians under the Turkish emperors, with some memorable occurrences that fell out in these times through diverse realmes & countreys; collected out of the ecclesisticall history and book of martyrs, by Mr. Robert Young.	Young, Robert, fl. 1674.	1674 (1674)	Wing Y74; ESTC R218050	154,001	241

Volsey anent the question of his Marriage the decision whereof was referred to them by the Pope but nothing in it by them done Volsey tell from the Kings favour so that after that time he never came more to the Kings presence for he was mightily offended with him whom he before so highly exalted and promoted to so many great dignities as to the Archbishoprik of York the Bishoprick of Winchester of Durham the Abbee of St. Albons besides the Chancelorship of England and many other high dignities and preferments in the Realm He is deprived of his Chancelorship and it is given to Sr Thomas More There are sundry Articles given in against the Cardinal he is arrested and brought up toward London he fell sick by the way and by immoderat Purgations killed himself This was the end of this vain glorious Cardinal It is recorded of one Humfrey Mummuth Alderman of London much troubled for his Religion a notable example of Christian patience In the Sermons of Master Latimer which the said Latimer heard in Cambridge of Master George Stafford Reader to the Divinity Lecture in that University who expounding the place of St Paul to the Romans that we shall overcome our enemie with well-doing and so heap hot coals upon his head brought in this example saying that he knew in London a great rich Merchand meaning this Humfrey which had a very poor neighbour yet for all his poverty he loved him very well and sent him money at his need and let him come to his Table whensoever he would Now the Rich Man began to be a Scripture-man he began to smell the Gospel the poor man was a Papist still It chanced on a time when the rich man talked of the Gospel at the Table where he reproved Popery and such kind of things This poor man being there present took a great displeasure against the rich man in so much that he would come no more to his house he would borrow no more money of him as he was wont to do before-times yea and conceived such hatted and malice against him that he went and accosed him before the Bishops Now the rich man not knowing of any such displeasure offered many times to talk with him and to set him at quiet It would not be The poor man had such a stomack that he would not vouchsafe to speak with him If he met the rich man in the street he would go out of his way On a time it happened that he met him so in a narrow street that he could not avoid but come near him yet for all that this poor man I say had such a stomack against the rich man that he was minded to go forward and not to speak with him The rich man perceiving that caught him by the hand and asked him saying Neighbour What is come into your heart to take such displeasue with me What have I done against you Tell me and I will be ready at all times to make you amends Finally he spake so gently so charitably so lovingly and friendry that it wrought so in the poor mans heart that by and by he fell down upon his knees and asked him forgivennesse The rich man forgave him and so took him again to his favour and they loved as well as ever they did before Agree with thine enemy while thou art in the way with him Mat. 5. Great was the courage and constancy of Thomas Bilney in his Martyredome The night before his execution one of his friends comming to him finding him at his repast with such a chearfull heart and quiet mind said that he was glad to see him at that time so shortly before his heavy and painful departure so heartily to refresh himself whereunto he answered Oh said he I follow the example of the husband men of the countrey who having a ruinous house to dwell in yet bestow cost so long as they may hold it up And so do I now with this ruinous house of my body and with Gods creatures in thanks to him to refresh the same as ye see Then sitting with his said friends in godly talk to their edification some put him in mind that though the fire which he should suffer the next day should be of great neat to his body yet the comfort of Gods spirit should coole it to his everlasting refreshing At this word the said Thomas Bilney putting his hand toward the flamme of the candle barning before then as also he did diverse times besides and feeling the heat thereof O said he I feel by experience and have known it long by Ph●losophy that fire by Gods ordinance is naturally hot but yet I am perswaded by Gods holy word and by the experience of some spoken or in the same that in flamme they felt no heat and in the fire they felt no consumption And I constantly believe that howsoever the stuble of this my body shall be wasted by it yet my soul and spirit shall be purged thereby a pain for a time whereon notwithstanding followes joy unspeakeable At the comming forth of the said Thomas Bilney preacher out of the prison doors one of his friends came unto him and with few words as he durst speak to him and prayed him in Gods behalf to be constant and take his death as patiently as he could Whereunto the said Bilney answered with a quiet and milde countenance ye see when the Mariner is entered his ship to sail on the troublous sea how he for a while is tossed in the billows of the same but yet in hope that he shall once come to the quiet haven he beareth in better comfort the perrels which he feeleth So am I now toward this sailing and whatsoever storms I shall feel yet shortly after shal my ship bee in the haven as I doubt not thereof by the grace of God desiring you to help me with your p●ayers to the same effect And going forth into the streets he gave much almes by the way by the hands of one of his friends Doctor Warner taking his leave of Thomas Bilney he said pasce gregem tuum pasce gregenituum ut cum venerit Dominus inveniat te sic facientem that is feed your flock feed your flock that when the Lord cometh he may find you so doing When Richard Byfield was degraded kneeling upon the highest step of the Altar the Bishop of London took his crosier staffe and smote him on the breast that hee threw him down backwards and brake his head that he sowuned and when he came to himself again he thanked God he was delivered from the Malignant church of Antichrist and that he was come into the true sincere church of Jesus Christ Militant here on earth and I trust anone said he to be in heaven with Jesus Christ and the Church triumphant for ever and so he was led to the fire in his apparell manfully and joyfully and there for laik of a speedy fire was half an hour alive and when

departed this life the 24. of March in the 70 year of her age and 44. of her raign The same day in the forenoon the King of Scots was procl●imed King first at the Palace of White hall next at the Crosse in Cheapside within the City of London with an infinite applause of all sorts of people But leaving the prosecution of any moe occurences that fell out in this our Realm which late Histories at large does declare I shall close this part with one or two remarkable things specially concerning Glasgow in reckoning out the Bishops of Glasgow till the Reformation I find St. Mungo to be the first This City was made famous at first by Kentigern commonly called St. Mungo He was begotten by Engenius the third King of the Scots upon Thametis Daughter to Loth King of Picts His Mother finding her self with child out of shame and fear of her Fathers wrath stole privily away and entering into a little Vessel that she found in the nearest coast was by the wind and waves cast on land where the town of Culrosse is now situated and there was delivered of her birth and leaving the Child with a Nurse returned home His Parents b●ing unknown he was brought to Servanus and baptized and bred up by him yet it seems by the Hymne they did ordinarly sing in the Festivals that made his Father afterwards to be known They repo t of him that a Lady of good place in the Country having lost a King which her Husband gave her as she crossed the River of Clyde and her Husband waxing jealous as if she had bestowed the same upon one of her lovers she did mean her self unto him in r●ating his help for the safty of her honour and that he going to the river after he had used his devotion will●d one who was making to fish to bring him the first that he caught which was done in the mouth of the fish he found the Ring and sending it to the Lady she was thereby fred of her Husbands suspition The credit of this I b●lieve upon the reportes but howsoever it be the sea and City do both of them w●ar in their Arms a fish with a ring in the mouth even to this day He was certainly a man of rare piety and to the poor exceeding bountifull lived to a great age beyond the ordinary course of men to wit nine score and five years as in the conclusion of the hyme is said Cum octogenos centum qu●que quinque vir annos Complerat sanctus est Closgow sunere sunctus He laid the foundation of the high Church of Glasgow and was therein at his d●ath interred After his death for many ages the See was in a manner desolate unto the raign of Malcolm the third who restored the same to some integrity The first Bishop I find named after the restitution was 1. John Achaian who took great pains in building the Cathredal and having brought it to a reasonable perfection did dedicate ●he same in the year 1137. Jocelin Abbot of Melrosse was his successor in his time the City of Glasgow was erected a Burgh royall Willi●m Babinton Chancellor of the Kingdom was after him elected Bishop In his time as Boeth writeth the fabrick of the Church of Glasgow was fully accomplished his words are absolutum est ea temp●state Templum Cat●edr●le Glasgu nsis sedes profe●to magnifica cujus ●aud exignam partem Guilielmus ibid m Epise pus iberalitate sua extruxerat nec d●u operi perfecto supersuit He died the 25. of January 1261. William Rae the 19. Bishop a good and z●alo●s man build the stone Brid e of Glasgow and died in year 1367. In the time of Mr. Mathew Gl n linni●g the 21. Bishop the steeple which was all built of timber w●s burnt by lightning in place whereof he intended to build one of stone and made therefore great preparation but was prevented by death in the year 1408. His successor William Lawder finished the work he was Chancellor of Scotland Mr. VVilliam Tu●●bull the 25. Bishop founded the Colledge of Glasgow The cruel persecuti●n of Ch●istians under the TURKISH Emperors NOw last of all having spoken of the persecutions of the Christians under the Roman Empero●s in a tractate by it self and of the persecutions of the Roman Bishops in this place for the professing of the Gospel of Christ Jesus we shall speak a little of the miserable persecutions slaughter and captivity of the Christians under the Turks thus from time to time the Church of Christ almost hath had little or no rest in this earth what for the heathen Emperors on the one side what for the proud Pope on the other side on the third side what for the barbarous Turk for these are and have been from the beginning the three principall and capitall enemies of the Church of Christ signified in the Apocalypse by the Beast the false lamb and the false prophet from whom went out three foul spirits like Frogs to gather together all the Kings of the Earth to the battel of the day of the Lord God Almighty Apoc. 16. The cruelty and malice of these enemies against Christs people hath been such that to judge which of them most exceeded in cruelty of persecution it is hard to say but it may bee thought that the bloody and beastly tyrranny of the Turks especially above all the rest incomparable surmounteth all the afflictions and cruel slaughters that ever were seen in any age or read of in any story in so much that their is neither History so perfect nor writter so diligent who wryting of the miserable tyranny of the Turks is able to expresse or comprehend the horrible examples of the unspeakable cruelty and slaughter exercised by these twelve Turkish tyrrants upon poor Christian mens bodies within the compasse of these later three hundreth years Where of although no sufficient relation can be made nor number expressed yet to give to the Reader some generall guesss or view thereof let us first perpend and consider what Dominions and Empyres how many countries Kingdoms Provinces Cities Towns Strong holds and forts these Turks have surprised and wone from the Christians in all which victories beeing so many This is secondly to be noted that there is almost no place which the Turks ever came to and subdued where they did not either slay all the inhabitants thereof or led away the most part thereof into such captivity and slavery that they continued not long after alive or else so lived that death almost had been to them more tollerable Like as in the time of the first persecutions of the Roman Emperors the saving was that no man could step with his feet in all Rome but should tread upon a Martyr so here may be said that almost there is not a town city or village in all Asia Grecia also in a great part of Europe and Africa whose streets have not flowed wi h the blood of the Christians whom the