Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	liberty_n	papist_n	protestant_n	1,212	5	9.6046	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02519	Martyrs in flames, or, Popery (in its true colours) displayed. Being a brief relation of the horrid cruelties and persecutions of the Pope and Church of rome for many hundred years past, to this present age, inflicted upon Protestants in Piedmont ... : With an abstract of the cruel persecution lately exercised upon the Protestants in France and Savoy, in the year 1686 and 1687. : Together with a short account of Gods judgment upon popish persecutors. / Published for a warning to all Protestants, [] what they must expect from that bloody generation of Antichristians. By R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1693 (1693)	Wing C7344A; ESTC R176606	106,868	208

good Protestant who after his Majesty 's repeated Proclamations for the discovery and apprehension of the Plotters after the Execution of so many of the Conspirators upon the clearest Evidence imaginable and after the Votes and Proceedings in both Houses of Parliament thereupon shall in the least doubt of the reality of this horrid and damnable Popish Plot as it is fully exprest in the Vote of both Houses March 15. 1679. Resolved Nemine Contradicente by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament Assembled That they do declare that they are fully satisfied by the Proofs they have heard that there now is and for divers years last past hath been an horrid and treasonable Plot and Conspiracy contrived and carried on by those of the Popish Religion for the Murdering of his Majesties Sacred Person and for Subverting the Protestant Religion and the Ancient and Established Government of this Kingdom John Brown Cleric Parliam NOtwithstanding the clear and plain discovery of these Popish Intrigues yet the Papists and their adherents were still resolved if possible to stifle their horrid Plot and many Arts and Tricks were used to suppress it and several sham Plots were set up to ensnare and ruin the soberest part of the Kingdom For the better managing whereof witnesses were raked out of Prisons and Jails to swear against Persons the freest both in reputation and life from the suspicion of all such crimes as were laid to their charge and Juries were likewise tampered with so that innocent people were frighted thereat since villains were so easily credited if they swore against any that stood in the Papists way upon this account fell the Noble L. Russel Coll. Sydney Mr. Cornish and several others so that every man was afraid of another and men durst hardly converse with each other After this followed the seizing of the Charter of London and divers others in the chief Cities and Towns in England The Bishops were imprisoned for Petitioning Maudlin Colledge had its legal Possessors turned out and was filled with none but Papists and divers other outragious acts were committed against all Law and Right in order to the perfecting the great work of converting these three Kingdoms to Popish superstition and reducing them to slavery and arbitrary Government But the People of England ha●ing suffered these and many other indignities they at length were so extreamly provoked that they resolved if possible to free themselves from the Chains they say prepared for them and therefore the principal Nobility and Gentry sent an invitation to his Highness the Prince of Orange to intreat him to come to their assistance who accordingly landed in England and with his preserce only by the Almightys help put all our Popish Enemies to flight and restored to us our former state of happiness and tranquillity for which the whole Nation by their Representatives made it their humble request that his Highness with his Royal Consort would be pleased to accept of the Crown and they were accordingly Proclaimed King and Queen with all manner of Joy and satisfaction Feb. 13. 1688. For which unspeakable blessing let us conclude with the Thanksgiving of the Church of England set forth by Authority upon the discovery of that Hellish Popish Plot called the Gunpowder Treason in 1605. NOT unto us O Lord not unto us but to thy Name be ascribed all honour and glory in all Churches of the Saints ●roughout all Generations for thou Lord hast discovered the Snares of Death thou hast broken them and we are delivered be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our Cruel Enenies which delight in Blood Infatuate their Counsel and root ●●t that Babylonish and Antichristian ●ect which say of Jerusalem Down with it down with it even to the Ground and to this end strengthen the hands of our Gracious King the Nobles ●●d Magistrates of the Land with Judgment and Justice to ●ut off these workers of Iniquity whose Reli●ion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose Practice is Murthering of Souls Bodies and to root them out of the Consines and Limits of this Kingdom that they may never prevail against us and Triumph i● the ruin of thy Church And give us grace by true and seri●us Repentance to avert these and the like Judgments from us This Lord we earnestly crave at thy merciful hands together with the continuance of thy powerful Protection over our Dread Soveraign the whole Church and these Realms and the speedy confusion of our Implocable Enemies And that for thy dear Son's sake our only Mediator and advocate Amen An Abslract of the late Persecutions and Inhumane Oppressions of the Protestants in France in 1686 and 1687. THough the barbarous cruelty and Treachery of of the Romanists is already sufficiently demonstrated and the World thereby fully convinced that Popish Treaties are not to be relled on yet their new and horrid Barbarities in France since the Massacre at Paris and those other Violations of the most Sacred Oaths and Ingagements may convince the most obstinate that they make it a point of Religion to destroy Protestants over whom that Church pretends to have a Soveraign and Absolute Dominion of which Thousands of French Protestants now in England confirm the truth who having felt the smart of a severe Persecution in France are fled from thence to avoid the extream fury and insupportable violence thereof But though the generality may have heard much discourse of the French Persecutions and have been very bountiful in relieving these miserable People yet I suppose few know the particular Barbarities and Inhumanities which they have suffered from their merciless Enemies To inform them therefore I have thought fit to make a brief abstract of some notorious Villanies committed by the Papists against them since a large Volume would not contain the innumerable Cruelties they have exercised upon these innocent Souls It is known to all intelligent Persons that for the great Services which the Protestants performed to Henry the Fourth called the Great King of France and Grandfather to the present King in asserting his Rights to the Crown against the Papists who were then in Rebellion against him that great Prince being willing to demonstrate his gratitude to them confirmed to them an entire Liberty of Conscience by a Law called the Edict of Nants whereby they were to enjoy all m●nner of Liberty and Priviledges both in Religious and Civil matters with his other Subjects which he declared should be perpetual and inviolable and which was confirmed by his Son Lewis the 13th and likewise by the present King at their coming to the Crown Lewis the 14th was very young when he ascended the Throne and soon after the Prince of Conde raised a Civil War in the Kingdom against him being assisted by the Papists but the Protestants by their Signal Loyalty to him overthrew the designs of his Enemies and setled that Crown on his head which he wears to this day and of which he pretended then to

fragments and being in a merry humor would needs go dance telling their Host he must be one of their company but that he must first pull off his Stockings and Shoes to move the more nimbly in short they forced him to dance barefoot upon the sharp points of Glass which when they had continued so long as they were able to keep him on his Legs they laid him on a Bed and stripping him stark naked rolled his body from one end of the Room to the other upon the sharp Glass till his Skin was stuck full of the fragments and returning him to his bed sent for a Surgeon to take out all the pieces of Glass out of his body which was not done without frequent incisions and horrible and extream pain Another having the unwelcome company of these Villanous Souldiers and having suffered extreamly by them with the utmost constancy one of them looking earnestly on him told him he disfigured himself with letting his beard grow so long who answering That they were the cause of it who would not let him stir out of doors to go to the Barber The Dragoon replyed I can do that for you as well as your Barber telling him he must needs try his Skill upon him and so fell to work but instead of shaving him flead all the Skin off his face One of his Companions coming at the cry of this poor sufferer and seeing what he had done seemingly blamed him for it and said he was a bungler then said to his Host Come your hair wants cutting too and thereupon begins in a most cruel manner to pluck the hair Skin and all off his head and flead that as the other had done his Chin Thus making a sport and merriment of the extream sufferings of these miserable wretches By these inhumane and more than barbarous means they labour to overcome the most resolved patience and to drive people to despair and faint-heartedness by their Devilish inventions refusing to give them death which they desire and only keep them alive to torment them till they have v●●●●isht their courage telling them The King will have obedient Subjects but neither Martyrs nor Rebels and that they have order to convert them but not to kill them Let us conclude with a prayer used by these blessed Souls in the agony of their Spirits O great God who from thy heavenly Throne dost behold all the outrages done to thy people haste thee to help us Great God whose compassions are infinite suffer thy self to be moved by our extream desolation If men be insensible of the Calamities we suffer If they be deaf to our cries not regarding our groans or supplications yet let thy Bowels O Lord be moved and affect thee on our behalf Glorious God for whose names sake we suffer all these things who knowest our innocency and weakness as well as the fury and rage of our adversaries and the small support and help we find in the World Behold we perish if thy pity do not rouze thee up to our relief It is thou art our Rock our God our Father our Deliverer We do not place our confidence in any but in thee alone Let us not be confounded because we put our must in thee Haste thee to our help make no long tarrying O Lord our God and our Redeemer Amen An Abstract of the Persecutions of the Protestants in Piedmont and Savoy in the years 1686 and 1687. NOtwithstanding a perpetual and inviolable Law was ordained and solemnly confirmed to the Protestants for the free exercise of their Religion in Piedmont by the several Dukes of Savoy in the years 1638 1649 1654 and 1655. as you read before in the Persecution of the Waldenfes yet the old Maxim of the Romish Antichristian Church That no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks prevailed so much that the most solemn Oaths and Protestations were insignificant For after that bloudy Massacre in 1655 which seemed to have irrecoverably destroyed the Waldenses yet many escaped the fury of these Butchers and defended their lives with such undaunted courage that they defeated in several Rencounters a considerable party of their Enemies and by the mediation of several Protestant Princes and States a solemn Patent was granted them confirming all their priviledges forever Yet soon after the Spanish Inquisitors violated the most essential points thereof which since they only opposed by petitions and complaints their Implacable adversarys believing they could oppress them without resistance in 1663. they imployed Fire and Sword once more against them The Waldenses knowing by experience that to stand in their own defence was the only way to save themselves were constrained to take up arms and defended themselves so well that they re-established their affairs again the same year and in 1664 another solemn perpetual and irrevocable Patent was past and inrolled in the Senate but was executed with no better Faith than the former yet not absolutely broken till the year 1685 For though they had rendred the Duke of Savoy very considerable services the year before in the War of the Banditi of Mondavi Yet now the Governour of the Valleys of Piedmont published an order which forbid all Forreigners to inhabit there or stay above three days without permission under severe penalties The Waldenses had already heard of the violences used in France to compel people to change their Religion but never believed it would have been their own case till the Duke published an order Jan. 31. 1686 prohibiting the exercise of their Religion on pain of Death and confiscation of goods and commanding all their Churches to be demolished their Ministers banished and their Children to be educated in the Romish Religion under the penalties that their Parents should be sent to the Gallies containing almost the same things with the French Kings Declaration that annuals the Edict of Nantes It is impossible to express the fears grief wherewith the Waldenses were seized at the sight of an Order so surprizing so unjust and rigorous whereby they were utterly deprived of their Liberty of Conscience yet judging this order was gained by surprize they present four Petitions to the Duke of Savoy for revoking it but found no r●●●ess yea saw their misfortune without remedy when they understood that the French King who had hitherto protected them had obliged the Duke to publish it and caused his own Troops to advance into Piedmont for the execution of it and therefore they resolved to defend themselves and preserve their lives from the danger that threatned them Mean time the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland being informed of this Order thought they ought not to abandon a People Persecuted for their Religion and therefore sent Ambassadors to the Duke to know the reason thereof who returned no other answer but That the ingagements wherein he had entred with France opposed the success of their Negotiation whereby he had obliged himself to extirpate all the Protestants out of his Countrey Hereupon the Waldenses