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B11964	A copy of a letter, vvritten by M. Doctor Carier beyond seas, to some particular friends in England. VVhereunto are added certaine collections found in his closet, made by him (as is thought) of the miserable ends of such as haue impugned the Catholike Church. To which also is annexed a briefe exhortation to perseuere constantly in the said Catholike Church, what opposition soeuer may occurre, and the danger of liuing out of the same; and lastly, a few examples of the admirable prosperity, of such as haue defended the Catholike Church	Carier, Benjamin, 1566-1614.	1615 (1615)	STC 4621; ESTC S118628	25,589	43

of Monkes and religious persons was killed with lightning and fire from heauen MAVRITIVS the Emperour who persecuted S. Gregory the Great was slaine of a common souldier his wife and all his children before put to death in his owne sight and so cried Iustus es Domine rectum iudicium tuum Thou art just O Lord and righteous is thy judgement Blondus lib. 3. Decad. 1. CONSTANS the Nephew of Heraclius banished Pope Martine for which he was hated of all his subiects saith Zonoras and so leauing Constantinople liued in Cicely and there was killed in the Bathe of his owne people about him Paul Diac. lib. 18. MICHAEL Emperour the sonne of Theophilus which behaued himselfe proudly against Pope Nicholas the first and most iniuriously deposed Ignatius the Patriarch of Constantinople when he went drunke to bed one night standing at his bed side was slaine of his owne domesticals Zonor Annal. tom 3. in Constante Michaele CONSTANTINVS PROGNATVS the son of Leo Isauricus a most cruell persecutor of the Catholike Clergie was stricken with fire from heauen and so died blaspheming Sigeb ad Ann. 778. These wonderfull and notable judgements of God Almightie happened to the greatest Princes in the East which persecuted Christ Iesus in his Vicars c. And there haue beene no lesse renowned in the West PERSECVTORS IN THE WEST CHVRCH HENRY the fourth the first of the Westerne Emperours which opposed himselfe against the Church after many iniuries offered thereunto being excommunicate by Gregory the 7. was depriued of his Empire by his owne sonne and at last forsaken of all died in great calamitie in exile out of the limits of the Empire Nauclerus vol. 3. gener 37. FREDERICVS BARBAROSSA which for many years persecuted the Church of God very rebellious and proud against the See Apostolike when he was bathing himselfe in a riuer for his pleasure in Cilicia was drowned of a sodaine and so ended Naucl. gen 40. OTHO the fourth after exceeding great iniuries done to the Church throughout all Italy being assaulted in warre and put to flight by Philip the French King in low Germany a little after died a priuate man in Saxony Staplet in prompt mor. in dom pass text 4. FREDERICVS the second a most cruell persecutor not onely of the See Apostolique but of all the Clergie throughout the whole Empire excommunicated by Innocent the fourth was slaine of his bastard sonne Manfrede in Apulia as some write poysoned as others report hanged and all his race following the steps of their wicked father came to the like miserable end His eldest sonne Conradus for like cause excommunicated by Innocent the forth was killed by the same Manfrede in Apulia And the same Manfrede entring vpon the Kingdomes of Apulia and Sicilia being himselfe a cruell enemie of the Church excommunicated by Alexander the fourth was vanquished and put to flight by Charles brother to the King of France whom Vrbane the fourth declared King of Sicilia and Apulia CONRADINVS sonne to the said Conrade vanquished by the said Charles was put to death And Eutius the other son of Frederick the second after many warres made against the Church being taken of the Bononians was committed to perpetuall imprisonment and so all the race and stock of the sacrilegious Emperour great in number and power in short time extinct left to posteritie an example of their wicked rebellions against God and his Church LEWES the fourth Emperour twice excommunicate by the See Apostolike in whose defence against the immunities and priuiledges of the Church of Rome those Poets and Rhetoritians for this cause infamous Petrarcha Dante 's Marsilius and Io. Occhamus Schoole-man write so many things God almightie judgeing this cause when he was a hunting taken sodainly with a palsey of all his members falling from his horse died sodainly Memorable it is which Nicephorus writeth of Narcissus Bishop of Hierusalem Three maleuolous persons falsely accused this holy Bishop wishing euill to themselues if they dealt falsely The first that he would be burnt The second that he should die of the falling euill or some other detestable disease The third wished his eyes out of his head But Gods diuine reuenge not sleeping the first with al his house kinsfolkes and substance was burnt by one sparke that fell from a candle The second was taken with a most grieuous disease which entred vpon his whole body The third forthwith confesseth the deceitfull dealing and fraudulent proceeding ceased not to weepe and shed teares vntill he perceiued with his teares to lose the strength and sight of his eyes These torments of few may be examples for all THE VNHAPPY ENDS OF ARCH-HERETICKES ALthough God almighty punisheth and scourgeth his seruants and children yet alwayes at last he casteth the rod into the fire Deut. 32. Laudate Gentes populum eius quia sanguinem seruorum suorum vlciscetur vindictam retribuet in hostes eorum You Gentiles praise his people because he will reuenge the bloud of his seruants and will repay vengeance vpon their enemies This thing is manifest by that which is aboue-written And it may further appeare by the vnhappy and miserable ends of Apostataes and Arch-heretiques As first of SIMON MAGVS when he began to flie he was throwne downe by the prayers of Saint Peter brake his legges and a little after died with great ignominy Hegesip lib. 3. cap. 2. de excid Hierosol Arnob. lib. 2. contra Gentes MANICHAEVS was flayed aliue by the King of Persians not for his Heresie or his faith and religion but for that taking in hand to cure the Kings sonne he killed him Epiphan haeres 66. MONTANVS THEODORVS and their prophetesses hanged themselues Euseb lib. 5. hist cap. 16. Certaine Donatistes when they did cast the blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist to the dogs were of the same dogs torne in peeces Optat. lib. 2. contra Parmenianum ARIVS when hee was going to the Church with great pompe was sodainly troubled with ache in his belly and so forced to diuert a priuy or house of office and there together with his excrements auoided both his entrailes and his life Witnesse S. Athanasius Orat. 1. contra Arianos Ruffin lib. 10. histor cap. 13. IVLIAN the Apostata was slaine from heauen miraculously he was neuer buried but as saith S. Gregory Nazianzen in his Oration made in praise of S. Athanasius neere the end the earth of it selfe opened and swallowed him vp VALFNS the Arian which succeeded Iulian in persecuting Catholikes was burned aliue by the Gothes which also were Arians Ruffin lib. 2. hist cap. 13. NESTORIVS perished most miserably his tongue being eaten and consumed with wormes Euag. lib. 1. hist c. 7. ANASTATIVS the Emperour a fauourer of the E●tichian Heretikes was killed with lightning as write Cedronus and Paul the Deacon in his life LEO ICONOMACHVS that is Image-breaker burned sacred Images in the open market place of Constantinople Presently after which fact the pestilence consumed three hundred thousand

Baron anno imper Const 11. MAXENTIVS a most cruell Tyrant was drowned in Tiber. Euseb Zozimus and others IVLIAN the Apostata vsed all policie and arte he could as formerly had done Diocletian and Maximian to extinguish Christianitie but all in vaine Hee was slaine in the field against the Persians vncertainly by whom S. Gregor Nazian orat 2. in Iulian. ministeri● angelorum occisum affirmat See Baron When hee died hee filled his hand with bloud and cast it vp into the ayre saying vicisti Galilee thou hast vanquished me O Galilean for so he called Christ Iesus Nicephor 10. cap. 3. and also he said saturare Nazarene c. VALENS a most horrible persecutor making warre against the Gothes was burned See Baron and others Hee with his noble men fled into a poore cottage which was burnt ouer his head c. MAXIMINVS a most bloudie persecutor was ouerthrowne and put to flight by Licinius and at last stricken with a most deadly and horrible disease his eyes falling out of his head he dieth miserably confessing himselfe worthily punished for his crueltie exercised vpon Christians Also his children were put to a most reprochfull death his statuaes titles and other monuments were throwne downe razed abolished Constantini imper anno 9. HVNERICVS King of the Vandals persecuted Catholikes most cruelly he caused Catholikes tongues and right hands to be cut off who neuerthelesse by the helpe of God did speake as well afterwards as they did before One of these to wit Reparatus a Subdeacon pronounced eloquent Sermons without any difficultie for which hee was highly reuerenced in Zeno the Emperours Pallace especially Iustina the Empresse honored him See the Comp. of Baron anno 484. fol. 425. There followeth fol. 426 the miserable death of this barbarous and cruell persecutor who when he prepared to triumph ouer the Catholike faith which he verily thought to haue rooted out perished most miserably of wormes which crawled out of euery part of his bodie the seuenth yeare of his raigne Victor lib. 3. EVARICVS King of the Gothes spoileth France of Bishops c. vpon desire to propagate Arianisme hee was a horrible persecutor and enemie of Catholikes like to Hunericus as reporteth Ecclesiasticall writers being stricked from heauen perished most miserably as writeth Turon in the History of France LEO ISAVRICVS a most bloudy persecutor was taken by an Earthquake out of this life as writeth Theophanes CONSTANTINVS CAPRONYMVS no lesse cruell against Catholikes was from heauen stricken with a plague and griefe in his thighes which in Greeke is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so died miserably crying out and saying being yet aliue I am giuen ouer to vnquenchable fire Theophanes and all other Greeke Authors witnesseth the same See Cedren in Baron anno 775. LEO ARMENVS a great enemie of the Catholike Church was miserably slaine neare the Altar after hee had raigned seuen yeares and fiue moneths And so perish all which hate Sion FOVRE MEMORABLE EXAMPLES FOLLOWING L. SEPTIMIVS PLAVTIANVS from base state was aduanced to such honor as he was esteemed little inferiour to the Emperour Seuerus himselfe This PLAVTIANVS thus exalted in such grace with the Emperour as the like hath scarcely euer beene seene was honored with very many statuaes chosen to be father in law to Antoninus Augustus the sonne of the Emperour He married his daughter to Antoninus with whom he gaue so much riches and such a dowrie as had beene sufficient to haue giuen with fiftie should hee haue had so many to haue so highly preferred Hee was so horrible and cruell as when hee was to goe any whither some Sergeants or Virgiers were to take order that none should be in his way or presume to looke vpon him Of Christians he was a most deadly enemie and cruell persecutor with the spoiles of whom after he had murthered and martyred them he had infinitely enriched himselfe But loe this cruell murtherer of Christians fell from this soueraigne dignitie into extreame infelicity in so much as he was euen in the twelfth yeare of Seuerus Empire become a wonderfull great laughing-stocke of humane felicitie and a most dreadfull example of Gods seuere justice he was I say put to a most miserable death by his sonne in law Antoninus his body cast into the street vnburied his statuaes and monuments pulled downe and defaced his name scraped out and abolished His sonne and daughter were exiled and at last in great misery made away So as that of the Psalmist may be verified of him and such like Inimici domini mox vt honorificati fuerint exaltati deficientes quemadmedum fumus deficient Psal 36. The enemies of our Lord forthwith after they be raised to honor and exalted vanishing away like smoake they shall vanish See Baron especially the twelfth yeare of Seuerus Empire where you shall finde all these and much more of this horrible persecutor EVTROPIVS a man of seruile condition and lewde conuersation was so highly exalted vnder the Emperour Arcadius as he was of all other the greatest Courtier in greatest grace and fauour with the Emperour Hee was made Consul although generally hated of all people He opposeth against Saint Iohn Chrysostome Bishop of Costantinople and impugneth Ecclesiasticall immunities and liberties of the Church Against which immunities and priuiledges of the Church in particular that none flying to the Altar should haue benefit of Sanctuary But behold the punishment of this Tyrant It pleased God that Gaynas being alienated from Arcadius for his so much fauouring and aduancing this EVTROPIVS as all in furie and rage he made warre against the Emperour and brought him to this that the Emperour was glad to admit what conditions of peace Gaynas would offer Amongst which conditions this was one that the Emperour should deliuer into his hands EVTROPIVS that he might put him to what death it liked him Whereupon EVTROPIVS was depriued of all his places dignities and riches which were exceeding great and so perceiuing his misery fled to the Church layeth hold vpon Sanctuarie and was for that time protected by Saint Chrysostome who stood in the defence of the priuiledges of the Church and would not permit the souldiers to take him from the Altar before he had caused the Emperour to sweare neither to deliuer him into the hands of Gaynas nor to put him to death And although he had beene a great enemy of Saint Chrysostome and all the people cried to haue him made away Yet Saint Chrysostome in regard of the priuiledge would not condescend but with an eloquent oration disswadeth the people and laboureth to saue him So as it is to be noted he that opposed himselfe against this holy Bishop and priuiledges of the Church had no other refuge then to the same Finally being depriued of so many dignities honors and riches his name abolished his statuaes ensignes and monuments in all both publike and priuate places defaced he was banished into Cyprus from whence at the instance of Gaynes he was sent for and