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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95890	A looking-glasse for malignants: or, Gods hand against God-haters. Containing a most terrible yet true relation of the many most fearefull personall examples (in these present times, since the yeere, 1640.) of Gods most evident and immediate wrath against our malevolent malignants. Together with a caveat for cowards and unworthy (either timorous or treacherous) newters. Collected for Gods honour, and the ungodlies horrour, by John Vicars. Imprimatur hic liber. Iohn White.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing V317; Thomason E33_18; ESTC R19020	39,491	44

houre Immediately after Prayer the sicke party said He was now most happy since God and Man had forgiven him and told the Minister hee was certaine God pardoned him all his finnes The Minister answered It was well if his assurance were on good grounds He replied That he was sure of it for Christ had taken away all his sinnes which God had in his sicknesse set before his eyes yea and some such finnes as he did not know or beleeve formerly to have beene sinnes but now Christ had borne them all on his owne shoulders and eased him of all that heavy burthen with many other most heavenly and divine expressions And being neere his death even the night before he died he said Hee assuredly saw Christ in a vision appearing unto him and telling him that his sinnes were pardoned and that he had a Cause on earth and that the Parliament of England defended it and that in the yeere of our Lord Christ 1644. the Parliament should obtaine a great victory over the Kings Forces and that then there should bee none of those wicked Ministers that had mis-led Gods people left among them and that from that time the Parliament should prosper but in the meane season that the rod of the wicked should rest on the backs of his righteous ones And after this hee lay glorying and rejoycing in the forgivenesse of his sinnes and even triumphing over death till the time of his departure which was the next day This relation was testified both by the said learned reverend and religious Divine who was often with him in his said sicknesse and heard most of his expressions and also by another religious Gentleman who was also then present and heard what is here delivered as aforesaid Also one Thomas Clarke a ranke malignant young man and servant to one Master Travill a merchant of London 3. One Thomas Clarke also a merchants man in London a notable malignant his penitent confession on his death-bed in honour of the Parliament being in the yeere 1643 stricken with sicknesse of which he died about three dayes before his death one William Coote a neighbour of his comming to visit him in this his sicknesse and having sate a while with him as he was going away the sick party desired him to stay a little and told him that hee would now say more to him then he had done to any which was this I am now sayes hee strongly perswaded in my heart that the Parliament maintains a right cause and at last shall have victory over the Kings Forces for they he said fought for Antichrist and he confest withall that he had lived a very sinfull life and was most of all grieved that he had spoken so much against the Parliament for which he wished he could now weep teares of blood together with very many patheticall speeches to this purpose and shortly after it departed this life This I have also from very honest and religious hands and testimony who have faithfully informed me of the truth thereof as having been both eye and ear-witnesses of the same In September also 1643. one Master Whitleigh in Golding lane in London with his wife Mistresse Whitleigh both of them very religious Christians 4. A remarkable example of one Master Whitleigh and his wife who deserted the Cause of the Parliament and truly fearing the Lord came with their foure children not long before to London from Tewksbury in Gloucestershire principally desiring to remove thence because of the wicked conversation of the Cavaliers billeted where he lived And hee having formerly served in the Parliaments Army against the Kings Forces but being now at London and for about three moneths space void of imployment resolved to give over service in the wars as finding a timorous fearfulnesse in himselfe to adventure any more into the Parliaments Army thereupon at last he had some thoughts to goe into New-England and advising with his wife who also was most unw●l●ing hee should any more put himselfe into the Service of the Parliament but by all meanes began to strengthen his resolution to goe away for New-England Whereupon he peremptorily now resolving to depart thither with his wife and children presently laid out thirty pounds for their passage by Sea and as much more for provision of necessaries to the voyage But being ready to depart the Lord suddenly struck him very sicke and in his sicknesse he was very much troubled in his minde lamenting and crying out very much against the sinne of Cowardise and Fearfulnesse which hee conceived to bee the ground of his intended removall to New-England and therefore much distrusting his soules estate cryed out often That he had sinned against God in cowardly deserting his holy Cause yet earnestly praying the Lord to forgive him this sinne promising and protesting that if the Lord vouchsafed to restore him to health and strength againe he would resolutely goe on to spend every drop of the blood in his veines for the Parliaments Cause and afterward blaming his wife for giving her consent and incouraging him therein he shortly after died yet before his departure he testified abundance of comfort and assurance of Gods favour and the pardon of his sin Immediately also after his death it so pleased the Lord that his wife fell so distracted that three or foure women could scarcely hold her downe in her bed and she taking no sustenance but what was forced into her mouth for many dayes she still in all this time of most sad perplexity crying out That she had sinned against God in counselling and incouraging her deceased husband to forsake Gods Cause and thereby she feare● she had beene the cause of his death And thus she lay divers dayes in much misery crying out of this her sinne and craving pardon of God for it And about the end of September aforesaid my godly friend from whom I had this relation comming occasionally to her house to see her found that her raging fits had left her but her spirits much spent and she lying speechlesse so that he knew not how to administer a word of comfort to her in that case wherefore being about to depart thence shee looked stedfastly on him reached out her hand to him which he tooke in his being as cold as clay and therewith spake many comfortable words unto her and ere he departed she manifested very much consolation in her soule both by words though faintly and gestures also and in a most happy and comfortable condition departed this life also the very next morning after his departure from her This relation I say I had from a very religious Citizen of London and faithfull servant of the Lord who himselfe was with Mistresse Whitleigh thus departing and whose own Sister lived close by these parties was well acquainted with them both in their lives and death and whose testimony I know to be without exception There was also about the time of the first victories of the famous and

this our present purpose and worthy our most sad and serious commemoration namely that among the many slaine and dead bodies on the Kings side 7. Gods most remarkable hand upon Serjeant-major generall Smith slaine in the fight at Causam bridge at the siege of Redding very many of them being prime Commanders and Officers in Armes as was clearely discerned by their brave cloathes pure fine Holland-shirts and faire skins being stript naked at the end of the fight there was found the body of Serjeant-major Smith Generall of the Kings Army a most wicked and desperate Cormorant who being a very fat and corpulent fellow was found with his belly ript up and his Greace taken away out of his body which very thing as I had it by most credible and that not single information this wicked Smith had about a twelve-moneth before or not so much threatned to act upon the Round-heads at Okenham where some of the Kings forces were then quartered but driven out by the Parliaments forces where and at which time of his enforced departure thence he was heard in a furious threatning manner to say Well farewell Round-heads for this time but I will returne againe amongst you and then I will rip up your fat panches and make medicines of your Greace or words to this effect A most remarkable patterne of the Lords justice on him in so punctually repaying him Adonibezech-like in his owne coyne And in the stripping of him as was credibly reported they found a Crucifix about him and other markes of the Romish beast a fit Champion among the rest to fight for the maintenance of the Protestant Religion 8. Gods wrathfull hand on divers young Gentlemen in a Tavern abusing the City Trainedbands as they marched on in the street In the yeere also 1642. there hapned another very fearefull example of Gods revengefull hand upon these most ungodly and gracelesse abusers and tongue-persecutors of Gods people which was thus Divers roystering and swaggering yong Gallants being drinking in the Miter-Taverne in Fleet-street London it so fell out that in the time of their swaggering swearing and carowsing in the said Taverne the Trained-bands of the City passing by one of these roaring gallants cast out something most unseemely out of the Chamber-window among the said souldiers using also some very abusive language against them whereupon one of them having more Gentility and ingenuity of spirit than the rest reproved them that did it whereupon they furiously asked him if he were a Round-head and presently drew their Swords one upon an other and this Gentleman being suddenly made at by one of them puts by his thrust got within him and stab'd him with a Stilletto the other two also comming on him he likewise wounded them both of which three wounded two of them immediately died and the recovery of the third was very questionable and dangerous Which done this Gentleman made a way downe the staires with his Sword in one hand and the Stillet to in the other and running downe Ram-alley got to the water and so escaped away This I had from unquestionable information the very morning it was done I my selfe going into Fleet-street betimes that morning on some businesse of mine owne where and when I heard it exactly and fully telated to me About the 20 of Iune also 1643 One Mrs Haughton wife to Mr. Wil. 9. A monstrous and prodigious child borne in Lancashire of most malignant parents and the most fearfull and remarkable circumstances in and about it to the terrour of malignants Haughton of Prickmarsh within the parish of Kirkham in Leyfield in Lancashire was delivered of a child still-borne which had no head yet two eares two eyes and a mouth in the brest of it and the hands turning backwards to the elbowes with a cleft down the backe so as it was not discernable whether it were male or female After this child had beene buried two or three daies the Midwife teporting its monstrous and prodigious shape not being credited it was thereupon taken out of the grave and reviewed and was apparently found to be as is already described as was reported to be only a bundle of clouts was taken up with it which it seems was known the parents had in proportion of a head caused to be fitted unto it Now that which is very remarkable herein is this That the parents of this monster were even as their owne parents also and predecessours were notorious profest Papists impudently abusive towards Protestants cursing and calling them familiarly by the name of Round-heads 〈◊〉 that which is yet more memorable herein and most remarkably worthy our serious consideration and most clearely demonstrates that foresaid prodigious birth to be a direct judgement of the Lord for desperate malignancy against the Lords choice ones is this that the Grandmother of that monster was she whom pious Mr Prynne to her indeleble and perpetuall infamy hath already set forth in print in his famous History of that pair-royall of heroicke sufferers Dr. Bastwicke Mr. Burton and Mr. Prynne who out of an inveterate malignity against and in divellish derifion of those three foresaid Worthies called three Cats which she had at that time by the names of those three precious Christians and cut off the eares of those her three Cats both in desperate disdaine as it should seem of their glorious sufferings and thereby also in seeming jollity to act again that more than Turkish Tragedy And was not here a most notable and cleare evidence of Gods undoubted indignation against such intolerably impious and impudent malignants as these the Lord thus manifesting that sooner or later he will meet with their insolent and most audacious impieties In November also 1643. a malignant Souldier being intended for service of the Parliament was hanged at Cambridge for running from his Colours which came thus to passe He with others also in the same condemnation being apprehended for the cause aforesaid and by Martiall-law to cast Dice for their lives 10. A malignant Souldier hanged at Cambridge for running from his Colours this fellow comming to the Dice when he threw them out cryed at the cast Now for God and the King and God receive my soule Whereupon it so fell out that he casting the least chance of the Dice must suffer death and so was accordingly executed at the same time Now that which was very remarkable in Gods hand thus on this fellow besides the voluntary discovery of his Cavalierian-heart● in those words Now for God and the King which is the Cavallers common signall word was this that when he was first prest for a Souldier he was heard often to say He would be hang'd before he would fight for the Parliament Even just like Sir Iervase ●ll●wales once Lieutenant of the Tower of London in King Iames his daies who was hanged on T●●er-hill for being accessary to the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury then his prisoner in the ●ower about