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A33996	A word in season being a parallel between the intended bloody massacre of the people of the Jews, in the reign of King Ahasuerus and the hellish powder-'plot against the Protestants in the reign of King James : together with an account of some of the wicked principles and practises of the Church of Rome, demonstrated in their barbarous and cruel murders and massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Piedmont, the Albigenses, &c. : also shewing that the present Church of Rome is an apostate church ... / by H.C., a lover of true Protestants.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing C537; ESTC R13082	42,613	54

all pity Some of those Bloody Murderers have boasted that their Arms have been so weary with killing that they could not lift them up to their Heads Some Infants have been closed up in their Mothers Belly and been strangled Many thousands have died in the Inquisition Some have been drawn with promises of Life and threats of death to renounce their Religion and turn Papists and when they have so done have been murdered the scoffing Papists telling them it was good to kill them while they were in a good humour lest they should recant if they lived longer Others have yielded up their Forts and Castles upon Articles and Conditions to have their lives spared and then being disarmed were kept in the Fort or Castle till starved with this Jesuitical Evasion We promised you your Lives but not Food to preserve them Like that Treachery the Marquiss of Pionessa was guilty of in the late Massacre in Piedmont April Anno 1655. The Deputies of the Protestants by the Subtilties of this Marquis of Pionessa were detained at Turin in which time a great Army arrived at St. Giovani and some other Towns to the number of fifteen thousand which set upon the poor Protestants in an inhumane manner the Marquiss also made a great Dinner for many of the Protestants and made the Deputies many fair promises that there should be no hurt to any of them if they would but quarter a few Troops as a token of their Obedience they did assent to what the Marquiss designed But no sooner were those Troops entered but they put all to Fire and Sword slaying all they met with in the most barbarous manner that could be invented Much like this was that of Admiral Coligny with abundance of Protestants who were enticed to Paris with Promises and Oaths of Security under pretence of a Marriage between two Houses where were barbarously slain ten thousand Protestants whose Blood ran down the Chanel like Water Not much different from this was the practice of the Duke of Savoy Soveraign Prince of the Valleys of Piedmont after a tedious and chargeable Application of the Protestants to him for a confirmation of their Liberty of Conscience did at last by an Edict promise expressly that he would confirm unto them the enjoyment of the Liberty of Religion and of these Priviledges granted to them by his Predecessors Dukes of Savoy Yet by the powerful persuasion of the Congregation as they call it or of the Jesuits Friars and others one Gastalt was at last sent from the Prince with a Commission who calls himself Conservator General of the Catholick Faith against the Reformed Professors affirming that he had received Instructions from the Prince That in case they will not within three Days receive the Romish Religion they must for ever bid farewel to their Native Country Houses Lands and Possessions adding moreover It should be death without mercy if after that space of time any were taken in those Places So that you see those Men make little conscience of Promises or Covenants But what need we question that 'T is a Maxim owned by the Priests That Faith ought not to be kept with Hereticks and that all Oaths Covenants Promises made to and with the silly Protestants are of no force longer than it pleaseth the Pope and so it seems indeed by their practices It was the Pope to the scandal of all the World persuaded the King Vladislaus to break his League with the Turk upon some seeming Advantage the Pope absolved him from his Oath But God revenged the Perjury with the death of many thousand poor Christians 7. As the People of God of old the Jews did keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the Month Adar Annually in remembrance of that great Deliverance from Haman's designed Massacre as you have in Est 9. 18 29. So in King James's dayes from a sense of the Mercy then received it was Enacted that November the Fifth should be kept throughout the Nation with praising God for so great Deliverance Let this Beloved be your work this day to praise God from your Hearts and let the thankfulness of your Hearts be seen in the holiness of your Lives Psal 50. ult He that praiseth me glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his Conversation aright to him will I shew my Salvation Do also as the Jews did send Portions one to another and to the Poor Est 9. 22. To praise God heartily for former Deliverances will engage God to give us more Salvation which he hath begun to give England already in his discovering this horrid Plot against it His Name be praised for that Mercy and O Good Lord as Thou hast still delivered us from Invasions Horrid Massacres Powder-Plots Assassinations Stranglings and all sinful Conspiracies of thine implacable Enemies let us now praise that God with joyful Lips that hath hitherto kept us and we hope still will from those whose faith is Faction whose Promises are Equivocations whose Worship is Idolatry whose Principles are High-Treason and whose Mercies are Cruelties Amen A Hymn sung after the Discourse by way of Praising God for so great Deliverance as England enjoyed in 1605. HAman of old the Seed of God He thought for to destroy So wicked Men in this our Age God's Church seek to annoy Though they have digged wide and deep Their secret Plots to hide Yet when they dig as deep as Hell Our God will them deride For he the first Man's thought did know Of this Plot of November And it in His due time did show And 's People did remember O Lord as Thou remembred'st us To save us from that Blow So on November we 'll remember Thy Praises forth to show Let Men and Devils do their worst A True Church Thou wilt have Though she that 's false will do her best To throw it in the Grave When Cain his Brother Abel slew His Seed God did revive When Pharoah pursu'd th' Israelites The Seas ' gainst him did strive When Jezebel God's Prophets sought Them every one to kill God turn'd her Witchcraft unto nought By his Almighty Skill When Haman thought the Jews to kill And utterly destroy The Lord on him destruction brought And his whole Family From Rome and Hell deliver us For Blood they thirst for still Defend us Lord our Cause is just Of Blood give her her fill A Golden Cup there 's in one Hand A Sword there 's in the other If we the Poyson will not drink We shan't be call'd a Brother Our Names will then be Hereticks Yea Fire and Sword 's too good For those that do decline her ways And love God's holy Word From an Invasion Lord deliver From Massacre also From Powder-Plot preserve us still That we may know no Woe Then shall Thy Name extolled be By Praises in a Song Who hath his Church and People sav'd From Men and Devils strong REVEL xvii 5. And upon her Forehead was a Name written MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND

drunk deep of the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and also because she sets at nought God 's holy Word therefore we cannot we will not bow to her Golden Image that she hath set up notwithstanding all her Threats As Nebuchadnezzar threatned the three Worthies with a burning fiery Furnace if they would not bow down to the Image of Gold which he had set up So this Mother of Harlots if you will not put your Necks under her Yoke then comes an Armada an Inquisition a Massacre a Powder-plot Fire Faggot Racks Assassinations Stranglings witness Justice Godfry Who for taking but an Examination which was his Place and Work and Sworn to it those Men of Blood could not sleep quietly till their malice was vented on his Body by strangling and other Tortures they put him to as is more than probable to protract his misery and after a considerable time thrust a Sword into his Body to make the World believe it was his own Act. Surely had he done it himself some Blood would have appeared on the Ground where he lay but the Sword being run into his Body some considerable time after Strangling the Blood being coagulated nothing appears but a black Water which usually followeth after the Bloods coagulating And that Act inhumane and horrid Act was done by the Papists is clear from their taking his Pocket Book where the Depositions and Examinations were which was that they wanted though not his Gold nor Silver 'T is true his great Lace Band he went out withal in the Morning was taken away the Gentleman being strangled doubtless the Band was torn in the Fray and to have let that gone would have told the Story too plainly But this Blood as well as the Blood of many millions more crieth for Vengeance That one instance in Ireland in that most inhumane Massacre in 1642 wherein were more than three hundred thousand in a few days put to Death some burnt some slain with the Sword some shot to Death some smothered some starved and pined to Death some killed with Staves some cut in pieces some hanged twice or thriee many thousands drowned at Portendown-Bridg And when the poor Souls came swimming by the River side to save their Lives the Papists knockt them on the head with the But-end of their Musquets But the Instance I mind is that at Portendown-Bridg a Woman was seen to rise Brest-high out of the River her Hair hanging down with Skin as white as Snow often crying out Revenge Revenge Revenge which made the Persons much amazed that saw and heard it This was attested by one Elizabeth Price whose Husband was thrown into that River before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose with many more that might be named 4. Sudden Death was designed by wicked Haman after one Years provision and preparation for the Work as the Spanish Invasion was five Years before compleated so there was to be one Year For on the 13th day of the first Month the King's Scribes were called to make the Writings and on the 11th day of the twelfth Month the month Adar the Massacre was appointed and then nothing but sudden Death in one day Saith the Word They were to Destroy Kill and to cause to Perish all Jews both young and old little Children and Women in one day Esther 3. 12 13. So in like manner Sudden Death was like to be the portion of the Protestants in England Time for Repentance would have been reckoned too good for an Heretick To kill them and send them to Hell speedily is an act meritorious and cause of Triumph when there was near one hundred thousand lives in three days time taken away in France which it seems no less could quench the thirst of that unsatiable Whore and Harlot his Holiness at Rome at the same time made Bonfires rings his Bells shoots off his Guns and sang O horrid Blasphemy Te deum Laudamus We praise thee O God As if he would draw in the most Gracious God to be accessary to his Murders and an accomplisher of his Bloody and Abominable Impieties Sudden death is that they delight in when so many Barrels of Gun-powder were under the Parliament House and Chair of State Thirty six Barrels would soon have dispatcht the King Princes Clergie Nobles Knights and Burgesses the very confluence of the Flower of Glory Learning Prudence and Authority in the Land Fathers Sons and Brothers Foes Papists Protestants all at one blast and after that had been done then a sudden Massacre throughout the Nation and so would have altered Religion and Government and brought in a Foraign Power But our good God hath prevented them hitherto praised be his holy Name O what a settled Detestation and fixed Opposition should we have against that Religion whose Faith is Faction whose Promises are Equivocations whose Worship is Idolatry whose Principles are high Treason whose Mercies are Cruelties whose practices are Stabbing Strangling and poysoning of Kings whose frame of Government is a politick design to enslave the World and to bring the Necks of Princes under their Iron Yoke and whose God is a pretty little tiny thing which the Priests first create with a Charm of four Words long and then worship the Works of their own Hands and when they have done chop him up at a bit and make no Bones of him 5. Much Deceit and Hypocrisy was acted by wicked Haman when he intended to have the Jews Massacred For he pretended to the King Ahasuerus that this People had Laws diverse from the King's Laws and that they kept not the Laws of the King and besides that it was not for the Kings profit to suffer such People Est 3. 8. This he pretends to the King as the great reason why he would have them destroyed when indeed it was not out of love he had to the King's Honour but his own through the pride of his own Heart All the reason was because Mordecai would not bow to him Esther 3. 5. As hypocritical and deceitful hath Rome been in bringing about her wicked Designs at all times for concerning this Powder-plot the better to bring about her design Mr. Percy takes some Rooms of one Mr. Winyard which Rooms served for withdrawing Rooms in Parliament-time for the Lords for these Rooms adjoyned to the Wall of the Parliament-House and Percy took Fauks under pretence to be his Man who changed his name into Johnson he had the Keys and keeping of the Rooms and these Rooms were taken for Lodging Rooms They took also another House and a Seller just under the Parliament House under pretence to keep Coals and Wood which was to make the Serpents Nest in thus their deceit appears Yea further When they wanted to bring the Plot upon the Protestants for that they would have done one of the Conspirators Mr. Keys a Relation of Mr. Pickring of Tichmarsh Grove in Northamptonshire which Pickring was a Protestant and a great Favourite of King James's who had a very choice Horse This

Godfry will not leave crying till God avenge it We see by that what they would do with us all did it lie in their power the Powder-Plot the Burning of London again and again attempted the Spanish Invasion the many that have been privately Murdered must all be reckoned for God hath every one of them and a thousand more in his Book of Remembrance which he will exactly remember when Babylon's Sins are grown to the height Let me give you a short Scheme of the variety of Popish Tortures practized by the Bloody Idolaters upon the poor Christians in Ireland Paris and Piedmont Some had their Bellies ript up when they were with Child and the living Child laid on the dead Mother some driven into a River and there Drowned in great numbers if any could Swim they either shot at them or knockt them on the Head with the But-ends of their Musquets as they came near the Land One Mrs. Manuel they threw into the Water then in Labour the Child being half born when the Mother was drowned The merciless Papists having set fire on a Castle where many Protestants were and hearing them screek O how sweetly do they cry said they rejoycing In one place they burnt two Protestants Bibles and said It was Hell fire they burnt other Bibles they took and cut in pieces and they took the Bible of one Mr. Edward Slack a Minister opening of it they laid it in a puddle of Water and then stampt upon it saying A Plague on 't this Bible hath bred all the Quarrel Women great with Child had Swords run in them in such an inhuman manner that the Children in the Womb thrust their Arms and Feet out of the Wounds Others have been tortured alive others deadly wounded and laid on Tenter-hooks others their Flesh sliced off their Bodies some with Ropes and Wit hs about their Necks have been drawn through Water Bogs Woods Streets to inforce them to confess their Treasure and when they had so done and gotten their Treasure were basely Murdered some were hanged up by their Arms and Soldiers did try the strength of their Swords upon them A School-Master of Rovas being stript Naked had his Nails tore off with Pincers his Hands stabb'd with a Dagger-point drawn through the Borroughs of Lucerna in Piedmont and had his Flesh cut off with a Faulchion crying out to him What sayest thou now Will you go to Mass To which with admirable constancy he said Much rather Death than Mass crying O dispatch me quickly for the love of God! Some they ript up and their Guts left to trial about their Heels Women great with Child were hung up by the Heels and Bellies ript open till the Children dropt out and then cast into a Ditch Some Children have had their Brains dasht out against the Wall and their Bodies thrown to Dogs and Swine some Children thrown to Dogs to be devoured by them some trampled upon to death other Infants have been found sucking the brests of their dead Mothers Some were driven to the Woods and Mountains in the extremity of Frost and Snow having first been stript stark naked and so were starved others have been driven to take shelter in Caves and there by Fire and Smoke made at the Caves mouth were smothered and choaked to Death Some of the Murderers in Piedmont finding eleven Men made a Furnace red-hot and made one cast in another and the last they cast in themselves In Piedmont two Children both Dumb murthered The Marquess of Pionessa commanded the Hangman to take the Body of Giovani Pullions after many Scorns laid upon him by the Friars to be dragged to a Tree and there Hanged who before they hanged used many Arguments to him to leave his Religion but could not prevail Some time after an Elder of the Church at Rosanna was brought to the same place to die the Marquess of Pionessa three or four days after going that way and one of the Soldiers discharging a Musquet on the dead Bodies there came a stream of fresh Blood from one of them which the Marquess seeing said This Blood crieth for Vengeance Some have been compelled to carry their own Parents to the place of Execution others to set fire to the Pile that burnt them some Mother 's compelled to cast their own Children into the Water to drown them some Wives to hang up their own Husbands and Children to hang up their own Parents and when this was done inhopes of Life because Life was promised for so doing were Massacred themselves some have been boil'd to death in Cauldrons some have had their Eyes twisted out with Cords When the Massacre was in Ireland the Popish Priests gave the Sacrament to many Irish upon condition that they should not spare Men Women nor Children that were Protestants One Hulligan a Priest when this Massacre began read an Excommunication against all those that from henceforth should harbour any English Scotish or Welsh or give them Alms whereby many were famished to death At this time when the Irish Massacre was acting they boasted That when they had destroyed the Irish they would go over to England and not leave the memorial of an English-Man under Heaven The Popish Priests after they had given their Crew a dismiss at Mass the day before the Massacre told them they should go and take possession of all the Protestants Lands also to Strip Rob and Dispoil them for the Protestants were worse than Dogs they were Devils and therefore their killing them was a meritorious Act. Some had their Brains taken out and fried in a Pan many stoned to Death some have been put into a Hole and nothing but their Head appearing covered to the Neck with Stones and Earth that they might feel Death and taste death more deliberately Some have been stript stark-naked and driven by the Inhumane Persecutors through the Streets and if their weakness was such that they could not go so fast as they would have them they would prick them forward with Swords and Spears Some have been so wracked that in their Festering Wounds Worms and other Vermin have bred Some of the Papists openly profest in Irelands Massacre that they held it as lawful to kill a Protestant as a Dog And one of their Priests said It was as lawful to take away their Lives as a Bone out of a Dogs mouth One Ann Hill going with a young Child on her back to save her Life and four more by her side they met her and pulled the Child from off her Back and trod on it till it died stript her and the four Children naked so that they died with cold One Joan Addis they stabbed and then put the Child to her Brest and bid it Suck English Bastard One Good-wife Lea they carried and her Daughter into the Woods and first hung the Mother and then the Daughter by the hair of her Mother's Head Poor Children that went out into the Fields to eat Weeds and Grass they murdered without