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B01450 An account of the sufferings and dying words of several French Protestants, under this present persecution as it was received from the hands of several Protestant ministers, who arrived lately in England. 1699 (1699) Wing A396; ESTC R204267 4,974 16

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commanded all the Torments usual to be inflicted on him with which he was nothing disturbed but sung The Lord is my Helper I will not fear what Men can do unto me I will fear no Evil because Thou art with me O Lord. Then he blamed the Tormentors for favouring of him and desired them to do their outmost The Sheriff not prevailing that way He with some Jesuits and Priests though by Flattery to Seduce him promising him Preferment Riches and Honour if he would deny his Profession But he dreeded them as Foolish and Mad saying I look for greater Preferment in Heaven than ye can give me here on Earth He was then Condemned and carried out of the City to be Burnt Multitudes of Friends and others following him some Kissing him Weeping for him and entreating him with Tears to pity himself To whom he Answered Weep not I pray you for me but weep for the Enemies of God who fight against the Protestants Weep I say for them who prepare a Fire for us purchasing Hell Fire for themselves in the Day of Vengence Cease I pray you thus to molest my settled and quiet Mind For truely for the Name of Christ and the Protestant Reformed Religion I am ready and willing to suffer a Thousand Deaths Others perswaded him to deny his Religion with his Mouth and to keep his Conscience to himself To which he Answered O Fools my Tongue which by God's Goodness I have cannot be brought to deny the ●ame For with the Heart we believe unto Righteousness and with the Tongue we Confess unto Salvation And thus perswading and encouraging the People to be willing to Dye in the like Cause and not to forsake their Profession for earthly Enjoyments with an unparalelled Countenance he gave up his Body to the Flames March 18. 1698. ANother young Gentleman a Soldier in the Garison at Dunkirk forsook all Company gave himself to Fasting and Prayer Meditation and Reading of the Holy Scripture Coming into the City upon a Holy-day and seeing the People at their Pastimes and other Ceremonial Follies declared himself a Protestant and cried Away with such Ridiculous Idolatrous Foppries For God will not be mocked with your Superstitions For These that Worship Him must Worship Him in Spirit and in Truth He was apprehended and tormented with diverse Torments which he regarded not saying There is nothing in my Mind that can be compared to the Kingdom of Heaven Neither is all the World if it were weighted in a Ballance comparable to the price of one Soul And further said Who can separate us from the Love of Christ Can Tribulation or Anguish And again I have learned of my Lord Jesus Christ not to fear them that can kill the Body and have no power to kill the Soul Having endured a Multitude of Torments he received Sentence of Death And at the place of Execution he said I give Thee Thanks O my Lord God who hast accepted me to be a Partaker of Thy Death and has not suffered me to be Devoured of my fierce Enemies Satan a subtile World but hast kept me constant in Thy true Faith unto the end And so he lost his Head but found a Crown of Glory Dunkirk Agust 3. 1698. ANother young Gentleman seeing the Persecution of the Protestants in Piedmont being of eminent Religious Parents and he himself being most Zealous in the Protestant Religion His Parents fearing that his Zeal might make him Guilty of his own Death keeped him closs at their Countrey House a great way from the City of Turin But he hearing of the great many persecutions of the Protestants both in City and Countrey detasting any further delay went all along through By-ways and much Danger and Weariness toward the City where he came in the Morning And going before the Judge said What a Shame is it for you thus wickedly to take away Mens Lives by all manner of Cruelties And also endeavour to destroy their Souls by compelling them to deny their Religion Would you know O ignorant Souls what I am Behold I am a Protestant and an Enemy to your Devilish Sacrifices I scorne and despise your Idols and tread them under my Feet and acknowledge only God Almighty the Creator of Heaven Earth Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord But for your prayers to Saints and your devilish dead Idols which are the work of Mens hands none but Fools will owne and worship the same c. Come on therefore and let the Hangman Burn Cut and Mangle this poor Mortal Carcase it is very easie to break and destroy a weak and brittle perishing Body but the Mind and Soul you cannot touch with all that you can do The Judge enraged ●herewith said to the Executioner Take him and let him feel the power of our Torments and know what we can do Yet O sturdy youth I would fain have thee before thou dyest to Recant this thy Wickedness and to save thy self from a wretched Death Consider what Pleasures thou mayest enjoy in the House of thy honourable Parents Consider the Lamentations and Tears of thy miserable Family and Relations which by thy Perverseness will be brought to Ruine Consider thou art in thy youth in the flower of thine Age in the way to Honour and Preferment by an Honourable Marriage agreeable to thy Quality and Estate do not these glistering Glories and the Delights of this World move thee Does not the Terror and extream Grief of thy dear Parents incline thee to pity thy self and them Yea who is there doth not lament thy madness and folly If this doth not prevail consider the terrible Death that thou art like to suffer Consider what variety of Torments are prepared for thee for thou shalt either be Beheaded by the Sword or thou shalt be torn in pieces by the Teeth of wilde Beasts or else thou shalt be thrown alive into the burning Flames Now how easie and small a matter is required of thee to avoid all this punishment and take a little Incense between thy Fingers and put into the censure in honour of the Romish Religion thou shalt be set free promising always to desert from the Hugon● Religion When he heard him thus speak being extreamly moved he spit in the Tyrant's Face and presently threw down the Censure and kicked the Incense and said Away with your Idols out of my sight Whereupon the judge commanded the Hangman without further delay to pluck his Limbs out of joint and then with the Claws of wild Beasts tore off the flesh from his Bo●es while he not in the least daunted with their cruel Torments fell a singing and praising in this manner O Lord I will never forget Thy Goodness and Mercy what a pleasure is it O Lord Jesus to remember thy triumphant Victories who by suffering hast attained the height of Glory Thus with great Constancy and Courage he continued joyful and chearfully sang Praises to God when he was all overstain'd and imbrewed in his own Blood and cruelly tormented in all parts of his Body Then they proceeded to the last Torments which was to cast him alive into the burning Flames where he dyed a joyfull Marty singing Praises and Hallelujah's to God Turin October 27. 1698. 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AN ACCOUNT OF THE Sufferings AND Dying Words Of Several French Protestants Under this present PERSECVTION As it was received from the Hands of several Protestant Ministers who Arrived lately in England LONDON Printed and Re-printed at Edinburgh 1699 A Brief Account of the Sufferings and Last Words of several French Protestants under this present Persecution MOnsieur de Hamlin a young Gentleman of very good Parentage and very Zealous in the Protestant Religion living long privately in his own House with an other Gentleman and his Host whom he instructed in all the Principles of the Protestant Religion at last they were Apprehended and cast into Prison And while they lay there in came a Priest with all his Accoutrements to say Mass But Monsieur de Hamlin inflamed with Zeal against such Ridiculous Fopperies went and overthrew the Chalice and Candlesticks saying Is it not enough to you to Blaspheme God in the Church but you must also polute the Prison with your Idolatries The Jayler seeing this fell upon him and beat him most desperately also removed him into a Dungeon loading him with Irons which made his Legs to swell where he lay Eight Days in a most pitiful manner The other Gentleman and his Host terrified with the Prison and Fear of Death Renounced their Profession Whereupon M. de Hamlin said to the other Gentleman O Unhappy and more than Miserable Man is it possible that you shall be so Foolish as to save your Life for a few Days Doest thou think Eternal Life so mean a thing as to prefer the Present Life before it Remember Man that the sufferings of this present Life are not comparable with the Glory that shall be revealed If thou suffer with him thou shalt also Reign with him Thou can'st not answer for what thou hast already done yet the Gate of Mercy is not quite shut Heap not Sin upon Sin lest thou epentest when it is too late and be an Example to all Apostates Having ended his Speech the other young Gentleman with the Priest going out of Prison The Priest informed grievously against M. de Hamlin And he being Condemned and carried to the place of Execution and there tyed to the Stake he cryed out with a loud Voice Lord Jesus receive my Spirit How long shall Darkness overwhelm this Realm How long wilt Thou suffer the Tyranny of these wicked Men They endeavoured to drown his Voice with the Sound of Trumpets but in the midest of the Flame he Prayed and Exhorted the People to Constancy and Truth The Fire was slow therefore put him to the greater Torment But that which most troubled him was the Clamorous and Wicked Men set on by the Jesuites and Friers who continually cryed Turn thou Heretick call on our Lady say Salve Regina To whom he Answered Depart from me and trouble me not ye Messengers of Satan For the Fool hath said in his Heart there is not a God The Men of Sin have hardened themselves to do Evil continually But those that Suffer with Christ shall also Reign with Him So he render'd up his Soul unto God in the midst of the Flames At Mascon in France the 17 of April 1697. TWO Ministers who fled out of France in the time of the late Persecution into Germany where they continued a long time But returning to Valence in France to see some particular Friends thinking to pass unknown They being discovered and cast into Prison the Judge commanded them to be brought before him where they were accused of Instructing and Encouraging the Protestants to continue in their Profession To whom the Judge said Are ye the Authors of this Sedition Are ye the Cause that so many lose their Lives By God I swear that ye shall suffer for them all and shall suffer the Torments ye encourage them to undergo To whom they answered Thy Sentence we joyfully embrace and we are most willing to be Sacrificed for our Brethren and resolve to shed our dearest Blood in the Profession of the Protestant Religion and unanimously offer up our Lives for the same The Judge being much in rage with this stout Answer commanded their sides to be Lanced with Knives till their Bones were laid open But the Holy Ministers preached the Living God and the Lord Jesus Christ and exhorted the People to continue in the Protestant Religion and to Abstain from the Idolatrous Worship of the Church of Rome Upon which the Judge commanded to strick out their Teeth that their speech might be hindred His Orders were obeyed and their Faces also buffetted their Eye lids torn off their Cheeks Cut and Gasht with Knives the Skin of their Beards by degrees pluck'd off and their comely countenances wholly defaced and deformed Yet for all this the Meek and Patient Ministers and Marryers said only this We thank thee O Sir that thou hast opened to us so many Mouths to Preach our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and to Confess the Truth of His reformed Religion For as many Wounds as we have so many Mouths have we to Bless and Praise God and Jesus Christ our Redeemer for giving us Patience and Constancy in the Truth The Judge being enraged with their Constancy ordered the one called Monsieur Perued to go back to Prison from the place of Execution cast in a Dungeon there Strangled And the others Body to be teared and rent in Peices with a Hurdle and an Iron Grate But he being no way affrighted or daunted therewith did sing The Lord is my helper I will not fear what Man can do unto me I will fear no evil because Thou O Lord art with me As for thee O unjust Judge I appeal from this thy Tyrany to the Righteous Throne and Judgment Seat of Jesus Christ the Righteous Judge where it will appear ye are but Bloody Tyrants to inflict such horrid Tortures upon us innocent Protestants Then coming to the place of Execution the Judge cried to the Hangman or Executioner Dispatch the Heretick Rebel He nothing troubled therewith sang aloud O Lord I yeild to Thee To whom the Death of all Thy Saints We know most dear to be Thus perswading and encouraging the People to dye in the like Cause he with a chearfull countenance gave up his Body to the Torments and his Soul unto God And is one of these before the Altar that cries How long c. At Valence in France the 27 of June 1698. ANother young Gentleman at Calis who upon professing himself to be a Protestant was apprehended and cast into Prison And being brought before the Judge boldly acknowledged He believed in Christ and in the Protestant Reformed Religion and valued not what they could inflict on him for his Profession Then the Judge called for several Tortures and all manner of Torments to be inflicted on him To whom he said It would be a Loss and Damnage to me if I did not suffer diverse Torments and Punishments for Christ in his Cause The Sheriff more incensed hereby