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A95883	Dagon demolished: or, Twenty admirable examples of Gods severe justice and displeasure against the subscribers of the late engagement, against our lawfull soveraign King Charls the second; and the whole House of Peeres, in these words. I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithfull to the common-wealth of England, as it is now established without a King or House of Lords. Also against some of the judges of the late King in the high court of injustice. Published, to reclaim such fanatique persons, who have been too forward to promote this wicked, destructive engagement; and still designe it, which hath wounded the consciences of so many Godly Christians in this kingdome. By that late worthy patriot of his country, Mr. John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1660 (1660)	Wing V298; Thomason E1021_2; ESTC R208354	7,711	17

sicknesse caught a great fall in his house which put his shoulder out of what and lying in continuall distresse and perplexity of spirit complaining still of his taking the Engagement thus pining and languishing away he shortly after died 5. One Mr. Hall of St. Needs in Huntington-shire having been a most eminent professor of Religion and extraordinarily gifted in Prayer and godly conference afterwards complying with the times taking the Engagement and turning a great stickler with the Army at last turned a very So● in matters of Religion and one night going forth of his house in an out-room hang'd himself and there was found the next morning 6. One Mr. Midgeley a School-master in Ouldham neer Manchester in Lancaster-shire having been an Engager and great prosecutor of his eminently godly Minister Mr. Constantine and having been writing one night divers accusations and such like papers against his said Minister whereunto he was hired by one Mr. Ashton a Justice of Peace of the same Parish and by diverse other eminent enemies of the said Mr. Constantine because he would not take the Engagement and they having paid the said Mr. Midgeley for his pains and he going home that night there having been a great snow on the ground and the weather very bitter cold he was the next morning found dead in the snow and onely his finger and thumb of his right-hand eaten or bitten off from his hand 7. Also the aforesaid Mr. James Ashton of Chadarton in the said Parish of Ouldham once a desperate Malignant in the first War against the Parliament but afterwards having made his peace taken the Engagement and turned a great stickler for the present times was made a Justice of Peace and became one of the aforesaid Mr. Constantine's greatest enemies sequestred the said Mr. Constantine out of his Living and for the cause aforesaid the refusing the Engagement imprisoned and after banished him out of the County and after this hearing that Mr. Constantine had preached twice or thrice in the Country he summoned him again to appear before him intending to have punished him sorely for his presumption But in the mean season it pleased the Lord to strike this Mr. Ashton who before had been a Gentleman naturally very healthfull and of a strong constitution of body into such a languishing sicknesse as made him daily pine away so as no means or physick could help him and which is most remarkable and fearfull before his death he became so full of Lice continually that all the shift and attendance that possible was used could not cleanse him from this filthy Vermine and thus either upon the day before or the day after Mr. Constantine's coming to Ouldham to make his personal appearance before him the said Mr. Ashton thus miserably departed this life 8. One Mr. Bray Minister of Michaels in Lancashire having once been a very zealous Presbyterian to see too at last for the gaining of an Augmentation to his Living took the Engagement turned a great zealot for the Independent Faction and immediately after an Order comming for the pulling down of the late Kings Arms in Churches he was so hot therein that he would needs as he did pull them down himself and sent the boards on which the Kings Arms were painted home to his house intending to have made a doore of them to one of his rooms of his house but it pleased the Lord presently to strike him with a sudden and violent sickness whereof he presently dyed and those boards were made his Coffin to bury him in 9. One Sir Thomas Martin Knight of Cambridge shire an Engager and a great Complyer with the times having been a hunting in Holmby-Park and the Deer being faln stuck and opened and he desired together with the other Gentlemen to wash his hands in the Deers blood No said he I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the young King of Scots And immediately after this riding home the same Day at Evening his Horse very suddenly and violently threw him in which fall he pitch't on his head mortally brake his Skull and shoulder of which wounds he very shortly after died 10. The Constable of Shaw in Lancashire four miles from Manchester having taken the Engagement was presently after so perplexed in Conscience that notwithstanding all the Godly Exhortations and Comforts administred unto him by godly neighbour Ministers yet the apprehension of Gods wrath for what he had done therein so increased upon him that he fell distracted and so continued many weeks together 11. Also one M. Rich. Smith Minister of Stoke Prior in VVorcestershire having taken the Engagement for the procuring of an Augmentation to his Living returning home from London after he had taken it fell presently into such a frighting horrour of Conscience and Distraction of his Senses that he had oft endevoured to beat out his own brains But at last recovered his Sences by Gods great mercy repented bitterly of what he had done and thereupon in peace departed this life in a sickneess which then took him 12. Dr. Doris●aus the Westminsterians Juncto's first Embassadour sent from them into Holland and therefore no doubt a great Engager and desperate Complyer in all things with them as in the Kings death being arrived in Holland was therein immediately and suddenly assaulted and murthered as he sate at dinner in his house 13. Also Mr. Anthony Ascham a Gentleman of excellent parts being sent as the Juncto's the Embassador into Spain very shortly after his arrival there at Madrid was in his own house there suddenly and most furiously set upon and assaulted by divers desperate English Caviliers and he and his Interpreter was hen and there murthered 14. Collonel Rainsborow a mighty Engager and prime stickler for the power at Westminster a desperate header of the Levellers Admiral of the Navy at Sea was suddenly also assaultéd by a company of Caviliers at Pomfrait town in Yorkshire in an Inne and there murthered by them 15. Mr. Tho. Hoyle formerly lookt upon as a very pious and strictly religious Gentleman an Alderman of York and Member of the Parliament but afterward having taken the Engagement even against his conscience and turned a great complyer with them at Westminster Not long after it pleased the Lord so to leave him to himself that on the very same day 12 moneth that King Charles was beheaded yea as near as possible could be judged about the very same houre of that day this Gentleman hang'd himself in his own house at Westminster and was found stark dead by his woeful wife when she came home having been abroad that morning 16. Mr. Shereman a Citizen and Silkman in Pater-Noster-Row in London who had formerly been lookt on as a godly and religious Gentleman had been a Tryer and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church Government a singular good friend to Mr. Love then his Pastour but afterward he turning with the times took the Engagement and that in form of an Oath whereupon

he was made a Common Council man turn'd a desperate enemy and hater of the said M. Love who shortly after being in his shop with his wife as perfectly well as ever ever in his life yet in the Evening standing at his counter in his shop and his wife close by him he suddenly sunk down by her stark dead and never spake one word after it 17. Also Collonel Ven a Citizen of London formerly a great Professor of Religion and a long time Mr. Love's precious dear friend and a Member of the House of Commons in Parliament but being turned with the times was a great Engager and mighty stickler for and with them at Westminster yea he proved afterwards a most bitter enemy to the Presbyterian Ministers of London and upon occasion used those words against them Viz. They at VVestminster should never be at quiet till they had provided a pair of shooes and a staffe for the turbulent Presbyterian Ministers of London and banisht them out of the Kingdom But it pleased the Lord that on the very next day after that horrible abuse and banishment done to Mr. Jenkin then Minister of Christ-Church London in both sequestring him out of his said Living and banishing him out of the City wherein this Coll. Ven had a hand also and had most churlishly carried himself toward Master Jenkin in the Committee even that day whereon this godly Minister was so censured which was July the 6. 1650. being Thursday It pleased the Lord I say that Master Ven next Friday following July 7. and at night this Coll. going to bed as perfectly well and in health as ever in his life and his wife lying by him he fell asleep by her immediately and slept soundly without any complaint of the least distemper but the next morning about 6. of the clock his wife awaking found him starke dead by her in the bed never having made the least groan or spoken one word to her since the day before And thus God banished him first out of the Land of the Living 18. One Sir Henry Holcroft why had formerly been a great Professour of Religion and to see too a practiser of the power of Godlynesse but afterwards drew back and Apostatized to the Independent Faction took the Engagement and fell into great complyance with them being a Committee Gentleman and acting strenuously for them But immediatly after this it pleased the Lord that he fell into a sore disease and much and often bleeding at his nose and mouth and so continued all the time of his said sinful complyance with them and at last fell into such fits of extreme bleedding and strongly vomiting up even of gobbets of blood at his mouth and flowing out of blood at his nose with such unstintable violence that he most sadly departed this Life in one of the extreme fits thereof 19. In August 1650. Barron Rigby a most desperate Enemy to the Presbyterians Church Discipline as being a great Independent together with Baron Yates the two Judges for the Assizes then held at Chalmsford in Essex two grand Engagers as every one may know and deep complyers with the VVestminsterian power They both being at Chalimford and hearing the Assize Sermon preach't before them the Godly Ministers Text being out of Luke the 16. 2. Give an account of thy Stewardship for thou maist be no longer Steward Immediately after this Sermon it pleased the Lord to strike Judge Rigby with present sickness so as that they could not keep the Assizes there but were forced to adjourn it promising and hoping to come again and finish it there and went thence to Croydon in Surry to hold the Assizes there but having begun to sit both Judge Rigby his sickness so increased upon him and the like sicknesse suddenly so assaulted Judge Yates also and with such violent pain and great distemper upon them both and also upon the High Sheriffe of Surry then present with them who also was smitten with the same sicknesse at that time that the Assizes was enforced to cease there also and they all three were speedily conveyed away thence to London where they all three died immediatly after even within a seven nights space or thereabout of a most violent pestilential Fever and very many more of their Clerks Officers and Attendants on the said Assizes died also at the same time as was generally and most credibly informed and reported and I my self know one Captain Hindely one of Judge Rigby's chief Clerks or Officers who died at the same time immediately upon the very same time of these Judges death A most remarkable and fearful Example of Gods wrath upon Engagers and sinful Complyers with workers of iniquity VVoe woe therefore to all Apostatizing Temporizers and perfidious Backsliders Heb. 10. 38. And as is further most evident in those Scriptures beneath following 20. I shall conclude all with the memorable Example of Gods Divine Justice upon Lockyer an Active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principal hand in seising and bringing the King to his death Cried out Justice Justice Justice openly against him and spit in the Kings face in VVestminster-Hall as he was going to his Tryal before his condemnation Conducted him to the Block and was shortly after condemned in a Counsel of War by some of the Kings own Judges and shot to death as a Mutinier in Pauls-Church-yard London Also John Lilburn's double Tryal for his life soon after a grand stickler against the House of Lords The proceedings against Saxbey Syndercombe and other Levellers who were chief Instruments to bring the King to Justice and the Grand Opposers of the House of Lords Also the Imprisonments and sufferings of M. G. Harrison Collonel Rich Collonel Okey Lord Grey of Grooby and others of the Kings condemners who were all Engagers against the King and House of Lords May it not awaken the stupid seared Consciences of all those now living who had any hand in these Tragedies and Engagements against King and Parliament to bring them to speedy and sincere publick Repentance for them Lest they fall into the like Terrors or Judgements as others that have so wilfully ingaged against King and House of Lords POSTSCRIPT Unto this I shall onely add two Quaeries WHether those persons that are living that took upon themselves the Name Stile and Title of the Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland though by their Writs by which they Sate they were but the fragments of the Parliament of England only beheaded their Lawful Protestant King banished his Posterity overturning our antient Government it self Consisting of King Lords and Commons which Constitution continued many hundreds of years and was the best and fittest for these Nations that could be and brought the Nation into such a Labyrinth and Confusion by endevouring to set up an Utopian Common-wealth a mere New-Nothing VVhether the persons may not justly fear they may fall down Quick into Hell or fall into the same Exemplary Terrors Judgements and self Executions with others if they repent not for their Abominations 2. VVhether These men that set aside and repealed the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance as unlawful Oaths which themselves took or ought to take before they sate in the Commons House and also the Protestation Solemne League and Covenant made in Pursuance of them and Diametrically contrary to these Oaths to set up a New Engagement to which every one must Subscribe to be true and faithful to their New Common-wealth without King or House of Lords bringing all English Freemen into a New Premunire which thousands of our Godly Protestant Ministers Gentry and Freemen refused to take whether these men that can swallow all kind of Oaths though directly contrary one to the other Neither reverence God or Man are fit persons to be Trustees for the Nation in this Time of Eminent Danger now the Nation groans under so many Oppressions and Dangers Hebrewes 6. 4 5 6. It is impossible for those who were once enlightned and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good Word of God and the Powers of the World to come If they fall away to renew them again to repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of life afresh and put him to an open shame Jude 11. 12. Woe to them for they have gone in the way of Kain and perished in the gainsaying of Core They are Trees whose fruit is withered Twice dead and plucked up by the roots FINIS