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A41150	Christ ruling in midst of His enemies, or, Some first fruits of the churches deliverance budding forth out of the crosse and sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres sufferer, and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ : together with secretarie Windebanks letters to Sir. Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle ... : wherein also the reader shall find in severall passages, publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great designe of Christ, for setting up of His kingdome, and the ruine of antichrist / by Lievtenant Collonel John Fenwicke.	Fenwicke, John, Sir, 1579-1658?; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir J. Ashley.; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir A. Davison.	1643 (1643)	Wing F719; ESTC R13870	22,886	32

to my God often strangely preserved from that deadly infection was it that thou grudged me thy corrupt ayre to breath in that thou sought my life and pursued my wife and mee both as traytors till thou drove us out of the kingdome God made mee require thy malice with the like pitie as before that morning I escaped thy malicious designe against me as I passed the gates in the darke of the morning and being a little passed from the walls the towne being still in my sight God made me weepe over thee the second time in the same manner as before and with ruminating and reasonings within me upon the same words of Christ over Jerusalem and how soone after was the bloody sword drawne which has wasted thee not a little and well if the worst be not yet behinde What hast thou got now by all thy discourteous and harsh dealings with mee who has ever sought thy good I have served thee divers yeeres in a publique office wherein though I could doe thee little good the streame run so strong against mee yet I have sometimes kept out some evils from over-spreading thee untill thou began to stretch out thy necke against God in the Scottish Cause and then ever since how 〈◊〉 an inundation of all evills overwhelmed thee and God I feare left thee to some fatall fall Repent repent O Newcastle lest the Lord depart from thee and send a revenging sword to avenge his quarrell against thee if so take heed of what was threatned to a wicked Citie Afflicton shall not come the second time which the Lord avert and give thee a heart to repent and turne to him that has long smitten thee that hee may repent him of the evill which otherwise will befall thee For all the strength and power of man wherein thou still dost boast and glory I have thought it my dutie to present thee with a briefe view of thy harsh usage of mee and mine to see if at any time God may give thee an heart to repent which should be to mee greater joy then to see thee laid desolate when these papers I now send thee shall be as a flying roll through thy streets and dolefull habitations filling your fainting hearts with errors and shrikings to think of all your wickednesses and amongst the rest your bloodie plots and practises against one that has ever sought your good John Fenwick To the READER Courteous Reader I Had beene silent concerning my selfe in this evill time had not the importunity of some friends and the unthankefulnesse of this apostate age imposed a necessitie upon mee of publishing somewhat to the world of my late troubles and sufferings to many extremities these five yeeres compleat 〈…〉 about the great worke of God begun in Scotland finding by others as well as in mine owne opinion that I have suffered much by my silence The stormes and tempests of this troubled time having tossed mens wearyed minds out of their right course and motion and the many buffets and blowes in these common calamities upon this kingdome have so malld the heads and dulled the spirits of men that they have almost lost their hearing and understanding and as slow to remember what they have heard and known of former sufferings the new sufferings wearying out the old so that a necessitie is laid upon mee to publish somewhat to the world of my late troubles for these reasons First my dutie to God to declare his mercies in midst of mine enemies malice in thankfulnesse of minde and spirit to leave it to posteritie as it is expressed Psal. 102. this shall be written for the generations to come Secondly if God bring out good to my Countrey out of these troubles the world may see that I have suffered somewhat for it Thirdly Being called out to the field in the publike service of the State from the first going out of our armies and having lost some blood in this cause already in Keynton-field where God gave me I may say a new life being sore wounded and stript and left for dead upon the ground among the dead almost an houre senslesse and being still resolved to be prodig all of my blood if God assist me in this his cleare and undoubted cause wherein the bloody sword makes no difference but my lot may be to fall as soone as another my children may be somewhat comforted from my former deliverances to trust the same God who hath strengthened me with resolution rather to die honourably then live a sordid life in slavery and when they shall enjoy their precious priviledges and find them dyed in their fathers blood they will more prise them and be more carefull to preserve them in their integrity to the generation following as their ●●st inheritance that still God may have his due honour and glory and a constant succession of faithfull servants to the worlds end Fourthly having lost my whole estate in these late troubles and not enjoying the benifit of 100l of mine owne at home or in f●●raigne parts in five yeeres time and spent my selfe further in the publique service and not able to provide for my children if God shall call mee before things be settled I leave to them I hope hereby a title and ininterest in the publique good whereby they may bolaly and justly challenge a share from that rule of common equitie That those that have borne the hea● of the day and tasted deeply of the sowre ought drinke of the sweet and be comforted with the coole waters of repast and rest it not being for the honour of my Countrey to leave mine to sincke under my burthens for the publique good wherein I have spent my selfe without the least publique support Good Reader beare with my plaine and simple stile my desire being to speake in plainnesse to the weakest capacitie not curious to studie words and sentences quaint termes or elegance but that plainnesse and simplicate may set forth truth in her owne proper colours without dimnesse or obscuritie if any thing here may adde the least strength or courage in thee to prosecute this great worke of Christs Kingdome give God the praise if any thing beare the character of my weaknesse and infirmitie burie it in that love that suffers all things and thinks no evill and remember in thy prayers Thy Servant for the Kingdome of Christ Iohn Fenwicke Epitaphium in hoc tenebroso mortalitatis tempore ab Authore scriptum ac posteris relictum THe Lord 's my Life he lengths my dayes My tongue my pen shall spread his praise From dangers great by sea by land From pestilence from enemies hand From fruits of sinne from hellish feares From folly of my tender yeeres He has preserv'd and heard my cry Assuredly if death draw nigh Christ my Joy shall soone destroy Both death and sinne which mee annoy And bring me safe into his barne In season as a ricke of Corne I. F. TO THE HONOURABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the

CHRIST Ruling in midst of his ENEMIES OR Some first Fruits of the CHURCHES DELIVERANCE Budding forth out of the Crosse and Sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres Sufferer and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ Together With Secretarie Windebanks Letters to Sr Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle through which the violent prosecutions of the common adversaries to exile and banishment are very transparent Wherein also the Reader shall find in severall passages publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great Designe of Christ for setting up of His Kingdome and the ruine of Antichrist By Lievtenant Collonel JOHN FENWICKE Apoc. 7. 14. These are they that come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lambe and Chapt. 12. 11. And they overcame by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of his testimony and they loved not their lives to the death LONDON Printed for Benjamin Allen in Popes-head Alley 1643. The Epistle DEDICATORY TO NEWCASTLE upon Tyne NEWCASTLE though not the place of my birth or much of my breeding for I have herein been more beholden to other parts of the world yet none may challenge from mee more interest in this Dedication Newcastle famous for thy mocking and misusing of Christs Messengers and ill entertainment of his Servants ever since our Reformation witnesse that famous Knox great Reformer of Scotland his Sermons preached there witnesse learned Vdall thy faithful Monitor whose innocent blood cryes yet from the ground whom for writing against the Prelates thou prosecuted as a Traytor to bonds imprisonment and sentence of death under which he died before execution witnesse Reverend Balmford whom in like manner thou expulsed though thou couldst not touch his life thou pricked his sides as well as Christs in his hearers with the reproach of Balmfordian Faction and Schisme witnesse Alder Jennison Murton all godly Ministers expulsed by thee witnesse others of Christs servants ill entertained of thee yet alive to witnesse all that is alledged against thee and much more and last of all hee that sends these things unto thee his wife and children who have received their birth and breathing in thee make up that long and blacke roll of bitter things writ against thee from heaven O Newcastle how hath God dealt with thee by his divine waterings of his Word many yeeres how has God spoke aloud to thee by his judgements and forewarnings of ruine and desolation after thou hadst refused all instructions from his Word and Messengers hast thou forgot how loud God spake to thee in that great plague Anno 1636. when there died in half a yeere about seven thousand which made thee almost desolate thy streets growne greene with grasse thy treasurie wasted thy trading departed as thou never yet recovered it thy wounds increased thy madnesse thou wentest not to heaven for a perfect cure What thinkst thou was the meaning of that strange fire brake out none ever knew how in thy secret chamber of thy Townes house or Common hall where the next yeere after that great plague thy Rulers like Wolves of the evening were lurking all that day in plotting the new project about Coals Salt to devoure thy poore inhabitants and also new devices to suppresse sound preaching and strave your soules How is it after many more warnings too large to recite that thou art still hardned and the cry of thy sinnes like Sodome is come up to heaven in thee is found the blood of the Prophets the blood of the Saints oppressed banished and hunted to death in thee is found the blood of thy inhabitants oppressed and impoverished by unlimitted authoritie and arbytrarie government so court-like as an Aple is like an Orange In thee is found the uncleanesse of Sodome Adulteries and Fornications in thy Rulers houses thy filthinesse in thy skirts transparent to strangers round about thee in thee found drunkennesse and excesse with melodie to see the Church laid desolate in thee is found the two grand sins that will sincke a whole state a whole kingdome without repentance and reformation superstition in worship and oppression in government which has brought upon this Land that bloodie sword which now threatens to devoure thee I meane thy wicked Magistracie and Rulers who have wrested all thy power into their own hands and all that wicked crue of their confederacie O Newcastle when wilt thou learne the dialect of heaven speaking loud in thine eares O Newcastle Newcastle wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be Jer. 13. 27. If thou wilt not hearken to heavens counsell heare thy sentence Thou art defiled with blood and cannot be cleansed but by the blood of them that shed it Numb. 35. 33. O Newcastle what shall I say to thee what hath inraged thee against him that writes this complaint against thee whom have I wronged of you bring forth your evidences and plead your cause I hope ere long wee shall have a faire and free hearing and just proceedings not at the barre of your Court Law of hanging Excom. imprisonment and banishment but at a bar of right judgement I have ever sought thy good in spiritualls and temperalls even to my owne hurt and losse I have seene sometimes thy plagues a farre off and wept insecret for thee as the place of my habitation though my Meseck and Kedar the place of my sorrow and never of my joy how oft have I assayed to have left thee in thy rebellion against God but heavens counsels did not favour mine when the great plague began Anno 1636. Consider what might be Gods mind to make mee one day weepe bitterly over thee riding alone about a mile from the towne with many sad thoughts and when I lookt up and see Newcastle before mee my heart burst out with grief with the same words bo●●ing within me wherewith the Lord Jesus wept over Jerualem O Newcastle Newcastle would God thou in thy dayes had remembred the things belonging to thy peace often revolving these thoughts with me but when I came to the next words with many reasonings within mee shall they be hid from thine eyes shall thy habitations be laid desolate My heart was like to burst within mee for a good space assuring my selfe to heare ill newes for I had been in the Countrey and comming to towne I heard presently of the increase of the plague and that the night before some six and thirty died of it and from thence it daily increased to foure hundred a weeke till it had swept away about seven thousand at least in seven or eight moneths time O Newcastle before thou hadst recovered this blowe which I mourned to see comming upon thee what ailed thee to begin to plot the ruine of me and my wife and children I had seen many habitations laid desolate though I returned safely to my owne with all my family praise