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A20917	A true discourse of the practises of Elizabeth Caldwell, Ma: Ieffrey Bownd, Isabell Hall widdow, and George Fernely, on the parson of Ma: Thomas Caldwell, in the county of Chester, to haue murdered and poysoned him, with diuers others Together with her manner of godly life during her imprisonment, her arrainement and execution, with Isabell Hall widdow; as also a briefe relation of Ma: Ieffrey Bownd, who was the assise before prest to death. Lastly, a most excellent exhortorie letter, written by her own selfe out of the prison to her husband, to cause him to fall into consideration of his sinnes, &c. Seruing like wise for the vse of euery good Christian. Beeing executed the 18. of Iune. 1603. VVritten by one then present as witnes, their owne country-man, Gilbert Dugdale.	Dugdale, Gilbert.; Armin, Robert, fl. 1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 7293; ESTC S110927	16,795	32

shut your eares against the worde of Exhortation you cannot haue any hope of saluation for the booke of God is full of iudgements against wilfull sinners and mercie is to them that repent turne Therefore I beseech you vse no delay deferre no time but presently bee acquainted with the Scriptures for they will leade you to eternall life make hast euen before your hands part with this paper to search therein that so you may truly vnderstand the wretched estate condition of those who following the lusts of there eyes wallow in all sensualitie and so heape vp vengance against the day of wrath euen heauie Iudgments no lesse then condemnation both of soule and body As Salomon saith Reioyce O young man in thy youth let thy hart cheare thee in the daies of thy youth and walke in the waies of thy hart and in the sight of thine eyes but knowe that for all things God will bring thee to Iudgement Remember he spared not the Angells when they sinned but cast them downe into hell nor of the old world but eight onely escaped the rest were drowned in their sinnes because they would not be warned Baltasar sayth Daniell expounding the fearefull vision of the hands writing when hee was banqueting with his Concubines thou art wayed in the Ballance and are found light These and many more are written for our admonition vppon whom the ends of the world are come search for them and I pray God you may be warned by them and that you may seeke the Lord now while hee may bee found and call vppon him while he is neere Behold now the day of saluation euen now when he in mercy offereth himselfe vnto vs by preaching of his word receiue not these graces in vaine but redeeme your time and runne vnto the house of God and there in the great congregation power foorth your plaint with obedience heare the word of God and indeuour to practise what you heare in your conuersation for the doores onely shall bee iustified at the last day the word must iudge vs in this life it worketh effect for which it was sent it either conuerts or hardens it is the sauour of life vnto life or of death vnto death it is offered to all to those that imbrace it it brings life to those that will not be reformed by it it brings death to those that loue and desire it it is the quicking spirit to those that refuse it it is the killing Letter it is no speciall argument of God his fauour vnto any vnlesse they feele the power thereof working reformation in them then it is the power of his spirit the pledge of his blessing Ignoraunce must not excuse you for the Prophet saith my people languish for want of knowledge and knowledge without practise leaues al men without excuse for hee that knoweth his maisters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many strips therefore make more conscience of the word of God then you haue done and loue his Messengers the Preachers that brings that glad tidings for to loue them is to loue Christ and to hate them is to hate Christ as our Sauiour saith he that dispiseth you dispiseth me and it is hard to kick against the prick And loue the children of God that professe Christ Iesus for hereby shall men knowne that you are my Disciples if you loue one another saith our Sauiour And for the Saboth day bee yee assured that the Lord of heauen hath not in vaine chosen it to himselfe commaunding vs to Sanctifie it vnto his holy name no no if euer we desire to be pe●takers of the spirituall Saboth in heauen whereof ours on earth is but a tipe and a figure then must we striue to keepe the same Saboth on earth as much as in vs lyes which the Saints keepe in heauen they are at rest from those labours that mortality is subiect vnto and vncessantly sing prayses vnto the Lamb so should we rest that day from the labours of our calling and spend the whole day in hearing of the word preached praysing the Lord publickly in the great congregation priuatly at home with our families preferring such other holy exercises as may tend to the glory of God the comfort of our soules the good of others which we are bound to performe so straightly as that we may not that day be alowed to speake such words as concerne of vocations And how soeuer it please the world to thinke of the great God of heauen and of the sanctifying of the Saboths yet be you assured he is a iealious God and will visite sinners and one seede of his word shall not be lost but he will be glorified by it either in the saluation of those who in a good conscience willingly indeuour to sanctifie them or in the condemnation of those who wilfully oppose themselues against his blessed ordinaunce to prophane them which is one of the crying sinnes of this land wherewith the whole Kingdome is infected and if there were not some fewe to stand in the gap for whose sake the Lord doth speare the rest it had not beene possible we should so long haue escaped his heauy iudgements O deere husband the Lord hath long since taken his sword in his hand to execute his vengance against all disobedient wretched who turne the Saboth of the Lord into a day of wantonnes liberty and licentiousnes and although in his great mercy he doth yet forbeare to proceede to iudgement as it were in great mercy waiting our repentance yet there wil suddainely come a day of reckoning all together and the wicked make the patience of our God an occasion to commit sinne and prophanes yet let them knowe the Lord will take vengance of his aduersaries and reserue wrath for his enemies and though hee be slowe to anger yet is he great in power and will not surely cleare the wicked though he deferre the Sessions yet they will come and though he haue Leaden feete yet hath he Iron hands though the fier light not vppon Sodome all the euening yet it came Doe not therefore prouoke the Lord any longer by your prophanes for he is strong readie to punnish and hath promised that the person that dispiseth his word shall be cut of Did hee not commaunde a man to be stoned to death for gathering a fewe sticks on the Saboth day and is hee not still the same God yes certaine his arme is not shortned if we wilfully persist in our disobedience Sixe market dayes hee hath giuen vs to prouide vs necessaries for our bodies and but one hath hee chosen for himselfe to be a day of holines which is the market day for the soule wherein wee should prouide vs of comforts for the whole weeke The excellencie and woorth of this day is vnspeakable to those that sanctifie it It is the badge and liuerie whereby they are knowne to bee the seruaunts of God to those that prophane it in spending the day in

worldly pleasures drunkennes filthinesse it is the certaine badge and liuerie whereby they are knowne to be the seruants of the deuill according to the sayings of the Apostle knowe you not vnto whomsoeuer ye giue your selues as seruants to obey his seruants yee are to whom yea obey whether it be of sinne vnto death or of obedience vnto righteousnes If my people will sanctifie my Saboth saith the Lord it shall be a signe betweene me and them that they may knowe that I ame the Lord there God and blessed are they who haue the Lord for their God So that to those that prophane the Saboth the Lord is not their God but the deuill and cursed are the people that are in such a case therefore deere husband deferre no time put not of from day to day to turne vnto the Lord nether be you deceiued for God is not mocked the longer you runne on the more you set on the score and such as you sowe such shall you reape for the Lord hath sayd He that heareth my words and doth blesse himselfe in hart saying I shall haue peace although I walke according to the stubbernes of my hart thus adding drunkennes to thirst the Lord will not bee mercifull vnto him but the wrath of the Lord his iealosie shall smooke against that man and euery curse that is written in this booke shall light vppon him and the Lord shall put out his name from vnder heauen but vnto them that repent the Lord hath sayd when the wicked turneth away from his wickednes that he hath committed and doth that which is lawfull and right hee shall saue his soule aliue You see the iudgements of God are begunne alreadie in your house happie shall you be if you make a holy vse of them otherwise heauior may be expected especially if you persist In his mercy he hath spared you and doth yet waite for your repentance doe not you abuse his patience any longer lest thereby you prouoke him to proceede to execution against you but imbrace his mercy which is yet a offered vnto you for which that you may so do I shall not cease to pray whilst I liue to him who onely is able to effect it euen the Lord of heauen who send vs ioyfull meetting at the day of our Resurrection Your poore wife Elizabeth Caldwell The words of Elizabeth Caldwell at the time of her death FIrst she desired that the Lord would giue a blessing vnto the speeches that she deliuered y t they might tend to the conuerting of many of the hearers and also she sayd that the word of God did not giue her any priuiledge and authority to sinne but that it was her owne filthy flesh the illutions of the deuill and those hellish instruments which he set on worke yet notwithstanding she euer had a detestation to those sinnes that she liued in but she affirmed that she wanted grace to auoyd them therefore as she had giuen a great scandall to the word of God by professing and not practising the same euen so she desired the great mercy of God to forgiue her that sinne acknowledging that she stoode to presumptiously vpon her owne conceite and grew too proud vowing and swearing that she would neuer doe such and such things but suddainly fell into the like againe Therfore she gaue Saint Paules admonition vnto euery one Let him that thinketh he stands take heede of a present fall likewise she exhorted all to the dilligent obseruation of the Saboth day saying that one of her chiefe and capitall sinnes was the neglect thereof and although the world did recon and esteeme it a small matter yet she knewe it to be one of her greatest sinnes wishing all people in the feare of God to make a reuerent account of the Lords glorious Saboth she complained much of adultery and said it was that filthy sinne which was the cause of her death and was perswaded in her conscience that her afflictions was rather for that then any murder shee euer committed notwithstanding shee yeelded her selfe culpable in concealing of it manifesting that in regard of her sinnes and iniquities she deserued a thousand deaths praying most earnestly vnto God that her selfe might be a warning and example vnto all there present wishing them most earnestly to serue the Lord of what degree soeuer they were if they were neuer so poore but were forst to craue there liuing from doore to doore which done then were they happy creatures Then againe she admonished all to keepe the Saboth to goe to the church and heare the word of God preached for that was the only truth and able to saue their soules But as touching Papistrie she euer hated it knowing it contrary and flatly opposite against the truth of the great God of heauen and his holy word praying for the confution and desolution of the great whore of Babilon but most deuoutly and sencerely praying for the currant passage of the Gospell of Christ Iesus throughout the whole world to the conuerting of thousands desiring that the very stones of the streete might set foorth the glory of God and withall most religiously she prayed for the Kings most excellent Maiestie and sayd she might call him her King while shee liued that his sacred royall Person might be a bright shining lampe of Gods glory in the aduancement of the Gospell of Christ and the ouerthrowe of poperie superstition in these his Kingdomes and dominions Then made knowne that she could teach as the Preachers for they taught as they found it in the word and she was able to speake from a feeling hart very confidently affirming that her sinnes were the greatest reason of the dulnes and hardnes of her hart and the seperation of Gods mercies from her and therefore she carefully aduised all to beware of sinne because it was hateful and odious in the sight of God and all reasonable creatures Concerning repentance shee spake thus that it was not in the power of man to repent when hee list but the only gift of God protesting before the Lord of heauen and earth that during the time of her imprisonment being a full yeare and a quarter she had sought the Lord with many bitter teares with broken and contrite hart to see if his Maiestie would be intreated and yet she found not such assurance as she desired but auouched what she did was done in simplicity of hart whatsoeuer the world did other was censure Moreouer saying that in the mercies and merites of Christ Iesus shee hoped her sinnes were pardoned and sayd I belieue Lord helpe my vnbeliefe Also she sayd that in the time of her imprisonment the Lord had beene very gracious and mercifull vnto her for many the faithfull ministers and deere seruants of Iesus Christ had recourse vnto her by whose meanes she had recouered great comfoorth praysing the Lord for the same yet notwithstanding the world most iniuriously did deride scofe and mock them which was most wicked and