William Hunter was cruelly handled and then burnt Mr. Higbed and Mr. Causton were burnt in Essex William Piggot Stephen Knight and John Lawrence were examined before Bishop Bonner and then burnt at several places in Essex Dr. Farrar Rishop of St. Davids was burnt there and Rawlins White was burnt at Cardiff George Marsh at Chester William Flower at Westminster John Cardmaker a godly Minister in Smithfield and with him John Warn About this time came a Letter from King Philip and Queen Mary to Bishop Bonner that Hereticks were not prosecuted with such severity as they ought to be which easily prevailed with Bonner who was ready enough for Cruelty and thereupon condemned John Symson and John Ardeley of Essex who were burnt there Thomas Hawks Thomas Watts Thomas Osmund William Bamford Thomas Osburn all of Cogshall in Essex being sent up to Bonner for not receiving the Sacrament at Easter they were condemned and burnt in several places in Essex John Bland Nicholas Shetterden Humfry Middleton John Frankesh were al burnt And a few days after Nicholas Hall Christopher Wade John Harpole and Margery Boley were burnt in Kent Dirick Carver John Launder Thomas Iveson James Abbes John Denley John Newman Patrick Packingham Richard Hook and John Newman were likewise burnt for Hereticks The Prisons were now full in every place and six men were condemned and burnt at Canterbury and nothing but Cruelty and Oppression was to be seen through the whole Land Whereupon the Queens Commissioners for the more quick dispatch took out ten of the Prisoners whom they sent to B. Bonner and being examined by him about the Sacrament they constantly adhering to the Truth were condemned and burnt in several places Robert Samuel a Minister suffered Martyrdome at Norwich two others at Ipswich five more in the Diocess of Canterbury the famous Ridley and Latimer at Oxford and Mr. Philpot in Smithfield In the year 1556. their wicked and bloody rage still continued the Land was all in a Flame and Blood and Cruelty reigned in every place For there were seven burnt in Smithfield in one fire four more in Canterbury and Dr. Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury was burnt in Oxford And to conclude though the Reign of Queen Mary was the shortest of any Prince since the Conquest except King Richard the Third yet in her days there was more Christian blood spilt for Religion than in any Kings Reign whatsoever since Lucius the first Christian King established Christianity in this Land for in the five years of her Reign there perished in the consuming Flames for the Profession of the Protestant Religion no less than two Hundred seventy seven Persons of all Ages and both Sexes there suffered five Bishops and Archbishops twenty one Divines eight Gentlemen four Tradesmen an hundred Husbandmen Servants and Labourers twenty six Wives twenty Widows and Virgins two Boys and two Infants one in the Isle of Guernsey who springing out of his Mothers Womb as she was burning at the Stake was most inhumanely thrown in again and burnt for a young Heretick And besides these there were sixty four persecuted for their Religion whereof seven were whipt sixteen perished in Prison twelve were buried in Dunghills and many more lay condemned but were saved by the Death of Queen Mary The Succession of Queen Elizabeth put some stop to the cruel rage of the Papists for the Power and Authority of the Pope vanished and Peace Rest and Liberty for all the good People of the Nation ensied But the Papists out of their extream Loyalty to the Pope thought it a sin to live peaceably under an Heretical Prince Especially when two Popes had thundred out Excommunications against her cursing her and freeing her Subjects from their Allegiance towards her and threatning them under danger of the Wrath of God not to assist her but to imploy all their Power to bring her to condign punishment and promising rewards to all persons who should lay hands upon this proscribed Woman which was to be payd out of the Treasury of the Church together with a full pardon of all their sins who should engage against her But when the Pope and his Accomplices saw that all this would not effect their desires the Queens Subjects being too faithfull to engage in any such villanous designs they then proceed to secret Plots and Attempts against her As that wherein the Duke of Norfolk and Robert Biddulph were engaged in the year 1566. and for which Northumberland Suffered at York and after that Leonard Davis designed mischiefs against her with the like ill success In the year 1578. the Invasion of Ireland at the great charges of the Pope was happily prevented The next year James Fitz-morris is sent into Ireland with Saunders who carryed consecrated Banners to them The next year after San Joseph was likewise sent thither with seven hundred Spanish and Italian Souldiers and the Popes promise of ten hundred thousand Crowns to carry on the work of Rebellion and to them joined the Earl of Desmond and his Brothers but they were all happily defeated But these projects likewise failing they conspire the death of the Queen and make several Attempts to murther her first by one Somervile and Hall Priests and one of them being condemned was found secretly murdered for fear he should discover others After this followed the practices of Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador here with Throgmorton and Parry who had Letters of plenary Indulgence Pardon and remission of all their sins sent them by the Pope for killing the Queen And the same year Savage made the like Vow to murder the Queen being instigated thereto by Gifford and Hodgson two Popish Priests A while after Babington upon the same principles engaged to commit the like wicked act by the procurement of one Ballard a Jesuit but being happily discovered divers of them were condemned and justly executed for the same and were registered for Saints and Martyrs in the Romish Calender Yet by the means of the French Ambassador out Stafford and Moody were dealt withal to commit the like Villany Moody proposing to lay a bag of Gun-powder under the Queens Bed-Chamber But this like the rest being happily prevented the Pope stirs up his Dear Son Philip the Second King of Spain openly to invade England which he did in the year 1588. who though in Queen Marys time he pretended great kindness to the Queen yet now in hopes of gaining England and Ireland which the Pope had bestowed upon him he comes to take possession thereof with a vast and as the Pope Christened it Invincible Armada consisting of an hundred and thirty tall Ships extraordinary well furnished and containing fifty seven Thousand eight hundred and eight Tun wherein were Eight Thousand six hundred Seamen Twenty Thousand Souldiers two Thousand Gally Slaves besides Gentlemen and Voluntiers in abundance so that there was scarce a Family in Spain who had not either a Son Brother or Cozen in the Fleet. There were likewise aboard them two thousand
the Pope he Alighted from his Horse to receive him and held the Popes Stirrup while he Alighted also but it seems he mistook the Left Stirrup instead of the Right at which the Pope seemed to be very much offended which the Emperour observing he smilingly told the Pope That he desired to be excused since he was not accustomed to hold Stirrups with which acknowledgment the Pope seemed to be satisfied After this there happened some difference between the Pope and the Emperour whereupon the Pope curseth him and sends his Letters out against him to all the Princes of Christendom declaring that he was an accursed person and ought to be avoided and cast out of all Christian company He likewise stirred up his Subjects in Rebellion against him The Emperour then marched to Rome to chastise his pride but the Pope fled to Venice and the Venetians being required to send him to Frederick refused it whereupon the Emperour sent his Son Otho against him with men and Ships very well furnished but withal charged him by no means to attempt any thing against the Venetians till he himself came But the young man being full of heat and desire of glory ventured to ingage the Enemy and was by them overthrown and himself taken prisoner Upon this misfortune the compassionate Father to release his Son from captivity and misery was forced to submit to whatever Conditions of Peace the Pope should demand whereby it was at last agreed that the Emperour should come into S. Marks Church at Venice and there kneeling down at the Popes feet he should receive Absolution and forgiveness This the Emperour performed and the proud Pope setting his foot upon the Emperours Neck said that verse in the Psalm Thou shalt tread upon Lyons and Adders the young Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou trample under foot which the Pope applied to the Emperour but the Emperour answered Not to thee but to Peter this power is given The Pope replied Both to me and to Peter The Emperour fearing further quarrels durst say no more but was absolved and his Son was restored to his liberty III. Not long after this that is in the time of that famous King Henry the Second one Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury was by his extraordinary pride and insolence the occasion of very great disturbance to the King and Kingdome for the King calling his Nobles and the Clergy together desired that some Clergy-men might be called to answer for some Villanies by them committed for it was proved that several persons had been murdered by their means This Thomas Becket would not consent unto without a Clause of seeing this Order which very much displeased the King but by the perswasion of his Brethren Becket afterward consented yet being incouraged by the Pope he again fell off and repented of what he had done which the more inraged the King against him This quarrel continued many years and the King was so tormented by this proud Prelate that he once passionately cryed out Will no body avenge me of this Becket These words were spoken in the Hearing of some Gentlemen who thereupon guessing at the Kings mind four of them presently went to Canterbury and finding the Archbishop in the Cathedral there they fell upon him and kill'd him upon the Stairs of the Altar every one striking him over the head with his Sword and then made their escape This Murder was charged upon the King by the Popes Legate and though the King swore that he was neither aiding nor consenting to his death yet he was forced to kiss the Legates Knee and submit to such Penance as he should appoint him one part whereof was that he should absolutely submit to the Pope in all spiritual matters And it is likewise recorded that King Henry coming out of France went to Canterbury and as soon as he was in fight of Thomas Beckets Church he got off his Horse and pulling off his Shoes and Stockins he went barefoot o Beckets Tomb the ways being so sharp and stony that his feet bled as he passed along and when he came there every Monk in the Cloister whipt the Kings Back with a Rod which shews saith the Historian what slavery Kings and Princes were at that time brought into by the Popes Clergy The same year the City of Canterbury was almost burnt down and Beckets Church was utterly consumed This Becket was afterward Canonized for a Saint but a Popish Historian saith of him That he was worthy death and damnation for being so obstinate against Gods Minister his King IV. King John the Son of Henry the Second was likewise made sensible of the danger of offending the Pope for in the year 1205. the King being incensed against the Clergy who possessed great Benefices and yet neglected their Charge he endeavoured to rectifie this and some other great miscarriages about Electing Bishops and several other things But the Pope fearing he would intrench upon his privileges and gain stirred Heaven and Earth against him Excommunicating and cursing him giving his Kingdome to the French King and stirring up his own Nobility and people against him so that the King being compassed about with Enemies on every side was forced to submit to the Pope promising to do whatever he should command him Nay the King took his Crown off his head and kneeling upon his knees in the midst of all his Lords and Barons he gave it to Pandulphus the Popes Legate saying Here I resign up the Crown of the Realm of England to the hands of Pope Innocent the Third and lay my self wholly at his mercy and appointment Pandulphus took the Crown from King John and kept it five days and the King giving then all his Kingdomes to the Pope to be held in Farm from him and his Heirs for evermore his Crown was restored again King John engaging to pay seven hundred Marks a year for England and three hundred for Ireland half of it at Easter and half at Michaelmas as Rent for the said Kingdomes This King John was afterward poysoned by a Monk which was judged such a Meritorious Act that the Murderer had a Mass appointed to be said for his Soul for ever after by his Fellow-Monks V. Pope Celestine the Third standing upon the Stairs of S. Peters Church in Rome he there received an Oath of Henry the Sixth Emperour of Germany and then had him into the Church and anointed him and sitting in his Pontifical Chair held the Crown of Gold between his feet and the Emperour bowing down his head to the Popes feet received the Crown the Empress likewise was Crowned in the same manner The Crown being thus put on the Pope immediately kickt it off the Emperour's Head with his foot to the ground declaring thereby that if he pleased he could depose him again Then the Cardinals took up the Crown and again put it on his Head VI. Nay to such a height did the Popes at last arrive that they governed all things Emperours
and Princes have been forced to kneel and kiss their Toes nay they asserted that all Kings were Slaves and in subjection to them and that all must be judged by the Pope but he by no man Psalm 88. LOrd sit not still as deaf unto our Cries For lo Our Enemies in Tumults rise Even those who thy Omnipotence deny And hate thy Name advance their Priests on High Dark Councils take and secretly contrive Our slaughter whom thy mercy keeps alive Come say they let us with incessant strokes Hew down this Nation like a Grove of Oaks Till they no longer be and Israel dye Both in his Race and Ruin'd Memory They all in one Confederacy have made A solemn League supply d with forreign Aid Hence Idumeans who in Gomades stray And Shaggy Ishmaelites that live by prey Th' incestuous race that bred are on the Lake Of salt Asphaltes savage Thieves who take Their Name from servile Hagar they who dwell In Geba Ammonites who peace expel Oh! say they let 's these Israelites destroy And all the Cities of their God enjoy O! let them like a Wheel be worried round Like chaff which whirlwinds ravisht from the Ground As Woods grown dry with Age imbrac'd with Fire Whose Flames above the singed Hills aspire So in the Tempest of thy wrath pursue And with thy Storms thy troubling Foes subdue O fill their Hearts with Grief their Looks with shame Till they invoke thy late blaphemed Name Confound them with eternal Infamy That they through anguish of their Souls may dye That Men Jehovah's wonders may rehearse The Great Commander of the Universe Mens Brains fryed eaten Children torn in Peices Infants thrown to the dogs swine Woemen Carried on Piks Rosted alive Some tyed and slain Hang'd by the Privitie Burnt in a barn A Brief and True Account of the Cruelties and Persecutions Committed by the Papists upon the Waldenses and Albingenses and other Protestants in Piedmont Savoy and the Valtoline from the Year 1160 To the Year 1656. VVHen by the just Judgment of the Almighty All the World wondred after the Beast and the Kings and Princes of Christendom established the Authority of the Pope and Church of Rome appointing to slaughter and destruction such as denied the horrid Blasphemies and Errors maintained by them It occasioned many good Christians to detest their Superstitions as unknown to the Apostles and the Primitive Church And the first we read of was one Berengarius who boldly and faithfully published the True Religion contained in the Scripture and discovered the falseness of the Romish He lived about the time of William the Conqueror his coming into England about which time his Followers being taken notice of as dissenting from many of the Common received Opinions of those times they were branded with the odious Name of Hereticks About Twenty years after this one Peter Bruis was a famous Preacher among them who taught them publickly a long time at Tholouse in Savoy In a short time after they were grown to so great a multitude that the Popes of Rome were resolved if possible by any means to extirpate and destroy them To which end they at first incited several of the most learned of their Party to write against them and warned divers Princes to have a care of them and to banish them out of their Territories The first then that flung away the Spiritual Keys and began valiantly to brandish the bloody Sword of Persecution against them was Pope Alexander the third who began therewith to hack hew and murder the poor Waldenses so named from Peter Waldo or Waldo of Lyons in France who appeared very couragious in opposing the many Corruptions of the Romish Church as Holy Oyl Consecrated Images Popes Indulgences Candles Merits Auricular Confession the Supremacy of the Pope false Miracles Purgatory Praying for the Dead Prayers to Saints extream Unction and many other Fopperies of the Popish Communion This Persecution of Waldo and his Followers who were encreased to a very great number began in France in the Year 1060. Waldo being compell'd to fly into the Mountains of France among the Savage Inhabitants to whom he taught his Doctrine others fled into Picardy from whence they were called Picards several into Flanders and Alsatia and thereby for the safety of their Lives they spread their Doctrine into all places King Philip of France being incited by the Ecclesiasticks raised Arms against them and destroyed Three Hundred Gentlemens Houses and likewise several Walled Towns And those that fled into Flanders escaped little better for they were persued and many of them for their Religion put to Death And the Bishops of Mayence and Strasburgh raised great persecutions against those which fled thither there being Five and Thirty Citizens of Mayence burned in one Fire and Eighteen in another who suffered Death with very great constancy and at Strasburgh at the instance of the Bishop Fourscore were likewise burnt for professing the same Truth and yet by the exhortations constancy and patience of these Martyrs there were such multitudes who entertained their Doctrines that in a few Years after in the County of Passau and in Bohemia there were above Fourscore thousand persons that made profession of the same Faith Some of them likewise fled into England for shelter but were more barbarously and cruelly put to death at Oxford by the Papists there than ever any Christians were before that time for matters of Religion and Three years after Pope Alexander the Third made a Decree in the Council of Tours in France that these Gospellers and all their Favourers should be Excommunicated and that none of them should buy or sell according as it was foretold in Revel 13.17 At Colen in Germany Four Men and Two young Women were discovered hid in a Barn and the Papists not being able to diswade them from the Truth The Men were all tyed to the Stake to be burnt but the Romanists pretending to pity the young Women perswaded them to recant but they perceiving their design got out of the hands of those that held them and voluntarily leapt into the Fire where they were burned with them about this time a Proclamation was published in Aragon whereby it was made Treason to relieve these poor Christians or to suffer them to live in that Country and liberty was given to all people to abuse them at pleasure without being punished for the same But these people still encreasing the Pope was resolved to suppress them by all means possible and therefore about the Year 1201. He set up the Bloody Inquisition which with its Racks Tortures Fire and all manner of Cruelty hath destroyed an innumerable company of Good and Holy Men. And in the same Year a noble Knight called Eunandus and one of the Waldenses was burnt at Paris and the persecution still continuing the people of Daulphine flying from their barbarous Enemies sheltred themselves in the Caves upon the Mountains but their cruel Adversaries having notice thereof persued
Boots with boiling Oyl and put them upon their Legs over a soft fire Thus he tormented many but at last Francis the French King being informed of his Hellish cruelty sent to the Parliament of Provence to apprehend him who condemn him but he having notice of it fled to Arragon where a while after he was robbed of all he had by his own servants and then fell into an horrible disease unknown to the Physitians being intollerably tormented with pains all over his body so that he had not one minutes rest and no creature was able to endure him for the intollerable stink which proceeded from him nor he himself for his body was full of nasty sores and ulcers which swarmed with Vermin and rotted away from the bones by piece-meal In the midst of his torments he would in a great rage cry out Oh! who will deliver me who will rid me out of these intollerable pains which I now suffer for oppressing and tormenting those poor men endeavouring several times to kill himself but had not power and in this horrible anguish and despair he fearfully died no man being able to bury him for some time by reason of the loathsome smell proceeding from him till at last a poor man with an Iron Hook dragg'd his Carkass into a Hole he had digg'd for him During this Persecution the Bishop of Aix with some other Bishops walking with some of their Wenches through the Streets of Avignion they saw a man selling bawdy Pictures Images and Songs which they presently bought up but going a little further they found a man selling of French Bibles at which being extremely enraged they askt him how he durst be so bold to sell such Merchandize in that Town the Bookseller answered Is not the Holy Bible as good as these goodly Pictures you have bought for the Gentlewomen The Bishop of Aix said I renounce my part in Paradise if this Fellow be not a Lutheran The Attendants cryed out a Lutheran a Lutheran to the fire with him to the fire with him one giving him a blow with his Fist others pulled him by the Hair and Beard so that the poor man was all embrued in blood before he came to Prison The next day he was brought before the Judge where by the instigation of the Bishops he was burned the same day with two Bibles tyed about his Neck one before and another behind where he made a most Christian end This long and bloody Persecution of these Waldenses lasted near five hundred years in which time the Gospel spread into Bohemia Austria Germany Flanders England Poland Italy Spain Dalmatia Croatia Solavonia Salmatia Bulgaria and in other places to which they were driven where they were tormented and persecuted according to the power and influence that the Pope and his Agents had over the Princes and Governours of those Countries The Albingenses were the same with the Waldenses professing the same Doctrines and Principles and differing only in name their Country being called Albi the chief Preacher among them being one Arnold from whom they were sometimes called Arnoldists Pope Alexander the Third began with them condemning them for Hereticks and Pope Innocent the Third raising a War against them calling it the Holy War giving the same Pardons and Indulgences and promising Paradise to all that would fight against the Hereticks with the same encouragement as those which went to the Holy Land against the Turks and Sarazens In this War he so thundered out Excommunications and used Temporal Arms against Reymond Earl or Prince of Tholouse that he was forced to submit and his Nobility were much astonished to see their Lord not only divested of his Possessions but led to the Church to be reconciled to it where the Popes Legate commanded the Earl to strip himself stark naked all but his Linnen Drawers they then put a Rope about his Neck and led him nine times round the Grave of one Peter an Hermit who was kill'd in that War scourging him with Rods all the while of which the Earl complaining the Legate told him That he must submit if he would be reconciled to the Pope yea he must be thus scourged before his Earls Barons Marquesses Prelates and all the people He made him likewise swear to be obedient to the Pope and Church of Rome all his life and to make irreconcileable War against the Albingenses The Legate then acts the part of a General and besieges Bezier and the Albingenses desiring to come to Terms the Legate would admit of nothing but the renouncing of their Religion and imbracing Popery which they absolutely refused upon those Conditions saying That God was able to defend them but if he would please to honour them to die for his sake they would rather displease the Pope than God Almighty In a short time the City was taken by Storm being assaulted by above an hundred thousand Papists the Enemy entring and slaying a great multitude killing all they m t without distinction the Popes Legate-bidding them kill all both Catholicks and Hereticks for the Lord knoweth who are his So that there were threescore thousand persons slain in this City the Priests and Fryars going about the Streets in the mean time with Crosses and Banners and singing Te Deum Laudamus after which they set the whole City on fire and burnt it to Ashes They marched next to a Town called Carcasson which these bloody Villains who called themselves Holy Pilgrims took by Storm likewise killing burning and destroying all before them as they had done before at Beziers They next proceeded to the City of Carcasson which was about two miles from the Town and was defended by the Earl of Pezâ—ers when they offered to capitulate the Legate would grant no other Conditions but that the Earl and twelve more should come forth with their Baggage but all the rest both Men Women Maids and Children should come forth stark naked without any covering either of Shirt or Smock and humble themselves before him but the Earl disdained such unworthy Conditions upon which the Legate assaulted the City but they that were within threw down Stones Fire Pitch Brimstone and Scalding Water from the Walls which so galled the Legates Souldiers that the Earth was covered and the Ditch filled with their dead bodies The Legate sinding Force would not avail used Policy and therefore upon pretence of Parley he perswaded the Earl to come out of the City with great Oaths and Execrations for his safe return but having him in possession they kept him Prisoner and then instantly stormed the City to the amazement of the poor Citizens who expected nothing less but there being happily discovered a Vault in the Town which went to a Castle some miles from thence the Citizens in the Evening began their Flight with their Wives and Children carrying Victuals with them only for some few days the next morning they arrived at the Castle and from thence dispersed themselves some one way some another leaving
by the Proofs they have heard that there now is and for divers years last past hath been an horrid and Treasonable Plot and Conspiracy contrived and carried on by those of the Popish Religion for the Murdering of his Majesties Sacred Person and for subverting the Ptotestant Religion and the Ancient and Established Government of this Kingdom John Brown Cleric Perliam Let us conclude all with the Thanksgiving of the Church of England set forth by Authority upon the Discovery of the Gunpowder Treason in 1605. NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but to thy Name be ascribed all honour and glory in all Churches of the Saints throughout all Generations for thou Lord hast discovered the Snares of Death thou hast broken them and we are delivered be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our Cruel Enemies which delight in Blood Infatuate their Counsel and root out that Babilonish and Antichristian Sect which say of Jerusalem Down with it down with it even to the Ground and to this end strengthen the hands of our Gracious King the Nobles and Magistrates of the Land with Judgment and Justice to cut off these workers of Iniquity whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose Practice is Murthering of Souls and Bodies and to root them out of the Confines and Limits of this Kingdom that they may never prevail against us and Triumph in the ruin of thy Church And give us grace by true and serious Repentance to avert these and the like Judgments from us This Lord we earnestly crave at thy mercifull hands together with the continuance of thy powerfull Protection over our Dread Soveraign the whole Church and these Realms and the speedy confusion of our Implacable Enemies and that for thy dear Sons sake our only Mediator and Advocate Amen PSALM 91. WHo makes th' Almighty his retreat Shall rest beneath his Shady Wings Free from th' Oppression of the Great The Rage of War or Wrath of Kings Free from the Cunning Fowlers Train The Tainted Air 's Infectious Breath His Truth in Perils shall sustain And Shield thee from the stroke of Death No terrors shall thy sleeps affright Nor deadly flying Arrows slay Nor Pestilence devour by night Or slaughter Massacre by day Words and Proper Names of two three and four Sylables both whole and divided into Sylables ABuse A-buse Adam Ad-am Affected Af-fect-ed Abigail A-bi-gail Activity Ac-ti-vi-ty Amasia A-ma-si-a Ahasuerus A-ha-su-e-rus Banquet Ban-quet Barak Ba-rak Backslider Back-sli-der Belshazzer Bel-shaz-zer Bountifully Boun-ti-ful-ly Barzillai Bar-zil-la-i Beatificial Be-a-ti-si-cal Beeliada Be-e-li-a-da Cleansed Clean-sed Carmel Car-mel Chastening Chast-en-ing Chorazin Cho-ra-zin Calamity Ca-la-mi-ty Cyrenius Cy-re-ni-us Cogitation Co-gi-ta-ti-on Daughter Daugh-ter Dathan Da-than Destroyed De-stroy-ed Dalilah Da-li-lah Difficulty Dif-fi-cul-ty Dalmatia Dal-ma-ti-a Estrang Est-rang Esther Est-her Effected Ef-fect-ed Ephraim E-phra-im Election E-lec-ti-on Ebenezer E-ben-e-zer Frustrate Frus-trate Francis Fran-cis Forreigner For-reign-er Familiar Fa-mi-li-ar Favonia Fa-vo-ni-a Grudging Grudg-ing Ginath Gi-nath Garnishing Gar-nish-ing Gomorrah Go-mor-rah Gloriously Glo-ri-ous-ly Gethsemane Geth-se-ma-ne Genealogy Ge-ne-a-lo-gy Haughty Haugh-ty Huzoth Huz-oth Heretick He-re-tick Habakkuk Hab-ak-kuk Hallelujah Hal-le-lu-jah Hymeneus Hy-me-ne-us Habitation Ha-bi-ta-tion Heliopolis He-li-o-po-lis Judgment Judg-ment Jephtha Jeph-tha Journeying Jour-ney-ing Issachar Is-sa-char Ignominy Ig-no-mi-ny Illyria Il-ly-ri-a Jerusalem Je-ru-sa-lem Infidelity In-fi-de-li-ty Kinsfolk Kins-folk Kahath Ka-hath Kindnesses Kind-nes-ses Keturah Ke-turah Laughter Laugh-ter London Lon-don Languishing Lan-guish-ing Lazarus La-za-rus Lascivious Las-ci-vi-ous Leviathan Le-vi-a-than Liberality Li-be-ra-li-ty Merchant Mer-chant Mesheck Me-sheck Magistrate Ma-gis-trate Manasseh Ma-nas-seh Malefactor Ma-le-fac-tor Neighbour Neigh-bour Nadab Na-dab Nakedness Na-ked-ness Naphtali Naph-ta-li Negligently Neg-li-gent-ly Nathanael Na-tha-na-el Offspring Off-spring Ophri O-phri Offering Of-fer-ing Oppressing Op-pres sing Othniel Oth-ni-el Overseer O-ver-se-er Ohemoed O-he-mo-ed Operation O-pe-ra-tion Preaching Preach-ing Phicol Phi-col Possessor Pos-ses-sor Phinebas Phi-ne-bas Pal stina Pa-les-ti-na Quenching Quench-ing Quinzay Quin-zay Quartering Quar-ter-ing Qualified Qua-li-fied Quaternion Qua-ter-ni-on Roughly Rough-ly Rehum Re-hum Ravished Ra-vish ed Rabshakeh Rab sha keh Religion Re li-gi-on Rehoboam Re-ho-bo-am Slaughter Slaugh-ter Shushan Shu-shan Schismatick Schis-ma-tick Synagogue Sy-na-gogue Shelhazzer Shel-haz-zer Softhenes Soft-he-nes Sanctuary Sanc-tu-a-ry Taphath Ta-phath Trespasses Tres-pas-ses Thaddeus Thad-de-us Testimony Tes-ti-mo-ny Trogyllium Tro-gy-lli-um Viewing View-ing Vkrain V-krain Victory Vic-to-ry Vpharsin V-phar-sin Vnadvised Vn-ad-vi-sed Vespasian Ves-pa-si-an Witchcraft Witch-craft Wrongfully Wrong-ful-ly Wolfgangus Wolf-gan-gus Warsovia War-so-vi-a Xerxes Xer-xes Younger Younger Youthfully Youth-ful-ly Zealous Zeal-ous Zopheth Zo-pheth Zealously Zeal-ous-ly Zipporah Zip-po-rah Zeboim Ze-bo-im Zerobabel Ze-ro-ba-bel Zurishadda Zu-ri-shad-da Words and proper Names of five six and seven Syllables Allegorical Al-le-go-ri-cal Alsufficiency All-suf-fi-ci-en-cy Adramytium A-dra-my-ti-um Beatification Be-a-ti-fi-ca-ti-on Baalathbeor Ba-a-lath-be-or Bothbaalmeon Beth-ba-al-me-on Consubstantiation Con-sub-stan-ti-a-ti-on Chederlaomer Che-der-la-o-mer Dedication De-di-ca-ti-on Deuteronomy Deu-te-ro-no-my Dissimulation Dis-si-mu-la-ti-on Extortioner Ex-tor-ti-o-ner Excommunication Ex-com-mu-ni-ca-ti-on Elihoenai E-li-ho-e-na-i Familiarity Fa mi li-a-ri-ty Fortification For-ti-ca-ti-on Gederothaim Gede-ro-tha-im Glorification Glo-ri-fi-ca-tion Habitation Ha-bi-ta-ti-on Hypocritically Hy-po-cri-ti-cal-ly Helarazaruus He-la-ra-za-ru-us Helcathhazurim Hel-cath-ha-zu-rim Jehovashallom Je-ho-va-shal-lom Jurisdiction Ju-ris-dic-ti-on Incomprehensible In-com-pre-hen-si-ble Jebereheah Je-be-re-he-ah Kiriathaim Ki-ri-a-tha-im Kireathebaal Ki-re-a-the-ba-al Languishing Lan-guish-ing Lamentation La-men-ta-ti-on Lusitania Lu-si-ta-ni-a Meditation Me-di-ta-ti-on Manifestation Ma-ni-fes-ta-tion Melchizedeck Mel-chi-ze-deck Mesherabeel Me-she-ra-be-el Mathematician Ma-the-ma-ti-ci-an Mesopotamia Me-so-po-ta-mi-a Multiplication Mul-ti-pli-ca-ti-on Nonconformity Non-con-for-mi-ty Naturalization Na-tu-ra-li-za-ti-on Nebuchadnezzer Ne-bu-chad-nezar Onisephorus O-ne-se-pho-rus Predestinate Pre des-ti-nate Presbiterian Pres-bi-te-ri-an Purification Pu-ri-fi-ca-tion Philosophically Phi-lo-so-phi-cal-ly Propitiation Pro pi-ti a-ti on Qualification Qua li fi ca ti on Renunciation Re nun ci a ti on Resurrection Re-sur-rec ti on Reconciliation Re-con ci li a-ti on Representation Re-pre-sen-ta-ti-on Satisfaction Satis-fac-ti-on Superiority Su pe ri o-ri ty Sanctification Sanc-ti-fi-ca-ti on Temporality Tem-po ra li ty Taanathshiloth Ta-a-nath shi loth Thessalonica Thes sa lo-ni ca Transubstantiation Tran sub stan ti a-ti on Vexatiously Vex-a ti ous ly Vniversality V-ni-ver-sal li ty Vnreconcilable Vn-re con cil a ble Gods Judgments upon Popish Persecutors discovered in some eminent Examples 1. FRom the First plantation of the Christian Religion in this Nation under King Lucius there was never any King or Queen of England in whose reign so much Christian blood was spilt as in four years space during the Reign of Queen Mary But as she was prodigal of the Lives of the best of her subjects and a Persecutor of the Gospel so it pleased God to follow her with Plagues and Judgments all her life for nothing prospered which she took in hand of which we shall give some few Instances The fairest and greatest Ship she had called the Great Harry was burnt by Lightning from Heaven the Christian world at that time not affording such another Then she would needs marry Phillip King of Spain thereby Subjecting England to Strangers yet with her utmost endeavour she could never set the English Crown on his head Then did she attempt the Restitution of Abby Lands and had all the assistance that
the Pope could give her therein yet she was utterly crost also in that Design Then she lost Calice in France which had been in the possession of the English during the Reign of eleven Kings that is from the Reign of King Edward the third with which loss she was so afflicted that she told some of her Courtiers If they opened her body when she was dead they would find Calice written in her heart She was reported to be with Child but it came to nothing Her beloved Husband left her in whom she placed her greatest felicity and content So that now she could neither enjoy him nor marry another About the same time the Land was grieviously afflicted with horrible Tempests Famines Plagues mortal Diseases and burning Agues so that between October and December there dyed seven Aldermen in London that had been Lord Maiors and the mortality was so great that much Corn was lost in the Fields for want of men to gather it whereby great scarcity ensued and many poor people lived upon Acorns And lastly she was struck with a lingring and pining sickness whereof she dyed having only reigned Five years and Five months a shorter time than any of the Kings of England enjoyed since the Conquest Richard the Third only excepted 2. In the next place let us consider Gods Judgments upon some other Instruments of Cruelty and among the rest Stephen Gardiner who was a most Cruel Persecutor of the Protestants In King Henry the Eighths time he was a great stickler for the divorce from the Lady Katherine of Spain and was therefore made Bishop of Winchester In King Edward the sixths time he seemed a Friend to the Gospel and preached it up but in Queen Marys days he was the greatest and most inveterate enemy against it and the professors thereof and continued so to his dying day For the same day that Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer were burnt at Oxford the old Duke of Norfolk came to dine with Gardiner The Bishop deferred his dinner till about four a Clock in the Afternoon at which time came one of his Servants posting to tell him that fire was put to these Servants of God which when he was certified of he came out rejoyceing to the Duke and said Now let us go to dinner The Table was presently set and the Bishop began to eat merrily but as soon as he had eaten a few bits he was on a sudden struck very sick and being carryed from the Table to bed he there continued in such intolerable Anguish and Torment that he could void nothing either by stool or urine His Tongue was black and swoln so big that his mouth could not contain it and his body violently Inflamed In this sad condition he lay fifteen days and then ended his miserable life In the beginning of his sickness Dr. Day Bishop of Chichester coming to see him began to speak to him about the merciful Promises of God and free Justification by the blood of Christ To whom he answered What my Lord will you open that gap now then farewell all together Open this window to the People and farewell all together And being by another Person put in mind of St. Peters denying his Master and that he ought not to despair He answered I have denied Christ with Peter but I never repented with Peter 3. Bloody Bonner though he dyed in his bed yet lay under the Spiritual Judgment of Impenitency and as he had been a Persecutor of the Light and a Child of Darkness so in darkness and at midnight his Carkass was tumbled into the Earth And as himself had been a Murderer so was he layd among Thieves and Murderers a place by Gods Judgment fitly appointed for him 4. Dr. Whittington Chancellor having condemned a Godly Religous woman to be Burnt at Chipping Sadbury a multitude of People came to see her Suffer and among the rest Whittington himself At the same time there was a Butcher in another place of the Town killing a Bull who was fast bound with a Rope ready to be knockt on the head the Butcher missing his stroke the Bull broke loose just as the people were coming from the Execution of this Holy Martyr the people seeing him coming severed themselves and made a Lane for him the Bull passed through them without hurting man woman or child till he came to the place where Whittington was against whom he ran very furiously and thrusting his Horns into his belly ran him quite through and tearing out his Guts with his horns he trayl'd them about the streets to the great astonishment of those that saw his wretched end 5. One Burton Bayliff of Crowland in Lincolnshire seemed in King Edward the Sixths days to be a zealous Protestant but as soon as Queen Mary came to the Crown he turned Papist and being forward to set up the Mass he went to Church and the Curate being then reading the English Service he went to him and said Sirrah will you not say Mass buckle your self to it you knave or by Gods Blood I 'le sheath my dagger in your shoulder The poor Curate being affrighted betook himself to the Mass Shortly after this Burton and a neighbour riding together a Crow flew over his head and voided her Excrements upon his Nose which ran down his beard and yielded such an horrible stink that it caused him to vomit in a most violent manner whereupon he got home to bed but could eat nothing the stink and vomiting still continuing which made him with dreadful Oaths and Execrations curse the Crow that had poisoned him and so he continued in extream pain till he dyed A Prayer of King Edward the Sixth a while before his Death LOrd God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched life and take me among thy chosen howbeit not my Will but thy Will be done Lord I commit my Spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy chosens sake send me that in Life or Death I may serve thee O my Lord God Bless thy People and save thine Inheritance O Lord God save thy chosen People of England O my Lord God defend this Land from Papistry and maintain the True Religion that I and my People may Praise thy Holy name for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake A Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her Army at Tilbury Camp in the time of the Spanish Invasion in the year 1588 MY Loving People we have been perswaded by some that are carefull of our safety to take heed how we commit our selves to armed Multitudes for fear of Treachery but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithfull and loving People Let Tyrants fear I have alwayes so behaved my self that under God I have alwayes placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the Loyal Hearts and good will of my Subjects and therefore I am come amongst you as you see at this time not for my Recreation