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A27163	The theatre of Gods judgements wherein is represented the admirable justice of God against all notorious sinners ... / collected out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and pagan histories by two most reverend doctors in divinity, Thomas Beard ... and Tho. Taylor ...	Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1642 (1642)	Wing B1565; ESTC R7603	428,820	368

not hope for salvation or remission of his sins because that of meer malice he had resisted and made war with God Cardinall Poole an Englishman had also somtimes professed himselfe to be well seen in the sincerity of the Gospell yet contrary to his conscience he sent into his countrey the Trophies and Ensignes of Antichrist the Pope which before had been rased out and abolished the realme but he died two or three daies after Queene Mary in horrible griefes terrors and fearfulnesse without any shew of repentance Stephen Gaediner Bishop of Winchester and after Chancellor of England shewed in his young yeares some forwardnesse to withstand the Popish abuses and superstitions but as soone as he was exalted to honour he turned over a new lease and began freshly and furiously to afflict and to rend the poore faithfull servants of Christ putting them to the cruellest deaths he could devise And yet more to discover his prophanenesse and rebellion he wrote many books against the pure Religion of God and being thus swolne with venomous spight against the Sonne of God beside the extreame covetousnesse whoredomes and extortions which raigned in him behold the Lord layd his hand of wrath upon him and stroke him with so strange a malady that before his death such horrible stinke issued from him that none of his friends and servants no not himselfe could endure the savour thereof his belly was swolne like a taber his eyes distracted and sunke into his head his cheeks thin and the appearance of his whole face very terrible his breath savoured of a filthy and intolerable stinke and all his members were rotten with continuall griefes and swounings yet this vile wretch in the midst of all these torments ceased not to yell out continuall blasphemies and infamous speeches and so despighting and maugring God died Peter Castellon Bishop of Maston having attained to great riches and renowne by the means of the Gospell turned notwithstanding his backe to Christ and mightily inveyed in his sermons at Orleance against the profession of his Religion seeking to make it knowne that he had not onely abjured and denied it but also that hee was a profest adversary unto it This man sitting at a time in his chaite fell into a strange disease which no Physitian had ever seene or could search out the cause of for one halfe of his body was extreme hot and burned like fire the other extreame cold and frozen like Ice and in this torment with horrible cries and groanings he ended his life A gray Frier called Picard who once was not ashamed of the Gospell afterwards set himselfe to preach against that which he had professed and being in the pulpit at Orleance after infinite blasphemies which he had disgorged against the Truth at last said That he protested before God and the holy assembly that he would never preach more after that day because he was an Apostate which saying he by and by impudently and constantly denied to the perill and damnation of his owne soule thinking by his horrible cursings and forswearings to abuse the poore ignorant and superstitions people but he no sooner came into the field but the puissant hand of God over-reached him and stroke him speechlesse so that he was carried thence halfe dead and within short space died altogether without any appearance of repentance Among other Iudges which shewed themselves hot and rigorous in persecuting and proceeding against the faithfull prisoners of Valence in Daulphine and other Romanes at that season when two Ministers of the same city suffered Martyrdome one Lanbespin a Counsellor and Ponsenas the Kings Atturney at the Parliament of Grenoble both two having been professors in times past were not the backwardest in that action but God made them both strange examples of his wrath for Lanbespin falling in love with a young maid was so extremely passionate therein that he forewent his owne estate and all bounds of civill honesty to follow her up and down whithersoever she went and seeing his love and labour despised and set at nought he so pined away with very thought that making no reckoning of himselfe such a multitude of lice so fed upon him and tooke so good liking of their pasture that by no means he could be cleansed of them for they increased and issued out of every part of his body in such number as maggots are wont to engender in a dead and rotten carrion At length a little before his death seeing his owne misery and seeling Gods heavy vengeance upon him he began to despaire of all mercy and to the end to abridge his miserable dayes he resolved to hungerstarve himselfe to death Which purpose the lice furthered for they stucke so thicke in his throat as if they would have choaked him every moment neither could he suffer any sustenance to passe downe by reason of them They that were eye witnesses of this pittifull spectacle were wondrously moved with compassion and constrained him to eat whither he would or not And that they might make him take culliss●s and other stewed broaths because he refused and strove against them they bound his armes and put gagges into his mouth to keep it open whilest others poured in the food And in this wise being gagged he died like a mad beast with abundance of lice that went downe his throat insomuch that the very Papists themselves stucke not to say That as he caused the Ministers of Valence to have gagges thrust into their mouths and so put to death so likewise he himself died with a gagge in his mouth As touching Ponsenas commonly called Bourrel a very Butcher indeed of poore Christians after he had sold his owne patrimony and his wives and friends also to the end to buy out his office and had spent that which remained in house keeping hoping in short space to take up twise as much as he had scattered fell downe into a strange and unknowne disease and shortly grew in despaire of Gods succour and favour towards him by a strong remembrance of those of Valence and the other Romanes which he had put to death which would never depart out of his minde but still presented themselves before him so that as one bestraught of reason and sence he denied his Maker and called upon his destroyer the Devill with most horrible and bitter ensuings which when his Clearke perceived he layd out before him the mercies of God out of all places of the Scripture to comfort and restore his decayed sense But in stead of returning to God by repentance and prayer he continued obstinate and answered his Clerke whose name was Stephen in this wise Stephen Stephen thou art blacke So I am and it please you quoth he but I am neither Turke nor Moore nor Bohemian but a Gascoigne of red haire No no answered he not so but thou art blacke but it is with sinne That is true quoth he but I hope in the bountifull mercy of God that for the love

name and title of Caesar and to oppugne the Emperor Henry by armes even by foure unjust battels in the last of which Rodolph being overcome lost his right hand and was sore wounded otherwise wherefore being ready to die when one brought unto him his hand that was cut off in the battell he in detestation of the Popes villanie burst forth into these termes many Bishops standing by Behold here the hand wherewith I swore fealtie to the Emperor this will be an argument of my breach of faith before God and of your traiterous impulsion thereunto And thus he deceased justly punished even by his owne confession for his perjurie Howbeit for all this manifest example the Pope and Bishops continued to persecute the poore Emperor yea and to stir up his owne sonnes Conrade and Henry to fight against him so hardned are their hearts against all Gods judgments Narcissus Bishop of Ierusalem a man famous for his vertues and sharpe in reproving and correcting vice was accused by three wicked wretches of unchastity and that falsly and maliciously for to prove their accusation true they bound it with oaths and curses on this wise the first said If I ly I pray God I may perish by fire The second If I speake aught but truth I pray God I may be consumed by some filthie and cruell disease The third If I accuse him falsely I pray God I may be deprived of my sight and become blinde Thus although the honesty and chastity of Narcissus was so well knowne to all the faithfull that they beleeved none of their oaths yet the good Bishop partly mooved with griefe of this false accusation and partly with desire of quietnesse from worldly affaires forsooke his bishopricke and lived in a desart for many yeares But his forsworne accusers by their death witnessed his innocencie which by their words they impugned for the first his house being set on fire extraordinarily perished in flame with all his family and progenie The second languished away with an irkesome disease that bespread his bodie all over The third seeing the wofull ends of his companions confessed all their villanie and lamenting his case and crime persisted so long weeping till both his eyes were out Thus God in his just judgement sent upon each of them their wishes and thereby cleered his servant from shame and opprobry Burghard Archbishop of Magdeburg though in regard of his place and profession he ought to have given good example of honestie in himselfe and punish perjurie in others yet he thrice broke his promise and oath with his owne Citisens the Senat and people of Magdeburg for first hee besieged them with a power of men and though they redeemed their liberty with a summe of money he swearing not to besiege them any more yet without respect of truth and credit he returned afresh to the siege but his persidie was soone tamed for they tooke him prisoner at that assault howbeit he so asswaged their angrie mindes with his humble and lowlie entreaties and counterfe it oathes never to trouble them any more but to continue their stedfast friend that they not onely freed him from imprisonment but restored him to all his dignities with solemnitie neverthelesse the traiterous Archbishop returning to his old vomit got dispensation for his oath from Pope Iohn the xxiij and began afresh to vex molest and murther them whom he had sworne to maintaine but it was the will of God that he should be once againe caught and being enclosed in prison whilest his friends sought meanes to redeeme him the gaoler beat him to death with a dore barre or as some say with an yron rod taken out of a window and so at last though long his perjurie found its desert The small successe that the Emperor Sigismund had in all his affaires after the violation of his faith given to Iohn Hus and Hierome of Prague at the Councell of Constance whom though with direct protestations and oathes he promised safe conduct and returne yet he adjudged to be burned doth testifie the odiousnesse of his sin in the sight of God But above all this one example is most worthie the marking of a fellow that hearing perjury condemned in a pulpit by a learned preacher and how it never escaped unpunished said in a braverie I have oft forsworne my selfe and yet my right hand is not a whit shorter than my left Which words he had scarce uttered when such an inflamation arose in that hand that he was constrained to go to the Chirurgion and cut it off lest it should infect his whole bodie and so his right hand became shorter than his left in recompence of his perjurie which he lightly esteemed of About the yeare of our Lord 925 when King Ethelstane otherwise called Adelstane raigned here in England there was one Elfrede a Nobleman who with a faction of seditious persons conspired against the King presently after the death of his Father and at Winchester went about to put out his eyes but the King by the good providence of God escaped that danger and Elfrede being accused thereof fled to Rome to the end to purge himself of the crime by oath before the Pope who beeing brought to the Church of Saint Peter and there swearing or rather forswearing himself to be cleere when indeed he was guilty behold the Lords hand on him suddenly as soon as his oath was pronounced he fell down in a strange sicknesse and from thence being brought to the English house in Rome within three daies after departed this life The Pope sent word hereof to King Ethelstane with demand Whither he would have him buried among Christians or no Who through the perswasions of his friends and kinsfolke granted that though he neither lived nor died like a Christian yet he should have Christian buriall In the towne of Rutlinquen a certaine passenger came into an Inne and gave a budget to his hoast to be kept in the which there was a great sum of money but when he demanded it againe at his departure the host denied it and gave him injurious words with many mocks and taunts Whereupon the passenger calleth him in question before the Iudge and because he wanted witnesses desireth to have him sworne who without all scruple offered to sweare and protest That he never received or concealed any such budget of money from him giving himselfe to the Devill if he swore falsely The passenger seeing his forwardnesse to damne himself demanded respit to consider of the matter and going out hee meets with two men who enquire the cause of his comming thither and being informed by him offer their help unto him in his cause thereupon they returne before the Iudge and these two unknowne persons justifie that the budget was delivered unto the host and that hee had hidden it in such a place whereat the host being astonished by his countenance and gesture discovered his guiltinesse the Iudge thereupon resolved to send

the woman asked her before them all whether she durst say that he had ravished her to whom she replyed yea I sweare and vow that thou hast done it for shee supposed it to have beene Athanasius whom shee never saw whereat the whole Synod perceived the cavill of the lying Arrians and quitted the innocency of that good man Howbeit these malicious hereticks seeing this practise not to succeed invented another worse then the former for they accused him to have slaine one Arsenius whom they themselves kept secret and that hee carried one of his hands about him wherewith he wrought miracles by enchantment but Arsenius touched by the spirit of God stole away from them and came to Athanasius to the end he should receive no damage by his absence whom he brought in to the Judges and shewed them both his hands confounded his accusers with shame of their malice insomuch as they ranne away for feare and satisfied the Judges both of his integrity and their envious calumniation the chiefe Broker of all this mischiefe was Stephanus Bishop of Antioch but he was degraded from his Bishopricke and Leontius elected in his roome In our English Chronicles we have recorded a notable history to the like effect of King Canutus the Dane who after much trouble being established in the Kingdome of England caused a Parliament to bee held at London where amongst other things there debated it was propounded to the Bishops Barons and Lords of that Assembly Whether in the composition made betwixt Edmond and Canutus any speciall remembrance was made for the children or brethren of Edmond touching any partition of any part of the land which the English Lords flattering the king though falsly and against the truth yea and against their owne consciences denied to be and not onely so but for the Kings pleasure confirmed their false words with a more false oath that to the uttermost of their powers they would put off the bloud of Edmond from all right and interest by reason of which oath and promise they thought to have purchased with the King great favour but by the just retribution of God it chanced farre otherwise for many of them or the most part especially such as Canutus perceived to have sworne fealtie before time to Edmond and his heires he mistrusted and disdained ever after insomuch that some he exiled many he beheaded and divers by Gods just judgement died suddenly In the Scottish Chronicles we read how Hamilton the Scot was brought unto his death by the false accusation of a false Frier called Campbel who being in the fire ready to be executed cited and summoned the said Frier to appeare before the high God as generall Judge of all men to answer to the innocency of his death and whether his accusation were just or not betwixt that and a certaine day of the next moneth which he there named Now see the heart and hand of God against a false witnesse ere that day came the Frier died without any remorse of conscience and no doubt he gave a sharpe account to Almighty God of his malicious and unjust accusation In the yeare of our Lord 1105 Henry Archbishop of Mentz being complained of to the Pope sent a learned man a speciall friend of his to excuse him named Arnold one for whom he had much done and promoted to great livings and promotions but this honest man in stead of an excuser became an accuser for hee bribed the two chiefest Cardinals with gold and obtained of the Pope those two to be sent Inquisitors about the Archbishops case The which comming into Germany summoned the said Henry and without either law or justice deposed him from his Archbishoprick and substituted in his place Arnold upon hope of his Ecclesiasticall gold Whereupon that vertuous and honourable Henry is reported to have spoken thus unto those perverse Judges If I should appeale to the Apostolike Sea for this your unjust processe had against me perhaps I should but lose my labour and gaine nothing but toyle of body losse of goods affliction of minde and care of heart Wherefore I doe appeale to the Lord Jesus Christ as to the most highest and just Judge and cite you before his judgement seat there to answer for this wrong done unto me for neither justly nor godly but corruptly and unjustly have you judged my cause Whereunto they scoffingly said Goe you first and we will follow Not long after the said Henry dyed whereof the two Cardinals having intelligence said one to the other jestingly Behold he is gone before and wee must follow according to our promise And verily they spoke truer than they were aware for within a while after they both dyed in one day the one sitting upon a jakes to ease himselfe voyded out all his entrailes into the draught and miserably ended his life the other gnawing off the fingers of his hands and spitting them out of his mouth all deformed in devouring of himselfe died And in like wise not long after the said Arnold was slaine in a sedition and his body for certaine dayes lying stinking above the ground unburied was open to the spoyle of every raskall and harlot And this was the horrible end of this false accuser and those corrupted Judges Thus were two Cardinals punished for this sinne and that we may see that the holy father the Pope is no better than his Cardinals and that God spareth not him no more than he did them let us heare how the Lord punished one of that ranke for this crime It is not unknowne that Pope Innocent the fourth condemned the Emperour Fredericke at the Councell at Lyons his cause being unheard and before hee could come to answer for himselfe For when the Emperour being summoned to appeare at the Councell made all haste hee could thitherward and desired to have the day of hearing his cause prorogued till that he might conveniently travell thither the Pope refused and contrary to Gods law to Christian Doctrine to the prescript of the law of nature and reason and to all humanity without probation of any crime or pleading any cause or hearing what might be answered taking upon him to be both Adversary and Judge condemned the Emperour being absent What more wicked sentence was ever pronounced What more cruell fact considering the person might be committed But marke what vengeance God tooke upon this wicked Judge The writers of the Annals record that when Fredericke the Emperour and Conrade his sonne were both dead the Pope gaping for the inheritance of Naples and Sicilie and thinking by force to have subdued the same came to Naples with a great hoast of men where was heard in his court manifestly pronounced this voyce Veni miser ad judicium Dei Thou wretch come to receive thy judgement of God And the next day the Pope was found in his bed dead all black and blew as though he had beene beaten with bats And this was the judgement of God which he came