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A33333	A looking-glass for persecutors containing multitudes of examples of God's severe, but righteous judgments, upon bloody and merciless haters of His children in all times, from the beginning of the world to this present age : collected out of the sacred Scriptures, and other ecclesiastical writers, both ancient and modern / by Sam. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1674 (1674)	Wing C4541; ESTC R12590	51,164	142

Friar called Lambert a Dr. and Prior in the City of Lieg and one of the bloody Inquisitors as he was one day preaching bitterly against the Protestants was stricken speechless and being carried out of his Pulpit into his Cloister he was shortly after found drowned in a Ditch 94 Augustine Marlorat a Learned painful and holy Preacher in Roan was condemned to be hang'd and drawn on a Hurdle to the place of execution The Constable of France loaded him with a thousand reproaches and outrages as also did Monsieur Monbrun the Constables son who shortly after was slain in the battel of Dreux Also one Villibon gave him a switch with a wand adding many reproachful speeches therewith which Marlorat bore with admirable patience and meekness And when he was executed and dead the malice of his Adversaries rested not there For one of the Soldiers struck on his Legs with his Sword But speedy vengeance from God pursued his Persecntors For the Popish Captain that apprehended him was slain within three weeks after by the basest Soldier in all his Company And two of his Judges dyed very strangely soon after namely the President of the Parliament by a flux of blood which could by no art nor means be stopped The other being a Counsellor voided his Urine at his Fundament which was accompanied with such an intollerable stink that none could endure to come near him Villebon also who switched him sped no better For a while after the Marshal Vielle Ville coming to Roan about publick Affairs invited Villebon to dinner and in discourse lamenting the miseries of that City he exhorted him to reform many abuses seeing he was the Kings Lievtenant there Villebon took this so ill that he said If any man dare tax me for not behaving my self as I ought in my place I would tell him to his face that he lyed These words he repeated over so often that the Marshal being much urged struck at him with his Sword with such violence that had he not received the blow with his Arm his head had been clest to the Teeth Thus for the present he escaped with the loss of that hand wherewith he had stricken Marlorat in so disgraceful a manner at the place of Execution 95. A young Gentlewoman of about three and twenty years old came from Gascoine to Paris to join her-self to the Protestant Church there And after a while she among others was apprehended imprisoned and condemned to be burnt which she endured with admirable patience and constancy but presently two of them that bore witness against her falling out the one slew the other with a knife 96. Gharles Cominck who had been a Friar in the City of Gaunt after his conversion was apprehended and condemned but after his execution one of his greatest Adversaries who had a chief hand in his Death fell into such grievous horrors and terrors of Conscience that he dyed within a few days 97. Dr. Aegidio a godly Preacher in Sevil being brought into the Inquisition and used miserably by them before they proceeded to condemn him it pleased God that three of the Inquisitors who were his greatest adversaries dyed by which good Providence he was released and lived some years after 98. The Emperor Ferdinand the second was a great Persecutor of the Protestants in Bohemia and Germany who after his Victory over Frederick Prince Palatine and the Bohemian States made it his work to root out the Protestant Religion in those Countries and turned them into a very shambles of Blood sparing neither Age Sex nor Rank that refused to abjure the Truth But whilest he was in his full Carier God brought in against him a contemptible people the Swedes under whose Swords most of those bloody wretches fell who were the Bohemian Scourges so that much of Germany and of the Emperors Country was a very Aceldama a Field of Blood The Emperor 's great Army consisting of twenty four thousand that had given Laws to Germany for many years together and were looked upon as so many Captains by reason of their long practice and experience was broken in the plain Field And the Emperor himself being broken with breach upon breach was forced to such terms as the Enemies could be drawn to Examples of Gods Judgments upon Popish Persecutors in England and Scotland 99. Sir Thomas Moor and Fisher Bishop of Rochester who were great Persecutors of the Protestants in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth were themselves not long after condemned for Treason and beheaded 100. Philips who betrayed Mr. Tindal to the Emperors Secretary fell into a grievous Disease and was caten up of Lice 101. Pavier The Town-clerk of London a cruel Enemy to the true Professors of the Gospel swore a great Oath that if he thought the King would set forth the Scriptures in English rather than he would live to see it he would cut his own Throat But he brake Promise saith the Author for instead thereof he hanged himself Foxford Chancellour to Stokesley Bishop of London a bloody Persecutor and the common Butcher of Gods Saints dyed suddenly sitting in his Chair his Belly breaking and his Guts falling out before him 102. Rockwood who was a great stirrer up of the Persecution against Gods people in Calis suddenly fell sick staring raging and crying out All to late For I have maliciously sought the Death of many godly Persons and that against mine own Conscience and therefore all to late All to late and thus he continued unto his end 103. The under Marshal also who at the same time was a Persecutor fell down dead in the Council Chamber and never spake word after 104. Adam Damlip a godly Preacher in Calis was falsly accused of Treason for which he was condemned and executed and when he would have purged himself Sir Ralph Ellerker would not suffer him to speak but commanded him to be carried away to execution saying That he would not depart till he saw the Traitors heart out But shortly after in a skirmish against the French this Ellerker was slain and after they had stripped him naked they cut off his Privy Members and pulled out his Heart which they did not to any other of the slain 105. Dr. Story a Bloody Persecutor in Queen Marys Days when Queen Elizabeth came to the Crown could not forbear to curse her dayly in his Grace at Board for which trayterous practice he was deservedly hanged 106. John Twiford a furious Papist that used to set up Stakes for them that were burnt in Smithfield dyed rotting above ground so that none could endure to come near unto him by reason of his horrible stink 107. William Gardiner an English Merchant being present in Lisbon at the marriage of the King of Portugal's Son with the King of Spain's Daughter and seeing the abominable Idolatry then used in the presence of the King and of all the States there assembled he stepped to the Cardinal who was celebrating of Mass and plucked the Cake out of his

the Protestants began to meet more publickly and to profess the Truth more openly than before The Arch-Bishop thereupon renews his former Suit to the Son as he had before successfully pressed upon the Father In particular he first aimed at the destruction of Sir John Oldcastle See his Life in my second Volume of Lives who had most affronted him He by reason of his great Alliances and the favour of his King who called him His Knight might have expected exemption from their Tyranny But they prevailed with the King as saith Arch-Bishop Parker Rex virum clarum sibique familiarissimum Episcoporum potestati carnisioinae permisit The King gave up this famous man and who was dear to himself to the power and destruction of the Bishops And yet it pleased God that he outlived this persecuting Arch-Prelate two years at least For the Arch-Bishop having murthered many godly Saints in King Henry the Fourths time and being a great stickler in state affairs having long before procured himself to be made Lord Chancellour of England and lastly in a Synod held by himself at Rochester having forbidden the reading of the Scriptures in English and limited Preachers under an heavy censure what they should treat of in the Pulpit was soon cut off himself by the immediate hand of God after he had condemned that warlike Kinght Sir John Old-Castle Lord Cobham before he could see him executed For his Tongue was so swoln and benummed that he could neither swallow nor speak some days before his Death It being saith one the just Judgment of God upon him and may be a warning to all other wicked Popish Prelates that as he had muzled up the mouths of Preachers and kept the Scriptures from the knowledge of the people being their spiritual food So he should neither be able to swallow nor speak from that very minute that this Judgment fell upon him and so he dyed within a few days after in great torment and extremity by a languishing silence and famishment A later Example we have in the admirable punishment of James Beton Arch-Bishop of S. Andrews in Scotland who was also a member of the purpurated Conclave at Rome He had for diverse years been an inveterate Enemy to the Gospel and the Professors of it in that Kingdom under King James the Fifth And after his Death taking the advantage of the infancy of the Princess Mary the Hereditary Queen of that Realm he thought it a work worthy of himself to double die his Purple Robes in the Blood of the Saints And to make a full and clear way for that his sanguinary Project he forged a Will of the deceased King whereby he was established the chief Regent there during the young Ladies incapacity to Reign From which yet his false play being discovered he was removed and for a while imprisoned Yet was he no sooner delivered but he presently endeavoured to raise a new and a fatal war between England and Scotland and to root out the Professors of the Truth by a violent and bloody Persecution And among others whom he cited imprisoned or exiled in the year 1545. he seized upon Mr. George Wiseheart a very eloquent and learned Preacher who by the Latin writers of that age is called Sophocardius and contrary to their own Popish Canons adjudged him to present death himself which is never done except by the hellish Inquisition of Spain but by delivering the Martyrs into the power of the Civil-Magistrate And in his Court before the Castle of S. Andrews caused that bloody Sentence to be executed the said Mr. Wiseheart being first strangled and his Body afterwards burnt to Ashes The Cardinal in the mean time had a Chamber prepared for him with Carpets and Cushions in the Windows out of which he was a Triumphant Spectator of this godly mans Martyrdom From which window he departed not more delighted than as himself thought secured and presently he began to fortify his Castle against all Assaults But Gods Judgment from Eternity awarded against him for this later as well as former cruelties exercised upon his faithful Servants slep'd not For within a few weeks after the Cardinal having falsified his Promise to the Lord Norman Lesly Son of the Earl of Rothsay a zealous Romanist He upon the thirteenth day of May the same year with about fourteen resolute Gentlemen in his company entred the said Castle of S. Andrews where the Cardinal lay having had a whore with him all that night and having first assured himself of all within and the Gates without he slew the bloody Prelate by his Bed-side without Law or Justice who had but a little before most unjustly condemned and murthered the aforesaid Mr. Wiseheart and being willing to expose the dead Carcass of that cruel Persecutor all weltring and besmeared with blood unto the view of the People who abhorred his Butcheries and rejoiced at his fall casually they laid it along to be seen of all men in that very window out of which a little before leaning at his ease upon rich Cushions he had proudly beheld the death of that precious Martyr 161. It s very observable which Historians take notice of that generally the greatest Persecutors are most drenched in the sin of uncleanness and Epicurism What was Escovedo that great Instrument of the King of Spain's cruelties against the Evangelical Party in the Low-Countries but a a very Lump of Lust which in the end proved fatal to him 162. Peter Espinac A Bishop of Lions in France was a great Persecutor and one that lived in incest with his own Sister 163. John Arch-Bishop of S. Andrews in Scotland spent the greatest part of the Revenues of his See and the seisure of the Protestants Estates whose mortal Enemy he was upon his Whores and Revellings 164. The Cardinal of Granvels Veneries were so manifest and numerous as when Anno Christi 1574. the Kingdom of Tunis and the strong Fort of Gulette formerly esteemed impregnable were won by the Turks the Spaniards made a jest of it said openly That the Cardinals Breeches had occasioned that loss meaning thereby that King Philip the Second relying chiefly upon his advice in that and in most of the rest of his important affairs the Cardinals Lusts so took him up that he had not leisure to advise the King for the best 165. Cardinal Beton aforementioned wallowed at home with pollution among his Harlots and raged abroad with the blood and slaughter of the innocent Servants of Christ. 166. In that Hellish Massacre on S. Bartholomew's Day in Paris it self The Murtherers there were for the most part brutish and lustful Soldiers or profane Varlets of the scum of the City and though their Leaders were more noble yet less virtuous The Duke of Guise and Aumale Albert Gondy Earl of Rets Tavanne and others of them that were bred up in Lust Revellings and all manner of Debaucheries 167. The next place that came nearest to the cruelties exercised at Paris was the