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A95890	A looking-glasse for malignants: or, Gods hand against God-haters. Containing a most terrible yet true relation of the many most fearefull personall examples (in these present times, since the yeere, 1640.) of Gods most evident and immediate wrath against our malevolent malignants. Together with a caveat for cowards and unworthy (either timorous or treacherous) newters. Collected for Gods honour, and the ungodlies horrour, by John Vicars. Imprimatur hic liber. Iohn White.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing V317; Thomason E33_18; ESTC R19020	39,491	44

houre Immediately after Prayer the sicke party said He was now most happy since God and Man had forgiven him and told the Minister hee was certaine God pardoned him all his finnes The Minister answered It was well if his assurance were on good grounds He replied That he was sure of it for Christ had taken away all his sinnes which God had in his sicknesse set before his eyes yea and some such finnes as he did not know or beleeve formerly to have beene sinnes but now Christ had borne them all on his owne shoulders and eased him of all that heavy burthen with many other most heavenly and divine expressions And being neere his death even the night before he died he said Hee assuredly saw Christ in a vision appearing unto him and telling him that his sinnes were pardoned and that he had a Cause on earth and that the Parliament of England defended it and that in the yeere of our Lord Christ 1644. the Parliament should obtaine a great victory over the Kings Forces and that then there should bee none of those wicked Ministers that had mis-led Gods people left among them and that from that time the Parliament should prosper but in the meane season that the rod of the wicked should rest on the backs of his righteous ones And after this hee lay glorying and rejoycing in the forgivenesse of his sinnes and even triumphing over death till the time of his departure which was the next day This relation was testified both by the said learned reverend and religious Divine who was often with him in his said sicknesse and heard most of his expressions and also by another religious Gentleman who was also then present and heard what is here delivered as aforesaid Also one Thomas Clarke a ranke malignant young man and servant to one Master Travill a merchant of London 3. One Thomas Clarke also a merchants man in London a notable malignant his penitent confession on his death-bed in honour of the Parliament being in the yeere 1643 stricken with sicknesse of which he died about three dayes before his death one William Coote a neighbour of his comming to visit him in this his sicknesse and having sate a while with him as he was going away the sick party desired him to stay a little and told him that hee would now say more to him then he had done to any which was this I am now sayes hee strongly perswaded in my heart that the Parliament maintains a right cause and at last shall have victory over the Kings Forces for they he said fought for Antichrist and he confest withall that he had lived a very sinfull life and was most of all grieved that he had spoken so much against the Parliament for which he wished he could now weep teares of blood together with very many patheticall speeches to this purpose and shortly after it departed this life This I have also from very honest and religious hands and testimony who have faithfully informed me of the truth thereof as having been both eye and ear-witnesses of the same In September also 1643. one Master Whitleigh in Golding lane in London with his wife Mistresse Whitleigh both of them very religious Christians 4. A remarkable example of one Master Whitleigh and his wife who deserted the Cause of the Parliament and truly fearing the Lord came with their foure children not long before to London from Tewksbury in Gloucestershire principally desiring to remove thence because of the wicked conversation of the Cavaliers billeted where he lived And hee having formerly served in the Parliaments Army against the Kings Forces but being now at London and for about three moneths space void of imployment resolved to give over service in the wars as finding a timorous fearfulnesse in himselfe to adventure any more into the Parliaments Army thereupon at last he had some thoughts to goe into New-England and advising with his wife who also was most unw●l●ing hee should any more put himselfe into the Service of the Parliament but by all meanes began to strengthen his resolution to goe away for New-England Whereupon he peremptorily now resolving to depart thither with his wife and children presently laid out thirty pounds for their passage by Sea and as much more for provision of necessaries to the voyage But being ready to depart the Lord suddenly struck him very sicke and in his sicknesse he was very much troubled in his minde lamenting and crying out very much against the sinne of Cowardise and Fearfulnesse which hee conceived to bee the ground of his intended removall to New-England and therefore much distrusting his soules estate cryed out often That he had sinned against God in cowardly deserting his holy Cause yet earnestly praying the Lord to forgive him this sinne promising and protesting that if the Lord vouchsafed to restore him to health and strength againe he would resolutely goe on to spend every drop of the blood in his veines for the Parliaments Cause and afterward blaming his wife for giving her consent and incouraging him therein he shortly after died yet before his departure he testified abundance of comfort and assurance of Gods favour and the pardon of his sin Immediately also after his death it so pleased the Lord that his wife fell so distracted that three or foure women could scarcely hold her downe in her bed and she taking no sustenance but what was forced into her mouth for many dayes she still in all this time of most sad perplexity crying out That she had sinned against God in counselling and incouraging her deceased husband to forsake Gods Cause and thereby she feare● she had beene the cause of his death And thus she lay divers dayes in much misery crying out of this her sinne and craving pardon of God for it And about the end of September aforesaid my godly friend from whom I had this relation comming occasionally to her house to see her found that her raging fits had left her but her spirits much spent and she lying speechlesse so that he knew not how to administer a word of comfort to her in that case wherefore being about to depart thence shee looked stedfastly on him reached out her hand to him which he tooke in his being as cold as clay and therewith spake many comfortable words unto her and ere he departed she manifested very much consolation in her soule both by words though faintly and gestures also and in a most happy and comfortable condition departed this life also the very next morning after his departure from her This relation I say I had from a very religious Citizen of London and faithfull servant of the Lord who himselfe was with Mistresse Whitleigh thus departing and whose own Sister lived close by these parties was well acquainted with them both in their lives and death and whose testimony I know to be without exception There was also about the time of the first victories of the famous and

remembrance of that most remarkable and memorable passage of Gods providence how in the beginning of these most uncivill Civill-warres and commotions among us 1. Gods hand against malignants in the strange behaviour of the souldiers in the first Army into the North against the Scots when by the prevalent power of the malignant Parricides on the Kings part an Army was first raised to goe into the North against our honest and harmlesse brethren of Scotland and that the Souldiers then pressed and provoked to goe forth to fight against them in their march thither-ward though they themselves were but prophane fellowes rude and irreligious young men and therefore one would have thought most fit instruments to promote such an irreligious worke and warre as that was how strangely the Lord over ruled their hearts and ordered their spirits making them to divert and turne all the edge of their sury and disaffection against the Malignant cause and quarrell and upon the malignant and popish party themselves that had set them on worke over-turning their Altars in all Churches and Chappels wheresoever they came and found them breaking in pieces and burning the railes about them plundering and terretying the scandalous Baals-priests and popish sonnes of Belial wheresoever they found any of them and not onely refusing to be led and commanded by popish Captaines and Commanders but flying in their faces and killing and wounding divers of them Which hand of God against them in the very same kind hath been also admirably seconded now againe lately in those 800 or 1000 Souldiers brought out of Ireland 2. Gods-hand against malignants in the Souldiers sent out of Ireland since the Cessation of armes there to fight against the Parliament since that accursed cessation of Armes there and landed at Bristol intended for that traiterous parricide Sir Ralph Hopton to fight against our most pious Parliament But I say how admirably the Lord turned their hearts suddenly from that most accursed cause and how that upon the tender of an oath unto them to fight against the Parliament they utterly refused it flew in the faces of their Commanders and made them fly away vowing and protesting with apparent expressions of great indignation that they would not fight for the popish party in England as they had not in Ireland and thereupon joyntly resolved to force their way as they most faithfully did from Bristol where they were first landed to Bathe so to Gloucester to fight on the Parliaments side under the command of that ever most highly to be honoured commander Colonell Massie who gave them most free and friendly entertainment 3. Also in the Westerne and Northern parts of the Kingdome notwithstanding their seeming successe there To which I might here most pertinently and pregnantly adde the yet more late defection of very many of their intended party both in the West to Lime Poole and Plimouth even then when they had beene ready armed for Hoptons service in the South In the North also divers both of the Gentry and Commons who have deserted New castle and in Wales and Cheshire also now later I say of the English-Irish Souldiers who would by no means fight against the Parliament 4. In many memorable plots also admirably discovered and crossed Together with the detection and discovery of many most mischievous plots and base designes of treachery most admirably and strangely discovered and so happily and timely frustrated even by the immediate mercy and good hand of God as that most bloody Plot against the Parliament Jan. 4. 1641. The Plot of the Scots Army at their former coming in among us to have beene sent against the Parliament and City of London The late Plot against Hull by Sir Iohn Hotham and his sonne And the severall most dangerous Plots under pretence of Treaties for peace forsooth against the most renowned and famous City of London as that dangerous Plot by Waller Challenor Tomkins c. And that more lately now of Sir Bazil Bro●k Violet or rather Varlet and hypocriticall Riley with very many other of these kindes almost all over the whole Kingdome all too well knowne and too tedious here to relate and which I have most fully and particularly related in my Parliamentary Chronicle intituled God in the Mount Together also with the Lords most admirable discountenancing yea cursing and blasting all the wicked designes in the Kings party ever since that hideous and hellish cessation of Armes in Ireland with those most barbarous bloody and damnable Irish Rogues 5. In Gods most justly discountenancing and making odious even to Malignants themselves that horrid cessation of Armes in Ireland which was most impiously plotted by the wicked malignant Councellors on the Kings side for their falsly hoped mighty advantage in the advancement of their bloody cause but which hath by Gods marvellous wisdome mercy and good providence proved one of the most ominous and eminently odious meanes of the ruinating and overthrowing of their most accursed cause and wicked courses even their malignants themselves being judges and which our good God hath clearly ratified I say againe by the extreme ill successe they have had ever since in all their wicked undertakings and contrariwise 6. And their extreme ill successe ever since in the great and good successe our God hath given to us ever since especially ever since our most holy and happy entring into a Covenant with our God and blessed League with our honest and religious Brethren of Scotland 7. Our good successe ever since the Covenant with Scotland witnesse our happy victories in Lincolnshire York●shire Lime Poole Plimouth Newport-Pannell Aulton Grafton-House Bewley-House Holts-House and Arundell-Castle with others in which places some reckon the Enemy hath lost besides exceeding much Armes and Ammunition and besides the brave and rich ship taken at Arundell-Castle a most admirable providence betweene three and foure thousand 8. The admirable breaking out of the Swedes against Denmarke but we may justly reckon a farre greater number Besides the admirable providence of God in stirring up beside the whole Nation of our loyall brethren of Scotland the whole Kingdome of Swethland to fall furiously and fortunately on the Kingdome of Denmarke a most admirable providentiall piece mightily to crosse and curbe our English Malignants hopes and designes against us But to come more particularly and personally neere to our intended purpose in this first branch of our Looking-glasse of Gods hand against our Malignants especially I say because personall particularities come neerer and closer then generalities I shall here therefore instance first in the strange hand of God personally manifested against them in that most admirable overture and alteration of the course of things to the shame and sorrow of our unluckey Lordly Prelates to live to see their voluptuous princely Palaces as Winchester house and Ely house turned into prisons but especially the spacious and specious palace of that Arch-adversary of Christ and his Cause among

renowned Towne of Manchester in Lancashire 5. One Master Standidge a Lancashire Gentleman deserting the Parliament suddenly slaine in the act of his defection in the yeere 1642. one M. Standidge a Gentleman of Lancashire who had formerly beene a man much ingaged in his affections for the Parliaments Cause and had oftentimes expressed so much both by his stiffe contendings with some that were very neere and deare unto him as also by his practice and assistance given to the said Cause But afterward by the slye insinuations and perswasions of some seeming friends neere about him but especially being at last overswaied and prevailed with as was strongly supposed by the Lord Strange then a great but blessed be God a most unsuccessefull stickler for the Kings party he being very intimate with the said Lord Strange This said Gentleman did at last so much crosse his owne former practice and good esteeme he had and held of the Worke and Cause of God in the Parliaments proceedings that he most unworthily quite deserted it yea so farre as to take up Armes against it and as he was in person in command and going against that honest famous and victorious Town of Manchester in the Lord Stranges Army the Lord God of Heaven in apparent displeasure met with him in this most disloyall Apostacie and going against God and his Cause For as he was going to take Horse upon some designe neere to the said Town of Manchester a bullet suddenly hit him and kil'd him presently not directly from the Towne but the bullet glancing upon a wall reached him with a gliding blow and so cut him short of his purpose and gave him the sad reward of his unhappy backsliding This I have from such unquestionable and religious testimony of a godly friend and neighbour of mine as I know to be without all just exception And is not here now one would thinke testimony enough for thee O incredulous Malignant yea even from the mouthes of two Converts formerly of thine owne ranke and rotten condition but now and that upon their death-beds and the words of dying men we know doe or ought to take deepe impression making ingenious confession of their and your folly and madnesse in so injuriously opposing the pious and just proceedings of the Parliament But now take one more to cleare these truths yet more abundantly 6. A most remarkable relation of Master Joseph Latch a Merchant his great misery for deserting the Parliament and his mercifull recovery yea one of no lesse moment and materiality then any of the former and most worthy serious notice and observation namely of one Master Ioseph Latch a Merchant in Bashingshall-street in London who having by Gods blessing upon his endeavours in his calling gotten a good estate and being a pious young Gentleman and well affected to the publike good of the Kingdome in the beginning of this Parliamentary warre and set forth two Horses for the said service at his owne proper charge but having some considerable goods at Bristoll which he desired to convey to Manchester by land in which land-passage a protection from the King was necessary for their safe convoy thorow Shrewsbury where lay a Garrison of the Kings Cormorants upon this occasion hee forced himselfe to goe to Oxford to procure such a protection Thus then he tooke his journey thither where he was no sooner arrived but it pleased the Lord it should so fall out that he was presently espied by one that had beene a Malignant neighbour of his in London a Lawyer by whose meanes he was presently apprehended as a Spie on which suspicion hee was instantly clapt up prisoner in the Castle and immediatly after was fetcht before the Councell-Table and in danger of his life But having there very good friends of the Kings party namely Sir George Binion Sir Nicholas Crispe and Mr. Bradborne his kinsman and others he was by the Kings owne Warrant set at liberty and entertained at Sir George Binious lodgings and yet againe for all this Smith that hellish Cerberus the Provost-marshall fetcht him out of Bynions lodgings at eleven of the clocke at night and carried him to prison againe Whereupon Bynion went againe to the King together with Mr. Bradborne told His Majesty of it who seemed much discontented thereat and presently sent a Squire of His body with a Commission to lay Smith by the heeles for his presumption and to enlarge Mr. Latch yea and that without taking the Oxford Protestation lest thereby his estate in London should have been seized on by the Parliament as the estate of a Swornemalignant yet with a private serious promise and engagement to Bynion that he would never hereafter put forth himselfe in any publique service for the Parliament So he at last returned safely home and in order to his promse was now growen very shy of serving with his Company according to the Ordinance of the Militia and shortly after through the ill-advice of a very malignant companion of his made over his estate into Holland put off his house in Bashing shall-street and then withdrew his person also into Holland Thus our Engglish Jonas would have fled from Nineve to Tarshish but God raised a storme in his conscience which drove him backe to our London Nineve there to cry repentance intending there to have lived till these times might change and thus he quite deserted the Parliament But he had not beene there above three weekes or a moneth but that it pleased God he fell sicke there and had a great and restlesse desire to come backe againe into England and accordingly having a fit opportunity imbarked himselfe and was brought backe sicke to London that thus by the providence of God so ordering it he might manifest his repentance here where he had finned and be an example to others both of the horrour which arises out of a guilty conscience sensible of apostacy from a good Cause and also from our Parliamentary Protestation and Covenant to maintaine the same Thus then I say being come off the water on Munday Sept. 25. 1643. he went to a friends house of his one Mr. Lacey in Canon-street where he went sicke to bed and in two daies his sicknesse and corscience working together he much desired to speake with some godly Minister Whereupon one was sent for who accordingly came to him on the Wednesday night but knowing nothing of his defection from the Parliament and hearing a good report of his former honest conversation he onely questioned him about his faith in Christ whereunto receiving an apposite answer he held out unto him some promises of the Gospell wherein his soule might cleave unto the Lord and having commended him unto the grace of God departed for that time but Mr. Latch found such sweetnesse in those promises that he still would be asking when that Minister would come againe That Thursday and Friday past and the Minister not sent for but on the Saturday following he called very