up further to clear and unmask this detestable and bloody Conspiracy Dr. Oats was resolved as much as in him lay to prevent their Traiterous designs upon his Majesties Life though he endangered his own thereby since he observed that all their Contrivances were ripe and there only wanted the Fatal Blow to destroy the life of his Sacred Majesty and the Religion and Liberties of these three Kingdoms And whereas Father Whitebread the Provincial of the Jesuits had engaged Dr. Oats before his last return into England to assassinate and murder Israel Tongue Doctor of Divinity because he had translated a Book Intituled The Jesuits Morals and had promised him Fifty pound as a reward for the same Dr. Oats after his coming over became acquainted with Dr. Tongue and finding him to be a person of Trust and Integrity he gave him an Account of his Assassination and likewise some Heads of the Plot in General After which they both seriously Consulted together of the best methods for making this necessary Discovery since they were sure to meet with great opposition therein At last they concluded to acquaint Mr. Christopher Kirby therewith as a person whom for his Loyalty Courage and zeal for the Safety of his Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion they judged very fit and capable to assist them and therefore on Monday August 12. 1678. Dr. Tongue shewed Mr. Kirby Forty three Articles drawn up in writing desiring him that without making any other Person acquainted therewith he would discover the same to the King And Mr. Kirby very generously undertook the same and accordingly the next morning in St. James's Park he humbly acquainted his Majesty That his Enemies had a Design against his Life and humbly beseeched his Majesty to use all Caution for he did not know but he might be in danger in that very walk But his Majesty armed with his Native goodness and Innocency seemed more surprized with the Strangeness of the News than with the apprehension of the danger and only asked How that could be To which Mr. Kirby replyed That it might be by being shot at And gave a particular account that there were two men Grove and Pickering by name that watched an opportunity to shoot his Majesty and that another Person was hired to Poyson him His Majesty ordered further Scrutiny should be made into the business and a while after Doctor Oats having written fair Copies of his Informations upon the 28. of September 1678. went to Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and made Oath of the truth and reality thereof Sir Edmundbury desiring to keep a Copy of the Informations himself as having never before perused them which it may be was the occasion of his horrid Murther which soon after followed The Plot in General seemed to be by Fire and Sword to subvert and destroy the Protestant Religion and established Government of these three Kingdoms and to reduce them to Popery The chief Conspirators being Innocent 11 th now Pope who in The Congregation for propagating the Faith held about Decemb. 1677. and consisting of about 350. Persons Declared All His Majesties Dominions to be part of St. Peters Patrimony as forfeited to the Holy See for the Heresie of the Prince and People and to be disposed of as he should think fit And our English Cardinal Howard was appointed by the Pope to take Possession of England in his Name who was likewise made Archbishop of Canterbury and other Popish Priests were made Bishops in England all the present Bishops being designed to be removed from their Dignities Johannes Paulus de Oliva Father General of the Jesuits was to give Directions to the Provincial of the Jesuits in London how to manage their Affairs Mounsieur le Chese a Jesuit Confessor to the French King was likewise concerned with whom Edward Coleman held correspondence Also Strange and Whitebread Provincials of the Jesuits and the Benedictine Monks of the Savoy were in this cursed Conspiracy and the Jesuits and Seminary Priests of whom there were at that time in England about Eighteen Hundred Divers Lay Persons of Quality were drawn in who were to command Forces and to execute the Great Offices of the Realm as the Lord Arundel of Warder was appointed Lord Chancellour of England the Lord Powis Lord Treasurer Sir William Godolphin Lord Privy Seal Edward Coleman Secretary of State and for the Military part Lord Bellasis to be Lord General Lord Peters Lieutenant General Sir Francis Ratcliff Major General John Lambert Adjutant General Richard Langhorn Advocate General who had Commissions sent them from Paulus de Oliva and directed from Rome to Mr. Langhorn This was so great and glorious a work that the chiefest of the Romish Clergy through Europe were engaged therein so that it cannot be said to be the Act or Contrivance of any few particular Persons but The unanimous undertaking of their whole Church and so to their everlasting Infamy ought to be Recorded Now as to the Means whereby this was to be accomplished the first and chief was By Murdering his Sacred Majesty which was to be accomplisht either by Pistolling of him wherein Pickering and Grove were ingaged or by Stabbing and this to be done by Conyers and Anderton Benedictine Monks or four Irish Ruffians Or lastly by Poysoning for which Money was payd to the Undertaker 2. Another means was by firing London Westminster and the parts adjacent and likewise other Cities and great Towns in England immediately upon the Murder of his Majesty 3. By a General Massacre to which purpose they had designed to raise an Army which was to consist of Fifty Thousand men to be Listed in and about London The Officers to be all Resolute Papists and for the most part French and Irish and these they gave out were enough to cut the Throats of One Hundred Thousand Protestants especially being taken upon a Surprize when the Militia of London was undisciplined and unprovided Care was taken likewise about securing Ireland and Scotland to their Interest Great sums of Money were provided for the necessary charge of this mighty undertaking and it was discoursed that the Jesuits in England had purchased a great Estate per Annum for that purpose and that they had a great Stock in ready Money and were to receive Eleven thousand Crowns from Rome Ten thousand pound from Spain and Ten thousand from France besides several other very considerable summs for promoting this vast design And this is a brief Abstract of this bloody and Hellish Popish Plot abundance of other particulars being omitted whereby it appears that this Horrid Plot is hardly to be parallel'd in any History considering that without any provocation so many Thousand Protestants were designed for slaughter destruction and Murder only to advance and promote the Holy Catholick Religion as they falsly call that Chaos of Blasphemy and Cruelty Presently after this Remarkable discovery happened the murther of that worthy Magistrate Sir Edmondbury Godfry who as is before related having taken the
the Stake and having earnestly prayed and Exhorted the People and forgiven his Enemies and persecutors he said thus I Beseech you Brethren Exhort your Prelates to learn the Word of God that they may be ashamed to do evil and learn to do good or else there shall come upon them the Wrath of God which they shall not eschew Then the Hangman upon his knees said Sr I pray forgive me for I am not the cause of your Death Mr. Wischard called him to him and kissing his Cheek said Lo here is a token that I forgive thee My Heart do thing Office and so he was tyed to the Stake and the fire kindled The Captain of the Castle came to him and bid him be of good Courage to whom Mr. Wischard said This fire Torments my Body but no whit abates my Spirits then looking towards the Cardinal he said He who in such State from that high place feeds his eyes with my Torments within few dayes shall be hanged out at the same Window with as much shame and Ignominy as he there leans with Pride then his Breath being stopt with the Flames he gave up the Ghost This Prophecy was fulfilled in a short time after for the people being generally discontented at the Cruelty used against Mr. Whischard several persons conspired against him and killed him in the Castle and the Provost raising the Town came to the Castle Gates crying What have you done with my Lord Cardinal where is he To whom they answered from within Return to your Houses for he hath received his reward and will trouble the World no more But they cryed We will never depart till we see him Then was he hanged out at that very window to satisfie them he was dead and so the people departed Shortly after one Adam Wallace was Burned likewise and Henry Forest suffered the same Cruel Death upon Account of Heresie One Walter Mill was accused for Heresie and being bid to recant he said I am Corn and not Chaff I will not recant the Truth and being thereupon condemned to the Fire and all things made ready to that purpose they commanded him to go to the Stake No said he by the Laws of God I am forbidden to lay hands on my self therefore do you put me in the Fire and you shall see my resolution Having then made his Prayer unto God he spake thus to the people Although I have been a Great Sinner yet it is not for that but for Gods Truth contained in his Word of the Old and New Testament that I now suffer and God out of his abundant Mercy doth honour me so far as to make me among other of his Servants to seal his Truth with my Blood Dear Friends as you would escape Eternal Death be no more seduced with the Lyes of Arch-bishops Bishops Abbots Priors c. but trust only in God After he had thus spoke he was tyed to the Stake and the Fire being kindled he quietly slept in the Lord and was the last person that dyed for the Protestant Religion in Scotland In the year of our Lord 1641. there brake forth a most horrid and Bloody Rebellion and Massacre of the Irish Papists committed on the English in Ireland a Nation famous for the Birth of divers worthy persons therein but none more renowned than that Excellent Learned and Religious Person James Vsher late Lord Arch-bishop of Armagh and Lord Primate of Ireland who amongst many other extraordinary Gifts and Graces which it pleased the Almighty to bestow upon him was wonderfully endued with a Spirit of Prophecy from which among many other things he foretold this bloody Rebellion forty years before it came to pass in a Sermon which he preached at Dublin in the Year 1601. where from Ezekiel 4.6 discoursing concerning the Prophets bearing the Iniquity of Judah forty dayes the Lord therein appointing a day for a Year he made this direct application in relation to the Connivance at Popery at that time From this Year says he will I reckon the sin of Ireland that those whom you now embrace shall be your Ruin and you shall bear your Iniquity which Prediction proved exactly true for from that time 1601. to the Year 1641. was just forty years in which it is notoriously known that the Rebellion and destruction of Ireland happened and which was acted by those Popish Priests Jesuits and other Papists which were then connived at For the Jesuits Priests and Friars were the chief Instigators to this horrid Massacre by continual incensing and stirring up the Popish Gentry and Commonalty to shew the utmost of their Zeal therein and this without any provocation given by the English for it was observed that they had all the Liberty they could reasonably desire and that there was not any reason for such Cruel Proceedings against the English but only for that damnable and unpardonable sin of being Protestants And the Popish Clergy the more to engage the deluded Papists to murther them every where loudly declaimed That they were Hereticks and not fit to be suffered any longer amongst them that it was no more sin to kill one of them than to kill a Dog and that it was a mortal and unpardonable sin to relieve or protect any of them And when their business was so fixt that they did not fear any miscarriage the success of this Great Design was recommended in their publick Prayers as tending very much to the advancement of the Catholick cause and they likewise maliciously represented to the People the severe proceedings against the Papists in England All things being in a readiness they proceeded to the Execution of this Damnable Contrivance but their proceeding therein was various some of the Irish only stripping the English Protestants and turning them out a Doors naked in the cold and snow others cruelly Murdering man woman and child without the least compassion but they all resolved upon this point that by all manner of ways and means they would universally destroy and root the English out of Ireland Nay the Irish were so inveterately malicious against them that they would not endure the very sound of their Language but punished those that spake English and the names of English places they changed into Old Irish In some places they killed the Cows and Sheep meerly because they were English and sometimes they cut off their Legs or a piece out of their Buttocks and so left them to live in pain and in other places those English Cattel that they could not devour they kill'd them and left them in great multitudes stinking upon the Ground The Popish Priests gave the Sacrament to divers of the Irish upon Condition that they should neither spare Man Woman nor Child of the Protestants saying That it did them a great deal of good to wash their hands in their Blood Some of their Priests Excommunicated all that should from thenceforth relieve or harbour any English Scotch or Welshman or give them Alms at their Doors whereby
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
six hundred and thirty great Ordnance with Powder Bullets Match Muskets Pikes Spears Swords and all things proportionable with Knives Daggers Skeins Chains and Whips to Torment and cut the Throats of the poor English Protestants and with them came swarms of those Locusts called Capuchins Mendicants Jesuits and other Officers of the Sacred Order of the Inquisition as they prophanely call it And besides all this there lay in Flanders fifty thousand old Souldiers and two hundred eighty eight Vessels ready to transport them under the command of the Duke of Parma all the King of Spains best Souldiers even as far as America being drawn forth for this Holy War The whole of this Expedition having cost the Spaniard twelve Millions of Crowns before their setting forth the Pope likewise contributing a Million of Gold to so pious a design But the goodness and mercy of God at that time defended England from the gaping Jaws of destruction and discomfited this Mighty Armada and all its mighty preparations and sent them home full of shame loss and confusion so that of one hundred thirty four Ships that set sail out of Lisbon only thirty three returned the Spaniard losing in this Voyage Eighty one Ships and above thirteen thousand five hundred Souldiers and two thousand more taken Prisoners in England Ireland and the Low Countreys the rest of the Navy being lost and destroyed by the English the Dutch the Seas Rocks Sands and Tempests all seeming to conspire to the defeating of this proud and Insolent attempt But these sort of People will never take notice of Gods Judgments upon their wicked designs and Enterprizes and notwithstanding all this they shut their Eyes and will not see that God is against them for they no sooner recover breath but they send over new Commissions and more cursed Emissaries disguised in all shapes into England with new Plots Contrivances and designs Lopez and his Confederates Cullen York Williams Squire and Hesket all enter into a Conspiracy to kill the Queen being constantly encouraged by the Jesuits and the Spanish Ministers of State And these proving abortive in the year 1599. the Earl of Tyrone is stirred up to make a new Rebellion in Ireland having the same Pardons and Indulgences sent them as is usually given by the Popes to those that go to fight against the Turks And in the year 1601. the King of Spain sends a great Fleet of Soldiers to Kinsale in Ireland for the assistance of the Rebels But notwithstanding all these wicked and execrable designs this glorious and Heroick Queen of blessed memory having outlived four Kings and Eight Popes dyed in Peace and left her flourishing Kingdoms to her Successor King James And now the Papists being thus disappointed of their great hopes and expectations by the succession of a Protestant King to the Crown of England and thereby uniting into one Body Scotland England and Ireland one would have Imagined that all their contrivances would have been dasht since they could not well think that so long and well settled a Reformation in Church and State could very easily be broken and confounded yet still they give not over but encourage one another in their wickedness and the Pope sent over two Bulls to deprive King James of the Crown and sought to raise divisions and dissentions amongst us But God continuing to frustrate all their designs they now grew as it were desperate and entred upon the most barbarous and Hellish Plot and contrivance that ever was hatched in the Brains or Hearts of men which is that which we call the Gunpowder Treason and which we yearly commemorate upon the fifth of November they designing to act it on that day in the year 1605. This horrid design was contrived by divers Jesuits Priests and other English Papists who by undermining the Parliament-House and planting there Thirty six Barrels of Gunpowder intended by firing the same when both Houses were sitting to have blown up and destroyed not only the King as the Head of the Kingdom but with him his Queen the Prince and all the Royal Issue together with the Clergy Nobility and the chief of the Gentry of the whole Kingdom all should have perished together at one Blow and have become a Sacrifice to the enraged Lusts of these Bloody minded Papists A Plot and Villany that no Age can paralel no Country ever could produce the like and which was as miraculously prevented and detected as if it were by the immediate finger of God who discovered their treasonable practices even within their dark Vaults and Cellars when the very Train was laid and fire almost put to it and in this horrid Conspiracy Catesby Piercy Faux Digby Garnet Hall c. all Popish Priests were considerable Actors and Promoters and all sworn to secresie with Horrid Oaths and Imprecations taking the Holy Sacrament and engaging themselves one to another thereby and by their Faith in the Holy Trinity never to shrink from the Execution of this their Hellish Intention till they had performed the same They were likewise promised from abroad Ships and men and ten hundred thousand Crowns to carry on their work And though this horrid Conspiracy has been sufficiently discovered and made plain by the confession of some of the Conspirators who were executed and by writings under their own hands yet according to their usual Impudence which they learned of their predecessor Nero who when he had set Rome on Fire charged it upon the Christians the Papists intended to have laid that wicked Act upon the Puritans and since this they have endeavoured to make the world believe that it was a Contrivance of King James thereby endeavouring since they could not blow up the King with Gunpowder to blast his good Name and to make him odious to Posterity But three Kingdoms are not so easie to be deluded neither are we so horridly impious to mock God so solemnly with yearly Prayers and Thanksgivings neither need we think it so strange since Lyes and Impudence are the grand supporters of the Papal Kingdom without which such a medley of Nonsence and Foolery would be hooted out of the world And from that time to this very day the Papists have been and are the Grand Disturbers of these Nations and it is sufficiently manifested that they had no small hand in our late Troubles since which they have continually sought the ruin and destruction of all Protestants by all manner of cursed ways and methods imaginable In the year 1666. Sept. 2. about two a Clock in the morning there began a sad and lamentable Fire in a Bakers House in Pudding Lane near Fish-street-hill London which raged with extream Violence being accompanied with a strong North-east wind so that despising all means used for its extinguishing it spread far and near sometimes with and sometimes against the wind and so continued for the space of neer four days till it had burnt down thirteen thousand two hundred houses which stood upon three hundred thirty
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