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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71184	This is a short relation of some of the cruel sufferings (for the truths sake) of Katharine Evans & Sarah Chevers in the inquisition of the isle of Malta who have suffered there above three years by the Pope's authority, there to be deteined until they dye : which relation of their sufferings is come form their own hands and mouths as doth appear in the following treatise ...	Evans, Katharine, d. 1692.; Cheevers, Sarah, d. 1664.; D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing T935; ESTC R7235	93,590	116

sackcloth on my loins As to the Prophet Jeremy Chap. 7. 29. and so I became obedient in the singleness and innocency of my heart unto the God of Heaven of my life as a dre●dful sign against the Whorish Church of Rome and against all her Heads and Horns throughout the world And I then signified to the Master of the ship in which I was a passenger how that I did believe that God would soon give opportunity for the Fleet of ships to pass away after this service of God was performed after I had used many perswasions to the end that he might suffer my body on that wise to be cast among the wicked idolaters lyars and murtherers which are like the troubled sea So the ship-Master let my body be on this wise 〈◊〉 over board from the ship God having provided a great 〈◊〉 to swallow up that which sled from his presence so often and so it happened that it was upon one their called Holy-dayes or Saints days namely the day called Holy-Thursday So I being cast on dry land passed through their streets directly until I came into the Mas-House or Idolater temple among the Idolaters where I found the Fryer or Priest at the high Altar down upon his knees in his white Surplice ado●ing of the Host which is a Chalice or a piece of bread which they call the real substance of the body of Christ after their unclean spirit of darkness hath muttered some words over it which they call Consecration and after I had stood a season viewing this Idolatry with the indignation of the Eternal God set up within my heart against the same I turned my back-part upon the Priest and his dead God and dumb Idols at the high Altar and in the holy Commandment of life eternal my face was set towards the people and I be held them a certain season in the power of God in which I stood I saw the multitude of ignorant people upon their knees also worshipping the dark inventions and imaginations of their sottish leaders and blind guides and they know not what and in the Lord's time which mine eye had a circumspect heed unto I then spread forth my arms and stript off my Vesture and rent the same from top to bottom in divers pieces and cast them from me with indignation And then I took my Hat off my head which was the uppermost covering of the outside of a man and cast the same under my feet and stamped upon these things and the nakedness appeared with the sack-cloath covering to their astonishment and then with a clear voice I sounded Repentance three times and gave testimony as the sound of a trumpet among them that the life of Christ and his Saints was arisen from the dead and so passed away sounding the same words of the Lord's Message with Repentance through the streets as it were flying from the Idols temple and from Idolatry and Idolaters until I came to the sea-side and there was I moved to kneel down and pray and give thanks to the living Lord who had so wonderfully preserved me in doing his pleasure and good will on earth and he suffered no man to touch or do me harm And the next day following the Lord God gave opportunity accordingly as I had let the Ship-master know I believed would come to pass and it was so and all the Fleet did partake of the blessing But how many of them rewarded me men of my own Nation to whom I also continued a sign which they spake bitter things against the Lord my God saw the same and smote them with rebuke and astonishment in his displeasure who in his wise determinate Counsel ordained me for many dayes and nights to be tryed on this wise and to fall among divers temptation afterwards the which as a mighty 〈◊〉 of surrounded and beset me on every hand immediately after I had done the good will in his all-sufficient power and strengths thus the Enemy with his subtilty in a mysterie was suffered to compass me about to steale away my peace and reward with my God in whom the same is hid and then I was in a blessed condition though sometime veiled for a little season and then the Fathers countenance was hid from mine eye and therefore was I troubled Yet blessed are ye when you fall among divers temptations saith one and verily they were even as thorns in my flesh yea as Messengers of Satan suffered to buffet me for a season even as the servant of God witnessed who was wrapt up into the third Heaven What if I should somewhat testifie so was it with me lest I should be exalted above measure so that I was made to bow and fall upon my face and cry day and night to the Lord of Eternal life that had respect to the tears of the innocent and bowed the strength of his arm to support the lowly And so his Almightiness gave ear to the sighs and groans of my distressed state and had respect unto the voice of my mourning as a Dove or Pelican in the Wilderness and verily his Grace I found sufficient to save and preserve my innocency in its sweet life of holiness to the Lord through all this and that which letted salvation to his Name Amen So his strength is made perfect in weakness even so it is in truth in which I set to my seal of my right hand that God is true in which life J give thanks to his Name of Power and Defence the which over all Nations is to be exalted in the hearts of his Saints as in the ancient dayes yea and much more abundantly in the Light of his bright-shining countenance in which his Eternal and excellent glory and pure dreadful Majesty for ever hath his holy habitation to whom be endless Dominion with praises living and everlasting over all Amen Written in Newgate this 5th Month the 18th day 1662. where he suffereth Bonds together with many Brethren of Truth for one and the same Testimony of the Lord Iesus not for evil doing or speaking but against the same For we suffer because we cannot otherwise but meet together in the Name and Fear of God neither swear at all neither by Heaven nor by Earth nor by any other Oath Matth. 5. James 5. 12. D. B. A Copy of a Paper which was written in the Spanish Tongue and delivered the same day that I was upon the service directed as followeth Viz. For the Governor and Inhabitants of Gib●etore in the Kingdom of Spain BEhold behold the great day of God is come and of his wrath and of the wrath of his Lamb is come and the hour of his Iudgements is come Wherefore Oh Inhabitants of the earth Repent Repent Repent and fear God and give glory honor to him that made Heaven and Earth and the Fountains of Waters Wo wo wo to the Inhabitants of the earth And I heard another voice from Heaven saying Come out of her my people that ye partake not of her sins that ye receive not of her plagues These are the words of the power of Christ that is contrary to the false Church Behold behold Plagues Plagues Plagues are coming upon the Church of Rome and upon her Heads in England in all parts of the world And the Woman which thou sawest is that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the earth and he saith unto me the waters which thou sawest where the Whore sitteth are Peoples Nations Multitudes and Tongue c These words with a Paper in L●t●ne with honest words of truth was delivered with many more Scriptures in their own Language that they may read understand repent cease from idolatry from all ●ngodliness that the blessings of Eternal life might arise through Judgments have room among the Nations to the eternal glory renown of the Lord God over all who is blessed for ever Amen The End Prov. 29. * The wise may judge Job 21. Job 24. 13 John 13. 20 Isaiah 57. 20.

that was dead and is alive and liveth for ever As they have done unto me so will they do un●o you if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you These are his faithful and true saying He that receiveth you receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me mark that Verily verily I say unto you Whomsoever receiveth whom I shall send receiveth me and him that receiveth me receiveth him that se●● me c. He that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me And it 's to be understood that such like dealing J. S. and H. F. our Brethren found at Alexandria from whom they also were banished And on this wise being rejected despised banished out of Asia from Smyrna in about eight dayes we arrived at the Island Zant where my dear Brother and Companion in sufferings and not onely so but in the Kingdom and patience of Christ he was visited with sickness ●igh unto death but the Word and Commandment of the Lord ordered me to pass through part of Italy and my face was set towards Venice and we weighed the thing in the fear and counsel of the Lord and were both given up in one to travel yet it was so that the poor Lamb was not capable in body to travel with me by reason of weakness and he being fully perswaded and satisfied in his own mind that I was to pass onward in the tender Love of our God he did the more constrain me I finding some unwillingness to leave him in that condition which was not a little cross unto me But in the Heavenly Will and Peace of our God and joy of the Lord out of all visibly we parted asunder and it came to pass that he laid down his body there in about two days after There being a Ship of Venice ready I embarqued on the same and had a good passage through the Gulf of Venice After three Weeks were finished was I admitted together with the Ships company to receive Product or Admission to come into the City as their manner is and there I continued about eight days as a sign and wonder among many and gave somewhat of a sound of the Lord's Day in truth among them and from thence I travelled to Legorn and my face was as if it were set towards England I being alone as a Mourning-Dove in a desolate Wilderness Yet it came so to pass when I arrived at the same Port or City that the everlasting Love of my God did fill and overcome my heart and mine eye right dearly affected the same and verily the living Word and Commandment of my God sounded in mine ear and mine understanding was quickened in the Spirit of Life from God so that I was made willing and not to rebel against the Heavenly Voice And what if I testifie that mine eye saw the Angel of his presence which was expresly for me to give up and pass away from thence to visit his long suffering Seed of Innocency shut up in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta under the Pope's Authority and to communicate to their necessities and verily the sweet promise of the Lord entered and possessed my heart and my God made my way prosperous for in the Light of his countenance he had often set these poor afflicted long-suffering innocents before my face Wherefore my body and mind was freely offered up as my reasonable service to serve his Truth and the least Member of it and so to the death of the Cross whereto I became obedient in uprightness of heart as if I should never see Kindred or Native Countrey more A Vessel of France being ready to depart from thence Eastward I embarqued thereon for the Isle of Cicilia to Musena and from thence to the Isle of Malta in a Vessel of the said Island and in my passage the Vessel did bear in to Syracuse where Paul abode three days in his passage to Rome after he had suffered abode three days in his passage to Rome after he had suffered shipwrack on Malta and at Syracuse I abode five days where I gave a sound of the Lord's Truth and Life And so we immediately sailed from thence and within 24. hours we arrived at the Island of Malta and within some hours after I came upon the said Island I had admittance to the Pope's Lord Inquisitor to whom I delivered my Message in the Italian Tongue on this wise I am come to demand the just Liberty of my innocent Friends the two English women in prison in the Inquisition And he asked if I were related to them as a Husband or Kinsman and whether I came out of England on purpose with that Message And I answered I came from Legorn for that same end and he replied at last They should abide in Prison till they dye except some English Merchants or others that were able would engage or give obligation for the value of three or four thousand dollers conditionally that they should never return again into those parts On this wise was his reply divers times with the Consul and many others together and asunder but in the Name and fear of the Lord God I withstood the same unchristian-like demand and cruelty in the Word Power and Travel of the Lord in his innocent suffering Lamb behalf albeit they daily threatned me with their cruelty and Inquisition of darkness and followed me to and fro with their Officer and Black-Rod and the Popes Deputy would have bound me that I should neither speak good nor evil to any one while I was on the Island as the Consul said save to him neither to come to the Prison alone except the Consul came also with me or some of his Family at least But their snares Bonds and Covenants in the Name of my God I defied because the Spirit of Life from the Lord gave me Dominion through sufferings in Spirit First over their unjust dark Impositions yea and in the same good authority in the innocency and uprightness of my heart I travelled through and over the darkness over its works and ceased not to publish the end of my coming which they would not have known abroad the sound of Truth and its dread and same struck terror in their hearts that both high and wise great men together with the Popish Priests and Jesuits knights them called of the Nobility of the Pope's Dominion of Spain and France and of many Nations they did not burthen themselves a little with my bodily presence my clear testimony and Friends in general all which they defied and withstood as it doth appear by the words of Truth in this Treatise And thus it comes to pass among the Nations because we are not of this world as our Life and Testimony also is not for but against the same therefore we marvel not if the world hate us knowing its birth which is from beneath earthly and sensual persecuteth that which is from above heavenly and