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A01012	A vvord of comfort. Or A discourse concerning the late lamentable accident of the fall of a roome, at a Catholike sermon, in the Black-friars at London, wherwith about fourscore persons were oppressed. Written for the comfort of Catholiks, and information of Protestants, by I.R. p	Floyd, John, 1572-1649.	1623 (1623)	STC 11118; ESTC S120899	43,744	60

their Cronicler to saue the credit of their Ghospell make no mention therof Neyther is it without mystery that this fire brake forth from vnder the foote of the Crosse as comming agaynst the enemyes of the signe of the Crosse and to shew Gods anger agaynst them for their contempt of that most holy instrument of our redemption What will they say vnto another Prodigy also set downe in their Annals that vpon the tyme their Religion was begotten by Q Elizabeth and christened in England Iust at the same tyme so many monstruous births happened within two or three moneths as the like is not noted in any of our antiquityes This yeare sayth the sayd M. Stow were many monstruous births In march a mare brought forth a foale with one body and two heades and as it were a long tayle growing betweene the two heades also a Sow farrowed a pig with foure leggs like to the armes of a man-child with handes and fingers c. In April a Sow farrowed a pig with two bodyes eight feete and but one head Many calues and lambes were monstruous some with collars of skins growing about their neckes like to the dubble ruffes of shirts and neckercheffs then vsed On the twentith of May a man-child was borne at Chichester in Sussex the head armes and legges wherof were like an anatomy the breast and belly monstrous bigge from the nauill as it were a longe stringe was hanging about the necke a great collar of flesh and skinne like to the ruffe of a shirt comming vp aboue the eares playting and folding Thus he Was it by chance thinke you that so many monstruous and vgly Births happened thus on a heap togeather with the birth of your Ghospell or rather were they not sent by Gods prouidence to lay before euē your carnall eyes the fedity and deformity of your change from the fayth of all your Christian Auncestors I will heere conclude without passing into forrayne countryes only I will intreate our Aduersaries to looke out of England no further then they may almost from thence reach with their corporall sight to wit vnto the Hill on the Sea-shoare neere vnto Deepe There the ruines of one of their Temples are yet to be seen which fell vpon their reformed Puritan Auditory at the tyme of the Preach wherwith foure hundred with the Minister were oppressed The cause of this ouerthrow was not vulgar and ordinary as in our case but a strange and terrible whirle-winde raysed and sent by Gods speciall prouidence to punish them The remembrance of this whirlwind and wofull accident will happily take from them their insulting spirit or at least so blow away their vayne and friuolous clamors that this accident was Gods vengeance vpon vs for our Religiō as they will not be heard with esteeme by any man of iudgment The death of the Catholike Preacher of this Sermon compared with the death of Caluin and Zuinglius BVt they thinke we shall not find amongst their Ministers any that was stroken with so suddayne and disastrous a death as the Iesuite Preacher of this Sermō was This shews how ignorāt they are of their owne Church and how like the Lamiae of whome Plutarch writes that being at home they pull their eyes out of their head Luther tom 7. Wittēb fol. 230. a. post medium Conradus Schlusselburg in Theolog. Caluin l. 2. fol. 72. and locke them vp in coffers and they only vse them when they are disposed to goe abroad to visit their Neighbours Doth not Luther write that their great Grand-sire Oecolampadius was killed in his bedde shaken with horrible frights the Diuell appearing to him and this in punishment of his errour agaynst the Sacrament Doth not a famous Protestant Super-intendent giue this testimony of the death of the Puritans Dad Iohn Caluin God sayth he in the rod of his fury punished Caluin before the dreadfull houre of his vnhappy death with his mighty hand For being in despayre and calling vpon the Diuell he gaue vp his wicked soule swearing cursing blaspheming He dyed on the disease of lice and wormes increasing in a most loath-some vlcer about his priuy partes so as none present could endure the stench These be the wordes of that Protestant But because this happend within the walls of Geneua and in Caluins priuy Chamber we cannot haue such proofe therof but Puritans will outface both Protestants and vs. Wherfore we will bringe them out of the walls of Geneua into the open field out of Caluins closet into the sight of heauen and earth Iuell defence of the Apology pag. 6●6 Osiander in Epitom hist Eccl. Cent. 16. pag. 203. Gualt Apol. fol. 30. a. prope finem obijt in bello Zuinglius Armatus obijt vnto a spectacle wherof two whole armyes were witnesses Behold Hulderick Zuinglius whom they honour as a Prophet ioyned in commission with Luther to preach the eternall Ghospell as an excellent man sent of God to giue light vnto the whole world in the midst of darknes whē truth was vnknowne and vnheard off This Minister or rather Patriarke of the Ministry as themselues confesse hauing sought by famine to oppresse fiue Catholicke townes and force them by want of victuals to consent vnto his doctrine when they stood in their defence came armed into the field where hauing first embrued his sword in much Christian bloud himselfe togeather with fiue other Militant Ministers was slayne in the battayle I desire the Christian to compare togeather these two deaths the one of Robert Drury that dyed preaching by this last accident The other of the Reformitan Zuinglius which I haue set downe out of their owne recordes This done then in the sight of that God that hateth iniquity and loueth charity let him define which of the two deaths be iudgeth most Christian and happy or with which of the two Preachers he would rather wish his soule Lutherani apud Gualterū in Apol. fol. 8. a initio Gladium à Christo prohibitū corripuit Gladius Spiritus quod est verbum Dei Eph. 4.26 Zuinglius the Patriarke of Puritans Ministers dyed as he was pransing on his warlike palfrey with his pistoll at his side and launce in his hande This Father of the Society of Iesus sitting in a chayre the seate and ensigne of Apostolicall authority to preach clothed with such Priestly ornaments as the Church doth prescribe for the more decent performance of that office The one with a sworde in his hand stretching forth his arme to spill Christiā bloud the other with the sword of Gods holy truth in his mouth the enemy only of sinne and vice spreading abroad his armes to gather into the bosome of God and his Church soules redeemed with Christ his most precious bloud The one exhorting both by word and example his armed auditory Noui exquisitissimi facinoris fax auctor Osiand vbi supra to reuenge to murder to massacre The other * His text was serue

els but a mangled multitude of deformed corses Diuers within their owne houses were with ruines round about inclosed and imprisoned aliue and sound to be consumed with anguish and hunger amongst whome Aristenaetus gouernour of the towne breathed out his soule by the tormēt of a long death Some in their falling had their heades bruyzed broken one agaynst another some their leggs some their thighs some their armes some their very shoulders strokē off frō their bodies who lay groning betwixt life and death with most pittifull cryes and obsecrations imploring the ayde of them that were in the same misery A great part of that infortunate Citty alwell of Churches as of houses and men might notwithstanding this calamity haue remayned had not terrible globes of flame issued out of houses which wandering euery where about the Citty for fifty dayes and fifty nights consumed into ashes whatsoeuer was obnoxious vnto fire Thus Ammianus This dreadfull destruction of Nicomedia was censured as a vengeance of God agaynst Christian and Catholike Religiō because it happened at the same tyme whē agaynst the errour of Photinus and Aetius a Councell of Bishops was thyther summoned to be held Sozom. ● 4. c. 15. The Bishops were in their way yea some though few already arriued who perished with the rest Amongst others that most holy man Vrsacius Episcopus Nicomediae alij ex Bosphoro Sozom. ibid. that had byn a glorious Confessour of Christ in the persecution of Licinius who forsaking the court of the Emperour hauing giuen away all to the poore there lead an heauenly forme of Monasticall life in continuall fasting and prayer renowned also for miracles as casting out of Diuels and by a word only killing a Dragon that infested the citty who likewyse had foretold this calamity wishing the cittizens particularly the Priests by pennance and prayer to seeke to preuent the same This great Saint I say put into the Catholike Martyrologe was found dead in his cell Martyrol Roman 16. Aug. or little cottage he had built to himself lying prostrate on his face as he did vse in his prayers eyther stifled with the smoake of the fire or els dying in his prayer out of griefe For he had desired of God that he might not liue after the destruction of that citty wherin he had byn made a Christian afterward professed the state of Euangelicall perfection The death of this holy man of many others was taken of Infidels as diuine vengeance vpon Christiā Religion so that full of ioy they went triūphing vnto the Emperour and mingling falshood with truth sayd That the whole multitude of Christian Bishops and Priests men women and children had byn slayne by the vēgeance of their Gods within their very Churches whither they were fled for security and succour M●gno Episcoporū qui sacrae doctrinae fauebant dolore yea that the famous Temple built vnto Christ by Constantine his Father was vtterly from the very foundation razed as indeed it was to the great grief of the orthodoxe Bishops especially in regard of the scandall that Heretikes and Infidels tooke therat Wherby the vanity and head-long blindnes of our Aduersaries may appeare who insult vpō Catholiks in regard of a vulgar euent a very trifle in cōparison of this But something they must haue that may giue them occasion to rayle at our Religion which by reason they cannot impugne no nor dare looke vpon it truly related they know the same to be so warrantable Not altogeather so terrible yet in respect of the circumstance of the tyme more scandalous was the wonderfull destruction of the citty of Nicea where the first Christian generall Councell was celebrated agaynst the Ariās and the doctrine of Homousion or Cōsubstantiality defined When Valence the Arian Emperour began to persecute the Nicen Fayth some few yeares after his being come to the Empire iust at the same tyme the Citty of Nicea was ouerthrown from the very foūdations by an earth-quake Saint Gregory Nazianzen tearmeth this earth-quake the greatest that had happened within the memory of man whereby his holy Brother Caesarius then the Emperours Receauer was in danger and miraculously escaped For being couered within the rubbish of the ruines the same were a defence vnto him agaynst further mischiefe till he was thence taken out a little hurt and thereupon resolued to giue ouer the world Heere the Arians did triumph agaynst the Catholiks of that tyme euen as some hoat Puritans doe now agaynst vs as if God togeather with the Emperour heauen togeather with earth had cōspired agaynst the Nicene doctrine of Christs being Coeternall and Consubstantiall vnto God his Father These our Antagonists that are so iolly and iocund so puffed vp with pride at the fall of a rotten chamber vpon some few at a Catholike sermō where no doctrine was then preached which they dare say was contrary vnto theirs how insolent and intollerable would they be if the Emperour should turne to be of their Sect and persecute the Catholike Fayth and that iust in that coniunction the Citty of Trent with the Church and place where the Councell did meete and made their Decrees should by some earth-quake or lightening from heauē be destroyed And yet should they haue no greater argument agaynst the Tridentine then the Arians had agaynst the Nicene definition of Fayth Whence one may gather how vayne empty and destitute of solide causes of ioy their hart and their Religion is that do so much triumph at a trifle wherby they make not their strength of Fayth but their weaknes of iudgment and want of charity manifest vnto the world Other Examples strange and wonderfull HOw much did Infidels reioyce when the Christians of Moguntia were slayne by the Barbarians Ammian● l. 20. not as Christians in hatred of their Religion for then they had byn happy martyrs but as subiects of the Roman Empire and out of their auersion from the same which S. Hierome deplores saying Hier. ep 11. ad Aregut Moguntiacum in former tymes a famous and glorious Citty is now destroyed and many thousands murdered within the very Church As also in the death of Iouian Emperour that vnder Iulian had suffered persecution and presently vpon the death of Iulian was by the cōsent of the army chosen Emperour Ammian l. 25. When Christians were fullest of ioy glorying that the Empire was giuen him of God in reward of his constancy in Christiā Religion Iouianus gustatis tantùm Imperialibus bonis prunarum foetore suffocatus est Hier. ep ad Heliodo de morte Nepot Socrates l. 7. c. 38. in the mid'st of their acclamatiōs triumphs he was taken away by suddane death choaked with the smoake of coles in the 7. moneth of his Empire How did the Nouatians exult agaynst the Catholiks when in a most strange and horrible conflagration of the Citty of Constantinople all the chiefe monumēts of the citty Catholike Churches being wasted with fire