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A70635	A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ...	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.; Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30. Offer of farther help to suffering saints.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.	1665 (1665)	Wing M330; Wing M332; ESTC R232057	171,145	273

O ye generation of vipers who hath taught you to flie from the wrath to come But I will wound you no more with the words of the Prophets Pag. 64. or of this holy Saint of God John Baptist but with our Saviour Christs two most sweet parables of the two Sons and of the Tilmen to whom he set his vineyard I will labour to set before your eyes your rebellion hypocrisie and cruelty if so I can bring any of you to repentance He hath called you by his Word many a time to work in his vineyard I ask what you have answered Some of you have said plainly like rebellious children That ye would not do it that ye would not work in your Fathers vineyard Shall I apply this part to Scotland Scotland was indeed called most plainly and evidently through the mercies of God both by their own faithful Countreymen Pag. 65. and also by earnest travel of our English Nation to come into the Lords vineyard in the time of King Edward the Sixth but refused That time as ye know the vineyard in England by the children of God was not altogether neglected and then most earnestly were ye O Brethren of Scotland required to joyn hands with us in the Lords work but Satan alas would not suffer it His old fostred malice and Antichrist his Son could not abide that Christ should grow so strong by joyning that Isle together in perfect Religion c. Iest this one Island should become a safe Sanctuary as it began to be to all the persecuted in all places God hath also by the blood of his Saints shed amongst you by favour and friendship by war and the sword yea by famane and pestilence and also by all other means called you to labour in his vineyard but to this day alas we hear not of your humble obedience but still ye say with stubborn faces We will not labour we wil not be bound to such thraldome c. Yet think perchance I am too sharp and that I accuse you more than you deserve for amongst you many do know the will of your Father and many make profession of his Gospel but consider Brethren that it is not enough to know the Commandment and to profess the same in mouth b●t it is necessary that ye refuse your selves your own pleasures appetites and your own wisdome if ye shall be judged faithful labourers in the Lords vineyard and that ye bear the burthens together with your Brethren and suffer heat and sweat before ye taste the fruits with them God will not be content that ye look over the Hedge and behold the labours of your Brethren but he requireth that ye put your hands also to the labours that ye travel continually to pluck up all unprofitable weeds though in so doing the Thorns prick you to the bone that ye affist your Brethren in their labours though it be with the jeopardy of your lives the loss of your substance and displeasure of the whole earth I must needs leave thee Pag. 68. O Scotland after I have advertized thee of this that thou follow not the example of England but let thy reformation be full and plain according to Gods holy Will and Word without addition Let all the plaints which thy Heavenly Father hath not planted be rooted out at once Let not avarice blind thee nor worldly wisdom discourage thy heart let none bear the name of a Teacher that is known to be a Fosterer of Superstition or any kind of wickedness Thus must thou O Scotland repent thy former inobedience if that thou wilt be approved of the Lord. And now do I return to thee O England I do liken thee to the second Son in the Parable which answered his Father with flattering words saying I go Father but yet he went not at all For since the time I had any remembrance our Heavenly Father of his great mercies hath not ceased to call thee into his Vineyard and to these late dayes thou hast alwayes said That thou wouldest enter and be obedient In the time of King Henry the Eighth when by Tyndal Frith Bilney and other his faithful Servants God called England to dress his Vineyard many promised full fair but what fruit followed nothing but bitter grapes yea briars and brambles the wormwood of avarice the gall of cruelty the poyson of filthy fornication flowing from head to foot the contempt of God and open defence of the Cake-idol by open Proclamation to be read in the Churches instead of Gods Scriptures It grieveth me to write these evils of my Countrey Pag. 70. save onely that I must needs declare what fruit were found in the Vineyard after you promised to work therein to move you to Repentance and to justifie Gods Judgements how grievously soever he shall plague you hereafter Wherefore I desire you to call to remembrance your best state under King Edward when all men with general consent promised to work in the Vineyard ye shall have cause I doubt not to lament your wickedness that so contemned the voice of God for your own lusts for your cruelty for your covetousness that the name of God was by your vanities evil spoken of in other Nations God grant you all repentant hearts for no order or state did any part of his duty in those dayes But to speak of the best whereof you use to boast your Religion was but an English Mattins patch'd forth o● the Popes portess Many things were in your great Book superstitious and foolish all were driven to a present service like the Papists that they should think their duties discharged if the number were said of Psalms and Chapters Finally there could no Discipline be brought into the Church nor correction of manners Pag. 71. To what contempt was Gods Word and the admonition of his Prophets come in all estates before God did strike some men are not ignorant The Preachers themselves for the most part could find no fault in Religion but that the Church was poor and lacked living Sure many things should have been reformed before that the Kitchin had been better provided for our Prelates in England It was most evident that many of you under the cloak of Religion served your own bellies some were so busie to heap benefice upon benefice some to labour in Parliament for purchasing of Lands that the time was small which could be found for the Reformation of abuses and every little that was spent upon the feeding of your flocks In a word the Gospel was so lightly esteemed that the most part of men thought rather that God should bow stoop to their appetites than that they should be subject to his holy Commandments Even the Nobility and Council would suffer no rebukes of Gods Messengers though their offences were never so manifest let those that preached in the Court the Lent before King Edward deceased speak their conscience and accuse me if I lye yea let a writing of Northumberland's

Pag. 36. 7 To add nothing to this Law neither to take any thing from it If thou judgest that Gods Law containeth one part of such Doctrine as is necessary for mans salvation and the Bishops Laws another part thou contemnest and dishonourest the whole Law and the Giver thereof and offendest against that command Deut. 4.12 and Prov. Pag. 64. 30. Every thing that we do for the honour of God not commanded by his Word is as strange and not accepted by God as all good intentions feigned works by man and all things commanded by general Councils not expressed in the Word of God by the Patriarks Prophets Christ and the Apostles which be and ever were before God the Holy and Catholick Church Whosoever add any thing to their Laws are the Church of Antichrist Deut. 4.12 Revel 22. Nadab and Abihu offered strange fire i.e. such as he commanded not Pag. 68. Read the Commentaries of Tho. Valois and Nicol. in Aug. de Civit. Dei l. 4. and they will tell thee what superstition is if thou believe not the Scripture Superstition say they is a superfluous Religion what wayes soever it be superfluous whether it be of the superfluity of the things honoured or of the things used for Religion or of the manner in Religion This doubtless is understood by the name of Superstition from whence soever the name hath its rise whatsoever thou dost to please God Almighty if it be not commanded in his Word it is superfluous superstition Pag. 70. The purpose end and will of the second Commandment is That Gods pleasure is unto us that we do not profane or dishonour the true Religion or honour of God with superstitious Rites or Ceremonies not commanded by him I am a jealous God q. d. Pag. 77. when we two were married together for the love that I bore unto thee I gave thee certain Rules and Precepts how in all things thou mayest keep my love and good will towards thee and thou promisedst me obedience to my Commandments Exod. 19. So honour me therefore and love me as is standeth written in the Writings and Indentures written between us both I cannot suffer to be otherwise honoured than I have taught in my Tables and Testament Against obeying of Gods Laws Pa. 209. the first Sophism or carnal Objection is when men say it is no place nor time to learn or obey Gods Laws we be not in the Temple c. but in the broad world and must do as other men do and rather serve the place we be in ululare cum lapis bark with the wolf Deut. 29.30 than speak of the Scripture besides it is too dangerous a season let it pass till the world be more quiet c. This Objection Moses breaketh and proveth that the Law should be alwayes received and in every place Those that observed it in the wilderness God fed by miracle from Heaven and preserved all their apparel that it consumed not Pa. 210. nor perished in the wearing for the space of forty years A second Objection is when men put from themselves the obedience of the Law unto others saying Let the Priests c. learn and keep the Law what should a Prince Magistrate or Gentleman be so bound Youth cannot be tie● to so strait Canons it must not be so bridled c. This wicked acceptation of persons Moses destroyeth yea all saith he stand this day before the Lord your God Pa. 211. your Princes your Tribes your Elders your Officers and all men of Israel your children your wives and thy Guest c. No manner of prison is excluded from the League Pa. 212. A third is presumption when men know what is to be done yet against their knowledge presuming of Gods mercy Pa. 213. do the thing that is evil saying If I walk in the imagination of my heart and take my pleasure there is no danger c. But saith Moses the Lord will not favour such an one but then be angry and kindle his ire against him so that every curse written in this Book shall rest on him c. A fourth is Animosity Pa. 218. thus reasoning with ones self who knoweth what his last hour shall be But saith Moses Secret things belong to God but the things that God hath revealed to us and our children for ever Pa. 222. that we do all the precepts of this Law A fifth is Desperation when men think it is in vain for them to observe Gods Laws there is no hope of their salvation c. It is impossible for him to return to God and do all that God requireth c. Moses gives a remedy against this dangerous disease Pa. 224. sheweth the way to God declareth That God is fall of mercy and ready to forgive Pa. 229. c. A sixth is the pretence of Ignorance saying The Scriture the Laws of God have so many mysteries roo hard for our capacities c. Besides the Doctors brawl and chide between themselves and how should the unlearned understand it aright Who can tell saith another whether this be the true Law or not If it were the true Law of God then it should contain all verities and h●ve no deed of mans Laws Now the greatest part of Christians in name say that this Law is not sufficient except it be holp and aided by the Law of the Bishops Moses answereth and saith Pa. 230. This Law is sufficient simple and plain easie to be understood a perfect Doctrine and required of all men the Commandment that I prescribe to thee unto day is not far above thee nor put far from thee c. By which words it appeareth that God hath made his will and pleasure simple and plainly open to his people c. Yea the Law of God to do well by is written naturally in the heart of every man c. Pa. 231. though there were no law written c. mans conscience would tell him when he doth well and when ill Pa. 234. Farewell in our only and sole joy and consolation Christ Jesus This holy Exile parting with Mr. Fox Vol. 3 pag. 145. Bullinger and his friends at Zurick declared that the principal cause of his return to his own Countrey was the matter of Religion c. Be sure said he neither the nature of the Countrey nor pleasure of commodities nor newness of friends shall ever induce me to the oblivion of such friends and Benefactors and therefore you shall be sure from time to time to hear from me how it goes with me but the last news of all I shall not be able to write for there said he taking Mr. Bullinger by the hand where I shall take most pains there shall you hear of me to be burned to ashes and that shall be the last news which I shall not be able to write When he was made Bishop of Worcester and Glocester Pa. 146. the Arms allotted

the very hairs of their heads turning the flame from them to devour their enemies Thou O Lord God by the might of thy right arm which governeth all broughtest Daniel thy Prophet safe into light and life forth of the dark Den of the devouring Lions Pag. 52. c. Now also O heavenly Father beholder of all things to whom belongs vengeance thou seest and considerest how thy holy Name by the wicked Worldlings blasphemous Idolaters is dishonoured thy sacred Word forsaken refused despised thy holy Spirit provoked offended thy chosen Temple polluted and defiled Tarry not too long therefore but shew thy power speedily upon thy chosen Houshold which is so grievously vexed and so cruelpy handled by thy open enemies Avenge thine own glory shorten these evil dayes for thine Elects sake Let thy Kingdome come of all thy Servants desired and though we have all offended thy Majesty Pag. 53. Yet for thine own glory O merciful Lord suffer not the enemy of thy Son Christ the Romish Antichrist thus wretchedly to delude and draw from thee our poor brethren for whom thy Son once died that by his cruelty after so clear light they should be made Captives to dumb Idols and devillish inventions of Popish Ceremonies thereunto pertaining Suffer him not to seduce the simple sort with this fond opinion that his false gods blind mumbling feigned Religion or his foolish Superstition doth give him such conquest such victories such triumph and so high an hand over us We know most certainly O Lord Pag. 54. that it is not their arm and power but our sins and offences that hath delivered us to their fury and hath caused thee to turn away from us But turn again O Lord let us fall into thine hands c. least these vain Idolaters do rejoyce at the miserable destruction of those men whom they make Proselytes and from thy Doctrine Apostates But O Lord thy will be fulfilled this is thy righteous judgement to punish us with the tyrannical yoke of blindness because we have cast away from us the sweet yoke of the wholesom Word of thy Son our Saviour Yet consider the horrible blasphemies of thine and our enemies Pag. 55. They say in their hearts there is no God which either can or will deliver us Wherefore O heavenly Father the Governour of all things the Avenger of the Causes of the poor the fatherless the widow and the oppressed look down from Heaven with the face of thy fatherly mercies and forgive us all former offences and for thy Son Jesus Christs sake have mercy upon us who by the force and cruelty of wicked and blasphemous Idolaters without causes approved are haled and pulled from our own houses are slandered slain and murdered as Rebels and Traytors like persons pernicious pestiferous leditious pestilent and full of mortal poyson to all men contagious whereas we do meddle no farther but against the hellish powers of darkness c. which would deny the will of our Christ unto us we do contend no farther but onely for our Christ Crucified and the onely salvation by his blessed Passion Pag. 56. Therefore O Lord for thy glorious Names sake for Jesus Christs sake c. make the wicked Idolaters to wonder and stand amazed at thy Almighty power Use thy wonted strength to the confusion of thine enemies and to the help and deliverance of thy persecuted people All thy Saints do beseech thee therefore The young Infants which have some deal tasted of thy sweet Word by whose mouths thou hast promised to make perfect thy praises whose Angels do always behold thy face who besides the loss of us their Parents are in danger to be compelled and driven without thy great mercies to serve dumb and insensible Idols do cry and call unto thee Their pitiful Mothers with lamentable-tears lye prostrate before the Throne of thy Grace Pag. 57. Thou Father of the fatherless Judge of the widdows and Avenger of all the oppressed Let it appear O Lord Omnipotent that thou dost here Judge Avenge and punish all wrongs offered to all thy little Ones that do believe in thee Do this O● Lord For thy Names sake Arise up O Lord and thine enemies shall be scattered and confounded So be it O Lord most merciful at thy time appointed In his Letter to Mr. Pa. 323. Warcup Be not so dainty as to look for that at God your dear Fathers hands which the Fathers Patriarks Prophets Apostles Evangelists Saints and his own Son Jesus Christ did not find i. e. all fair way and fair weather to Heavne The Devil standeth now at every Inne-door in this City and Countrey of thi● World crying unto us to tarry and Lodge in this or that place till the storms be over-past not tha● he would not have us to wet our skin but that the time of our running our Race might over-pass us ●o our utter destruction Fear not the Flail fear not the Fanning-wind fear not the Milstone fear not the Oven for all these make you more meet for the Lords tooth In his Letter to Dr. Hill Pa. 326. Such as think it enough to keep the heart pure notwithstanding that the outward man curry favour as they deny God to be jealous one that will have the whole man having created redeemed and sanctified ●oth for himself so they play the Dissemblers with the Church of God by their parting stakes between God and the World offending the Godly whom either they provoke to fall with them or make more careless and conscienceless if they have fallen and occasioning the wicked and obstinate to triumph against God and the more vehemently to prosecute their malic● against such as will not defile themselves in body or soul with the Romish Rags now received among us Call to mind that there are but two Masters two kind of people two wayes and two Mansion places The Masters be Christ and Satan the people the Servitors to either of these the wayes be strait and wide the Mansions be Heaven and Hell This World is the place of trial of Gods people and ●he Devils servants by whom they follow The Cross it is that doth make the tryal In his Letter to Royden and Esing Pa. 333. Whom would it grieve which hath a long journey to go through a piece of foul way if he knew that after that the way should be most pleasant yea the journey should be ended and he at his resting place most happy Who will be afraid or loth to leave a little pelf for a little time if he knew he should afterwards very speedily receive most plentiful riches Who will be unwilling for a while to forsake his wife children friends c. when he knoweth he shal shortly after be associated to them inseparably even after his own hearts desire Who will be sorry to forsake his life who is most certain of eternal life Who loveth the shadow better than the body Who can desire the

dross of this world but such as be ignorant of the treasures of the everlasting joy in Heaven Who is afra●d to dye but such as hope not to live eternally What way is so sure a way to Heaven as to suffer in Christs Cause If there be any way o● Horseback to Heaven surely this is the way Acts 14.2 Tim. 3. The Devil cannot love his Enemies Should we look for fire to quench our thirst As soon shall Gods true Servants find peace and favour in Antichrists Regiment In a Letter to Mrs. Pa. 345. Anno Warcup My staff● stande● at the door I look continually for the Sheriffe to come for me and I bless God I am ready for him Now go I to practise that which I have preached Now am I climbing up to the hill it will cause me to puffe and to blow before I come to the cliffe The hill is steep and high my breath is short and my strength is feeble Pray therefore to the Lord for me that as I have now through his goodness even almost come to the top I may by his grace be strengthned not to rest till I come where I should be O● loving Lord put out thy hand and draw me unto thee for no man cometh be he whom the Father draweth See my dearly beloved God's loving mercy He knoweth my shor● breath and great weakness As he sent for Elius is a fiery Chariot so sends he for me By fire my dro● must be purified that I may be fine gold in h●● sight In his Letter to Mr. Augustine B●rnher I have now taken a more certain answer of death than ever I did A● my God the hour is come glorifie thy most unworthy child I have glorified thee saith this my sweet Father and I will glorifie thee Amen Some of the subscriptions of his Letters were observable Pa. 356.357 361 362. The most miserable hard-hearted unthankful sinner John Bradford A very painted hypocrite John Bradford Miserrimus peccatur John Bradford The sinful John Bradford Pray pray pray Pa. 307. was the usual close of his Letters which he writ in Prison When he came into Smithfield he fell flat on his face and prayed then taking a Fagot in his hand he kissed it and so likewise the Stake and standing by the Stake lifting up his hands and eyes to Heaven he said O England England repent of thy sins repent of thy sins beware of idolatry beware of false Antichrist take heed they do not deceive thee and to his fellow Martyr he said Be of good comfort Brother for we shall have a merry Supper with the Lord this night and then embracing the reeds the said Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that ●eads to life and few there be that find it What can be so heavy a burden as an unquiet Conscience to be in such a place as a man cannot be suffered to serve God in Christs Religion If you be loth to depart from your Kin Friends Remember that Christ calleth them his Mother Sisters and Brothers that do his Fathers will Where we find therefore God truly honoured according to his will there we can lack neither Friend nor Kin. If you be loth to depart for the ●●andering of Gods Word Remember that Christ when his hour was not yet come departed out of his Countrey into Samaria to avoid the malice o● the Scribes and Pharisees and commanded hi● Apostles that if they were pursued in one place they should fly to another Thus did Paul and th● other Apostles Albeit when it came to such ● point that they could no longer escape than the● evidenced that their flying before came not o● fear but of godly wisdom to do more good an● that they would not rashly without urgent necessity offer themselves to death which had been tempting of God Brown John Brown told his wife as he sate in the Stocks that the Arch-Bishop had burnt his feet to th● bones Fox Vol 2. pag. 649. so as he could not set them upon the ground and all to make them deny Christ which said he I will never do for if I should deny him in thi● world he would deny me hereafter Thomas Brown being brought forth to be condemned Fox Vol. 3. pag. 630. Bonner said to him Brown you have bee● before me many times and I have took much pai● to win thee from thine errors yet thou and suc● like have and do report that I go about to see● thy blood Yea my Lord said Brown indeed yo● be a Blood-sucker and I would I had as muc● blood as there is water in the Sea for you to suck● Bruger A Frier offering John Bruger Ward pa. 155. a forreign Martyr a Wooden Cross at the Stake No said he I have another true Cross imposed on me which now I will take up I worship not the work of man hands but the Son of God I am content with him for my onely Advocate Bruse I thank God said Peter Bruse my broken Le● suffered me not to fly this Martyrdome Pa. 159. I shall now have said John Buisson a double Goal-delivery one out of my sinful flesh Ward pag. 160. another from the loathsome Dungeon I have long lain in Burgins Lord said Annas Burgins in the midst of his torments forsake me not least I forsake thee Pa. 157. Burgon John Burgon to his Judges Pa. 156. asking him if he would appeal to the High-Court answered Is it not enough that your hands are polluted with blood but you will make more guilty of it Barnes When Dr. See his Life and Martyrdom before his Works set forth by Mr. Fox Baynes was brought before Cardinal W●lsey He told him he thought it necessary that his Golden Shoos and Golden Cushions c. should be sold and given to the poor for that such things were not comely for his Calling neither was the Kings Majesty maintained by his Pomp but by God who faith By me Kings reign When the Cardinal would have had him to refer himself to him promising him Favour he answered I will stick to the Holy Scripture and to Gods Book according to the simple Talent that God hath lent me Being called before the Bishops and Abbot of Westminster who demanded of him whether he would abjure or burn he was in a great agony and then thought rather to burn than to abjure but perswaded by Gardiner and Fox because they said he should do more good in time to come He abjured and carried his Fagot to Pauls After they had long detained him in Prison notwithstanding upon notice given him of their intentions to burn him notwithstanding his abjuration he escaped out of England into Germany where he made his supplication to King Henry the Eighth against the Lordly Bishops and Prelates of England for the intollerable injuries wrongs and oppressions wherewith they had vexed not onely himself but all true Preachers of Gods Word and Professors of the same