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A95883	Dagon demolished: or, Twenty admirable examples of Gods severe justice and displeasure against the subscribers of the late engagement, against our lawfull soveraign King Charls the second; and the whole House of Peeres, in these words. I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithfull to the common-wealth of England, as it is now established without a King or House of Lords. Also against some of the judges of the late King in the high court of injustice. Published, to reclaim such fanatique persons, who have been too forward to promote this wicked, destructive engagement; and still designe it, which hath wounded the consciences of so many Godly Christians in this kingdome. By that late worthy patriot of his country, Mr. John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1660 (1660)	Wing V298; Thomason E1021_2; ESTC R208354	7,711	17

sicknesse caught a great fall in his house which put his shoulder out of what and lying in continuall distresse and perplexity of spirit complaining still of his taking the Engagement thus pining and languishing away he shortly after died 5. One Mr. Hall of St. Needs in Huntington-shire having been a most eminent professor of Religion and extraordinarily gifted in Prayer and godly conference afterwards complying with the times taking the Engagement and turning a great stickler with the Army at last turned a very So● in matters of Religion and one night going forth of his house in an out-room hang'd himself and there was found the next morning 6. One Mr. Midgeley a School-master in Ouldham neer Manchester in Lancaster-shire having been an Engager and great prosecutor of his eminently godly Minister Mr. Constantine and having been writing one night divers accusations and such like papers against his said Minister whereunto he was hired by one Mr. Ashton a Justice of Peace of the same Parish and by diverse other eminent enemies of the said Mr. Constantine because he would not take the Engagement and they having paid the said Mr. Midgeley for his pains and he going home that night there having been a great snow on the ground and the weather very bitter cold he was the next morning found dead in the snow and onely his finger and thumb of his right-hand eaten or bitten off from his hand 7. Also the aforesaid Mr. James Ashton of Chadarton in the said Parish of Ouldham once a desperate Malignant in the first War against the Parliament but afterwards having made his peace taken the Engagement and turned a great stickler for the present times was made a Justice of Peace and became one of the aforesaid Mr. Constantine's greatest enemies sequestred the said Mr. Constantine out of his Living and for the cause aforesaid the refusing the Engagement imprisoned and after banished him out of the County and after this hearing that Mr. Constantine had preached twice or thrice in the Country he summoned him again to appear before him intending to have punished him sorely for his presumption But in the mean season it pleased the Lord to strike this Mr. Ashton who before had been a Gentleman naturally very healthfull and of a strong constitution of body into such a languishing sicknesse as made him daily pine away so as no means or physick could help him and which is most remarkable and fearfull before his death he became so full of Lice continually that all the shift and attendance that possible was used could not cleanse him from this filthy Vermine and thus either upon the day before or the day after Mr. Constantine's coming to Ouldham to make his personal appearance before him the said Mr. Ashton thus miserably departed this life 8. One Mr. Bray Minister of Michaels in Lancashire having once been a very zealous Presbyterian to see too at last for the gaining of an Augmentation to his Living took the Engagement turned a great zealot for the Independent Faction and immediately after an Order comming for the pulling down of the late Kings Arms in Churches he was so hot therein that he would needs as he did pull them down himself and sent the boards on which the Kings Arms were painted home to his house intending to have made a doore of them to one of his rooms of his house but it pleased the Lord presently to strike him with a sudden and violent sickness whereof he presently dyed and those boards were made his Coffin to bury him in 9. One Sir Thomas Martin Knight of Cambridge shire an Engager and a great Complyer with the times having been a hunting in Holmby-Park and the Deer being faln stuck and opened and he desired together with the other Gentlemen to wash his hands in the Deers blood No said he I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the young King of Scots And immediately after this riding home the same Day at Evening his Horse very suddenly and violently threw him in which fall he pitch't on his head mortally brake his Skull and shoulder of which wounds he very shortly after died 10. The Constable of Shaw in Lancashire four miles from Manchester having taken the Engagement was presently after so perplexed in Conscience that notwithstanding all the Godly Exhortations and Comforts administred unto him by godly neighbour Ministers yet the apprehension of Gods wrath for what he had done therein so increased upon him that he fell distracted and so continued many weeks together 11. Also one M. Rich. Smith Minister of Stoke Prior in VVorcestershire having taken the Engagement for the procuring of an Augmentation to his Living returning home from London after he had taken it fell presently into such a frighting horrour of Conscience and Distraction of his Senses that he had oft endevoured to beat out his own brains But at last recovered his Sences by Gods great mercy repented bitterly of what he had done and thereupon in peace departed this life in a sickneess which then took him 12. Dr. Doris●aus the Westminsterians Juncto's first Embassadour sent from them into Holland and therefore no doubt a great Engager and desperate Complyer in all things with them as in the Kings death being arrived in Holland was therein immediately and suddenly assaulted and murthered as he sate at dinner in his house 13. Also Mr. Anthony Ascham a Gentleman of excellent parts being sent as the Juncto's the Embassador into Spain very shortly after his arrival there at Madrid was in his own house there suddenly and most furiously set upon and assaulted by divers desperate English Caviliers and he and his Interpreter was hen and there murthered 14. Collonel Rainsborow a mighty Engager and prime stickler for the power at Westminster a desperate header of the Levellers Admiral of the Navy at Sea was suddenly also assaultéd by a company of Caviliers at Pomfrait town in Yorkshire in an Inne and there murthered by them 15. Mr. Tho. Hoyle formerly lookt upon as a very pious and strictly religious Gentleman an Alderman of York and Member of the Parliament but afterward having taken the Engagement even against his conscience and turned a great complyer with them at Westminster Not long after it pleased the Lord so to leave him to himself that on the very same day 12 moneth that King Charles was beheaded yea as near as possible could be judged about the very same houre of that day this Gentleman hang'd himself in his own house at Westminster and was found stark dead by his woeful wife when she came home having been abroad that morning 16. Mr. Shereman a Citizen and Silkman in Pater-Noster-Row in London who had formerly been lookt on as a godly and religious Gentleman had been a Tryer and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church Government a singular good friend to Mr. Love then his Pastour but afterward he turning with the times took the Engagement and that in form of an Oath whereupon

DAGON Demolished OR Twenty Admirable Examples of Gods Severe Justice and Displeasure against the SUBSCRIBERS of the late ENGAGEMENT against our Lawfull Soveraign KING CHARLS the second and the whole House of PEERES in these words I do Declare and promise that I will be True and Faithfull to the Common-wealth of England as it is now Established without a KING or House of LORDS Also against some of the Judges of the late King in the High Court of Injustice PUBLISHED To Reclaim such Fanatique persons who have been too forward to promote this wicked Destructive ENGAGEMENT and still designe it which hath wounded the Consciences of so many Godly Christians in this Kingdome By that late Worthy Patriot of his Country Mr. John Vicars Eccles. 10. 20. Curse not the King no not in thy thought God hath Woollen feet but Iron hands Aug. London Printed by T. Mabb for Edward Thomas and are to be sold at the Adam and Eve in Little-Brittain 1660 The Stationer to the Reader Kinde Reader THis Ensuing Narration came to my hands casually from a Christian friend of Mr. Iohn Vicars lately Deceased from whom he had it being written with his own hand The end of Publication is that God may have the Glory and that all true Christian Protestants may Receive some benefit by it which is the unfeigned prayer of thy Friend E. T. The Westminsterian Engagement January 2. 1649. I Doe Declare and promise that I will be true and faithfull to the Common-wealth of England as it is now established without a King or House of Lords The summe or substance of the penalty of not subscribing it BE it enacted by Authority of Parliament that whatsoever person or persons shall refuse the taking or subscribing of this Engagement shall be disabled to hold or enjoy any Place or Office of publique trust profit or employment whatsoever And that if he do continue therein without any such subscription as aforesaid contrary to this Act of Parliament he shall forfeit all such offices places or employment and profits whatsoever and shall forfeit also double the value of such profits and benefits as they shall have received and taken as aforesaid And for default of distresse and sale of such offenders goods the offender to be imprisoned till the said forfeitures be fully satisfied and paid And it is further enacted and declared that all and every person or persons so offending as aforesaid is are and shall be uncapable of Voting or giving his suffrage or consent in the choice or election of any Officer or Magistrate in the City of London or else where within the Common-wealth of England And shall also be uncapable of the benefit of Law from any Courts of Justice of this Commonwealth in any manner of Plea whatsoever between Plaintiff and Defendant in or for any Suit Plaint Bill Action Information Writ Demand Execution or any other processe whatsoever except onely in case of Treason Felony or breach of the peace and good behaviour The Observation on this Penalty for non-subscribing the Engagement THe sum of the aforesaid penalty amounting to thus much that every person whatsoever that subscribes not their Engagement is made an absolute Out-lawed person unable to help himself or to be holpen by any against any wrongs or injuries whatsoever done to his person or estate except as before by them excepted Such a cruelty and tyranny as never was heard of in this Kingdome nor in any Nation or well governed State or Common-wealth in Christendome especially to be enacted or executed upon any of their Natives or free Denizens though never so foul or hainous offenders much lesse upon their pious peaceable and most honest people save onely among the Antichristian Romanists against those whom they call and counted Hereticks Wherefore since the Saints godly party at Westminster as they most audaciously and falsly call themselves and all the rest of their most hypocriticall adherents have been so bold thus to set up this Dagon by Gods Ark and their posts by Gods posts and so deceitfully to glory and triumph in their pretended Providences and successes ever since their thus setting up this Dagon the Westminsterian Engagement in opposition to the Nationall Covenant I shall here now therefore give the godly and impartiall Reader divers most remarkable examples and apparent Demonstrations of Gods evident and eminent wrath and indignation expressed against them ever since their setting up their said Dagon in these most memorable and remarkable examples following Twenty admirable examples of Gods displeasure against Subscribers of the Engagement and complices with the late Power 1. THen consider admire and wonder that upon the very first day of the publication of the Act for taking the Engagement which was January 4 1650. in the evening of that same day did that most terrible and fearfull fire by Gun-powder break forth at Barkin-Church neer the Tower of London the like to which was never seen or heard of before in or about the said City in which were most suddenly blown up and destroyed above a hundred houses and above 120. persons most lamentably kill'd and destroyed and their Carkases miserably torn in pieces among whom was Lievtenant Col. Smith one of Sir Hardress Wallers chief sticklers to pull the secluded members out of the House of Commons in Parliament And was not this a most fearfull forerunner and heavy Harbinger of the wofull effects of this their immediately following Engagements 2. One Mr. Mosty Minister of in Essex having taken the engagement and that in his own sense and limitations to his best content as he thought yet was immediately after so perplexed and distracted in his Conscience that he could neither Preach nor Pray nor be at any quiet or peace within himself till he had procured liberty to race out his name from under the Engagement whereunto he had subscribed it 3. One Col. Russell a great favourite and Commissioner in the Army after his taking of the Engagement was so vexed and distracted in his soule that he confessed to some of his religious friends himself also being lookt upon as a very religious Gentleman that immediately upon his taking the Engagement he found by evident symptomes that the Devil took actuall possession of him and made him desperately prone to commit any notorious villany whatsoever even to the ravishing of his own maid-servant but afterward gave most eminent testimonies of his true repentance and abhorrence of his taking of it 4. One Mr. Edward Fisher a very tender consciencious Christian and godly Citizen of London in the Old-baily having taken the Engagement and though in his own sense and limitations as he thought to his full content yet presently after being extreamly grieved and perplexed in spirit for that he had done therein laboured to Alderman Allen to have his name raced out but could not be permitted to the increase of his great grief and thereupon fell into great distresses and trouble of Conscience and into pyning and languishing