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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34380	A Continvation of the histories of forreine martyrs from the happy reign of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth, to these times : with sundry relations of those bloudy massacres executed upon the Protestants in the cities of France, in the yeare 1572 : wherevnto are annexed the two famous deliverances of our English nation, the one from the Spanish invasion in 88, the other from the Gunpowder Treason in the yeare 1605 : together with the barbarous cruelties exercised upon the professors of the Gospell in the Valtoline, 1621.		1641 (1641)	Wing C5965; ESTC R21167	283,455	124

doth not our Lord Iesus Christ say blessed are you when men persecute you and speake all manner of evill falsly against you for my name sake Rejoice therefore and be glad for great is your reward in heaven Now whereto serveth all this my beloved but to bring us into a conformity with our Lord and Master Iesus Christ For Christ hath suffered for us saith the Apostle saint Peter 1 Pet. 2. 21. leaving us an example that we should walke in his steps who also endured the crosse and despised Heb. 12 2. the shame for the obtaining of that joy which was set before him and became poore to make us rich 2 Cor. 8. 9. By him also are we brought by faith into that Rom. 5 2. state of grace wherein we stand rejoycing in the hope of the glory of God knowing that tribulation worketh patience c. Wherefore deare brother and sister be not afrayd of the fiery tryall which is now sent amongst us to prove us For what Father loving his childe doth not correct it Heb. 12. Even so doth the Lord chastise those whom he loveth for if we should be without correction wherof all true Christians are partakers then were we bastards and not sons And therefore Salomon saith my sonne despise not the chastening of the Prov. 3. 11 12. Lord neither faint when thou are corrected of him for whom the Lord loveth the same he correcteth even as a Father the sonne in whom he delighteth Feare not then to follow the footsteps of Christ for he is the head and we are his members Even as Christ then hath obtained full joy glory by suffering of anguishes and sorrowes so we also according to his example must through Acts 14 21. many tribulations enter into the heavenly places even into the new Ierusalem Let us then say Phil. 1. 21. with saint Paul Christ unto me is in life and in death advantage Let us cry out with him O Rom. 7 24. wretched creatures that we are who shall deliver us from this body of death Sée here how the faithfull have desired to be with Christ for with Abraham they had an eye to that holy City Anno 1562. which hath foundations whose builder and maker Heb. 11. 10. is God Let vs then my beloved chéerefully and willingly follow the Lord possessing our soules by patience For it is a good thing as saith the Prophet Ieremiah both to hope and quietly to Lam. 3. 26. waite for the salvation of the Lord and good also it is for a man to beare the yoke in his youth for such the Lord will comfort in the end and restore unto them the joy of his salvation Loe here deare brother and sister what consolations our God hath treasured up for us in his holy word for us I say whose desire it is to feare the Lord and to trust in his grace and mercy For Psal 37. 39. the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord hée is their strength in the time of trouble Wherfore q giving all diligence let us adde to faith vertue 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7 8. and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse love for if these things be in us and abound they will cause us neither to be idle nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ The which God our Father grant us for his Sonnes sake our Lord Amen Out of my hole December the eleventh 1562. Wouter Oom prisoner for the truth Now because ye may see that this Letter was not without its happy effect hearken to the relation of the History following THere was one Iohn Wolfe of the City of Audenard who because he could no longer inhabite there without either the danger of his life or wounding of his conscience his wife being great with childe and as yet but weake in the knowledge of the Gospell he was forced for these respects to joyne himselfe to the assembly of the Church in Antwerpe where thinking himselfe in safety a neighbour of his owing him ill will accused him to the Margrave about the baptising of his childe Whereupon being then committed and examined where and in whose presence his childe was baptized he without staggering answered that he had it baptised according to the institution of Christ by a Minister set apart to that Office The Margrave not content with this answer often pressed him with sundry threats of the torture to accuse such as he knew But the sharpest combat he endured was from his owne flesh counselling him during his imprisonment for the safegard of his life to dissemble and halt betwéen two opinions The cause was from the inward affection he bore towards his wife and childe being yet but young and of singular beauty in regard whereof many of the congregation expected no other but that he would sinke under this tryall But in the middest of these assaults hée was heard with prayers and sighes to cry mightily to God to bée delivered from this temptation Which prayers of his were heard in due season even then Whither wee ought to fly in time of temptation when in the judgement of man he was supposed to be overcome thereof meanes was made of bringing to his hands consolatory letters as also the said Wouter Dom then prisoner with him comforted him not a little by his letters Whereby in the end he continued so strong in the Lord as also constant in the confession of the truth that in conclusion he received the sentence of death with the aforesaid Wouter After which his wife came unto him and they were permitted to talke together bursting out each of them into such abundance of teares that it would have moved the most stony heart that ever was At parting with a bitter cry hée commended her to Gods mighty protection and his childe to be trained up in the true Religion Soone after hée was drowned in the tub or fat of the prison and the next day hanged upon one of the Gibbets néer unto the City ¶ A relation of the troubles and martyrdome of Christian Quekere Iaques Dionssart and Iean de Salomez of Steenwerk in Flanders To whom God gave such ability to answer their enemies demands as if they had come from persons much more learned Which shewes that God measures out to all the gifts and graces of his holy Spirit according to his good will and pleasure WHilest the persecution continued at this time in sundry places of Flanders under Philip King of Spaine and that many fled into England under the protection of Quéene Elizabeth these thrée above mentioned were of the same number who joyned themselves to the Dutch Church in London having given publique testimony of their faith before all the Congregation In which place they continuod not long but they were constrained upon some speciall occasions to

him elevate his God That hée used much to walke to and fro about the scaffold where the faithfull were executed with a kinde of delight coveting to stand neere unto them that by accustoming himselfe in beholding the place and torments he saw others indure he might bee the better emboldened to suffer the like when God should call him thereunto These were in effect the Articles which were inserted in his sentence a part whereof also was drawne out of the confession of his faith the sum being this First That a man is justified and accepted of God onely for the merrit of Iesus Christ apprehended by faith That the popes pardons and indulgences sent from Rome are méere delusions and that the Pope is Antichrist c. That it was the desire of his heart to be burned or to suffer some other extremity for the maintenance of the Faith which he professed That he endevored to imploy the goods and riches wherwith God had blessed him only for the defence and further inlarging of the doctrine of the Gospel Yea to forsake life wife children and all for the same to which end hee had daily sent up many hearty prayers to God In all this busines the holy tribunall labored by cunning devices to obscure this confession causing it to be bruited that he held not out to the end with many other like inventions to make the people beleeve they had turned him to their Law but herein they shewed themselves not well advised in that they belied both him and themselves For in publishing his crimes and offences with the manner of his death what did they else but declare and manifest the truth of the fact which plainly appeareth in these words of the sentence Iohn Ponce of Leon burned for an heretike and an obstinate Lutheran c. Which words made their fraudulent dealing apparent to such as doubted any way of the constancie and perseverance of this pious Christian knight Iohn Gonzalve a Preacher in Sevill Martyr with whom were executed two of his sisters their mother remaining in prison reserved to act her part in another tragedie GOnzalve a renowned Preacher throughout the Countrey of Andalousie was also led in this inquisitoriall triumph who forsaking his Schoole Divinity in which learning he excelled all his fellowes gave himselfe wholly to the study of the holy Scriptures according to the purity whereof his whole conversation was ordered both inwarly and outwardly Hee was often observed in all his Sermons to ayme at this marke namely to deliver mens minds from that blind conceit of meriting by works that so way might be made for justification onely by Faith in Christ Iesus and déeply to in graft into them the knowledge of the sole merit of his plenary satisfaction For which his labour hee expected to receive from man the same reward which all the true servants of God have had in their times Being then seized upon by those of this Spanish inquisition hee yeelded a reason of his faith in that purity and sincerity as did the aforesaid Iohn Ponce who as they had beene friends and of familliar acquaintance so were they joyned together in the same confession and led to the same execution together The night before he suffered he had a sore conflict with an old sect of Priests who were of the Inquisition but in the end he caused them to returne vanquished and ashamed He was led from the castle and prison of Trion with his two sisters unto the place appointed for his end that they with him might drinke of the same cup leaving his mother and one of his brethren behind him in prison reserved to be executed when their turn came about He never shewed the least signe of being dismaid but contrariwise with great constancy and courage of heart standing above all the people to whom he had formerly preached and delivered the patterne of sound Doctrine He began with a loud voyce to recite the Psalme which begins thus O Lord my Rocke Psal 28. 1. be not thou silent to me c. not changing his conntenance at all upon the Scaffold though they had gagged him there because he comforted and fréely exhorted one of his sisters to be constant whose spirit he feared might otherwise faint Hearkening very attentively to his sentence which was there againe recited he was not any thing at all abashed or troubled thereat but tooke his solemne degrading patiently receiving the markes and garments of his confession to wit his yellow robe an haltar and a painted miter with a joyfull and chéerefull heart knowing that howsoever they were disgracefull in the eyes of the world yet he estéemed of them as ornaments of honour in the sight of God and his Angels abhoring his massing attire whereof they had disrobed him When the time was come that those which should be burned were brought to the place of execution they were every one commanded to recite the articles of their beléefe which they willingly did but when they came to the Article I beleeve the holy Catholique Church they were bidden to adde this word Romane whereupon they were silent then did the Monkes and Fryers importune Gonzalves sisters and other Christian women who were to be burned with them to repeat the said word Romane who answered they would if they might heare Iohn Gonzalva pronounce it not that they intended so to doe but being confident of his renouncing the same hoping by this meanes to frée him of his gagge and so to obtaine the liberty of spéech by which he might render a reason of his faith and so of this article among the rest Being ungagged the first word he spake was that they should be of good courage and not to adde one word more than what they had recited Vpon this their last confession they were forthwith strangled as the fire was kindled upon them to burne and consume them ¶ Isabell of Vaenia Mary of Viroes Cornella Mary of Bohorques and Iane her sister burnt at Sevill in Spaine AMong all the most ancient professors of true religion that had their abode in the Church of God at Sevill who in a manner were all wasted by the Tyranny of the Inquisition the power of faith appeared in these foure women above specified Now howsoever they were all endued with singular piety and godlinesse yet the yonger of them named Bohorques being under the age of one and twenty was instructed above the rest in holy letters by dayly reading and conference with good and godly men wherewith Sevil at that time was well furnished shée had obtained such promptnesse in the knowledge of the Texts of the old and new Testament that many who were estéemed learned in that City have confessed they were often put to a non-plus by such reasons as shée alledged out of the Scriptures As touching the first of these Vaenia her house was a schoole or colledge of piety being the place also where all the méetings were to publish the praises of God