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A41150	Christ ruling in midst of His enemies, or, Some first fruits of the churches deliverance budding forth out of the crosse and sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres sufferer, and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ : together with secretarie Windebanks letters to Sir. Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle ... : wherein also the reader shall find in severall passages, publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great designe of Christ, for setting up of His kingdome, and the ruine of antichrist / by Lievtenant Collonel John Fenwicke.	Fenwicke, John, Sir, 1579-1658?; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir J. Ashley.; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir A. Davison.	1643 (1643)	Wing F719; ESTC R13870	22,886	32

CHRIST Ruling in midst of his ENEMIES OR Some first Fruits of the CHURCHES DELIVERANCE Budding forth out of the Crosse and Sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres Sufferer and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ Together With Secretarie Windebanks Letters to Sr Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle through which the violent prosecutions of the common adversaries to exile and banishment are very transparent Wherein also the Reader shall find in severall passages publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great Designe of Christ for setting up of His Kingdome and the ruine of Antichrist By Lievtenant Collonel JOHN FENWICKE Apoc. 7. 14. These are they that come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lambe and Chapt. 12. 11. And they overcame by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of his testimony and they loved not their lives to the death LONDON Printed for Benjamin Allen in Popes-head Alley 1643. The Epistle DEDICATORY TO NEWCASTLE upon Tyne NEWCASTLE though not the place of my birth or much of my breeding for I have herein been more beholden to other parts of the world yet none may challenge from mee more interest in this Dedication Newcastle famous for thy mocking and misusing of Christs Messengers and ill entertainment of his Servants ever since our Reformation witnesse that famous Knox great Reformer of Scotland his Sermons preached there witnesse learned Vdall thy faithful Monitor whose innocent blood cryes yet from the ground whom for writing against the Prelates thou prosecuted as a Traytor to bonds imprisonment and sentence of death under which he died before execution witnesse Reverend Balmford whom in like manner thou expulsed though thou couldst not touch his life thou pricked his sides as well as Christs in his hearers with the reproach of Balmfordian Faction and Schisme witnesse Alder Jennison Murton all godly Ministers expulsed by thee witnesse others of Christs servants ill entertained of thee yet alive to witnesse all that is alledged against thee and much more and last of all hee that sends these things unto thee his wife and children who have received their birth and breathing in thee make up that long and blacke roll of bitter things writ against thee from heaven O Newcastle how hath God dealt with thee by his divine waterings of his Word many yeeres how has God spoke aloud to thee by his judgements and forewarnings of ruine and desolation after thou hadst refused all instructions from his Word and Messengers hast thou forgot how loud God spake to thee in that great plague Anno 1636. when there died in half a yeere about seven thousand which made thee almost desolate thy streets growne greene with grasse thy treasurie wasted thy trading departed as thou never yet recovered it thy wounds increased thy madnesse thou wentest not to heaven for a perfect cure What thinkst thou was the meaning of that strange fire brake out none ever knew how in thy secret chamber of thy Townes house or Common hall where the next yeere after that great plague thy Rulers like Wolves of the evening were lurking all that day in plotting the new project about Coals Salt to devoure thy poore inhabitants and also new devices to suppresse sound preaching and strave your soules How is it after many more warnings too large to recite that thou art still hardned and the cry of thy sinnes like Sodome is come up to heaven in thee is found the blood of the Prophets the blood of the Saints oppressed banished and hunted to death in thee is found the blood of thy inhabitants oppressed and impoverished by unlimitted authoritie and arbytrarie government so court-like as an Aple is like an Orange In thee is found the uncleanesse of Sodome Adulteries and Fornications in thy Rulers houses thy filthinesse in thy skirts transparent to strangers round about thee in thee found drunkennesse and excesse with melodie to see the Church laid desolate in thee is found the two grand sins that will sincke a whole state a whole kingdome without repentance and reformation superstition in worship and oppression in government which has brought upon this Land that bloodie sword which now threatens to devoure thee I meane thy wicked Magistracie and Rulers who have wrested all thy power into their own hands and all that wicked crue of their confederacie O Newcastle when wilt thou learne the dialect of heaven speaking loud in thine eares O Newcastle Newcastle wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be Jer. 13. 27. If thou wilt not hearken to heavens counsell heare thy sentence Thou art defiled with blood and cannot be cleansed but by the blood of them that shed it Numb. 35. 33. O Newcastle what shall I say to thee what hath inraged thee against him that writes this complaint against thee whom have I wronged of you bring forth your evidences and plead your cause I hope ere long wee shall have a faire and free hearing and just proceedings not at the barre of your Court Law of hanging Excom. imprisonment and banishment but at a bar of right judgement I have ever sought thy good in spiritualls and temperalls even to my owne hurt and losse I have seene sometimes thy plagues a farre off and wept insecret for thee as the place of my habitation though my Meseck and Kedar the place of my sorrow and never of my joy how oft have I assayed to have left thee in thy rebellion against God but heavens counsels did not favour mine when the great plague began Anno 1636. Consider what might be Gods mind to make mee one day weepe bitterly over thee riding alone about a mile from the towne with many sad thoughts and when I lookt up and see Newcastle before mee my heart burst out with grief with the same words bo●●ing within me wherewith the Lord Jesus wept over Jerualem O Newcastle Newcastle would God thou in thy dayes had remembred the things belonging to thy peace often revolving these thoughts with me but when I came to the next words with many reasonings within mee shall they be hid from thine eyes shall thy habitations be laid desolate My heart was like to burst within mee for a good space assuring my selfe to heare ill newes for I had been in the Countrey and comming to towne I heard presently of the increase of the plague and that the night before some six and thirty died of it and from thence it daily increased to foure hundred a weeke till it had swept away about seven thousand at least in seven or eight moneths time O Newcastle before thou hadst recovered this blowe which I mourned to see comming upon thee what ailed thee to begin to plot the ruine of me and my wife and children I had seen many habitations laid desolate though I returned safely to my owne with all my family praise

Majestie and signes of Gods presence as ever I saw in any publique Assembly where Job served some ancient and white haired men to water their cheeks and wipe off the teares with one hand while they held up the other hand in token of assent to the Covenant as their custome was Now all this yeere in England mens cares and mouthes were exceedingly taken up in listning after and speaking of newes and discourses of the Scots affaires And my correspondence with the Scots as a Merchan● for at least 15 or 16. yeeres before being generally knowne in Newcastle my adversaries begun to set watches for to trap mee about the Scots and my Friends began to forwarne mee of it at last about the 15. of Decemb. 1638. Mr. Robert Anderson an Alderman of the town and my good Friend came to me privately and told mee Now your Enemies have got their desire they have long looked for they have got Witnesses sworne against you of such things about the Scots as will undo you and so wished me to look to my selfe I thanked him for his love but I regarded not much their malice being so well accustomed to it nor did I so much as speake of it to any not to my wife till after the plot broke out The same day another Gentleman of good quality gave mee the the like warning but I will spare his Name because hee is yet living and now a sufferer under the Marquesse of Newcastle And upon 25. December after being a time of much profanenes and excesse in Newcastle I tooke that time to ride into Northumberland and Barwick where I had moneyes owing me and so into Scotland there being no restraint of commerce with the Scots and bargained with the aforesaid Earle of Winton for another Barkes lading of wheate but before I got home to Newcastle a Warrant was sent out to apprehend me by Mr. Alexander Daveson and Mr. Iohn Marloe * and the Constastable watched my house three daies before I came but comming home late about ten of the clocke at night they missed of their purpose Observe here Gods providence over mee for I knew nothing of this dangerous plot to apprehend me but was stayed by the way about businesse and relying on the Moones light stayed by the way somewhat the longer But being come home late I found my wife in a very sad posture and was not sit downe untill some friends came in and gave me notice of the danger assuring me that the plot was of such extent as my life was strucke at and that there was no abiding in the Kingdom for me some advising me to goe for France some for Holland and some for Scotland none of my friends daring to be seene in it or interpose their interest to stop their violence no not so much as for two dayes safely in my house to order and settle my affaires both at home and abroad all struck dead in one instant Well I saw there was now no dallying provided for my escape in the morning early where I passed the Guard and the Gate with some difficultie and passing along in sight of the Towne of Newcastle God made me weepe over it the second time as is expressed in the Epistle Dedicatory with many sad thoughts of the place and of my Wife and Children I had left in a disconsolate condition amongst my enemies So rode into the Country where I stayed among Friends some 8 dayes using meanes to see if the businesse could be accommodated but all meanes failing and the businesse carryed so high as none of my friends durst meddle in it I took my leave of them in a sad condition and took my way for Scotland I had not been above eight dayes in Edenborough untill I was watched by the Lord Traquire then Lord Treasurer of Scotland and had the whole power there for the King giving out threats against mee in severall places that the Kings Dominions should not hold me long so as I was forced to lurck very privately that winter in Edenborough and the Country in a disguised manner and so wee returne to what they were doing in Newcastle My Adversaries having missed of their purpose of mee fell withall violence upon my wife and friends with much inhumane usuage of one of her Sex as is set forth in my Petition to the Parliament hereunto annexed wherein Mr. Alexander Daveson Major Mr. Iohn Marley Mr Thomas Rydle Town Clerke Mr. Ralph Ceck Alderman and Ralph ●●ows the Clerke of their Commission from the King for that businesse were the chiefe actors It would be too tedious to relate the molestations of my poore wife and friends and examinations about me and of the imprisonment of others meerely for my cause but my wife especially for correspondence with me till at last they were plotting her life too for that very thing and so hunted her as she durst not come in her owne house for a week together or see her children but through a glasse window that they might not see her and so at last forced her to escape into the country where none of my friends durst keepe her two nights together but conveyed her into Scotland to me where she abode untill after the pacification at Barwick and then about the end of October 1639. she returned to Newcastle great with child but I being excepted out of the pacification by the Earle of Arundale who treated on the Kings part I was forced to abide in Scotland to expect a calmer season but how calme it proved I shall tell you presently after I have told you a little more of my wifes troubles The unfound peace with Scotland being broken quickly the next Summer produced new preparation to warre on both sides and upon the newes of the Scots armie advancing into England Master Robert Bewick the Maior sent his officer into the countrey out of his jurisdiction and brought in my wife where she was searched examined and divers papers taken away and a guard of about a doozen Musquetiers set upon her well the Scots approach with their armie and her aboad in Newcastle was so troublesome on both sides to her and our adversaries as 't is hard to say whethe rs feares were greatest her sex may excuse her flight with her children unfit to be left amongst such monsters of men and women as Newcastle now was full of all sorts from all quarters to fight with the Scots Reade more of this in a little Tract I published two yeeres agoe entituled The Downfall of the Hierarchy Well being got away by water into the countrey she found cold entertainment all being afraid of trouble by her untill the Scots armie came neer to Newburn and then there was flying indeed to purpose the swiftest flight was the greatest honour to the Newcastilian new dubd knights a good Boat a paire of Oares a good Horse especially that would carrie two men was more worth then the valour or honour of new knighthood Surely Vicar

Alvey too would have given his Vicaridge for a horse when he for haste leapt on horseback behinde a countrie-man without a cushion his faith and qualifications failing him he might well feare to fall from grace by the Scots comming we leave him in his flight to the grace of Conterbury and the new dubd knights and others to the Courts grace for full twelvemoneths untill the cots were gone home againe They no sooner returned to Newcastle but the first Sabbath Day after the Scots were gone Vicar Alvey appeares in publike againe new drest up in his pontificalitie with Surplice and Service-booke whereof the Churches had been purged by the Scots lads and therefore now become innovations and very offensive to many who could digest such things before but my wife being lesse used to have her food so drest growing stomack-sicke set some other weak stomacks on working who fell upon the Vicars new dressing the Surplice and Service-booke which set the malignant superstitious people in such a fire as men and women fell upon my wife like wilde beasts tore her cloaths and gave her at least an hundred blowes and had flaine her if the Maior had not stept out of his pue to rescue her he and his officers both well beaten for their paines such was the peoples madnesse after their Idols as God wonderfully preserved her life and brought her to me to London I returne now to some remarkable passages of divine providence towards me in Scotland in Edenburgh and in my travell in the countrey from place to place to avoid the Lord Traquires prosecution God being never wanting to fill up the emptie soules of his servants in their bitter suffrings did often fulfill that promise of the hundred fold to such as forsake father and mother house and lands for his names sake which promise I sued out at my first escape out of Newcastle and had it faithfully re●●●●tly performed and therfore when I speak of the fulfilling of a promise let none carp or catch or tax the to countenance fantasies and revelations yet doe I not deny but will with all humilitie and modestie maintain divine raptures in divers cases especially in the Saints bitter exile and sufferings and when God comes neerer to his Saints then is ordinarie thinke it not a vaine thing or a fantasie as some too wise men doe but rouze up our selves and looke about us for somewhat more then ordinarie yea sometimes some great things are neer but will stay no longer in the Apologue for any thing shall follow which I hope shall be expressed with that reverence and feare of God and modestie towards men as no man not malicious shall have cause of offence One day as I was riding over a solitarie heath in Tividale my mind much exercised with musings and meditations on the word and works of God to see two neighbour nations so neere conjoyned in many bonds both divine and humane readie to clash together so neere imbruing their hands in each others blood about so poore a quarrell as for Bishops and Service-book as was at first pretended yet a deeper designe of Rome and all her consederates was in it these things strongly possessing my troubled spirit occasioned some ejaculations as I fate on horsebacke and not with drie eyes thinking on these unnaturall ware between my countrie-men and the Scottish nation I often prayed Oh that we might joyne in one against our common enemies Oh that we were one I had answer and assurance from God that we should be one yee shall be one yee shall be one was as strongly inculcated vpon my spirit as if it had beene spoken from heaven Another time when I was travelling from the pursuite of the Lord Traquire towards the evening there fell a showre of small rame and after the raine broke out a Rainbow cleare and bright before me as I rode and at last so low upon the ground about me that I rode in the cirle of it a prettie space which occasioned some thoughts within me of this as a signe of Gods covenant of peace and mercie towards me now in midst of mine enemies plots and malice And often in the company of men of severall rancks and qualities I conversed with upon severall occasions my spirit being exalted above all the troubles of the world in many high thoughts of the workes of Christ he is about to doe in the world in there later dayes from those small beginnings in Scotland I spoke often to their encouragement that it was the morning of the day of Christs power Psal. 110 though darke and cloudie and full of troubles wherein he would doe great things for his distressed Churches and when some more readie to appropriate that worke of Christ to Scotland upon severall occasions I used as frequently to interpose these answers that Christ the bright morning Star is not risen for Scotland's cause alone but for his Churches full deliverance one after another adding withall Christ is first come to visit you in Scotland first to deliver you of all his Churches in the world O strive to give him kinde entertainment this was my humble request often to them to welcome Christ with a full reformation that he might delight to dwell amongst them And at some other times when their spirits were oppressed with difficulties at home and the great forces and preparations from the King and menacings from abroad I used these incouragements I had received from God that this is the beginning of that earth-quake wherin the tenth part of the great Citie that is England Scotland and Ireland Rome shall fall though she call up her Astrologers and Wise men to take craftie counsell as Herod did against the Lord Jesus and his workings and to trouble him in this his comming to deliver his Churches it should not be able to hinder his worke who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working And at some other times I said This worke in Scotland makes Rome to shake in Aguish fits fearing great alterations from Christs working here And when the pacification was concluded at Tweed neere Barwicke I being then at Dunse Law in the Scottish army a godly Minister with whom I was familiar having often heard me speake confidently of the large extent of that worke begun in Scotland asked me in this manner what thinke you now of this worke I can see no further into it it would seeme to terminate here meaning in that pacification to which I speedly answered no Sir it will not end thus God will bring it about some way or other it must go over your borders Christ has a great people in England and other parts of the world hee has a tender respect to and he will not arise and sit downe againe untill hee have delivered them as hee did his people in Egypt their cry has helped to bring him downe from the habitation of his holinesse and he will hear their cry and help them for he is

men came from Barwicke to Edenborough and to my chamber three or foure times to looke for me and spoke with my wife who perceived by their wyles and discourse what they were and knew one of them to have been a servant to Sir Iohn Marley my chiefe adversarie which men were observed to lurke in Edenborough about the Castle then surrendered to the King and Generall Ruthven and his men possessing it but missing of me being advised to absent my selfe out of Edenborugh from under Traquires power they grew weary of attending and returned for England After a few dayes I returned to Edenburgh privately where my wife told me how I was watched for and the men then still in towne I was glad to keepe close When thus they found their wyles would not worke their ends the Lord Traquire made a publike Declaration in Parliament against me declaring that he had a designe upon me by Commission from his Majestie expecting it seemes the Parliament should deliver mee up into his hands but that failed him too for a noble Lord sent me presently notice of it and wished me to keepe out of his way so I was glad to keepe more close then before yet after supper being then darke I went out to my noble friend the Earle of Rothes who told mee what had passed from Traquire that day and that my noble friends the Lords in Parliament were resolved to protect me if I should be in danger yet rather advised mee to keepe me out of Traquires way and to absent my selfe out of Edenburgh inviting mee most courteously to his house in Fife for my shelter and withall if any danger should befall me before I could remove out of Edenburgh my wife being there and about to returne for England by Vertue of the late peace and being also great with childe was in a sort necessitated to undergoe some hazard to preserve the priviledges that one forraigne born cannot enjoy by our laws My noble Lord Rothes bid me cry out in his name for helpe and he would warrant me enough to rescue me which was a noble courtesie in my extremitie deserves of mee and mine never to beforgotten Whereupon I dispatched my wife and eldest sonne away for England accompanying them a part of the way into Tividale where I heard there was no safetie for me from Traquires sconts so I betooke mee over the cold snowie mountaines towards the Irish sea and comming to Lanerick a dayes journey on the west of Edenburgh a Gentleman of my acquaintance before in the armie came to visit me assuring mee that place was scarce safe for me to lodge in because of a neer dwelling enemie Sir Iohn Deyell who being lately come from Edenburgh from Traquire the Kings Commissioner had threatened to watch those parts for me and that hee would be glad to drive a cart to teare me in pieces and also had in his hearing declared that the Lord Traquire thinking that hee had frighted mee out of Scotland did sweare that no countrey should hold me long and that there were watches for mee both in France and Holland These were that Gentlemans owne words whose advice I followed and removed thence the next morning himselfe accompanying me that dayes journey and so I rode to Dwyne and Ayre upon the west sea in which parts I spent that Winter untill the Lord Traquire was gone to Court after which I saw him no more for then the ill bottomed peace quickly fell to pieces and new preparations on the Kings part and on the Scottish both appeared and then againe I appeared in Edenburgh where I found the Citie in great feares of being fired from the Castle and many other distractions Thus I continued in Edenburgh most part untill the time of the Scots armie comming into England under whose wings and conduct I returned to my countrey and to Newcastle where wee entred upon the Sabbath day after God had scattered our enemies in the skirmish at Newburne whereof I have by me a briefe relation I keepe amongst other monuments of Christs victories and may have a time if God continue life to record them to posteritie Here by the way I must not omit to tell you how some of my adversaries in Newcastle Sir Iohn Marloe and others that had profered large summes of money for men to come into Scotland to apprehend me and others who that morning before the skirmish made me their melodie in their cups and pots and drunke my confusion and vowed my death as I was credibly enformed were some layd low in the dust and the rest some glad to give two or three peeces for a paire of Oares to fly some by water and some by land whiles the Souldiers returned to Newcastle with bloody heads and some without hands crying to the People of Newcastle flie for your lives naked Divels have destroyed us fie fie for a guide to Dur●am cry others that were strangers all the Priests and Blacke-coats fled as fast as they could but meanely mounted when Vicar Alvey himselfe in great hast got on horse backe behind a Country man as before the next bout if the Scots come againe he may perhaps learne to foot it after my friend Windebancke into France and learne to dance and sing Alas poore Vicar whither wilt thou goe The Army comming after forenoone Sermon on the Sabath day towards Newcastle being in great want of Victuals pitched on the South side of the Towne his Excellency Generall Lesley accompanied with the Lords and divers Gentlemen rode into Newcastle about noon where they were met upon the bridge by the Major and some few Aldermen who were not so nimble at flight as Sir Marloe Sir Daveson and Sir Ridles and others that were conscious of their guilt of their good service against the Scots for which they got the honour of Knighthood at Newcastle and Barwicke though Sir Marloe some say came hardly by his and had well nigh missed if some others merits had not surmounted his the Boyes say that Cuckold luck has raised his fortunes from a Tap-house and et cetera to a Carpet Knight O tempora O mores VVell we being entred Newcastle after dinner I had the honour to Usher his Excellence and the Lords to the great Church where Mr. Alexander Henderson preached and Mr. Andrew Cant at Alihollowes where the Organs and Sackbuts and Cornets were strucke breathlesse with the fright of their Vicals and other of their best friends flight on Friday at night before after Newburne fight in token of mourning that they should neuer meet againe for not long after the breach of the Scots Covenant in the Scottish Souldiers did blow them down both root and branch with their Altar and Raylings Service-book and Fonts and all such fopperies as the honest Scots Lads found without a Warrant or Salvo-guard from their King Jesus who sent them out The Army being in great straits for Victualls I studied how to gratifie the honest Souldiers who had conducted