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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94830	By the Comittee for the Affairs of the poor Protestants in the valleys of Piedmont	Trevor, John, Sir, d. 1673.; Hartman, Adam Samuel.; Cyril, Paul.; England and Wales. Committee for the Affairs of the poor Protestants in the Valleys of Piedmont.	1658 (1658)	Wing T2135; Thomason E1073_2; ESTC R208249	7,083	11

Considering also how honorable it is to act grace and to lay out our selves upon such occasions we recommend it again as the work of God accompanied with his own voice calling aloud upon us to inlarge our selves in this ministration and withal to pour out our hearts in faith and prayer that the Lord would yet please to raise up Sion upon the Ruins of Babylon hastening his work and blessing means to it John Trevor Christopher Pack Will. Purefoy Edward Cresset Thomas Vyner Joseph Caryl John Owen Will. Jenkyn Philip Nye Will. Cooper Edmond Calamy The utmost Fury of Antichrist against the Protestants or Reformed Church of the Bohemian Confession in Poland set down in a brief but faithful Narrative and according to the truth of the matter THe Spouse of Jesus Christ she who in the Cradle was besprinkled with the blood of a Protomartyr hath always brought forth into the world men like Abel or Stephen that so there might never be wanting to cry from the earth unto God and that the wounds of that Rose which lies among the Thorns of Persecution might not be concealed Every age and every year in each age and every moneth and day in each year hath produced new inundations of blood unto this day and yet the little flock of the Lord hath always increased under persecutions one while here another there shifting their seats and habitations While it pleased God by the means of Wicklef to kindle the light of the Gospel in Great Britain Iohn Huss asserted the truth of Jesus Christ in the midst of thick darkness of Popery in Bohemia many thousands being stirred up by God to receive it who despising all the cruelty of Tyrants received it with joy until by Gods assistance they took rooting in the Kingdom and grew up into flourishing Churches In a short time after Antichrist breathing out his fury the Truth was banished out of Bohemia and the Confessors being driven out transplanted the Gospel into Poland where being favorably entertained by King Sigismond they in a short time encreased to so great a number that being little inferior to the Papists they were able to boast of an equal authority and priviledges with them Hence it came to pass that the Kings at their Coronations were wont not onely to promise but solemnly to swear protection to such as disagreed from the Roman Religion and therefore they proceeded not to open persecutions save onely in those Cities where the Jesuits had seated themselves in power to wit Cracovia Posen Lublin Vilna and where by their disciples and by stirring up the common people to fury the Churches of the Reformed Professors were a good while ago demolished and divers Ministers cruelly massacred Nevertheless the malice of the Enemies being no whit allayed they were many ways afflicted first indirectly afterwards by pretences under colour of Law until those Churches being worn out by degrees and overthrown were not many years ago reduced to a very inconsiderable number especially when as in the Reign of the late King the enemies being confident they might do any thing brought things to this pass at length that there were no more then Twenty one Congregations remaining in the Greater Poland and those also ready to perish But among these Twenty one remaining Churches the chief and as it were the Mother of them all was that of Lesna which was divided into three Congregations the Bohemian the Polonian and the German each of which had their own Pastors but the Communicants joyntly were about Two thousand Therefore it was that this Church was in the first place exposed to the Enemies malice and of late designed to the slaughter as well by reason of its being very much frequented and grown famous as also because of the Synod there usually celebrated as likewise a famous University and Printing-house and Books frequently published to the world When therefore in the year 1655. the Swedish Army out of Pomerania drew near to the borders of Poland and the Nobility were summoned to Arms according to the Custom of the Countrey it came to pass that the Papists brake forth into many furious expressions crying out That the Hereticks had invited the Enemy and therefore they were first of all to be put to the sword and extirpated which reports though most falsly scattered abroad for the searcher of hearts and reins knoweth that we never so much as dreamt of it yet they easily found credit among the sworn enemies of the Gospel who sought nothing more then our ruine Hereupon they who first consulted to agree with the Swedish Army being terrified by its power concluded about the Surrender of all Great Poland into the Kings protection and namely the Royal Cities of Posen Calissen Meserick and to which also Lesna was expresly added In a little time after they endeavored to cast off the Swedish Yoke and turned their Arms not against the Swedes but first against our Evangelical Professors as conspiring with the Swedes upon the account of Religion and none of them scrupled to take revenge upon them They first of all set upon those of Lesna with resolution of putting all to the sword and destroying that Heretical City by fire and they had effected both unless God had by sending some persons before who by signifying the coming of the Enemy and with what intent they came had possest the Citizens with a panick fear so that leaving all their Estates they every man fled and thus within the space of one hour a most populous City abounding with all maner of wealth was left without Inhabitants who in a miserable condition wandered then into the neighboring Woods and Marishes into Silesia But the Polish Nobility with their Army entring the City did what they pleased slaying a great number of decrepit old people and sick persons that were not able to save themselves by flight then the City it self was first plundred and afterwards so destroyed by Fire for three days together that no part of it remained beside rubbish and ashes In what maner they would have handled the Citizens especially their Pastors they shewed by their heroick actions performed in other places by the most savage Slaughtering of divers Ministers of the Church and other faithful Members of Christ of both Sexes for of all that they laid hold on they gave not one man quarter but very cruelly put them to death with most exquisite tortures They endeavored to force Mr Samuel Cardus Pastor of the Church of Czuertzinen to renounce his Religion after they had taken him and miserably handled him with all maner of cruelty but he stoutly resisting they first put out his Eyes and led him about for a Spectacle then they pulled off his Fingers ends with pincers but he not yet condescending to their mad Fury they found out a new kinde of torment poured molten Lead into his mouth and at length while he was yet half alive they clapt his Neck between folding Doors and violently pulling them together