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A44364	The spirit of the martyrs revived in a brief compendious collection of the most remarkable passages and living testimonies of the true church, seed of God, and faithful martyrs in all ages: contained in several ecclesiastical histories & chronological accounts of the succession of the true church from the creation, the times of the fathers, patriarchs, prophets, Christ and the Apostles.	Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1664 (1664)	Wing H2663A; ESTC R224173	399,190	375

shut out because they made not themselves ready to suffer with Christ neither go about to take up his Cross Oh dear hearts how pretious shall your death be in the sight of the Lord for dear is the death of his Saints Oh fare you well and pray the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen Amen pray pray pray By me R●chard Roth written with my own Blood I mentioned before how that ten persons suffered at Colchester amongst whom was one Agnes Bengeer who should have suffered with them six that went out of Mote-hall but her Execution was suspended for a time her name being mistaken in the Writ and instead of Agnes Bengeer called Agnes Boyer this poor woman when she saw she was seperated from her Prison-fellows and sent back to Prison and might not suffer with them for she had given up her self to suffer having provided a Nurse for her sucking Child and provided all things necessary for her suffering but when she saw she was put back she wept bitterly and made pitious m●an to her self esteeming her self as naked and desolate and bemoaning her condition when she was seperated from her Companions and this is written that the Reader may see how zealous these persons were in those dayes who esteemed death rather then life for their Testimonies sake but shortly after a Writ came down from London wherein her name was rightly incerted and she was burnt at Colchester Shortly after one John Noyes of Lacksfield in the County of Suffolk Shoe-Maker John Noyes Martyr he was apprehended for not going to their publick Service and Mass by one Thomas Levell and others who beset his House on both sides where they found John Noyes in his backside going forth one of the Persecutors seeing of him called to him and said Whether goest thou John replyed to my Neighbours the Persecutor said Your Master hath deceived you you must go with us now John replyed Take heed your Master deceive not you so they apprehended him and had him before the Justices next day who committed him to the Dungeon where he lay for some time and then he was had to Norwich before the Bishop and soon after Sentence of death was pronounced against him when he was bound to the Stake he speak these words Fear not them that can kill the Body but fear him that can kill both Body and Soul and cast them into Everlasting Fire And seeing his Sister weep and make moan for him he bid her that she should not weep for him but weep for her sins and so he yielded up his life Whilst he was burning one John Jarvis standing by said How the Sinews of his Arms shrink up two of the Sheriffs men hearing of him speak apprehended him and having him before the Justices they affirmed he should say what Villianous Wretches are these Whereupon the Justices commanded that he should be set in the Stocks next Market day and whipt about the Market naked but the Constable in friendship to him did not set him in the Stocks till that called Sunday morning and in the afternoon they whipt him about the Market with a Dog-whip having three Cords and so they let him go Whilst John Noyes was Prisoner his Wife desiring him to send her some tokens of Rememberance of him thereupon he sent her several Sentences of Scripture for a Rememberance as followeth Dearly beloved be not troubled with this heat that is now come among you to try you as though some strange thing had happened unto you but rejoyce insomuch as you are partakers of Christs Sufferings that when his glory appeareth you may be glad if ye be railed on for the Name of Christ happy are you for the Spirit of Glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you It is better if the will of God be so that you suffer for well-doing then for evil-doing 1 Pet. 3. So 1 Pet. 4. See that none of you suffer as a Murderer or as a Thief or an Evil-door or as a Busie-body in other mens matters but if any man suffer as a Christian-man let him not be asham'd but let him glorifie God in this behalf for the time is come that Judgment must begin at the House of God If it first begin at us what shall the end of them be that believe not the Gospel of God Wherefore let them that suffer according to the Will of God commit their Souls to him in well-doing St. Paul saith 2 Tim. 3. All that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer Persecution St. John saith 1 John 2. See that ye love not the World neither the things that are in the World if any man love the World the love of the Father is not in him For all that is in the World as the lust of the Flesh the Lust of the Eyes and the Pride of Life is not of the Father but is of the World which vanisheth away and the Lust thereof but he that fulfileth the Will of God abideth forever St. Paul saith Collos 3. If ye be risen again with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God Set your affection on things that are above and not on things which are on Earth Our Saviour Christ saith Math. 18. Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me it were better for him that a Milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were cast into the Sea The Prophet David saith Psal 84. Great are the troubles of the Righteous but the Lord delivereth them out of all fear the Lord ye his Saints for they that fear him lack nothing When the Righteous cry the Lord heareth them and delivereth them out of all their troubles but misfortune shall slay the ungodly and they that hate the Righteous shall perish Hear Oh my People I assure thee Oh Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me there shall so strange God be in thee neither shalt thou Worship any other God Oh that my People would obey me for if Israel would walk in my wayes I would soon put down their Enemies and turn my hand against their Adversaries Our Saviour Christ saith The Disciple is not above his Master nor yet the Servant above his Lord it is enough for the Disciple to be as his Master is and that the Servant be as his Lord is if they have called the Master of the House Belzebub how much more shall they call them of his Houshold so fear not them therefore St. Paul saith 2 Cor. 4. Set your selves therefore at large and bear not a strangers Yoke with the Unbelievers for what fellowship hath Righteousness with Unrighteousness What Company hath Light and Darkness Either what part hath the Believer with the Infidell c Wherefore come out from among them and seperate your selves now saith the Lord and touch no unclean thing so will I receive you and I will be a Father unto you and you shall be my Sons

our God trusting in his Mercy and he will surely help us as shall be most unto his Glory and our everlasting comfort being sure of this that he will suffer nothing to come unto us but that which shall be most profitable for us for it is either a Correction for our Sins or a Tryal of our Faith or to set forth his glory or for all together and therefore must needs be well done for there is nothing that cometh unto us but by our heavenly Fathers providence and therefore pray unto our heavenly Father that he will ever give us his Grace to consider it let us give most hearty thanks for these his fatherly corrections for as many as he loveth he correcteth And I beseech you now be of good chear and count the Cross of Christ greater Riches then all the vain-pleasures of England I doubt not but you have Supped with Christ at his Table I mean believed in him for that is the effect and then must you drink of his Cup I mean his Cross for that doth the Cup signifie unto us take the Cup and then shall you be sure to have the good Wine Christ's Blood to thy poor thirsty Soul pray continually in all things give thanks In the Name of Jesus shall every knee bow Cuthbert Simson One thing more I thought meet to mention which I find upon record concerning this Cuthbert Simson which some may hardly believe who are apt to think all things incredible which vary from the common course and order of Nature and may look upon this to be more a Phantasie then a real Vision but I shall relate the matter in short as I find it and so leave it to the tender Reader to judge of it The day before this Cuthbert Simson was condemned he being in the Stocks in the Bishops Cole-house Cluny the Keeper about nine at night according to his usual manner came to see whether his Prisoner was safe and lockt the Doors about two hours after Cuthbert heard one coming in to him first opened the Outward-door then the Inner-door and though there was no Candle yet he saw a great brightness and light most comfortable and joyful to his heart and this he declared to one Austen and others and expressed much joy and solace in declaring of it and the Vision that he saw was comfortable unto him Soon after suffered William Nichol who was burnt for the same cause at Haverfordwest in Wales and William Seaman Thomas Carman and Thomas Hudson suffered in Norfolk William Seaman was an Husbandman of the age of twenty six years dwelling in Mendlesham in the County of Suffolk William Seaman Martyr he was persecuted by one Sr. John Terril who searched his house for him by night but missing of him he set his servants to search for him and when they had apprehended him brought him before their Master who asked him why he would not go to Mass and receive the Sacrament Seaman replyed because it was an Idol he would not receive it wherefore Terril sent him to Hopton Bishop of Norwich to deal with him who after he had examined him soon passed his bloody sentence of death against him This Seaman when he died left behind him a Wife and three young Children which her Husband being taken away one would have thought should have moved those pretended Christians to some pity towards her but instead of shewing pity they persecuted her out of the Town of Mendlesham because she refused to hear Mass and one Coles Lord of the said Town caused all her Goods and Corn to be seized and taken away Another of these Sufferers was Thomas Hudson of Ailesham in Norfolk he was thirty years of age by trade a Glover and a very honest poor man having a Wife and three Children and labouring alwayes dilligently in his imployment being zealous for that Truth which bore testimony against the Papists blasphemous preaching who put the Draugh and Darnel for the Wheat and that he might avoid their Idolatries and Superstition he absented from his house and went into Suffolk a long time and there remained traveling from one place to another at last he returned home again to comfort his Wife and Children being troubled at his absence when he was come home he conceiving his continuing there would be dangerous he and his Wife devised to make him a place among his Fagots to hide himself in where he remained all day exercising himself in reading and prayer and thus he continued for about the space of half a year but at last his Zeal and Courage arose and he walked abroad several dayes openly in the Town crying out continually against the Mass and such like trumpery and for three dayes and three nights together refused meat or to talk with any one Berry Vicar of the Town and one of the Bishops Commissaries caused the Officers to watch for him who upon the twenty second day of the Month called April apprehended him by the break of the day and led him to Berry the Commissary who examined him after this manner Doest thou not believe said Berry in the Sacrament of the Altar what is it Hudson replyed it is worms meat my belief is in Christ Berry Dost thou not believe the Mass to put away Sins Hudson No God forbid it is a patcht Monster and a disguised Puppet more longer a piecing then ever was Solomons Temple At which words Berry stamped and fumed and said Well thou Villain I will write to my Good Lord the Bishop Hudson said There is no Lord but God Then he asked Hudson whether he would Recant to which he replyed the Lord forbid I had rather die many deaths then do so This Thomas Hudson and the other two being brought to the Lollards-pit and there standing with Chains about them on a suddain Thomas Hudson came forth from under the Chain which made some to doubt that he would have recanted but his two Companions at the Stake exhorted him and comforted him in the Bowels of Christ but Hudson felt more in his Heart and Conscience then they did conceive was in him for he was compassed with great grief of mind not for his death but for lack of the feeling of Christ for which he kneeled down and prayed earnestly unto the Lord who at last according to his mercies gave him comfort and then he said now I thank God I am strong and so went to the Stake to his Fellows again and they all suffered constantly and joyfully to the Magnifying of the Lords Name Before I proceed to give a further Account of such as suffered Martyrdom its necessary to give a short Account of the said end of this Persecuting Commissary Berry who Persecuted Thomas Hudson and others to death as I find it recorded This Berry in his rage was very fierce against many godly People in the Town of Ailesham he burnt all good Books he could get and persecuted men for their Consciences and compelled many to Idolatry and being

Mass this is the most unshamfaced Heretick that ever I heard speak Smith Well sworn my Lord you keep a good Watch. Bonner Well Mr. Controler you catch me at my Words but I well Watch thee as well I warrent thee John Mordant being by said By my Troth my Lord I never heard the like in all my life but I pray you my Lord mark well his answer for Baptism he disalloweth therein holy Oyntment Salt and such other laudable Ceremonies which no Christian man will deny Smith That is a shameful Blasphemy against Christ so to use any mingle-mangle in your Baptism Bonner I believe I tell thee that if they die before they are Baptized they are damned Smith You shall never be saved by that belief but I pray you my Lord shew me are we saved by Water or by Christ Bonner By both Smith Then the Water died for our Sins and so must you say that the Water hath life and it being our Servant and created for us is our Saviour Bonner Why how understandest thou these Scriptures except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God And again suffer saith our Saviour these Children to come unto me if thou wilt not suffer them to be Baptized after the laudable order thou lettest them to come unto Christ Smith Where you alleadge except a man be born c. And will thereby prove the Water to save The Apostle asked the Calathians whether they received the Spirit by the deeds of the Law or by the Preaching of faith And where you say I let the Children from coming unto Christ it is manifest by our Saviours Words that you let them to come that will not suffer them to come without the necessity of Water for he saith suffer them to come unto me and not unto Water and it is not saith St. Peter the washing away of the filth of the Flesh but in a good Conscience converteth unto God and to prove that the Water only bringeth not the holy Ghost it is written that Simon received Water and would have received the holy Ghost for Money and many received the holy Ghost before Baptism and to Judge Children damned that be not Baptized it is Wicked Mordant By our Lady Sir but I believe that if my Child dye without Water he is damned Bonner Yea and so do I and all Catholick men good Master Mordant Smith Well my Lord such Catholick such Salvation Bonner Well Sir what say you to the Sacrament of Orders Smith You may call it the Sacrament of Misorders for all orders are appointed of God but as for your Shaving Anointing Creasing Poling and Rounding there are no such things appointed in Gods Book and therefore I have nothing to do to believe your orders and as for you my Lord if you had grace or intelligence you would not so dis-figure your self as you do Bonner Sayst thou so now by my Troth and I will go shave my self to anger thee withall desiring me before he went to answer to these Articles Bonner What say you to the holy Bread and holy Water to the Sacrament of Anointing and to all the rest of such Ceremonies of the Church Smith I say they be Baubles for Fools to play withall and not for the Children of God to exercise themselves in and therefore they may go among the refuse Then went away M. Mordent and my Lord went to shaving leaving there certain Doctors as he called them to assay what they could do of whom I was baited half an hour of whom I asked this question where were all you in the dayes of King Edward that you spake not that which you speak now Doctor We were in England Smith Yes but then you had the Faces of men but now you have put on Lyons Faces again you shew your selves as full of malice as may be for you have for every time a visor yea and if another King Edward should arise ye would then say down with the Pope for he is Antichrist and so are his Angels Then they reviled me and had me away but brought me before them again and one of them asked me if I disallowed confession Smith To whom I answerd look in my Articles and they will show you what I allow Doctor In your Articles you confess that you allow not auricular Confession Smith I allow it not because the Word alloweth it not nor commandeth it not Doctor Why it is written thou shalt not hide thy Sins and Offences Smith No I do not when I confess them to Almighty God Doctor Why you cannot say that you can hide them from God and therefore your must understand the words are spoken to be uttered to them that do not know them Smith You have made a good answer then must the Priest confess himself to me as I to him for I know his faults and secrcets no more then he knows mine and David said I will confess my Sins unto thee Lord And after some more words passed between me and the Doctors came in the Bishop from shaving and asked me How I liked him Smith Forsooth you are even as wise as you were before you were shaven Bonner Well How standeth it Master Doctors have you done any good Doctor No by my Troth my Lord we can do no good Smith Then it is fulfilled which is written How can an evil Tr●● bring forth good Fruit Bonner Nay naughty fellow I set these Gentlemen to bring thee home to Christ Smith Such Gentlemen such Christs and as truly as they have that Name from Christ so truly do they teach Christ Bonner Well wilt thou neither hear them nor me Smith Yes I am compelled to hear you but you cannot compel me to follow you Bonner Well thou shalt be burnt at a Stake in Smithfield if thou wilt not turn Smith And you shall burn in Hell if you repent not But my Lord to put you out of doubt because I am weary I will strain Curtesie with you I perceive you will not with your Doctors come unto me and I am not determined to come unto you by Gods Grace for I have hardned my Face against you as hard as Brass Then after many railing sentences I was sent away And thus have I left the Truth of my Answers in writing being thereunto desired by my Friends that you may see how the Lord hath according to his promise given me a Mouth and Wisdom to answer in his Cause for which I am condemned and my Cause not heard The Substance of the last Examination of Robert Smith before Bishop Bonner with his Condemnation in the Consistory The second day of July I was with my Brethren brought into the Consistory and mine Articles read before the Mayor and the Sheriffs with all the Assistants unto which I answered as followeth Bonner By my faith my Lord Mayor I have shewed him as much favour as any man living might do but I perceive all is lost both in him