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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44930	Munster and Abingdon, or, The open rebellion there [brace] and [brace] unhappy tumult here (bred in the same wombe) that from Sleidans Comm. L. 10. [brace] [brace] this from eye and eare witnesses : with marginal notes of Mvncer and Mahomet, faithfully communicated to English readers, in a booke and postscript, for a seasonable caution to the British nation and a serious check to rash and giddy spirits / by W.H.	Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3344; ESTC R39005	45,813	124

mouse As for their parts when they complaine of hard measure that their nakednesse is so taken notice of and withall acquit themselves of the imputation of immodesty so too themselves uncover it in publique view we are content to stand obliged for giving better satisfaction to them Meane while having but once enquired what else should meane this querulous and unreasonably whining spirit save to lay low with those tame soules they deale with blindfold for an open eye sees in it nothing else but very chaffe the reputation of our Magistrates who give such hardest measure and to raise their owne who quietly put it up and added that if ever those worthies Heb. 11. to looke no further suffered but at and yet complained after such a rate I le never trust mine eyes againe We will hearken unto what comes next §. 7. Then whether Truth and conscience do not suffer somewhat more than meere restraint 2 Falsehood I meane flat banishment at the hands but of too many passages in that Paper could I be heard I would beseech themselves well to consider To take the testimonies but of two or three enough to make a valid proofe if they speake home to the point in hand if not I must professe they are Barbarians unto me or mute as fishes For instance First where they call it now a day of their sore calamity In notorious misreports of their-owne and elsewhere amplified as t is well knowne by words of heaviest weight and saddest import contempt reproach persecutions c. But is the matter thus indeede Or is it possible themselves alone of all the world should see t is so What are those pressures lying on them that fetch such sighes and groanes from their very hearts againe If we go round the Nation and aske their Neighbours in every tything who can acquaint us with them May we not Reader must we not say unto them as the Apostle did to others who is he that will harme you if ye be followers of what is good Are not their liberties their Properties ascertained to them by as good a title as any other persons whatsoever Yea by as good a title as unto the Present Government it selfe I meane the Instrument Who doth not know that theirs and its must live and dye together unlesse themselves lay violent hands on either before the time And are they not in possession of them Ah worst ingratitude to the hand of mercy that puts sweete for bitter and bitter for sweete that nicknames light darknesse and darknesse light good evill and evill good And can a gracious soule forget or slight the bitter word against that evill frame of spirit Isay 5.20 All that is said or possibly can be whereof I am aware which whether heavier than the dust of the ballance is quickly tryed comes but to this some very few of their freinds are kept in Prison And must their freinds if one should aske them of all the world alone be lawlesse Is this the liberty contended for to put that also that they speake what they please do what they list and no man dare to call them to account Or if once more yet Authority shall make so bold and with their freinds for preservation of the whole as to command the paring of a nayle or cutting of a corne is all then gone to wrack immediately The tender usage of that very small and inconsiderable number if now at all a number under restraint is just so far their miscarriages duly measured from laying ground of halfe those clamours gone abroad about it that it irresistably obligeth unto gratitude all ingenuous spirits Sympathizing with them He that heares any thing without his owne doore cannot be ignorant that nothing lesse than flat defiance of Authority with us brought them where they are A lesson sure enough nere taught them by the blessed spirit Rom. 13-1 whose language is let every soule be subject to the higher powers because they are the Ordinance of God §. 8. Nor doth it serve the turne Sions present condition specially only to call it now a day of their owne calamity but Sion also must be intituled to that complaint Sions tribulation so the subscription to the first epistle hath it Is Sion only among themselves Let any shew me how that phrase will fairely beare another sense There is then but little Truth in that I thinke all other men will say and lesser love me thinkes I may but that alas t is no such newes to find it so with them Or if we straine their Sion that there may be roome for other all Saints else besides themselves within these Lands to shelter under it t is still as much an Alien unto Truth as formerly Had indeed the Lord caused the wayes of Sion to mourne because none came to her Solemne Assemblies had the Lord abhorred his Sanctuary that his voyce from thence were no more heard had the Lord given her walls into the hand of her Enemy that shee must hold her tongue and not make mention of the name of Lord. VVere this or worse the case of the Sion here with us who of her sons but his eye must needs affect his heart unto a dolefull lamentation for and with her But whilst our eyes behold our teachers and see the beauty of their feet that bring glad tydings whilst we sit under our vines and fig-trees none making us afraid Whilst Kings are nursing fathers to us and Queenes our nursing mothers as here 't is thus with Sion yet and somewhat better adored be that grace from whence t is so it cannot sinke into our thoughts but as her heart is filled with joy and mouth with laughter hereupon so her complaints will find some fitter matter to spend themselves upon most likely that untoward frame of spirit that doth not duly prize and make a just improvement of those signall mercies injoyed by her §. 9. I shall passe by their frontispeece implicite accommodation of the 3 of Malachy and 15 verse unto our times and discharge the second parties claime upon the hearing only of one evidence more given in The grosse untruth in pleading not guilty under such apparent misbehaviour in one halfe line in their last page And thus it sayes Little against any was spoke or done at the meeting But where is now the soft and tender Conscience that will not beare false witnesse and dareth thus deliberately in the face of heaven and earth and by so many hands how few soever were the heads about composing right hearts for certaine herein being fewest of all to cast up in print so vast a bill of venomed provocations into very ciphers All was but litle say they but what that litle was it seemes they have more wit at least than tell A little truly of their little Reader thou mayst expect to heare anon Meane while I would aske themselves Is this the part of faithfull Historians but no more of that doth

when the Bishop answered that he had it by consent of the Colledge and the people he replyes God called him thither Then on the 19 day of January they are brought back to Munster and put in severall prisons The same day also thither came the Bishop and with him the Legates of the Archbishop of Colen and Prince of Cleve The two dayes following were spent in godly admonition to reclaime them from their errour and the king indeed confessed his sin and praying made his application unto Christ for Succour But the other two neither did acknowledge any fault and stiflly stood upon their vindication Next day the King brought forth upon a scaffold is bound unto a stake Two Executioners are standing by him and tongs burning hot At the three first pinches he spake not a word but afterwards continually imploring God for mercy when he had beene torne this fashion for an houre or more by a sword at last thrust through his heart gave up the Ghost His fellowes fared alike Being dead they are all made fast in severall Iron cages and hung upon the highest tower of the City The King indeede betwixt them both and about the stature of a man above them The POSTSCRIPT Of the Tumult late at Abingdon §. 1. Indifferent Reader SOme yeares are past since first the story and its preface gone before were dressed and ready in that very garbe unto a little trimming now thou findst them in but had never put the foot I am perswaded over the threshold of their owne doore no not so much as to take the ayre with a freind or two much lesse to have rambled up and downe the Country at this rate they do had not the sad condition of a froward age and serious conscience of serving soules perhaps thine owne for one to passe by freinds desires conspired in a restlesse importunity to force them to this posture What rellish the Essay it selfe or this profession concerning it will find with persons over-byassed by the prejudice of their owne spirits consequently what returne of thankes at the same hands such a venture will bring in needs no diviner to presage However on supposall that the costs when well cast up will not enflame the totall past possibility of being cleer'd off even to a token and something spare by the meere assurance of the designes integrity nakedly to promote the publique interest as is the case nor quite forsaken of all hopes to speede therein I hope the supposed inconvenience will be somewhat ballanced and this attempt of Christian service sufficiently abetied That we are all apt to be so fond of the Bird of our owne neast so to fancy the issues of our owne minde as to make our jealousy burne like frie at whatsoever carryeth but the appearance of a non-compliance with this our in dulgence is not to be denyed Oh that it were bewailed What other reason to instance there can be assigned that such a signall Monument as this Munster tragedy is of the Almighties vengeance against mans turning grace in to wantonnnesse should be so much out of credit with the present successours of their faith and practice at least from whence they are denominated that instead of being looked upon and trembled at and warning tooke thereby 't is cause enough but with too many of them to enroll him for an enemy in despite of the purest ayme to act the freind therein that shall perswade thereto It is somewhat lighter I confesse since a chiefe Apostle hath beene put to that Apology Am I therefore become your Enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 1.16 P. 2. A Presage of things with us §. 2. But the proofe of this is now no longer beyond the seas having landed on our Coasts some yeares agoe and taken up its Quarters in every County if not most townships of the English Nation Our wonder is the lesse because though more is the pity and the rather that it is so litle laid to heart the Old knowne enemy to all concernments of Christianity having bankrupt there both cash and credit is shuffling the cards to play ore his game once more with us Their imputation that it may be would be gamesters unto this suggestion as savoring purely of a spirit overgrowne with melane choly that feares its owne shadow and cries out when there is none to hurt him may easily raise dust enough sutably to his method that chaseth darknesse for his worke as being prince thereof to convoy a plot without observance by a purblind eye but really hath little efficacy to put off men for trees to a firmer sight and none at all to blesse him with the happinesse of a dissappointment to his feare that labours under it For my owne part without dissembling for now it is no time for silence when the very Ecchoes of seditious language makes almost every hill and vale to ring againe to me nere did a cloudy lowring morning speake lowder for some stormes a brewing then do the discontents amongst us avowed and triumphed in even to the clowding of the very aire with the smoake thereof portend some fire at bottome with the gentlest gale ready to enflame Whoever will be at the cost but by looking ore the former story only to observe the Germane Monsters shape and compare it with that Embryon hatching you will see anon but alas too fast in England the sonle indeede of actuall insurrection is through mercy not yet infused I shall be confident of finding him remote enough from rejecting this sad presage as purely Melancholicall §. 3. Let us a while say nothing of the Bookes in print Grounded on common discourss ●● although those say enough let us meddle not with publique prayings and speakings which yet speake plaine to the point in hand only attend a litle unto what is growing unto table talke common discourse in every mouth almost of those reteining to our male-contented spirits What comes it to The Saints must rule T is true in Scripture sense but when or how we will spare to aske it here It seemes t is plaine with them they do not then as yet do not they meane themselves alone can any thinke Why else one dram or two of charity left for the people not their owne would bid them spare the paines of seeking what they have already The ungodly must come downe we do not doubt it neither in the sense of Scripture still But who are they if the Judgment alwaies must be their owne as to be sure it shall when once they rule the roast May I speake the feares of others the honest Presbyterian and Independant will be in the number or which comes to one the godly not of their perswasion Else for the ranting royall Enemy 't is seene by all he is humbled pretty well allready at least is not a man of Power now and therefore not therein intended The present Powers how litle mercy have they at their hands Not of God