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scripture_n	article_n	believe_v	creed_n	2,820	5	10.5298	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33309	A generall martyrologie containing a collection of all the greatest persecutions which have befallen the church of Christ from the creation to our present times, both in England and other nations : whereunto are added two and twenty lives of English modern divines ... : as also the life of the heroical Admiral of France slain in the partisan massacre and of Joane Queen of Navar poisoned a little before / by Sa. Clarke.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1640 (1640)	Wing C4514; ESTC R24836	495,876	474

Woods and forced to dwell in Caves some tormented upon the Rack and some burned with fire and faggot Amongst others two young men were burnt at Bruxels viz. Henry Voes and John Esch formerly Augustine-Friars When they came before the Inquisitors they were examined what they did believe they answered the books of the Old and New Testament wherein were contained the Articles of the Creed Then were they asked whether they did not believe the decrees of the Councels and Fathers they answered such as were agreeing to the Scriptures they believed c. When they were condemned they gave thanks to God their heavenly father which of his great goodnesse had delivered them from that false and abominable Religion making them Priests to himself and receiving them to himself as a sacrifice of a sweet odour They went joyfully to the place of execution protesting that they died for the glory of God and the doctrine of the Gospel as true Christians and that it was the day which they had long desired They joyfully embraced the stake and endured patiently the torments of the fire singing Psalmes and rehearsing the Creed in testimony of their faith whereupon one said to them that they should take heed of glorifying themselves so foolishly but of them answered God fobid that we should glory in any thing but in the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ When the fire was kindled at their feet one of them said Methinks you do strow Roses under my feet presently after they quietly slept in the Lord. Henry being before demanded if Luther had seduced him he answered Even so as Christ seduced his Apostles The year after there was one Henry Sutphen who having been with Luther came to Antwerp from which he was driven for his Religion Then did he go to Breme where he was requested by some godly Citizens to preach to them and the Citizens hearing him preach the Gospel so sin●rely they were so in love with his Doctrine that they requested him to tarry amongst them to be their Minister but the Popish Clergy presently complained of him to the Magistrates accusing him of Heresie and desiring that he might be banished the town but not prevailing there they complained to the Archbishop and sent their Chaplains daily to his Sermons to entrap him in his words but it pleased God so to work upon them by his Ministery that most of them were converted and did openly witness that he taught nothing but the truth of God Not long after he was set for to Meldorp to preach the Gospel to them also wherefore he thought good to try what God would work by him there but the Citizens of Breme were very unwilling to part with him because the Gospel had not as yet took much deep root amongst them and because the persecution was very great c. Yet Sutphen alledged that in Diethmarch there was more need of his labours the people being as sheep amongst Wolves and that with a safe conscience he could not deny their request and that he did not intend utterly to forsake Breme but only for a moneth or two after which he would return to them again So having made all things ready he went into Diethmarch to Meldorp were he was joyfully received But before he began to preach the Divel and his instruments began to fret and fume and consulting together they resolved to hinder him from preaching fearing that if the people once heard his doctrine it would be too late to stop it Hereupon they grievously complained to the Magistrates telling them that if they suffered this Heretick to preach he would infect all the Country as he had done at Breme and that it would be a most gratefull service if they would put him to death This so far prevailed with these ignorant men that they resolved that he should be put to death unseen and unheard They wrote also to forbid him to preach whereunto he answered that since he was come at the request of the whole Parish to preach he resolved to answer that call and rather to obey God than man and that if God had determined that there he should lose his life there was as near a way to heaven from thence as from any other place assuring himself that sooner or later he must die for the Gospels sake And accordingly the next day he preached and the people so liked him that they resolved to have him for their Preacher and to defend him to their power in the afternoon he preached again afterwards also he preached a third time with such a spirit and grace that all men admired him praying God earnestly that they might long enjoy such a Preacher But his enemies were not all this while idle for going to the Rulers of the Country they procured some of them to joyn with them and privately raised five hundred men with whom they went in the night time to Meldorp brake into the house where Sutphen lay pulled him out of his bed naked and in their rage had almost pulled him to pieces they then bound him and asked him for what cause he came into Diethmarch he gently declared it to them yet they led him away barefoot so that his feet being pitifully cut with the ice he desired a horse to ride on for which they jeared him saying Must we provide an horse for an Heretick thou shalt go on foot whether thou wilt or no Afterwards they bound him with chains and set him in the stocks Then was he removed to another place and shut up in a Cupboard The next day binding him hands feet and neck they carried him forth to be burned Then a certain woman came to them and proffered her self to suffer two thousand stripes and to give them a great summe of mony if they would but respite his life till he had a publick hearing but they threw her underfoot and trod upon her They also fell upon Sutphen cutting and mangling of him in several parts The fire was often kindled yet would not burn then they fell upon him again cutting and slashing him and at last bound him to a ladder and threw him into the fire and when he began to pray one of them him struck saying Thou shalt first be burnt and then pray and prate thy fill another trode upon his breast and another endeavoured to strangle him another ran him through with an Halberd another struck him on the breast with a Mace till he died and lastly they rosted him upon the coals and so he finished his Martyrdom About the same time many other godly persons were thrown into the River of Rhene and drowned and in the Town of Diethmarch another faithful servant of God suffered Martyrdom In Hala a godly preacher was slain by a company of cut-throats set on by the Friars And not long after the Town of Miltenburg was taken sacked many slain and others imprisoned for maintaining Caralostadius