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A66950	The Protestant's crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher's prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1690 (1690)	Wing W342; ESTC R219333	41,249	189

ours but God's Is it God's Battel we are to fight let not sloth then seize upon us or a supine Carelessness take hold of us but let us quit our selves like Men and fight 1 Sam. 4. 9. securing to our selves that Religion the Light of that glorious Gospel God hath given us not forgetting to take the Prophet Jeremiah's Counsel in the 6. w●ap of his Prophecy ver 16. pe●nd ye in the way and see and ask 〈◊〉 the good old paths where is the good way and walk therein and you shall find rest unto your Souls The well compacted Hedge of our Laws was trodden down let us therefore be diligent and repair those breaches our Sins have made by our earnest Supplications to the Throne of Grace so true is that Maxime Inter Arma silent Leges The Voice of Law cannot be heard for the noise of Drums and the threatning Cannon O let Policy now amongst us ever give place to Piety and now let me exhort the chiefest amongst us beseeching you to let your private Affections be swallowed up in the common Cause as small Rivers lose their Name in the Ocean That practice of Pompey deserveth well your observation and imitation who when his Soldiers would needs leave the Camp threw himself down at the narrow Passage and bid them goe but they should tread first upon their General So let your pious Resolutions and valiant Examples stir up the Courage of our weak Brethren expose your selves to the worst of dangers and endure the bru●●t that they may not desert you may it be your Glory in after Ages to be loudly proclaimed that you were the Champions of the Lord to fight his Battel that you stood in defence of your Religion against gross Idolatry that you promoted Peace against bloudy Persecution and rather choose to endure Affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin for a Season In our Duty in Matters of Religion we are no farther to walk after Ruler's Commands than they walk after God's Fatherly power is the rise of all Authority and yet our Saviour tells us He that loves Father or Mother more than him is not worthy of him Mat. 10. 37. Parents must be honoured but God preferred it is as true in regard of Regal as Paternal Authority the Instances of the Hebrew Midwives Exod. 1. 17. the three Worthies and Daniel are obvious to all Dan. 3. 18. 6. 10. That Epithete that was given to B●c●n of Doctor Resolutus in this Case well becomes every Christian. It was a just Resolve of Luther in divine Matters Cedo nulli and a remarkable Speech of the Apostles Acts 4. 19. 5. 29. That we ought to obey God rather than Men it is true when the supream Authority enjoins what God inhibits we must patiently undergo the punishment inflicted but not willingly walk after the Commandment prescribed It was a pious Speech of King Henry the Eighth to Sir Thomas More when he made him Chancellour Look first at God then at me St. Augustine's Rule is excellent The Supream Power hath a Superiour in Heaven for fear of one we must contemn the other the one may threaten the Prison but the other has ordained Hell In a word neither must Princes leave the People to their own Will nor the People conform themselves to the Prince's Will but both to God's Will in Matters of Religion lest otherways both Prince and People be consumed But O Lord we have sinned against thee and as the Prophet David says Psal. 76. 7. Who can stand in thy sight when thou art angry no Bounds could keep us from Sinning and therefore God's Wrath knows no Bounds in punishin●… our Transgression was above Measure so God's Judgment is without Measure It is St. Chrysostom's Note concerning that fiery shower which God rained upon Sodom That as the Sodomites inverted the course of Nature to seek Woman in Man so God changed the Order by showring down Fire instead of Water Thus doth the Almighty's Justice ever proportion the Smart to the Fault so that here we may at once behold the greatness of our Sin in the punishment and the fitness of the punishment to the Sin Invasion and being Besieged by Romish Adversaries for our neglecting God's Commands which ought to be our Rule and despising of his Goodness which should lead us Sinners to Repentance But as the Water that is poured on the Earth can never be gathered up again so let us pour out all our Sins and God will not pour out all his Wrath let us speedily cast away the filth of our Transgressions and he will soon stop the current of his Indignation let us cheerfully reform and he will willingly assist us let us repent of our provocations and he will bring us out of this Calamity may this our great work be wisely and speedily accomplished and by the Divine Assistance and our weak endeavours faithfully performed that the power of Religion may be advanced the Name of God honoured the fury of our Enemies suppressed the Hearts of Gospel-Friends comforted and which is above all and beyond all Christ over Antichrist in the purity of his Gospel among us and our Posterity for ever Which God of his infinite Mercy grant us to whom be ascribed as most due all Honour Power and Glory Adoration and Subjection now and for evermore The Prayer afterwards BLessed Lord who a●t our Strength Hope and Fortress our Castle and Deliverer our Defender in whom we trust how the Heavens O Lord come down and save us send down thine Hand from above deliver us and take us from the great Waters from those Miseries and Afflictions which come upon us by reason of our Sins and from the Condition of Mortality and from the hand of strange Children whose right hand is a right hand of Wickedness Give us O Lord Victory and Peace and all the Blessings belonging to it with which thou usest to adorn and bea●tifie the Dwellings of the Righteous that we may be happy in the continual descent of thy Favours but above all that our happiness may consist in being thy People and thou being our God that we may be blessed for ever in so happy a Union through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen A Prayer for the preservation of our most gracious Soveraign Lord King William in his Royal Undertaking to Subdue Ireland and for his safe Return to England O Most mighty God the great Creatour of the World and the Preserver of all Mankind preserve we beseech thee our most gracious Soveraign Lord King William whom thou hast made the happy Instrument of our mighty Deliverance Let thy Blessing accompany him in his Journey and Voyage protect him from all Dangers visit him as thou didst Moses in the Bush Joshua in the Battel Gid●on in the Field and Samuel in the Temple Let the Dew of thy never failing Mercies fall upon his Head and give him the blessing of David and Solomon II. Be unto him an

Death of thine only Son hast redeemed us from death to life and hast continually a care of us preserving us as the Apple of thine Eye from the dangerous Assaults of Satan and providest for us all things necessary that more Thanks and Praise is due unto thee than the Tongue of Men or Angels can declare II. Accept these my Praises and Thanksgivings O Lord Ibeseech thee and encrease in me a daily desire to praise thy Goodness acknowledging every good and perfect Gift to come from thee to whom with the Son and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for evermore Amen To God for all his Benefits Most merciful God we yield thee humble thanks for thy continual favour and kindness towards us thy poor and unworthy Creatures for whose Salvation when we were lost thou wert pleased even of thy mere Love to send thine only beloved Son Christ Jesus into the World taking humane Nature upon him and suffering most bitter pangs of Death upon the Cross to redeem us again to thy favour II. Such O Lord was thine unspeakable Love for which we are never able to pay the least recompence but give us O Lord thankfull and obedient hearts that we may yield thee praises not only with our Lips but in our lives not only in giving thy Son for us but in leaving unto us a continual remembrance of the same thine unspeakable Love thy Holy Gospel wherein consists the rule whereby we are directed and though Heaven and Earth pass away yet not one tittle of that shall decay or diminish for without which we should have been in our accustomed Ignorance accept us we beseech thee in thy Son our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen Christian Courage IN AFFLICTION A Prayer before the following Advice to the besieged Souldiers in London-Derry under the Command of that worthy Divine and most Loyal and Valiant Commander Col. Walker O Most Eternal Lord God whose Providence never fails those who trust in thy Name and Word mercifully we beseech thee to cast down thy Eyes of Pity and Compassion upon us miserable Sinners which are here met together we do in all humility prostrate our selves before thy Divine Majesty beseeching thee to pardon all our Sins and help our Infirmities O Lord we are not able of our selves to do any thing but offend thee committing daily and hourly Sins without number but O Lord hear thy Son Christ Jesus for us and nail them to his Cross that they may never rise up in Judgment against us either to shame us in this World or condemn us in the World to come bury them in the bottomless Sea of thy Mercy and Forgetfulness that they may never appear before thee to hinder thy Favours unto us seal the remission of them to our Souls and Consciences that they may not disturb or distract us in our Devotions and Duty pour thy Grace and holy Spirit into us that may enable us to walk before thee in Holiness Righteousness and in Sobriety all the days of our lives Bless we beseech thee our dear and dread Soveraign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary Katherine the Queen Dowager the Princess Anne of Denmark and the rest of the Royal Family Bless the Archbishops and Bishops with the rest of the Dispencers of thy holy Sacraments and grant that the light of thy Gospel may never depart from us And Lastly we come unto thee for a Blessing upon our Governours Commanders and fellow Souldiers guide and conduct them in this Calamity fortifie them with Courage and Strength against our Romish Adversaries that thy Name may be glorified our Lives preserved and our Souls Eternally saved in the great day of the Lord Jesus when all flesh shall appear Grant that our Meeting at this time may be for the better and not for the worse to praise and glorifie thy holy Name in whose holy Name and Word we put up these our imperfect Prayers in that most absolute and perfect form of Prayer which Christ himself bath taught us Our Father c. Christian Courage IN AFFLICTION A Discourse by way of Advice to the besieged in London-Derry 2 Chron. 20. Chap. Verse 9. latter part of it Be not afraid nor dismay'd by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not yours but God's THE Context runs thus And he said Hearken ye all Judah and ye Inhabitants of Jerusalem and thou King Jehoshaphat Thus saith the Lord unto you Be not afraid nor dismaied by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not yours but God's These are the words of God which he commanded Jahaziel the Prophet to deliver to Jehoshaphat King of Judah When the Moabites and Ammonites came to make War against him to dispossess him of his Kingdom verse the 8th of this Chapter and may be a seasonable Text for this Auditory Our Sins indeed are many which have justly provoked God's heavy Wrath against us and our Enemies are very numerous which surround us therefore now let us cry mightily unto God earnestly beseeching him that he would pardon all our Sins blot out all our Iniquities and receive us graciously let us sincerely repent and be heartily sorry for our manifold Transgressions committed against him so shall we by his Divine Assistance be in a readiness to encounter with Roman Malice these Moabites and Ammonites who are Enemies to our Lives Religion Laws and Liberties and be animated with Courage to go out cheerfully against Rome's Force and Cruelties fighting manfully the Lord's Battel every one of us laying his hand upon his Heart with this comfortable Expression in our Mouths Be not afraid nor dismaied by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not ours but God's Servile Fear is the harbinger of the Guilty and a slavish timorousness belongs not to the Strong and Couragious but a God like Fear attends upon the Vertuous and produces Success in their Undertakings Holy Job that great Proficient in God's School and great Example of Christian Patience tells you Job 28. 28. The fear of the Lord that is Wisdom and to depart from Evil is Understanding This is the only supream Good and Fear which secures us from committing shameful Acts and creates a circumspection in our Lives for as the shadow of the Body is followed by the Sun so doth Glory attend Vertue in our progress to Christ. Let us then put our whole trust in God in this time of danger and take the Royal Prophets resolution Psal. 118. 6. Not to fear what man can do unto us but rather fear the Lord who pitieth those that fear him Psal. 103. 13. It is the Duty of every one of us to be circumspect in our Lives but more especially at this season and time of Affliction when the hand of God is stretched out against us when the Enemy waits even at our doors ready to devour us when they stand gaping ready to swallow us up quick and none of us can prognosticate how soon his

Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the Praise for thy loving Mercy and for thy Truths sake Wherefore shall the Heathen say Where is now their God As for our God he is in Heaven he hath done whatsoever pleaseth him II. Their Idols are Silver and Gold even the Work of Mens hands They have Mouths and speak not eyes have they and see not They have Ears and hear not Noses have they and smell not They have hands and handle not Feet have they and walk not neither speak they through their Throat They that make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their Trust in them III. But thou House of Israel trust thou in the Lord He is ●●eir succour and defender Ye House of Aaron put your Trust in the Lord He is ●heir helper and defender The Lord hath been mind●ull of us and he shall bless ●…s Even he shall bless the ●ouse of Israel he shall bless ●●e House of Aaron He shall bless them that ●…ar the Lord both small and ●…reat The Prayer ALmighty God whose Dwelling is in the highest Heavens and ●st whatsoever pleaseth thee both in heaven and on Earth give Grace 〈…〉 beavenly Father that in all our ●…ubles and calamities we may put 〈…〉 who le Trust in thee who art our ●…y succour defender and deliver II. Let us evermore praise thy holy Name and never ascribe to our selves any Honour and Glory or Thank● of any good Action or prosper o● Success but to thee alone who a●● the Author and Giver of all good things Keep us from Idolatry from worshipping vain Imagination● and any thing which is contrary to t●● Gospel Bless us in all our way● that when we go from hence we 〈…〉 inherit thy Kingdom Amen Meditations for Monday Night I Will lift up mine Eyes un● the Hills from when cometh my Help My Help cometh even from the Lord which hath ma● Heaven and Earth II. He will not suffer thy Fo● to be moved and he th● keepeth thee will not sleep Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor ●●eep III. The Lord himself is thy Keeper The Lord is thy Defence upon the right hand So that the Sun shall not ●urn thee by day nor the Moon by night IV. The Lord shall preserve thee ●●om Evil Yea it is even he ●hat shall keep thy Soul The Lord shall preserve thy ●oing out and thy coming in ●●om this time forth for evermore The Prayer O GOD from whence cometh all our Help and Succour pre●…ve us by thy Power and Providence ●…at nothing either by day or night ●…ay molest our Peace or disturh our ●afety suffer not the Vanities of ●…e one to allure us nor the Terrours 〈…〉 the other to amaze and affright us II. Let our Feet be immoveable an● fixed upon the Rock and Foundation Christ Jesus and so dispose of o● going out and coming in that ● may not swerve from thy Commandments but walk according to t● Holy Rule in all things who art o● Lord and Saviour Meditations for Tuesday Morning THey that put their Tr●… in the Lord shall be ev●… as the Mount Sion which m●… not be removed but stande●… fast for ever The Hills stand about Jerusalem even so standeth t●… Lord round about his Peop●… from this time forth for ev●… more II. For the Rod of the Ungo●… cometh not into the lot of t●… Righteous lest the Righteous out their hands unto Wickedness Do well O Lord unto ●hose that be good and true of Heart As for such as turn back un●o their own wickedness the ●ord shall lead them forth with the Evil-doers but ●eace shall be upon Israel The Prayer MErciful God our only Trust and Confidence and whosoever ●usteth in thee shall not be removed ●●t stand fast for ever let thy Pow●● and Glory stand round about us ●nd all thy Holy People like Hills ●…r our Protection and Safety that ●…e may be sheltered from our Enemies II. Permit us not to put our hands to Wickedness neither let us partake 〈◊〉 the Lot of the Ungodly whom thou or dainest for Destruction B●… let us receive that Blessing which o●… Lord and Saviour hath left 〈…〉 Church even the Peace of God t●… Father Son and Holy Ghost 〈…〉 whom be all Honour and Glory Wor●… without end Amen Meditations for Tuesday Noon WHen the Lord turned again the Captivity 〈…〉 Sion then were we like unt●… them that dream Then was our Mouth fil●…ed with Laughter and o●… Tongue with Joy II. Then said they among th● Heathen the Lord hath do●… great things for them Yea the Lord hath do●… great things for us already whereof we rejoyce III. Turn thou our Captivity O Lord as the Rivers in the South They that sow in Tears shall ●eap in Joy He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth ●orth good Seed shall doubt●ess come again with Joy and ●ring his Sheaves with him The Prayer GRacious God who hast promised Life and Salvation to thy cho●en Servants and hast wrought ●ighty things for them already ●hereof they rejoyce Deliver us we ●eseech thee from the Slavery and ●etters of Sin and Misery dissipate ●nd scatter all our Enemies which ●ay close Siege to us seeking to destroy us II. Fill our Hearts with Con̄t●ition ●or having trespassed against thee teach us that Divine Art of Self denial to mo●tifie our Affection 〈◊〉 our Lust and extinguish a●●●●shly Temptations that when th● great Harvest shall come ●e may 〈◊〉 admitted as Fellow Labourers 〈◊〉 work in thy Spiritual Kingdom through Jesus Christ. Amen Meditations for Tuesday Night OUT of the Deep have called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my Voice Oh let thine Ears conside● well the Voice of my Complaint II. If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done a● miss O Lord who may a● bide it For there is Mercy with thee therefore snalt thou b● feared I look for the Lord my Soul doth wait for him in his Word is my Trust. III. My Soul flieth unto the Lord before the Morning Watch I say before the Morning Watch. O Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is Mercy and with him is plenteous Redemption And he shall redeem Israel from all his Sins The Prayer O Blessed Lord who with thy most precious Blood didst pay ●ur Ransom to purchase for us Freedom and Salvation With thee ●here is Mercy and plenteous Redemption O let the height of that Mercy ●ake us out of the bottomless Pit of ●in and Misery II. Be not extream O Lord in marking out what we have done amiss in our Life time but rather blot out th● Hand-writing which is against us And as thy boundless Mercy pardon● what is past so let the sweetness of i● create thy Fear in our Hearts that we may never more dare to offend s● gracious and merciful a Saviour a● thou art to us Grant this O Lord I beseech thee for thy alone sake Amen Meditations for

Merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour In the time of Plague Let thy Anger cease O Lord and be appeased for the inquity of thy People as thou hast sworn by thy self O Holy God Holy and Strong Holy and Immortal have Mercy upon us For a City Compass this City O Lord with thy Protection and let thy Holy Angels guard the Walls thereof O Lord mercifully hear thy People For Grace Lord from whom all good things do come grant unto us thy humble Servants that by thy Holy Inspiration we may think those things that be good and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same through our Lord Jesus Christ. For Enemies O God the lover and preserver of Peace and Charity give unto all our Enemies thy true Peace and Love and Remission of Sins and mightily deliver us from their Snares through Jesus Christ our Lord. For the Afflicted O Almighty God the Afflicted Soul the troubled Spirit crieth unto thee Hear O Lord and have Mercy for thou art a merciful God For Travellers Assist us mercifully O Lord in our Supplications and Prayers and dispose the way of thy Servants towards the Attainment of Everlasting Salvation that among all the Changes and Chances of this mortal Life they may ever be defended by thy most Gracious and ready Help through Christ our Lord. For the Fruits of the Earth O God in whom we live move and have our Being open thy Treasure in the due Season and give a Blessing to the works of thy Hands through Jesus Christ our Lord. Against Temptation Almighty God which doth see that we have no Power of our selves to help our selves keep us both outwardly in our Bodies and inwardly in our Souls that we may be defended from all Adversities which may happen to the Body and from all Evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ. For Misbelievers and Sinners Almighty and Everlasting God who desirest not the Death of a Sinner mercifully look upon all that are deceived by the subtilty of Satan that all evil Prejudice laid aside they may return to the Unity of thy Truth and Love For Temporal Necessities Replenish those O Lord we beseech thee with Temporal Nourishment whom thou hast refreshed with thy Blessed Sacraments Against Tempests Drive spiritual Wickedness from thy House O Lord and preserve it from the malignity of tempestuous Weather For Women in Travel O Lord of thy abundant Goodness and Mercy help thy Servants who are in great pains and perils of Child-birth that being delivered out of their present Danger they may glorifie thy holy Name who art blessed for evermore For the Sick O God the only refuge of our infirmities by thy mighty power relieve thy sick Servants that they with thy gracious Assistance may be able to give Thanks unto thee in thy Holy Church through Jesus Christ. For Prisoners O God who deliveredst thy Apostle Peter from his Chains and restoredst him to Liberty have pity upon thy Servants in Captivity release their Bonds and grant them Freedom and Safety Accept of the hearty Repentance of those that are appointed to dye and save their Souls for his Merits who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God VVorld without end For the Dying Father of all Flesh and God of all Spirits receive the Souls which thou hast redeemed with thy bloud returning to thee A Prayer before Study O unspeakable Creatour who out of the Treasure of thy VVisdom hast ordained Hierarchies of Angels and hast placed them above the highest Heaven in a wonderfull order and disposed them sweetly for all parts of the VVorld thou the true Fountain and incomprehensible Principle of Light and VVisdom vouchsafe to illuminate the Darkness of my Understanding with a Beam of thy Light remove the Darkness wherein I was born Sin and Ignorance thou who makest the Tongues of Infants Eloquent loosen my Tongue and pour forth the Grace of thy Spirit upon my Lips give me acuteness to apprehend capacity to retain subtilty to interpret aptness to learn readiness to speak direct my beginning farther my progression and perfect my conclusion When the Bell tolls for a Dying Person O gracious God be with this Person in the holy operations of thy Grace and in the yearnings of thy tenderest Mercies in the dreadfull Moment when the Soul shall depart from the Body and conduct this thy dying Creature through the Valley of the Shadow of Death unto the Land of everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A concluding Prayer Almighty God who hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Son's Name we beseech thee mercifully to incline thine Ears to us who have now made our Supplications and Prayers unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy VVill may be effectually obtained to the relief of our Necessities and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and the Blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be with us now at the hour of Death and at the Day of Judgment King Edward the Sixth's Prayer against Popery LOrd God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched Life and take me among thy chosen Howbeit not my Will but thy Will be done Lord I commit my Spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy chosen's sake send me Life and Health that I may truly serve thee II. O my Lord God Bless thy People and save thine inheritance O Lord God Save thy chosen People of England O my Lord God defend this Realm from Papistry and maintain thy True Religion that I and my People may praise thy Holy Name Amen For God's Mercies upon Their Majesties Forces under the Command and Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg O Most powerfull and great God mighty in Battel fearfull in praises doing wonders thou hast done mighty things already for us whereof we rejoice O be pleased still to continue thy undeserved Mercies towards us and accomplish what thou hast already begun for us Go forth we humbly beseech thee with our Armies against those who would make a Prey of thy People II. Protect and guide our great Governour and Commander whose Commission is to fight thy Battel Guide him and Counsel him in all his Undertakings and cover his head in the day of Battel cause those that hate thy Name and People to flee before him and scatter them as the dust before the Wind Crown him with Victory and great Success that at the last he may return home in Peace and Safety to thy Glory their Majesties Comfort his own Satisfaction and all the Nation 's happiness this we beg for the Merits of Jesus Christ Amen For Mercy to the whole Nation

O Lord God who art full of Mercy and Compassion to all thy people bless us we beseech thee from all domestick and foreign Enemies that would endeavour to ruine our Souls and betray our Lives Let thy goodness and loving kindness evermore watch over us to defend protect and keep us from all assaults and temptations of the Enemy and grant that we may live sober godly quiet Lives to the glory of thy Holy Name Amen A Short Account OF THE MASSACRE IN Ireland Paris THE Popish Party in Ireland pretending the English unjustly detained their Lands from 'em which were justly forfeited to the Laws by their continual Rebellions and Treasons they did at last resolve to stir up all the cursed Romish Faction to shew their utmost Zeal for the Protestant's Destruction When their business was well laid in their publick Prayers they recommended the good Success of a great Design to advance their Catholick Cause and to stir up the People to act this Villany with the greater Cruelty they publickly discoursed that the English Protestants were Hereticks and not to be suffered to live any longer amongst them that it was no more Sin to kill one of them than to kill a Dog and a mortal Sin to protect or relieve any one of them When their Plot was ripe for Execution they proceeded against the English in divers methods some of the Papists only stripping the Protestants and turn'd them out of doors naked others murdering Men Women and Children without Mercy they all agreed ●o root out all the Protestants The most Reverend Bishop Usher The Irish Rebellion and French Massacre The Downfall of Rome The Massacre in Ireland happened in the year 1641 which by the learned Bishop Usher was predicted in 1601. at which time the Irish and English Papists by all manner of cursed Cruelties murdered near Three hundred thousand innocent English Protestants without the least cause or provocation given them whose bloud yet cries for Vengeance from Heaven against them and which we doubt not but the God of Vengeance will judge in his due time The Massacre of Paris was in the time of bloudy King Charles the Ninth the Papists used divers means to draw the Chief of the Protestants to Paris under pretence of a Marriage between the king of Navarre a Protestant and the Lady Margaret Sister to the French King Admral Coligni a Protestant Gentleman 〈◊〉 invited to the Wedding and in the Evening the Duke of Guise sent for the Captain of the Switzers and shewed him the King's Commission for murdering the Admiral and at midnight the Provosts Sheriffs and Captains of every Ward had the same Commission shewed them the Watch-word for the general Massacre was The tolling of the Bel in the King's Pallace a break of day and that the Executioners should be known by white Handkerchiefs tied on their Arms and a white Cross in their Hats no s●oner was the Watch Wo●●● given but they felt to their Barbarity and murdered the Admiral and in two days there was slain in Paris above Ten thousand men women and children Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power being vanquished Rome's Idolatry must expect its downfall the Multitude being got together begun to root out their damnable Religion here in England by falling down burning and demolishing most of Their Chappels and Houses but the utter ruine of Rome will be when she thinks her self most secure as the learned Bishop Usher mentions in his Prophesie in that Kingdom and so great was their violence that they would not permit the English Language to be spoke but punished all that used it they likewise changed the Names of all English Places killing or maiming all sorts of Cattle which belonged to the English Protestants The Popish Priests gave their Sacrament to several Irish on condition they should spare none of the Protestants but wash their hands in their bloud They also Excommunicated those that afforded any Relief so that many were ●●●●ved and perished their Friars and Monks exhorted them with Tears not to spare any of the English and boasted when they had destroyed them 〈◊〉 Ireland they would go into England do the like for they ●●ld it as lawsull to kill an English Man as to kill a Sheep or a Dog and that it was no more Conscience to deprive them of their Lives and ●s●ates than to take a bone from ● Dog 's Mouth The day before this bloudy Massacre the Priests gave them admission after Mass telling them they had now fre● Liberty to go and take possession of their Lands and 〈◊〉 strip rob and despoil all the English of whatever they had that killing them was a mentorious Act and would preserve them from the pains 〈…〉 Purgatory which cause some of these murtherous V●…lains after they had ●lain multitude of the English pu●… lickly to boast That if the should die immediately th●● were sure of Heaven and escape Purgatory They then proceeded commit all manner of Cru●…ties and Villanies imaginabl● stripping naked Man Woman and Child driving Eight hundred and odd into a River where they were drowned and put one Hundred and Fifty into a Castle and burned them altogether An Abstract of their Popish Tortures and Cruelties against the Protestants in Ireland and Paris A Protestant Woman being delivered in the Fields they gave the new born Infant to the Dogs to be devoured The Irish Women followed the Camp and stirred up the Men to Cruelty crying Kill them all spare neither Man Woman or Child yea such was their detestable Malice that they taught their Children to kill English Children An Irish Woman was very angry with a Soldier that he did not bring the Grease of a ●at English Gentlewoman who was murdered to make Candles with which they barbarously did in many places By all manner of cursed Cruelties the Irish and English Papists in a short time murdered near three hundred thousand Protestants without the least cause or provocation whose bloud yet crys loud for Vengeance from Heaven against them and doubt not but God will avenge it in his due time Children have been cast to Dogs and Swine to be devoured by them Women great with Child have been hanged up and their Bellies ripped open that the Infant has dropped out and been thrown into a Ditch Youths have had their brains dashedout against Trees and some have been trampled to death Some Infants have been found sucking the Breasts of their dead Mother A great Commander took delight to ●lea off the skins of Men and to Head his Drums with them Some have been driven to a River where the Bridge has been broken down and there drowned if any of them could swim they either shot at them with Musquets or knocked them on the head as they came near the Land Some were put into Dungeons full of mire and dirt and having Bolts put on their Legs there perish'd with hunger Some had their eyes plucked out and their hands cut off and so let go to