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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

in a dunghil as wheat amongst chaff as gold in the fire till it pleased God to disperse the Gospell in a more generall and publick way by the Ministry of Luther and his associates and fellow-labourers in the Lord at which time these Albingenses received with greediness the Doctrine of the Gospel and so became more eminent in their profession of piety then they were formerly Laus Deo Collected out of a Book called Luthers Forerunners and out of Cades Justification of the Church of England and diverse other Authors Here place the sixth Figure CHAP. XXV The Persecution of the Church of God in Bohemia which began Anno Christi 894. THe Bohemians were Heathens and Idolaters till their Duke or Captain Borivoius going into Moravia Anno Cristi 894. by a strange providence of God was converted to the knowledge and faith of Christ whereupon he together with thirty other Palatines was baptized At his return into Bohemia he took along with him Methudius Bishop of Moravia by whose Ministry Ludomilla the Dukes wife was converted and baptized Borivoius busying himself in erecting divers Schooles and Churches it pleased God that in a short time a great harvest was gathered many of the Nobility and Commons being daily converted and baptized but Satan envying the progresse of the Gospel presently raised up persecution against the Professors of it For first of all Borivoius was banished by the wicked faction of the Idolaters and then compelled to resign his Dominion to his Eldest Son who being dead his younger son Boratislaus succeeded who was a very holy man yet was drawn to marry Drahomira famous for nobility and beauty but a Heathen yet she promised after instruction to be baptized and during her husbands life she cunningly concealed her hatred against Christians but he being dead the grandmother Ludomilla educated the elder son Wenceslaus and Drahomira took the younger Bolislaus and usurped the government commanding the Christian Churches to be shut up the exercises of their worship to cease prohibiting Ministers from instructing the people and Schoolemasters from teaching youth such as disobeyed were imprisoned banished and put to death At Prague the Magistrates were changed and cruell Idolaters substituted in the rooms of Christians by whose incitements the poor Christians were secretly openly and unworthily murthered and abused whilest the murtherers went away with impunity but if any Christian killed a Heathen though in his own defence ten Christians were massacred for that one Yet the insatiable cruelty of Drahomira was not satisfied herewith but that she might destroy all the Christians she dealt with one Balloius a cruell wretch whom she had set over the City of Prague earnestly entreating him by fraud or force to effect it promising him a great reward if he did it He thereupon arms six hundred Conspirators at his own house with whom he hastens to those that were designed for slaughter but the plot through Gods mercy being discovered to the Christians four hundred of them met to defend their own lives the issue of the fight was victory to the Christians the streets being polluted with the bloud of eight hundred that were slain Then did Drahomira pretend that she was much displeased with the tumult commanding that the Arms of both parties should be brought in to the City magazine severely forbidding any man to walk with dart or sword the Christians though suspecting her fraud yet that they might not seem disobedient brought their arms to the Magazine the enemies pretending also to do the like This being done Drahomira imploies her cut-throats in the night to set upon the unarmed Christians whereby above three hundred of them were slain in one night This Drahomira much rejoyceth at but yet not satisfied she commands the Major of Prague to destroy all the Christians whereupon he besets all the streets and passages and slaies all that he meets withall till the Christians gathering themselves together encounter with him put him to flight and in the pursuit slew this wicked person This so enraged Drahomira that she commanded the two Churches to be burnt down in one of which her husband was interred Whilest she thus raged against the Christians Wenceslaus now grown to years by the advice of his grand-mother and the Christian Nobility took upon him the government and the better to establish peace he assigned the City of Bolislavia and the adjacent parts to his mother and younger brother Drahomira yet laid not aside her hatred and bloudy designs against the Christians which she first shewed against holy Ludumella substituting two wicked villains in the night to murther her these fellows finding her at her prayers in her Oratory strangled her Some there were that much provoked Wenceslaus to revenge that wicked act which he refused because he judged it contrary to that duty which he owed to a mother and to the modesty and patience of a Christian. But he was shortly after ill requited by this unnaturall monster who affecting domination began to defame Wenceslaus as sluggish and unfit for government but when she perceived that his subjects loved him exceedingly she waited a fitter opportunity which thus fell out Bolislaus having a son she invited Wenceslaus to the baptising of this his Nephew at Bolislavia he going thither she entertained him with much dissembled love but in the night as he was making his prayers to God His brother Bolislaus assaults him and beeing assisted with some other cut-throats slew him Anno 929. Bolislaus having by this fratricide obtained the government threatned imprisonment and death to all the Ministers and Christians if they did not presently depart Bohemia his mother added that their dead bodies should not be buried Hereupon many fled others were seized on and tormented to death diverse waies but God suffered not Drahomira to escape his revenging hand for in that place where the ministers bones lay unburied the earth opened of it self and swallowed her up alive with her Chariot and all that were in it which place is to be seen before the Castle of Prague to this day Others also who were her instruments in massacring the innocent Christians some of them ran mad and threw themselves down from high places others slew themselves with their own swords wherewith they had murthered the innocent men and the place where Wenceslaus blood was shed could never be washed off but remained as a perpetuall witnesse of that villany These things so affrighted Bolislaus that he became more milde to the Chistians Anno. 970. Woytich the second Bishop of Prague labouring seriously in converting the reliques of the Gentiles and reforming their wicked lives they raised so great a sedition against him as enforced Woytich to a voluntary banishment Then did the Pagans rise up against his brethren and murthered five of them and then conspired against their prince but were overcome in battel c. Not long after the Pope having usurped domination

after another by the hand and so dispatching them all no otherwise than as a Butcher doth kill his Calves and Sheep This was in Calab●ia Anno Christi 1560. Persecution raised by the Pope in Venice THe City of Venice was a long while from the cruel Inquisition whereby the face of a Church was discerned there from the year 1530. to the year 1542. yea and multitudes of good Christians flocked thither from other parts which so provoked the Divel to envy that he stirred up the Pope to send Inquisitors which erected an Inquisition in that City and for divers years the Pope sent them money to distribute amongst their Flies and such persons as would betray the faithful to them By this means many of the worthy servants of Jesus Christ were apprehended imprisoned and after a while sent to Rome to be there butchered Then was a new-found manner of death inflicted upon divers others never till then heard of whereby they were drowned in the bottome of the Sea The manner of it was thus After any of them had received the sentence of death by the Inquisitors an iron chain was fastned about their middle with a very heavy stone tyed thereto then were they laid upon a plank between two boats and so rowed to an appointed place in the Sea where the boats parting asudder the Martyrs presently sunk into the bottome of the Sea and were drowned Yet notwithstanding this cruelty many godly persons ceased not to assemble together in a place appointed for that purpose where they talked and discoursed of heavenly matters for their spiritual edification and made collections for the relief of the poor amongst them And Anno 1566. they called to them a Minister of the Gospel and constituted a Church where they enjoyed all the Ordinances with much comfort but some false brethren creeping in amongst them after a while betrayed them then were many apprehended cast into the Sea and drowned Others were sent to Rome where they were cast into prison till they rotted and dyed there Amongst others that were condemned to be drowned at Venice was one Mr. Anthony Ricetto to whom after his condemnation his sonne a youth about twelve years old came beseeching him with tears to yield that his life might be saved and himself not left fatherlesse To whom he answered A good Christian is bound to forgoe children goods yea and life it self for the maintenance of Gods honour and glory For which cause said he I am now resolved to lay down my life the Lord assisting me The Lords of Venice offered to restore to him his Patrimony which was partly morgaged and partly sold if he would submit to the Church of Rome but he resolutely refused that condition Not long after came a Captain to him and told him of one Francis Sega his prison-fellow that wa● resolved to recant To whom he answered What tell you me of Sega I am resolved to performe my vows to the Lord my God Then was he carried forth bound to the boats and by the way a Priest presented him with a wooden Crosse exhorting him to recant c. But he on the contrary perswaded him and others to come out of the snares of the Divel and to cleave to Jesus Christ and to live not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit For said he otherwise your unbelief will bring you into the lake of fire that never shall be quenched When he came to the place where he was to suffer the Captain lastned the chain and stone to him whereupon lifting his eyes to heaven he said Father forgive them they know not what they do Lord Jesus into thy hands do I commend my spirit and so in the sea he ended his life A few dayes after one Mr. Francis Spinola was apprehended and committed to prison and when he was brought forth before the Inquisitors they shewed him a Treatise about the Lords Supper demanding whether he was the Author of it which he acknowledged avouching that the doctrine that was contained therein was agreeable to the holy Scriptures Then was he return'd to his prison where the aforementioned Sega was who waiting for his coming as he passed by saluted him by his name after which they conferred together about the doctrine of the Gospel and Sega having heard that Spinola had stood stoutly in the Confession of the truth he was much comforted saying that God had reserved him for such a time as this to make him Partaker of so great consolation Shortly after the Jailor told Sega that he was to die one hour within night at the hearing whereof he entreated Spinola to pray with him and after prayer he said that his soul was heavy unto death Spinola answered Fear not for it will not be long before your soul shall partake of those joyes which shall endure for ever At the appointed time he was fetched out of the dungeon where he took his leave of Spinola and the other Prisoners As he went into the boat a Friar perswaded him to return to the Church of Rome Sega answered that he was already in the way to our Lord Jesus Christ and so passing on he called upon the name of God He seemed to be a little amazed at the fastning of the chaine and stone to his body yet presently recollecting his spirits he took it patiently and so commending his soul into the hands of God he quietly slept in the Lord. Spinola being again called before the Inquisitors he boldly reproved the Popes Legate and the other Judges for that contrary to their consciences they persecuted the truth of God calling them the off-spring of the Pharisees c. The third time that he was called before them they asked him if he would not recant his errours he answered that the doctrine which he maintained was not erroneous but the same truth which Christ and his holy Apostles taught and for which all the Martyrs both in former and later times did willingly lay down their lives and endured the pains of death Yet after all this Spinola by the crafty perswasions of some seeming friends began to strike saile and to faint but through Gods goodnesse he soon recovered again and being called before the Judges he openly confirmed the truth and so had sentence passed upon him that he should be drowned as an Heretick To which he answered I am no Heretick but the servant of Jesus Christ at which words the Popes Legate commanded him silence and told him that he lyed the night after he was conveyed into the sea and there drowned praising and blessing God with invincible constancy Anno 1595. There was at Rome a young Englishman who going into a Church and seeing their grosse idolatry was so inflamed with zeal that he could not endure the sight of those horrible impieties and therefore he went out into the Church porch and as the Procession passed by him he waited till the Bishop came