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Eye-salve for England, or, The grand trappan detected in a plain and faithful narrative of the horrid and unheard-of designs of some justices and deputy-lieutenants in Lancashire treacherously to ensnare the lives and estates of many persons of quality in that county, as also, in the counties of York and Chester / by Evan Price ...
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Price, Evan.
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Wing P3332; ESTC R9214
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And that he knew no way better to get a discovery of them both in Lancashire and Cheshire than to labour with the said Evan Price who being poor might by a good reward be brought to discover these and more having been so imployed amongst them which if he would then get the Judges to assure him of pardon and any reward he would desire If by this means they prevailed not then get some trusty friend that could act his part with a Phanaticks tongue to go to him as from Capt. Hogsons Wife Mr. Marsdens Wife his Brother Gamaliel and David Lombies Wife and Mr. Roots Wife and Joshua Bailey and his Wife with description of the place of their habitation and in case they could not get one that knew them and the place of their abode with certain tokens from them then to condole and lament his condition and perswade him to endure and so get what he could from him that way then leave this following Declaration with him and presently seize him therewith and so procure him to make a discovery to save his own neck The Declaration word for word was as followeth A Door of Hope opened in the Valley of Achor â—â—e Title for the Mourners of Sion out of the North sent abroad to revive the Prisoners of Hope and awaken the dead Witnesses of the Lamb to prepare themselves to meet him in his Remnant on Mount Sion in judgment against the Mount of Esau and mystical Babylon the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth VVHereas several thousands of us 〈◊〉 Preâ—â—â—e poor low worms and despised servants of our Lord King JESUS after earnest seeking of the face of our God by prayer supplications and conferences together with the Word and Prophecies of the Scripture as we were able in an obscure manner to understand the Lord's mind and our own duties especially the Work of our Day and Generation we are by inward compulsion of the Spirit of God we trust carried on to declare and make known our hearts so far as at present we are able to the Lords people and all others in the three Nations that love the Name of God Truth Peace their own posterity and the welfare of their Country That we are deeply affected with â—ounds and incensed at the daily Blasphemies which we hear against the Name of God his Son Gospel Tabernacle and those who worship therein At the most horrible-wickedness unheard-of openly committed in the Land and countenanced by those in Authority if not tolerated by Law yea much of it openly in Stage-Plays acted besides the common sins of Adultery Drunkenness Swearing Stealing and what not At the common Superstitious and Idolatrous wayes of Worship set up in the Nations with compulsion of the free-born Natives to complyance therewith and the sad Sufferings of such as for Conscience-sake towards God cannot by Imprisonments Excommunications Confiscations of Goods and Banishment from Countries and Relations At the loud cryes not only of the Saints in most Prisons of the Nation but also of the Innocent Blood of our dear Christian Brethren and natural Friends Neighbours and Relations unjustly taken away under pretence of Plots and Treasons like Naboth ensnared by the like trappanning-spirit as Jezebel used so that these as the Souls under the Altar do cry for vengeance in our ears to revenge their blood that the violence done to their flesh may be upon Babylon At the lamentable cryes of the Poor of the Land for want of Imployment through the decay of Trading by means of Excise Customs Monthly-Taxes Poll-money Chimney-money Gift-money and Subsidy-money all which is laid out in abundance but nothing brought in as if the curse which the Prophet speaks of were upon it or 't were put into bags with holes Hag. 1.6 Mal. 2.2 6. The swarming-in of Jesuites Priests and outlandish Papists to infect the minds of our Neighbours and in time to cut our throats if the Lord in mercy do not timely prevent them so invading our Country with such Idolatry as cost the Nation so much Blood and Treasure to extirpate and stopping the mouths of almost all godly Protestant able Ministers especially such as cannot in conscience comply with the Popes Canons in our Episcopal Devotions thereby making way for Antichrist the Pope if not at last to bring in the Turks upon us yet to bring us back into Romes Jurisdiction there to meet him and mock the Lord Jesus that gave himself for us And now though we cannot say that we are sufficiently sensible and humbled for our own sins which made way for these abominations yet in measure we desire to take shame ††O that there wâ—â— such anâ— heart in them Deut 5 29 to our selves especially such of us as have defiled our garments in chusing of us new gods by being instrumental to bring these things to pass by our backslidings and revolts from the Lord to help the wicked and ungodly as Jehosaphat did Ahab 2 Chron. 19.2 and weaken the hands of our godly Brethren who in the wisdom of the Spirit foresaw the event and gave us warning betimes but now we desire no longer to abound in sinfull compliance as to stand by and behold our Brethren carried captives left we our selves be the first that may justly follow after Obad. 10.11 But we beg the Lord to abound in pardoning grace and give us hearts to manifest repentance by our returns to and zeal for the Lord and to help the Poor and Needy against the Mighty and not delight our selves in our own fulness and their miseries any longer but quit our selves like men seeing there is no remedy but death and destruction threatned or at least to live in a worse condition than slavery for such as desire to live morally in the Nation much more godly in Christ Jesus And we being taught by Grace and Nature to use all lawful means to defend our Lives Liberties Relations and Estates also satisfied from the Word of God that the use of Temporal Weapons of War is a lawful means of God's own institution in its time and that by the use thereof in the hands of Saints as one means the Kingdoms of this world must fall before they become the Kingdoms of our Lord of his Christ and having seen the Lord own them so evidently already We declare our selves of a ready mind when the Lord shall form and call us out thereby to hazard our lives and all that is or may be dear or near unto us for the reviving of the Good Old Cause And though we be perswaded we need not use Arguments to our Brethren who are called chosen and faithful in the Nation for assistance herein for we know they love not their lives unto the death but will follow the Lamb through the greatest difficulties Yet to our civil Neighbours and dear Country-men that would rather dye like Men than live worse than Slaves in their own native Land as many do who want
Eye-salve for England OR The Grand TRAPPAN Detected In a plain and faithful NARRATIVE of the horrid and unheard-of Designs of some Justices and Deputy-Lieutenants in Lancashire treacherously to ensnare the Lives and Estates of many Persons of Quality in that County as also in the Counties of York and Chester By EVAN PRICE vvho suffered long and grievous Imprisonment there for not complying with them to carry on their wicked and pernicious Designs Psal 53.8 Let destruction come upon him unawares and let his net that he hath hid catch himself into that very destruction let him fall Vers 20. For they speak not peace but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the Land See Psal 31.23 38.12 50.19 83.1 2 3. Exod. 8.29 But let not Pharoah deal deceitfully any more Deut. 27.25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an Innocent person and all the People shall say Amen Ezek. 22.6 Behold the Princes of Israel every one were in thee to their power to shed blood Ver. 9. In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood Mat. 10.26 For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed nor hid that shall not come abroad LONDON Printed in the Year 1667. To the READER MAny are the Volumns recorded of the craft cruelty malice and rage of the old Serpent the Devil and Satan besides what is recorded in the Scriptures of Truth against the Law of God and the Gospel and Kingdom of the Lord Jesus and his People walking in the profession of the same but that this Generation exceeds all in wickedness that ever went before it in this Nation needs no proof to such as observe good and evil acted therein and that Satans last shift is to shew himself on the stage of the world in the likeness of an Angel of light and his ministers as the Ministers of Righteousness is evident from the holy Scriptures and that more especially immediately before his utter ruine and downfal of his kingdom How far he hath thus appeared let them who are endued with wisdom from above judge but to me his rage seems to be such that doubless himself knows his time is but short and that he seeth the Lord Jesus in a meek manner mustering up his Host and ready to go forth in the van of them to take to himself his great Power and Reign not onely in the midst of but also over his and their Enemies in his Saints for the execution of his Fathers Will. And now as an additional discovery of the Devil and his instruments I think my self obliged every way in duty to God my King and Country to present thee here with a brief Narrative acted by some in the name and under pretence of Authority of as monstrous wickedness as ever was brought to publick view which when thou hast read if thy conscience be not wholly blinded and seared up thou thy self wilt say it surpasseth the deeds of the Wicked in former ages especially when thou seest the Wolves cloathed in a Lamb-like dress thirsting after the blood of the Innocent Had it been done by Pagans or Atheists void of any knowledge or fear of God or had not heard of Heaven and Hell and of giving account for the deeds done in the flesh and of God's dreadful judgments against the shedders of innocent blood then it had been no such wonder though I never read that such went about in the name of Authority to hire false witnesses to cut off so many men at once as it were that feared the Lord as it seems was the design of the men that set on foot the actions made manifest in the following Relation which is nothing but what I have already declared in open Court as also in my Case given to Judge Ransford March 1. 1665. earnestly desiring it might be by him delivered to the King Many remarkable passages there are omitted in the Narrative one thing worthy noting is That Mr. Mosely was put into an Office of trust and profit though he brought nothing of his Design to perfection so was Major Greathead that was the chiefest man in drawing forth some 30 persons to rise with him in arms in the Yorkshire pretended plot whereby many desolate widows and fatherless were made and he received a great sum of money for his pains and Joseph Crowther hired to trappan men came to Manchester and went in a seeming desolate condition and Saint-like shape and language with sighing and weeping to some honest men to seek succour as a person escapâ—ng the hands of his enemies and guilty in that Yorkshire-fact and notwithstanding they made discovery of him yet he was let go and two of them bound over to the Sessions thence to the Assizes where they were set free by Judge Turner and Judge Twisden this man also hath a beneficial Office conferred on him since Reader if thou doubtest the truth of what I say make but enquiry among any knowing and impartial persons inhabiting the places herein named and thou mayest easily be confirmed and further informed than I am willing here to relate nor had this come forth by me but that I was restless night and day when I saw no course was taken in all this time to stop this spirit of wickedness but that it spreads through the Nation and threatens its ruine at last I resolved to give it in writing to the King 's own hand but finding how difficult it was for me to get to him I got it to the Press hoping by some good providence it may be brought to him by some other hands that may make it more acceptable that some speedy course might be taken to stop the further spreading of these pernicious practices by such wicked spirits at least such as are in Authority to improve the opportunity not only to shew their dislike of but also correct them otherwise what shall we look for but that the great God of Heaven who abhorreth the blood-thirsty person and hath said the wicked shall be cut off from the Earth will pour forth the viols of his wrath and sweep away the refuge of lies I do not God is my witness divulge my Enemies wickedness out of any revenge against their persons but should be as ready to serve them as they were to destroy me but rather that they would repent and others be warned to do no more so wickedly but chiefly that such as are peaceable in the Land might depend only upon the Lord and beware of the Fowlers snare and not move by any pretences of men to seek to deliver themselves by an arm of flesh but cry mightily to God night and day until the Spirit from on high be poured down upon them and till the Lord arise to go before them Also I desire Jehovah may have the praise that is due to him from me among his people that he should assist strengthen and deliver such a silly creature as I am in the midst and from the hands