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A13111	The looking-glasse of schisme wherein by a briefe and true narration of the execrable murders, done by Enoch ap Evan, a downe-right separatist, on the bodies of his mother and brother, with the cause mooving him thereunto, the disobedience of that sect, against royall majesty, and the lawes of our Church is plainly set forth. By Peter Studley, Master of Arts, and minister of Gods Word, in Shrevvsbury.	Studley, Peter, 1587 or 8-1648.	1634 (1634)	STC 23403; ESTC S117932	73,005	313

Cosin went instantly to his chamber and fetcht it and thereupon they two walked forth into the fields towards Enoch's fathers house As they passed together his Cosin altogether ignorant of his bloudy facts Enoch sayd to his Kinsman I must turne aside a little to see a thing I left in the field These words were no sooner uttered by him but two Mayds of his Fathers family accompanied with some of the nearest neighbours having raised the crie and prosecuting the pursuit of the Murderer seized there upon him apprehended him and brought him before the next Iustice of the Peace Sir Robert Howard a Knight of the Bath of noble birth sonne to the late Right Honourable the Earle of Suffolke 15 Enoch beeing by this prudent knight examined touching the unnaturall and barbarous facts objected against him stoutly resolutely undauntedly denyed for a while and impudently vvithout blush or change of countenance pleaded his innocencie But being pressed by that Noble and wise Knight with such reasons and arguments as to his wisedome seemed most strong and pregnant to convince him at length overcome with the horror of his owne conscience and shame of his impudence he began to relent and by impressions of deserved wrath from the divine Majesty of God into his Soule he became sensible of what he had done And thus overcome with the agitations of tormenting panges in his owne bosome he desired that worthie Knight that hee would send for one Mr. Erasmus Powell a learned reverend and aged Divine who by the Sacrament of Baptisme brought this Enoch into the visible Church of GOD. M. Powell being come tooke Enoch apart into another roome from the presence of the Knight and to him he opened the fact with such circumstances a were by Questions propose unto him 16 The facts thus reveale and confessed by the Malefictour Sir Robert commande● his Clarke to write the M●●timus and sent him well guarded with the Constable of th● hundred and others into 〈◊〉 County Gaole held in 〈◊〉 Towne of Shrewsbury As 〈◊〉 Keepers of the prisoner ca●● onward their way they we●● to passe by Enoch's Father house and he being desiro●● to see his aged Father requested of his Keepers to per●● him to turne into the house but being come in his father refused to speake to him or 〈◊〉 see him being overcome with griefe of heart for so great a calamitie upon his Familie His eldest Sister the Wife of an honest Free-holder of the Neighbour-hood being come to comfort her Father in this his great consternation and dejection of Spirit seeing her Brother enter into the house she came unto him with teares in her eyes and face and sorrow in her heart and said Ah Brother Enoch what moved you to take away the life of our deare Mother and Brother Hee replied unto her Peace foole hold thy Tongue We live in a false Church and thou shalt see a change shortly This passionate discovery of himselfe being the maine secret of his wicked heart and the incentive to all his villanies I received from his brother i● Law the husband of his elde● sister who charged him with these words in my presence and thereby left him destitute of all reply by telling him h● heard them from his own mouth and that he would affirme them upon his oath 〈◊〉 any Court of this Kingdome And here let all those Person● who out of a turbulent affect● on to Non-conformity have stoutly argued and pleaded that distemper in this ma●● braine and not any Erronio●● opinions relating to Church matters brought forth the●● diabolicall Acts of Matric●● and fratricide Let them weight in their retired thoughts th●● Nature and tenour of the●● words and to what they relate And let them be also ashamed and learne to blush that they have so unjustly not to say irreligiously darkned and opposed Truth to countenance falsehood and their owne faction 17 This Enoch being brought forward towards the Prison the day declining his Keepers were constrained to take up their lodging in a small village Towne five miles from Shrewsbury called Powlderbach and there lodged at the house of one Thomas Turner After they were entred there and their Supper prepared and set on the Table all the company sate downe lovingly together And Enoch as most versed in matters of Devotion did very orderly both before and after Supper give thankes to GOD for their foode The company being risen from the Table turned towards the fire not so much for the comfort and warmth thereof for the time was but newly past Midsūmer as for conference sake As they sate thus friendly talking together Enoch was espied by a servant of the house to six his eye upon a Spit or Broach which the Maide by negligence had left in one end o● the Chimny The Servant kept his owne eye carefull● upon Enoch expecting Th●● event of his Anger for he perceived some wrath in his hea●● discovered in his countenance by his contracting of his for● head and staring with indignation upon the Constable 〈◊〉 the hundred to whom he was by the Iustice committed And on the sudden up starts Enoch in a desperate rage and catched at the Spit therewith as was conjectured to have goared the Constable The Servant whose vigilant eye attended the hands of Enoch stept suddenly betweene him and the Spit and thereby prevented his bloudy purpose After this they brought Enoch to bed where after two hours either sleepe or silence at least they of the house who watched and garded the Prisoner heard a most fearefull noise in the street neere to the doore of the house where Enoch lay as if it had beene the ratling of the wheels of two or three Carts furiously driven In this Towne three watchmen for the hundred sate up in the street that night on the County watch who were not of Enochs company but walked to and fro to take notice if any travellers passed that way These me● also heard the noise and were greatly terrified therewith With this ratling and rumbling noyse Enoch then in his bed being suddenly awaked became terribly affrighted and greatly distempered with enraged feares and outcryes so that he leaped out of his Bed cast off his Shirt and came downe naked out of the Chamber unto the company hi● Watchmen below in the Hall● and there cryed out with great vehemency and contention o● voice many times without Intermission ô they murder me they murder me they murder me Which terrible expressions of tormenting feares confirme that sentence of sacred Scripture (x) Prov. 18.14 The Spirit of a man shall susteyne his Infirmityes but a Wounded Spirit who can beare it For hee whose heart and hands were yet moistned with his Mothers and Brothers blood apprehended the least noyse sounding in his eares to be the assaults of Hellish furies seizing upon him His Keepers being thus disquieted with him made haste to be eased of their trouble attired him in his cloathes pinnioned his Armes and towards foure of

and by effusion of his owne brothers bloud as he reported to me To draw the children of light out of darknesse and to declare his owne Zeale to the Word of GOD. 11 A controversie therefore happening undoubtedly the worke of Satan in the house of Edward ap Evan upon Sunday the thirtieth day of Iune last past 1633. betweene Ioan the mother and Enoch her sonne whereat Iohn was present touching the most convenient gesture in the act of receiving the sacred Communion stirred up by Enoch as that sect is alwayes prating of such matters Ioan the mother and Iohn her sonne according to their unlearned and plain manner pleaded for our Church gesture of kneeling in that holy act Enoch a fellow of hasty furious and proud spirit defended stoutly according to his blunt and rude fashion that to sit and bow the body was the most Convenient posture The opposition in opinions grew so sharpe between them that Ioan told her sonne Enoch that hee was a very sorry fellow and desired of the LORD to Instruct and amend him Iohn also very mildly as his manner was signified his dislike of Enoch's opinion and made knowne his owne resolution to remaine constant in his obedience to the King and his Lawes This purpose of Iohn concurring with his former dislike of Enoch's courses added new flames unto his wrath and malice formerly conceived and now growne inveterate that from that very instant of time he waited an opportunitie to execute his secret and maligne rage against him Yet he grew not to a full resolution to murder Iohn till the Friday morning after this unfortunate conference betweene them Iohn called up his fathers servant and they together yoked up their cattell and betooke themselves to their worke in the fields Enoch later up wayted the comming of Iohn from the fields whose custome was after 〈◊〉 wearinesse with labour 〈◊〉 take a small repast of me●● and drinke and to repose himselfe in slumber for an hou● on the end of the table-boo●● upon a cushion This custom● of Iohn being very wel know to Enoch he sets in a readine●● a great hatchet with an edg●● very broad and sharpe way● his time and finding a calm●● opportunity free from all like●● lihood of resistance Iohn being in a deepe and peaceful slumber Enoch strucke hi●● with the head of the hatch●● upon his bare head and t●● wound thereof being not dee●● by impression because th●● feare of a wounded conscience for so inhumane a purpose abated the strength o●● his armes and made him with a trembling hand to perpetrate that villany Iohn fell instantly from the boord to the floore astonied with the blow yet not so wounded or disabled from rising but that hee scrambled for help to raise up himselfe which Enoch fearing desperately strucke him with a second blow in the necke with the same hatchet and the edge thereof being very broad and sharp he therwith at one blow more as he himselfe told me separated his head from his bodie 12 Vpon this stirre and rumbling noise in the house Ioan their mother being in the next roome came presently in and seeing to the infinite griefe of her soule the head and bodie of her younger son separated one from the other she lift up her voice with a shri●● and sharpe sound and said 〈◊〉 Enoch in a passion of terror a●● griefe O thou Villaine 〈◊〉 some such like words of pr●● voked indignation for Enoch could not remember them What hast thou done hast the killed thy brother Vp●● these words Enoch still en●●ged with diabolicall furie a●● having the hatchet in his han●● struck at her very face with a●● his force And she being a w●● man of threescore and twel●● yeares of age put by two 〈◊〉 three of his blows by claspi●● and closing with him and th●● by turning away the streng 〈◊〉 of his violence and mak●● way for the asswaging of 〈◊〉 fury had not the Divell himselfe beene outragious within him But she wanting strength by reason of her great age to hold conflict and wrestling with him and crying for help and calling to him to remit his rage hee nothing mollified with her fearefull cries strucke her betweene the left shoulder and the neck foure inches deep into her brest with which mortall wound shee fell downe on the floore ready to expire her soule into the hands of her Creator And he not satisfied herewith ragingly dragged her wounded and bleeding body to the threshold of the doore and thereon at five strokes more hee divided her head from that brest and those paps which gave sucke unto him 13 These furious out-rag●● and crying murders thus pe●● petrated hee instantly barre●● the doore where the dead be●● dies lay hee takes the head●● wraps them in a course linne●● cloth which hee drenched●● water that their bloud still●● suing thorow the veins of the●● heads freshly bleeding mig●● not so sensibly appeare as th●● row a dry cloth it would ha●● done The wet cloth with t●● heads he enwrapped in an o●● russet jerkin bound and k●● fast And laying this bund●● on the table-boord he goes●● to his chamber shifts his bre●● ches and stockings which we●● stained with the aspersion 〈◊〉 the bloud comes down aga●● beats out a large clay-wall 〈◊〉 the roome and thereat he 〈◊〉 sues forth and makes his escape into the fields Thinking by this his practice of breaking the wall to colour and cover his fact and to transpose all suspition thereof from himselfe to an opinion that some passengers that way or theeves had committed these furious and desperate murders In the time of his escape in this manner a young black horse of the old mans by the negligence of a servant boy of the house got into the roome at the gappe or broken wall where the dead bodies lay And being found there a rumour was scattered over all the countrey and entertained of light and credulous persons that the Divell in the shape of a blacke horse was found in the roome where the headlesse bodies lay 14 Enoch having thus escaped into the fields conveyes the heads secretly away and hidde them under a heape of loose Fearne ready cut to bee burned After this he walked forward almost a mile and came to a Kins-mans house of his one Goodman Howells and enquired for a young man of this house the sonne of this Howells answere was made him that if he could stay halfe an houre he might speak with him for hee was gone forth and would be returned by that time Vpon this answere Enoch goes into the house and waites the comming of his Cosin and in the interim h●● tooke a Bible which hee saw upon a shelfe and sate him downe and read the first chapter of the Prophecie of Isaiah and by that time he had read through the whole chapter the young man whom he had expected came in After salutations betweene them Enoch desired him to lend him the booke called the Practice of Piety his

thinking For I know right well true faith such as you flatter your selfe to be endued with and effectuall conversion to GOD are the whole substance of a Christian mans New-birth by the Spirit of GOD and this Regeneration where it is sound and effectuall sets the soule of that man free from Satans prevailing in such measure and degree as he hath done in your heart and in all the powers of your soule For it is the testimony of Gods Spirit in His Apostle ● Iohn ● 18 They that are borne of GOD sinne not but hee that is begotten of GOD keepeth himselfe that the wicked one toucheth him not Enoch Sir I have heard some Preachers teach that faith once had can never be lost Min. And by hearing such doctrine preached your imagination deluded and Satanically bewitched became presumptuous bold and desperate to commit those vnnaturall flagitious and crying Sinnes which by continuall clamour call for vengeance at the hand of GOD's Iustice But better it were that such doctrines were never preached unlesse those just limitations prescribed in GOD's Word were both carefully judiciously and continually added thereunto The method and manner of the delivery of this doctrine by Ministers of your acquaintance and familiaritie is neither sound nor true For such Ministers suspend and hang the whole matter of a Christian mans preservation in grace in faith in obedience after his Conversion upon the Mercy the Will and the Act of GOD's power grounding themselves upon these Scriptures Rom. 11.29 The gifts and calling of GOD are without repentance And againe 1 Pet. 1.5 Yee are kept by the power of GOD through faith unto salvation And by these places of holy Scripture and such like the whole act of a Christians support in faith and holinesse is transposed and put off from the will and care of man himselfe unto the will the mercie the power of GOD. And thus the best of men who are naturally prone to selfe-flattery selfe-pleasing and spirituall securitie have the edge of gracious care vigilancie and circumspection blunted and abated But our LORD Himselfe in whose love mercie and holy degrees our preservation and salvation ●● firmely established commands all His children Matth. 26. To watch and pray that they enter not in●● temptation the spirit is readie but the flesh is weake And the Apostle of our LORD gives a caveat to all the true and faithfull people of the LORD 1 Cor. 10.12 saying Let him that thinketh hee standeth take bee● lest he fall And further by the same Apostle Philip. 2.12 13. Worke out your owne salvation with feare and trembling for it is GOD that worketh in you both to will and ●● doe of his good pleasure And the Apostle Iude hath pressed this godly care very home upon the hearts of all true Christians saying Iude 20 21 verse 20 21. But yee beloved building up your selves on your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Ghost keepe your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Iesus Christ unto eternall life Vnlesse then our understandings wills affections and all that is in us doe willingly submit themselves to the gracious motions and operations of GOD's holy Spirit within us we shall not onely grieve the holy Spirit of GOD Ephes 4.30 1 Thess ● 19 but also wee shall quench the lively flame therof in our hearts and soules By all which places of sacred Scriptures so pregnant and convincing we may informe our understandings that in mans preservation in faith and obedience after effectuall conversion there is a mutuall concurrence of two speciall agents The one supreme and principall and that is GOD our Father Psal 37.23 24. our LORD and SAVIOUR by His Spirit enlightning guiding and supporting The other inferiour subordinate and concurrent with the principall and that is mans understanding will and all other his faculties and powers readily apprehending sweetly embracing joyfully concurring with the divine motions issuing from Gods blessed Spirit according to that voice of the Church Draw me Cant. 1.4 we will run after thee And if this latter at any time be intermitted neglected or suspended The actions of GOD's Spirit in mens soules cannot possibly yeeld any spirituall joy delight and comfort no nor so much as be sensibly felt in the soule of any man But it growes late I must bid you for this time fare-well Enoch Good Sir let me see you again as soone as you can I like well your speeches and I hope you are sent of GOD to doe me good Min. I will GOD-willing see you again the next weeke in the meane time know there is no comming for you to heaven but thorow the suburbs of hell I meane a great measure of Humiliation and Repentance This being our conference at that time I left him to his prison cold irons and spirituall meditations And after this the first newes that I heard concerning him was a common report spread in five daies space throughout our whole Towne and Countrey that ● was the man with whom hee had greatest desire to conferre and to impart himselfe by revealing and discovering what hee intended to make knowne And his reason was that although many Ministers had questioned freely with him to search out his opinions and the secrets of his heart yet none had at that time administred any counsell or directions unto him but my selfe and therefore he conjectured at my intentions by my actions 20 This purpose of Enoch concerning me being publikely knowne by the generality of report The Puritans of whose generation he was were greatly displeased herewith And one of them no honest man I warrant you said of mee Hee is of a great and ungodly Wit and comes to this man of purpose to discredit our party and will worke him to his owne will And godly persons shall thereby sustaine disgrace by the unnaturall cruelty and wickednesse of this bloudie man This report I heard and digested it with silence and patience being by many yeares residence here inured to their bitternesse of spirit and frequent railings But I doe hereby challenge all the Puritanes of this Kingdome of England to charge if they can my Wit or my Will with any peece of ungodlinesse in the execution of my calling or the course of my conversation For I never thought nor they shall never prove it That to defend the Orthodox doctrine of the Church of England against the Papists k Iude 3. B● contending earnestly for the faith once given to the Saints Or the ancient discipline of the sam● Church against the Puritanes ●● be any branch of an ungodly W●● But on the contrary part the resolved and constant practice thereof in my publike Ministrie as occasion was incident to be a gracious inclination to solid pietie and a publike declarat on of an honest heart disposed to peace and unity 21 On the Munday following being the fifteenth day of Iuly 1633. Two messengers from Bishops

z Iob 34.18 Is it fit to say to a King thou art wicked c. If the lawes whose rigour life and authority flow immediately from Kings and Princes in their Dominions bee in their Nature wicked as they are Lawes certainely the Princes themselves who enact or authorize those lawes in the censure and judgement of those men who vilifie the same lawes by refusing to obey them cannot be good So that let them turne themselves which way they will they are taken in a snare woven from the cleare sense of the sacred Scripture For either they curse the King in his lawes or they judge not his Person to be righteous from whom unjust and unrighteous lawes doe proceede and are imposed by command For they cannot possibly affirme the King to bee righteous nor his lawes to bee righteous when they refuse to give obedience both to the one and to the other I know they will reply that they love and honour the King but that they like not his lawes And I answere them againe it is impossible to love and honour the King and to dislike his lawes for the lawes are the Spirit and life of the King as he is Supreame head over his people securing the royalty of his Princely State and sweetly attracting his subjects to cheerfull obedience For therefore doe the subjects honour reverence and love the person of the King because of the righteousnesse and equity of his laws whereby they are governed in tranquillity and peace And on the contrary no man living in the world doth naturally freely sweetly love the person of a Tyrant because he rules by the rage of his affections and the strong hand of power and not by the peaceable rule of Iustice and approved lawes So that the true and cordiall love of subjects to their King ariseth in them not onely from relation of superiority in his person and inferiority in theirs but much more fervently and firmely from his pious care in constituting good lawes for the regiment of his people in honour wealth peace and libertie free from the vassallage of oppressing subjection 44 Vnder the light and law of nature the very Heathens illuminated and endued with some acts of inspiration from GOD to quicken the principles of native light in their own soules have with more veneration and reverence honoured their Kings than Christians have done the knowne Vicegerents of GOD under the Law of Grace after the cleare declaration of GOD's will pressing and commanding obedience unto them For Elihu a young man could say to Iob and his friends a Iob 36.7 He withdrawes not his eyes from the righteous but with Kings are they on the Throne yea he doth establish them for ever and they are exalted And herewith accords the wise and as I may truly say the holy sentences uttered by those men who being destitute of the Divine and supernatural light of Christian faith have shewed to the world the light and the extent of Natures love in their understandings Homerus I liad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The mindes of Kings are great in understanding their honour is from God and they are beloved of Him and directed What other sense can these words import recorded both in sacred Scriptures and by Heathen Writers than that GOD hath stamped the character of His Divine Majestie both on their persons for Authority and on their hearts for Government and direction For undoubtedly this sense is confirmed by other places in the sacred Scriptures As b Pro. 23. ●● The heart of the King is in the hand of GOD as the Rivers of waters he turneth it whither soever he will And againe c Pro. 16.10 A divine sentence is in the lippes of the King his mouth transgresseth not in Iudgment And this sacred Truth is approved by the consenting judgement of the ancient and godly learned Iustin Martyr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have given unto you Princes mine owne Honour mine ordinance and my calling requiring you to Iudge my people as if I myselfe did judge them And for the preventing of disobedience against the sacred Persons of Kings and their Lawes all sorts rankes and degrees of men in the visible Church of GOD and out of the pale thereof are commanded d Rom. 13.1 Let every soule be subject to the Higher Powers for there is no power but of GOD. And those words are expounded by an ancient very learned and godly Father of the Greeke Church after this manner Chr. soft in loc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The Apostle demonstrating that these things are commanded to all men unto Priests and Monkes and not unto Secular Lay-men only he makes it manifest from the preface saying Let every soule bee subject to the supereminent powers yea though hee be an Apostle an Evangelist a Prophet or whosoever he be for this subjection doth not subvert pietie And againe the rule of GOD's Spirit in Scriptures commands us e Pro. 2● 21 My sonne seare thou the LORD and the King and meddle not with them who are given to changes 45 How comes it then to passe seeing these things are so manifest in the sacred Scriptures that so many Ministers in our Church by faction and schisme doe rend in pieces that blessed peace and unity which they are every-where in the holy Scriptures f Ephes 4 3● Phil. 2.2 30 commanded to preserve and support The true cause hereof I take to be this The povertie of the inseriour sort of our English Clergie And this answer I gave to the Lord Bishop of our Diocesse proposing this very question unto mee at the table of a worthy Knight of our County Sir William Owen my Noble and very Honoured friend For in this age of ours the practice of many Ministers exactly correspondeth with that of certaine Priests and Prophets in the Church of Israel g Micha 3.11 The Priests teach for hire and the Prophets thereof Divine for money yet they will leane upon the LORD and say Is not the LORD among us no evill shall come upon us For these Non-conformists as they are the movers of this faction and violation of our peace raise to themselves as farre as I am able to conceive and I thinke all wise men of this Land concurre with mee herein an underhand maintenance by private Benevolences of seduced friends after this manner by certaine gradations of Art and policie 1 First they insinuate into the peoples hearts a sly opinion which must not bee contradicted to wit that many things are amisse in our Church government which only Gods faithfull servants enlightned with His Spirit have found out discovered and made knowne to the world and because they cannot obtaine a reformation as the pious zeale of their hearts desireth they are forced to groane under the heavie burden of Antichristian servitude Now the Mobile Vulgus hearing these deplorable complaints uttered with the gravity of well composed countenances and expressed in an accent