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A70635	A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ...	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.; Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30. Offer of farther help to suffering saints.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.	1665 (1665)	Wing M330; Wing M332; ESTC R232057	171,145	273

of sound doctrine he began with a loud voice to recite the Psalm which begins thus O Lord my Rock be not thou silent to me c. Psa 28. He changed not his countenance upon the Scaffold though they had gagged him there because he comforted and freely exhorted one of his Sister● to be constant When the time was come that those which should be burned were brought to the place of Execution they were every one commanded to recite the Articles of their belief which they willingly did but when they came to the Article I believe the holy Catholick Church they were bid to add the word Roman● but they were silent Then did the Monks and Friers importune Gonzalve's Sisters c. to repeat the word Romane who answered They would if they might hear Gonzalve pronounce it He being ungagged the first word he spake was That they should be of good courage and not to add one word more than what they had recited Grange The Bishop of Arres telling Mr. Fo● Vol. 3. Cout p. 39. Peragrine del● Grange that he was sorry to see him in that condition in Prison Sir said he as for the base estate in which you now see me God hath so comforted me therein with his grace that I do without any great difficulty patiently suffer what he hath pleased to lay upon me yea I praise and bless his Name that he hath ballanced the weight of my afflictions according to the strength which he hath given me so as I sink not under the burden for as my sufferings in Christ abound he causeth his consolations by Christ to abound in me also It is usual said the Bishop with such as you are to glory in this kind of speech 2 Cor. 1.3 for as soon as any afflictions do befall you you by and by stile them the sufferings of Christ and if any of you be put to death than it is for Gods truth but when things are laid to the touchstone the matter is nothing so nor so Sir said Mr. Grange if your meaning be of such as have died for the Doctrine for which I am bound with this Chain and thus settered with Irons I doubt not but they have given such a reason of their Faith that whosoever shall read their Answers and weigh the same without partiality must needs judge as we do And for my own part I am ready to make it good 1 Tim. 6.3 Deut. 12.32 That the Doctrine I now hold and teach is according to godliness taken out of the pure Fountains of the holy Scriptures without adding thereto diminishing or varying any way therefrom We read said the Bishop that in all times men have been wont to shelter themselves under the title of Gods Word even the old Hereticks c. I am not ignorant hereof said Mr. Grange in regard that Satan knows how to transform himself into an Angel of light thereby to establish his delusions causing darkness to be taken for light But the Holy Ghost who is the Spirit of truth hath in such wise discovered his juglings that none are deluded thereby but those who at noon day close their eyes that they may not behold the light Do you think said the Bishop that the Holy Ghost hath given you such an illumination that the truth should onely be revealed to you and to none other God forbid Sir said Mr. Grange I should have any such thought I am not of the mind of those Dreamers who brag of their having particular Revelations of the Holy Spirit but I speak of an ordinary and general Revelation such as is taught us out of the Bible c. I am neither Calvinist nor Papist I am a Christian and what I hold concerning Religion is taken out of Christs Doctrine who is the onely Doctor of his Church What Calvin hath taught conformable to the Word of God I am of the same mind with him And whereas you call your Religion the Old Religion and ours the New i● troubles me not at all since the Father of Lie● hath long since forged the same to disgrace the Truth c. In his dispute with the Bishop concerning the Real Presence See pa. 39 40 41 42. c. We may see what holy boldness mixed with meekness the Lord had endued this holy Servant of his with When the Provost gave him and Monsieur de Brez of whom before notice that they should die that day they magnified God for his goodness and gave the Provost thanks for the good news which he had brought them Monsieur la Grange going to the rest of the Prisoners Pag. 43. said I am this day to die for the Truth and then the heavenly in heritance is prepared for me My name is written in the Book of Life Phil. 4.3 Rom. 11.29 never to be blotted out because the gifts and calling of God are without repentance He called for a Brush to brush his Hat Cloak causing his Shoes to be blacked for now said he I am bidden to the marriage of the Lamb where I am to feast with him for ever and ever Being askt Whether he meant to suffer with those Shackles on his heels I would I might said he yea and that they would bury them with me too that they might manifest the inhumanity of my adverfaries He told his friends he felt such joy of the Holy Ghost in his heart that he could not with tongue express adding that God shewed him a thousand times more favour by taking him after this manner out of this transitory life than if he had let him die in his bed by sickness for now I shall die said he enjoying the benefit of all the powers of my soul praying the Lord to have mercy on me Monsieur la Grange and de Brez were sentenced to be hang'd for administring the Lords Supper against an express charge by the King given them to the contrary When la Grange was upon the Ladder he protested with a loud voice that he died onely for preaching to the people the pure truth of God taking Heaven and Earth to witness the same with him Gratwick Mr. Stephen Gratwick Fox Vol. 3. pag. 790. seeing the Bishops that sate upon to laugh said unto them Why do ye laugh Are ye confederate together for my blood and therein triumph You have more cause to look weightily upon the matter for I stand here before you upon life and death But you declare your selves what you are You are lapped in Lambs apparel but you are bent to have my blood Seeing you will have my blood Pa. 792. let me say a little more for my self On Sunday last you preached this Truth If any man think himself Religious and bridleth not his tongue the same mans Religion is vain And yet in the mean time you seduced your tongue to slander us poor Prisoners there present in Iron bands burdening us with the names of Arrians Herodians Anabaptists Sacramentarians Pelagians And

said he by the Word of God I will never credit you nor believe you Harpsfield telling him If his Child died unchristened he was damn'd and his Child both Judge you no farther said he than ye may by the Scriptures Pa. 259. How can your Child being an Insant said Harpsfield believe The deliverance of it said Hankes from sin standath in the faith of his Parents Saint Paul saying Else were your Children unclean 1 Cor. 7. To trust to any said Bonner we bid you not but to pray to them we bid you They that list said Hankes receive your Dectrine You teach me that I should not believe nor trust in any but to call on them and Saint Paul saith How shall I call on him on whom I believe not Bonner calling him fool he said A Bishop must be blameless or faultless soler discreet no chider nor given to anger Mr. Hankes telling Bonner That Christ saith These tokens shall follow them that believe in me Pa. 216. Mark 16 They shali speak with new tongnes cast out Devils and if any drink deadly poyson it shall net hurt them Bonner ask'd him With what new tongues do ye speak Forso●th said Hankes where before I came to the knowledge of Gods Word I was a foul Blasphemer and filthy talker Since I came to the knowledge thereof I have praised God with the same tongue and is not this a new tongue H●w do you said Bonner cast out Devils Christ said Hankes did east them out by his Word and he hath left the save Word that whoscever doth credit and believe it shall cast out Devils Did you said Bonner ever drink deadly poyson Yea forsooth that I have said Hankes for I have drunk of the testilent Traditions and Ceremonies of the Bishop of Rome Bonner threatning that he should be burnt for an Heretick Where prove ye said Hankes that Christ or his Apostles did kill any man for his faith Did not Paul said B. excommunicate Yes my Lord said H. but there is a great difference between excommunlcation and burning If you will have us grant you to be of God then shew mercy for that God requireth An old Bishop perswading him to learn of his Elders to bear somewhat I will bear with nothing said he that is contrary to the Word of God Fecknam charging him for building his Faith on Latimer Pa. 261. Cranmer Ridley c. I build my Faith said he upon no man and that ye well know for if those men and as many more as they be should recant and deny that they have said or done yet will I stand to it and by this shall ye know that I build my Faith upon no man Chadsey asking him What he said of the Bishop of Rome From him said he and all his detestable enormities good Lord deliver us Bonner saying You speak of Idols and you know not what they mean God hath taught us what they be said Hankes for whatsoever is made graven or devised by mans hand contrary to Gods Word the same is an Idol Chadsey telling him Pa. 262. It was pity he should live In this case said he I desire not to live but rather to die I would my part might be to morrow Bonner threatning to send him to Newgate My Lord said he you can do me no better pleasure Bonner telling the Keeper Pa. 263. His Prisoner would not go to the Sermon Yes My Lord said he I pray you let me go and that that is good I will receive and the rest I will leave behind me Bonner asking after his imprisonment Whether he was the same man he was before he answered I am no Changeling nor none will be Miles Huggard asking him Where he proved that Infants were to be baptized Go teach all Nations said he baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghest Sir here is none excepted Bonner threatning him again Pa. 264. Ye shall do no more said he than God shall give you leave As for your cursings railings and blasphemings I care not for them for I know the moths and worms shall eat you as they eat cloth or wooll His examination he writ himself and subscribed it T. H. Who desireth all faithful men and Brethren to pray unto God to strengthen me in his Truth unto the end Pray pray pray gentle Brethren pray Bonner advising him at his publick examination to speak advisedly Pa. 265. for he stood upon life and death Well said he I will willingly receive what shall be put unto me My Lord as you be my friend in causing these my sayings to be written so do you cause them to be read and yet I will never go from them Being exhorted to return again to the bosome of the Mother Church No my Lord said he that will I not for if I had an hundred bodies I would suffer them all to be torn in pieces rather than I will abjure or recant Some of his Friends being not a little confirmed by his example and discourses yet being somewhat afraid of so sharp a punishment desired him alittle before his death that in the midst of the flame he would shew some token if he could whereby they might be more certain whether the pain of burning were so great Pa. 266. that a man might not therein keep his mind quiet and patient Whereupon it was agreed between them that if the rage of the pain were tolerable then he should lift up his hands above his head towards Heaven before he gave up the ghost Accordingly when he had continued long in the fire his speech taken away his skin drawn together his singers consumed so that all concluded he was dead contrary to all expectation he reached up his hands burning on a light fire over his head to the living God and with great rejoycing as it seemed clapped them three times together He was burned to ashes June 10. 1555. In his Letter to the Congregation The holy Spirit conduct and lead you all in all your doings that you may alwayes direct your deeds according to his holy Word that when he shall appear to reward every man according to his works ye may as obedient children be found watching ready to enter into his everlasting Kingdome with your Lamps burning and not be ashamed of this life which God hath lent you c. All flesh saith the Prophet is grass and all his glory as the flower of the field which for a season sheweth her beauty and as soon as the Lord bloweth upon it it withereth away and departeth Here we are as Pilgrims and Strangers following the footsteps of Moses among many unspeakable dangers c. in danger of that dreadful Dragon and his sinful seed to be tempted devoured and tormented who ceaseth not behind every Busn to lay a bait c. casting abroad his Apples in all places times and seasons to see if Adam will be allured and enticed to

the very hairs of their heads turning the flame from them to devour their enemies Thou O Lord God by the might of thy right arm which governeth all broughtest Daniel thy Prophet safe into light and life forth of the dark Den of the devouring Lions Pag. 52. c. Now also O heavenly Father beholder of all things to whom belongs vengeance thou seest and considerest how thy holy Name by the wicked Worldlings blasphemous Idolaters is dishonoured thy sacred Word forsaken refused despised thy holy Spirit provoked offended thy chosen Temple polluted and defiled Tarry not too long therefore but shew thy power speedily upon thy chosen Houshold which is so grievously vexed and so cruelpy handled by thy open enemies Avenge thine own glory shorten these evil dayes for thine Elects sake Let thy Kingdome come of all thy Servants desired and though we have all offended thy Majesty Pag. 53. Yet for thine own glory O merciful Lord suffer not the enemy of thy Son Christ the Romish Antichrist thus wretchedly to delude and draw from thee our poor brethren for whom thy Son once died that by his cruelty after so clear light they should be made Captives to dumb Idols and devillish inventions of Popish Ceremonies thereunto pertaining Suffer him not to seduce the simple sort with this fond opinion that his false gods blind mumbling feigned Religion or his foolish Superstition doth give him such conquest such victories such triumph and so high an hand over us We know most certainly O Lord Pag. 54. that it is not their arm and power but our sins and offences that hath delivered us to their fury and hath caused thee to turn away from us But turn again O Lord let us fall into thine hands c. least these vain Idolaters do rejoyce at the miserable destruction of those men whom they make Proselytes and from thy Doctrine Apostates But O Lord thy will be fulfilled this is thy righteous judgement to punish us with the tyrannical yoke of blindness because we have cast away from us the sweet yoke of the wholesom Word of thy Son our Saviour Yet consider the horrible blasphemies of thine and our enemies Pag. 55. They say in their hearts there is no God which either can or will deliver us Wherefore O heavenly Father the Governour of all things the Avenger of the Causes of the poor the fatherless the widow and the oppressed look down from Heaven with the face of thy fatherly mercies and forgive us all former offences and for thy Son Jesus Christs sake have mercy upon us who by the force and cruelty of wicked and blasphemous Idolaters without causes approved are haled and pulled from our own houses are slandered slain and murdered as Rebels and Traytors like persons pernicious pestiferous leditious pestilent and full of mortal poyson to all men contagious whereas we do meddle no farther but against the hellish powers of darkness c. which would deny the will of our Christ unto us we do contend no farther but onely for our Christ Crucified and the onely salvation by his blessed Passion Pag. 56. Therefore O Lord for thy glorious Names sake for Jesus Christs sake c. make the wicked Idolaters to wonder and stand amazed at thy Almighty power Use thy wonted strength to the confusion of thine enemies and to the help and deliverance of thy persecuted people All thy Saints do beseech thee therefore The young Infants which have some deal tasted of thy sweet Word by whose mouths thou hast promised to make perfect thy praises whose Angels do always behold thy face who besides the loss of us their Parents are in danger to be compelled and driven without thy great mercies to serve dumb and insensible Idols do cry and call unto thee Their pitiful Mothers with lamentable-tears lye prostrate before the Throne of thy Grace Pag. 57. Thou Father of the fatherless Judge of the widdows and Avenger of all the oppressed Let it appear O Lord Omnipotent that thou dost here Judge Avenge and punish all wrongs offered to all thy little Ones that do believe in thee Do this O● Lord For thy Names sake Arise up O Lord and thine enemies shall be scattered and confounded So be it O Lord most merciful at thy time appointed In his Letter to Mr. Pa. 323. Warcup Be not so dainty as to look for that at God your dear Fathers hands which the Fathers Patriarks Prophets Apostles Evangelists Saints and his own Son Jesus Christ did not find i. e. all fair way and fair weather to Heavne The Devil standeth now at every Inne-door in this City and Countrey of thi● World crying unto us to tarry and Lodge in this or that place till the storms be over-past not tha● he would not have us to wet our skin but that the time of our running our Race might over-pass us ●o our utter destruction Fear not the Flail fear not the Fanning-wind fear not the Milstone fear not the Oven for all these make you more meet for the Lords tooth In his Letter to Dr. Hill Pa. 326. Such as think it enough to keep the heart pure notwithstanding that the outward man curry favour as they deny God to be jealous one that will have the whole man having created redeemed and sanctified ●oth for himself so they play the Dissemblers with the Church of God by their parting stakes between God and the World offending the Godly whom either they provoke to fall with them or make more careless and conscienceless if they have fallen and occasioning the wicked and obstinate to triumph against God and the more vehemently to prosecute their malic● against such as will not defile themselves in body or soul with the Romish Rags now received among us Call to mind that there are but two Masters two kind of people two wayes and two Mansion places The Masters be Christ and Satan the people the Servitors to either of these the wayes be strait and wide the Mansions be Heaven and Hell This World is the place of trial of Gods people and ●he Devils servants by whom they follow The Cross it is that doth make the tryal In his Letter to Royden and Esing Pa. 333. Whom would it grieve which hath a long journey to go through a piece of foul way if he knew that after that the way should be most pleasant yea the journey should be ended and he at his resting place most happy Who will be afraid or loth to leave a little pelf for a little time if he knew he should afterwards very speedily receive most plentiful riches Who will be unwilling for a while to forsake his wife children friends c. when he knoweth he shal shortly after be associated to them inseparably even after his own hearts desire Who will be sorry to forsake his life who is most certain of eternal life Who loveth the shadow better than the body Who can desire the