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A56725	The life of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the times of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I written by Sir George Paule ; to which is added a treatise intituled, Conspiracy for pretended reformation, written in the year 1591, by Richard Cosin ...; Life of Archbishop Whitgift	Paule, George, Sir, 1563?-1637.; Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597. Conspiracy for pretended reformation.	1699 (1699)	Wing P878_ENTIRE; ESTC R1659	167,057	342

is by the State suppressed and kept under That it is the will of God to have such a Reformation That impeachment of it is offered by the Queen Counsel and Nobles That this is a great sin meet to be repented of by them That they must be brought to this repentance That the penalty against any of them that refuse to be brought is to be detected as Traytors an offence deserving death That this must be done out of hand That the will of God in great favour for the good of his Church was revealed to him in this behalf being a man of much fasting prayer rare gifts a Coppinger calls it the Cause and Truth of God which must go or and to oppose it is a Sin deserving death That this was revealed to him as a Prophet and not to be discredited Prophet an extraordinary man with an extraordinary Calling such as was not to be judged of or discerned by meer ordinary men and whereinto he entred not rashly or on a sudden but after many conflicts with himself before his yielding to God's extraordinary motion and calling But submitting himself nevertheless to have his Gifts and Calling tried and allowed of by the best reformed Preachers and therefore not worthy to be suspected or discredited That the way to bring them to this repentance was a secret Mystery such as those Preachers and others whom he conferred with albeit The Preachers thought the ways of effecting of it dangerous and refused to be made acquainted with them but consent he should run the hazard they held it a work to be wished at God's hands yet by his talk gathered the manner of bringing it in to be so dangerous as that they feared the success and refused to be made acquainted with the particular ways and means which he had plotted to effect it Thereby making choise rather that Coppinger should venture to put it in practise if he remained resolute herein which they found by him of what dangerous consequence soever such a way might be than that they by bewraying of him to Authority should be any means to break off and prevent his Resolution or quench his Zeal And thus with opinion of safety to themselves they merchandized the hazard of their Friend's life or else the rearing of Sedition in the Realm with the hope that secretly they nourished to have the Discipline which they dream of erected Thus Coppinger remaining still more confirmed Coppinger brought acquainted with Hacket and Arthington and setled in this vein by his Pew-fellow Wigginton about Easter-Term last being as is aforesaid brought acquainted with Hacket as with a most holy man soon after would needs bring Arthington also acquainted with him as one whom upon so small knowledge he had observed to be a very rare man For this purpose he sent for Arthington to Dinner or Supper unto Lawson's House near to Paul's Gate where Arthington met first with Hacket together with another whom he calleth a godly man Of whose ordinary talk then had Arthington liked very well but had as he saith at that time no further conference with him After which time Arthington discontinued from the City Arthington retires into Yorkshire and remained in Yorkshire until Trinity Term leaving Hacket and Coppinger behind him plotting of their purposes together What Purposes they had what Counsel they entred into and what Conferences they entertained betwixt themselves and with others by the Events ensuing will best be discovered After this Hacket stayed Hacket goes also into the Country not long in London but desired Coppinger at his departure to write unto him what succels J. T. had and withal assuring him that whensoever he should write for him he the said Hacket would streightway come up again Hereupon Coppinger writ unto him first Coppinger sends for him to London and provides him Chamber and Board at the end of Easter Term and after again very earnestly to be at London three days before the beginning of Trinity Term last but he could not be here so soon by three or four days When he was come he lodged the first night at Istington but sent his Horse down again into the Country as purposing to stay long in London Then after a night or two one of which nights he lodged at the said Lawson's House by Wiggington's direction he was provided of a Chamber and of his Board at one Ralph Kaye's House in Knight-rider-street by Coppinger's means and at his Charges for he cost Coppinger there Eleven Shillings by the Week But Kayes waxing weary of him in part for that he seared Hacket was a Conjurer or Witch in that the Camomil he saith in his Garden where Hacket either trod or sate did wither up the next night and waxed black therefore Coppinger provided at his own charges likewise another Room for him at one Walker's House by Broken Wharf where he remained until his apprehension Whilst Hacket was at Kaye's House he Hacket leaves the Queen out of his Prayers used before and after Meals to pray as seemed most devoutly and zealously but never for the Queen's Majesty Hacket also told Kayes That if all the Divines in England should pray for Rain if he said the word yet it should not rain The first of the aforesaid Letters which Coppinger writ unto Hacket to move him to come up doth contain matter of note besides not unfit to be known Brother Hacket Coppinger ' s Letter to Hacket saith he the burthen which God hath laid upon me you being the Instrument to make me bold and couragious where I was fearful and faint is greater than I can bear without your help here though I have it where you are The workings of his holy spirit in me since your departure be mighty and great My zeal of spirit burneth like fire so that I cannot contain my self and conceal his mercies towards me And a little after in the same Letter Master Thr. is put off till the next Term the zealous Preachers as it is thought are to be in the Star-Chamber to morrow the Lord by his holy Spirit be with them My self if I can get in am moved to be there And I fear if Sentence with severity be given I shall Note be forced in the name of the great and fearful God of Heaven to protest against it My desire is that you hast up so soon as you can your Charges shall be born by me And somewhat after thus If his most holy Spirit direct you to come come If not stay But write with speed and convey your Letter and inclose it in a Letter to him who brought you and me acquainted viz. Wigginton put not your name to it for discovery Direct your Letter thus To my loving Brother in the Lord give these my Letters I put to no name but the matter you know which sufficeth Pray that the Lord may reign and that his Subjects may obey That all Instruments whatsoever that shall be

with the Widow whom he married whose hap was very hard to match with him albeit he made more of her than she desired for he made the uttermost peny For then he begun He pretended to a Prophetick Spirit and to miraculous Works in order to erecting the Discipline with counterfeit Holiness to set out himself amongst such of the simpler sort as had zeal without knowledge to be a man indued with an extraordinary and singular Spirit such as in old time the Prophets and Holy Men of God were making shew withall as if he had some peculiar Gifts and Qualities to be able even to tell Secrets and work Miracles which many believed whereof some did attribute them to Sorcery and Enchantments but the simpler sort unto his rare Spirit and Holiness For he trusted by this persuasion to get such credit with the unstable Multitude as that by their hands he might one day be able whosoever should withstand it to bring his Purposes about for erecting of such pretended Discipline to his own great estimation and advancement In this vain and seducing Humour he is reported I know not how truly to have travelled in the North parts unto York For among the simpler People where he was not known he hoped by the Vizard of Holiness and Religion not a little to prevail in setting forward his Designments For which purpose he took upon him there the Office and Spirit of St. John Affirmed at York to have the Office and Spirit of John Baptist Baptist affirming that he was sent thither by God to prepare the way of the Lord before his second coming to judgment But the counterfeit holiness and lewd seducing purpose of the Varlet being discovered unto some in Authority he was welcomed not with loss of his Head as that holy man unjustly was whom he wickedly counterfeited Being detected he was whipped out of the City but was well whipped and after banished that City This Medicine wrought not so effectually with him as that it could terrify him wholly from the like Attempts For it is reported that after this he assayed again to put on the like Person or Mask at Lincoln where Had the same usage afterwards at Lincoln he also found the same Cheer and Entertainment for his pains as he received afore at York But this erroneous Opinion whereby through self-love and illusion of the Devil he thought that he was reserved of God for Fancied himself reserv'd of God for some great Work some great and excellent Work being blown forward by the shew of zeal and of an earnestness for such a Reformation could not thus easily be quenched and rooted out of him the rather for that by use and imitation of such as he most followed and conversed with though wholly otherwise he were unlettered he had grown to such a dexterity in conceiving of Extemporal Prayers with bumbasted and thundering words as that Was an illiterate Fellow but had acquired a great dexterity in Extempore Prayers he was thereby marvailed at and greatly magnified by some Brethren and Sisters as a man greatly vouchsafed with God and adorned with rare and singular Endowments from Heaven so that through admiration of such supposed Excellencies in him he still continued to fancy unto himself that he had rare Gifts and an extraordinary Calling For he gave out to divers that he was a Prophet Was much admired and affirm'd himself a Prophet of God's Vengeance of God's Vengeance where his Mercy is refused Saying That if Reformation be not established in England this present Year three great Plagues shall fall upon it the Sword Pestilence and Famine He pretended also that God had revealed unto him most wonderful things Which he would he said utter to none but such as himself knew to be very resolute in God's Cause But he told unto Arthington and Coppinger that there should be no more Popes hereafter Upon confidence of which Spirit and Gifts in himself in Places of his resort with an intemperate and fanatical boldness With Fanatical boldness utter'd seditious Speeches against the Queen c. even as if he had sufficient warrant for it he dared oftentimes to utter most vile lewd and seditious Speeches both of the Queen's Majesty and of certain the greatest Subjects whom he thought to be hinderers of his Practices Which his Outrages being once or twice brought unto the Ears of certain in Authority in Northamptonshire and elsewhere not sufficiently acquainted with the strange Humours of such Anabaptistical Wizards and Fanatical Sectaries and perhaps unwilling to let his words be drawn so far against him as they justly might they were therefore content to attribute them to some spice of phrensy in him and in that Was corrected in Northamptonshire as Phrantick quality to be corrected rather than to construe them to have proceeded from any setled and advised malice as the event hath since made most manifest they did For in the whole course besides of other the Speeches and Actions of his Life both before and after no alienation of mind or madness could be noted in him At one of the times that he was brought in question for his Seditious and indeed Treasonable Speeches it happened that he was convented before that honourable Counseller Sir Walter Mildmay who commanded him for more safegard to be watched the night before he was to be conveyed to Northampton Gaol at what time the counterfeit dissembling Wretch willed Put into Northampton Gaol his Wife to let him lie alone in the Chamber that was to be watched for that he had to confer with one that would come unto him that night Insinuating unto her as if he were to have at that time some special Conferences with God or some Angel Whereupon Pretended to have conference with God or some Angel it was straightway blown abroad thereabouts amongst the credulous multitude of those that either favoured him for supposed Zeal or feared him for Sorceries that albeit there were no Candles used yet there was a great light that night seen shining in his Chamber so that by this Tale the erroneous Opinions afore conceived of him were greatly encreased After he had lien in Northampton Gaol a good space and was come unto his Trial in the absence of Sir Walter from thence the matter is thought to have been so handled by some who in favour of his forwardness would needs interpret his Felonies to be but Follies as that no Evidence being given against him he was dismissed for that pull upon Bond entred for his appearance when he should be called for again Now Hacket a man thus qualified as ye Wigginton brings him acquainted with Coppinger hear was of all other men thought by Wigginton most fit and worthy to be recommended and straightly linked unto Coppinger's Familiar acquaintance as most aptly consorting with his humorous Conceit long ere this apprehended by him whereof it seemeth Wigginton was not ignorant nor misliked Their acquaintance

was wrought in this An Account thereof out of Hacket's History Arthington's Prophesies Both Manuscripts manner as Hacket testifieth in that Discourse which they since call Hacket's History enlarged endited by himself written by Coppinger and afterward copied out fair by Arthington as it should have gone to the Press being annexed to Arthington's Prophesy For there it is said That the Lord brought Hacket to London about the beginning of Easter Term last to see what would be done against Job Throgmorton and partly to reckon with M. Wigginton about the making of malt between them together At what time Wigginton said That there was a Gentleman in the City a very good man but Hacket as the Lord knoweth did not think that there had been one godly man in the Land and supposed the Twelfth Psalm belonged to this time When Wigginton was describing the Man and the matter that he was entring into viz. that the Man whom he spoke of had a message to say to his Sovereign concerning some practice intended against her from dealing wherein the Preachers in London had wonderfully discouraged him then Hacket answered thus Did you so also No saith Wigginton Then said Hacket encourage him in any wise for what know you what matter it is he hath to say Hereupon Wigginton sent for the said Edmund Coppinger to come to the Counter to speak with him who by God's Providence came forthwith and Wigginton willed them to take acquaintance one of the other assuring Coppinger that he knew Hacket to be a man truly fearing God and such a Person as by whose Conference God might minister some comfort to Coppinger Whereupon they two viz. Coppinger and Hacket went from thence presently unto Hacket ' s Chamber at the Sign of the Castle without Smithfield-Bars So soon as they were entred the Chamber Coppinger desired that before any speech should pass between them they might first pray to God together which they did Hacket speaking to the Lord first After which Prayer Coppinger delivered unto Hacket how he had been very strangely and extraordinarily moved by God to go to her Majesty and to tell her plainly that the Lord's pleasure was that she must with all speed reform her self her Family the Common-wealth and the Church And that the Lord had further told him by what means all the same should be done but that Secret he would not then deliver unto Hacket Then Coppinger also prayed into God desiring him if he would be with him and bless that Business which he had committed to his charge that then he would both furnish him with Gifts fit for so weighty an Action and knit the heart of Hacket and his so together as David ' s and Jonathan ' s Moses ' s and Aaron ' s For answer hereof Hacket took further time till the morning at which time in the morning a Prayer being first made Hacket laid all the Lord's business which was to be done by himself upon Coppinger ' s back telling him the Lord had appointed him to it and would stand with him in it Thus far in this Point goeth that Discourse But long before this time of their two first Acquaintances Coppinger upon his return forth of Kent in Michaelmas Term last had signified unto Arthington and to one T. Lancaster a Schoolmaster in Shoe-lane both being of his familiar Acquaintance and whom he had requested to fast and pray Coppinger pretends to a secret Mystery revealed to him relating to the Discipline and the Queen's repentance about it with him for success in obtaining a Widow that God had shewed him the said Coppinger great favour by revealing such a secret Mystery unto him as was wonderful being in substance thus much viz. That he knew a way how to bring the Queen to repentance and to cause all her Council and Nobles to do the like out of hand or else detect them to be Traitors that refused All they by such Repentance meaning and understanding as it seemeth the erecting of their fanciful Discipline For this Phrase being usual with them in Conferences of this matter he thereby sufficiently declared his mind to them and they well understood what was meant without further a-do Now it had been inconvenient that Coppinger He imparts it to Wigginton should all this while conceal this Mystery which he imparted unto them and after to Hacket from Wigginton who brought them acquainted together unto whom he so oft resorted and so highly above all other Preachers esteemed for his resolute dealings in God's matters as he terms them whom he also after advouched unto Arthington as an irrefragable Witness to be persuaded by that would justify the truth of Hacket's Torments and whom he also knew more often busied for attaining of that Discipline which himself also laboured for than perhaps for Heaven it self And you see that he had accordingly done it Wigginton not discouraging him therein This Proposition so made by Coppinger Arthington and Lancaster mislike the matter as impracticable Arthington saith that he and Lancaster misliked as a matter impossible by Coppinger to be done but by the Lord Jesus only and such whereof the issue could not fall out well any way and so put him off for the first time not understanding in what manner and by what special means Coppinger conceived that such repentance should be wrought in the Queen's Majesty and in others The manner and other circumstances of the first revealing of this pretended Mystery Coppinger himself at large declareth in a Letter written the 4th of February last unto T. C. in Prison The occasion of writing it The manner and circumstances of revealing the Mystery Coppinger declares in a Letter to Cartwright then in Prison desiring an Answer to some Questions he there saith was the said T. C's offer to take knowledge by writing from him of such matter as might induce him to suppose himself to have received some hope of special favour from God to some special use But yet without warrant from the Word direction of the Holy Spirit and approbation of the Church he was he said most unwilling to enter into so great an Action The Letter is long but to this effect That upon some extraordinary humiliation of him he with some other and a Guide of their Exercise joined in a Fast Their Guide in the Evening spake of the use of Fasts c. and then willed the others to add to that which he had delivered either for the general or particular Causes which moved them to humble themselves That a great part of the said Night Coppinger found himself very extraordinarily exercised c. by such a motive as he could not well describe partly comforted with a wonderful Zeal which he found himself to have to set forth God's glory any ways which lawfully he might enter into partly cast down by such a burning fire of Concupiscence as in his greatest strength of body he had not found the like That the next day

he riding into the Country as he rid fansied to himself that there was leave given him to speak to God in a more familiar manner than at any time before And also persuaded himself that God's Spirit did give him many strange Directions wherein the Lord would use him to do service to his most glorious Majesty and to his Church Upon which he had thought to have returned presently back and to have left his intended Journey But going on and after being returned back he imparted to his former Fast-fellows the work of God in him and desired they might again join in the like which he with some other went forward with to their comfort but without their chief Guide for he refused to join Hereupon he saith that he was Note again stirred up to such business of such importance as in the eyes of flesh and blood were likely to bring much danger to himself and unlikely to bring any good success to the Church of God Hereof he writ to some Preachers out of the Realm and to some in the Realm At length he writ hereof to one in the City that was silenced Who resolved him that God did yet work extraordinarily in some Persons to some special uses Hereupon he obtained this Preacher's consent to join with him and about four others on the Dord's-Day in a Fast Which Day was chosen that they might not binder their worldly Affairs in the Week and that they used means to have notice given to some of the Preachers in Prison of the Day of their humiliation desiring them to commend to God in their Prayers the holy Purposes which any fearing God should in time Note attempt to take in hand by seeking to bring glory to God and good to the Church That in their Prayers at the said Fast he and others did beseech God That if he had appointed to use any of them to do any special service to him and his that to that end he would extraordinarily call them that he would seal up his or their such Calling by some special manner by his Holy Spirit and give such extraordinary Graces and Gifts as are fit for so weighty an Action The Night following he saith he thought in his sleep that he was carried into Heaven and there being wonderfully astonished with the Majesty of God and brightness of his glory he made a loud and most strange noise whereby he awaked his Brother that lay with him and some in the next Chamber Since which time saith he I find every day more and more comfort And suppose that there is somewhat in me which my self am not so fit to judge of And therefore I desire the Church I mean your self and such as you shall name unto me because I cannot come to you without danger to your self and me to look narrowly into me And if I be thought to be any way misled I crave sharp censuring If I be guided by God's Spirit to any good end as hereafter shall be adjudged I shall be ready to acquaint you and them with generalities and particularities so far forth as you and they be desirous to look into At this time the end of my writing is only to acquaint you with the occasions of mine entring into this great Action and to have your further answer to some Questions wherein I desire to be Note resolved with your direction also what hereafter I am to signify to your self concerning the matter it self Of the Questions wherein he thus desired resolution I do find two Copies of Coppinger's own hand The one more large and confused the other briefer and in better order but both to one purpose which to have set down may give good light in mine opinion to this Narration The Questions to be resolved viz. 1. Whether there be in these days any extraordinary The Questions to be resolved are 1. Whether there be not extraordinary Persons in the Church in these days as Apostles Evangelists c. 2. Whether their Call be not immediate from God and manifested to the Church by extraordinary Gifts and Graces 3. Whether the Church may examine the same and in what manner 4. Whether may the same be found in a Country where the Gospel is truly preached but the true Discipline not established but oppugned 5. If no extraordinary Calls to be expected but where there is waste in the Church and if there be waste in the Church where Prince and Magistrate oppose the Discipline Whether may not an extraordinary Call be expected of some to deal with the Magistrate in the Name of God to Execute the True Discipline 6. Where the true Discipline is wanting whether a Pastor thrust on the People without their choice have a lawful Call Workers and Helpers to his Church either Apostles Evangelists or Prophets where need requires more or less or Nazarites Healers Admonishers in any special sort 2. If there be is not their Calling immediate from God and his Spirit a Seal unto their Spirits through which they have such excellent gifts and graces of Wisdom Knowledge Courage Magnanimity Zeal Patience Humility c. as do manifest such their Calling to the Church 3. If such Graces and Gifts shall appear whether may the Church enter into consideration of the success which God may please to give yea or no If they may in what manner are they to proceed with such a Person extraordinarily called 4. If it shall be confessed that there may be until the end of the world immediate Callings from God Whether may the same be found in a Country where the Gospel is truly preached and the Sacraments in some sort truly administred though not universally but here and there not perfectly but in part And where the true Discipline is not established but oppugned by the publick Magistrates c. 5. If it shall be answered that no extraordinary Callings are to be looked for but where there is a waste of the Church whether can it be truly said that there is a waste of the Church where the Prince and chief Magistrates are ignorant of the necessity of the Discipline opposing themselves against it persecuting such as seek it By means whereof all wicked Persons whatsoever be admitted to publick exercise of the Word and to the Lord's Table Whether I say may it be hoped for that God for his glory's sake and the good of the Church may extraordinarily call some by giving him a Spirit above others to deal with the Magistrate in the name of God To provide that the People may every where be taught and true Discipline executed where the People already have knowledge 6. Whether where there be wanting Pastors Doctors Elders Deacons and Widows c. in the Church established and only a Minister thrust upon the People to be their Pastor without their choice or liking Whether it can be truly said a man so placed though furnished with all inward Gifts and Graces of God's Spirit fit for that Calling hath

used may be furnished with such gifts and graces as every one have or shall have need of That it may appear that the Action now in hand is his own and therefore he will provide safety for his holy ones and destruction for those who are vessels of wrath who have accomplished the number of their sins which call for vengeance from Heaven These Letters Hacket carried to Pamplin Schoolmaster of Oundell to be read unto him for that himself could neither write nor read But I have not yet heard that he complained thereof to any in Authority When Arthington also about the midst of Arthington returns to London Coppinger visits him and magnifies Hacket to him as the Holiest man that ever was except Christ Trinity Term last was returned to London Coppinger hearing thereof came to his Lodging and then with many words extolled and magnified Hacket unto him for the holiest man that ever was Christ only excepted and one that travelled together with him for the good of the Queen and the Land but after an extraordinary manner and not both by one means And albeit Arthington seems not desirous of their Secrets Coppinger persuades him to hear Hacket's extempore Prayers which he admires as divine and esteems him as a most holy man Arthington as now he saith desired them to keep their Secrets to themselves and not to trouble him with them who had other business to attend yet Coppinger importuned him so as he could not avoid but yield to hear Hacket pray before them as a man of a singular Spirit albeit utterly unlearned of the Book The first Prayer of his that Arthington heard was about four or five Weeks before their apprehension All which Prayers conceived by Hacket even since his apprehension the said Arthington praised to be so divine sweet and heavenly that thereby he was drawn into a great admiration of him In all the Prayers that Hacket made in his presence Arthington observed this difference from other mens That he usually therein desired the Lord to confound A horrible execration used in his Prayer him if he did not seek only his honour and glory in all things Which Arthington marking from time to time in him and seeing him still to be so perfectly sound and very well was thereby drawn together with Coppinger's words and experience of him to reckon and esteem of him as of a most holy man This Lesson of wishing themselves confounded his said two Scholars by imitation did so perfectly learn of him that to the great astonishment and horror of such The same used by the other two in their Affirmations that afterward examined them they used this Execration Wishing themselves confounded and damned if they said not the truth in every matter whereof they made any asseveration and wherein they desired to be credited thinking as Arthington confesseth that whatsoever the Spirit as he fansied told him was a truth he was bound to bind it upon his Salvation or Damnation These being joined with the Relation of certain extreme Torments which Hacket had signified Hacket pretends to suffer extream inward torments from the Devil as well as outward from men for trail of the truth of the Gospel which they conclude he is to establish in all Kingdoms and that all Scepters are to be yielded to him unto them that he suffered not only outwardly by the instigation of certain noble and worshipful Persons as he untruly made them believe but more grievously a great deal he said by suffering whatsoever either Devils in Hell Sorcerers or Witches in Earth could practise against him all which he pretended to have endured for trial and proof that the Gospel was the true Religion against Popery and all other Sects did so deeply astonish or rather infatuate them that after great fasting and prayer used which fasting they usually performed on the Sabboth days they all did resolutely conclude That if Hacket indured in truth all these torments and practices against him for so holy an end no doubt he was a man which should not only establish the Gospel in all Kingdoms but all Kings and Princes should also yield their Scepters unto him and he should be established chief King over all Europe Reasoning thus with themselves that surely the Lord had some great good to be done by him that had indured so much for his sake Now this was the Opinion which to This was the main drift of Hacket's cunning and it succeeded have firmly planted in them two as indeed it was first in Coppinger and afterward in Arthington was the main scope and drift as may seem of all Hacket's cunning counterfeiting of so much Holiness Piety Zeal and Religion To work this he handled his Actions so Coppinger avouched that God would deny Hacket nothing warily with them that Coppinger seriously once avouched unto Arthington how himself had by good experience found that God would deny unto Hacket nothing which he prayed for or desired and namely protested that Hacket begged of God in a Drought that was not long afore their apprehension a Shower of Rain and that it was presently sent in good abundance Coppinger also so firmly believed Hacket that he told his own Man Emerson how Hacket being imprisoned the Bolts would often fall off his heels miraculously But for proof that such incredible Torments were indeed suffered by Hacket he appealed herein to some of the Nobility and to divers others both of worship and good credit This did Coppinger further confirm Coppinger and Wigginton attest to the truth of Hacket ' s pretended Torments unto Arthington saying that Master Wigginton also did justify the truth of the Torments that Hacket suffered and could do it with a hundred honest Witnesses more if need required And Arthington himself also once heard Wigginton pitifully tell how great and extreme Torments Hacket had endured But being asked by them why he was so tormented and how these could tend to prove the Gospel to be the only true Religion Hacket answered them thus That his Tormentors the better to colour their lewd purposes and malice gave out and surmised him to be out of his wits but the truth was said he that being once at Table with one G. H. an obstinate Papist and reasoning which was the true Religion I Hacket ' s strange way to prove the truth of Religion against Popery c. defending this which we now profess to be the truth against Popery and all other Sects amongst other Speeches I protested upon my Damnation that this was the truth and withal prayed that I might sink presently down into Hell if it was not so And that if he the said G. H. would say so much for his Religion if he did not sink presently into Hell then would I take Popery to be the true Religion But he refusing so to do and being greatly moved thereby against me complotted with a Knight a neer Kinsman of his and with another Gentleman