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spirit_n	lord_n	prophet_n	word_n	7,026	5	4.2906	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11118	Hell's broke loose	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?	1605 (1605)	STC 21385; ESTC S110749	13,081	52

HELL' 's BROKE LOOSE LONDON Printed by W. W. and are to be sold by G. Lostus in Popes-head Allie neare the Exchange 1605. An Aduertisement to the wise and discreete REader hee that in discription of a wicked man doth personate him is to speake as that wicked man no● beseeming a good man or else he cannot aptly deliuer him in his kinde so odious as hee is In respect whereof let not any speach herein be misconstrued which is onely set downe as spoken by the rebellious Heretiques the more truely to explaine them as notorious as they were Vale. TO THE READER IN this vn-weeded Garden of the World hath sprung vp through al ages of the same most innumerable euen of all sorted kindes that haue been opposite to Vertue and pursuers of Vice Such as haue with great trauell and labour taken paynes to goe to Hell and runne the broade way path with Hindes feete in all poasting speede that the Diuell could employ them Amongst the rest of this fearefull race runners of their variable qualities here is a description of the most notorious Rebels and Heretiques of Europe certaine Germane Anabaptistes such as would haue all things common and all men at freewill and libertie to do what they list without controwle of any Authoritie euery mans Will Law and euery ones Dreame Doctrine Before the comming of our Sauiour Christ Theudas and Iudas Galilaeus two seditious fellowes of factious spirit seduced the Iewes The first of them saying that hee was a Prophet sent from God for mans g●od and that by his owne powerfull word hee could deuide the waters of Iordan in as admirable sort as Ioshua the seruant of the Lord had done The other did earnestly promise to enlarge the Iewes from the seruitude and yoke of the Romans both of them by these meanes drawing after them great multitudes of people and both of them comming vnto deserued destruction For Fatus the Gouernour of Iury ouertooke Theudas and sent his head as a monument to Ierusalem and Iudas likewise perished and all his following confederates were dispersed After our Sauiour Christ in the time of his blessed Apostles Elimas the Sorcerer mightely withstood the proceeding of Paule Barnabas sowing the seed of Heresie in the minde of Sergius Paulus Deputie but the iudgement of God ouertooke him and he was strucken with blindnesse Not long after him in the raigne of Adrian the Emperour arose an other called Bencocha● that professed himselfe to be the Messias to haue descended from Heauen in the likenes of a Starre for the safetie redemption of the people by which fallacie he drew after him a world of seditious people but at last hee and many of his credulous route were slaine and was called by the Iewes in contempt Bencozha that is the Sonne of a lie Manes of whom the Maniches tooke their name and first originall forged in his foolish braine a fiction of two Gods and two beginners and reiecting the old Testament and the true God which is reuealed in the same published a fift Gospell of his owne forgerie reporting himselfe to be the Holy Ghost When he had thus with diuulging his diuelish Heresies and Blasphemies infected the world being pursued by Gods iust iudgement hee was for other wicked practizes taken and his skinne pulled ouer his eares aliue Montanus that notorious blasphemous wretch of whom the Montanists tooke their ofspring denyed Christ our Sauiour to be GOD saying Hee was but Man onely like other men without any participation of Diuine essence Hee called himselfe the Comforter and Holy spirit which was promised to come into the world and his two Wiues Priscilla and Maximilla he named his Prophetesses and their writings Prophesies yet all their cunning could not preuent nor foretell a wretched and desperate end which befell him for after he had of long time deluded the world in imitation of Iudas hee hanged himselfe Infinite are the examples that may be collected out of the registers of foregone ages touching the lamentable euilles slaughters blood and death that haue ensued from the damnable heriticall Instruments of the Diuel● and how the people affecting Nouelties and Innouations haue concurred from time to time with the pl●tters endeuours Histories are full of their memories Most Rebellions 〈◊〉 pretende Religion for them selues No Villaine but dare turne a good outside to the eye though the inside be as bad as heart can imagine These infamous Rebels and Heretiques in Germanie pretended Religion they would be reformer● of the Church and State new Doctrine of their owne frantick● conceites no Childred should be Baptized all thinges should be common no Magistrate to gouerne but euery man at his owne libertie to do● what he list take whatsoeuer he stood in need of without pa● pluralitie of Wiues no recouerie of wrongfull d●tayned Goodes and such like villanous roguish stuffe that neuer a The●fe in the world would refuse to subscribe vnto it This was no sooner taught by Iohn Leyden alias Yoncker Hans a Dutch Taylor Tom Mynter a parish Clarke Knipp●●●ulling a Smyth and Crafteing a Ioyner but it was imbraced by thousandes of the Boores and vulgar illiterate Clownes who in great companies dayly resorted vnto them fo●●th o● all Townes and Villages A most rude rascall companie that regarded neither Gods feare nor mans fauour euen HELLE BROKE LOOSE In their outragious madnes they attempted much villanie omitting to put nothing in practize that stood with their humours lyking as good Commons Wealths men as Iacke Straw Watt Tyler Tom Myller Iohn Ball c. in the raigne of Richard the 2. and as sound Diuines for Doctrine as Hackets Disciples that preached in Cheapeside in a Pease-cart Yet they found of their owne fraternitie to mannage the Diuels affayres and mustering themselues togeather all composed of the scumbe and waste worser-sort could be raken vp they proceeded so farre that they tooke the Towne of Munster and there for a time domineerd as if they had been Electors apeece to the Emperour vntill beeing beleagerd by the Duke of Saxon they were taught to taste how Extremitie did sauour finding the bitternesse of their rash and gracelesse attemptes to punish them most seueerely in the end For when Cattes Dogges Rattes and Myce grew scarce and daintie No common dish but choyce dyet for Iohn Leyden and the Lordes of his counsaile Knipperdulling the Smyth Crafteing the Ioyner and Tom Mynter the Clarke They were constrayned to frie old greasie Busse leather Ierkins and Parchments Coouers of Bookes Bootes in Steakes and Stew-pottes of old Shoes till in the end being famished as leaue as dryed Stock-fish they were subdued and Leyden who had tearmed himselfe King of Munster with his Nobles made of Smyth Ioyner and Parish Clarke were according to the iust reward of all Rebels put to death with great torture and being dead their bodyes were hang'd in Iron Cages vpon the toppe of the high Steeple in Munster called S. Lamberts Steeple for an example