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A17981 A thankfull remembrance of Gods mercy In an historicall collection of the great and mercifull deliverances of the Church and state of England, since the Gospell began here to flourish, from the beginning of Queene Elizabeth. Collected by Geo: Carleton, Doctor of Divinitie, and Bishop of Chichester. Carleton, George, 1559-1628.; Passe, Willem van de, 1598-ca. 1637, engraver. 1624 (1624) STC 4640; ESTC S107513 118,127 246

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Their answer was that of them some were sent from the most holy Father the Pope of Rome some from the Catholike King of Spaine to whom the Pope had given Ireland for as much as Queene Elizabeth had lost her right in Ireland by reason of heresie And therefore that which they had taken they would hold and get more if they could When the Lord Deputy and Winter had consulted of the maner of the siege they brought some Culverings out of the Shippes in the darke of the night and digging through the banke they drew them the nearest way placed them The souldiers also mounted their great O●dnāce against the wall and did beat vpon the Fort continually foure dayes together The Spanyard once or twice made Sallyes out but still to their losse Of the English none was killed saving onely Iohn Cheke a goodly yong man and val●ant the sonne of that learned Knight Sir Iohn Ch●ke San-Iosephus who was governour within the Fort a weake man and terrified with the daily shot began quickly to thinke of yeelding And when as Hercules Pisanus and other Captaines disswaded him earnestly from that as a thing vnworthy of military men vrging that all should prepare for a defence least by their negligence they might withdraw the courage of the Irish which were comming to helpe them But he being a man of singular cowardise assayed the mindes of the souldiers and wrought so that the souldiers sedi●●ously offred force to the other Captaines that at last they consented to yeeld Wherevpon the fift day when they saw no hope of helpe neither from Spaine nor Desmond they put out a white flagge and demaunded parley Which thing was denied them because they had ioyned themselues with the rebells with whom it was not lawfull to haue any parley Then they demanded that with bag baggage they might depart but neither was this granted Then they intreat●d that this favour might be granted at least to the governour and some few besides but that though they much besought it could not be granted But the Lord Deputy inveighing against the Pope commanded that without any condition they should simply yeeld themselues And when they could obtaine no more they put out their white flagge againe and cryed misericordia misericordia And so submitted themselues simply to the Lord Deputy his mercy Who presently fell into consultatiō what were best to do The adversaries were in number as many as the English and danger was feared of the Irish rebells who were moe then 1500 at hand The English wanted vittails and apparell so that they were ready to make a tumult v●lesse they might be relieued by the spoiles of the enemies out of the fort and shippes were wanting to carry away the enemies At last they came to this conclusion the Lord Deputy being much vnwilling weeping that the Captaines should be preserued the rest should all be slaine promiscuously in terror of others that might attempt so hereafter The Irish should be hanged which was presently executed The Queene was not pleased at the maner of this execution and wished it had beene vndone hating crueltie though necessary against such as haue once yeelded and was hardly after drawne to admit any excuse of the slaughter committed This was done An 1580. Some three yeares after the Earle of Desmond of a noble house but of a barbarous nature who barbarously had sworne that He would rather forsake God then forsake his men wandring from place to place was at last found of a commō souldier in a poore cottage The Earle was in a poore estate vnknowne till the souldier had almost struck off his arme Then he descryed himselfe and was killed Nicholas Sanders that had drawne the Earle into this rebellion was at the same time spent with famine and forsaken of all succour and being impatiently grieued at the evill successe of this rebellion proceeding so much against his desires seeing neither the Popes blessing nor the consecrated Banner nor the authoritie by the Pope committed to him could do him any helpe he lost himselfe and ran starke mad wandring vp and downe in the mountaines and woods and finding no comfort died miserably When he was dead there were found in his scrip some Orations and Epistles written to confirme the rebells filled with great promises of the Pope and Spanyard Thus Gods justice met with a restles and wretched man and that foule mouth was stopped vp with famine that was ever open to stirre vp rebellions against the State that had vttered so many blasphemies against God and his holy truth and inuented so many strange lyes against men This man first of all men devised a notorious lye against the birth of the Queenes mother which none of her enemies ever heard or knew she being in the hatred of so many Papists that would not haue spared to haue spoken evill yet was it never heard or knowne for forty yeares after And the accompt of the time doth proue it false himselfe like a forgetfull lyer doth plainly refute himselfe This Pageant of the Pope and his Legat Sanders we may not let passe without some observations Seeing there is no way to exsatiate their crueltie we pray that it may please God to remoue their coec●●ie and obduration if it be his good pleasure that they may once truely see themselues and their vngracious actions whereof the sight is now taken from them by reason of their blindnesse For we hold this to proceed rather from their blindnesse then from a wilfull and obstinate striuing against the knowne truth but this we warne them to labour to know the truth and to set their hearts to seeke it least they be wrapped farther and farther into that great iudgement wherein as yet they are vnder his power which worketh with all power and signes and lying wonders in all deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse among them that perish because they receiue not the loue of the truth that they might be saued And therfore God shall send them strong illusions that they should beleeue lyes that all they might be damned which beleeved not the truth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse Two things are here conteined in these words which iump with these Priests and Seminaries which the Pope sendeth forth the doctrine which they teach and the actions which they practise Their doctrines which they teach are lyes the Apostle warned vs they should beleeue lyes this is a iust judgement vpon such as loue not the truth Their vsuall practise is vnrighteousnesse What greater lyes can be invented then to say that Whatsoever the Pope will allow for a tradition of his Church that is the Word of God A lye with a witnes and withall a blasphemy against the most High What greater vnright●ousnesse then to giue away other mens possessions to strangers that haue no right to them to aispossesse Kings to giue Kingdomes which is none of yours to giue to kill to murther to massacre to aoe any act of
vs a Lanterne to our feet and a light to our pathes but the word of God being confirmed to vs by his workes is made more sweet to vs. This must needes be comfortable to vs that haue the word of God among vs sent vnto vs planted among vs by his owne hand we were as farre from deseruing this fauour as they that sit in darkenesse and in the shadow of death for so wee sate in ●arkenesse and in the shadow of death so long as we fate in the ignorance of Popery but when it pleased God of his owne free mercy to send his light among vs the truth of his Gospell and out of the same fountaine of his goodnesse and mercy raised beleeuing Princes among vs which haue established his true religion in our Land a Queene of such Piety a King of so great Knowledge and Learning and Piety as knoweth the truth and is so able to maintaine it God I say hauing of his goodnesse raised such blessings to vs hath ne●uer ceased to maintaine his owne worke Let vs neuer cease to giue him the glory But can our aduersaries take any comfort in their doings The King of Spaine may once enter into the consideration of things he may remember how hee and his predecessours haue beene so many times beguiled by the Pope how often hath the Pope and his Iesuites consecrated his banners promised him victory against vs as against Heretikes forsaken of God and man let them know that there is a God that ruleth the world and not the Pope If they would haue their designes to prosper they must follow the examples of our godly Princes who are blessed for the sincerity of Religion which they imbrace They must giue ouer iniustice and cruelty for the cruelty of the Spaniards haue lost them all that they lost in the Netherlands Their pride and cruelty was highly raised against vs but to their owne hurt and dishonour not to ours because we trust in God They would haue extinguished the true lights of Britain which then did shine like two glorious Candles put in their sockets and held vp in the hand of Christ and as now to the comfort of both nations ioyned in one great light these they laboured to extinguish and to tread down the soule of the Turtle but our Prayer is Giue not the soule of thy Turtle Doue vnto the Beast and ●orget not the congregation of the poore for euer Consider thy couenant for the darke places of the earth are full of the Habitation of the cruell Arise O Lord and maintaine thine owne cause remember the daily reproach of the foolish forget not the voice of the enemie for the tumult of them that rise against thee ascendeth continually God saued the soule of his Turtle he remembred the congregation of the poore that trusted in him he considered his couenant hee maintained his owne cause and of this we reioyce But where are those darke places of the earth which are full of the habitation of the cruell as the Prophet saith Surely let the Iesuites looke to that and let them expound those word● if they be able for surely no man can expound those words but he shall finde superstition and cruelty inseparably ioyned together their superstition maketh the places of their habitations darke places their superstition breedeth cruelty for greater cruelty the world hath not seene then hath proceeded from them truely then may wee sing with the Psalmist the the darke pla●es of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell There is no hope to make these Iesuites that haue giuen themselues ouer to the seruice of the man of sinne and to the practise of impiety of such I say there is no hope to perswade them because they loue not the truth But the Kings and Princes that haue beene so long abused and beguiled by them may in time vnderstand the difference betweene truth and falshood and may ioyne with our religious Kings against the great Deceiuer and our hope is that they will vnderstand his deceits and illusions and forsake him for otherwise they must perish with him They that are wise will vnderstand and consider the cause which God hath so long so strongly maintained they will consider the power the fury and rage of our aduersaries haue beene continually frustrated by Gods power they may consider that these extraordinary blessings vpon Gods Church among vs and the memorable iudgements of the aduersaries are but forerunners of some greater stroakes and heauier iudgements of God against them if they will not turne and forsake superstitious vanities and serue God with vs. Which God grant that the Kingdome of Christ may be inlarged his true Religion strongly maintained his name glorified his people comforted and let all that worship not the Lord IESVS and loue not his comming perish CHAPTER XIII AFter this great tempest from Spaine was past the Sunne did shine as pleasantly vpon England as before by all the Spanish preparation there was not a man called from his husbandry in England not any artificer from his trade there was not so much as one cottage burned did euer the English make any ●ourney into Spaine and returned without doing no more harme then the Spaniards did to vs The English made after this two iourneyes into Spaine and in both did that which they intended to doe that is ransacked Townes and put to flight the Armies which incountred them But this beyond the limits of my purpose which is onely to declare our deliuerances and to giue thankes and honour to God for the same The next danger intended and threatned brake out in Spaine by Tyrone They that haue written of Tyrone say that he was a bastard a banished fugitiue he lay lurking in Spaine promising to doe some seruice to the Pope and Spaniard as some had done before he was raised to the honour of an Earle by the Queene and being twice in danger once for a murther and then for vsurping the title of O-Neale was pardoned for both Hugh Baron of Dungannon now Earle of Tyrone being set on by the Spaniard to worke some mischiefe An. Dom. 1597. suddenly assailed the ●ort of Black-water which done he wrote to Kildare to side with him and at the same instant to Sir Iohn Norrice who was then sent out Lord Generall i●o Ireland with thirteene hundreth of the N●therland ould Souldiers newly retired from the warres in Britaine to him Tyrone wrote that he might be mildly dealt withall and not be driuen headlong vpon the dangerous rockes of disloialty in the meane time he was alwaies guarded with a thousand Horse and 6280. foot of Vlster besides 2300. of Connaugh hereupon he and all his partakers were proclaimed traitors Thus was the rebellion raised which was hardly quenched with much bloud Sir Iohn Norrice was a Generall as well experienced in warre as any that then liued yet in the Irish warres he was not so acquainted The aduantage of the enemy was such that
vnrighteousnesse at the commandement of the Pope or any superior These I am sure are the practises of vnrighteousnesse would to God these men would once looke backe vpon themselues and their owne actions and consider what a difference is betweene ancient Bishops of Rome and these of late betweene godly Divines and the Popes Clergie The ancient Bishops did never draw the sword to propagate the faith the Apostles left no such example to them but by their labours in Preaching and their patience in suffring they gathered a Church and established the faith but behold how vnrighteousnes and villany is now come in place An vngracious bloudy wretch kills a man in his bed a man that was his friend such a thing chancing in the Warres may be borne with but in bed to murther his friend is an extraordinary signe of barbarous crueltie And yet that Sanders the Popes Legat should pronounce this thing to be a sweet sacrifice to God this passeth all imagination Can any either practise these things or commend these practises but onely such men as the Apostle describeth that are given vp to beleeue lyes and to worke vnrighteousnesse If any man shall answer me here with that old worn Cuckow long that these things are not vnderstood by them to be vnrighteo●s which the Pope commandeth that they doe these things in obedience to Christ his Vicar I answer they that would make such an answer are either such as are men of conscience or altogether without conscience If they be men without conscience I haue nothing to say to such but wish them better then they doe to themselues that they had some fecling of conscience If these men haue any sparke of conscience then would I intr●at them seriously to consider what is that which the Apostle in the place before cited calleth the deceivablenes of vnrighteousnes For this word sheweth that there is some plaine and down-right vnrighteousnesse and also some deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse What is that deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse Surely there is something herein for them to study that are so ready at the Popes command to doe vnrighteous things and make not Gods Word but the Popes word to be the rule to know what is righteous what vnrighteous When the law of God the law of nature the law of nations the law of our Land when I say all lawes forbid a thing and onely the Pope commands it and commands it against all lawes then if a man obey the Pope in such things he is deceived and he doth vnrighteously Here is the deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse But you must vnderstand that these men are thus deceived by him whose cōming is by the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders and in all deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse in them that perish because they receiue not the loue of the truth Let men that haue any care to saue their soules learne to loue the truth the truth will deliver them And let them obserue that maintaining of false doctrines and of vnrighteous actions are things ioyned together one followeth the other Now because we see false doctrines or lyes maintained by Papists and vnrighteous and vngracious actions by them ordinarily attempted therefore we hold them vndoubtedly to be the servants of Antichrist who are given vp to beleeue lyes because they lou● not the truth But for our selues we know that the Scriptures are the Word of God We beleeue the Scriptures We trust in God We worship him as himselfe hath revealed and commanded If our enemies wrong vs we haue recourse to God by prayer we haue found by continuall experience that God taketh the protection of them that thus trust in him We haue trusted in him we haue found his protectiō We rest in patience and commit the vengeance to God Is there any man in the world that knoweth any thing of religion that can denie that we are in a good state and our enemies in a desperate state we haue comfort but they can haue none Consider this you that forget God least he plucke you vp and there be none to deliver you Now which is our chiefe end in these collections for our deliverance we blesse the name of God and we doe acknowledge with all humilitie and thankesgiving that all our deliverances come from the vndeserved loue and favour of our most gracious God and Father And we finde our selues most sirictly o●liged vnto this dutie because we see God hath made our enemies his enemies they cannot fight against vs but they must fight against God how much then are we bound to honor serue this great God of heaven and ●arth that hath shewed such favour to his Church in England CHAPTER VI. AT this time An 1580. the seminary Priests and ●esuites increasing in England necessary lawes were provided against them These in truth were maintained by the adversaries of England as a seminary of rebellion for so still they proued Their first foundation was at Doway in the Low-Countries where by the procuring of William Alan an Oxford-man afterward Cardinall there was a Colledge provided for them in the yeare 1568. Where fugitiue Priests were brought vp not so much in Religion as in new and strange practises of treason The Pope assigned them a yearely stipend Thus they stood for some yeares But when the Low-Countries began to be troubled with Warres Requesenius who was governour there vnder the Spanish King did thrust out all English fugitiues out of the Low-Countries Wherevpon they that were willing to make vse of such instruments to trouble England thought good to giue entertainment to them And therefore two Colledges were set vp for the English sugitiues the one at Rhemes by the Guises another at Rome by Pope Gregory 13. From these Colledges they were sent into England vnder pretence of Religion but indeed to withdraw subiects from obedience to their Prince and to draw the Land vnto the subiection of strangers they called themselues Seminaries because they were to sowe the seed of the Roman Religion in England And what is that seed of Roman religion but the seed of Rebellion Certainly so it hath euer proued These men to shew their zeale to their new founders and their hatred to their Country disputed and defined the Popes authoritie by Gods law to haue the plenitude of power ouer the whole world in all things Ecclesiasticall and Politicall out of which plenitude he might excommunicate Kings and after excommunication depose them from their thrones and absolue their subiects from all oaths of alleagance Thus was the Bull of Pius V. published An 1569. From whence rose the rebellion in the north of England and those rebellions of Ireland of which we haue spoken Hanse Nelson Main Sherwod Prie●ts then taught that Queene Elizabeth was a schismatike and an heretike and therefore worthily to be deposed for which they suffred deservedly but still others were sent into their places and though they came in vpon desperate points as souldiers vpon