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A19395	Conspiracie, for pretended reformation viz. presbyteriall discipline. A treatise discouering the late designments and courses held for aduancement thereof, by William Hacket yeoman, Edmund Coppinger, and Henry Arthington Gent. out of others depositions and their owne letters, writings & confessions vpon examination: together with some part of the life and conditions, and two inditements, arraignment, and execution of the sayd Hacket: also an answere to the calumniations of such as affirme they were mad men: and a resemblance of this action vnto the like, happened heretofore in Germanie. Vltimo Septembris. 1591. Published now by authoritie.	Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597.	1592 (1592)	STC 5823; ESTC S108823	96,463	116

danger to thine enemies Good Sir and my louing brother in the Lord though such as are admitted to consult with God haue by prayer meditation much familiaritie and acquaintance with his holy maiestie need not doubt of good successe in all things which he setteth them a worke in though Satan his vassals crosse their course hinder their labour by all the means they can yet is it also necessary that while we remain in the felowship communion of the saints that we communicate one with another that as louing children we may all ioyne togither to helpe each other to be doers of our heauenly fathers will here on earth as the angels do it in the heauens The conscience which I had hereof enforced me to write vnto you lately and the like mooued you to speake with mee vpon that letter And truely I did obserue many things in that litle time we spent together were sayd done which might mooue either of vs to prayse our good God to cheere vs vp Note to further so holy an action as now is in hand which must needs speed well in the end because it is the Lords owne worke And if we aduenture our selues to do him seruice here he will reward elsewhere You may be bold for you haue the warrant of the worde the allowance of the state and you walke in your owne calling But I am to be fearfull and circumspect because the dangers I enter into be infinite my course misliked though vnknowen because it is extraordinarie which callings be ceased in all mens opinion of iudgement and haue not of long time bene heard of or to bee hoped for but where the word is not preached at all or the Church in a great waste which no body dare affirme our Church of England to be Wherfore it seemeth that euery step that I shal make herein shall be vpon thornes therefore I am to feare pricking yet for all this I am not without hope neither is the same groūded but by good warrant The end why I write vnto you is this to intreat you to giue thanks to those holy mē all on my behalf who are now in questiō I haue reaped much benefit from them by their cariage towards me though they know it not for I durst not in regard of danger which might growe to them visite any of them since I found my selfe caried with a zeale to doe somewhat in the same cause for which they suffer If by some effects hereafter I may shew it that is it which I desire to doe and in the meane time doe what I can to perswade the saints that in this action I seeke Gods glory and not mine owne I haue bene heretofore put backe and disswaded from attempting any thing least I marred all by the wisest the learnedst the zealousest and holiest preachers of this Citie great causes and weightie reasons moouing thereunto But yet this will not make me leaue it but still I am enforced by little and little to labour to make my selfe fit to take vpon me the managing of it Wherefore if it please you to shew the other letter and this and beseech them from me to lay them before the Lord when they shall meete and ioyne togither in prayer and if the Lords spirite shall assure their spirites that he hath bene is and will be with me in this action how hard soeuer it seemeth to be let me by their meanes be vouchsafed this fauour that I may be allowed conferēce with the preachers of the Citie which sute I make not for that I would seeke to haue approbation from them or any other liuing creature but from God himselfe or that I purpose to doe that which heretofore I haue bene aduised vnto Note namely acquaint thē with the courses which I purpose by Gods assistance to take in hand whereby great danger might grow to them and little good to me but that my cariage towards them may witnes vnto them the humilitie of my mind and lowlinesse of my spirit care and conscience not to enter into the matter without offer to haue my gifts examined if they shal be supposed to be such as the church may haue vse of then let all holy means be vsed which shal be aduised to be fit to be done in such a dangerous time and weightie action So beseching God to gouern vs in all our wayes and preserue vs in all our dangers and supply vs with whatsoeuer we stand in need of I humbly and heartily commend you to God this 21 day of May 1591. The effect of the speeches which Coppinger had with him at their conference as the said gentleman himselfe reported was to commend the cause of the preachers committed to incourage him to the defence of it adding that it was the trueth of God that in the end it would preuaile Then the said Coppinger began to declare vnto him his reuelations his great fasting and prayer and how God had indued him with an extraordinarie grace of prayer perswasion or prophesie that God had appointed him as he was perswaded to reueale the will of God touching the reformation of his Church that he had an extraordinarie calling to doe good to the Church and what seuerall conflicts he had in himselfe before he yelded to this extraordinarie motion or calling from God Therefore his request was that by the sayd gentlemans meanes his gifts and calling might bee tried and allowed by those godly preachers c. What the preachers and others that were conferred with answered to Coppinger herein and whether more dutifully to the estate then warily so as they might neither as they thought endanger themselues nor kill or discourage the zeale of that their brother in so pretended holy a cause may partly by that which is afore spoken appeare and wee may then beleeue them when they shall tell vs the whole trueth thereof But how slender and cold discouragement he found with some preachers of London with whom hee delt touching his fantasticall extraordinarie calling and dangerous plots may also appeare by these words found in a letter of his viz. Good master L. as master E. former cariage in this action which standeth me much vpon to deale aduisedly in did somwhat trouble me so his Christian and louing answer deliuered now by you from him vnto me doth much comfort me A comfortable change though by reason of some particular businesse which I must necessarily follow I cannot attend till Friday in the after noone or Saturday any part of the day And after in the same letter thus Satan by his angelicall wisdom which he still retaineth doth many times preuaile with the holiest to make them feare good successe in the best causes in regard of the lets and hinderances which himself laieth in the way It cannot be denied but that the cause is good which I desire to be an actor in but it is sayd by some that it is

day to helpe to burne them to worke vpon my body with intent to make mee call backe my sayde wordes of protestation concerning the trueth of this religion which if I would not doe sayde they but could endure the torments that they would inflict then they all would bee of my religion and would make mee Emperour ouer all Europe This tale to them that had minds afore prepared and tooke Hacket by reason of his most earnest protestations prayers shewe of zeale pretended fauour with God and such like to be a man that would not tell an vntrueth for all the worlde seemed no way vnprobable or to be discredited so that these three principall actors hauing aswell among themselues as with others often conferred hereabouts both by word and writing were by the midst of Trinitie terme become most resolute for the aduancing of their designements For in a letter written by Coppinger about that time to the aforesaid I. Thr. it is thus contained Mine owne deare brother my selfe and my two brethren who lately were together with you in Knight ryders streete doe much desire conference with you which will aske some time The businesse is the Lords owne and hee doth deale in it himselfe in a strange and extraordinarie maner in poore and simple creatures Much is done since you did see vs which you will reioyce to heare of when wee shall meete and therefore I beseech you so soone as you receiue this letter hasten an answere in writing to my sisters house therein aduertise I beseeche you when I may come to speake with you for delayes are dangerous and some of the great enemies beginne to be supursued by God as they are at their wits end The Lordmake vs thankeful for it who keepe vs euer to himselfe to doe his will and not ours By occasion also of hearing Master Charke on a Fryday about that time at the Blacke fryers Coppinger saith he was thereupon moued by God spirite to write vnto him a letter which beareth date the 9. day of Iuly last In which letter amongs other things thus hee writeth vnto him I doe not denie good Syr but that I haue nowe a good long time taken a strange and extraordinarie course such as hath offered occasion of susption of my not onely doing hurt to my selfe Note but also to the best sort of men now in question and to the cause it selfe But by what warrant I haue done this that is all for if the holy Ghost haue bene my warrant and carryeth mee into such actions as are differing from others of great note in the Church of God what flesh and blood dare speake against me This is it that I desire at your hands and at all the rest of Gods seruants that you forbeare to censure me and such others as shall deale extraordinarily with me in the Lords busines committed to our charge iudge of vs by the effects that followe which if you hereafter see to be wonderfull great then are all ordinarie men placed in callings within this land to feare and to call themselues to examination before the Iustice seate of God and see whether they haue walked faithfully before God and man in seeking the saluation of the soules of the people and the aduancement of Christs kingdome Note and the ouerthrowe of Antichristes And if all and euery one in their places shall be forced to confesse to haue fayled in not discharge of their dueties let them acknowledge their sinne and repent before plagues and punishments fall vpon them The waste of the Church cannot be denyed to be great so that there is place for extraordinary men though temporizing Christians will not admit this therefore Gods mercies shall appeare to be wonderfull great if amongst vs he haue raysed vp such as I knowe hee hath and hereafter I doubt not by Gods grace but I with the helpe of the rest shal be able to auowe against all gainesayers whatsoeuer My desire heretofore hath bene to haue counsayle and direction from others but nowe by comfortable experience I finde that the action which the Lorde hath drawen me into is his owne and he wil direct it himselfe by the holy Ghost and haue the full honour of it and therefore I wayte vpon him and yet most hartily craue the prayers of the Saints that they will beseech God to blesse all his seruants that he hath set aworke in his owne businesse And I further beseech you to shewe this Letter to Master Trauerse and Master Egerton and all the rest of the godly Preachers in the Citie and iudge charitably of me and others and let euery one looke to his owne calling that therin he may deale faithfully and let vs iudge our selues not iudge one another further then we haue warrant After this letter it hapned that M. Charke preached in the same place againe the next Sunday after at which time Coppinger tooke him selfe to be particularly meant by one part of the sermon Whereupon hee wrote a letter to another Preacher as I doe gather the thursday after viz. 15. of Iuly wherby he thus signifieth M. Charke told the people that there were some persons so desperate that they would willingly thrust themselues vpon the rockes of the lande and waues of the sea This I tooke to be spoken principally to my selfe therefore I thought good to aduertise you that he spake the trueth in those words but he touched not mee but himselfe and the rest of the ministers of the lande who haue not onely runne desperately themselues vpon the rockes and waues but carryed the whole shippe whereby they all bee in danger of shipwracke and shoulde haue perished if the Lorde had not immediatly called three of his seruants to helpe to recouer it who are not onely sent from God to his Church here but also elsewhere through the worlde My calling is specially to deale with Magistrates Another hath to doe with Ministers who hath written a letter to you of the Citie but it cannot be deliuered hardly this day The other third is the chiefest who can neither write nor reade for he is the Lords Executioner of his most holy will This letter is thus subscribed The Lords messenger of mercy Ed. Coppinger These three therefore strongly fansying to themselues such extraordinarie callings and standing resolute by all meanes to aduaunce that which they falsely call Reformation and beeing thus seduced and bemoped by Hacket it is no marueile though they entred further as by degrees into many lewde dangerous and traiterous attempts For first hauing conceaued mortall hatred against two great and and worthie Counsailors of this estate who they thought woulde not a little stop the course they had taken and hinder the purpose which they pursued Coppinger therefore by Hackets aduice directed seuerall letters vnto some honourable personages whereby he signified that certaine treasons were entended euen against her Maiesties owne sacred person meaning after to appeach those two thereof and hoping by

person of a great personage since deceased as it were in candle light with a great Bell full of iniquitie That during that time the Lorde shewed him a terrible famine which he would bring vpon a lande but whether this lande or not was not declared That Christ then shewed him his wisedome and prouidence in gouerning the Seas all other waters in their courses and further shewed him the man that should sitte on Christes right hand to iudge both the quicke and the dead whose name he wel knoweth That then he made his petition vnto the Lord who answered him by a voice thus what he would how he would when he would Howe by the extremitie of his torments his eies were fallen downe and his tongue thrust out of his head so as he could not pull it in againe one Barley cornes breadth but the Lorde in that extremitie shewed him that hee would keepe his bodie from bursting and that one haire of his head shoulde not perish That being loosed by his wiues importunitie soone after in a verie raynie daye hee his wife one Richard Dickons and one Palmer ridde altogether thence towarde Oundell thirtie myles that daye and albeit it rayned all the daye verie sore so that great floods came vpon it yet neuer one of them had any droppe thereof fall vpon their clothes That being at Oundell and foreseeing he shoulde bee exercised againe he prayed his wife that no man might come at him for hee woulde keepe his chamber and then the Lorde appeared vnto him and shewed him in what danger the lande was by reason of forreine enemies at the Sea and commaunded him to goe rounde about the Towne and that shoulde be a defence to the land round about That after this he kept him selfe in his Barne about eight daies reasoning with the Lorde touching Praedestination and Reprobation continually begging of him that hee would saue all those that fought ignorantly against the trueth or otherwise sinned through want of knowledge How after this betaking himselfe to his chamber againe the Lord he saith forced him to cry out against two great subiects and Counsellors in this lande That he was againe bounde and tormented there other twentie dayes in eight whereof he neither did eate nor drinke and was continually watched for that they knew the Lord would come and loose him if they left him That during this time Witches vsed their forcerie stongly vpon him That the Lorde then tolde him that he would harden his owne heart against Hackets tormētors How then also 4. or 5. Angels night by night stood by him and watched ouer him like vnto doues and one night spirits innumerable and that a white hande came from the Almightie and tooke him by the hande whereby all venome poison vncleannes and corruption departed from him for a time whereupon the Lorde shewed him three heauens together all the dwelling places contriued in one of them but the highest heauen was shewed to be without ende which glorie he was not able to beholde but was made able to looke vpon the blood of the Saintes which was made round like a waxe cake in very great breadth but the glorie which therewith appeared he could not looke vpon so that he was forced to turne his face vpon the pillowe Howe the Lord also shewed him the murthering of the wicked euen like the slaying of swine the father murthering the sonne and the mother the daughter and euery one another all the day long and no man tooke pitie vpon them That there was then reuealed vnto him a very strange fire from heauen the length whereof he did see consuming all things from the heauen to hell mouth but he did not see the breadth thereof Also that he then did see the breadth of the tormenting place of the damned and what was therein but neither the bottome nor length of the place That he also supposed he sawe his libertie begged by two honourable personages Notwithstanding which deliuerance that he dreamed of he telleth that he was carried afterward to North-hampton gaole where he remained 17. weekes as afore is remembred Furthermore there is declared that in his torments the Lorde shewed him howe he would confound all his aduersaries that were guiltie in any practise against him and that one thing which they went about they should neuer bring to passe for he let him see that they were all as drunken men and fooles without wit That in the end they should throw all their bookes away and be at a great confusion one with another That afterward viz. about the beginning of Easter terme last the Lorde brought him to London and howe he was made acquainted with Coppinger at that time as hath bene afore declared Howe after his departing out of the Citie from Coppinger he could not but remember him in his praiers desiring the Lord to reueale himselfe extraordinarily to him so that he might be encouraged to goe forwarde in the action whereupon as the saide Coppinger affirmed he had two extraordinarie seales in very short space after Hackets departure and was wonderfully strengthened to proceede in the cause Then is tolde howe the Lorde commanded him to goe from one place to another in and about the Citie for two daies space and howe he was commanded to raile against the saide two great Counsellors in diuerse places where he came Howe being in that time commanded to see the Lyons in the Tower he tooke the fiercest of them by the head and had none harme Then is tolde what Preachers in the Citie he heard and that going to heare one he sawe a surplesse lie in the Church whereupon he would not stay there That he went to certaine Preachers in prison to command them to deale faithfully in the Lordes busines And how he was commanded by God to deface the Armes of England in Kaies house in Knight-Rider streete Lastly it is saide that God hath appointed two others to deale for and with Hacket whome it will stand vpon to deale faithfully for the Lorde for they knowe what Hacket is and what shall followe if their counsels and directions be not followed Nowe if any shall meruaile howe such an absurd and ridiculous lying legend should seduce men of any consideration so earnest for a supposed Reformation and so exercised in praying and fasting let him remember not onely the effectuall but the efficacie it selfe of Illusion and the spirite of slumber falling by Gods secrete yet alwaies iust iudgement vpon the children of disobedience such as be wise in their owne conceites and not wise with sobrietie that they might beleeue lyes because they haue not beleeued the trueth and that they might aske and not obtaine because they aske not as they ought After Arthington on Thursday morning had ended his aforesaid Treatise of prophesie being the very day before their rising Coppinger tolde him that God the night before had enlightned him the said Coppinger who they all three were saying that Arthington had