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A65422	Popery anatomized, or, A learned, pious, and elaborat treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of controversie, between us and papists, are handled, and the truth of our doctrine clearly proved : and the falshood of their religion and doctrine anatomized, and laid open, and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture, fathers, and also by some of their own popes, doctors, cardinals, and of their own writers : in answer to M. Gilbert Brown, priest / by that learned, singularly pious, and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch ...; Reply against Mr. Gilbert Browne, priest	Welch, John, 1568?-1622.; Craford, Matthew. Brief discovery of the bloody, rebellious and treasonable principles and practises of papists.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1312; ESTC R38526	397,536	586

in the Goal and about midnight they were all stript stark naked and there most cruelly and barbarously murdered with swords axes skeens some of them being women great with child their infants thrust out their arms and legs at their wounds after which execrable murders they laid the dead naked bodies of the men upon the dead naked bodies of the women in a most immodest posture where they left them while the next day to be looked on as a delectable spectacle to the Irish About Dunganon were 316. Protestants in the like barbarous manner murdered about Charlmont above 510. about Tiron 250. One M. Crew murdered 31. in one morning Two young villains murdered 140. poor women and children An Irish women with her own hands murdered 45. At Portendown-bridge were drowned above 300. At Lawgh were drowned above 200. In another place 300. were drowned in one day In the Parish of Killamen there were murdered 1200. Protestants In the County of Antrum they murdered 954. Protestants in one morning and afterwards about 1200 more in that County Sir Philem Oneal boasted that he had slain above 600 at Garvagh and that he had left neither man woman nor child alive in the Barrony of Munterlong In other places he murdered above 2000. persons in their houses above 12000 were slain in the high wayes as they fled towards Down Not only the men but also the boyes murdered Protestants for there were 15. Protestants all murdered in one night by a Popish boy of 14. years who slew them with his skeen they being imprisoned and their feet in the stocks Another of twelve years killed two women An English Papist woman killed seven men and women of her neighbors in one morning and it was usual for the Papists children to murder the Protestants children and sometimes with their wooden swords sharp and heavy they would venture upon people of riper years An English woman who was newly delivered of two children some of these vilains violently compelled her in great pains and sickness to rise from her bed and took one of the infants that was living and dashed his brains against the stones and then threw him into the river The like they did with many other infants Many others they hanged without all pity yea many young children they cut into quarters and goblets Eighteen Scots infants they hanged upon a clothiers tenter-hooks One fat man they murdered and made candles of his greass Another Scottish man they ript up his belly and an end of his smal guts tyed it to a tree and forced him round about it till he had drawn them all out of his body saying they would try whither a Scots-man or a dogs guts were the longer They took one M. Watson and cutting two colops out of his buttocks they roasted him alive They ript up a Scottish woman great with child cut the child out of her womb and so left it crawling on her body They used also to send their children abroad in troups armed with long watles and whips wherewith they use to beat dead mens bodies about the privy members till they beat them off They brake the back-bone of a young youth and so left him in the fields and some days after he was found having like a beast eaten all the grass round about him yet neither then would they kill him outright but removed him to a place of better pasture These and many mo cruelties were used among the poor Protestants who desires to see their monstrous and more then barbarous cruelties at more length let him peruse a book written on purpose called Irelands tears and M. Clerks Martyrology from pag. 347. to pag. 369. which books never Papist could convince of falshood Now lest any should think this was a natural quarrel that the Irish had against the English Ans Certainly that could not be because they were no more merciful to the Scottish whom all acknowledge to be of their own Nation 2. The English Papists were no whit inferior but rather exceeded the natural Irish in their cruelty against the Protestants that lived among them within the Pale being never satisfied with their blood till they had seen the last drop thereof Now was ever such inhumane cruelty heard or read of among Turks or Heathens as they exercised against the poor Protestants who never provoked them thereto yea that had always lived peaceably with them administring help and pitie to them in distress cherishing them as friends and loving neighbors yet they shewed them no favor nor pity Alace who can conceive the fears terrors anguish bitterness and perplexity that seazed upon the hearts of the poor Protestants finding themselves so suddenly surprized without remedy and inextricably wrapt up in all kind of outward miseries which could possibly by man be inflicted upon humane creatures What sighs and groans trembling and astonishment What schricks cryes and bitter lamentations of wives children servants and friends howling and weeping finding themselves without all hope of deliverance from their present miseries How inexorable were their torments without all bowels of compassion The most barbarous Nation never used more cruelty then they did upon the poor Protestants all the land over I believe the Irish in this massacre destroyed by several sorts of torments several hundred thousands for there were given up upon oath 150000. put to several sorts of death in the Province of Ulster What the number of the slain was in the three other Provinces is not on record but certainly it was very great As among other things the Remonstrance of the distressed Protestants in Munster set down in M. Clarks Martyrology evidenceth By all that is said I hope it is sufficiently proved that the principles and practises of Papists are bloody treasonable cruel and inhumane yet they are not only so impudent as to deny this calling it a loud slander but also to charge Protestants of integrity as they call us with treasonable and rebellious principles Whereas we in all our Confessions acknowledge that Magistracy is an ordinance of God and that every soul is to be subject to the higher powers and that fidelity and obedience is due to them in and for the Lord. The publick Confessions of our Churches plead for this See the Augustan French Belgick Helvetick Bohemian Saxonick Suevick Scottish English and the Assemblies Confessions Did ever any of our Divines teach any such doctrine or to commit any such practises as Papists teach Do we not all hold that an oath is strictissimi juris of most strict obligation and can be dispensed by none under heaven and ought to be kept even to hereticks infidels or any other whatsoever We acknowledge that Church-men as well as others are subject to the Magistrat according to the Word of God Rom. 13.1 None of us did ever teach that the Pope or any Church-man may dethrone Kings and alien at their Crowns to others neither do we teach that Church men are loosed from the positive laws of Emperors and Kings

he may of right dispense against right that he may make righteousness of unrighteousness and that he may deliver as many souls out of Hell and Purgatory and place them in heaven as pleaseth him Extra de translat Epist Canon Quanto in textu glossa Clement 6. in Bulla he needs no Masses to be said for him Either therefore these sentences that are spoken of him are false or else all Masses said for him are superfluous Eightly if the Mass be one with the Supper then as the Supper was only instituted for the living and not for the dead and therefore our Savior in the Supper commands To take eat drink and to do it in remembrance of him which the dead cannot do so these Masses should not be for the dead And for what dead are these that these Masses are said If they say for them that are in Heaven or Hell I answer the one needs them not and they are unprofitable for the other If they say for them that are in Purgatory I answer this Purgatory is but their own invention to draw water to their own mill and to enrich the Popes treasures for the Scripture makes no mention of it Ninthly their Masses that are said for them that are absent as for the prisoners for them that sail and are in their voyage c. makes it manifest also that the Mass is not one with the Lords Supper for it was instituted not to them that were absent but to them that were present For in the Supper they are commanded to take eat and to drink in remembrance of him which the absent cannot do Indeed it is true that these that are present at the Mass do eat and drink as little as they that are absent the only vantage they have is to be beholders of the Priest eating and drinking all himself alone and of these vain and juglers tricks of the Priest in saying of his Mass which the absent cannot see Tenthly how can their Priests please God in saying Mass for him of whose soul it is doubted seeing it cannot be said with faith and whatsoever is done without faith the Apostle saith is sin Rom. 4.23 And this doubting as James saith cannot stand with faith James 2 6. therefore this Mass of theirs for his soul of whom there is doubt cannot please God But what is all their Religion but conjectures and opinions and doubtings Eleventhly is their Masses for the pest tempest fury fire and all afflictions and maladies as well of man as of beast which containeth intolerable and vile idolatry for every Mass hath his own Saint to be a Patron according to the subject thereof and every Saint hath his own office Against the pest the Priest saith the Mass of S. Sebastian and S. Roch for they are the Patrons and defenders against it after the custom of the Pagans who honored Apollo and Esculapius by feasts and sacrifices for to be saved from the contagion of the same Against the tempest they say the Mass of S. Bernard S. Graith S. Barbe and others in stead of Jupiter which the Pagans worshipped Against the rage or fury they say the Mass of S. Hubert who is the Patron of hunters and dogs as the Goddess Diana was the Patron among the Pagans Against the fire they say the Mass of S. Antony for they make him the Patron of it and they say it is a greater oath to swear upon the arm of S. Antony then when one swears by the Name of God For a woman with child they say the Mass of S. Margaret in stead of Diana and Juno which the Pagans worshipped for women with child For a horse they say the Mass of S. Eloy or S. Antony yea for a poor wifes hen if it be sick or lost And for their pigs they have the Mass of S. Antony Alanus de sacrific Euch. cap. 32. But first what blasphemy is this to have their recourse to Saints hee or shee to obtain of them or by their merit or intercession health in sickness c. and such like things which are only in Gods hands to bestow For it is he only that sends health and sickness fair weather and foul weather and so forth Next the Lords Supper was not instituted to be a charm for such diseases of man or beast or for the fire pest tempest c. but for the remembrance of Christs death So that if there were no more abuse in the Mass but these two things it is sufficient to make all men to abhor such abominable idolatry The twenty and one abuse is their mixing of parcels of the Scripture with their abomination and idolatries in their Mass after the manner of those who go about to impoyson any who mix their poyson with some good food that it may be the less suspected Or rather as the Magiciens and Charmers doth who mixes with their devilish practises parcels of the Scriptures of God and makes those to serve for their devilish purposes which was appointed to Gods honor So are all the places of Scripture which are read and sung in their Mass they are brought forth not for the truth but against the truth for their idolatry and abomination and this they have done that their idolatrie may be less suspected by the simple Next what warrant have they to prefer the Gospel as they call it to the Epistles in standing up at the reading of the Gospel and sitting at the reading of the Epistles seeing they are both inspired of God and they both contain the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the Apostle testifies Rom. 1.1 and 2.16 1. Cor. 4.15 Thirdly the Gospel and Epistles were appointed not to be sung and chanted in the Church as they do but to be read and interpreted for the Psalms and other Hymns in the Scripture are ordained for that use Fourthly seeing the Scripture which is read and sung in your Mass is read and sung in an unknown language as all the rest of your Mass is done to what purpose doth it serve And what is it but a mocking of God and abusing of the poor people The twenty and two abuse is their wax candles which they have burning in the time of their Masses in the fair day light mocking as it were thereby both God the Author of all light and the light of the Sun And to what purpose can they serve to burn in the day light when the Sun is shining but to bear witness against them in the great Day that in the midst of the noon-day they groped in darkness and that they have put out the light of the Gospel that should have shined in their hearts What shal I speak of the rest of your ceremonies which are superstitious idle carnal and Jewish In attire like them for as their Priests were clad in an Ephod a Myter a broidered coat a girdle a breast-plate and a robe Exode 28.4 So with you your Priests must have an Amice an Albe a girdle a fannel whereof some

they should die too soon Some they put into hot ovens roasting or smothering of them there Some they roasted with fires of straw some they stiffled strangled or hanged and this was a great favor so soon to rid them out of pain Of many they bound their hands and feet that the blood spitted out of their fingers and toes ends Of some they tyed their hands and feet backwards together stopping their mouthes with clouts to hinder them from praying Some they hung up with ropes fastened to their privy parts and hearing their cryes strove by their roarings to drown their cryes as in sport Many they drew up on high hanging great weights at their feet to pull their bodies out of joint Of some they plained their faces with chissels Some men they openly gelded in presence of their wives children The mouthes of some they set wide open with gags and then powred down their throats stinking water urine and other liquid things till they grew sick and their bellies swelled like tuns whereby they died leasurely with greater torment Down the throats of some they violently thrust knotted clouts then with a string pulled them up again whereby they displaced their bowels put them to miserable torment in so much as some were made dumb others deaf others blind and others lame If the husband intreated for his wife or the wife for the husband they would take the intercessor and torture him in the same manner before the others eyes and when any of these poor creatures in their torments or agonies of death called and cryed unto God for mercy they would command and seek to force them to pray and cry unto the Devil Yea their devilishness proceeded so far that they studied to find out new and unheard-of torments Some they bound hung up and sawed off their leggs of others they rubbed off the flesh of their leggs to the very bones of others they tyed the arms backward and so ●anged them up by these distorted parts many they drew through the streets of the citie stark naked then brake and wounded them with axes and hammers generally used them with such barbarous cruelty that many begged to be shot or slain instantly rather then to live and be partakers of such miseries Rapts and ravishings they committed beyond all humane modesty maids and matrons wives and widows they forced and violated without distinction yea in the presence of their parents husbands and neighbors yea women great with child and others in child-bed their beastliness was such that no pen can write it no faith can believe it In Hessen land they took diverse poor women some mad some dumb some lame and tying up their coats about their ears so used them as a modest pen cannot express In Pomeran they took the fairest maids and ravished them before their parents faces making them sing Psalms the while One beautiful maid being hid by her parents in a dung-hill they found her out had their pleasure of her then cut her in pieces and hung up her quarters in the Church yea very girls of ten years old and under they ravished till some of them died Vertuous and chaste women they would threaten to kill or throw their children into the fire if they would not yeeld to their lusts Divers maids and women to avoid their lusts have leapt into rivers and wells and some have otherwise killed themselves and that which was never before heard-of they did not only violate sickly and weak maids and women till they died but committed the like filthiness with the dead corps Who desires to see more of this let him peruse Clerks Martyrology pag. 275 seqq The last instance of the unspeakable ruine and misery of Protestants under the merciless rage of Papists where they are masters is a home-bred one in our own days and fresh in memory and of our own brethren to wit the English and Scottish Protestants in Ireland in that late persecution raised by the Irish Papists against them anno 1642. cōmonly called The Irish rebellion To make a full Relation of their horrid and barbarous cruelty it would fill a whole Volume it self there being several Volumes written on that subject I shal only name some few particulars And first when their plot was ripe the Priests gave the Sacrament unto divers of the Irish upon condition that they should neither spare man woman nor child of the Protestants saying that it was very meritorious to wash their hands in their blood One Halligan a Priest read an excommunication against all these that from thenceforth should relieve or harbor any English Scots or Welsch Protestants or give them alms at their doors whereby many were famished to death The Friers with tears exhorted them not to spare any of the English They openly professed that they held it as lawful to kill a Protestant as to kill a sheep or a dog One of their Priests said that it was no more pity or conscience to take the lives or estats from them then to take a bone out of a dogs mouth The day before this Massacre was to begin the Priests gave the people a free dismiss at Mass with free liberty to go out and take possession of all their lands as also to strip rob and spoyl them of all their goods and cattel the Protestants being as they told them worse then dogs for they were Devils and served the Devil and therefore the killing of such was a meritorious act and a rare preservative against the pains of Purgatory for that the bodies of such of them as died in the quarrel should not be cold before their souls should ascend up into heaven they should not fear the pains of Purgatory And that caused some of them to boast after they had murdered many that they knew that if they should die presently they should go straight to heaven When this persecution first began many of the Irish Gentle-men perswaded many of their Protestant neighbors to bring their goods and cattel to them and they would secure them and gave deep oaths and protestations to many that if they would deliver their goods they would suffer them with their wives and children to depart the Countrey yet having got their goods they murdered some of them others they stript stark naked man woman and child and so turned them out of doors not suffering them so much as to shelter themselves in bushes or in the woods And they prohibited any of the Irish under great penalties to give them any relief And their design was that these whom they would not cruelly murder in cold blood might miserably perish through cold nakedness and want And therefore when any got any rags to cover their nakedness they stript them again and again and drave them to the wild woods in frost and snow so that many of them starved and fell down dead on the high wayes Others that got to any English town died so soon as they came there by reason

of the cold and famine suffered in the way But these were but the beginnings of sorrows for they fell on and murdered in cold blood some at plough others in their houses others travelling in the way without provocation In the Castle of Lisgool there were about 152. persons consumed with fire At the Castle of Monea were an hundred slain together All that was in the Castle of Tullah were all cruelly murdered after the Castle was yeelded upon composition and faithful promises of fair quarter At Lissenkea they hanged and killed above an hundred of the Scots Protestants Some they caused upon hopes of life to hear Mass and to swear never to alter from it and presently thereafter hanged or killed them At Portendoun-bridge they drave a thousand persons into the river and drowned them all yea in that County they drowned four thousand persons driving them to the river and if any were slack in their pace they pricked them forward with their swords and picks and to terrifie the rest they killed some and wounded others and if any essayed to swim to the shore they stood and shot at them Some they gave passes and sent of the Irish with them under the pretence of safe-conducting them while they came to some place fit for execution where they either murdered or drowned them At Armach Onel got together all the Protestants thereabout pretending to conduct them to Colrain but before they were gone a days journey they were all murdered and so were many others though they had Oneals protection In Armach town there were 500. persons murdered and drowned In Kilmore all the inhabitants were stript and massacred being 200. families The whole County was a common butchery where many thousands perished in a short time by sword famine fire water and all other cruel manner of deaths that rage and malice could invent yea their cruelty was so great that they would not grant them so much liberty as to pray before they murdered them Some when they were kneeling and praying they would cut off their head When some on their knees begged but leave to pray before they were slain they would bid them bequeath their souls to the Devil Others would ask them Why do you desire to pray your souls are already with the Devil and so would immediatly slaughter them Some they put in filthy dungeons full of dirt and myre and there clapping bolts on their legs suffered them to perish at leasure Some they barbarously mangled and left them languishing upon the high ways crying out but for so much mercy as to be dispatched out of their pain Some they buried alive Some when they were half hanged they cast into pits covering them with a little earth where they sent out most lamentable groans for a good while after Some they hacked slashed and wounded and then put and kept them under with stones where they lay languishing and groaning while their own wives stopped their breath with handkerchiefs to put them out of pain Some they buried alive yet so as their pityful cryes were heard afar off Some were deadly wounded and so were hung by the chocks upon tenter hooks Some with ropes about their necks were drawn through the water Some with ropes about their middles were drawn through woods and bogs Some were hung up by the arms and then with their swords they made experiment how many blows an English Protestant would endure ere he died Some had their bellies ript up and so were left with their guts running about their heels Many women great with child they hung up then ript their bellies and let the infants fall out and gave them to be devoured of dogs and swine Many children they took by the heels and dashed their brains out against a tree Many they pucked and stabbed with their skeens forks and swords slashing cutting and mangling them in their heads faces breasts arms and other parts yet killed them not but left them wallowing in their blood to languish starve and pine to death and when they desired them to kill them out of their pain they refused yet sometimes after a day or two they would dash out their brains with stones or clubs which they accounted as a great favor In the cold weather many thousands of Protestants of all ranks ages and sexes being turned out stark naked perished of cold and hunger Thousands of others were drowned cast into ditches bogs and turff-pits Multitudes were inclosed in houses which being set on fire they were burnt miserably Some that lay sick of fevers they drew out of their beds and hanged them Some men women and children they drove into boggy pits and if any of them endeavored to get out they knockt them on their heads Some aged men and women they forced them to carry their own children to the river where they were drowned yea some children were compelled unnaturally to be the executioners of their own parents Wives were forced to help to hang their own husbands and mothers to cast their own children into the water after all which themselves were murdered In Slego they forced a young man to kill his own father and then hanged him up In another place they forced a woman to kill her husband then caused her son to kill her and then immediatly hanged the son and this they did that they might destroy both soul and body yea the women were as bloody as the men killing women and children yea they boyled a child of twelve years of age in a caldron and in some places the women stoned the English women to death In some places they plucked out the eyes and cut off the hands of the Protestants and so turned them out into the fields to wander till they perished Neither did their cruelty end with the lives of the Protestants but extended after death to the denying burial to their carkasses casting some into ditches leaving others to be devoured of ravenous beasts and fowls yea some that had been formerly buried they digged up and left them as dung upon the face of the earth and they vowed if any parents or wives digged graves to bury their husbands or children in they should be buried therein themselves Yea they abused and triumphed over the dead for at Kilkenny when they had committed many cruel murders they brought seven Protestant heads among which was the head of a Minister all which they set on the Market Cross on a Market day triumphing● slashing and mangling of them and putting a gag into the Ministers mouth they slit up his cheeks to his ears and laying a leaf of the Bible before it they bid him preach for his mouth was wide enough When they put many Protestants in houses and set fire in them and burnt them they exulted over them imitating in scorn their cryes and saying O how sweetly do they fry Yea they made their boast how many Protestants they killed yea they burnt and blasphemously abused the Bible At Slego they put all the Protestants