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B02519	Martyrs in flames, or, Popery (in its true colours) displayed. Being a brief relation of the horrid cruelties and persecutions of the Pope and Church of rome for many hundred years past, to this present age, inflicted upon Protestants in Piedmont ... : With an abstract of the cruel persecution lately exercised upon the Protestants in France and Savoy, in the year 1686 and 1687. : Together with a short account of Gods judgment upon popish persecutors. / Published for a warning to all Protestants, [] what they must expect from that bloody generation of Antichristians. By R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1693 (1693)	Wing C7344A; ESTC R176606	106,868	208

to keep him from speaking and then crushed his right hand between two flat red hot frons till the form of it was changed and then did the like by his foot which he endured with admirable patience then tying him round the waste by a Pully and making a Fire underneath they hoisted him up and down till he was burnt to Ashes which they cast into the River There were several martyred at Valence and Lisle and one of the Judges pronouncing sentence against these good People said This day you shall go to dwell with all the Devils in Hell Fire But the greatest Instrument of the Devil in those Countreys was the Duke of Alva who was sent by the King of Spain to root the Protestants out of the Low-Countreys This Duke boasted one time at his own Table That he had been diligent to root out Heresie for besides those he had slain in the Wars he had put into the hands of the Common Hangman to be Executed within the space of six years no less than Eighteen thousand Persons And to compleat this sad Catastrophe we may also remember that William of Nassaw Prince of Orange was shot by a Villain called Joanville who was encouraged by a Jacobine Fryar to do it the Rascal was thrust through with an Halbert and the Fryar was hang'd But this wound not proving mortal they hired one Gerard a Burgundian who standing behind the Pillar in a Room shot the Prince dead as he past by The Persecutions of the Papists upon the Protestants in Scotland and Ireland AS most Kingdoms in Europe felt the rage and fury of Romish Cruelty and Persecution so Scotland though in the frozen north was not insensible thereof For in the Year 1572. Mr. Patrick Hamilton of an Ancient and Honourable Family and called Abbot of Fern left Scotland and went into Germany where conversing with Luther and Melancthon he greatly increased in godly knowledge and learning and returning home he publickly Preached concerning Faith and good works and against the Superstitions and Idolatry of the Papists This so enraged James Beaton Arch bishop of St. Andrews that in the absence of the King Mr. Hamilton was seized upon by the Bishops Officers and carried to the Castle and the next day he was brought forth to Judgment and Condenmed to be Burnt for the Testimony of God The Articles charged against him were about Pilgrimages Purgatory Praying to Saints and for the Dead After Dinner the Fire was prepared which some thought was only to terrifie him but it pleased God to strengthen him against the fear of Death and so he was tied to the Stake giving his Garments to his Servant and saying thus to him These will not profit in the Fire they will profit thee After this thou canst receive no benefit by me except the Example of my Death which I pray thee to remember for though it be bitter to the Flesh and fearful before men yet it is the entrarce into eternal Life which none shall possess who deny Jesus Christ before this wicked Generation And the Fire being kindled he cried with a loud voice Lord Jesus receive my Spirit how long shall Darkness overwhelm this Realm and how long wilt thou suffer the Tyranny of these men A Fryar troubling him by crying out Turn thou Heretick call upon our Lady say Salve Regina c. he replyed Depart from me and trouble me not thou Messenger of Satan and speaking to one Campbel the chief among them he said Wicked man thou knowest the Contrary and hast confessed the contrary to me I appeal thee before the Tribunal Seat of Jesus Christ after which words he resigned up his Spirit to God and within a few days after the Fryar died in a Frenzy and Desperation The Archbishop of St. Andrews likewise called before him two Gentlemen David Straton and Mr. Normand Gomlay Mr. Straton being accused for Heresy was much troubled at it and thereupon frequented the company of Religious men and hearing that Text read He that denieth me before men or is ashamed of me in this wicked Generation I will deny him before my Father and his Holy Angels he stedfastly lift up his eyes and hands to Heaven and burst forth into these words O Lord I have been wicked and justly mayest thou withdraw thy Grace f●●●● me but Lord for thy Mercy sake let me never deny thy Truth for fear of Death or Corporal pain Being afterwards together with Mr. Norman brought to Judgment in Holy Rood-House where the King himself was present they were both condemned to the fire and in the afternoon were first Hanged and then Burnt which they chearfully suffered There was likewise one Dean Thomas Foret who used to Preach to his Parishioners every Lords day out of the Epistles and Gospels as they came in order for which being complained of to the Bishop of Dunkeldon he reproved him for it telling him that it was too much to preach every Sunday since the People might think they ought to do so likewise and says the Bishop Is it not enough for you when you find a good Epistle and Gospel to set forth and preach the Liberty of Holy Church and let the rest alone Dean Thomas replyed That he had read them all over and knew no bad ones among them But said he when your Lordship shews me any such I will pass them by The Bishop anwered I thank God I never knew what the Old and New Testament was but go your ways and ●●pent of these fancies ere it be too late The Dean answered My cause is good and just 〈◊〉 the presence of God and therefore 〈…〉 〈…〉 but he 〈…〉 Cardinal Beton by whom he was condemned and Burned for an Heretick The Year after Jerom Russel and Alexander Kennedy who was not above eighteen years old ●ere brought before the Archbishop and his Associates who railed upon them and called ●hem Hereticks Jerom Russel replyed This your hour and power of darkness now sit ye as judges and we are wrongfully accused but the day will come wherein our Innocency will appear ●nd ye shall see your own blindness to your everlasting confusion go forward and fulfil the measure of your Iniquity A while after they were sentenced to die and as they went to Execution Jerom comforted Kennedy saying Brother fear not greater is he that is in us than he that is in the World the pain we are to suffer is short and shall be light but our joy and consolation shall never have an end let us therefore strive to enter into our Master and Saviours Joy by the same straight way which he hath taken before us Death cannot hurt us for it is destroyed by him for whose sake we now suffer And in this manner past reason they joyfully gave up their Souls unto God in the Flaming Fire In the year 1543. Cardinal Beton coming to Edenburgh caused several Religious persons to be brought before him and when he could prove nothing else against them

of gaining England and Ireland which the Pope had bestowed upon him he comes to take possession thereof with a vast and as the Pope Christened it Invincible Armado consisting of an hundred and thirty tall Ships extraordinary well furnished and containing fifty seven Thousand eight hundred and eight Tun wherein were Eight Thousand six hundred Seamen Twenty Thousand Souldiers two thousand Galley Slaves besides Gentlemen and Voluntiers in abundance so that there was scarce a Family in Spain who had not either a Son Brother or Cousin in the Fleet. There were likewise aboard them two thousand six hundred and thirty great Ordnance with Powder Bullets Match Muskets Pikes Spears Swords and all things proportionable with Knives Daggers Skeins Chains and Whips to Torment and cut the Throats of the poor English Protestants and with them came swarms of those Locusts called Capuchins Mendicants Jesuits and other Officers of the Sacred Order of the Inquisition as they prophanely call it And besides all this there lay in Flanders fifty thousand old Souldiers and two hundred eighty eight Vessels ready to transport them under the command of the Duke of Parma all the King of Spains best Souldiers even as far as America being drawn forth for this Holy War The whole of this Expedition having cost the Spaniard twelve Millions of Crowns before their setting forth the Pope likewise contributing a Million of Gold to so pious a design But the goodness and mercy of God at that time defended England from the gaping Jaws of destruction and discomfited this Mighty Armado and all its mighty preparations and sent them home full of shame loss and confusion so that of one hundred thirty four Ships that set sail out of Lisbon only thirty three returned the Spaniard losing in this Voyage Eighty one Ships and above thirteen thousand five hundred Souldiers and two thousand more taken Prisoners in England Ireland and the Low Countreys the rest of the Navy being lost and destroyed by the English the Dutch the Seas Rocks Sands and Tempests all seeming to conspire to the defeating of this proud and Insolent attempt But these sort of People will never take notice of Gods Judgments upon their wicked designs and enterprizes and notwithstanding all this they shut their Eyes and will not see that God is against them for they no sooner recover breath but they send over new Commissions and more cursed Emissaries disguised in all shapes into England with new Plots Contrivances and designs Lopez and his Confederates Cullen York Williams Squire Hesket all enter into a Conspiracy to kill the Queen being constantly encouraged by the Jesuits and the Spanish Ministers of State And these proving abortive in the year 1599. the Earl of Tyrone is stirred up to make a new Rebellion in Ireland having the same Pardons and Indulgences sent them as are usually given by the Popes to those that go to fight against the Turks And in the year 1601. the King of Spain sends a great Fleet of Souldiers to Kinsale in Ireland for the assistance of the Rebels But notwithstanding all these wicked and execrable designs this glorious and Heroick Queen of blessed memory having out-lived Four Kings and Eight Popes dyed in Peace and left her flourishing Kingdoms to her Successor King James And now the Papists being thus disappointed of their great hopes and expectations by the succession of a Protestant King to the Crown of England and thereby uniting into one Body Scotland England and Ireland one would have Imagined that all their contrivances would have been dasht since they could not well think that so long well settled a Reformation in Church and State could very easily be broken and confounded yet still they give not over but encourage one another in their wickedness and the Pope sent over two Bulls to deprive King James of the Crown and sought to raise divisions and dissentions amongst us But God continuing to frustrate all their designs they now grew as it were desperate and entred upon the most barbarous and Hellish Plot and contrivance that ever was hatched in the Brains or Hearts of men which is that which we call the Gunpowder Treason and which we yearly commemorate upon the Fifth of November they designing to act it on that day in the year 1605. This horrid design was contrived by divers Jesuits Priests and other English Papists who by undermining the Parliament-House and planting there Thirty six Barrels of Gunpowder intended by firing the same when both Houses were sitting to have blown up and destroyed not only the King as the Head of the Kingdom but with him his Queen the Prince and all the Royal Issue together with the Clergy Nobility and the chief of the Gentry of the whole Kingdom all should have perished together at one Blow and have become a Sacrifice to the enraged Lusts of these Bloody-minded Papists A Plot and Villany that no Age can parallel no Country ever could produce the like and which was as miraculously prevented and detected at if it were by the immediate finger of God who discovered their treasonable practices even within their dark Vaults and Cellars when the very Train was laid and fire almost put to it And in this horrid Conspiracy Catesby Piercy Faux Digby Garnet Hall c all Popish Priests were considerable Actors and Promoters and all sworn to secresie with Horrid Oaths and Imprecations taking the Holy Sacrament and engaging themselves one to another thereby and by their Faith in the Holy Trinity never to shrink from the Execution of this their Hellish Intention till they had performed the same They were likewise promised from abroad Ships and Men and ten hundred thousand Crowns to carry on their work And though this horrid Conspiracy has been sufficiently discovered and made plain by the confession of some of the Conspirators who were executed and by writings under their own hands yet according to their usual Impudence which they learned of their Predecessor Nero who when he had set Rome on Fire charged it upon the Christians the Papists intended to have laid that wicked Act upon the Puritans and since this they have endeavoured to make the world believe that it was a Contrivance of King James thereby endeavouring since they could not blow up the King with Gunpowder to blast his good Name and to make him odious to Posterity But three Kingdoms are not so easie to be deluded neither are we so horridly impious to mock God so solemnly with yearly Prayers and Thanksgivings neither need we think it so strange since Lyes Impudence are the grand supporters of the Papal Kingdom without which such a medly of Nonsence and Foolery would be hooted out of the world And from that time to this very day the Papists have been and are the Grand Disturbers of these Nations And it is sufficiently manifested that they had no small hand in our late Troubles since which they have continually sought the ruin and destruction of all Protestants