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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13288	Pisgah euangelica By the method of the Reuelation, presenting to publike view those Cananites ouer whom our Lord Iesus Christ and his holie Church shall triumph after seuerall battailes. That which is past is shewed in a briefe ecclesiasticall historie, containing most of the mutations which haue befallen the Church, from the yeere of our Lord 97, vnto the yeere 1603. as they haue been shewed vnto S. Iohn in Patmos, and recorded by such historiographers as are of least suspected faith. Gathered by William Symonds, sometimes fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.	Symonds, William, 1556-1616?	1605 (1605)	STC 23592; ESTC S118079	213,424	293

many of them But m Euseb 9. 8. vnder Maximinus was the greatest pestilence of all the people died in the streetes in great multitudes the dogges eat many of them halfe dead their carcasses lay naked open and vnburied a most lamentable spectacle to those that beheld it And as Michael the lambe with his Angels doe fight that he might ouercome so did the Dragon and his a cap. 12.7.8 Angels fight that they might preuaile and keepe their places of idolatrie and superstition The Dragon doth warre b cap. 12.10.11 first by accusing the brethren and then by shedding their blood Many grieuous accusations were laide to the charge of the Christians first that c Euseb 3. 17. Christ was King and so would dispossesse Princes Then d Epiphanius where as some heretikes did vse women in common eating horrible meates as young children and womens menstrues c. the e Euseb 4. 7● same things were obiected to the faithfull Christians Yea the tyrants in their edicts published f Euseb 9. 5. 7. very blasphemous accusations against Christ and Christians They slaundered the Christians that when they assembled to their Sabbaths vnder the colour of seruing God they polluted themselues with promiscuous whoredomes That the iniquitie of the Christians was the cause of the famine earthquakes warre and mortalities and that the heathen gods did thereby reuenge the indulgence of the Princes towards the Christians Of these and such like slaunders they write books which they giue to the schoole-masters to teach their schollers As also they hang them vp vpon pillars in all publike places to be read of all men Yea they forbade g Polychro lib. 4. f. 169. any man that would not sacrifice to their idols to buie or sell or take vp water Besides their slaunders and disgraces they added hereunto most barbarous persecutions h Massaeus 10. P.p. 131. 133. determining and commanding to roote out the Christians The Churches in many places were i Euseb 8. 2. pulled down and the scriptures burnt and destroyed Yea k Geneb p. 543 Polych 4. c. 25. in one night twentie thousand Christians were burned as they were assembled in the Church seauenteene thousand died of most horrible and vnnaturall torments in the space of thirtie daies Euery l Euseb 8. 6. 7. 10. 12. in alijs suis libris one was the more esteemed for his wisdome and obseruance to his Prince by how much he was able to deuise and execute torments most barbarous vnnaturall horrible and painefull they spared no sexe nor age nor regarded any persons of honour nor affinitie nor consanguinitie Then was there no place of refuge The fift seale cap. 6.9 11. nor time of resting from these tyrannies Yet is the successe happie for the Saints who got the victorie and triumph and a Cap. 12.8.9 miserable to the Dragon and his angels whose place was no more found in heauen but he was cast out euen into the earth and his angels were cast out with him The victorie is first begged of God and then executed Those which obtaine the victorie get it by deprecation and are said to be the b cap 6.9 soules that is c Gen. 9.4 Numb 9.4 Leuit. 17.14 the persons and carkasses of them that had beene killed for the word of God and for the testimonie which they maintained to wit the martyrs which d 2. Tim. 4.6 were killed or offered so that e Leuit. 4.34 their blood seemed to bee poured at the foote of f cap. 11.2 Exod. 21.14 the Altar beeing slaine in the place of Gods most immediate and sincere worshippe for the Gospel and profession of Iesus Christ of whom is spoken before They crie g Gen. 4.10 Heb. 11.4 aloud for vengeance beeing slaine as Abels blood did crie against his brother Caine. They are honoured with white robes which were giuen them euery h Euseb 5. 2. godly man esteeming honourably of them that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for the Lord Iesus Christ Yea they also were honoured with the victorie ouer their persecutors For howsoeuer the estate of the Christians in the former troubles was very desperate yet the Martyrs by the power of Christ did so constantly endure all the torments of their persecutors that they ouercame them i cap. 12.11 by that word of their testimonie in that they loued not their liues vnto the death k Euseb 8. 12. 13 For whē the tyrants had made proofe of all kind of torments and were not able to augment their tortures they dispaired in themselues as not hoping to preuaile by that course Then grewe they wearie with killing them and were glutted with blood They also by reason of certain wise and iust Apologies which the Christians published in the defence of the flocke of Christ feared least the Princes should iustly incurre a publik note of infamie for the barbarous effusion of innocent blood And so the persecution did slacke Thus the victorie beeing obtained at the hands of God The sixt seale cap. 6.12 c. it was presently pursued with diligent execution by the Lambe now throughly angred To which purpose there was a great earthquake that is a a Isai 24.17.18.19.20 Ioel 2.20 generall doubtful tottering in the minds of men not knowing what to settle vpon Which grew by reason that b Ann. 311. Constantinus the sonne of Constantius who fauoured the Christians was saluted Emperour Then c Abb. Vrsp was there a great motion in the Christian world The common wealth was held by foure new Emperours which had euery one their drift to be the chiefest which caused the people to be infinitely distracted Besides that others d Mussaeus p. 132. sought partly by treason to take away Constantine as Maximinianus partly by the souldiers to place themselues as Valens in the East and Alexander at Carthage yea the Romans e Vrsp p. 79. Massaeus were so perplexed with the tyrannie of Maxentius that they called to Constantine for reliefe By the stirring of Constantine the Princes were distressed and confounded as if the Sunne were f cap. 6.12 as blacke as sackecloth of haire and the Moone was all made like blood so g Amos. 8.5 Ioel. 3.15 that their daies were vncomfortable and in the night they were in feare to be slaine For his h Euseb 8. 14. 9.9 comming offended Maximinianus much and his proceedings made Maximinus sadde Maxentius was also in exceeding feare that he durst not go out of Rome gates The Nobles and i Isai 13.10.13 7.2 principall ministers of estate such as loued the workes of darkenesse fell from their places of eminencie as k cap. 6.13 if the starres of heauen fell to the earth and so violently were they mooued out of their places as a figge tree casteth her greene figges when it was shaken of a mightie winde The publike face of l Isa