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A25653	The Antichristian principle fully discovered in a brief and true account of all the hellish plots, bloody persecutions, horrid massacres, and most inhumane cruelties and tortures, exercised by the papists, on the persons of Protestant dissenters from the Church of Rome, for the cause of religion only, as well as abroad as here in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the very beginning till this present year, 1678 ...		1679 (1679)	Wing A3485; ESTC R38626	46,886	49

shapes and disguises They are rich and full of coyn to cary on all their designes and to bribe the covetous They know how to satisfie all Scruples and to please all humours they creep into all Courts and are in all places They are dilligent in their wicked vocation and 't is their whole study and employ how to propagate the greatnesse and power of Rome and to subvert all that oppose them They inculcate into the ears of their people dangerous doctrines and establish in their mindes wicked principles They tell them that Princes not professing the Romish Religion are absolutely fallen from their title and authority that they are no longer Princes but Tyrants and Usurpers and that the Pope may excommunicate them and that being so excommunicated their Subjects ought not to obey them but are absolved from all tyes of allegiance that they ought to be thrown out of the seat of their Authority the Scepter ought to be wrung out of their hands and that 't is a meritorious act to depose or to kill such Princes that the clergy are exempt from the Jurisdiction of Secular princes and are not bound to their Laws That the Pope of Rome hath the full and chief power and command over all throughout the whole world even in Civil matters That the Magistrates of this nation are Heriticks and therefore not to be accounted Magistrates nor obeyed And that after the Bull of their holy Father the Pope is pronounced against a Nation that all that shall be then acted shall be accounted null and void That faith is not to be kept with Hereticks and that the Pope hath power to absolve all vows promises oaths how strictly so ever made or done with many others of this stamp whereby they alienate the hearts of subjects from their Princes and place all the bonds of Duty on the Pope These principles well planted in the Hearts of the people have caused so many risings and Rebellions in England How did they persecute King John and at last poyson him in Swinstede Abby what commotions raised Thomas a Becket that proud and stubborn Prelate against King Henry the 2d so that he made him weary of his life and to commit murther to be rid of him How many other Rebellions have they stirred up and promoted in this Land and what Seas of Blood have they shed and how many thousand Martyrs have they destroyed here and elsewhere They exceeded the rage and cruelty of the Heathen and abominableness of the Barbarian they murthered more and shed more blood then all the 10. persecutions There are reckoned in France only in the persecutions of the Waldenses and Allbingenses to have been slaughter'd a Million of people and in less than 30 years 150000 Christians to have been made away by the Inquisition 'T is to bring us again to this pass that these sort of men struggle with all dissiculties that we may fry with sire and fagot and that they may again sit here as cruel Lords and masters that make them so industrious to animate the blind and ignorant people to their own destruction Queen Elizabeth having sent them all packing with all their trinkets of Superstition and establisht her Reformation and Religion many penal Laws were industriously made against them that they might not be able to do hurt and mischief which if put in execution are sufficient to keep them under but the indulgency of our Prince hath taken off the sharp edge of their execution in hopes to oblige them to a fidelity and compliance and to live in peace and quiet but 't is impossible by these means to subdue them whilst their Priests have the opportunity to distill their dangerous principles into their minds they think 't is better to obey their earthly God the Pope than their Lawfull King and Governour and to rise in Rebellion at the command of their Ghostly Father than to live in quiet under an Heretical Prince as they call all such as submit not their power and Authority to that of Rome Pope Pius the 5th Gregory the 13th and Clement the 8th all sent over their Breves and Bulls from Rome against the Queen which roar and thunder forth excommunications Anathema's and Curses against her and her Subjects In which they take from her all her Royal titles Dignities and Rights to the Kingdom of England and Ireland declaring her illegitimate and an Usurper absolving all her Subjects from their Oaths Faith allegiance and obedience to her Foulis Hist Popish Treasons and Life of Q. Elizabeth 〈◊〉 threaten all of what condition soever under danger of the wrath of God not to assist her in any wise but to imploy all their power to bring her to condign punishment promising ample reward to all those who shall lay hands on this proscribed woman and shall punish her and to be paid out of the Treasury of the Church and a full pardon of all their sins who shall engage against her But when they saw these would not effect their desires and that her subjects were too faithfull in England Suintilla King of Spain deposed by Childerick King of France murthered 665. Childerick the third King of France deposed Charls le gross Emperor deposed Henry the 4th Emperor deposed by Pope Gregory the 7th Lewis the King of France interdicted they proceed to secret and horrid machinations to take away her Life from which she was still preserved by miracalous providence Their many wicked attempts against the Life of this blessed Queen may be fully seen in several printed Books largely shewing the manner of their proceedings there my intent only is to put my Countrymen in minde of the continual practises against both Prince and people in this Nation and elsewhere and whereever they dissented or opposed the wicked and Tyrannical Power of Rome 'T was these very men agitated by these their divillish principles of King-killing that violently took away the Lives of the two Henrys the 3d. and 4th of France the one by the hand of Ravilliac the other by that of James Clement a Jacobin encouraged by the Jesuits set on by the Pope and the case resolved by the Prior of his Covent that if he undertook it not for private revenge but inflamed by the Love of God for Religion and the good of his Country he might do it with a safe Conscience and not only so but he should merit much before God and without doubt if he should dye in the Act his Soul should immediately ascend into the Quiers of the blessed This was the good councel of this Holy Father and for which he was afterwards torn to peeces by 4. horses but Clement accounted a Martyr and his murtherous act extolled openly in France both in their Sermons and printed Books These are the monsters of men that would do the like to every Prince that opposes their Lusts Witness their murthering of the Lord Darnly the Father of King James of the Prince of Orange and of others

THE Antichristian Principle fully Discovered In a Brief and true ACCOUNT OF All the Hellish Plots Bloody Persecutions Horrid Massacres and most Inhumane Cruelties and Tortures exercised by the Papists on the Persons of Protestant Dissenters from the Church of Rome for the cause of Religion only as well abroad as here in England Scotland and Ireland from the very beginning till this present year 1678. Faithfully Collected out of divers both Ancient and Modern Histories Records and Writings for the Information and undeceiving of the People Psal 137.8 O Daughter of Babylon who art to be destroy'd happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us With Allowance LONDON Printed in the Year 1679. THe Church of Rome growing great and mighty Rich and Proud at once lost its humility and purity of Religion and assumed pollitick and tyrannick Principles which caused her defiled hands to lay aside the sword of the spirit and to make use of that bloody one of Persecution and to run into bloody and murtherous Practises hellish plots and contrivances devillish Machinations and horrid and barbarous Massacres There is nothing can better demonstrate this Antichristian spirit than to give you a short specimen of all her bloody Acts to shew you her sword reaking with the goar of the Innocent and I think it ought to be more prevalent than all the force of Arguments and disputations in the World for let even those of her own Religion be judge whether so many horrid and barbarous Persecutions Deaths and Torments inflicted on men and women for the sake of Religion only and which we shall here briefly enumerate can be according to the spirit of Christ or the Doctrine of the Apostles and do not rather entitle those who command and execute such inhumane Acts as to take away the life of man and with fire and sword to lay wast Countrys to subvert Kingdoms and destroy States under the Notion and name of Religion and holiness to be called Tyrants bloody and wicked Persecutors and the principles by which they act and seek to justifie such horrid monstrous and bloody Persecutions to be Diabolical and Antichristian Let I say all the world judge by all the bloody Tragedies which the Church of Rome hath acted and promoted whether that murtherous Principle be of Christ or Antichrist of God or the Devil or which is more near to his holy doctrine and commands to love our Enemies and to do good to those that dispightfully use us or to burn hang draw torment and put to Death all such as will not be of our minds and Religion The first then that flung away the spiritual Keys The Persecution of the Waldenses and stoutly began to brandish the bloody sword of Persecution was Pope Alexander the 3d who with it began to hack and hew the poor Waldenses so called from Peter Waldo or Valdo of Lyons in France whom God had raised up to oppose the many corruptions of the Romish Church as the consecration of Images Reliques Oyle Candles c. Merits auricular confession Supremacy of the Pope adoration of Images Indulgences false miracles Purgatory praying to Saints prayers for the dead Extream Unction and the like so early were these things questioned and preached against The persecution of this Valdo and his followers which were increased to a very great Number began in France in the year 1160. Valdo himself being forced to fly into Daupheny many into Picardy where they were called Picards many into Flanders and into Alsatia 〈…〉 tinu●●● for many years in Picardy Planders Germany and so they spread themselves for the safety of their lives into all places In Picardy by the Command of King Phillip three hundred Gentlemens houses were burnt and several walled Towns destroyed and in Flanders whether those of that party fled several were burnt for this cause of their Religion Neither were they safe who fled into Germany for at Mayance the Bishop there caused no less then thirty five Burgesses of that place to be burnt in one fire and eighteen in another And at Strasburg at the same time by the Bishop there eighty persons were burnt together for professing the same Tenents Many then that fled into England for shelter England were cruelly put to death at Oxford At Collen in Germany 1163. were four men and one woman burnt And in Spain by ●rolamation 't was made Treason to relieve these people or to suffer them to live in that Country but liberty was given to use them at will and pleasure and none to be called to account for it But these people still increasing caused the Pope to set on work the bloody Inquisition which with Racks Fire torments and other cruelties have sent so many good and holy men for their Conscience sake out of this World France Anno 1201 at Paris was burnt a Noble Knight called Enrandus and this persecution still continuing the people of the Vally of Loyse flying from their barbarous persecutors Daupheny into the caves of the Mountains were all smother'd in those caves by their cruel Enemies where were found afterwards no less then four hundred Infants stifled in their Cradles which some Mothers had carried thither at their backs and in their dead Mothers Arms. In Daupheny many were also burnt and the raging fire of persecution flamed thorow the whole Land Piedmont And also in Piedmont where there was scarce a Town or City that many had not been put to death And at Turin one of them had his Bowels torn out of his Belly and put into a bason before his face and after that they Martyr'd him These Countrys being so hot with the fire of persecution many of these poor people fled into Calabria Calabria where they began to plant and to build Towns and Citys as St. Xist La Garde c. Where they continued till the year 1560. where they were grieviously persecuted by Pope Pius the 4th forcing them to leave their Houses and Habitations and to fly into the Woods for shelter of their lives but being there pursued by the Order of the Viceroy of Naples most of them were cruelly and barbarously put to death by the Soldiers and when they could not kill with the Sword kept them so beseiged that they dyed with Famine At which time they rackt one Charlin so horridly that his guts came out at his belly and another they tormented eight hours upon the Rack to make him confess strange lyes invented against their Religion which he would not Some were strip'd stark naked and whipt to death with Rods of Iron some drawn through the streets and burnt with fire brands others thrown down from an high Tower and some slashed with sharp knives And in one place by the Order of the Inquisitor Panza eighty had their Throats cut as Butchers do sheep then causing them to be divided into four quarters he made their Limbs to be set upon stakes for the space of

thirty miles a bloody spectacle Sixty women were cruelly rackt so that the cords peirced their Arms and Leggs to the bones and then being cast into prison dyed all but nine of the handsomest who were taken away from thence and never heard of more And thus they continued their cruelty till they had quite rooted out and extirped all professing that Religion in Calabria The Waldenses in Province who had fled thither out of Piedmont Province Daupheny and other places encreasing and being near Avignion the Popes Seat he soon raised against them an horrid persecution but the greatest was in the year 1360. in the time of Lewis the 12th in which many suffer'd and continued more or less rigorously to the year 1540. in which was the cruel Massacre by the means of the Popes Agents at Merindol and Chabriers Pepin and other places Where the Towns were fired wholly destroyed and all the Lands about laid waste The poor people were slain the young Virgins ravished and barbarously used Children pulled alive out of their Mothers Bellies the breasts of divers women cut off and their sucking Children left on the floor to dye with Famine or sucking the gore that ran from the wounds of their dead Mothers At Cabriers there being but sixty six weak men left in the Town the rest being fled they caused them to be brought all forth to a field and there the bloody Papists cut them to peeces And all the women they found in the Town with their young Children they lockt up together in a Barn and so set it on fire and burnt them and some that endeavoured to escape thorow the flames they knockt on the head with their Halberts and ript open the bellies of others that were with Childe their Children falling under their feet and others being bound back to back were broach'd in sport upon one Sword So that in this place were slain above a thousand Men Women and Children that could not lift up their hands to resist At Costa another Town they committed great slaughters and where they used several Women and Malds that fled into an Orchard for safety with so much cruel and inhumane beastliness that they dyed most thereof This long and bloody persecution of these Waldenses Collected out of Luthers Forerunners Cades Justification of the Church of England lasted near five hundred years in which time they spread their Tenents over Bohemia Austria Germany Flanders England Poland Italy Spain Dalmatia Oroatia Sclavonia Greecia Livonia Sarmatia and Bulgaria in all which places they were persecuted and tormented more or less according as the Pope and his Ministers had power and Influences over the Princes of those Countrys The persecution also of those called Albingenses was very notorious The persecution of the Albingenses they were of the same principles and Tenents as the Waldenses and differ'd only in Country and Name being Inhabitants of the Country of Albi the chief of whom was Arnold from whom they were called Arnoldists Pope Alexander the third began with them and his successors followed his steps and Pope Innocent the third raised a War against them calling it the Holy War and gave out the same pardons and Indulgences for encouragement of those who went against these people as he did to those that went into the Holy Land against the Saracens in which War he so thundered against Raimond Earl of Tholouse that he was forced to submit and for penance to be led publiquely stript to his drawers with a cord about his neck and so whipt by the Fryers nine times about the grave of one Peter the Hermite kill'd in that War And then wou'd have forced him against his Conscience to have fought against the Albingenses His Legat playing the part of a General In Beziers besieges and takes Beziers by storm seting the whole City in fire and burnt it to ashes and slew all they could meet with without distinction both Catholicks as well as those they termed Hereticks for there were of both in the City At which time they slew in this City 60000 persons Their next morsel was the Town of Carcasson Carcasson Town which the Holy Pilgrims as they called themselves took also by storm burning destroying and slaying all as they had done before at Beziers After that they set upon the City of Carcasson Carcasson City defended by the Earl of Beziers and when they offered to Capitulate the Legat would grant no other conditions but that the Earl and twelve more should come forth with their baggage but all the rest both men women and children should come forth stark naked without covering of either Shirt or Smock and humble themselves before him But they disdaining such unworthy and ignominious terms stand it out till they had told the Earl forth of Town under pretence of parly with the Legat having given his Oath for his safe return but having him without regard thereto stormed the City to the amazement of the poor amazed Citizens who looked for nothing less but there being a certain Vault under ground which went to a Castle not far of most of them convey'd themselves away by it leaving their City and all therein to the fury and rage of the unholy Pilgrims Then they surprized the Castle of Beron Beron. where they pull'd out the Eyes of an hundred Albingenses and cut off their noses leaving only one with one Eye to guide the rest to Cabaret They took also the Castle of Menerby Menerby defended by the Lord of Termes whom they flung into a filthy Prison till he dyed his wife sister and daughter who was a Maid they burnt in one fire because they would not recant their Religion And after that they cast into one fire for the same cause 180 men and women at the same place who dyed rejoycing At the taking of the Castle of Lavaur Lavaur by Simon Monford who succeeded the Legat in his Generalship all the Souldiers therein were put to the Sword except 80. Gentlemen whom that cruel Earl caused to be hanged and the Lord Aimery on a Gibbet higher then all the rest And the Lady his Sister east into a ditch and there covered with stones The rest of the people who were about 400. persons were forced into a great fire made purposely for them and so burnt except those that for fear recanted their Religion which were sew At this time one Reynard Lollard by his preaching stirred up the English in Guienne to assist the Albingenses this Lollard was a holy man and a Prophet and afterwards was burnt at Collen by the Papists those in England of that Judgment were from him afterwards called Lollards These men still proceeding in their cruelty against the Albingenses take the Town of St. Anthonys St. Anthonys where they caused thirty of the principal men to be hanged in cold blood after they had granted them their lives and several other Towns where they put all to the sword without

trouble your eyes and you weep not at these Tragedies and are not sufficiently affected at these persecutions abroad and at a distance If it be so there is reason to let you know some of the sad and horrible effects of this monsters rage at home as well as abroad Do not deceive your selves to think Seas can stop him from coming to you or waters keep you safe from this paw of the Beast no he can stretch out his claws over the British Frith he can reach even from Italy into England from Rome to London you shall behold the same monster using the same cruelties and scratching up the earth to bury the Bodies of his opposers Where-ever the Religion of Rome is establish'd in its pride and power there you shall be sure to sinde this monster she rides upon this terrible beast and with it crushes the Sons of the earth and tramples on the Carcases of the slain and wades thorow the blood of Martyrs to her Throne where she sits boasting in her Iniquity and ruling Nations with a rod of Iron And that you may see the frozen North is not able to affright this Beast but that he has gone beyond the wall of the Picts and establish'd its dominion as far as the Orcades I will still observing the method I began in leaving our own concerns last shew you also some effects of its power and rage in Scotland from thence we will pass over S. Georges Channell into Ireland and lastly behold the sufferings and martyrdomes of the Protestants at our own doors and thoroughout England but with the same brevity as we have done all the rest In the year then 1527. Scotland Hist of the Reformation in Scotland Paeric Hamilton having been in Germany brought home with him into bis own Country the doctrine of Luther and was the first that began to oppose the blinde superstition and grosse ignorance of the Church of Rome and no sooner had he began to open his mouth but Cardinal Beven Archbishop of St. Andrews mounts the Beast of persecution and devours this poor Saint at a morsell He strait is condemned to the fire for his errors as they call them and suffers at St. Andrews 1527. In the years 1534. suffer'd also by burning David Stratton and Norman Gourlay and not long after Thomas Forret a Dean was burnt by the same Cardinal And in 1538. the Gospell still increasing four more were burnt in one fire The next year Jerome Russell and Alexander Kenedy likewise suffer'd by the same Cardinal and for the same cause 1543. the same persecuting Cardinal Archbishop coming to Edenborow caused many to be hanged only for suspition of Heresie and one for being only suspected to have eaten of a Goose on a Fryday And a woman with a child sucking at her Breast to be drowned because she would not pray to the Virgin Mary He caused many to be banish'd and many to be imprison'd at St. Johnstons among the rest one John Rogers a Minister whom he caused to be murthered in prison and his Body to be thrown over the walls 1546. George wischard was burnt by Cardinal Misle another persecutor of the Saints This Wischard was a very learned man and one who had been brought up a student in Cambridge and had prophesied many things concerning his own Country which was Scotland and which afterwards came to pass He suffer'd very couragiously at St Andrews The said Cardinal and divers other Prelats looking on and leaning at the window of the Castle on Velvet Cushions In the year 1563. one Henry Forrest was burnt having nothing against him but what he had uttered in consession to a Fryar they had sent on purpose to betray him having only a suspition of him and all that he confessed and for which he was burnt was that he thought well of the Articles that Patric Hamilton maintained and for which he suffer'd 1558. Walter Mill who had been a Priest was burnt He was the last man that suffer'd by the Papists for Religion in Scotland If that we do not sinde any marks of this ravenous beast persecution in Ireland before the year 1641. in which that grand execution Ireland Sir John Temples History of the Rebellion in Ireland and Massacre of the Protestants broke forth it is not because they wanted a will and desire thereto or that there were not many professors in that Kingdom but because they wanted power and opportunity to execute their malice For the English and the Protestants had been watchfull of all their actions and carefull in hindring their designs they stood upon their guard and with their Arms in their hands as if they dwelt among Wolves or robbers so that it was no easy matter to fullfill their desires by attempting upon those whom they saw so well guarded but they no sooner found them secure and that a long and amicable living together had made the English and Scotch Protestants fearless and consident of their amity and friendship and that the troubles in England gave them a desired opportunity but instigated by the Priests and Jesuits which came over from Spain Flanders and other parts beyond the Seas the Nobility Gentry and commonalty of the Irish Papists conspire together utterly to extirpate root and branch all Protestants out of Ireland of what Nation or condition soever The Priests telling the people that they were Hereticks and therefore ought not to live among them or have any commerce with them That it was no more sin to kill one of them then to kill a dog and that it was a mortal and unpardonable sin to releive succour or assist any of them and a meritorious act to kill and knock them on the head and that such who should dye or be any ways slain in the execution or performance of these acts should go immediately to Paradise should be free from the pains of Purgatory should have all their sins pardoned and they should dye Martyrs By these means and wicked artifices they so exasperated the people who believe all things their Priests say that as soon as the opportunity was given they shewed the horrid effect in the most bloody and barbarous Massacre as ever was committed Nay those wicked riests many of them gave the Sacrament to diverse of the Irish upon condition that they should not spare either man woman or child of the Protestants and said that it did them good to embrew their hands in the blood of Hereticks and threatned them with excommunication if they should relieve harbour or succour any in their distress and told them that to take from them their goods and Estates was no more then to take a bone out of a dogs mouth and before the Massacre began the people were dismissed from their Mass with free liberty to spoyl and take away from the Protestants whatever they could lay hold on and to kill them whereever they could meet with them for that they were worse then dogs being devils and such as