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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

of lesser dignity and of meaner rank all that fall under their displeasures The providence of God which takes care of Princes protected this Queen of blessed Memory from their many and wicked Conspiracies and bloody machinations As that in which Robert Bidulph and the Duke of Norfolk was engaged 1566. and wherein Northumberland suffer'd at York This was followed by that of Leonard Dacres and with the like success 1569. Then the invasion of Ireland by Steukley at the great charges of the Pope happily prevented 1578. Then James Fitzmoris 1579. is sent into Ireland and Saunders with Legantine power and consecrated banners And the next year 1580. San. Joseph to them with 700. talian and Spanish Souldiers with the Popes promise of 10000000. Crowns to carry on the work of Rebellion To them joyned the ●●ish confederates the Earl of Desmond and his brothers but were all happily defeated These projects failing them they conspire the death of the Queen and make several attempts to Murther her First by Somervil and Hall a Priest who being condemned was found secretly Murther'd lest he should betray others 1583. Then the practises of Mendoza the Spanish Leiger here with Throgmorton and Parry who had Letters of plenary Indulgences pardon and remission of all his sins sent him by the Pope wrote by Cardinal Como and besides the merit he should obtain thereby in Heaven the Pope promises to remain his debtor for killing the Queen for which attempt he was exeeuted in March 1585. The same year Savage made the same vow to kill the Queen being instigated thereto by Gifford and Hodgson Priests and 1586. the same is taken up by Babington upon the same principles inculcated by Ballard a Jesuite for which they were convicted and executed and by the Popish party esteemed Martyrs Then by means of the French Embassador they dealt with Stafford and Moody the latter proposing to lay a bag of gunpowder under the Queens bed chamber and that way to blow her up but this also was discovered These secret plots and wicked combinations failing the Pope stirs up his dear Son the King of Spain openly to invade England which he does in the year 1588. the Pope having bestowed England and Ireland upon him and which he now sends to take possession of with that vast and as they call it invincible Armado of 150. Ships extraordinarily well furnished 20000. Souldiers 8000. Mariners and Seamen 2000. Gally slaves besides Gentlemen and voluntiers in abundance so that there was scarce a Family of note in Spain who had not either a Son Brother or Cosen in the Fleet. Of Brass and Iron guns 2050. with Powder Bullet Match Muskets Pikes Spears Swords and all things proportionable with Knives and Daggers and Skeens to cut the throats of the Hereticks and with them swarms of those Locusts Capuchins Jesuits Mendicants and the Officers of their sacred Order as they call it the Inquisition Besides all these lay ready in Flanders 50000. Old Souldiers and 288. Vessels ready for their transportation and all the King of Spains best Soldiers drawn from all parts even as far as from America to this expedition and had cost the King of Spain before they had set out 12. Millions of Crowns But the goodness of God at that time defended England from the gaping jaws of destruction and discomfitted this mighty Armado and all its preparations and sent them home full of shame loss and confusion The greatest part of this Fleet was lost and scatterd and about 10000. of their men perish'd by the English the Dutch the Seas Rocks Sands and Tempests being utterly broken scatter'd and consounded But yet these sort of people will not take notice of Gods Judgments upon their wicked designs and enterprises for all this they shut their and will not see that God is against them They no sooner recover breath but they send over new missions more emisseries disguised in all shapes into England with new plots contrivances and designs Lopez and his complices Cullen York Williams Squire and Hesket enter into a Conspiracy to poyson the Queen still uncouraged by the Jesuits and the Spanish Ministers of state 1594. and then 1599. Tyroen is stirred up to a new Rebellion in Ireland having the same Indulgences and pardons sent him as used to be given by the Popes to those who were to go to War against the Turks And 1601. The King of Spain sends to assist the rebells John Dr. Aquila with a great Fleet of Soldiers who land at Kingsale in Ireland But notwithstanding all these wicked and execrable designs this Heroick Queen having out liv'd 4. Kings and 8 Popes dyed in peace and leaves her florishing Realms to her successor King James One would think now that the succession of a Protestant King to the Crown of England thereby uniting into one body that of Scotland with England and Ireland and making up one entire and glorious Monarchy should have dasht all their hopes and that so long and well setled Reformation in Church and State could not be very easily broken and confounded but these sedulous people like worms cut into several parts retain life and sence in each divided bit they are not easily to be overthrown and though they have seen so many of their hellish designs succeed so ill yet they will not give it over but encourage one another in their wickedness Two Breeves were brought over from the Pope whereby they hoped to put by King James from the Crown and had others in their eye of the Nobility of England whom they would have perswaded with false Titles great promises both of mony and men to have laid claim to the Crown seeking at the same time to raise suspitions and dissentions among our selves and sowing discord between England and Scotland and dealing again with the Nobility and Gentry in Ireland to promote new stirs exasperating also the puritans and separatists in England with many other ways and endeavouts to ruine this Nation so they might bring in Popery and set up themselves But God continuing to frustrate all their designs and King James establishing the Religion and service of the Church of England so very opposite to their principles and to all their hopes they now as it were growing desperate enter upon the most barbarous and hellish plot and contrivance that ever was hatched in the brains and hearts of men that which we call the gun-powder Treason and which we yet yearly commemorate on the 5th day of November the day that not only the King as the head of the Kingdom Anno 2604. should have then destroyed but with him his Queen all his Royal Issue the Bishops Nobility and all the chief of the Gentry of the whole Kingdom should have perished together at one blow and have become a Sacrifice to the enraged Lusts of these bloody-minded Papists A plot and contrivance that no Age never could parrallel no Country ever could produce the like and which was as miraculously p●●vented and

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

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