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A33251	The Protestant school-master containing, plain and easie directions for spelling and reading English, with all necessary rules for the true reading of the English tongue : together with a brief and true account of the bloody persecutions, massacres, plots, treasons, and most inhumane tortures committed by the papists upon Protestants, for near six hundred years past, to this very time, in all countries where they have usurped authority to exercise their cruelties ...: with a description of the variety of their tortures, curiously engraven upon copper plates ... / by Edw. Clark.	Clark, Edw. (Edward)	1680 (1680)	Wing C4437; ESTC R39367	111,345	217

Son of Joseph Which was the Son of Mat-ta-thi-as which was the Son of A-mos which was the Son of Na-um which was the Son of E-li which was the Son of Nag-ge which was the Son of Ma-ath which was the Son of Mat-ta-thi-as which was the Son of Se-me-i which was the Son of Jo-seph which was the Son of Ju-da Which was the Son of Jo-an-na which was the Son of Rhe-sa which was the Son of Zo-ro-ba-bel which was the Son of Sa-la-thiel which was the Son of Ne-ri which was the Son of Mel-chi which was the Son of Ad-di which was the Son of Co-sam which was the Son of El-mo-dam which was the Son of Er. Which was the Son of Jo-se which was ehe Son of Eli-e-zer which was the Son of Jo-rim which was the Son of Mat-that which was the Son of Le-vi Which was the Son of Ma-thu-sa-la which was the Son of E-noch which was the Son of Ja-red which was the Son of Ma-le-l●-el which was the Son of Cai-nan which was the Son of E-nos which was the Son of Seth which was the Son of Ad-am which was the Son of God St. Matthew Chap. 24. AND Iesus answered and said unto them Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name Saying I am Christ and shall deceive many and ye shall hear of Wars and Rumors of VVars see that ye be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet For Nation shall rise against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and there shall be Famines and Pestilences and Earthquakes in divers places All these are the beginning of Sorrows Then shall they deliver you up to be Afflicted and shall Kill you and ye shall be hated of all Nations for my Names Sake And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another And many false Prophets shall arise and shall deceive many And because Iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold But he that endureth unto the end shall be Saved VVhen ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the Holy place who so readeth let him understand Then let them that be in Judea Flee unto the Mountains For then shall be great Tribulation such as was not since the Beginning of the VVorld to this time no nor never shall be and except those days should be shortned there should be no Flesh Saved but for the Elects sake those daies shall be shortned Then if any Man shall say unto you lo here is Christ or lo there believe it not for there shall arise false Christs False Prophets and shall shew great Signs and VVonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. Beloved I have told you before PSALM 74. Great God of Gods forget not those Who thee Reproachfully Despise Remember Lord the Blasphemies Cast on thee by Frantick Foes O! to the wicked Multitude Surrender not thy Turtle Dove Nor from thy tender care remove The Poor by pow'rful Wrong persu'd Thy Covenant bound by Oath Maintain For Darkness overspreads the Face Of all the Land in every place Destruction Rape and Slaughter Reign Let not th' Opprest return with shame But Crown thee with Deserv'd Applause O Patronize thy proper cause Remember Fools Revile thy name O! Let their Sorrows never cease Who blast thee with their Calumnies The Tumults of their Pride who rise Against thee every day Increase The Protestant Instructed and the Errors of Popery Discovered Question WHat ought to be the great Design of all Men in this World Answ So to Serve and Honour God in this Life that we may for ever enjoy eternal happiness in the World to come Quest This indeed is the Interest of every man but since there are so many Religions in the World which of these do you profess Answ The Christian Religion which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and which is commonly called the Protestant Reformed Religion Quest Why is it called the Protestant Religion Answ It is called the Protestant Religion from a solemn Protestation of several Princes and Cities of Germany against the errors and Usurpations of the Roman Church but yet it is no new Doctrine brought into the VVorld but the truth of Christianity Confessed Asserted and purged from the Corruptions of Popery and hath the very same grounds to prove the Truth thereof which the Christian Religion it self hath Quest How do you prove that the Protestant Religion professed at this day is the pure and Ancient Christian Religion Answ 1. Because of its exact Conformity to the Scriptures and the genuine and clear sense thereof 2. In that the Protestant Religion is the very same and exactly agrees with the Faith of the Christian Church in the first three hundred years after the death of our Saviour 3. From the confession of the Papists themselves who own that there have been some in all Ages even in the darkest times of Popery who have Owned Asserted and Died in Defence of the same Doctrines which we now profess as the Waldenses Albingenses Berengatians and others Quest Hath not the Romish Church the Decrees Canons Councils and the Pope himself as their Head to prove the Truth and Certainty of their Religion Answ Though they boast very much of Infallibility yet 1. They never were agreed nor are ever like to agree who this Infallible Judge is whether in a General Council or the Pope himself 2. They have no Rational Certainty of what they believe since they willfully neglect the Holy Scriptures and with a Biind Obedience intrust their Souls with those Men whose Credit and Testimony a Man would hardly trust with a Sum of Money without better Security 3. They have no Bible nor other Authentick Record to prove their Religion but a Mass of dead Traditions that have no Voice nor Sound to be understood untill the Romish Clergy put a sense upon them So that a Man can hardly embrace Popery except he first turn Atheist yea quit all his Religion and Reason at once Quest But do not the Papists damn all the World but themselves confidently affirming that Rome is the Catholick Apostolick Church out of which there is no salvation Answ Their confidence is not at all to be wondred at since it is one of the greatest Arguments they use to prove the most ridiculous Assertions but that the Romish Church can have no possible claim to their being only saved is unanswerable from these Arguments 1. Because we know of no Church which consisteth of all Christians Subjected to one Humane Head nor do we read that our Subjection to the Pope is made a condition of Salvation 2. It is evident that in the Apostles time and for divers Ages since there was a Christian Catholick Church which had no dependence upon the See of Rome 3. There are a greater number in the World who embrace

place in the Sea where the Boats parting asunder the Person immediately sunk into the Sea and was drowned notwithstanding which divers good Christians met together and had a Minister who preached the Gospel and Administred the Sacrament to them but some false brethren creeping in among them betrayed them upon which many of them were apprehended and cast into the Sea others were imprisoned at Rome till they dyed Among others who were condemned to be drowned at Venice there was one Seignior Anthony Ricetto To whom after his condemnation his son of about Twelve years of Age came and with Tears beseeched his Father to recant for the saving of his own Life and that he himself might not be left fartherless To whom his Father answered A good Christian is bound to forgo Children goods yea and Life it self for the maintenance of Gods Honour and Glory for which cause said he I am now resolved with Gods assistance to lay down my Life When he came to the place where he was to suffer the Stone and Chain were fastned to him whereupon lifting up his Eyes to Heaven he said Father forgive them they know not what they do Lord Jesus into thy hands I do commend my Spirit And so he ended his Life in the Sea A while after one Francis Spinola was apprehended and committed to Prison and being called before the Inquisitors he boldly reproved the Popes Legate and the other Judges in that c ntrary to their Consciences they persecuted the Truth of God and told them they were the Off-spring of the Pharisees c. Whereupon he had sentence passed upon him That he should be drown'd as an Heretick to whom he answered I am no Heretick but the Servant of Jesus Christ At which words the Popes Legate bid him be silent and told him That he lyed The night after he was conveyed into the Sea and there drowned blessing and praising God with invincible Constancy In the year 1595 There was a young English Protestant at Rome who going into a Church and seeing their gross Idolatry he was so moved that he could not indure the sight of those impieties and therefore as the Procession passed by him he stept to him that bare the Host and Sacrament and plucking it out of his hands threw it on the Ground saying ye wretched Idolaters do ye fall down to a Morsel of Bread This so provoked the People that they were like to have torn him in Pieces but he escaped death and was sent to Prison and complaint thereof being made to Pope Clement the Eight he was so inraged that he commanded him to be burnt the same day but his Cardinals advised to have him kept in Prison and Examined with Exquisite Tortures who set him on This they accordingly practiced tormenting him with the utmost severity but could get nothing from him but these words Such was the will of God Then was he adjudged to be led from the Capitol naked to his middle and to wear on his head the form of a Devil his breeches to be painted over with Flames of Fire and so to be carryed all about the City and then burnt alive This was Executed upon him and as he passed through the Streets he was mocked and derided of the People but he prayed fervently to God and at last uttered something against the debauched Lives of the Cardinals which so inraged them that they gagged him When he came before the Church where he threw down the Idol his Right hand was cut off by the Hangman and set upon a Pole in the Cart to which he was tyed Then two Tormentors with flaming Torches scorcht and burnt his Flesh all the way so that his body was all over blistred and bloody having no part free but his head then was he taken from the Cart and went himself to the stake kissing the Chains that should bind him The Fryars urged him to worship an Idol but he turned away his Face and shew'd his Detestation of it and when the Fire seized on him he bowed his head and quietly resigned up his Spirit to God The same year there was an Ancient Religious man that had layn long in the Inquisition who was at last brought forth and condemned after which the Fryars brought a Crucifix to him importuning him to kiss and adore it He seeing their Importunity said to them If you take not this Idol out of my sight I shall spit upon it The Fryars hearing this sent him away immediately to the Fire where with great Courage and Constancy he resigned up his Spirit to God Of the Spanish Inquisition Since mention is often made of the Spanish Inquisition It may not be amiss to give a brief Account of the Original and Practice thereof Ferdinando and Isabella King and Queen of Spain having expelled the Moors or Turks out of the Kingdom of Granada who had inhabited there Seven Hundred Seventy Eight years they res lved to Reform Religion and granted the Conquered Moors Liberty to continue there and enjoy their Goods if they would turn Christians and because there were many Jews that had likewise continued there ever since Titus conquered Jerusalem they had also leave to remain there upon the same Conditions but all that refused were commanded presently to go out of Spain Yet afterwards observing that those who staid were only Christians in name and had submitted meerly to save their Estates instead of providing Religious men who with Gentleness and meekness might instruct and reduce them from their Errors they by the advice of the Dominican Fryars erected a Court of Inquisition whereby the poor wretches instead of Instruction were robbed of all their Estates and either put to most cruel deaths or else suffered intolerable whippings and other Tortures and spent the rest of their lives in shame and misery neither was this only Inflicted upon such as blasphemed Christ but for observing the least Jewish or Moorish Ceremony or holding the smallest Error in the Christian Religion But this Holy Inquisition as they call it which was first erected against Jews and Moors was afterwards turned against the faithful Servants of Jesus Christ and for suppressing the Gospel and the True Professors thereof and thus you have briefly the Original of it let us a little observe the Method of their proceeding therein As soon as Information is given against any Person they do not presently cite the party to appear before them but send one of their Informers who taking opportunity to meet with him usually greets him thus Sir I was yesterday by Accident at my Lords Inquisitors who said than they had occasion to speak with you about certain Affairs and therefore they command me to summon you to appear before them to morrow at such an Hour The party not daring to refuse goes to the place and sends in word That he is come to attend them and being called in the Inquisitors ask him What suit he hath to them And when he Answers That he is