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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

and Disport but being resolved in the midst and heat of the Battel to live and dye amongst you all to lay down for my God and for my Kingdom and for my People my Honour and my Blood even in the dust I know I have the Body but of a weak and feeble Woman yet I have the Heart and Courage of a King and of a King of England too and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the Borders of my Kingdom to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me I my self will take up Arms I my self will be your General Judg and Rewarder of every one of your Virtues in the Field I know that already for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and Crowns and we do assure you in the Word of a Prince they shall be duly paid you In the mean time my Lievtenant General Leicester shall be in my stead than whom never Prince commanded a more Noble or worthy Subject not doubting but by your obedience to your General by your concord in the Camp and Valour in the Field we shall shortly obtain a Famous Victory over these Enemies of my God of my Kingdom and of my People A Prayer for the Morning BLessed and Glorious Lord God thy Mercies are Infinite and thy long suff ring and patience is exc eding great else had not I poor wretched miserable sinner been spared so long considering my manifold provocations a-against thee Blessed be thy Name that thou hast been graciously pleased to preserve me the night past and that thou hast once more vouchsafed me the Light of the morning O Lord preserve me this day and keep me in all my ways give unto me the repose of a quiet Conscience and the clear Light of the Gospel Turn mine eyes away from Vanity and strengthen me in thy ways Protect and defend our Soveraign Lord the King Bind up his soul in the bundle of Life and let no weapon form'd against him prosper Preserve thy Church and the True Protestant Religion and discover more and more the snares of death and Popish Treachery and let us never fall into the hands of those men whose mercyes are cruel Bless my Relations kindred and friends and all others whom I am bound to pray for All which I humbly beg in the Name and through the Mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Saviour Amen A Prayer for the Evening MOst Gracious God and merciful Father I wretched sinner do beseech thee to look upon me with the eyes of thy mercy and let thy Holy Spirit work in me such a serious Repentance as that I may with Tears lament my sins past with grief of heart be humbled for my sins present and with all my endeavours resist them for the time to come And now O Lord I bless thee for my health food and raiment and that thou hast defended me this day now past from all dangers and Perils and as thou hast ordained the day for man to Travel in and the night for him to take his rest so I beseech thee sanctify unto me this Nights rest that being refreshed with moderate sleep I may be the better enabled to serve thee and 〈…〉 in the profession of thy True Religion and 〈…〉 Gracious Soveraign preserve him as the Apple 〈…〉 hide him under the sha low of thy wings 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 with shame and let them never prevail against him Protect thy Church and these Kingdom from Popery Superstition and Idolatry and unite our hearts in the profession of the True Religon which thine own right hand hath planted amongst us Bless the whole People of this Land and be merciful to all our Kinsfolks Families and Neighbours These and all other blessings we beg of thee for the sake of Jesus Christ in whose blessed Name and words we further pray Our Father c. Grace before meat LOrd lift up our hearts to look unto thee for a blessing upon our meats that we may comfortably use thy Creatures as pledges of thy Favour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After meat AS thou hast filled our Bodies O Lord with thy good Creatures far above our desert so be pleased to endue our Souls with all Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly things through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Before meat MOst gracious God and Loving Father we humbly beseech thee to forgive us all our Sins and Bless thy good Creatures provided for us and give us Grace to receive them as from thine hand and to use them soberly as in thy sight to thy Glory and our Comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen After meat ETernal Thanks and Praise be ascribed unto thee O Blessed Lord who hast opened thy hand at this time and made us partakers of thy Benefits Lord let us never cease to Offer unto thee the Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS

of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guilt-less that tak-eth his Name in vain IV. Re-mem-ber the Sab-bath day to keep it holy six days shalt thou la-bour and do all thy work but the se-venth day is the Sab-bath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do a-ny work thou nor thy son nor thy daugh-ter thy man-ser-vant nor thy maid-ser-vant nor thy cat-tle nor the Stran-ger that is within thy Gates For in six days the Lord made Hea-ven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rest-ed the se-venth day wherefore the Lord bles-sed the Sab-bath day and hal-lowed it V. Ho-nour thy Fa-ther and thy Mo-ther that thy days may be long up-on the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt not kill VII Thou shalt not com-mit A-dul-te-ry VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt not bear false wit-ness a-gainst thy Neigh-bour X. Thou shalt not co-vet thy Neigh-bours house thou shalt not co-vet thy Neigh-bours wife nor his man-ser-vant nor his maid-ser-vant his Ox nor his Ass nor a-ny-thing that is thy Neigh-bours Vseful Instructions for young Persons Alphabetically in Verse A Verse may find him whom a Sermon flyes And turn delight into a Sacrifice To get and fix these Rules in memory There needs no Art but to mind A B C. A. At Table guard thy Tongue a Civil Guest Will no more talk all than eat all the Feast B. Be well advis'd and wary Council take E're thou dost any Action undertake C. Command thy self in chief He Lifes Wa knows Whom all his Passions follow as he goes D. Dare to be true nothing can need a Lye A fault which needs it must grow two thereby E. Eclips'd the Sun Earthquakes rent Vail dark Sky Nature must needs be sick when God can dye F. First Worship God He that forgets to pray Bids not himself good Morrow nor good Day G. Give to all something but to a good poor man Bestow as liberally as you can H. How dar'st thou sin in secret God doth see And will alone thy Judge and Jury be I. If a Son make his Fathers Heart to bleed He may a Child have to revenge the deed K. Keep thy self humble pride hath ruin'd many The Proud Man's seldom well-belov'd of any L. Live Jesus live and let it ever be Our life to live yea dye for love of thee M. Man's Life 's a flower that fadeth in an hour Who is so vain to doat upon a flower N. Not House nor Land nor measur'd heaps of wealth Can render to a dying man his health O. Oh my Dear God though I am quite forgot Let me not love thee if I love thee not P. Pleasure is fleeting still and makes no stay It lends a smile or two and steals away Q. Quietly learn all Crosses to endure Repining doth more misery procure R. Reach Heaven thou canst not here yet still aspire And climb if not in deed yet in desire S. Swear not an Oath is like a dangerous Dart Which shot rebounds to strike the shooters heart T. To all alike be courteous meek and kind A winning Carriage with indifferent mind U. Use Patience what e're haps though bad it be Take it for good and t' will be so to thee W. Wise Men speak little we scarce know of any Undone by hearing but for speaking many X. Xerxes with tears surveys his Mighty Host Thinking how soon they'd all be dead and lost Y. Youth think old men are Fools but Old men know By dear Experience that Youth are so Z. Zealously practice what is good and then Great will be thy reward in bliss Amen Deuteronomy Chap. 13. IF there a-rise a-mong you a Pro-phet or a Dream-er of Dreams and gi-veth thee a sign or a wonder And the sign or the won-der come to pass where-of he spake to thee say-ing Let us go af-ter o-ther Gods which thou hast not known and let us serve them Thou shalt not heark-en un-to the words of that Prophet or the dream-ex of dreams for the Lord our God proveth you to know whe-ther you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul Ye shall walk af-ter the Lord your God and fear him and keep his Com-man-de-ments and o-bey his voice and you shall serve him and cleave un-to him And that pro-phet or that dream-er of dreams shall be put to death be-cause he hath spo-ken to turn you a-way from the Lord your God which brought you out of the Land of E-gypt and re-deem-ed you out of the House of Bond-age to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God com-mand-ed thee to walk in so shalt thou put the e-vil away from the midst of thee PSALM 97. THE Lord reign-eth let the Earth re-joice let the mul-ti-tude of Is-rael be glad thereof Clouds and Darkness are round a-bout him Righ-te-ous-ness and Iudg-ment are the ha-bi-ta-ti-on of his Throne A Fire go-eth be-fore him end burn-eth up his E-ne-mies round a-bout His Light-nings en-light-en-ed the World the Earth saw and tremb-led The Hills mel-ted like wax at the pre-sence of the Lord at the pre-sence of the Lorn of the whole Earth The Hea-vens de-clare his Righ-te-ous-ness and all the Peo-ple see his Glo-ry Con-found-ed be all they that serve gra-ven I-ma-ges that boast them-selves of I-dols wor-ship him all ye Gods Si-on heard and was glad and the daugh-ters of Ju-dah re-joy-ced be-cause of thy Iudg-ments O Lord. For thou Lord art high a-bove all the Earth thou art ex-alt-ed far a-bove all Gods Ye that love the Lord hate e-vil he pre-ser-veth the souls of his saints he de-li-ve-reth them out of the hand of the wick-ed Light is sown for the Righ-te-ous and glad-ness for the up-right in Heart Re-joice in the Lord ye Righ-te-ous give thanks to the re-mem-brance of his Ho-li-ness PSALM 124. BVt that God for us fought may Israel say But that God for us fought in that sad day When men inflam'd with wrath against us rose We had alive been swallow'd by our Foes Then had we sunk beneath the roaring waves And in their horrid Entrails found our Graves Then had their Violence like Torrents pour'd From melting Hills our wretched lives devour'd O blest be God who hath not given our blood To quench their thirst nor made our flesh their food Our Souls like Birds have scapt the Fowlers Net The snares are broke which for our Lives were set Our only confidence is in his Name Who made the Earth and Heavens Immortal frame Psalm 115. NOT to us O Lord not to us but to thy Name give the glo-ry for thy Mercy and for thy Truths sake Where-fore should the Hea-then say Where is now their God But our God is in the Hea-vens he hath done what-so-e-ver he pleas-ed Their I-dols are sil-ver and gold the work of Mens hands They have mouths but they speak not Eyes have they but they see not They have Ears but they hear

fear'd an Hour 2. But let Confusion seize on those Who would destroy to Shame expose Be suddain in their overthrows 3. Let those with Infamy return Dejected and unpitied Mourn Who would thy Gospel overturn 4. Who love thy name with Joy Invest Let them in Shades of safety Feast And ever say The Lord be Blest 5. But we are poor and full of need Hast Lord deliver us with Speed Our strength our help from thee proceed Jeremiah Chap. 10. HEar the word of the Lord which speaketh to you O House of Israel Thus saith the Lord Learn not the way of the Heathen and be not dismayed at the Signs of Heaven for the Heathens are dismayed at them For the Customs of the people are vain for one Cutteth a Tree out of the Forest the work of the hands of the Workman with the Axe They deck it with Silver and with Gold they fasten it with Nails and with Hammers that it move not They are upright as the Palm Tree but speak not they must needs be born because they cannot go be not afraid of them for they cannot do evil neither also is it in them to do good For as much as there is none like to thee O Lord Thou art great and thy name is great in Might who would not fear thee O King of Nations for to thee doth it appertain for as much as among all the Wise Men of the Nations and in all the Kingdoms there is none like unto thee But they are altogether Brutish and Foolish the Stock is a Doctrine of Vanities Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish and Gold from Vphaz the work of the Workman and of the hands of the Founder Blew and Purple is their Cloathing they are all the work of Cunning Men. But the Lord is the True God he is the Living God and an Everlasting King at his Wrath the Earth shall tremble and the Nations shall not be able to abide his Indignation Jeremiah Chap. 10. Ver. 11. THus shall ye say un-to them The Gods that have not made the Hea-vens and the Earth even they shall pe-rish from the Earth and from un-der these Hea-vens He hath made the Earth by his Pow-er he hath E-sta-blish-ed the World by his Wise-dom and hath stretch-ed out the Hea-vens by his dis-cre-ti-on When he ut-te-reth his Voice there is a Mul-ti-tude of Wa-ters in the Hea-vens and he cau-seth the Va-pours to As-cend from the ends of the Earth he mak-eth Light-nings with Rain and bring-eth forth the Winds out of his Trea-sures E-ve-ry Man is Bru-tish in his Know-ledge e-ve-ry Found-er is Con-found-ed by the Gra-ven I-mage for his Mol-ten I-mage is fals-hood and there is no Breath in them They are Va-ni-ty and the Work of er-rors in the time of their Vi-si-ta-ti-on they shall Pe-rish Those helpless Gods Ador'd in popish Lands Are Gold and Silver wrought by Humane Hands Blind eyes have they Deaf Ears still silent Tongues They draw no Breath from their Unactive Lungs Who make them are like to them such are those Who in these Senseless Stocks their hopes Repose O praise the Lord you who from Israel Spring His praises O you Sons of Aaron Sing You of the house of Levi praise his Name All you who God Adore his praise proclaim From Sion praise God only Good and Great Who in Jerusalem hath fixt his Seat I. Kings 18.21 ANd E-li-jah came un-to all the Peo-ple and sayd How long halt ye be-tween two O-pi-ni-ons 2. If the Lord be God fol-low him but if Ba-al then fol-low him and the Peo-ple an-swer-ed him not a Word Then said E-li-jah un-to the Peo-ple I e-ven I on-ly re-main a Pro-phet of the Lord but Ba-al's Pro-phets are four Hun-dred and Fif-ty Men. Let them there-fore give us two Bul-locks and let them chuse one Bul-lock for them-selves and cut it in pie-ces and lay it on Wood and put no Fire un-der and call ye on the Name of your Gods and I will call on the Name of the Lord and the God that an-swe-reth by Fire let him be God and all the Peo-ple an-swer-ed and said It is well spo-ken And E-li-jah said un-to the Pro-phets of Ba-al Chuse you one Bul-lock for your selves and dress it first for ye are ma-ny and call up-on the Name of your Gods but put no Fire un-der And they took the Bul-lock which was gi-ven them and they dres-sed it and cal-led on the Name of Ba-al from Mor-ning un-til Noon say-ing O Ba-al hear us but there was no Voice nor any that answered and they leapt up-on the Al-tar which was made And it came to pass that at Noon E-li-jah Mock-ed them and said Cry a-loud for he is a God ei-ther he is talk-ing or he is per-su-ing or he is in ajour-ney or per-ad-ven-ture he sleep-eth and must be a-wa-ked And they cry-ed a-loud and cut them-selves af-ter their man-ner with Knives and Lan-ces till the Blood Gush-ed out up-on them And it came to pass when Mid-day was past and they Pro-phe-sy-ed un-till the time of the Of-fering of the E-ve-ning Sa-cri-fice that there was nei-ther Voice nor a-ny to an-swer nor a-ny that re-gard-ed 1 Kings 18.30 ANd Elijah said unto all the People come neer unto me and all the People came neer unto him and he repaired the Altar of the Lord that was broken down and Elijah took Twelve Stones according to the Number of the Sons of Jacob unto whom the Word of the Lord came saying Israel shall be thy Name And with the Stones he Built an Altar in the Name of the Lord and he made a Trench about the Altar as great as would contain two Measures of Seed and he put the Wood in order and cut the Bullock into Pieces and laid him on the Wood and said Fill four Barrels with Water and pour it on the burnt Sacrifice and the Wood. And he said do it the second time and they did it the second time and he said Do it the third time and they did it the third time And the Water ran round the Altar and he filled the Trench also with Water And it came to pass at the time of the Offering of the Evening Sacrifice that Elijah the Prophet came near and said Lord God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel and that I am thy Servant and that I have done all these things at thy Word Hear me O Lord hear me that this People may know thou art the Lord God and that thou hast turned their heart back again Then the Fire of the Lord fell and Consumed the burnt Sacrifice and the Wood and the Stones and the Dust and licked up the Water that was in the Trench And when all the People saw it they fell on their Faces and they said The Lord he is the God the Lord he is the God And Elijah said unto them Take the Prophets of Ba-al let not one of them escape and they took them

in the presence of his Father and Mother who wept over him and felt his Arms and Legs which were as dry as a Stick To whom the Child said Why do you weep to see me dye of hunger I ask you no Bread Mother for I know you have none but since it is Gods will that I should dye in this manner I must take it thankfully Had not the Holy man Lazarus Hunger have I not read it in my Bible and saying thus he yielded up his Spirit And that which preserved the rest from perishing was because there were six Cows kept alive to give Milk to some few Infants and some Horses of service referred for extremity were killed and their flesh sold and some little Corn was brought into the Town by stealth which was sold for half a Crown a pound There dyed by the War but Eighty four Persons but the Famine destroyed Five Hundred and the rest were brought so low that they hardly recovered Divers voluntarily went out of the Town chusing rather death then such misery whereof some were slain and others Imprisoned and Executed And now when all humane help failed the King having sworn He would make them eat one another and the Papists threatning to Massacre them all it Pleased God strangely to deliver these poor Protestants For Ambassdors coming from Poland to fetch the Duke of Anjou the Kings Brother thither whom they had chosen for their King They having notice of this terrible siege obtained by their Solicitations that all the Towns in France which were molested for Religion should have their Liberty by which means the poor Saucerreans half dead with hunger obtained their fredom and were quietly suffered to depart with their Arms and Goods and those that would stay not to be questioned for what was past About the same time the Town of Rochel was likewise besieged the Townsmen often sallying out and divers hot skirmishes past among the rest a young Gentleman boasted with horrible blasphemies that he was one of the horrible Murderers of the Admiral shewing his Sword which he said he brought from that exploit to slash the Rochellers but upon Tryal his heart failed him and he ran away and one of the Rochellers pursuing him slew him stript him and left his body in the Field and before next morning the had torn his Face In one Months space the Papists discharged above Thirteen Thousand Shot against the Town and made many assaults but always came off with loss The Siege continued two Months and the Famine much increaseh upon them but by Divine Providence when all other Provision failed them there came a multitude of small Fishes into the Haven which were never seen there before and was a very great relief to them who continued during the siege but presently after the publishing the Edict of Peace they went away and were never seen more A while after the Rochellers were likewise freed from the siege by means of the Poland Ambassadors and enjoyed their ormer Privileges It is very remarkable that most of those Persons which were employed in the Massacre of Paris and other Places were killed at this siege for there were slain before this Town Three Masters de Camp divers Lords and Gentlemen above Threescore Captains as many Lieutenants and Ensigns and above Twenty Thousand Common Souldiers The next year after the King himself who was at least the Countenancer of all these horrible Massacres being in the prime of his Youth not above Twenty five years old fell sick of a languishing disease his Physicians let him blood and purged him to no purpose for he consumed away so strangely as astonished many He long strugled against his Disease but at last betook himself to his Bed for about fourteen days before his death and was sore tormented with a great Effusion of blood which issued from all parts of his body and one time to the terror of those about him he rouled himself in his own blood A while before he died he desired his Mother to pursue his Enemies to the utmost repeating the same and with great eagerness and saying Madam I pray you heartily to do it and so expired May 30. 1574. And it was observed that the rest of the Chief Agents were strangely cut off The Duke of Anjou the Kings Brother afterwards King Henry the Third was stabbed by a Jacobine Monk in the same Chamber where he sate in Councel for contriving the late Tragedies The Duke of Guize was murdered in the Kings own Chamber Five and Forty Persons waiting with Swords and Daggers to do it The Queen Mother broke her heart and dyed the first of January after And in short it hath been observed by a good Author that since the year of our Lord 1560 of a Thousand Murderers that remained unpunished by men there was not ten who escaped the Divine hand of God but came to deserved and wretched Ends suitable to their bloody and wicked Lives At a Town called Sansay in France in the year 1593 one Margaret Pieron was by her maid accused to the Jesuits for not going to Mass and for keeping a Bible in her house who complaining thereof to the Judges they sent for her and said Margaret are you not willing to return home to your house and there enjoy your Husband and Children Yes said she if it may stand with the good will of God Then said they If thou wilt do but a small matter thou shalt be set at Liberty If said she if it be not contrary to Gods glory and my own Salvation you shall hear what I will say to it No such thing said they for all that we require is but this That a Scaffold being set up in the chief part of the Town you shall there crave pardon for offending the Law and a fire being made you shall burn your Bible in it without speaking a word I pray you my Masters said she tell me is my Bible a good Book or no Yes said they we confes it is only to please the Jesuits we would have thee throw it in the Fire Imagine it to be but Paper and then you may burn it and you may buy another at any time and thereby you may secure your Life They spent two Hours in perswading her that she might commit a less Evil to do a greater good But she couragiously answered them That by the help of God she would never do it Will not the People say said she This is a wretched Woman indeed that burns the Bible wherein all the Articles of Christian Religion are contained I will certainly burn my Body rather then I will burn my Bible Upon this she was committed to Prison and fed only with bread and water and her Friends forbad to come to her but continuing stedfast in the Truth she was thereupon condemned to be set upon a Scaffold to have the Bible burnt before her Face her self to be strangled and her body to be dragged through the Streets to a Dunghil