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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19395	Conspiracie, for pretended reformation viz. presbyteriall discipline. A treatise discouering the late designments and courses held for aduancement thereof, by William Hacket yeoman, Edmund Coppinger, and Henry Arthington Gent. out of others depositions and their owne letters, writings & confessions vpon examination: together with some part of the life and conditions, and two inditements, arraignment, and execution of the sayd Hacket: also an answere to the calumniations of such as affirme they were mad men: and a resemblance of this action vnto the like, happened heretofore in Germanie. Vltimo Septembris. 1591. Published now by authoritie.	Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597.	1592 (1592)	STC 5823; ESTC S108823	96,463	116

speeches had by him to and fro with Coppinger and Arthington and afterward with Hacket the 16. day of Iuly in the morning 1591. He saieh that Coppinger and Arthington came vnto him about 8. or 9. of the clock of the 16. day of Iuly in the morning full of courage and comfort saying vnto him thus We are come to you now to bring you certaine newes of great comfort which is this viz. That wee haue seene Iesus Christ this day in liuely and extraordinarie shape or fashion presented vnto vs not in his body for so he sitteth at the right hand of God in heauen vntill the last iudgement but in his effectuall or principall spirite whereby he dwelleth in William Hacket more then in any creature vpon the earth When Hacket came not long after their departure that morning vnto him Wigginton saieth that hee examined him about the whole speeches of Coppinger Arthington vttered before vnto him wherunto Hacket answered first generally thus That hee approoued them no further then he saw they had warrant for their doings but particularly to this first Article thus viz. Hackets answer thereof vnto Wigginton To the first that hee knew not of that their vision but he accounted himselfe to be a chiefe messenger of God in such sort as followeth Copping and Arth. speeches to Wigginton That the sayd William Hacket is the very same angell forespoken of by the Scriptures who should come before the last iudgement of Christ with a fanne or sheepehooke in his hand to seperate the goates from the sheepe Hackets answer To the second that he was the onely principall man sent of God to decide the controuersies of the Gospell of Christ in the world or in England or in Europe into which controuersies some bad persons being enemies to him and to the Gospell in England and some of them being great personages had drawen him to enter by their cruell vniust and extraordinarie practises and trecheries or sorceries vsed against him and that by him as by a principall angell of God with his fanne in his hand God would now separate the sheepe from the goates and that God would establish the Gospell by him generally either by his death or by his life but quoth he as it were correcting himselfe by my life it must be Coppinger and Arth speeches That Hacket is a man dearer or nearer vnto God in some respects then Moses or Iohn the diuine who wrote the Reuelation because he must as it were bring an accōplishment vnto their prophesies and hath a more excellent spirit or worke to do then they in some respects Hackets answer To the third that God would do a greater worke by him the said William Hacket then euer he did by any of all the Prophets for the establishment of his gospell to the confusion of Satan and Antichrist Copping and Arth. speeches That the sayd Hacket had laied two seuerall charges in the name of Christ vpon them two which they must needes performe or execute the one vpon Arthington of prophesie concerning the end of the world the other vpon Coppinger of painting out the good and bad in the world or in these partes of the world and one of them had in purpose or charge to read ouer the whole Bible for proofe of their office and businesse Hackets answer To the fourth that God had sent Arthington to bee the sayd Hacket his writer or pen and the sayd Coppinger to be the expounder of his mind or deliuerer of his message to the old magistrates which were almost gone and to the new and to the world Coppinger and Arth. speeches That they had some sight of the glory of the world to come where they found that the Queene was highly in Gods fauour because she had cut of much of Antichrists force or traine but c. That M. Cartwright had done more against Antichrist then any in the world before him since the Apostles time and that Wigginton was comparable vnto him Mutuùm muliscabunt and M. Lancaster meaning a schoolemaster in Shoe-lane was aboue them both in the state of heauenly glory because he had kept himselfe vndefiled from the common corruptions of these times and had a most single heart to God Hackets answer To the fift and sixt that men should shortly turne their speares into mattocks for the making of a true or better Reformation or else a great plague as it were fire from heauen should fall vpon them for their rebellion against God and that the Queene was vndone and all wee Preachers should bee damned if wee fall not to Reformation speedilie And that hee knewe not of any such comparisons or degrees to bee in the seate of glorie but sure he was although euery man should bee rewarded according to his works yet he that would be highest should be lowest there where all be as one in Christ The seuenth Article by them then vttered is nothing but a lewde and slanderous railing against two of the sayd Counsellers whereunto Wigginton shapeth none answere in Hackets behalfe belike allowing it and therefore did not aske Hacket of it because himselfe made no doubt of the trueth thereof as it seemeth Coppingers and Arthingtons speeches That many of the Preachers and people in England professing Religion were blinde and carelesse in many things yet the seruants of God to bee saued vpon repentance and that some fewe which were more forward then others should haue more honour or higher places in heauen then they Hackets answere To the eight that it was true so neere as Wigginton coulde call to remembrance Coppingers and Arthingtons speeches That these things they would confirme vnto him by Gods Spirit out of his word In the meane while they both vsed vehement protestations that it was most true which they spake and that their doctrine was or should be fetched out of the third heauen and they woulde prooue themselues and William Hacket to bee extraordinarily called and sent of God as aforesayde and they exhorted him to bee constant in the trueth Arthington also pronounced Wigginton to bee highly in Gods fauour and assured him that Gods Spirit should be doubled vpon him Hackets answere To the ninth be auoucheth the full effect thereof and he also pronounced Wigginton to bee highly in Gods fauour and further tolde after a bolde and a resolute maner that he had appoynted him and some fewe others to be assistants to Coppinger and Arthington in their foresayde offices c. Besides the premisses Wigginton hath set downe as pleased him best a dialogue had with Coppinger Arthington at that time not worth the insertinghere yet this may bee obserued in it that they then sayd they would prooue the things aforesayd by Gods Spirit which was aboue his word and by his word also Secondly by Wigginton his owne report it appeareth that they answered vnto his speeches very temperately directly and pertinently Thirdly it appeareth also therein that he did not contradict any of their sayings

giuen I shall be forced in the name of the great and fearefull God of heauen to protest against it my desire is that you haste vp so soone as you can your charges shall be borne by mee And some what after thus If his most holy Spirit direct you to come come If not stay but write with speede and conuey your letter and inclose it in a letter to him who brought you and mee acquainted vz. Wigginton put not your name to it for discouery direct your letter thus To my louing brother in the Lord giue these my letters I put to no name but the matter you know which sufficeth Pray that the Lord may reigne and that his subiects may obey that all instruments whatsoeuer that shall be vsed may bee furnished with such giftes and graces as euery one haue or shall haue neede of that it may appeare that the action now in hand is his owne and therefore he will prouide safety for his holy ones and destruction for those who are vessels of wrath who haue accomplished the number of their sinnes which call for vengeance from heauen These letters Hacket caried to Pamplin scholemaster of Oundell to be read vnto him for that himself could neither write nor reade but I haue not yet heard that he complained thereof to any in authoritie When Arthington also about the midst of Trinitie terme last was returned to London Coppinger hearing therof came to his lodging and then with many words extolled and magnified Hacket vnto him for the holiestman that euer was Christ only excepted one that trauailed together with him for the good of the Queene the land but after an extraordinary maner and not both by one meanes And albeit Arthington as now he saith desired them to keepe their secrets to themselues and not to trouble him with them who had other businesse to attend yet Coppinger importuned him so as hee coulde not auoyde but yeelde to heare Hacket pray before them as a man of a singular spirit albeit vtterly vnlearned of the booke The first prayer of his that Arthington heard was about foure or fiue weekes before their apprehension All which prayers conceiued by Hacket euen since his apprehension the sayde Arthington praysed to be so diuine sweete and heauenly that thereby he was drawen into a great admiration of him In all the praiers that Hacket made in his presence Arthington obserued this difference from other mens that he vsually therein desired the Lord to confounde him if he did not seeke onely his honour and glorie in all things which Arthington marking from time to time in him and seeing him still to be so perfitly sound and very wel was thereby drawen together with Coppingers wordes and experience of him to recken and esteeme of him as of a most holy man This lesson of wishing themselues confounded his sayde two schollers by imitation did so perfitly learne of him that to the great astonishment and horror of such that afterward examined them they vsed this execration wishing themselues confounded and damned if they said not the trueth in euery matter whereof they made any asseueration and wherein they desired to be credited thinking as Arthington confesseth that whatsoeuer the spirit as he fansied tolde him was a trueth he was bound to binde it vpon his saluation or damnation These being ioyned with the relation of certaine extreme torments which Hacket had signified vnto them that he suffred not onely outwardly by the instigation of certaine noble and worshipfull persons as he vntruely made them beleeue but more grieuously a great deale hee sayde by suffering whatsoeuer either Deuils in hell Sorcerers or Witches in earth could practise against him all which he pretended to haue endured for triall and proofe that the Gospell was the true Religion against Poperie and all other sects did so deepely astonish or rather infatuate them that after great fasting and prayer vsed which fasting they vsually performed on the Sabboth dayes they all did resolutely conclude that if Hacket indured in trueth all these torments and practises against him for so holy an ende no doubt hee was a man which shoulde not onely establish the Gospell in all kingdomes but all Kings and Princes should also yeelde their scepters vnto him and hee shoulde bee established chiefe king ouer all Europe Reasoning thus with themselues that surely the Lord had some great good to be done by him that had indured so much for his sake Nowe this was the opinion which to haue firmely planted in them two as in deede it was first in Coppinger and afterward in Arthington was the mayne scope and drift as may seeme of all Hackets cunning counterfaiting of so much holinesse pietie zeale and religion To worke this he handled his actions so warily with them that Coppinger seriously once auouched vnto Arthington how himselfe had by good experience found that God would denie vnto Hacket nothing which he prayed for or desired and namely protested that Hacket begged of God in a drought that was not long afore their apprehension a showre of rayne and that it was presently sent in good aboundance Coppinger also so firmely beleeued Hacket that he tolde his owne man Emerson how Hacket being imprisoned the boltes would often fall off his heeles miraculously But for proofe that such incredible torments were in deede susfered by Hacket he appealed herein to some of the Nobilitie and to diuers others both of worshippe and good credite This did Coppinger further confirme vnto Arthington saying that Master Wigginton also did iustifie the trueth of the torments that Hacket suffered and could doe it with a hundred honest witnesses moe if neede required And Arthington himselfe also once heard Wigginton pitifully tell how great and extreme torments Hacket had indured But being asked by them why hee was so tormented and how these could tend to proue the Gospel to be the onely true religion Hacket answered them thus that his tormentors the better to colour their lewde purposes and malice gaue out and surmised him to be out of his wits but the trueth was sayde he that being once at table with one G. H. an obstinate Papist and reasoning which was the true religion I defending this which we now professe to be the trueth against Poperie and all other sectes amongst other speaches I protested vpon my damnation that this was the trueth and withall prayed that I might sinke presently downe into hell if it was not so and that if he the said G. H. would say so much for his religion if hee did not sinke presently into hell then would I take Poperie to be the true religion But he refusing so doe and being greatly mooued thereby against me complotted with a Knight a neere kinseman of his and with another gentleman being a Papist and with sundry others who found such meanes as that they procured Deuils to be raysed Sorcerers witches and Enchaunters all which sayde hee I knowe and can name and minde one