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A33333	A looking-glass for persecutors containing multitudes of examples of God's severe, but righteous judgments, upon bloody and merciless haters of His children in all times, from the beginning of the world to this present age : collected out of the sacred Scriptures, and other ecclesiastical writers, both ancient and modern / by Sam. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1674 (1674)	Wing C4541; ESTC R12590	51,164	142

Viou here his Shadowe whose Laborious Quill By Sacred Chymistry doth Balm Distill To Calm the Persecuting Spirits Rage And mixe Delight with Profitt in each Page Walter Binneman sculp A Looking-glass FOR PERSECUTORS CONTAINING Multitudes of EXAMPLES of God's Severe but Righteous JUDGMENTS upon bloody and merciless Haters of his Children in all Times from the beginning of the World to this present Age. COLLECTED Out of the Sacred Scriptures and other Ecclesiastical Writers both Ancient and Modern By Sam. Clarke Minister God judgeth the Righteous and God is angry with the wicked every Day If he turn not he will whet his Sword He hath bent his Bow and made it ready He hath also prepared for him the Instruments of Death He ordaineth his Arrows against the Persecutors Psal. 7. 11 12 13. London Printed for William Miller at the Sign of the Gilded Acorn near the little North Door in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1674. TO THE Christian Reader I Know well that this is a very tender Subject about which I am now writing For The Ancients made Divine Revenge to be a Child of Night Shut to the Earth but ope ' to Heavens sight There are two sorts of Persons which err about the Judgments of God The one of such who will not take any notice of them be they never so plain and conspicuous Of such the Prophet complains Esay 26. 11. Lord when thy Hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see These are stupid and blockish Persons For saith the Prophet verse 9. When thy Judgments are in the Earth the Inhabitants of the World will or at least should learn Righteousness The other sort are of such as are too Critical and censorious in judging of God's Providential Dispensations as if they were punishments for sin when God hath other excellent ends in them This was the fault of Christ's Disciples John 9. 2. When they saw a man that was blind from his Birth Master say they Who did sin This Man or his Parents that he was born blind To whom our Saviour answered Neither hath this Man sinned nor his Parents But that the Works of God should be made manifest in him But notwithstanding these Errors both on the Right and Left Hand there must be an humble sober and prudent taking notice of God's Judgments that we may make a right construction of them The Apostle St. Paul having recorded the dreadful Examples of God's wrath upon the sinful Israelites in the Wilderness 1 Cor. 10. 5. c. concludes verse 11. Now all these things happened unto them for Ensamples And they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the World are come God himself also hath appointed the recording and observation of such Judgments That all Israel may hear and fear and do no more any such wickedness Deut. 13. 11. Obj. But do we not often see that great and violent Persecutors live long and prosper in the World as if they rather merited a reward than procured God's wrath against them for it Ans. It 's true 1. God's Judgments upon many Persecutors are more spiritual and so less conspicuous and visible to the eye of the World As when God gives them up to blindness of mind hardness of heart a cauterized conscience and a reprobate sence which of all other Judgments are the most dreadful Hos. 4. 17. 2. All the while they escape with impunity they are but treasuring up wrath against the Day of wrath and revelation of the righteous Judgment of God Rom. 2. 5. For it 's a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble and persecute his People 2 Thes. 1. 6. Hence Job 31. 3. Is not destruction to the wicked And a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity God doth record and register such wicked mens sins against the Day of Judgment He writes them in a Book with a Pen of Iron and the Point of a Diamond Jer. 17. 1. He seals them up in a Bag Job 14. 17. As a Clerk of the Assizes seals up the Indictments and at the Assizes opens his Bag and produceth them Deut. 32. 34. Yet God in all Ages hath taken some of these Persecutors and hung them up in Chains as Spectacles of his wrath for a warning unto others And howsoever such by reason of God's patience and forbearance may dream of impunity yet let them know that Judgments are never nearer than when they are least feared A great Càlm is many times the fore-runner of a Storm when men cry Peace Peace then comes sudden and swift destruction 1 Thes. 5. 3. When Agag said in his Heart Surely the bitterness of Death is past then came Samuel and hewed him in pieces When the Old World was eating drinking buying building Persecuting and snorting in security then came the Flood and destroyed them When men be at case in Sion there is a Wo denounced against them Amos 6. 1. to the 8. When men look at Judgments as a far off then God will defer no longer Ezek. 12. 27. 28. When the Philistins met together to be merry and to sport themselves with Sampson whose eyes they had put out he brought the House upon their Heads and slew them all Now God executes Judgments upon some wicked Persecutors but these are but Praeludia futuri Judicii Tokens and fore-runners of that Great and General Judgment Some are now punished saith one as the Old World Sodom Egypt Jerusalem c. that we may know that there is a Providence taking notice of all Yet all are not punished that we may know there is a Judgment to come to which the wicked are reserved 2 Pet. 2. 10. Here God's way is in the Clouds we see not the reason of many things but then his Justice and Righteousness shall be gloriously apparent to all the World Rev. 2. 5. Here they live longest many times that deserve not to live at all Job 21. 7. The Israelites are oppressed whilst the Egyptians live at ease Good David is in want and persecuted whilst wicked Nabal abounds Sion is oft Captive to Babylon But there is another Day and another reckoning when all shall be set to Rights When the Righteous shall rejoyce and the wicked shall mourn Esay 65. 13 14. God will not alwayes suffer his Jewels to be trampled in the Dirt under the feet of Pride and Malice but he will vindicate the injuries that are now done unto them Luke 18. 7. Now men curse but Christ will then receive such with a Come ye Blessed of my Father c. Matth. 25. 34. O how singularly foolish than are you that seek to root out and to rid the Saints out of the World as the Heathen Emperors did These resemble the Stag in the Emblem that fed upon the Leaves which hid him from the Hunter And Sampson like by pulling down the Pillars they bring the House upon their own Heads But I will enlarge no further If through God's Blessing this little Book

in Prison And God paid him home in his own coin For according to his Imprecation his Body rottted away by piece-meal till he dyed 133. One Lever of Brightwel in Barkshire jeeringly said That he saw that ill-favoured Knave Latimer when he was burned at Oxford and that he had Teeth like an Horse But the Lord suffered not this profane scoff to go unpunished For about that very same Hour wherein Lever spake those words his Son hanged himself 134. All ages have cause to admire and adore the Exemplary Judgments of God poured out upon Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester in Queen Marys days who upon the day wherein Reverend Latimer and Learned Ridley were to be burnt at Oxford though some great Peers came to dine with him that day yet would not sit down to dinner till one of his Servants about four a Clock in the Afternoon coming Post from Oxford brought word that Execution was done upon them Then did he hast to Dinner and was very merry but ere he had eaten many bits a sudden stroke of Gods hand fell upon him so that he was carried immediately to his Bed in which he continued for fifteen days in intollerable anguish and torments rotting above ground during all which time he could void nothing that he received neither by Stool nor Urine his Tongue also hung out of his mouth swoln and black and so he languished and pined away in great anguish and misery 135. King James the Fifth of Scotland by the instigation of the Popish Clergy was a great Persecutor of the Truth that then brake forth in that Kingdom and for that end he gave Commission to Sir James Hamilton natural Brother to the Earl of Arran who was his Treasurer to call and convent all that were suspected of Heresie and to inflict upon them the punishment which after tryal they should be found to deserve In Execution of which Commissiion he was most fierce and cruel not sparing some that were of his near Kindred But when he was in his greatest heighth and made it his work to suppress the Gospel one of his own Friends whom he pursued upon the account of Religion accused him of Treason and notwithstanding the mediation of the Popish Clergy for him as their greatest Patron he was arraigned condemned executed and quartered in the streets of Edenburg This King James also was heard to say that none of that way should expect any favour at his hands nay nor his own Sons if they should be found guilty But shortly after War breaking forth with England he found his Nobility averse to those Incursions which he intended to make into England which much vexed him These thoughts and some fearful Visions which he had by Night terrified him exceedingly For at Linlithgow on a night as he slept it seemed to him that Thomas Scot Justice Clerk came unto him with a company of Devils crying Wo worth the day that ever I knew thee or thy Service For serving thee against God and his Servants I am now adjudged to Hell torments Hereupon awaking he called for Lights and told his Servants what he had heard and seen The next morrow by the light of day news was brought him of the death of the said Justice Clerk which fell out just at the same time when the King had this Vision and almost in the same manner For he dyed in great horror often reiterating those words By the righteous Judgment of God I am condemned And this manner of his death answering so exactly to the Kings Dream made it the more terrible The King also had another Dream in the same place a few nights after which did more affright him Whilest he lay sleeping he thought that Sir James Hamilton aforesaid came unto him with a naked Sword in his Hand and therewith cut off both his Arms threatening to return within a short time and to deprive him of his life With this he awaked and as he lay musing what this Dream should import news was brought him of the death of his two Sons James and Arthur the one dying at S. Andrews the other at Strivling at one and the very same hour The next year which was 1542. being overwhelmed with grief he dyed at Falkland in the two and thirtieth year of his Age. A little before he dyed word was brought him that his Queen was delivered of a Daughter whereupon he brake forth into a Passion saying It came with a Lass meaning the Crown and will go with a Lass. Fie upon it 136. One Friar Campbell in Scotland did bitterly rail upon that man of God Mr. Patrick Hamilton whilest he was burning at S. Andrews to whom Mr. Hamilton said with much earnestness Thou wicked man thou knowest the contrary and hast sometime made a Profession of the truth I appeal thee to answer it before the Judgment Seat of Christ A few days after Campbel fell sick and in great horror of Conscience dyed distracted 137. Anno 1568. There was in Breda one Peter Coulogue a godly man who by his Popish Adversaries was cast into Prison and his Maid-servant daily carried him his Food confirming and comforting him out of the word of God as well as she was able for which they imprisoned her also Not long after Peter was put to the torment of the Rack which he endured patiently After him the Maid was fetch'd to be racked whereupon she said My Masters wherefrre will ye put me to this torture seeing I have no way offended you If it be for my Faith-sake ye need not torment me For as I was never ashamed to make a Confession thereof no more will I now be at this present before you but will if you please freely shew you my mind therein Yet for all this they would have her to the Rack whereupon she again said If I must needs suffer this pain pray you give me leave to call upon my God first This they assented to and whilest she was fervently pouring out her Soul unto God by Prayer one of the Commissioners was surprised with such fear and terror that he fell into a swoon out of which he could never be recovered by which means the poor Maid escaped racking 138. In the Reign of King Henry the Second of France there was a godly Tailor condemned to be burnt for Religion and some about the King would needs perswade him to be present and to see the Execution himself And God gave the Tailor such strength and conrage in the fire as astonished the King to behold it And the poor Tailor having espied the King in a window where he sate fixed his Eyes so stedfastly upon him as they were never off and the King was thereby constrained to leave the window and to retire into his Chamber and was so affected therewith that he confessed the shadow of the Taylor followed him whither soever he went and for many Nights after he was so terrified with the Apparitions of the Taylor that he protested with an

by the King against those ancient Christians the Waldenses who used much cruelty against them burning some killing others driving others into Woods and Mountains whereby they perished of Famine and depopulated whole Towns and Villages Not long after the Lord smote him with a terrible Disease so that he felt like a burning fire within him from the Navel upward and his lower parts rotted and were consumed with Vermin which mortification was attended with a grievous stink he had also a profusion of Blood instead of his Urine and in those extreme Torments he ended his wretched Life 78. Simon Monfort Earl of Leicester was a cruel Persecutor of the godly Albingenses under the King of France and by the instigation of the Pope But as he was besieging some of them in Tholous his head was stricken off by a Stone which a woman let flye out of an Engine 79. Lewis King of France besieging Avignion a City of the Albingenses vowed that he would never depart till he had taken it But suddenly after God sent a dreadful Pestilence into his Army which daily wasted great numbers of his men and the King himself was forced to quarter at a distance in an Abby to avoid the infection where shortly after he dyed out of his wits 80. Truchetus an old expert Captain was imployed by the Duke of Savoy against the Waldenses who were a naked and unarmed people But whilest he was prosecuting of them he was first sore wounded with Stones and afterwards slain with his own sword by a poor Shepherd who was keeping Cattel in the Field 81. The Lord of Revest Chief President of the Parliament at Aix in France put many godly Persons to death but shortly after himself was put out of his Office and was stricken by God with such an horrible Disease as made him run mad that none of his Friends durst come near him and so he perished miserably 82. After him succeeded in his Office one Bartholomew Cassinaeus who proved also a pestilent Persecutor whom the Lord struck with a fearful and sudden Death 83. Johannes de Roma a Monk was a bloody and implacable Persecutor of the Waldenses His manner was to fill Boots with boiling Oil and put their Legs into them tying them backward over a Form their Legs hanging down over a soft fire and afterwards cruelly to put them to Death and seized upon their Goods But not long after his own Servants rob'd him of those ill-gotten Goods and he fell into a horrible Disease unknown to any Phisician the pains and torments whereof did so incessantly vex him that he could by no means have one minutes rest neither could any endure to come near him by reason of his horrible stink His body was full of Sores and Ulcers which swarmed with Vermin so that rotting his flesh fell of by piece-meal In which torment he often cryed out O! who will deliver me who will kill me and deliver me out of these intollerable torments and so languishing in anguish and despair he ended his cursed Life 84. John Martin another great enemy to the Waldenses used to boast every where that he would slit the nose of one of their chief Ministers but before he could effect it a Wolf meeting him bit off his Nose whereupon he ran mad and died miserably 85. The Cardinal of Lorrain a principal Pillar of the House of Guise a crafty and cruel Persecutor of the people of God as he was coming from Rome with a purpose of stirring up the Kings of France and Poland utterly to root out the Protestants in their Dominions It pleased God to work so wonderfully for his peoples safety that by the way he fell mad at Avignion and dyed in the Flower of his youth At the instant of whose Death there fell out such a dreadful Tempest as made all to be amazed at it 86. Bellemont a Counsellor of the Parliament of Provence was so hasty to condemn the poor people of God that he went not from the Judgment Hall from Morning till Night causing his Dinners to be brought to him But whilest he was so busie in this way of Persecution there began a little Sore to rise upon his Foot which quickly grew red and full of pain and so encreased the first day that by Judgment of Chyrurgeons there was no hope of cure but by cutting off his Foot which he refusing they used all other means they could devise yet the second day the whole Leg was infected and the third day his whole Thigh and the fourth day his whole Body upon which day he dyed His dead Body was all over parched as if it had been roasted by a fire 87. A Judge of the City of Aix who was a great Persecutor of the Protestants drowned himself in the River A chief Judge who was a principal Instrument in condemning the Waldenses in Merindol and Cabriers died suddenly not living to see his bloody Sentence executed 88. John Cranequin a Lawyer of Bourges who was a great Informer against the People of God to bring them into the cruel Inquisition was stricken by God with a marvellous strange Phrensie so that whatever he saw seemed to him to be crawling Serpents And having in vain used all sorts of Medicines yea and wicked Sorcery too at length was quite bereaved of his Senses and so ended his wretched Life in much misery 89. Chancellour Prat who put up the first Bill in the Parliament of France against those of that Religion and gave out the first Commissions for the putting of them to death dyed himself not long after fearfully swearing and blaspheming the name of God and had his Stomach gnawn in pieces by worms in a strange manner 90. John Morin a mighty Enemy to the Professors of the Truth who made it his whole business to apprehend and accuse them dyed himself in most grievous and horrible torments 91. The Chancellor Oliver who had been himself a Professor of the truth apostatizing from the same was restored to his Office in which he spared not to shed much innocent Blood But whilest he was thus busied a fearful Judgment befel him as was foretold by some of those Innocents whom he condemned for falling into extreme terrors of Conscience he betook himself to his bed sighing and sobing without intermission and breathing forth murmurings against God yea his horrors were so violent that he shaked the Bed under him as if a young man with all his Strength had done it And a certain Cardinal coming to visit him he could not endure his sight crying out that it was that Cardinal that had brought him to Damnation He continued long under these dreadful torments and dyed at last in despairing fear and anguish 92. Poncher Arch-Bishop of Tours who condemned many godly persons to the Fire was himself seized upon with a fire from God which beginning at his heel could by no means be cured till one Member after another being cut off he dyed in much misery 93. An Austin