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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

Second of France was meanly married to Katherine de Medices the Niece of Pope Clement the Seventh during the Life of the Dolphin his elder Brother who was afterwards poisoned And Francis the first his Father deceasing he succeeded and swayd the French Scepter for diverse years with much Tranquility and happiness till loathing the Coiture of his Queen unfit indeed for a Princes bed he grew highly enamoured on Piciavia of Valence a woman of exquisite Beauty and good extraction with whom he long after lived in continual Adultery and was by her enticed to persecute and slay the Protestants Anno Ghristi 1553. that so by the confiscation of their Lands and Goods she might enrich her self and her Kindred This Persecution put a Period to all his former Victories and the next year was followed with the loss of the City of Seins in Italy to the Spaniard The Death of the old gallant General Leo Strozzi by a base hand and the overthrow of his French Army by James de Medices 147. Anno Christi 1556. The violence of persecution was again renewed against the Protestants and the very next year after as before God again gave up the French Army to the slaughter of the Spaniards and Dutch at the Siege and Battel of S. Quintins in which were above three thousand slain upon the place and many of them men of note and soon after the Town was taken by Storm Also Annas Duke de Memorancy himself the Constable of France The Marshal of S. Andrew the Duke of Longevile Gaspar de Coligne Earl of Castilion and Admiral of France and a number others of the great Peers were all taken Prisoners In sum the loss and slaughter was so great and fatal to the French as it well-near equalled that Victory obtained by the Duke of Bourbon at the Battel of Pavia in Italy against Francis the first his Father Yet Henry the Second still shut his eyes against the cause of these losses and having his heart cauterized by his Lusts he not only caused the godly to be committed to the Flames but himself would needs be a Spectator of their Torments as a pleasing sight and had combined with Philip King of Spain his new Son in Law for the utter ruine and final subversion of Geneva Nay but a few hours before his Death Anno 1559. Lodovick Faber and Annas Burgus two Senators of Paris because they had spoken a little freely in defence of the innocency and piety of the Protestants in the open Senate were cast into Prison by his special Command in the Bastile of the same City by Gabriel Earl of Mongomery one of the Captains of his Guard And the persecution of all others of the same Profession grew so hot and furious when the King June the nine and twentieth the same year running at Tilt with the very same Earl of Mongomery and near the very Bastile where the said Senators were Prisoners was struck with a splinter of Mongomery's Spear through the Eye into his Brain and never had the happiness to speak one word after though he survived the wound a few days Nor to acknowledge his former Lust and Cruelty 148. And if we farther look to Gods Hand that followed this Prince in his Posterity it will yet seem the greater miracle For of five Sons that he had all save one dyed without lawful Issue to survive them ad three of them by violent Deaths and in his Posterity ended the Valetian Line the Crown thereupon devolving to the Royal Branch of Cleremont commonly called Bourbon whom his Sons had most bitterly hated and persecuted And of all his five Daughters three dyed issueless and the eldest the Queen of Spain aforementioned that had Issue was cut off by poison Nay his very Bastard Son Henry of Engolism a great Actor in the Parisian Massacre perished also by the stab of Philip Altovit a Florentine his old and mortal Enemy Anno Christi 1586. during the Reign of Henry the Third his Brother 149. Charles the Ninth third Son of the said Henry the Second who succeeded his Brother Francis the Second Anno Christi 1560. had he continued his Reign with as much Mercy and Wilsdom as he began it when he followed the grave and seasonable advise of Michael Hospitalius his Chancellor probably he had lived more virtuously and dyed less miserably But he had scarce raigned two years in Peace and Plenty when Katherine de Medices his Mother desiring to get the Regency into her own Hands by raising combustions in the Kingdom perswaded this her Son to revive those Persecutions against the Protestants which his Father had begun She also reconciled Her self to Charles Lorainer Duke of Guise whom a little before she had feared and hated being a secret Enemy to Lewis de Cleremont Prince of Conde He and the Marshal of S. Andrew having gained Annas Momorancy Constable of France to their party they all conspired together for the ruine of the Truth The Protestants in the mean time seeing the King in his minority held as it were captivated by this Triumvirate took up Arms by the Queen-Mothers own instigation to maintain the Kings Edict of Pacification which was published Anno Christi 1561. commonly called The Edict of January The year following by the instigation of the said Triumvirate not only the Queen-Mother but Anthony de Cleremont King of Navar also who yet dyed a Protestant was drawn on to assail those of the Religion with open force they in the mean time filling the Queen-Mothers ear with these vain Flatteries that she should soon see the utter ruine of all the Hereticks in France From which time that goodly rich peaceable and flourishing Kingdom for almost forty years together some short pauses excepted was filled with Cruelties Ravages Ravishments Murthers Battles Fires Slaughters and all other calamities that attend a civil War In the end of all which the Protestants being increased in their strength and numbers obtained a more firm and advantagious peace than ever they had before whereas those three incendiaries who had been the Authors of all these miseries perished within a few years after by the just Judgment of God in the very act when they were pursuing the godly party For the Marshal of S. Andrew was slain in the Battle of Dreux Annas de Momorancy under the very walls of Paris and Francis Lorainer Duke of Guise was pistoled by John Poltrot whilest he besieged Orleans King Charles seeing that by open force he could not eradicate and destroy the truth nor root out the Professors of it about two years before the hellish Massacre begun at Paris and prosecuted to the perpetual infamy of France in diverse other Cities held a secret Council in the Castle of Blois with Katherine de Medices his Mother Alexander and Hercules called also Henry and Francis his Brothers and Henry Lorainer Heir to the said Duke Francis aforementioned by what means they might best draw the Protestants into their toil to murther

City of Lions where the numbers of the slain and massacred was so great that their Bodies being thrown into the river Rhodanus or Rosne stained and corrupted the water the violence of which stream carrying them down by heaps to Tornou where the Inhabitants not knowing what they were but fearing that it proceeded from invasion by Enemies and Robbers assembled themselves in Arms together for their mutual defence The chief Ring-leaders and Abettors of which Butchery Monsieur de Thou a Papist yet an incomparable Historian confesseth to have been Boidon Mormieu and Clou three of the most wicked and vilest Varlets that a Kingdom could harbour which Boidon was afterwards executed at Clermont in Auvergne And if Mormieu escaped a shameful end yet surely he deserved it as well as his Fellow Persecutor having before as Semanus confesseth procured the murther of his own Father At Tholous also a few days after a great slaughter of the godly was committed not by the better sort of Citizens or sober or morally virtuous Papists but by one Turry and a number of other infamous and lewd persons like himself who joined themselves together for the effecting of that bloody execution The like Villany was perpetrated and done at the great City of Roan in Normandy by one Maronie a most infamous Ruffian and a great many of other base Varlets who flocked to him as to their chief Ringleader 168. But in none of them were these two hellish sins of Adultery and Blood more eminently coupled together than in Paygillard the Master Butcher at Angiers who having long continued in the sin of Adultery was at last enticed by his Harlot to murther his own wife 169. In France after this barbarous and cruel Massacre the eighth day of November following there appeared a dreadful Comet concerning which a Learned Protestant presently after published an elaborate Poem wherein he presaged that it was Gods Herald or Messenger to denounce his Judgment quickly to ensue upon that Kingdom for their late inhumane Butcheries These Verses were scarcely come abroad when there suddenly broke out in Poictou a new dreadful and before unknown Disease commonly called the PoictovinChollick which miserably wasted that goodly Kingdom for above thirty years after This Disease was accompanied with many extreme pains and torments not only in the outward Parts of the Body but also in the inward and Vitals insomuch as it drew on diverse horrid Convulsions and in many blindness before it killed them The strange Original the hidden nature and those unparallel'd torments which it produced sometimes resembling the very stabs and gashes made with Swords and Ponyards gave all impartial judgments just ground to conclude that it was the finger of God himself in punishing the merciless Murthers of his Dear Saints 170. But though the brutish goatish Papists were so cruel and inhumane yet others there were of more moral and moderate Princiciples who in their very Souls abhorred and detested those barbarous practices Monsieur de Thou in his unparallel'd History tells us that himself was about nineteen years old when that horrible and Hellish Massacre was committed in Paris on S. Bartholomews Day which fell out that year on the Lords Day and did in his very soul abhor the cruelty and savageness thereof when in his passage through the streets to Mattins that Morning he met with diverse Villains dragging along the dead Body of Hierom Grolet late Governour of Orleance all weltring with gastly wounds in his own Blood At which sight his Heart relenting and mourning inwardly not daring to shed tears publickly he hastened home to the House of Christopher de Thou his Father who at that time was the chief President of the Parliament in Paris there freely to deplore that execrable Butchery as did also the said Christopher his Father 171. Vidus Faber Pibratius John Merviller Belleureu all eminent men with all the judicious and morally virtuous Papists in that City did Christianly hide and so preserved many Protestants from a wretchless massacring Nay Arman Guntald the old Marshal Biron Father of Charles Duke of Biron that was beheaded in King Henry the Fourth's time when the Deputies of Rochel came to him some few weeks after that bloody Execution to treat of a peaceable accomodation of their affairs he shed many tears in their presence upon his execrating the Authors of that Cruelty and acknowledged the great Mercy of God to him that he neither knew of it nor had any hand in it At the City of Lions also where the inhumanity of the Murtherers almost equalled that of Paris Mandelot the Governor there did his best to have prevented it and in his Heart with many other grave and sober Gitizens of the Romish Religion utterly detested it And when the slaughtered Bodies that were tumbled into the River of Rosne were carried down with the stream to Tornou Valence Vienne and Burg contiguous to the same River the Papists there generally detested the cruelty thereof And at Arles where for want of Springs and Ponds they had most use of that River water yet they so much abhorred that Butchery as they would neither drink thereof nor yet eat any of the Fish taken therein for diverse days after And generally in all Provence those of the Romish Religion drew the mangled Bodies out of the water and with great humanity interred them 172. Monsieur Carragie a Noble Gentleman who was Governour of the great City of Roan in Normandy did likewise oppose the Massacres there to the utmost of his power As did also James Benedict Largahaston the Prime Senator of Burdeaux who thereby became himself in danger to have been slain by those seditious Varlets who at first had been stirred up to commit those outrages by the seditious Sermons of a lustful Jesuite called Eminund Auger 173. Claudus Earl of Tende a Descendant of the illustrious House of Savoy Governour of Provence Monsieur de Gordes Governour of Daulpbany Monsieur Sauteran Governour of Auvergne and Francis Duke of Memorancy absolutely refused to suffer any Massacres to be committed in such places as were under any of their Governments So as the Rochellers in their Declaration set out the same year do acknowledge that all such Romanists who had but any humanity left in them did in their Hearts abhor and with their Mouths detest those abominable outrages and hellish cruelties 174. And as the soberer and modester sort of Papists abhorred such brutishness so also they disswaded from the same That Noble Gentleman David Hamilton gave this advice to James Earl of Arran then Regent of Scotland Anno 1545. when Cardinal Beton would have perswaded him to have joined with him in the Persecution and Slaughter of the godly in that Kingdom I cannot but wonder said he that you should give up the innocent Servants of God against whom no Crime is objected but the Preaching of the Gospel into the hands and power of men most infamous for Lust Cruelty and all other wickedness which