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A06347	An excellent and plaine discourse of the church, whereby the godlie may knowe and discerne the true Church, from the Romish Church, and all other false and counterfet churches, as well for matters of doctrine, as discipline, &c. Written in Frenche by M. Bartrand de Loque, a godlie minister of Dolphenine. And faithfully translated into English, by M.T.W. Seene and allowed; Traité de l'eglise. English	Loque, Bertrand de.; T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1582 (1582)	STC 16813; ESTC S103377	172,896	422

furie against them to the end that the examples of his vengeance might be knowen to them that came after that thereby they might bee bridled and kept in and not exercise crueltie against his faithfull people vnlesse they would be most senerely and sharply punished as their predecessors were to the end also that Christians liuing holily should be comforted in this that their keeper and defender is in heauen who seeth and knoweth al their oppressions to take vengeāce therof in time and place as to himselfe seemeth good Wherefore it is necessarie that wee shewe heere some examples touching the issue and ende of tyrantes and persecutors of the children of God And first of Pharaoh and of his Egiptians It is written that they pursuing the Israelites were al ouerwhelmed and drowned in the Sea Pharao Exo. 14.6.7.8.9.28 Sennache 2. King 19. ● 5 so that there remained not of them so much as one alone although they were a very great number Zennacherib and his Assyrians making warre vpon Israell did not lesse feele by experience Gods reuenging hand For they being before Ierusalem and besiegeing it it came to passe that the Angell of the Lorde went foorth slue an hundred fourescore and fiue thousand men of those that besieged it And as concerning Zennacherib himselfe he at that time escaped and went to dwell at Niniueh but as hee worshipped in the temple of his idol hee was slaine by his two sonnes Adramilech and Sharezer Antiochus what end had he Antiochus 2. Mach. 9.4 for all the oppressions cruelties which hee exercised against the Iewes After an infinite nūber of murthers which he had committed and that in his pride hee had said that hee would make Ierusalē a common butchery and burying place of the Iewes the Lorde God of Israel stroke him with an innumerable and inuincible plague so that a horrible griefe tooke him in the bowels and greeuous torments within in his bodie ●●e notwithstanding ceased not for al this frō his malice but hauing his heart kindeled and set on fire against the Iewes and hastening his iourney to goe on to Ierusalem there to execute his purpose it came to passe that going ouer hastily violently hee fell from the Charriot and hurte him selfe sore in the members and partes of his body so that all his body was bruised and in the same body was so great corruption that wormes issued and came out of it and his fleshe whilest hee was aliue fell of from the bones by peece-meale through paine and torment insomuche that his armie beeing greeued at the smell and stinch of his corruption and rottennesse and hee himselfe also not beeing able any longer to indure the same died like a murtherer and blasphemer of a miserable death Herod the great Herode the greate after that hee had committed many execrable and detestable offences against the innocent people ended not his dayes but that the vengeance of God was horriblie and fearefully kindled against him For hee was tormented with many and very cruel sicknesses neither more nor lesse then if hee had had hangmen or tormentors alwayes beating his body both within and without til that at the last hee dyed of a violent and cruell death And behold here what Iosephus hath saide thereof The disease and sicknes of the king increased Iosephus lib. 17. cap. 8. de antiquitat Iudeor waxed more sharp and God manifestly and openly shewed that he punished him for his vngodlinesse for he was burned with a verie slow heat neither could any man perceiue that heat without but he himself felt it within because that it gnawed his entralles and bowels Moreouer hee was so hungrie that hee tooke no leasure to chewe his meate but deuoured and swallowed vp all that entred into his mouth and so they must cast meate continually into his throate Besides this hee had his inwarde partes full of sores hurtes and biles and was tormented with the collicke of passion he had his feete puffed vp and swelled with a most kinde of fleme hee had also his nose swelled His priuie partes and members were rotted and ful of wormes and his breath was verie stinking insomuch that none durst come nigh him Besides all this hee had a certaine shrinking or drawing together of the sinewes and hee had much adoe to take breath Wherfore all they who made profession to deuise and foretell thinges to come were of one and the selfe same opinion and resolued all vppon this that this was a verie punishment vengeance sent from God who punished him for this because he had so many sorts and waies violated the honour and prophaned the reuerence which be ought to God and the loue which hee ought to his wiues and children and so he died miserably Herode Agrippae Herode Agrippa the sonne of Aristobulus who was the sonne of the foresaide Herode the great by his seconde wife named Marianne and put to death by him hauing cruelly tormented and persecuted the Churche and namelie put Saint Iames to death Act. 12.1.2.3.4.18.19 c. beeing also at the last lifted vp to the highest of his honors cloathed in his kingly apparell and set vpon the iudiciall seate making an oratiō to the people and the people crying out this is the voyce of God and not of a man hee I say was striken sodeinely by the Angell of the Lorde and was gnawen and eaten with wormes and gaue vp the Ghost Herode Antipas Herod Antipas the tetrarch of Galilee and of Peroe the sonne of the foresaide Herod the great by his fourth wife named Marthaca who by violence tooke Herodias from his brother Philippe and caused Iohn Baptist to bee beheaded Mta. 14.3 c. Luke 13. 31.32 Luke 23.11 Iosephus lib. 18. Cap 9. de antiquita Indaeorum Euseb lib. 2. Cap. 4. prepared laide his Ambushmentes in waite for the sonne of God himselfe and when Pilate sent Christ to him he mocked him sent him backe againe with great ignominie reproch after what maner died hee The Historiographers recite and recorde that hee obeying the motions and prouocations of his shamelesse harlot Herodias hauing been condemned by the Emperor Caius Caligula to bee perpetually banished did miserably finishe his life at Lions amongst the Frenchmen beeing quite and cleane spoyled of all his goods and glorie As concerning Pilate This wicked and cursed man Pilate suffering himself to be wonne by the Iewes yea euen so farre that he condemned Iesus Christ against his own conscience and hauing exercised and practised diuers cruelties and outrages against the Iewes themselues shewing himself alwaies prepared and readie to execute the ordinaunces and commaundementes of the Emperour whatsoeuer wickednesse was therein at the last as it is conteined in the histories in the one and fortieth yeere of our Sauiour Christe Supplimen Chro. Eutrop lib. 7. cap. 7. Euseb lib. 2. cap. 7. hee was sent into exile by Galigula to Lions where the