countrey but yet the water was too shallow to carry boats till God sent a strong Southwest winde which drave the sea into the rivers and land that great boats passed and victualled the â—own whereupon the Spaniards raised their siege but behold the remarkable work of God! who two dayes after sent as strong a North-west winde that beat back the Sea again whence it came Belg. Com. Wealth p. 72. Rochell being besieged with a mighty Army from the beginning of December 1573. to the moneth of June following a Dearth began to seize upon the godly Protestants which were within the same but the Lord seasonably sent a number of fishes called Surdones into the haven whereby the poor Inhabitants were relieved during the continuance of the siege which being once broken up the fishes departed and were found no more in that coast Fren. Hist. As it was always one of Mr. Latimers wishes that he might be so happy as to shed his hearts blood for the truth and so it fell out at the time of his burning that when the violence of the fire had opened his body such abundance of blood gushed so violently out from his heart to the great astonishment of the beholders as if all the blood in his body had been gathered to that one place Act. Mon. A Christian Matron of excellent parts and piety languishing long under the pressure of hideous temptations wofully at length yeelded to despaire and attempted the destruction of her selfe After often and curious seeking occasion for that bloody fact at last getting upon a Rock that hung over into the Sea putting off her apparell she threw her self head long from the same but receiving no hurt by the fall she was there miraculously preserved for the space of two houres labouring all that while industriously to drown her self after which time being with much difficulty drawn forth and recovered she did yet conflict with that extreamest desperate horrour almost an whole yeer after but at length by Gods providence listening oâ— a time though very unwillingly at the first to her husband reading that Text Esa. 57. 15. by little and little abundance of spiritual comfort flowed into her heart in which condition she continued many yeeres after even untill her death which was 1595. Mr. Bolton A virtuous Gentlewoman in this Land doubting very often of her salvation made her case known unto a godly Minister who often counselled her to take heed of inquiries farther then Gods Word and to trust assuredly that she might ground her salvation upon evidences out of that without farther revelations yet still did that temptation grow upon her insomuch that having a Venice-glasse in her hand the Minister sitting by her she brake forth into very lamentable words saying You have often told me that I must seek no further then Gods Word but I have been long without comfort and can endure no longer therefore if I must be saved let this glasse be kept from breaking and therewithal she threw it against the walls and though the Lord might have dealt otherwise yet he was content to satisfie her longing soul with a miracle The Glasse rebounds againe and comes safe unto the ground which the Minister taking up said Oh repent of this sinne and blesse God for his mercy never distrust him more of his promise Bolton Yates See this more fully in my first part of Lives In the life of Master Fox Mistris Katharine Brettergh upon her death-bed was assaulted with most grievous temptations which made her cry out that a roaring wildernesse of wo was within her that her sinnes had made her a prey to Satan and wished that she had never been borne or that she had been made any other creature rather then a woman crying Wo wo wo c. a weake a wofull a wretched a forsaken woman but at length by Gods wonderful mercy she recovered such comfort that in the ravishments of spirit she cried out O Lord Jesus doest thou pray for me O blessed and sweet Saviour how wonderful how wonderful how wonderful are thy mercies O thy love is unspeakable that hast dealt so graciously with me O Lord my God blessed be thy Name for evermore which hast shewed me the path of life thou diddest O Lord hide thy face from me for a little season but with everlasting mercy thou hast compassion upon me and now blessed Lord thy comfortable presence is come yea thou art come to thine handmaid with fulnesse of joyes and abundance of consolation O the joyes the joyes the joyes that I feel in my soul O they be wonderful they be wonderful they be wonderful O Lord I feele thy mercy and I am assured of thy love and so certaine am I thereof as thou art the God of truth even so sure do I know my self to be thine and this my soul knoweth right well and this my soul knoweth right well O blessed be the Lord O blessed be the Lord that hath thus comforted me O the joy the joy the delightsome joy that I feele O praise the Lord for his mercies and for this joy which my soul feeleth full well Praise his Name for evermore See her life and death in my second Part. Mr. Peacock a biessed servant of God being in horrour of conscience recounting some smaller sinnes burst out into these words And for these now saith he I feele an hell in my conscience and afterwards groaning most pitiously he cried out O me pitious wretch Oh mine heart is miserable Oh oh miserable and wofull the burthen of my sinne lieth so heavie upon me I doubt it will break my heart Oh how wofull and miserable is my state that thus must converse with hell-hounds Being asked whether he would pray he answered I cannot then they said Let us pray for you Take not replied he the Name of God in vain by praying for a reprobate but after a while this tempest of temptation being over Truly said he my heart and soul hath been farre led and deeply troubled with temptations and many inconsiderate speeches have flowed from me in the same for which I humbly and heartily aske mercy of God I now finde that the Sea is not more full of water nor the Sunne of light then the Lord of mercy yea his mercies are ten thousand times more what great cause have I to magnifie the goodnesse of God that hath humbled nay rather exalted such a wretched miscreant and of so base a condition to an estate so glorious and stately the Lord hath honoured me with his goodnesse I am sure he hath provided a glorious Kingdom for me The joy that I feele in my heart is incredible Bolton Mr. Robert Glover was so worne and consumed by the space of five yeares that neither almost any brooking of meate quietnesse of sleepe pleasure of life yea and almost no kinde of sense was left in him upon the apprehension of some backsliding he was so perplexed that if he had been almost in the pit of
here in England convented before the Bishop where they were charged for that in the night-time they used to read in a great book of Heresie meaning the Bible certain chapters of the Evangelists in English cantaining in them divers erroneous and damnable opinions and conclusions of Heresie See my English Martyrology p. 60. Mr Hauks being convented before Bishop Bonner for refusing to have his childe baptized the Bishop asked him the reason of it He answered because he durst not admit of their use of oile spittle cream salt c. whereupon one Darbishire the Bishops kinsman said to him in a blasphemous manner You are too curious you will have nothing but your little pretty Gods Book Eodem p. 141. Master Denley Martyr as he was burning at Uxbridge in the middest of the flames sung a Psalme whereupon Doctor Story commanded one to hurle a faggot at him which hitting him on the face made it to bleed so that Master Denley gave over singing then said Story Truly thou hast marred a good old song Eodem p. 148. Julian at Constantinople offered sacrifice to the goddesse Fortune whereupon Maris Bishop of Chalcedon rebuked him sharply calling him an impious person an Apostate an Atheist c. The Emperour on the contrary called the Bishop Blinde fool blasphemously adding Thy God of Galilee will not restore thy sight to thee again Maris replied I thank my God for making me blinde that I might not behold so ungracious a face as thine is See my General Martyrology p. 84. In the late Persecution in Bohemia a Popish Captain going into one of the Churches took a cup from the Communion table being full of wine and drank to his horse who having pledged him he blasphemously said Now my horse is one of the communicants in both kindes Eodem p. 152. At the same time when divers godly Nobles and Citizens were carrying to prison in Prague the Papists insultingly cried after them Why do you not now sing The Lord reigneth Eodem p. 169. When any of the protestants desired to be convinced by Scripture they answered with scoffs and jeers saying That the Scripture was impersect obscure ambiguous and the fountaine of Heresie the sanctuary of Hereticks which lay-men had nothing to do with They called the Bible Witlia which in the Bohemian language signifies Vomit c. Eodem p. 189. A godly man called Nicolas being apprehended in the Lowcountreys for Religion as he was going to dinner craved a blessing whereupon a Popish Captaine that was present swearing grievously said Let us see thou lewd Heretick if thy God can deliver thee out of my hand Eodem p. 257. At Angiers in France the Papists burnt many Bibles and meeting with one faire gilt one they hung it on an halbard carried it in procession saying Behold truth is hanged the truth of the Huguenotes the truth of all the devils Behold the mighty God behold the everlasting God will speak and when they came to the Bridge they threw it into the River crying louder Behold the truth of all the devills is drowned Eodem p. 302. About the same time at Volougnes the mercilesse Papists took a godly Minister slew him stripped his body naked dragged it up and down and at last brought it to the chamber where he used to preach to his people saying Now pray to thy God and preach if thou canst Eodem p. 304. At the same time one Monsieur Monluc having defeated a party of the Protestants took many prisoners most of which he hanged especially the Ministers And amongst the prisoners finding a Captaine called La-moth he gave him divers stabbes with his dagger and then thrust him thorow with his rapier saying Villaine thou shalt die in despite of God Yet he proved a liar for the man afterwards was miraculously cured of his wounds Eodem p. 305. At Orleance as they murthered the Protestants they cried out Where is now your God what is become of all your Prayers and Psalmes now Let your God that you called upon save you if he can Others sang in scorne Judge and revenge my cause O Lord Others Have mercy on us Lord c. Eodem p. 316. See many more in my General Martyr In my English Martyr and in my books of Lives Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme 1 Tim 1. 20. CHAP. XXIII Examples of profane Scoffers THe Apostle Peter 2 Pet. 3. 3. foretold that in the last dayes should come Scoffers walking after their own lusts and therefore it is no marvel if we who live in the end and dregs of these last dayes finde this prophecie fulfilled Ishmael was a scoffer in Abrahams family and the Church hath alwayes been pestered with some of his brood and therefore we may lesse wonder if we meet with such amongst those which live out of the pale of Gods Church Some Instances whereof these following examples will exhibite unto us Foretold 2 Pet. 3. 3. Jude 18. They are wicked persons Prov. 9. 7 8. 13. 1. 14. 6. 15. 12. 21. 24. 24. 9. Isa. 29. 10. Psal. 79. 4. Prov. 1. 22. 3. 34. 19. 29. Psal. 123. 4. 1. 1. Prov. 29. 8. Act. 2. 13. Heb. 11. 36. Scriptural examples The Caldeans Hab. 1. 10. Men of Judah 2 Chron. 30. 10. Sanballat c. Neh. 2. 19. Jobs friends Iob 16. 20. Davids enemies Psal. 22. 7. Christs enemies Mat. 9. 24. Mark 5. 40. Luk. 8. 53. Little children 2 King 2. 23. Men of Judah 2 Chron. 36. 16. Souldiers Mat 27. 29 31. Luk. 22. 63. 23. 11 36. Athenians Act. 17. 32. Some others Job 17. 2. Psalm 35. 16. Ier. 15. 17. 20. 7. Ishmael Gen. 21. 9. King Lewis the eleventh of France alwayes wore a Leaden god in his hat and when he had caused any one whom he either feared or hated to be killed he would take it off from his head and kisse it beseeching it that it would pardon him this one evil act more and it should be the last that he would commit Mockeries fit to be used towards a Leaden but not towards the ever-living God Hist. of holy War Martiques Governour of Britany in France in the warre against the Protestants perswaded them to yield to the King for that their strong God had now forsaken them and scoffingly said that it was time for them to sing Help us now O Lord for it is time But shortly after he found that their strong God was living able to help the weak to confound the proud himself being presentiy after slaine in the siege Act. Mon. A Gentleman in France lying upon his death-bed the Priest bringing him the Sacrament of the Altar and telling him that it was the body of Christ he refused to eat it because it was Friday Another also in the like case seeing the Hoast brought to him by a Lubberly Priest scoffingly said that Christ came to him as once riding upon an
hell he could have despaired no more of his salvation in which condition although he neither had nor could have any joy of his meat yet he did eate against his appetite to deferre the time of his damnation so long as he might thinking that he must needs be thrown into hell so soon as the breath should depart out of his body yet the Lord who graciously preserved him all that while not onely at last did rid him out of all discomfort but also framed him thereby to such mortification of life as the like hath seldome been seen in such sort as he being like one already placed in heaven and dead in this world both in word and meditation led a life altogether celestial abhorring in his minde all profane doings Act. Mon. Mr. John Holland a faithfull Minister of Gods Word the day before his death calling for a Bible continued his meditation and exposition upon the 8. to the Rom. for the space of two hours but on a sudden he said O stay your reading what brightnesse is this I see have you light up any candles A stander by said No it is the Sun-shine for it was about five a clock in a clear Summers evening Sun-shine saith he Nay it is my Saviours-shine now farewell world welcome heaven the day-star from on high hath visited my heart O speak it when I am gone and preach it at my Funeral God dealeth familiarly with man I feele his mercy I see his Majesty whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell God he knoweth But I see things that are unutterable And being thus ravished in his spirit he roamed towards heaven with a chearful look and soft sweet voice but what he said was not understood with the Sunne in the morning following raising himself as Jacob did upon his staffe he shut up his blessed life with these blessed words O what an happy change shall I make from night to day from darknesse to light from death to life from sorrow to solace from a factious world to an heavenly being Oh my dear brethren sisters and friends it pitieth me to leave you behinde yet remember my death when I am gone and what I now feele I hope you shall feele ere you die that God doth and will deale familiarly with men and now thou fiery Chariot that cam'st down to fetch up Elijah carry me to my happy hold and all you blessed Angels that attended the soul of Lazarus to bring it to Heaven bear me Oh bear me into the bosome of my best beloved Amen Amen Come Lord Jesus come quickly And so he fell asleep Leigh Luther who had the Devill the Popes the Emperour and almost all the Christian World against him both by open force and secret fraud seeking his destruction yet the Lord miraculously preserved him for the space of about thirty years in despite of them all and at last he died in peace in his bed at which time he made this heavenly Prayer My heavenly Father Eternall and Mercifull God thou hast manifested unto me thy deare Son our Lord Iesus Christ I have taught him I have known him I love him as my Life my health and my Redemption whom the wicked have injured persecuted maligned and afflicted Draw my soule unto thee for though I must lay down this frail body yet I certainly know that I shall live with thee eternally and that I cannot be taken out of thy hands I commend my spirit into thy hands thou hast redeem'd it O Lord God of truth God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that all that believe in him should have life everlasting which he repeated thrice and so as one falling asleep without any bodily pain that could be discerned he departed this life 1546. See his life in my first part Mr. Bolton upon his death-bed speaking to his Children told them That he verily believed that none of them durst thinke to meet him at the great Tribunall in an unregenerate state and to some of his Parishioners desiring him that as he had by his doctrine discovered unto them the exceeding comforts that were in Christ so he would now tell them what he felt in his soul he answered To give you satisfaction though I want breath to speake I am by the wonderfull mercies of Christ as full of comfort as my heart can hold and feels nothing in my soule but Christ with whom I heartily desire to be See his life in my first part Zuinglius being slaine by his Popish enemies they cut his body into foure peeces and then burnt it in the fire but three dayes after some of his friends coming to the place found his heart in the ashes whole and untouched with the fire The like also was observed of Bishop Cramner See his life in my first part Henry Henry Voes and John Esch when they came to be burnt for the truth of the Gospell joyfully embraced the stake continuing singing of Psalms and when the fire was kindled at their feet one of them said Me thinks you do strew Roses under my feet See my General Martyrology George Scherter being for Religion condemned first to be beheaded and then burnt he told the people that he would give them a signe that he died a true Christian and when his head was cut off his body falling upon the belly lay still whilest one might leasurely eate an Egge and then turned it selfe softly upon the back and crossed the right leg and right arme over the left whereby many of the spectatours were induced to believe the Gospel Act. Mon. Two godly Virgins in Flanders being condemned to be burnt and had the sentence accordingly executed yet could not the Executioners by any means consume their bodies with fire but still they remained white and unhurt Act. Mon. Domicillus being condemned to be burnt for Religion when he was at the stake and the fire kindled the winde so drove away the flame that he continued by the space of an houre untouched by it exhorting and instructing the people that stood by whereupon they brought more wood and vessels of Oile yet neither could he therewith be burnt which the executioner seeing struck at his head with a staffe to whom the holy Martyr said I am condemned to be burned and do you beat me with staves with that the Hangman thrust him through the belly and guts with his Pike and so slew him Act. Mon. Bergerius at Lyons in France being accused and apprehended for Religion was cast into a loathsome dungeon wherein was a thief who had laine there by the space of seven or eight moneths who by reason of his paine and torment blasphemed God and cursed his parents that begat him being almost eaten up with Lice and fed with such bread as Dogs and Horses refused to eate but through the preaching and prayers of Bergerius he was brought to repentance of which he wrote a sweet letter to some of his friends
wherein he declared that the next day after he had embraced the Gospel his Lice which before did so abound were all gone not one remaining and that God so stirred up the hearts of good people to pity and provide for him that he was fed with white bread and wholesome food Act. Mon. Fanius who was burnt for Religion in the City of Ferrara in Italy all the time of his burning a most fragrant and odoriferous smell came to all that were present and so pleased their senses that they were much refreshed thereby Act. Mon. One Laremouth alias Williamson Chaplaine to the Lady Anne of Cleave a Scotchman being imprisoned for the true Religion he heard a voice saying to him Arise and go thy wayes whereto when he gave no great heed at first the second time it was so said upon this as he fell to prayer it was said to him the third time likewise which was about halfe an hour after whereupon he rising up immediately part of the prison-wall fell down And as the Officers came in at the outward gate of the prison he leaping over the ditch escaped And in the way meeting a begger changed his coat with him and coming to the Sea-shoare he found a vessell ready to go over into which he entered and escaped Act. Mon. In the massacre of Paris one Merline a godly Minister flying and hiding himself in an Hay mow was nourished for a fortnight together by an Hen which constantly came and layed an Egge by him every day during all that time Act. Mon. Since the beginning of these Civill wars 40. honest men in Cornewall were condemned to be hanged by Sir Richard Greenvile for not assisting him against the Parliament and when they came to be executed the sixt man brake a new halter wherewith he should have been hanged and after that another and after that two others twisted together which miracle of Gods mercy did so astonish the adversaries that they let him and all the rest depart in safety At that time when P. Rupert plunderd the town of Bolton in Lancashire amongst others that were cruelly slaine by his party there was one William Isherwood and his wife both slain Felice their daughter being then eleven weeks old lay pitifully crying at the breast of her dead mother But and it pleased God that an old woman the wife of one Ralph Holme of the same towne aged above seventy yeares who had not given suck above twentie yeares before seeing and hearing the childe compassioned took it up and having neither food for her self nor for the infant in that commoÌ„ calamity to still the child laid it to her breast and behold the goodness of God who provides for the young ravens that cry the childe sucking milke came into her breasts wherewith she nourished it to the admiration and astonishment of all beholders This is attested by three godly Ministers and divers others of good credit who were eye-witnesses of the same St. Augustine being to visit and instruct the people of a certaine place and having a guide to direct thâ—â— way and conduct him thither did notwithstanding by Gods especiall providence mistake the common and usuall road and ignorantly fell into a by-path whereby he escaped the bloody hands of some Donatists who knowing of his journey way-laid him to have taken away his life Possidonius in vit ejus See his Life in my first part The same Father preaching to the Congregation and forgetting the argument which at first he proposed fell upon a confutation of the errours of the Manichees which he never intended and by that meanes converted one Firmus his auditor who afterwards came and fell downe at St. Augustines feet weeping and confessing that he had lived a Manichee many yeares and now by Gods mercy and this Sermon was converted to the true Catholick belief eodem A godly man passing through his last sicknesse whereof he died with extraordinary calmnesse of conscience and absolute freedome from temptations some of his Christian friends observing and admiring the singularity of his soules quiet at that time especially questioned with him about it He answered that he had sted fastly fixed his heart upon that sweetest promise Esa. 26. 3. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose minde is stayed on thee because hâ— trusteth in thee And his God had graciously made it fully good unto his soul. Bolton Thomas Whittel a blessed Martyr in Queen Maries dayes was by the wicked suggestions of some Popish incarnate Devills drawn to subscribe to their hellish Doctrine But considering in cold blood what he had done was horribly vexed and felt a hell in his conscience and Satan ready to devoure him which terrible desertion and trouble of minde made him quickly returne with more constancy and fortitude and afterwards by Gods great mercy he proved a most invincible and immoveable Martyr Act. and Mon. James BainhaÌ„ being at the stake in the middest of the flaming fire his legs and his arms being half consumed spake these words O ye Papists behold ye look for miracles and here now you may see one for in this fire I feele no more paine then if I were in a bed of down but it is to me as a bed of Roses Act. and Mon. Iohn Lambert as he was burning in Smithfield when his legges were quite consumed with the fire lifted up his hands his fingers ends flaming like Torches and his heart abounding with comfort cried out None but Christ none but Christ. Act. and Mon. A young man in Wittenberg being kept short by his father was tempted by the Devill to yeeld himselfe body and soule to him upon condition to have his wish satisfied with money which he assented unto and confirmed it by an obligation written with his owne blood whereupon suddenly decaying in his health he was brought to Luther to be examined about the cause unto whom at length he uttered the whole matter which when Luther had heard he brought him into the Congregation where together with the Church he prayed so fervently for him that the Devill at last was forced to bring the bond and throw it in at the window bidding the young man to take it again unto him Act. and Mon. About the yeare 1556. in the town of Weissenstein in Germany a Jew for theft that he had committed was condemned in this cruell manner to be executed He was hanged by the feet with his head downwards betwixt two dogs which constantly snatcht and bit at him The strangenesse of the torment moved Jacobus Andreas a grave and learned Divine to go to behold it Coming thither he found the poor wretch as he hung repeating verses out of the Hebrew Psalms wherein he cryed out to God for mercy Andreas hereupon took occasion to counsell him to trust in Jesus Christ the true Saviour of mankinde The Jew embracing the the Christian faith requested but this one thing that he might be taken downe and be Baptized though
the night wherein he was borne whilest he was relating this in the Pulpit he fell down stark dead and never stirred more Act. and Mon. John Duns called Scotus borne in Emildon in Northumberland who being brought up in Merton Colledge in Oxford was wonderful well learned in Logick and in that crabbed and intricate Devinity of those dayes yet as one still doubtful and unresolved he did overcast the truth of Religion with mists of obscurity but he died miserably being taken with an Apoplexie and over-hastily buried he after a time revived and making means in vaine by a lamentable noise to call for help after he had a long time knocked his head against the grave-stone dashed out his braines and so yielded up his vital breath whereupon were made these verses Quaecunque humani fuerant jurisque sacrati In dubium veniunt cuncta vocante Scoto Quid quod in dubium illius sit vita vocata Morte illum simili ludificaute stropha Quum non ante virum vitâ jugulârit ademptâ Quà m vivus tumulo conditus ille foret All learning taught in humane books and couch'd in holy writ Duns Scotus dark and doubtful made by subtilty of wit No marvel that to doubtful tearmes of life himself was brought Whil'st with like wile and subtile trick death on his body wrought When as her stroke to kill outright she would not him vouchsafe Until that man a pitious case was buried quick in grave Camb. Brit. p. 814. Mahomet by birth an Arabian was one of the monstrousest hereticks that ever lived He came of a base stock and being fatherlesse one Abdemonoples bought him for his slave and loved him for his parts so that he made him ruler of his house about which time one Sergâ—us a Monk flying for his Heresie into Arabia instructed him in the Heresie of Nestorius A while after his Master died and Mahâ—met married his widow after whose death he grew famous for his wealth and skill in Magick Wherefore by the advice of Sergius he called himself the great prophet of God and his fame encreasing he devised a Law and wrote it which he called the Alcoran wherein he borrowed something from almost all the Heresies which were before his time With the Sabellians he denied the Trinity With the Manichees he affirmed that there were but two persons in the Deity With Eunomius he denied the equality of the Father with the Son With Macedonius he said that the Holy Ghost was a Creature and held the community of women with the Nicolaitans He borrowed of the Jews circumcision and of the Gentiles much superstition And somewhat he took from the Christian verity besides many devilish phansies invented of his own braine But when he had lived in wickednesse about fourty years God cut him off by the falling sicknesse which of a long time having been troubled with he told his seduced disciples that at those times the Angel Gabriel appeared to him whose brightnesse he could not behold A certain Jesuite in Lancashire as he was walking by the way lost his glove and one that came after him finding it followed him apace with intention to restore it but he fearing the worst being inwardly pursued with a guilty conscience ran away and hastily leaping over an hedge fell into a marle pit which was on the other side and in which he was drowned Wards Ser. Anno Christi 1591. there was one Edmund Coppinger and Henry Arthington two gentlemen who associated themselves with William Hacket sometimes a very lewd person but now converted in outward shew by whose hypocritical behaviour the aforesaid gentlemen were deluded to think that Hacket was anointed to be Judge of the world wherefore coming one day to his lodging in London Hacket told them that he had been anointed by the holy Ghost Then Coppinger asked what his pleasure was to command them Go saith he and proclaime in the City that Jesus Christ is come with his fan in his hand to judge the earth and if they will not believe you let them come and kill me if they can Coppinger answered that it should be done and so immediately he and Arthingtonâ—an â—an into the streets and proclaimed their messageâ— and when by reason of the confluence of people they could go no further they gat up into two empty carts in Cheapside crying Repent repent for Jesus Christ is come to judge the world And so pulling a paper out of their bosoms they read out of it many things touching the calling and office of Hacket as how he represented Christ by partaking of his glorified body c. They also called themselves his Prophets one of Justice the other of Mercy The City being amazed at this thing took Hacket carried him before a Justice who after examination committed him and at the Sessions being found guilty of sedition and speaking traiterous words against the Queen he was condemned and hanged on a Gibbet in Cheap-side uttering horrible blasphemies against the Majesty of God Coppinger died the next day in Bridewel and Arthington was kept in prison upon the hope of repentance Some Donatists which cast the holy elements of the Lords Supper to dogs were themselves devoured by dogs Simpson Arminius who craftily revived the heresie of Pelagius and sowed the seeds of his errors in Leiden and many other places in Holland to the great disturbance of the peace of Gods Church fell sick being grievously tormented with a cough gout ague and incessant paine in his belly with a great binding and stopping under the heart which caused him to draw his breath with much difficulty he slept also very unquietly and could not digest his meat his radical moisture dried up and he had a vehement paine in his bowels with an obstruction in his Optick sinews which made him blinde of his left eye and his right shoulder was much swolne whereby he lost the use of his right arme and thus languishing in much misery he ended his dayes October 19. 1609. Hist. of the Netherl Olympius an Arian Bishop as he was bathing himselfe at Carthage and blâ—spheming the blessed Trinity was suddenly smit from Heaven with three fiery darts and so burned to death Hist. of the Netherl Pau. Diaco In the year 1327. there was one Adam Duff an Irish man burnt at Dublin for denying the Incarnation of Jesus Christ and saying that there could not be three persons and but one God and for affirming the Virgin Mary to be an Harlot for denying the resurrection of the dead and avouching that the Sacred Scriptures were but fables Camb. Brit. Irel. p. 181. Policarp at a certaine time meeting Marcion the Heretick Marcion said unto him Doest thou not know me Yea said Policarp I know thee for the first-begotten of Satan See his Life in my first Part. Donatus the father of the Donatists about the year 331. taking offence at the choice of Caecilianus to the Bishoprick of Carthage made a schisme in the Church and fell from one error