and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and Slew them there PSALM 79. O God the Heathen are come into thine Inheritance thy holy Temple have they Defiled they have laid Jerusalem in heaps The dead Bodies of thy Servants have they given to be Meat unto the Fowls of the Heaven the Flesh of thy Saints unto the Beasts of the Earth Their Bloud have they shed like Water round about Jerusalem and there was none to Bury them We are become a Reproach to our Neighbours a Scorn and Derision to them that are round about us How long O Lord wilt thou be angry forever Shall thy Iealousy burn like Fire Pour out thy VVrath on the Heathen that have not known thee and on the Kingdoms that have not called on thy Name For they have devoured Jacob and laid wast his Dwelling place O Remember not against us former Iniquities let thy tender Mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low Help us O Lord our Salvation for the Glory of thy Name and deliver us and purge away our Sins for thy Names sake Wherefore should the Heathen say where is their God Let him be known among the Heathens in our sight by the Revenging the Bloud of thy Servants which is shed Let the Sighing of the Prisoners come before thee according to the greatness of thy Power preserve thou those that are appointed to Dye And render unto our Neighbours Seven-fold into their Bosom their Reproach wherewith they have Reproached thee O Lord. So we thy People and Sheep of thy Pasture will give thee Thanks for ever we will shew forth thy Praise to all Generations 11 Kings 10.18 And Je-hu ga-the-red all the Peo-ple to-ge-ther and said unto them A-hab Ser-ved Ba-al but a lit-tle but Je-hu shall serve him much Now there-fore call un-to me all the Pro-phets of Ba-al all his Ser-vants and all his Priests let none be want-ing for I have a great Sa-cri-fice to do un-to Ba-al who-so-e-ver shall be want-ing he shall not Live But Je-hu did it in Sub-ti-li-ty to the in-tent that he might De-stroy the Wor-ship-pers of Ba-al And Je-hu said Pro-claim a So-lemn As-sem-bly for Ba-al and they pro-claim-ed it and Je-hu sent through all Is-ra-el and all the Wor-ship-pers of Ba-al came so that there was not a man left that came not and they came in-to the House of Ba-al and the House of Ba-al was full from one end to a-no-ther And Je-hu said un-to him that was o-ver the Vest-ry bring forth Vest-ments for all the Wor-ship-pers of Ba-al and he brought them forth Vest-ments And Je-hu went and Je-ho-na-dab the Son of Re-chab in-to the House of Ba-al and said un-to the Wor-ship-pers of Ba-al Search and look that there be here with you none of the Ser-vants of the Lord but the Worshippers of Ba-al on-ly And when they went in to offer Sa-cri-fi-ces and burnt Of-fe-rings Je-hu ap-point-ed Four-score Men with-out and said If a-ny of the Men whom I have brought in-to your hands es-cape he that let-teth him go his Life shall be for the Life of him And it came to pass as soon as he had made an end of Of-fe-ring the Burnt-Of-fe-ring That Je-hu said un-to the Guard and to the Cap-tains Go in and Slay them let none come forth and they Smote them with the Edge of the Sword and the Guard and the Cap-tains cast them out and went to the Ci-ty of the House of Ba-al and they brought forth the I-ma-ges out of the House of Ba-al and Burnt them And they brake down the I-mage of Ba-al and brake down the House of Ba-al and made it a Draught House un-to this Day Thus Je-hu de-stroy-ed Ba-al out of Is-ra-el Jehu Crown'd King Jehu the King must fall To Ahabs God Jehu must Worship Baal The God Divided people must go call Baals Sacred priests Jehu must Worship Baal None must be left behind they must come all Jehu must burn a Sacrifice to Baal The priests come puffing in both Great and Small Must wait on Jehu and must Worship Baal Baal's house is fill'd and crowded to the Wall With people that are come to Worship Baal What must there now be done what Odours shall Perfume Baals Nostrills Even the Priests of Baal Baal's holy Temple 's now become a Stall Of priestly flesh of fleshly priests to Baal How would our Gospel flourish if that all Princes like Jehu would but Worship Baal St. Matthew Chap. 10. Ver. 16. BEhold I send you forth as Sheep in the midst of Wolves be ye therefore Wise as Serpents and Harmless as Doves But beware of Men for they will deliver you up to the Councils and they will Scourge you in their Synagogues And ye shall be brought before Governours and Kings for my sake for a Testimony against them and the Gentiles but when they deliver you up take no thought how or what you shall speak for it shall be given you in that same Hour what you shall speak For it is not ye that speak but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you And the brother shall deliver up the brother to Death and the Father the Children and the Children shall rise up against their Parents and cause them to be put to death And ye shall be Hated of all Men for my Names sake but he that endureth to the end shall be Saved But when they Persecute you in this City Flee ye into another for verily I say unto you ye shall not have gone over the Cities of Israel till the Son of Man be come The Disciple is not above his Master nor the Servant above his Lord. And fear not them that can Kill the Body but are not able to Kill the soul but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell Whosoever therefore shall Confess me before Men him will I also Confess before my Father which is in Heaven But whosoever shall deny me before Men him will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven Think not that I am come to send Peace on Earth I came not to send Peace but a Sword For I am come to set a Man at Variance against his Father and the Daughter against her Mother and the Daughter in Law against her Mother in Law And a Mans Foes shall be they of his own Household He that Loveth Father or Mother more then me is not worthy of me and he that loveth Son and Daughter more then me is not worthy of me And he that taketh not his Cross and followeth me is not worthy of me He that findeth his Life shall lose it and he that loseth his Life for my sake shall find it St. Luke 3.23 AND Je-sus him-self be-gan to be a-bout Thir-ty Years of Age be-ing as was sup-po-sed the Son of Jo-seph which was the Son of He-li which was the Son of Mat-that which was the Son of Le-vi which was the Son of Mel-chi which was the Son of Jan-na which was the
of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guilt-less that tak-eth his Name in vain IV. Re-mem-ber the Sab-bath day to keep it holy six days shalt thou la-bour and do all thy work but the se-venth day is the Sab-bath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do a-ny work thou nor thy son nor thy daugh-ter thy man-ser-vant nor thy maid-ser-vant nor thy cat-tle nor the Stran-ger that is within thy Gates For in six days the Lord made Hea-ven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rest-ed the se-venth day wherefore the Lord bles-sed the Sab-bath day and hal-lowed it V. Ho-nour thy Fa-ther and thy Mo-ther that thy days may be long up-on the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt not kill VII Thou shalt not com-mit A-dul-te-ry VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt not bear false wit-ness a-gainst thy Neigh-bour X. Thou shalt not co-vet thy Neigh-bours house thou shalt not co-vet thy Neigh-bours wife nor his man-ser-vant nor his maid-ser-vant his Ox nor his Ass nor a-ny-thing that is thy Neigh-bours Vseful Instructions for young Persons Alphabetically in Verse A Verse may find him whom a Sermon flyes And turn delight into a Sacrifice To get and fix these Rules in memory There needs no Art but to mind A B C. A. At Table guard thy Tongue a Civil Guest Will no more talk all than eat all the Feast B. Be well advis'd and wary Council take E're thou dost any Action undertake C. Command thy self in chief He Lifes Wa knows Whom all his Passions follow as he goes D. Dare to be true nothing can need a Lye A fault which needs it must grow two thereby E. Eclips'd the Sun Earthquakes rent Vail dark Sky Nature must needs be sick when God can dye F. First Worship God He that forgets to pray Bids not himself good Morrow nor good Day G. Give to all something but to a good poor man Bestow as liberally as you can H. How dar'st thou sin in secret God doth see And will alone thy Judge and Jury be I. If a Son make his Fathers Heart to bleed He may a Child have to revenge the deed K. Keep thy self humble pride hath ruin'd many The Proud Man's seldom well-belov'd of any L. Live Jesus live and let it ever be Our life to live yea dye for love of thee M. Man's Life 's a flower that fadeth in an hour Who is so vain to doat upon a flower N. Not House nor Land nor measur'd heaps of wealth Can render to a dying man his health O. Oh my Dear God though I am quite forgot Let me not love thee if I love thee not P. Pleasure is fleeting still and makes no stay It lends a smile or two and steals away Q. Quietly learn all Crosses to endure Repining doth more misery procure R. Reach Heaven thou canst not here yet still aspire And climb if not in deed yet in desire S. Swear not an Oath is like a dangerous Dart Which shot rebounds to strike the shooters heart T. To all alike be courteous meek and kind A winning Carriage with indifferent mind U. Use Patience what e're haps though bad it be Take it for good and t' will be so to thee W. Wise Men speak little we scarce know of any Undone by hearing but for speaking many X. Xerxes with tears surveys his Mighty Host Thinking how soon they'd all be dead and lost Y. Youth think old men are Fools but Old men know By dear Experience that Youth are so Z. Zealously practice what is good and then Great will be thy reward in bliss Amen Deuteronomy Chap. 13. IF there a-rise a-mong you a Pro-phet or a Dream-er of Dreams and gi-veth thee a sign or a wonder And the sign or the won-der come to pass where-of he spake to thee say-ing Let us go af-ter o-ther Gods which thou hast not known and let us serve them Thou shalt not heark-en un-to the words of that Prophet or the dream-ex of dreams for the Lord our God proveth you to know whe-ther you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul Ye shall walk af-ter the Lord your God and fear him and keep his Com-man-de-ments and o-bey his voice and you shall serve him and cleave un-to him And that pro-phet or that dream-er of dreams shall be put to death be-cause he hath spo-ken to turn you a-way from the Lord your God which brought you out of the Land of E-gypt and re-deem-ed you out of the House of Bond-age to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God com-mand-ed thee to walk in so shalt thou put the e-vil away from the midst of thee PSALM 97. THE Lord reign-eth let the Earth re-joice let the mul-ti-tude of Is-rael be glad thereof Clouds and Darkness are round a-bout him Righ-te-ous-ness and Iudg-ment are the ha-bi-ta-ti-on of his Throne A Fire go-eth be-fore him end burn-eth up his E-ne-mies round a-bout His Light-nings en-light-en-ed the World the Earth saw and tremb-led The Hills mel-ted like wax at the pre-sence of the Lord at the pre-sence of the Lorn of the whole Earth The Hea-vens de-clare his Righ-te-ous-ness and all the Peo-ple see his Glo-ry Con-found-ed be all they that serve gra-ven I-ma-ges that boast them-selves of I-dols wor-ship him all ye Gods Si-on heard and was glad and the daugh-ters of Ju-dah re-joy-ced be-cause of thy Iudg-ments O Lord. For thou Lord art high a-bove all the Earth thou art ex-alt-ed far a-bove all Gods Ye that love the Lord hate e-vil he pre-ser-veth the souls of his saints he de-li-ve-reth them out of the hand of the wick-ed Light is sown for the Righ-te-ous and glad-ness for the up-right in Heart Re-joice in the Lord ye Righ-te-ous give thanks to the re-mem-brance of his Ho-li-ness PSALM 124. BVt that God for us fought may Israel say But that God for us fought in that sad day When men inflam'd with wrath against us rose We had alive been swallow'd by our Foes Then had we sunk beneath the roaring waves And in their horrid Entrails found our Graves Then had their Violence like Torrents pour'd From melting Hills our wretched lives devour'd O blest be God who hath not given our blood To quench their thirst nor made our flesh their food Our Souls like Birds have scapt the Fowlers Net The snares are broke which for our Lives were set Our only confidence is in his Name Who made the Earth and Heavens Immortal frame Psalm 115. NOT to us O Lord not to us but to thy Name give the glo-ry for thy Mercy and for thy Truths sake Where-fore should the Hea-then say Where is now their God But our God is in the Hea-vens he hath done what-so-e-ver he pleas-ed Their I-dols are sil-ver and gold the work of Mens hands They have mouths but they speak not Eyes have they but they see not They have Ears but they hear
and Princes have been forced to kneel and kiss their Toes nay they asserted that all Kings were Slaves and in subjection to them and that all must be judged by the Pope but he by no man Psalm 88. LOrd sit not still as deaf unto our Cries For lo Our Enemies in Tumults rise Even those who thy Omnipotence deny And hate thy Name advance their Priests on High Dark Councils take and secretly contrive Our slaughter whom thy mercy keeps alive Come say they let us with incessant strokes Hew down this Nation like a Grove of Oaks Till they no longer be and Israel dye Both in his Race and Ruin'd Memory They all in one Confederacy have made A solemn League supply d with forreign Aid Hence Idumeans who in Gomades stray And Shaggy Ishmaelites that live by prey Th' incestuous race that bred are on the Lake Of salt Asphaltes savage Thieves who take Their Name from servile Hagar they who dwell In Geba Ammonites who peace expel Oh! say they let 's these Israelites destroy And all the Cities of their God enjoy O! let them like a Wheel be worried round Like chaff which whirlwinds ravisht from the Ground As Woods grown dry with Age imbrac'd with Fire Whose Flames above the singed Hills aspire So in the Tempest of thy wrath pursue And with thy Storms thy troubling Foes subdue O fill their Hearts with Grief their Looks with shame Till they invoke thy late blaphemed Name Confound them with eternal Infamy That they through anguish of their Souls may dye That Men Jehovah's wonders may rehearse The Great Commander of the Universe Mens Brains fryed eaten Children torn in Peices Infants thrown to the dogs swine Woemen Carried on Piks Rosted alive Some tyed and slain Hang'd by the Privitie Burnt in a barn A Brief and True Account of the Cruelties and Persecutions Committed by the Papists upon the Waldenses and Albingenses and other Protestants in Piedmont Savoy and the Valtoline from the Year 1160 To the Year 1656. VVHen by the just Judgment of the Almighty All the World wondred after the Beast and the Kings and Princes of Christendom established the Authority of the Pope and Church of Rome appointing to slaughter and destruction such as denied the horrid Blasphemies and Errors maintained by them It occasioned many good Christians to detest their Superstitions as unknown to the Apostles and the Primitive Church And the first we read of was one Berengarius who boldly and faithfully published the True Religion contained in the Scripture and discovered the falseness of the Romish He lived about the time of William the Conqueror his coming into England about which time his Followers being taken notice of as dissenting from many of the Common received Opinions of those times they were branded with the odious Name of Hereticks About Twenty years after this one Peter Bruis was a famous Preacher among them who taught them publickly a long time at Tholouse in Savoy In a short time after they were grown to so great a multitude that the Popes of Rome were resolved if possible by any means to extirpate and destroy them To which end they at first incited several of the most learned of their Party to write against them and warned divers Princes to have a care of them and to banish them out of their Territories The first then that flung away the Spiritual Keys and began valiantly to brandish the bloody Sword of Persecution against them was Pope Alexander the third who began therewith to hack hew and murder the poor Waldenses so named from Peter Waldo or Waldo of Lyons in France who appeared very couragious in opposing the many Corruptions of the Romish Church as Holy Oyl Consecrated Images Popes Indulgences Candles Merits Auricular Confession the Supremacy of the Pope false Miracles Purgatory Praying for the Dead Prayers to Saints extream Unction and many other Fopperies of the Popish Communion This Persecution of Waldo and his Followers who were encreased to a very great number began in France in the Year 1060. Waldo being compell'd to fly into the Mountains of France among the Savage Inhabitants to whom he taught his Doctrine others fled into Picardy from whence they were called Picards several into Flanders and Alsatia and thereby for the safety of their Lives they spread their Doctrine into all places King Philip of France being incited by the Ecclesiasticks raised Arms against them and destroyed Three Hundred Gentlemens Houses and likewise several Walled Towns And those that fled into Flanders escaped little better for they were persued and many of them for their Religion put to Death And the Bishops of Mayence and Strasburgh raised great persecutions against those which fled thither there being Five and Thirty Citizens of Mayence burned in one Fire and Eighteen in another who suffered Death with very great constancy and at Strasburgh at the instance of the Bishop Fourscore were likewise burnt for professing the same Truth and yet by the exhortations constancy and patience of these Martyrs there were such multitudes who entertained their Doctrines that in a few Years after in the County of Passau and in Bohemia there were above Fourscore thousand persons that made profession of the same Faith Some of them likewise fled into England for shelter but were more barbarously and cruelly put to death at Oxford by the Papists there than ever any Christians were before that time for matters of Religion and Three years after Pope Alexander the Third made a Decree in the Council of Tours in France that these Gospellers and all their Favourers should be Excommunicated and that none of them should buy or sell according as it was foretold in Revel 13.17 At Colen in Germany Four Men and Two young Women were discovered hid in a Barn and the Papists not being able to diswade them from the Truth The Men were all tyed to the Stake to be burnt but the Romanists pretending to pity the young Women perswaded them to recant but they perceiving their design got out of the hands of those that held them and voluntarily leapt into the Fire where they were burned with them about this time a Proclamation was published in Aragon whereby it was made Treason to relieve these poor Christians or to suffer them to live in that Country and liberty was given to all people to abuse them at pleasure without being punished for the same But these people still encreasing the Pope was resolved to suppress them by all means possible and therefore about the Year 1201. He set up the Bloody Inquisition which with its Racks Tortures Fire and all manner of Cruelty hath destroyed an innumerable company of Good and Holy Men. And in the same Year a noble Knight called Eunandus and one of the Waldenses was burnt at Paris and the persecution still continuing the people of Daulphine flying from their barbarous Enemies sheltred themselves in the Caves upon the Mountains but their cruel Adversaries having notice thereof persued
and Disport but being resolved in the midst and heat of the Battel to live and dye amongst you all to lay down for my God and for my Kingdom and for my People my Honour and my Blood even in the dust I know I have the Body but of a weak and feeble Woman yet I have the Heart and Courage of a King and of a King of England too and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the Borders of my Kingdom to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me I my self will take up Arms I my self will be your General Judg and Rewarder of every one of your Virtues in the Field I know that already for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and Crowns and we do assure you in the Word of a Prince they shall be duly paid you In the mean time my Lievtenant General Leicester shall be in my stead than whom never Prince commanded a more Noble or worthy Subject not doubting but by your obedience to your General by your concord in the Camp and Valour in the Field we shall shortly obtain a Famous Victory over these Enemies of my God of my Kingdom and of my People A Prayer for the Morning BLessed and Glorious Lord God thy Mercies are Infinite and thy long suff ring and patience is exc eding great else had not I poor wretched miserable sinner been spared so long considering my manifold provocations a-against thee Blessed be thy Name that thou hast been graciously pleased to preserve me the night past and that thou hast once more vouchsafed me the Light of the morning O Lord preserve me this day and keep me in all my ways give unto me the repose of a quiet Conscience and the clear Light of the Gospel Turn mine eyes away from Vanity and strengthen me in thy ways Protect and defend our Soveraign Lord the King Bind up his soul in the bundle of Life and let no weapon form'd against him prosper Preserve thy Church and the True Protestant Religion and discover more and more the snares of death and Popish Treachery and let us never fall into the hands of those men whose mercyes are cruel Bless my Relations kindred and friends and all others whom I am bound to pray for All which I humbly beg in the Name and through the Mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Saviour Amen A Prayer for the Evening MOst Gracious God and merciful Father I wretched sinner do beseech thee to look upon me with the eyes of thy mercy and let thy Holy Spirit work in me such a serious Repentance as that I may with Tears lament my sins past with grief of heart be humbled for my sins present and with all my endeavours resist them for the time to come And now O Lord I bless thee for my health food and raiment and that thou hast defended me this day now past from all dangers and Perils and as thou hast ordained the day for man to Travel in and the night for him to take his rest so I beseech thee sanctify unto me this Nights rest that being refreshed with moderate sleep I may be the better enabled to serve thee and 〈…〉 in the profession of thy True Religion and 〈…〉 Gracious Soveraign preserve him as the Apple 〈…〉 hide him under the sha low of thy wings 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 with shame and let them never prevail against him Protect thy Church and these Kingdom from Popery Superstition and Idolatry and unite our hearts in the profession of the True Religon which thine own right hand hath planted amongst us Bless the whole People of this Land and be merciful to all our Kinsfolks Families and Neighbours These and all other blessings we beg of thee for the sake of Jesus Christ in whose blessed Name and words we further pray Our Father c. Grace before meat LOrd lift up our hearts to look unto thee for a blessing upon our meats that we may comfortably use thy Creatures as pledges of thy Favour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After meat AS thou hast filled our Bodies O Lord with thy good Creatures far above our desert so be pleased to endue our Souls with all Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly things through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Before meat MOst gracious God and Loving Father we humbly beseech thee to forgive us all our Sins and Bless thy good Creatures provided for us and give us Grace to receive them as from thine hand and to use them soberly as in thy sight to thy Glory and our Comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen After meat ETernal Thanks and Praise be ascribed unto thee O Blessed Lord who hast opened thy hand at this time and made us partakers of thy Benefits Lord let us never cease to Offer unto thee the Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS
the Pope he Alighted from his Horse to receive him and held the Popes Stirrup while he Alighted also but it seems he mistook the Left Stirrup instead of the Right at which the Pope seemed to be very much offended which the Emperour observing he smilingly told the Pope That he desired to be excused since he was not accustomed to hold Stirrups with which acknowledgment the Pope seemed to be satisfied After this there happened some difference between the Pope and the Emperour whereupon the Pope curseth him and sends his Letters out against him to all the Princes of Christendom declaring that he was an accursed person and ought to be avoided and cast out of all Christian company He likewise stirred up his Subjects in Rebellion against him The Emperour then marched to Rome to chastise his pride but the Pope fled to Venice and the Venetians being required to send him to Frederick refused it whereupon the Emperour sent his Son Otho against him with men and Ships very well furnished but withal charged him by no means to attempt any thing against the Venetians till he himself came But the young man being full of heat and desire of glory ventured to ingage the Enemy and was by them overthrown and himself taken prisoner Upon this misfortune the compassionate Father to release his Son from captivity and misery was forced to submit to whatever Conditions of Peace the Pope should demand whereby it was at last agreed that the Emperour should come into S. Marks Church at Venice and there kneeling down at the Popes feet he should receive Absolution and forgiveness This the Emperour performed and the proud Pope setting his foot upon the Emperours Neck said that verse in the Psalm Thou shalt tread upon Lyons and Adders the young Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou trample under foot which the Pope applied to the Emperour but the Emperour answered Not to thee but to Peter this power is given The Pope replied Both to me and to Peter The Emperour fearing further quarrels durst say no more but was absolved and his Son was restored to his liberty III. Not long after this that is in the time of that famous King Henry the Second one Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury was by his extraordinary pride and insolence the occasion of very great disturbance to the King and Kingdome for the King calling his Nobles and the Clergy together desired that some Clergy-men might be called to answer for some Villanies by them committed for it was proved that several persons had been murdered by their means This Thomas Becket would not consent unto without a Clause of seeing this Order which very much displeased the King but by the perswasion of his Brethren Becket afterward consented yet being incouraged by the Pope he again fell off and repented of what he had done which the more inraged the King against him This quarrel continued many years and the King was so tormented by this proud Prelate that he once passionately cryed out Will no body avenge me of this Becket These words were spoken in the Hearing of some Gentlemen who thereupon guessing at the Kings mind four of them presently went to Canterbury and finding the Archbishop in the Cathedral there they fell upon him and kill'd him upon the Stairs of the Altar every one striking him over the head with his Sword and then made their escape This Murder was charged upon the King by the Popes Legate and though the King swore that he was neither aiding nor consenting to his death yet he was forced to kiss the Legates Knee and submit to such Penance as he should appoint him one part whereof was that he should absolutely submit to the Pope in all spiritual matters And it is likewise recorded that King Henry coming out of France went to Canterbury and as soon as he was in fight of Thomas Beckets Church he got off his Horse and pulling off his Shoes and Stockins he went barefoot o Beckets Tomb the ways being so sharp and stony that his feet bled as he passed along and when he came there every Monk in the Cloister whipt the Kings Back with a Rod which shews saith the Historian what slavery Kings and Princes were at that time brought into by the Popes Clergy The same year the City of Canterbury was almost burnt down and Beckets Church was utterly consumed This Becket was afterward Canonized for a Saint but a Popish Historian saith of him That he was worthy death and damnation for being so obstinate against Gods Minister his King IV. King John the Son of Henry the Second was likewise made sensible of the danger of offending the Pope for in the year 1205. the King being incensed against the Clergy who possessed great Benefices and yet neglected their Charge he endeavoured to rectifie this and some other great miscarriages about Electing Bishops and several other things But the Pope fearing he would intrench upon his privileges and gain stirred Heaven and Earth against him Excommunicating and cursing him giving his Kingdome to the French King and stirring up his own Nobility and people against him so that the King being compassed about with Enemies on every side was forced to submit to the Pope promising to do whatever he should command him Nay the King took his Crown off his head and kneeling upon his knees in the midst of all his Lords and Barons he gave it to Pandulphus the Popes Legate saying Here I resign up the Crown of the Realm of England to the hands of Pope Innocent the Third and lay my self wholly at his mercy and appointment Pandulphus took the Crown from King John and kept it five days and the King giving then all his Kingdomes to the Pope to be held in Farm from him and his Heirs for evermore his Crown was restored again King John engaging to pay seven hundred Marks a year for England and three hundred for Ireland half of it at Easter and half at Michaelmas as Rent for the said Kingdomes This King John was afterward poysoned by a Monk which was judged such a Meritorious Act that the Murderer had a Mass appointed to be said for his Soul for ever after by his Fellow-Monks V. Pope Celestine the Third standing upon the Stairs of S. Peters Church in Rome he there received an Oath of Henry the Sixth Emperour of Germany and then had him into the Church and anointed him and sitting in his Pontifical Chair held the Crown of Gold between his feet and the Emperour bowing down his head to the Popes feet received the Crown the Empress likewise was Crowned in the same manner The Crown being thus put on the Pope immediately kickt it off the Emperour's Head with his foot to the ground declaring thereby that if he pleased he could depose him again Then the Cardinals took up the Crown and again put it on his Head VI. Nay to such a height did the Popes at last arrive that they governed all things Emperours
the English Some buried alive A Girl hang'd in her mothers hair Some hang'd on tenters Bibles burnt The Persecutions and Cruelties of the Papists upon the Protestants in Scotland and Ireland AS most Kingdoms in Europe felt the rage and fury of Romish Cruelty and Persecution so Scotland though in the frozen north was not insensible thereof For in the Year 1572. Mr. Patrick Hamilton of an Ancient and Honourable Family and called Abbot of Fern left Scotland and went into Germany where conversing with Luther and Melancton he greatly increased in godly knowledg and learning and returning home he publickly Preached concerning Faith and good works and against the Supertitions and Idolatry of the Papists This so enraged James Beaton Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews that in the absence of the King Mr. Hamilton was seized upon by the Bishops Officers and carryed to the Castle and the next day he was brought forth to Judgment and Condemned to be Burnt for the Testimony of God The Articles charged against him were about Pilgrimages Purgatory Praying to Saints and for the Dead After Dinner the Fire was prepared which some thought was only to terrifie him but it pleased God to strengthen him against the fear of Death and so he was tyed to the Stake giving his Garments to his Servant and saying thus to him These will not profit in the Fire they will Profit thee After this thou canst recieve no Benefit by me except the example of my Death which I pray thee to remember for though it be bitter to the Flesh and fearfull before men yet it is the entrance into eternall Life which none shall possess who deny Jesus Christ before this wicked Generation And the Eire being kindled he cryed with a loud voice Lord Jesus receive my Spirit how long shall Darkness overwhelm this Realm and how long wilt thou suffer the Tyranny of these men A Fryar troubling him by crying out Turn thou Heretick call upon our Lady say Salve Regina c he replyed Depart from me and trouble me not thou Messenger of Satan and speaking to one Campbel the chief among them he said Wicked man thou knowest the contrary and hast confessed the contrary to me I appeal thee before the Tribune Seat of Jesus Christ after which words he resigned up his Spirit to God and within a few days 〈…〉 Fryar dyed in a Frenzy and desperation The Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews likewise called before him two Gentlemen David Straton and M Norman Gomlay Mr. Straton being accused for Heresâ— was much troubled at it and thereupon frequenteâ— the company of Religious men and hearing thaâ— Text read He that denieth me b fore men or is ashameâ— of me in this Wicked Generation I will deny him before mâ— Father and his Holy Angels he stedfastly lift up his eyâ—â— and hands to Heaven and burst forth into these word O Lord I have been wicked and justly mayest thou witâ—draw thy Grace from me but Lord for thy Mercy sake 〈◊〉 me never deny thy Truth for fear of Death or Corporal pain Being afterwards together with Mr. Norman brougâ—â— to Judgment in Holy Rood-House where the King himself was present they were both condemned to thâ— fire and in the afternoon were first Hanged and the Burnt which they chearfully suffered There was likewise one Dean Thomas Foret whâ— who used to Preach to his parishoners every Lords daâ— out of the Epistles and Gospels as they came in ordeâ— for which being complained of to the Bishop of Dâ—keldon he reproved him for it telling him that 〈◊〉 was too much to preach every Sunday since the Peâ—ple might think they ought to do so likewise and sâ— the Bishop Is it not enough for you when you find a good Epistle and Gospel to set forth and preach the Liberty of Holy Church and let the rest alone Dean Thomas replyed that he had read them all over and knew no bad ones among them But said he when your Lordship shews me any such I will pass them by The Bishop answered I thank God I never knew what the Old and New Testament was but go your wayes and repent of these fancies ere it be too late The Dean answered My cause is good and just in the presence of God and therefore I care not what follows thereupon and so went away but he was shortly after sent for before Cardinal Beton by whom he was condemned and Burned for an Heretick The Year after Jerom Russel and Alexander Kennedy who was not above eighten years old were brought before the Arch-Bishop and his Associates who railed upon them and called them Hereticks Jerom Russel replyed This is your hour and power of darkness now sit ye as Judges and we are wrongfully accused but the day will come wherein our Innocency will appear and ye shall see your own blindness to your everlasting confusion go forward and fullfill the measure of your Iniquity A while after they were sentenced to dye and as they went to Execution Jerom comforted Kennedy saying Brother fear not greater is he that is in us than he that is in the World the pain we are to suffer is short and shall be light but our joy and consolation shall never have an end let us therefore strive to enter into our Master and Saviours Joy by the same straight way which he hath taken before us Death cannot hurt us for it is destroyed by him for whose sake we now suffer And in this manner past reason they joyfully gave up their Souls unto God in the Flaming Fire In the year 1543. Cardinal Beton coming to Edenburgh caused several Religious Persons to be brought before him and when he could prove nothing else against them he caused four men to be hanged upon suspition that they had eaten a Goose upon a Friday And a Woman with a Child sucking at her breast was drown'd for refusing to pray to the Virgin Mary Many others were likewise Banished and Imprisoned for the Gospel and among the rest John Rogers a learned and Godly Minister whom he caused to be murthered in Prison and then thrown over the Wall giving it out that by attempting to make his escape he broke his neck In the year 1546. Mr. George Wischard a Famous Minister was sent for to appear before Cardinal Beton and the other Bishops at St. Andrews where a Priest was ordered to curse him who called him Runnagate Traitor Thief c. However Mr. Wischard gave them an account of his Faith and Doctrine but they not being able to answer him immediately condemned him to be Burnt and presently a fire was prepared over against the Castle and Velvet Cushions were laid in the Castle windows for the Cardinal and the rest of the Prelates to see him suffer and for fear he should be rescued by his Friends all the Castle Guns were mounted against the place of his Execution by the Cardinals order then with a Rope about his Neck and a Chain about his middle he was fastned to