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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95890	A looking-glasse for malignants: or, Gods hand against God-haters. Containing a most terrible yet true relation of the many most fearefull personall examples (in these present times, since the yeere, 1640.) of Gods most evident and immediate wrath against our malevolent malignants. Together with a caveat for cowards and unworthy (either timorous or treacherous) newters. Collected for Gods honour, and the ungodlies horrour, by John Vicars. Imprimatur hic liber. Iohn White.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing V317; Thomason E33_18; ESTC R19020	39,491	44

us that grand Ringleader and accursed contriver of all these our present mischiefes and miseries next to our sinnes yea the very head and heart of Clergy and Laick-Malignants according to their owne Popish distinction I meane the Arch-Prelate of Canterbury on whom it most neerly and closely fell out by divine providence so strangely and even admirably ordering it 9. Gods hand against Malignants in Doctor Laighton made master Lambeth house now converted from a Palace to a Prison Namely that that honest and religious Gentleman Doctor Laighton that great and grievous Sufferer for the cause of Christ under the cruell tyranny of that foresaid popish Persecuter should not onely live to see himselfe delivered out of the snare but his old grand Adversary himselfe to come into it in his stead and that the said Arch-Prelate should be fast lockt up as a traiterous prisoner in the Tower of London whiles this good Doctor is made Lord and Master of the Prelates Palace at Lambeth and this said pompous or rather popish palace where so many precious Saints and servants of the Lord had beene most wickedly arraigned and condemned to prison should now be turned into a prison to lock up most loose and prophane Malignants a most strange and admirable hand of God certainly against them Yea and I might here againe remember them of that most remarkable overture of things among us in these later times namely how it most admirably pleased the Lord to bring it so to passe by his all overpowring hand of providence that the Arch-Prelate of Canterbury being imprisoned in the Tower of London as an Arch-Traitor to our Church and State the Parliament should be pleased to cause the said Arch-Prelates lodgings in the Tower to be searched for dangerous traiterterous Papers Books and VVritings and who must be the man fixed on for the performance of this service but that most famous and faithfull 10. Gods hand against Malignants in Master William Prynnes formerly a great sufferer by the Arch Prelate of Canterbury being sent to search the said Arch-Prelates lodging in the Tower pious and patient Saint and Sufferer for Christ and his Cause Master William Prynne who coming into the said Arch-Prelates bed-chamber betimes in the morning with a guard of Souldiers to secure the businesse and approaching the Prelates bedside before he was u● the Prelate asked him who he was This precious and sweet Gentleman answered my name is Prynne VVhat sayes the Prelate are you he that suffered Yea sayes Master Prynne I am he whom you most unjustly and injuriously persecuted Just as good Joseph said to his brethren at the time of his discovering and making himselfe knowne unto them I am Joseph whom ye sold into Egypt O what a stab to the heart should this have bin to this persecuting Prelate at that word I am that Prynne whom you caused so grievo●sly and so unjustly to suffer had not his heart bin more hard ad●mantine then a nether mil-stone Gen. 45. 4. and most extremly cauterized yea stigmatized with the hottest iron of most desperate impenitency and that then Master Prynne proceeding to the due execution of the charge and trust reposed in him by the Parliament should justissimâ illâ coelesti Lege-Talionis most justly Justissima coelestis Lex-Talionis I say search the Pockets of the Prelates wearing clothes before he would suffer him to put them on and rise out of his bed directly as he and some of his popishly affected Confederates had formerly dealt with some most eminent Members of a Parliam●nt formerly dissolved and as he had caused Master Prynnes owne Chamber and Study and many others also to be often most violently broken into and searched to the deeply indangering of their precious lives which undoubtedly he greedily hunted after if it might have beene As was done to reverend Master Henry Burtons house and study but therein praised be the Lord God gave this curst Cow according to the Proverbe or rather raging fat Bull of Bashan short hornes the Lords good providence and their owne innocence happily preventing this bloody designe of theirs And might not here now this Arch-Prelate on the serious consideration of these Premises in just remorse of Conscience have cryed out against himselfe like that heathenish King Adonibezeck Judges 17. had he not had as I toucht before a more then heathenish obdurate and impenitent heart Thus and thus have I done to others and now am I thus justly served by them onely with this difference That I am used farre more mercifully then I used them I might here also adde and copiously commemorate unto our mole-eyed Malignants Gods admirable providence in so strangely ordering and disposing of things by this present most memorable Parliament 11. Gods hand against the Malignant party in the Trienniall Parliament not onely to contrive a most free and spontaneous or voluntary consent of all the three Estates in Parliament to the setling of a Trienniall Parliament for the future rectifying of things amisse in Church and State and the more prudent and provident moderation and government of all sorts of State-affairs but also I say that both King Peers and Commons even both Houses of Parliament with his Majesty should so admirably and unanimously make it indissoluble and but by the sword like Alexanders Gordian knot which now the Kings Popish and Atheisticall Army is impiously and I trust fruitlesly labouring to do irrevocable Act That this present Parliament should not bee dissolved nor broken up 12. And especially in a perpetuated Parliament but by the joynt and unanimous consent of both Houses of Peers and Commons Which Act of theirs as it were perpetuating this Parliament by I say a most strange providence of God what a most admirable Block it hath laid in all the wicked wayes of that viperous generation of Atheists Papists and Malignants mightily thwarting crossing and crushing their most desperate and deepest designes I am not able I acknowledge to expresse it and onely Time is able to make it manifest to the glory of God and wonder-striking astonishment in the hearts of both Good and Bad. And though in the last yet not in least place I might here put our Malignants in remembrance for they are as we all see too willing to forget and slight both Gods hand against them and his great mercies towards us how by meanes of this present most pious Parliament 13. Gods hand against the Malignants cause in Church-government and matters of Religion Gods hand hath beene most admirably bent against them and their most impious Cause both in the expulsion and I trust in the Lord utter extirpation of that most Antichristian and tyrannicall Hierarchie of popish Prelates and that most especially by their owne proud practises and desperate designes even against the Parliament it selfe witnesse their Petition to the King that spoiled their sitting in Parliament Arminian Doctors and most scandalous Priests those sonnes of