the Battels Sieges and other remarkable Transactions Revolutions and Accidents which have happened from the beginning of â—he Reign of King Charles the First in 1625. to his Maâ—esties happy Restauration 1660. And among other parâ—iculars The Debates and Proceedings in the Four First Parliaments of King Charles the First with their Dissoâ—utions The Siege of Rochel The Petition of Right The Murther of the D. of Buckingham by Felton The Tunults at Edinborough in Scotland upon Reading the Common-Prayer The Et caetera Oath The Cursed Plots and Designs of the Jesuits and other Papists for imbroiling â—hese Three Kingdoms The Insurrection of the Apprentices and Seâ—men and their Assaulting of Archâ—ishop Laud'â— House at Lambeth Remarks on the Tryâ—l of the E. of Strafford and his last Speech The horâ—id and bloody Rebellion of the Papists in Ireland and â—heir Murthering above Two Hundred Thousand Proâ—estants in 1641. The Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom with the King's Answer thereunto The Proâ—eedings about the Five Impeached Members An Acâ—ount of the Parliament at Oxford January 22. 1643. with their Proceedings and Dissolution An Abstract of â—he Fights between the King and Parliament The Death of A B. Laud Mr. Chaloner and Tomkins Sir John Hoâ—haâ— Sir Aleâ—ander Carew Duke Hamilton Earl of Holâ—and Lord Capel and others The Illegal Tryal of King Charles the First aâ— large with his last Speech at his Sufâ—ering Jan. 30. 1648. Together with the most consideâ—able matters which happened till the Year 1660. Illustâ—ated with Pictures of several Remrkable Accidents â—uriously engraven on Copper Plates Price One Shilling III The Protestant Scool-Mister Or THE Protestant Instructed wherein the most Considerable Errors of the Papists are discovered and the Protestant Religion is vindicated from Hereâ—â— and Novelty 2. The Image of Antichrist or the Usuâ—pation of the Pope and Church of Rome over King and Emperours in several Examples of the Tyranny 〈◊〉 the Pope over several Kings of England c. 3. Thâ— Cruelties and Persecutions of the Papists against thâ— Waldenses in Piedmont Bohemia Germany Poland Lithuaniâ—â— and France with an Account of the bloody Massacre aâ— Paris and the terrible Sieges of Sancerre and Rochâ—â— 4. The Cruelties of the Papists in Italy Spain Portugaâ— and the Low Countries with a Relation of the Originâ—â— Practices and cruel Tortures of the Spanish Inquisition 5. The Persecution of the Protestants in Scotland and Irâ—land With a Prophecy thereof by Dr. James Vsher Archbishop of Armagh forty years before it came to pasâ— which exactly fell out 6. The Persecution of the Prâ—testants in England for near six hundred years with the Plo's and Conspiracies against the Life of Queen Elizâ—beth Likewise the Spanish Invasion The Gunpowder-Treâ—son The Burning of London The Late Horrid Popish Ploâ— and the Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey 7. Plaâ—â— and easie Directions for Spelling and Reading of Englisâ— with all necessary Rules for reading the English Tongue more useful than any other Book of this kind 8. God Judgment upon Popish Persecutors discovered in somâ— eminent Examples 9. A Prayer of King Edward thâ— Sixth a while before his Death against Popery 10. 〈◊〉 Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her Army at Tilbury-Canâ— in the Spanish Invasion 1588. Concluding with Prayer and Graces The whole being illustrated with manâ— Pictures curiously engraven in Copper describing thâ— variety of Torments and Cruelties exercised by the Papists upon Protestants in most Countries in Europe Priâ—one Shilling All three Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell nexâ— to the Widdow Kemps Coffee-House in Exchange-Alleâ— over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill
and the vilest Wretches Pius Neither hath Divine Justice less appeared against Apostates and Persecutors as by the following fearful examples it is evident XVII Judas Iscariot that wicked and accursed wretch was guilty of this horrid Sin for he being a Disciple nay an Apostle of Jesus Christ moved with Covetousness after he had conspired with the Enemy Traiterously sold his Lord and Master the Saviour of the World into the hands of Thieves and Murderers for thirty pieces of Silver who sought only his destruction after this vile creature had perpetrated this execrable deed for which he was called the Son of Perdition he could find no rest nor peace in his guilty conscience being horribly tormented with remorse for his wickedness judging himself worthy of a thousand deaths for betraying that Innocent and Guiltless Blood if he looked up he saw the vengeance of God ready to fall upon him and destroy him if he looked down he saw nothing but Hell gaping for him to swallow him up the light of the Sun was dreadful to him and he was even weary of his own life so that being plunged into the bottomless pit of despair he at last hanged himself and burst in two in the midst so that all his bowels gushed out and his memory is abhorred to this day as a dreadful Apostate from Christianity XVIII There are two memorable examples of Apostates the one of Lucian who having professed the Christian Religion for some time under Trajan the Emperor fell afterwards away and became so Prophane and Impious as to mock at Religion and the Divinity so tha he was firnamed the Atheist this wretch who like a foul mouthed Dog barked and belched out bitter Jears and Scofâ—s against the Religion of Christ seeking to make it ridiculous and thereby destroy it was himself in Gods vengeance torn to pieces and devoured by Dogs The other is Porphyrie who after he had received the knowledge of true Religion out of despight and anger because he was reproved for his faults by the Christians set himself against them and published Books full of horrible Blasphemies to discredit and overthrow the Christian Faith but when he observed how fully and clearly all his wretched Arguments were answered and consuted and that he was accounted a villanous Atheist for his labour in terrible despair and anguish of Soul he died Beards Tâ—eatre XIX Julian the Emperor notoriously known by the name of Apostate fell into the same dreadful gulf for having been brought up and instructed from his Childhood in the Christian Religion and afterward for some time a profest Reader thereof to others in the Church as soon as he had obtained the Empire he maliciously revolted from his Profession and resisted with all his power the Faith and Church of Christ endeavouring by all means possible either by force to ruinate and destroy it or by craft and subtilty to undermine it and because he designed to do what mischief he could to the Christians he therefore endeavoured by all means to please and oblige the Pagans their Enemies and therefore he first ordered their Heathen Temples to be opened which Constantine his Predecessor had caused to be shut up then he took from the Christian Churches and their Ministers those Liberties Priviledges and Immunities which Constantine had bestowed upon them and not content herewith he confiscated the Church Revenues and imposed great Taxes and Tributes upon all that professed the name of Christ and forbid them to have any Schools of Learning to teach their Children and used many of the Customs and Orders of the Christian Religion in his Heathen Worship after he had thus by all means laboured to beat down the Scepter of Christs Kingdom it happened quite contrary to his expectation for instead thereof the Scepter of his own Kingdom was destroyed and broken for making War against the Persians he furnished himself with such Gallantry of Armour Apparel Soldiers and all things else that he thought of no less than to have overcome the whole world continually belching out threatnings against the poor Christians whom he had determined at his return out of Persia to have utterly destroyed and to have left none alive as was afterward discovered by one of his Council the number of his Army was so great and his strength as he thought so impregnable that he doubted not in the least but to have conquered all Persia in a short time but behold how God overturneth the contrivances and Plots of his Enemies this great Army as St. Chrysostome writing against the Heathen observes in which he put so much confidence seemed in a little space to be rather a vast and weak multitude of Women and Children than an Army of Warriors for by the ill management and conduct thereof there arose so great a Famine amongst them that their Horses which were provided for the Battel were fain to be killed to save them from starving yea and for want of that too many hundreds dyed of hunger and Thirst so that when they had any skirmish with their Enemies they were always put to the rout doing more mischief to themselves than their Foes and lastly they were led so indiscreetly that they could not by any means escape but were constrained after he was slain to beseech the Persians to suffer them to retire whereby as many as could escaped and fled away to save their lives and thus this gallant Army was miserably discomfited and destroyed to the everlasting shame and infamy of that cursed Apostate who was struck with an Arrow in the Battel that was never known from whence it came which pierced through his Armour and wounded him very deep in his side and feeling his strength fail by reason of his wound he took some of his own Blood in his own hands and throwing it up in great pride and malice cryed out O Galilean thou hast overcome me meaning thereby our Blessed Saviour whom he in scorn termed so and soon after wretchedly gave up the Ghost One of the Treasurers of this wicked Emperor who to please his Master forsook likewise the Religion of Christ being on a time mocking and deriding the Ministry of Gods holy Word died miserably on a sudden with vomiting blood out of his mouth his privy parts as St. Chrysostome saith being likewise so rotten putrified and consumed with lice that he could find no remedy for the same and so died Symsons Ch. Hist XX. Arnold Bonelius a Student in the University of Lovain a Man much commended for an excellent wit ripeness of Learning and for favouring the Protestant Religion but afterward Apostatizing to Popery he began to be much troubled in mind and thence fell into despair against which he wrestled a great while but at length being wholly overcome by it as he was drawn to walk in the Fields with some Schollars his familiar Friends he pretended himself weary and so sate down by a Springs side and his Friends being gone a little before he drew out a dagger
who remembring his old Friend the Smith to whom he alwaies carried a Reverend Respect for the good that he had received by him sent to know whether he was not imprisoned also and finding that he was not desired to speak with him when he came asked his Advice whether he thought it comfortable for him to remain in Prison and whether he would incourage him to burn at a Stake for his Religion To whom the Smith answered That his Can 〈◊〉 was good and he might with comfort suffer for it but for my part saith he I cannot burn But he that could not burn for his Religion by God's Just Judgment was burned for his Apostacy for shortly after his Shop and House being set on fire whilst he over-earnestly endeavoured to save his Goods himself was burnt Acts and Monum XXVI In the year 1617. Marcus Antonius De Dominis Archbishop of Spalato though he was old and corpulent and thereby unfit for Travel being almost at his Journeys end by nature came into England leaving Italy his own Country as he pretended for Religion and writ several Reasons thereof whereupon being entertained he preached and writ against Rome extolling the Protestant Religion so that he became Dean of Windsor and Master of the Savoy which he enjoyed for some time but whether he had higher hopes at home or the humour and fancy altering after five years stay here he retracted all that he had said and written which so incensed King James that he commanded him within three daies at his peril to depart the Realm who thereupon went to Rome and there inveighed as bitterly against the Protestants as he had done in England against the Papists hoping at least for Pardon if not for preferment But notwithstanding his Recantation according to the Law of the Inquisition having once revolted though now returned he suffered the death of an Heretick and an Apostate though not the shame and had the punishment of a Martyr though not the Honour being publickly Burnt at Rome yet not Burnt alive for dying in Prison and then buried it is said his Body was afterward taken up and burnt Bakers Coronicle XXVII One James Latomus a Divine of Lovain sometimes a Professor of the Gospel but afterwards an Apostate being one time got into the Pulpit to Preach before the Emperour Charles the Fifth at Brussels was at that very instant so amazed and astonished that no body could understand him so that he was laughed to scorn by the Courtiers seeing himself thus disgraced he returned to Lovain where in his publick Lecture he fell into such grief and sorrow of mind for the dishonour he had got that at length it turned into an open frenzy and madness uttering such words of Desperation and blasphemous Impiety that by other Divines present he was carried away raving and shut up in a close Chamber from which time to his last breath he cryed out That he was damned and rejected of God and that there was no hope of Salvation for him because that wittingly and against his knowledge and of meer malice he had resisted and withstood the manifest Truth of the Word of God and soon after died in this miserable condition Beards Theatre XXVIII It is recorded of Trebellius the First King of the Bulgarians that he with his People being converted to the Christian Faith that he might more quietly apply his mind and Soul to the Exercises of Religion he resigned up his Kingdom to his Eldest Son who when he was King renounced the Christian Religion and worshipped the Gods of the Heathen whereupon the Father not only deprived him of his Royal Dignity but likewise caused his Eyes to be put out fora punishment of his Apostacy and bestowed the Kingdom upon his other Son shewing thereby That he who abandoneth and forsaketh the True Light of Salvation is not worthy to enjoy the comfortable Light of the World Beards Theatre XXIX Peter Castellon Bishop of Maston having attained great Riches and Renown by means of the Gospel yet notwithstanding he afterward turned his back upon the Protestant Faith and mightily inveighed against the Profession of that Religion in his Sermons at Orleance endeavouring to demonstrate that he had not only abjured and denied it but likewise that he was a profest Adversary thereunto This Man sitting one time in his Chair fell into a strange Disease which no Physician had ever seen or could find the cause or remedy thereof for one half of his Body was extream hot and burned like Fire the other extraordinary cold and frozen like Ice and in this Torment with horrible cryes and groans he ended his Life Cardinal Pool an English-man had sometimes professed himself a Protestant yet afterward was a zealous Papist and a cruel Persecutor in Queen Maries daies but he died within two or three daies after the Queen in horrible grief and terrour of Conscience without any visible token of Repentance Beards Theatre XXX But among all the Examples we read of there is none more terrible than that of Francis Spira a Lawyer of Cittadella in the Territories of Venice a man of great Credit and Authority in his Country who imbraced the True Religion with extraordinary Zeal and made open profession of the same teaching the Doctrines thereof first to his Family and then to his Friends and Familiar Acquaintance which he continued to do about six years whereby he stirred up the malice of the Popish Clergy against him so that they complained to the Pope's Legate thereof which when Spira understood foresaw the danger wherein he was like to fall after he had long debated and disputed the matter in his own Conscience the Counsel of the Flesh and worldly Wisdom prevailing he resolved at last to go to the Legate and by doing whatever he should command him to appease his Anger and coming accordingly to Venice being over-ruled with immoderate fear he subscribes to a Catalogue of all the pretended Errours which the Legate had drawn up together with his Confession annexed which he promised to declare in his own Town and to acknowledge the whole Doctrine of the Church of Rome to be True and Holy and to abjure the Opinions of Luther and all such Hereticks As he was going home to this purpose he began to consider how wickedly he had denied Christ and his Gospel at Venice and what he had promised to do in his own Country whereupon being confounded with fear and shame he thought he heard a voice thus speaking to him Spira what dost thou here Whither goest thou Hast thou unhappy man given thy Hand-writing to the Legate yet see thou do not seal it in thy own Countrey Dost thou think Eternal Life so mean a thing as to prefer the present life before it Remember Man that the sufferings of this present Life are not comparable to the Glory that shall be revealed If thou suffer with him thou shalt also Reign with him Thou canst not answer what thou hast already