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A44930	Munster and Abingdon, or, The open rebellion there [brace] and [brace] unhappy tumult here (bred in the same wombe) that from Sleidans Comm. L. 10. [brace] [brace] this from eye and eare witnesses : with marginal notes of Mvncer and Mahomet, faithfully communicated to English readers, in a booke and postscript, for a seasonable caution to the British nation and a serious check to rash and giddy spirits / by W.H.	Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3344; ESTC R39005	45,813	124

the pleasure of the state was published to them THAT THEY MUST DEPART UNTO THEIR SEVERALL HABITATIONS those that are strangers that is for Townesmen they are left unto their liberty This would not take upon them though backed with importunities both of perswasions and intreaties Some had given out before that they had put up requests to God they waited for returnes unto did not know how long they might be kept in expectation But the common answer was by flat affronts to the Souldiers faces A guard was set upon the house they met in that they might not enter there The multitude cut scores for that and hurry to the market place Under greatest patience and bitterest provocation There in the Cryers Pulpit they begin to pray and speake or rather rant and raile in wild confusion Abusing the Protector and the Souldiers to their very teethes There one cryes out now Lord appeare now or never for confounding of these thine and our Enemies Another we are not for Cromwels Kingdome for Priests and Universities but for the Kingdome of Christ Whole armefuls more of Billingsgate flowers far fetched indeede but at the cheapest rate were there put off that might be The female sex meane while encouraging the Tumult-leaders with their acclamation Hold on ye Sons of Syon One passage more at least is worth your noting I meane that mans Adventure who in the market place calls for a signe from heaven in hearing of that great assembly though also know 't was with alike successe to those that had no voyce nor any answering in the 18 of Kings the 18 and the 26. O the amazing patience of him that seeth spight and mischiefe which he can with ease requite and yet forbeareth When at the last their contempt and obstinacy was growne insuperable Dissolves the meeting either by request or by commands the Souldiers were constrained with their owne hands to pull downe the speakers and so to make division of them But of all the mischiefe done in such a tumult at such resistance by Canes and Swords for the Guns it seemes were silent whatever it were I cannot learne unto this day though I live so neare and have often since been upon the quest among themselves and others there and else where who hath a wound to shew for that dayes work The worst that ever I met with and that was from themselves for I will not willingly conceale a little worth the hearing was that some body who I know not was slightly scratched upon the nose as others tells me by a Souldier in the drawing forth his sword and another individuum vagum cut upon the hand This being over the Major Generall enters with his whole Brigade of horse and having called before himselfe and cheifest officers the principall somenters of that Seditious Businesse assayes not meerly by extreame civility but freindly and affectionate tendernesse to reduce them to sobriety But with what successe None would acknowledge as to owne the present Government Many even hoyes with heads uncovered would dispute it with him And others would not engage for Peace not knowing as they said how soone they might 〈◊〉 called out to do the Lords work Upon the issue of this whole affayre but only five of all that number where the common signall of a Mutiny they were all one was often given out were committed unto custody though since The issue of all with I heare released for further answer to their misbehaviour Yet what a stirre is made about it much rather at how cheap a rate a tumult of that nature was appeased I think is worthy admiration Reader thou hast the summe and substance of what upon this subject came to my hands from persons as I told thee of unquestionable credit whereto without the breach of modesty I nothing doubt I may and do professe a faithfull adherence on my parte from first to last And if thou wantest yet some fuller evidence for ripening of thy Judgment on the issue of such strange behaviour Intimation of the Spring and head thereof I thinke thou wilt not loose thy labour by consulting only GENERATION WORK Part 1. especially pag. 23.24.110 compared with a Sermon sometime preached in Abingdon a short account whereof thou hast in an Appendix to Church-Rules for Abingdon published by the Minister there who heard it preached without the least reply thereto unto this day though long before his death whose buriall did give life unto The Tumult That the Morall Law for instance thou shalt not kill should vayle the bonnet to a dispensation meerely calling unto blood The Lord awaken soules and make them try before they trust Presuming now at last thou art as weary as my selfe having once good Reader but expostulated a little with our discontented Brethren I 'le turne thee loose §. 14. Sirs Will you vouchsafe to cast an eye indifferent on a few lines P. 3. An Expostulation with our discontented Brethren about that do protest as farre as possibly their utmost intimacy with their Masters mind can reach have nothing else before them but your reall service An almes me thinks so cheape you should not grudge so many of you at the least as have not sealed Indentures unto sullen Passion an earnest beggar suppose him freind or otherwise What is it then that ayleth you to make this noyse Their present injoyments and and stirre you do Why cannot the Nations rest in peace all long of your disturbance Who is the Man that doth or dares entrench upon your priviledges but at his perill and on whom you may be righted if you list to make complaint Is not the seife same scope and elbow roome allowed you in all concernments as any the good people of the Nations whatsoever Wher 's any other Lord and Master of your faith but whom your selves set up Are not your meetings for doctrine and for practice left to your owne discretion Can you complaine the beames of supreame Power light with a fairer and fuller influence on the otherwise minded than those of your perswasion Name the capacities for Honour or Advantage or what you please that is worth the naming whereto your meere Profession can give a non-suite to your claime Do not all men see many your freinds for we presume your selves do not think the severall merits of them all can mount so high in Court and Camp in Councill and in Country Stars of the greater magnitude §. 15. The premises are so above board in open view to all Past Professions compared that I am so little solicitous about your owne concession of them as to be confident very strangers in our Israel are apt to think the disease lyes not in perishing for want Past Professions compared but taking surfet by excesse Look back a little how long is it since the world was made beleive farre lesse than this would have served your turne Can your selves forget the time wherein you bare in hand might

Munster and Abingdon Or the Open Rebellion there and Unhappy Tumult here Bred in the same wombe THAT From Sleidans Comm. L. 10. THIS From eye and eare witnesses With Marginall Notes of MVNCER and MAHOMET Faithfully communicated to English Readers in a Booke and Postscript For A seasonable Caution to the British Nation And A serious check to rash and Giddy spirits By W. H. 2 Tim. 3 1 2 3 4. In the last daies perillous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their owne selves despisers of those that are good Traytors heady high minded c. Matth. 24.24 For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. Mark 13.37 What I say to you I say to all WATCH OXFORD Printed by HENRY HALL Printer to the University for ROBERT BLAGRAVE 1657. The Books Request Heare me but out My Judge before Thou sentence pass I 'le ask no more The Translators Preface Serious Reader THe Husbandman was not more diligent to sow his corne than the a Matth. 13.25 Enemy was to scatter tares among it The Event doth prove this was no lesse propheticall than Historicall Where ever was a Christian Reformation set on foot but a Devilish Deformation dog'd it at the very heeles Let a Church for Christ be setting up 't is hard but Sathans Chappell mates it To spie abroad for observations of this kind is to overlooke the beame at home Aske but the seven yeares past with us and you shall quickly find this land hath not injoyed its Sabbath from this sort of Sowers yet Not but that we see and thankfully acknowledge a hopefull harvest of better fruits But when the Laborers are so few already that a designe should drive so Jehu-like to keepe off others yea turne off these though such as Christ hath set on worke and prospered in it to the bringing in of all or most that are not yet abroad to turne off these I say sure this makes plaine to halfe an eye there is no freind at worke Yet do not we see those spirits wide as Dover and Newcastle from one another and themselves too oft meete here And to cry downe the publique Ministry as eager as they to cry up b Diana A plot Act. 19.28 whether lesse Christian or Humane I cannot tell Let me say nothing the thing it selfe will speake that since their time who were immediately called from heaven the Godly-learned Ministers were the men that planted water'd yea and soyld with their very blood the Church of Christ in every age Were they not those that under God did first deliver our soules from Antichristian bondage at the utmost perill of their owne bodies Witnesse Luther Zuinglius Caluin Latimer Ridly Hooper Bradford and that cloud of others staked at the fire in England Who else have beene the spirituall Fathers to the thousands of faithfull holy soules now gone to heaven for the hundred yeares last past with us and other places yea and begat to grace and knowledge those therewith endued whose violence now against them labours to make requitall with worser than Cashiering for their service Which were it once effected and no publique Ministry longer left among us into what a dolefull heathenish hellish plight those many hundred parishes too ignorant and prophane already in these Nations would be quickly cast specially since we see the Devill and his drudges are not idle Reader let thy sad thoughts resolve thee O dismall day when Judgment sends a famine Amos 8.11 not of bread but of the word of God Nu. 21.5 upon a Land that fell to loathing of it We know with God all things are possible but know not why to looke for miracles and leave off such a course himselfe appoynted and from heaven so long and often hath approved And then for inhumanity what is more barbarous than that so many hundred families of Godly Ministers to whom we are so nearely related as men in a manner of the same flesh and blood with our selves and to whom we owe so much as Christians should for no other fault but their well deserving at our hands be turned out of their propriety and sent a begging against all right and reason as we speake all Law and Conscience Blessed be God our former Governours have washed their hands of any such like businesse and we nothing doubt but that such speciall grace is present with those now present at the Helme that they will continue to abhor it And we trust through mercy notwithstanding all the catching at the stirrup by some furious spirits they never shall be able to dismount the Riders to get themselves into the saddle Let what there will be uppermost t is sadly feared if not plainly manifest such a businesse lyeth at the bottome Should which time come what fence another mans propriety can get when the Ministers shall lie common you 'le quickly see unto your Costs Meane while for a Comment on the whole Reader Ibeseech the read well consider the ensuing story where thou shalt Find a pretended zeale for setting up Christs Kingdome on the earth made usher oh most dreadfully to the verydregs of villanies spit from Hell The truth of which said story on understanding and indifferent person will ever call to question But yet because absurdities are so much in fashion let me intreat the scrupulous person for such there are too many to consider what beames of evidence he shuts his eyes against How likely is it we should be abused in a businesse First So publique not done in a Corner This Story 1. Publique but the principall City of Westphalia Munster 2. So many Councils sitting in the Empire about it 3. An Army of many thousands raysed for it 4. And a siege almost a yeare and halfe before the City ere it could be taken with yet much more like that Secondly 2. La'e Anno. 1517 Ann. 1536 and so late After Luther had began the Reformation some nine-teene yeares and now just sixscore since those stirs were ended Thirdly 3. Neare so neare us not in Tartary China or the Indies though thence we have intelligence that goes for currant but in Germany and that part thereof that borders on the Low Countries almost at home Lastly 4. And having multitudes of Authētique Authours and that hath so many credible Authors Luther Melancthon Bullinger Menius and Rhegius with scores of others were it worth the while that might be named And now these 1. so far from Papists as first restorers of the Gospell 2. Men of eminent piety 3. That lived in the same Country 4. At the same time spectators in a manner of the whole businesse from first to last And for this Author Mr Sleidan He was a Protestant one fearing God and then living there and of great esteeme and credit amongst all professors of the Gospell and deservedly famous for his writings to past and present and succeeding ages

he should not cry nor lift up nor cause his voyce to be heard in the street as the mode of earthly Princes is not only did refuse to be made a king on earth but seemeth elsewhere to give the reason of it My kingdome is not of this world And it doth not yet appeare that ever he changed his mind Beside it is no doubt with them but that it was the disciples weaknesse before the powring forth of the spirit on them which they also had received by tradition from their Jewish fathers to expect Messiah's reigning in an earthly kingdome 3 Adde hereto that the proofe of such a kingdome is borrowed onely from darker prophecies and obscurer passages 4 in the booke of God not written with that Sun-beame the other is wherewith their hearts are taken up And it is worth your heeding that as t is past excuse in them who wretchedly sport the Scriptures into a very Allegory so they must beare their blame who in the prophecies thereof will looke no further than the earthy side of promised mercies The Holy Ghost so cloathing spirituall blessings then as likely most to take on children in the Churches non-age yet when she is growne up in Gospell daies would have her understand them in the sense he meant them And therefore more than once we find such prophecies of the old Testament as seeme to speake of glory and advantage to the outward yet in the New interpreted by himselfe of those belonging to the inward man And lastly 5 their great experience of small advantage by injoying so the world at will unto the spirituall part the reason why so many good words in the booke of God we find bestowed on afflictions and sad observations of their unhappy fate through an apparent hand of God therein who in an over hot pursuit of an earthy kingdome quite lose so it falls out the way onto the heavenly witnesse the former story These things cast up together are thought by some to come to somewhat that may make a sober Christian pause upon the businesse §. 19. But put the case 't were past all question that such a kingdome should sometimes be If granted not by Sin to be promoted therefore May we the while do evill that good may come upon it Or needeth the Lord Jesus our lye unto his glory Or do ye thinke and I beseech you to be serious in it it is his mind we should pull downe HIS WRITTEN LAWES IN SCRIPTVRE to set up a kingdome so darkely written there as next to not at all That nothing lesse than this way laies you in the road you travaile was seene before and I therefore hope you neede no Monitor afresh If my words will not take upon you at least let the Apostles have their errand with you They are Exhorted We beseech you BRETHREN study to be quiet doing your owne businesse Beware of suffering as evill doers or which is all one as busy bodies in other mens affaires perswade your selves 't were much more happy with us would we all make conscience more to tend the duties of those Places wherein we are than quarrell by our carriage even at Providence for placing us unto such duties Come Sirs le ts never pawne the publique peace the comfort of our soules the credit of our dearest Lord for satisfaction to a discontented humour which when it hath devoured them all will ne're be full whilst we have flesh to feede it My heart doth give me that if many of you did but see unto the end that way you enter now so boldly on doth lead 't would make your soules ride post with switch and spurre craving all helpe of heaven and earth untill you were got out againe Remember Sirs it is not usuall for men at once to arrive at the very worst No our malignant Enemy Satan leads by steps but when t is downe a steepe t is hard recovering for him especially that is far gone One evill spirit once bad welcome makes roome with ease and speede for seven other worser than himselfe Who hath not heard that litle boyes creep in at windowes to open dores for bigger theeves Why do we not lay to heart how great a matter a litle fire kindleth Sirs be intreated in the bowels of Jesus Christ to stoop betimes to Solomons counsell let thine eye looke right on and thine eyelids strait before thee Ponder the path of thy feet and let thy waies be stablished §. 20. May the Lord arise to favour Sion and repaire those saddest gaving breaches The Lord intreated and Ignorance and errour with the want of Christian love on every hand have either made upon her or do keepe open in her and turne unto his people a pure language that with one consent his Name be called on amongst them and no rest given him till he make Jerusalem the praise of all the the earth And May the same Lord in mercy rescue the honest upright soules amongst you not yet acquainted with the depthes of Satan from that unhappy snare of being longer made the staulking horse unto the Jesuiticall and Satanicall designe of those who prostitute Religion Conscience what not for homage to their accursed IDOLS ADVANTAGE and AMBITION The whole concluded This is the Authors fervent prayer for Her and you a freind how ere you take him affectionate unto Both and whose soule desireth ever to be found in doing nothing against the TRUTH but for it Hinton Berks. December 26. 1656. W. Hughes FINIS Mistakes of the Presse Epist p. 5. l. 23 d. y. ibid. l. 25. r. no. Book p. 2. l. 1. d. ta p 49. l. penult r. clashing p. 50. l. 6. to honest ad people Postscr p. 1. l. 1. marg ad P. 1. An Apology p. 2. Title r. Abington Tumult ibm l. 26. r. fire p. 4. l. 12. r. ehuseth p. 68. l. 26. after one ad once p. 69. l. penult ad 1. By their owne report p. 75. l. 1. in too d. o. p. 79. l. 7. d. the pag. 85. l. 16. r. passing p. 95. l. 7. r. title