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<HEAD>CHARLES, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</HEAD>
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<P>THE Clergies Lamentation: DEPLORING The &s;ad Condition of the Kingdome of <HI>Jreland,</HI> by rea&s;on of the unparallel'd cruelties and murders exerci&s;ed by the inhumane Popi&s;h Re|bells upon many thou&s;and Prote&s;tants in the Province of Ul&s;ter, and e&s;pecially the Mini&s;ters, there, &s;ince the beginning of this bloudy Rebellion.</P>
<P>In which is al&s;o particularly expre&s;&s;ed the names, and manner of the murthering, impri&s;oning and fami&s;hing of &s;uch Mini&s;ters and others, by tho&s;e barbarous and blood-thir&s;ty Rebells.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed as an incouragement to all true-borne Engli&s;hmen, to ri&s;e up as one man to, re&s;i&s;t tho&s;e Rebells, who are (by Command from His Maje&s;ty) &s;hortly to be brought over into <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>BY DANIEL HARCOURT, One of the Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Examination of the Prote|&s;tants Grievances in that Province.</P>
<P><HI>Publi&s;hed by Order.</HI></P>
<P>Printed for <HI>Henry Shepheard,</HI> and are be &s;old at his Shop over again&s;t the Royall Exchange. 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Clergie of England.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lord not only gave his People the Land of promi&s;e, but cities of re|fuge, to which tho&s;e &s;led pur&s;ued, not &s;o fa&s;t by an ill con&s;cience, as the avenger of bloud, though a corrupt con&s;cience be the only vulturean a venger. The Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pell were not tipified (as I conceive) in the &s;ilver trumpets only, but in tho&s;e burning tapers, who&s;e lights ought to bee &s;een as well as their voices heard, therefore Chri&s;t gives a charage they &s;hould not only preach, but &s;hine. Surely they were meant al&s;o in tho&s;e &s;heltring Cities, whether the Soules of men &s;hould not barely repaired for &s;pirituall &s;uccour, (being cha&s;ed by that roring Lion) but al&s;o for other kind of releife who ought not onely to be &s;pirituall, but temporall granaries, in whome &s;hould be found both corporall, and mentall comforts.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t bread I find <HI>David</HI> eraveng, is at the hands of <HI>Ahimlech</HI> 1 <HI>Sam: the</HI> 21. and 3. onr me&s;&s;ias made it his fir&s;t querie to his De&s;ipels: after his re&s;urrection <HI>Luk the</HI> 24.41. <HI>Have yee any moat.</HI> it was not without on occult rea&s;on that God app|ointed them little under the law: but what was edible which was not &s;o fitt for any thing as imparting, for in tho&s;e hot Counteries a &s;alt hoord was but a thir&s;ty provi&s;ion though I imagin their charitie had no policicall ground, but rather had a relation to the pa&s;chall &s;olemnity in which remaines was prohibited indeed that which is holye&s;t ought to be mo&s;t communicable that miracle of feeding many with little was documentall in&s;tructing us that even out of our &s;lender provi&s;ion there &s;hould be aparticipation to you then of the holy calling doe I commend the britti&s;h prote&s;tants of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and cheifly the de&s;pencers with you of the &s;ame Go&s;pel, as to their cities of refuge, trumpets and lamps. They may like <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> tra|vail farre to find a Shunamite, a a Sarepthan an <HI>O badioh.</HI> To you repair the&s;e fee|ble ones for repair in the&s;e their &s;ufferings, and their approaching dayes of calami|ty, (which God of his mercie prevent) but I will content my &s;elf to lie at the foot of <HI>Iacobs</HI> ladder, and behold your charity, and pray like tho&s;e angells a&s;cending, and de&s;cending, not daring to adventvre to climbe to in&s;truct or informe contenting me with fight, till I obtain fruition.</P>
<P>This bleeding Pamphlet expre&s;&s;eth the mi&s;eries of &s;ome part of my brethren, though I am a&s;&s;ured, I have omitted the fifth man, &s;ome of which will be con|&s;trained to de&s;ire your brotherly a&s;&s;i&s;tance, who come not without letters of com|mendation, your Ma&s;ter &s;ends them as <HI>Paul</HI> his <HI>One&s;imus</HI> to <HI>Philemon,</HI> not as de|linquents (but &s;ufferers) which Epi&s;tle if you peru&s;e, you find his affectionate mandate, and find there Paul de&s;iring to become his creditour, in the behal of him as Chri&s;t for us, thus commending them to your compa&s;&s;ion, as his bowells, and you to the bowells of his compa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I am yours and the Benjamin of your, Tribe in who&s;e &s;ack will be found neither Plate, nor Corn. <HI>Daniell Harcourt.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the honorable the Committee for Contribution of monies to the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Paote&s;tants of Ireland.</HEAD>
<P>RIght Honorable, Nece&s;&s;ity hath as many tongues and pennes as <HI>Briarius</HI> hands, <HI>Argus</HI> eyes, or &s;in advocates, and tho&s;e dictators of our mi&s;eries, never had a ju&s;ter cau&s;e than now to &s;upplicate for their own &s;ilence, and by a divine proportion, Charity hath not only large bowels but many and open eares, &s;o that the &s;peakers and auditors have an equality in number. No Nation hath had larger ta&s;tes of the fir&s;t, than the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> nor any Nation ever produced a larger crop of the la&s;t (to furni&s;h the fir&s;t) than <HI>England</HI>): The traine oyle of our calamities hath made the lamps of their Charities to &s;hine the world o|ver, whil&s;t the oyle from their cru&s;es and meale from their barrels hath not failed to furni&s;h, us &amp; as they are to be honored for this crop, we are al&s;o to honor you for the carefull &s;toring and di&s;tributing thereof. Me thinks I find no yeare of <HI>Jehoa&s;h</HI> &s;o famous as that in the 2 of <HI>Kings,</HI> 4, 5. and 15. v. in which was the care to repair that holy fabrick dedica|ted to God, and in that work nothing more glorious than the perfor|mance of that tru&s;t by them that were to effect this repaire; for it &s;eems the generall contribution was not &s;o rich or great, as the hone&s;ty of tho&s;e entru&s;ted. The calamitous Prote&s;tants are the temples of the holy Gho&s;t, which like that ruined &s;tructure, want repair, that a &s;upply of the former cares and zeale were requi&s;ite, &amp; as thou&s;ands cannot but prai&s;e God for the indefatigable pains and labours in your pious di&s;tributions, yet divers that have &s;taid longe&s;t and ventured, &s;uffered, and effected mo&s;t, have not had &s;o much as a ta&s;t of this hony, with <HI>Jonathan</HI> on the tip of their rod to cheere their feeble and fainting &s;oules &s;pent in the pur&s;uit, and &s;laughter of tho&s;e Iri&s;h Phili&s;tims, who thir&s;t after &s;ome of the hony combe of Charity, pine for It, and mo&s;t fa|mi&s;h without it. I repine at no mans &s;ucce&s;&s;e, but it appeares to mee that tho&s;e wyich brought their cloaths and meanes away before the rebellion, had warm'd a hou&s;e, &s;hould find Cloaths, meanes and warm'th
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here, when as &s;uch as &s;taied to &s;pend and venture their lives, and blou &s;hould find neither, &s;o that I mu&s;t conclude our de&s;ires to do &s;ervice there, detain'd us &s;o, that now our de&s;ires cannot be &s;erv'd. I am not ignorant what ju&s;t cau&s;e of &s;u&s;pence may be given your honours from tho&s;e that u&s;urped the name of ruined Prote&s;tants, and of &s;ome which I could produce that have gone by their own virgin Sirnames, their fir&s;t husbands, and their husbands by two names, which cheating of the publick charity, might ju&s;tly incen&s;e your honours to explode the truly deplorable Petitioners which are as worthy of relief, as the o|thers of puni&s;hment, were it the only laboure of &s;ome knowne man, to examine the petitions, and &s;ub&s;criptions, certificates, and per&s;ons, this abu&s;e might be reformed, if not cured; but I hope &s;ome particulars will nor ecclip&s;e, thoug it a darken a while a publike good, and with Charity, which warmed the&s;e impo&s;tures will heate, &s;uch as truly want her beames: the Sun alters not his cour&s;e, becau&s;e the earth is ful of lay-&s;tals. No Act of the Apo&s;tles wins more upon me, than their publike charity transferred into Judea to the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed brethren, by the hands of <HI>Saul,</HI> and <HI>Barnabas</HI> in tho&s;e dayes of emptine&s;&s;e, <HI>Acts</HI> 11.29.30. The &s;ame your honours are to us the &s;ons of con&s;olation, in which act of theirs, thete was not only a good purpo&s;e, but a pro&s;ecution. The care of <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> in proviping is not to be preferred before that of his di|&s;tributing, by which he not only &s;u&s;tained the &s;ubject, but enrich the King, you have the &s;ame power for what relief you offered to the mem|bers, Crowns the head (Chri&s;t Je&s;us) who &s;ignes acquaintances to cha|ritable works with his own hand (in&s;omuch as you have done it unto one of the&s;e little ones, you have done it unto me.)</P>
<P>I more like the peace and charity of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the fir&s;t Chri&s;tian Emperour procured to the poore Chri&s;tians, then his erecting or repair|ing their Churches, and I more applaud that Centurion, for loving the Jewi&s;h nation, then for building them a Sinagogue, becau&s;e the tem|plls made with hands (which I honur as publick places appointed for Gods wor&s;hip, may become dennes of thieves, cages of uncleanne&s;&s;e, or as among&s;t the Iri&s;h (Jewes in &s;ome traditions) publik market pla|ces,
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or what is more terrible as I have known the two mo&s;t famous Cathedralls in Dublin made a meeting place for uncleanne&s;&s;e, though all this while that holy pile is innocent, though abu&s;ed, or which is yet wor&s;e, may become Popi&s;h Sanctuaries, refuges for the mo&s;t impious or la&s;tly be made the &s;torehou&s;es, or &s;upporters to &s;uch profane, and Idolatrous images, as the purer Temples of the Holy Gho&s;t (which Temples we are) &s;hall not onely abhorre, but demoli&s;h, as Mo&s;es the Calfe.</P>
<P>The Apo&s;tles were not &s;tiled <HI>oratores,</HI> and <HI>vinatores,</HI> for their heaven|ly tilling, or pruning the Church, but for &s;owing their bread upon the waters, and relieving the living vines, the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Saints, O heaven|ly Charity the la&s;t companion of the &s;oul, thou immortall vertue, how many naked ha&s;t thou to cloath, hurt to heale, hungry to feed, impri&s;o|ned to vi&s;it, captived to ran&s;ome, fatherle&s;&s;e to protect, harbourle&s;&s;e to lodge, widowes to defend, many of which thy lengthened arm hath reached, even as farre as Argier, Germany, and that di&s;con&s;olate neighbour of thine, the mo&s;t di&s;con&s;olate of all Ilands gro|ning grieving, pernning Ireland, who according to her ancient cu|&s;tome, hath &s;ent thee, knowing yet O Englands charity, thy brea&s;ts full of milk, and bones of marrow,) thou&s;ands of her children to &s;ofter, for there &s;he feares like Tekoahs widow, The be&s;tiall family is ri&s;en upto de&s;troy the heire, and quench his &s;parckle which is left, and &s;hall not leave to her husband either name, or po&s;terity upon the earth, your ho|nours being the pious agents to the Engli&s;h charity, may comfort this ju&s;t nece&s;&s;arie, and con&s;iderable complaint, &s;aying with that heaven|ly hymni&s;t, go to thine hou&s;e, and I will give a charge for thee, among&s;t the re&s;t of the unrelieved, I come like E&s;au from the Iri&s;h woods to your honours, to whom I &s;peak, as hero I&s;aac, in the &s;ame words and bitterne&s;&s;e, ha&s;t thou but one ble&s;&s;ing my Father, ble&s;&s;e me, even me al&s;o my Father, and the God of compa&s;&s;ion ble&s;&s;e your Honours, that you as a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night, may help to lead us that lately came from that land, now the hou&s;e of bondage, in our poore and wearie pilgrimage, to the land of promi&s;e, where God &s;hall return your &s;heaves with a harve&s;t the&s;e are the prayers of your devoted &s;er|v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Daniell Harcourt.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Levites Lamentation.</HEAD>
<P>_IF ever Per&s;ecution merited a remembrancer, Prote&s;tant bloud a condoler, or cruell Rebellion a reprover, this Iri&s;h cruelty, and Engli&s;h calamity (both which exceed the beliefe of any but the Actors and Sufferers) might ju&s;tly awake the pens of <HI>Eu&s;ebius, Fox,</HI> or the mo&s;t famous Martirologers to record, <HI>Jeremy</HI> to be waile, or the &s;harpe&s;t Satyri&s;t to re|prove.</P>
<P>Even now my heart bleeds for the bloud I &s;aw, and my inke &s;eems not blacke, but &s;anguine; the horrid cries afre&s;h awake, affright, a&s;toni&s;h, whil&s;t I &s;ee the purple robe and hat wreaking in the bloud of the Lambe offered, but Chri&s;t crucified; to &s;ee the Popes Bull goring, and men borne blinde, cruelly ma&s;&s;acre the &s;onnes of illumination; the big-bond &s;inewy, and grifly tyrant trampling on the feeble woman, and unborne <HI>Embrie.</HI> It drew tears from holy <HI>Eli&s;ha,</HI> to &s;ee cruelty character'd in the face of <HI>Hazael,</HI> 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 8.12. which makes him breake out, <HI>Becau&s;e I know the evil that thou &s;halt doe unto the chil|dren of I&s;rael, for their &s;trong Cities &s;halt thou &s;et on fire, and their young men &s;halt thou &s;ay with the &s;word, and &s;halt da&s;h their infants again&s;t the &s;tones, and rent in pieces their women with childs.</HI> This day by the Romi&s;h Aramite was this Prophe&s;ie fulfilled. Now is the greate&s;t murderer held the mo&s;t valiant, as if valour con&s;i&s;ted, in a bel|luine horidne&s;&s;e, and fortitude were the elde&s;t &s;on of fury.</P>
<P>Me thinks <HI>Nero</HI> (the depraver of the Ce&s;arian Monarchy) at fight of this bloudy banquet &s;hould appeal to all Hi&s;torians no more to li&s;t him for the Mon&s;ter of men, nay the bloudie&s;t of Mori&s;ters; for indeed the &s;ight of other crimes, maketh us of|ten to le&s;&s;en, but not leave our owne. The common &s;tature exults at the fight of a Dwarfe, as a Dwarfe would doe at pigmies. Satan having infu&s;ed this poy&s;onous axiom into the &s;oules of men that our ills are extenuated by the ills of others This I call phari&s;aicall fren&s;ie. You &s;hall &s;ee the Popes doctrine as dangerous as the Divells. Religion mu&s;t now be the Iri&s;h mantle for Rebellion. A pretended plot of ours of their conver&s;ion or correction, is by this counterplot of theirs made both our &s;ubver&s;ion and de&s;truction. This was the cur&s;ed pretence of tho&s;e more accur&s;ed pretenders, to &s;tick the Ravens plumes in the wings of the Dove. To make the mournings of that harmle&s;&s;e olive-bringer, the croaking omens of the
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Aike-de&s;erting-Raven. For &s;uch is the deformity of &s;in that none de&s;ires to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> ill he &s;eems. <HI>Saul</HI> at the thre&s;hold of his accur&s;edne&s;&s;e begins with a ble&s;&s;ing, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> 15.13. by a Je&s;uiticall policy doe they wear
piety like a perriwig trimly curld and combd on the deformed head of Rebellion, and murder. Tis true that once <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> de&s;ired to &s;eem <HI>E&s;au,</HI> but ever &s;ince &s;in like <HI>Rebecca</HI> hath taught the <HI>E&s;aus</HI> to &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Jacobs. Judas</HI> learnt this not from &s;o many, as he hath taught it. Our Saviour <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that under a pretence of long prayers we &s;wallow widows hou&s;es. O God, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> I cannot be what I would, give me grace not to varni&s;h my ills, or cheat my &s;alva|tion with a &s;eeming &s;anctity. How hardly is my pen drawne to this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> bloud? I finde in my eyes the &s;ame &s;toppage that <HI>Ba&s;il</HI> the Great did, who <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> had read his text could not proceed for weeping, my minde would gladly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> from my intentions, and they digre&s;&s;e from a more peaceable &s;ubject. 1641. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Climatericall yeare of the Engli&s;h Nation in Ireland, &s;ome well affected <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ent divers abroad with Petitions for &s;ub&s;criptions to &s;upplicate from the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">|rable Hou&s;es of Parliament (which are the refiners of Religion and Laws) a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">|rall Reformation, which was an Apo&s;tolicall act. This net was not ca&s;t out by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, &s;ave tho&s;e that were truly <HI>Pi&s;catores hominum.</HI> Satan and Antichri&s;t his fir&s;t-borne as malitiou&s;ly &s;ugge&s;t that this arrow was &s;hot not only at their &s;pirituall good, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> temporall goods. The man of &s;in imploying his Sodomiticall Seminaries, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> call Prelates, and Je&s;uiticall Incendiaries to fow the&s;e tares, firebrands in the wombe of their <HI>Hecuba,</HI> borne for the de&s;truction or di&s;quiet of their natural <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">|rents, and native Country. Men borne in antipathy to <HI>Prometheus,</HI> for as he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> fained to have &s;tolne fire from heaven to re&s;tore life into dead bodies, they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> fire from hell to bring death to the living, not only by murdering the Religious <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Religion; as if the death of the &s;pirituall life, as well as the temporall were in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> ballance or line with them that ob&s;erve neither weight nor mea&s;ure. The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> mi&s;h Salamander lives not but in fire, nor can le&s;&s;e flames then a Kingdome <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> him &s;urviving. Now was it that God for our &s;innes determined the English pro&s;|perity, &s;hould be like <HI>Ja<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hua's</HI> Sunne be a day permanent, but retrograde like <HI>Fle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|chiahs,</HI> it being the miraculous expre&s;&s;ion of his Ju&s;tice in ruining either the for|getters, or contemners of his ble&s;&s;ings. Then began the de&s;pi&s;ed bla&s;ts of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Ram&s;-hornes to demoli&s;h the walls of Britti&s;h Jericho's, when by a judgement a terrible as their cruelty; armed forts were &s;urpri&s;ed by unarmed men; then ranne the Lion from the Hare; the &s;haking lea&s;e and trembling Partridge now terrifio the Oake, and hawke the thi&s;tle, and beards the cedar; the ba&s;e Lackey not running by, but away with his mi&s;tris, whil&s;t innocencie and cha&s;tity become the reprovers of that life they would lo&s;e but cannot. Judge of that great conte&s;tation between ho|nour and life, beauty and deformity, and re&s;olve me in this blanke li&s;t  <GAP DESC="blank">  for thy opinion if God ever &s;hew'd, or Nation ever &s;uffered a greater judgement.</P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="6"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> ruined, and ravined by his pack of plea&s;ures, for indeed we had too much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ied the <HI>Diana</HI> of Ephe&s;us (not the piety but the pomp of a church) the &s;ilver &s;hrines <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ad toe many Advocates mo&s;t men exclayming, but few be&s;ides profitable re&s;pects either de&s;ired a reformation, or knew what a one to de&s;ire. Thus was the golden Calfe preferred to <HI>Mo&s;es, Barrabas</HI> to <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> Garlicke to Manna. Nature a prompt ma&s;ter having taught us to advance politick ends, before pious. As a period to out <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rill di&s;tructions fell the&s;e publicke, and whil&s;t many were di&s;ta&s;ting the pre&s;ent government, God tooke away all: the rejection of <HI>Samuel</HI> that made his publicke vindication cannot prejudice the election of <HI>Saul</HI> whom God de&s;erted. Thus God makes our curio&s;ity our &s;courge. <HI>Mid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> his wi&s;h &s;hall be his famine. <HI>Phaeton<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> de&s;ire his death, and <HI>Jupiters</HI> diety the con&s;umer of his concubine. Them that would not quietly enjoy what they had, &s;hall unquietly di&s;po&s;e of what they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, or would enjoy. Civill diffentions, and di&s;likes being terminated by a mar|tiall (or &s;hall I &s;ay an impartiall &s;word.)</P>
<P>The Church like <HI>Dianah</HI> is ravi&s;ht by lu&s;tfull <HI>Shechem</HI> as a puni&s;hment of her ro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">, had &s;he kept the tents of <HI>Jacob,</HI> &s;he had been free from his rage, had we not like her erred from our paternall protection, we had not endured their rapines. The ju&s;t with God to expo&s;e them to all malediction, that out of wandring fancie <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">anges of the &s;anctuary. <HI>Athaliah</HI> was there &s;laine for de&s;troying the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> royall, which I &s;piritually conceive to be the integrity of a Church, born and continued without the milke, or meat of Canaanlti&s;h, and adulterous traditions, which being &s;purious &s;lips cannot flour&s;h, nor have a longer pro&s;perity then the g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">d of <HI>Jonahs,</HI> or the infortunate, and earthy wombe that gave them conce|ption.</P>
<P>Sin ripened like the pride of Gath, de&s;ies the Ho&s;t of the Lord of Ho&s;ts, bathing, the mon&s;trous &s;pearhead of his rage, in the bloud of the cho&s;en: how feeble hath the fall of <HI>Adam</HI> made his haple&s;le po&s;terity? the glorious Engli&s;h long clad in the victorious &s;poyles of that barbarous people, become the rebaters of their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">keins, but not of their rage; finding now how dearly the I&s;raelites paid for their cruell mer|cy in not exti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">pating the Idolatrous Canaanites, tho&s;e that policy left, for he wers of wood, and draw <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">s of water, hew the fle&s;h, and draw the bloud of their ma&s;ters: thus humane policy is puni&s;ht by in humane impiety, teaching us that all the purpo|&s;es of fle&s;h and bloud, having not godline&s;&s;e for their ba&s;is, have &s;andy foundations, and that policy without piety is a damnable di&s;cretion. The Dove and the Ser|pent &s;hould like tho&s;e two kine of Beth&s;heme&s;h at once be yoked to draw the Ark<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of God, from the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the heathens, to the people of God; or like <HI>Clea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">s</HI> and <HI>Biton</HI> to draw their mother to the Temple: where ob&s;erve the kins, and bre|thren were rewarded by death; the kine &s;acrificed to the true God, the brethren to the fal&s;e. O God, &s;o ble&s;&s;e my pilgrimage that at my termination my la&s;t act may be be&s;t, that &s;o I may like <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">hs</HI> &s;acrifice a&s;cend up unto thee by an Ange|licall convoy.</P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="7">Tho&s;e that &s;acrificed up the calves of their lips, are now like bea&s;ts &s;acrificed. The rude reed runnes through the hand that &s;u&s;tained it, whil&s;t the hoofes of unta|med and untaught mon&s;ters trample on tho&s;e heads that &s;hod them; all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> turning rebell either to civill, or legall contracts. Tho&s;e Nationall tyes held &s;acred, and Gordian, of go&s;&s;ip, or fo&s;terer are denied by the bruti&s;h, to the Britti&s;h. <HI>Ha|zael</HI> and <HI>Zimri</HI> murthering their Ma&s;ters, the act not di&s;avowed, but countena<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> pardoned, and applauded by depicted <HI>Jezabel</HI> that Romi&s;h harlot. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;acrifice at the Temples dedication was here outvied in number, but not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Bea&s;t was not offered, but preserved; for here the Mini&s;ter was the chiefe &s;acri|fice, the Bea&s;t the &s;acrificer. The Ram was not offered for <HI>I&s;aac,</HI> but he for the Ram, as if the gold had been more holy then the Temple, or &s;acrifice then <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Eliahs</HI> once flew the prie&s;ts of <HI>Baal,</HI> but now <HI>Baals</HI> prie&s;ts &s;laughter the &s;omes of the Prophets; nor place, nor per&s;on is regarded, but the Prote&s;tants are murdered in the very Churches, as if Prote&s;tant bloud were only the hallowed water to &s;an|ctifie tho&s;e places for their Idolatrous, prophane, damned, and accur&s;ed Ma&s;&s;es. Certainly it may be feared that we did &s;omething that di&s;plea&s;ed God, which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> called for his exploding.</P>
<P>Now are the fountaines of living waters, the balme of Gilead, the holy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of the Covenant, the &s;acred columnes of Gods word made the deri&s;ion of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">|ly, whil&s;t they are rent in pieces and da&s;ht about the heads of the owners, till <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> drew bloud on their heads and faces; with the&s;e, and the like opprobrious and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> pious &s;peeches, here you Engli&s;h dogs and hereticks, you &s;hall have Bibles <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Surely had not tho&s;e holy legacies of the ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, been fir&s;t by our &s;elve <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">|der valued, it had not been in the power of tho&s;e reprobates, thus to have propha|ned the holy food, or the feeders thereon.</P>
<P>Their fir&s;t expre&s;&s;ions began in the ruine of our e&s;tates, having fir&s;t publi&s;ht <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> corre&s;pondence with the Scotti&s;h our brethren, whether out of an intent <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> awaken their di&s;likes of the&s;e new in&s;olencies, or perchance conceiving they had not forgot our ho&s;til preparations again&s;t them the foregoing years, and therefore might hope to make them Newters: at all which conceits I admire had they but conceived the irreconciliable di&s;tance between their Religions; yet thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> pretence and di&s;gui&s;ed affection, too much wrought in tho&s;e di&s;mall dayes (in which every head wa s perplext, if not darkened with di&s;tractions) on that valiant Nation; in&s;omuch, that one <HI>Barhome</HI> by title, but by name <HI>John</HI> Mac. <HI>Culloh,</HI> Cap|taine of a foot company, with others, advi&s;ed me (when I had kept my hou&s;e &s;e|ven weeks after the Rebellion began) to fly for my life, adding they were rea&s;on|ably well &s;ecured by a Proclamation publi&s;ht by the Rebells by direction of thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> chiefe, for the Scotti&s;h protection, in returne of a favour done him in his infancy by a Scotti&s;h Gentle woman, who either &s;aved his life, or liberty in his &s;wathing bands. And but that God determined they &s;hould mingle with us in that great con|fu&s;ion,
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and effu&s;ion of e&s;tates, and bloud: I admire &s;o wi&s;e a people, and per&s;picu|ous in the darke&s;t aenigm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s, &s;hould be &s;o deluded: but where God intends an inf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|mation all humane wi&s;dome is emerged. The deepe&s;t reaches of earthly know|ledge, have had as deep precipices; none had a fearfuller fall then him the Scripture &s;tiles as an oracle of God, we the defeats of tho&s;e great projects of <HI>Pharaoh</HI> and <HI>Herod,</HI> that neither of their de&s;ignes, or wi&s;e intendments could &s;uffocate the type or &s;ub&s;tance, the penner of the Law, or publi&s;her of the Go&s;pel, the Scribe of the &s;acrifices, or him &s;acrificed by the Scribes. But this Romi&s;h Machiavilian plot tooke effect, &s;o the prevention of bloudy and helborne projects are &s;eldome pre|vented, nay nor &s;u&s;pected by tho&s;e of a holy &amp; an upright conver&s;ation. Tis for the &s;onnes of darkne&s;&s;e to bring tho&s;e things to light. But our brethren paid dearly for the cruell mercy of the Iri&s;h, for they &s;taying after the Engli&s;h, of which &s;ome were &s;lain, &s;ome &s;tript, and &s;ent away, were mo&s;t of them, man, woman, and child cruelly ma&s;&s;acred.</P>
<P>The Engli&s;h are now left, as God left his, when they had fir&s;t left him; &s;ome <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ying when none pur&s;ued, &s;in addes to the &s;tature of our feares, for nothing makes men terrible even to them&s;elves but their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, whil&s;t the greedy pur&s;u|ers &s;eem like <HI>Mercury</HI> with winged feet to fly with a devouring &s;word to kill them already near death, with the expectation of death, whil&s;t the enemies &s;words are as drunke with our bloud, as they with our drink, of both which they &s;eem in&s;atiable: the thir&s;ty earth not more greedily receives the early, and latter raine then they of both liquors, in&s;omuch that one  <GAP DESC="blank">  <HI>O Mallon</HI> was heard, to boa&s;t in|humanely that he with his owne hands had murdered &s;ixe and twenty Engli&s;h and Scotch in two dayes, whereof there were twenty five Scotti&s;h: O unheard of cru|elty, it is a wonder to me that this man &s;hould be borne by the common cour&s;e of generation, for certainly his &s;ire or dam mu&s;t needs be an Iri&s;h wolfe, in who&s;e bo&s;ome was harboured, &s;o little humanity.</P>
<P>Now doe the&s;e like tho&s;e Phili&s;tims, inflamed with rage, and drink<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, their &s;oules intoxicated more then their bodies with the cuppe of the Whores Forni|cations <HI>Revelat.</HI> 17.2. drawe out the poore Captives to death, as if the be&s;t banquet were the bloudie&s;t. The &s;onne of <HI>Hagar</HI> now abu&s;es the heire of the Promi&s;e, now is di&s;oculated <HI>Samp&s;on</HI> that grindes his abu&s;ed &s;oule more then their meale brought forth to make pa&s;time to the Phili&s;tims.</P>
<P>I knew one <HI>Bel</HI> of Muckamore near Antrim, who&s;e eyes they &s;tubbed out to make him confe&s;&s;e his money, then abu&s;ed him, and la&s;tly murdered him, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> death which is terrible to our &s;elves, afford us delight if inflicted on others. With what delight and plea&s;ure can wee reade tho&s;e cruell per&s;ecutions of <HI>Nero, Domitian, Trajan, Adrian, Marcus Aurelius, Severus,</HI> and the re&s;t; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">may, the bloudie&s;t of our murthering <HI>Mary,</HI> who drew the bloud in&s;tead
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of milke from the paps of her Nur&s;e, having &s;uch a Catholicke Spani&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> in het veines, that the bloud of many Engli&s;h Martyrs could not allay.</P>
<P>The cruelties exerci&s;ed at Merindol, and Cabriers, when the craggy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> expre&s;t more mercy to the hunted martyrs, then the flinty &s;oules of their per<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">|ters.</P>
<P>That damned ma&s;&s;acre of <HI>Charles</HI> the ninth <HI>anno</HI> 1572. who&s;e bloud i&s;&s;uing from &s;everall parts of his body (at his death) fully expre&s;t his belluine di&s;po&s;ition. Not King them&s;elves profu&s;ely wa&s;ting, or unmercifull exhau&s;ting the bloud of their Subjects, &s;hall finde exemption at that great and ju&s;t Audit kept by Jehovah. The highe&s;t deputations have the heavie&s;t cares. How &s;oon is <HI>Saul</HI> lo&s;t in his new Mo|narchy? The&s;e I &s;ay could we peru&s;e with patience, and plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>The Spani&s;h cruelty more heatheni&s;h then tho&s;e on whom it was exerci&s;ed in the Indies, which were till now the grand patterns of abu&s;ed ho&s;tility, inva&s;ion and victory are &s;o far unfit to parallell with the Iri&s;h inhumanity, as they have lo&s;t our wonder.</P>
<P>The hor&s;e-leeches of Rome bloudily conceiving that Prote&s;tant bloud <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> marle of their Religion, and that nothing produces &s;o rathe a &s;pring to the Catho|licke cau&s;e as the carca&s;&s;es of purer profe&s;&s;ors: when as it is the generall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that the bloud of martyrs is the &s;eed of the Church. Sacks of wool are held the be&s;t foundations for bridges in the &s;tronge&s;t currents, as on tho&s;e were built upon the martyred carca&s;&s;es of our predece&s;&s;ors (the Prote&s;tant Religion &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that all tho&s;e great inundations from the Apo&s;tolicall, or rather diabolical <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> could never overwhelme, yet then was our profe&s;&s;ion but like to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">) who though he was of the &s;eed royall, had <HI>Sauls</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and eat bread at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Kings table, yet was he lame in his feet, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 9.3. and I &s;uppo&s;e his cure would have been more needfull, and acceptable to him (could it have been effected) then either his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions or honour.</P>
<P>God alwayes pre&s;erved his Church, of which the Arke was a type which &s;hall float over the world-drowned-&s;hores to pre&s;erve a holy remnant; and the earth &s;wallow up tho&s;e &s;treams of poy&s;onous malice, vomited by the &s;erpent again&s;t his love, his dove, his fair one; all the&s;e per&s;ecutions could not &s;o much as &s;tartle the Engli&s;h lethargy; the evils that we expect are le&s;&s;ened, if not prevented, when as &s;udden alarms not only awake, but a&s;toni&s;h.</P>
<P>The great battells of <HI>Canna, Marathon,</HI> and tho&s;e two daughter of <HI>Epaminondus, Mantinea,</HI> and <HI>Leuctra,</HI> with tho&s;e more famous where the Starres fought in their order, and <HI>Ki&s;hon</HI> like a be&s;ome &s;wept them away: (even &s;o let thine enemies peri&s;h, O Lord) tho&s;e great defeats given and recieved by the Turke, and Chri&s;ti|an, the &s;word, fire, famine, pe&s;tilence, and de&s;olation of the Jews, with what other horrors have eradicated the Roman and Gretian Empires, were by us peru&s;ed with plea&s;ure, and yet now that a de&s;tructive in&s;urrecton, drawes his daggar at our
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throats death walking over our owne thre&s;holds, famine having entred to cling up our bowels, fire to di&s;&s;olve our beings, and unkinde exile to &s;houlder us from our abodes, poverty ru&s;hing like an armed man, meager and pin'd vi&s;ages meeting us at every pace, wounded and mangled carca&s;&s;es peeping out of bu&s;hes like gho&s;ts from the grave, Chri&s;tians expos'd naked to unmercifull cold, and moun|tainous wayes, with not a fig leafe to hide their nakedne&s;&s;e, poore women with childe brought a bed, and dead in woods, and caves, in that unchri&s;tian manner that my pen dares not expre&s;&s;e: but leaves their mi&s;erable condition to the con&s;i|deration and commi&s;eration of tho&s;e that expect a happy deliverance: heaps of &s;laughtered Chri&s;tians, to part of which the dogs had given &s;epulchre, many han|ged upon trees and boughes, part of which we could perceive had been burnt be|fore: at the&s;e &s;ights, and many more horrid, how are our re&s;olves amated? our courages queld? our re&s;olutions daunted? now doth poore Germany, and our right neglect of their calamities deeply po&s;&s;e&s;e us, the afflictions of <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> are a|fre&s;h bemoaned, and the martyrdomes of the Apo&s;tles are now lamented, and what is more the poverty of our Me&s;&s;ias, his teares, pilgrimages, &s;tripes, &s;pittings, con|tempt, revilings, agony, and bloudy pa&s;&s;ion, which before was read over as an ordi|nary &s;tory of Scripture, and if read, not remembred, if remembred, not lamented, if lamented, twas but a qualme of &s;orrow, now are we &s;ufferers in his &s;ufferings: On bitter mi&s;erie, how &s;weet are thy lectures? teaching &s;orrows are cordiall griefes, and tis a ble&s;&s;ed maim that heals the &s;oule; give me tho&s;e wounds, O God, through which as a glorious mirror, I may behold the mirror of glory.</P>
<P>Now began the famine of &s;ome to conclude that the violente&s;t death was the be&s;t, and the lengthned life the only mi&s;erable, that the &s;horte&s;t way to the grave was the &s;weete&s;t, and that the la&s;t ga&s;pe was mo&s;t comfortable, many &s;earching for the pangs of death as the only Elixar to cure all di&s;ea&s;es, the feared winding &s;heet, and in&s;atiable grave proving now de&s;ired, which was before horrid.</P>
<P>That heaven the &s;eat of God under which we regardle&s;&s;ely walked is all the canopy is left the Engli&s;h, the humble earth the foot&s;toole of God, and mother of us all, on which we proudly trampled, lets her wofull children lie on her bo&s;ome, that fain would lye within it; the woods and bogs becomming either our &s;helter or &s;epulchre, the contemned food of the Iri&s;h, &s;orrell, watergra&s;&s;e, three leaved gra&s;&s;e, weeds, and water is now made our delicates. The tender and loving wife repines at the nouri&s;hment eaten by the husband of her bo&s;ome, whil&s;t the infants complaints begets fre&s;h throws in that brea&s;t which u&s;ed, but could not nouri&s;h it, the mothers tears &s;hewing a compa&s;&s;ion, but not a redre&s;&s;e, happy were the infant could it have been cheri&s;hed with tears, as before with milke, for the eye was wet to &s;ee the brea&s;t &s;o drie; fruitfulne&s;&s;e is now held a greater cur&s;e to the for|lorne Engli&s;h, then &s;terility was to the Jews. <HI>Jeremy</HI> thou mourning turtle of Sions &s;orrows, I wi&s;h not a double portion of thy &s;pirit, but thy &s;orrow, that I might be
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that &s;ilver trumpet that &s;hould publi&s;h to all po&s;terity the calamities of tho&s;e our brethren, that did, and do want tho&s;e &s;uccours our luxury devours. She is no <HI>Nu|be</HI> that cannot finde one teare to ca&s;t into our Ocean of brine, and lend a &s;igh to tho&s;e broken, hearts that &s;orrow hath rather made &s;tatues, then men, Suffer not the afflicted of the Lord to tread the winepre&s;&s;e alone, le&s;t when thy aloes are given thee to drinke thou finde&s;t none of <HI>Eli&s;has</HI> &s;alt to cure the bracki&s;hne&s;&s;e. Partner|&s;hip in &s;orrow hath the power of mitigation, and thou &s;halt have the prai&s;e if not to have relieved, to have ea&s;ed our pangs.</P>
<P>But whither am I tran&s;ported? Summons to griefe finde but deafe eares, and a dead welcome; every man de&s;iring rather to go to a theater, then a tribunall, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> having as many a&s;&s;i&s;tants too many, as tribulation too few. <HI>Solomon</HI> is as little fol|lowed in the&s;e two Proverbs, as in any, better is the hou&s;e of mourning then the hou&s;e of mirth, and the day of death then the day of ones birth; but when he comes with an inviting exultation <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 11.9. <HI>Rejoyce O young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheare thee in the dayes of thy youth, and walke in the wayes of thine heart, and in the &s;ight of thine e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">es,</HI> he &s;hall have more followers then <HI>Darius</HI> or <HI>Xerxes:</HI> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> gripe or plea&s;ure hath gotten Rome &s;o many Pro&s;elites, when Religion complies with Nature, our corruptions are wooed, and wedded to a glowe wormy hap|pine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The great <HI>Bel&s;hazzers</HI> in their greate&s;t elevations, finde their knees knocking, and di&s;cerne the handwriting of death on their walls, and tho&s;e <HI>Nebuchadnezzars</HI> that prided them&s;elves in their &s;pacious &s;tructures (as many there were that built with marble which contemned the corner &s;tone) are now &s;ent among&s;t the bea&s;ts of the field, not only for their abode, but &s;u&s;tenance. Tho&s;e holy duties before neglected are now with a compul&s;ive trepidation ob&s;erved. Tis a mi&s;erable thing for a &s;oule inur'd to &s;inne, to be hurried into his devotions, death at the heeles, and hell in the eyes, &s;eldome produce any but di&s;tracted &s;upplications: when as he that dies dayly hath wre&s;ted the iron &s;cepters out of the power of death and hell; having an in|fallible intere&s;t in him, that not only got the conque&s;t, but &s;ung the comfortable &s;oule-cheering in&s;ultation over both the&s;e, till then indomitable tyrants. Oh deah, where is thy &s;ting? Oh grave where is thy victory? Therefore, <HI>Quid retrihnam!</HI> but thankes be unto God, which hath given us victory through our Lord Ie&s;u&s; Chri&s;t, 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.55, 57.</P>
<P>Now would tho&s;e that had con&s;umed a patrimony, rejoyce to finde tho&s;e h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ks that none &s;hall give them. How gladly would the gripple hand receive that almes it hath de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ayned? finding a &s;ad returne of his uncharitable repul&s;es. That <HI>Dives</HI> that would not give a crumme demanded, &s;hall find a drop denied. O God &s;o in|large my heart, that I may give what I can, and &s;o enlarge thy mercies, I may re|ceive what I would.</P>
<P><PB N="9" REF="9">It was no &s;ingle arrow God &s;hot in that Nation, or us poore Engli&s;h: for as if the &s;word had beene too blunt a &s;ithe, or &s;ickle, to mow both the wheat and darnell, and a &s;ingle puni&s;hment too favourable a &s;courge, God &s;ent the fire, and le&s;t that &s;hould be too &s;paring in con&s;uming our &s;innes that made us &s;o combu&s;tible, and not fully refine the oare from the dro&s;&s;e: God &s;ent the famine to devour tho&s;e that had nothing to eat; and left that &s;hould leave any gleanings in this Iri&s;h Aceldama, the Lord &s;ent a pe&s;tilent Feaver, that &s;wept away innumerable people: in&s;omuch that in Colerane there died in fowre moneths by computation &s;ix thou|&s;and, in Carickfergus two thou&s;and and five hundred, in Belfa&s;t and Me|lone above two thou&s;and, in Li&s;nygarvi eight hundred, and in Antrym and other places a proportionable number. So that heer the chariot of Gods ju&s;tice was drawne by tho&s;e fowre hor&s;es <HI>Rev.</HI> 6. a white, a red, a blacke, and a pale hor&s;e; this di&s;ea&s;e augmented our mi&s;eries, the Fea|vers being &s;o contagious, that the living dur&s;t not &s;ee them &s;icke, nor bu|ry them dead; that I have &s;cene the husband carry his dead wife to the Church-yard, and borrowing a &s;pade, digge a grave for her that living was his life: and the &s;ame man have I &s;eene the next day die in the &s;ame Church-yard: the like affection have I &s;eene the wife expre&s;&s;e toward her departed husband, the &s;onne to the father, father to the &s;on, and the like. Heere were the words of our Saviour, not onely metaphorically, but verbally true: for the dead did not only bury the dead, but the dying buried the dead al&s;o. Not any that e&s;caped this Feaver but lo&s;t all their hayre: I had it in the Newry &s;even weekes, where not only without, but contrary to meanes, my God pre&s;erved mee, to whom on my bended knees I give all po&s;&s;ible thankes. This &s;ickne&s;&s;e beyond the power of per&s;wa&s;ive Divinity, &s;hewed me God thwarting Nature, pre&s;erving in the grave, quenching the flames of my &s;ickne&s;&s;e, even with what Phy&s;i|tians &s;ay it is inflamed; my cordialls and julips, were running water, in &s;tead of barly, and &s;ometimes a little milke, &s;alt beefe, or porke, oaten bread and chee&s;e, the allayes to my heat and hunger. Thus from the jawes of death and brims of the grave hath God delivered me, to lament and publi&s;h the death of tho&s;e of my owne Tribe. For on them fell the brunt of this martyrdome: they were tho&s;e appointed to &s;laughter at the birth of this de&s;igne: they could expect no quarter; others might ran|&s;ome their lives with their hidden goods: but this profe&s;&s;ion was &s;ure to cope with death in the horrid&s;t &s;hape, as if Iaacobs cur&s;e were renova|ted, for they met with a wrath more fierce, a rage more cruell then they u&s;ed to Shechem, and found a divi&s;ion in Iaacob, and a &s;cattering in I&s;|rael
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<HI>Gen.</HI> 49.7.</P>
<P>Which <HI>I</HI> the rather undertake, becau&s;e &s;ome ill affected to the con|dolements of the Iri&s;h Clergy heere di&s;tre&s;&s;ed, and by &s;ome har&s;h tongues depraved have lightly run over the mi&s;eries of that de&s;pi&s;ed, and di&s;per|&s;ed Mini&s;try, to whom I owe that little I have left, as being of the &s;ame <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;e with tho&s;e &s;onnes of the Prophets, that find <HI>Mors in olla.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall but in two pa&s;&s;ages digre&s;&s;e from the Martyrology of the Mi|ni&s;try in the Province of Ul&s;ter, and the one is my engagement that I ought to Mr. <HI>Morgan Aubry</HI> E&s;quire, my honoured friend, and his Man, to this I am drawne by my love, the other is the unmanly and un|chri&s;tian u&s;age &s;hewed to Mrs. <HI>Smith&s;on,</HI> a Mini&s;ters wife, and her mayd, that lived within &s;owre miles of Dublin, to this I am drawne by my won|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">, and the&s;e two I &s;hall transfer to the la&s;t.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t on whom their un&s;anctified hands were fa&s;tned, was Ma&s;ter <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">,</HI> of Donnamoore, Rector, who in a mo&s;t cruell and bloudy m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">, they cut in pieces, and left unburied.</P>
<P>Secondly, Mr. <HI>Blith,</HI> Mini&s;ter of Dungannon, whom they hanged, whole Wife with 3 &s;mall children, after 8 months mi&s;erable captivity, I &s;aw in the Newry, great with child, &s;tripped naked, and ready to per|i&s;h for want of reliefe.</P>
<P>Then Mr. <HI>Fullerton</HI> of Loughgall, Rector, to whom Sir <HI>Phelomy &ocirc; Neale,</HI> owed at lea&s;t &s;ix hundred pounds, upon mortgages, who though he and Mr. <HI>Aubry</HI> above&s;aid, had his Pa&s;le and Convoy for their &s;afe conduct, was payd that debt, by his paying his debt to Nature: for he at a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ogges&s;ide was &s;tript, murthered, and left unburied. With this coyne hath that &s;laming firebrand payd his debts, &s;uch cancelling of bonds mu&s;t they all expect that tra&s;fique with the progeny of the Babiloni&s;h whore.</P>
<P>Mrs. <HI>Fullerton</HI> with two children, and great with child, came to the Newry after eight months impri&s;onment, with &s;even&s;core women and children in her company, her &s;elfe having not to hide her nakedne&s;&s;e, nor no thing to keepe her feet from the ground,' but two pieces of a raw cow hide tied upon her feet with pieces; of packthred, and what was more mi&s;erable, &s;he was con&s;trayned to leave two of her children upon the mountaines, to the mercy of their Fathers murtherers: judge now, you that tie your lives upon the pro&s;perity of your infants, of the agonies of this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Gentlewoman, which made me call to mind that mination of God, <HI>Deut.</HI> 28, 56.57. The tender and delicate wo|man among&s;t you, which never would venter to &s;et the &s;ole of her foot
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on the ground (for the &s;oftne&s;&s;e and tenderne&s;&s;e) &s;hall be grieved at her husband, that lieth in her bo&s;ome, and at her &s;onne, and at her daughter, and at her after birth (that &s;hall come out between her feet) and at her children which &s;he &s;hall beare: for when all things lacke, &s;he &s;hall eat the them &s;ecretly, during the &s;iege and &s;traitnes where with thine enemies &s;hall be&s;iege thee in thy &s;trong Cities.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Matchett</HI> Mini&s;ter of Maharafelt, was after long impri&s;onment and extream hard u&s;age, the Lord having given him the bread of teares, and a&s;hes to drinke, he being an aged and reverend Gentleman, was mo&s;t cruelly murthered at Lievetenant <HI>Thur&s;bies</HI> in the County of London-Derry, the Lievetenant and his wife being both Recu&s;ants, could not by any meanes or intreaties, eyther &s;ave or re&s;pite him from death, &s;uch fa|vour found the Engli&s;h Papifts among&s;t the Iri&s;h, and &s;uch finde the En|gli&s;h revolters with the Spaniard, between whom is as great corre&s;pon|dence, as between the Scotch and French Nations.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Hud&s;on,</HI> Mini&s;ter or De&s;ert Martin, after many troubles, and cala|mities, was taken from betweene two fetherbeds, out of Mr. <HI>Chappels</HI> hou&s;e, where that vertuous Gentlewoman had long fed, and concealed him, but at length the Rebels gave a date to her charity to him, and to his life, for the Rebels in a mo&s;t cruell and mo&s;t barbarous maner murthe|red him.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Campion</HI> of Kilowen, being at the battell of Ballemony, which the Engli&s;h in regard of the fatability of the day, call Blacke Friday, ha|ving received a great overthrow, which in all po&s;&s;ibility had beene the lo&s;&s;e of Colerane, and a di&s;mall day to all the poore Prote&s;tants within it, had not God infatuated eyther the wi&s;edome, or daunted the courage of tho&s;e Rebels, under the command of <HI>Colkittoes</HI> &s;onnes, there did this Gentleman &s;eale his love to the Go&s;pel with his bloud, like <HI>Zuinglius</HI> in the head of his Company, honourably expiring among&s;t his &s;laughtered Brethren.</P>
<P>In the &s;ame cau&s;e and maner was &s;laine a Scotti&s;h Mini&s;ter, (who&s;e name I cannot remember, though I was then in the &s;ame County) who tooke his leave, and &s;hewed his love to the cau&s;e, (in which to their ho|nours, that Nation is forwardly zealous) under the command of Colo|nel <HI>Archibald Steward,</HI> late Agent to the Earle of Antrym.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Tudge</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Newry, after long impri&s;onment, and many perfidious promi&s;es from the Lord <HI>Magenis,</HI> Sir <HI>Con Magenis,</HI> Governour of the Newry, and the re&s;t, was with thirteene more, under a pretence to be exchanged for other pri&s;oners at Downe-Patricke cruelly put to
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death, of which none but one <HI>Greene,</HI> a Tap&s;ter to Mr. <HI>Butterfield</HI> of the Newry e&s;caped, ran&s;oming his life for forty &s;hillings: this <HI>Greene</HI> brought me this Relation in May 1642. and as they were leading to their &s;laugh|ter, the poore Gentleman called upon Sir <HI>Con Magenis</HI> for mercy, and performance of his promi&s;e; but the perfidious tyrant &s;topped his eares, to his and their complaint; upon which Mr. <HI>Tudge,</HI> in the bitternes of his &s;oul de&s;ired God to require his bloud at their hands, with the&s;e words of the p&s;almi&s;t; (Judge and revenge my cau&s;e, O Lord) then he with his fellow Martyrs, taking the Communion in a little running water, in &s;tead of the bloud, and a piece of an oaten &s;trowen, in &s;tead of the body of their Saviour, commending them&s;elves, and their vile bodies into his hands that was able to tran&s;late them into glory, yeelded their lives to the &s;troke of the bloudy executioners, by whom he was hanged: but Lievtenant <HI>Trever</HI> and his wife with &s;ome of the re&s;t, which were divers were cut to pieces.</P>
<P>Soone after, as all the Engli&s;h Inhabitants of that place often affirm|ed, Sir <HI>Con Magenis</HI> was by the &s;trange judgement of God, &s;trucken with a &s;trong frenzy, running home to his owne hou&s;e on foot, the Lord taught him by the way, as Gideon taught the men of Succoth and Penu|el, his clothes and skin being ju&s;tly torne by the bu&s;hes and briers, in tho&s;e uncouth wayes his madne&s;&s;e made choyce of, raving on his death bed, Take away <HI>Tudge,</HI> take away <HI>Tudge,</HI> doe you not &s;ee how hee pur|&s;ues me for his bloud? in which de&s;perate condition he died.</P>
<P>Thus God made this Rebell and mercile&s;&s;e bea&s;t, by the la&s;h of his Di|vine Ju&s;tice, acknowledge his tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion in taking away the lives of the innocent. The &s;ame Sir <HI>Con</HI> having be&s;ides innumerable other mur|thers, at one time betweene Greene Ca&s;tle, and Carlingford, drowned &s;ixty and eight Prote&s;tants, to which he had promi&s;ed quarter, affirmed by Mr. <HI>Holland,</HI> who with &s;ome others, in a boat miraculou&s;ly e&s;caped to Dublin at that time, by which meanes he and the re&s;t e&s;caped from ta&s;t|ing Sir <HI>Cons</HI> holy water.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Ha&s;tings</HI> Mini&s;ter, endowed into a living of Mr. <HI>Fairfax</HI> being School ma&s;ter in <HI>Balli&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">gart</HI> a hou&s;e belonging to my honoured friend the virtuous Mrs. <HI>Clotwo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">thy,</HI> for which deliverance after a grievous thral|dome, my heart <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">yceth. Him they cau&s;ed to &s;wim in the Lough till he was drowned.</P>
<P>Mr. Dor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">h, my Lord <HI>Canifield:</HI> Chaplaine killed.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Fleming</HI> Mini&s;tero. <HI>Clan&s;eekle,</HI> murdered.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Mercer</HI> in&s;ter of <HI>Mulijr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">,</HI> murdered.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Burns</HI> Curate of <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ughgilly,</HI> murdered.</P>
<P><PB N="13" REF="11">Mr. <HI>Bradleyes</HI> Curate of <HI>Artray,</HI> Mr. <HI>New</HI> killed.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Wilking&s;on</HI> of <HI>Clovins,</HI> killed at the <HI>Cavan,</HI> he cemming to the Cro&s;&s;e-keyes lnne, de&s;ired a lodging, to whom an Iri&s;h man tendred him|&s;tlfe, telling if he walked into the garden, he would provide him one, the innocent Gentleman was no &s;ooner in the garden, but the Serpent be|trayed him, asking him doe you want a lodging? yes, replied he, I have faies <HI>Judas</HI> provided you one, and with that drew his Skeane, and &s;troke him &s;o violently on the head that his braines fell out: this lodging was intended for the whole Clergy, had not God miraculou&s;ly defeated the purpo&s;es of the&s;e bloudy hel-hounds; children who&s;e mothers have &s;ore brea&s;ts, doe &s;ometimes draw bloud as well as milke, which makes me be|leeve that the brea&s;ts of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> are &s;ore, and full of cor|ruption, that her children draw &s;o much bloud among&s;t their milke (if any) that they generally during their whole time thir&s;t after it.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Thomas Traford</HI> killed by the Rebells after quarter was promi&s;ed.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Mongomm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ry</HI> hanged by the Rebells, he was of <HI>Du<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">amain</HI> Pa|ri&s;h.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Paulma&s;ter</HI> that once lived at <HI>Carickfergus</HI> Mini&s;ter there, (was as his wife informed me) hanged at his Church doore.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Flack</HI> of <HI>Fermannah,</HI> a Mini&s;ter of &s;peciall note, was with two of his &s;ons taken out of <HI>Ca&s;tle Creveni&s;h,</HI> and al&s;o offered up to God as a &s;acri&s;ice.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Michart Berket</HI> of Salters Towne flying for &s;afety with his wife, and &s;even &s;mall children to <HI>Carickfergus,</HI> where his wife and all his poor children died mo&s;t mi&s;erably for want of ordinary nouri&s;hment, him&s;el&s;e being fami&s;hed to the point of death, finding the pangs &s;trong upon him, got leave to goe into the Church of <HI>Carickfergus,</HI> where he had not long &s;tayed, &s;itting him&s;elfe for the reward promi&s;ed to them that made their long robes white in the bloud of the Lambe, to that land of <HI>Go&s;hen,</HI> where they &s;hall hunger no more, neither thir&s;t any more, neither &s;hall the &s;un light on them, nor any heat, <HI>Rev.</HI> 7.16. did there depart this life.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Griffin,</HI> All of <HI>Ardnah,</HI> and murdered by tho&s;e bloud &s;uc|kers on the &s;ixt of May.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Bartly,</HI> All of <HI>Ardnah,</HI> and murdered by tho&s;e bloud &s;uc|kers on the &s;ixt of May.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Starkey</HI> Curat, All of <HI>Ardnah,</HI> and murdered by tho&s;e bloud &s;uc|kers on the &s;ixt of May.</P>
<P>For about the fourth of May, as I take it, we put neare forty of them to death upon the bridge of the Newry, among&s;t which, were two of the Popes Pedlers, two Seminary Prie&s;ts, in returne of which, they &s;laugh|tered many pri&s;oners in their cu&s;tody, where of the&s;e three were part,
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Mr. <HI>Bev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rage</HI> a of <HI>Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">laman,</HI> Mini&s;ters of the &s;ame County, were &s;uf|ferrs in this ma&s;&s;acre.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Robin&s;on</HI> of <HI>Kilmoore,</HI> Mini&s;ters of the &s;ame County, were &s;uf|feres in this ma&s;&s;acre.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Lutfoot</HI> oof <HI>Castle Blany,</HI> ta&s;ted of the &s;ame mercy, being cruelly murdered.</P>
<P><HI>Romulus</HI> the fir&s;t founder of that City, is faind to be fo&s;terd by a Wolfe, and was the murderer of his brother <HI>Rhemus,</HI> a pre&s;age of the cru|elties &s;hould procecd from that foundation, certainly there was &s;ome bloud (which is a great cementer) mingled in the morter, for I am a&s;&s;u|red both the Empire, and Hierarchy, the temporall and anti-&s;pirituall dig|nity, have been &s;upported by cruell ma&s;&s;acres, or bloudy machinations, no act of ho&s;tility, con&s;piracie, treachery, murder, &s;ymony, or what e|ver is accounted dete&s;table among&s;t meer morali&s;ts, but hath beene co|lumns to uphold that grand bawdy-hou&s;e, wherein not only corporall whoredomes, but &s;pirituall are tollerated, from thence was fined, and on the grind&s;tone of Rome was this &s;acrificing knife ground that cruelly cut off the&s;e Martyrs. Thus have I &s;hewd the unhappine&s;&s;e of the Iri&s;h, who perchance are yet living, the happine&s;&s;e of them that are &s;laine, but yet alive. Well did the Jewes call the grave <HI>domus viventia,</HI> from thence did ari&s;e that life that a&s;&s;ures us of the re&s;urrection to life, whereas the wicked man is accur&s;ed in his grave, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 14.19.</P>
<P>The&s;e are but a remnant of them that could not e&s;cape the Rebells tyranny or my intelligence: many more mu&s;t needs &s;uffer that never came my care, for the Inland Countries of who&s;e pa&s;&s;ages I am not informed &s;o credibly, I dare report it, mu&s;t needs afford great &s;laughters being re|mote from tho&s;e gari&s;on Townes upon the coa&s;t, where many (God be prai&s;ed) &s;pared their lives.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides the&s;e that were thus ma&s;&s;acred, there dyed of the pe&s;tilent fea|ver, who chiefly mi&s;caried through poverty, famine, and &s;uccors in their &s;ickne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The reverend, learned and famous Martyr <HI>Bedle</HI> Bi&s;hop of Kilmore, who &s;upported many di&s;tre&s;ted Engli&s;h, and was kept in re&s;traint at Clowater, and died at Mr. <HI>Scrednies</HI> hou&s;e after &s;ome five monthes im|pri&s;onment, where like <HI>paul;</HI> he &s;pent his time in converting his jailors, making his pri&s;on his pulpit; wicked tyrants may barre Gods people from the congregation of the righteous, but not God from the habitations of his people.</P>
<P>M. <HI>Peirce</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Lurgan at Carickfargus.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Simon Chiche&s;ter</HI> Mini&s;ter of Belfa&s;t.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Ducket</HI> Curate of Li&s;nigarvy.</P>
<P><PB N="15" REF="12">Mr. <HI>Redshaw</HI> Mini&s;ter of Colerane.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Collins</HI> Mini&s;ter of Kilrac</P>
<P>And three Mini&s;ters more, who&s;e names I cannot learne, but was informed of their deaths by <HI>Anne Jack&s;on, Francis Barnaby,</HI> and <HI>Went|worth Moul&s;worth</HI> that came from thence, and are now all in this City. All the&s;e dyed in Cole|rane.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Tailor</HI> of Carlingford.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Che&s;man</HI> of Moninmoore Mini&s;ter.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Winter</HI> of A&s;tra Mini&s;ter.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Luke A&s;trie</HI> Mini&s;ter of Ballekelly.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Farwood</HI> Deane of Drummoore.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Edward Stanhop</HI> Archdeacon.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Back&s;ter</HI> of Kildallon dyed in Ca&s;tle Crag.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Edward Live&s;ly.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Erskin</HI> of Fermanah who tooke his &s;ickne&s;&s;e in Derry, but dyed in Scotland at Antrim.</P>
<P>Captaine <HI>John Kilner</HI> of Jaughen-vale, having a Commi&s;&s;ion from His Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners for a foot Company, i&s;&s;ued out in Decem. 1641. as al&s;o a Commi&s;&s;ion from the Lords Ju&s;tices, to be Provo&s;t Mar&s;hall of the City and County of London-Derry, in both which, his &s;onne being a Mini&s;ter, became his Lieutenant and Deputy, being a preaching Soul|dier, and a military Mini&s;ter, who preacht to his Souldiers when they were not in fight, and fought when he could not preach, &s;hewing at once his love to Chri&s;t, and hate to Anti-Chri&s;t, who having done exceeding good &s;ervice, he being a forward and well qualified Gentleman, but &s;tri|ving above nature to &s;hew his zeale in that holy war, by many heats, colds, and other &s;ufferings contracted that &s;ickne&s;&s;e wich ended his daies, having time to apply that Swan-like &s;ong of <HI>Paul,</HI> the &s;econd of <HI>Timo|thy,</HI> the 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. ver&s;es, Which a legacie to his brethren, and cordiall to him&s;elfe, was his la&s;t antheme, <HI>But watch thou in all things&punc; &s;uffer adver&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">y: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the worke of an Evangeli&s;t: make thy Mini&s;tery fully knowne. For now I am ready to be offered, and the time of my departing is at hand. I have fought a good &s;ight, I have fini&s;hed my cour&s;e I have kept the faith. For henceforth is laid up for me the Crown of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, which the Lord the righteous Judge &s;hall give me at that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love his appearing:</HI> I have &s;een a large certificate of his fathers unparalled &s;ervices, in which he ought to be a partner, as being an a&s;&s;i&s;tant, all wich is &s;ub&s;cribed un|der the hands of Sir <HI>Jahn Vanghan,</HI> Knight, governour of the City of
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London-Derry, and one of the Privy Councell of that Kingdome, <HI>Robert Thornton</HI> Major of that City, <HI>Henry Vaughan, Simon Pits, Henry Finch, Henry Osborne</HI> Aldermen.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Newcomen</HI> Mini&s;ter of Fawne, at Fawne.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Richard Walker</HI> Mini&s;ter of Lifford, at Lifford.</P>
<P>Now you have &s;een <HI>Steven</HI> &s;ton'd, you &s;hall &s;ee <HI>Peter</HI> and <HI>John, Paul</HI> and <HI>Silas</HI> in <HI>interiorem carcerem,</HI> you &s;hall &s;ee <HI>Jeremiah</HI> in the &s;tocks, <HI>Jer.</HI> 20.2. You &s;hall behold <HI>Pa&s;hur</HI> putting him downe into the dungeon with cords, where the poore Prophet is not only fa&s;t in pri&s;on, but in mire, <HI>Jer.</HI> 38.6. for as they held the Mini&s;ters the ba&s;e&s;t of men, &s;o they provided for them the ba&s;e&s;t of pri&s;ons: &s;hould we returne their cru|elties, we &s;hould put their Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uits into our common &s;hoares. <HI>Dignum pattella operculum,</HI> tho&s;e not marked with the letter(T)for de&s;tru|ction, or on the lintells of who&s;e doors the Angel had &s;prinkled the marks of deliverance, found the protraction of life a death; the taskma&s;ters of Ireland, being more cruell then tho&s;e of Egypt, and enjoyning more cruell conditions; for what can be more horrid then for an Apo&s;tle, to be urged to be an Apo&s;tate, to be con&s;trained to leave the way, the truth, and the life, to walke in the labyrinths of fal&s;hood, and death? I &s;hall &s;hew you &s;ome of the Lords captives in that Province.</P>
<P>Mr. Archdeacon <HI>Price</HI> of Drumlane, Mr. <HI>Adam Wat&s;on</HI> of Kil&s;hanar both of the County of Cavan, be&s;ieged in Ca&s;tle Crag eight months, get|ting off by quarter.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Creighton</HI> of Virginia kept in mi&s;ery eleven months.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Fitzgarret</HI> Mini&s;ter, in hard and cruell re&s;traint till the fixt of May 1642. who though a native, and next to the Primate of Armagh, a man of the greate&s;t &s;plendor for Urim and Thummim of that Nation.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Boyle</HI> of Carickmaharo&s;&s;e Mini&s;ter, in bondage five months.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Gil</HI> Mini&s;ter of Killally of the County of Monahan impri&s;oned five months.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Edward How</HI> Curate of Dartrie in bonds &s;ix weeks.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Ferchar</HI> Par&s;on of Cl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">uni&s;h County Fermanah two months.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Francis Symp&s;on</HI> of Kilmore, County Monahan impri&s;oned eight months.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>James Fathie</HI> Mini&s;ter, kept in re&s;traint eight months having been pre&s;erved from famine by M. <HI>Fitzgarrets</HI> goodne&s;&s;e, who for his County take found a little more cruell favour then other of his brethren.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Bradly</HI> Mini&s;ter of Artra, impri&s;oned eight months, being often brought out to be hanged, but next unto God pre&s;erved by the unmatch|able
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goodne&s;&s;e of Mrs. <HI>Chappel</HI> now in the City finding &s;ave from one friend rai&s;ed up for her by Almighty God, a &s;mall returne of that talent of charity, which &s;he in tho&s;e dayes of bloud and famine extended to many, e&s;pecially the Mini&s;tery, which &s;ometimes brought her owne life in ha|zard.</P>
<P>Mr. Archdeacon <HI>Maxfield</HI> of Gla&s;lough, or if you will <HI>Buchamon</HI> ju|nior for his elegant, and &s;mooth expre&s;&s;ions in divine po&s;ies, kept in re|&s;traint by the <HI>Ovendens,</HI> halfe bothers to <HI>Nero</HI> junior. Sir <HI>Philomy &ocirc; Neal</HI> nine months.</P>
<P>A Scotch Mini&s;ter, that after long impri&s;onment made a miraculous e&s;cape, with Lievtenant <HI>Smith,</HI> Lievtenant to Captaine <HI>George Blunt</HI> of Montjoy, and &s;ome others in a &s;mall boat and oares, hackled out with their knives, over Lough Neaugh to Antrym, it being above twenty miles by water, in the Winter &s;ea&s;on, a dangerous pa&s;&s;age: who&s;e name I have forgotten, yet I heard him preach in Belfa&s;t, upon this portion of Scripture, <HI>Jer.</HI> 4.4. Thus we &s;ee as Antichri&s;t &s;trives to drownd, kill, and fami&s;h the elect, even &s;o Chri&s;t by a Divine providence, &s;owes up the mouths of the&s;e ravening elements, and pre&s;erves his owne <HI>paul</HI> in &s;pite of the whi&s;tling Euroclydon, and angry Adriaticke, hee &s;hall have his Angell aboord, to bring him ble&s;t tidings of his life and his companions, <HI>Act.</HI> 27.23. That pa&s;&s;age of <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 43.2. Feare not: for I have redee|med thee: I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine, when thou pa&s;|&s;e&s;t thorow the waters: I will be with thee, and thorow the flouds, that they doe not overflow thee, was fulfilled on the&s;e di&s;tre&s;&s;ed e&s;capers.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>George Cottingham</HI> Rector of Monahan was put into a clo&s;e dun|geon, where his franki&s;een&s;e was the excrements of men in heaps, it be|ing the dungeon belonging to the goale, where five dayes he was de|tained, ob&s;cured, living him&s;elfe unrelieved with any kinde of nouri&s;h|ment having his wife and foure children in the &s;ame mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Beale</HI> pri&s;oner at Clowater, and in re&s;traint nine months.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Dennis Serreduie</HI> an Iri&s;h man, but a mini&s;ter, &s;till in re&s;traint.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Henry Steel</HI> mini&s;ter of Clautubeit was the &s;pace of nine weekes &s;ometimes in the dungeon, and &s;ometimes in the gaole, having a young childe to keep, not above a quarter old, which he cheri&s;ht &s;ometimes with milke, and &s;ometimes with water out of a &s;ucking bottle, that now tho&s;e that wanted tongues or language to call for gengeance on the&s;e homicides, make their bloud louder orators to implore ju&s;tice, he was at la&s;t deprived of his childe, him&s;elfe being &s;tripped, e&s;caped to Dublin where, and here he hath indured by the flux and other &s;ickne&s;&s;e extream mi&s;ery.</P>
<P><PB N="18" REF="14">Mr. <HI>Denni&s;on</HI> mini&s;ter of Tedawnet, was &s;tript naked, and beaten wor&s;e the a Turki&s;h gally&s;lave, lying naked in a ditch all night, and brought from thence to Monahan Ca&s;tle, where he lay long halfe dead, and benumed. Thus is poore <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> becau&s;e he will not lye with <HI>Poti|phars</HI> wife unju&s;tly condemned to a mi&s;erable bondage, becau&s;e we were betrothed to the Spou&s;e of Chri&s;t, and would not mingle our &s;elves with the harlot of Rome, therefore is the lapof our garment (our profe&s;&s;ion) made our de&s;truction. But the&s;e re&s;olved martyrs though tempted with the beauty of that Romi&s;h Thais, upon a holy con&s;ideration, ponder <HI>Jo|&s;ephs</HI> con&s;ultation, and with that armed them&s;elves again&s;t their tempta|tions, and their owne per&s;ecutions, &s;aying with him, <HI>Gen.</HI> 39.89. Be|hold my ma&s;ter knoweth not what he hath in the hou&s;e with me, but hath committed that he hath to mine hand, there is no man greater in this hou&s;e then I: neither hath he kept any thing from me, but only thee, becau&s;e thou art his wife, how then can I doe this great wickedne&s;&s;e, and &s;o &s;in again&s;t God? mi&s;take me not, I intend not to have that appli|cation hold in all the particulars, for I dare not derogate from Gods pre&s;ence, &s;o will I not arrogate to our Mini&s;tery giving them any thing that may more honour them, then that which will be onerous to them (the weightine&s;&s;e of their charge) &s;o great, that he is like unto <HI>I&s;&s;acar,</HI> or &s;o made. Thus far of the &s;laughters, deaths by the feaver, and cruell thraldomes of the Mini&s;tery. I come now to render an account of &s;uch as I left in Carickfergus, Belfa&s;t, Newry, Li&s;nygarvy, and the neighbou|ring parts, in &s;o unf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">thomed a mi&s;ery as my plum and line is to light and &s;hort to expre&s;&s;e their indigencies.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Cloggir</HI> of Dean Pari&s;h, Co. Cavan.</P>
<P>Mr. Doctor <HI>Tate</HI> of Ballihaire, In Cavan.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>White</HI> of Kilmore In Cavan.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Mo&s;&s;e</HI> of Newtowene in Fermanah.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Commin</HI> of Clankee in the Co. of Cavan.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Jenton &s;enior</HI> Cou. Down.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Jenton junior</HI> Coun. Antrim.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Slack</HI> of Callee hill Cou. Cavan.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Hud&s;on</HI> of Belturbutt Co. Cavan.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Henry Fethy,</HI> mr. <HI>James Fethy,</HI> mr. <HI>Lutefoot</HI> of Strangford, mr. <HI>Pa|trick Gar,</HI> thee thre <HI>Wat&s;ons,</HI> the father, &s;on and nephew, mr. <HI>Ma&s;&s;y,</HI> mr. <HI>James,</HI> mr. <HI>Jues,</HI> and mr. <HI>Paul Read</HI> of Black&s;taffe, both which were com|pelled to lead a hor&s;e and a carre with either hay or wood, for a groat or &s;ix pence a day to keep them&s;elves from fami&s;hing, mr. <HI>Wil&s;on</HI> of Enver,
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mr. <HI>John Dunbar,</HI> mr. <HI>George Le&s;ly,</HI> mr. <HI>Andrew Law,</HI> mr. <HI>Craford,</HI> mr. <HI>Ogleby,</HI> mr. <HI>Laurence Tomp&s;on,</HI> mr. <HI>Durry</HI> of Ballimenah, mr. <HI>James Tracy,</HI> mr. <HI>Hardir,</HI> mr. <HI>Walter Lamont,</HI> mr. <HI>Jorre&s;t</HI> of Dumagur, mr. <HI>Robert mc. Neal,</HI> mr. <HI>mc. Neale,</HI> mr. Dr. <HI>O Neale,</HI> mr. <HI>Veazy,</HI> mr. <HI>Major,</HI> mr. <HI>Back|&s;ter,</HI> mr. <HI>Charles Vaughan;</HI> mr. <HI>Cade,</HI> mr. <HI>Holland,</HI> mr. Dean <HI>Rhodes,</HI> mr. <HI>James Stewart</HI> of Garvahir, mr. <HI>David Roven</HI> of Redbay, mr. <HI>Nicholas Todd,</HI> mr. <HI>John Michel</HI> of Ana Clowen, mr. <HI>Hugh mc. Lecinan</HI> late of L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">akin-larke, mr. <HI>James Creighton,</HI> mr. <HI>James Melvin</HI> of Down-Patrick, mr. <HI>John&s;on</HI> mr. <HI>F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">erton,</HI> for di&s;tinction &s;ake called red <HI>Fullerton,</HI> mr. <HI>Monopeny,</HI> mr. <HI>James Port<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">s,</HI> mr. <HI>Downes,</HI> mr. <HI>James Downham,</HI> mr. <HI>Lam|bert,</HI> mr. <HI>Brooks,</HI> mr. <HI>Patrick Doncan,</HI> mr. Dr. <HI>Blare,</HI> mr. <HI>Jo&s;ter,</HI> mr. <HI>Hamil|ton,</HI> mr. <HI>Travis,</HI> mr. <HI>Thomas Stewart,</HI> mr. <HI>Bel,</HI> mr. <HI>Wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">et,</HI> mr. <HI>Woodridge.</HI> The&s;e with &s;ome others that e&s;caped like <HI>Jobs</HI> me&s;&s;engers to bring &s;ad tydings of their brethrens deaths, but not intermits, and are now on the dunghills of calamity with holy <HI>Job,</HI> finding as ill comfort as comforters, and &s;till hangs at the bloudy and dry paps of the Church in Ireland, whence they can draw nothing but winde, and that may be heard from their full &s;oules (though empty bellies) in their &s;ighes and groanes, the &s;ilent interpreters &s;peaking &s;orrows, &s;o that there needs no winde but that to overthrow their hou&s;es of clay.</P>
<P>Now if you plea&s;e &s;urvey with a commi&s;erating eye tho&s;e who&s;e wea|ried &s;teps, fainting bodies, and wounded &s;oules, have repaired to the Be|the&s;da of England for cure of their heart-rending &s;orrowes, where in all acknowledgements of gratefull humility, &s;ome of them have found the Angel &s;tirring the &s;overeigne balme water of your charities to their re|liefe, which many of the feebler &s;ort, either through weakne&s;&s;e of friends, abilities of expre&s;&s;ions, or a &s;elfe-killing mode&s;ty lye at the brinke unre|mied to them, divine Charity open the doores of thy Phy&s;icke, and Chy|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">urgery, and into their bleeding wounds poure thy oyle and thy wine, Samaritan-like eye the robbed and bleeding Levite, pay thy penny for his pre&s;ent harbour, and promi&s;e for a &s;lender remainder the&s;e underta|kings, Angelicall vertue &s;hall make thee be tran&s;lated with <HI>Enoch</HI> or <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|liahs</HI> in a fiery chariot, thy owne immortality will guide thee to the pre|&s;ervation of us mortallmen.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Mors</HI> of Fermanah, and Pari&s;h of Rammullie after he had beene robbed, and &s;tripped, was con&s;trained being &s;tarke naked to carry his two children twelve miles upon his backe, by which time &s;he grew &s;o &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">bated that his uxoriou&s;ne&s;&s;e prevailed beyond his paternall love to his children, &s;o in that a great agony of &s;pirit, he was forced to leave the
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fruit to the mercy of the enemies, and to pre&s;erve the tree carried his wife above eight miles upon his back, they being both naked, <HI>En<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">as</HI> could not out patern this affection to aged <HI>Anchi&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>From that Province are here under thy wings, as chickings &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ng famine that predatory Kite, Mr. <HI>Richard Buerowes,</HI> Mr. <HI>Baker,</HI> Mr. <HI>George Walker</HI> Mr. <HI>Bedle,</HI> Mr. Dr. <HI>Bayly</HI> of the Cou. Cavan, the two <HI>Sings</HI> of A haderick, the other of Dundalke; mr. <HI>John Freeman,</HI> mr. <HI>Hammond,</HI> mr, <HI>Bunburie,</HI> and as I heare his brother, mr. <HI>Boyle,</HI> mr. <HI>Cottingham, mr. Na|thaniel Draiton,</HI> mr. <HI>william Green,</HI> mr. <HI>Francis Symp&s;on,</HI> mr. <HI>Gabreath,</HI> mr. <HI>Coh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> mr. <HI>Henry Steel,</HI> mr. <HI>Edward Carter,</HI> mr. <HI>Clearke</HI> mr. <HI>Sempil,</HI> mr. <HI>Anthony,</HI> mr. <HI>Harrocks,</HI> mr. <HI>Philip Tandy,</HI> mr. <HI>Tinly,</HI> mr. <HI>Richard Head,</HI> mr. <HI>Kean.</HI> mr. <HI>Bradley,</HI> my unworthy &s;elfe, mr. <HI>James Reynolds,</HI> mr. <HI>Steere,</HI> mr. <HI>Leigh,</HI> mr. <HI>Diggery Holman,</HI> mr. <HI>Water hou&s;e.</HI> The&s;e &s;tars &s;hew in the lower or be, of the higher, is that famous, learned, and &s;tudious in gro&s;&s;er of learning, the late Lord Primate of Ardmagh <HI>&V;&s;her,</HI> the fluent and elegant <HI>Seneca</HI> of Rapho, the &s;olid and grave <HI>Buchworth</HI> of Deun|moore, quicke and Eagle eyed <HI>Singe</HI> of Cloyne. The learned, prompt, politick, and engine headed <HI>Bramhal</HI> of Derry. La&s;tly, one Clergy man more I finde who&s;e names &s;ake promi&s;es a &s;udden termination of all our &s;orrowes (without &s;peedy &s;uccors) and that is Mr. <HI>Death,</HI> Mini&s;ter of Seapatrick. Thus you finde among&s;t the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Clergy, an <HI>&V;&s;her</HI> and a <HI>Voyder,</HI> but no meat on their tables ;the&s;e with their charges are &s;it objects for <HI>Dorcus</HI> to cloath, the Sarepthan widow, or good <HI>Obadiahs</HI> to feed, and the Shunnamite to lodge, the prayers of which will revive thy dying or dead hopes, encrea&s;e thy decaying &s;tore, being raine to thine inberitance, and re&s;tore thy hurt, mained or dead i&s;&s;ue. La&s;tly, as thou ha&s;t opened thy bowells of compa&s;&s;ion, they &s;hall open to thee the gate called beautifull, that leads in to onrelder Brothers Fathers, where are many man&s;ions, for the poore for Chri&s;t, and of Chri&s;ts are <HI>janitores Coeli.</HI> And now I come to the two digre&s;&s;ions &s;pecified before.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t digre&s;&s;ion is form the &s;ubject. With mr. <HI>Fullerion</HI> was mur|dered Mr. <HI>Morgan Aubrey</HI> E&s;quire, and his man (who though no Mini|&s;ter) I have thought good to mention in regard of tho&s;e many deare tyes of love and friend&s;hip between us, to who&s;e di&s;a&s;trous death I dedicate this tragick remembrance as a monument of his &s;ufferings, and my &s;or|row, a Gentleman of an active, brave, and Roman &s;pirit, who&s;e brea&s;t was not only filled with plea&s;ing flames of learned Poetry, but the more heroick fire of re&s;olution, &s;weetly allayed with a mode&s;t and wel tempo|red di&s;po&s;ition; a man that had merited as much from that laethe drinker
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Sir <HI>Phelomy O Neal,</HI> as a Gentleman could, having effectually negotiated for him in many particulars of con&s;equence with the late Lord <HI>Strafford,</HI> to who&s;e Counte&s;&s;e he had been Gentleman u&s;her, yet was he all ingage|ments waved, betraied by letters of &s;afe conduct to a cruell and merci|le&s;&s;e butchery, fir&s;t &s;tripping him, then killing him at a bogs &s;ide. But on his &s;ervant <HI>Henry Lawrence</HI> (whom I have heard to be of a mighty &s;tature and valour) a Warwick&s;hire man, who by &s;urpri&s;ing one of the Rebels &s;words, having &s;laine foure or five before he was &s;ei&s;ed on, was &s;hewed that cruelty which was forborne to ravilliac the parricide of <HI>Henry</HI> the fourth, that <HI>Coelor</HI> of the the Flower <HI>du liz</HI> and was only exer|ci&s;ed by <HI>Cambi&s;es</HI> upon one of his unju&s;t judges who&s;e &s;kinne he &s;laied off, and nailed it to the tribunall, as a terrour to his &s;onne that &s;ucceeded him, had but &s;ome of ours been made &s;o exemplar, unju&s;t votes had not laden our Kingdome with the&s;e bloudy conte&s;tations. The Judges of I&s;rael rid on their white A&s;&s;es, to &s;hew I thinke as well their purity and innocency, as their patient undergoing the in&s;upportable weight of their callings; but it is feared &s;ome of them have not only ca&s;t off that integri|ty, but purity and con&s;tancy al&s;o, this <HI>Laurence</HI> after many wonnds re|ceived, they &s;lead &s;ome part of him, and &s;o le&s;t him cruelly murdered.</P>
<P>The &s;econd digre&s;&s;ion is from the Province, but &s;omething adhering to the Subject. But above all barbarous, inhumane, hetheni&s;h, and un|heard of murders, was that of Mrs. <HI>Smith&s;on</HI> a mini&s;ters wife living at the Kilne of the Grange within foure miles of Dublin, who being per&s;wa|ded to returne to her hou&s;e, in hope to have the Communion cup, and a barrell of wheat given her, all which was promi&s;ed by her &s;atanicall &s;e|ducer, her poverty having made her too credulous, &s;he went along with her maid &s;ervant, no &s;ooner had they gotten this unfortunate Gentlewo|man in their power, but they &s;tript her of her apparrell, &s;etting her na|ked a &s;tride upon a leane jade, tying heavy weights at her heeles, then with &s;tripes forced they the hor&s;e to runne through waters, and leap o|ver ditches, and to travell in the mo&s;t unea&s;ie pa&s;&s;ages till they brought her into their army, that &s;o they might not &s;eeke for any other then Pa|pi&s;ticall evidence of this their be&s;tiality; this u&s;age &s;he had untill her bo|dy was torne in a unheard of manner, feeding her with bread and water, which was rather affoarded to protract the mi&s;eries they intended her then to pre&s;erve or reprive a life, and when that her body could not any more be made a &s;pectacle of their &s;hame, &s;he was re&s;trained, where fir&s;t
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they cut off one care, boyld it, and rubbed it about her mouth, then the other, after that her no&s;e, u&s;ing them in the &s;ame manner, had <HI>Zopieus</HI> beene here to have &s;eene this picture in her face, he would have declined his notable re&s;olution; at la&s;t they put out her eyes, and when they &s;aw nature willing to ea&s;e her torments by di&s;&s;olution, and that mercifull death would &s;et a period to their butcheries, they h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nged her and her maid upon one bough, Her husband as before &s;he went having u&s;ed all po&s;&s;ible per&s;wa&s;ions to keep her from going, &s;o u&s;ed all manner of dili|gence to procure her returne, after he perceived &s;hee had cur&s;taied her intentions, bomplained to the State that &s;he was gone to Ju&s;tice <HI>Wol|ver&s;tons,</HI> who&s;e brother was then in Dublin (being both ob&s;tinate Pa|pi&s;ts) who being &s;ent for to the State, and admoni&s;hed of their jealou|&s;ies of the womans mi&s;carriage, prevailed to be &s;ent thither for her deli|very and re&s;toration, but finding her pa&s;t recover, de&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ted Dublin, his e&s;tate which was great, and obedience which was little, and turned Re|bell, which was no marvell; thus the&s;e cruell <HI>Benjamites</HI> for doubtle&s;&s;e they were &s;o in that other act of un&s;eemline&s;&s;e, did not abu&s;e the Concu|bine, but the virtuous wife of a Levite, the &s;tory of who&s;e mangled and macerated carka&s;&s;e I transfer to the eleven Tribes of our Engli&s;h I&s;rael, knowing they will conclude, having &s;een this &s;ad and di&s;mall &s;pectacle, as they did, <HI>Judges</HI> 19.30. And all that &s;aw it, &s;aid, there was no &s;uch thing done nor leen &s;ince the time that the children of I&s;rael came up from the land of Egypt unto this day.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider the matter, and con&s;ult and give &s;entence, then &s;hall we all dome&s;tick inte&s;tines laid apart, joyne with I&s;rael, to puni&s;h this damna|ble, and other facts of unpattern'd cruelty like them in the 20. of Judges 48. then ye men of I&s;rael returned unto the children of <HI>Benjamin,</HI> and &s;mote them with the edge of the &s;word, from the men of the City unto the bea&s;ts and all that came to hand: al&s;o they &s;et on fire all the Cities that they could come by, moreover the men of I&s;rael &s;ware in Mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">peh, &s;aying, none of us &s;hall give his daughter to the Benjamite, to wife: thus fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">re have I floated in the blood and brine, of the tribe of <HI>Levie,</HI> a &s;ubject &s;o terrible that I could not but mingle my incke with teares for whom I clo&s;e up to the tragicall di&s;cour&s;e with that lamentation of holy <HI>David</HI> for his friend <HI>Ionathan,</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 1.25, 26. <HI>How were the mightly &s;laine in the mid&s;t of the battell? O Ionathan thou wa&s;t &s;laine in thine high places. Woe is me for thee my brother Ionathan: very kinde ha&s;t thou been unto me; thy love to in was wonderfull, pa&s;&s;ing the love of women: how are the mighty men over|throwne, and the weapons of war de&s;troyed.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="15" REF="16">This martireloger of part of that Mini&s;tery, I was the rather induced to publi&s;h, inregard &s;ome calumnious tongues have charged the Iri&s;h Engli&s;h Clergy to adhere to the Romi&s;h faction and fictions, which had they done they had &s;aved their lives and e&s;tates, with the lo&s;&s;e of their &s;oules, but they with holy <HI>Philpot</HI> have &s;ealed their zeal to the Go&s;pel, by the effu&s;ion of their blouds, confu&s;ion of e&s;tates, taking a mi&s;erable exile with <HI>Iohn</HI> to <HI>Pathmos,</HI> where I hope God will reveale him&s;elfe to them in their &s;traightne&s;&s;e to their comfort, and his glory, to whom be a&s;cribed all honour, and glory, now and for evermore, Amen.</P>
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