The crown & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…The crovvn & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…

There was not one of those persecuting Emperors that carried on the Ten bloody persecutions against the Saints, but came to miserable ends; yea Histories tell us of three and forty persecuting Emperors, who fell under the revenging hand of God, and came to untimely ends. Among the many thousand thousands of instances that might be given of the Judgements of God that have fallen upon the persecutors of the people of God in these latter days, I shall only give you a few. Faelix Earle of Wartenburge was a great persecutor of the Saints, and swore that ere he dyed he would ride up to the spurs in the blood of the Lutherans; but the very same night wherein he had thus sworn and vowed, he was choked with his own blood: nothing would serve him but the blood of Gods people, and God makes him drunk with his own blood. Sir Thomas More, once Lord Chancellor of England, was a sworn enemy to the Gospel, and persecuted the Saints with fire and faggot; and amongst all his praises, he reckons this the chiefest, that he had been a persecutor of the Lutherans, i. e. the Saints; but what became of him? he was first accused of Treason, and then condemned, and at last beheaded. Judge Morgan was a great persecutor of the people of God; but shortly after he had passed the sentence ⟨p. 385⟩of condemnation upon that virtuous Lady, the Lady Jane Grey, he fell mad, and in his mad raving fits he would continually cry out, Take away the Lady Jane, take away the Lady Jane from me; and in that horror he ended his wretched life. Drahomira, after the death of her husband, usurped the Government of Bohemia, and was a cruel persecutor of the people of God; but by a righteous hand of God it so fell out, that on that very place where the Ministers bones lay unburied, the earth opened of it self, and swallowed her up alive, with her Chariot and those that were in it, which place is now to be seen before the Castle of Prague. ¹The Arch-Bishop of Tours was an earnest Suitor for the erection of a Court called Chamber Ardent, for the condemning of the French Protestants to the fire, but before he dyed he had fire enough, for he was stricken with a disease called, The Fire of God, which began at his feet, and so ascended upward, which occasioned one member to be cut off after another, and so he ended his miserable days.

There was not one of those persecuting Emperours that carried on the Ten bloody persecutions against the Saints, but came to miserable ends; yea Histories tell us of three and forty persecuting Emperours, who fell under the revenging hand of God, and came to untimely ends. Among the many thousand thousands of instances that might be given of the Judgements of God that have fallen upon the persecutors of the people of God in these latter dayes, I shall only give you a few. Faelix Earle of Wartenburge was a great persecutor of the Saints, and swore that ere he dyed he would ride up to the spurs in the blood of the Lutherans; but the very same night wherein he had thus sworne and vowed, he was choaked with his own blood: nothing would serve him but the blood of Gods people, and God makes him drunk with his own blood. Sir Thomas More, once Lord Chancelour of England, was a sworn enemy to the Gospel, and persecuted the Saints with fire and faggot; and amongst all his praises, he reckons this the chiefest, that he had been a persecutor of the Lutherans, i. e. the Saints; but what became of him? he was first accused of Treason, and then condemned, and at last beheaded. Judge Morgan was a great persecutor of the people of God; but shortly after he had passed the sentence