THE
VNNATVRALL
FATHER
.
AS
a
chaine
consists
of
diuers
linkes
,
and
euery
linke
depends
and
is
inyoak'd
vpon
one
another
:
Euen
so
our
sinnes
,
being
the
Chaine
wherewith
Satan
doth
binde
and
manacle
vs
,
are
so
knit
,
twisted
,
and
sodered
together
,
that
without
our
firme
faith
ascending
,
and
Gods
grace
descending
,
wee
can
neuer
bee
freed
from
those
infernall
fetters
;
for
Sloth
is
linked
with
Drunkennes
,
Drunkennes
with
Fornication
and
Adultery
,
&
Adultery
with
Murder
,
and
so
of
al
the
rest
of
the
temptations
,
suggestions
and
actions
,
wherewith
miserable
men
and
women
are
insnared
,
and
led
captiue
into
perpetuall
perdition
,
except
the
mercy
of
our
gracious
God
be
our
defence
and
safegard
.
For
a
lamentable
example
of
the
Diuels
malice
,
and
mans
misery
,
this
party
,
of
whom
I
treat
at
this
time
,
was
a
wretch
,
not
to
be
matched
,
a
fellow
not
be
fellowed
,
&
one
that
scarce
hath
an
equall
,
for
matchlesse
misery
,
and
vnnaturall
Murther
.
But
to
the
matter
.
This
Iohn
Rowse
being
a
Fishmonger
in
London
,
gaue
ouer
his
trade
,
and
liued
altogether
in
the
Towne
of
Ewell
,
neere
Nonesuch
,
in
the
County
of
Surry
,
ten
miles
from
London
,
where
he
had
Land
of
his
owne
for
himselfe
and
his
heires
for
euer
to
the
value
of
fifty
pounds
a
yeere
,
with
which
hee
liued
in
good
and
honest
fashion
,
being
well
reputed
of
all
his
neighbours
,
and
in
good
estimation
with
Gentlemen
and
others
that
dwelt
in
the
adioyning
Villages
.
Vntill
at
the
last
he
married
a
very
honest
and
comely
woman
,
with
whom
hee
liued
quietly
and
in
good
fashion
some
six
moneths
,
till
the
Diuell
sent
an
instrument
of
his
,
to
disturbe
their
Matrimoniall
happinesse
:
for
they
wanting
a
Maidseruant
,
did
entertain
into
their
house
a
Wench
,
whose
name
was
Iane
Bl●ndell
,
who
in
short
time
was
better
acquainted
with
her
Masters
bed
then
honesty
required
,
which
in
time
was
found
out
and
knowne
by
her
Mistris
,
and
brake
the
peace
,
in
such
sort
,
betweene
the
said
Rowse
and
his
Wife
,
that
in
the
end
,
after
two
yeeres
continuance
,
it
brake
the
poore
womans
heart
,
that
she
dyed
&
left
her
Husband
a
widdower
,
where
he
and
his
Whore
were
the
more
free
to
vse
their
cursed
contentments
,
and
vngodly
embracements
.
Yet
that
estate
of
being
vnmarried
was
displeasing
to
him
,
so
that
he
tooke
to
wife
another
woman
,
who
for
her
outward
feature
,
and
inward
qualities
was
euery
way
fit
for
a
very
honest
man
,
although
it
were
her
hard
fortune
to
match
otherwise
.
With
this
last
Wife
of
his
he
liued
much
discontented
,
by
reason
of
his
keeping
his
lewd
Tr●ll
in
his
house
,
so
that
by
his
dayly
Ryot
,
excessiue
drinking
,
&
vnproportionable
spending
,
his
estate
began
to
be
much
impouerished
,
much
of
his
Land
morgag'd
and
forfeited
,
himselfe
aboue
two
hundred
pounds
indebted
,
and
in
processe
of
time
to
be
(
as
a
lewd
liuer
)
of
all
his
honest
neighbours
reiected
and
contemned
.
His
estate
and
credit
being
almost
past
recouerie
wasted
and
impaired
,
he
forsooke
his
Wife
,
came
vp
to
London
with
his
Wench
,
where
hee
fell
in
new
league
with
a
corrupted
friend
;
who
(
as
he
said
)
did
most
courteously
coozen
him
of
all
that
euer
he
had
,
&
whom
at
this
time
I
forbeare
to
name
;
because
it
was
Iohn
Rowse
his
request
before
his
execution
,
that
he
should
not
be
named
in
any
Booke
or
Ballad
,
but
yet
vpon
a
Dye
his
name
may
be
picked
out
betwixt
a
sinke
&
a
trey
.
This
false
friend
of
his
(
as
he
said
)
did
perswade
him
to
leaue
his
Wife
for
altogether
,
and
did
lodge
and
boord
him
and
his
paramore
certaine
weekes
in
his
house
,
and
afterward
caused
him
and
her
to
be
lodged
(
hauing
chang'd
his
name
)
as
Man
and
Wife
in
an
honest
mans
house
neere
Bishopsgate
,
at
Beuis
Marks
,
where
they
continued
so
long
,
till
his
money
was
gone
,
(
as
indeede
he
neuer
had
much
,
but
now
and
then
small
petty
summes
from
his
secret
friend
aforesaid
)
and
he
being
fearefull
to
bee
smoak'd
out
by
his
Creditors
,
was
counselled
to
leaue
his
Country
,
and
depart
for
Ireland
;
and
before
his
going
ouer-Sea
,
his
friend
wrought
so
,
that
all
his
Land
was
made
ouer
in
trust
to
him
,
and
Bonds
,
Couenants
,
and
Leases
made
,
as
fully
bought
and
sold
for
a
summe
of
two
hundred
and
threescore
pounds
;
of
all
which
money
the
said
Rowse
did
take
the
Sacrament
and
his
death
,
that
hee
neuer
did
receiue
one
penny
,
but
hee
said
that
now
and
then
he
had
fiue
or
ten
shillings
at
a
time
from
his
said
friend
,
and
neuer
aboue
twenty
shillings
,
and
that
all
that
euer
he
had
of
him
,
being
summ'd
together
,
was
not
aboue
three
&
twenty
pounds
,
the
which
moneys
his
friend
did
pay
himselfe
out
of
his
Rents
.
But
some
more
friend
to
him
,
then
he
was
to
himselfe
,
did
doubt
that
he
was
cheated
of
his
Land
:
whereupon
(
to
make
all
sure
)
he
said
that
his
false
friend
did
so
farre
preuaile
with
him
,
that
hee
the
said
Rowse
tooke
an
Oath
in
the
open
Court
at
Westminster
Hall
,
that
hee
had
lawfully
sold
his
Land
,
and
had
receiued
the
summe
abouesaid
,
in
full
satisfaction
and
paiment
,
and
his
said
friend
did
vow
and
protest
many
times
vnto
him
,
with
such
oathes
and
vehement
curses
,
that
he
neuer
would
deceiue
his
trust
,
but
that
at
any
time
when
hee
would
command
all
those
forged
Bonds
and
Leases
,
that
hee
would
surrender
them
vnto
him
,
and
that
hee
should
neuer
be
damnifide
by
them
or
him
,
to
the
value
of
one
halfe-penny
.
Vpon
which
protestations
(
hee
said
)
he
was
enticed
to
vndoe
himselfe
out
of
all
his
earthly
possessions
,
&
by
a
false
oath
to
make
hazard
of
his
inheritance
in
Heauen
.
In
Ireland
he
stayd
not
long
,
but
came
ouer
againe
,
and
was
by
his
friend
perswaded
to
goe
into
the
Low
Countries
:
which
he
did
,
neuer
minding
his
Wife
and
two
small
Children
which
he
had
by
her
,
hauing
likewise
a
brace
of
bastards
by
his
Whore
(
as
some
say
)
but
he
said
that
but
one
of
them
was
of
his
begetting
.
But
he
,
after
some
stay
in
Holland
,
saw
that
he
could
not
fadge
there
,
according
to
his
desire
,
and
withall
,
suspecting
that
he
was
cheated
of
his
Land
,
and
aboue
all
,
much
perplexed
in
his
Conscience
for
the
false
oath
that
he
had
taken
,
pondering
his
miserable
estate
,
and
ruing
his
vnkindnesse
to
his
Wife
,
and
vnnaturall
dealing
to
his
Children
,
thinking
with
himselfe
what
course
were
best
to
take
to
helpe
himselfe
out
of
so
many
miseries
which
did
incompasse
him
,
he
came
ouer
againe
into
England
to
his
too
deare
friend
,
demanding
of
him
his
Bonds
and
Leas●s
of
his
Land
which
hee
had
put
him
in
trust
withall
.
But
then
his
friend
did
manifest
himselfe
what
he
was
,
and
told
him
plainly
,
that
he
had
no
writings
,
not
any
Land
of
his
,
but
what
hee
had
dearely
bought
and
paid
for
.
All
which
(
Rowse
replyed
vnto
him
)
was
false
,
as
his
owne
Conscience
knew
.
Then
said
the
other
,
haue
I
not
heere
in
my
custody
your
hand
and
Seale
to
confirme
my
lawfull
possession
of
your
Land
?
and
moreouer
haue
I
not
a
Record
of
an
Oath
in
open
Court
,
which
you
tooke
concerning
the
truth
of
all
our
bargaine
?
And
seeing
that
I
haue
all
these
especiall
points
of
the
Law
,
as
an
Oath
,
Indentures
,
and
a
sure
possession
,
take
what
course
you
will
,
for
I
am
resolued
to
hold
what
I
haue
.
These
(
or
the
like
)
words
,
in
effect
passed
betwixt
Rowse
and
his
Friend
(
Trusty
Roger
)
which
entring
at
his
eares
,
pierced
his
heart
like
Daggers
;
and
beeing
out
of
money
and
Credit
,
a
man
much
infamous
for
his
bad
life
,
indebted
beyond
all
possible
meanes
of
paiment
;
a
periured
wretch
to
coozen
himselfe
,
hauing
no
place
or
meanes
to
feede
or
lodge
,
and
fearefull
of
being
arrested
,
hauing
so
much
abused
his
Wife
,
and
so
little
regarded
his
Children
,
being
now
brought
to
the
pits
brim
of
desperation
,
not
knowing
amongst
these
calamities
which
way
to
turne
himselfe
,
hee
resolued
at
last
to
goe
home
to
Ewell
againe
to
his
much
wronged
Wife
,
for
his
last
refuge
in
extremitie
.
The
poore
Woman
receiued
him
with
ioy
,
and
his
Children
with
all
gladnesse
welcomed
home
the
prodigall
Father
,
with
whom
he
remained
in
much
discontentment
and
perplexitie
of
minde
:
the
Diuell
still
tempting
him
〈◊〉
mischiefe
and
despaire
;
putting
him
in
minde
of
his
〈…〉
better
estate
,
comparing
pleasures
past
with
present
miseries
,
and
hee
re●oluing
that
hee
had
beene
a
man
in
that
Towne
had
beene
a
Gentlemans
companion
,
of
good
Reputation
and
Calling
,
that
hee
had
Friends
,
Lands
,
Money
,
Apparell
,
and
Credit
,
with
meanes
sufficient
to
haue
left
for
the
maintenance
of
his
Family
,
and
that
now
he
had
nothing
left
him
but
pouerty
and
beggery
,
and
that
his
two
Children
were
like
to
be
left
to
go
from
doore
to
doore
for
their
liuing
.
Being
thus
tormented
and
tost
with
restlesse
imaginations
;
hee
seeing
dayly
to
his
further
griefe
,
the
poore
case
of
his
children
,
and
fearing
that
worse
would
befall
them
hereafter
,
hee
resolued
to
worke
some
meanes
to
take
away
their
languishing
liues
,
by
a
speedy
&
vntimely
death
,
the
which
practise
of
his
(
by
the
Diuels
instigation
and
assistance
)
he
effected
as
followeth
.
To
bee
sure
that
no
body
should
stop
or
preuent
his
diuellish
enterprise
;
hee
sent
his
Wife
to
London
in
a
friuolous
errand
,
for
a
riding
Coate
:
and
she
being
gone
somewhat
timely
,
and
too
soone
in
the
morning
,
both
her
Children
being
in
bed
and
fast
asleepe
,
beeing
two
very
pretty
Girles
,
one
of
the
age
of
sixe
yeeres
,
and
the
other
foure
yeeres
old
,
none
being
in
the
house
but
themselues
,
their
vnfortunate
Father
,
and
his
ghostly
Counsellor
,
the
dores
being
fast
locked
,
hee
hauing
an
excellent
Spring
of
water
in
the
Seller
of
his
house
(
which
,
to
a
good
minde
that
would
haue
imploy'd
it
well
,
would
haue
beene
a
blessing
:
for
the
water
is
of
that
Christaline
purity
,
and
cleerenesse
,
that
Queen
Elizabeth
of
famous
memory
would
dayly
send
for
it
for
her
owne
vse
)
in
which
hee
purposed
to
drowne
his
poore
innocent
children
sleeping
:
for
he
going
into
the
Chamber
where
they
lay
,
took
the
yongest
of
〈◊〉
named
Elizabeth
forth
of
her
bed
,
and
carried
her
〈◊〉
the
Stayres
into
his
Seller
,
and
there
put
her
in
the
Spring
of
Water
,
holding
downe
her
head
vnder
that
pure
Element
with
his
hands
,
till
at
last
the
poore
harmelesse
soule
and
body
parted
one
from
another
.
Which
first
Act
of
this
his
inhumane
Tragedy
being
ended
,
hee
carried
the
dead
corps
vp
three
payre
of
stayres
,
and
laying
it
downe
on
the
floore
,
left
it
,
and
went
down
into
the
Chamber
where
his
other
Daughter
,
named
Marry
,
was
in
bed
;
being
newly
awaked
,
and
seeing
her
father
,
demanded
of
him
where
her
Sister
was
?
To
whom
he
made
answer
that
he
would
bring
her
where
she
was
.
So
taking
her
in
his
armes
,
hee
carried
her
downe
towards
the
Seller
:
and
as
hee
was
on
the
Seller
stayres
,
shee
asked
him
what
he
would
doe
,
and
whither
he
would
carry
her
?
Feare
nothing
,
my
Child
(
quoth
hee
)
I
will
bring
thee
vp
againe
presently
:
and
being
come
to
the
Spring
,
as
before
hee
had
done
with
the
other
,
so
hee
performed
his
last
vnfatherly
deed
vpon
her
,
&
to
be
as
good
as
his
word
,
carried
her
vp
the
stayres
&
laid
her
by
her
sister
;
that
done
,
he
laid
them
out
,
and
couered
them
both
with
a
sheete
,
walking
vp
and
downe
his
house
,
weeping
and
lamenting
his
owne
misery
,
and
his
friends
treachery
,
that
was
the
maine
ground
of
all
his
misfortunes
,
&
the
death
of
his
Children
:
and
though
there
was
time
and
opportunity
enough
for
him
to
flye
,
&
to
seeke
for
safety
;
yet
the
burthen
and
guilt
of
his
conscience
was
so
heauy
to
him
,
and
his
desperate
case
was
so
extreme
,
that
hee
neuer
offered
to
depart
;
but
as
a
man
weary
of
his
life
,
would
,
and
did
stay
,
till
such
time
as
hee
was
apprehended
and
sent
to
Prison
,
where
he
lay
till
he
was
rewarded
with
a
iust
deserued
death
.
What
his
other
intents
were
,
after
hee
had
drowned
his
Children
,
is
vncertaine
;
for
hee
drew
his
sword
and
laid
it
naked
on
a
Table
,
and
after
,
he
gate
a
poore
woman
downe
into
the
Seller
,
and
in
the
same
place
where
the
two
Infants
lost
their
liues
,
hee
did
helpe
the
woman
to
wring
a
Bucke
of
his
clothes
,
and
then
he
requested
her
to
help
to
conuey
his
goods
out
of
his
house
;
for
hee
said
that
hee
feared
that
the
Sheriffe
of
Surry
would
come
and
seaze
vpon
all
.
But
the
woman
not
thinking
of
any
of
the
harme
that
was
done
,
imagined
that
he
had
meant
that
his
goods
would
be
seazed
for
debt
,
and
not
for
murther
.
But
to
returne
to
the
miserable
Mother
of
the
murdered
Children
,
shee
said
that
her
heart
throbbed
all
day
,
as
fore-boading
some
heauy
mischance
to
come
:
and
hauing
done
her
businesse
that
shee
came
about
to
London
,
as
soone
as
shee
came
home
,
she
asked
for
her
Children
,
to
whom
her
Husband
answered
that
they
were
at
a
neighbours
house
in
the
Towne
.
Then
said
she
,
I
will
goe
thither
to
fetch
them
home
.
No
quoth
he
,
I
will
goe
my selfe
presently
for
them
.
Then
said
his
wife
,
let
the
poore
woman
that
is
heere
goe
and
bring
them
home
.
But
at
last
she
saw
such
delay
was
vsed
,
she
was
going
her selfe
;
then
her
Husband
told
her
that
hee
had
sent
them
to
a
Kinsmans
of
his
at
a
Village
called
Sutton
,
foure
miles
from
Ewell
,
and
that
hee
had
prouided
well
for
them
,
and
prayd
▪
her
to
bee
contented
and
feare
nothing
,
for
they
were
well
.
These
double
tales
of
his
,
made
her
to
doubt
somwhat
was
amisse
:
therefore
shee
intreated
him
for
Gods
sake
to
tell
her
truely
where
they
were
.
Wherevpon
he
said
,
If
you
will
needs
know
where
they
are
,
goe
but
vp
the
staires
into
such
a
Chamber
,
and
there
you
shall
finde
them
.
But
in
what
a
lamentable
perplexity
of
mind
the
poore
woman
was
when
shee
perceiued
how
and
which
way
they
lost
their
liues
,
any
Christian
that
hath
an
heart
of
flesh
may
imagine
.
Presently
the
Constable
was
sent
for
,
who
tooke
him
into
his
custody
,
who
amongst
other
talke
,
demanded
of
him
why
and
how
hee
could
commit
so
vnnaturall
a
fact
,
as
to
murder
his
Children
?
To
whom
he
answered
,
that
he
did
it
,
because
he
was
not
able
to
keepe
them
,
and
that
hee
was
loth
they
should
goe
about
the
Towne
a
begging
:
and
moreouer
,
that
they
were
his
owne
,
and
being
so
,
that
hee
might
doe
what
hee
would
with
them
,
and
that
they
had
their
liues
from
him
,
and
therefore
he
had
taken
their
liues
from
them
,
and
was
contented
to
lose
his
life
for
them
:
for
he
was
sure
that
their
miseries
were
past
,
and
for
his
part
,
he
had
an
assured
hope
to
goe
to
them
,
though
they
could
not
come
to
him
.
So
being
had
before
a
Iustice
,
his
Examination
was
very
briefe
;
for
he
confest
all
the
whole
circumstances
of
the
matter
freely
;
so
that
he
was
sent
to
the
common
Prison
of
Surry
,
cal'd
the
White
Lyon
,
where
hee
remained
fourteene
or
fifteene
weekes
a
wonderfull
penitent
Prisoner
,
neuer
,
or
very
seldome
,
being
without
a
Bible
or
some
other
good
booke
meditating
vpon
;
and
whon
any
one
did
but
mention
his
Children
,
he
would
fetch
a
deep
sigh
,
and
weepe
,
desiring
euery
one
to
pray
for
him
and
vpon
his
owne
earnest
request
,
he
was
praide
for
at
Pauls
Crosse
,
and
at
most
of
the
Churches
in
London
,
and
at
many
in
the
Country
,
and
at
the
Sessions
holden
at
Croydon
,
the
latter
end
of
Iune
last
,
he
made
such
free
confession
at
the
Barre
,
declaring
the
manner
of
his
life
,
his
odious
Drinking
,
his
abominable
Whoring
,
his
cruell
Murther
,
and
the
false
dealing
of
his
deceitfull
friend
,
which
was
the
cause
of
his
finall
wracke
:
with
which
Relations
of
his
pronounced
,
with
such
vehemency
and
protestations
,
he
moued
all
that
heard
him
to
commiseration
and
pitie
.
So
,
according
to
Law
and
Iustice
,
he
was
there
condemned
and
iudged
(
for
the
murthering
of
his
two
Children
)
to
be
hang'd
;
which
Iudgement
was
executed
on
him
at
the
common
Gallowes
at
Croydon
,
on
Munday
the
second
day
of
Iune
,
1621.
where
he
dyed
with
great
penitency
and
remorce
of
Conscience
.
This
was
the
lamentable
end
of
Iohn
Rowse
,
a
man
of
the
age
of
fifty
yeeres
,
and
one
that
might
haue
liu'd
and
dyed
in
better
fashion
,
if
he
had
laid
hold
on
the
grace
of
heauen
,
and
craued
Gods
protection
and
fatherly
assistance
:
but
of
all
that
herein
is
declared
,
this
one
thing
which
I
now
declare
,
is
most
lamentable
&
remarkable
;
which
is
,
that
Ewell
being
a
Market
Towne
,
not
much
aboue
ten
miles
from
London
,
in
a
Christian
Kingdome
,
and
such
a
Kingdome
,
where
the
all-sauing
Word
of
the
euer-liuing
God
is
most
diligently
,
sincerely
,
and
plentifully
preached
;
&
yet
amidst
this
diligence
,
as
it
were
in
the
Circle
or
Center
of
this
sincerity
,
and
in
the
floud
of
this
plenty
,
the
Towne
of
Ewell
hath
neither
Preacher
nor
Pastor
:
for
although
the
Parsonage
be
able
to
maintaine
a
sufficient
Preacher
,
yet
the
liuing
beeing
in
a
Lay-mans
hand
,
is
rented
out
to
another
for
a
great
sum
,
&
yet
no
Preacher
maintained
there
.
Now
the
chief
Landlord
out
of
his
portion
,
doth
allow
but
seuen
pounds
yeerely
for
a
Reader
,
and
the
other
that
doth
hyre
the
Parsonage
at
a
great
Rent
,
doth
giue
the
said
Reader
foure
pound
the
yeere
more
out
of
his
meanes
and
courtesie
:
and
by
this
meanes
the
Towne
is
serued
with
a
poore
old
man
that
is
halfe
blinde
,
and
by
reason
of
his
age
can
scarcely
read
:
for
all
the
world
knowes
,
that
so
small
a
stipend
cannot
finde
a
good
Preacher
Bookes
,
and
very
hardly
bread
to
liue
on
;
so
that
the
poore
soules
dwelling
there
,
are
in
danger
of
famishing
,
for
want
of
a
good
Preacher
to
breake
the
Bread
of
Life
vnto
them
:
for
a
Sermon
amongst
them
,
is
as
rare
as
warm
weather
in
December
,
or
Ice
in
Iuly
:
both
which
I
haue
seene
in
England
,
though
but
seldome
.
And
as
the
Wolfe
is
most
bold
with
the
Sheepe
,
when
there
is
either
no
Shepheard
,
or
an
impotent
insufficient
one
,
so
the
Diuell
(
perhaps
)
tooke
his
aduantage
of
this
wretched
man
,
seeing
he
was
so
badly
guarded
,
&
so
weakely
guided
to
withstand
his
force
and
malice
:
for
where
God
is
least
known
and
called
vpon
,
there
Satan
hath
most
power
and
domination
.
But
howsoeuer
,
I
wish
with
all
my
heart
,
that
that
Towne
and
many
more
were
better
prouided
then
they
are
,
and
then
such
numbers
of
soules
would
not
be
in
hazzard
to
perish
;
nor
so
many
sufficient
schollers
that
can
preach
and
teach
well
,
liue
in
penury
through
want
of
maintenance
.
I
could
runne
further
vpon
this
point
,
but
that
I
doe
shortly
purpose
to
touch
it
more
to
the
quick
in
another
Booke
.
By
this
mans
fall
,
we
may
see
an
example
of
Gods
Iustice
against
Drunkennes
,
Whoredome
,
and
Murder
;
the
Diuel
being
the
first
Author
,
who
was
a
Murtherer
from
the
beginning
:
who
fil'd
Cain
with
Enuy
,
that
hee
murdered
his
brother
Abel
:
who
tempted
Dauid
first
to
Adultery
,
and
afterwards
to
Murther
;
who
prouoked
Herod
to
cause
the
blessed
Seruant
of
God
Iohn
Baptist
to
lose
his
head
,
because
hee
told
him
it
was
not
lawfull
for
him
to
marry
his
brother
Philips
Wife
;
and
who
was
the
prouoker
of
the
aforesaid
Herod
to
murther
all
the
innocent
male
children
in
his
Kingdome
.
And
let
vs
but
marke
and
consider
the
plagues
and
punishments
that
God
hath
inflicted
vpon
Murderers
,
Adulterers
,
and
Incestuous
persons
:
First
,
Cain
,
although
by
his
birth
hee
was
the
first
man
that
euer
was
borne
,
a
Prince
by
his
birth
,
and
heire
apparant
to
all
the
world
;
yet
for
the
Murther
by
him
committed
on
his
brother
,
he
was
the
first
Vagabond
and
Runnagate
on
the
face
of
the
earth
,
almost
fearefull
of
his
owne
shaddow
:
and
after
he
had
liued
along
time
terrifide
in
Conscience
,
was
himselfe
slaine
(
as
is
supposed
)
by
Lamech
.
Simeon
and
Leu●
the
sonnes
of
Iacob
were
accurst
of
their
Father
for
the
slaughter
of
the
Sichemites
;
Ioab
the
Captaine
of
Dauids
Host
,
was
slaine
for
the
murthering
of
Abner
;
Dauid
himselfe
,
for
the
death
of
Vrias
,
and
the
Adultery
committed
with
Bethsheba
,
was
continually
plagued
and
vexed
with
the
Sword
of
Warre
,
with
the
Rebellion
of
his
owne
sonnes
,
and
with
the
vntimely
deaths
of
Amnon
,
and
Abs●lon
.
Baanah
and
R●chab
,
for
the
slaying
of
Ishbosheth
the
sonne
of
Saul
,
they
were
both
by
Dauids
commandement
put
to
death
,
who
had
both
their
hands
and
feete
cut
off
,
&
were
afterward
hanged
ouer
the
Poole
in
Hebron
:
Samuel
2.
4.
The
examples
are
infinite
out
of
diuine
and
humane
Histories
,
that
God
did
neuer
suffer
Murder
to
goe
vnrewarded
:
and
this
miserable
man
,
of
whom
I
haue
heere
related
,
is
a
most
manifest
spectacle
of
Gods
reuenging
vengeance
,
for
that
crying
and
hainous
sinne
.
As
concerning
Lust
and
Incontinency
,
it
is
a
short
pleasure
,
bought
with
long
paine
,
a
hunnied
poyson
,
a
Gul●●●
of
Shame
,
a
Pickpurse
,
a
breeder
of
Diseases
,
a
gall
to
the
Conscience
,
a
corrosiue
to
the
heart
,
turning
mans
wit
into
foolish
madnesse
,
the
bodies
bane
,
and
the
soules
perdition
:
it
is
excessiue
in
youth
,
and
odious
in
age
;
besides
,
God
himselfe
doth
denounce
most
fearefull
threats
against
Fornicators
and
Adulterers
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
that
Whoremongers
and
Adulterers
shall
not
inherit
the
Kingdome
of
Heauen
,
1.
Cor.
6.
9.
And
God
himselfe
saith
,
that
he
will
be
a
swift
witnes
against
Adulterers
,
Mal.
3.
5.
And
the
Wise
man
saith
,
that
because
of
the
whorish
woman
,
a
man
is
brought
to
a
morsell
of
bread
,
and
a
woman
will
hunt
for
the
precious
life
of
a
man
:
For
,
saith
he
,
can
a
man
take
fire
in
his
bosome
,
and
his
cloathes
not
bee
burnt
?
or
can
a
man
goe
vpon
hot
Coales
,
and
his
feete
not
be
burnt
?
So
hee
that
goeth
in
to
his
neighbours
Wife
,
shall
not
be
innocent
,
Prou.
6.
27
,
28
,
29.
Abimelech
,
one
of
the
sonnes
of
Gedeon
,
murdered
threescore
and
ten
of
his
Brethren
;
and
in
reward
thereof
(
by
the
iust
Iudgement
of
God
)
a
woman
with
a
piece
of
a
Milstone
beate
out
his
braines
,
after
hee
had
vsurped
the
Kingdome
three
yeeres
,
Iudges
the
9.
Our
English
Chronicles
make
mention
,
that
Roger
Mortimer
,
Lord
Baron
of
Wallingford
,
murdered
his
Master
King
Edward
the
second
,
and
caused
the
Kings
Vncle
,
Edmund
Earle
of
Kent
,
causelessely
to
bee
beheaded
:
but
Gods
Iustice
ouertooke
him
at
last
,
so
that
for
the
said
Murders
hee
was
shamefully
executed
.
Humphrey
Duke
of
Glocester
was
murdered
in
the
Abbey
of
Bury
by
William
de
la
Poole
Duke
of
Suffolke
,
who
afterward
was
beheaded
himselfe
on
the
Sea
by
a
Pyrat
.
Arden
of
Feuersham
,
and
Page
of
Plimmouth
,
both
their
Murders
are
fresh
in
memory
,
and
the
fearefull
ends
of
their
Wiues
and
their
Ayders
in
those
bloudy
actions
will
neuer
bee
forgotten
.
It
is
too
manifestly
knowne
,
what
a
number
of
Stepmothers
and
Strumpets
haue
most
inhumanely
murdred
their
Children
,
and
for
the
same
haue
most
deseruedly
been
executed
.
But
in
the
memory
of
man
(
nor
scarcely
in
any
History
)
it
is
not
to
be
found
,
that
a
Father
did
euer
take
two
Innocent
Children
out
of
their
beds
,
and
with
weeping
teares
of
pittilesse
pitie
,
and
vnmercifull
mercy
,
to
drowne
them
,
shewing
such
compassionate
cruelty
,
and
sorrowfull
sighing
remorcelesse
remorce
in
that
most
vnfatherly
and
vnnaturall
deede
.
All
which
may
be
attributed
to
the
malice
of
the
Diuell
,
whose
will
and
endeuour
is
that
none
should
be
saued
,
who
layes
out
his
traps
and
snares
,
intangling
some
with
Lust
,
some
with
Couetousnesse
,
some
with
Ambition
,
Drunkennesse
,
Enuy
,
Murder
,
Sloth
,
or
any
Vice
whereto
hee
sees
a
man
or
a
woman
inclined
most
vnto
,
as
hee
did
by
this
wretched
man
,
lulling
him
,
as
it
were
,
in
the
cradle
of
sensuality
,
and
vngodly
delight
,
vntill
such
time
as
all
his
meanes
,
Reputation
,
and
Credit
was
gone
,
and
nothing
left
him
but
misery
and
reproach
.
Then
hee
leades
him
along
through
doubts
and
feares
,
to
haue
no
hope
in
Gods
Prouidence
,
perswading
his
Conscience
that
his
sinnes
were
vnpardonable
,
and
his
Estate
and
Credit
vnrecouerable
.
With
these
suggestions
,
he
led
him
on
to
despaire
,
and
in
desperation
to
kill
his
Children
,
and
make
shipwracke
of
his
owne
Soule
,
in
which
the
diligence
of
the
Diuel
appeareth
,
that
he
labours
and
trauels
vncessantly
:
and
as
Saint
Bernard
saith
,
in
the
last
day
shall
rise
in
condemnation
against
vs
,
because
he
hath
euer
been
more
diligent
to
destroy
soules
,
then
wee
haue
been
to
saue
them
.
And
for
a
Conclusion
,
let
vs
beseech
God
of
his
infinite
mercy
to
defend
vs
from
all
the
subtill
temptations
of
Satan
.