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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69939	An afflicted man's testimony concerning his troubles	Edwards, Charles, 1627 or 8-1691?	1691 (1691)	Wing E191; ESTC R215479	11,783	22

AN AFFLICTED MAN's TESTIMONY CONCERNING His Troubles LOng Afflictions exposing me to many Obloquies and Dangers I think meet for the Gospel's sake to leave some Account of my Ways by this present Writing that Truth may appear whatever become of me In my Youth while I studied at Oxford very piercing inward Troubles pressed my Mind for several Months together which made me spend many an hour in secret pensiveness and by supplication to importune the Lord for his Mercy and favour through Christ in a more earnest manner than I had been acquainted with before And being heartily convinced of the goodness of God I took a Resolution to serve him more carefully than I had done and soon found much sweetness in Duties both publick and private About that time I was visited with a violent Feaver and that danger being past another surprized me upon the Occasion following One that seemed a Genteel person took acquaintance with me who selling a Horse in the Town entred my Name in the Toll-book as a Voucher for him The Buyer informing me that he was gone and that my Name was in the Book in his behalf I was much vexed at it because I suspected him to be extravagant And when he came to Oxford again I urged him to find another Voucher and to take out my Name which with much indignation he did and then swore he would kill me and I think he came to my Chamber-door for that pu●pose Some time after he was taken in a Ro●bery and put to death so God delivered me from his hands About the end of the Civil Wars Visitors being sent into the University I was among others questioned to be removed from a Place I had in a Colledge and another voted in My Crime was an Answer I had given to the said Visitors to submit to them as far as lawfully I might and that was construed to be a Contempt though I intended Modesty and Wariness by it Upon the solicitation of some Friends the matter was deferred and a Fellowship in another Colledge promised me In June 1649 I was appointed to make a Latin Declamation in Praise of Clemency The Theme being mitigating and gratefull to my Disposition and several considerable persons being to hear the managing of it I did it as effectually as I could And the Meditation thereof being always seasonable take a true Copy of it as followeth Novum inchoantibus Imperium utilis Clementiae Fama Academici AD arenam hanc literariam audacior accedo cum non sim Lugdunensem rhetor dicturus ad aram nec tale scando rostrum ubi severa increpat justitia sed ubi candida allicit clementia propter vestram impositionem mihi dicenda propter nostram imbecillitatem a vobis exhibenda sciatis obsecro non magis necessariam esse clementiam nova inchoantibsu imperia quàm vetera renovantibus exercitia Eam igitur exiguâ saltem insequamur laude quae suos magnâ insequitur utilitate Hic referam Metellum Celtibericum bellum in Hispania gerentem qui cum partem urbis Centobricae quam obsidebat machinâ dirueret humanitatem propinquae victoriae praetulit Nam cum Centobricenses diruptionem muri filiis suis replerem miserescens ab expugnatione discessit Quo quidem tam clementi facto etsi a cruentis unius urbis moenibus recessit omnium tamen celtiberarum urbium animos attraxit sibi benevolos adeo ut victoriam obtinuerit quod expugnare noluit eaque provincia in ditionem ejus accessit spontè quam repudiavit cogere permittitur amicè regnare quia noluit hostiliter saevire Rusticus ferocem juvencum citius subjiciet jugo titillando quàm luctando sin flagellis verberet stimulis lacescat furibundum faciet non domitum nec accipiet collo jugum sed rejiciet cornu dominum Ita insoliti imperii jugum reipublicae faciliùs imponatur eam mulcendo quàm asperè tractando Si vero securis dissecet ensis perforet non tam vulnerant quam pungunt excitantque populum semper compertum belluam esse muliorum capitum plurium cornuum quam si obtusum Majestatis Sceptrum instigabat acutus militis gladius in rabiem irritet Sola severitatis lima magis acuit quam polit Acida poma dentes acuminant ita austerae tyrannorum actiones subditos exasperant Quanto intentior est regnantis severitas tanto remissior est regnati fidelitas nec ullum violentum Imperium erit perpetuum Quinimo qui terrore sui tremere facit subditos discutit suum ex corum cordibus regnum languescit imperium quod quotidianâ metus febre prae tyranni rigore pallescit Motus trepidationis non terris convenit licet astra conservat civitates destruit Novam introducentibus gubernationem periculosum est vi obtrudere coepti legitimatio verbis non verberibus probanda est Dilemma non biceps gladius sit argumentum opponentes confutentur syllogismis non consternantur tormenti globulis reconciliandi sunt mansuetudine non perdendi rigiditate Dominatus qui cruoris diluvio superstruitur difficulter stabilietur sed irae minimae exhalatione perpetuò jactabilis fluetuabit Quod super cadaverum cumulum erigitur dicatur sepulchrum potiùs quàm imperium nec firmum erit potestatis aedificium quod super aliorum ruinas fabricatur sed firmissimum erit cujus structura humanitatis coemento conglutinatur Quorum corpora captivitatis ligabantur catenis illorum corda nobis strictius vinciemus remissione alacriter eis praestabunt obedientiam quibus debent vitam Regnum erit tranquillum ubi sereni regis mores si verò torvi supercilii nubibus nigrescat facies crepent insurrectionum tonitrua erumpent candescentis irae fulgura ferient potestatis arcem ictuum fulmina Victoria minimum habebit invidiae ubi plurimum clementiae Imperator qui habet in animo mansuetudinem gerit in sinu Magnetem nec ulli sunt tam ferreae pertinaciae quin ad se trahet Quicunque autem castigantes exercent truculentiam populum perterrent magis quàm emendant stupidum iis injiciunt horrorem non vividam probitatem imo Gorgonis ora gerunt subditos si non in lapides saltem in truncos vertunt mutilando Ad clementem Imperatorem confestim ac alacriter accelerant qui suis peccatis veniam sperent statuentes aequè tutum esse ad pedes ejus se projicere ac ad aram confugere Recentem Romuli urbem populus confluxu sui citò replevit cum noverat asylum esse civitatula coespititia peccantibus mansuetum praebendo patrocinium grande tandem evasit Imperium Nec exprobretur clementem negligere justitiam suam enim debitam honestatem cuique restituit dum quosque ingeniosè pravos efficaciùs ad bonos more 's reducit mitiùs castigando plures enim poenitet deliquisse erga benignam patris patriae bonitatem quàm tyranni saevitiam Itemque sufficiens licet humanior poena