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A57541	Sagrir, or, Doomes-day drawing nigh, with thunder and lightening to lawyers in an alarum for the new laws, and the peoples liberties from the Norman and Babylonian yokes : making discoverie of the present ungodly laws and lawyers of the fourth monarchy, and of the approach of the fifth, with those godly laws, officers and ordinances that belong to the legislative power of the Lord Iesus : shewing the glorious work incumbent to civil-discipline, (once more) set before the Parliament, Lord Generall, army and people of England, in their distinct capasities, upon the account of Christ and his monarchy / humbly presented to them by John Rogers ...	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?	1654 (1654)	Wing R1815; ESTC R17577	155,416	182

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sagrir OR Doomes-day drawing nigh With Thunder and Lightening to LAWYERS In an Alarum For New Laws and the Peoples Liberties from the Norman and Babylonian Yokes Making Discoverie Of the present ungodly Laws and Lawyers of the Fourth Monarchy and of the approach of the FIFTH with those godly Laws Officers and Ordinances that belong to the Legislative Power of the Lord Iesus SHEWING The Glorious Work Incumbent to Civil-Discipline once more set before the Parliament Lord Generall Army and People of England in their distinct cap●●ities upon the Account of Christ and his Monarchy Humbly presented to them by JOHN ROGERS an unfained Servant of Christ and this Common-wealth in their best Rights Laws and Liberties lost many years Bread of Deceit is sweet to a man but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with Gravell Prov. 20. 17. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor he shal cry himself but shal not be heard Prov. 21. 13. They are Brasse and Iron they are all Corrupters the Bellows are burnt the Lead is consumed of the fire the Founder melteth in vain for the Wicked are not plucked away Ier. 6. 28. 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When their Judges or the greatest Lawyers are thrown down into stony places they shall hear my Words because then they are sweet Psal. 141. 6. Causidicis Erebo Fisco fas vivere rapto Militibus Medico Tortori occidere ludo Me●iri Astrologis Pictoribus atque Poetis LONDON Printed for Tho Hucklescot to be sold at the George in Little Brittain 1654 To the Right Honourable The Lord Gen. CROMVVEL The Peoples Victorious Champion in England Ireland and Scotland My Lord HIs EXCELLENCY the Lord Jesus hath sent out his Summons to other Nations also and the Blade of that Sword whose handle is held in England will reach to the very Gates of Rome ore long but by what Instruments we know not yet for what end we know Psal. 72. 2. 4. 13. viz. to breake in peeces the oppressor and to deliver the poore and needy yea to spoile the weak-hearted and be more excellent then the mightiest mountains of prey Psal. 76. 4. 5. this shall goe on till all the earth be filled with his glory Now my Lord hitherto he hath honoured you in his War let him also doe so in his Work which the War hath made way for viz. in throwing down of Tyranny the Oppression which as you have begun to doe so this Treatise hath unavoydable reference to your Selfe to carry on as our Conquerour upon Christs and the Common-wealths account and not upon your owne Therefore are the eyes of thousands upon you to see what you will doe for their safety and freedome according to the just Rights and Liberties of the People of this Nation which they had before the Norman Tyranny and Conquest for it is far better for us my Lord now to hang us then not to help us against these unsufferable Lawes and Lawyers which rob us of Justice and righteousnesse as it is obvious in the Treatise whiles not one honest man in England dares justifie them the mouthes of all are open against them which like doores without Lock or Key can scarce be shut close againe till there be an alteration Jethro's counsell to Moses my Lord concernes you in Exod. 18 19. Hearken and I will give thee counsell and God shall bee with thee be thou for the People to God-ward that thou mayst bring their causes to God c. we beseech you hearken to the inexorable yea inexuperable cryes and calls of the Communalty for godly Lawes and for justice upon the usurping proud Lawyers for their lying perjury and treachery which is according to the Statute and good Lawes punishable It is without malice to a man of them and meerly out of Conscience to ingage against sin and enemies to Christ and this Common-wealth that I must make such a Character of them as I doe it may be I speake spiritfully yet not spightfully though oppression makes a wise man mad sayes Salomon Eccles. 7. 7. and indeed if it be madnesse to ingage against Sinne I will be so for Si natura negat facit indignatio versum but here 's no need of Passion seeing Piety preaches yea the light of Nature presses these lines against that sinfull Society yea the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 calls for it The Aegyptian Hieroglyphick for Legislative Power was oculus in sceptro but ours had need to be oculus in ense the eye in the conquering Sword of the people I meane first a full eye to looke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 backward and forward with an open Prospect into the Peoples Liberties and advantages for their safety and freedome and then an able quick eye to deliver the People from oppressors and to defend them in their owne ●ights And indeed my Lord we would have no Law Nisi lex oculata but that Law which sees how and what and to whom to administer in aequilibrio in justice whilst many of our Lawes are the ●lawes of this Common-wealth for as Plutarch sayes Turpe praeceptum non est lex sed in quitas The Chineses would perswade us that they only see with two eyes and other Nations but with one O that we could convince our Neighbour Nations now by our Lawes and Government that we see with both eyes for our selves and friends too if need be wherefore let us fall to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let us worke and watch for Christs Monarchy which is now upon the borders and be sure to keep in the Kings Christs Road for that is safest Israels Omen of going on against his enemies was 1 Chron. 14. 15. the voyce in the top of the trees and this is ours also viz. the voyce of God as in Primitive times and in the top-ages of the Church for his Spirit is mighty and growes great every day and when the enemy shall be like a Floud the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against them Isa. 59. 19. and why see Isa. 31. 3. the Lord Gods greatest worke in these dayes is Spirit-worke and none will be found fit to be imployed in it but such as are spirited for it by the Holy Spirit for then our Warres wil be holy Warres our Lawes holy Lawes our Parliaments holy Parliaments c. and not before Wherefore my Lord for Christs sake minde and finde out what your worke is you have not done all yet for now you have won us you must wall us with the good and wholsome Lawes and Liberties of the People as we were before the Norman invasion or rather as Israel of old Deut. 6. 1. or else Gog will arise who sayes in his presumption I will goe to the Land of unwalled Villages I will goe to them that are at rest It is dangerous indeed now to sit still seeing the Wheele full of eyes is in his swiftest motions and may without heed run

the Lawyers stink in our nostrils and bring forth vanities in some but righteousnesse and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost to his Saints and deliverance and sweet freedome and blessings to the Common-wealth In the meane time it is a shame that Ministers of Christ can see them live so in sinne and say nothing seeing those Agags that the indulgent eye of Sauls have spared and favoured must be met with by the two-edged Swords of the Samuels of God ● but so much to our Authority in the Legislative power for the advancing the Law of God as the only fundamentall Law of this Nation Secondly My word to the People is as a Remembrancer for when Cyrus King of Persia proclaimed liberty to the Jewes only those went out of captivity whose spirits God stirred up in Ezra 1. 5. This is the case we are freed from our Norman Captivity Now you whose spirits God hath stirred up why appeare for your Liberties and Rights returne home unto your owne it is high time be not longer Slaves to Norman Lawes or Lawyers This your liberty is Naturall and connaturall as Paul said Acts 22. 20. I am a free-borne Roman which was his Plea and unsuited his Adversaries and made them afraid which surely had never been had not this bo●est man made use of his right and liberty and let his Judges and Governours know it Surely this liberty is more worth then all the Lands in the Nation to us and if we know it wee should not slight it so as we doe therefore honoured Ames cas l. 5. c. 22. tells us that this Libertas proxime accedit 〈◊〉 vitam ipsam Liberty a man counts next his life and will not loose it if it be possible but wil loose his estate yea● the ●lo●the● off his back first yea further for the Publick Liberty and common safety a faithfull man wil loose his very life and prizes it abundantly above his life as some honest hearts have done in England in most ages And if any wonder that I will ●rive thus against the streame seeing I cannot turne it I must t●ll them That the Fish which alwayes goes downe the streame we suspect for dead whilst the living Fish makes against the streame but the truth is as when Tides turne there is first a secret motion and turning at the bottome before it comes at top and so there is in the bottome of our hearts which wil ere long be more openly to all eyes in the meane time we must minde the People of the time of d●y and tell them what the Clock strikes for their liberty and deliverance is hard by And beleeve it Brethren the flaming Sword is in our sight turning hither and thither every way to drive out these Wretches that have lived so long upon forbidden fruits and although the bowles of Authority seemes to many to run Byass to a bad I was ready to say Mad Mistresse this wil be mended ere long when the Mistresse is removed but we must ballast our Ship before we put to saile therefore consider Country-men First of all No Governours are above the Peoples Lawes and Liberties hence it was that Kings could not De jure conclude or determine businesses according to their owne wills and Aristotle Alexanders Tutor tels us That absolute power in Governours is the next degree to plaine Tyranny yea had it not been for feare of offending Alexander I thinke he had called it absolute Tyranny and said true too Therefore are Kings and Magistrates the Organs or Instruments of executing the Peoples Lawes and must receive their Lawes from the People Hence it is that the Emperor King of France Kings of Spaine England Poland Hungarie or Princes of the house of Austria Dukes of Brabant Earles of Flanders or Holland before their Coronation or Creation to the Governments do ingage to keep the Laws of their Country and their breach of the Laws is or ought to be as punishable upon them as any others And to shew how the Laws and Liberties of People are above their Governors God alwaies gave Laws to such as should govern the people for the peoples good Deut. 17. which their Rulers ought not to alter vid. Brains New Earth Secondly All Rulers and Governors are bound to execute their Offices and Authorities for the peoples benefit and publick good and the greatest Treason is against the peoples Laws and Liberties And Caesar himselfe in his Commentaries tels us that Amblorix King of the Eburons confessed that such were the conditions of the Gaulish Empire that the people lawfully assembled had no lesse power over the King then the King had over the People but rather more So we find there how Vercingentorix gave an account of his actions before the people how they were for their good and freedom Thus in England Ireland and Scotland the Representative of the People have the greatest authority i. e. as from the People the like in Spaine especially in Aragon Valentia and Catalonia cum aliis c. There is a Justitia Major who stands for the Peoples Rights and Liberties hath more power then the King or his Councel and therefore at his Coronation the Lords of the Kingdome use these words in their own Language to the King p. 60. Nos qui valemos tanto como vos y p●demos mas que vos vos elegimos Rei con estas è y estas conditiones entra vos y nos un que mandamus que vos We who are in as much value as you and have more power then you yet have chosen you King upon conditions c. and there is between you and us one that commands both you and us i. e. the Justitia Major who is altogether for the peoples Laws Right and Liberties and to see that for this end the Kings and Princes govern But in case Governors doe not rule for the publick good then Thirdly The People may orderly declare against the dangerous Practises of their Rulers and make an orderly resistance for their owne Rights and Liberties Now let me not be mistaken for I fear this Doctrine will not please some selfish Rulers but this I say whilst I call upon the people to appear for their own freedome and rights I mean not by armes to fight or wage war against their Governors in a rash disorderly way O no! not for a world that we should bee guilty of so ungodly a Rebellion for really I would bee one that would spend my blood against them that so doe but this I say let them mildly declare against the mis-governments of such men as seek their owne private more then the publick good and let them use means to correct that mis-government to admonish the offenders to petition to the Parliament or to our Conqueror the Lord Generall with the same importunities the poor Widow used to the unjust Judge till she was answered and so continue untill the

FOURTH MONARCHY Improved with use to the PARLIAMENT and the PEOPLE THe consideration of the Fifth Monarchy now entering is very pregnant to our purpose For all the Laws and Ordinances Civill and Ecclesiastick of the Fourth Monarchy must tumble at the entrance of the fifth That there is such a Kingdom to come is obvious to all intelligent men by abundance of Scriptures as Dan. 2. 35 36 37. and 7. 17 23. 25. Rev. 11. 15. Isa. 9 6 7. Psal. 2. 5 6. Psal. 72. 8 9 11. Luk. 1. 32. 39. Rev. 17. 14. and 16. 11. 19. Jer. 15. 25 26. cum multis aliis and it is for this fifth Monarchy which must remaine for ever Isa. 9. 7. Dan. 2. 44. Luk. 1. 33. Psa. 72. 8. and 47. 2. Mic. 4. 7. Zach. 9. 10 c that all other Kings and Kingdoms Powers and Policies Laws and Lawyers in the fourth Monarchy must be shaken and broken into fitters and shivers like potsheards That there is such a mighty Monarchy a coming which must be universall all over the World is without doubt but to our matter we must examine First When it enters Secondly How it enters Thirdly Why it enters to the ruin of the other First As to the Time though men be of divers minds as to the precise time yet all concur in the nighnesse and swiftnesse of its coming upon us The graduall entrance of it as to us being just by although the universall discovery of it all over the world is like to be about forty years hence as appears in Chap. 3. of my Tabernacle for the Sun or Idea of Church Discipline But to clear the time as to us see Dan. 7. 17 22 23 26 c. The Prophet tels us there expresly of the foure Monarchies now the fourth Kingdome as he cals it ver 23. or earthly Monarchy he distinguishes from the three foregoing for its tyranny and extent ver 7. agreeing with Rev. 13. 2. c. and tels us that it had ten horns that is ten Kings Rev. 17. 12. which are enumerated by Mr. Cam in his voice from the Temple p. 12. but after this that Daniel had seen the ten hornes in the head of this fourth Beast or Monarchy ver 8. hee looked well and then saw what see v. 8. and behold there came up among them another little Horne before whom there were three of the first hornes pluckt up by the roots Pray note it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I considered saies he with great attention and serious intention i. e. to something very observable in this Vision and that is to the rise of this little horne that ravenously got up in the room of three hornes Some there be that interpret this of the Pope others of the Turke others of Julius Caesar so Calvin others of Antichrist So my friend Mr. Canne others to Antiochus Epiphanes so Polanus But I must differ from them all for that the Prophecy agrees with none of them all fully but though I may seem singular yet with much assurance and clear sight I assert it that William the Conqueror was this little horn and so all along the Line of William and the Norman Kings on our English Throne And that for these Reasons 1. This Little horne was unseen and none a while even after the ten horns were seen for he arose after them all and was at his first rising seen besides them and another vers 8. 20. which the Prophet makes observeable seeing hee saw him not before at his first rise he was the least and the last this was K. William the Norman who arose by usurpation over the other horns on the head and so his Line therefore 2. He rose up or thrust in among the rest i. e. as Will the Conqueror did by force and armes not by choyse and election not naturally with the rest of the horns by the suffrage of the people 3 He was as is in Dan. 11. 21. a vile person or base borne as we have it in p. 37. of the English Chronicles Robert Duke of Normandy the sixt in descent from Rollo riding through Fallis a Town in Normandy he spied certain Damsels dancing near the way among whom he fixed his eye upon one Arlote a fair Maid but of mean Parentage a Skinners Daughter whom he procured that night to be brought unto him of whom he begat a Son who afterward was named William c. So that this Will the Conqueror was the base Son of Robert the sixt Duke of that Dutchy This is the vile person who rose up so by usurpation of power whence all the Norman Kings that sat since upon the English Throne came 4 After the League made with him he shall work deceitfully c. Chap. 11. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or with fraudes and arts did not Will. the Conqueror thus See but the third Chapter how oft he broke his Oaths and Promises and contrary to all set up the Norman Interest and pulled down the peoples with the losse of all their Laws and Liberties to this day 5 This Little horne was to wax great and famous in time and to subdue three Kingdomes and get up the roome of three Hornes or Kings ver 8. 20. 24. as one more stout then all his other fellowes This was fulfilled by William the Conquerour and that Norman race in England and by none else this Line of William by degrees got up all the roome of three Kings in England Ireland and Scotland and took up those three hornes himselfe who was so little at first as a poor Skinners Girles Bastard In whom could this be fulfilled else not in Pope nor Turke nor Antichrist nor Caesar nor Antiochus but only in this English Horne usurping the place of the other three and plucking them up by the roots 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6 This little Horne shall speake great words against God ver 25. and as Chap. 11. shall doe according to his owne will ver 36. and exalt himselfe and magnifie himselfe above God and prosper untill the indignation be accomplished After Will. the Conqueror and his Race had made themselves great and gotten up all the Brittains wealth and riches their fattest fields and Meddows c. as Chap. 11. Ver. 24. he grew great in pride and Tyranny and Arbitrary power according to the lust of his heart as the Hebrew hath it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this got up into such a height at last in the late Charles that he not only opposed God but refused to be accountable pretending no Mortals must question him and thus he magnified himselfe usque ad consummationem irae till his head was off which indignation was to begin with him first for his height of Arbitrary Will Lust and Tyranny in which as Chap. 7. 20. he was more stout then all his fellowes wherefore this horn must needs be the English by Will. the Conqueror 7 This little horne