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A86277
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The idea of the lavv charactered from Moses to King Charles. Whereunto is added the idea of government and tyranny. / By John Herdon Gent. Philonomos.
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Heydon, John, b. 1629.
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1660
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Wing H1671; Thomason E1916_2; ESTC R210015
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things that you may take pleasure in And Adam answered saying No we are not forbidden any thing that the Divine life in us approves as good and pleasant We are only forbidden to feed on our own will and to seek pleasures apart and without the warrant of the will of God for if our own will get head in us we shall be Arrested and assuredly be carried into the prison of Mortallity and there lye in the state of death But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his Dog said unto Adam Tush this is but a Panick fear in you Adam I warrant you you shall not so surely dye as you conceit be ruled by me The only matter is this God indeed loves to keep his Creatures under a Law holding them in from ranging too farr and reaching too high but he knows very well that if you break his Law and but take your liberty with us and satiate your selves freely with with your own will your eyes will be wonderfully opened and you shall meet with a world of variety of Presidents and experiments in things so that you will grow abundantly wise and like Gods know all things whatsoever both good and evill Now the faeminine part in Adam was so tickled with this deceiver that the Concupiscible began to be so immoderate as to resolve to do any thing that may promote pleasure and experience in things and carried away by this warrant Adams will and reason by his heedlesness and inadvertency So that Adam was wholly resolved to obey the power of this Writ signed with a counterfeit mark according the various toyings and titillations of the lascivious life of the whitle no longer calling for God or taking any Assistance of the Divine Genius And when he had tyred himself with a rabble of toyes and unfruitfull and unsatisfactory devices rising from the devil and the multifarious working of the Particles of his Vehicle at last the eyes of his faculties were opened and they perceived they were now naked he having as yet neither the covering of the Heavenly nature nor the Terrestâ— body only they sewed Fig-leaves togâ—her and made some pretences of excuse from the vigor of the Plantal life that now in a thinner manner might manifest it self in Adam and predispose him for a more perfect exercise of his Plastick Power when the prepared matter of the Earth shall drink him in In the mean time the voyce of God or the Divine Wisdom spake for them in the cool of the day when the writ was served and Adams word taken for appearance yet he knew no Atturny now to give a plea to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Declaration but was grown so out of order and so much afraid to plead his own cause being guilty and now estranged from the life of God so much that they durst not come before God but hide themselves from him But the Divine light in the Conscience of Adam persued him and upbraided unto him the case he was in And Adam acknowledged within himself how naked he was having no Power nor Ornaments nor Abilities of his own and yet that he had left his obedience and dependence upon God and submitted to the false feigned Latitat of that cursed Bayliffe and deceiver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherefore he was ashamed and hid himself at the approach of the Divine light manifesting it self unto him to the reprehension and rebuke of him And the Divine Judge charged all this Misery and confusion that had thus overtaken him upon the following the Luscious dictates of his will But Adam again excu'sd himself within himself that it was the vigour and impetuosity of that life in the vehicle which God himself implanted in it whereby he miscaried the woman that God had given him And the Divine Judge spake in Adam concerning woman What work hath she made here but the woman in Adam excused her self for she was beguiled by that grand deceiver Valifer the Bayliffe as Irictericus cals him In this confusion of mind was Adam by forsaking the Divine Judge and letting his own will get head against it for it so changed the Nature of his vehicle that whereas he might have continued in an Angelical and Aethereal condition and his faeminine part been brought into perfect obedience to the Divine light and had joyes multiplied upon the whole man beyond all Expression and Imagination forever he now sunk more and more and by habeas corpus is carried towards a Mortal and Terrestial Estate himself not being unsensible thereof as you shall hear when I have told you the Judgment of the Eternal God concerning the Serpent and him Things therefore have been carried on in this wise the Eternal Lord God decreed thus with himself concerning the Serpent and Adam That this old Serpent the Prince of the rebellious Angels should be more accursed then all the rest and whereas he Lorded it aloft in the higher parts of the Aire and could glide in the very Ethereal Region amongst the innocent and unfaln Souls of men and the good Genii before that he should now sweep the dust with his belly being cast lower towards the surface of the Earth And that there should be a general enmity betwixt this old Serpent as also all of his fellow Rebels and betwixt mankind and that in progress of time the ever faithfull and obedient soul of the Messias should take a body and should trample over the power of the devel very notoriously here upon Earth and after his death should give Rule and Supersede all mankind being now constituted the Supreme and Principal Attorny Counsellour and Prince of all the Angelical orders what ever in Heaven And concerning Adam the Eternal Lord God decreed that he should indeed be removed down to the Earth and that he should not there indulge to himself the pleasures of the body without the Concomitants of Pain and Sorrow and that his Faeminine part his Affections should be under the chastisement of the Law of his Reason That he should have a wearisom and toylsom Labour an Travel in this World the Earth bringing forth thornes and thistles though he must subsist by the corn of the field wherefore in the sweat of his brows he should eat his bread till he retured unto the ground of which his terrestrial body is made This was the Counsel of God concerning Adam and the Serpent Now as I was telling you Adam though he was sinking apace into thâ—se lower functions of life yet his mind was not grown so fully stupid but he had the knowledg of his own condition and added to all his former Apologies that the Faeminine part in him though it had seduced him yet there was some use of this Miscariage For the Earth would hence be inhabited by intellectual Animals wherefore he called the life of his vehicle Eve because she is indeed the Mother of the generations of men that live upon the Earth And at last the Plastick power being fully awakened Adams soul was cast into
was that all Laws were unprofitable and superfluous as they which were not made neither for good nor ill men forasmuch as they have no need of Laws and these be made never the better for them Furthermore Sinensis confesseth that unless any Law can be made which to all men may be profitable in that which very often it doth happen that Equity fighteth with the rigor of the Law Maimâ—n also defining equity calleth it the Correction of a righteous Law in which point he faileth because it is made generally Is it not then sufficiently declared by this alone that all the force of the Law and Justice doth not so much depend upon the Laws as upon the honesty and equity of the Judge Another error proceeds from the Civil law to the Canon Law or the Popes Law which to O. Cromwell and his Fellows the Fanatique Parliamentiers appeared most Holy so wittily it doth shadow the Precepts of Covetousness and manners of robbing under the color of Godliness albeit there be very few things ordained appertaining to Godliness to Religion to the worshipping of God and the solemnity of the Sacraments I will not speak of some which are contrary and repugnant to the Law of God I accuse not D. Owen Vice-Chancellor of Oxford he knows them all the residue are nothing but contentions strifes pride pomp means to gain riches and the decrees of the Popes of Rome to whom the Canons be not sufficient which were in time passed made by the holy Fathers except they continually add to them new Decrees extravagancies Declarations and Rules of Chancery so that there is no end nor measure of making Canons which alone is the ambition and desire of the Bishops of Rome that is to say to make new Canons whose arrogancy is grown so far that they have commanded the Genii and Angels in Heaven and have presumed to rob and bring their booty out of Hell and to put in their hands among the spirits of the dead and on the Law of God also they have sometimes exercised their Tyrannie interpreting declaring and disputing to the end that nothing might want or be derogated from the greatness of his power Is it not true that Pope Clement in that Leaden Bull which at this day is yet kept in Lievorno vulgarly called Legorn and at Venice and in other places in Italy in the Coffers of Priviledges commandeth the Angels of Heaven that they should bring into everlasting joys the soul of him that useth to go in pilgrimage to Rome for Indulgences and there dying being delivered out of the pains of Purgatory saying moreover We will not in any wise that he go to the pains of Hell granting also to them that be signed with the Cross that at their Prayers they may take three or four souls out of Purgatory which they list which erroneous and intolerable Tymerity I will not say Heresie the Schools of London in the Kings time openly detested and abhorred But the Fanatick Parliament intended very shortly if Kings Charles the Second do not come the sooner to interrupt the Hyperbolical zeal of Clement with some Anabaptistical godly shaking Invention that the thing may rather flourish then perish seeing that for their affirming or denying nothing is altered in the deed and authority of the Pope whose Canons and Decrees have in such sort bound all Episcopacy and Presbyterie c. in a cord for Damnation because they detest the Popes Canons and after this example they fear their own Clergy so that none of all their Divines or Jesuites be he never so contantious dareth to determine no not imagine or dispute any thing contrary to the Popes Canons without protestation and leave Furthermore we have learned out of these Canons and Decrees that the Patrimony of Christ his Kingdoms Castles Donations Foundations Riches and Possessions and that Empire and Rule belongeth to the Bishops and Priests of Christ and to the Prelates of the Church and the Jurisdiction and Temporal Power is the Sword of Christ And that the Person of the Pope is the Rock being the foundation of the Church that the Bishops are not only the Ministers of the the Church but also Heads of the Church and that Evangelical Doctrine the fervency of Faith the contempt of the world are not only the goods of the Church but Revenues tenths Offerings collections Purples Mitres Gold Silver Pearl Possessions and Money and that the authority of the Pope is to make war to break truce to break oaths and to assoyl from obedience and of the House of Prayer to make a den of Theeves and so the Pope can depose a Bishop without cause and Oliver Cromwell could cut off Doctor John Huit his head by the same rule The Pope can give that which is another mans Cromwell and the Fanatique Parliament after the same president sold the Kings Lands and the Church Lands that he can commit Symony that he can dispense against his vow against his Oath against the Law of Nature And did not Cromwell and his Fellows do so too and none may say unto him Why dost thou this And also he can as they say for some grievous cause dispense against all the New Testament and to draw not only a third part but also the souls of the faithful into Hell That the duty of Bishops is not now as it was in time past to preach the Word of God with Crosses to Confirm children to give Orders to Dedicate Churches to Baptize Bells to hallow Altars and Challices to Consecrate and bless Vestments and Images and Geomantical Telesmes which esteem their wits more meet for higher matters and leaving the charge to certain Bishops which have nothing else but the Title go in Embassage to Kings they be Presidents of their Oratories or attend upon Queens excused for a sufficient great and weighty cause not to serve God in Churches so that they royally honour the King in the Court Hereof these Cautles took their beginnings by means whereof at this day without Simony Bishopricks Benifices be bought sold and moreover what Fairs and Markets soever be in Pardons Grants Indulgences Dispensations such like maner of robberies by whom also there is a price set in the free remission of sins given by God there is found a Mean to gain by the punishments of Hell Furthermore that false Donation of Constantine proceeds from this Law albeit in effect and with the Testimony of Gods Word Caesar cannot leave his charge neither the Parson of the Clergy ought to usurp the things that belong to Caesar but of infinite Laws of Ambition of Pride and of Tyrannie These are Errors crept in with Cromwell amongst the Laws of England He that will diligently examine the Laws and Statutes of Rome shall find how much the Fat Faâ—atique Parliament hath borrowed of them and corrupted our Laws But the Idea of the Law will put all in Order The Method and Rules you read before Another Error in Laws you shall