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A09156	The Isle of Man: or, the legall proceeding in Man-shire against sinne Wherein, by way of a continued allegorie, the chiefe malefactors disturbing both Church and common-wealth, are detected and attached; with their arraignment, and iudiciall triall, according to the lawes of England. The spirituall vse thereof, with an apologie for the manner of handling, most necessary to be first read, for direction in the right vse of the allegory thorowout, is added in the end. By R.B. ...	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1627 (1627)	STC 1947; ESTC S101708	79,283	417

murther 6 The sixt is a Popish fellow called Fore-fathers hee aduanceth his Ancestors and their worth and thinketh so well of them that to imitate them is no sinne Thus the Samaritanes iustified their false worship 7 The seuenth is one Sir Power he maketh euer that warrantable which Law establisheth ordaineth and decreeth Great and capitall sinnes in the Romish Synagogue are thus countenanced 8 The eight is Sir Sampler who produceth for patternes great mens and learned mens examples as if they could not doe amisse but whatsoeuer they doe or say it must be good and lawfull and therefore imitable without sinne 9 The ninth is Sir Most-doe who maintaineth sinne from a generall practice because multitudes do it here and there and euery where therefore no sinne to doe such a thing which almost all or the greatest part doe 10 The tenth is one Sir Silly one made all of good meaning who will qualifie the fact by thinking no harme or intending well Thus would Saul haue iustified his rebellion and Abimelech excused his taking of Abrahams wife And thus vaine persons excuse their wanton communication lasciuious songs foolish iestings and such like saying they meane no harme they only make themselues merry Thus Sir Silly is hee that maketh simple soules plead good meaning for all their foolish superstitions blind deuotions and licentious merriments The eleuenth is Vaine-Hope this teacheth to put off the fault to some other as Adam to Euah and Euah to the Serpent and to deny the fact as Cain did euen to God himselfe hereby hoping to shift off sinne and to escape punishment who maketh God all of mercy The twelfth is the Lord Presumption hee feareth not iudgement he blesseth himselfe in his euill waies he maketh a couenant with Death and a league with Hell and suffers sinne to be his daily guest and will let the Hue and Crie passe along without any feare of perill as nothing at all concerning him The thirteenth is Sir Wilfull hating to be reformed this is an obstinate friend for sinne who will wilfully defend it and bee carelesse of all reproofes This fellow in contempt will tread downe the Hue and Crie vnder his feet and maintaine sinne The foureteenth is Sir St. like which vnder the shew and shadow of Piety and pretended honesty wil couer much iniquity and hide it for a time that it be not taken by the pursuer with the Hue and Cry such were the Hypocriticall Scribes and Pharises These great ones and many other moe are the friends of this Theefe and Rebell but yet for all these Fauourites Godly-Iealousie espies him out and his harbour and presently goeth to a Iustice of Peace to procure a warrant for the Constable to attach him and all his Companions with him The Iustice is not one of a meane ranke or any petty Iustice but the very Lord chiefe Iustice of Heauen and earth the Lord Iesus for it is hee that can giue the warrant to attach sinne no other warrant will sinne obey The Warrant is the Power of Gods Word The Forme of which warrant is as you see in my Text to search out and attach sinne with all his Associates and to bring him and them before Authoritie to answer to such things as shall bee obiected against them in his Maiestie the King of Heauens behalfe The procuring of this warrant is by going vnto and conferring with some of the Lord Chiefe Iustices Secretaries the Writers of holy Scripture setting downe this charge as Ieremie doth here to search and try our waies This Warrant procured Godly-Iealousie taketh and carrieth to an Officer which hath Authority to make search and attach sinne This Officer without which sin neither can nor indeed will be attached is Vnderstanding who knoweth what sinne is Now as there bee foure sorts of Officers which may attach Felons by warrant The Deputy-Constable the Tithingman The Petty Constable and the Head Constable so is the spirituall Officer fourefold 1 The Deputy-Constable is commonly some Neighbour intreated to performe the office in the others absence this is the very shadow of a Constable and will not willingly intermeddle in any thing so as the people where hee dwels may do for all him what they list This Deputie Constable in this spirituall Towneship is the Vnderstanding darkened the sonne of Ignorance and grand-childe of Blindnesse of heart this is a blinde Constable and hath neuer an eye to see with This suffers all disorder in the whole man or Soule-Towne-ship Heere be such as bee alienated from the life of God past feeling giuen ouer to worke all vncleannes with greedinesse All the affections are quite out of order and no care taken for their reformation for this foolish fellow imploieth himselfe about his grounds cattell sheepe and oxen about buying and selling as for the estate of his soule he is to it a very stranger He knowes the price of corne oxen and sheepe but what is the excellencie of Vertue what the euill of Vice what the price of his soule hee neither knowes nor cares to know 2 The Tithingman which commonly is a meane fellow and so contemptible as few or none care for him And therefore hereupon is very little or no reformation where hee hath his dwelling If any amendment be sought it is onely for some notorious shameful misdemeanours and he must be much called vpon for this too else no reformation thereof and as for many other offences there is no care had at all This Tithing-man is Grosse-vnderstanding like one purblinde who cannot see a farre off but only grosse transgressions forbidden in the Law according to the sound of the bare letter only as Theft Murther Adultery and so forth The spirituall meaning and large extent of the Commandement hee is wholly ignorant of This purblinde Tythingman suffers a number of disorders in his Towneship and must be much vrged to see very grosse and foule misdemeanours else will hee not seeke to reforme them 3. The Petty Constable which is some ciuill honest man of the Parish and perhaps hath some Country learning but yet is an one-eyed fellow halfe-sighted and so passeth by many faults This Pettie Constable is the Vnderstanding somewhat cleered hee hath an insight into the Morall Law who by ciuill education some Art and learning an outward forme of Religion and reading in the Bible now and then can speake of the Gospell Historically and prettily discourse of Religion But this his knowledge is onely superficiall for neither in the Common-Law which is the Law Morall neither in the Statute Law the Law of the Gospell or Law of Libertie is he any professed Student Hee is no Innes of Court man neuer brought vp in the Inner Temple He maketh neither the Common nor Statute Law his profession As he is no Student in these so

and is a Witch and hath by his or her owne wayes brought this euill vpon him or her without the practice of any other Witch 4. Whether they might proceed vpon meere presumptions against the suspected or rather stay till they had more certaine and grounded pro●fet 5. Whether they could none of them being read in any learned Tractates touching the practices of Witches rightly examine the suspected to finde out a Witch and so to bring him or her deseruedly vnder the power of Authority There is now come forth by the leaue of Authority a Guide to Grand-Iury men in cases of Witch-craft my suit is that they would be pleased to accept of my well-meaning therein In which all these points before are fully handled as also That there are witches who are most subiect to be made Witches How they prepare themselues for the Deuill How Satan draweth thē to a league becommeth familiar with them That there are good Witches and the signes to know them That there are bad Witches and how then practise and what it is that they can doe and how many things must concurre in bewitching What are the signes to know one to be bewitched That Witches may be detected What are strong presūptions of a Witch What are the certaine euidences against such an one How throughly to examine a Witch With many other particulars set forth in 28 distinct Chapters fully and yet with great breuity The death of fiue brethren and sisters lately condemned and executed for Witches one more yet remaining formerly brought before a Iudge and now in danger to bee questioned againe hath mooued mee to take this paine not to preuent Iustice nor to hinder legall proceedings but that I may not be mistaken nor wronged as I was once and more should haue beene had not the wisdome and goodnesse of so reuerend a Iudge accepted graciously of my vpright Apologie against vaine Accusers I made a Petition then to my Lord the Iudge to the worthy then M. Sheriffe and to all the Worshipfull of the Bench then present which I am bold to renew againe more publikely and that now this third time because it pleased that reuerend Iudge so well to like thereof to second it and is wished of many to finde some good effect at the length The state of poore prisoners is well knowne and how their soules safety is neglected and yet our Sauiour gaue such a testimony to a penitent theefe as hee neuer gaue to any mortall man else for he told him that he should be that day with him in Paradise How blessed a worke would it be to haue maintenance raised for a learned godly and graue Diuine that might attend to instruct thē daily Twelue pence a quarter of one parish with another in our Countie would encourage some compassionate holy man thereunto And what is this Not a mite out of euery mans purse to saue soules If with this instruction there should bee meanes to set them also on worke they might get somewhat for food for raiment They might so preuent the miserable fruits of sloth their mindes would bee imployed their bodies bee preserued in health and not pine away and be consumed with vermine Yea enforced labour there would terrifie loose vagrants lazie wanderers and the idle rout from turning the eues more then either imprisonment or death hitherto hath done And besides such as should escape would by this heauenly meanes of instruction and bodily labour become through Gods mercy more profitable members in the Commō-Weale afterwards whereas now they become twice more the children of Belial than they were before Oh let me be hold earnestly to beseech you and in all humility to craue your mercifull and tender bowels of compassion towards them And first of you right Honourable my Lords the Iudges who sit as Gods among men to giue iudgement vpon this so wretched and so miserable a generation of mankinde that if they die they may be more ready with all patience and submission of spirit to receiue their iust reward and your doome of death vpon them or if they be acquitted and so liue they may learne afterwards to liue the life of good Christians and so make a good vse of their deliuerance And would not this reioyce your hearts to forward such a worke when your Lordships doe know that the blessed Angels doe reioyce at the conuersion of Sinners Next of you Worthy Master Sheriffe vnder whose wisedome religious affection tender mercies and powerfull habilities the Prison and the Prisoners be for the time present Shall not this worke set forward by you be vnto you an euerlasting remembrance Then of all you Right Worshipfull the worthy Iustices of our Country by whose authority these offenders are sent vnto prison Oh that it might not displease you to heare me calling vpon you by name who I hope are well-minded to such a blessed and charitable a worke Yee deseruedly honoured Knights Sir George Speke Sir Iohn Stowel Sir Francis Popham Sir Henry Barkley Sir Iohn Windham Sir Iohn Horner Sir Edward Rodney and Sir Robert George And may I not here also name the worthily esteemed of their Country though not at this present in Commission with you Sir Ralph Hopton Sir Robert Philips Sir Charles Barkley and Sir Edward Barkley All to be graciously pleased to commiserate their lamentable case and to helpe forward this worke of pietie and pitie towards prisoners O yee other worthies of your Country no lesse generously affected Iohn Powlet Robert Hopton Edward Rogers George Lutterell Iohn May Fra. Baber Ro. Cuffe Tho. Breerton Io. Coles William Francis Rice Dauys Thomas Windham Iohn Harrington Io. Harbin William Capel and Anth. Stocker Esquires let the bowels of compassion compasse you about that you may affect this so good a deed and be honoured for euer in bringing to passe so rare a charitie The worke surely would blesse you all Alas the Prison now is a very picture of Hell and more is the pitie as the case now stands is no lesse than a preparatiue thereto for want of daily instruction It would be by a faithfull ministery and bodily imploiment of them a house of correction with instruction and so happily the way of life Then might charity quicken vp iustice to send offenders obstinately persisting in euill and abusing their liberty vnto prison in good hope of their reformation The losse of their corporall liberty might through Gods mercy then gaine them spirituall freedome Health by labour would be preserued and their soules by wholsome instruction saued The Father of our Lord Iesus Christ perswade your well-disposed hearts to such an vnbegun worke among so many good deeds very famous in this renowned Nation The spirit of the Lord God of Heauen and Earth rest vpon you to cause you to affect this and in time to effect the same by stirring vp the Country and by your owne mercies in your life times you giuing

Impartialitie for Conscience well-informed will iudge in Righteousnesse and Truth without all partiality without respect of any person He regardeth not the rich and mighty no Bribe can blinde him neither doth hee pitty the person of the poore to giue for pity an vniust Sentence but as the truth is so speaketh he The Commission is the Actiue power of Conscience giuen of God by his Word to condemne the nocent or to quit the innocent except this Commission be lost Sometimes it is lost as when conscience is dead as in all ignorant persons or seared with an hot iron as some mens haue beene and are such as fall from the faith and are past feeling by reason of the blindnesse of minde and hardnesse of heart or else benummed as in those that fall into some grieuous sin as did DAVID who lay therein vntill Nathan found the Commission and acquainted him with it when he said Thou art the man If the Commission bee lost the Power of Conscience lyeth dead seared and benummed then the Iudge can doe nothing till it bee found and being found it is read openly The reading of this Commission before the whole Countie is Euery mans experimentall Knowledge of the power of Conscience by which is acknowledged his Authoritie to sit as Iudge ouer euery thought word and deed of man The Circuit of this Iudge is his Owne Soule he is not to sit and iudge of other mens thoughts words or deeds but of the thoughts words and deeds of that man wherein hee is A mans owne Conscience is Iudge of himselfe to iudge another is out of his Circuit neither hath he any Authoritie from the King of Heauen to inable him so to doe Knowledge may goe out to see and discerne of other mens wayes but Conscience keepeth euer at home and sits within to iudge of that mans courses whose Conscience hee is Conscience onely troubles a man for his own sinnes it cannot for another mans but as farre forth as hee hath made them his owne and being accessarie to them by commanding alluring counselling commending excusing defending or winking thereat when hee ought by his place to haue punished the same This Iudge in this Circuit is Iudge of Oyer and Terminere Hee will heare before hee doth iudge and hee will truly then iudge as hee heareth for as hee is impartiall in iudging so is he prudent and carefull to know what and whereof to giue sentence before he doth iudge This is the Iudge The Iustices of Peace in the Countie are there and doe sit with the Iudge and are in Commission with him Of these some are of the Quorum and of better ranke some are meaner Iustices and take their place lower The Iustices of Peace in the Soule of better ranke are Science Prudence Prouidence Sapience the Inferiours are weake Wit common Apprehension and some such like These Iustices haue their Clerkes there ready with their Examinations and Recognizances Iustice Science his Clerke is Discourse Iustice Prudence his Clerke is Circumspection Iustice Prouidence his Clerke is Diligence Iustice Sapience his Clerke is Exporience Iustice Weak-wit his Clerk is Conceit and Iustice Common-Apprehension his Clerk is onely Sense a couple of poore Iustices With the Iudge and Chiefe Iustices are in Commission the Kings Sergeant and the Kings Atturney The Kings Sergeant is Diuine Reason a man of deepe iudgement in the Lawes of his Soueraigne swaying much with the Iudge The Kings Atturney is Quick-sightednesse both are excellent helpes and Assistants to search out and to handle a Cause before Iudge Conscience For Quicke-sightednesse will soone espy an error in pleading and Diuine Reason will inforce a iust conclusion and so moue the Iudge to giue sentence according to equitie and right If these should bee wanting many matters would goe amisse There is also the Clerke of the Assises the keeper of the Writs that hath all the Inditements This Clerke is Memory which retaineth all those names of euery sinne with the nature of the Offence and what God hath in his word written against them and what complaints Repentance hath made against them Besides this Clerke there is the Clerke of the Arraignment who readeth the Inditements This Clerk is the Tongue making Confession of our sinnes Lastly there is the Cryer This is the Manifestation of the Spirit Before the Clerke of the Arraignment readeth any Inditement it is first framed by the Complainant This Complainant is true Repentance or godly Sorrow The framing of the Inditement is the laying open of sinne as it may be knowne and found out to be sinne according to the true nature thereof Moreouer an Inquest or Grand-Iury there must bee by whose Verdict the Offender is indited made a lawfull Prisoner yet is this Indirement no conuiction What these agree vpon is deliuered vp in writing to the Iustices On the backe of this Inditement framed by the complainant they write either Ignoramus or Billa vera If the former then the complaint is iudged false it is left in record but the Prisoner is not indited If the latter the prisoner is indited the Inditement read and the prisoner brought to the triall at the Barre This Grand-Inquest or Iurie are the Holy men of God whose writings are the Holy Scriptures in the Old and new Testament By the Verdict of these euery thought word and deed of man is either freed or made a lawfull prisoner But yet this Verdict is no lawfull conuiction of particular men till they be rightly applyed If they write vpon the Inditement or Bill framed Ignoramus that is if the holy Scriptures of God declare it not to bee a Sinne it is no finne for Where there is no Law there is no transgression Not the complaints of all vnder Heauen not all the Lawes of men Decrees of Councells the Commandements of Popes can make that a sinne which they write Ignoramus vpon Therefore the Bills of Inditement framed by those false Informers before mentioned Formality Worldly wisdome Lukewarmnesse Meere ciuill honesty Machiauilian Statisme Libertinisme Scrupulosity Papistry against Christian Conference godly Sinceritie true Zeale strict Conuersation Reformation of disorders and the rest are false accusers and haue vpon their complaints written by the Graund-Inquest an Ignoramus and therefore by these worthy Iustices Iustice Science Iustice Prudence Iustice Prouidence and Iustice Sapience are not to bee admitted nor Iudge Censcience to bee troubled therewith though all the Popes the whole Popish Church all Popish Counsels and all the Popishly-affected Statists in the world pleade for them for that thought word or deed is no sinne no Breach of Gods Law on which these write Ignoramus Conscience as is said is not to bee troubled with such Bils of complaint But if these write Billa vera that is if the holy Pen-men haue set downe any

and at your deaths bequeathing something thereunto Euen so be it and the Lord God Almighty be with you all herein Amen My suit is to euerie Keeper of a prison if they bee no kinne to Master Newman the Gaoler in this discourse that yet they would take acquaintance of him and become better knowne to him That their prisoners may by their vertues and religious care bee betier disposed My request to poore prisoners is to redeeme their time ill spent to call to God for mercie and pardon and to moue them hereunto let them in serious meditation put themselues in minde of these things 1. That their libertie abused God hath by the hand of authoritie taken from them as vnworthy to liue freely in a Common-Wealth 2. That as they neglected and despised spirituall meanes of saluation they are now depriued thereof 3. That as before they delighted onely with wicked companie now are they shut vp one with another together 4. That their ragges are ensignes to them of their ragged conditions 5. That their filth and ver mine telleth them of their filthie conuersation and their many sinnes and corruptions 6. That their want of food is a punishment for such of them as haue abused Gods blessings to gluttony drunkennesse and the fruits thereof wantonnesse and filthy vncleannesse 7. That their prison is as it were a picture of hell to minde them of their end whither they are going if they doe not amend 8. That their expecting of the Assises is an instruction to look for Iesus the Iudge of all the world 9. That their chaines fetters and bolts teach them to consider the nature of their sinnes which hold them bound to answer at the Barre of Gods Iustice 10. That their desire of life by a Psalme of mercie should moue them to desire eternall life through the mercies of God in Iesus Christ who will be gracious to euery true beleeuing penitent which graces poore prisoners God send you and feare onely to die eternally Before I end I haue a suit to all that professe the Law that if in this Allegorie fetched from such termes as be better knowne to them than to my selfe I doe mistake they would be pleased to passe ouer that and make vse with me of the spirituall sense which is the drift of my labour herein And so at the length I take leaue with my prayer to God for the peace of Ierusalem and for a prosperous successe to all that loue the Israel of God with our Countreyes glorie and safetie Amen THE ISLE of MAN OR The Legall proceedings in Man-shire LAMENT 3. 40. Let vs search try our waies THE lamenting Prophet IEREMIE in his daies full of lamentation and mourning seeing and also partaking with others of those miseries which befell the state of the Iewes iustly procured at Gods hands for their sins doth heere giue them aduice what was best to be done that in this their distresse GOD might shew them mercy and that was to repent and turne vnto the LORD to the effecting whereof hee counselleth them 2. things laid downe in my Text. 1. To search out sinne 2. and to put it to triall In the handling whereof I will proceed as heere wee doe against a lewd and wicked Malefactor legally according to the lawes of this Realme The first part of my Text is to Search wee know that when one hath offended the lawes hath committed any felonic murther treason or done any outrage for which hee is to be apprehended hee presently flying hiding himselfe is pursued and sought after diligēt search is made to attach him The Malefactor heere which doth so much harm on euery one euery where without ceasing is Sinne. This is a notable Theefe and Robber daring to set vpon any Hee robbeth God of his honour and man of Gods fauour This Theefe stole from Angels their excellency of glory from our first parents their innocencie This is hee that robbeth vs of our graces the spirituall money which we haue in the purses of our heart to helpe vs in our iourney to heauen This Villaine bereaueth vs of our goods driueth away our cattell spoileth vs of euery temporall blessing of our health our peace our liberty and plenty He it is that vtterly vndoeth vs and maketh our estate miserable that we cannot thriue in any thing Body or Soule This is a Murthering Theefe wheresoeuer hee breaketh in by day or by night there will hee either kill or be killed Man and sinne cannot both liue together Most bloudily cruell hee is for hee will spare none He slayeth the hoarie head and killeth the tender Mother with the new-borne Babe Hee regardeth no person no sex no age of so murtherous a disposition is he and so inhumanely barbarous He is a very strong theefe no human power can subdue him hee taketh man and bindeth him for Iniquitie taketh the wicked and holdeth him with the cords of his owne sinnes He will beare rule where hee commeth all must obey him He will command the Reason reigne ouer the Will and swagger ouer the Affections and leade captiue the whole man and make him seruiceable to his lusts yea and make him spend his whole estate to maintaine him in his lustfull humors whether it be in Pride or Drunkennesse or Gluttony or Idlenesse or Whoredome or whatsoeuer else it is he both must and will haue maintenance else will hee set all on fire for Wickednesse burneth as fire This is an vngratefull and mischieuous Theefe for let any entertaine him and fauour him he will worke their ouerthrow Yea so vile a Villain is he that the more any make of him the worse hee is to them for hee with-holds all good from them hee procureth mischiefes to light vpon them Hee keepeth out Grace from hauing any entertainment Hee smothereth Conscience for speaking hardeneth the Heart for feeling blindeth the Iudgment frō discerning stoppeth the Eare from hearing any good counsell lameth the feet from walking in Gods paths benummeth the Hands from doing duties of Charitie and maketh the Tongue to falter in speaking of holy things Neither yet doth he this onely but he worketh Enmitie betwixt his Fauourite his best friend euen betweene God and his own Conscience And to make vp the height of his Mischiefe the more to strengthen himselfe against his foolish and vnhappie friend hee at vnawares to him letteth in and that into the best room euen the Heart his great and most deadly enemy the Deuill Thus Couetousnes did let him into Iudas heart and set him on work to betray Christ Flatterie let him into the hearts of the false Prophets to deceiue Ahab Carelesnesse lets him in to hinder the fruit of the Word Losse of Gods graces lets him in seuen worse with him to ruine a man vtterly Hypocriticall vain-glory and Couetousnesse did let him into the hearts of Ananias and Saphira for