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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

vain-glorie made them sell all to make a shew to bee like Barnabas but Couetousnes with vnbeleefe aduised them to withhold some of the money lest they should happen to want but how to do this keep their credit they knew not therefore Hypocrisie Vaine-glory Couetousnesse and Vnbeleefe called in Satan to heare his counsell who taught them to lie vnto the Holy Ghost but to the death of them both Thus wee see what an vngratefull Villaine sinne is to his best friends Lastly this Theefe is a pestilent subtile Theefe Sinne is deceitfull it beguiled Adam Dauid and Salomon Yea Saint Paul one once rapt vp into the third Heauen doth acknowledge that it deceiued him And whom hath it not deceiued He is therefore carefully to be auoided and taken heed of and this robbing murthering strong vngrateful mischieuous and subtill Theefe diligently to be sought out But before Search can be made a Watch must bee set to espy him out that he may be attached The Watch-man appointed for this purpose is godly iealousie who hath euer an holy suspicion of a mans owne waies lest in any thing at any time he should mis-behaue himselfe This vigilant Watchman hath with him two Assistants euer to accompany him the one is Loue-good a zealous fellow for God good duties the other is Hate-ill an angry and waspish fellow and of a fierce countenance against sinne These three euer keepe together so as Sinne cannot so cunningly enter but they can as quickly espie him and as speedily pursue him and put him to flight The place where these are set Watchmen is called Soules-towne a towne of great resort a thorow-fare neuer without Trauellers ill motions day and night and the Posts which are Satans suggestions euer and anon passe thorow and many at the Common Inne the Heart take vp their lodgings This Towne is very spacious and large for besides many Back-sides By-lanes and Out-corners there are foure great streets Sensestreet Thought-street Wordstreet and Deed-street in some of which this lewd companion Sinne and his Cope-mates will be found wandering When the Watch is set they haue a Charge giuen them by one in authority which is this Keepe thy Soule diligently and withall to haue a watchfull eye to the Inne and to take heedlest at any time there be an heart of infidelitie to depart from the liuing God commanding also the Watch-men to exhort one another daily lest their hearts be hardened with the deceitfulnesse of sinne These Watch-men haue also a Watch-word giuen them euen a word of preuenting Grace saying to them This is the Way walke in it when they are turning to the right hand or to the left To this Watch-word Godly-Iealousie with his Associates doe willingly attend keeping carefully the watch so as the Theefe is descried presently they make Hue and Crie after him This Hue and Crie is written by the Bible clark and containeth infallible markes to discouer sinne whereby it may bee certainly knowne and they are these 1 By the Law of the ten Commandements for by it commeth the knowledge of sinne for euery failing in that which is commanded and euery thought word deed against that which is forbidden is sin 2 By euery exhortation to vertue and euery dehortation from vice being appendices to the Commandements shewing what we ought to doe and what ought to be shunned and auoided of vs. 3 By euery Threatning which is the word of Gods displeasure for Sinne. 4 By punishments inflicted which is certainly Gods hand for sinne for were hee not prouoked by Sinne hee would not afflict vs. 5 By the humble confession of such as haue acknowledged their Sinnes in particular 6 By plaine accusations laying Sinnes to mens charge Isai 59. 3 c. 7 By reproofes checks for Sinne 2 Chron. 19. 2. 8 By Places numbring vp Sinnes by name in sundry Scriptures Rom. 1. 29 30 31 32. 1 Tim. 1. 9 10. 2 Tim. 3. 2 c. 1 Cor. 5. 11. Galathians 5. 19 20 21. Reu. 21. 8. Pro. 11. 1. Mich. 6. 11. 9 By the description of Sinne shewing what it is as in 1. Ioh. 3. 4. 5. 17. Ro. 14. 23. Pro. 21. 4. 24. 9. 14. 21. 10 By the Description of godly men negatiuely by such things as they ought to auoid as in Psal 1. 1. 15. 3. 5. 24. 4. Ezek. 18. 6 8. Isa 33. 15. Psal 101. 3. 16. 4. Lastly by the Description of wicked men by their bad qualities and conditions Psal 10. 2 11. 12. 2. 4. 57. 21. The Hue and Cry thus set out it is carried by the Spirit of Supplication crying mightily to the Lord for grace mercy to helpe in time of need as Dauid did who saw Sinne before him and then made hee Hue and Cry saying Haue mercy vpon mee O Lord according to thy louing kindnesse according to the multitude of thy mercie doe away all mine offences This Hue and Cry must not be let slip at any hand but be carried along in the pursuit lest in following of sinne men be deceiued and solid Vertues bee attached in stead of Vices For this wee must know as Vices haue not a few friends as after shall bee shewed so Vertues haue many enemies ready to informe against them that they may be pursued after as Malefactors that Sinne in the meane while may seeke shelter and escape and the enemies are these 1 One Mr. Out-side in the inside a carnall Securitan a fellow that will come to his Church keepe his Sundaies and Holy-daies But yet in the Congregation while hee sitteth among others sometimes he is nodding and sometimes fast a sleepe and if he abide waking then is his mind wandring abroad so as he remaineth still ignorant without any effectuall power of the Word and being out of the Church hee is presently vpon his worldly businesse This fellow cannot abide any after-meditation or Christian Conference with others of that which he hath heard and if hee espie any meeting together for this purpose then he maketh information against them and is readie to send the Hue and Cry as against a priuy Schismaticall conuenticling and vnlawfull meeting This is a vulgar Ignoramus and a blockish Aduersarie 2 The second is Sir Worldly-wise a very foole to God a selfe-conceited earth-worme whose wisdome is from below and therefore sensuall earthly and deuillish who proudly with much disdaine condemneth and contemneth the wisdom which is from aboue pure and peaceable sincere and charitable and is ready to send the Hue and Crie after it as after foolish and doting Simplicitie 3 The third is Sir Luke-warm this fellow is a temporizing time-seruer Iacke on both sides he is all in the praise of moderation and discretion one very indifferent between this that Hee cannot endure feruent zeale but

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

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. Rector of Batcomb Somers The fourth Edition much enlarged LONDON Printed for Edw. Blackmore at the great South doore of Pauls 1627. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Sr. THOMAS THYNNE Knight and to his religiously-affected Ladie the Lady KATHERINE THYNNE All sauing graces in the blessed way vnto eternall Comforts are vnfainedly wished Right Worshipfull SInce your departure and now returne to Longleate where the poore feele your mercies in set times of releefe and daily almes and your tenants and common neighbouring Inhabitants good entertainment at the generall time of great house keeping it was my hap to trauell into and thorowout the whole Isle of man now its vsuall with Trauellers to discourse of their iourneying and to relate their Obseruations And therefore let none obiect say vnto mee that of Persius Scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter For I found good in my paines taking and bonum is communicativum sui diffusivum and so quo communius eo melius In my very entrance and afterwards euery where I found written that old ancient precept Nosce teipsum This lesson I began to take out with diligent obseruation And it brought to my mind the Apostles charge Quisque explorat seipsum which I laboured to put in practice and so sought my selfe in my selfe for I remembred that saying long since learned Orbis quisque sibi nec te quaesiueris extra Thus my trauell became very profitable to mee and the variety of sights withall procured delight and turned my paines into pleasure In my trauelling I came to the County Towne or chiefest Seat there called Soule Where I rested for some time because it fell out to be the Assise weeke for all that Iland Where I specially marked how in all things they proceeded against Malefactors according to the Lawes of England in this onely lyeth the difference there is neuer but one Iudge whereas wee haue euer two appointed in euery Circuit as wee haue now in this Westerne very honorable and religious Iudges quos honoris causa non possum non nominare Sir Iohn Walter Lord Chiefe Baron and Sir Iohn Denham another worthy Baron of the Exchequer louers of vertue and Iustice And indeed such ought Iudges to be as was and is this Iudge in Man He is a Iudge of Iethroes choice verax Dei timens osor turpis lucri Hee is diuinely giuen prudent impartiall and very quicke vpon good information in dispatch of Causes Hee was worthily attended as he ought euer to bee with a worthy Sheriffe with Iustices of Peace Knights and Esquires Gentlemen of singular note and fame in that Countrie This I heard of them and it appeared by their practice that they all stand for the maintenance of the lawes they see their Soueraigne well serued Iustice duly obserued and iudgement executed accordingly They neuer side with any for they hate faction Pride and Enuy two restlesse Make-bates who for notorious misdemeanour I saw bound to the good behauiour So as now there a Caesar-like spirit patitur superiorem a Pompey suum parem They runne all one course and as true Israelites quasi vir vnus for publike good Therefore doe the people liue in peace the land prospereth Iustice flourisheth vertue is exalted vice suppressed and the enemies at home and abroad made to feare The whole discourse of this excellent order and carefull proceedings there by me obserued from my first entrance vnto the end I am bold here to present vnto your Worships whom I haue now found diligent Readers of holy Scripture addicted to priuate prayer besides set forme for the whole family to be entertainers of the Preachers of Gods Word giuing freely to such Benefices as they hap to be void not being seduced by mens offering large summes to procure Aduousons afore hand as too many Patrons bee in these daies Now the Lord God Almighty hearten you in and to these things more more and to euery other good grace that may liuely demonstrate to the world the power of sauing knowledge in the vse of Gods abundant earthly blessings so largely bestowed vpon you with which earnest prayer vnto God for you and for a blessing vpon these my endeuours to further the same I humbly take leaue Your Worships in all Christian seruices at command RICHARD BERNARD Batcombe May 21. THE AVTHORS earnest requests FIRST to the Worthy Reader whosoeuer to whom let me but say thus much of this Discourse and allegoricall narration that in it sunt bona sunt quaedam mediocria sunt mala nulla Yet if any thing may seeme distastfull let thy minde be to take it well as Caesars was to interpret well the seeming offensiue carriage of one Accius the Poet towards him and thou wilt not be displeased Thy good minde will preuent the taking of an offence where none is intended to be giuen In discouery attaching arraigning and condemning of finne I tax the Vice and not any mans person so as I may say with one Hunc seruare modum nostri nouere libelli Parcere personis discere de vitijs Thou hast heere towards the end of this discourse the tryall and iudgement vpon foure notorious Malefactors Two of them the very prime Authors of all the open rebellion or secret Conspiracies which at any time euer were in that Iland The other two were the principall Abettours and the chiefest Supporters of them Their names their natures and their mischieuous practices thou mayest find at large in the narration There should haue beene at that Assises with these the arraignment of certaine suspected Witches but this was preuented because the Grand-Iurie Gentlemen could not agree to bring in their Billa vera for that they made question of diuers points whereof they could not be resolued at that present 1. Whether the afflicted did suffer by onely some violent diseases in nature producing strange effects like practices of Witch-craft Which for want of a iudicious Physitian they could not discerne 2. Whether the afflicted were a counterfeit as was one Marwood the Boy of Bilson and one Mary Brosier Or that he or she hauing some natural disease did make vse thereof and counterfeited the rest as one Mainy did who was troubled with the hysterica passio 3. Whether being a disease supernaturall yet might come vpon the afflicted by the operation of the deuill without the association of a Witch as it happened to Iob and others in the Euangelists Or that the afflicted hath a deuill