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A77341	A breviate of a sentence given against Jerome Alexander Esquire, an utter barrester of Lincolns-Inne, in the court of Star-chamber, the 17th day of November, in the second yeer of the raign of our soveraign Lord King Charls, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. With exceptions taken to the said sentence, to unfold the iniquity thereof. With a short narrative of divers other passages and oppressions, wherewith he hath been also grieved in other times of his life, both before and since. Printed for the satisfaction of his friends, against those many calumnies and aspertions raised thereupon to blemish him in their opinion, and in the opinion of all others with whom he hath to do.		1644 (1644)	Wing B4410; Thomason E1066_2; ESTC R211322	183,530	157

A Breviate of a Sentence given AGAINST JEROME ALEXANDER Esquire An Utter Barrester of Lincolns-Inne In the Court of Star-Chamber the 17th day of November in the second yeer of the Raign of our Soveraign Lord King Charls of England Scotland France and Ireland c. With Exceptions taken to the said Sentence to unfold the Iniquity thereof With a short Narrative of divers other passages and Oppressions wherewith he hath been also grieved in other times of his life both before and since Printed for the Satisfaction of his Friends against those many Calumnies and aspertions raised thereupon to blemish him in their opinion and in the opinion of all others with whom he hath to do PSALM 118.6 7 8 9. The Lord is on my side I will not fear what man can do unto me the Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in man it is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in Princes PSAL. 9.13 14. Have mercy then upon me O Lord consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me thou that liftest me up from the gates of death that I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Sion LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1644. To the Reader A Working Vessell is saved from breaking by a vent a heart oppressed with sorrows eased when it hath revealed its discontents I have long laboured under many afflictions and oppressions and to this houre could yet never finde Justice at leisure to examine my Complaint the vinegar of which delay hath been as ill to me as the injustice which I have received whiles thus my Calamities have been prolonged encreased too by common Fame and though in this time my innocence hath cleered the main debt yet have I been undone with the Arrerages of the suspition which is an arrow of slander that pierceth the inward parts men being apt to believe Relations as they come to them that a good man oftentimes may deliver untruths by here-say from the credit of one he trusteth and thereby wrong the reputation of him he knows not and the innocent thus many times may suffer reproach undeservedly For the satisfaction therefore of my acquaintance I have Printed this Map of my misery untill the time shall come that my cause may be rightly judged Psa 105.19 20. and that in the interim I may not lye under the guilt of those slanders wherewith I have been blemished chosing rather that my enemy should eate my heart than a friend should grieve it as it is much better to dye of the meate one liketh not then to surfet of the meate one loves a man is not therefore unworthy because he hath had disasters follow him at the heels for the whistling whirl-wind must blow before Elias be rapt up to heaven great and mighty fishes are not bred in small and sweet waters but in the salt-Salt-sea as brave Spirits by difficult attempts become victorious a fruitfull tree though the bark be bitter yet the fruit is sweet though a man may seem harsh in the more strict performance of his duty yet is it profitable to the publique nor shall you ever finde any cudgells thrown at an Apple tree that bears onely leaves no man was ever envied for evill t is vertue that hath so many enemies for a bad man is to himself the worst and needs no other enemy to undo him then his own desires as Midas made his Idoll become his ruin thus we hate the Foxes advise thovgh never so current the Wolfs skin doth detect his Counsell in persons faulty we suspect truth and therefore it was observed of Aristides that he was wont to propose such advices as he knew did conduce unto the Publique weal by some other men and not from himself lest Themistocles out of hatred of his person should have with stood and impedimented a generall good as a fire made of green wood which is fed with it as fewell but quenched with it as 't is green and thus when the Murtle tree will quickly rot the Sethim wood cannot be eate with wormes the Saphire will not crack when the flint is quickly shivered in peeces when the evill man like him in the Philosopher who thought where ever he went that he saw his own picture walk before him unto a wise man you can do no wrong who like a good souldier will keep his rank receive with thanks whatsoever falls that which is constant we say doth passe for excelten 't is true in the use of good things as it is in sufferings for the truth for thus the malice and venome of an enemy too may by wisdom be converted into a medicine and by managing become a benefit which was by him intended for an injury or to use the similitude of Plutarch as healthy and strong beasts do eate and concoct Serpents whereas weak stomacks do nauseate at delicates so wise men do exceedingly profit by the hatred of their enemies whereas fools are corrupted with the love of their friends and an injury doth one man more good than a curtesie doth another as wind and thunder when they trouble the ayre do withall purge it whereas a long Calm doth dispose it unto putrifaction the same whetstone that takes from a weapon doth likewise give it an edge 1 Sam. 13.30 and sharpens it as the Israelites when there was no Smith amongst them 1 Sam. 13.30 did sharpen their instruments with the Philistims so an enemy serves to quicken and put an edge upon those vertues which by lying unexercised may contract rust and dulnesse and many times when the reasons of the thing it self cannot perswade the fear of giving advantage will over-rule a man lest hereby he gives his foe matter of insultation the eye and neerenesse of an Adversary exciteth Caution and diligence and makes a mans life more fruitfull and orderly then otherwise it would have been like a sink by a house side it makes all the house the cleaner as those Roses and Violets are sweetest which grow neer unto Garlick and other strong sented Herbs because these draw away to them any fetid or noxious nonrishment and as vermine do ever devour the purest Corn and moaths eate into the finest Cloath and the Cautharides blasts the swetest flowers so envie doth ever gnaw upon that which is most beautifull in another whom it hateth poyson never works where it finds no heat envie still follows the better part as the Vulture it draws sicknesse from a persum a rancorous nature trouble from the good it sees in him he hateth and odiorum acriores causae quando iniquae when hatred is built upon a bad foundation it commonly raiseth it self the higher and the reason is because in passions of this nature the lesse we have from the object the more we have from our selves and what is

reason why And whatsoever other cause they pretend their despite is against Piety this is the fuel of that fire and the disagreement it hath with holinesse is the contusion and striking of their works together which kindles the opposition And sometimes the suggestions of Satan Sometimes you shall have an Haman to stir up Ahasuerus to destroy the Nation of the Jews But Arts agree best at a distance and the Sun and Moon when furthest from one another The Tradesmans profit is made the lesse by the rest sharing with him But this blowing of the winde more fastens the root of the tree and that much more which is planted by the River of waters So that this sea may rage and swell against the Land but it cannot overflow the banks And though with the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem they cry Psal 13.7 Down with him down with him even to the ground lurking privily to destroy the innocent without cause and to swallow him up alive as the grave and whole Prov. 1.11 12. as those that go down into the pit yet Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos They do but kick against the pricks swim against the stream hop against the hill labour but in vain to confound him whom God upholdeth Yet what will not Dogs spue out when they are set to vomit up what 's within their bowels for all that But Gods Saints have ever fallen under misconstruction have still been slighted and despised accounted as the off-scouring of the earth Psal 31.22 the fools of the Times and most commonly too the better man the worse esteem Isa 8.18 they have been reckoned broken vessels good for nothing but the dunghill Psal 69.12 signes and wonders in Israel the song of drunkards the mirth of feasts And what names have been invented for to brand and to disgrace them with Psal 35.15 16. what reproaches and disgraces have been raised on them as That they are the Pests of Kingdoms the Troublers of Israel Rebellious against the Laws Acts 26.51 Kings 18.17 not for the profit of the Common-wealth that they should be permitted to draw in the common breath What watching for their haltings how glad of their faults Jer. 20.10 how joyfull at catching at and taking up any ill rumour of them how insulting over their weaknesses how witty for to receive their old primitive slanders Psal 35.15 and 26.16 and how cruelly and mercilesly have they been handled if once they have but fallen into their enemies Clutches Plinie in his Natur all History saith of the Tyger that his rage is stirred up and exasperated by smelling the fragrant sent of Spices T is true of good men for doubtlesse because they abstain from evil Isa 59.1 they make themselves a prey unto the wicked Thus Noah was scorned by the men of his time for preparing the ark and for urging Repentance to prevent the danger of the Deluge then to come yet is he by the providence of God 2 Pet. 2.5 2 Sam 6.14 16 20 21 22. chronicled unto all posterity for a Preacher of Righteousnesse And David for dancing before the Ark was by Michal contemned in her heart yet was it an act acceptable in heaven If John come neither eating nor drinking they say He hath a Devil and if the Son of man come eating and drinking Matt. 11 18 19. they say Behold a glutton a wine-bibber a friend of publicans and sinners This Estridge having wings to cozen not to flie withall If Festus may be judge of Pauls speeches then Paul is beside himself Act. 24.6 and said otherwhile to be a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition Our Saviour Christ himself is said to cast out Devils by Beelzebub the Prince of the Devils But Matt. 12.24 if the Master of the House be thus abused how can a man think that his servant can go free It hath been the devils policie of old and of all Machavils children who derive their Pedigree even from that wicked one their father still to endeavour to asperse the innocent with Calumnies and Reproaches and to lay on load enough that some may abide for thus slander makes way for violence and do but taint mens innocence in the worlds opinion and then they lie open to any usage whatsoever We reade of no good man but hath had his falls hath been foiled nay beaten black and blue for no man at all times can be wise and no man liveth that sinneth not Thus the brightest glasse is stained with a little breath and a little spot in a white paper is quickly made and as men love me so they will tell my tale and though hear say hath no security of truth yet most men are apt to believe the worst though of him they know not a false report being as one Weed in a Nosegay that oversmells all the Flowers every man desiring to have that true he likes the best and to which his fancie moves which commonly is according to the first apprehension of things and being once fixt in the understanding Isa 19.29 20 21. it is very hardly removed from the judgement afterwards an ill stomack being thus apt to nauseate at the very best meat that even wise men oft times do thus their businesse unjustly making a man an offender for a word and turning aside the just even for a thing of nought It being the course of the children of this world to measure every mans Corn by their own Bushel to mete every mans Measure by their own Yard-wand And because their Candles shine upon their heads Job 29.6 Gen. 27.28 and they wash their steps with Butter and the rock pours them out rivers of Oil that they enjoy the fatnesse of the earth and plenty of Corn and Wine Psa 37.7 that their eyes stand out again with that which the marrow of their bones encreaseth Dan. 4.3 being clothed with Honour and Majestie as with a Garment and having the Command of the People to obey them at every beck enjoying indeed what their hearts can wish Seeing the good men debarred of these pleasures for want of Spirituall eyes Mal. 3.15 they make them a Spectacle unto the World to Angels and to Men 1 Cor. 4.9 10 11 12. reviling persecuting and accounting them the filth of the world and the off-scowring of all things unto this day But these good Fortunes unto them are but as Quick-sands to go upon whereon if we stand we sink and these men like Silk-worms when they have wrought out their Silk turn into Moths and Butter-flies That as the Philosopher being demanded wherein the learned were more happie then the unlearned answered onely Spe in Hope so Saint Paul makes the Conclusion in this case That if in this life onely the Saints had Hope 1 Cor. 15 19. they were of all men the most miserable But darkest shadows follow the brightest bodies Diamonds have their