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A27493	Esoptron tes antimachias, or, A looking-glasse for rebellion being a sermon preached upon Sunday the 16 of Iune 1644, in Saint Maries Oxford, before the members of the two Houses of Parliament / by Nath. Bernard.	Bernard, Nath. (Nathaniel)	1644 (1644)	Wing B2006; ESTC R39537	18,723	28

society with the Devill Ioh 8. 44. And the first Practitioners of Rebellion our first Parents did it not nay I dare say had not done it without his society Gen. 3. And so as witchcraft so Rebellion hath societatem daemonis Secondly the sicut holds between them in the mischieving of men For as Estius learnedly and judiciously proves There can be no beneficium in witchcraft to any but it alwaies hurts men either outwardly in their temporalls or inwardly in their soules so Rebellion is ever hurtfull and mischievous to the soules of Rebells how we shall see anon to the outward estate and visible prosperity of all men is so evident that I submit it to your judgements that heare me this day and to the experience of the Kingdom except to such as are like Marius that did frui diis irat is thrive best when God is most angry those I would not have of the Iury But because these sinnes are of a Scarlet and crimson tincture Rebellion For it 's compared with Witchcraft Witchcraft for 't is made the rule of the comparison and Nemo repente fit turpissimus I will more particularly examine their Principia Media Effectus Exitus and Signa And shall find a Sicut in both through all these First there is in both a Sicut principiorum or beginnings And these are either of the sinne or of the sinner Of the sinne Plinie in the beginning of his 30th booke observes that of so grosse and base an art as Witchcraft is It is a wonderfull thing to see that it hath prevail'd in all ages and all Nations to have some to be in love with it And endeavouring a reason for it saith it is Ars omnium fraudulentissima the cheatingst Art in the World And it doth pretend to three the most commanding arts of humane sense for first Natam è medicina specie salutari irrepsisse quis non videt It seemes the daughter of Physick and pretends to doe cures Secondly Addidisse vires religionis it borroweth strength from Religion and exacts faith from all that come neare it Thirdly Miscuisse artes Mathematicas it mingles the Mathematicks by casting of figures and drawing of Schemes Iust so A man would wonder how so declamed a sinne as Rebellion is could have so many engaged in it especially with us who have not so learned Christ And the reason is as in Absolom's so in our time hath it been brought in by a cheat For first As Witchcraft so Rebellion hath pretended to Physick and to work wonderfull State-cures and Salus populi hath been mightily cried up Whereas God knowes nullam sperare salutem had been farre more wholsome for the Common-wealth for it could not then have fared so ill Secondly Even Rebellion too addidit vires Religionis pretends a Religion for although Ajoynt Declaration of both Houses of Feb. 22. 1642. tell all the World that The defence of the Kingdom from forraigne invasion The protection of the present Parliament from violence and the bringing of Delinquents to Iustice are the ONELY causes for which their present forces were raised yet within halfe a yeare after they set forth a Sacred Vow and Covenant wherein they enjoyne every man to sweare that he does believe the same forces were also raised for the just defence of the true Protestant Religion Not only but also Thirdly they mingle the Mathematiques not only of Observations but uncouth figures cast for the conjuring of all authority into their own hands And all mens states into their disposing And thus holds the Sicut in the Beginning of both sinnes Now to the sinners or men Iacobus Sprengerus in his Malle Mallef or hammer of Witches saies they are Miserae personae quas tenet impatientia miserable persons possessed by impatience quibus taedio damni tristibus vel odio ex injuria illata accensis modum vindicandi quarentibus vel paupertate nimiâ laborantibus c. se daemon insinuas To whom when they are sad for losses mad for received injuries and desirous of revenge or sick of their poverty and beggerly conditions the Divell in pleasing shape insinuates himselfe aggravates the causes of their sufferings increases their passion and hatred promiseth them help neither discovering himselfe nor doing any thing for them but soothing them untill he have brought them within the compasse of his Covenant But here the Sicut is so evident in our Rebellion that I will not light the Sunne with a rush candle but surely Sprengerus was a malignant and ill affected though the word of God stand by him and say Rebellion is as the sinne of Witchcraft I have done with the Principia I come to the Media and we shall find a sicut of instruments likewise which in Witchrafts according to Sprengerus and Ioh. Niderus are 1. Profanations of the Lords dayes of the day of Christs Passion or Good-Friday 2. Of Churches Consecrated places 3. Shooting of Guns or Arrowes at the Image of Christ 4. Abusing and distorting of mangled parcells of holy writ 5. An unbaptized Child And these among others are main instruments used by Witches to doe mischiefe with For of these the third saith Sprengerus hath this efficacy That as often as a Witch by any Weapon doth pierce or violate the Image of our Saviour so many men hath she power to bewitch to death And now if we consider how the Rebells have made profane advantages of Gods own day what Sacriledge upon Churches and consecrated places how often wrested Gods word how made much of Anabaptists lastly how violated the Images of Christ which though I abhorre the thought of worshipping them yet I doubt not have by their impious hands been so violenced that the effects of the shedding of so much blood shew that the sicut holds true in the Media also Rebellion is as the sinne of Witchcraft The third sicut in the sinnes is that of Effects for as in Witchcraft they that suffer by it First suffer not according to the ordinary course of nature but are strangely taken so that Physitians can give no regular account of the Causes Symptoms and Prognosticks of their griefes So in Rebellion they that rue it are not dealt with according to any regular legall and judiciary processe but the Lawyers and Iudges who are Politicall Physitians know no reasons why nor how men are punished nor are able to say what issue these things will come to Secondly they that suffer by Witches have commonly first losses without doores they loose a Cow or a Horse or a Hog and of these first one then more till they loose all like Iob. Cap. 1. then their Houses and Lands Lastly their Bodies and if God restraine not their Lives and Soules also Thus they dwindle and pine away So where Rebellion prevailes are men honest men by these degrees ruined First their Horses seised on their cattle distrained their goods plundered or