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A87809	A looking-glasse for Levellers: held out in a sermon, preached at St. Peters Pauls-Wharfe, upon Sunday in the after-noone, Sept. 24. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometime chaplain to a regiment of curasiers in His Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing K683; Thomason E465_30; ESTC R204195	16,473	21

Kingdome that the revenue of the Crowne and the patrimony of the Miter and the Estate of every loyall Subject may be theirs Most truly may that of the Prophet be applied to them Jer. 22.17 their eyes and their hearts are not but for their covetousnesse and for to shed innocent bloud and for oppression and for violence to doe it witnesse their Sequestrations their Contributions their Excise their Fift and Twentieth part besides their greedines in getting all the gainful Offices of the Kingdom Their love of money hath been the root of all our evils we may see this by their dividing of the spoile their sharing of the Kingdoms wealth among themselves especially by their sacrilegious selling and usurping of Church-lands they had long agoe ended the Warre or rather had never begun it but to get these Lands they kill as Saint James speaketh because they desire to have to have other mens possessions the whole world and even their own consciences beare witnesse to this truth And their Chaplaines of the Assembly are just like them those Journey-men-Rebels that love the wages of unrighteousnesse that have so much by the day to make Rebellion good by Scripture an heart they have exercised with covetous practises through covetousnesse with fained words making merchandise of men Their ayme is to get the greatest Livings even Pluralities which once they so much railed at and under the name forsooth of Lecturers they creep into Deanes and Prebendaries houses some get Masterships of Colledges some of Hospitals all their ayme is that the inheritance the profitable preferments may be theirs I shall not need to rake this dunghill nor stir this Camerina any further It is most evident how bloudy and covetous all these levelling Vine-dressers are What therefore shall the Lord of the Vineyard doe unto them Sure in justice he might destroy them though he delighteth more in mercy and might let out his Vineyard to others he might discard these unjust Judges he might displace these unfaithfull Stewards these Zimries deserve no peace no pardon that would have slain their Master these Shebaes deserve to have their heads thrown over the Wall these Hamans to be executed upon their owne gallowes those mine enemies might the King say which would not that I should reigne over them bring them hither and slay them before me neque est lex justior ulla Quàm necis artifices arte perire suâ They might justly be served as the Scythian Queen served Cyrus have their heads thrown into a bloud-boule with this exprobration of their tyranny Satiate vos sanguine sanguisugae quem sitistis their heads should down to the grave with bloud theirs especially that have shed the bloud of war in peace that for meer envy have murdered their Captives in cold bloud And methinks indeed these men of bloud should have such an hell within themselves that like Cain they should be afraid that every one which meeteth them will slay them For bloud-thirsty men as David speaketh shall not live out halfe their daies if they doe they seldome die peaceably in their beds Ad generum Ceteris sine caede vulnere paci Descendunt siccâ morte tiranni If any aske why I rip up these mens actions in a time of Treaty I Answer that I have in a manner their owne order for it they returned thanks to those men that petitioned lately against the Treaty whereby it is evident that they approved of their Petition and one passage in that Petition was to this purpose that no base Act of Oblivion might obliterate their doings but that there might be an Act rather for the propagating of their memoriall to posterity But to speak no more of them being absent let me now apply my self to you here present and let me intreat you to be no longer partakers in their sins walke not ye in the way with them refraine your feet from their path for their feet run to evill and make haste to shed bloud and bloud-shed Brethren how light soever now esteemed is a most crying sin the cries of it enter into the eares of the Lord of Sabbath Wash therefore not your hands onely but your hearts too from this sin let no bloudy thoughts any longer lodge in you As the death of men is dear in the sight of God so let it be in your sight Remember what Almighty God saith Gen. 9.5 6. Surely your bloud of your lives will I require at the hand of every mans Brother will I require the life of man Who so sheddeth mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed Take heed then of shaking hands with those men that delight in bloud this sin will not suffer God to be quiet till he avenge it To the slaine his eares are open but fast shut to those that slay them all your daies of Fasting and Humiliation will be ineffectuall if ye be against the Treaty if ye be still for War though ye make never so many Prayers God will not hear you so long as your hands are full of bloud Wash your selves therefore I beseech you make you cleane from the bloud of all men be no longer accessary to murder by raising Money to maintaine War ye know that no murderer no not a second-hand murderer hath eternal life abiding in him Let then your prayer be that God would deliver you from this kind of bloud-guiltinesse and hereafter make better use of your money make it not the price of bloud Cursed be he saith God by Jeremy that keepeth back his sword from bloud Jer. 48.10 A place that Assembly-men have strangely wrested of late yeares pressing it upon mens consciences as a warrant for them to cut throats urging it as a Commission and command for them to kill and slay and many thousands have followed their pernitious doctrine even LONDON the sometime faithfull City is become an Harlot righteousnesse did once lodge in it but now murderers But let not these bloudy wolvish Prophets seduce you any more Wo to the bloudy City this is the voice of the Lords Prophets and if any man teach you otherwise let him be accursed O that ye would know therefore in this your day the things that belong unto your peace lest otherwise they be hid for ever from your eyes Consider what God saith to the Jewes Isa 1.19 20. for the very same he saith now to you If ye be willing and obedient willing to have your King restored and will henceforth be obedient to him ye shall eate the good of the land but if ye refuse his gratious pardon and resolve still to rebel against him ye shal be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the Lord bath spoken it If ye still keep up the sword ye will in the end perish by it your sword will certainly penetrate your own heart Obey not them therefore that think they can kill the body and that would have you make a trade of killing but obey him that can kill body

the evidence of things not seen yet Segniùs irritant animos c. as the Poet speaketh a man will give more credit to his eyes then to his ears Saint Thomas would not go by hear-say except he might see he resolved not to believe But the chief Priests were so perverse that they would not believe their own eyes for they conspired against our Saviour though they saw him though they knew him though they knew him to be the Messiah and could say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is the Heire From whence we may observe that as there is a zeale without knowledg so there is a knowledg without faith The very Devils knew our Saviour they knew him to be the Son of God Mat. 3.29 Jesus I know said the evill Spirit to those Exorcists Act. 19.15 But their knowledge was meerly historicall like their faith And just after this manner did the chief Priests know Christ There are indeed some places of Scripture that seem to contradict our Text and to say that the chief Priests knew not Jesus to be Christ knew not that he was the Heire For Saint John saith plainly that the world knew him not Joh. 1.10 And Saint Peter upbraiding the Jewes for killing the Prince of life useth these very words I wot that through ignorance ye did it as did also your Rulers Act. 3.17 And Saint Paul speaking of the wisdome of God which I take to be his Son telleth us in expresse words that none of the Princes of this world knew it for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory 1 Cor. 2.8 But I answer First to that of Saint John the world knew not Christ that is the greatest part of it to that of Saint Paul none of the Princes of this world knew him that is few of them to that of Saint Peter the Jewes and their Rulers slew him ignorantly that is some of them did so thus the ordinary glosse would have those places construed Secondly I answer that the ignorance of the chief Priests was not purae negationis but pravae dispositionis if they were ignorant of Christ it was because they would be ignorant as the people used to say to their Seers see not so these Seers seem to have stopped their eares and shut their eyes for otherwise they could not chuse but acknowledge Jesus to be the Messiah because all the Prophecies of his comming were fulfilled First that Prophecy Gen. 49.10 pointing at the time of his Birth the Scepter was then departed from Judah the Jewes paid contribution they were tributaries to the Romans Secondly that Prophecy Micah 5.2 pointing out the place of his Nativity he was borne in Bethleem of Judea which was the place assigned for Christs Birth as these very chief Priests or their Predecessours told King Herod But if neither the time nor place of his Birth yet his Miracles might perfectly assure them that he was the Messiah And therefore when Saint John Baptist sent two of his Disciples to aske him if he were Christ all the answer he would returne by them was this Go and shew John again those things ye doe heare and see the blind receive their sight the deafe hear the lame walk the lepers are cleansed the dead are raised up c. Mat. 11.4 5. And when Christ commeth some asked the question Shall he doe more Miracles then these which this man doth Joh. 7.31 Though the chief Priests then would not believe his words yet they might have believed him for his works sake But neither of these would prevaile with them they had eares yet would not heare they had eyes yet would not see Which was a most notorious aggravation of their treason for had they been stark blind their sin haply might have been remitted but because seeing they would not see therefore their sin remaineth And this sin of theirs seemeth to be no better then the very sin against the Holy Ghost for against conscience out of meer malice they conspired to put this Heire to death And I pray God the Ring-leaders of our rebellious Reformation be not guilty of the self-same sin for it seemeth to be out of a desperate inveterate malice that notwithstanding the present Treaty some of them persist in their conspiracy against the best of Kings But these Levellers shall bring up the rear of my discourse I passe therefore from the second part of the Text the Person that the chief Priests conspired against which was the Heire to the third which is the manner of their conspiracy They reasoned among themselves saying come let us kill him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they reasoned they argued the case Treason is a sin of deliberation a studied sin All sins are not cognita known sins there are sins of ignorance as well as sins of knowledge But there is neither ignorantia facti nor ignorantia juris in treason it is wilfully contrived and complotted it is a premeditated sin And herein appeareth the hainousnesse of it above other sins To sin out of infirmity or ignorance to be overtaken in a fault this is but as it were chance medley pardonable by the law of God and men But to sin with a full career of set purpose to consult about it this is no lesse then wilfull murder a sin that never must go unpardoned and yet this was the sin of these chief Priests in our Text they reasoned among themselves saying come let us kill him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Come Wicked men use to call and invite one another to commit sin they are a sociable sort of people that are unwilling to go to Hell alone they entise and engage as many as they can to be partakers with them they are in league and covenant there is a combination among them especially among Traytours such as these chief Priests were who conspired against Christ just as Joseph's Brethren against him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 come let us kill him Joseph indeed scaped with life thanks to his eldest Brother but Jesus had not one Reuben to speak for him none but a Woman and she could not prevaile the Kings of the earth standing up and the Rulers taking counsell together against the Lord and against his Christ for against the holy Child Jesus both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of the Jewes were gathered together they gathered them together against the soule of the righteous that they might condemn the innocent bloud they reasoned among themselves saying come let us kill him Kill him As the Devil is a murtherer so all those that are of his party thirst after bloud Shimei did a great deal of wrong to David in calling him so but otherwise Bloudy man and man of Belial may well go together for there is no man desperately wicked but he is a bloud-thirsty man It hath been thus from the beginning of the world and will be so to the end Caine was of that wicked one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉