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A57829	Mirmah, or, The deceitful witness a prophecy of Solomon, now first and seasonably discovered, wherein the deceitful witnesses of Rome are made manifest to all, and our Protestant witnesses are justified, praised, and defended, chiefly the late happy discoverers of the Romish plots & deceits : being a sermon preached Novemb. 5 on Prov. 14.25 : a true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies, or, as the original signifies, the lord of Rome speaketh lies / by William Ramsay ...	Ramsay, William, B.D.; Ramsay, William, fl. 1680. Mirmah, Maromah, Maroum.	1679 (1679)	Wing R219; ESTC R13073	11,934	34

been able to fix scarce a seeming Contradiction on the Testimonies of our Witnesses no not on their longest Narratives which is a strong evidence of their sincere Veracity But because perhaps neither their Narratives nor their Testimony is yet at an end I shall say no more of that but conclude First with a word to these Witnesses Let them proceed in a faithful Testimony with courage and confidence in the God of Truth speaking and avowing the Truth for Truths sake not to confound their Enemies yet the Confusion of their enemies will justly follow but let their design be to preserve the Innocent to serve the Church of God to save their King and his People to Deliver Souls Following the Example of their Lord and Master that Hed-emeth That Great Witness of Truth whose glory is to save and not to destroy and who came to save his Enemies if they would have been saved Secondly A word to these deceitful Witnesses of Rome and to all Papists that are led by their Deceits O ye Bar-Jesuses The Word of God is fulfilled concerning you which he spake by his Servant Paul 2 Tim. 3.13 Evil men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived You first began to equivocate with God and your own Consciences speaking lies in hypocrisie having your Consciences seared as with a hot Iron 1 Tim. 4.2 Then you proceeded to equivocate with one another The Pope with the Priest and the Priest with the Pope and the Priest with the People and the People with the Priest deceiving each other with great and glittering words of Catholick and Infallible of Papal and Apostolical power of almighty Bulls and Briefs of Jubilees Pardons Dispensations Indulgences plenary semiplenary superplenary with all the Market-stuff-terms of Penance Mass and Purgatory and you have deceived many Nations with these your deceitful Lies poor England for many Ages At last you came to that Supremacy of Equivocation that your very Head and most holy Lord calling himself The Servant of the Servants of God and the most humble Servant of Kings means to serve them only as his Vassals to destroy them at his pleasure and to Curse all them that serve them in a better sence And see what progress you have made in that Service First you took upon you to Crown Kings you soon took leave to Censure the Kings you Crown'd then to Excommunicate them then to Depose them and to raise and arm their Subjects against them and this way failing you take the Crown into your own hand and give it to what Vassal of yours you please But all these open methods failing you proceeded to Fraud and Stratagems but Frauds above ground failing you went under the Earth as deep as Hell to blow up King and People with Powder-mines But these too failing you brought the Lake of Fire and Brimstone on the Earth and refin'd double and treble all the Arts of Hell and you laid a Plot which you thought invincible and that Heaven and Earth could not defeat it But Heaven has shewn its power in England and you are utterly confounded and the God of Heaven seems now to say of you 2 Tim. 3.9 They shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men And now You Papists of England I hope the Folly the Deceitfulness the hellish Cheats the damnable Principles the Devilish Practices the Antichristian Religion of Rome is manifest to you all And that whether you have been concern'd in this Plot or no yet you will never be concern'd with such Teachers more to be led by their Deceits nor continue Members of so hellish a Body under the influence of so devilish a Head Now we for whom God has done such wonderfull things what manner of persons ought we to be How ought we to love to serve to praise to fear to obey to follow to death our God and Lord Christ Jesus who is the true and faithful Witness who delivereth our Souls from Death who has so often and so wonderfully deliver'd this Kingdom and I believe will deliver it from all its enemies especially the Enemies of his Gospel and has promised to do great things for us and seems to provoke us to love even while we provoke him to Anger That he may make us fit to receive his Favours to the end Let us pray O God who gavest the Son of thy Love to the World to be the Witness of Truth that by the power of his Grace and by the light of his Gospel all men might be deliver'd from Darkness and eternal Death But men receiving not the Truth in love thou didst send them strong delusion to believe the lies of Antichrist the deceitful Witness But in great and tender Mercy thou deliveredst this Nation from that Delusion and hast by late and miraculous Providence deliver'd our King and People from the horrid Plots of that Man of Deceit O let the Glory of thy Truth still shine upon us and be thou our God and we thy People and let the Great Witness of Truth seal this Mercy for ever And let every faithful Soul say Amen FINIS Books sold by Benj. Billingsley at the Printing-press in Cornhill CHristian Religions Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Barr of Common Reason Wherein is proved That 1. The Apostles did not delude the World 2. Nor were themselves deluded 3. That Scripture matters of fact have the best Evidence 4. The Divinity of Scripture is as demonstrable as the Being of a Deity By John Smith Rector of St. Mary's in Colchester Fol. Price 12. s. Of Baptism and the Lords Supper Two short Discourses opening the Nature Design and Ends of those two great Gospel Ordinances and teaching the Holy use and Improvement of them 12o. Price 6 d. A Sermon Preached before the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen of the City of London at Guild-hall Chappel August 18. 1678. By Robert Neville B. D. Rector of Ansly in Hertford-shire 4o. Price 6 d. The Necessity of Receiving the Holy Sacrament that great Test both of the Christian and Protestant Religion Declared in a Sermon at a Conference of the several Ministers of the Deanry of Braughin in the County of Hertford appointed by the Right Reverend Father in God Henry Lord Bishop of London to be held at Ware August 28. 1678. By R. Neville Rector of Ansly 4o. Price 6 d.

MIRMAH OR THE Deceitful Witness A PROPHECY of SOLOMON Now first and seasonably discovered wherein the Deceitful Witnesses of Rome are made manifest to all And our Protestant Witnesses are Justified Praised and Defended chiefly the late happy Discoverers of the Romish Plots Deceits By WILLIAM RAMSAY B. D. Lecturer in Istleworth and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory BEING A SERMON Preached Novemb. 5. on PROV 14.25 A true Witness d●l●vereth Souls but a Deceitful Witness speaketh lies Or as the Original signifies The Lord of Rome speaketh lies LONDON Printed for Benj. Billingsley at the Printing-Press within the South-west Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1679. TO JOHN RAMSAY of Bewick in Northumberland Esq AND TO Major ROBERT RAMSAY His Brother Health and Felicity Dear Brothers THis Dedication becomes both you and me being design'd for a publique engagement of such mutual affection as becomes three only Reliques of a most ancient Family never yet stain'd with any spot of Dishonour or Disloyalty The one of you God has made Steward of the Estate of the Family which though greatly diminisht by the death of our Great unkle John Ramsay late Earl of Holderness c. without Issue and too soon after by the death of his Brother and Heir Sir George Ramsay our Grandfather who left my Father too young to manage Affairs and by the last Kings Warrs in which my Father rais'd a Troop of Horse at his own sole Charge and suffer'd much and by the death of our Eldest Brother before the Kings Return and of our Dear Father quickly after yet the God of our Family is the same still and can raise it again in due time Only be we thankfull for his present great favours and serve we him in the advantageous stations wherein he hath placed us The other of you God has renown'd with Military Skill and Action at home and abroad as he did many of our Family before and lately two great unkles Collonel Ramsay and Major General Ramsay under Gustavus Adolphus I am placed between you as in Age so in Station a Steward and a Souldier too but in Spiritual matters wherefore let me now be as a mediant term of union to joyn ye in one I think I am the first of our Family of this Function at least in England Wherefore as the Function it self is Honourable and Divine give me leave to the Honour of my Choice to essay something in Vindication of the Truth I may say in Vindication of our Church and State For the Truth which I here assert hath receiv'd such solemn Attestations from King and Parliament from all manner of Testimony that to deny or oppose it were to give the Lye to Church and State and to affront the Throne as well as the Pulpit I particularly stand engaged to bear this Testimony being more intimately acquainted with the Principles and Practices of the Church of Rome by occasion of my Forain Travel for twelve years among them Now this Plot is justified by those Principles and highly prais'd defended and rewarded by that Church Therefore those Principles are manifestly condemn'd by this Plot and that Church to be detested for it to be denyed and utterly forsaken by all that love the Truth and the Gospel of the Peace of Jesus to whom you are daily commended by the most earnest and hearty Prayers of Your truly loving Brother and Servant in Christ Jesus W. Ramsay A SERMON PREACHED Novemb. V. 1679. PROV xiv 25. A true Witness delivereth Souls but a deceitfull Witness speaketh Lies THis is a Prophecy as well as a Proverb and Solomon was a Prophet as well as a Proverbialist as appears in many other places We shall first consider it as a Proverb So it contains two Propositions The first the Character of a True Witness A true Witness delivereth Souls The second the Character of a Deceitful Witness But a Deceitful Witness speaketh lies Both Characters are very compendious and very distinctive as Characters ought to be The Character of a true Witness consists in two things the one express'd the other immediately implyed The thing exprest is the Motive End and Effect of his Testimony To deliver Souls A True Witness delivereth Souls Matsiel nephashoth that is rescueth others from Oppression or destruction and this is the motive and end of his Testimony not to hurt or oppress any or to condemn or to destroy the guilty but to deliver the guiltless to maintain the Truth to defend Innocence and to deliver the Innocent from those that would oppress them A True Witness accuseth a Murderer bears evidence against him and the Murderer is justly sentenced and condemned to death But the end of the Testimony of the true Witness is not the death or destruction of the Murderer but the preservation of men that the evil of Murder may be taken away This then is an essential Character of a True Witness the end of his testimony is to deliver Souls A True Witness delivereth Souls Whence follows a Second thing an individual Property of a True Witness The end of his Testimony being Truth and Innocence the preservation and deliverance of Souls He will never stain his testimony with a Lye nor harm his own Soul or wrong his Neighbours Cause with an untruth This is evidently included in the first as also in the term of a True Witness especially as the Hebrews term it Hed-emeth that is A Witness of Truth If then he be caught in a Lye in his Testimony he cannot have the credit of a true Witness For that 's a sure Proverb which went a little before the Text Prov. 14.5 A faithful Witness will not lye The end of his Testimony is not his own profit much less anothers harm The Guilty man deserveth death yet a true Witness accuseth him not that he may dye but as Hed-emeth as a Witness of Truth he speaketh the truth for truths sake and accuseth the guilty to deliver the Innocent So this Character is essential A true Witness delivereth Souls that is the end and effect of a Witness of Truth is this to deliver them that are Innocent From this The Character of a Deceitfull Witness is plain consisting in the two opposite points The end of a Deceitful Witness is not to deliver Souls but to draw Souls into harm and his means to that end is always a lye yea he attains not his end easily without many lyes Therefore his Character is this A deceitful Witness speaketh lies Japhiac chesabim that is breatheth lyes as he breatheth the air or uttereth lies easily or rather of necessity even as a man breatheth and so the word is rendred v. 5. A false Witness will utter lies Which is to be understood too that a false Witness cannot be long hid for his own lies shall discover him So were the two Elders the false Accusers of Susanna discovered by Daniel And God the Great lover of Truth will not suffer the truth to be long opprest

glory in it Not one Priest confess'd it to repent of it Which is more wonderfull than our present case They dyed glorying openly in that horrid Plot as one of them boasted that he had wrought under ground in his Shirt till he sweat But now in this plot the eyes of the Nation are so open'd and all discern so clearly the horrour of such Facts that the most impudent Devils of Hell could not openly glory in such things The Jesuits then and Romish Plotters had good reason to change their Council since the Powder-plot and to prescribe to their Martyrs another Form of Confession to be us'd at their Martyrdoms and that they did so is to me a certain thing Indeed the Form they us'd was very subtilly contrived but is not wonderful at all to them that are acquainted with their methods of Equivocation which is an Art of no small Circle and teacheth how to equivocate most when they most protest against it as the Liar never lies more than when he swears he lyes not at all And what is Equivocation but the most deceitful Art of Lying proper to these deceitful Witnesses Yet I say this That holding the Principles of the Church of Rome to be true as these men certainly held even at their death they might protest themselves to be innocent from all manner of plotting or acting against the King or Kingdom without any Equivocation at all For without all Equivocation this is certainly true in their principles that the Pope has the Right of the Kingdom of England and he that acts for the Pope cannot act against the Kingdom And I dare say that for this very principle there are hundreds of Priests ready to dye and would expect the Worship and Crowns of Martyrs should they dye so For among them he that dyes for the Cause of the Pope is a more glorious Martyr than he that dyes for the bare Cause of Christ So Anselm and Becket those Rebels are as glorious Saints as any in the Romish Kalendar and Beckets Feast is primae Classis equal to Christs but the Feasts of the Apostles are secundae Classis a Form below I say then those that dyed for this Plot made more Confession than those of the Powder-plot For those of the Powder-plot made but one Confession of the Fact glorying openly in it But these have confest both Fact and Crime for by a subtle artificial Form of Justification they made a Confession of the thing And also by not daring to boast in it openly as their Brethren had done before they made a Confession of the Crime and of the shamefull horrour of it And certainly the horrour of the Fact and publick shame was the only reason why these new kind of Martyrs Martyrs of Maromah made no more open Confession And I verily believe if England do its part to make this Romish plot evident to the world it will prove sufficient to make Rome and her Religion stink that no King or people in the World shall endure it Thus we have all the Evidence we can require concerning these horrid plots of Rome And this plot of 78. has no less yea much more Evidence than that of the Powder-treason and greater Evidence cannot reasonably be demanded yet greater Evidence I doubt not but a short time will produce But we have produced enough to our purpose to shew that according to Solomons Prophecy the Protestant Witnesses are true Witnesses but Maromah's Witnesses deceitfull I need not say much more to explain the Epithete of the Prophecy That the Protestant Witness delivereth Souls but Maromah's Witness speaketh lies For it 's plain our Witnesses God be bless'd have deliver'd our Souls even the Soul of our King and of the best of his people from most fearfull destruction And in this late Plot our Witness has deliver'd us not from one way but from many wayes of destruction For the Plotters had prepared all the Instruments of Death that Hell could produce Fire and Sword Jesuit-powder and Balls and all the new Ignatian Inventions Nay Poyson and Dagger too even for the King Armies at home Armies from abroad They had gather'd men of all Professions and almost of all Nations to carry on the work We cannot now instance so much as future times may But this we can say Englishmen Irishmen Scotchmen Frenchmen and very probably men of the other neighbouring Nations not only Martial men but Divines Lawyers Physicians Astrologers Religious of all Orders all have been deeply plotting against us And from the mouths of all these devouring Beasts our Witnesses have deliver'd our Souls Well then may that be repeated to their praise A True Witness delivereth Souls I will add that in all probability the very Motive and End of the Testimony of our Witnesses was to deliver Souls not their own but ours For whosoever will consider the certain Dangers which these Witnesses underwent by offering such a Discovery and the uncertain Issue of making out their Evidence and withstanding their Adversaries which they could not be ignorant of must needs conclude that nothing could move these men to offer at such a Discovery but either the force of an affrighting Conscience or an invincible love of Truth or a natural Sympathy and heart-melting Compassion towards their King Countrey Friends and Acquaintance all ready to be fearfully Massacred or in fine an irresistible Impulse from God who by thus defeating the Plots of Men and Satan and by making their own Tongues to fall upon them would shew himself to be God indeed a God that loves to save and not to destroy a God that can punish the Wicked by their own works and preserve his own as it pleaseth him A God who loves to do good and great things by his own hand and for his own Names sake who exalts his Mercy above all his other Works who only disposeth of Kings and Kingdoms whom all Kings and Kingdoms ours especially ought to serve and fear to praise and magnifie for ever and ever Let then Solomons Proverb be spoken in earnest of our Witnesses by way of prophecy and of praise A true Witness delivereth Souls But of Romish Witnesses the other part is no less verified Maromah A Deceitful Witness speaketh lies He will do it on his Death-bed at the Barr on the Gallows and which is more at the Sacrament Nay these men were bound by the Sacrament to lye both in Life and in Death and that by a Triple Sacrament of an Oath of Confession and of the Eucharist They died like Judas as wickedly but more politickly He confest and was asham'd and hang'd himself They were asham'd and would be hang'd rather than confess I might add to seal the veracity of our Witnesses that whereas the Romish Witnesses even packs of them as that pack of St. Omers and that of Stafford-shire too have been overtaken in palpable Lies and Contradictions yet the minutest Criticks of our time and those not a few nor a little busie have not