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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

ΕΣΟΠΤΡΟΝ THΣ ANTIMAXIAΣ 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 Published by the allowance of Authority Proverb 24. 15 16. Lay not waite O wicked man against the dwelling of the Righteous spoyle not his resting place For a Iust man falleth seven times and riseth up againe but the wicked falleth into mischiefe Galat. 4. 16. Am I therefore become your Enemie because I tell you the truth OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1644. To all my friends in the East parts of this Kingdom especially to them that are of mine acquaintance in ESSEX and LONDON Preachers and People Greeting THe time is onward to two years since I have been by severall Committees at Westminster sequestred from my calling and charge in Essex banished from my dwelling and the society of my deare Wife and Children they turned out of those doores which no body else hath that I can heare employed since My selfe by barbarous Rebells threatned to be cut into a thousand pieces Pistolls discharged at me upon the high way with severall other abuses which to recount would savour of malice to which Christianity commands me to be a stranger Some I confesse shewed me some favours which I shall never be so ingratefull as to forget Among others some enquiring of those that were or would seem to be my most intelligent Witnesses which was the title the Committee Chaire-man was pleased to bestow on my informers what course they thought I should take to live were answered that I was an able bodied man and might goe worke I understood their preferment they intended me and they were such as pretended my advancement and I resolved to follow their advice But being never bred to nor practised in Manuall arts I think they would allow me time to chuse and to fit my selfe to a calling And now you have my first handy-worke A Looking-glasse of Rebellion which I dedicate to your uses And when you shall therein throughly and truly see your selves either innocent or penitent I shall look for thankes at least from you For those that like decay'd Gentlewomen perceive or but conceit their faces by no art to be repaired I believe they will not sticke to breake and marre my glasse not because it is but because themselves are too faulty Men are usually not apt to believe their own faces foule without a reflection Neither can they see to conviction or Reformation without this kind of helpe because the faces as their own are not within their own view directly The reason why Nathan came to David with a Glasse or Parable was no other but the same with mine I conceive Men that way interested are now blind to the evill of Rebellion because it is their own iniquity I hope they will perceive better how the case stand with Witches in poynt of Religion and reformation and apply it My glasse cannot deceive them it is I dare say clear and true And the Cover is a little I confesse too costly for them But too mean for the place where it was first opened from whence I was enjoyned by authority to convey it abroad by the Presse to publique view My engagements to turne my face and Glasse Eastward are great and many and yet truely my brethren I doe it without any Idolatry But where is he that will confesse himselfe a Rebell And where are they that will confesse themselves witches The Sermon though it pretend not to it will yet with a little help of your consciences shew you not only what you are like but what you are I have had the happinesse while I lived amongst you to be an instrument of conveing good to some as I am able to prove by evidence by some of your own acknowledgements It is my desire to be blessed that way still for this end I send this unto you which if it thrive not retract your sentences and confesse you did ill to turne me to worke for my living Though indeed that is not my aime in this worke but to procure a blessed change in them that are guilty and a turning from such a sinne as will poyson all their graces were they ten thousand times more then they are disgrace all their Religion were it really answerable to the noyse the empty sound makes in their dwellings and like the colloquintida bring death into the pot although the broth therein were in a wholsome bargaine worth a birthright And a confirmation in those blessed Martyrs of allegiance and constancy whose sufferings quiet and Lamb like though they are yet cry loud in the eares of God Almighty who will ere long crowne their afflictions with victory and grant them to see their desire upon their enimies Which is I dare say for them that they may repent and live And this is the hearts desire and Prayer of Your yet unfained lover and friend in Christ Iesus NATH. BERNARD OXFORD Iune 24. 1644. 1. SAM. 15. 23. For Rebellion is as the Sinne of Witch-Craft and the Poets call her laborantem Lunam the Sick Moone Livie and the Philosophers say shee doth deficere faile and Tacitus that shee doth Languescere faint languish or swoone away All which phrases are borrowed from that generall beleife which the Heathens had of the Moones being at such times bewitch'd Crediderunt saith Plinie Lunam excantationibus pati defectum nec nisi dissono aeris strepitu ad pristinum posse revocari splendorem That is They beleived that the Moone through inchantments suffer'd defect and that shee should not be restored to her former brightnesse but by a confused noyse of sounding brasse Tum frustra resonant aera auxiliaria Lunae Which opinion how ridiculously sottish and absurd soever it appeared to the wiser Philosophers and after times yet since it took and had credit with very many Learned Men Plurimi praestantes doctrina viri c. saith Plinie since it was as ancient as Pindarus and Stesichorus since it grew so Catholique and universall that almost all Nations the Greeks and Romanes to be sure beleived it Lastly since it was so durable and lasting that notwithstanding the Gospell had been spread through all the world yet and among Christians was this received in the times of S. Ambrose and S. August as appeares by the first his 82. Ser the other tract at derectitudine conversationis Cathol I begin to think that as one way there is much errour in it so another way there is nothing more then truth therein that is if we withdraw it from the naturall and apply it to the mysticall Moone the Church For as in Scripture the Church is often compared to the Moone Cant. 6. 10. Math. 24. 29. Luk. 21 25. c. So are the Churches persecutions troubles and oppressions upon the matter made eclipses too Is 24. 11. Now