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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

Excised their Houses and Lands sequestred their bodies for security sake forsooth Imprisoned their Lives Murthered and their precious soules and Consciences made either a Prey or a Snare Thus the Kingdome where both these are is by a pining way ruin'd and as it is in the Prophet Nahum Nations and Families are sold by the Witch craft of Rebellion and thus also Rebellion is as the sinne of Witch-craft The fourth Sicut in the sinnes is of Event for as in Witch-craft so in Rebellion both have their time wherein they do many seeming wonders from which they receive seeming benefits especially in the way of Revenge and Plaguing of such as perhaps causelessely they hate having great power both by Sea and Land Yet at last the Divell will leave acting the servants part any longer and that when once they are brought under the power of justice Vnto which I wish the Rebells all may be brought as Iacobus Sprengerus saies Witches ought to be with their backs towards the Iudge God cause them to turne their backs in the day of battaile For Rebellion is as the sinne of Witch-craft The fift and last of Sicut's in the way of Sinne is that of Signes which according to my forementioned Authors are three First obduratenesse for Witches never shed teares in the midst of their owne or others torments So are the Rebells of our time hard hearted for who but Witches or Tygers could see their deare native Country fainting like the Saviour of it under such a bloudy sweat as now it lies in Finde the stock decaying of the grounds of all the Counties of the Kingdome almost all kinde of beastes like Baalams Asse reprooving the madnesse of the English bleating and lowing and groaning while they are harrassed too and fro by the rugged Souldiers as if they cryed to God for better Maisters then the English or Scots when we like Egypt have throughout the Land lost the First-borne of every House almost and are now in expectation of the Red Sea of bloud to ore'whelme all and yet abominate all thoughts of Peace will not endure to hear of it Secondly it is a signe of Witches when if any matters be handled by a Iusticiary in a distant roome from them and against them yet they come to know it and to be acquainted with it Which must saith Tholosanus be Daemonis ope So the Rebells of our Land having no Elisha I am sure among them come yet to know what is here done Here in the Kings Councells I am unwilling to suspect that any whose face and profession sheweth he came hither to serve the King would betray him yet so it is there is some Divell in it they know all and we are bewitched The third signe appeared even to me sufficiently ridiculous and untrue yet my Author is very confident having it from Iudges that certainly affirme they had seen it tryed namely That take a witch and tye her hands and leggs together cast her into the water yet will she never be drowned And for our Rebells if the Lawes of our land were but suffer'd to speak they would assure us that they were never borne to such a fortune which brings me from the Sicut culpae of sinne to the Sicut poenae of punishment And therein also we shall see that Rebellion is as the sin of Witch-craft The punishment of Witch-craft is apparent in Lawes or in Examples and the sicut holds good in each For first the Law of God the Law of Nations and the Law of the Land make both capitall crimes Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live Exod. 22. 18. is paralled with an Whosoever he be that doth Rebell against thy Commandment shall be put to death Iosh. 1. 18. thus the secular Law which I call that which reaches the life of the offendours The Civill Law punishes all those that entertaine Witches into their Houses to make use of them in any sort so doth our law any that comply with Rebels with extream punishment which are the words of Leo's 65. Novell Constitution in the end of it The Canons of the Councells censures a Witch that hath taken away the life of any with the greatest sentence of Excomunication sc. to death those that make use of Witches with five yeares excomunication The first of these you have in the sixt Canon of the Elibertine Councel Anno. 305. The other in the Twenty third Canon of the Ancyrane Councell held Anno 314. And how just these were for Rebells no man but sees In short By the Canon Law all Witches are Infamous and their testimony invalid against any but such as are of their owne sinne The equity whereof is grounded upon the malice which occasioned the sinne And for my part I beleive this law to be in equity in force against our Rebells for their malice will heap up whole Centuries of accusations against such as are not of their way But with all wisemen they should be infamous and their Testimonies not trusted Marry if they accuse one another I shall be apt to beleive them And thus much for the Lawes concerning both For examples instead of many that might be produc'de I will onely instance in two Ahaziah consulting with Baalzebub the God of Eckron concerning his sicknesse had this punishment never to rise off his bed but to dye of that disease that yeare and he did so 2. King 1. 16 17. Read but Ier. 28. 16. and you shall finde the like punishment betide Hananiah for Rebellion the text saith to him Thus saith the Lord Behold I will cast thee from off the face of the Earth this year thou shalt dye because thou hast taught Rebellion against the Lord And of him in the next verse So Hananiah the Prophet died the same yeare in the seventh Moneth Which parallel I cannot chuse but close with the words of Cushi The Enemies of my Lord the King and all that rise up against him to doe him hurt be as these men were that another yeare may never see them if it must see them Rebells The other Parallel is in Saul that consulted the Witch of Endor and Shemaiah the Nehelamite that taught the People to Rebell Both unprosperous men both punished by God alike both they and their posterity the one for medling with Witch-craft the other with Rebellion as you may see if you consult and compare at your leisure the 1. Chron. 10. verses 13 14. with Ier. 29. 32. Nay Rebells owne experience will make them easily confesse that Witches doe not in the end enjoy good successe although they promise it to themselves But a Witch will cry quittance with them and say Had Zimri peace that slew his Maister i'ts the speech of Iezabel and so there 's a Sicut in experiences Thus farre have I illustrated the Rabbines Comment shewing how both for the Quality of the sinne and the Quantity of the Punishment Rebellion is as