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A09156	The Isle of Man: or, the legall proceeding in Man-shire against sinne Wherein, by way of a continued allegorie, the chiefe malefactors disturbing both Church and common-wealth, are detected and attached; with their arraignment, and iudiciall triall, according to the lawes of England. The spirituall vse thereof, with an apologie for the manner of handling, most necessary to be first read, for direction in the right vse of the allegory thorowout, is added in the end. By R.B. ...	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1627 (1627)	STC 1947; ESTC S101708	79,283	417

thought word or deed for a sinne not all the Popes Dispensations and Pardons not all the subtill Distinctions of the most learned no custome nor any thing else whatsoeuer can acquit it from Sinne but sinue it is and so must it be taken as a lawfull prisoner to bee brought to the Barre and indited and put vpon the Iurie of Life and Death The Bill being found true then they proceed vnto the Arraignment The Prisoners are brought forth chained together and set to the barre before the Iudge The Prisoners are Sins as you haue heard before the Old-man with Mistris Heart her Maids and Will her man Their Bringing forth is the Manifestation thereof by the Gaoler M. Newman Knowledge Holinesse and Righteousnesse They are chained for sinnes are linked together as Adultery and Murther in Dauid Pride with Hatred of Mordecai in Haman Couetousnesse and Treason in Iudas Couetousnesse Hypocrisie and Lying in Ananias and Saphira yea the breach of all the Commandements in the fall of Adam and Euah They therfore are brought out chained together The Barre is the Apprehension of Gods wrath due for sinne After all this when the Prisoner standeth at the Barre a Iurie for life and death is impannelled who are for the King and are sworne to giue in a true Verdict according to their Euidence This Iurie is a chosen Companie of excellent Vertues the fruits of the Spirit deliuered in by the Sheriffe Religion to be called and to bee of this Iurie in the behalfe of the Kings Maiestie IESVS CHRIST to goe vpon the prisoners the Fruits of the Flesh which stand at the Barre Their names being giuen vp they are called as the Clerke of the Arraignment the Tongue nameth them then the Cryer Manifestation of the Spirit calleth them one by one to appeare as the Clerke names them and they are these 1. Call Faith Cryer Vous aues Faith which purgeth the Heart 2. Call Loue of God Cryer Vous aues Loue of God which is the keeping of the Commandements 3. Call Feare of God Cryer Vous aues Feare of God which is the beginning of wisdome 4. Call Charity Cryer Vous aues Charity which reioyceth in the Truth 5. Call Sincerity Cryer Vous aues Sincerity which makes a true Israelite in whom there is no guile 6. Call Vnity Cryer Vous aues Vnity which maketh men to be of one heart and is the bond of Peace 7. Call Patience Cryer Vous aues Patience which worketh experience and by which men possesse their soules 8. Call Innocencie Cryer Vous aues Innocencie which keepeth harmelesse 9. Call Chastity Cryer Vous aues Chastity which keepeth vndesiled 10. Call Equity Cryer Vous aues Equitie which doth right to euery man 11. Call Verity Cryer Vous aues Verity which euer speaketh truth 12. Call Contentation Cryer Vous aues Contentation which euer rests satisfied Then the Clerke saith Countes And so the Cryer saith to them Answer to your names Then the Clerke nameth them and the Cryer telleth or counteth them Faith one Loue of God two Feare of God three Charitie foure Sincerity fiue Vnitie six Patience seuen Innocencie eight Chastitie nine Equitie ten Veritie eleuen Contentation twelue Then the Cryer saith Good men and true stand together and heare your charge With all these Graces should the soule of man bee endued to proceed against Sinne wee should be able to say that we haue them by the manifestation of Gods Spirit and also to know their power and vertue and distinctly to be able to reckon them and so wisely to esteeme them as the good and true gifts and graces of God which haue a charge giuen them which is euery grace his proper gift and all coniointly haue power to discerue of any sinne and to giue a iust verdict thereupon This Iury thus called and impannelled are commanded to looke vpon the Prisoners at the Barre vpon whom they are to goe This is when we oppose Vertues to Vices in our meditation that so by the excellency of the one wee may see the foulenesse of the other and so come to the greater loue of Vertue and to the more deepe hatred of Vice This is the Iury of vertues profitable looking vpon vices the prisoners at the Barre The prisoners though they stand together yet are they to answer one by one So Sins must distinctly one by one be arraigned for wee cannot proceed against sin but vpon a particular knowledge thereof A generall and so a confused notion of sins which yet is that which is in most men will neuer make a man truly to see how his estate standeth with God and so to bring sinne vnto death The Prisoners at the sight of the Iurie and naming of them haue leaue to challenge any of them if they can giue good reasons against this or that man they are put off the Iurie and other chose in their stead These prisoners seeing such a Iurie presently begin to challenge them Vnbeleefe hee cryeth out against Faith as his Enemie Hatred of God against the Loue of God as his Enemie Presumptuous sinning against the Feare of God as his Enemy Cruelty against Charity as his Enemie Hypocrisie against Sinceritie as his Enemie Discord against Vnity as his Enemie Anger Rage and Murmuring against Patience as their Enemy Murther Fighting and Quarrelling against Innocency as their Enemie Wantonnesse Adultery Fornication and Vncleannes cry out against Chastity as their deadly Enemie Coozenage Theft and Vniust dealing against honest Equity as their Enemie Lying Slandering and False-witnesse-bearing against Verity as their mortall Enemie And lastly Greedy desire Couetousnesse and Discontentment cry out against Contentation as their enemy All these together challenge the whole Iury crying out and saying Good my Lord these men are not to bee of the Iury against vs for your Lord-ship knoweth very well and none better that they are all of them our deadly Enemies Your Honour knoweth that euery one of them hath petitioned the Lord Chiefe Iustice very often and importunately to binde vs all to the good behauiour and to cast vs into prison as wee haue beene by their meanes They haue made Master Newman the Keeper and his vnder-keepers to deale very hardly with vs. It is well knowne my Lord that Chastity procured Master Newman almost to famish Incontinencie to death Good my Lord consider of vs these are our most bloudy and cruell enemies Wee appeale to your Lordship to God and to all good men that know both them and vs that it is so Our humble suit to your Lordship therefore is that more indifferent persons may be chosen to goe vpon vs else we are all but dead men Wee doe know my Lord that there are heere many other of very good and great credit in the world fit to bee of this Iurie men very well knowne to your Lordship and to Master Sheriffe and the

Anger doe lye Impatiencie Rayling Back-biting Quarrellings Murther and such like 10 In the Bed of Ioy lye Wanton delights Foolish iesting Leuity and a world of Vanity 11 In the Bed of Sorrow lye worldly griese vnquietnes murmuring discontentednesse and such like Thus are these lodged in Mistresse Hearts Chamber and there shee lyeth also with the Old-man and Will her man The Bed which they lye vpon is Impenitencie and the Couerings are Hardnesse of Heart and Carnall Securitie in which they lye snorting carelesly till the Chiefe Constable come vpon them and attach them all one after another the greater villaines and the lesser Theeues not sparing any He feareth not to attach the Capitall neither passeth hee by any of their meanest associates The attaching of sinne is nothing eise but the Apprehension of Gods wrath striking vs with feare through the terrour of the Law and our guiltinesse of the breach thereof For in this spirituall attaching it is as in the attaching of Felons who knowing themselues guilty of the breach of the Lawes are strucken with feare in their apprehension of death which they know they cannot escape These Theeues thus apprehended the Constable carrieth them to the next Iustice by authority of his Warrant The Iustice is Wel-informed Iudgement able to examine euery Malefactor that is euery Sin brought before him A Iustice of Peace must bee a man of wisdome and experience so this spirituall Iustice must bee a Iudgement well-informed in wisdome and discretion wisely to proceed against Sinne. It is meet that a Iustice be learned in the lawes to know how to proceed legally so must this spirituall Iustice bee learned both in the Law and Gospell to know what sins are committed against either of them and thereafter to proceed A Iustice is commonly to bee one in that Country where he is an Inhabitant so this Iustice must be euerie mans Well-informed Iudgement within himselfe not another mans for it is not another mans Iudgement that can sit downe in his soule to try and examine his heart and waies but his owne Iudgement For who knoweth what is in a man sauing the spirit of a man which is in him The Iustices Office is to preserue Peace and to see the lawes obserued and to see to the suppressing of all disorders routs ryots robberies conspiracies also to take order for all Vagabonds stout and sturdie Beggers yea to see the reformation of all vnlawfull gaming and euery misdemeanour whatsoeuer by Law prohibited contrarie to the Peace of our Soueraigne Lord the King and the quiet of the Weale-publike so this spirituall Iustice his Office is to see Peace kept betweene God and himselfe to see the Lawes of God obserued and to see all disorders in his soule as vagrant thoughts sturdy resolutions riotous behauiour euery misdemeanour in thought word and deed forbidden by Gods Law contrary to the Peace of a good Conscience and the quiet of the soule contrarie to the dignities of a Christian and the honour of our Soueraigne Lord the King CHRIST IESVS When a Malefactor is brought before a Iustice the Iustice is first to examine him then to set it downe then to bind some ouer to prosecute against the Felon at the Assises and lastly in the meane space to send him to the Goale if hee be not baileable 1 Hee is as is said to examine the party apprehended and brought before him and to demand his name then to enquire after the fact and the nature of it with the occasions causes and degrees with the associates euident signes the fruits and effects thereof so this spirituall Iustice is to examine sinne 1 To know the name and nature thereof and to what Commandement it belongeth so that he may consider what Statute of God is broken 2 What were the Occasions offered as Dauid by looking out saw Bathsheba washing her selfe 3 What were the Causes mouing thereto as Enuie in the Iewes to put Christ to death and in Cain to kill Abel 4 What are the seuerall Sorts vnder one and the same Capitall Sinne as vnder Theft Couetousnesse and Coozenage vnder Adultery Fornication Selfe-pollution c. 5. What be the Degrees in the same Sinne as in stealing not from the rich but from the poore not from a stranger but from a Christian brother from Father and Mother So committing vncleannesse not onely with one of no kinne but with one nigh in bloud in killing not an vnknowne person but against nature his Father Mother his Wife his Childe himselfe 6. What sinnes accompanied the same as the making of Vriah drunke and the murthering of him accompanied Dauids adulterie 7. What are the Signes thereof as the rouling eye filthy speech and wanton dalliance are signes of adulterie all such ornaments and vanities of which Esay speaketh are ensignes of Pride 8. What Fruits and effects did follow thereupon as from Will-worship and Idolatrie commeth ignorance of God from this libertie to sinne from this obstinacie from this contempt of Gods true worship and sincere professours thereof and from this at last comes bloudie persecution 2. In Examining the Iustice is to set downe the Examination and Confession of the partie so this spirituall Iustice after hee hath thus examined his waies he is to set it downe This is a Serious consideration of all his sinnes and offences and such a remembrance of them as may make a man to forsake them and to turne his feet vnto Gods Statutes as Dauid did The Examination without this will bee in effect as nothing this must not therefore bee at any hand omitted 3 The Iustice is to binde some ouer to prosecute against the Felon at the next Assises and Gaole deliuery so doth this spirituall Iustice binde ouer True Repentance to follow the Law and to giue euidence against this Felon Sinne which he is very ready to doe for it cannot be if a mans iudgement bee Well-informed vpon serious examination with a carefull and considerate remembrance of all his sinnes but that hee must needs perforce bee made to sorrow for them and vpon true repentance pursue them to the death with a deadly hatred 4 The Iustice finding the offender not bay leable by Law hee maketh his Mittimus to send him to the Gaole there to bee in durance to the next Assises so this spirituall Iustice doth for hee knowes by the Law of God that the reward of sinne of what kinde or degree soeuer greater or lesse though but in thought is not baileable by any man No man is able to answer God for the least deuiation from Gods Law for if hee continue not in all things which God commandeth he is accursed Therefore none being sufficient to lay in baile to answer God for the sinne nor sinne in itselfe baileable hee maketh his Mittimus and deliuereth it into the Constables

Fantasie Chamber Intelligence Dyning-roome Mistris Hearts Maids 11. Passions 1. Loue. 2. Hatred 3. Desire 4. Detestation 5. Vaine-hope 6. Despaire Ier. 18. 12. 7. Feare 8. Audacity Numb 14. 40. 9. Ioy. Reu. 11. 10. 10. Sorrow Exod. 12. 30. 11. Anger 1 Saw 25. Hest 3. 5. 2 King 5. 13. 1 King 22. In his Summes Mistris Hearts Man seruant Will is made the seruant to all Loue. Genes 38. 16. Hatred Gen. 27. 41. 1 Kings 1. 5. 2 Kings 5. 20. Matth. 26. 15. The hearts prouision for sinnes Table Instability Table-cloth Vanity Bread Salt Trenchers Napkins Dishes of meat 1 Is the lusts of the Flesh Who eats of this 2 Lusts of the Eies Who feeds on this 3 Is the pride of life Who feeds on 〈◊〉 Drinke Waiters How Mistresse Hearts Maidens humour their guests Taking away vexation of spirit Eccl. 2. 11. Lodging Naturall corruption Seuerall Beds Loues Bedfellowes Hatreds Bedfellowes Desires Bedfellowes Detestations Bedfellowes Vaine hopes Bedfellowes Despaires Bedfellowes Feares Bedfellowes Audacities Bedfellowes Anger 's Bedfellowes Ioyes Bedfellowes Sorrowes Bedfellowes The Bed is Impenitency The two Couerings What the attaching of Sinne is Iustice is Wel-informed iudgment What a one a Iustice should be 1 Cor. 2. 11. What his Office is What well informed Iudgement is to doe How to deale with a Malefactor 1. Examine Examine Sin in 8. things 1 Name and nature 2 Occasions 3 Causes 4 Kinds 5. Degrees 6. Concomitance 7. Signes 8. Fruits 2. Write the Examination Psal 119. 56. 3. Bind ouer True Repentance followes Sinne to the death 4. The Mittimus Rom. 6. 23. Genes 2. 17. Ezek. 18. 20. Deut. 17. Gal. 3. Psal 49. 7 8. Mittimus Chiefe Gaoler Master New-man Eph. 4. 24. Sheriffe is True Religion Vnder-Sheriffe Holy-Resolution Gaole is subiection 3. Vnder-Gaolers Eph. 4. 24. Col. 3. 10. 1 Knowledge what prisoners he lookes vnto Col. 3. 10. 2 Holinesse what prisoners he seeth to Ephes 4. 24. 3 Righteousnes what prisoners he takes care of Sinnes be vnruly Spirituall Bolts and Fetters Gods Word an hammer Ier. 23. 29. Prison to bee seene to Doores of t●● Prison to be fast locked with seuerall keyes Lewd Companions Files and picklocks Walls whereof built Foundation of subiection Rom. 6. Assises the time of triall Iudge is Conscience Bench is Impartiality Commission actiue power of Conscience Commission lost is the dead seared or benummednesse of Conscience 1 Tim. 42. Eph. 4. 19. 2 Sam. 12. 7. Reading the Commission Circuit in which Conscience sits and iudgeth Accessaries to sinne Oyer and Terminere Iustices of Peace Iustices of the Quorum The Iustices Clerkes K. Sergeant K. Atturney Clerke of Assises Memory Clerke of Arraignment Tongue Cryer Complainant Repentance Framing of the Inditement Grand-Iury Ignoramus Billavera Penmen of Scriptures are the Grand iury What Gods Word makes not sinne is no Sinne. Rom. 4. 15. False informers what they be That which is condemned by God cannot be dispensed with by man Prisoners Sinnes Bringing forth Chained The Barre Petty-Iurie Iurie called by name Acts 15. 9. 1 Iohn 5. 3. Prou. 1. 7. 1 Cor. 6. 13. Iohn 1. 47. Acts 1. 14. and 2. 1. Ephes 4. 3. Rom. 5. 4. Luke 21. 19. Craces wherewith we should all be qualified The charge what it is The Iury look on the Prisoners Iury of vertues A distinct knowledge of sinne necessary Iury challenged What vertues and vices be in opposition Vertue binds corruption to the good behauiour The Prisoners Petition to the Iudge Indifferent Gentlemen 1. Old-man arraigned His Inditement Euidence Dauid Psal 51. 5. Job 25. 4. Isa 48. 8. Saint Paul Rom. 5. 15. Rom. 7. 8. 11. 13 21. 15. 19 23. Verdict Old-mans plea. Pelagius and Anabaptists Rom. 6. 23. Obiect Answ Rom. 5. The Sentence Ephes 4. 22. Colos 3. 9. 5. Executioner Mistrisse He tryed Her Inditement Rom. 2. 5. Ephes 4. 18 Luke 24. 25. Acts 7. 54. Matth. 94. ●●d 21. 34. ●●hn 13. 2. Acts 5. 3. Iohn 13. 2. Hearts accusers Moses ●sal 106. 32 33 Gen. 6. 5. Gen. 8 21. Jeremie Ierem. 17. ●● Ierem. 4. 14. Ier. 7. 24. and 9. 14. and 11. 8. and 13. 10. Psal 58. 2. Ezechiel Ezek. 20. 16. and 33. 31. S. Matthew Matth. 15. 19. Saint Marke Mark 7. 21 22 23. Hearts plea for her life Psal 101. 1. 1 Chron. 29. 19. 15. 17. Nehem. 9. 8. Esai 38. 3. Ignorant people praise their heart The Iudges speech to her Matth. 13. Luke 8. The heart is two-fold Sanctified Corrupt Sentence against Mistris Heart Her punishment Prou. 4. 23. Hebr. 3. 12. Will arraigned Witnesses called out Captaine Reason Reasons and arguments to conuince The Lieutenant his witnesse The Ancient his Witnesse Sergeant Vnities winesse Sergeant Orders winesse Companie is to Wilfull-Will Corporall Disciplines witnesse Will is a great hinderance to spirituall war●are Will speakes to the Iudge Abuse of birth and gentry Iudges speech to Will True Gentry what Two capitall sinnes Col. 3. 5. Couetousnesse tryed His Inditement 1 Tim. 6. 10. Mich. 22. The first Euidence against him is Repentance What euill Couetousnesse hath done Iosh 7. 1 King 21. It troubles and darkens the vnderstanding Dauids care to preuent Couetousnesse Psal 119. 36. Without diligent search its hard to finde out our Couetousnesse Cares complaint Clearing accuseth him Indignation complaineth Feare speaketh against him Vehement Desire hurt by him Zeale blunted Reuenge made weake Other Witnesses produced Master Church is Witnesse People hindred by Couetousnesse in the Church Matth. 13. People hindred comming out of the Church Master Common-weale his accusation Master Houshold his witnesse Cruelty of Couetousnesse Master Neighbourhood his witnesse Good neighbours and peaceable Gal. 5. Ill Neighbors and very vnquiet Rom. 2. 1 Tim. 3. The best kindnesses of the couetous No-harme the best man among the couetous M. Good-worke his accusation Couetousnesse an enemy to good workes Pouerty his grieuous complaint against Couetousnesse The couetous are vnmercifull in seeking their owne gaine It depopulateth Parishes Couetous will giue nothing but by Law Couetousnesse prouoketh to theft Couetousnesse plea against Pouerty What makes men poore Excuses of the couetous in lending In buying In not giuing In depopulating townes Pretence of publique good His answer to Master Church What makes Ministers to run so for liuings Who make Ministers so negligent What hinders people from profiting vnder the Word Psal 50. 1. King 22. Ios 6. Mat. 13. Answer to Common-Weale Answer to Houshold What 's makes debate in a family Answer to Neighbour-hood Bad societie Bad men-seruants Bad Maid-seruants Thriftie men-seruants Profitable Maids Answer to Good-worke Couetousnesse a Romane Catholique Iudges speech Couetousnesse would find an error in the inditement The Couetous will be onely held thriftie Who they bee that call Couetousnesse onely Thrift Friends to the Couetous Enemies to Coueteousnesse What the Couetous may do Couetousnesse hath saire pretences The Couetous will iustifie themselues One may be Couetous and yet do many commendable things Mat. 6. Mat. 23. Luk. 16. 14. Mat. 29. Mar. 10.

and is a Witch and hath by his or her owne wayes brought this euill vpon him or her without the practice of any other Witch 4. Whether they might proceed vpon meere presumptions against the suspected or rather stay till they had more certaine and grounded pro●fet 5. Whether they could none of them being read in any learned Tractates touching the practices of Witches rightly examine the suspected to finde out a Witch and so to bring him or her deseruedly vnder the power of Authority There is now come forth by the leaue of Authority a Guide to Grand-Iury men in cases of Witch-craft my suit is that they would be pleased to accept of my well-meaning therein In which all these points before are fully handled as also That there are witches who are most subiect to be made Witches How they prepare themselues for the Deuill How Satan draweth thē to a league becommeth familiar with them That there are good Witches and the signes to know them That there are bad Witches and how then practise and what it is that they can doe and how many things must concurre in bewitching What are the signes to know one to be bewitched That Witches may be detected What are strong presūptions of a Witch What are the certaine euidences against such an one How throughly to examine a Witch With many other particulars set forth in 28 distinct Chapters fully and yet with great breuity The death of fiue brethren and sisters lately condemned and executed for Witches one more yet remaining formerly brought before a Iudge and now in danger to bee questioned againe hath mooued mee to take this paine not to preuent Iustice nor to hinder legall proceedings but that I may not be mistaken nor wronged as I was once and more should haue beene had not the wisdome and goodnesse of so reuerend a Iudge accepted graciously of my vpright Apologie against vaine Accusers I made a Petition then to my Lord the Iudge to the worthy then M. Sheriffe and to all the Worshipfull of the Bench then present which I am bold to renew againe more publikely and that now this third time because it pleased that reuerend Iudge so well to like thereof to second it and is wished of many to finde some good effect at the length The state of poore prisoners is well knowne and how their soules safety is neglected and yet our Sauiour gaue such a testimony to a penitent theefe as hee neuer gaue to any mortall man else for he told him that he should be that day with him in Paradise How blessed a worke would it be to haue maintenance raised for a learned godly and graue Diuine that might attend to instruct thē daily Twelue pence a quarter of one parish with another in our Countie would encourage some compassionate holy man thereunto And what is this Not a mite out of euery mans purse to saue soules If with this instruction there should bee meanes to set them also on worke they might get somewhat for food for raiment They might so preuent the miserable fruits of sloth their mindes would bee imployed their bodies bee preserued in health and not pine away and be consumed with vermine Yea enforced labour there would terrifie loose vagrants lazie wanderers and the idle rout from turning the eues more then either imprisonment or death hitherto hath done And besides such as should escape would by this heauenly meanes of instruction and bodily labour become through Gods mercy more profitable members in the Commō-Weale afterwards whereas now they become twice more the children of Belial than they were before Oh let me be hold earnestly to beseech you and in all humility to craue your mercifull and tender bowels of compassion towards them And first of you right Honourable my Lords the Iudges who sit as Gods among men to giue iudgement vpon this so wretched and so miserable a generation of mankinde that if they die they may be more ready with all patience and submission of spirit to receiue their iust reward and your doome of death vpon them or if they be acquitted and so liue they may learne afterwards to liue the life of good Christians and so make a good vse of their deliuerance And would not this reioyce your hearts to forward such a worke when your Lordships doe know that the blessed Angels doe reioyce at the conuersion of Sinners Next of you Worthy Master Sheriffe vnder whose wisedome religious affection tender mercies and powerfull habilities the Prison and the Prisoners be for the time present Shall not this worke set forward by you be vnto you an euerlasting remembrance Then of all you Right Worshipfull the worthy Iustices of our Country by whose authority these offenders are sent vnto prison Oh that it might not displease you to heare me calling vpon you by name who I hope are well-minded to such a blessed and charitable a worke Yee deseruedly honoured Knights Sir George Speke Sir Iohn Stowel Sir Francis Popham Sir Henry Barkley Sir Iohn Windham Sir Iohn Horner Sir Edward Rodney and Sir Robert George And may I not here also name the worthily esteemed of their Country though not at this present in Commission with you Sir Ralph Hopton Sir Robert Philips Sir Charles Barkley and Sir Edward Barkley All to be graciously pleased to commiserate their lamentable case and to helpe forward this worke of pietie and pitie towards prisoners O yee other worthies of your Country no lesse generously affected Iohn Powlet Robert Hopton Edward Rogers George Lutterell Iohn May Fra. Baber Ro. Cuffe Tho. Breerton Io. Coles William Francis Rice Dauys Thomas Windham Iohn Harrington Io. Harbin William Capel and Anth. Stocker Esquires let the bowels of compassion compasse you about that you may affect this so good a deed and be honoured for euer in bringing to passe so rare a charitie The worke surely would blesse you all Alas the Prison now is a very picture of Hell and more is the pitie as the case now stands is no lesse than a preparatiue thereto for want of daily instruction It would be by a faithfull ministery and bodily imploiment of them a house of correction with instruction and so happily the way of life Then might charity quicken vp iustice to send offenders obstinately persisting in euill and abusing their liberty vnto prison in good hope of their reformation The losse of their corporall liberty might through Gods mercy then gaine them spirituall freedome Health by labour would be preserued and their soules by wholsome instruction saued The Father of our Lord Iesus Christ perswade your well-disposed hearts to such an vnbegun worke among so many good deeds very famous in this renowned Nation The spirit of the Lord God of Heauen and Earth rest vpon you to cause you to affect this and in time to effect the same by stirring vp the Country and by your owne mercies in your life times you giuing

and at your deaths bequeathing something thereunto Euen so be it and the Lord God Almighty be with you all herein Amen My suit is to euerie Keeper of a prison if they bee no kinne to Master Newman the Gaoler in this discourse that yet they would take acquaintance of him and become better knowne to him That their prisoners may by their vertues and religious care bee betier disposed My request to poore prisoners is to redeeme their time ill spent to call to God for mercie and pardon and to moue them hereunto let them in serious meditation put themselues in minde of these things 1. That their libertie abused God hath by the hand of authoritie taken from them as vnworthy to liue freely in a Common-Wealth 2. That as they neglected and despised spirituall meanes of saluation they are now depriued thereof 3. That as before they delighted onely with wicked companie now are they shut vp one with another together 4. That their ragges are ensignes to them of their ragged conditions 5. That their filth and ver mine telleth them of their filthie conuersation and their many sinnes and corruptions 6. That their want of food is a punishment for such of them as haue abused Gods blessings to gluttony drunkennesse and the fruits thereof wantonnesse and filthy vncleannesse 7. That their prison is as it were a picture of hell to minde them of their end whither they are going if they doe not amend 8. That their expecting of the Assises is an instruction to look for Iesus the Iudge of all the world 9. That their chaines fetters and bolts teach them to consider the nature of their sinnes which hold them bound to answer at the Barre of Gods Iustice 10. That their desire of life by a Psalme of mercie should moue them to desire eternall life through the mercies of God in Iesus Christ who will be gracious to euery true beleeuing penitent which graces poore prisoners God send you and feare onely to die eternally Before I end I haue a suit to all that professe the Law that if in this Allegorie fetched from such termes as be better knowne to them than to my selfe I doe mistake they would be pleased to passe ouer that and make vse with me of the spirituall sense which is the drift of my labour herein And so at the length I take leaue with my prayer to God for the peace of Ierusalem and for a prosperous successe to all that loue the Israel of God with our Countreyes glorie and safetie Amen THE ISLE of MAN OR The Legall proceedings in Man-shire LAMENT 3. 40. Let vs search try our waies THE lamenting Prophet IEREMIE in his daies full of lamentation and mourning seeing and also partaking with others of those miseries which befell the state of the Iewes iustly procured at Gods hands for their sins doth heere giue them aduice what was best to be done that in this their distresse GOD might shew them mercy and that was to repent and turne vnto the LORD to the effecting whereof hee counselleth them 2. things laid downe in my Text. 1. To search out sinne 2. and to put it to triall In the handling whereof I will proceed as heere wee doe against a lewd and wicked Malefactor legally according to the lawes of this Realme The first part of my Text is to Search wee know that when one hath offended the lawes hath committed any felonic murther treason or done any outrage for which hee is to be apprehended hee presently flying hiding himselfe is pursued and sought after diligēt search is made to attach him The Malefactor heere which doth so much harm on euery one euery where without ceasing is Sinne. This is a notable Theefe and Robber daring to set vpon any Hee robbeth God of his honour and man of Gods fauour This Theefe stole from Angels their excellency of glory from our first parents their innocencie This is hee that robbeth vs of our graces the spirituall money which we haue in the purses of our heart to helpe vs in our iourney to heauen This Villaine bereaueth vs of our goods driueth away our cattell spoileth vs of euery temporall blessing of our health our peace our liberty and plenty He it is that vtterly vndoeth vs and maketh our estate miserable that we cannot thriue in any thing Body or Soule This is a Murthering Theefe wheresoeuer hee breaketh in by day or by night there will hee either kill or be killed Man and sinne cannot both liue together Most bloudily cruell hee is for hee will spare none He slayeth the hoarie head and killeth the tender Mother with the new-borne Babe Hee regardeth no person no sex no age of so murtherous a disposition is he and so inhumanely barbarous He is a very strong theefe no human power can subdue him hee taketh man and bindeth him for Iniquitie taketh the wicked and holdeth him with the cords of his owne sinnes He will beare rule where hee commeth all must obey him He will command the Reason reigne ouer the Will and swagger ouer the Affections and leade captiue the whole man and make him seruiceable to his lusts yea and make him spend his whole estate to maintaine him in his lustfull humors whether it be in Pride or Drunkennesse or Gluttony or Idlenesse or Whoredome or whatsoeuer else it is he both must and will haue maintenance else will hee set all on fire for Wickednesse burneth as fire This is an vngratefull and mischieuous Theefe for let any entertaine him and fauour him he will worke their ouerthrow Yea so vile a Villain is he that the more any make of him the worse hee is to them for hee with-holds all good from them hee procureth mischiefes to light vpon them Hee keepeth out Grace from hauing any entertainment Hee smothereth Conscience for speaking hardeneth the Heart for feeling blindeth the Iudgment frō discerning stoppeth the Eare from hearing any good counsell lameth the feet from walking in Gods paths benummeth the Hands from doing duties of Charitie and maketh the Tongue to falter in speaking of holy things Neither yet doth he this onely but he worketh Enmitie betwixt his Fauourite his best friend euen betweene God and his own Conscience And to make vp the height of his Mischiefe the more to strengthen himselfe against his foolish and vnhappie friend hee at vnawares to him letteth in and that into the best room euen the Heart his great and most deadly enemy the Deuill Thus Couetousnes did let him into Iudas heart and set him on work to betray Christ Flatterie let him into the hearts of the false Prophets to deceiue Ahab Carelesnesse lets him in to hinder the fruit of the Word Losse of Gods graces lets him in seuen worse with him to ruine a man vtterly Hypocriticall vain-glory and Couetousnesse did let him into the hearts of Ananias and Saphira for