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A71209	The opinion of the Roman jvdges touching imprisonment and the liberty of the subject, or, A sermon preached at the Abby at Westminster, at a late publique fast, Jan. 25, 1642 by J.V. Prisoner.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing V320; ESTC R4189	14,314	27

Fourthly a prophaner of the Temple that is called by Iosephus the y holy place So Christ saith When ye see the abomination of desolation stand in the holy place These are the crimes objected against Saint Paul and the Iews affirmed or as the Father saith with imprecation that these things were so To the first hee makes no answer z for it was in generall that he was a dangerous fellow and a generall proves nothing neither is worthy of an answer by the divine Apostolicall wisdome To the second he answers by way of negation that hee was no sower of sedition but that they themselves first caused the tumult Acts 24. 19. The Iewes that came from Asia caused the tumult for they saw him in the Temple and stirred up the people against him and laid hands on him in that sacred place and Sanctuary Men of Israel help this is the man that teacheth against this people in every place Acts 21. 27. he was accused by them that were the onely actors in the tumult Hence we learne to stand for peace and avoid sedition In the 120. Psalme ver. 5. Woe is mee that I sejourne with Mesech and have my dwelling in the tents of Kedar Mesech and Kedar are Tuscany and Turky by Kimchi out of Ioseph ben Gorion Here are the two great enemies of the Church in whose person David here speakes His sojourning with the Tuscans was tedious and his dwelling with the Turkes called Kedar so the tongue of Kedar is the Arab. in Abben Ezra and in Arab. the Alcoran is written My soule hath long dwelt hee saith not his body but hee was grieved at the heart that he dwelt with such ill neighbours b with him that hated peace hee saith not with them but with him because there was one a ring-leader of the rest neither doth hee say unquiet but that hateth peace and will never admit c reconciliation And hee addes I am peace God is love Christ is out peace and the Church is peace yet not without truth though it be not expressed it is understood for peace and truth doe meet together and sweetly kisse each other Christ is our peace and yet hee is truth But when we speake for peace they are for warre If wee pray or petition or preach for peace they are for warre what shall I say of them they are Mesech and Kedar To the third he confesseth that according to the way that they call Heresie so he worshipped the God of his Fathers Here we learne three things Faith Hope and Charity 1. Faith to beleeve the Law and Prophets as he did to worship the God of our Fathers not new Gods and in a new way enquire for the old way and walke therin that is the way of the Law not in the way of our Fathers against the Law Prophets and Apostles before the Reformation To the Law and the Testimony if they walke not by this rule there is no light in them with the heart man beleeveth and with the tongue confession is made to salvation 2. Wee learne Hope for if we beleeve wee shall have hope towards God Acts 24. 15. no hope in our selves but in him 3. Wee learne Charity the third Theologicall vertue v. 16. for this cause I labour this is the labour of love love to all as in Rom. 13. 8. Owe nothing to any man but love pay to every man his due Custome to whom custome tribute to whom tribute feare to whom feare honour to whom honour custome is ordinary tribute extraordinary both due to the Roman Caesars persecutors of the Christians Iustin Martyr and Tertullian in their Apologetikes prove this duty from thence and that Tribute they payed was imployed for the eradication of the Christians but they suffered and the blood of Martyrs was the seed of the Church the armes whereof were prayers and teares so then feare God and honour the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Againe love worketh no ill shall I say that he who kills and robbs his brother loves him seeing love fulfills the law and if a man have this worlds good and see his brother in want and shut up his bowels of compassion how dwells the love of God in that man Three things are required of a man 1. to doe justly 2. to love mercy 3. and to walke humbly with God Love is above all above Tongues faith of Miracles Prophecy Knowledge Almes Burning 1 Cor. 13. 1 2. It beareth all things hopeth all things endureth all things embrace this charity with peace and the peace of God be with you To the fourth he answereth and denyeth that he was a prophaner of the Temple but they prophaned it by raising a tumult in it as is shewed before a thing abhorred of Heathens I read in Herodotus that certaine profane Atheists robbed the Temple of Venus and the Goddesse by way of punishment sent the d faemineall disease among them thought to be new but Elder then Herodotus Thus I have done with the right opinion of this Heathen deputy Now I proceed to shew how Antichrist is opposite in every particular and his persecution worse then the Pagans out of three prophecyes of Dan. 7. 25. he shall speake words on the side of the most high this I take for granted by the best expositors that it is meant literally of Antiochus mystically of Antichrist that is pro contra for and against Christ a little home in his beginning but hath eyes and pollicy and a mouth speaking great things he shall weare out the Saints of the most high those that have gray haires here and there upon them he weares out by long imprisonments without cause as in the Spanish and Italian Inquisitions he is kept 2. 4. yeares all the dayes of his life and no accuser known but they ask him what he hath done what enemies he hath c. The Romane deputy allowed appeale to Caesar but the Conclave and their adherents deny all appeales and trample upon Princes and depose Kings upon suspition of another Religion The Romans after a small time called the Apostle to his answer and not before ignoble but honourable persons but Antichrists limbes to the greater disgrace judge them by meane persons of no birth education or religion The Romans thought it reasonable to signifie the crimes but these imprison without any crime except bare affirmation without oath prove a crime The Iewes affirme these crimes forenamed against Saint Paul but he saith They cannot prove the things whereof they doe accuse mee Acts 24. 13. In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall stand Thus by tedious delayes of judgment and imprisonment Antichristians weare out the Saints And he shall thinke to change times and lawes Dan. 7. 25. he shall thinke to make a new Heaven and Earth a new Church and State a new Sun Moone and Starres which God made for times and seasons he shall make new

Lawes abrogate the old and all shall be delivered into his hand for a time and times and halfe a time that is three years and a halfe In Queene Maryes time the presecution was about three yeares and a halfe and in the last times of Antichrist shall be the like Rev. 11. 7. The bodies of the witnesses lye unburied three yeares and a halfe In Dan. 8. 10. it is said the horne shall grow great to the host of Heaven and shall cast to the earth some of the host and of the starves and trample on them not only shall Antichrist throw out of their places but by contumelies trample the Ministers of Christ in the mire And he shall take away the dayly sacrifice this signified the publike formes of Gods e worship as in Ps. 141. 1. My prayers as incense and lifting up of my hands as a dayly sacrifice in Dan. 11. 36. it is said that Antichrist shall presume to be a King and do or make Warre according to his will by an arbitrary government not by any law and shall exalt himselfe f above every God that is every King who is called a God in Scripture so 2 Thess. 2. every g Augustus or Caesar And be shall not regard the God of his Fathers but a new God and a new Religion Nor the desire of women that is spirituall fornication with Idols he shall detest but shall commit sacriledge And he shall honour the God of forces he shall ever be for warre and not for peace so Mahomet propagated his Religion by warre Christ Jesus by peace A bruised reed shall he not breake and smoaking flax shall he not quench because David had shed much blood he must not build the Temple and in the building no Toole of Iron was heard for it was a House of peace but Antichrist is all for the God h of forces Thus I have done with the first thing imitable in this Roman Deputy his Right Opinion Secondly his humanity In sending a Prisoner so saith the Text and it is expressed in what manner he was sent elsewhere Acts 27. 3. The Centurion shewed pity to S. Paul and suffered him to goe to his friends to refresh himselfe he suffered him to goe to his friends a great favour much more then to suffer his friends to come to him he gave him i power to goe forth there was an opening of the Ports that he might be refreshed with food and rayment necessary Likewise the other Roman Deputy Petix Acts 24. 23. Hee commanded a Centurion no meaner man to keepe him not to hurt him k with gentlenesse not rigour and fircenesse as the Gaoler in Acts 16. that put them in the hole in the stockes and that he should forbid or restrayne or l discourage none of his acquaintance to minister to him And when he was in Rome two yeares he dwelt in his owne hired house and received all that came unto him preaching the kingdome of God and teaching with all liberty no man forbidding him but Antichristian sectaries forbid all to publish any doctrine against their way as appeares in Waldus the Albingers Husse Jerom Luther c. neither will they afford bread to eate rayment to put on or house wherein to hide their heads or bed to rest upon more cruell then bloudy Nero to the Christians and Doctor of the Gentiles Some read m none of his goods were restrained from him in his Imprisonment but such men take away both liberty and goods at once Thirdly observe the justice of the Romans Acts 25. 16. It was not the manner of the Romans to give up a man till his accuser came face to face to justifie the crimes objected and that he have n space and place to answer for himselfe but among Antichristians no accuser shall appeare but the same man shall be accuser Judge and witnesse or if he doe appeare it shall be as a backbiter not face to face or if he confront the defendant he shall have convenient place of Apology but among his enemies to be derided as Sampson was or he shall have no space for his defence but he must answer Oretenus ex tempore according to their ex temporary prayers and sermons Is this justice Likewise the Romans stood much for the Liberty of the Subject Acts 22. 25. Is it lawfull for you to scourge a Roman and uncondemned The Orator said that Citizens of Rome may not be scourged whether they were borne Romans or o made free there were two kinds now Saint Paul was borne free for his Father was a p Roman and q Cilicia was under Rome or Tarsus was called r Juliopolis howsoever it were he had the Liberty of a Subject and Citizen of Rome but if a mans goods be taken away by violence and himselfe imprisoned where is the Roman Liberty Pagans shall rise up in judgment against Antichristians Yet more the Romans rescued from violence such as were Freemen Acts 23. 10. The chiefe Captaine fearing lest Paul should be torne in peeces in a Tumult sent Romans to deliver him farre it was from him to send Troupes to destroy his owne Citizens as Antichristians have done and he further saith Acts 23. 26. The Jewes tooke this man and I came with the s Roman Souldiers and rescued him understanding that he was a Roman Lastly they opposed all private ordinances and inventions of men therefore Festus saith of Paul his accusers stood up against him t and could prove no evill accusation against him as I supposed but had certain questions of their own superstition private ordinances and inventions Act. 25. 18. 19. he stood for the Roman laws which were so good that the t Falisci did chuse rather to serve the Romans then to be free The use hereof is in Mal. 6. He hath told thee O man what the Lord requireth of thee to doe justly as this Romane to love mercy and to walk humbly with God which are the three and all to be imitated in this Romane spirit Now briefly I come to the other three which are to be avoyded First Popularity Secondly Bribery Thirdly Obloquy 1. Popularity Acts 25. 2. Festus would doe the Iews a pleasure and Felix Acts 24. 27. because he would doe the Iewes a pleasure he left Paul bound but this popular Aire is but a staffe of reed bruised and shaken with the winde Gaius Marius who was seven times Consul and the third u Founder of Rome yet by envy expelled so Coriolanus and Scipio Africanus that wonne his name x from the subduing of Afrike the burning of Carthage the victory over Hannibal and had marble inscriptions to his honour yet loosing the popular respect was banished for ever de repetundis The people almost in one breath cryed Hosanna and crucify him * Herod Agrippa Acts 12. 2. Killed Iames and because it pleased the peopeople imprisoned Peter under the