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A14305	The arraignment of slander periury blasphemy, and other malicious sinnes shewing sundry examples of Gods iudgements against the ofenders. As well by the testimony of the Scriptures, and of the fathers of the primatiue church as likewise out of the reportes of Sir Edward Dier, Sir Edward Cooke, and other famous lawiers of this kingdome. Published by Sir William Vaughan knight.; Spirit of detraction, conjured and convicted in seven circles	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 24623; ESTC S113946	237,503	398

no disease iudging himselfe strong and able to labour as he was stacking vp a Goffe of corne sodainly his bowels fell out of his bodie and immediatly he died most miserably In the time and reigne of King Edward the sixt there was in Cornwall a lusty young Gentleman who did ride together with other moe Gentlement and their seruants in number about twentie horsemen amongst whom this lusty yonker entring into talke began to sweare most horribly vnto whom one of the company not able to abide such blasphemous abhomination in gentle words said to him that he should giue account for euery idle word The Gentleman taking snuffe thereat why quoth hee takest thou thought for mee Take thought for thy winding sheete Well quoth the other amend for death giueth no warning As soone commeth a Lambs skin to the market as an old sheepe Gods bloud said hee care not for mee raging still after this swearing manner worse and worse in words till at length passing on their iourney they came riding ouer a great bridge which standeth ouer a peece of an arme of the Sea vpon which bridge this Gentleman swearer spurred his horse in such sort as he sprang cleane ouer the bridge with the man on his backe who as he was goingcried aloud Horse man and all to the diuell A woman commonly named the widow Barnes to defeate an Orphane of some inheritance forsware her selfe and being therefore rebuked by some well disposed persons vtterly refused their good admonitions But within foure daies after she threw her selfe out at a window in Cornehill and brake her necke This was done at London in the yeare 1574. In the yeare 1575. one Anne Aueries widow which at that time dwelt in Ducklane in London without Aldersgate ranne to the shop of one Williamson in Woodstreete and there hauing bought sixe pound of course towe forsware her selfe that she had paid for it whereas she had paid none And being very gently reprehended for her said vngodly deed she stil continued terribly swering and auouching the payment But behold a miraculous thing that mouth of hers with which she blasphemed the hallowed name of her glorious Maker was put to a most vile office she was forced presently to void at her mouth the selfe same filthinesse which nature should haue expelled downewards and so most miserably died One Father Lea a man aged about foure score yeares was hired for a small summe of money to forsweare himselfe but such was the priuie paine and grieuous griping of his groaning conscience that like a festred wound it did so disquiet him that he must needs discouer it and so at Foster Lane in London this Lea meeting the partie against whom he forsware himselfe very earnestly and humbly craued forgiuenesse of this said offence but tenne weekes after his said confession so greatly did the power of the diuell preuaile ouer him that with an olde rustie knife he ripped his owne belly and embracing his guts with his owne hands he let them fall from him into an earthen vessell But by the interruption of company that came in vpon him he was preuented from killing himselfe vtterly at that time yet the next day after his said desperate fact shewing some token of repentance he ended his life To these periuries I adde one more a Countryman of mine I would to God I could name none else of that impious consort who hauing cōmitted periury in a cause depending in suite at the Counsell of the Marches was presently and sodainly grieued in his great toe so that the said griefe becomming festred and worse and worse he euer after halted and limped as long as he liued I could likewise produce others who notwithstanding that they were Gentlemen of sort substance in their Countrey did commonly suborne false witnesses But such was the iust iudgement of God who from his heauenly seate knoweth the secrets of all hearts and whatsoeuer is done in the darkest place such I say was his iust reuenge that themselues during their liues were neuer free from some casuall crosse or other They alwaies liued pestred and perplexed with some vnexpected accidents and their posterity after thē are brought to that misery that they stand at mens deuotion for all that their said impious Fathers had left them some store of possessions according to which agrees that ancient verse De male quaesitis non gaudet tertius haeres Ill gotten goods their heires do seldome ioy LINEAMENT XI The Spirit of Detraction and Periurie conuicted by sentence of our owne lawes executed on corrupted Jurours DIuers of the county of Middlesex tooke money to be fauorable vnto Lodowicke Greuell then prisoner in the Tower vpon suspicion of being accessary to murther if it fortuned that they should be returned in the Iury against him and for this vpon sufficient proofes they were conuicted and fined in the Starre Chamber Likewise three of them did weare papers from the Fleete vnto Westminster hall and there also backe againe to the Fleete 31. Eliza. Crompton Another tooke fiue Markes to be of the Iury for the deliuery of a theefe that was indited of felony and was fined to the King Vide sines pur contempt Fitzherbert 33. 43. Lib. Assis. 43. A Iury of London who acquitted Sir Nicholas Throgmorton Knight about the first yeare of Queene Marie for high treason were called into the Starre Chamber Anno. 15 44. because that the matter was held to be sufficiently proued against him whereof eight of them were fined to fiue hundred pounds a peece and also awarded backe againe to prison there to continue vntill further order would be taken for their punishment Hollinshed fol. 1759. Eleuen of the Iury which acquited on Hodis of felony before Sir Roger Manwood chiefe Baron in his circuite of the Countie of Somerset against apparant euidence were fined in the Starre Chamber and did weare papers in Westminster hall circa 22. Eliz. Report Crompton One G. wrote his letter to a Iurer to appeare betwixt Lane and one G. D. and to doe his conscience according to his euidence and was fined in the Sarre Chamber to twentie pound because he had nothing to doe with the matter Circa 27. Eliz. Note this that none ought to meddle in any matter depending in suit wherewith he hath nothing to doe One G. of the countie of Lancaster for the false and malicious procuring of one to be endited for the death of another was fined in the Starre Chamber to a great summe Circa 31. Eliz. If periury be committed by a Iury in a Court Baron he shall be punished in the Starre chamber vpon a bill there exhibited for no attaint lieth in the base Court But if any error be committed in that Court the party shall haue a writ of false iudgement And it seemes that he may sue in the Starre Chamber for a false verdict A man takes money to giue his verdict he shall be punished though he keepes not the said promise Dier 95. Fitzherb

much from Gods glory and omnipotency when we say He doth but giue Satan leaue to do it which is to deride and mocke Gods iustice as that worthy man Master Caluine wrote The Diuell is not at his owne liberty nor can he in the extremest censure otherwise then a hangman act any thing without the restrictiue commandement of the highest Iudge I say his permission must be authentickly ioyned with commission from God He is not in such fauour or grace with our Almighty Lord. Onely his Maiestie permits his spirituall insinuating and ghostly temptations for his glory and our edification in Christ. He permits him as the spirituall instrument of iustice for our hardnesse of heartes to entrap the chiefe part of man the reasonable will and by reason of our negligence in his seruice to accuse and relate our sinnes before him not that God is ignorant of our closest sinnes but perhaps because his Maiestie is pleased to vse ordinary meanes iudiciall formes and legall proceeding to condemne the guiltie Such as the Informer or Promoter is in our worldly Courts such is the Diuell in the heauenly Parliament And such a one will he be at the great iudgement day when our Messias both God and man shall iudge mankind In the meane time let vs perswade our selues that the Diuels meaning is to deceiue vs whether he seemes to appeare in borrowed shapes eyther of himselfe or by the commaund of wicked men Besides this deluding force I know certainly he hath none other With this weapon he was licensed by God in the beginning to sting vs in our heeles that is to tempt vs with legions of sinnes which by degrees brings death and perpetuall darknesse Euen as a man being stung in his heele or legge by reason of that infectious venime which with deadly tumors or swellings creepes vp by little and little into the heart must needs did except his legge that was so stung had beene chopt of in time or cured by an extraordinarie balsame so the variable will of man being seduced by Sathan or by his substitute Sinne which by degrees encreaseth to legions and as it were vncurable and vnrevokeable must needs be condemned to hell together with the soule her deere consort except she were absolued of her sinnes vpon her repentance bathed in Christs bloud and so healed by the balme of grace With this weapon he as●aulted Eue with this weapon he wounded Ahabs false Prophets And in this sort shall he goe out to deceiue the people which are in the foure quarters of the world This is he the Dragon that old serpent which is the Diuell and Sathan I say this is he the great red Dragon which deceiueth all the world which fought with Michael and his Angels which makes spirituall warre with the woman cloathed with the Sunne the Church of Christ. This is he which gaue the beast with the seauen heads that is the Church of Rome the seauen hilled Citie by the Tyrrhene Sea his power his throne and great authoritie So that great Babilon is now become an habitation of D●uels the hold of all fowle spirits and a cage of euery vncleane and hatefull bird and as Stigelius writes Imperij quondam sedes nunc turpe lupanar Vix vmbram prisci Roma nitoris habet Rome that was once an Empires seat is now A wolfe-stie scarce of that brightnesse shadow LINEAMENT XIII Aphrismes collected out of the first Fathers of the Primitiue Church concerning the Diuels power IUstine the Martyr in his Apologie for the Christians to the Romane Senate who among other seruples obiected that God would not suffer them to bee persecuted if their doctrine were true answered that the Christians were persecuted for the confirmation of their faith by Gods permission and also by the instinct and incitement of wicked spirits who at all times haue persecuted the louers of vertue as Socrates Heraclitus and Musonius but chiefly they moued persecutions against the Christians The same Martyr speaking of the vertue of the name of Iesus which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 writes At the powerfull name of Iesus Christ crucified vnder Pontius Pilate the Diuels being adiured euen at this day with horrour and trembling doe obey vs Christians The Diuell is most busie against the light of the Gospell he moueth the Infidels to detract Christ with Magicke he prouoketh Hereticke to falsifie the truth according to their owne phantasies Tatianus disputing with the Grecians because they derided and despised the Christian Religion said that the motiues of their derision were the spirituall suggestions of the Diuell which deceiued them by vndertaking cures of diseases and by deluding them with witch craft and Diuinations thereby to withdraw men from the true worship of God Irenaeus the Disciple of Polycarpus who likewise was the Disciple of S. Iohn the Euangel●st proued that God was to be worshipped and not the Diuell first because the Diuell could not keepe and obserue any promises which he made for himselfe possessed nothing secondly because that the Diuell hath alwaies beene a lyar and is not to determine of any earthly Kingdom●s Origen auerreth that charmes and sorceries are d●risions of Diuels the dregs of Idolatry and the besotting of soules Likewise he affirmeth that our conflictand contention with euill spirits is spirituall These be the opinions of the Greeke Fathers which flourished within three hundred yeares after Christ. Tertullian the first Latine Father testifieth that the Diuell is the Authour of sinne euen as God is the Authour of the punishment of sinne That which is counterfeit is the businesse of the Diuell euen as that which is naturall is the worke of God Persecution immediately is sent from God and not from the Diuell Wicked spirits are the Authours of all wickednesse which is committed by man They fill all things with deceits craft and errours They infinuate themselues into mens bodies but they cannot hurt any man 〈◊〉 him whom they haue in their full power They were t●● inuentors of Astrologie Southsaying Oracles N●gromancy and Magicke Their chiefe endeuour is to auert men from the worshippe and knowledge of the Diuine Maiesty God suffereth the Diuell thus to delude mankinde to the entent that the euiil might fight with the good that vices might be opposed to vertue that God might haue some to punish and some to honour him Augustine vtterly denieth the Diuels reall power ouer any of Gods workmanship in these words We must not thinke that this materiall substance of visible things doe obey the Angels which transgressed but that they obey God alone Another reuerend Elder of the Church reasoning about the cause of the desection of the Diuels illusion writeth after this manner Heretofore Diuels in vaine formes did ensuare men with deceits hiding themselues in riuers rockes groues and woods but now-a-dayes since that Gods word hath beene made manifest those deceitfull sights spirits and illusions