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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

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

brethren borne before him or in a younger Beniamin brought forth soone after him When I thus did apparell him I intended to send him forth to his brethren hoping hereby to procure him the more acceptance where hee happily should come and my expectation hath not failed deceiued altogether I am not as was Iacob in sending his Ioseph among his enuious brethren For not onely hundreds but some thousands haue welcomed him to their houses They say they like his countenance his habit and manner of speaking well enough though other too nice bee not so well pleased therewith But who can please all or how can any one so write or speake as to content euery man If any mistake me and abuse him in their too carnal apprehension without the truly intended spirituall vse let them blame themselues neither me nor him for the fault is their owne which I wish them to amend You that like him I pray you stil accept of him for whose sake to further your spiritual meditation I haue sent him out with these Contents and more marginall notes His habite is no whit altered which he is constrained by mee to weare not onely on working dayes but euen vpon holy daies and Sondayes too if he go abroad A fitter garment I haue not now for him and if I should send out the poore Lad naked I know it would not please you This his coate though not altered in the fashion yet is it made somewhat longer For though from his first birth into the world it bee scarce halfe a yeare yet he is growne a little bigger but I thinke him to become to his full stature so he wil be but as a litle pigmie to be carried abroad in any mans poket I pray you now this fourth time accept him vse him as I haue intended him for you and you shal reape the fruite though I forbid you not to be Christianly merry with him So fare you well in all friendly wellwishes R. B. May 28. 1627. FINIS Errata Good Reader I pray in page 137. for incircut reade nicer-cut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The scope of this booke for one to see and know himselfe Exod. 18. Oldman Madame Heart What to be considered of before men come in with a verdict against supposed witches See Doctor Cotta his tryall of Witches Request to Grand-Iury men touching my booke of Witches The summe of that booke Iudge Denham Sir Rob. Philips Request to the Iudges the Sheriffe and Iustices for spirituall food to poore prisoners The benefit of setting prisoners on worke Sir Ioh. Walter L. chiefe Baron Sir Io. Denham Mast Symmes If I mistake your places I pray you pardon mee Request to the Keepers of prisons Request to the poore prisoners Meditations for them while they lye in Gaole Request to professors of the Law A search to be made for sin Sinne is the great malefactor Sinne robbes vs. Sinne doth kill if it bee not killed Sin is strong Prou. 5. 22. Rom. 7. 23. Isa 9. 18. Sinne doth him the most hurt that most loueth it Ierem. 5. 25. Ierem. 4. 18. The euils which sinne doth Mat. 26. 14 15. 1 Kings 22. Matth. 13. Matth. 12. Act. 5. 10. Sinne is very subtill Heb. 3. 13. Rom. 7. 11. A watch set to espie out sin The watchman is one Assistants are two The Towne watched Trauellers Posts The Inne Towne large Streets are foure Charge giuen to the Watch-men Deut. 4. 9. Preu 4. 23. Heb. 3 12 13. A watch word Isa 30. 21. The Hue and Crie Eleuen waies how to know sinne Rom. 3. 20. 7. 7. 1 Iohn 3. 4. Isa 1. 11. 18. 3. 14. 5. 20. Act. 5. 5. 13. 11. Ier. 25. 6. Lam. 3. 33. Iosh 7. 20. Psal 15. 5 14. 1 Sam. 12. 19. Mat. 27. 4. 1 Tim. 1. 13. 1 Cor. 15. 9. 2 Chr. 19. 2. 1 Sam. 2. 19. Who carrieth the Hue and Crie Psal 51. 1 2. Vertues enemies 1. Outside and his description What he is an enemy to 2 Wicked worldly-wise described Lam. 3. 15. What he is an enemy to 3. Luke-warme his description What he is an enemy vnto 4. Plausible Ciuill his description What he is an enemy to 5. Machiauell his description What he is an enemy to 6. Libertine his description What he is an enemy to 7. Scrupulosity his description What he is an enemy to 8. Babylonian his description Whom he is an enemy to Shifts by which sinne escapes are principally two 1 By a shew of Vertue 2 Cor. 11. 15 14. 2 By the name of Vertue put vpon Vices What Vices get the name of Vertues Friends of sin and how they shew it 1. Ignorance how a friend to sinne 2. Error how a friend to sinne 3. Opinion how a friend to sin 4. Subtilty how a friend to sin 5. Custome how a friend to sinne Mat. 27. 18. 16. 21 26. Ioh. 18. 39 40. 6. Fore-fathers Ioh. 4. 10. 7. Power how a friend to sin 8. Sampler how a friend to sin Ier. 44. 17. 9. Most-doe how a friend to sinne 10. Silly how a friend to sinne 1 Sam. 15. 15. Gen. 20. 5. 11. Vaine-hope how a friend to sinne Gen. 3. 4. 12. Presumption how a friend to sinne Deut. 29. Isa 28. 15 16. 13. Wilfull how a friend to sin 14. St. like how a friend to sin Godly-iealousie will not be deceiued by these Lord chiefe Iustice Warrant and he forme hereof Secretaries to the Lord chiefe Iustice The Officer to attach sin is Vnderstanding Vnderstanding fourefold 1 Deputy-Constable Vnderstanding darkned Eph. 4. 18. 1 Ioh. 2. 11. Eph. 4. 18 19. The euils vnder it committed 2 Tithing-man Grosse-vnderstanding and the euill thereof 2 Pet. 1. 9. 3. Pettie Constable Vnderstanding somewhat cleered A meere ciuill honest man who and what a one What he onely lookes vnto What sinnes he regards not 4. Chiefe Constable Illuminated vnderstanding and the excellency thereof 1 Cor. 2. His habitation is Regeneration His Family The good he doth This is that which apprehendeth sinne * Which hath intecedent concomitant subsequent sinnes ●ydants Two Ser●ants 2. Neighbour Godly-Sorrow and his seuen Sonnes 1. Care 2. Cleering 3. Indignation 4. Feare 5. Vehement desire 6. Zeale 7. Reuenge A couple of busie fellowes 1. Selfe-loue what euill he doth Selfe-deniall remoues him 2. Selfe-conceit and the mischiefes therof Pro. 12. 5. 3. 5 7. Isai 5. 21. Prou. 16. 2 25. Pro. 30. 12. Reuel 3. Humility puts him away The Inne Mistresse Hearts house Old man Eph● ● 22 Fiue doores 1. The doore of Hearing Genes 3. What euils enter by hearing 2. The doore of Seeing 1 Iohn 3. What sinnes enter by seeing Genes 6. Ios 7. Psal 119. 37. Iob 31. 1. 3. The doore of Tasting The sins which enter by this sense Prou. 23. 2 20 21. 1 Cor. 5. 11. 4. The doore of Smelling Prou. 7. 17. What entreth here 5. The doore of Feeling Rom. 13. 13. What entreth here Degrees to the heart Hall-attendant Commonsense Parlour attendant