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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Impartialitie for Conscience well-informed will iudge in Righteousnesse and Truth without all partiality without respect of any person He regardeth not the rich and mighty no Bribe can blinde him neither doth hee pitty the person of the poore to giue for pity an vniust Sentence but as the truth is so speaketh he The Commission is the Actiue power of Conscience giuen of God by his Word to condemne the nocent or to quit the innocent except this Commission be lost Sometimes it is lost as when conscience is dead as in all ignorant persons or seared with an hot iron as some mens haue beene and are such as fall from the faith and are past feeling by reason of the blindnesse of minde and hardnesse of heart or else benummed as in those that fall into some grieuous sin as did DAVID who lay therein vntill Nathan found the Commission and acquainted him with it when he said Thou art the man If the Commission bee lost the Power of Conscience lyeth dead seared and benummed then the Iudge can doe nothing till it bee found and being found it is read openly The reading of this Commission before the whole Countie is Euery mans experimentall Knowledge of the power of Conscience by which is acknowledged his Authoritie to sit as Iudge ouer euery thought word and deed of man The Circuit of this Iudge is his Owne Soule he is not to sit and iudge of other mens thoughts words or deeds but of the thoughts words and deeds of that man wherein hee is A mans owne Conscience is Iudge of himselfe to iudge another is out of his Circuit neither hath he any Authoritie from the King of Heauen to inable him so to doe Knowledge may goe out to see and discerne of other mens wayes but Conscience keepeth euer at home and sits within to iudge of that mans courses whose Conscience hee is Conscience onely troubles a man for his own sinnes it cannot for another mans but as farre forth as hee hath made them his owne and being accessarie to them by commanding alluring counselling commending excusing defending or winking thereat when hee ought by his place to haue punished the same This Iudge in this Circuit is Iudge of Oyer and Terminere Hee will heare before hee doth iudge and hee will truly then iudge as hee heareth for as hee is impartiall in iudging so is he prudent and carefull to know what and whereof to giue sentence before he doth iudge This is the Iudge The Iustices of Peace in the Countie are there and doe sit with the Iudge and are in Commission with him Of these some are of the Quorum and of better ranke some are meaner Iustices and take their place lower The Iustices of Peace in the Soule of better ranke are Science Prudence Prouidence Sapience the Inferiours are weake Wit common Apprehension and some such like These Iustices haue their Clerkes there ready with their Examinations and Recognizances Iustice Science his Clerke is Discourse Iustice Prudence his Clerke is Circumspection Iustice Prouidence his Clerke is Diligence Iustice Sapience his Clerke is Exporience Iustice Weak-wit his Clerk is Conceit and Iustice Common-Apprehension his Clerk is onely Sense a couple of poore Iustices With the Iudge and Chiefe Iustices are in Commission the Kings Sergeant and the Kings Atturney The Kings Sergeant is Diuine Reason a man of deepe iudgement in the Lawes of his Soueraigne swaying much with the Iudge The Kings Atturney is Quick-sightednesse both are excellent helpes and Assistants to search out and to handle a Cause before Iudge Conscience For Quicke-sightednesse will soone espy an error in pleading and Diuine Reason will inforce a iust conclusion and so moue the Iudge to giue sentence according to equitie and right If these should bee wanting many matters would goe amisse There is also the Clerke of the Assises the keeper of the Writs that hath all the Inditements This Clerke is Memory which retaineth all those names of euery sinne with the nature of the Offence and what God hath in his word written against them and what complaints Repentance hath made against them Besides this Clerke there is the Clerke of the Arraignment who readeth the Inditements This Clerk is the Tongue making Confession of our sinnes Lastly there is the Cryer This is the Manifestation of the Spirit Before the Clerke of the Arraignment readeth any Inditement it is first framed by the Complainant This Complainant is true Repentance or godly Sorrow The framing of the Inditement is the laying open of sinne as it may be knowne and found out to be sinne according to the true nature thereof Moreouer an Inquest or Grand-Iury there must bee by whose Verdict the Offender is indited made a lawfull Prisoner yet is this Indirement no conuiction What these agree vpon is deliuered vp in writing to the Iustices On the backe of this Inditement framed by the complainant they write either Ignoramus or Billa vera If the former then the complaint is iudged false it is left in record but the Prisoner is not indited If the latter the prisoner is indited the Inditement read and the prisoner brought to the triall at the Barre This Grand-Inquest or Iurie are the Holy men of God whose writings are the Holy Scriptures in the Old and new Testament By the Verdict of these euery thought word and deed of man is either freed or made a lawfull prisoner But yet this Verdict is no lawfull conuiction of particular men till they be rightly applyed If they write vpon the Inditement or Bill framed Ignoramus that is if the holy Scriptures of God declare it not to bee a Sinne it is no finne for Where there is no Law there is no transgression Not the complaints of all vnder Heauen not all the Lawes of men Decrees of Councells the Commandements of Popes can make that a sinne which they write Ignoramus vpon Therefore the Bills of Inditement framed by those false Informers before mentioned Formality Worldly wisdome Lukewarmnesse Meere ciuill honesty Machiauilian Statisme Libertinisme Scrupulosity Papistry against Christian Conference godly Sinceritie true Zeale strict Conuersation Reformation of disorders and the rest are false accusers and haue vpon their complaints written by the Graund-Inquest an Ignoramus and therefore by these worthy Iustices Iustice Science Iustice Prudence Iustice Prouidence and Iustice Sapience are not to bee admitted nor Iudge Censcience to bee troubled therewith though all the Popes the whole Popish Church all Popish Counsels and all the Popishly-affected Statists in the world pleade for them for that thought word or deed is no sinne no Breach of Gods Law on which these write Ignoramus Conscience as is said is not to bee troubled with such Bils of complaint But if these write Billa vera that is if the holy Pen-men haue set downe any

Worshipfull Gentlemen These are men of worth my Lord of farre more esteeme euery where than these meane men heere picked out of purpose by Master Sheriffe These my Lord of the Iurie are men of small reckoning in the Country These liue scattered here and there almost without habitation except in poore Cottages so as we maruel my Lord how they can bee brought in for Free-holders hardly any one of them is of any account with men of great estates and of worth in the Land Good my Lord consider of vs. Then the Iudge asketh them what those men be of whom they speake and what are their names Then they answer My Lord they are these Master Naturalist Master Doubting Master Opinion Master Carelesse Master Chiuerell Master Libertine Master Laodicean Master Temporizer Master Politician Master Out-side Master Ambo dexter and Master Newtralitie all my Lord very indifferent men betwixt vs and them Gentlemen Free-holders of great meanes we beseech you my Lord to shew vs some pitty that they may be of the Iurie The Iudge informed by those worthy Iustices of the Quorum concerning these men so named by the prisoners and knowing the honesty and good credit of the chosen Iurie their exceptions against them are not admitted of and so these indifferent Gentlemen are passed by The Clerke therefore is commanded to goe forward and then he readeth the Inditement of euery one in order one after another as they be called forth by name and set to the Barre The first which is called out is the Old-man Then saith the Clerke Gaoler set out Old-man to the Barre Then hee is brought to the Barre and commanded to hold vp his hand and his Inditement is read Old-man thou art indited here by the name of Old-man of the Towne of Euahs Temptation in the Countie of Adams consent that vpon the day of Mans fall in Paradise when he was driuen out thou did dest corrupt the whole nature of man body and soule leading all and euery of his Posterity comming by generation with the body of Sinne making him indisposed to any thing that is good framing lets to any holy duty and polluting his best actions but making him prone to all euill bringing him captiue to imperious lusts and so causing him to liue in continuall rebellion against GOD contrary to the Peace of our Soueraigne Lord the King IESVS CHRIST his Crowne and Dignity What sayest thou to it He pleades Not guilty and so puts himselfe to the Triall Then the Cryer calleth for euidence against the Prisoner Then commeth forth Dauid whose Euidence is this I was shapen in Iniquity and in Sinne hath my Mother conceiued me Iobs is this He cannot be cleane that is borne of a Woman Isaiah his Euidence is That all are transgressours from the wombe Saint Pauls Euidence is most cleere for being asked what hee could say Hee answered My Lord this Old-man hath bin the death of very many I haue wofull experience of him a wretched man hath he made me Hee tooke occasion by the Commandement to worke all concupiscence in me Hee deceiued me and slew me wrought Death in mee so that in my flesh dwelleth no good but when I would doe good euill is present with mee so that through him the good I would doe I cannot and the euill I hate that I doe Hee maketh warre against the law of my minde and bringeth me into captiuitie to the Law of Sinne. Thus my Lord is in me the Body of Death from which I desire to be deliuered and this is that I can say The Euidence being thus cleere the Iury presently being all agreed giue in their Verdict and being asked what they say of the prisoner at the Barre guilty or not they answer Guilty Then he asketh what hee can say for himselfe why sentence should not bee pronounced against him Good my Lord saith he I am wrongfully accused and am made the man I am not there is no such thing as Originall Corruption Pelagius a Learned man and all those now that are called Anabaptists who well enough know all these Euidences brought against me haue hitherto and yet doe maintaine it that Sinne commeth by imitation and not by Propagation and in-bred prauity Good my Lord I beseech you be good vnto me and cast not away so poore an Old man good my Lord for I am at this day 5556. yeeres old Then saith the Iudge Old-man the Euidence is cleere those thou hast named are condemned Heretickes and as for thy yeeres in respect of which thou crauest pitty it is pitty thou hast beene suffered so long to doe so great and so generall a mischiefe as these good men doe witnesse against hee O my Lord I beseech you then a Psalme of Mercie Old-man the Law of the King allowes thee not the benefit of the Clergie for The reward of Sin is death This is his Maiesties Decree vnchangeable as the Law of the Medes and Persians Good my Lord that is meant only of Actuall Sin and not of me That is not so for Originall Sinne is Sinne and all men know that Children die that neuer sinned by Imitation nor Actually after the similitude of Adams transgression And Death goeth ouer all in as much as all haue sinned If sinne were not in Infants they could not die Heare therefore thy Sentence Thou Old-man hast by that name beene indited of these Fellonies Outrages and Murthers and for the same arraigned thou hast pleaded Not-guiltie and put thy selfe vpon the Tryall and art found guiltie and hauing nothing iustly to say for thy selfe this is the Law thou shalt bee carried backe to the place of Execution and there be cast off with all thy deeds and all thy members daily mortified and crucified with all thy lusts of euerie one that hath truly put on Christ This Sentence pronounced the Sheriffe is commanded to doe Execution which Religion by his Vnder Sheriffe Resolution seeth throughly performed The Executioner is hee that hath put on Christ Gal. 5. 24. This Prisoner thus proceeded against the Gaoler is commanded to set out Mistrisse Heart to the Barre who is commanded to hold vp her hand and then is her Inditement read Mistrisse Heart thou art heere indited by the name of Mistrisse Heart of Soule in the County of the Isle of Man that also vpon the day of Mans fall in Paradise thou becamest corrupted accompanying the Old-man and also Will thy man and hast beene so hardened that thou couldest not repent and so blinde that thou becamest past feeling and hast made men to giue themselues ouer to all lasciuiousnesse to worke all vncleannesse euen with greedinesse to bee also very slow to beleeue all that the Prophets haue spoken and to be so enraged with choller somtimes as to runne mercilesly on Innocents to murther them and to cause men most cursedly to