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A66360	Ho Antichristos the great antichrist revealed, before this time never discovered, and proved to be neither pope, nor Turk, nor any single person, nor the succession of any one monarch or tyrant in any policies, but a collected pack, or multitude of hypocritical, heretical, blasphemous, and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophesies of the Scriptures ... and especially have united ... together by a solemn league and covenant to slay the two witnesses of God, Moses and Aaron ... that is, the supreme magistrate of the Commonwealth, and the chief pastors and governours of the Church of Christ, and the Christian world is requested to judge whether the Assembly of Presbyterians consulting at Westminster, together with the independents, Anabaptists, and lay-preachers be not the false prophet ... and whether the prevalent faction of the long Parliament ... that killed the two witnesses of Jesus Christ, 1. Charles the First ... 2. William Laud ... be not the grosse and visible body of the same antichrist / by Gr. Williams.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2662; ESTC R25201	504,825	313

these that were his enemies sought his life were made his Judges to take away his life And whether this was good Justice in the Parliament to make his enemies to be his accusers Witnesses and Judges I leave it to wiser men then I am to judge of it Serjeant at Law President of the Pretended High Court of Justice John Lisle William Say O liver Cromwel Henry Ireton Esqs Sir Hardresse Waller Valentine Walton Thomas Harrison Edward Whaley Thomas Pride Isaac Ewers Esqs Lord Gray of Groby Sir John Danvers Knight Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet Sir John Bourcher Knight William Heveningham Esquire Alderman Pennington Alderman of London William Purefoy Henry Martin John Barkstead John Blackiston Gilbert Millington Esqs Sir William Constable Baronet Edmond Ludlow John Hutchinson Esqs Sir Mich. Livesey Baronet Robert Tichbourne Owen Roe Robert Lilburne Adrian Scroope Richard Deane John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland John Carey John Jones Miles Corbet Francis Alinn Peregrine Pelham John Moore John Aldred Henry Smith Humphrey Edwards Gregory Clement Thomas Woogan Esqs Sir Gregory Norton Knight Edmond Harvy John Venn Thomas Scot. Esqs Thomas Andrews Alderman of London William Cawly Anthony Stapley John Downes Thomas Horton Thomas Hammond Nicholas Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland John Dixwel George Fleetwood Symon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Daniel Blagrave Thomas Waite Esqs The Counsellers that were appointed to be assistants unto the Court and to draw up the charge against the King I find to be Dr. Dorislaus Mr. Aske Mr. Cook Serjeant Dandy Serjeant at Armes and Mr. Philips was Clark unto the Court. The Messengers and doore-keepers were Mr. Malford Mr. Rudley Mr. Paine Mr. Powell Mr. Hull and Mr. King was the Cryer all which do make up 77. and of those that were to be his Judges any 20 of them were to condemne him And so this High Court of Justice adjudged him that was one of the Witnesses of Christ to Death And for the other Witnesse of God which is the Ecclesiasticall governour of the flock of Christ which is the Bishop and his subordinate Clergy I doubt not but the most part of the Christian world understandeth how William Laude Bishop of Canterbury whose works do sufficiently prove him to be an Orthodox man and a faithfull Witness of Christ was adjudged to be beheaded by that Parliament and all the rest of the Godly Bishops and the Faithfull teachers of Gods truth and Witnesses of Jesus Christ are spiritually and Civilly killed by the suppression of their Office and calling and silencing them from Preaching and some of them actually brought to their Graves either through want or grief or some other ingredient which that Parliament administred unto them and not any of them but is brought to such contempt and scorn among the generality of the people and so spitefully used in many places that the like was never known since the Arian or the Heathen persecutions Mr. Mede pag. 15. and this dejection of them from their Offices had none of them been actually killed is sufficient to prove the killing of the Witnesses as Mr. Mede confesseth most truly But though we say that the King as supreme Magistrate and the Bishop For the Parliament will say that they did most justly put these witnesses to death as chief Priest are meant by these two witnesses here spoken of yet we do not positively say though we might that these two witnesses that were thus killed by that Parliament are the very witnesses that are meant in this place c. 11.7 by the spirit of God or that the Parliament which killed them is to be understood by the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit but we leave that to God and to them that are better able to determine whether they be or not Onely I say that we cannot finde the Pope to have either actually killed or civilly suppressed these two Offices of the two witnesses of Christ but that he to the uttermost of his power upholdeth both the regall dignity of Kings and the divine calling of the Bishops and therefore that he can no wayes be meant by this beast That the Pope never killed these two witnesses that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit and shall either actually or civilly or both actually and civilly kill these two witnesses and suppress these two Offices and callings of the two witnesses of Jesus Christ which herein in that which befell to our witnesses fell out most unhappily here amongst us in these Dominions and makes many men to think that as the Poet saith haec haec non sine numine divum Eveniunt All this was done that the Scripture might be fulfilled that saith the two witnesses of Christ should be killed by the beast that is the Antichrist and therefore if they be not killed already in those that I have named as we believe they are I am certain that they shall be killed in the two forenamed Offices of King and Bishop because the Scripture must be fulfilled And now the Witnesses being killed that is the chief of them How the two Witnesses being killed shall be unburied as the King and Bishop Laud actually slain and beheaded and the rest subordinate unto them civilly killed by their ejectment out of their Offices and quite put out of all hope of recovery which happened not all at once to the Bishops and which was not till the good King was made away and the Parliament had prevailed and fully vanquished all their enemies and the assistants of these witnesses the dead bodies of the witnesses saith the Angel shall lye in the streets of the great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt that is Sodom The full description and Character of the City where the witnesses shall be killed for their great and abominable sins and filthiness and Egypt for their blindness in the Religion and service of God and for their cruel oppression and persecution of Gods right servants where also the Lord was crucified and that was the great and holy City of Hierusalem so that the dead bodies of these slain witnesses shall lie in such a City as shall be like Sodom and Egypt for impiety and iniquity and yet like Hierusalem for profession of true piety and sanctity hearing of Sermons and hating all superstition for as Hierusalem the City where our Lord was crucified was then pretended to be the onely holy City of the World the City of God and the Inhabitants thereof the onely people of God so that City where the two witnesses of God shall lie unburied and where our Lord Christ was crucified in his annointed witnesses the King and the Bishop and the rest of their subordinate Officers his members as he said unto Saul why persecutest thou me when he persecuted his Servants will pretend to be the onely zealous and best Protestant City Act. 95. and the most opposite to Popery that is in the World And I know not how London will

speaketh evidently that in the later times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 4.1 some shall depart from the faith and so in Acts 21.21 it is said they heard of thee quod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that thou teachest a defection or discession from Moses that is from the lawes and Ordinances of Moses and so Theodoret calleth this apostasie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a secession and departure from God which is the last step and period of our rebellion against the King or civil Magistrate And this falling away from God and from Gods service must be of such men as formerly have made shew to be the true subjects unto their Governors and the Professors of the Gospel of Christ and the obedient children of his Church because apostasie or rebellion is a falling away off and from that which we either were or seemed to be before as subjects that pretend obedience and not strangers of another kingdome are said to rebell against their Governors This Apostafie is of such as have professed the Gospel which strangers never acknowledged to be their Governors but as Julian was termed the Apostata because that during all the time of his Predecessor Constantius he professed himself a Christian and afterwards when he himself came to be the Emperor he renounced the faith of Christ fell into the Heathenish idolatry and persecuted all the best Christians and therefore this Apostasie cannot be ascribed to Caius Caligula as some think because that he being bred up in Idolatry cannot be said to depart from the worship of the true God which he never professed nor can it indeed be ascribed to any manner of men The Turks and Papists cannot be guilty of this Apostasie but to such as have receded and departed from that faith and service of God which they professed or seemed to profess before and therefore also the Turks that are bred in the Mahometan Religion and the Papists that are misled up in idolatry and superstition cannot be guilty of this apostasie nor be said to apostatize and to depart from the true faith and service of God because they never had it nor profest it for how can he be said to depart from the truth that never knew nor understood the truth or how can any man be said to depart and recede from London that never was in London therefore it is most certain that this apostasie is a discession and departure from that true faith and service of God Object which men professed or seemed to profess before E. H. de apostas pag. 36. cornel ●lapide in loc And whereas E. H. and some others say that this Apostacy whereof the Arostle speaketh here 2 Thes 2.3 must be understood of an universal and a general Apostasie universalis defectis as Cornelius à lapide termes it an universel falling away that is of all the particular national Churches in the world both the Western and the Eastern Churches because the Apostle speaks indefinitely and limiteth not the apostasie to this or that particular Church Solut. I answer with the leave of so great and so learned a Clerk as Cornel. à lapide is that as here the Apostle intendeth not to speak of the Antichrists in general when as then Eusebius l. 3. c. 7. l. 4. c. 14. Apoc. c. 2. Clemens Alexand Stromat lib. 3. in his time there were many Antichrists as St. John sheweth such as were the Ebionites Cerinthians Marcionites Nicholaitans and the like but he speaketh of an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a particular Antichrist that should be an Antichrist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a more eminent egregious Antichrist than all other precedent or subsequent Antichrists whatsoever were or should be so he meaneth here by this Apostacy not every petty apostacy or single Heresie or any small and little stubbornness of some particular Churches that should fall away and rebel against their Governours and Teachers and so make a defection from some Points of the true Faith or corrupt the Profession and Faith of Christ by their evil Manners and wicked Conversations as in St. Pauls time the Church of Corinth did by denying the Resurrection prophaning the Lords Supper and suffering the incestuous Corinthian to communicate amongst them which was no small apostasie And in St. Johns time the Churches of Asia did not much less than the Church of Corinth fall away from the Truth but the Apostle would have us to understand that the Day of the Lord shall not come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 until there shall come that falling or the falling away first that is such and so great so eminent and so full a falling away and so foul a rebellion against their Governours and from the Faith of Christ and the true Service of God as the like rebellion and falling away from the Truth and specially from the right worshipping of God was never known before in any Church Greek or Latine Eastern or Western Church nor ever shall the like be seen after it until the day of Christ his coming And this the Particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That the Apostle ●peaketh of some particular eminent rebellion and apostasie of some particular well reformed Church and not of a general apostasie of the Catholick Church against which the gates of Hell shall never prevail Mat. 16.18 set before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth sufficiently shew unto us that as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth de●gn and particularize some great transcendent Antichrist so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth shew a particular and a most egregious foul and enormous Apostasie and so the meaning of the Apostle in few words seems to be this that before the day of the Lord that is the great day of Judgment there shall arise a grand rebellion against the Governours of the people and against the Pastors and Discipline of the Church and a huge apostasie defection and falling away from the true Faith of Christ and especially from the form of wholsom Doctrine and the right worship and usually accustomed and received Service of God And then when you see such an unnatural rebellion as the like was scarce ever known if ever and such a corruption of the true Doctrine of Christ and opposition to the chief Governours of the Church as the like was never seen in any age nor found in any other Church nor read in any History the whole Church of Christ and all the Servants of God then in being may know for certain that an exceeding great Antichrist greater than any of all the other former Antichrists that were seen before will arise in that Church which formerly was the best and purest Reformed Church of all other Reformed Churches though now it doth recede and thus apostatize from the Faith of Christ and her own former purity And after the Coming and appearance of that Great Antichrist and the Tragical Acts that he shall do within a while and some short space best known to God how long

For the Puissance of her Kings and Princes she outwent all other Cities whatsoever Nimrod called Belus by the Gentiles but indeed his Father that was Noahs Granchilds Son being the first and the stoutest man then on earth then Belus Nimrods Son whom the Gentiles honoured as a god in after times and after him Ninus that built the great City of Nineveh then his Wife the Mirrour of all women Semiramis afterwards omitting all those Eighteen Kings which Berosus nameth and Twenty more that Sleidan setteth down Phul-Belochus that swayed the Scepter 48 years 2 Reg 15.19 and Philazzar whom the Holy Scripture nameth Phul-Assur that reigned 23 years and Salmanazar that reigned 10 years and subdued all Phoenicia The Monarchs of Assyria that reigned in this Chaldean Babylon excepting Tyrus and carried away the King of Israel and the Ten Tribes Captives into Media and Sennacherib that for reviling God and the good King Hezekiah by a rayling Rabsheca was forced to return home with dishonour and then slain by his own Sons in the Temple of his Idols after he had reigned seven years and Esar-haddon whom Josephus calleth Asaracoldus reigned Eleven years Esa 39.1 and Berodac whom Esayas calleth Ben-Merodac that after the revolution of Twelve years translated the Kingdom to the Assyrians and reigned afterwards Eighteen years And Nebuchadnezzar that said Is not this great Babylon that I have built that is so great and so glorious as now it is for the House of the Kingdom and for the Glory of my Majesty Dan. 4.30 And then Belshazzar his Son whom Darius did succeed And many other famous Kings and Princes reigned and ruled in and over this Great and Glorious City of Babylon more than we read to have done over any one other City of the world And therefore this City in these and many other respects was the most resplendent of all the known Cities of the whole Universe and is in that respect termed by the Prophet Esay Esa 13.9 and said to be the Glory of Kingdoms But it is yielded of all sides that this Literal Chaldean Babylon is no where meant to be the Seat of the Great Antichrist that must arise in and out of the true Church of Christ and seat himself in a greater and a more Mystical Babylon And therefore II. Babylon mystically understood which must be so understood to be the Seat of the Antichrist is taken two waies 2. Mystically understood two manner of waies 1. Generally for the whole world of Wickedness 2. Particularly for some special Place of this world Generally 1 1. When the Prophet saith By the waters of Babylon we sate down and wept when we remembred thee O Sion And again O Daughter of Babylon wasted with misery yea happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Ps 137.1 ult and blessed shall he be that taketh thy children and throweth them against the stones Though literally and in the first sense they are to be understood of the Chaldean Babylon yet mystically they are to be taken for this wicked world which is the City of Satan and the Metropolis of his Empire For although God be the King of all the earth both by the right of Creation and Preservation yet Satan is said to be the King of this Babylon by the unjust Title of usurpation and therefore he is called the Prince of this world that ruleth in the hearts of the children of Disobedience And this world is resembled compared and doth symbolize Babylon in very very many things but especially in these five respects The world resembled to Babylon in five respects Propter 1. Amaenitatem Pleasantness 2. Cacitatem Blindness 3. Celsitudinem Height of Spirit 4. Confusionem All kind of Disorder and Confusion 5. Iniquitatem The Multiplicity of all kind of Iniquity For Respect 1 1. Babylon was the delight of the Nations and a most sweet and pleasant place as I shewed to you before even so the world ab ornatu dicitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is so called by the Grecians from the beauty of it Quid enim mundo praestantius For what can be more excellent and pleasanter than this world saith Lucius Apuleius Respect 2 2. The Assyrian Babylon was full of blind●ess and ignorance Jer. 59.17 For as the Prophet saith Every man was brutish in his knowledge so is the world as our Saviour sheweth I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter whom the world cannot receive quia non videt eum nec scit eum because it seeth him not John 14.17 and knoweth him not for though the light shined in darkness yet the darkness comprehended it not and though the Ministers of Christ do preach the Truth daily unto the world yet the children of this world are still drowned in Darkness and will not receive the knowledge of the Truth that they might be saved John 1.5 Respect 3 3. The Assyrian Ba●ylon was full of Pride so high and so haughty that they would build a Tower which should reach to Heaven And the Prophet saith of her Jer. 50.29 She hath been proud against the Lord against the Holy One of Israel And so is the world full of Pride Maxima quaeque domus servis est plena superbis Not a great House but hath a great deal of Pride and proud Servants in it saith the Poet. Respect 4 4. The Assyrian Babylon was full of all Disorder and Confusion the Labourer would be a Director and a Master-worker the Mason would play the Carpenter and the Carpenter would be the Joyner and so none was contented with his own station not any man dutiful in his own Place but when the Masters called for Bricks the Servants brought them Clay when they desired Bread they gave them Stones and therefore it was called Babel because of this disorderly confusion Even so it is in this world no man is contented with his own state none dutiful in his place and none satisfied with his own condition but as the Poet saith Optat ephippia bos niger optat arare Caballus The Oxe would bear the saddle and the Horse would draw the Plow Respect 5 5. Babylon in Chaldea was full of Sins for she hath sinned against the Lord saith the Prophet So the whole world lieth in wickedness saith the Apostle And all that is in the world Jer. 50.14 John 2.16 is either concupiscence of the eyes or concupiscence of the flesh or Pride of life Haectria pro trino numine mundus habet Particularly 2 2. And more Particularly Many other Cities and Kingdomes of this world are and may in this Mystical sense be rightly stiled Babylon And that either Two waies 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Respectively secundum quid For so 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eminently exceeding all the rest For so Respectively 1 1. 1 Pet 5.13 The City of Rome is called Babylon by the Apostle and is

he begins to play his part to act all the wickedness and to fulfill all the Prophesies that the spirit of God foretold his Church should be accomplished by the Antichrist that so as he tels them of the signes of his approach to judgment that they might know his coming to be near so by the signes and Marks of the Antichrist and fulfilling of all the Prophesies that concerned him the Saints and servants of God might take notice of him as much as possibly they can to avoid him But here I would have it observed that when I say that all and every thing prophesied in the Scripture How and in what sence all things are done and all Prophesies of the Antichrist are fullfilled by the long Parliament of the old and new Testament that the great Antichrist should do are now conceived to be done and fulfilled in and by the prevalent faction of the long Parliament termed the rump Parliament and their adherents and the Assembly of Presbyterians Independants and Lay-Preachers and their Proselites it is not meant that the rump Parliament should fulfill all and every thing Prophesied concerning the Antichrist or that the Presbyterians should do the same themselves but that all and every thing prophesied of is now fulfilled and acted by some of them or of their adherents not that all and every one of them fulfilled all things but that all things were fulfilled in and by some of them as all the wickedness that is done by an Army is not done by every wicked man in the Army but one commits murder another rape another theft and so forth so it is in the evils prophesied to be done by the Antichrist every one of his members commits not every evil and fulfills every Prophesie but one part or member of him killeth the witnesses another blasphemeth and another changeth the times and so forth and thus we finde all things and all Prophesies now in our dayes fulfilled and acted that were never so fulfilled and acted before The prophesies that concern the Antichrist are of 2 sorts as I have shewed in this book And these Prophesies which are left unto us concerning this great Antichrist are of two special sorts 1. Typically delivered in the old Testament 2. More plainly though mystically too expressed in the new Testament 1. 1. Of the old testament 1. the prophesy of Zechary 11.16 17. The most pregnant place of the old Testament that by the Divines of the Gappe Synod and others is ascribed to foreshew the coming of the Antichrist is found in the 11 Chapter of the Prophesie of Zechariah the 16 and 17 Verses where the Lord saith Lo I will raise up a shepherd in the land which shall not visit those that be cut off neither shall seek the young one nor heal that that is broken nor feed that that standeth but he shall eat the flesh of the fat and tear their clawes in pieces wo to the idoll-shepherd that leaveth the flock the sword shall be upon his arme and upon his right eye his arme shall be clean dryed up and his right eye shall be utterly darkened a most considerable place to describe the great Antichrist 4. things observable in this Prophesie 1. His Raiser Verse 1. the cause v. 3. and 5. and his coming among the flock of Christ and therefore I shall desire you for the better understanding thereof to observe these four Particulars that I finde set down by this our Prophet 1. His Raiser that brings him forth and that is the Lord God For lo I will raise up a shepherd in the land Verse 16. and the reason why he raised him is set down Ver. 3. and 5. 2. 2. the time The time when God raised him and that is after the breaking of the 2 staves beauty and bands spoken of Ver. 7. 3. 3. the titles Ver. 15 17. 4. the judgment v. 17. The Titles names and epithetes that God himself bestoweth upon him thereby to shew unto us all his qualities and his doings Ver. 15. and 17. 4. The Judgment that shall fall upon him both for his foolishness and his wickedness Verse 17. But Act 8.34 as the Eunuch said unto Philip of whom speaketh the Prophet this so before we can well understand these points we must with the Eunuch demand whom doth the Prophet mean by this foolish and idol shepherd Who is meant by this foolish Shepherd And I answer That by this foolish and idol Shepherd we are to understand 1. Primarily not any one single shepherd but chorus pseudo-Prophetarum the whole company of false Prophets that lived about the time of our Saviour Christ 2. The whole multitude of false Teachers that should be the false Prophet of the great Antichrist which towards the end of the world should appear and play their part to vex the Church and to persecute the servants of Jesus Christ for so all the Divines in the National Synod of Gappe Synodo Gappen Artic. 31. 2 Thes 2. 1604. in the 31 Article of their Confession do apply this Prophesie and Text of the foolish Idol shepherd to denotate and shew unto us the great Antichrist which S. Paul calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the man of the sin and the childe of Perdition And so I take the False Prophets and wicked shepherds that were about the time of Christ to be the Type of the false Prophets of the Antichrist and those wicked Shepherds that are the Antichristian Preachers and both to be understood here by this foolish and idol-shepherd And I told you 1. That the raiser and sender of this idol-shepherd unto his people The Raiser of this Shepherd is God himself for as he giveth Kings both good and bad the good out of his love and the bad out of his anger against any Nation as the Prophet testifieth of Saul Hosea 13.11 of whom the Lord saith I gave them a king in mine anger that is against the people that were weary of their good and milde Government under Samuel and I took him away in my wrath that is against himself for his disobedience 1 Sam. 15.23 and transgressions of my Commandments so he sendeth shepherds unto his flock and Prophets unto his people both good and bad the good out of his love and the bad out of his anger against his people for as Christ said unto Pilate Thou couldst have no power at all John 19.11 except it were given thee from above So the false Prophets and this idol-shepherd could not rise if the Lord had not raised them and therefore Hi hi non sine numine divum Eveniunt These men could not come if God made not way for them But would you know the reason why the Lord raised this idol-shepherd and these false Prophets amongst his people look into the 3. verse and you shall finde it two-fold 1. The voyce of the howling of the shepherds for the spoiling of their glory that is

tree that hath many boughes and branches or rather like a long Ladder that hath many staves before you can come to the top of it and the highest degree of this mischief the uppermost staffe in this Ladder and the worst kind of all the many many kinds of murders and man-killing is the proper and peculiar sin of the Antichrist which since the death of Christ never any man nor any degree of men committed but the Antichrist And therefore that we may more perfectly see and the more plainly understand the sin of the Antichrist we must untwist the Cable and unfold the multiplicity of this many-headed Monster Two kinds of hom cide or man killing 1. Lawful the murdering and slaughtering of a man And First of all we must remember that this man-killing or shedding of humane blood is distributed into two several species 1. The one lawful and required by God himself to be done as of those that maliciously kill any man or those that prove Traytors Idolaters or any such high transgressors of the Law of God or of the Kingdom or Commonwealth that enjoyn such penalties upon such obstinate and great Offenders as will not submit themselves to observe the Law And this kind of man-killing comes not within the sphear and compass of my discourse neither is it the sin of the Antichrist nor any waies if rightly done distastful but most acceptable in the sight of God 2. The other kind of man-killing 2. Unlawful three waies is that which is altogether unlawful and most odious in the sight of God and all good men And this kind of man-killing may be done three manner of waies that is 1. With the Heart and this is very bad 2. With the Tongue and this is far worse 3. With the Hand and this is the worst of all 1. We may kill our neighbour 1. With the heart in our heart and with our heart four special waies 1. By Desire 2. By Anger 3. By Envy 4. By Hatred For 1. Psal 5.6 The Prophet saith the Lord abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man that is the Lord hateth him that desireth and longeth after a mans death as he that is thirsty desireth drink and I fear that too too many are guilty in this kind the Lord rectifie our desires 2. Our Saviour saith Mat. 5.22 Whosoever is angry with his Brother without a cause he shall be in danger of the judgment and therefore we should study to suporess our anger which is furor brevis and doth rest in the bosom of fooles saith the wise man 3. The Apostle speaking of the wickedness of the Gentiles saith They were full of envy Rom. 1.29 Sap. 14.4 murder debate And the wise man saith alius alium per invidiam occidit one man slayeth another through envy as Cain through envy slew his own Brother Abel and the Jews through envy crucified our Saviour Christ and therefore periere quia maluerunt invidere quam credere Cyprian in sermone de livore 1 John 3.15 they perished saith St. Cyprian because they chose rather to ervy him than to believe in him 4. St. John saith that whosoever hateth his brother is a manslayer and the Lord saith thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart For as he that looketh on a woman to Iust after her hath committed adultery in his heart so he that hateth his brother hath killed him in his heart 2. The Tongue killeth many men and killeth them many waies yea 2. With the Tongue Jam. 3.6 7. plures lingua quam gladio periere the Tongue hath slain more than the Sword for as S. James saith the tongue is a fire and a world of wickedness it is an unruly evill full of deadly poyson and the Son of Syrach saith It hath destroyed many that were at peace And the Tongue besides those that it killeth by bearing false witness against them Eccles 28.13 as the men of Belial did against Naboth and the Jews against Christ killeth men two special waies 1. By Flattery 2. By Detraction And 1. S. Augustine saith that Plus nocet lingua adulatoris quam gladius persecutoris the Tongue of the Flatterer doth more mischief than the Sword of the persecuter and Antisthenes was wont to say It was better for a man to fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 among Ravens than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 among Flatterers that do fasten men in their faults 2. The Prophet saith Viri detractores fuerunt in te ad effundendum sanguinem Ezek. 22.9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed bloud and Job saying to his friends that slandered his integrity Why do you persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh Doth intimate thereby that Detractors and Slanderers are like cruel Canibals that eat mens flesh and drink their bloud Nam qui aliena detractione pascitur procul dubio alienis carnibus saturatur for without doubt saith S. Gregory whosoever delighteth himself with detraction and the slandering of his neighbours doth feed and satisfie himself with mans flesh And these murders and killing of men with the heart and with the tongue are but steps stairs and progresses to the murder of the hand For first we begin to distaste and to dislike the man then we grow angry with him for some thing that displeaseth us and if he hath any vertue or good part in him or any honourable place or preferment or any love and good opinion from the people then presently we envy him and then hate him and so hate him more and more The steps progress and ascent of this sin of man-killing and now the Tongue will begin to play his part and though in his presence it will flatter him whom the heart detesteth yet in his absence it will lay loads of scandalous imputations upon his person and upon his actions even as Absolon did upon the government of his own father King David and Maion against the Government of William the King of Sicily and abundance of such varlets as I could name have done the like against the Government of some other Kings and most excellent men And when those bloud-thirsty men have proceeded thus far to envy his happiness and to hate his person as Cain hated Abel and the way is thus made by scandalous aspersions and false imputations to make him odious and distasted among the people 3. With the hand there wanteth nothing but the stroke of the hand to effect the tragical murder and killing of that man whom they desire to destroy be he King Priest or Prophet for so Zimri killed his King and his Master Ela So Phocas slew his Master Diodorus Siculus lib. 11. the Emperour Mauritius So the Servants of King Amon slew their King and their Master So Artabanus Captain of his Guard killed his own King and his Master Xerxes after he had retired out of Greece So Brutus and Cassius with their Associates killed Julius