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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

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

hand to carrie him to the Gaole The Constable you haue heard is Illuminated Vnderstanding The Mittimus giuen him is the actiue power of the Well-reformed Iudgement forcing the exercise of the Vnderstanding against sinne to finde out remedies to keepe it vnder The Chiefe Gaoler is Master Newman placed ouer the prisoners and made the Gaole-keeper by the Sheriffe for the prison is his and hee is to answer the King for them The Sheriffe is True Religion wrought in mans soule The Vnder-Sheriffe is an Holy Resolution to performe what the Sheriffe commandeth and what he is by his Office to doe If any Prisoner Sinne breake out the Sheriffe Religion must beare the blame saying This is your Religion is it The Gaole is Subiection for saith the Apostle as if he were the Gaoler I keepe vnder here is the keeper my body heere is the prisoner and bring it in Subiection heere is the prison When sin is brought vnder subiection that it doth no more reigne as it doth in all naturall men but not in the regenerate then it is put in prison but not before Now the Chiefe Gaoler Master Newman hath with him three Vnder-Gaolers to looke well to the Prisoners and all little enough they bee so many and so exorbitantly vnruly ready to breake prison daily if they bee not diligently seene vnto This Master Newmans three Vnder-Gaolers are his Hands his Eyes and his Feet without which hee can doe nothing and they are these which are named by Saint Paul in his Epistles 1 Is Sauing Knowledge This lookes to these sorts of Prisoners Ignorance especially wilfull Error Vaine opinions Iangling Sophistrie false Doctrine Heresies Doctrine of deuils and such like 2 Is True Holines he looketh to all the transgressors of the first Table as to Atheisme Paganisme Iudaisme Turcisme vnbeleefe desperation presumption confidence in strength riches places policy and multitude so also to Will-worship Imagery meere outward seruice without the inward Papistry and all corruptions of GODS Worship likewise to Blasphemy rash swearing false swearing cursing idle talke of God contempt of his Word and Workes a Vicious life Lastly to Sabbath-breaking neglect of publike worship prophanenesse persecution of the truth and to an infinite number of other sinnes against God true holines 3 Is Righteousnesse this lookes to all the sinnes against the second Table as to rebellion disobedience murder malice adultery fornication theft and coozenage to false-witnesse-bearing to backbiting to discontentment and to all other transgressions many and manifold comprehended vnder these Commandements Now because these prisoners be vnruly if there bee not a strict hand kept ouer them therefore lest they should at vnawares breake forth to the danger of the Sheriffe Religion the Gaoler Master New-man hath Fetters Gieues Bolts and Manacles to hold them in and to haue them at command And they are these Respect vnto the Commandements of God in all our waies Holy Meditations lawfull Vowes Religious Fasting seruent Prayer and conscionable Practice of our Christian duties to God and man All these are strong chaines and linkes to keepe vnder and to fetter the body of sinne and all the fruits thereof and to hold them in subiection to keep the whole man in Obedience vnto God when they bee fastned and knocked on by the Hammer of GODS Word and the effectuall power thereof But it is not enough thus to imprison them and to see them bolted and thus fettered but also for him to see the Prison bee strong for the Prisons of the best Keepers that euer were haue beene broken Drunkennesse brake out from Noah rash and vnaduised speeches from Moses Idolatrie from Salomon Adultery from Dauid cursing and false-swearing from Peter Therefore the Gaoler Master Newman must looke daily to the Prisoners and to see the Prison house sure and to do this 1 Hee must see the doores which are his senses to be shut and to haue a care to locke vp Taste that Drunkennesse and Gluttony breake not out with the key of Moderation in eating and drinking To locke vp Hearing that Credulity breake not out with the key of Trying before we trust To locke vp Seeing that Vncleannesse breake not out with the key of Continencie and to barre this doore fast also with Contentation that Couetousnesse breake not forth 2 In the next place hee must take heede that no lewd Companions lurke about the prison house either by day or by night lest they cast in Fyles to file off the bolts or picklockes to open the doores to let the Prisoners escape These lewd Companions are the Deuill the wicked and our owne Corrupted Reason Their files and picklookes are Suggestions from Satan euill counsell from Men Worldly and fleshly Arguments of our owne inuentions to make no conscience of sinne but to file off all those bolts and to open the doores of Senses that sin may breake loose and get out of subiection to the Gaolers ouerthrow and vtter vndoing if diligent watch be not kept 3 Hee must see to the Walls of the Prison that they be strongly built with good stones cemented together These are Morall Vertues and Euangelicall Graces by which as by Walls our Sinnes and our naturall Corruptions are kept in Though Master Newman locke and barre the doores yet if the Walls bee weake the Prisoners may get out 4 And lastly hee must looke well to the Foundation of the house that it be not vndermined The true Foundation of Subiection of Sinne is the Power of the death of Christ and of his Resurrection into whom by Faith through the Operation of his Spirit by the Word wee are engrafted This must not be vndermined by the Popish Doctrine of Free-will and Abilities of our selues to ouer-master Sinne. All these things well and diligently looked vnto the Prisoners will bee kept safe in the Gaole vnder Master Newman vntill the time of the Assises And thus much for the first part of my Text the Searching the Attaching and Imprisoning of Sinne. The other part which is the Tryall followeth THE SECOND PART AT the time of Assises by the Kings appointment commeth the Iudge attended on by the Sheriffe the Iustices of the Peace and such as necessarily are to be there for the dispatch of such businesses as come to be tryed and adiudged The Iudge comming in place he hath his Seat or Bench and being set the Commission is read The Iudge is a Iudge of Oyer and Terminere in the Circuit where he is appointed to sit The Iudgement heere is absolute without any appeale from his Sentence The Iudge spiritually vnderstood attended vpon by Religion the Sheriffe and the Vnder Sheriffe Resolution is Conscience From this Iudgement is no Appeale for he is in GODS stead therefore must his Sentence stand and wee must submit to it The Seat or Bench on which this Iudge sitteth is

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

thought word or deed for a sinne not all the Popes Dispensations and Pardons not all the subtill Distinctions of the most learned no custome nor any thing else whatsoeuer can acquit it from Sinne but sinue it is and so must it be taken as a lawfull prisoner to bee brought to the Barre and indited and put vpon the Iurie of Life and Death The Bill being found true then they proceed vnto the Arraignment The Prisoners are brought forth chained together and set to the barre before the Iudge The Prisoners are Sins as you haue heard before the Old-man with Mistris Heart her Maids and Will her man Their Bringing forth is the Manifestation thereof by the Gaoler M. Newman Knowledge Holinesse and Righteousnesse They are chained for sinnes are linked together as Adultery and Murther in Dauid Pride with Hatred of Mordecai in Haman Couetousnesse and Treason in Iudas Couetousnesse Hypocrisie and Lying in Ananias and Saphira yea the breach of all the Commandements in the fall of Adam and Euah They therfore are brought out chained together The Barre is the Apprehension of Gods wrath due for sinne After all this when the Prisoner standeth at the Barre a Iurie for life and death is impannelled who are for the King and are sworne to giue in a true Verdict according to their Euidence This Iurie is a chosen Companie of excellent Vertues the fruits of the Spirit deliuered in by the Sheriffe Religion to be called and to bee of this Iurie in the behalfe of the Kings Maiestie IESVS CHRIST to goe vpon the prisoners the Fruits of the Flesh which stand at the Barre Their names being giuen vp they are called as the Clerke of the Arraignment the Tongue nameth them then the Cryer Manifestation of the Spirit calleth them one by one to appeare as the Clerke names them and they are these 1. Call Faith Cryer Vous aues Faith which purgeth the Heart 2. Call Loue of God Cryer Vous aues Loue of God which is the keeping of the Commandements 3. Call Feare of God Cryer Vous aues Feare of God which is the beginning of wisdome 4. Call Charity Cryer Vous aues Charity which reioyceth in the Truth 5. Call Sincerity Cryer Vous aues Sincerity which makes a true Israelite in whom there is no guile 6. Call Vnity Cryer Vous aues Vnity which maketh men to be of one heart and is the bond of Peace 7. Call Patience Cryer Vous aues Patience which worketh experience and by which men possesse their soules 8. Call Innocencie Cryer Vous aues Innocencie which keepeth harmelesse 9. Call Chastity Cryer Vous aues Chastity which keepeth vndesiled 10. Call Equity Cryer Vous aues Equitie which doth right to euery man 11. Call Verity Cryer Vous aues Verity which euer speaketh truth 12. Call Contentation Cryer Vous aues Contentation which euer rests satisfied Then the Clerke saith Countes And so the Cryer saith to them Answer to your names Then the Clerke nameth them and the Cryer telleth or counteth them Faith one Loue of God two Feare of God three Charitie foure Sincerity fiue Vnitie six Patience seuen Innocencie eight Chastitie nine Equitie ten Veritie eleuen Contentation twelue Then the Cryer saith Good men and true stand together and heare your charge With all these Graces should the soule of man bee endued to proceed against Sinne wee should be able to say that we haue them by the manifestation of Gods Spirit and also to know their power and vertue and distinctly to be able to reckon them and so wisely to esteeme them as the good and true gifts and graces of God which haue a charge giuen them which is euery grace his proper gift and all coniointly haue power to discerue of any sinne and to giue a iust verdict thereupon This Iury thus called and impannelled are commanded to looke vpon the Prisoners at the Barre vpon whom they are to goe This is when we oppose Vertues to Vices in our meditation that so by the excellency of the one wee may see the foulenesse of the other and so come to the greater loue of Vertue and to the more deepe hatred of Vice This is the Iury of vertues profitable looking vpon vices the prisoners at the Barre The prisoners though they stand together yet are they to answer one by one So Sins must distinctly one by one be arraigned for wee cannot proceed against sin but vpon a particular knowledge thereof A generall and so a confused notion of sins which yet is that which is in most men will neuer make a man truly to see how his estate standeth with God and so to bring sinne vnto death The Prisoners at the sight of the Iurie and naming of them haue leaue to challenge any of them if they can giue good reasons against this or that man they are put off the Iurie and other chose in their stead These prisoners seeing such a Iurie presently begin to challenge them Vnbeleefe hee cryeth out against Faith as his Enemie Hatred of God against the Loue of God as his Enemie Presumptuous sinning against the Feare of God as his Enemy Cruelty against Charity as his Enemie Hypocrisie against Sinceritie as his Enemie Discord against Vnity as his Enemie Anger Rage and Murmuring against Patience as their Enemy Murther Fighting and Quarrelling against Innocency as their Enemie Wantonnesse Adultery Fornication and Vncleannes cry out against Chastity as their deadly Enemie Coozenage Theft and Vniust dealing against honest Equity as their Enemie Lying Slandering and False-witnesse-bearing against Verity as their mortall Enemie And lastly Greedy desire Couetousnesse and Discontentment cry out against Contentation as their enemy All these together challenge the whole Iury crying out and saying Good my Lord these men are not to bee of the Iury against vs for your Lord-ship knoweth very well and none better that they are all of them our deadly Enemies Your Honour knoweth that euery one of them hath petitioned the Lord Chiefe Iustice very often and importunately to binde vs all to the good behauiour and to cast vs into prison as wee haue beene by their meanes They haue made Master Newman the Keeper and his vnder-keepers to deale very hardly with vs. It is well knowne my Lord that Chastity procured Master Newman almost to famish Incontinencie to death Good my Lord consider of vs these are our most bloudy and cruell enemies Wee appeale to your Lordship to God and to all good men that know both them and vs that it is so Our humble suit to your Lordship therefore is that more indifferent persons may be chosen to goe vpon vs else we are all but dead men Wee doe know my Lord that there are heere many other of very good and great credit in the world fit to bee of this Iurie men very well knowne to your Lordship and to Master Sheriffe and the