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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43623	The horrid sin of man-catching, explained in a sermon upon Jer. 5, 25, 26 preach'd at Colchester, July 10, 1681 / by Edmond Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1811; ESTC R32965	25,824	42

I defranded whom have I oppressed or of whose hand have I received any Bribe to blind mine Eyes therewith And I will restore it you And they said Thou hast not defrauded us nor oppressed us neither hast thou taken ought of any Man's Hand And he said unto them The Lord is Witness against you and his Anointed is Witness this day that ye have not found ought in my hands And they answered he is Witness What care was here to get a publick and general Acquittance that he had not exercised Arbitrary Government Injustice Fraud or Oppression before he left his place Is not this better than to be turned out for these Crimes and become the common odium and object of the People's Hatred and just Indignation besides the stings and stigmatizings of a gauled and wounded Conscience And therefore you that are Magistrates have a fair Example here as well as fair warning against all Injustice Fraud Oppression and Wrong or countenancing and abetting all unjust or Sham-Prosecutions plotted by wicked Men that make no Conscience of a thousand Oaths and yet can ensnare and catch Men by virtue of one Oath to the ruine of Life Liberty Estate and Posterity Seek Judgment relieve the Oppressed judg the Fatherless plead for the Widow What though these Catch-Poles or Catch-Men say as their Brethren did Psal 12.4 With our Tongue will we prevail our Lips are our own Who is Lord over us And yet this lawless Wretch is described two Psalms before to be one whose Mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud under his Tongue is Mischief and Vanity Heb. Iniquity He sitteth in the lurking places of the Villages in the secret places doth he murther the Innocent his Eyes are privily set against the Poor He lyeth in wait secretly as a Lion in his Den he lyeth in wait to catch the Poor when he draweth him into his Net He croucheth and humbleth himself that the Poor may fall by his strong ones He hath said in his Heart God hath forgotten he hideth his Face he will never see it Arise O Lord O God lift up thine hand forget not the Humble Heb. humbled or afflicted And God heard this Prayer for Psal 12 5. we read For the oppression of the Poor for the sighing of the Needy now will I arise faith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him Heb. Him that would ensnare him Though I had not read it to you this Morning in the second Lesson so fresh in your Memories yet there are few of you but know that there was a Plot a horrid Plot and Conspiracy by the Chief Priests and Scribes against our blessed Redeemer's Life and willing enough they were to kill him but they feared the People Wherefore they resolved he should suffer by the Law of the Land for Treason in perverting the Nation and forbidding to give Tribute to Caesar c. But how shall they prove the Indictment Why that 's the easiest thing in the World it is but looking out and they are always at Hand some Knights of the Post some false Affidavit-Men Catch-Poles and false Evidence and the Sham-Plot is perfected the Indictment prov'd and the business done Therefore all heads to work especially the Chief-Priests they must be in at a dead lift and Elders and all the Counsel sought false Witness against Jesus to put him to Death But found none yea though many false Witnesses came yet found they none That was hard but at the last came two false Witnesses And these did the Business for which they came for which they were hired and they were Caesar's Evidence and swore for Caesar and swore the Matter home And these Catchers carried the Cause against the greatest Innocence Mighty glad no doubt were the Chief Priests and Elders and Counsel and mightily caressed and much made of were these two Sham-Evidences and false Witnesses that swore home especially after the former false Witnesses miscarried in the attempt as not having got their Lesson sufficiently by Heart They had need be Men of Cunning and Ability that can swear thorow-stitch and cleaverly mixing some Truth and probable Circumstances amongst many and amongst the main-Lie There is art in daubing From a Lion a Tyger a Wolf or a Serpent we may make some Defence and Provision but this kind of Snake is Anguis in Herbâ no Fore-sight no Caution no Prudence no Innocency can defend from the sting of this forked venemous and murdering Tongue except a Man abandon all Society with Mankind 'T is true Men may keep these Snakes and but perhaps neither out of their Bed-Chambers scarcely out of their Houses however not out of Publick Houses Churches Courts of Judicature Exchanges and Publick Assemblies so that if they can but bring good proof for the Circumstances as that they were at such a time in such a Church Assembly Exchange Publick Meeting in Court City or Country let them alone to witness what they heard there These I say are the great Plague the none-such Pests of all Society the common-Nusance no former Age that I read of can parallel ours for improvement of Vice and Mischief What Block-heads were the French-Men's Ancestors in the Art of Poysoning in comparison of the present Skill and Dexterity What Block-heads were the Irish the native Irish in all Arts and Mysteries imaginable in former Ages But now how ingenious though some of them are but Bunglers still and enough to destroy a neat well laid and well contriv'd Plot in the Management for want of Skill in a subtile Intrigue But time and good Tutors may improve them if there be first a willing mind Tell not me of Conscience and Religion when Men make it a matter of Conscience and Religion to catch Men by false Oaths and so cut their Throats Will you call this Religion and an acceptable day to the Lord Is not this the Religion that I have chosen to loose the bands of Wickedness to undo the heavy Burden and to let the Oppressed go free and that ye break every Yoak Thus have I entertained you an Hour with my Meditations not without some reluctancy I profess for I design'd not 'till this Morning to preach upon my former Text having the last Lords Day left it abruptly for want of time but I could not fix my Meditations nor Heart upon any other Text than this I am no Enthusiast to fancy that every conceit of mine or warmth of Thought is an impulse of the Holy Ghost nor yet such a Libertine as to neglect all observation of the secret and vehement Impulses of God's Spirit and his holy Communion with our Spirits And I have often experimentally found at other times upon the like short previous Premeditation the good success thereof upon the Auditory hoping and praying that what in this Sermon wants of mine or Man's Abilities may be supplyed by that Holy Spirit that best teacheth us to profit To whom with the Father and Son be