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A71209	The opinion of the Roman jvdges touching imprisonment and the liberty of the subject, or, A sermon preached at the Abby at Westminster, at a late publique fast, Jan. 25, 1642 by J.V. Prisoner.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing V320; ESTC R4189	14,314	27

Shall thy wrath burne like fire against Germany which before the Civill war was as the garden of Eden but now is a desolate wildernesse and many yeares bath groaned under that unnaturall intestine war z Thou hast turned man to destruction say likewise returne to life yee sons of men Just art thou O Lord to punish their Idolatry sacriledge and high contempt of the Ministry a but in the middest of thy Justice remember Mercy And forget not our brethren in Ireland who have suffered cruell mockings scourgings bonds imprisonments rapines deaths under the mercilesse Rebels that curse b their God and their King and looke upwards They have bewed in pieces thy Prophets throwne downe thy worship and killed thy servants with a rage that c reacheth to heaven Thy truth falleth in the streets and righteousnesse cannot enter O God of truth justice and vengeance shew thy selfe let not the sons of wickednesse ever prevaile More especially we entreat for England wherein we are a d Nation that is not worthy to be beloved for there is no truth or mercy or e knowledge of God in the Land but by swearing lying killing and stealing we breake out and bloud toucheth bloud wee have oppressed one another and therefore are justly f devoured one of another every one by the hand of his neighbour friend and brother Manasses Ephraim and Ephraim Manasses and every one eats the g flesh of his owne arme the son riseth up against the father and the father against the son to put him to death and they h thinke in so doing they doe God good service Who could have thought that this flourishing Countrey should have become a sea of bloud and this Eden a dead sea Oh the severity of Gods justice against our sins i of Sodom such fulnesse of bread abundance of idlenesse and oppression of the poore and needy our crying sins have called for plagues of leading into captivity and complaining in our streets Oh ever happy England the glory of Nations is now become the seat of Sects and Heresies the daughter of Babel the mother of all confusion Gods Temple prophaned his Ministers misused Jeroboams and Micaes Priests of the lowest of the people substituted To thee O Lord we make our complaint k This is and shall be a lamentation l O thou hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in time of trouble why shouldest thou be as a wayfaring man as a traveller that abides for a night Awake O Lord have mercy on Sion that sits as a woman m or cast away that none looketh after build up the wals of Jerusalem restore her Teachers as at the beginning Have mercy on our dread Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the true ancient Catholike and Apostolike Faith and in all causes and over all persons Ecclesiasticall and Tempor all supreme moderator and Governour bind up his Soule in the n bundle of life with the Lord his God as for his enemies sling them as a stone out of the middle of a sling cloth them with shame but upon himselfe let his Crowne flourish According to his present afflictions let thy Comforts refresh his soule Give not thy Honour to another but for thy Names sake who hast said of Princes yee are Gods Vicegerents save the face of thy Annointed from the tongues of men and in the middest of weapons of war that no weapon framed against him may prosper that every tongue which shall rise up against him may be condemned and he in due time restored to his former and greater royall splendor and dignity and after this triall may come forth as gold And as a Father of the Country may pity his children and lament the shedding of the bloud of his sons and daughters Blesse the Queens most excellent Majesty ourillustrious Prince CHARLES and the rest of the Royall Progeny that they may bee like Olive plants round about their Table suffer not the sonnes of wickednesse to afflict them Wee pray likewise for the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Counsell the True hearted Peeres and Commons assembled in Parliament Give o them the spirit of Vnity in the bond of Peace the spirit of p Moderation betweene the two extreames that by the wise accomodation this civill war may cease the head and body may be united Religion restored Sectaries and Heresies restrained and so Prince and people Church and State their due repayed that wee may owe nothing q but to feare God honour the King and love one another Vphold the Ministers of thy holy Word by what names or titles soever dignified or distinguished though they be r trampled under foot by Antichristians yet raise them up againe to shine like Stars in the firmament all clouds of obscuration and opposition scattered and consumed and for a continuall supply of them Blesse the two Vniversities Cambridge and Oxford that from thence religious and learned men may come forth whose s lips may preserve Knowledge and disporse it thorow the whole Land that the t mouth of ignorance and iniquity may be stopped Remember all that are afflicted especially thy servant that desireth the prayers of this congregation Oh Father of mercies and God of all consolations comfort those that be any Way cast downe The living the living shall u praise thee the dead cannot praise thee nor such as go downe into silence O great Physition of the bodies and soules of thy servants heale those whom thou hast wounded x Correct them but in thy judgement not in thy fury lest they be confounded Neither ought we in this day of humiliation to forget our thankesgivings unto thee O Father of mercies who hast chosen us in Christ before the y foundation of the world was laid to the glory of thy grace wherein we are accepted in thy beloved who hast called us with an holy calling and sealed us with the earnest of the Spirit who hast perswaded us of thy love here z and given us some hopes of glory hereafter who hast fed us all our life long even from our mothers brests and will beare us even in old age when our strength faileth us who hast led us by the Word and Spirit and drawn us by cords of love by the a bands of a man who hast delivered us in seven troubles and in eight that they have not hurt us To thee b bee glory and praise for ever and ever Oh let the thoughts of our hearts the words of our mouths and the workes of our hands be c now and ever acceptable in thy sight O Lord our strength and our Redeemer d keepe these good imaginations in the hearts of thy people for ever and prepare our hearts unto thee put thy feare into us and cause us to walke in the way of thy Commandements that wee may never depart from thee

Fourthly a prophaner of the Temple that is called by Iosephus the y holy place So Christ saith When ye see the abomination of desolation stand in the holy place These are the crimes objected against Saint Paul and the Iews affirmed or as the Father saith with imprecation that these things were so To the first hee makes no answer z for it was in generall that he was a dangerous fellow and a generall proves nothing neither is worthy of an answer by the divine Apostolicall wisdome To the second he answers by way of negation that hee was no sower of sedition but that they themselves first caused the tumult Acts 24. 19. The Iewes that came from Asia caused the tumult for they saw him in the Temple and stirred up the people against him and laid hands on him in that sacred place and Sanctuary Men of Israel help this is the man that teacheth against this people in every place Acts 21. 27. he was accused by them that were the onely actors in the tumult Hence we learne to stand for peace and avoid sedition In the 120. Psalme ver. 5. Woe is mee that I sejourne with Mesech and have my dwelling in the tents of Kedar Mesech and Kedar are Tuscany and Turky by Kimchi out of Ioseph ben Gorion Here are the two great enemies of the Church in whose person David here speakes His sojourning with the Tuscans was tedious and his dwelling with the Turkes called Kedar so the tongue of Kedar is the Arab. in Abben Ezra and in Arab. the Alcoran is written My soule hath long dwelt hee saith not his body but hee was grieved at the heart that he dwelt with such ill neighbours b with him that hated peace hee saith not with them but with him because there was one a ring-leader of the rest neither doth hee say unquiet but that hateth peace and will never admit c reconciliation And hee addes I am peace God is love Christ is out peace and the Church is peace yet not without truth though it be not expressed it is understood for peace and truth doe meet together and sweetly kisse each other Christ is our peace and yet hee is truth But when we speake for peace they are for warre If wee pray or petition or preach for peace they are for warre what shall I say of them they are Mesech and Kedar To the third he confesseth that according to the way that they call Heresie so he worshipped the God of his Fathers Here we learne three things Faith Hope and Charity 1. Faith to beleeve the Law and Prophets as he did to worship the God of our Fathers not new Gods and in a new way enquire for the old way and walke therin that is the way of the Law not in the way of our Fathers against the Law Prophets and Apostles before the Reformation To the Law and the Testimony if they walke not by this rule there is no light in them with the heart man beleeveth and with the tongue confession is made to salvation 2. Wee learne Hope for if we beleeve wee shall have hope towards God Acts 24. 15. no hope in our selves but in him 3. Wee learne Charity the third Theologicall vertue v. 16. for this cause I labour this is the labour of love love to all as in Rom. 13. 8. Owe nothing to any man but love pay to every man his due Custome to whom custome tribute to whom tribute feare to whom feare honour to whom honour custome is ordinary tribute extraordinary both due to the Roman Caesars persecutors of the Christians Iustin Martyr and Tertullian in their Apologetikes prove this duty from thence and that Tribute they payed was imployed for the eradication of the Christians but they suffered and the blood of Martyrs was the seed of the Church the armes whereof were prayers and teares so then feare God and honour the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Againe love worketh no ill shall I say that he who kills and robbs his brother loves him seeing love fulfills the law and if a man have this worlds good and see his brother in want and shut up his bowels of compassion how dwells the love of God in that man Three things are required of a man 1. to doe justly 2. to love mercy 3. and to walke humbly with God Love is above all above Tongues faith of Miracles Prophecy Knowledge Almes Burning 1 Cor. 13. 1 2. It beareth all things hopeth all things endureth all things embrace this charity with peace and the peace of God be with you To the fourth he answereth and denyeth that he was a prophaner of the Temple but they prophaned it by raising a tumult in it as is shewed before a thing abhorred of Heathens I read in Herodotus that certaine profane Atheists robbed the Temple of Venus and the Goddesse by way of punishment sent the d faemineall disease among them thought to be new but Elder then Herodotus Thus I have done with the right opinion of this Heathen deputy Now I proceed to shew how Antichrist is opposite in every particular and his persecution worse then the Pagans out of three prophecyes of Dan. 7. 25. he shall speake words on the side of the most high this I take for granted by the best expositors that it is meant literally of Antiochus mystically of Antichrist that is pro contra for and against Christ a little home in his beginning but hath eyes and pollicy and a mouth speaking great things he shall weare out the Saints of the most high those that have gray haires here and there upon them he weares out by long imprisonments without cause as in the Spanish and Italian Inquisitions he is kept 2. 4. yeares all the dayes of his life and no accuser known but they ask him what he hath done what enemies he hath c. The Romane deputy allowed appeale to Caesar but the Conclave and their adherents deny all appeales and trample upon Princes and depose Kings upon suspition of another Religion The Romans after a small time called the Apostle to his answer and not before ignoble but honourable persons but Antichrists limbes to the greater disgrace judge them by meane persons of no birth education or religion The Romans thought it reasonable to signifie the crimes but these imprison without any crime except bare affirmation without oath prove a crime The Iewes affirme these crimes forenamed against Saint Paul but he saith They cannot prove the things whereof they doe accuse mee Acts 24. 13. In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall stand Thus by tedious delayes of judgment and imprisonment Antichristians weare out the Saints And he shall thinke to change times and lawes Dan. 7. 25. he shall thinke to make a new Heaven and Earth a new Church and State a new Sun Moone and Starres which God made for times and seasons he shall make new