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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23640	Of perjury a sermon preach'd at the assizes held at Chester, April the 4th, 1682 / by John Allen, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge ...	Allen, John, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge.	1682 (1682)	Wing A1034; ESTC R8027	18,954	36

OF PERJURY A SERMON Preach'd at the ASSIZES HELD AT CHESTER April the 4 th 1682. By John Allen M. A. Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chester Totius injustitiae nulla capitalior est quam eorum qui tùm cùm maximè fallunt id agunt ut viri boni esse videantur Tully de Offic. Lib. 1. LONDON Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard and George Atkinson Bookseller in Chester 1682. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Sir Robert Leycester Baronet Foreman AND The rest of the Worthy and Loyal Gentlemen of the Grand Jury for the Assizes lately held at Chester Gentlemen THe Preaching of this Sermon was undertaken at the request of the High Sheriff an Honest True-hearted and Loyal Gentleman an Ancient and Faithful Servant to His Majesty But the Printing of it was extorted by Your importunity You have thrust me into the World perfectly against my humour and inclination and You have thereby expos'd me to the exceptions and censures of this captious Age of peevish ill-natur'd and ill-affected Persons To You therefore I flee for shelter Your Protection I claim on Your judgements I have relyed You are bound in Honour and Justice to excuse the Faults of this Discourse to vindicate the Truths to justifie the Doctrine and to abhor the Perjuries herein mention'd I have some encouragement to hope that the Sermon will please the honest the Faithful and the Loyal because it pleases you who are eminently such that it may be in some degree useful and seasonable for these Times because You think so And if it chance to be carp't and cavell'd at by the Factious and the Seditious by false Witnesses and corrupt Jurors by the Old Covenanters or New Associators as being peculiarly levell'd against their Designs and Practises Yet however we need not fear we have this advantage upon them that whoever rail or even mutter against us do thereby confess their own guilt and so their Credit is crack't and their Testimony becomes invalid Their Tongues are no Slander their ill-words are no Disparagement no more than their good ones can be a Commendation My Design in Preaching and Yours in Publishing this Discourse I dare confidently say were both the same To Convince the Guilty and make them truly sensible of their Sin and Danger in order to their Repentance And to fix and ' stablish the slippery and wavering Tempers of those who are apt to be drawn in by great Examples or specious Pretences or the Prospect of temporal Advantages That our joynt Endeavours may prove by God's blessing useful and instrumental to these great and good Ends shall be the hearty Prayer of Gentlemen Your most Obedient and most Humble Servant John Allen. Of Perjury A SERMON Preach'd at the ASSIZES HELD AT CHESTER April the 4 th 1682. Leviticus XIX 12. And ye shall not swear by my Name falsly I Have made choice of these words as a subject both suitable to this solemn Occasion and seasonable for the Times The times are notoriously pester'd disturb'd and endanger'd by the variety and frequency of Perjury and upon this account the Occasion may seem to require a serious and plain Discourse that by God's blessing may prove serviceable and useful to advise and admonish All that are concern'd so to discharge their duty to God to their King and Country that not the least blemish or tincture of this sin may defile their Consciences or disparage their proceedings I had intended to have giv'n an account by way of Preface of the Nature Kinds End or Vsefulness Lawfulness and Obligation of Oaths together with the most usual Forms and Ceremonies of solemn Swearing Ancient and Modern but am forc'd to wave all that by reason of the largeness and copiousness of my subject My design is to discourse of the sin of Perjury and to give you a full account of it in this method 1. I shall shew what Perjury is and how many ways it is committed 2. The heinousness and aggravations of it 3. What are the usual occasions of inducements and temptations to this sin 4 And lastly The punishments of it by the Laws of God and Man 1. Perjury as the Text tells us is a Swearing by God's Name falsly as Philo describes it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a calling God to witness for the Confirmation of a Lye And is committed these several ways 1. When Men do assert and testifie upon Oath a thing to be true which they know to be false when they swear That they saw or heard such or such things done or spoken which their own Consciences tell 'em they did not 2. When Men do assert and testifie upon Oath a thing to be true of the truth of which they are not fully assured Nay though the thing should be true yet being it is more then they knew they are however guilty of Perjury because they call God to witness and appeal to him for the attestation of that as certainly true which for ought they know may be utterly false To these we may add that when Men declare upon Oath this or that to be their judgment and the sense of their minds which really is not so or which is grounded on bare suspicions or fond wishes or which proceeds not from full conviction but from partial and by-respects This is also Perjury So then if Witnesses sworn to testifie the Truth the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth do depose falsities do conceal and suppress the most material Evidence do improve and enlarge their testimony with the additions of their own fancies and inventions They are plainly perjur'd So likewise when Men sworn to enquire and inform the Courts of Justice do not find Bills according to fair full and legal Evidence against some sorts of persons out of love fear favour and affection or hope of reward Or do find 'em against others out of envy hatred malice c. If Men from the fore-named motives do acquit the Guilty or condemn the Innocent This is Perjury in the Jurors in God's account in his sight according to his Laws though possibly the Laws of the Realm may take no Cognizance or hold of them These things I mention and desire All that are or may be concern'd to consider seriously and to be sensible of their danger and that because such miscarriages do happen sometimes to the scandal of Religion to the reproach of our Nation to the obstruction of Justice and the perversion of our good Laws And because Mens passions and prejudices and interests do so frequently tincture their judgments and biass their wills that it is a very hard thing for some Men to be Witnesses and not be Parties too they are insensibly and yet powerfully suborn'd to give in their Evidence with more or less weight according to their inclination or aversion to a person to a Party or a Cause And it is not to be deny'd that Jurors also may be in danger