*-." -^^ ^J?-^- rt /; *■■ T m COLLECTION OF PURITAN AND ENGLISH THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE I LIBRARY OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY i:i^a ••— *>!!*«l«ttT E01N» JiattidM^M^i^b^U^Mdl^ ^♦♦4>«4'««»<>»'»6^«^«->«^«^4'»«-» ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN ELOQUENCE ^^^^'§^^^^^'^^^^^i^'^^^^^^^^^ ( HA K1 u r bt nf- ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN ELOQUENCE: D I S S E NT E R S SAYINGS Ancient and Modern. Collefted from the Books and Sermons of the Presbyterians, iffc. from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the prefent Time : Wherein it appears, That the Treshyterians have conftantly attempted to fubvert the Fundamental Articles of theChri- Itian Faith *, o abolifh the Dodrine and Difci- pline of the Church of England eftablifh'd by Law ^ to ruin the Charaders of the Univerli* tiesj the Convocation and the Epifcopal Clergy^ to afperfe the Memory of his Prefent Majefty's Royal Progenitors •, and have been profefs'd Enemies to Truth, CommonSenfe, and Good Manners, from their firfl: fettlement in this Kingdom. With Remarks upon every Chapter. L 0 IS! D 0 N: Printed for T. B i c k e r t o n, at the Crown in Pater'No/fer-Kow. MDGCXX* I ' -t-i.': S' i q i 1 THE PREFACE. OJV^ much the Tres- bytertans are obliged to me for bringing them, to the fairefl Hearing, that ever Men had, is eafi? to guejs\ I JhaU only ac- quaint the Reader, that in the following Jhort Extract of Pref- byterian Eloquence, he may fancy himfelf introduced into the Fanaticks Tyring Room; where he fees all their DreJJes and Difguifes, their Jhifts of Masks and Habits, their chanze of The P R E F A c^ % tf Scenes^ their Artificial Thm* ders and falje Fires ^ the very Buggs and Specters they fright Fools and Children "Jiith at a l)i- fiance J to he no more near hand, than Faint and Canvas; you have here laid open the whole Machinery^ the very Springs andW^heels that make the Motion play ; here youU find the Virtues and Accomplifioments of the Tar- ty Common-placed, the Modera- tion of their Principles, and the Tendernefs of their Hearts faith- fully Tranfmitted to Pojierity hy themfelves, and effectually Sign'd, Seal'd, and Deliver'd to the ,W^orldy for the ufe of future Ge- nerations by their own Rabbles. T. L- THE CONTENTS ClHAPi I. Reflexions of the OldTresh/^ I terians ufon the Rites and T)ifci^Jine of the Church /, Carnal, Beggarly, Pof.^i Fooleries, Romijh Rclicks, and Rags of Antichrilt, Dregs and Remnants of Transformed Popery. Pha- rilaical outward Faces and Vi7.zards, Remnants of Romijh ArJtichrllfy known Liveries of Anlchnfiy a Curfed Leaven of a Curfed Blafphemous Fr/V/?- hood, Curfed Patches of Popery and Idolatry, they are worfe than Loujie. Dang. Pof. h .2. c. 9. p. 66. We lack a right Government of the Church v inflead of the Ordinance of God in the Govern- ment of his Church, the Merchandize of fhamelefs Babylon is maintained. The Government now ufed by Archbijhops and Bijhops is both Antichrljlian and Bevllijl] : Rome is come home to her Gates. Aritl^ christ reigneth amongft us. The Eflablifii'd Go- vernment of the Church is Traiterous ag^iinfl: the Majefty of "Jefus Chrisf. It confirmeth the Pope's Supremacy ^ it is accurfed ^ it is an unlawful, a falfe, a Baftardly Government. They muft needs be not only Traitors to God and his Word, but alfb Enemies unto the Land, that defend the Ella- blifh'd Government of the Church to be lawful, Dan. pof ^. 2. r. 4. Praifcd be God who hath deliver'd us from the Impofitions of Prf/^znV.t/ Innovations, Altar Ge^/i^- fiexionsy and Cring'mgs with CrojfmgSy and all that Po- pijlj Trafh and Trumpery , and truly I fpeak no more Eloq^uence. ^ more than what 1 have often thought and faid, The Removal of thefe i?ifupportable Burthens, coun- tervaird for the Treafure and Blood fhed and fpent in the late DillraLtions. "Jenkins before the Par. Sep. 24. T655. p. 23. The Church of England is a tnKlVhorlJh Mother, and they that v^ere of her v^ere bafe begotten, and Baflardly Children, and (he neither is nor ever was truly Married, Joined, or United unto Jefus Chrifiy in that Efpoufed Band which his True Churches are and ought to be. Lilhum cited by Bafiwich. If Juftice be at a Stand, and cannot take Hold of living Delinquents, to keep the Ax from Ruft ^ let Jufiice be Executed upon livelefs Delinquents : Are there no Hi^h Places ^ no Altars? Greenhillto the Com. p. 64. Our Cathedrals are of late become the Ne(l of idle Drones, and the Roo fling Place of Superflitious Formalities. Coleman. Of all the Nations that have renounced the Whore of Rome, there is none in the World ib far out of Square as England, in retaining the Pis to chufe his own Lawyer ^ ■Fhyftcia^h Brnvtr :ind Bakery and by ti*c jlimc Eloq.uence» 9 rHmeReafon he ought to chufe his own Spiritual Condii^hr. p. 24O. It's abfnrd to imagine that every Chrllilan is not capable of fnch Circiimftances as Vraying aloud^ di- ftributing the Bread and Wlne^ or (according to the prefent Mode) oi Sprinkling an Infant^ and Re- peating a Set Form of \Vords. p. 1 37. The Act of Vniformity impofing fuch and fjch Jndljferent Things, as Terms oi Communion will ap- pear Scandalous to the Church, Jnjunom to the Pub- lick Peace, and a Grievance to the whole Nation. Review K. iV. 112. You know the Church he means is High-Churchy which is a FiBion, a Church of the Brain^ fupport- ed by a little inHgnificant trifling Number of Brains lefs People, and the People of England are no more concern'd about that Churchy than about the Infti- tutions of Government, laid down in Moors Vtopia, Harringtons Oceana, or Bacons New Atlantis ; and all the C^«o«j, Rites zvi^ Ceremonies of that Church are no more to be confidered by you or me, than fo many Ballads and Duck-Lane Terry Hifiories* Ob-- ferve v. 4. iV. 49. The People liad better have no Religion^ provi- ded they are fubjefl: to the Law of Nature, than to be polllTs'd with it in the Circumftanccs it is in with us. Chriflianity no Creature of State, p. 1 9. The Crofs in Baptlfm, Godfathers and Godmothers^ a Liturgy^ the Authority of Bifjops and their Courts^ are not things of Chrifl's Inftitudon, but tend to the Prejudice of his Caufe and Kingdom. Enty*s Sermon, p. 14. The Church broke our mofl: Solemn Engagements and Alliances, the Church betray'd our Confederates, and made a Sacrifice of the Diftrefs^d in our Pro- tection r" -The Church divided a ViBorious hrmy^ the Church iiu4dled qp an JgmmimoW[ Peace, and the r o Englijh Treshyterian the Church for our lafting Security, after all thcfe Glorious Exploits binds in Fmm half the Subjecls in the Kingdom. An equal Capacity, p. 24. The Church of England as by Law EfiabllJJjed, Bpon thnt Foot has nothing to claim of Superior Afe- rit before the Diffenters. p, 30. It is plain that the Sin ofSchifm lies at the Church ef Englaiid\ Door. VUin Reafaris for Dijfcnting. ■ p. 29. The Grievance is not to let any Officiate in Pri- vate, without a Subfcription to the Articles. State jinat. Pa. i. p. 50. With what Pleafure do the C/rr^)' thunder oat their Severe Cenfures and hitter Imprecations a- gainfl their /^^orf?2t Neighbours ! And did they fcatter their Firebrands, Arrows and Deathy only when they were in Sport, and .over their Frofatje CupSy and in their Merry Meetings^ their Impiety would be far lefs than it is, when they attempt to SxnBifie their Malice, by bringing it into their IVorJhipy and venting it in the Name of God him- lelf. Tierce\Scrm» Jan. 30* p- ^^ ' I We have a long while been Clouded byConfu- fions in the Church by a loofe Priefthood, who have not only brought in an innumerable Number of pagan Rites and Jewifl) Ceremomesy but by their Hel~ llfn skill have jufl: broke through our Conllitution, and almofh reduced her to the Obedience oi Rome, Rebels Doom. p. 42. If you will not Buckle, out comes the Two-handed Rod and Bloody Pail to fright the ftubborn Clnl- dren to Obedience. We do not fee one in twen- ty of our l^w/^-^^ Leprous Prieflsy whofe Notorious Vices make too Publick a Noife to he unobferv'd^ v/as ever Excommunicated. All the Difcipline the ChiYvh of England has, is more to get Money than '•^•*to bring Simers to RcperJta-ncc. Inllcad of impo-.' '^«:-- ling E L O Q^U E N C E. IT ling fuitable Penance^ Money fhall be extorted by a Body of Men who have already fhew'd us they can fet Indulgences to Sale, and that tliey are will- ing Mer^ fhould Ruin their Souls, and go very quickly to Hell^ provided they will pay them T. 14. What can a Man of Senfe believe, when he fliair fee a Prleft at the Altar ading an Holy Part^ Bow- ing and Cringings approaching the Bread and Wine as tho' the Pofiflj Notion of Iranfuhftantiatlon was true? Chriftianity no Creature of State, p. 13. The King may Ordain if he pleafe, or appoint vvhom he will, Presbyters or Laymen to perform that Qjficey and can when he has a Mind, refume the Poipf/ which he D^/Zg-^^^^ to any of them. Piercers yind. of Diff' p. 8. . - It is worth while to Ihew the Bafe Arts whereby owx Adverfaries procured that Inhuman A^y the A^ of Vniformity to be pa fled in Parliament. 232. I declare ferioufly Sir, that I never met with . one Inltance in my felf or others, that Grace:, Ghofl or Greek were ever Transferr'd by Slight of Hand ; I am highly pleas'd to think 1 have the Happinefs to agree for once with 1\\q Church and Clergy^ in calling it by way of Eminence^ The JmfO" 12 EngUJh Treshytertan Imfofition. Sober Reply to Mr, Hlg^s. p. 30. Orthodoxy and Jurlsditlion however void of true Flety, or inconfiftent with it, yet are the Limbs and Citadels of a Corrupt Fricflhood, Lett, to the Arch Bip. of Cant. p. i 5. WithoutMincing the Matter^or falling into the Senfelefs Vlty of Lamenting our Divifions in Opi- nion, I heartily thank God that we have Diffemers and I hope we fhall never be without them : They are Gentries and Watchmen againft the Sly Intrigues and Confpiracies of our Churchmen* Bigotry ^ Chains and Cruelty are always, and in all Places the cer- tain Ifliieof Vnlformlty^ which is it felfof an Infa- mom Race, being begot by the Craft of the FrleJJs^ upon the Ignorance of the Laity. Ihld. p. 23. Remark s. TH E Remarh I propofe to attend this ColleGion, will be a Short Spe^ chnen of Treshyterial Govermne^it^ to fliew how Barbarous and Infupportable it is in its Nature^ and how Tyrannical in its Exe^ cution ; and upon the Comparilbn it will appear, that the Little Finger of Treshytery is heavier than the whole Loyns oi tht Cbrrrch, The Difcipline of Treslytery is but ano- ther Name for the 'PaVal Tower ; it equally Difrobes Princes of their Ecdejiafiical Su- jpremacy^ it rellrains their Civil Authority, and punifnes their Terjons ; Kings mulT: be Sabiect to its 'Decrees ; neither the Rnler lior the Ruledy Grt^cit nor Small are Exempt^ ed Elocluence. i^ ed from SubjeQion to the Scepter of Jefus Chrifl, by which they mean what the Ta- fifts call the Ksys of St. "Peter. A Prince has no Power to receive an eAmhaJJadory nor pardon an Offemkr^ without the Ap- probation of the Vreslytery ; they are to Dire£l him in making Teace or IVar^ in the choice of his Guards and of his CotinfeUors^ what Forfeitures to take, and how to diP. pofe of them ; and he is upon his Good "Be- haviour^ as much as the meaneft Man in the Parifh : He is indeed the chief Member of the General oAjfemhly^ but they allow him no Negative Voice^ and if he has the For- tune to be Out-Voted^ he muft caufe the Sen- tence to be Executed^ whatever it be, under Pain of Cenfurdy and confequently of T)e' privation. And what^s the Colour for all this Haugh* ti?iefs and State ; the Mhiijlers (forfooth) are ChrijYs 'Deputies^ whereas Judge s^ CouH" fellors and Tarliameitts , are but SuhftU tutes of the King, and their Laws only Human y fo that it feems Abfolutely impofli- ble for Monarchy and this rigid Presbytery to profper in the lame Soil, and I would not give any Prince in Qhrif]endom above elgh* teen Months purchafe for his Crown, that fliould put it to the venture, for he has no- tliing in the World to truft to but Miracles ; 'The Gratitude^ Faith^ Good Nature^ and fure Integrity of the Tarty. The Treshy- tery 14- EngliJ}) Vreshyterian tery likewife lays claim to an Authority over the civil Magi fir ate who puts the Law in Execution, and pretends to a Right of cAppeal from all Temporal Governours to the Scepter and Sentence of Chrift fitting upon his Tribunal in the oAjJemblj' ; by Vir- tue of this Devife, they not only impofe up- on MiniftersTinA Courts otjufiice^ but they may, when they pleafe, fetcli in the whole Bufinefs of VVeftminfter-Hall to the Bar of the Confiftory. You fee how it fares with Kjngs^ Tarlia^ tnents and Laws, under the Dominion of Treshytery ; we are now to look into the Condition of the "People, and of the *Pr^j- tyterial Clergy, (to fpeak in their own Way,) under the Power of that T>ifci- -pline. I often thought that the Conftflory, to fupport it's own Grandeur, had contrived that their Miniftry fliould be handsomely maintainM, and that their Revenues or their Stipends were fuiEcient to live comfortably upon, and to procure them Veneration anc? Refpeft with the People; but upon a Re-- view of their "Platform, I find quite the Re- verfe,and their Clergy, of all Mortals, (fome few of the SeleB: Ones excepted) are the moft contemptible. Their Difcipline divides thQ Church Tatrimo?iy into Four Parts; one for th^Tafior ; another for the Elders and 'Deaconsy and other Church Officers, their Doctors E L O CL U E N C E. 15 Doflors and Schools ; a third for ckarita- lie Ufes, and the reft for repairing of Churches and other incidental Charges ; fo that the Clergy is ftript already of three Parts of four of their legal Maintenance. And then for the poor Pittance that is left, fo much as will keep Life and Soul toge- ther, they are allowed in Meal and Malt^ and wholly dependent upon the Mercy of the Church for the reft. And yet for this fitiful Stipend they are to be called to Ac- count how they fpend it, and their Wives and Children to be thrown at laft upon the Charge of the Tarijh. In their Treach^ i7ig they are limited by the Direftion and Defign of their Leaders^ only Tenants ae Will in their Cures, and liable to be rer moved, fufpended, or depofed at Pleafure. This a^rlitrary Dominion, together with the fl:ameful Condition of their Bondage, has proved fo great a Difcouragement to the Tresbyterian Mini/try, that they have found themfelves forced to frefs Perlons, and ad- mit them into frefent Tay ^nd good ^ar^ ters^ as they would do Soldiers ; and where they find Men of oAbility for their Purpofc, the civil Magiftrate is called upon to compel them into the Service. The Great Pillar of Treshytery is Excom- munication and Church Cenfures^ which they thunder out with all imaginable Terror^ and liave made it extend aimoft to all tloe Aftions 1 6 EngUJh Vreshjterian AQ:ions oi human Life ; by this Means clier crucify the weak Confciences of the Peopfe with needlefs^ infinite and incurable Scru- ples, with Scruples that haunt^ dogg^ and torment them in the moft neceffary and mdinary Cafes ; at the Churchy at t\\^ Table ^ at the Market^ at Home and (Abroad^ at all Times, in all Places, and upon all Occafions, in their very Thoughts^ Words and Tweeds. Every B/V they put in their* Mouths, and every Kag they put on their ^acks^ becomes a Snare to them ; it may be either too much oi^ too coflly) and what Reformation foever the Ci«rcA thinks fit to order, either in their Clothes or T^iet^ muft be obferved with the fame Degree of Sub- miffion and Obedience, as if the Matter in Qiieftion were an o/lrticle of their Creed. Excefs and Intemperance in Eating fall under the Cenfure of yr^^^jZ-^rf, either \r\ the Quantity or in the Q^nlity of your Diet ; fo that in the firft Place, the Elderfiip is to provide one common Gage for the Stomachs of the whole Tarifj^ for Fear of a Mouth- ful too much ; and in the fecond Place, it is made a Matter of Salvation and Daffi- nation whether a Man eats Roajt 'Bettf or Tlumb Tudding. The Cafe is the fame in Excefs of oAp- farel ; one Jftch more than to cover your Nakednefs, is Superflttityy and onQTenny more Eloq^uencEo 17 more in the T^ound than the Allowance of the Treshytery^ is made as much as a Maii^s Soul is worth. Chiding they have drawn within the Compafs of Ecclefiaftical Ce7ifure ; fo that a Mafler fhall not reprove his Servant^ nor a Tarent his Child^ without Leave of the Elderpjif^ (to the utter Diffolution of Order and Difcipline in private Families ;) and they have ftretch'd their Authority to take No- tice oi'Brawling and Scoldings and made e- veryB/V^V^^^^f^ Quarrel, every Squabble be- tween a 'Butter-lVhore and ^nOyfter-H/ench^ a Matter of Confiftorial Cognizance. Under the Cenfure of lewd Cu/ioms they include all Sorts of publick Sports^ Exercifes and Recreations^ how innocent foever in their Ufe, upon the Worfhipful Pretence (for- footh) that they had their Original from the Times of Taganijm or Tofery^ as Comedies^ Foot-'Ball'Tlay^ and 'Bear-'Baitings; nay, the poor Rofemary and 'Bays^ and Cbriftmas" Tje^ is made an Abomination. All Games where there is any Hazard of Lofs are ftridly forbidden, 2i^Tennis^ Bowles^ and Billiards'^ not fo much as a Game at StoohBaU for a Tanfy^ or a Crofs and Tyle for the oddTenu) at a Reckoning, upon Pain of T^amnation. What think you of uncomely Geflures ? that a Man fliall be given to xhtDevil for Lolling upon his Elbow^ or fitting upon his C Back- 1 8 EngVifh Treshytertan ^ackfide in Prefence of the ^Deacon of the PariQi ? The Cenfure of vatJi Words is yet more rigid, and reaches to the moft honefl: En- dearments and Familiarities of Friendflnf and Conver[atton^ even to the Exchifion of common Decency and Civility ; for let our Words be what they vi^il], we ftall ftill be depending upon the good Plcafure of the Elderfbip^ whether they v/ill pronounce them vain or edifjhtg. A Nur^e fhall not dare to Quiet her Child but with a Tfalnr, and you muft not prefume to ask ^^I'hat a Clock it ie^ without a Text^ to prove that the Queftion tends to Edification. But the hardeft Cafe of all is, that of Sufpcion ; the very Sufpicion of Tride or eAvarice makes a Man liable to Cenfure ; tho^ it feems very fevere for a Man to be deliverM over to Sata?i becaufe the "Brother- hood fufpefts him to be proud or covetous whether he be fo or no ; and, for a Man and a Woman to be only feen together^ fiiall be ground enough for a Sufpicion of hicontinency. Nay, they fhall be cited^ in- terrogated^ clofe committed^ and put to ^read and Water upon it, and compelled to purge themfelves by Oath ; and if ever they are feen together afterwards^ unlefs at Churchy or in the Market^ they Giall be taken, fro confejjby for Guilty. ■^. And E L O Q^U E N C E.^ I^ And now what greater Slavery in the World can be imagined, than to live in Sub- jedion under (iich an Eftalliflnnentj where you fhall have neither Freedom of Con-^ fcience^ LaWy Terfon or fortune^ where you Hiall not Jpeaky look, move, eat, drinhy drefs your felves, nay, not fo much as en- tertain a Thought but at your Peril ? Down upon your Kj^^es therefore and Pray ; fron> the Importation of fuch Foreign Ware, Good Lord "Deliver m. «® ^a^ ®S^ (©23 ©:^ iS® (©?) e® ®S^ ig® ^^ Chap. III. Tloe "behaviour of the Old Presbyterians towards Archbifliops and Bifhops. ARCHBISHOPS and Bifliops are unlawful Unnatural Falfe and Baflardly Governors of the Church, and the Ordinances of the Devilj petty Pofes, petty Antkhrifts^ like In- carnate Devils J Coggings CouT^ening^ Knaves^ they will lie like Bogs^ Proud, Popljh, Prefumftuous, Pro- phaney Paultry^ Peflilentj Perniclom Prelates, and Ufurpers ^ Impudent Shamelefs , Wainfcot-faced^ Butchers, Horfe leeches, Robbers, Wolves, Simoniach^ Perfecutors, Sowers of Sedition *, their Antichrilti- an Courts are the Synagogues of Satan* The Beelz^e^ hub of Canterbury, the Canterbury Caiaphas, Efau, a A'fonftrow Antichriftian Pope* Bancroft^ Dangerom'- Pojttions* Lib* ,2» chap. 12, I3« C 2 I will ^.. 20 EngUJh Vreshyterian 1 will with a Pen of Iron Correfpondent to the Iron j^^c of prelates^ fo plague the Metropdlticality' of Tork and Canterhuryy and the Hyperocdlty of all tlie other Prelates^ as I will never leave them till I have fenr them to the Place where the two Fulmina Belli J Alc>i^/fider the Great ^ Cries Muftard and Gresn SavocCj and in here Jul it^^Cafar Plays Pluto's Ratcatch- er. Nalfon\ CnllcEt. V. i . p. 500. Cardinals, Patriarchs, Primates, Metropolitans^ Arch-Pifhops, Bifnops, Deans, and innumerable fuch Vi yniv^ a Member of which Mo-nftro-us Body our Hierarchy is never came from God, but ra- ther from the Pope and the Devil \ Diaholm cacavit illos — — Thev are more Difobedicnt and worfe than Devils. From Plapue, Peitilence and Famine, from Bipjops^ Priefisj and Ve aeons ^ Good Lord de- liver us. Nalfor/S Cclletlr. V. I. J>. 499. If we look upon the Lives, Actions and Man- ners of the Pn^^j and Pre/^ffi of this Age, and fee their Pride, Impudency , Profanenefs, Unclean- nefs, one would think that Hellvjexe broke loofe, and that the Devils in Surplices^ in Hoods, and Copes ^ and Rochets, and in Fourfcjuare Cowturds, upon their Heads were coming among us, and had he^it us all j Pho ! how they Stink ! The Priefis are Seem- dum Ordincm Diaboli, a Generation of K/pe>v, proud, "Ungrateful Illiterate Affcs. p. 502. 3. The B^jlwps are Men fwallowed up with JVine and Strovg Drink ^ whofe Tables are full of l^omtt and Filthinefsj Whoremongers and Adulterers, wha as Fed Horjes, neigh after their Neighbours Wives ^ Buggerers, who change the Natural Ufe into that whiLh IS again fl Nature, bons oi Belial, Priefis of> Bacchm and Priapm. Whitens firfi Century^ th^ Preface. The Plaftering or Palliating thole rotten Mem- bers the BiJloopSj will be a greater Diflionour to the Kation 'E L O Q^U E N C E. 21 Kation and Churchy than their cutting off-^ and the ^erfond Ads of thofe Sons of Belial^ beine conni- ved at, become National Sins. SmeUym, Red* f. 58. This Prelacy in the Article^ this many headed 2i^onfier of Archhijhops.^ BijhopSj Chancellors^ Com" mijfariesy Deans ^ Deans and Chapters^ Arch-Deacons ^nd all other £cc/fj7^j7ic^/ Officers depending oa that Hierarchy *, this is the ^e^/? wherewith we fight in the Covenant, Thy Mother Tafacy fhall be made Chlldlefs among Harlots^ your Diocejfes Bl^ .^jljoplefsy and your Sees Lordlefs^ and your P/^c^^ fhall know you no more. Cafe uhl fupra. j?* 50, 51. Prelacy that IF/?^//?^ hath Learned this Policy of its Mother Papacy ^ that Lionefs. Ibid. p. 64. None ever defended this Hierarchy- of Bifljops^, but Papifts^ and fuch as were infeded with Pop//?; £r- r<7r^^ all the Newgates and Oldgates^ yea and all the lyhurns m. England are two little for Rich rafh and Prefumptuous heads that will not give God leave to Rule, but will take the Scepter out of his Hands* The Laws maintaining the Archbijhops axe no more to be accounted of than the Laws maintaining the Stews, Dang, Pof b. i.e. 6, 8. The Engliflj Prelacy is the Government whick gratifieth the Devil and Wicked Men, it is the Pro- dud of Proud Ambition and Arrogancy, and Bl- f]ops are Thorns and Thifiles^ and the Military In- ftruments of the Devil. Baxter\ five Difput. f« 36", 45. andComord. p. ill. The Bijhops mull: be utterly extirpated no left than the Romans rooted out the very Name of "Tarcjuinsy for the Tyranny they had Exercifed. A Wind to Fan or Cleanfe will not ferve their turn, but it muft be a full mighty wind to root up^ G 3 and 22 ^ngltjh Treshyterian and carry away the very Foundation of their Beln^, Sion\ Plea, To call IVickedj Verjurd^ profane Dukes y or Bloody minded Popijh ArchhijhopSy your Grace what is it lefs than Blafphemy, it were fitter to call them your Vice than your Grace, Men, Teh I. p. 60, BlcfTed be God that you have now put into the Scales of Juflice^ the ArcheB Prelate of the Land. Bond to the Com- 1644. p. 49. Happy fhall he be that taketh this Curfed Ma- lignant and Prelatical Brood, and dafheth him a- gainft the Stones. RavilL Red. p. 27. He who flartles and ftaggereth, delayeth and refufeth to bear and ufe Arms againft the Prelates^ with all th^fry of Antichrifiian FaEbors and Panders^ is no other than a Rebel and a Traytor againft God. Boden to the Commit, 1 6^^. p. 1 6. The Archhiflwp of Canterbury is a Curfl Cow^ or rather a Raging fat Bull of Bajljan, whofe heart was more hard and Adamantine, than a nether Ml lift one y and moft extremely Cauterlz^'^dy yea, Stigmatiy.'d with the hottefl- Iron of moft defpcrate Jmpcnltency, A Looking Glafs for Mdlg, Cont, of Friend, Debate . p. 40. ^A^e will keep a Day of Thankfglving in remem- brance of our Deliverance from thQ BlJhopSj as the .Jews did after Haman and his Sons were Hang'dy which will be a Greater Blefvig than the Delive- rance from the Gunpowder Treafon* Ibid. Remarks. YO U have here the Spirit of tlie God- ly Tarty,, 2nd the falfe Trtit Trote- flauts^ fet forth in their ov;'n Words, and ia fuch terms too, as Taga^ifm it felf would ' blufn E L O Q_U E N C E. 22 blufh at ; there never was any Defign ma- nagM with fo little regard to the Rules of Gover?tm€nt^ or the Meafures oF Charity^ Truth^ Good Manners^ or in one Word, of Human Society ; never any Order of Men^ certainly, never any Cofiftitution treated at that Scurrilom^ T^arharom, Scandalom and Malicious Rate ; and yet all this while thefe Sanguinary and Violent Incendiaries are "Juggled and Impofed upon the Multi- tude, as the only Men to reform our Man- Tiers^ and advance the Turity of the Gof^ pel. Let but the Reader now compare this Ribaldry with the Language of the Holy Ghofl : this Reviling of Dignities, with the Praftice and Precepts of Chrifi and his .\j But >-E L O CL U E N C fJ 29 But why all this Outcry againft WJhops ? Has Efifcofacy been found an Enemy to thtTeace of Government ? How manySi- Jhops have been concernM in the Murdering of Kjngs ? How many oA^s of OUivion have been made for them? Where were they ktn encouraging Rebels againft their Trince with the Hopes o^ Salvation ? What Reign have they difturbM here with their Seditions^ or whofe Government were they Enemies to, unlefs it were that of a Re^ ieWiom Tiece of a Parliament and Oliver Cromwell f There never was a Heretick in the Church, who did not lay himfelf out in af- perfing the Rights of Epifco-pacy^ and as foon as he became an oApofiate in Religion, declared War againft Bi//;^?^^, who are the Guardians of it. It was the taking away of Epfcopacy in the Great Rebellion^ that opened fuch a Door to Errors^ and there were more Herefies ftarted in the Space of four Tears after 'Bipops had been laid afide, than were known in the Univerfal Church from the Foundation of it to that Time;, and thofe that fall into Herefie do it com* monly by Degrees ; they begin in Schifm^ and end in Enthujiafm ^nd Madnefs; firft they are Treshyterians^ and then if that T)ifpenfation be not Spiritual enougbj they improve into Independents^ and from thence to Fifth Monarchy or Qnaherifm, All the extra- ^o Knglijh Vreshyterian extravagant Herejies among us, are but the Spawn of the firft Schifm^ and the Confe- quences of thofe Principles of Sefaration that draw them from the ^omymcnion of the In fhort, Whoever rails againd: the Oyder ofTBifiop^ upon aProfpe£lof/^r/>^ Z'^^^f^r under theGovernment of a Tresiyten.would do well to confider, that in the Inftant he fetches a 'Bifiof down to a Treshjter does every Treshyter become a "BiJI^op ; fo that for Twenty Five he pulls down, he fets up Ten Thoujand. Chap. V. RefleBions of the Old Presbyterians ^ip9U the Clergy of the Church of England. THE King's a^r^}' were croaking Fro^^ that came out of the Mouth of the Dragon, out of the Mouth of the Beaft and the Falfe Prophet^, The Spirits of Devils, which go forth unto the Kmis of the. Urth to gather them to Bmle. The frots Heads are like their Caps, Quadrate, ran arum capita. Here is Work for the Parliament, that the King may have no more Croakers in his Chambers. Wilfons Serm. to the Pari Sept. 28. ! 642. The Cathedrals are a Nes^ and Cage of all V^- clem Birds, a Harbour of dumb Dogs, a Crew of Alc'SwUling Singing Men, offering daily near the "^ Hoi-j E LO CLU E N CE. 31 Holy Table the blind Whelp of an ignorant Devo- tion. The VreUtlcal Hog-fty. Bridges* Idol, idle Shepherds, dumb Dogs that cannot bark unlefs it were at th^ Flock of Chrifty and fb they learned of their Mafters both to Bark and Bite too. Greedy Dogs that could never have enough, that did tear out the Loy?2s and Bowels of their own People for Gain. Swearing, Drunken, Vnclean Prieflsj that taught nothing but Rebellion in Jfraely and caufed People to abhor the Sacrifice of the Lord. Arminian^ Popip^ Idolatrous^ File Wretches j fuch as had Job been alive he would not have fet with the Dogs of his Flock. A Generation of Men they were, that had never a Vote for Jefus Chrift. Look into their Families and they were for the moll part the FileB in the Diocefe^ a Neft of Vn- clean Birds* In their Courts and Confifiories you would have thought you had been in Caiaphash^ Hally where no Trade was driven but the cruci- fying Christ in his Members. Cafe\ Sermon at Milk- ftreetj Sept* 30. K543. p. 45,4^, 47. All the Miniilers oi Wales avQ drunken, debaucht, ignorant and illiterate^ not fit to be trufted to keep 9 Kennel of Hounds^ or a Dozen of Sheep, Hugh Pf-», ters Life J p. 26, How the Prefence of the Preaching of Chrilt did fcorch and blall: thofe Catherdral Priefisy that un- hallowed Generation of Scribes and Pharifeesy and perfeded their Rebellion into that unpardonable Sin again ft the Holy Ghost. Cafe on Ez^ra 10. 2, 3. p. 33. A ftinking Heap of Atheift-ical Roman Rubbifioy a rotten Rabble of flanderous Priefts^ and fpurious Bafiard Sons of Belial ^ who by their afieded Igno- rance and Laz^inefsj by their moH abominable evil Lives and Conver fat ions ^ liad made the Lord's Ordi- nances to be even abhorrd by the People. Vicars Jehovah Jireh^ p. 88. The 3 2 Englijh Treshjterian The Hierarchy is become a fretting Gangrem^ and fpreading Le^rofy, and infapportable Tyranny : Up with it, Up with \lto the Bottom^ Root and Branch j Hip andThigh'^ deltroy thefe ylmalekhesj and let their Place be no more found. Coleman to the Tar* 1543. p. 39. The Epifcopal Clergy arc as Zealous for Crojfei and Surplices, P roc ejftons and TerambulationSj Reading aGofpel at a Crofs-way, Bowing at the Name of the Word Jefus, Receiving of the Sacrament when they have no Right to it, and that upon ihdvKneesy as if Eternal Life confifted in them. Baxter's Sai-nts Refl, Fart 3. p. 9^- The Perfons performing the public}. IVorJljJp In the Church of England^ are no Officers appointed by Chrifty but an Antichrifiian Miniftry^ fuch as de- fign'd the Ruin of Godlinefs, and Idolaters* Vlndo Cult. Evangel, p. 42. They are^zir^r^^rjand Horfe- Leeches: Thefe Dr4- gon$ Tyranny and Blood-thirfty Proceedings are inexcu fable. Martins Frotefi. Smite neither at Small nor Great, but at thefe Troublers of Ifraely fmite that Haz^ael in the Fifth jRihy yea if Father or Mother ftand in the Way, away with them, down with the Colours of the Dr agony advance the Standard of Chrlfl. Slon's Pleay p. 240. If the God of Heaven, the God of Truth, have writ your Names aright with the Beams of the Noon-Day Sun, in the Eyes of all the Nations of the World, you are the Saviours of the Opprejfedy and the Breakers of thofe Clerical Tokes. The Beacons quenched i (^5 2 . Eloquence. 33 Remark s. AN D who were thefe 1-^lhd Guides^ thefe Scandalous and- Barbarous T)- rants^ bat the Canonical Clergj^ that were forced away from their Livings^ and their Families^ by a Popular Rage and Violence^ under the Countenance of thofe T)iabolical Slanders f Neither was the Lofs of their Lawful Poffeffions, and the Ordinary Com- forts of Life fufficient to Expiate for their Tiety., Integrity and Virtue, without their Ad verfaries doing as much as in them lay to flarve them too ; they were Muzzled up inT)ungeo?is^ debarred the common Benefits of Himmne Nature, not fufferM to Officiate as Trivate Chaplains ; no, nor lb much as to teach a -petty School, nor enter into any honeiT Employment, which the Ingenious Malice of their Enemies forefaw, might give the Perfecuted W rttdiQS "Bread : This; ■ was the time of the Treshyterian hiquifttu on ; this was the Liberty of Confcience of thofe Days ! And is it not a reafonable Propofitioii now for thofe Men that gave no Quarter to the Church upon that Revo- <4ution toV-Mutiny for the fame Liberty a* gain of deftroying it, and for the whole Schifm, that from time to time by com- ..pon Agreement excluded the Trelacy to D ex- 34 Englijh Vreshytertan expect that the Eccleftaftical Government fliould be now torn in Pieces in their Favour ? ©21) iSS^ i®2i ®3^ ig® ®3i ®3^ ®j>, «© g^ Chap. VL Reflexions of the Modern Presbyterians ufon the Clergy of the Church of Eng- land. I cannot but tell him , fhould ! Publifh the Matters of Fadt which I am Mailer of, with refpecfl to the High Flying Gentlemen of the ^lergy^ Ihould I give a faithful Account of the moft Infa^ mous^ and Scandalous Behaviour, the notorious Lives, the Beaftly Excejfes, and the furious Treat- ment of their Brethren the Dijfenters, which on a fmall fearchj I have been acquainted with, the/?2 ferior Clergy would appear the mofl Wretched Provoking Abominable Crew, that ever God fufFer'd to live unfunijlid, fince he deflroyed Sodom and Comorrha by Fire from Heaven. RevieW' v, 5. N' 27. Lefl it become a new Proverbial Jcfl To k*t^ Wicked ^^« English Prielt. lb, v. i-N. 27^ If Words could be made Treafon, one 777;W at leaft of the Inferior Clergy in Evgland vi'ould be Hang'd. Ihid. v. 2. N. 105. Drunkennefs, Oaths, and Abominable Lewdnefs, Ignorance, Negligence and Scandalous J-nfuffciency^ abhor r'd JError, I)cifm,and Socinianifm have over-s run the Clergy. Ibid, lY. 5)3. Theft ^E L O CLU E N C E. 3^ ''■''"*fKele PnV/j of Baal are many, and this may be laid of ninety and nine in a hundred of them, and lam apt to think every one will find trne in his own Acquaintance *, that their Destine is not more perniciou-s to the Peace and Welfare of the Kingdom, than their Lives are a Scandal and Dlf- grace to th^lv Sacred FunBion, and there is Icarce one who has not been ofrner drunk in a Private Houfe than fober in a Fulfit. The Zed of the To- ries* p, 8. There are fome Churchmen that have Conferences like Ofirkhes Stomachs^ that wiil dieeft fron^ for no Oath or Teft is too hard for their Cafe -hardened Confciences, which can eafily difpenfe with all to ferve a Turn. Reafons for an Vnlon, p. 8. It is but jufl-, that the Parfons fhould be the com- mon Snbjed of Banter^ whilft their Pradice and Tongues fo much differ *, they call it our Holy Rell* glon, our Holy Mother the Church, and yet con- ftantly proflltute them. Chrlfilanlty no Creature of State, p. 19. Among the Inferior Clergy Men are found, whofe Principles and Pradices are a Scandal to the Churchy and whofe Reformation 'tis fear'd mufl now be the Work , not of Private^ but of Puhllck Justice* The Parfons are not only become the Subject of Sa- tyry and jufl Sarcafm among the Men of Wit, but even the Tale and JeH; of the Common People. The Church of England can never be reftor'd to h^r Origin nal Luftre, till the Vnexampled Wickednefs of a Set of Men who are difgoi^'d among,and wear the Ha^ hit of our Clergy^ are purg'd out. There are a fort of Men among the Clergyy who ought, and I hope will be purged out of the Churchy I Jay, I tru§ir they will alfo, becaufe their Iniquities fee m to be come to thQ full Height^ and to call aloud for that Ve:ngemce, as well from the Civil Authority , as from D 2 Heaven* 3<5 Englijh Treshyterian Heaven. They fecm now to have fili'd up the Meafure, and to have avvaken'd "Juftice againlt them, which with its leaden Whigs ^ has been too flow in refenting the infults it has received/and has forborn them/o lovg^ till they begin to pcrfwade themfelvesinto a W^/cz//<7/^/ Kotion of their beinp formidable to the Coi;er/7??if//f, and that they ^^re mt \ becaufc, they do not Strih. How long fhall Juftice be withcld by the Royal Clemency to its own Hurt ? IJow long fhall the King fpare thus the Vi- pers that would fling him ? They cannot but wifh to fee that honid Race of Afen we are fpcaking of Expunged, their IVohes skins expofcd, their Shepherds Clonthing pull'd over their Ears^ now that time feems to be come \ "Judgment is nov; going to begin at the Hov.fe of God. Oaths are trifies with them, they are not to ty'd to by the common Obli- gations which bind Ciorifiian Subjcasy nay, the Bond that would ft'Cure the Allegiance of a Mahometan^ will not bind them. Rcafons for ilfiting the Vnivcr- fties. p. 7, ily T4, 42. Rare Priefis^ w ho pretend to be of the purcft Chnrch in theWoild, that can transform Men into Devils Incarnate. Reafotis for Vnion. p. 56. Are fncli Men fit to wear the Livery of a Re- formed Churchy or indeed of any Chriftlan Church ? Even a Vagan who has any common Honefry, might be tempted 10 fay, Are thcfe thy Fr lefts O Jcfiu f Vi-nd. of plain Deali?.g. p. 3. The Behaviour of theOV/;^y is fo vile, 'twould be Indifcretion vplth alVitnefs, fliould we lead them with any Refieftions which they have -not defcrv^'d, fierce^ Find, of Diff. Afiu. /?. 1 4. While fo many of our Clergy make no Confciencc to Drinhy and iVhore^ and Swcary and Gdrne, and 'Droll on the Bible J ^nd Profane the Sund.ty^ and ncg- ' lect the molt important Duties oi their Paftoral Chargg j E L O CLU E N C E. 37 Chayac ^ it is no wonder, if the Laity think them- Iclves Auihoriz'd to take the fame Liberty. Chicrch jiihtt. p. 44. Onr Karion abounds with Diffolute Clergymen^ the fhaine of their Country, and rhe Holy FunElion. Pierce's Find, of the Dijf p- 275. P^. 2. If a timely flop be not put to the Growth of this Jlcc^trfed Herefy^ no Clergymen ftiail hereafter, dare hQvicioHSy ignorant and Lew'd, but he fhall im- niediately l^xfe the refpeft due to his Order^ and what a deplorable Efrate Chriftlanity mull then be in, we Can only confider with Horror and Confter^ nation. Alheron'iS Letter, p. 7. Fire the OVr^, if they want it, with the Re- no vvn'd Examples of Anfelm^ Bccht and Laud^ and tho' Books and Reading be their Averjion, yet ground them in the great A(fiions of thefe Prelates. The Clergy (hould confider thatthey are .to ftruggle and contend with the Laity^ that know the Scrip- tures^ v;hich ih^y do?wt. Ibid. p. 10. ^Th a common fayi??g, Xh;itGod feiids Meaty but the Devil fends Cooks \ fo I think 1 may fay of the Bean^ that G^^ gave him an underftanding, but the Devil gave him a Will. It's well if you don't often think, I mean to call you an EngUfli Devilj and that, when I nam.e the Devlly and the Dean in the fame Line, ray meaning is, to n^ake Co-Devils of them. Dalrympleh Let. p. 42, 43. Underitand the Dean's Words in their own Meaning, and you'll fay, the Dean of Chichefter talks not like the Dean^ but like the Devil of Chi^ chefler. Ibid. p. 46". - The Pradices and Pretences of the Clergy are too flagrant to be denied. Every day yields frefh Inltances of the Avahitious^^nd Tray terous Defigns of Degenerate Clergymen^ Whofe Lives make >4rk- D 3 ip^ 38 Englijh Tresh^teriah ifis^ and whofeDodlrineS/^r^j. T'oland's Nazare- npn Preface, p. 1 <; . Tbc Prieftridde?i'L^\tVy iiritatc morc or lefs the Practices of tlieir Clergicd Guides^ till at lajl a Man bf^romes an l^fidel^ for differing from another about th^ meariefl tr.fle In Nature. Ibid. p. 21. See how thcfe Parfons run away with Prcfer- inents fioin the Laity. This very PoU (the Pillo- ry) is I an-" told confcrM for the prefent, upon a ijenuine Son of the CLurchj who has Confcievtioufly defcrvxl it. jilheroniS Apology, p. 6. Do wc not all know that Oaths and Obligations^ when rhey are fo S^^wcy as to fetter the CathoUck PJec^fpre or Profit of the C/^r^j, are ever broken through by the whole Body with great Fortitude and Vrianimity ? Kor is there any Malignity in this convenient piece of Wickednefs, for the moft Damnable Sin ccafes to be fo, as foon as the Priefi has m.'C hr! fiend It. As to the Clergy ^ who are the 2vow'd Porters of Heaven, 1 cannot conceive they fhonld at any time be in an VnfanB;fied State, let them do what they will. Ibid. p. 7. When a Levite has been malicioufly tofTcd off a Beam^ and expired for want of footing, or died a Natural Death of Debauchery, or in any other man- ner worthy of himfclf it has never been known that- the faid Carcafs forgave Sins, or executed any other Branch oi th^ EcclefiaH-ical Office. Ibid. p. 8. 1 will vouch for the Priefts^ that they always fcorn'd to be barr'd by the Tnfiing Regards oiCon- fcience, and S^vea-'-irig, from the more CathoUck pur- fuits oj their Pleafure and Power. There are thofe of the Clergy, who have forefworn to be true ^nd faithful to his \)Ycknt Majejly. over and over, and yet do not fo much as pretend they mean any fuch - Matter. Ibid* p. 10. • -^- ' E L O Q^U E N C E. 39 ISJo, no, if you would be ^^y6>/ Wand favedy be- lieve in the Prlefl^ and live in the fear ot the Caf- fock ; what can be more handy tjhan our having a Forgiver^ and a Saviour in every Parley be fides De^ puty pardoners , and Journeymen Saviours* Jbld» p. i^ How agreeable the Policy of the Arch Fiend is to the other Gentlemen In Blacky I need not explain : Without doubt the Wifdom and Good Parts, even of the l)evll are imltahle. Ibid, p. 1 5. Let them Sin as they f reach and [corn to tell us why, or wherefore. Jbld, p. 18. . The meancfl Reader of them is a Klnfman to the Apoftles and our Saviour's Lieutenant and Door^ keeper of Heaven andHelly and the Creator oiChrlftl^ ansy and the Forgiver of Slnsy and a Trumpeter^ and a Watchmany and a Journeymany and (I am out of Breath) an Ambaffador. But as Great Men as they are, it is hard methinks, that an honeft Laymany when he dies cannot ftep up Stairs with- out a Ticket from an Ambajfadory who is perhaps a Bed, or out of Humour, or taking his Bottle y or Glrly or the like. Ibid. p. 1 9. When the Ambajfadors are let loole, they ad as if they were in Truth, the Scourges of God by Dl^ vine Right, Ibid. p. 23. This Confecratlng of GarmentSy and deriving Ve- neration from a Suit of Clothesy is Barefac'd Prleft- craft. It is teaching the Pradice of Idolatry to a Gown and Cajfock y if a little Senlelefs Pedant y who is a living Contradiction to l^lrtue and Breedlngy can but whip into Ordersy and cover himfelf mthCrape^ the firlt thing he dqes is/ to overlook and affront all Mankind, and then (yiemand their Reverence •, his Surplice is his Cltadely aim he claims the Impunity of an Ambaffador for being Gracelefs and Sawcy. Cha-* ratler af an IndependentlVhlg. p. '5. D 4 Let -i~ 4^0 EngUflj Tresh^terian Let us look back into former Ages, and round Eit- rope at this Day, and fee whether Acljcci SUvery in the People, is nor, and always has been the cer- tain Confcqiience of Power in the Friefis. It cannot be denied. — Thofc Ecclefuifiicksy who ckiiii by Divine Right any other Power than thatof £.vW- tation^ talk Konfenfe, and belie the NcrvTefiament ; to the Law and the People who made that Law, they owe their Bread. Ibid. p. 7. As they Pradice, fo they Teach, and the fpread- ing of their own Guilty and the making others as had as themfclves (if Laymen can be fo) is made the Duty of their FunclioyiSj and the Bulinefs of their Lives. C'dw Ant ichri ft do worfc ? And are thcie Men, who Vv^alk in the Paths of Athcifm and Per- dition^ fit to lead others to Ilolinefs and Eternal Life f Ibid. p. II. A High Churchman may be denominated from divers Marks and Exclamations. Lie muft be de- ■i- vout in Damni;ig of DijfcnterSj he mull fvvear Eloodi^ ly for the Churchy and its great Modern Apoftlcs, the Duke of Ormond^ with fome other Pious for- [worn (jentlemeny who are well affected to popery and the Convocation \ he mull Rebel for Paffive Obedience^ he muft uphold Divine Right by Diabolical means. But there is one lign more of a true Churchmany which is more lafting and univerfal, than all the reft, and that is a firm and fenfelefs Perfwafion, that the Church is in Danger. If a Man believes this, it is enough, his Reputation is up, and tho' his Life fhew more of the D^;^^?; than the Chriftia-n^ he fhall be deeui'd an Excellent Churchman. This is fo true, that if an lionell Athcifiical Church- man will but Curfe and 5v/ear apainit a Toleration of Dijfcntersy he fhall be fure to find a Toleration hini:- felt for the blackelt r/7/^/;/V^, and be .recorded v;ith Reputation Elocluenck 41 Ecfutatio-a into the bargain, and if poflible with Power. Letter to the j4rchbifl}op of Cant. p. 9. Are there not Clergymen who pray for his Ma" jefiy in the Desk, and Damn both him and his Ti- tle in the Pulflty who pledge their Souls for their jillegianceto him, and yet think him an Vfurper^ and do tbQiv He Hi jh Endeavours to dethrone him ? And are not fiich Athelfts zealots for the Churchy and loud in the cry of her Danger ? Are not fuch Men manifefl: Foes to Chrlfiianity^ and all focial Virtues, who by their BUfphemom Pradices, and their Vn- happy Power over the ftupid Vulgar, do what in them lies to break the Bonds of Human Faith and Society^ and to banifh Truths Good Nature and Humanity from the face of the Earth ? Is not this a Shocking Scene, and are not thefe Diabolical Teachers ? And yet they are all Orthodox to the Bach^ and far from pulling down the Church with their own Hands, tho' they are Enemies to God and, Man ? Ihid. p. 13. Their other yl/(?r^// are of a piece with their dreadful and repeated Perjuries, To come Drunk to the Sacrament^ to Debauch and play at Cards on Sundays.^ to be perpetually wrangling with their Neighbours^ to be ever lowing Sedition and Falfe-- hoody and fomenting Strife ^ to be perpetually fling- ing Hell-fire at all who will not be forfworn like themfelves, to be Idle^ Rlotom, Drunken^ are all ib many Current Symptoms of a Confcicnce profti- tuted or dead. Ibid. p» 14. One Parfbn is Drunken and Quarrelfome^ but then he bows to the Altar and thinks Kingl^r////^m is damn'd. Another cheats every Body , and pays no Body, but he drinks to the Royal Orphan. ^ and cannot abide King George. A third neither Preaches nor Prays^ but he does a more Meritorious thing, he conflant- 5y and fervently Curfes the Germans and the Presbyte- rians' 42 Englijh Preshyterian rUm. A fourth has a hot Conftitntion, and IIcSq with e^ery Women he mectSj but he has chajfj-e Prlncl- ^ flesy and fwears by his Maker, that Bljhops are by Divine Right A fixth is an evidence upon a ''^ Tryaly and forfwears himfelf, but theCaufewas fovTythesy and he did it out of Love for the Church, A feventh is a Scojfer^ wlio has laugh'd Religion out of the World , but he hated my Lord Wharton like a Toad^ and guc Drunk fre- quently with Lord Harry^ for the Profperity of the Church. Ibid. p. 15, 16". How, thought I, have we got Bungey here? It favours filthily of the Sermon at St. ?aul\ and breaths the very fame Truth and Good Senfe. Within thefe five Years , we have had on Rebelling Priefi hang'd, and another Seditious Friefi fet la the Pillory. Once more Heaven pre- ferrQ poor Bungey. Ibid. p. 2 p. Here now is the true Image of a Prieftly Spi- rit, deftitute of all Humanity and the Fear of Codj and fraught with Fire and Brimftone^ which he icatters ^0 freely among the Sons of Men. Tis (\ had almofi: faid) well, that the more Merciful Devils have the Cufiody of thefe Flaming Materials* Ibid. p. 34. Remarks. IT is become, it feems, one of the ge/^- teel Accomplifhments of the prefent Age, to talk of the Church Clergy., as if there were nothing but Ignorance and T>^- iauchery among them, as if a Man were inftantly forfaken of God and Goodnefs the Moment he enters into Holy Orders^ and begins E t^&a U E N C E. ' 43 begins to be a Villain as foon as the Church takes him into her Service. The moft ce- lebrated Pamphlets of late fwell and over- flow again with mod: fcandalous Inveftives againft the Conforming Clergy ; and if thefe Trieflhounds can but get Scent of any thing that fmells oi^Tarfon^ away they run with full Cry and o^en Mouthy and were their fangs as good as their Throaty the whole Order would in a very little Time be torn and worry"* d in Pieces. iBut this the Clergy can forgive, provided their Enemies would forbear to charge them with Views of Topery^ or a Reconciliation with the Church of Rome) efpecially when our Memories will ftill ferve us to recoiled", that their Sagacity was able to penetrate into the moft intricate Defigns of Topifi Treachery^ and their Integrity flood firm againft the bold Incroachments of Tapal Ufurfation. They are too honeft to be hrih^d out of their Religion by the Profpeft of Intere^\^ and too Wife to be cheated out of it by the Delufions of Sophi/iry. The Clergy were Perfons of this Charader,who, when in a late Reign, Topery^ like an In- undation was breaking in upon us, bravely flood in the Gap^ and refifted the Torrent ; and Perfons of this Charafter will always go on fleadily to oppofe Topery^ though they Ihould be traduc'd as Favourers of itj by thofe very Tresbjterians^ who, in the Day . -■ of 4.4- Englijh Treshyterian o(T)i/IreJs, were bufy in breaking down. tno\^Q Felices by which alone it was to be kept out. The Church of Rome^ m tlie late Times of Diltraftion , It is certain, gain'd more EngUjI) Trojelytes under the Ufurpation of Treshpery^ tlian in double the Proportion of Time under our Co?iftittition ; and of the vulgar Sort of People that were feduced, they were all feduced from die Chiircli of Englandlefore-^ it was no hard Matter foi' fiihtle Impoflors to poifon thofe throughly that were infefted already \ and oVBorder- ers to make them Trofelytes ; and to draw them gradually out of one Extreme into ano- ther. How many arc there who have con- versed with Romijl) Trie/Is Abroad, whom they have afterwards found in 'Dijjenting Conventicles^ Preaching and Scolding at Topery^ and giving the Tapifis gentle Blows and dry T)rubs without any Arguments , when all this while the Quarrel is but a Counterfeit^ and the real Defiga is againft the Church oi England'^ and if by any Wiles they can but enfnare Her (who is the great and formidable Enemy) the Combat will foon be at an End, and the Politick G/f^/ir<^- go7iifts foon agree. This is the Mafterpiece of the Jefuits^ to create Divifions, and to make evry little SeH a Covert and Harbour for themfelves ; this Way they employ tlicir utmoft Dexterity^ firft to form, then to a- nimare E L O (lU E N C E? nimate Factions, by fetting up fuch new Lights among; us, which ferve not to tllumi- natt\ but to mflame : They skrew them- felves into all, even Mechanical Profeffions, and by Casting Words infinuate themfelves into all Parties, and transform themfelves into all Shapes and Dreffes, that what the Toets feignM of a Trotem and an Empifa is true of thofe HohgohUns ofDarknefs^ that they affume any Colour, and can fliew themfelves in any Likenefs, fo that you have no Way to difoover the Serfent but by his Toifon^ nor the Wolf but by his ravenous Stomach, In a late unhappy Reign when Topery ■was rolling in upon us like a mighty De- luge, who but the beft Members of our Churchy flood up with Strength and "Bra- 'very to oppofe its Progrefs, and were the PA'td.t'Banks and Shores to break the Vio- lence and Fury of it ? When the T>iffen' ters (to their eternal Shame and Conviftion be it fpoken) paid all their oAddrejJes and Comflme7its to the Government, and ac- cepted many infmuathig Favours from it, which the Church of EnglaJid-raen refufed upon Principles of Conference, But thele Good Men, notwithftanding their pretend- ed Stiffnefs againft Topery at other Times, could then comply with any thing if they could but lefTen the Efteem and Authority of the Churchy and come To^ery or what- ever t ^6 EngJiJh Tresl^teYian ever elfe, were very eafy and carefs'd them- felves in their Privileges only to fee us be- neath themselves ; and if our Eflahlijhment had been born down, it is certain that no- thing hutTopery could poffibly have been efiabliffjed in the room ; for tanaticifm is lb wild and untraHMe a Thing, that it ad- mits oi no Settlement upon ajiy Principles. Andyetthefe JeJhitedSeparatifis havethe Modefty to diftinguiflj themfelves in an eminent Manner by the Appellation oiTro- teftants^ and under the Cover of this fanHi- fied Title there is noVillany more impious than what has been impos'd upon this mi- ferable Nation under this Name ; they are always lagging the People out of themfelves with Terrors of Gun-powder and Je/uitf, and when they refolve to mark a Man out to the Fury of the Mob, it is fufficient to call him Topifij and then he is baited under that infamous Character as theChriftians an- ciently werejin the Skins of Tie aft s : Thus did their TredeceJJors deftroy the Church an Age or two ago by fuch malicious Infinu- ations, juft as the Jews crucified our Sa- viour, Venient Romania they will bring in Topery-y and our Modern SeparatiB will ftoopto the meaneft Arts to fcare Women and Children with the fame Fears ; he will not admit the Crifs-Crofs to lead the oAlpha- het for Fear of Topery (and 'tis well if the Crofs upon the Kjng^s Crown be not Topery like- Elocluence. 47 likewife) and would not for the Univnerfe hang a Saint or an oAngel upon a Sign- 7oft^ becaufe they have been Worfhipped in the Roman Church ; the very Words of Chriftmafs are abominable, he will fcarce endure any thing that belongs to him^ nei- ther his T)ay^ nor his Trayer^ nor his *P/- ^ure ; and the poor innocent Tlur?sb'7or-' ridge and Tyes^ for the Nativity-i^ikQ^ are as unclean to the Talate of a true Trote^ fiantj as a 'DecoRion of the P^jp^, and the whole College of Cardinals. It is remarkable in the Treslyteriajt Teachers that let them fpit Fire and T^amna- tion never fo furioufly again ft oAntichriftj Babylon, and the Scarlet Whore j there's fcarce a Man of them that has not two Topes in his Belly, one to eAhfolve his Congregation^ and another to oAhfolve him- felf; and whatfoever he hinds or loofes upon Earth, let him that dares deny to be bound or loofed in Heaven ; fo that the Man is mad, that will ever run to Rome^ and put himfelf to the trouble of hazardous Voj^ (igesy and needlefs Exfences for 'Bulls^ 7ar^ donsy and T)iffen[ations^ when they may be had cheaper at Home^ and every fanatic cal Cqnventicle is as well ftored as the Topeh Warehoufe : By this means we lie open to the Reproaches of the Common Ene* ptyj while the Herefie and Schifm of the "^roteftant T)i^e?iters^ are charg'd upon the Tro. 48 Englijh Vreshyterian 7rote[ia7tt; Religion^ and all the Equivoca^ tions^ J^'ggles and 'Dif-penfations^ tliat we impute to Trie/is and Jefuits are retui-nM with Interefl: upon ourfelvcs ; fo that for the "Dijjenters fake, it is that we fee the Honour of the IKeformation blafted, the Harmony of it broken and difcompofed, and by their affuming the Appellation of Troteftants^ the Dignity of the Profeflion is brought into coutempt. What's become of England now, tliat was formerly reputed the Glory and the TroteHrefs of the Reformation ? Is fiie not broke into a Thoufand Pieces by the Facti- ons of eAl^beifis ^nd Libertines^ ^nd ready to be eaten up with the Loufy Difeafe of Separa- tion d.nd Schifm ? and what is that which fome Men call the True Troteftant Religion^ but a Medley of F/•^^;^/'ic^ Opinions, and of God- kfs and DiffolutePerfons that even Taga?is themfelves that never heard either of Cbrift Or of Common Civility^ would be an:!ani'd of? Take Care therefore, To7i of the Sefa^ ration^ that whilfi you fet up for Troteftant s you do not forget that you are Chriftiansj and avoid glancing your Scandals at the Englifh that are pretended only againft <\\q Romi[Jj Clergy: Was not the T)ij]erfibled¥t^t of "Popery an IntroduiElion to the utter Ruin and DIiTolution of the mo[\: Glorjo^M Chmrh of the Reformation ? Was not a moft Gra- cious and Trot eft a?tt Trince murder'd bv a ialfe E LO (lU E N C E. 49 falfe and flanderous Imputation of being a Tapift ? It was the Machination of Kjtaves and the Credulity of Fools ^ terrified with the Outcry of Topery^ that in thofe profli- gate Times was the Ruin both of Church and Kj^'^gdom. Chap. VIL Reflections of the Old Presbyterians u^o^^ the Ckvgy ajJmhJed in Convocation. THEY are Wolves^ It is a ^ynMogin:'^ their only Endeavour is how to prevent Chrill from bearing Rule in the Church by his own La-ws^ they are known to be Enemies unto all Sincerity ^ The whole Convoci^tlon Houfe are intolerable Oppugners of God's Glory, and utter Enemies unto the Liberty of his Church. They are Right, Puljfunt^ Poifon- ed, Perfecuthg and Terrible Frkfis'^ Clergy- Mafiers of the Confocatlon-HouiCy the Holy League of Sub- fcription, the Crue of Adonftroy^ and Vngodly Wretches that mingle Heaven and Earth toge- ther ^ Horned Mafiers of tliQ Confpirat ion- Houfe J an Antichriftian Swlnifi Rabhlcy Enemies of the Gofpel, moll: CovemiSy Wretched and Popifn Priefts, the Con- iTjcation-houfe of Devils » Bancroft'^ D anger ohs Pojl' E ^o Englijh Treshjterian A Speech of Sir Edward DeevingV in ParllameHfy ag^ainFi the Convocation affembUdhy the King's Writ, in the Te^r^ 1640. Kalfoo's Collcft. V* L t' 667. T\\2tX\\Q]atQCamns are invalidous, itwilleaG- ly appear, and that they are fo originally in the Foundation, or rather in the Founders of them, I willaflume upon my felf to DemonftratCj having firft intimated my Senfe by Way of Preparative. ^ The Ptfp^5 as they fay, hath a triple Crorvn an- . fwerable thereunto, and to fupport it, he pretends to have a three-fold Law ^ The firll is, Jus Divinumy. Epifcopacy hy Divine Right ^ and this, he would have you think to be the Coronet next his Head^ that which doth Circle and fecure his Tower. Our Bijljops have (in an unlucky time) entred their Tlea^ and pretended Title to this Crown^ Epifcopacy by Divine Right. The Second hjus Humanuniy Conflantine\ Dona- tion, the Gift of Indulgent Princes, Temporal Pow- er ^ This Law belongs to his Second or his Middle Crow'rty already alfo pleaded by our Prelates in Print. ThefeTwo Crowns being obtained, He, the Pope doth make and frame his Third Crown himfelf, and fets that upmoft upon the Top \ This Crown alio hath its LaiVy and that is Jus Canonicum the Canon Law J ofmoreufe unto his Popepjip than both the other. Jull fo onr Prelates from the pretended Di- , vinity of thciv Epifcopacy^ and from the Temporal Power granted by our Princes, they would now ob- fj triide a New Canon Law upon us. They have charged their Canons at us to the full, >, and never fearing that they would ever recoil back E L O Q^U E N C te. 51 mto a Parliament y they have rammed a prodigious VngoMyOath Into th^m. The Illegality and Invalidity of thefe Canons (as 1 conceive) is eafily difcoverable by one fhort Qiieftion, viz. what do you call the Meeting wherein they were made? Give it a Name to know it by *, who can frame his Argument aright, unlefs lie can tell firfl againft what he is to argue? Would you confute the Convocation ? they were a Holy Sy^ nod. Would you argue againft the Synod ? Why they were Commijfwners ^ would you difpute the Commljfion ? Why they will mingle all Powers toge- ther, and anfwer that they were fome fourth thing that we neither know nor imagine. Quo teneam nodo mutant em Protea f unlefs they will unriddle themfelves, and own what they were, we may profecute, but hardly with concludanc Arguments, yet I venture. I have conferr'd with Ibme of the Pounders of thefe New Canons^ but I profeis I could never meet yet with one of that Ajfcmhly who could in behalf o{i\\€\r Meeting y^'Q\] anfwer me the firftQiieftion in the Catechifm, What is your Name ? Alas ! they are parted before they know what they were when they were together. The fum of the feveral Anfvvers that I have re- ceived doth amount to this*, They were aConvo- cational Synodical Affemhly of Commijfioners : indeed a Threefold Chimara^ a Monfter to our Lawsy a Cer- ■ herns to our Religion, I will neither inveigh againft them as unnamed Commijfioners y nor infirm them as the Work of a Dead Convocation *, but will take them in the Capa- city of their own affected Title of a Synod, Such they bragged themfelves to be vvhilft they fate; fuch thty ftile themfelves in the Title Page of thefe ( never to be canonized ) Canons The E 2 Words 5 2 EngUJh Treshyterian Words are Canons treated upon in Convocation-"'^ agreed upon in Synod. This treating in one Capacity and agreeing in another is a Kew Moidd to caft Cwnons in, never ufed before \ Canons bred in a Convocation^ l}orn in a Synod. Thus although we find not one^W Fa- ther^ here are yet Two Mothers to one illfavoured Childj never known before, nor imagined but of Bacchus whom the Poets call among other Attri- butes t .Solumque Bimatrem, Mr. Speaker^ It remains aWifh that every Mem- ber of that Meeting who voted thefe Exorbitant Ca* mns^ fhould come feverally to the Bar of the Varlia^ ment Houfe with a Canon-Book in his Hand, and there, unlefs he can anfvver his Catechifm^ abjure his own ill-begotten Iffue^ or q'Sq be commanded to give Fire to hu oxm Canons, Sir Benjamin Riidyard's Speech about Dlfmounting the Canons. Ibid. p. 678. Mr. Speahry A Man may eafdy fee to what tend all thefe In- novations and Alterations in DoBrine and Difci- fline ; and without a PerfpeBlvc difcover a far off the adivc Toilfbmnefs of Spiritual Engineer s^ to undermine the Old and True Foundations of Re- ligion, and to eftablifh their tottering Hierarchy iw the room thereof^ which left it fhould not hold, being built with untemper'd Aiortar^ You fee how careful they are by a varv Oath to enforce Mens Confciences not to alter their Government jirchiepi' fcopal. But, Mr. Speaker^^ we mull alfo be adive in the Prcfcrvation of Religious Concordance, which will ElO aU E NC E. 53 will never be fafe nor well at Qiiiet, until thefe heavy Droffy Canons with all their hafe Metal be melted and diffolved \ let lis then difmount thera and dePjroy them *, which is my Humble Motion* Remarks. Hat vile Ttm7i2ng and Jingle is here, what a clutter about Melting and 'Ramming^ and Firi?ig. and "T>ifmotmting? Figures of Speech fo low and Unfcholarlikey tliat the Dignity of the C^/;;;;^<5//j', I believe, was never fo proftituted, never infefted with fuch Tedants^ never lent their Ears to fuch poor pitiful 'Debates ; and yet thefe Speech- Makers were Orators of the Tarliameuty the Great Incendiaries againft the Trivileges and T>ifciflifie of the Church ; and this wretched 'Boyijl) Wit and Satyr was fo well received, as to influence the Members a- gainfi: the ConvGcation^ and to produce this fatal Refolvc, " H\xdXthe Clergy of England " conve7ied in any Convocation or Synod, ^' or otherwij'e^ have 7to Tower to make any " Conflitutions or Canons^, or Afts zfohatfo^ ^ ever in Matters of^ Doftrine, Difcipline, ^^ or otherwife, to bind the Clergy or La^ '^ ity of this Land^ without common Con- ^ fent in Parliament. The Notes that I fliall beftow upon this Seftion will be a Brief Inquiry into the Ruin and DiiToIution of the Convocation in thofe E 5 loofe 54 Englijh Treshjteridn loofe Times ; wherein k will appear beyond Difpute that a Convocation legally alTembled is the great Fence and Bulwark of our Church EflahUfhment^ and that the Routing and Abolifhing of it was TiVralude to all the Misfortunes that fell upon the Cht/rcb^ and gave fuch an Inlet to Here fy and TfO^ fanenefs, that no Age but thQ prefent would even dare to Copy after. It mull: be obferv'd then that the Houfe of Convocation (the Regular and Legal Affcm- bling of the Clergy ) was, after the Deter- mination of the laft "Varliameiit^ before the unhappy Long one^ by a New Writ, conti- nued and fat for the fpace of above a Month, under the proper Title of a Synod -y and by a fpecial Warrant from the Kjng^ re- quired to proceed in the making of Canons for the better Peace and Quiet of theChurcli; yet notwithfianding this Command, the Chief of the Clergy who well knew the Spirit of Hitternefs that was contVciCtcd againft them, and many ohjolete "Pamphlets againft their Jurifdiftion and Power, being revived and publifhed with Freedom, defi- red his Majefiy that the Opinion? of the Judges might be known and declared, whe- ther they might then lawfully Sit^ the Par- liament being dijjolv'^d^ and proceed to the making of Canons^ as likewife upon other Particulars in their Jurifdidion which had been moil inveigh'd againft. All '■'%^ ?L O Q^ tr E N C Er^ ^-'" All the Judges o( England upon a mature^ Debate in the Prdence of the King's Coun^ .r//, under their Hands afferted, iheTowe/" cfi the Convoc2iX\on in making Canons^ and thofe" other Parts o^ JurifdiBion which hacl. been fo envioufly queftioned. Hereupon" they proceed, and having compofed a Body of Canons^ prefented the fame to his Ma^\ jefty for his Royal Approbation, They were then again debated at the Council Board, and at length with the entire and unanii mous Advice of the Vrivy Council^ regularljr? confirmed by the Kj7ig under the Great Seal of England^ the utmofj our L^1£;j' require; and being publiflied, they met with a ge- neral Approbation in all Parts of the King- dom ; and I cannot forbear to add upon this Occafion, that tho' thefe Canons which made fo great a ftir at that time, are now by a general Confent as it were laid afide, yet I could never fee any good Reafon why they fhould not be equally Valid with the Canons of i6o^. This at leaft lam fiire ofj that it is much to be wifh'd that either Thefe or other Severe ones like them^ rela- jting to SeBaries^ were received into our £r- cleJiafticalConftitution, It was very foon after the Opening of that fatal "Parliaments that feveral leading Mem- bers of the Hotije made loud Complaints againft thefe Canons \ A Committee was appointed to infpect the Licenfes, Writs, nX E 4 and 5 6 EngJfJh Vreshyterian and Warrants of the Convocatiojt ; loon af- ter the Bufinefs of the Canons was debated, and feveral vmdent Speeches made againft them ; and the Commons ordered a Committee to draw up a Charge againft the dirchbi- Jhop of Canterhiry in particular, for being concernM in them, and at laft made thofe Canons the fifth oArticle of his" Impeach- ment. After this they proceeded to a Bill for fining the Members of the Convocations of the Two Trovincesy purfuant to an Order before, That the Honfe fI)ould conjider of the T^umflnnent due to the Convocation for making of the lafi New Cano7is^ and whe- ther they are Terfons fit longer to continue to hear any Ojfice in the Church or Com- monz^'calth. The fines propofcd amount- ed to the Value of Two Hundred Thoufaiid bounds. The next Method of PuniGhment was, by hn^eachm.eiit of the Hifoo^s who were con- cerned in compiling tliofe Co/iflitutions ; This Impeachment was often debated in the Houfe, and at laft the Qiieftion was by what Name this New Crime of the 'BifJjops fhould be called ; being, it feems, as yet an Offence unknown to the Laws of Right Rea- fon, the Goffel or thofe of the Laud ; and it prov'd a Matter of fb much Difficulty that the Serieant was fent to Summon the Lawyers in JVe/lminfier-l-JaJi to attend. One of ElO CLU E N CE. 57 of tlie Members was for maldng it Treafon^ but fotne of the mofi: eminent of the Long Rohe anfwer'd, they might as well call it eAdnltery ; at laft they came to thefe Refo- lutions, that the Debate fliould for that time be laid afide, and that no certain Time fhould be then appointed for RealTuming it. The 'Bijho^s that were Impeached were Thirteen^ and they delivered in their Anfwer in Writings confifting of a Plea and a De- murrer drawn up by thdv Council with fuch rtrength of Argument and Learning, that from that tirae the Impeachment funk away in Silence. Thefe Proceedings, together w^ith the In- fults of the Rabhle^ and the Preparations for War againft the /(/V/g", ftruck fuch a Terror into the reft of the Members^ that the 'BijJwfs difcontinued their Meetmg^ and the Lower-Hotife^ by Degrees, dwindled away. When the Fafl:ion had thus begun to dif- arm the Churchy and to bind both her Hands, her Executii/e 2ir\A Legi flat ive "Pow- er^ it was eafy to forefee that fhe muft from thai: time lie at the A/[ercy of every Ruffian who thought fit to affault her ; for when the Hedges of the Vineyard are broken down^ ( God himfeif has told us the Confequence) the Wild "Boar of the For eft will root it up ; and agreeable to this, before the fhort Re- giainder of this Tear expired^ a Tetition was prefented ■u i.-i ^8 Englijh PreshyteriM prcfented to the Houfe, complaining of the Government of the Church hy oArchhiJhopSy "Bifhops^ 'Deans^ &c. and praying that the faid Government with all its T)ependancies.y P^oets and "Branches^ may le oAhoIiped. Cavete Tofieri ! Chap. VIII. Reflexions of the Modern Presbyterians, upon the Clergy eAjfembrd in Convo- cation. WE can fee no better Apology for the Con:^ vocation that framed thefe Canons, than this that they feem only to have defign'd them for the'oldrully Armour of our Church, to hangup tor rerror rather than to be ufed for Execution •, and therefore were we of the Laity worthy to offer our Advice to a Convocmon, we (hoiild recommend it to them, to calhier thefe tlUnaturd Canons tor they are a )tanMng Refroach to our Church. Church ^Tie 'convocation think fit to keep up thefe Uons ftill, it were very great Chanty to c/.p Tadloch upon the Tongues of the People to pre- vent their running mto the pevds Clutches by fming too freely afainft the Orders of our Church. ^' The report of the Committee is become an 0|??a- JlmX fay no worfe of it, thrown m^^^thc ELOCLUfercK World as a Bone of Strife, farther to emhrailMan*- kind. The Report Reported, p. 8. .-.^^^y^^-, I am glad, when I fee Men ieek to govern tneir Faith and Pradice, not by the great Names of Men J Churches J Councils^ Convocations OX jiffemhlles ^ 1 rejoice to lee the Foundations fljakeny and the Fa- brick fnkingy as we never doubted kit it would fometime or other. Piercers Letter to Dr. Snaje. f. 29, 3^- There can be no doubt that the greatefl Num- bers in fome Ecclefiaftical Affcmhliesy inftead of fer- ving the Inter eft of Tntth^ have had fomething elfe principally in V/ew. Duty of Chrifiians. p. 9. 1 have made a fnort Inquifition into the Power of our prefent Convocations^ which may be of ufc to inform the People, how illegally that Party, which arrogated to itfelf the Title of the cmly true Churchmeny has afted in the Cafe of the Lord JBiJhop of Bangor, Convocation Craft, Preface. ..,,. The Report of the Committee is Pnblifhed in a very Jnfolerit Manner, and that it may bear th& greater Authority, and have the more Effed: to inflame the Minds of the Populace, who are too much Debauched already from their Loyalty, by the Seditiom Arts of the High-Church FaEiion j it is Publifhed as the JTote of the lower Houfe, Nemine Contradicente : This gives too much ground to fufped that the Puhlifhers at leaft did this with a Seditiom view, to poffefs the Nation with an Opi- nion, that the church is in Danger to be overturn'd by his Majefty, fince the Sermon was Publifhed by his Afajefiies fpecial Command. Ibid. p. 24. , '-Gentlemen of the late Committee of Convocation^ you fully are expofed to the Eye of the World, and I cannot but lament your Bufying your felves in an Jjfair which has turn'd fo much to your Dippnour. Church jinat. Dedications -"- Give I no 60 Englijh Treshyterian Give to the Committee its own Meaning, and nc but its owrij and Ti! call ic the Devils. Dai- ry m fie s Let. />• 45. The Convocation have fallen fiercely upon thofc who have fallen upon Vofc'ry and Jacohitifm. The Character of an Independent \Vm^^. p. 1 1 . In the Moon there are a Collation of ail the Souts of the Deceased Creed-makers^ V\^ho have at various times infefied thcChriflian Church ; and for the Bene-^ fit oi Aftronomers^ I inform them that the Sj^ot they find in the Moon and imagine to be ibme Bottomlefs Pit, is only a fort of a Convocation Hovfe. The Sy- md. p. p. Both Treatifes are intended to expofe the Ab- furditiy, and fhew the Ridicule of Broad-brirnd HatSy and grave Faces ^ meeting in Synods to reveal the Revealed Will of God, and to make Creeds and Confefjlons of Faith, and carry them by a Majority af Voices, Letter to the ArchbiJJjop of Canturbury. p. 26. I cannot conceive v;hat good fuch Jffemhlics can do, were it poffible that they were inclined to do it \ the common pretence is to make Faith, explain Religion-, and to teach the Holy Ghoft to talk intelli- gibly. Vain and Weak Man! As if the Almighty was not capable of making himfelf iindcrftood without their help, or as if a few fallible Mortals neither more Wife ox more Homfi than other Men were capable of D [[covering what the Almighty has a mind to Conceal. Jbid. p. 27. To give a Man to the Devil, Is an odd v.-'ay of keeping him from the Devil, which I, with hunv "ble SubmJflion to the Lov?er Houfe of Convocation, ignorantly imagined, v;as the profeflioa and Dw ty oi every Clergyman. Ibid. p. 35. Remarks. Bt/O (itf E NCE.^ 6l Remarks. TH E Obfervations I defignM for this Chaper^ lam inclined to lay afide till the Convocatio?ifits ; In the mean time, I would have no body think, that how vio- lent foever a Convocation may be in their proceedings^ a Treshyterial Synod falls at 2i\\JI)0Yt^ or is lefs oAbfolute in its Decrees ; a Confifiory of Treshyters being the very Quintejfence of Spiritual Tyranny^ and u- furps m.ore upon the Confcience of the Laity than the Tope^ and his whole Conclave to- gether. What "Beargarden Synods muft we ex- pefl:,ifGod permits our Enemies to triumph in the Silence of our Convocation^ and in the Ruin of our Church T)ifc inline ? What a Hotch'Totch of Herejie and Ignorafice confpired in the Com-^qfition of an oAjJemhly oi Divines^ in the late Times of Ufurpa- tion ? Their Charafler , take in the Words of the Noble Lord Clarendon. Vol, x. f. 415. " So that of about one hun- " dred and twenty of which that a/4/i ^'^femlly was to confifl, they were not " above twenty, who were not declared' ^' and avow'd Enemies to the T>oBrine or " Difcipline of the Church of England ; fome '_ ' of them Infamom in their Lives and Co?h " verfations 62 Enghjh Vreshyterfm " verfatiofis^ and mod: of them of vefy *' mean Tarts in Learning ; \i not of " Scandalous ]gnora7ice^ and of no other ^ Repitation than that of Malice to the *' Church of England " and much the fame Charafter is hkevvife given of them , by the incomparable oArchLiJhop Laud. Comp. Hifi. F. J. f. 135. Whofe >y? Martyrdom was his Hving to fee this eAJJembl) ConvenM. " A great Part faith *^ he, if not the greater Part of them, ^' were 'Brozmiifts or Independents^ or A^^w ** England Miniflers^ if not worfe^ or at " beft RefraHory Terfons to the 'VoHrine^ ^' or T>ifcifline^ or both, of the Church ^ of England Eftablifh d by Law , and ''now brought together to Reform it: >' An Excellent Co?ulave [ This without " God's In/inite Mercy will bring forth *' a Schifmj fierce enough to rend and " teav Religion out of this Kingdom. ...Such was the £;/^///7; Affembly of Learned^ and G(?i/y T)ivines^ the like to which, cer- tainly had never met in the Chriftian World before ! efpecially, if it be confider'd, that xhtoAfjemhly began with a manifeft Invafi- -On of the Rights of the Clergy^ as we41 -known, as any other Laws of the Kingdom ; -Avas fubftituted in the room of a Regular :and Legal Synod^ at that time in being ; to which they were on all Accounts of Life and Learning y utterly hiferiour \ That : : they :ELOQ^UENci. 6'^ ^tliey fubmitted (contrary to their own Pri- tVate Opinions of that Matter) to be called together in fuch a Manner, and on fuch Jgnominiom Conditions^ as deftroyed the ve- ty Ejfentials oi 2l Synod ^ and was at laft their own DeftruBion^ and in effeft, that of Chriftianity it felf, as making Religion a pure Matter of State^ and all this to compleat the Ruin of that very Order of ^ifljo^Sy which had always Composed the firft and greatefi Councils of the Chriftian Churchy and prefided in all the other Synods of it , for fifteen Ceitturies of Years together ; that they were interfperM with ^rownifts^ Independents^ and others of fuch ftrange Opinions and Principles, as I believe were never before brought into a Synod of the Chriftian Church ; Add to this, that the greater part of them had not only been RefraBory and T^ifohedient to all the Orders of their Spiritual Governors^ but had alfo their Hands, ftained with the B/o<5Jof a moft Wicked and Execrable Re» ielliony and fome of them afterwards in :that of their Trince alfo ; that they were ..not CountenancM with the Authority or iPrefence of one Jingle "Bijhop (without which the Chriftian Work! never faw a 5y- ^nod for fifteen hundred Years) who fat a- -mong them in any other Capacity than that -,Gf a private Divine, That they were ne** j-yer permitted to do ih&very fhingSox which V-;.: "^ it ■^T 6^ Engl/ffj Treshyterian it was pretended they were SummotPd^ but 'Defpiffdj Controtded^ and kept under by their Lay Q.4jJeJJors and Mafters^ and made ufe of as meer Tools by the moft wicked Comhmation of Men, (tliat ever met in any Nation) to ferve the viUft furfofes ; flidi as promoting an Oath and Confederacy of the blackeft Nature, Countenancing the o- ther Proceedings of a moft Horrible RebeU Vion^ and working the Rui7t oix\\2X. very Church to which they were engaged by fo many Oaths and Suhfcripions^ and which it, was pretended, they were only to Reform. In a Word, a Synod (if it be not an oAlufe of that Name) which never feem'd to have any Senfe of what ufually was the Bufinefs of othtv Chrifiian Councils^ or to have any regard to the Orders and "Decrees of the Councils of the firft Chriftian Ages ! • A Synod of Godly Men , which was more divided than thofe Scandalous Terfons whom they fupplantedj . who inftead of Advan- cing the Turity of the Gofpel, did the great- eft Differvice .to the Chriftian Name ; ha- ving in plain Terms promoted oAtheifm. in the Nation, and who at laft funk away, the Contemp and T)erifion of their own Makers^ the Scandal of that, and the oAb- horrence of all future Ages ! C^M A p. E L 0 Q^U E N C E. 65 Chap. IX. Modern Reflecrions of Presbyterians upon the Univerfities of Oxford and Cam- bridge. "TX jT H A T a To^IJIt, Impious j and RehelUom Spi- V\ rit Reigns at Oxford^ they themfelves fave me the trouble of Declaring. Dlf^ffcEtion is promoted, open and BUck Perjury is juftified, and it is held lawful to defie Almighty Vengeance for a Morfel of Bread, A Man's Coffcience is tried by an Oathy and he that can fvvallovv any, has none. One of the Greateft Men of the laft Age, told King IVilllamy that the Vmverfties^ if they continu'd upon the prefent Foot would deflroy Him or the N-ition^ or fome of his Succejfors, and they have ever fince been Endeavouring to make Good his Words. That Prince was fo throughly appri- 7.ed of the Dangerous Genius and Principles of thole two Bodies of Men^ that he intended a Re^ gulatioriy but as it is faid, was prevented by the Peraiciom Advice of the late Duke of S- — who had at that time gained the Kin£s Confidence, and was at the Head of the WhigSy but was betraying both. How far, and how fafl thcfe Seminaries have llnce then corrupted and inflamed the People, every Body knows, and the Kation feels- Had it not been for them, we (hould have had lighter 'Taxes ^ ^Vid^ fewer Soldier s, CharaEier of an Indcpeu' dent Whig. p. 1 1, 12. The Clergy of the Church of England never F fhew'd 66 Englijh Preshyterian fhew'd thcmfelvcs in fo fair a point of view as lately, when a Seminary of Leamivg and Religion was turn'd into an Afylum for Rebels and TraytorSy and when a Gang of the mofc vile and profligate TapiBs were concealed and proteded at Oxford j and I mnfl fay this to the Honour of that 'Foun- dation of Learning, that it fecms to have laid afide the Sin of Hypocrijie^ for now the whole Study and Labour of too many of its Members, are openly employ'd to ])romote Popery and Rcheliio?; -^ nay, fuch is their Zeal for fo Gloriom a Caufe, that they feem defirous to fuffer for it, and therefore I hear- tily wifh that thofe who hav;^ it in thcii Pcivcry will be fo good as togratifie them in that particular. Zsal of the Tories^ p. 12. 'No Toung Peda?n or Bout efeauy that came rcekino- from either of the Vni'verfttics^ but as f()on as he Mounted the Pidpit^ all his little flock of liloqvence and Divinity was laid out in lying againft the Dif- [enters. Reafons for anZJnicn. p. 36. 'Tis a pretty thing for a young Fellow that has been perhaps a Servitor in a College, jull come from running of Errants to be all at once made a Spiritual Prince: This conceit makes the poor young Fellow 5frz/r, and look haughty, contemn the L^/- ty^ and treat all Mankind in fuch an Inhuman way, as none could do but a Petulant Priefi.* Chrift'ia- 7iity no Creature of State, p. 16. One would think that the pert Sophifis, that are fent from thence on Tory Miffwis were rather pof- fejfed than infpir^dy and thai: inllead of a Gcnim they were each acted by a Dctmon. Faction in Pow- er, p. 55. The Great Original of the Immorality and ScandalcHs Lives of thofe Wretches^ who call them- fclves at this time the Clergy^ is the preftnt dege- nerate State of the Vmverfitles. where they are bicd E L O CLU E N c Er 67 bred, and where they imbibe Principles of Levity and Profanenefs^ inftead of Piety and Learning. Re a fans for vifiting. p. 7. What wonder will it he, that the in^eriour CUt'^ gy are dcbandvd in Morals ^ diiloyal in PoUtichy Heretical in Principles, Profane in Converfatiorjy when we (hall trace them back to their Erudition^ and find that they are bred up in all thefe at the .Colleges \ where they fuck in Flee inftead of Virtue^ Profligate Manners in Head of /Mode fry, and Sobrie^ ty, and Profvnenefs inllead of Piety ? There they learn'd to trifle with Oaths, Avallow them carelefly^ obferve them negligentlyy and conllrue them Jefui^ tic ally. Ibid' ]?• I5» The Deligence of the Inferior and Dignify'd Clergy^ in Debauching the Minds and Morals of the Country, the Encouragement they give by their Wicked Examples to all Manner of Ficc and Immo^ rdity, whence are we to derive this, but from the Pradice of our Vniverfities, that are now become Schools of Debauchery and Harbourers of all ibrts of T'^ice ? The Heads of Houfes, ProBors, Vice-Chancel" lorsy Sec. are too vifibly Men not of like Paffions only but of like Vices with other Men. Ibid p. 23. Under fach Tutors the Touth have grown up to a degree of Wickednefs j^aft Recovery , from hence we fee a dreadful Defedion of Iiiorals, even in every Corner of the Nation, among thofe who ferve at the Altar, and Adminifter in Holy Things 5 to the Abominable fcandal of the whole Body^ and the Increafe of Vice and Profanenefs. p. 25, 16. The Impreflions which the ill Government of the Vniverfities permits an early habit of Wicked- nefs to make in the Minds of the Students, is the reafoa of Propagating the like Vices^ and living F z in 68 Englijh Vreshytenan in the like Wicked PraBkesj in the feveral P.^-rijljcfy where the Students happen to fettle. Jhid,-p. 30. The Streams of a Keigbouring Vyiiverfity have run ib fouly and corrnpted our Touth to Popery^ that om Gracious Sovereign was forc'd to be at the Ex- pence of part of an Army to cohabit there for fome time, to quiet thofc Cracicus Babes. Snake in the Grafs b^'ought to Light, p. 2f. What a Blcfled and Happy Nation had we been by this timCj if the Learning and Eloquence of our Vnivtrfjlcs and Clergy had been einpioy'd in pro- moting true Piety iuflead of Perfecution^ and the private Intcrcfrs of Priep under the Name of the Church ! Aiiller\ Account, p. 1 96". A Proud Pofi^i^ Fierce and Vnfociahle Spirit, a Spirit of narrownefsy Party Ce-nfcrioufncfs^ and Bi- gotry has prevailed in Oxford^ ever fince the Refor- mation. State A'riar. j)art 1. p. 71. Little other DlfcipUne is regarded, exxept as to the wearing of Habit s^ Capping Mafiers and Fellows^ with 1 know not what Fooleries befides. Ibid. p. 72 Remarks. TH E Dcfign of tliefe Univerfity men- A ders., in traducing the Charafter I' and Difcipline of thofe Leanied 'Bodies^ is to render them odious and fufpefted to the Gover?/meritj and to bring down a f^ifttatio?^ upon them. But what was the Effect of fuch Proceedings in the L^te Thnes ? Inftead of Lear?ii7ig and Humanit)'^ 'Barharijm and Cruelty fucceeded ; and thofe Seats oi Loyal- ty and oArts were vifited into Fields of 'Blood, E L O Q^ U E N C E. 69 "Bloody and Nurfcries of RelelUojt^ Idle- 2iefs^ Ignorance and Hy^ocrifie. Thus were thofe Eyes of the Nation put out, and the Univerjities fell (as they will again, if ever they fliould fall) by the Hands of fome of their own moft 'Defpica- lie Members ; but the Horrible Tarricides could never wreil: this particular Honour from them, that they expired at lall, as well in Conformity to, as in 'Defence of his moft Sacred Majefiy^ Difclaiming and Re- iiouncing with their laft 'Breathy the "Pre- tended oAuthority of that Rebellioii^ Tower j \vhich enabled thefe Ufur^ers to Vifit, Ar- raign, Condemn, and Barbaroufly Murther them. And to fnew how nearly Lear?iing as well as Religion and Loyalty are Allied, they w^ere the laft Offering made to the 'Bloody Idol of Rebellion^ before the Dread- ful and Portentous Sacrifice of his moft Sa^ pred Majefty^s own Perfon ; and farely the moving Epilogue v/hich the Lord Clarendon fubjoyns to the Year, 1648. (in which he informs us the Oxford Vifitation was at its height) may well be thought to regard this among the other peculiar IVickedneffes of it : '' A Year dihifamy (faith that Noble Hi- ^^ fioriaii) above all Years which had palTed ^' before it, a Year of theliigcll: "Diffimula- ^^ tion and Hipocrijie^ of the deepeft Fillany f' and the mofl: 'Bloody Treafons that any ^^ Nation was ever Curfed with or Under ^ F 5 '^ A yo Enghjh Vreshyterian *' A Year in which the Memory of all tlie ^^ Traniaftions ought to be raz^d out of all ^^ l^ecoYcu\, left by the Succefs of it, oAthe- ^^ ifm^ Infidelity and Kelellion fhould be *^^ Ptopagated in the World ! IVlay thefe lamon6 Untverfities continue (ns rhey have ever been) the Beauty and the Glory o[ the Chri/Ii an IVorld ; may they alw^avs teach and practice the Generous Frinciples of true E?iglijh Loyalty^ and ne- ver lift up their Hands, but in the Defence and with the Authority of the Crow^: ; or ever refufe to lav down their Nech. when the moft Righteous Caufe of L^jT?//;;' and Religion fhall require it ; may G.4fu^ied Ma- jefy always find a refuge in tlieir Leav/zingy Courage and Fidelity^ and may they ftill fupply tlie Church in thole great Numbers which they have hitherto done, w ith fiicli T)ivines ; as Chrijlianity WTiS never other- wife bleffcd witlia!, without tlie Supernatu- ral A/Fiftance or Inlpratton ; may they be alwavs Jealous and Watchful over the /;/- ejlimahle Jewels of the Croirrt^ and of the , Mitre : May they fpy the "Danger^ which at any time tlrreatens either of them, from afar^ Proclaim it aloud 2^ k Approaclics, and never want a Man wliofcr .>/(j;/'s falie will not Iio'id his Teace. but holdiv rufh in- to the midftof t\\Q great efiTeriJs^ ?sA pre- fent himfelf a Sacrifice (o\: his Religion and his Trince : may thefe szreat Ltin^in^yies of our E L O Q^U E N C E. 71 our "Britif!? iVorld fliine as bright, and en- dure as long as the Sun ; and may the great Father of Lights himfelf continue to be, not only their Ughty but their Salvation ; and let Gemiine Ignorance^ let full and con-^ firmed Stupidity^ let Covetoufnefs^ ^P^^^ffi" Ignorance^ be the Plentiful Tortion of all their Enemies^ as they eminently were of thofe who under the Pretence of a Vifitatiou invaded and deftroyed them ! ®s!) ®S^ (S^ ®g) ig^ '^^S^ ®S^ (^5?; ^g)S) (g® (^ Chap. X. RefieHions of the Old Presbyterians u^on King Charles the Martyr. L, E S S the King, O Lord^ mollljle his hard __ Hearty that delighteth in Blood : Let thy hand we pray thee, O Lord our God, be ufonhirrij and on his Fathers Houfe. Dugdde\ J^iexo- p. 568. Charles Stuart ^ the Son of that Murtherer^ is Proclaimed King of England^ whofe Throne of Iniquity is buik upon the Blood of Saints and Mar-* tyrs. Door of Hofe. p. 5. -The ^iurtherers of our Saviour were lefs guilty, than that Prince* Cafe of King Charles, p. 48. Let Juftice and Reafon bluffi, and Traytors and MurthererSy Parricides^ and Patricides, putonipkVc Garment 5 y and re Joyce as Innocent Ones, if this Man King Charles (hould cfcape the Hands of Jufiice and F 4 Punifhment* 72 EngUflj Vreshyterian tunl^ment, Eng* Traajl. of Scot, DecUr, p. i 2. 1650. '^'"'Charles the Secondj the Son of a Bloody Father^ Heir to an EntaWd Curfe, more certain than to his Kingdom^ Traiii'd up in Bloody and one that never fucVd any other Principles than TrerogMive and Ty- ranny' Ibid. p. 23. Charles the Firfi rather chofe to fubmit to the Jufiice of an Ax in a Hangman s Hand^ than to fway a Scepter with Equity. Nonefuch Charles Pa. 167. We propound that That Capital and Grand Aiu thoY of all our TrouhleSy the Perfon of the King may be fpeedily brought to Jufiice for the Treafon, Blood and Jldifchtef he is guilty of. Army\ Rcmon. 1648. Set fome of thofe Grand MalefaBors a Mourning, that have can fed the Kingdom to Mourn fo years in Garments rolled in Bloody by the Execution of 'Jufiice. Brooh before the Com. 1648. p. ip. As for that neccffary and Publick AB of Jufiiccy I never repented at all that I had a hand in it, nor after all the Searchings of Heart about hj did fee caufe fo to do, when at any time I had the nioft ferious and calm Refledtions upon it. Three Kegi- cides Speeches^ p. 58. Touching the Righteoufnefs of the Sentence pafTed upon the King^ doubtlefs never was there any Per- fon under Heaven ^ Sentenced with Death upon 77iore equitable and jufl Grounds ^ in refpecfl of Guilt and Demerit. Defence of the Honourable Sentence, p. ^o. It is now High time for the Parliament' and Ar- jny concurrently to appear to do their Duty^ not only in Executing jF/zj^/V^ upon the Perfon of the K'mg and his Adherent s^ but alfo in new Mcdelling the Government. Did not thh Grand pretended Fa^ ther of this Kation deftroy a Multitude of hi^ ^E L O CLU E N C eA 73 hrit' Children^ and would he not g>dly have Slain all the reft upon further Opportunity ? Was it not high time the Paliament fhould Execute Judgment upon- him ? ihc General and his Council do, and have performed their Duty in all their Proceedings, concurring with the Parliament to Execute the Grand Delinquent^ and alfo upon fome of the chief of his Wretched Counfellors and Adherents- Little Benjamin* f. IT, T2, &:c. • Hath not the King been a Corrupt Fountain^ poy- foning every Stream and Rivulet^ he had accefs un- to ? And would he not have done fo ftill, if he had not been cut off} And is not Justice Executed a good Means to eflablifhn the Faith of the Land in reft and Peace. Ibid. f. 15. ShaW the Parliament of England be now blam'd for cutting off the Race of Vfurpers and TyrantSy and reducing Affairs to their firft Natural and Right Principle ? Or will the People of England, after all their Experiences center their Libmies and Free^ doms in a Cuflomary Vfurpation of Succeffion^ and lole their Commonwealth for the Perfonal Glory of a Toung Pretender f The Portrait* of the Kings of Eng- land,, p. 15. There is no Power but is of God ^ is not the late King with his Heirs and Succejfors difpoffefs^d by God f Saunders at Exet. p. 24. As for the Title of this Prince (who would fein be accounted the Right Heir) let us but remember from whence he had it, and how 'tis now tainted ? Were it never fo juft, the Treafon of the Father hath cut oif the Son. Charles the Father is gone to his own place, and fo is Charles the Son like wife ^ he being in his own proper Nation Scotland, let ns keep him there^ if we be Wife, and intend to be h^ppy '■) and let England difdain to be under the Domi- 74 Englijh Treshyterian Domination of a Frz-eign Power for the fiitiiie. True Portrait, p. 39, 42. To have brought the King to Condign Pimi(hmentj hath not broke ih^Covcnamy but it would have broke the Covenant to have faved him from thole "Judicatories y^\\\c\\ both Nations declared in that Covenant, to hQ Siipream againll: any Perfbn what- foever. God hath teftified by all Profitiom and £- vident Signs, whereby in thefe latter Times he is wont to teflifie what pleafes him, that fuch a So- lemn, and for many Ages unexampled Act of due Punifiment was no Mockery of Juftice, but a mo Mi- grate ful and well'plenfing Sacrifice. Neither was it to cover their Perjury, as he accufes, but to uncover his Perjury to the Oath of his Coronation. Afiltons Eihnoclaflesp. 229. I cannot confefs any Guilt, It is fiich a Caufe that the Martyrs would gladly come from Heaven to fujfer for if they might. I look upon it as the moft no- hie, and high Ach of Jnftice, that our Story caii Paralel. Cook's Speech, p. 4.1. Remarks. HERE you have the Great Chamfions of the Treshjterian Caufe, calling like Horfe-Leeches for "Blood \ "blood, and with the fume Lifs that had called God a Thonfand times over to witnefs the Integra ty of their Hearts, and the Loyalty of their hitentio?ts, and with Imfrecatio7ts alfo, not to be mentioned without Tremlling. You would take thefe G^J/)' M/V/i/Z^rj (as they Stile themfelves) to be Minifters rather of a Cor^or at io?i of commori Executioners^ than of E L O CLU E N C E. 75 of an oAiJhnUy of T)ivines ; and yet thefe Practices are recommended as the Injprati^ ons of the Gofpel^ and they impioufly afcribe to the Holy Goclj one of the moft Execrable oAcls of Injuftke and Cruelty^ that was ever committed upon the Face of the Earth, lince the Crucifixion of his 'Blejjed Son. They made a Sale of their Sovereign in a Tresbyterian Market^ like a common Slave^ and when he defired only the comfort of fome of his own Chaplains^ or a Common- Trayer-'Book in his laft T)iftrefs^ thefe un- cbrijiian Hypocrites did by a Formal Refo- Itttion of State, refufe that relief to their Lawful Trince^ which was never knowa in any other cafe to be denyed to a commo7i Felon, Tlius did the Treslyterian copy after the 'Barbarities of a Spanifj7 Inquijition^ and (however he may think himifelf injured by tlie Compari[o?i) publickly alTert one of the mod Bloody Tenets of the Tafifis. For is not the Docirine of IDefofing and f(jUing of Kings J that upon which the Power of Rome ftands, and by which it keeps up its oAwe and eAuthority upon the Kingdoms of the Earth ? Is it not the darling Trinci* pie of that Churchy and the choiceft Jewel the Tope has in his Cabinet ? So that thefe Rebels could not Iiave taken a more ready way to gratifie the Enemies of God and his Churchy than by doing as they did. And if 7 6 Englijh Vreshyterian if they had purpofely contrived to get into Favour with his Holinefs^ the mofl likely Method that could be thouglit of, was to remove that "Blejj^ed Trhice out of the way, that always Hood the Felice and "bulwark to our Religion and Lazfvs^ againfl: the bold Invafions of Error and Superfiition. So that no doubt the Tafal Conjiftory owes the Covenanting "Brethren a great many thanks, for the Signal Service they have done them, fincc thefe Good Men have anfwer'd any De- fign the Tofe could have had upon the Royal Martyr^ as efFeftually, as if the Ho- ly Father had difpatched a CGmmi(fio?i of Jeftiits on purpofe upon that Errand. mi^^ C H A P. XL Reflexions of the Modern Presbyterians upon King Charles t he Martyr. LE T not the Church of E'rigUnd become a Name of fuch Trcafonable Importances that it mull belong to none but to that Facllo-a^ whofc Religion lyes in Saint ing their A^artyr Charles the FirB 'y whofe Reign was fpent in Plottir7(r and Cori- triving to fubvert the Religion^ La-vs and Liberties of the Englijlj NMion^ and who (notwithdanding the Sham oi Icon B^fiUke) its fear'd would have be^n anoth4:r John B^ijtlovltz.^ if he had profper'd hi /T n E L o 80 Enghjld Treshyterian Court condemns him as guilty of the Charge. { wonder how it came about, that his N^ime was incerted in the Calendar^ having no Example or Authority for it, unlcfs it was by the Means of his Father the Pope. Example there is none, for h^ is the Frrft King Canoniz'd as a A^fartyr iox fujjeryng as a Criminal * and Authority there is not any. Now, Gentlemen, endeavour after a Hearty Re^emarice for the Idolatry you have been guilty of, to blot him out of the Cale?idar of your Hearts, and out of Your coynmon Calendar, for you find he has no- thing to do to fit there, p. 45, 45, &C. 1 could never fee the reafon to think the Sin of thQ Thirtieth of January was ci National One ^ that Ihould oblige us to fafl Tcarly, fo long a time after it. Pierce on the Thirtieth of jiinuary^ Preface. Every one of the Stuarts^ cither favoured or profcfs'd, or promoted Popery y the late incompa- rable Queen Mary excepted. State Anat. Pa. i.p. 5. Their Obfervation of Feftivals, and in a particu- lar manner the Thirtieth of January ^ is as Superfti- tious as the Obfervation of Popi^i Feajls. Toryifm the rvorfi of the trvo^ p. 1 1 . 1 have read ot a Afonarch, a Glorious Churchman^ for whom once a Year many Godly Revillngs and falfehoods are utter'd, and many Handkerchiefs wet, Vv'hobefides many otliCr Inflances of his Sincerity find Devotion^ fwore to the Ffpoufals of one Lady^ while he was engag'd hy Heart and Hand to ano- ther whom he afterwards Married. Alberoni's A- fol. p. 9. On every Thirtieth of January^ how many Butchers does he fend home, calling for their Cleavers to hew in Pieces all the Presbyterian Demons that had ^a hand in the Slaughter of the Martyr? Alberoni's Apd. f- 30. • /i Tj R E M A B R S. E L O CLU E N C E. Si Remarks* AFalfe Notion has been taken up of Late Tears ^ as if it were incon- fiftent with the Temper of a Chriftian to inveigh againfl: the Treafon of thofe Regi^ cides^ who imbrued their Hands in the 'Blood of their Martyred Sovereign ; as if it became us rather to caft a Veil over it^ than to expofe it to Tublick View^ and as if the Memorial of it ought at laft to be difoontu ntiedj left by ripping up Old Sores we Tranfgrefs the Bounds of Charity and Mo- deration. But are Murder and Rehellion Sins that ought to be touch'd gently, and to be hand- led with Caution and Tender?iefs^ or are thofe Sins become lefs Abominable in our Days, than they were in the Days of our Fathers ? Has not the Legiflative oAutho^ rity fet apart a T^ay, that the Guilt of that Sacred "blood might be confcfs'*d and lament- ed, and fhould that Guilt on fuch Occafions be ftifled, extenuated^ dijjembled ? Is it feafonable to Preach againft Rebellion on the Ftfch of November, and is the fame Do- £i:nne unfeafonable upon the Thirtieth of 'January'^, Are Treafon and Rebellioi^ lb Indifferent Thi?igs, that we ought not to Cenllire Rebels and Tarricides^ who fpend the Q,4nniverfary Fafi in Clubs and "Debauch" G es ? Eyfglijh Preshyterian es? Have any Alteration been made of late in the ' Pec alogtie? And is the Fifth Cow.mand7ne?it that enjoyns Reverence to Gdv^ernors, or the Sixth which prohibits Mvrther^ repealed ? The Defign of *P«^-. ltc\ rjAutho^ity^ by fetting apart the TA/V- tieth of J.'iKuarj^ was not only to mention the Virtues of the Royal Martyr to his Eternal Honour^ but tobrand the Memories of his Mprderers^ to their Everlafting Re- proach ; and tho' v/e are told by Men of fretended Moderation^ that it is high time now to lav afide the Remembrance of Crimes fo long ago committed, that the Regicides have long ago anfwer'd for this fati^ at the Bar of Tuhlick Jufiice^ yet certain it is, that fuch an f^AH of Oblrvion is neither due to them by the Laws of God or Men ; for if to pei'petuate the Memory of Infamous Perfo/is were inconfiftent with a Goftel Temper^ if it were a Breach of Chriftian Charity to brand Traitors and Unrighteom Judges with Marks of Igno- miny, the Name of Judas Ifcariot, and Tontim Tilate had never flood recorded in our "Bibles. May that T>ays Solemn Faft never be for- gotten, never be blotted out of the Records of Time, whatever fome Men may defire ! May that ^Days Aftion be always Remem- bred, to the Shame and Everlafting Re- proach of thofe Men ! And to teach us and '-"^' our E L O Q.U E N CE. So; our Tofierity^ what we muft expefl: hereaf- ter, if e^er the Jri/iice of God for the Sins of this Nation fhould ever fuffer the Hand oitbefe Men to prevail again ! Chap. XII. The Blafphemous and Heretical Doftrines of the Old Presbyterians. OGive thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious] and his Mercy endureth for ever^ who rcmem- ber'd us at Nafeby^ for his Mercy, &c. Who re- member'd us in Pembrokepjlre, for his Mercy, &c. 'Who remember'd us at Lemftery for his Mercy, &c* Who remember'd us at Taunton^ for his Mer- cy, &c. Who remember'd us at Briftoly for his Mercy, &c, Dijfenters fayings^ part 2. Pa. %6. Honourable Patriots, Chrtft is gone out with his Triumfh'mg j4rms, conquering and to conquer^ and if you want Army, or Money, or Horfe, for their Accommodation, God is the great Land^ lord of Heaven and Earth : Art thou then God's 79- TJanty and dofl own him Knights Service^ and Plough Service^ and doth he want thine Horfe, and Ihall he not have it ? Tafd.ale to the Commons, p. T ^. O God, O God, many are the hands lift up againll: us, but there is one God, it is thou thy felf 0 FatheVy who doefi hs more mlfchiefthan they all. O Lord, when wilt thou take a Chair, and fit among the Houfe of Peers? And when OGod, when^I fay wilt thou Vote among the Honourable Houfe of Commons I V/e knaw O Lord^ tMt Jibraham- made G z ^Co^ y^" 84: Englifh Treshyterian a Covenant y and Mofesj and David, made a Oir-' ?7^w/-, and our Saviour made a Covenant ^ but thy P^r- liamenis Covenant is the greatefl of all Covenants^ I fay, this is Go^s Caufe., and if our God has any Caufe, this is it, and if this be not God^s Caufcy, then God is no God for me^ but the Devil is got uf into Heaven. Dugdales jlwrt View. p. 568. if God 6'^di not finifli the Good Work which he had bc,^un !n the Reform :;t ion of the Churchy he would IhvW himfelf to be thzGod ofConfuflon^ and fuch an cne as by cunning Stratagems had contriv'd the D/- , flruc^ionof his own Children. Short View* p. 56''f. Ifacc Majpj. ti ] xd^m^r at Uppingham y in Rut^ land^nrey having Confecrated the ('F/'??^, after his/^- J7;."^^?, fmote himfelf on his Breaft and faid to the People: As J am a faithful Sinner^ Neighbours, this is my Mornings Draughty and then turning him- felf about to them laid ^ Heres to you atl^ and fb drank up the whole C^p fz///. Ibid, 569. The Saints fhall have the fame IVorfiip^ Honour, Throne and Glory ^ which Chrift now hath, and fhall be endowed with a Greater Power of Miracles than Chrifi had, whilil on Earth. Erhury at Oxford Wood. Ant. lib. 1. p. 369. O Lord thou hall: given us never a Victory a long while, for all owx frecjuent Fafting -^ what dofl: thoii mean O Lord, to fling us in the Ditch^ and there leave m ? Vines at St. Clemens. Iprotefs, SaintSj we mull go and layourheadi together, -and conMt what we jh all ask God next ^ for he will give us whatfoever tr^ ask -.^ we mull agree to ask fomething now for Jefiis Chrifi^ for we have enough for ourfehes already. O Lord, when fhall we hear the found of ChrifFs Horfe Heels t peak at Bli fry. Aug. 8. and 11. 1653. What ailed you, ye mighty Armies at X^/wr^?/, Newbery, Tork^ Nafeby^ that ye jiid^ and were dri- •^ • ven E:p o ajq £ 1^ c e;. 85 mn backwards? Why, they iaw thee, O Jefnil They faw.theeappearinp, in themidftofus^ fb they^ fled ^^/<>rf tu. Sterry to the Com. 1^45, p- Z^V^^/'"^'- I ask whether the Rep^ntion of thefe Words COiir Father, &c.2 after Men have been long Praying for the Things contained in them, as the Manner ot fome is, be not fo remote from any Pretence or Colour of Warrant in the Scripture, ss that it is ill plain Terms rldkulom. Owen Vind. EvangeL f, 669. Where is the God o{ Mar ft-on Moor ^ ?.nd the' Gad of Nafehy, is an acceptable Expoftalation in a gloomy Day ? O what a Catalogue of Mercies has this Islation attain'd to in a Time of Trouble I God came from Nafehy, and the Holy one from the Welf^ Selah- Owen's Ebenez.€rj p. 13. The Covenant was the Parliament's Sip^^r^ and Buckley^ for when thQ Cavaliers fliall fee ye come armed with the Covenant, they will run^ run^ run from the Prefence of the Lord of Hofls* Cokman^S Exhort, p. 8. Let them firft ^lave their Headsj and pare their Nails J as the ftrange virgin of old was command* ed to do, and fo let them enter into that facred and dreadful Covenant* Bond to the Com^ 1^45^ P- 37. Chrift and his Apoftles were the greatefl of Conventicle-Preachers^ and almofl; preached no other Way. Hift.of InduL f. 17. There is no dallying with God now *, vawchDelay has been ufed already, too much ^ God is angry, and feems to 'ask once more, Will youftrlke? Will you execute Judgment^ or will you not ? Iwdl h ive the Enemies Blood and yours tooy if you will not execute Vengeance upon Delinquents. The Day of Venqemce is in my Hearty and the Year of my Redeemer is come* Cafe to the Com, 1544. p. 13. G 3 Go .^^■ 86 JEn^iJh Preshytermk Go on coiirdgeoufly *, never can ye lay out your Blood in fuch a Quarrel : Chrifl (hed all his Blood to Idve yon from Hdl-^ venture all yours to fet up him upon his Throne. Mar^iaCs Vanegyr. p. l\. You fipht for God^ you fight for "Jefus ChrlBy you fight for the Holy Ghoft, A Spiritual Knapfack for par Ham. Soldiers^ p-^l* Men fay that Faith is fufematural *, but how can it be above Nature to believe that which we fee fufficient Ground to believe ? And to believe any thing of which we have no plain Ground and Reafon, is fo far from being above Nature^ that it is below it, and proper to Fools, not to reafonable Men. Edwards\ Catalogue of Errors, p 3^* The Scriptures cannot be faid to be the Word of Cod ^ there is no Word but Christ \ the Scriptures are a dead Letter, and no more to be credited than the Writings of Men, not Divine, but Human In- vention, Ibid. p. 15. Right Reafon is the Rule of Faith, and we are to believe the Scriptures and the Dodrine of the Trinity, Incarnation, RefurreBion, to far as we fee them agreeable to Reafon, and no farther, p, \6. In the Vnity of the Godhead there is not a Trini^ ty of Perfons ^ but the Doftrine of tht Trinity be- lieved and profeflcd in the Church of God, is a Popip Tradition, and a Doctrine of Rome. p. 17. Jefus Chrifl is not very God, not God EJfentially, hut Nominally, not the Eternal Son of God by Eter- nal Generation i^ no otherwife may he be called the Son of God., but as he was Man. p. 18. We did look for^r^^f Matters from one crucified 2itjerufalem Sixteen Hundred Years ago, but that does us no goodj it mull be a Chrisi formed in Hi' Ibidf Chrillians in receiving the Lord's Supper fhould receive with their H^ts on^ with their Heads covers edj h O Q^U E NV-E. 87 €4-:, hx\t the Minifiers fhciild adminifter it with tl,Klr Hats ojf^ uncovered, p. 2<^. 'Tis as lawful to break any of th^Ten Comma?7d'^ nJ€nts, as to baptiTie an Infant -^ yea; 'tis as lawful to commit Adultery and Murther^ as to hapizjs a Child. Ibid. v? Remarks. NEVER but under the Government and Yn^utncQ <^iTresbyHr J W2iS there fo lamentable a Face of Things^ never fudi Variety oi Herefy^ fuch Wantonnels and Ex- travagance in TBlaffheming of God undep Pretence of Religion and Confcience ; and this is the State whither tht fame Mmimfr of Men are driving again. Experience, thejr fay, is the Miftrefs of Vooh ; but they are tools to be hegg^dj vi^hom even Experience, fo dearly purcbas^dy is not abie to make wifer. It would be happy for this Kingdom^ if thofe Dijjenters who have any real Concern for Chrijtianity^ would learn from this in- ftance of their deluded TredeceJJbrs, how little the Caufe of Religion (under all the Pretences of it) may be at the Heart of thofe with whom they have intrufted the ConduH of their Affairs ; and would confi- der whether their chief oAim may not be under Pretence of Liherty^ to make Ufe of their Alliftance, partly to State Tur^ofes, partly to lay the Mounds and Fences of all i- G 4 Re* 8 8 En^ijh Vreshyterim Religion level with the Ground. I muft own it feems to me very plain, that ihepre-^ fent Generation are much more inexcufa--- ble in their Attempts upon the EftahJiflh- ment^ than thofe I am now fpeaking of^ becaufe as Hyfocrify was in thofe Times brought to its utmoft "VerfeHion^ fo were the Pretences of pirer Religion always al- ledgM (by the few defigning Men that were deepeft in xh^Secret) with fuch an Air of Serioufnefs and Concern^ that I make no Queftiofl, but many Perfons of no inconftde' ralle CharaBer and Station, thought them, verily m Earneft. -r; ^r»^ - But thofe who for many Years paft have undertaken the Tatroriage of the T^ijjenting Caufe, have little lefs than profefl: and de- clared themfelves oAtheifts , have vented the worft and moft horrid 'Blafphemiesj have committed fuch Profanations as were fcarce ever heard of before, have lived in open Practice of the lewdeti Crimes^ have employed tht Tens and fupported the P^^v fons of fuch as have advanced Principles plainly deftruftive to all Gover^/me/jt (more cfptcmWy Ecclefiafiicalj^ or received the O- pinions of the moft known and condemn'd Hereticks ; In a Word, have ufed^ the La- bours of the worB and moft harden'* d W etches in the Caufe of Herefy, oAnareh)-, and Infidelity^ direding them to attack not the Church of England only, but Chrifiiani^ : ' I ffitrfeff, (as well in the 'B///^, as 'Irr' detail of GV try Fundamental oArtich^) and even the vcfyTieing of oAhnighty God: Inr^ fomuch, that were it allowable to mentiofi^ Particulars^ and produce the Names ana^ Charatriers of their Tatrons^ I might appeal^, to the Confcience of any Religious and Well^' meaning TDijJenter^ whether fuch Perfons are not more likely to eftablifh the oAlcora^C than tht Treshjtery. Nor muft it be un- obferv'd, that as the Defigns on foot againft^ Chriftianity^ cannot be acomplifhed without;^ a vigorous Affault upon thzt Churchy whicli is the greatefl: Ornament and Support of it^ nor that Aflault carried on by any Means , which promifesmore Succefs, than tliofe of fupporting the feveral SeHs among us, arid, arguing for them in thefe foifonows Tapers ; , fo have the Books and Writings of thefe. horrid "Blafphemers been, on that Account, greedily embraced by the Generality of the T^ijfenters^ their Arguments cherijhed (andi transfufed, for Want of other Men among them who could help them to any thing that looks ViktLearning^mto ^Mzhpoor Tamfhlets as any of them publifli) with great G/4fi» flaufes oi thofe Hack Terformatices^ an4 \t\y cool arid [oftning Declarations againfb the "Blafphemies : So"^that the prefent Con- tefts are not betwixt the Church and the Conventicle^ but betwixt Chriftianity and JnfideUtyi^ --And doubtlefs it muft be a great Degree po EngJiJh Preshyterian Degree of Malice which would purchafe the Ruin of the Church of England at the Expence of Chriftianity^ and had rather fee o/ltheifm flourilli than Epfcofacy\ which, Ihould the Party prevail at prefenr, would be the certain Event. Though I am un- willing to think it the dircfl: Intention of any other among them, than their feiv Chiefs. And, Good God 1 Will it be credited by oAfter-oAges^ that thofe who contend for the Turity and Reformation of Religion^ Ihould lend their Affittance to (uch Leaders ? And will it not appear douhly Monfirou^y if anv Members of the Church, whofe Ruin is 'in this defperate manner fought af- ter more efpecially any that frefide or wait at^her eAltars, be found, by concurring with thefe Men in many of their Opinions, excufing others, and continually peading for Favour to all of them, to give their Names and Countenance to fuch a Tarty f e(3i ig® (g® ®® Js:^ 'ss^ ^^ ®^ ®^®^ Chap. XIII. The Blafphemous and Pleretical Dodrines ' cfthe Modern Presbyterians^ TH E Divinity attributed to the Sort and Holy Ghoft is unfcripturd and Idolatrous'^ to be fhort, rrinitarlanlfm is Polythelfm and Jdolltry, if T ' ' there E L O (lU E N C E; 91 there be any fncb thing in the World. A Brief Confutation of the Doclrlne of the Trinity, p. 9? H* One of my old Acquaintance alv/ays thought the Moral f:irt of the Bible very good, but he alio thought that by the ftrength of his own Reafoa he could have writ as good a Mjral himfelf. An Ac-- count of the Growth of Dei fm^ p. 22. Does not every one as well as the Minifter equal- ly apply the Bread and IVine to the faine Holy and Spiritual ufe in commemorating the Benefits received by our Saviour^ and in offering up the fame Prayers^ and defiring the fame Bleffmgs ? And whoever does this with a due Application of Mind r^^f/y c^^/^- crates the Elements to himfelf^ fince this is the only €onfe<:ration they are capable of, any thing further than this may rather be called Conjuration^ than Con* fecration* Rights of the Chrifiian Churchy p, 108. And now I appeal to all Men that have any Free^ dom of Judgment remaining, whether this Creed of AthanafiHs is fit to be retained in anyC/?ny?-^^^3much lefs the Protefiant and Reformed Church? fince it fub- verts the Foundations not only oiChriftiamty-^ but of all Religion^ that is to lay, of Reafon and Revelation^ Brief Notes on the Creed of Athanafius, p. 7. Indeed Creeds were the Spiritual Revenges of diP- fen ting Parties upon one another. Ihe Hifiory of Religion, p. 312. But what Creeds and Articles of Faith can be pro* duced that are not doubtful and difputable^ that which goes under the nam.e of the Apoftles not ex** cepted •, It being i>either of undoubted Authority^ nor indifputable or unamhiguom Senfe in fbme Ar-^ tides thereof, though it be generally received by Chrijiians as venerable for its Antiquity^ and pro- fefled or rather f aid by ail, even thofe who under- Hand not what they fay when they recite it. The ynnafonablenefs ofimfojing Creeds* p» 14? 1 5' p^ Englijh Vreshyterian " lif thofe Writings which they call Holy Serif hires] ,^re of their fule^ as they all fay they are ^ 1 make iio doubt but they are of ihdr own Invemlngy and if thofe Powers which both Vafist and Proteftant Cler- gy claim to themfelvos, were founded h'^JefusChrifl their Patron, I think the old Romans did him Right in punijljing him with the Leath of a Slave. Account of Dcifm. p. 2^. Kor can I yet tel! how to fatisfy my felf to be prefent at the reading of a certain Creeds which I can't Believe becaufe 1 can't Vnder(la?2d it, and that too, when 'tis read diS tht Belief oi 2i\] ^refent^ and , 'tis expeded 1 fhould teflify my affent^;/ (iand- irfg. Letter to a Dijfenter at Exeter, p. 7. My Wonder is yet more rais'd when I confider upon what Jlight Grounds they build their confident Aflertion, that to believe in the Trinity is a funda- mental Article of the Chrilfian Faith '^ God has made the Articles of Faith plain and obvious to the tneaneft Capacity, p. 9. The Father is one God, in contradiftindion to Jefus Chriflr -^ v^h^nlSt. Paul fays, there is but one God, and that one God is the Father, does he not as fully exclude the Son and the Holy Ghofi from being but One God, as Words can do it ? Can any one think that St. Paul would exprefs himfelf thus, if he meant that Jefus Chrifi was not diftinB from that One God, or if he apprehended that Chrifi was a Mediator hQtVfQtn himfelf and them? The God-head is attributed peculiarly to the Father, and he as di- fiinguilh'd from the other Perfons is faid to be the One God* If the Father be the only true God, how can Chrifi be the only true God alfo ? Is it poflible there Ihould be two, who fhould each of them be the ordy true God? p. 12. :'^' Chril} E L o q^u^nce; p3 ChrlFlr had no Rational Soul diftind from the iVord^ which may well be underftood to fupply the JP/^c« of a Human Soul) p. 28. ^ J^ AfanWorjhip is Idolatry ^ our Saviour is a Man^ atid confequently not entituled to Divim Wprjhij, Sincere Thoughts of a Private Chrifiiariy p. 40. . ^ ^ , They who worfhip ChriB as God are Idotat'eti^ and notwithftandingany other Profeffions (if theirs, annul and make void all Hopes of Salvation j p. 49. ^^ Why may not every Man in difputable Matters^^ (fuch as the Doctrine of the Trinity) be fiifFered to enjoy his own Perfuajion without Moleftation or Difturbance ? Pierce at the opening of a new Meeting- houfe^ p. 20. In Religion it is an e^ahupj'd Rule, that the bet- ter a Man fees, the more occafion he has for a Cuidej and that he walks molt Safe that is moft Blindy efpecially if he has the good Fortune to be led by another full as blind' as himfelf Cardinal Alberoni'i Letter, p. 6. I wifh indeed that God's Will were the Church\ but pray God the Church's may never be God's, Away with this ridiculous Will of the Church! a- way with this ridiculous Notion of declaring the Will of God! Ridiculous indeed I Monsfrous! Aho" win able ! Dalrymple'5 Lmer, p. 13.. By the Word Church you may majiage the Mohy as Plowmen do Horfes by HJA WO— -Church (i. e. the Name of it ) the Moi are as fond of as a Child of a Hobby-horfe, Ibid. p. 40. I flatter my felf that by peruling the following DiiTertation you'll be fully convincM there is a Scnk wherein the Mahometans may not improperly be reckon'd and call'd a Sort or Sed oiChrilfiansy as Chriftianity was at firll efteem'd a Branch of Judaifm-^ and that confequently fhould th^ Grand Seignior in lift upon it, they might with as much Reafon and Safety be Tolerated at London and Am- fterdam^ P4 Englijh Vreshyterian iter dam, as the ChriFiians of evcrv kind arc fb at Corrftamimpte and throughout a? Turkey ^ you'll fee that Jefus did not, as *tis univerfally believ'd abolijh the Law of Mofesy neither in whole nor in part, Tipt in the Letter no more than in the Spirit, Final- ly, you'll difcover fome of the fundamental Do- Stvincs of Mahomet an if m to have their Rife from the earlieft Monuments of the Chrilfla?i Religion. Toland's Nazarenus, p. 5. In theBufinefs of Excommunication, do we not fee thdv Maker is made little better than their ixecutioner ? He is obliged not only to ratifie their Sentence, but to deliver the Perfon Excommunicate into the fafe Cuftody of Satan their Gaoler in Comi- tatu Hell. The Prifoner, the while, not finding himfelf a bit reftrained by his crediting Landlord the Devil, goes to the Court, and for a little Money is abfolved, be his Crime what it will, and this Sen- tence alio mufl: be ratified in Heaven, and the iox- mtxVnratlfied\ and the Great God, as if he were the Conftahle of the Court, mufl: take the Prifoner out of a Goal where he never was, and from the Cuflo- dy of a Coaler whom he never faw, and reinftate him in a Church which perhaps he never oivnd. Thus is the Creator of all Things, and the giver of all Good made the Inftrument of their Anger and Avarice, and a Property to bring them Reverence and Money. AlberoniV Apology, p. 1 2. A Parfon's Bull and his grey Pad feed on Tithe^ Hay and Corn, which is the Provender of thefe Brutes by Divine Right ^ and yet I never obferved they grew fatter upon this Divine Food^ than aLay Bull and a Lay Stone-Horfe, or were lefs addided to Carnality and Lewdnefs. Ibid. p. 24. 1 have fometimes coniider'd the ready AfTent which the Common and Illiterate People give to the Dodrine of the Tr////^, as deliver'd by the Ancient Gentry E L 6^0.1? EN C^ 95 Gentry of Nice, and for which they have Orthodoxly contended at times with all the World. It ieems difficult to place it to any Account fave this, that it is planted ia Human Nature by the Prejudice of Education, and maintained by Human Engines* But here I caution my Readers not to make too hafty or too natural a Tranfition from hence to the Ab- ^mAitits oii\\Q Turkifii Alcoran, or the Religion of the Brachmans in the E aft Indies, A fober Refly to v^r. Higgs, p. I, 2. Then as for your Begotten, or Proceeded^ I doubt- ed not to have feen them alfo diflinguijh^d from the red: of the Words in Size, if not Colour, as being efiahlijh'd Terms of Art, amongil the Mafters cAmo^ dern Arithmetic^ Ibid. p. 7. Remove all thefe Differences we will fairly own 'Three Perfons are really one, but 'till you do that, as I have learnt at the Writing School ^ I will continue to aflert that once One is not Three, and three times One are more than One. Ibid. 12. I agree with you intirely that the Multiplication of this Vnity by it felf and producing Three^ is an Jm fer feet ion, { was going Xo add ContradiB:ion,Inconfi' ftency, and a great deal more, but Mum ! Ibid. p. 22. I remember a few days fince in company with fome Gentlemen belonging to the Trinity Houfcy I made an Experiment upon the Old Applewoman^ the Corner of our Alley. I agreed with her for one Pipin, and chofe Three exadly alike for fize and . colour, and put them into my Pocket : The Old Woman demanded more Money, but 1 infilling that thefe Three Piplns were but one Pipin, and that it was as plain as the Nofe on her Face, Ihe immedi- ately rais'd a Mob upon us, and your Friends were fufficiently fatisfied how little Nature had to do in youvNevsiDifcoviry. Ibid. ]), zz-, Wc p5 Englijh Treshyterian We fee onr Saviour himfelf after his RefurreUion^ appealed to the rational Faculties oiThomas^ and fubjefts the Proof of the Facl to the Con virion of his own Senfes, without terrifying the poor fcrupi- low Fellow with the Language of our Hopeful Saim^ jithanafmi 1 mean ^ after whofe Example indeed, too many Modem Zealots have, and would fliil con- tinue to copy 7 and as an earneft of their Fire and Brlmftone hereafter, give the doubting ]Vretch over to Fire and Faggot here. Oh the irreiiflihle Force oi Human Engines when thus applied ! That Alex- andrian Creed-maker has done tu much Harm^ the Lord reward him* Ibid. p. 23. A Short Deteflation of the Athanafan Creed as thQ Herefy of Herefies \ which confifteth in nothing but Lies^ Nonfenfe^ and Blafphemy j all which is contained in the firfl: Jffertion^ as follows : (A Half Sheet differ s'd publickly in the Streets.) Lies *, In that it affirms that the Three that bear Record in Heaven^ is a Declaration of what God is by Nature Athanafim and his Followers are found to be inconfiftent Fools^ Liars ^ and Hereticks^ in that they (with him) in tJic Godhead^ pretend to give a Trinity of Defcriptions ; and he that gives Credit to this Herefy^ worfhips in the dark a com- frehenfible God, by which he jhall not be faved. It is a Lie to fay of the Son he is an Vncreated Being. Of thQ Torments of Heil) with many infallible proofs that there is not to be a Pumfljment after this Life^ for any to endure, that fmli never end» Printed 1720. Is it not a very ftrange thing, that themfelve- fhould expound Hell for a terrible and dieadful Place of Torment never ts end ? O honible Abufc E Lo du fi N c e: ^"J and Blafphemy againfl God and his M^ord ! and even all Men are deluded and deceived thereby \ verily, verily, they deferve the Kame they give to others oidenylngtheWordofGod^ p. 8. They are at a great Lofs to prove Hell by a plain place of Scripture truly tranflated, their Hdl efT'orments never to endy p. 17. Their Opinion of a Vunifliment never to end is contrary to the Word ofGodj in that it doth main- tain that the Wicked fhall have tternd Life, p. 37.^^ If Ada,m had not finned he fhouldhave dled^ p. 38^ \i Adam had not dled^ he fhould have continued in this World, he fhould not have gone to the World to come, therefore by his Fall he loft no Happinefsj nor Eternal Life in that World, for he could not by ihatFall lofe more than he had and was to have, p. 39.^ It is evident that the Tmljloment of the old Serpent the Devil, of the Woman, and oitht Man, for their Sin are only Punifiiments of this Life, there is not the leaft Word of any Pumfijment after this Life, much lefs of a Punifhment never to end, p. 41. The Word faith, God's Fury is like Fire, in the Fire of his Jealoufie he jljall make a fpeedy riddance- cfall them, in the Day of the Lord's Wrath, Ezek. i. 18. but to continue in Torment for ever is no fpeedy Riddance J therefore there is no fuch Punijloment tq^ be, p. 47v v^, 1 : Remarks. NOtwxthftanding the Safety the Church enjoys under the Adminiftration of thtfrefent Towers, yet Chrifiianity furely was never in fuch T)iflrefs fince Chrtft had a Church upon Earth ; for I verily believe that never were the Miniflrs of Chri/l p, H abufed 98 EngVifh Treshytenan abufed and vilified, never was the 'Divine e/irfthority of the Scriptures fo arraign'd and ridiciiPd, never were fuch Horrid TDlafphe- mies printed in any Chriiiian State^ from the Foundation of Chriflianit) to this Day. The Prefent oArchbzflwp of Canterbury ( the jiifpofed ^Author of a Letter to an E- m\ntntTresh)ttrian Clergjman m Switzer^ la?id^^ gives a melancholy Account of the prefent State of Religion in England, '' The Church of England,, fays he, is " broken by ''Parties,, and rent by SchifmSy ^'* and iii fhort difiraHed with fuch a Num- '*• her and Variety of Sefaratifts that they " want apt Names to diftinguifli them- ^' felves from one another, and to defcribe ^^ thcmielves to the reft of the World. '' And I wifli even this were our higheft *' ground of Complaint ! But it mufl: be ful- *=' filled what the Holy Sprit foretold in " times paft, fo that among our felves ^' Men have rifen fpeaking ferverfe Things, ^' But why do I fay Men? When even Ta- *' ftors,^ nay, 'Bifhops themfelves pull doWn '' w^ith their own Hands thcChurch in which ^^ they Minifer^ and to whofe Dodlrine ^' they have over and over juhfcrihedj even *' thev to whom the Prefervation of the ^' Church is committed, and whofe Bufinefs *^ and Duty it is to watch againft her Ene- '^ mies,, and to oppofe and reftrain, and pa- " nifh them. Yes, they ftrive to under- " mine E L O Q, U E N C E. 99 '^ mine and overturn tliQ Authority of the *' Churchy for which they ouglit not only " to cofitend^ but if occafion were, to lay " dow7i their Lives, ''- Lee it here fujEce to fay^ in one Word, ^^ that thefe Men are angry at all Confefli- " om of Faithj and d.\[Subfcripions o? oAr- ^' tides J and are for granting ^general Li- ^' herty^ or rather a general Licenfe to all ^' Men not only to believe^ but to fpeak and -^* write^ and f reach whatever they pleafe, ^' tho' at the Expence and Ruin of the Grace " of the Holy Sfirit^ the Divinity of our ^^ liU'ffed Saviour^ and all the other Funda^ '' mental Trinciples of our Religion. " Who that is a Chrifiian, can, without ^' Aftonifliment hear thefe Things of Men ^' th^t call themfelves Chrifiians ? And who ^^ can avoid lamenting that thefe ravening ^' Wolves are not only not driven far away " from the Sheeffold^ but even received " within the very Inclofures of the Chtirchj " and admitted to her Honours^ Iiqv 0/fices^ ^' and her Government^ and yet fo unfortu- " nately it is. " But while we ftrive for the things of " this Life^ we wofully neglect thofe which ^' belong to another ; and becaufe fome hope " by the Toleration and ^Advancement of " fuch Men to catch the Favour of the Teo- ^' ple^ and by that means maintain them- *' felyes in that which they have only at H 2 " Hearty loo Englifh Treshyterian *' Hearty their Tower and Tlaces^ tUey " care not what becomes of the Churchy or " of the Faith^ ov oi Religion^ or indeed of " 7^7^^ Cbri\i himielf, and his Canfe. *' You will pardon me Sir, that to grati- ^' fy a ]tS Sorrow^ I thus exprefs my In^ " dignation with more than til'ual "Bitter^ nefs againll: thefe Enemies of our Religi- on ; 1 OiOuld accufe my felf of betraying '' the Faich^ did I not on every Occafion de- *' nounce T)amnation againft thefe Here- " tick., &c. A id may the Great God infpire his Grace^ -and all the Fathers of our Churchy with Courage and Refolution to fee his Holy Cauje vindicated, and to affert the 'Divine Ho?iour of his hlejjed Son^ and by that means avert that Portion of his Fengeance which we may juftly fear is preparing to overwhelm this church and Nation. Char XIV. G.4 specimen of Presbyterian Preaching and Praying CoJlettedfrom the Works of T)r. Echaid. rT"*" o f^repare the Reader, whoperhafs may he fur' j^ priz.eawith theT^tle of this Section, and be inauccd to th'mk that the Jnfmces that follow^ belong ttf the E L O Q_U E N C E. lOI the Writings of the Church of England Clergy, / think fit to wform hint that Dr. Schard being chargd Tpith this J in a Reply takes abundance of fains to Vin- dicate himfelfy by laying a double load of Blaf[)hcmy and Ignorance ufon the DifTenting Miniftry, and by a Second Letter in many Places declares that the Ser- jnons and Difcoiirfes of the Nonconforming Preach- ers, were the Fountains from whence he drew his Coi1e- ^ions •, hut he has put the Mitter beyond dispute in the fixty fixthWfeventh Pages o/r/jffeventh lidi- tion of his fecond Letter, which for the Satisfaction of every Body concern dy I jljail tranfcribe in his own Words. " If I mufl: needs trouble the World in telling ^' them who were thofe Indifcreet and horrid Meta- *^ phor-mongers, that I chiefly intended^ they were *' thofe who in the late times (and have x\otasyet " left it off) call themfelves Gods fpccial Saints^ his " Favours and his Intimadosy but in reality were " more Oliver s than God's. Thofe 1 meant who " reading of Jacob wre filing with the Angel y and of " coming to the Throne of Grace y and being pzzj^W up " with all inward Pride and Religion felf conceit ^ *^' ('which they call'd Gifts and Spiritual Worthy were " arrived at all pofllble degree of Rudenefs Immo^ *^ defiy and almoft Blafphemy in their Devotions and '* Difcourfesoi God. You may eailly know them *^ by this Doflrine, which fome of them ufe to *' Preach upon, viz.^ That is was the peculiar Pri- " vilege and Prerogative of Saints to h^ faucy^ and " therefore fuchas thcie thinking themfelves Go J's " great Ajffiants here upon Earth, his fpecial " Confidents and Truftees of all Affairs of Reli- " gion ^ they would in their PrayerSj and Sermo.is, " tell God That they would be willing to be at ^' any Charge and Trouble for him, and to do as it {[ were kindaefsfor the Lordy they muft needs fay that H 3 they I02 Englijh Preshyterian cc €C CC CC cc cc cc Cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc they have formefly received fume Klndnefs from the Lord, and have been beholden to the Almighty, hut they did not much queflion hut they jliould find fome Opportunity of making him amends. Indeed as for thofe who are Weak in the Faith, and are yet hut Babes in Chrifl:, it is fit that fuch jhould keep at a dii^i'dnccfromGodj and fiandC2\)ln hand to the Hmighty, hut as for thofe that are grown up in all GVace it is comely enough for them to take a great Chair and fit at the end of the Table, and with their Cock'd Hats on their heads to fay, God, we thought it not amifs to call upon thee this Evenine;, and to let thee know how Affairs ftand ^ we have been very Watchful fince we have been lafl: with thee, and things are in a ve* ry hopeful Condition. Having given the Reader this Satisfaftion I now introduce my Quotations, It is reported of a Tree growing upon the Bank of Euphrates, that it brings forth an Apple to the Eye very fair and tempting, but inwardly it is filFd with nothing but ufelels and deceitful Dufi *, even fb Dufi we are, and to Dufi: we mufi return. Our Souls are conlTantly^^p/V^ after thee O Lord, yea verily our Souls do gape, even as an Oy^er gapeth, Echard'^s Firft Letter, j). 44. Vnto you that fear my Name fhall the Sun of Righ-i teoufnefs arife with healing in hi^ Wings \ from which Words it plainly appears, that our Saviour paffed through all the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack , and fiiH, our Saviour was in Aries, or dk what means that of the rftlmifi ? The Mountains skipped like Rams and the little Hills like young Sheep ; and again, that in the Second of the Kings, Chap. iii. and iv. Mefla King of Moab was a Sheep- mailer, and rendered unto the King of Ifrael a Hundred thoufand Lambs^ E L O Q.U E N C E, loq Lambs, and what follows } And an hundred thou- land Rams with the Wnoll ^ A^wd itj it wa^ the King of Ifrael. . In like manner was he in Taurmy Plal, xxii. 1 2. M^^ny Bulls have compajfed me^ flrong Bulls of Balhan have befct me round^ they were noc Ordinary Bulls^ they were compajfwg Bulls^ they were ftrong Bapoan Bulls. What need I fpeak of Gemini f Surely you cannot but remember Jacob and Efau, Gen. xxiv. 24. And when her days to he delivered were fulflPd^ behold there were Twins in her Womb. Or of Cancer ? When as the Pfdmift {Iiys fb plainly J what ailed thee 0 thou Sea^ that thou fled- defi, and thou Jordan that thou wafl driven back •^45- The Blots and Blurrs of your Sins mufl be taken out by the Aquafortis of your Tears *, to which A-^ quafortlsii you put a fifth part of Sal Almoniacky and fet them in a gentle heaty it makes Aqua Regia, which diflblvesCo/^. 47. Omnipotent All ! Thou art only^ becaufe thoii art Ally and becaufe thou only An, As for us we are noty but ViQ feem to he^ and only feem to he^ be- caufe we are noty for we are but Mites of Entity and Crumbs of fomcthing. Ibid, A Father calls his Child to him faying. Child pull off this Stocking ; the Child mightily joyful that it ftiould pull oft Father^ s Stocking^ takes hold of the Stockingy and tuggs, and pulls, and fweats, but to no purpofe, for Stocking ftirs noty for it is but a Child that pulls : Then the Father bids the Child to reft a little and try again, fb then the Chdd fets on again, tuggs again, and pulls again, aud fweats again, but no Stocking comes for Child is but Child ftill : Then at laft the Father taking pity upon his Childy puts his hand behindy and flips down the Stocks ingy and off comes the Stocking *, then how does the Child rejoyce, for Child hath' pulled off Father^s Stocking, Alas, j^oor Child 1 it was not Child's H 4 firengtb i^P4- En^ijh Treshyterian' ftrengthy it was not Child^s Sweatirjg that got off the Stocking^ but it was the Father^s Hand behind^ that flipt down the Stocking' Even fo. 48. Chrifi is a Treafury of all Wares and Commodi^i tles'yQood People what do you lack ? What do you buy ? Will you buy any Balm of Gilead, any £)/rds, thefe thick Tourers out of Texts of Scrip- ture, thefe 'M.micdX Squeakers and 'Bellow- ■ers^ fhall be Followed and Worfhipped, . fhall have their Bufnels of China Oranges^ iliall be folac'd with Cordials^ Ejjences and Elixirs^ fhall becramm'd \\ith Chi?ies and Turkejs^ and be rubbM down with Holland oi'Ten Shillings an Ell, when a Sober and Learned Churchman fhall fcarce be invited "to the Fire-jide^ or be prefented with a Cou- ple of *Pif/>/ J", ora Glafs of fmall 'ii^^r with 'Brown Sugar, C H A Po LOQ.UENCE. 121 Chap. XVIL Ridiculous Canting Nonfenfe collected from the "Booh oftheModQm Presbyterians. NOW Lift up your Head, O ye Gates of my Soul ! and be ye lifted up, O ye EverUfting Doors of my Heart! that the King oi Glory may come in. Week^s Prepartioriy p. 7. / fiaf7d at the Door and knoch^ Rev. 5. 20. tho' he cry til] he be hoarfe^ and l>and flill till he be weary^ yet he flands ftill : If any Adulterers or de- ceitful Wretches will open, Chrift will come in, and bring in Store of Comfort to them, and fuf tvlth them. Voor Doubting Chrifiian, p. 3. The Lord affords us Means, yet not to abufe them and give him the Slif: Though thou canft not find the Way to Heaven, yet he will find it thee •, lie thou upon the Shoulders of Chrift when thou findefl thy Heart feeble, then the Lord Jefpu ChriFh brings the Spirit of Grace, and "jefm Christ lays that Soul of thine upon his Shoulders, p. 8. The greateft Part of thy Glory is in the Glory 'of a Christ, and the greateft Part of thy Wifdom is in the Wifdom of a Clmftj and the greateft Part of thy Liberty is in the Liberty of a Chrift^ and thy Eiches in the Riches of a ChriB, and know whatever is in Christ thou haft it all in thine. If you had no more than this you had a Child'^s Portion-, now we have but the Sips of it. What ftiall then the full Cups be ? When the Husbandman hath Jbwn his Ground, and his Fruit is ripe, and he hath \ 1 22 JEngVJh Treshyterian hath reaped it, then he mufl gather in his Corn^ that he may live upon it •, fo let us gather in the Tromifes when we fee the belt Advantage. I fpeak not this that we fhonld take no Care at all, but I fay, H^ng all the Weight and Burthen upon the Lordy f' 9* Many People live poorly, and make a poor Shift to go to Heaven^ but I would have aChriftiaii learn to live fo, and ufe the Means, that they may get the Sap and the Srveet of the Promifcs, and to go ftngirjg up to Heaven. /?. i 2. To relieve the Poor is as it were to join Hands with God to make a Man to live : Man is God's Image, but a poor Man is Chrifi's Stamf to boot ^ God reckons for him, and counts the Favour his. Praying is the bell, and fpend not too much Time In Dreffwg-^ 'tis an undecent thing to have thy. Cloathes too faB and thy Soul too loofe. Parent's Gifty p. 3. God hath fent me among you to be a Budder^ana- I have chofen this Text to be a forcible Argument j to faften and drive home thofe Nails of Inftrudioa and Confolation which I have been fo long endea* vouring to enter into you. God hath fent mic am.ong you as a Fijherman^ and I have chofen thefe Words to be as the clofwg of the Net •, Behold once more the Net is fpread, and I am now making my laft Draught. Sinners Alarum^ p. 7- He that ferves the Lull: of a Woman makes him- felf her Monkey \ for fhe admires him no longer than while he is playing with his Tail. Good Advice toToungMen, p. 4: . . , , , , . , , Have no Familiarity with her you have highly idifobliged, left (^BceMe) Ihe ftings you with her Tail p. lO- . , , , . , ,,. Chrift h^th continued knocking and calling: Tho' the soul be lazyj and bath put off his Coat^ ^ ' ' and E L O CLU E N C E. 123 and cannot put it on, and hath wafhed his Feet,* and is loth to defile them, yet for all this Chrift; - puts his Hand by the Hole of the Door. Door of Sal- vat ion openedy p« 5. 0 Brethren, for Chrift his Sake refufe not Chrift ! Give me Children or elfe I die faith Rachel j O give me Chrift or elfe 1 perifh for ever. p. 9. To fit two or three Hours, nay a whole Night, to tell Stories or Lies ^ O this they can difpenfe with j this Mefs will go down *, but if their Ma- ilers are at Prayers, Oh, they fay in their HeartSj, How long, how tedious he is in his Prayers ! tho* perhaps he be not above half an Houry or an Hour at moft. They do all that is in their Power to fwallow down the Cups of Satan ; but when they come to Tafte of the Lord's Cups, Oh ! that they cannot abide ^ one Drop of that is ready to ftran^ gle them. Toung Mans Monitor, p. 5. Go Young Man, lie at the Taverns and Ale- houfes-, dOjDrink and be drunk,but remember this thou fhalt be damned for it, and the Lord will make thee take off iother Cup whether thou wilt or no. Why I care not if I take off two or three more : Ay, but hearken a little, that Cup will not be fpiced with Nutmeg and Ginger ^ but with grated Fury. p. 8. If you love a IVoman, be careful how you fhew it •, for your Nibbling at the Bait may too early dit cover a ^X^'illingnefs to be caught, p. 9. A Presbyterian Quack Docior^s Bill. Sick and Difeafed Reader, 1 ^ohn Crips have been a laborious Student and Praftitioner in Phyfick for almolt thefe Forty Years; fo I have by my Great Induftry, Diligence, and l^earning, obtained to fuch true Effedtive, Pradti- ^al, 1 24 ErgVJh Tresh^terian cal, Experimental Knowledge, that I can fanly difcover the Nature and Caiife of mofl Diitem- pers incident to the Bodies of Men^ Women and Children, and likewife diflinguifh whether they be curable or not ^ and if curable, it is very probable I am an Inftrument under the King and Prince of Phyficians, that can by a moll fpecial Art, Dex- terity^ and Skill, perform them perhaps with the greateft Eafe imaginable. Is there ne Balm in Gilead ? Is there no Ph\ficlan there f Why then are not the Health of the D'^u^hrer of my People recovered f Jer. viii. 22. He healed every Sicknefs and every Dlfeafe among the People^ Mat. iv. 23. Great Multitudes followed him and he healed them all. Mat. xii. 15. In the Curing of Old andC/jraw/VWDifeofcs, Ifind by my daily pradlice and experience, that either Hydrogoguesy and Suderificksj or cfpecially flrong Aperitives are very rare and excellent, fuch as are Sal "tartaric Sal Sanltas^ Spirit of Sulphur per Campa^ nam^ Spiritta Cat hart icpfSy Calome Canons ^ and Pul- vis fanansj and fuch things as thefe ufed for a long time together, as Doctor Experience has obferv'd a hundred times, and has prefcrib'd according to the Example of RiverionSj who did thus many times infufe fal Tartari and Spirit of Sulphur with one or two Drams of Sene (fometimiCS with half a Dram of Jaliap) in Spring Water alone or ia ibme Appropriate Decodion. And truly fal fani- tasy fpiritui Cathartic m4 and Pulvis fanansy are for the moft part effeclual, fometimes Stupendous. But except ye fee figns and wonders ye will not believe^ Job. iv. 48. that is, unlefs ye fee Marvellous Cures of all Sorts, many Wonderful Cures, you will not believe. You may give them in Winey Ale^ or any other proper f^ehicle. Wine maketh glad th^ Heart of Many Plal. civ. 15. Give ft rong Drink to him him that is ready to Perijh, and Wine to thofe who be of heavy Hearts ! Prov. xxxi. 6. Note, that I under-I, derrake feveral Difeafes (ifcnrablej at a Price \ pro-, vided if I do not perform the Cure, I will have nothing for my Pains, which is as much as to lay, JSlo Cure no Money* Not unto usy 0 Lord^ not mto 2iSy but unto thy Name give Glory. Plal. cxv. !• 0 Glory he to the Father Firft And Glory he to the Son And Glory he to the Holy Ghoft By -whom all things are done. Sincere Phyjtcian both for Soul and Body by John Crips. M. D. As the Curfe of God is upon Hypocrife tode- creafe and deilroy a great deal^ a great Stock of Grace ^ fo the BlefTing of God is upon fmcerityy to encreafe the little Stock, the two Mites^ the Grain of Muftard feed of Jincerity. Jhid. p. 5. Let us note who it was that gave that Advice, Sin no more •, it was not the African Scipio^ nor Vi- ftorious Hannibal^ nor the Peerlefs Pompey^ nor the Mighty Terfian Cyrns^ neither yet the Mecedonian Conquering Monarch the Imperious Alexander^ but it is Jefus one that came from Bozrahy and all the Fiends of Hell like Bulls of Bajhan ran upon him. A necejfary Caveat from God to beware of his Bod. p. 4. To Anatomife Sin by his deteftable Defcriptionj^ that it may appear in his ov;n likenels, I muft go as nigh unto it if 1 can, as th^feven hundred Benja- \mX,^%didto their Aiarky which every one could fling ft ones at a hairs Breadth j and mifs not ; Sin then is the very Excrement of the Devil^ nor could it be cured without a Mithridate ConcoBion of the belt Blood that ever was in the World. Ibid, p. 7, 8. ~Dodor 126 Englijh Vreshyterian Doftor Allis's Speech^ which he fpake as foon as lie came out of his Trance. Poor Douhtlnz Chrifii- iitnS Guide, p. 2. Since I have been abfent from you, I have beeii in Heaven, and an j4^gel Clothed all in white took me by the Hand, and fhevvcd me many Glo- rious Thing;s,where 1 faw many Glorious People go in molt Glorious Apparel with Crowns of Gold Upon their Heads ^ he turned me on the other Ude, where 1 faw an ugly Mack Den., where Thou- lands of poor Souls were tormented with Fire and JBrlmfione , there I faw the Swearer and the Lyar hung up by the Tongue with melted Lead poured down their Throats, with other cruel Torments that were inflided upon them. And having writ this as the Angel bad him, he departed the World in a Good Old Aze* I have chofe this Text as a Hammer to faflen thofe Truths in your Hearts, and the Lord hath lent me as a Fijljerman among you, and behold once my Net is fpread, and 1 am taking my lafi Draught among you. Ihid. p. 3. B€ diligent in Family Duties^ up he doings Hand toh with all your might, make out to Chrift., call to him Stoutly^ put on a Bold Face^ Now or Never, The Toung Mans Path way to Heaven, p. 5. Remember now thy Creator^ Remember Now^ I fay Now, No:v is an Jtom will puzzle the Wifdoni of a Philofofher^ the skill of an Argcl to divide. Now is a Monafyllable in all Learned Languages* Apples of Gold. p. 3. An old Difciple hath lived fincercly to Chrifr, hath lived eminently to Chrift, hath lived under a\\ Changes to Chnft, hath lived exemplarily to Chrift, hath lived long to Chrift, hath done much ioxCbrift, hath fufler'd much for Chrlft -j an Old Difciple E LO Q^U E N C E. 127 Difciple hath a Crown in his Eye, a Pardon in his Bofom, and a Chrift in his Arms. Ibid. p. t8. If the Lovers of Jefus Chrift be thy Compam- onsj the thoughts ofjefp^ will foon be thy Inmates. You muft either Buckle and come too, or burn for ever. Chrift mafs Cordials* p. 15. Remarks. ASunfhiny Morning ticed me the other Day into the Fields, where I was agreeably diverted by a Fellow with his Nets and his Tifes a "Birdcatching ; it plea- fed me to obferve how dexteroufly the oAr- tift managed his Implements, how natu- rally he humourM his Vifes^ and how the poor Goldfinches and Tit larks weredecoy'd, and made Trifoners at T)ifcretton, It came inftantly into my Head, by way of oAUego- ry^ that the Art of Tofularity and Conven- tickling had a great deal in it with that of Fowling \ if a Sportfman cannot come at his Game one way, he makes ufe of another, and in efFeft, a Dextrous Holderforth is but a kind of a Spiritual "Birdcatcher. To keep up the Parallel ; the A^ets of thefe Tjih'QuaiUTifers are made up of the Thrumms of Keal and Loyalty^ and inftead of the Grain the Birds are moft greedy of, the Scrap is Liherty^ Troperty and Reli" gionj and happy is the foolifn Bird that can firfl: ftoop to it, to the irrecoverable lofs^ perhaps both of his Freedom and Life, for when 128 Englijh Freshyterian when oftce a Man is hamper'd among the Lime Twigs^ nothing can ever difentan- gle him. They have ^ihdv Stales too in the Church, which they make ufe of as 'Decoys and Spies to draw in, and to make Difcoveries, fuch as the B-.-.- of B and Dr. C and thefe Tools are caught for Company, but they let them go again to be ready for fur- ther Service : And then they have their Stalking Horfes^ or Tainted Cloth^ to bring the Game unperceived within Shot of the Mark, that is to fay, lamentable Tales of Toperj^ Super/lit ion and the Whore of "Ba- tylonj and their Mouths as full of Sin and Sackloth as they can cram them, and then when they are got within diftance off, goes a L^^or an G,4r;;^ of the Eftahli(!)ment^ with Tears in their Eyes all this while, complai- ning of the Iniquity of the Times, and that the Candle/lick is departing from us. The Fowler has his Calls^ and they have theirs^ and eveiy Tafior chirps a feveral Note to a feveral Congregation, which brings them together, and makes them dance to w^hat Tune the Teacher pleafes : After this they have one General Call ; which i/ the True Trotefiant Call^ with this they gatiier all the DifTenters into one Body, and the Sound of it is heard far and near among the Faithful. Inftead of Nux Vomi- ca^ they have a way of Slicing their Ser- mons E L O Q^ U E N C E. I 29 rnons and Difcourfes with Tyranny and Tlots ; the People have no fooner fwallow- ed it, but it takes them in the CroXson^ and up they niGunt like Ceeld ^igio7is , they knew not why, nor whither; but when they have foarM themfelves a weary, and off their Wings, down they fall a Quarry for every Kjt^ and Huzzard. This is the Fate of the Common People that are inveigled and feduced by thefe Spi- ritual "Panders^ who ule fair and fpecious Baits to entangle Profelytes, but when they ardengagMjthey find themfelves caught with a "bearded Hook. Thefe Egyptian Wizards conjure the Multitude into the Circle, and Enchant them there with horrible Tales of ^rimftone and the Tofe^ who, poor Wret- ches, are bound up not by any Impreflions of Confcience or Perverfenefs of Inclinati- on, but by the force of Terror and Illufion ; for in the Language of the Conventicle the Preacher that Snivels out moft o^ Hdl and T)amnation has his Shop beft filled, and to compleat his Charafter, he is diiiinguifh'd as a "Dreadful Man^ or a Man of Terrors. It was a long while a Myftery to niie, iiow thefe Divinity Hawkers^ whofe Natu- ral Abilities could never advance them above the Dignity of a Grooyn or a Thraf/Hr^ could ever prove fuch Dabiters in their Wooden Sho^Sy as to get as comfortable a Mainte- Mnee as an ordinary "Bifio^rick 5 but my E Eyes 130 EngViJJo Vreshytenan Eyes are open at la ft, and I have found the fecret ; for take a heavy Thlegmatick 'Bloch- head^ that could never get Learning enough at School to enable him to undergo an Exa^ me7i for Ad miffion into the Univerjity ; let him have a ftrong Averfion to the Labour of a Mecha?iic^ or the Induftry of a Tradef- man^ that is, let him be notorioufly Imfu^ dent and Lazy, which w^ith a convenient Proportion of 'jDj^/;^(:^r)' is a good call to the T)ij]e?itifig MhiiPrry^ let him board a while at qAndrew 'B-IPsj or any other Vroteflant 'BookJeIler\^^ and now and then take the Air to a Neighbouring eAcadem)> out of Town, only let him wear a fort of loofe Iron grey "Jmnp^ to denote him a T)ivi?iity h2tefider\ whether he reads any Authors facred or Profane, it matters not, provided he writes Notes^ after fome "Bellweather of the Party, by repeating of which in the oAfcernooHj he whiles away the time till the Congregation is full, when he has attained to a juft confi- dence of fpeaking in Publick, and an ability of Managing his Grimaces^ up ftarts the Gifted oAb-Lard-StrifUfig into the Pulpir, and his firft Text is either, 0 my Lea?i7iejs^ my Leankejs^ ovlVo mito me if I -preach 7wt the Gojpel ; Wo be to him indeed, for if his Pretences to that tail, he may e'en go hang himfclf j and thus as old Cleveland fays, They E L O aU E N C E. 131 They wanted Food and Raiment fo they took Religion/^r ^^^/rSeiiiftrefs and their Cook. Bat if my Youngflrer be fo happy as to light upon fome pretty fancy in Religion, or fome odd unufual ExprefTion, he is made for ever, and is inftantly cry'd up as a Man of New Tjifcoveries ; the poor Wretch flmcies he fees Vifions in Trophonius'^s "Den^ Raptures and Embryos of his own addled Brain, and out he comes and vents them Wk AL [of s oAfs J jetting in Purple; and if he has but the knack of whining^ and a melting fellow-feeling oAccent^ the Strip- ling need not fear living, heMl get his Bread on any Ground in England. This managing of the Voice^ and of the Lines of the Face, has been of infinite Ser- vice to the Caufe, and this is fo well known that the Youth in their oAcade^nies are taught to Nod^ W/nkj Gape^ Cough^ and Spit ; nay, the very Timing of their Hums and HazvSj by rule and method ; when to fmite the 'Breaif^ and when to duft the Cujhion^ when to leap in the Tidfit^ and when to fwim^ when to be Serene, and when toThunder^ nay, the Faces they are to make at every Period, and the very meafure of their Tatifes^ that the Tarenthe- Jis may be large enough for the Groans and Ejaculations of the Holy Ones to play in. K 2 And vA- 112 Engliflj Vreshjterian And this Miniickry and affeded Tone, I aflure you, is a great Accomplifliment, and goes a great way with 'em, from an Obfer- varion of my own. I went once our of Curiofity to fee one of them Prerrchj but coming late, and the Cor.^^enticle being Crotided, I could not liear him fix Words ; yet by compp^ing my Conjetl:ures afterwards with the Notes of a beguiled Friend of mine, who zealoudy wrote after him, I found I had guefsM right what he was at ih moft particulars ; it was oAp'plication Jijne \\\\Qn I came in, and the POiiur^ in which I found him was ftanding boh: upright with his Arms o^ Kiemioin;^ like the Ears of a SiU)iui--pot^ which looked ve- ry Magifterially, and by that I took him to be at Uj'e of lleproofy then he prefently changed to a loud thick clapping of his hands, which methought ferved to his dri- ving heme and clenching his farthing Tack of an Argument ; after this he lays himfelf forward on tlic Pulpit Cuiliion, and falls ContraFling and Ex^cndiftg his Arms, as if he had been afwimrjihr^y but what ufe that fiioukl ferve I could not indeed imagine, un- lefs it were to fliew himfelf a Tahiful "preacher ; by and by I faw him weavhrg from one ude of the Pulpit to the other, and drawing up the Mt/fcJes of his Face into an pbliging Grh/y and from tliat I Collefled fie was upon the point of Cojtfolationj and thcn^ E L O Q_U E N C E. 113 tliea he went to w'nihng and hteadtng^ by which I was fare he was got into his Con- cluding Prayer. But tho^ I fail'd of Edifi- cation froin his Words, I could hear fome- times a deep hollow GmrrMe^ like the Noife of a Stone rath'ng down a W^ll ; then a loud Stent or ofbonic 'Bawl, which pre- fently was raisM to a high [cream u^on the Kf)', in wliich a nice Lady [que ah at the fight of a Frog ; and by and by a Miittdlin fortofa ^^/j/>^, in which he continued fo long, till I could obfervc the Tears drop from his Nofe^ and for ought I could fee thefe were the only Allurenfients by which he decoyed Cu^omtvs intoiiis Shop. I no more wonder at ei Conventicle crcu- ded, than I do at the Multitudes that gaze at a Mountebank^ s Stage ; their Leaders have wit enough to know the generality of the common People (efpecially \ht Women, ^^ith whom their bufinefs chiefly lies) to be ignCK rant, eafie and feducible, and therefore they never apply to their Reafons^ but to their hum.ours and fancies -^ they are infinitely moved by melting Tones, pretty Simili- tudes, rhiming Sentences, kind and loving fmiles, and Ibmetimes difmally fad looks ; and they are affefted in Religion, like ameer Tuf^et^ whofe Motions depend upon the Power of other Agents, and not its own ; a great part of the Pulpit v;ork, is by feign'd and forc'^d PalTions in the Preacher to ftir K 3 up 134 Englijh Treshyterian up true AfFcftions in the Audience, making the Hearer feel the Giief the Speaker does but Counterfeit ; we fomiliarly fee that a fad Tale upon the Stage makes the People cry in the T'lt^ and yet we know that he that plays Cdifar murther'd in the Senate is but fome 'Droll Comedian behind the Hang- ings. ^ Chap. XVIIL Mifcelkmeous Colleftions concer?iing the Presbyterians, A Presbyterian Bull of Excommunicition fent by Mr. IVililams, a Preacher, to a rich Widow who forfook his Meetings and went to Mr. Shore for better Edification. Difftnters reprefented and con* demnd by the mf elves, p. i, A^adam^ Seeing my Vifit w^as lofl by that Company not withdrawing, before whom it was unfit to plead about a Matter fo ferions as your Abfence from our Pvleeting was, I am forced to begin my Deal- ing with yon by writing it. I firll alfiire yon, that I am not mov'd by any workiiy Advantage or Di fad vantage*, for my Eftatc is fufficienr, and my Heart f-.r troui Covctoiifnefs : Kor is it from any Delign of Conrtilip •, my ISiilnd, is as far from that as yours can wifii, and never need rude or rafn Means to indifpofc it ^ for I ne- ver rcfolv d to attempt it : Ko, Madam, it is mecr Duty L O Q_U E N C E. 12^ Duty to Chrirt^ who is Ruler over his Church, who will judge MiiiirceTS and People by the Rules he ordain'd they fhould walk by : And next to tliat. It is my real Friendfhip to your fe If, whole &V1- would prevent, and whofe Reputation I would fe- cure, which is not a little expos'd among the Pru- dent, whatever your unfit Counreiiors fay to you or conceal from you. For the prefent 1 fnall only put a few Qj-ieftions to your Confclence^ and defer my Pveafons to a more publick Occafioo, before our Churchy and the Body oiMlnlftersj if there fhail be need. (i.) Did not youj before (7o^3 and his^z-.^^t'/j, re- new your Baptifmal Covenantjand accept me as your Pajlor^ and folemnly engage to walk in Subjedioia to ChrijFs appointment f If you have forgot it, yet know it is recorded on high, and not forgottea by God : And how often iiave you v\/itnelRd it at the Table of the Lord ? (2.) Doth not Chrlslr, who appointed an efpecial Relation between People and their own Pallors, account you to be related to me as your Pallor ? And doth he not therefore command you to obey me, as having the Rule over you, and to fubniit your felf to me according to his Word ? And am not I to watch over you, and to give an Account of you ? And, pray, if 1 cannot do it with joy, but Grief, v/ill it prove profitable to you? Ko, No ^ Read what God faith, Heb, xiii. 17. i. Tioejf.v, (3.) When God makes it the Duty of any Pa- llor to feed that People in an efpecial manner who are his Flocks, Docs not that fappofc and require, that every one of that People Ihould ordinarily hear, communicate with, fupport and encourdge him who is their own Pallor, rather than any other Minifler? See iFet.y. 2. i Tim. xvii. Jch xx. 28. K M Is II 6 Englijh Treshyterian : ^.') Is it not difcrderly walking and ading a- gakill, the fpecial relation which is between a Pa- ilpr and his own People ? and alfb does it not tend to weaken and dtflroy everyChurch o/Ch rift, for People to break their Bond, leave their Place., and remove before they are regularly difmifs'd or deny'd Dif- miilion, when the Ground of asking it is what ChnB has declar'd a Ground of Separation ? I am fure God accounts it diforderly, i Tim. v. 14. Rom* Xvi. 1 7. I Cor. xiv. 40. ::i<^y Did ever Chrift allow People to forfake their own Pajlor^ and leave that Churchy of which they are Members^ from their own Fancy, M^illjOr Humour ? If Perfons can do this when they pleafe, or becaufe they pleafe, What fignify the Rules of Chrift .^rWhat Church can ftand ? Yea, Is not the forfakin^ the Adembling themfelves together when they ougtit to a{[h-]-\hkjJude xix Hcb. x. 25. a Sin ? If God accounted it a Sin others, will he not efteeni it a Sin in you ? (6.y If the P^cafon upon which you feparate be not fuch as ChriB anv wb( re a^'ows, Is it a Reafbn any Minifter can juaify when it comes to be tried ? Is-it a P^eafon upon which any f:^ her Chriftian left their Pafcor ? Is it a Reafon you can have any Plea- fure in on a Death-bed, or at the Bar of Chrift ?• Dare you anfivcr his Cha-ge^ by faying this w^as a fuf- ficient Reafon for my dtfjnfing my Faftor, grieving his Spirit, -wcakcnirig his Hands- Ah! Madam, Chrift will not be put off with trilling Excufes, ;nor will Ignorance, Rumour, or Self-Conceit, qui- et Ccnfciencc, when God fets thefe Evils before you. ■. (7 J What woukl you have thought of a Mem- bef 6f Mr. Sb-'-rs^ to., ferve him as you have done me? What- would you judge if I fnould leave my Flock on ftich flight Grounds as you feem willing El o a^ E N CE^ 117 ivilling to defert me upon ? But fure I may ceafe to be a Pallor to a People on fmall Reafons, if you may leave me on fuch as yours, and few can want Reafons to run away if yours be fufficient. (8.) I pray think what your worthy deceafed Husband would have thought of this upon his Death Bed, where he exprefled fo peculiar a re- gard for me : Could he then have approv'd of your deferting me ? Would he not have forbid and reproved it ? I appeal to your Confcience, whether fome mean and vain Confideration of your own or others a- bout you, be not the Reafon of your irregular Courfe. I am forry to hear what the World fays, tho' I make what Apology the thing will bear. If Gods hand go out againft you, will you not with bitternefs receive theie things, and bemoan the Converlation andConverfe you are taken up with? u frothy fmik is fbon over, a future State is Eternal ! JEternd ! I beg you will ferioufly anfwer thele Qiieflionsin your Clofet, pray over them : They are and will be found of too great Concernment to be trifled with, by fuch as are unfit to be your Guides \ as all the Prudent think. Efpecially what concerns your Duty to God, the State of your Soul, or the Affairs of his Church and Miniftry. I would be glad I might flop here, and that this may reclaim you to your Duty, and prevent Vuhlkk Proceedings, which I fhall not omit if you return not, and I know when I give notice of your Se^eratm^ none will admit you to the Lord's-Table, till you can prove your Reafons valid. Oh the Grief you have <'aufed me ! But, I befeech you by the Bowels pf Chrifij to return to your place. Your pafl: ■' ' AiFronts 138 EngViJh Vreshyterian Affronts I can overlook, and heartily pafs by *, my frequent Vilksyou need not fcar^ fooiifli furrnifes will blow ofT^ your Sin, and forfeiture of long re- pute and difcretion I am concern'd for, I pray often for you • and am your Faithful Pallor and Servant, Dan. Williams. The Copy of a Letter from a Presbyterian to his Son. Commuicated m Manufcript. My Son. The Days of my pilgrimage being many and evil, and being of a great xAige, and likely to be called upon to lay down this Earthly Tabernacle, I think it meet to write down fome Words of Com- fort, by which you are to (leer your Courfe, when I am returned to my Dult from whence I was taken. Firfi, Remember my Words, and be Good to God's MiniHers, not the Steeple-Houfe High-flyers^ for it is not a Building of 5tone that makes a Church, nor fir oaking over the Head^ that makes him a Preacher of the Word ^ but whereever the Faithful are AfTcmbled, there is the Church of God, and whoever has the Demon llration of the Spirit and of Power, may be a MiniHer of the Word. Enquire after fuch, my Son, fuch as are Spiritually inlighten'd to fearch the deep things of the Spirit of God, which the Natural Man can- not dilcern ^ fuch are Powerful, fuch are Spiritual, and fay nothing but they quote a Place of Scrips ture for it : All their Sermons, their Holy Exer- ciles are nothing elfe ^ whereas the Prelatical Mi- nifters difcourfe only Rationally and havp not the Spirit. Pray i.C Eloquence. i 39 Pray for the Light of the Spirit, my Son, the Spirit in]i,2;h tens us, and fliincs into our Minds with its Light. Go not to the Church, there you hear nothing but Lefrd Preach wq-. the DocHirine of Good Works is always founding from their Pulpits, and they im- peach the Grace of God, by putting Men {6 much nfon doing •, go not there, my Son, there is no Life or Power in their Miniftry, they move notour Affections, they ftir them not up at all ; ours, my Son, are the Soul fearching Preachers, they come clofe , to us in their Preaching, they fearch the Pleart to the very bottom, there is much of My- fiery in what they deliver to us, and they treat of Spiritual things Spiritually. They are the Expe- rimental Preachers, and Preach their own Experi- ences in the ways of God. The Church Preach- ers never had fuch a Seal to their Miniftry, as God liath given ours, by converting Thoufands. Where is the Spirit of Prayer, my Sox\^ but a- mong us ? Where is that earneftnefs, that plead- ing with God ! Not in the form of Prayer, thofe beggerly Elements and Pottage taken out of the Mafs-Book, not among CroiTings, and Cringings, and Chan n tings, and Kneelings *, the Gaudy trap- pings of the ^A^hore of Babylon^ not in Will Wor- fhip, in Superftition and Idolatry. I could never profit, my Son, by the Church Ml-- niftersj they pray fo coldly, and preach about Common Morality ; Oh it were well if "Jefm Chrifi^ the Love of Jefus Chrift to poor Souls were more preached, all our Comfort muft be fetched from Jefus Chrift, Vv^hereas the Church Minifters talk as if we were to bring fomething to Chrift, and not to take all from him. ^ All the Godly, my Son, follow us, and there is more of that Power of Godlinefs among us, than 14.0 Englifh Treshyterian than any where elfe ; we keep the Sabbath, we repeat Sermons, we have a Gift of Prayer, and life it in our Families, we treafure np and com- municate Experiences^ and meet together to Exer- cife our Gifts, we humble our felves before God, and hear his Word, we pray and hear a Sermon when we keep our Private Days. Thofe that are againft us, my Son, are Men of z flight Spirit, of flight Experiences, whereas we feel that JefusChrift is in the Heavens,' and in great Power and Glory there. There is another kind of Spirit among us, than among the People pf the Land ; we delight more in Heavenly Dif- courfe, we are always talking of Heaven, of Jefus Chrill, and the bufinefs of the Soul. We are a fe- rious ftrift and a tender Conlcienced People. Con- tinue therefore ftedfaft in the Faith, and thou ihalt attain the Promife, and thou fhalt be BleP fed. A Learned form of Examination for a "De- gree ufed by the "Presbyterians^ when they had poffeflion of the Univerfities. ,, Tro quo Graduflas ? De qua patria natiis es tu ? Verte hunc Verfum in Liaguam Anglicanam Rhetor & OrAtor quomodo differunt ? Quisfuit Mater Romuli ? De qua Statione es tu f Quot funt I'ocales in Lingua Gr^ca ? Tu vMde apt us es habere huncgradum* Wood A'iitiq' Oxon* ALIA ELaQ.u'EN ceJ 141 A Lift of Treslyterian Chriftian Names. Have Faith in God* Sin no more* Vuft I am. £vil Communications corrupt good Manners* Refift the DevlL yintlpope. Strive to enter in at the Strait Gate* Increafe. Grow in Grace* Faithy Hope^ Charity, Patience, &c. A Specimen of Treslyterian Loyalty! oAn Epitaph to le feen in the Church-Tard of Lyme, over a Toung Fellow that was Hang'd for being engaged in Monmouth's Rebellion* HERE Lieth^ the Body of William Hewlln, Son of William Hewlin, Merchant of Lon- don, andGrandfon to W^illiam Kiffin Efq-^ Alderman of London, -who fuffered Martyrdom before he was full Twenty Tears of Age, engaging with the Duke of Monmouth, /or the Proteftant Religion and Englifli Liberty agalnfi Popery and Slavery, September the iith 1685. ZDartr, Brave Touth ! could Vows have charm'd Fates partial Death h^id mifs^d thinQyand reached the Tyrants Heart. Thou Worthier /?r to Live ! whofe Blooming Touth By Ronour Guarded^ and fecur^d by Truth^ Gave early Hopesy when hafi^ningye-ars came on^ Jo find in thee, a perfe^ Gallant Man / 14.2 Englijh Treshytertan N^o more we^ll thy mitimcly L>fs 'I'cgrct^ Jufi xv.ts thy Caufcy aud Glorious vras thy Fate ! Thus Cur ti LIS, v:>hen no other Mc.ins rras found To make Rome fafe Leafd bravely under err ound : Scorning his Country s Ruin to furvive ; Chofe to he Bury d in the Breach Alive. qA Catalogue of Presbyterian "Booh. THE Sinners Alarum, fet forth in thefe times as a lively Chara^ler to all Cbrillians living. The Soul funk in his Cafe. Brook's Mute ChriHian. A niofl necelTary Caveat from God, to beware of his Rod. Boolittle-s Call to Delaying Sinners. Bunyan\ Grace abounding. Self Dedication Pcrfonal and Sacramental. A Fair Warning to a Carelefs World. A Faithful and true Account of Mrs. Alary 'jitherton fhevving what wonderful Things God was pleas'd to make known to her by an Angel, whilfl flie lay as dead for the fpace of a whole Week, G/-C. A Cabinet of choice Jewels, or the Chriflians Joy and Glad nefs^ fet forth in fiindry pleafant new Chrifimafs Carols, viz.. A Carol for Chrifiraafs- Day, to the Tune of Over Hills and High Afown- tains. For Chriflmas-'Da^ at Night, to the Tune of A^y Life and my Death. For St. Stephens Day, to the Tune of O cruel bloody Fate. For New Years- Day, to the Tune of Caper and Flrk it. For Twelfth- Day, to theTune of O Mother Roger. The Young Man's laft Legacy, Left and Be- queathe, upon his Death-Bed, to his Dear Mother and Brethren. Apples of Gold for Young Men and Women, and a Crown of Glory for Old Men and Women. The E L O CLV E N C E. 143 The Ungodly Man's Return •, in a plain and fa- miliar Difcourfe between two Travellers, Chrifiian and Sinner. Chri [Imafs Cordmh fit for refrefhing the Souls and chearing the Hearts , and more fit for Chrift' mafs'Boxes^ than Gold or Silver. The Sinners Sobs, or the Sinners Way to 5/Ws Joy \ demonllrating the terrible Condition of fuch who come not in this Way, whom God will find another Way to deal with. Ten Curious Islovcls, Intituled, The Son of God. The Poor Doubting Chrifiian drawn unto Chriil. Joys Eternal, Mercy offered, Heaven tender'd. Salvation Jto be obtain'd, now or never* A Sev^U for a finking Soul. A Spiritual Knapfack for Parliament Soldiers. The King of Kings, his Privie Marks for the Kingdoms Choice of New Members, &c. Deliver- ed in a Sermon. By Sam. Kem. B. D. Feb* 28. i6^<^. The End. \ / \ e y