“FELO Dé SE, : Of T HE oe at i. | on D Sita: Condemsed = Out of their own Mouthes Confef. fing their Politick Devices, and unjutt t Practi- — -ces,to fettle and maintain theis Lordly Digniz “ties and private Interefts, to the Impoverifhing a -and ruine of the Nations wherein fuch idleand © unprofitable Drones are fuffered to domineer, Ina Familiar Difcourfe betwen the faid Bifhops dod dicic Te. nants : Begun in 1660, the year of their unhappy Refur- : rection, and: continued to this prefent year 1668. ‘i Publithed for Information of the People, who groan to be delivered ae from that yoke of Bondage, Which neither they nor th eit Fathers _ were as to o Dear. oe co | : | By a “Mournet for the poor NitohE that are ented under Prelatical Tyranny, and one that was once of this black-fac’d Hierarchy (as _ Luther was of the Popith ) but is now ements ae ad front | them. — , -* . ag tai ee logie for the Oath of eANegiance, hath thefe words; I do atteripdeny that there is any Earthly Monarch of the Church, whofe Word muft be a es Becaufe earthly Kingdoms muft have earthly Monarchs, it’ doth x not follow that the Church ie have a vifible Monarch too ; for the World hath not one earthly tensporal Monarch; Chrift 1s his he bwcques | , Moarch, and the Hay hey his age a KJ. Inhis Snaeek to a Parliament in the Year 1609. called, An Apo- — | + : A # \ ‘ r % i ~ N ce on ¥ ’ hy % i i Se r 4 i \ Pa Fi sy é ” ey j ; 1s yp oy Ppt ANG! Re Be, oa * Bi 5 . Be “hese * ke Ne « ‘ ; wh A b ‘ 5 ; ; ae ae , yw vi f , 3 } rT ied Fg ( ) { y a IGE. os : Ss . 4 = = Par ‘The Epiftle tothe READER, “\ Hou art here invited to fee fome firange and wonderful Creatures,and if thou canft {pare two hours time to look in, and behold them in their Fe LT NO ee eee ae Ge ee i 133 Pe Ue MR Oe firange {hapes, [abtslties and natures thou wilt not loofe thy labour or ” money 3 poffibly thou wilt wonder where {uch mon[trows Beafts were bred, when thou baft takew.a [urvey of them, and well pondred and confidered them from Head to Tailye us twenty to one buat thou wilt think , that I found | __ them in Utopia,Arabia,or ae Rome} that fuch Hydra’s could not be broughe = - forth, and bred up among ft Protefants, and fuffered to live and devour their | —s- Fratts : But to fatisfiethy doubts, I do affure thee, that I fornd them near= er home, though they {mel very rank, of the Romifh Air, andtheir Speech and Voices do affure us, that they are of that Breed,and who were their Sires: _ yet I (aw them thriving in the Brittith Fields, and knew that they were of — a Forraign extrath, yet the very fame fort of Creatures that I enquired af= ter, As foon as I went into the Fields and Vine-yards, I found them, and Rew them to be of the Romith Crew, by feveral Marks, Spots, and Qua- . Jities; bat withal, they have (ome. pretended ingenuity, begond fome other Creatures, when they may get money i it, in confelfing thew [wbtlties and devices, a you may fee in i Difcourfe within, which.came very feafonablp and accidentally to my hand, You know that Wolves; Foxes, Goats and | Hoggs, have very rank, {mels, and are not fit Companions for any otherCreas tures, they ftink fo abominably, e[pecrally if they have been wellfedintheim = = — ~ Kennels and Styes, as thefe have beenthefe feveral years. Thefe are known | to be the very fame Cattel, that they were reported to be; I knew thems, as bp their flrong and hurtfulfcents, fo alfo by thes black feet, red faces; proud and lofty gates and carriages, difdainfal looks, and churli{h language, (uper- — fiitions garments, covetous, tyrannical, oppreffive, and perfecuting {pirsts and - —prattices s their uf{nal haunts and walks, and their different colours and coma plesxions, For, whereas other Cattel are esther white or black, red or browns. thefe, and every one of them, have all thefe hues, white and black, redaxd == brown, and therefore they may well be called wonderful,and ftrange: for other —— Beafts and thefe differ very much; thefe can travel beftinthe dark nights, in dirtief? and filthie/t wayes, fo cannot others, yea, other Beats are fatted and fitted for the laughter in a years time, but thefe are above fevenyears afat— ring, All other Beafts are good for one ufe or other, either alive or dead, but — : thefe are good for nothing, ‘The ope of Hoggs, Foxes aud Doggs, % good Se ey 7 | Sa fee 7 2 a TS TN ey Pee ta Te CAUEIO NBS CES A SE eS EE os 2 oes Se a Sa ee ae ae — — — : Se NE: esas = — a = — ———— = Se ge PGR RE EE ESE oa SRY aes = S = Se en = ®. a a A = <= Sl ata a coe oar £ See ee eT es sce Sse SS = : ee f = ee = Sa ae eee eee Se Ba Se | =) 1 Thenpleet teReade. = = ES = for fomething whenthey are dead, but fou not theirs, although they are ful-_ ter of greafe than than others : So that thou mayeft fearch all the werld over’ | and not find the like Cattel 3 not any Beafts of their proportion, Colours, na-— | tures, works, devices, ends, practices, and unfatiable lufts. Thefe are = the moff venomous, dangerous, and deadly creatures in the world, which the a [abtile Nataralift can defcribe;theyhave poyfon 1» their] ongues and Teeth, E je their Feet and Nofes, 1# their Canonical Garments, in their Ceremontesy SS Worhip, and Difcrpline. Thefe are they that corrupt and poyfon all forts of — men; Thefe are the Creatures that make the Earth to groan under them, phat are the great Oppreffours, and defroyers of thoufands of fouls and bodies in the Nations where they are. Thefe are the moft loathfome and hateful. Creatures in the World, that have many a Curfe daily; both from rich and poor. Thefe are they that have driven the Lords Labourers out of bis Vine- -yards, by violence and cruelty, and have ufurped thens ieto their own hands y and have [poyled the Fruit, and have moft abominably corrupted and polluted — she Lords pleafant.aed holy things. ‘Thefe are the Creatures that have d= firoyed Kings and Nations, that have been the immediate Authers of all’ the Miferies that have fallen upon States and Kingdoms, Thefe are theCor= | movant and Carerpilas, thas have devoured the Earib, that bave [piled the Trade and Traffique of the Nations, and broughs thoufands to beggery, Thefe are the Creatures that have made {0 many Widows and Fatherle{s~ | Children, that have filled the Land witb blood and violence. Thefe arethe Corruprers of Counfelers ana Councils, the great obftruttors of publick. Fuftice aud Fudgement 5 thefe do frain at Gnats, and [wallow Camels, that nether fear God nor reverence Men, and that have mens per{ons in admiration for advantage. Thefe are without Confciences,and [uch whofe deeds are evil and only evil, and whofe ends and rewards {hall be according to their works. Reader, J fball detain thee no longer inthe Porch, left E fhould tive thee, and (uffocate thy Stomack, before thou haft read and confidered what is with in: but while thou haft an appetite, I would have thee hafte in, where thon ~ fhals fee thefe ftrange fights; and hear them [peak with firange tongues; and if thou art in doubt whether they are {uch indeed, m uponthe report of this _ Epiftlethey [eew tobe, d pray thee hear what they fay of, and for themfelves, whofe TF eftimonies are facred and canonical,and thy doubts will be quick! ly Ate fully refolved frons thesr ewn Mouthes, eee = : anette dens Wb teyi Asa aLdAE be! UN Maalibibe ibid nr valent dav yng eit: alates rk Ml LRP AE ca a nd Mp ys ‘ s ‘ ( ti Aire aa ati Me Uae eracireh hee ihe Cia ya RS Dp a rl Dilip yy cantante Hehe ale Syd | Farewel, | | = Fele 79 -Felo de fos a The Brsiors Cai D ,EMNED out ~ of ther own Mouthes, Con effing their politick Devices, andun yutt Pra- = étifes . to Settle and Maintain their Lordly Dignities and Private Inter- * efts, to the Imp overifhing, and Ruine = OF the Nations wherein fuch idleand — ne ae, are. nilepieres€ to. . -Domuneer. . 458 In a F amiliar 1 eur e :biesicen the » fi wc ied ther - Tenants, - Refurreétion, and eantinara to this es Year, 2 1668, —&C. : Ss : = 5 so. - Bifap. sEUl met Tenants; How do 7. do? We are glad to fee you in health. - TenantS., Pray excule Us, ‘Sirs, oe we know you not 3 pray tell #5, hat are your Names, and Titles, and aa whence did you come? : Bib. We pray ne notice, we are not mean and ordinary perfons, . Begun in 1660, the Year of their unhappy i - we are Bifhops, and are come for our Rents, that you ought to pay uss — = although hitherto you have paid Rents to the uncircumcised Ufurpers, es nowwe that are of the. aves of Hee axg, Se in Ou ei - : 19 NS, 6 ODI oh) we, AYA Uy tet se ta Cred ty Recs Ae i'o TH eee AD re OO Poe ee ete ri ct ‘3 SACOM Paiste Aeres. A447 rene ise ? amb saly> stadt tart adond we tes Ae reodaet __ fuch) came, we hall anfwer you accordinely,» But i We ITT pli. aphedeAgpss44p SOCAL NSE ae eta ACOSTA ME ATEN 5» OS VAATED MONO IOE MENEINE NEERING TPR 7 Tl parr Re aia eRR NOAM CiaR i SERGI orga . ‘ ey , ] y : iio + : { A ‘ | } sepine a heen yd 1 ets vad eae ican teehee pa mitre ge or Sua, ‘ a ws 4. fe ‘ nem tented Ete gna het He - " ied Art bie, eee Sanne ey __ ‘have ftunk {o abominably, that you Would have Joathed us _ entertained usin your houfes, but have fhut your doors ag * YOU 10s ted Mr Res RNC. «261 MeN A! Pobh ee be em ee oy «i Rea ace NM Seen meyer phdl oon OCR perrane Hane 0 Ver bea ROMAN NAPE VAT CORONA TE wees Py eee tee te pd SNES A eH BEDI H LOT HAASAN EANIIE ND PITY COR seeabas uss ianidesateenanailie reacties is pbneerealbw Ath siggiewa eit c 9 & , { i ’ ‘ : * $3 and where had you thefe qualities,tran[cendent d ighitirs, Rights, and we dema sd Land-Lords, and pay us now the laa Ten, Pleafe your Fatherboods, By what Titles are you dignified, or have you dignified your ( elves, that [0 me may. Ve You your dues of Reverence 2 —-Bifh. Our Titles are théte ; Lord-Bifhops, Spiritual. — Jour Grace, Holy Fathers in —- Lords Spiritual, and it ot Temporary too. eS _ fen: Very well, now we nnderfland your Lord fbips to tell us fromwhence yobtames = 4). : Se _ Fife, Blthough you be {uch filly Affes ag not to wnderftand ity yet we dark,” If-youaskug from whence Ady, Fohn atid Mr. Thomas, ci. ( as. may be Temporal, ) Bed ok F your meaning be from whence we came avLord Bithops, che. we muftan{wer you other- wife ; foras the fubje matter of the queftion differs much. fo _fwers mof Be accordingly diffgiest: 102 % 2 len. Very well diftingnsfhed s, pleale your Fatherboods to anfwerto the fr 4 rh of yet br ne ti fPi nitios 7? | = 2 i 2 = = saa 73 <. é: * _. Bifo. To the firlt we anfiver, That we came out Of Wine. _ frooaky Kitchens, asa drove of pittiful, poor, and bafe Sons ofpoprinconfiderable Men: where we were driver by unfandi- fied hands, and Jay there among the Pots, until this happy day of our RefurreGion, And truly, Gentlemen, we lay amone thé Pots) fo many years, While the uxcircumcifed {ate in our Saddles, poflefied our Lands» and {hut up our hands and feet in-the afore-faid places, that we ate gtown like Tans; and being {woln With too lavith eatin ( having nothing elfe to do there) we Were conftrained to put thefe lack, Hoops or Sarcingles aboutus, before we-came forth, for fear [ef our Veffels fhould have broken, and our garbidge fallen out, which would andnothave me. e-Cellars, and 2 Poor, and bafe creatures, the faking vermin, coming ont of the bottomlefs Pit ; bur’ being alte ; with thele fangtified Girdles, we hope our-Trunks «will hold until we have pickt your Pockets, ant chaflized yon for JRE Ge ee Ten. tt feems you have Lyen among the Pot SLY your {carler C omplesions, Bifh. We have fo, and you might eafily have feen it, (but you area vou Fay Of faucy ill-bred Jacks) and not have troubled us to tell Ten, Pray tell us whence you came as Lordthips, Holy Fathers, Ce, and lofty titles? = Bib. nd of and require you to own ng for your undoubte fix Months arrears of Rent,- —_. Paftors, Grace, or” Names and Titles, pleafe youn $much, fo the an. - g and drinking, - ~ EN dE OE NE ETERS aaa a AON PON Por ee LOS RD UL gost ET Sel et ek = Ez ; 2 Bifh, We derived them from Rome, we did not’go over forsthem our _ felves, for we durtt not do fo, becaufe our Rulers would’not fuffer that © ~now, but we found them ready for us, and took themtoour felves, — {though you mutt know wehad thenrnot gratis) andweshavebrought ~—- them with us, tofhew thent to you, that:you may own us for your Spiri- : tual Land-Lords, and pay us the-money we demand of you. . Ten. What then, it feems you are Diafcefjan Bifbops ( pray pardon our ~enile {peech for you know we are plain Country men,and cannot [peak like you) . and, a {ach, you are onr Land-Loyds, and demand Reutsofuse = = _ +» Bifh, Yes, you fay true, you ate our Tenants, and we your Land- | Lords, as fuch; and we hope you will not deny to pay us our Dues. j - Ten. Pray your Lordfhips to difmount, and come in, and refrefie your, felues 2 se ee Se es Bilbo. Have you any good Sack to make us drink? > ee | Ten. No, if it pleale your Lordfbips, we are poor Farmers, and. vee think, Z that aCup of Beer will ferve our tarns, © 2 | 24 = : : : Bifo. ‘No, it will not ferve our turns, though itmay yours, we ihave - drunk goed Sack fo long, that we cannot now drink your Beer ; pray fend for-fome Sack forus. 61 Gs se gen et Pat tat Ten. Pleafe your Lordfhips to fend for st, for we ave but poor Tenants, —— gnd have no money, andwe know that your Purfes and Trunks. are full; but do what yon pleafe, we will wor prefs youtoo far, for wedo know that you dolove to keep them full, But if it {hall pleafe your holy Fatherhoods to flay a while andrefolve ws afew Cafes (for we think. you are bef able, being, as you fay, — Holy Fathers Spiritual-Paftors, and Land-lords ) and then we foal fo ‘far a we can an{wer your Demands,” etch ae ite) { Bifh, Well, let us heat what you have to fay quickly, for we are in “hatte, and mutt be gone ; butwe came formoney, and money wemult “Have of you before-we'go. 9 8305 2 Ace ee 3 ~ Ten. Our fir Cafe ts this, Whether or no you are indeed {uch perfous as you fay you are? viz, Lord Bifhops, Holy Fathers, Spiritual Pattorsy and Land-Lords,crc. Pray clear it alittle more to ws, for we have only your - ~fay-foes for it ; pray tellus where wemay be fatisfied of, and concerning {uc | — “perfons, vith fuch qualities anddignities ; Are they to be found inthe Scrrp- ‘tare? or where are they recorded ? that we may know who we own, and whons wie eh rsr—“‘“‘i‘“‘CRCO!:C*C@”C ~ Bifhi You. are very hard to believe ; Are not our Affertions and Te- ‘Himonies Sacred and Canonical ? were you not a company: of. Infidels, “you would beliéve our Teftimonies without any more ado ; foro you “mot know, that tis our Dodtrine, Thaty0w are bound to believe a the |“ Churel believes? that is, what his Holinels and-ta¢ ‘Pathersof the Chu og hs 3 Se oe t =] “i 4 aint te « SAME) RPE ar einen TEAR cibvtee, ante neneeholdth es Retieeaee ag A ont tape aOR ws en ataane ot ~ 1 oct os ARNE od on ay dingy ye ¢ sat cnet ees shcdesd-apsidensi Ma eaMaAMe DIE rt Rh Slab Dent etei sd AR dirt i hte chen shite ie 4 ti aainih eth cian teen on aniaiamateiahh ne Siieadueaah ste epee seaman ee Se ye Vee nee b lg en ORLA cr ate PRT a Aa AR 6 A MOM Lene. 1! Cores woot pee yarn eh ma ~ eae nrwrt do fay andteach. You are a Pack of pure Youths indeed; What! will you not credit our Words ? But however, at This Time we will take _fome pains with you, to fatisfie you, although we adjudge it far below ~ cur High and Sacred Dignities to talk with {uch Jacks as you are ¢ and _ know ye, that we talk with you now,wot for your fake, bat for your Moneys fake: for we love and feck yours, not you. Therefore weanfwer, that you may look if you pleafe into the Scripture, and if you cannot find fuch there as we have-told you we are, then we hall fend you to other Re- cords, where we are fure you willfindus.. © we will, firft fearch the. Seriptures, andsf we can find your Names, Titles and \ Dignities there, we will. look, no further ; provided the Scriptures approve of and commends you, a appointed and fent of God in Mercy, Pray flay a ! Bifh, Come on Tenants, Have you found us there ? Youareacoms pany of Dunces, you cannotfind usthere, canyon? ‘Ten: No, we caxnor find you there mentioned, as Legittimate, approved Children, or as Perfons of any good Repute or Honour, but the contrary % veq ry apparent ; fo that we have found you there in black Characters, but we < cannot find one word to your honour, but all to your (bame 5 not {0 mch as one ~- white Character of you there. Shall it pleafe your Lord{hips to inform us, ' what other Records or Regifters there are of you, that will difcover you tobe «Sach as you [ay you are, that fo we may befatufied, 9 Bifb, What, is that alk the account the Scriptures give of us, which ~ you have told us; furely you are miftaken, ifyoufayfo. © ‘Ten. We pray you do not miftake us, for.we donot fay, what we.mentioned — ' 1. all that the Scripture [peaks of you, but we hinted thefe at prefent, onlyto —< bew you what, and how the Scriptures [peak of you; fo that-we beginto —— fufpett you, that you are not Holy Fathers, zor Spixttual Paftors : We find — » Domineering Lords there, Belly-gods, and notorious Hypocrites, Per= fecutors, Ovpreffours, dumb Doggs, idle Drones and Shepherds, Bifhops in Sheeps-cloathing, but-ase Wolves within ; zealous Promoters of Ba- - bylon, their own carnal Intereft, but contemner s.of Chrift, his Laws and In« - tereft ; who pretend to ferve Christ, batts not fo ; they would have mento think and believe fo of:thens, though themfelves do know and believe the cone brary. a : Se. -— Bifb, We advife you then to look into the Romifh Records,and there — - you thall find-all you defire to-know of us; There you thall find our - » Original, if you pleafe butto look back to: that wicked Traytor Phocus « bis time; who toobtain pardon of his horrid Murder, in killing hisMa- | 5 fer Mfadririus the Empetour, to-advance himfelf to the Empire did add wedefire this may fulfice you. — Ce : Ten. Well, we {hall at prefent ref? in what hath been faid, although we | ee fx # ) fn to Gn, and fet up Pope Boniface, in the Papal Catholick Chair, whete- by he became Lord Pope; which faid Pope with his Holy Succeffors, a-_ fpiring Anver{al Lord{hip and Dominion, undex the notion of Sprritwal inofy they have handed over to, and received of each other from gene= - gation to generation, and we that are now in being, do confentunto, — agree with, practife their Laws, and walk by their Rules, written and conveyed anto us their Children; and our wayes are guided by the Men, did exalt Bifbops under them alfo, to Lordly Dignities and Re- venues, Spiritual and lofty Titles, Power and Dominion, which accord- — fame Spirit, directed to the fame ends, from which we are not willing, ( though necefficy fometimes conftrains us ) to vary one hairs breadth. We thought good to tell you this much, becaufe “tis a great Way to Rome, and we are loth you fhould be at fo great coft and pains to look — after us, but totarry at home, and provide our Rents in due feafon, for that is.all we would have you concern your felves about, and therefore doubt not but you could have told us much more, but we are loch to keep your Lordfhips too long from dinner; therefore pray tell ws un the (econd place, what fubtilties did you ufe to mount the Saddle of Preferment, in getting [uch fat Bifbopricks, Lordly Dignitses, and Dominion? _ Bifh. We will tell you very briefly and plainly ; First, Whenwe caw all Ob@ru@tiions removed out of our way, excepting our Conferences, then we thought it the wifelt way to get a Grave made and bury them, and caufe the Sexton to throw a great deal of Earth upon them, that fo e we might no more hear their clamours ; for till we took this courfe with them wecould not be quiet, and we know that twas impoflible to get, and keep Bifhopricks, and good and quiet Coufciences alfo, and fo con~ cluded to put theminto a deep fleep, and cover thent up warm in the sround, and conjure them there to abide, until our Bifhopricks fhould be taken from us, or we from them ; fo that now we have many good | and peaceable dayes, only we muft tell you ( but pray be very private withit ) they do fometimes appeat tous, like evit Ghofts, terrifying and affrighteng us, but we make a (hift by our Spe/s to lay them again, or elfe — there were no living forusinthisworld, = 3 = Secondly, Another notable device was to render all good MimSters, the were not without Confcience like our felves, as vile as We could » as odioys and abominable as poffible, unto our Rulers, that fo they might defpife them, and reject both their perfons, and Counfels, leit they thould have obftru@ted our defignes, we were Eacle-ey'd, to {pie out all opportunities, and to lay hold of them afloon as we could, ue 2 | —— sd 2 ago i # all poflible advantages, We would be ftill buzzing their ears, that all Preachers that were not of the Prelatical Order,were not to be intruit. ed either in Church or State; Th they were men of dangerous Prin- ~_ ciples, enemies to Cafar, and what not. We did Reprobate chem as the Jews did the Samaritans, we did cloath them in all the Beg fi s- Skins: we could get, and madethem all look like Bedlams , ot fore friBbe. ful Spirits, as the falfe Teachers did the Apoftle Paul : And having. been dlefled with good fuccefs, in perlwading Rulers againtt them, we | | proceeduntoa — oo eo = _ Third Device, Which was-to perfwade our Rulers, That there was. fuch.a near relation between Chaych and State-c Monarch yy and {uch a. dependency upon each other, that *twas almoft, if not altogether impof- ‘fible that Monarchical Government Chould long fubfiftin the State, un= lefs the like were fet up in the Church alfo, although we knew twas a : ~ ‘thing : His.words are thefe ; Becaule earthly Kingdoms muft have earthly. Monarchs, it doth not follow theChurch wuft have a Monarch too :. Chrifh 48 bis Churches Moxarch. And though we did pretend that that was Our abominably falfe. King Fames tells usit is falfe, that there is no fuch: _ endin endeavouring to fet up Prelacy, (zx. ) to fecure and bear up: ? 2 the State-Government, yetir is cettain, our whole defien was,,to fetup- _and eftablith our felves in Lordly-Dignities, and-get a Sword into our hands, whereby we might reign without controul , and cruth whom we. pleafe under our feet. This. was. our Defigné, out Confciences were,, and {till are witnefles, | places, © sane ee | Fourthly, We did frequently fuggel? to our Rulers, thatthe whole. Nation (excepting afew Phanaticks) Were for our Lordly Prelacy,and that by fetting it and ug. up, they would greatly content and oratifie: their Subjects: And the better to countenance it, we made a fhift by. our Agents (and we promife yon twas a hard fhift too) to procure one: or two grand Inquefts, in the Nation, at Affizes, to declare for our de. figns, as alfo fome few of the Advitiay in their Mufters, inand about: London, and caufed their Votes to be put into the News Books with. great triumphs,-as if the whole Nation had been forit; but alas this. Was buta Meer cheat, for it as well known then, and it is much more: fully known now, that all the fober civil People of the Nation were- and are againft it, and we are convinced and f atisfied that if men were called to give their Voices, thereis not the fifth man in the Nation for us : The Nation groans under us, aSundera heavy load. This was a= “Botherdevice Wemadeufe of. So ee 52: Fifthly, We fuggeRted unto, and perfiwaded our Rulers, That Pre- —batical and "tis fufficiently evident to allmen by OUR RAUB essa ena Fa ern ge Sas Sed pe Sd OO a as a A ho z eae Cee et Aad nt eee ? Mi oa a eee SERRE BRE ES TO a RE ey nk CREE Yee th isthe VRP a at at ec " * , up of Prelacy, and getting of Bifhopwrcks, &c. - they are afraid to approach fo nigh our ( 33.) latical Government would be the only means to enrich the Kingdom, to honour and fet it on high, to make it tertible to forreign Nations, to yreferve Peace, to barr the doors againft Popery, and to fupply pub-— ‘lick Treafuries with money in time of need. ‘Thefe and the like fubtil — ‘pretences and devices we had, which we doubt not but youvare fuffici- -ciently fatisiied were but pretences. We could tell you of other feats we had, but let thefe fuflice at this time, becaufe we arein hafte, Ten. We are [atisfied in your ingennons Anfwers concerning your fettin and [o much the more Fcaale we knew before what you have here told us. Now we defire you to refolve Hs if you are holy or confecrated, as we remember you hinted to us before 5 Pray tell us, are you [0 2 Bifh.. Yes, yes, that we are ; there is nobody that knows us, but will eafily grant that, and we require you to Believe fo of us, or elfe you will Wrong us Pid borC ce 2 Ten. Very well then pray tells what is fo, and how you are fo? - Bifh. Youatea Company of Woodcocks, you know nothing at all, if you do not know that we are confecrated and facred, for we are con- ~ fecrated throughout, with holy oyl that came from his Holinefs, our dear Father ; we have holy Heads, Beards, Nofes, and every part of our fat Carcafes are holy 5 yea all our Veftments, Hoods,Caps,Gowns, Surplices and Girdles ; yea our Doublets, Shirts, Shooes and Breech- —egareholy, being all confecrated with Romifh Oyl ; and although our- Breeches be now and than defiled and profaned at our merry Banquets, — when our Veffels are over-charged, yet they are foon clean again, be= -4ng near our facred Bodies. © ~ But do you yet believe that we are foholy ? yea we can-tell you what is incredible, our vety Gate in walking in the itreet is holy : We fup- pofe you have obferved our manner of walking different fron the Laity; we go very wide, and fet out our toes at fo great a diftance, that Hoges with their Yokes on their necks may ae through our twilts, but that d to | holy Shooes : Yea we are made fo holy with the faid Oyl, that we can fpare a great deal, and yet have enough for our felves too, Oy! withais is like oyfin the Womans Bar- _ selor Crufe, ‘tis ftill full, althotigh ‘ve fell away good {tore yearly, when we confecrate our Journcy-men, or Curates, fuch as we imploy in our Service ; befides many Churches, Utenfils, and Garments, and yet ve are fll full : °Tis wonderful Oyl, and we hope you do all be- —-Jieve fo, | Ten. Whether your Religion be the best, or as fome [ay the only Relicies 7 the World? — sages | fo Coa a B 2. Sir ceecrsoaineelli wy rap rt canciones nai Bens dalsiTat Haat é { (12) Bij. Yes, we doubt not bur ae the beft, and only Religion in the = World: The Presbyterian, Independant, and Anabaptifts Religions are pittiful poor thingsif compared to ours ; for there is not one Lord-Bi- Shep nox Bifhoprick amorg avy of them; alas, their Church-men area ‘company of poor pittiful fellows tous, one of them is contented with Onehundred pounds a year, but We are not contented with five or fix thon- _ fand pounds by the year. Befides, they willhave all their Minifters work hard with them, and for them, every week, and that we do not like. They willhave their Minifters fulfil their Miniftry themfelves: butin out Religion, we can fic fill, We can fleep, eat, drink, and rifeu pto play,and make others doour work for us. Yea further, their Reli oi. ons are fo {trict, that men are watched, ahd if they do, or {peak amiis, - or negledé their work, they fhall be prefently. told of it; andit may be reproved for it : but there is no {uch thing in our Religion ; there all forts of perfons may be a badas their Bifvops, and walkin their fteps of. Pride, and all other fins, and yet be blamlefs; a man need not fear re=. _ proofin our Religion. Befides, in the faid wayes of Religion, they will have fuch clofe-fearching- Preaching, that’ ‘tis impoffible for perfons to be in quiet in their Confetences for them, they will have fuch perfons as fhall divide between the joynts and the marrow,as the Scripture fpeaks,, that there is not a fin can efcape their mouthes, but they will difcover — _itto the perfons in whom itis: Butit is notfo in our Religion, for we fuffer no fuch Preachers to Preach cpenly ; and when we preach, we do. all we can to keep all convincing Truths far enough off from our Audie tors Con{ciences, knowing that if once the Con{ciences of men be fa- _ vingly convinced by the Truth, they will forfake both us and ous Church © _ - when once their eyes be opened to fee our Church, what the is ; for’tis one of the Excellencies of our Religion, that we do not trouble each © other, or any Way interrupt each other in ourfeveral wayes of finning. We let the People alone, and they let us alone; we tell them tories and. preach fome good fayings of the Fathers, and fome Sentences of Greek. and Latine,and make the poor filly People cry us up forexcellent Scho- jars, excellent Divines, good Church-men, and fo we laugh to fee what fools we 1ide ; for as We {aid before our oxeat care is to keep their eyes : : ° = } : SFP = ° — fhut; and they not knowing what a. fad generation we are, have usin reverence, and dare not {peak to us.to tell us of onr wickednefs for fear of our horns. Again, their Religionis fo ftii&, that we judge it Wants much of that Charity thatwe have in ours; they will admit none into their Churches that are openly fcandalous, or erofly ignorant, but our Church is full of fuch : We are fo. charitable to all Athiefts, Blafphe- mers, Diunkards, and all others) thar we make no difference, Thofe } & pers - ! Ko RR TT Pe ab hi a. 5 jail P $ EL AC LUN RD) meal etn Rash) Seca EVEN wee =! 1% te SR ~. perfons tha “Religions are not be not in many things alike ; t they do moft highly eftsem for holinef¢, we leaft of all re- gard ;, We fcruple not to give that which is holy unto Dogegs, andtocast — Pearls before Swine. ’ Tis ous conftant practice to do fo; but thofeother - : fo charitable, they make a feparation betiveen the clean and the waclean, according to the Scripture; but we dare not be fo (trait, we can gre Childrens bread to Doggs ; We keep open Houfe, but thefe perfons (hut the Doors and keep them out. So that for thefe and other (uch like Reafons, us evident that our Religion is the belt, if not - the only Religion, excepting the Popi[h. . | 7 for we havebeard that thofe 2 men, whom you call Phanaticks, have {+ gid, that vt 8 very near of kin,at leaft 1m many things,pray sofort Ws. | : : ee a Ten. Now you {peak, of that, pray tell 1s if the Popifh Rell gion and yours -“Bifh. How do fuch illiterate men as you are know that ? we promife you we have done all we could to keep you ignorant of fuch matters,for we knew if once you underftood it, you would loath us ; but we begin to fear that they have found out our cloven feet : but feeing you defire our Solution in the cafe, we (hall very briefly fhew you wherein we and they geree, provided you will be private and keep it ¢o your felves. Firft, They and we agree in C hurch. Officers, our B:faups are Anoint- “ edand confecrated, with the feme Oyl, and by the fame Authority that — theirs are. Auftin the Bifhop, brought it over from Rome above One thoufand Years nce... That 1s one, thing wherein we are exactly. Secondly, As they do Execute their Authority, fo do we; we have many fuch Courts and Officers as they have ; they keep Courts to get ‘money, and to punith men in their own Names . fo doweto. The. creat defign of fetting up their Courts, and executing their Authority there, is to. afflict, trouble and ruine the Innocent,and to fill their pur- fes, by thers opprefling. and perfecuting fuchs fodowe. “Lis.our defigs and endeavour, and we have been fuccesful in it, and We promife you we will have you there to make trial of what We fay, that by “the feeling fence, you may be enabled to your fenfes, efpecially believe all that we tell you, if you do not prove good. Tenants, and ay usour Dués exactly... oe a "Thirdly, Our burch was formed and moulded only by. the Romifh Pat- terns the very. F oundation and. Building is the fame. = Was theirs founded and built on Humane Policy, Laws, Decrees and Canons? {0.18 ours alfo. Is theirs of a Monarchical F orm? {o. 1s ours: too. Are their Nations and Kingdoms made Churches? fo: ate ours likewife, and that By the like Prelatical hands. Are they guided. and ordered by Humane: — Enventionis, 2 ~ againtt the _ Dottrine againtt all contradiction, fed by, and uled in the Popifp Church, Are'Sacramests, an ‘of for _ aad no t to be rejetied, that high re[pett, as the two mentioned. of the fame import, which We "They havea fivwted- Licur call it Divine Service 2 ‘fo do we likewife. Cosferns to fac Mock. Worflip> {0 do we tos.. Do the the Truth we are very nigh them in our Service too = 8 = Inventions and Prelatical Santtions? fo are o to ferve and Maintain a Prelarical Latereft ? 101s Made to delude poor § owls? {0 is ots alfo, urs too: Was theirs formed | Fowrchly, We-hgy | i ag fome “of thei rd elud ing and p _ Which we enjoyn Children to learn, that fo the Truth : As in owt Church-Catechifm, we teach them to Jearn and fay, Thatintheir Baptifme they were made Members of Chrift, Children of Gody and Inheritors of the K sngdom of Heaven, And to make it the more authentick, and confirm them in the Paith of it, we teach them, and accordingly praGtife before them, in and about our Confirmin pnem, thus, Defend, O Lord, this Child wish hy heave, he may continue thine perfwading. them, that if they Toat) the Lords Prayer, the Ten Commandment sand the B they are undoubtedly fuch, and fo need not t look after Regeneration by the Word and Spirit. | > fee loStiine agsingt 2 liction, we enjoyn our Curats to teach, and fay, at all Funerals, whoever is ‘buried, The our dear Brother or Sifter deceafet . in hope of a glorious | died notorious SWearers, Drunkards, and Bla | teach, That there are only two Sacraments, a generally neceffary to Salea- veut 16 t9l8y, Beptifase, and the Supper of the Lord. Where are EY That the Sacraments are generally necef[ary to Salvation « Which i¢ 2 Do&trine of the Popifh Church, but never taught by Chrift or his Apo. __2. Here is clearly implied, that the five other Sacrar ents inftitus 7 . although they are not generally > eceffary ea they may and ought tobe recesved, and ufed as Suny, We have feveral other Doéttines the: cannot now {peak of, becaufe we muft hafte home, es fp Oe ES EER 2 2 = > x Fiftthly, We agree with the Papifh Charch in out Church Aa Ot Fores of Prayer so have we alo; yea,and in the mofl parts Of it, it is the fame, ofthem. Do the : ae pce ¢ 10 : Look what Pofturesand Geltures they ufe in the reading -of it, the fame weufe too. Do the y Compel meno ufethole Prayers, anid Pumh fach as in Confcience refafe to orn to [ach « Jot. 0 SO WE Wo. Do they make an “Sdof of that their ill- begotten Brat 2 fo'do We of ours alfo. . 50 that to tell you. we borrowed it Ss ixthly, ours alfo. Is theirs pervious Dobie ly grace, that can fay (by chef,thatthen fo trouble themfelves to __ it. = And to fecure thie > ty hepe of a glorious Refurretlion, although he or he lived gd {phemers. Befides, we ufed as Sacraments. though not mith ie SE een ee ene EE LR OT TN Tt ee eA aL ¢ " nets > y 4! u ¥ Pees att i as a ati Ede Tit me A ae Cp Re ae AO Oe ee, ERE LENO ped meenrep ts CERT EET 2) 8 th are pommessgar OLE TE Re EE MT ne dike LA Beri MRS (a ee 4 : m Me ee Sixthly, Our Ceremomes and theirs-are Birds of a Feathers ours até | very liketheirs. Do they make andaccount theit Churches holy Places, ‘and accordingly do them Reverence when they come there, by putting off their Hatts, congying, and falling down in their Seats on their Knees,when they firt go into-thefe Places ? fo do we likewife, Dy-they (as they fay ) beautifie the Houfes of God, in their adorning them with. Gold, Marble, Pictures, and writing Sentences of Scripture on their Doors and Windows, (as this is one Sentence, Ths w none other but the Honfe of God » this u the Gate of Heaven, ) to draw fools there to the Stocks, to get the more-Cuftomers to their Markets? fodo we likewife, Again, Do theyufe, and ftridtly enjoyn their Minifiersthe ufe of the Crofs in Baptifm ? So do we. Kneeling at the Sacrament,” - the Bowing arthe Name of Jefus? fodowe. Pretended holy Surpli- _ces, Girdles, Gowns and other fuch like Trinkets? fo do we. Procef- fions, holy Fonts, and holy Rails and Tables ? fo do we too, Again, Do: they place all their Religion in {uch bafe, carnal and unworthy things,, in (uch pitiful empty nothings, gaudy vain (hews, and trumperies of their own: devifing, to draw the eyes of - fen{ualifts, and to delude the minds of the fimple ? fo do we likewite. Again, Do they glory in their carnal, vain-clorious, out-fide and formal Religion, judging ,cenfuring,. condemning and punifhing all fuch for Hereticks, as arenot of their famp, and that dare not bow to their Imageot Worlbip ? in ike man= nerdo wealfo. Sothat we hope'we have fatisfied you in this alfo, We might have enumerated many more pieces of their and our Religion, but time haftens, therefore let that fuffice atprelent. ©: = sah? Ten. If it pleafe your Lord(hips, it be [o as you fay, we wonder that any veafonable Creatures will be of your Religion, for in onr’ wuch out of the way.” pe Se Ae - Bifb, Do you wonder at it, and think we are out of the way?) Truly — we muft tell you, fo do we too ; we think we are out of Gods way, but as we told you, we bein our own way, inthe right way.to worldly Ho~ nour, Riches and Greatnefs, Eafe and Profperity, which are the things 7 weaim at, and our Religion (as we fheived you) leads towards it; and whereas you fay, you wonder that any will-be of our Religion, we do fo fikewife 3 but ive can tell you howwe do eet and keep perfons with us Tsing Ps ote a) : Firft, Thofe that are more ignorant and yeelding, we do flatter, al- lure, and cheat, and with good words, filly (oule. (= ee ee ee er Secondly, Thofe that we fee are reaching after promotions, we do: draw with golden baits, and filver cords, although we make gone eS Opinion you are all and fair fpeeches, entrap fuck’ 4 + + ; i i = / i } We Rave feparated their. Souls from their Bodies, fo that you fee we are. OT aN Er nn, PENS 3 16 ) them wait till théir eyes be dim too, before they catch the fith, yet by this means wegetaconfiderableherd. =. | Thirdly, When we find others ftout and backward to come tous, we drive them with iron rods, as you drive your Affes to their works thus” ' you fee by what honeft means, prudent wayes and fetches we cet fools Into our pound, And we do affure you, if we had not ufed our beft skill In practifing thefe pretty devices,we had been as Fathers without Chil-~ dren, Bodies without Leggs, and Paftors without Flocks ; and we doubt not but we could by one or other of thefe devices, conjure you a- - Mongft us with others, butwe fuppofe that you may be wifer in. tidied. = = 2 ee Ten. Pleafe yarr Lordlhips to refolve us, for what ends are you fet up fo high, or whatufe are you of, or what tran{cendent work have you todo in your Church, beyond other men? ee = _ Bifb. Ye are a company of Block-heads;for if you were not, you would ere now have known us, and our works, ends and ufe; but we fhall teil you feeing you defire'us. | A ee - Firkt, We are fet up to ferve the Lord, in doing his dirty work 3’ God hath lifted us on high, head and fhoulders ( with Sas!) above _ other men, to imploy usin fcouring work, thatis, to fcour his Veffels - oO of Gold and Silver. for although we feem to be very high in refpeQiof . Men, yet alas, we are but the filthy, nafty, and black Skullionis of the great God, You that are not very knowingmen, may think, O furely Lord-Bifhops are the moft honourable and happy men in the world; oh that we were as ‘happy and honorable as they! oh that we were in our Lord-Bifhops Coats, that we might be thereby capacitated to dothe Church fome horfourable fervice ! But they are all miftaken in us, for whatever fome do think of us, we are the moft dirtielt fellowsinthe | world, & are employed in and about the vileft work,(as you know Scul- lions work is fo :) for God being offended with his golden Veflels, who. ‘While we lay among the Pots, grew yery rufty, and almoft overfpread- with canker and filthinefs ; and he having occafign to make ufe Of the _ worlt.and vileft of men, was pleafed to call us out-of our Dens, and Styes, and bid us goto Skullions-Scouring-work, and therefore gave us ‘fpirits and opportunities accordingly, to get Horns and Courts, Powers -and Faculties, whereby to do the faid work : in and about which work we have been exercifing our felves to the utmoft of our Power, and have fcoured the flefh from the bones of fome ; the neareft relations from each other : Eftates from fome, and Liberty from others : Some we have curfed as black as foot, and then have rub’d them {0 hard, untill not fb inpainahialk. 7 bac Seneeebaaehaeta ioe ey i ; ’ bine pilin celia 0 OE DOTS ae STR NS REE Se ew pee ne Ls ~ warded accordingly. not erected in vain, we'are of good ule, and we fear we fhail be ree “Secondly, We ave fet up to try Profeffors if they be fuch indeed as they pretended to be in their day of Liberty,that thofe that were appro- ved might be made manifelt, and thofe: that were otherwile might not alwayes lye hid, and we have not inthis neither Jabouredin vain, nor — fpent our frength for noucht; for by our means many ate made much better, more ftrong, ferious in, and adhering unto the Truth, and pra- Gice of what they profefled. They are become more ftudious, and in- — duftrious for eftablifhed hearts, more conftant and fervent in Prayer ;. much more cautious and watchful, more diligent to get loofe fromthe . - world, and intent upon their eternal concern ments. They haveby our — ‘means more communion with God, more love to the Saints, and de-_ | light in the pure Ordinances of God,more united in the Spirit of Love - “and Forbearance ; but no'thanks to us, for we intended no fuch matter, bur the God whom they ferve, indefpight of us, hath made fuch ufe of ue, and fo bleffed our cruel hands, to their {piritual advantages, that. they can ay,it hath been good for them that they have been afflicted by cut uncircumcifed hands. But we muft tel! you alfo, that as fome are made better, fo others are much worfe by our means ; for fome that were outwardly holy, are now. openly profane. Others that condemned Prelacy, their Church, and ali their Trumperies, are now fully of us, and ferve their Bellies; as high in their zeal for us,and againit ali good 1o. és D ges ee : a men, and the wayes of God as we are our felves, as if they had been brought up with us; and they fin more highly and prefumptuoufly than fome of us do, who never {wore or declared againtt any of thee matters, — but did always love them,as being the only wayes to advance our felves and raife our Interefts. And. therefore thought it our wifdomes not to decline them, but to comfort our felves.in hope that we might live to. ' fee thefe good dayes, and obtain our. defires, as now you fee. We. r haves 4 - bow eg ei a gh oe os Sr ae IO Thirdly, We are fet up and ufed, to confirm the blefied Truths and : Wayes of God, which his People efpoufed and profefled, which once —-coft them but little or-nothing + We mean that by.our wicked perfe- q cuting, and fuperftitious fpirits and hands, God hath called forth ma- ‘ny, both to bear clearer teftimonies, and to feal them by their h 1td— fhips, and fufferings, from and by us, whereby the holy Truths and Wayes of God appear to be real and excellent thin osindeed ; their fuf- fering for, and-fealing Truths and. Practices, do greatly commend thent : to afl men; and lay convictions upon them, that they are feriousand '. weighty matters,and fo thereby wah the eyes and hearts of perions et ' = a = : 2 waras Se a ee ae eS ee _-E@pe pray be fatisfied with thefe few and brief anfwers, i 2g 9} wards them, caufing fuck a¢ accounted them but the meer fancies and conceits of a few precife perfons, to believe them to be choice matters, and worthy of all acceptation, and: perfwading them that they ought to be embraced, and practifed with all confidence and-readine(s, and at Aaftto fet to their feals, that they are moft glorious Truths and Wayes,, that they neéd not be afhamed of them, but own and profefs them with: all boldnefs; and alfo our Lyes and Vanities, which we call Religion, and with which fora time, we corrupted the mindsof men, tolofetheir place and intereft in mens hearts. And as we are of ufein the world _ for thefe ends, foalfo = — Se __ Poarthly, To devour, eat up, and confume the fat, andthe fweetet — of the Lands where we dwell ; for we do aflure you, that we are creat belly-mongers, and devourers of Gods good creatures; we do daily eat. the fruit of the field like Grafhopets, and Cormorants ; our Bellyes and - Appetites arelike Horfhleeches, that alwayes cry, Give, give, It is our ftudy night and day, what we fhalb eat and what we fhall drink, and where withal we fhall be cloathed; yea we can hardly find any.crea- tures good enough to fatisfy our ambitious minds, our greedy and curie. ous defires, and appetites; and therefore when we do not like the pro- vifions.our own Kitchens will afford us, or we are not Willing to go to: the price that fuch Provifions will coft, as we would have 3.then we cake - a Coach and vifit fome Noblemans Table, hoping we ‘may find better provifion there grat, although we pretend, and make their Lordthips believe, that we, as their worthy Fellows, and Companions in digni= ty and greatnefs ( though the truth is we are not worthy to wipe their fhooes ) come to vifit them, as refpecting their Dionities and Ho. “mours, and yet we know tis not they we do vifitor refpect, but their full _ Tables, and our own Belly¢. Thus we confume the beft creatures we: can get, bothathome and abroad, and we care-not whofe Bel! ys beem= pty fo ours be full, nor how many Families perith through want by our means, fo We can live like fed Beafts, for we can,and do eat the fat and | drink the {weet,while we famith thoufands.So that we have {aid enough to this alfo, confidering how fhort our time isto be with you,and theres ~ Ten. Wethank your Fatherhoods for what you have told 6, for wealfure yon that our eves begin tobe opened, and to-look out of their holes, wherefore - weentreat youto openthems a. little more, and tell us bow, or by what means or wayes you dokeep fo faf? in the Saddles of your Dignities.and Bifbopricks,. jou being fuch a generation of men, as we now percerve yoware, == “Bib. We will very briefly tell you, if you'do not know, provided: youwill conceal and keepto your {elves what we thalltell you, Firft, Ne TE a Firfi, We have with a great deal of fubtilty procured a Law, to pus pith all fuch‘as thall {peak ot write againft us, to lay us opentothe World ; fo that ’tis no matter how abominable we are now, for having tyed up mens mouths,and prohibited their pens,we may be as wicked as “we Will or can, no men nor doggs dare open their mouthes, or ufe their pens to conviét, or fo much as to difcover our filthinefs ; and do you not think this was a pretty fhift to keep usin the Saddles? We promife you, We laugh atit, when we confider how wilily we acted, and how feafonably and predently we play d our game with the Legiflative Pow- “ers, for we Were very timely in it : And if we had neglected that{eafon before we were difcovered to them, we are confident our Market had ‘been {poiled, for were it now to have been done, we are perfwaded that we have fo far loft our felves im the hearts of thofe perfons, that made — that Law, they having found out our wickednefs, that they would utter- dy reje& any iuch motion ; which our learned wits forefaw ; fo that mow we are pretty well fecured from all men, that are jultly provoked @tus. ee bee. Secondly, We do as Woolfey and Boxer, Winchefter or Stephen Gard« ‘ner, and their Adherents were wont todo in their Princes Courts, we. do keep two or three, or more of us, clofe there continually, What ever work is left undone, we are very precife in that : And their work 1s to -obferve who.comes there, and what they fay and do, and to know what matters and counfels are on foot, and to dive into our Princes fecrets, all we can, and to underftand what they intend,and what they are about todo, that fo if there fhould be any thing ftarted agaialt us, We May | cruth the Cokatrice Egg betimes, left it fhould come forth andtake the . air, yea we feel the pulfes of Counfellours, and Nobles, and found them all-we can,and as we find matters we do improve them all we can to our own advantage, how prejudicial foever it may be to thoufands Ci eee | , LA | = pe aa Thirdly, We endeavour, as much as pofiible, to keep all perfons, that are not of us and for us, as fow as We Can, and we are {till clamour- ‘ing with our Princes againft them ; teprefeating them as perfons not worthy tolivein the Land; and that all that are not of our black-fac't Hierarchy, are difloyal and difaftected perfons to their Rulers,and keep them from having accefs unto them, eft they fhould make us appear to themin our colours, and fo alienate their hearts to us ; although we are fully convinced that we abufe them, and that thofe men whom We re- ~prefent as Monfters to them, are far better than our felves,and are more fincere in their profeffion of Love, and fervice to Godand man, than we are ourfelves ; who in all our pretended love, zeal, and loyalty, to ; C 2 | 2-2 ees ~~ | (20 - God and them, do nothing but defigne the fetting up, and upholding - our Interefts, our great Bifhopricks, high Titles and Dignities. Yea, we keep, as much as we can, all fuch perfons as do not jump withusin our defiens, from making known their grievances,and the many wrongs and injuries we do them in our Courts, and otherwife, to their lawful ‘Magiftrates, that fo we may keep our Interefts entire and unmoleft- ‘Fourthly, We imploy and fend forth,as ignorant dol theads, debauched a and fuperftitious Curats, our Journeymen, as we can find, to work for “usin our profitable Vineyards, that they by their Doctrine and Pradtice, may debauch and keep perfons in grofs ignorance : We inftruét them -what they fhall Cay,and how they fhall {peak of us their Mafters ; and they.underftand our meaning, and what our defignsare, (wz.) toen- deavour all they can to preferve our reputation among the People, and _tocry usup as Perfons that came from Heaven ; and our Orders, and “Authority, and high Dignities, as divine and facred things; and to preach as little as poffible, andto fill their belly with our old Broath, which hath ftunk inthe noflrils of all forts of men thefe thirty years,: and is very odious.both tothe tafte and fight of the wifeft and holieft men. For we know, thatif we fhould imploy holy and able Minifters, to communicate the Light of the Gofpel amongthe People, theireyes would foon be open to difcem us, that it would be impoifible to hide our deeds of darknefs from them. Moreover, we were the men that pro- | cured that Law, to filence all honeft and confcientions Minifters, bee caufe they food in our way, and withftood and ob(tructed ourdefigns, fo that we could not reign in-that height, peace, fplendour, and tyran- | ny as wedetired, until we caufed them to be removed, that fo we might ‘hear no more of them, and that room might be made for our Journey- men. By thefe and {uch like means, we got up, as we fhewed you be- fore; and by the fame, or fuch like, we do fit faft as yet in our Sad- dies. 3 °F Sn We are fariified in what yon have [aid a to that alfa : Now prap tell us if you be [ach Bifbops as are {poken of in the Scripture, or whether you . . arelikethemin qualities, call and prattices there mentioned ; and all that take wpon them the office and work of Bifloops, are.appotnted and commanded 30 be? Pray tell us briefly and plaily, a yon have other matters ale Vian 8 i = =: = . Bifh. Noy in no wife ; for did you ever know fuch Bifhops come from Popith Rome, as came from Ferufalem ? Rome is our Mother, fhe thar a the mother of harlots and abominations : but Ferufalem was theirs, that is mentioned in Scripture, and approved of by Chrift, They “ : | : ee — oe 5s ele eee esaheln ns shee Darknefs, Sweet to Sowre, Black to have ad epee tee made Bifhips by the: Spirit of ‘God, which we do hate and deride ; by the Laws and Authority of Jefus Chrift, as their Lord and King: but we are made by the Antichniftian {pirit, Laws and Authority of Kome, and, as Prelatical Bifhops, we have nothing elle to fhew for our felves, © but what was handed over to usby Romes Authority. But that we may throughly convince and fatisfe you of what we do here affert,we do de- fire you to take a little pains with us, and hearken unto us, while we . do briefly fhew you in fome particulars wherein the Scripture primitive _ Bifhops and we are unlike, and do difagree ; and indeed to tell youthe truth, we are almoft, if not altogether, as unlike them as Lightis to — | White; the Pricfs of Baal tothe ine but-the Name of Bilhops, we Lords true Priefts; for we have noth ~ are no Way worthy of the Name, much lefs of the Office, Work, Honour and Reward of a true Bifhop: Alas we are but meer Shadows and Fma- 4 ges of real Subftances, meer pretenders to.it, for our gain, honour, and filthy lucre, as will evidently appear in thefe following particulars. Firf, The Scripture and primitive Bifhops were the Peoples Spiti- . | tnal Servants, fuch as did adminifter. tothem.{piritual things, in the name, by the authority, and according to the appointment of Chiilt, as his and their fervants, and were exprefly forbidden to Lord st over their Flocks. The Apoftles did acconnt st their bighe/t honour, tobe C hrifts and - the Churches [ervants, 28 the Scripture tells us. But we do Lord st over Gods heritage, and domincer over them, as if they were not worthy to, wipe our fhoes, or to {peak to uss and We ate greatly difpleafed with {uch as do not cringe to us, and giveus our Titles + yea, we do tyran- nically Lord it over the Kings true and honourable Subjects; fuch as ventured their Lives and Fortunes for his Intereft. Yea, We - Lord it over, and cairy it difdainfully. towards many of the true Nobles and Peers of the Land, We do tyrannize andLorditover, ss # ¥- The Bodies and Liberties of the Kings loyal Subjects, if their - Confciences be not fo large, ftupified, and befotted as-ours ate, tojoyn, With us, and bid us God {peed in our Wicked wayes; them We caufe to be humbled after taken, and imprifoned for meer triflles,. and we have : seen fitted to ferve our turns, and execute our tyrannical and bloody degrees. 2s 4 2, WeLordit over their Eftates, endeavouring to ruine fuchas do — “pot pleafe us, and our Journey-men; we cite them into our Spiritual Courts; and caufe them to walt their time, and {pend their money, while their Families want bread at home ; vexing and. driving them up - 5 and down at our oivn and our Curates pleafures, and at laft fine them, ox - perfecute them elfe where, till we have almoft, if not alrogether, ruined shem i A op re ern ee rae rn _-Heard{-men and their Herd, be obedient unto our Laws -‘pointments of Jefus > ~ them and theirs; there ate thoufands in the Nation can fadly ard ex. we g “sperimentally ceftifie this againft us, but that they fear our Wrath and hot difpleafure, ao ; | 3. We donot reff there, but we do alfo Lord it over their Confcien- “Ces, endeavouring to bring that which is fubje@ only to the Lord of ‘glory in fubje@ion unto our proud humours, our uncontroulable Prela- tical Authority andell the Engines We can procure, we make ufe of toefiect our pufpofes, whichis to rob Chrift of his right and due, and to bring over all his Subjects to our ufurped Lordly Interefts and defiens. Thus did not the Scripture Bithops. _ We profes to you, thar we would ‘not have Chrift toreignwhere wereign ; or if We allow him a fmall in- tereftin, and ule over mens Confciences, "us but asan underlingto _ ‘be fubordinate thereunto. Thisis fo evident, as that he that runs may weadits befides many other things (which we do here, as inother things in all our difcourfe, omit for brevities fake} in this, thac when ‘we vifit our herds, and herd{-men, ( that are our flaves and drudges ) We do not at all enquire, if men do fubje& themfelves unto, and obey the Laws, Orders, and Appointments of Jefus Chrift’; but, whether our sand Authority? and fuch as we find conformable and obedient to us, our Orders, and Appointments; we do-embrace as oir « carly beloved Children, how ‘vile, rebellious, and difobedient foever they are tothe Orders,and Ap- : “And if any be found difobedient tous, and our | “Authority, Laws and Orders, ‘we do more or lefs punith them, with our Canonical Rods ; But they may be open and flat Rebels againit ~“Chrift his Authoricy and Laws, “and no notice taken of tt. Ob horrid wickednefs! Yea, wedo much more mind the honour of auir’ Appara- tors, and Houfes, than we do‘the Lord Chrifts, 5 ie ~'~ Secondly, The Scripture Bifhops were conffant Preachers of the Gofpel of Chrift, to therr Flocks + they did give themfelves wholly to the work which they had recevved of the Lord,that they mi ght fl it, tothe glory of Chriff, “and the edification of his People, according As they were appornted and en _ joyned, They did preach the Word in feaflon and out of feafon : yea, fometimes ai ght and day, they: s id labour in the Word ard Datirine ; and did watchthe Pockover which the holy Gheft had made them Overfeers : But we are leaft Of all concerned, or do little or nothing at all concern our felves, in that which is indeed our only work and bufinefs,as we profefs our { elves: or pretend to be Bifhops over Flocks. - Our bufinefsis, and we wholly _ devote our felves to look after our Revenues, Honours, Courts, and carthly mattets; Wwe care not if ‘the Devrl do our work, fo we'may have = =. | our Zz ’ vs our Lordly Titles, Popith Honours, and Revenues; glutting our Bel» lys, and cloathing our Backs, andriding about in our Coaches, to take our pleafures, andto fillour felves with worldly delights; if wecan. keepin Princes favours, and blind the eyes of Counfelours, flatter and: deludé Legiflative Powers, to. keep usin the height of our Pride and Luxury : Thefe are the matters we imploy our prudent heads about — from year to year, for we canneither Preach nor Pray when once we are Lord Bifhops. We carrOpprefs, Sapprefs, and Perfecute thofe that can.and would /abour in the Word, and fulfil the Minifirey they have recet= wed, We account it 4 great difgrace, and far below our Lordly Dignities, — to Preach the Word of Gad, except it be now and then, in Princes Courts; "tis too unworthy a work for #s to be exercifedin, among the Ra/cad Herd, But we muft haft homwards, for Our Belies begin to cry Cuba bord. ee ee Beas a, - Thirdly, The Scripture Bithops entred into their AZimfiry by the Door of Chriff’s eAuthority, according umtohw Laws and Orders; theydurft not ran rillthey were fens, nor conse till they were called, nor gosntothe Vine- pard, untilthe Mafter of the Vineyard [ent or thruft them in. But we dike ‘Thieves and Robbers, climb up another way; 2 way which Chrift never ap- pointed, neither doth he own or blefs; yea, though we plead ( like fo many crafty Lawyers for their Fees, though they know their Clients — — Caufe to be-bad, and unjuft) That our Cal, Standing, and Ways of pres cedure, are of Divine Right and Inftitution, to deceive the fimple, that cannot fathom our depths of Treachery; yet wecan no longer remain undifcovered to the wife and Prudent, but we are fufficiently difcerned _ tobe Lntruders into, Lfurpers and Ravifbers of the Minifiry, and Flocks oof Chriff, Wolves in Sheeps-cloathing ; and therefore tisno wonder that. _. fomany do refufe to own us for their {piritual Paftors. oe | Fourthly, The Scripture Bifhops were contented and well enough [atis- fedwith that portion of worldly things, which Fefus Chrift their Lord bad provided and appointed for thems 3 as perfous that laboured 1u the Word and | Dotbrine, and what their particnlar-Flocks were. able to aford them : And we do aflure yeu that Jefus Chrift.never appointed or gave to them fuch fat Bifbopricks as our forefathers had;: and which we have ufurped : for look what Chriftby Pas/told and charged Timothy (viz. ) That he ha- wing food and ravment {ould be therewsth content ; was an Order fent to all Chrifts Bifhops, which they accepted:of, and were contented with as _. fufficient. But we are like greedy Doggs, that can never have enough > And fach as put not into onr mouthes, we prepare war againft them, We axe the moft dif-fatisfied perfons in the world, for when we have traded in fat Livings, from imo hundred pounds, to three hundred, and then to four oF \ er y ; i E i : ; sue hundred by the year,’ 4 24 i fe are Mick a diffatishied, as a Fifh out of — the Water, or as a Stoneout of its‘Centre ; For then our next careis to procure money enough to purchafe a Deanary,or fome higherPromo-" _ tion + and when we have gotten that, then wemakeit our chief ftudy, care and endeavour, to geta Bifhoprick, (being fo nearit) fo tharwe can hardly fleep night or day until we are mountedand fixedin the fad- _ die of a Bifhoptick;and then our great care is how topreferve and main- ~ tain our Pomp and Greatnefs, by racking and (queexing who We can, to gather in our thenfands, and ten thoufands: And being in the Saddleof a. Bithoprick, we ate nov at all: fatwfied, but are exercifing our wits about: fome eAugmentations, or prefent Hononrs, and Effates: And we-do great- ‘Ly envy the greateft Nobles in the Land, becaufe they exceed us in any thing of trae Worth, Honour, or Effates; _ Fifthly, We find that Scripture Bifhops did all they could to fill up the Minftry, and {apply the Vineyards of the Lord, with-able, holy, and faibfat | Minifters, {uch who would make it their work to ferve the Lord-Chrift, not their own Bellies : {uch asdid readsly accept of the work, not the wages one — ly, or chiefly, But we have beaten out the Lords Labourers, {uch as he plant= ed in his Vineyard, that we might bring in fome of out s-Le gotten Sons in- to the Vineyard. We care not-who, or what they be, fo they will bow to Us, and call Us Father, and Lord; and officiate as our black-mouth’d | Chaplains : for we would not have them ook, nor fpeak., or walk, like Chrif’'s Miniffers 5 1£ they will obferve our manners, and walk as they have us for Examples, obey our #nholy Orders, and bloody Decsreessno mat- ter what Loyterers, and Bi/bop or Beaftlike perfons they be. aS : Sixthly, The Scripture Bifhops were mex of peaceable Spirits, doing — their own work with quretne{s, labouring to make and keep others fo likewife. But we, through our unfatiable pride, envy, and malice, have, anddola- — bour all we can, tomake fnares, and bonds to catch and captivate our _ncighbours ; yea, the peaceable of the Land do we diffurbe,vex and turmoil, and all to gratihe our axguset'{pirits, which be conjured wp, Weare like the troubled Sea, whofe Waterscaf np mireand dirt. Andindeed, as we -are.a molt wicked Generation of Creatures, having little or no peace at home, fo we are never better (atisfied then: when wedifquret others, : £. - Sevew bly, They did greatly rejoyce whes by their Labours hey did win (ouls toChrift, and could help them forward in grace, comforts and fruits of - bolinefs ; their flocks adhering to and fianding faft in the truth, a tu in Tea fas; their walking in Chrifts appointments, owmng and {ubmutting toh Au- | thority, a ther Lord and Lawgivers andthe more ther prattices. were like Chrift's, the more their faces did. (hine with Chrift’s glory and Image upon them, the more they rejoyced in, and for them, and the more they loved them, YA eee i TERRES ; ; sie wise ki TTA ie Does ; ¥ 2 phere Bebe re gia MR Rie Bl teas he ae 7 eee ae Se eo ee But webate and perfecrste f uch, we are grieved When fouls ave converted to Chrifh, ‘hecaufe then we know, that we (hall lofe our fubjetls, and that, they being made — fubjests of Chrifts Kingdom,and baving gotten {piritwal weapons from bim,they will © fight againft our kingdone of darkuefs, with their faith, prayers, and tears. And Lome (as Luther did) ‘with the Swotd of the Spirit, the Word-of God: Andthat ~ we fhall have #0 more homage and fervice from them. For we find that Chrift | rranflates perfons out of Kingdoms of Darknef{s (as ours is) into his Kingdom of | Light, by which they fee our darknefs and hateit. For we feat nothing more,nor | grieve at any thing fo much as the lofs of our Subjetts, o1 rather Slaves; and | .thetefore to prevent it tw God willnever blefs to the converting of fouls. 7 hey were fupporters of the weak, comforters of the feeble minded, and poured. ol into their wounds, to heal and re- swe do all we can to fend them Preachers,that we think fre(b them. But we fall upon them with open nsontbes, pulh them with the foaulders ‘and tear them with our iron teeth, smprifan, punifp, and as much as oh us'lics ruinethem; fothat we are not mifcalled Bifbop-Lite-(heep. : E:gthly, Scripture Bifhops did. not conftrain their flocks to fubferibe and {wear to humane Inventions, Antichrifisan Laws and appointments, and puns(h them that vefuled 3 or fuch as did in Conference deny to pay the tenths of their Effates and La- hours, to Idol dumb Shepherds, to idle Drones, to Strangers, Thieves and Robbers. But wedo : ‘Tis our conftant practice, as the poor enflaved Nation.can fadly witness eer ar man fit,or worthy to minifter the Ordinances of Chnitt, ~ but fuch as will ubjcribe and [wear to ws, and our wayes, though they do tt to their prefext and eternal wrong and {name + And {uch as will not, we caft out of their Workeand Free-holds,we brand and mark them with odious Reproaches, and render them. to all as Enemies to Church and State. . Ninthly, Scrupture Bithops did look upon, and ovn themfelves, ws Chrifts and the Charches Servants, 0 adusinifter his Ordinances, and execute his Laws, only — to, and among their flocks, and they bronght in wone of thesr own amongftthem, bas Rept clofe tothe Lord Chris Orders, in all their adminiftrations. But we appoint, fer up and adminifter our own Laws and Ordinances, Dot minding or regarding Chrift’s : fo that we ferve our felves, not the Lord Jefus, in adminiftring. , _ Jig our own authority, the products of our own brains, that are obeyed and ré= f petted in our own 8 Fourneymens wor|biping though the common People{ee it not, “ Tenbly, Scripture Bilhops feed aad watch over the flocks, over which the holy Ghoft had made them over feers, with their own hands and eyes, not by thesr Fourney= men, they take the charge and care themfelves, a judging tt their own work, But - we, like Scavengers ar Nighimen, who lye and fleep,or fit at Alehoufes eating and drinking, while fome dirty perfons do their dirty work, as they pleafe. © Fust (uch a fort of wen are We, wallowing in all idlenefs, pride, and filthine(s,while ‘out dirty Fourney-men do our dirty work, - Sh oi eee Eleven. Scripture Bilhops by Chrift's appointment, rook the care and charge = ag eo oxly - Sane vee ey BYE V OURS en oar BSE RSPR ae ee emg a hire ang work among them, But we are {o Worthy, able, and \. @pprehenfions, that we can, and do undertake the ch - hardly any thingworth the name of Good ina - Whom ive ferve; whoimploysus, and who wi - either with him or his Laws ; that we neithe _ Name and Word of Ch pride, tyranny, and ambition of onr hearts s that we Ss only of one particular Church or Congregation, one Bifho fone Church, although Sometimes one Church had feveral Bifhops, they had work enough todo, 1 a conftant and con{cientious ai{charge of their whole tranicendent in our own arge of feveral hundreds that we are brave Fellows, We ought to be Lorded reward. »and other fome 800 times more. of Congregations apiece; and do you not think notable Paftors, laborious Workmen 3 and that ed-and reverenced,{fome of us 500,fome 700 then the Scripture Bifhops, feeing our chare fo Muc eding _ though we never fee the thoufand part of them. Yea; we are privile yond they, for we can capacitate fome of our F wo, three, four or five, yea, ten Churches (as you fee our unlikenefsin this alfo, ee : Twelve. Sctipture Bifhops, never enjoyned or appointed humane, abfur Dine! nificant Ceremonies to worflip God withal, nor did they appoint, 6Y ¢njoyn, certain peculiar garments to be worn by Miniffers, as pectliar to them But we like ghoftly Fathers, Scribes and Phanifees, wear, and enjoyn. our Curates to Wear, lone” garments, fingular atti re, different from all other men; thus they mu ftdo, or _incurre our hot difpleafure, becanfe ir Is Our pleafure, how odious and ridicy. fous foevertheyare. eS eo er i Thirteen, Scripture Bifhops dived holy lives, they prattiled what they preached, and preached what they pratlifed, endeavouring to teach, entourage and draw mento Heaven by their heaven! y Dottrine, and fpiritual C onverfations ; they did (bine bea fore thesr flacks, in ferious godlinefs, bumble and mech deport ments, in their felf. denial and mercifulne(s, in dil gence and faithfulnels in their calings, and in other | holy prattices, But we ate men of other fpirits and Wayes, our {teps tend ano. ther way, they lead to the Chambers of death; {o thar ’ti | ing in ourfteps, or walki ng by our rules, or to follow | | any be fo fottithas to follow our dark Lanthorns, they wil] fiumble, fall, and be ; broken without remedy : For we are fuch guides, ag lead ali that will follow ue — to defiruétion, and that in the greateft (lence and feeurity we can, left we fhould draw inquifitive cyesuponus. Yea farther, we wil] tell you, That there is no real worth in us, we are fuch a crew,fuch a neff of fowl Birds, that there 1s: | ny of our Lives, Ajj {pizitual € are going ; Whofe we are, and Hreward us: that we do neither ft, nor believe in him ; that we have no faving acquaintance, I fear, love, nor ferve God, but ‘our own Bellies; yea, we make ufe, (as we pleafe and have occafion) of the rift, for no other ends but to promote the covetoufnels, Make all Religion toferve — | ee our Eyes may fee whence we came, and where W know Jefus Chri See : ee any USMS le ees Lei) Ia ET i FASE Oey: 5 = ee G2). gs a our carnal deGens, gain of pretended godlinefs, and retain the Truths of God in unrighteoulnefs, willfully fhutting our eyes againit the Light, left we fee our filthinefs, and pull trouble upon our Confciences; endeavouring to fup= “prefs it 2s (oon as it appears, and wou [d make Confcience fpeak lowder. Yea, what ever fome men think of us, we know that many of the Kings true {ub- | jects are as yet greatly deceivedinus, we are fo far from having fuch fpirits as the Scripture Bifhops had, or walking as they did, that we are earthly and fen{ual ; fore of us have our mouths full of curfing and bitterne{ss deftruttion and mifery are in our wayes, the way of truth we have not kuown, neuher 48 there any fear of God before our eyes : but we are altogether ont of the way that leads anto Life. Yea, oa? feet are {wift to (hed blood ; and we have {ach guilty Cone _ feiences, when they appear to us out of their Sepulchres, Cuch filthy flinking Con= ver(ations,that we dare not reprove any abominations practifed by others ; and ‘fo we partakeof their fins, and lye under the guilt of their wickednels, as be= ing the Peoples (piritual Lords and choftly Fathers. : eee Fourteen. Scriptute Bifhops fought the glory and hononr of their Lord and Maz frer that imployed them, the welfare and enlargment of the Kingdom and Gofpel of Chriff ; that he might reign, be owned, and glorified every where. But we looknot at aif afrer that, our bufinels is,to feek our felves,our own glory and renown, oreat riches and promotion, fo be called of men Rabby, to have thoufands and - ten thoufands fall down and worfhipus, our Image, and Authority; to have -gteat and fmall under our girdles, at our becks and appointing, that our pofte- tities may be exalted, and that our glorious names, titles and dignities, may be recorded to pofterity. They aid make it their bufinefs to difconntenance and beat down fin, and promote ferions boline{s, the power and life of godline/s : But we are the chief upholders, promoters, and encouragers of wickednefs, doing all — we can to difcourage true holinefs, andthe practicers thereof.” oe Fifteen. Scripture Bithops, dsd glory inthe Crofs of Fefus Chrift, rejoyce that they were acconnt ed worthy to [uffer |pame for bis Name and Word. But wecon- temn his Crofs, fet our minds on, and glory in earthly Crowns and Bifhopricks, in our Lordly Revenses, lofty Titles, Honours, Power and Greatne{s; weneither — think of, nor defign the Lords Crofs, that is below us. | , Sixteen. But we mult hafte ; therefore laftly, Scripture Bifhops were ae Ted tothe Minifiry by the People they were to adminifter unto ; they darft not intrude themfelves, but waited for [uch a Call, knowing that they had nothing to do there without their free confent; and that if they {bould thruft tx themfelves neither Chrilé ~ nor his People, would, or could own, or blefs them, and that alwayes in {uch cafes, Vox Populi # Vox Dei; the Call of the People, 1 the Voice of Goa. But, both _- we out felves,and alfo our Curats,are grofs Intrudets,like Hildebrands Hoggs, who being unyoked, break through hedges, and violently thruftourfelvesin- —~ ~ to others Proprieties, and plunder them of their fruit, and are as welcome as _ - Hoggs Phy a Ma di ts regis wl aden ne thant x abe A ey gt a A ala nh eR eesti gaan dial at gon 8 ha \ 1 VER i. moshViershonos SARS IIAO A iSTINMNN OR mia tai cnn IN a Aen hah iy fC RN a ac Talk ACB that OS) PB Re BN an, | cn Ste eden aT i ve 3 ees ~ i : een = } F 2 # Q 5 = . Fe = aE Ey ; c ae y, -Hoggs in Corn fields. Thus we have informed you how unlike we areunto the: Lords Bifhops mentioned in Scripture ; and as we told you, there is no fimilj.. tude or likenefs between them and us. So we hope you fee it made evident to you, and therefore you will not for time to come deceive your felves,in think. . ing us to be better than indeed we be, for we have told you the naked truth, and we could tell. you a great deal more of the like ftuffe: as thar Scripture. _ Bifhops were equal, of the fame fize, there was no inferiority nor fuperiority among them; one was nota Lord Bifhop, and another his Chaplain or Cu. rate: Chrift crufhtthat{pirit, that was rifing amoneft them, of Lordlinefs, ~ before he left the world. But we have cut Miniftersinto feveral fizes and de- grees, with our facred hands ; fo that one fort are Apes, another fort Aifes, _» Some are Servants, others of the {ame tribe are Lords and Mafters, But you. _ abe a-company of Cockdrains, you are {uch Noddy-caps,that you know nothing but what you are taught by us your Ghoftly-Fathers : alas ‘men, you under. | ftand not the myftery of Prelacy ; you fee not our deep witted craft, policy, | treachery, and decest ; you look onus, and {eeus carry about mens faces, being _ faftened unto our fat fheulders, but you fee not our hearts, and brains ; could. you find us out, you would fee a Pack of Cards that are all Knaves,a Herd of | Beasts all Spotted, were it not that we delude fuch: Simpletons as you are, with. cS - @ar golden Titles, gay and fumptuous Cloaths, Houfes and Horfes, Canoni- | cal and Confecrated Garments, and fuch like Trumperies, with holy Oyland O:ders, to. dazzle and blind your eyes, that you can hardly difcern us what we are within our Doublets and Breehces. — Ten. Your Lord(hips-have ingennwoufly fatisfied 1s in your wnlikenef. 5 auto the Apa proved Scripture Bifhops ; now we defire your help in fatisfyingims concerning your | likene{s wnto,and agreeing with Bifhop Bonner ,Bifbop Gardner,and (uch like brave. Fellows of the Romith Tribe. fs oes ane oEles | _« -Bifh, Well, we fall fatisfie you in this.too, for we fee there is no getting | your money out of your pockets, till you have gotten all our Divinity out of ‘ourheads, First, Then we anfwer, We are the fame with them in our Original, Starr, _ Places, and Offices, in our Spirits, Natures, Works, Defignes, Diguties, ando-— — ‘ther things + But we mult tell you allo, That we cannot extort fo boundlefs and ‘weolimitted Power from our Kulers, as they got from theirs, {o.as to proceed sn our de~ | figness and execnse aur defires upon the generation of the Righteous as they did: We have fought afcerit, and attempted it with all our might, but cannot obtain it, for our Kulers, we perceive, are grown wifer now, than to truft Male-pates, (uch Sir Johns a we are, with fo much Power as they had,which doth not a little trou- | ‘bleour deep witts : Indeed our Bull is as good as theirs, bat he hath not fo _ tong Horns, yet we live in hope bis ¥ | dong Horas, yet we live in ots Horns may grow:longer, for *tis a Young Bull, However, it muftnotbe imputed to our Want of ‘craft ox [abtiley, fox we have — PT ee eT eT dy . i “/ ee 4 RA 8 CIDER 1 AE TEE ee SY ee a pee f * y whee ~Gntheir blood, but that his -Holine{s. wou few Grif's come there; tha wien acked a¢ wifely, ot rather as wilily as they did, though, as yet, our fuccefs be not as theirs was, becaufe, aS WE faid, our cMagifirates are wifer : But we have. ° not laboured altogether in vain, of for nought, for we got upon the backs of » - fome Magiltrates long fince, and prevailed upon'them to eftablifh us in our high Dignitics, @¢. and to imploy themi{elves in, and about our fervice. We _ have perfwaded them by many crafty wiles We uged with them, tofet thei — hands, (we would have had their loyns too) to out trade, and toaflilt, as ous * _~ flaves, in peeeniiee alf fuch as would not bow to our Idols, and cry, Great oo ¢ Ephefians. We thought, that (as the world now goes) wehaddone Diana of t : ne BY , enough in procuring Laws; though we fet them to be executioners of them ; for we forefaw it would prove but dirty unprofitable work, to afflict innocent perfonsy. to pleale our humors, and that it would make all the Agents about it, very bate~ ful both.to God and Men, as ig now evident; wefay, we therefore in policy did: , ‘commend it to fuch of the Laity ag would undertake it, not, judging it pru= dence to dirty our owa facred fingers with it, but with Pilate to wafh them, and fo proclaim, We are clear of the blood. of thefe mens and ferthe prophane “Layty (as we account them) to pollute their. hands with it, and {o we have ‘kept our felves clean. ‘But. we mutt not {peak fo loud, Jef thefe Gentlemen, fhould find out our crafty knavery, and ferve our defignesno longer... And in-. ~ deed, had not our chief -Magiftrates been more tender and careful of thein ‘Subjects welfare, than we are of our Flocks; and had thofe Gentlemen, whom. weimployedin our druggery, been as forward. in executing the Laivs, which. \ we by fubtilty procured, according to our intentions anddefires,. there had heen thoufands of Families ruined more than there are : And had we known be- fore, that they would have acted no more violently againtt the beft fubjects.o8 our Princes, then they have done; and have ruined them, as Wwe intended, we. {hould have taken the work into our own -confecrated hands, ‘nothing doubt- | ing but in cafe we had (tained our holy garments , and defiled out {weet hands: ld have wathed us as-clean again. as:& ‘Fith, But we were not fo wife as.to forelee all events, and whatcannot be | “cared mutt beesdured ; we willlet them alone and look to our felves now. But. ‘we are not a little troubled that we have fet up fo many Mills, and have{o — tour Shops have been-fo long open,and we have had. > f 4 ¢ {o do We. 3. Were they hot and refilefs. ous fad, whom God would not have made fad ; {0 do we.. 5, They ftrengthened the by promifing them provoked and ftirred them up, to help them in abuf did endeavour to extinguilh the Light of the Gof} pel,that it might not fine into mens 8 the Lords Flock, and made 9» They would not [uf : ut a Worlhip for hing form toit,or punilh them 3 fo do we,” fo do we likewife, ' are as like them ag Ince you, that We, » and drive on the gh to our grief) wehave Life; fo do We. 6, They belye and flander the Lords People t flaughter among them, and havock of them ; fo do we, We mighe inftance in very Many other things, whetein we and they do a&@ by the fame {pirir, tread in the fame fteps fame ends ; and to tell you the plain truth (althov (by the wifdom of our Rulers) not been fo fuccesful as they, yet we have a@. . ed as vigoroufly, and with as good a ill as they, toaccomplith the fame ends, and have made our felves as abominable and loathfom ag they, and we do Jook for the fame reward that they have had | Ten. You have fatisfied us by what you have now [aids [Pall it pleafe you toine form us what : | Land, that foyour Heirs may be infared in [ome of your Honours and Di gnities 3 for we {uppofe Jo it= tend to leave them grim Elites Ne : ee Bilb, We do fo intend, and hope-we May effect it; we do eure you, we do endeavour it, both by hook and by crook, but as for their Peerage, we can. that : for we have € trouble us, but ho v= _. Syer me thal watch all opportunities to effect it ; but w ed, We met withan unhappy repulfes’ (which wag hen it was proponnd- fab | Fao Se mente es saa t a . k E ° f i f ‘3 is I i gE 5 E is = 5 iz E % Fe E t f f £ § i P : . them like Affes now) that they prefently dewand to fee ony a alwayes; our Trading ig 5, and verily we thinkie - ws. But torettrn to our 1. They confirain and CompeR ah al Church, both for’ 1” their malice againfe — carts of the righte= : 0 their Rulers, and = oe a z ees Fe ae CR ET EEN SEN & EP GR Wey as we remember ) that if f : s ERSoe ae EES SEB as PIAL OVERTLY. POORER US SER Fae See EL GS cand he eeu ds Ted SD i 0 PES {uch an abfurdsty fhould be admitted, another as bad would follow, (viz.) That [ome of thofe Young Peers might be fercht ont of Hofpitals, which would not be well, nor for the honour of the honourable Lords and ‘Nobles.. Bucif it fhould not be obtained, we can fatisfie ourfelves, we have done our utmoft to promote its S _ and our Heirs muft be contented to fit lower. But’cis pitty that fo honourable perfons as we are;fuch noble and ufeful Barons, as we are thought to be,thould - deave our Children without fome Badge of Honour, 2 Ten. Jf it hall pleafe your Lordfhips, do Jom want any Carats, er Herd bed ferve you? if you do,we can procure you fome, 7 ee. a ‘Bifo. Yes,we want a dozen or two,pray help us if youcan tofucha numbers. Ten, We foall,but pray tell us what manner of Creatures the y mut be, for we cane not tell if they be qualified to your minds, and will [erve your turns, _ Bifh. Very well,we thall tell you briefly: ” Ts no great matter what they be, for they {hall be bleed with our holy hands, C onfecrated with our holy oyl, and be Ore dained with, and by our Romi(h Authority . all which we recerved from our holy Fan ther and Mother: Yea, they (ball att, and adminiffer in our Names, which are but dittle le{s than Wonderful ; they hall alfo receive a {pecial mark from us ih their foreheads, that they may be known to be our brats : They {ball partake alfo of our _—feraps aadieavings, which will be good enough for {uch fools as vill be our flaves, ta drudge up and down for us: yea,they {hall be at ovr dif; pofal,and officiate how where, and a long as we pleafe, and no-otherwife: For, if they fhould prove better than | We expected, then we will filence, and turn them out of doors’: but'if they — Prove worfer, we will connive at that, for Wwe cannot endure that our hierdie : ~ men, and Poftilians fhould be better than We, Which are their Lords and Ma~ _ fters : So thatif they are Jobn-a-Nokes,and Thomas Stiles, they will ferve well enough, provided alwayes; 1. That they will be our flaves, and {abject to our ‘Prelatical Orders, 2. If they can drink and [wear, Sc. laflilys if they can rail at, and blafpheme the Lords People, that ran not with them into the (ame excels of viet; and if they will vigoroufly and tyrannicall y execute our Canonical Orders a= gainft them, 3. If they will abjure the C ovenant, and bind thems[elves tous, en gage coown us for thew canonical Maffers, and ferve us as our Journey-men, 4.1 fibey have good flomacks and'can di gest our Old Broth, without vomiting ; for it hath flunk fo abeminably thefe thirty years and more, and "ti fo flale and fowre, they muft - be of very ftrong flomacks that can without great offence and danger d igeft it: there. fore both you and they muft be prepared forit. 5.They mint be {uch as will free- ly help to bear up our tortering K ingdom of darkunefs, ( for our Kingdom and In- terelt cannot ftand in light) rhey muft by their preaching and prayers, railing and deceit, affift to keep vs upon our lame Leggs, lest we {hould fall and break, our Coma fecrated Nofes : And indeed we have not any Supporters to bear our felves upon but fuch rotten ones, Our Kingdom isnot built on the Chief=Corner. Stone ; we have little intereft in Heaven, nor in the heartsand prayers ofthe. | | c= a2 — Saints, a Sh oe A femmes earn serge se = Be | 2 i : Se t 1 } 2 ie ] 4 | a 3 « 3 . ee Span if pneu ie DE li et aie Ohm atv at arahaies mg td eymaptrennnnrepet dics tay rameartrentn wer =) hl ¥ af i m z as a high exprefiion - untilthey are dead drunk, “Saints, for we have dealt with them as San/ did with the Witchesin //rael ; yea, the holy God is our enemy, and will not ftand by tohelpusin ume of. need, for we are Gods. Enemies, bothin our States, Principles and Practices 5 yea, our Prayers, which are made by our canonical witts, and facred hands, ~ Snd which we call Divine, will not help us upon our Leggs, neither comfort; nor fave us in the day of our diftrefs : and we aflure. you, we did not intend, when we made them, thattheufe of them fhould pleafe God, or profit the fouls of men. But our ends were to encourage and help am idle dumb Mini- ftry, that by them we might keep fouls in ignorance, put out the light in mens _ Contciences,harden and befot mens minds in our {uperftition and prophanefs, ~ Jeft that men, by the light of the elorious Gofpel fhould have their eyes open-_ ed to fee our loathfom nakednels, and thereby we fhould become more hate- ful, Wherefore Tenauts, you will do usa good turo,if you can commend fuch unto us, for our facred hands to confecrate; but be fure they be fo well qua- Nifled for us, that they may be like the reft of our Herdfmen : For afluredly, ur Herd{men ate almoft all (uch ; if any of them are of a better breed, they willnot ferve our ends,no matter if they have more of thofe prelatical qualities, ‘with our prelatical paws,and black-boxes, fit them for our work, and fend them \.- for we can makethem divine and holy enou oh for our ufe without any coft,and. Intoour V ineyards, that by our means are full of briars andthiftles, and there - they fhallabide with {cratcht faces : Butbe ye fure that they be fuch perfons, . as axe before defcribed, for fhould they be ferious holy perfons, that have the Spirit of God, wife, felf-denying, humble men, they may prejudice our In- terefts, and like bold Merchants, help to trip up our heels, as Luther. did our Great grandfathers. We have but thefe three pillars only to bear our fatbel-- fies, heavy Purfes, brave Coaches, Lordly Titles, Palaces and Bifhdépricks up- on, which we affure you are worth the keeping, by any means, fight or wrong; © for if matters go well on our fide, we cannot tell but we may be Cock: mates . -with Cardinals, yea, poflibly fome of us with his Holinefs ; for we are haften. ing to them as fat as we can, and hadic not been for thele Cock-brain Phana- -gicks, we had bzen there ere now; however, we may yet come in cood time, if we meet with no bad luck in our way: We will keep our ftanding {ure upon, a. The Aathority of Laws. 2, The point of the Sword. 3, On the Intereft and- Eaitbfulnels of oar right-truffy and beloved Herd{-men: Andf{oif they keep. their eyes ourat their holes, to watch and fecure us and our. canfe when we fleep, we fhall not be moved, eS Bee: gon howfe : your boly Fatherhoods kyow it well enough, Ten. Your Fatherhoods have f- atisfied us - and they are ready yonder at the Come _. Bifh. Are they there,. pray wilh them to flay tillwe come to the Honfe. Ten. We fhall, for there they are merry and. jocund, they cur[¢,roar,and fing, yea, of their high refpects to you,they very freely drink your healths, FSD ATE TT REO ES I a @ - ‘ P 5 é B ; SS YEE TSE HOT Pa EOI YLT FIT I TT pT oe SARE ne AS CP IE EERE Eee en Ee er Se Aa aT Pua AT SA ALES AE . SFE eT EY, A. PAS an ee IER aE Eres PERI rn eT ae er > APNE Sth a ei ror Ss heen NC Soars: . heen dita. ote et a ne t Bifh. Very well, fuch fellows, and pot-companions we like well, we with 3 you could procure us tWo OF three dozen of fuch Lads, feeing they are fo well given, they are likely to be a pack of ufeful drudges in our Vineyard; pray get at leaft three dozen of fuch, and “we fhall give you one Red Herring aud a Pot ‘of Beer for every dozen that you bring us, for we judge they may be worth fo ~ gquch, feeing they are fo well qualified and fitted for ourturn, ie Ten. Shall it pleafe your Reverences to inform wus what your Bifhopricks wubsheir Appurtenances coft yon, becanle [ome fay, °tw a profitable way of trading ; others a- gain are of another opinion; we would fain know of you, becaufe you have traded in thefe wares ? are they dear or cheap, good penny-worths or bad, how goes the market > — Bifh, You Cowntry Small-wits, Dottipoles and Affes, you know not what you fay, one of our Bifhopricks is worth more than a hundred fuch Woodcocks as you are; you will never be able to purchafe one, and therefore trouble not your {elves norus about (uch queftions, but pay us our Rents now due, and do your utmoft to provide them in due feafon for time to come,elfe we fhall have very bad bargains, if you do not helpus out. But to tell you the truth, our Bifhopricks with their appurtenances are fo high rated,we cannot certainly tel you what they may colt us, for we have caule to fear, our gains will hardly countetvail our lofles andexpences ; you had need therefore to look well to our bufinefs, and pay us ourdues exactly, for,for ought we know, our orand- - farher Fudas had as good a bargain as we are like tohave : he fold his Mafter, whom he looked on to he a poor man, for thirty pieces of filver and we have fold - our fouls and bodies too; yea, wehave made merchandize of Chrifts flock; and the fouls of thoufands, to get and keep our Bifhopricks, and the dignities and advantages belonging to them; and the Glory, Gofpel,and Intereft of the Lord Chri@t, is fold forthe purchafing of them. The truth is, we have gotten them with fo much wickednels (and ‘tis impoffible it fhould be otherwife ) thatas King fames once faid, when he was prefled by fome to give a vacant Bifhoprick to a good man, Whyy faith he, there # no good man will accept ef a _ Bifhoprick.; Tcould never get an honeft man totake any {uch wares ) that we fear, ‘and have may fad thoughts about it, we (hall pay for them hereafter, with the. Popes; Cardinals, Bifhops, and the reft of that fovial Crem "Ten. Pleafeyour holy F atherhoods not to think fo hardly of your felves,your con- ditions and.wayes for im our opintans., if your. Highneffes think you (ball pay fodear. for them, you will have very hard bargaines, and were better let them alone: ree the Devil and his Curates take them, and trade in thofe wares.that are fo dear: yea we think that none but fach fitout hearted Creatures as you are, durft to trade at uch — dreadful hazards. But pleafe your ‘Reverences to tells, why yor think you have | Bifh. Betides what we told you before, we can evidence it in many parti- culars, t. We do by our bad eames draw many thoufands of poor igne~ Ms : : 2 Fant norantiouls afterus,as fheep tothe flaughter; We are fome of thofe blind guides the Scripture [peaks of, we ate-deceitful Comets in our pretended facred Offi. _ ces, Lordly Titles, Palaces, Garments and great Attendants, whereby we | craw the eyes of many filly fouls, to account us Stars 5 they gaze upon us,and wonder atus, asif we were fome rare Birds; yet they eafily fee our pride and | ambition,our covetoufnefs, extortion, luxury, Wantonnefs, hypocrifie, fu per- ‘ftition, idolatry, bafenefs} filthynefs, vanity, ends, and defigns; and they 2 doubt not but that they may follow our Reps in peace and fafety, whilethey hear us pretend to holynefs, and. cry up our felves as holy Pathers, fpirituat Paftors, wife and learaed men,and they fee We have a F orm of Godlinefs,and pra-. ctile a pompous and gaudy Religion, to make ufe of the Name of God, and Choft; thus are they hardned and encouraged to go on in their evil wa yswith- _ out checks of Confcience, becaufe we embolden them by ourexample, whony — : Caufe we told you, — _ We feared hard bargains of our Bifhopricks, Sees | 2, We donoronly caufe men to erre by our pernicious and prophaneexs — amples, but wedo all we can to thut up the kingdom of heaven 2gaintt poor they judge wifer and better, So that it was not without fouls, by extinguifhing the Light, and putting out the Candles that thould di yect men to eternal Life : we hating the Light our {elves, (being as Lord. Bifhops, Children of Darknefs, cannot endure that others fhould have Light, - We were refilefs in our wily workings until we had turned out of Chrifte Vineyard {uch as he had fene thither; and were trye Lights, and we faw many Walking in the licht to Heaven by their teachings, which we did greatly envy, | Befides, we fhut men our of Heaven, and Commanion with God, by our for= bidding them to draw nigh to God in his own wayes of Worthip. We were the men that hut up that door | ikewife, and are nota little troubled that our wife Rulers, who feeing it their interefts have conniv’dand wink’dfomuch — at the Meetings of good men, and that that dooris fo Open as itis this day, indeed our Rulers would never have difturbed them; but through our lying © and diflembling int: gations, we poflefled them with our Charms, that fuch | Meetings would be very dangerous to Church and Srate, although we knewit to be falfe, and we have fince been proved: Lyars : and that our defiones were to keep poor fouls from happinefs, and to fecure our curfed Interefts, 3. Weare the great coun renancers and encouragers of alliniquity and pro. ‘phanne(s in others, ag well asin our felves; fo that it may be truly faid, Thar from us t wiskednefs gone forth into allibe Laed, Our Herd{-men have muchof their wickednefs from us; ‘they feeing us fuch ouy felves, who hate real codii. nefsin fome, and like and approve 'of evil in all, and that as Lord-Bifhops, We cannot Well do otherwife ; we never reprove any fin, but we reprove god- _ Iinefs, mock and deride. that, yea we conttrain men to do Worfer than their | Fathers, as you thall fee’ anon; and undoubtedly all the abominable ( Weare IBS: | 2 a , Be ee ~ Merchandize is likely to make us Bankrupts. ing, uncleannels, eluttony, drunkennels, blafphemy, oppreffion, and all forts Z of villanies will be laid at our doors at lat; by which it appears thatour_ 4. Inthe next place, We are the greatimpoverithers of the Nation, we {top the trading of the Land,and that among other wayes, We get in and damn | up, the money of the Nation in our Coffers, wherewith men fhould Trade, and that to maintain out voluptuoufnefs, enrich our Families, and buy facred Garments: by means whereof the poor ‘of the Nation are ready to perifh for — _ want of bread, becaufe we have blafted the trading Rock of the Nation (where- with they fhould be imployed ) with our confecrated hands, mouths, bellies, and backs, and Wwe are affared that thoufands of almolt ftarved Families, do curfe us as the only inftrumental caufes of their ruine ; befides the feveral thoufands of Minifters, whom we have endeavoured with all our might to arve to death. All which is as clear as the Sun at noon day for, before our erection, how did out Traders, Merchants, and Farmers thrive in, and by their labours ; but what a pittiful cafe are they innow ? Our tongues,though- | facred, cannot exprefs how much the Nation hath fuffered by our wickednefs. So that upon the whole, Wwe are the deftroyers both of the fouls and bodies of all forts of perfons ; and we may well enough fear what the end will prove of our trading in thofe commodities. : ia So . You may behold yet greater wickedne(s in our practifes, as Lord-Bi- 2 (hops ; we do dethrone the Lord Jefus Chrift, the Lord of glory ; and as much asinuslies, rob him of his Lordly Authority and Power, which hereceived | from God, upon his dying for finners, which was to ordain and appoint the Woithip that God fhould have from his fubjeéts, both the matter and manner of it: and that he fhould ena& and ordain fuch Laws as he {aw good,for keep- — ing his fubjeAs in {ubjection to him;as alfo the matter and form of his Houfes and Temples, with thet Officers and Duties. But we have endeavoured to diveft and cheat him of “all ‘his glory and authority therein, by fetteng up oxr pofts by his pofts ( as his enemies of olddid) our own Worthip, Churches, Of- | ficers and Difcipline ; commanding and enjoyning Chrilts fubjects to leave his Laws, Worthip and Order, and conform, and bow down to ours, punifh- ino and'vexing fuch as will not reject Chrift and ferve uss that dare not be fuch flat Rebels and Traitors te Jefus Chrift, as to on and fubmit their fouls “and confciences to out Baubles and Images, ourufurpations and tyranny. 6. Weate yet worfer, if worfer can be, and that is to conftrain perfons to lying, fearing, perjury, opprefling and perfecuting ; as if it were not enough that they practile fo, but they muft be bound to it; _ and if this be not ta draw imguity with cartropes, WE ‘do not know whats. Tothefe abominations we compel our Curates ot ‘Herdf-men, whea wefend themforth into.our Vine- yards, and breath on them, (as we falfly : ell them) the holy-Ghoft ; al though * ee! é 2 = . «fh MBE ve res OY au an ane ey eree ares poet ates a ange re mayer mame nn nae otal tp Me arth ten mien sete & Lapeer tard wba wpe a's wert btibiy nnn) Lb wy egteladed aad / i Te a ee ee es ll aOy in their practifes it foom appears, tobe the evil (pirit. They muft engage to. {ubmit and conform unto out Prelatical Canons; Decrees and Orders, and to af.” firm, That our Church and Lordly Difcipline, % acc ording to the Word of God, - how nototioufly falfe, and contrary foever it beto the Word of God : And - they muft bind themfelves to execute our canonical or tyrannical Laws, in 3 opprefling, vexing and perfecuting fuch good men as cannot bend toour Bows, = and conform to our filthy wayes, againft their knowledge and con{ciences:: fo We firlt tye up our Herd{-mens Nofes to the polts, and fecure them tous, as our bondmen,that we may ufe them. at our pleafure, as we do our Affes.. and — the faid Herdf-meén 20 forth, and make as many fools as theycan to become SESS ~ Shemllaves abdufics so. a ee Moreover, as we do compel our Herd{-men to take our iron yoke on their ‘necks, to keep them clofe to our diudgery, fo wedeal with our other Church- _ Officers, the Church-wardens,we conftrain them to {wear without fear or wit,, to make our felves metry with it, to fee what Affes we make of fome of them, how we conjure them to ftand ftill, while we leap on their backs,and when we have mounted them, we do kick and {pur-gale them till we draw blood, We -enjoym them to fivear (under the penalty of being accurfed as black as our breeches, by our Lordly Authority ) todo that which is impoflible for them — to do, as you may feein the needlefs number of particulars, affertedin the Church-wardens Oath, and the Book of Articles. Befides, if itewere pefible . to be kept, yet not to keep it well ; for they mu(t {wear to fin with a hich hand _ againft the moft high God, the Lord Chrift, and the fouls of men ; to caufe all. to be punifhed with.our Bull,that conform not unto our fuperftitious Decrees, So that if the faid Church-wardens do {wear to do what they are there in joyn- ed, and donot doit, they ruine their fouls by grofs perjury ; if they obferve and do what they {wear to, then they endeavour todeftroy their own and o- - thers fouls another way; all which may eafily be feen in the Book it felf where: the faid Oath is, and al} the particulars of our prelatical will and pleafure , fet : ity, comtary to the kyown Laws of the Land. And now and then We catch fuch pittifuldunces.in our Trap, and make them {wear what we. pleafe againft fenfe and reafon, and- then we laugh at their follyes, and re- @ forth by our Author proach them for their labour. Here you may. fee unparallel’d wickednels, there is hardly the like tobe found among the Heathens. Whocan but blufhat this villany ? by thefe Bifhop-like practices,we deftroy men withour facred hands. Pen, Pray tell us what your ends-arein making and impofing fuch an impoffible, Horrid Oath onChurch-wardens? == > — i _ Bifh, We fhall tell you briefly. 1. °Ts to make all men our vaffals and flaves, 2. That. we way have the company. of many-with ushereafter; for we being great perforsg are lah tego aloney ov with fem attendants ; anil that we may be afed the more cruslly and kindly, mebringing multitudes with us, 3» Toenrich onr Courts, gna & 5 7 and to keep owr Agents there from idlene{ss and catching f Colds. left they being, difabled from ferving us, we fhould be without fervants, and faling fick we fhoula he at expence to recover them again, 4. That we may have their reverence ant homage, and fee their naked bala pates, 5. Tbat we may keep them in blindne{s, : left their eyes [hould be open to fee our cloven feet. 6.That we may! hereby firengtben and uphold our Kingdom, Honours and Greatnefs. 7, That we waay boaft of and | rejoyce in ovr good faccefs, a Fowlers, when they have gotten many Birds in their nets, and caught a good gain ( as they [ay ) they trinmph ia the thanghts of their “art'and (ucce(s ; fo 40 we, when we come home and confider how many A [es we have caught in our artificial canonical [nares. So that wedo all we can to ruine poor fouls, and we have reafon to fear, that there have thoufands. perifht by. our means, whereby it appears that we (hall have hard bargains in our Bie 5 fhopricks. : oe oe eae a = a | 9, We have the ruine of many fatherlefs Children and Widows, crying for Vengeance againft us. For we are they that have undone men caufelefly; + tofulfil our lufts, and promote our interelts, We have turned many families out of doors, to famifh with hunger, and pefifh withthirkt ; by our facred hands are they deftitute, affitled, tormented; we have {natched the meat out of their mouthes, fince we made them Wdows and Orphans, infomuch that many Families have no meat for their Bellies, or cloathing for their Backs, through: our oppreflion, pride end.covetouinel§ a 4 a x ge 2 a - Andas thefe cry againft us, fo do: many prifoners alfo, whom we have cru- elly imprifoned, and drove like Bealts into filthy nafly Goals,there to remain: during our pleafure without Bail or Main-prize : For. we were not fatisfied: ~ In curfing them with our black Bull, as black, as Ink, but have fet them upon our Balls Horns, to be-tormented, Many have lien in Prifon ( whom we drove there, three, four, five or fix years, for meer trifles.. For, (Tenants) you mult Jenow that we have two flaughter-houfes, the one for the Soul, andthe other” ~ forthe Body. The Soul flaughter-houfe is our Churches way of Worlhip, Ceres “monies, Orders, and Di[cipline; the other is the garnifhed Palace of Felons and. 7 Murderers: Andfuch ascannot in Confcience be drawn into the Soul-flaugh- terhoufe, there to: prophane the holy Name and Word of God, and promote: the ruine of their fouls; we do with alf rigour and violence. drive to the others- that fo wemay not fail either of deftroying their Souls os Bodies, which We: ‘mott vigoroufly profecute. Befides, there be fome fled from us into foreign: paits, through fear of our wicked hands, and others that by our means have: ‘been banifhed, and live inexile, all which cry for vengeance from Heaven: againftus: So that we are like to pay very. deat for our Dignities and Bi- _, fhopricks. Befides, we have.driven, and with all our might eadeayoureed to» drive all our Kings beft Subjects, {uch as-are. the diligent. and profitable Tra-- m - dersin the Nations, and that are moft-wfeful. to aflit cheis laniful Rulers, out: : of: / = SS j = \ SEES ae = 3 2 é ey ae % . = pS = ? . = 3 { 2 : = : : ee } = : a eS oe _ = ] ‘of the Land, as our work was to “tuine all, both Rulers and ruled, ) 2s. 8. We have and ftidl do all we can to root out all perfons in Church ang ‘State, that have any real worth in them, either for God or man; that they 9 May not have any Office, Power,or Intereft there, Such as Cannot comply with usin our hateful wayes and interefts ; for we do loath all that have any ace _-quaintance with God, or that are accounted holy and ferious men, and defere our Prelatical interefts and pernitious wayes : But that which doth prety well | quiet our Confciencesin fuch praGtices iS, that tis no new thine ; for we do ~~ in this and other of ourwayes, tread in the Reps of our infamous Anceftors of - ____-the Papal Church, and we are refolved to iffent from them as little ag we | | can, not knowing how foon we may be perfectly joyned together with them an all points and practices : Yea, we are greatly comforted, andit doth not _ a little rejoyce us, that we have gotten fo Many into Our netts,who were once | againtt us, yea, did folemnly fwearagainft us, who are now the great fupporte ers of our Hierarchy and Intereft ; who can {wear backwards and forwards , AS times will permit; who make their Oaths, Covenants and Profeffions,on. _ 7 ly a Cloak to ferve their carnal Interefls : For we think ‘tis more for fear of | us, than love to us or our wayes ; and indeed if we could find that they were | real and hearty in their joyning with us,and not for filthy lucre, it would more | | ; AOS awe a al ee a ae i f iat _ fully refrefh our tormented Confciences than it doth : But we fear they are | but belly and time-fervers, as well -as we our felves. It is their fear of us, and love to good Livings, that makes them do what they do; andwehave _ ‘T™uch ado with fome of them, who have not with us, wholly buried their Con- _ {ciences, to bring them to our Bow,and to make them own us,and do our drud= | | gety that we enjoyn them ; they a& like dull and tired Horfes, thatmuftbe Apurred on to ferve ourdefigns: We are fain to fil] up our Vineyard with fuch | Affes, and we fpread our nets every where to catch fuch Owls, and when we | : caught them, we are afraid to trut them, forwe think that fuch as can be falfe | 40-Gedand men of their own Profeffion, fo as to for{wear themfelves at our pleafure, i | t arid ee en Re este od al seas easleihene inatiianashidatmeasin.s be ud haliadonsnamenencaiamner an talmant aaeaceaiaenieTt “ , ii i, ¥ will net long be fledfaft and honeft with ws. But we will watch them,and goarfome ofthem with our Bulls Horns, and make the reft the more citcumipetand dutiful to us. You may fee that thefe Phanatick Birds are loth to be catch’d | Anournets, for we could catch but one of them with our allurements to ace _- €ept of-a Bifhoptick, to make-up the jovial crew of Lord-Bithops ; andWwe S fear that that Bifhop that once {wore againft us,will drive but a begsarly trade An Norwich Stuffs, and that he will lofe himfelf at lat, yea, we do know that - meg bankrupt before now. But we fhall leave him 'to anfier for himfelf, to ~ him hat will thortly call him to account for his perjury, and other fins which __ _ __-Beisnotorioufly guilty ofin complying with us :' For he hath perfwaded and _ feduced'‘tnore to oar wicked Ways,’ then ten of us that had never his intereft, : | Se 2 tiie. STEPS SE UT” ~¢ lees RRS DET OPENER Tas. Se ee agp A Sis Bat ea = he enh } Jer, ee 8 ~ fame and repute,which is now buried as well as ours. And as we rejoyce that F : we have gotten fuch birds to receive our Prelatical uncon, ec. So We re- _ joyce in that our Journey-men have got fo many Phanaticks to hear them in their Parifh-Churches, who come there more through fear of us than God. ' and to avoid our Horas, more than to avoid the difpleafare of God. We know _ they do but diflemble with God and men, in their being prefent at our Wor- _ fhip, and chat they neither love us not our wayes : So that we affright them - to act contrary to their Confciences,that they may avoid our corporal flaugh- -ter-houfes ; andis this we do rejoyce - For as weare grieved when Chrift _ Catches any of out fubjects in his net, fo we are clad when wecatchanyof _ Chriftsin ours; and ve labour night and day, that we may have andkeep - more followers ofusin the dread way to Hell,than Jefus Chrift hath in the frare _wayto Heaven, Moteover, it is notorioufly evident, That onr flates and Ways are very bad, wicked and hatefal, and noway pleafing unto Gods in that'we have mone to pitty and belp ms, to love,comsfort and pray for us, for the pro[perity and bap= _ pisefs of us and our poftersties ; but ( for the moft part, the vile? of men) [uch as - are our Off -[pring, and sl-begotten Sons, (uch as have onr qualities and Wolfifh naw _ tures, and have nesther intereft in Heaven, nor in the hearts of the Saints = none but fuch as love and ferve ws for their belies, as we our felves do ferve God, and our _ Rulers; they are onr very image, and look ,fpeak and walk like as, and how can fach - helpus? eAre we (upérfistious ? fo are they. Are wedamb doggs, idle fhepherdsy _ prophane and cruel Oppreffors ? fo are they #00. Are we. worldlings, covetons wretches and wine bibbers? fo are they likewile. Are we haters of God and good men, of the power and light of grace, and the Gofpel? o ate’ they allo. Are we proud ambitious wretches,time. fervers,lyars and diffemblers? (o are they likewife. — | Are we fash as draw and drive others ta swigusty 2? So do they. Have we : OSU IN eeeee See We ERI ides be | Whores foreheads that refufeto be afhamed? So have they alfo. So that you may eafily fee and know what the Fathers are by their Children, and what theChil~ dren are by thew Fathers, Would you fee the pretty Faces and Complexions . of Bilhops, but cannot obtain the fight of their reverend Nubal. faces, being, denyed accefs to their lofty Honours, by reafon of the great diftince that ig between the Laity, and thefe Ghoffly Fathers ? be pleated to look on our Chile dren, We mean, oar Heard-men, and you may know us as well as if you had feen our Canonical Faces ; for they are begotten, taueht and brought up by us, and will not vary from usin any thing, fo long as we and they canhold upour -Interefts, and make advantages of each other. But they are not one tittle: _ honefter than we are, nor fit tobe trufted; and we fear, ifthe tideof our « | Fortunes fhould turn, and the Sun fhine on the other fide of the Hedge, and _ we notable to gratifie chem any longer, that they will-help to promote us ie _ ‘Tyburny notwithftanding they are our Sons, Yea, our cafe is very fad, for — We are wholly rejected of God, and all good men > OF we have re jected God,, -gnd-petfecuted them: and they cannot but judge, but that we our felves are | | the Brats of the Whore of Babylon, that the Devil w our Father, and Rome our | Maher; and to tell you the truth, we do judge fo toa: Bus Let it not be [poken aa Gath, for then you will marr our Markets, And to tell you the truth, Our | +» . €onfciences do rife out of their graves, appear tous, plague and torment us, -: at fome certain times, that we are affraid of them, and cannot endure to hear | ot (ee them, for they look like damned Ghofts, as if the Devil had the keeping | ef them; and though we do all wecan to-bribe and conjure them from us,yet | they will {peak andvex us - They prefent unto us the many-cries, fighs and | | tears, the hungry bellies, and naked backs of thoufands of fatherlefs Children, | | and Widows that we have made; the oriefs, forrows and miferies of many poor’ | __. -Prifoners and banifhed Saints, that we have laid im Prifons, and caufed to P. be Banifhed. They tellus of our horrid Perjury, Superftition and Idolatry, | a and other abominable wickednefles, which we daily practife without Repen- . tance. But their voices are fmarteft and loudelt againft us, for perfecuting and driving away the Gofpel from men, and for damning many fouls daily ; they | bring the dreadfull cries of damned fouls to us, and lay the guilt at our doors, - andtelfus plainly (and we cannot deny it ) that we fent them blindfold to | Hell ; that we did (hat wp the Kingdom of Heaven againft them, took away the Light of the Gofpel from them, and hardned their heart$ in fin, that they had not been there but for our wicked pra@tices,- So that do what we can to remove. thefe Fiends fromus, they will vifit and dogg usup anddown. Wedoendea-_ _ vour to {top their mouths with the beft arguments we have, as with our facred | - Orders, fpiritual Titles, holy Garments, high and lofty Places and Honours, | great Revenues and Attendants, the examples of our reverend Romifh Ance~ | U iors, from Phoews his days, until the year 1641. and alfo the many Laws made | ~~ go keepus in the faddle. But all thefe Arguments are too fhort to help and | + gomfort us; yea, we fear his Holine/s’s Pardon cannot ftop the mouths of our. : -¥oating Confciences, Befides, we mifcarry and are blafted in all we do, we. are the moft unhappy Statefmen, we will {till be medling with State affaires, | But without good fuccefs, our Counfels are fuch as God doth curfe; fo thatif | our Rulers did but know, and obferve us, how pernitious and mifchievous we | are to their Counfels and Government, they would (pue ys out of theirpre-_ > fence. For wereit not forus, they would be much more happy and profpe- | “> gous in their publick affairs; more quiet and comfortable in their Govern- | ment, more generally beloved of their Subjects for we do divide the hearts of - Princes from their Subje&s, and Subjedts hearts from them, by our pride, ex. | ' ~ tortion, luxary,{fuperftition, perfecution and oppreflion. So that itmay betruly | "Said, There are hardly any publickeuils or mifcarriages inthe State,where we bear : fay, but we are the smmediate Authors and caufers of them, Infomuch as you know itis a vulgar Proverb,when any evil or crofs happens,to fay, The Bifbops fa | CREE be RAGE. Wear ea t foot was there. In fine, We cannot live but 1x troubled Waters, and therefore believe | EERE S38 AGES. Sate FM alg! eas esd dramas Ne 1 AEE SIDR i SE TRE yee jt, there # no Satyrical Invettive Printed and Publifhed, that thunders ont the Péoe — ples Groans and Burdens, whether Spiritual or Csvil, but we are the Authors of it 5 (though like our Brethren on good Friday, we fetch blood at our own heels in (0 do= ing ) and all topoffe{s Supream Authority that the People are difaffetted to the Government, and therefore on ight to be vaffalized; thus prevent we a right snder— flanding betwict our Rulers and the good People of the Land, in whofe amicable Trangaillity were it not for thee curfed Stratagemss ours would unavoidably period. By this time we hope all your Cafes and Doubts are refolved, and we pro~ mife you, We have taken paines with you, yeaa great deal more than ever we fhall do again. Now we hope you will pay us the monies you owe us, that we may fuck out all the {weetnefs and comfort wecan from it, to fupport our miferable fainting fouls ; we have need enough of it, although we have many thoufand pounds lying by us; for if you do believe what we have told you, you cannot bat conclude we are the miferableft men upon earth, and have no- thing to fupport us but fuch earthly things ; you poor Country-men are in-@ ‘far better cafe then we, for your fins are not fo great as ours, who are your holy Fathers, you have not fo many to cusfe you,and cry for vengeance againft you, nor fo much innocent blood to account for aswehave, neither fhallyou be plunged under fo great vengeance in Hell as we, for you fin not againft fo much Light and Mercy as We. O Tenants, were it not for Helfand the Wrath | of God, what brave happy men were We, could we make any fhift to efcape Hell, we (hould be a more Jovial Crew than we are ; we would not at all trouble our felves abour inning, were it not for Cuffering that follows; fin troubles us not,but we are terrified at the thoughts of lying in bellfireeternaily. Ten. We (hall now dif{mifs your Lordfhips as [oon as you have refolved us this one Cafe more, which 1s Whether Tenants be bound to pay their Rents unle[s-chey be able? Bifh. Yes Tenants, you muft pay us our Rents, the whole fum toa groat, though you are not bound to do fo toothers, becaufe we are {piritual perfons, your holy and ghoftly Fathers, and if you detain rents from us after they are due, you are guilty of Sacriledge, you rob the Church,and that’s an unpardon- able (in in our fpiritual Courts ; whatever fin ele we can pardon, yet be af- fured we neither can nor will pardon Sacriledge,efpecially againit our felvess and if you be found guilty in our {piritual Courts, and held there under out - black curfe, you cannot folong be pardoned in Heaven. You know we teach you, that whatever, oF whofoever we bind on Earth, 1 bound alfoin Heaven; and whofe fins we remit, they are there remitted alfo. Therefore we do not care nor mind how, or where you get the money, but we tell you that we mutt and will haveit, elfe you know what will follow, if you be fuch fools to believe i Ten, Well, we [hall bring your rents next week, for we will not tromble your Lord- fhips to carry it home, for we judge tf st be too heavy for you to caryfofar,and thing a | your ¢, = Spee < | GOES panier minagpoaspyy adtore _ Weare all per[waded, that as God fet you “pin wrath _ for-their high provocations, fohe will keep you-np until bes wrath be appeafed Lyre. Pied PIMETE IDs > Man eR VIM ee AY PATER APIS paealab ade bial bchildhinhd aides tar neces SIRYRUS seen st Vinh we aberno pe etmty Lars Jan vett cane ore AEA Yond) Aveo e tee eel NDP: BU BR SAS NN eRe N . » ERIS ASA ETE Re RR RIEL es ER CY BIT NENT A MS AED ERS me oer hen ta ging tate ot oe gga bh ee peewee eure: PRE epee Bs ee > ‘your eye- Sight is mach decayed with continual looking on money ,fo that you cannot tel _ vight,we fear youl miftake a [pilin efor fix pence,therefore we will fend it ready told, Buh, Very well, we thailexpea itthen, pray failnot. But Tenants, pray. tellus briefly, whar repute have we amonett men? what do they report of us 2 » ‘*theiurfpintual Lords >? do they {peak honourably-of -us, cr contemptibly ? do : ‘Men reverence:us or not? we would know how the Country doth fand affects ed co us, our Hierarchy and proceedings, pray inform us, for We know you can you Wills es tk = GAS SO | Fen, Wefhail tell you what we do certainly know, at leaft alittle of it. Fj rit, We doaffure you, that: you are generally loathed asd abborred : there are-dtot any in the Country, whither rich or poor, that do ateall regard you, or fomuch asown oni nis their hearts are fet againft jot, as againft the enenaies of God,t he. Gofpel and : Nation, and the immediate caufes of the ruine and defiruttion both of their Souls and Bodies. They doconclude, and are not afraid to [peakit, that you are the greateff of all tm ternal judgments and plagues,the heavie/t and faddeft judgements that God in juptice - pumfbeth K ingdoms withal : For when Nations and Kin gdoms rebel against God, : grow weary of hw yosk and fervice, fright and contemn his Gofpel, and Gofpel-1- — mifters, abufe thew Chriftian Liberty, grow formal and cold in their duties to eds wax wanton with Mercies, and quarrel with each other, loath the honey-combes of bleffed Ordinances, and ne lect towalk hurbl 'y with their God : thenGod i : ae their glo» — ry into hanse, their joy inte ferrow,yand their liberty into bondage, their wailk-and how mey into gall and wormwood, the holy and foul-nours|bin g Ordinances, into Superfeitis 01 and humane Inventions, toruine, er at leaft to waft and impoveri(h and every way to punt) vex and torment them, asthe Egyptians did the Lfraelites, _ Sothat they do believe,that-you are every Way a6 Vile and abomsinable as yo felled and declared your [elves to be, and that you arethe rods-of Gods a their eftates, re have COn-= ) | 7 og nger and hot difpieafure againft i hem, asthe Affyrians were tothe fews, 1 ca, we doallure sor, that althou oh many do cringe to Jou through fi Car, and give yon f % tering Fuks - _ they loath and abbor you : Fou are the eye-fare of the Nations, grievous toa Crea~ bares excepting afew that gain by you s you are likethe Prophets vile — aoconnted the miferableft men upon earth, Did you but. believe how you fink in all mews noftrils, you would hardly come abroad but keep clofe in your Cells ; for the chile figgs, and are drenin theftreets loath the ver y fight of you,and can hard! y be perf waded-that jou cre Englith men,but that you came from Rome or Tutky and were born Turks or Jews, and vengeance tothe Nations, pentance ; and that as foon a God {hall return tousintender mercy, as he didto Je tulalem, avd pardonwas, that he mill Limenediately 1O0t Yow ont, and caff you forth as dung upon the fuce of the earth, and that you (ball be more debafed than neiseemand® | ! a : in wifdom | «and jufiice fends them {ach task-mafters a you aresto feogrge and affiét them: torake away their light and priviledges from them, totura their day inte Night, the exalted ; for as you are the flaff of Gods sndignation, to punijh us for our iniquities, BE 7 ARE RTA PP STA TT ER [owhen you have done your work, God will burn bu Staff, and you hall not e[cape wnlefs you do [peedily repent in duft and alhes. You donow triumph and rejoyce while Gods pretions redeemed Saints do mourn, but faith Chrift, Their forrow fhall be _ ‘tumed into joy ; dst you, that are their Oppreffours and Perfecutors, (hall howl — for wexation of {pirit,and leave your-Names for a curfe unto his Chofen. They do now weep in fecret for your pride, they cry for vengeance spon Babylon, and we _ are fare when it comes that you {hall not efcape, You have turned many of the Lords’ People out of the Land ; but be you alfared you (hall be turned ynto hell without mer ty, @ having fhewed no mercy bo them ; your Sun of profperity u [etting, your day ts : haftening upon you, and as a [nare {hall irovertake you, Oh confider how much blood you baveto account for, what A lamentable and diftreffed cafe will you bein when thoufands of fouls (ball rife up and witne{s againft you, and fay. Thefe arethemen that deftroyed us, thefe are the cruel Butchers that murdered our fouls and — Bodies, that ruined our families and eftates, that made themfelves drunk with = "the blood of Chrifts flock, that did cruelly opprefs them, violently perfecute = them, and like the Babylowians of oldtothe Fews, malitioufly rob and{poile — them of their {pititual Paftures, and:heayenly food ; that caufed them tobe dragged through the ftreets like wild Beafts,only for their peaceable worfhip- ang of God according to his will, and refufing to. conform to your hateful and pernitious wayes. Yon condemnthe Jews for perfecuting Chrift and hes Prophets, and fay, (t0 blind the eyesof men). That.you judge they were ie an errour, that you would not have done {0,. had. you polfeifed their placesin thofe dayes, ( asthe Jews in Chrifts tine [aid concerning their predeceffors ) and yet you da the fame thing, as | appears in your ingenuots confelfton. You tyranmize and lord st over their con{cien- ges; imprifon, etine and murder fi uch as dare not bow downto your Idols, and own PR GET HL FT) NE RE TL EF yon for their ghofly Fathers. They fay, If you are not the natural Bratts of the whore of Babylon, if you are not proud and.malitious perfecutors of Chriftin his members, for godlinefs fake, that there were never any fuch in the World. You are the vileft and moft hateful perfons under heaven, and many bundredthon= fands of the Inhabit ants of thefe Lands, do greatly long for, and rejoyce in the faith — and hope of the near approach of theday of your deftruction ; yea thoufands of pray- | ers are put upto Heaven daily, either for your Converfion or utter Ruine, All forts — of men do loath and abbor you, asthe plagues of God, as the fire-brands of Hell, as @ molt Loarhfom Crew; and generation of Vipers sand we do greatly comfort oxr felves - thar it will not be long ere God will [pew you out of hes mouth, : oe _Bifh, Oh Tenants, -you have told us a fad ftory, for although we knew our — -felves to be as bad, and worfe than hath been declared, yet we hoped’ that the © - common people did not take notice-of it, but we feartheydo, and that we - - fhall not be reverenced by theth. Alas: Texans, what fhall wedo? we fhalf | - gohome with heavy hearts, for if we are fo loathfom and abominable in the a : Nations, — eS es i f - eee coma! i en et eo tn Teed a ee Nations, furely the wrath of God is ove upon us, and we are likely to perith quickly ; Owhat hall we do for comfort in this our great diftrefs ? Ten. We advife you fend to your Cathedrals, and thence fammon all your Or gaa nifts, Chorifters and finging Boys, and from anid them felett the moft expert for the} Bafe, Tennor and Trebble, then furnifh them with the bef Organs and Anthems, yea be fure you forget net good ftore of merry Catches and Keundelayes, exattly| fated to chant out your mad exploits, and great fervices you have done your mafter al your: Apprentifhips ; take alfo your pockers full of good Angels, that Catholick Mel dicine, and two or three hundred Twn of the bef? Canary (casfe you will need aC up of good liquor there more than you did when you pleaded [0 hard with us for it.) With | thes Prefent sf you procure not a plenary Indulgence , yea what Place or Office you like ia Pluto’s Court, (who will without doubt, with al his infernal Fiends dance a «Figg for joy of your jolly Company ) We Rnow not what 10 fay, but farewel Bithops, | farewel Plagues o’th Nations. ee ae : Bifh. You have cheerd usa little with your erave advice, which we think is very good and feafonable, and we promife you we will gera Convocation _ Shortly to confider of it, whatis beft'to be done. But pray tell us, if when our glafs is run out, and the Devil whom we ferve, fends for us to Hell, will you be pleafed to attend and wait on us there, in café we fhould want you? ~ _ Ten. No, we will fee you advanced to Tybourn firft : But you need not fear, you. - fhall ave attendants enough, for thofe Devils that now do imploy you in your work, _ and wart on you daily, will bononrably conveigh you into Hell, with all your bi ob how — “nours and good works’; where we fall leave you, hoping no more to be troubled with | yor, | 3 : oe | 2 ec ' Bifb, We charge you not to {peak one word to any body what we have dif- —-courfed of, for you will quite undo usif you fhould; and be fure if you do, we’ thall flap your Bumksns for you,or fend you to the Devil with our Bulls Horns. . Ten. We (hall mind what jee fay, 28 308 Sie BEE eeitiict “4 + Bifh, Batewel Tenants,’ © = Ten. Fare you well Sars, Ses es