Kings pag. 125. characterizes the Conception and Birth and Education of John Calvin's Infant Schism with the most salt and tartest Excursions Never was there such a Monster as this ruling and thus constituted Presbytery the Father of it Rebellion the Mother Insurrection Witness the Fall of the Prince and Bishop of Geneva to the puny Historian our Observator the Midwife Sacrilege the Nurse Covetousness Pride and Ambition the Milk Schism the Coats Armour the Rattle Drums a bloody Sword the Coral Money and Janus-fac'd too perhaps the Babies it delights to play withal It grows up to be a Stripling and goes to school to a Council of War its Lesson is on a Trumpet its Fescue a Pistol it s going out of school in rank and file its Play-days the days of Battel and Black-Munday the day of Judgment It comes of age and is married with a solemn League and Covenant it begets Children like it self whose blessing upon them is the power of the sword and whose imposition of hands are broken pates the Monster cries down this truly ancient Catholick and Apostolick Power which the Bishops exercised and then tacks it up again and use it themselves in a higher nature than ever any Bishops or Apostles themselves did or durst have done even to the Excommunication and Deposement of their Kings to the delivering of them up to Satan and to Heads-men to whom the Apostles taught submission how faulty soever they were and if not obedience yet submission still to every one of their Ordinances if not for their own sakes yet for the Lord's sake and for Conscience-sake these men cry down the same Authority as Popish whilst they exalt themselves above all that are called Gods in a higher manner than ever any Pope of Rome ever yet did The Observator might observe and remember a certain Pope treated an Emperour as uncivilly as a Querry in making him hold his Stirrop till he mounted his Horse Frederick I. waited on Pope Adrian 's Stirrop walk a foot while he rode But the Presbyterians dismount our Kings hold our Kings in chains and our Nobles in fetters of Iron for themselves to ascend their Thrones They take from Caesar the things which are Caesars not only the Tribute but Crown and Life too Yet our Government was never long a Bucephalus to be ridden by such new Masters as they He always knew his Alexander from their uneasie Sitting and they were once fairly thrown out of the Saddle As for their old Arts and new Practices we know they usually play at Tennis with our Church either strike it down like a Ball for themselves to rebound the higher by or throw it up as the Beast does its prey only to catch it coming down again in his mouth devour and sport it to ruin so some Parasites may be assured by experience that the most feasible way to bring a haughty King down is to make him yet a haughtier Monarch pride him stick a feather in his Cap to take off his CROWN and so honourably kick him up stairs Fidlers and Drawers are only flung down ' em The ingeniousest and most infallible Maxim Politick or Religious that has been stated since Philosophy Certainty and Demonstration came to perfection was King James's in his Basil Dor. Sublato Episcopo tollitur Rex And the same Princely Wisdom that said Monarchy and Presbytery agreed like God and the Devil might have called Episcopacy Michael in the Battel That our Bishops are Jure divino Page 34. I am convinced from another Gospel than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Fathers Councils Sanderson's Episcopacy Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Morice's Vindication of Diocesan Episcopacy against Baxter's Church-History and the Learned Lowth's laborious Subject of Church Power c. He must confute them or he proves nothing The World 's come to this Gue you must either trip up another's heels or he 's your Master This is the Juggle of Parity they would have no Body above them but we guess who they would have under 'T is storied that after Luther had made a Combustion in Germany about Religion he was sent to by the Pope to be taken off and offer'd any preferment in the Church that he would make choice of Luther answered if he had offered half as much at first he would have accepted it but now he had gone so far he could not come back in truth he had made himself a greater Thing than they could make him the German Princes courted him he was become the Author of a Sect ever after to be called Lutherans So have our Preachers done that are against the Bishops they have made themselves greater with the People than they can be made the other way and golden Mountains cannot bring them off now The Reformling is angry that I do not prove every thing out of Scripture pag. 60. What will become of the Parliament and Westminster-Hall then if we cannot find them in the Bible What shall I do for Words to fit this Man unless I took the length of his Ear or the measure of his Mouth as the Fellow said that was to make a Speech for my Lord Mayor Farther yet the forecited Loyal Author pag. 136 137. may as well exemplifie and justifie my Language as obviate an Objection of an Elder-date which might now be urged To recite him then Oh but the Presbyterians had no hand in it they prayed and preached and wrote against it fasted and prayed for a diversion of all such Intentions but I pray who took the Scepter out of his hand in taking away the Militia of which it was an Emblem that should have defended him was it not the Presbyterian Who cast down his Throne by taking away his negative Voice was it not the Presbyterian Who took off his Crown the fountain of Honour from off his Head by denying Those Honour on whom he had conferr'd it without them was it not the Presbyterian Who took away his Supremacy signify'd by the sacred Unction wherewith he was anointed in not allowing him the liberty of his own Conscience in the point of Episcopacy and Church Government was it not the Presbyterian Who would not treat a minute with their King before they had made him acknowledge himself guilty as they say of all the blood that had been spilt throughout his Dominions was it not the Presbyterian who notwithstanding all the Concessions on his part that could be granted even to the very grating his Princely Conscience when he bid them ask flesh from off his bones and he would not deny it them if it might have been a benefit unto his people prayed that he might keep his Conscience whole it was the Queen-Regent of all good mens Actions and he hoped there were none would force his Queen before him in his House as Ahasuer us said to Haman voted not satisfactory so long untill the Independant Army came from Edenburgh and surpriz'd and murder'd him was it not the Presbyterians He
Arbitrary and Magisterial were their own proceedings while they pretended to be doing nothing else but preventing the Arbitrary Power of another How many Honest and Loyal Gentlemen did they force to do the Penance of falling down and Worshipping them for speaking Blasphemy against their Authority while Treason against a higher Power past unquestioned How crosly and resolutely did they always deny His Majesties just Demands though they were to be employed for the Nations security And at last how saucily would they have cried down the King by debarring him of the priviledge of the meanest Subject making it unlawful for any one to turn his Creditor though on never so good security This is not the moity of what might be said but perhaps in this case 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Vetus Fabula only wanted the Curtains drawing and Parliament Candles lighting of being acted on an Oxford Theatre and the Novi Historiones with some of the Veteres too perhaps had played their Parts of the like Tragedy over again if they had been so successful as not to have been hissed off before they came to Prologue to 't However the Reformling will have King Charles the Second to be beholden to his Party for his Restoration and peaceable injoyment of his Royalty and certainly he was just as the Father Dotard was beholden to the Son who flatter'd him into a Settlement and then burn'd his House about his Ears for his Daddy to rost his Eggs with Our Sons of Faction could love uproars and Bonefires too but that they hate Rumps and it looks too much like Sacrificing to the Genius of Restauration At an Election of a Member for the approaching Parliament at Oxon The Loyal Pudsey and Whorewood Candidates it is pleasantly storied of a brisk Mechanick in the Van of a Tumultuous Crowd who hearing a Graduate exclaiming no Round-head no Round-head reparteed him with no Square-head no Square-head when all the University knew they were for no Head at all or at best not for a Crown'd Rowly-Head I am afraid I shall be tedious on the face and complexion of his Pamphlet but if length be not the Picture of him it is his best Character at a Vindication or one of his Sixteenthly Beloveds Now I cannot imagine what he would be at have done or prevented the Pope is not like to be Lord Mayor next Year nor King JAMES to be in his Throne again the next Moon Popery is out of Doors he needs but give it an Alms or send the Cripple to the next Constable Authority will take care of it But it may be he has an extraordinary knack at Reforming he may have as good and Religious a God-piece as King Henry the Eighth and can Whistle a better Tune too in Divisions that would make the Rabble Dance a Common-wealth Morisco The Reformer needs but lead up the Figure of three four Heptarchy or a hundred the Piper's paid Cut the first Caper and protest he wishes England as well as the Duke of Burgundy once did France when he swore He lov'd France so well that for one King he wish'd she had twenty and then you are all of a Litter quoth Lambert Let me tell you Lylly's Grammer comprehended a great deal of policy in it's Neutram modo mas modo vulgus but it is Aes in presenti that must carry on the business effectually to persection and what not The Mobb love variety and every Body knows what is as good for a Sow as a Pancake A Fartical Raskal that bid a KING kiss his Posteriors I conceive and presume saving J.G. G's presence would make an excellent Tool for his Arsie-Farsie Reformation At this rate every Wat Tyler or Jack Straw with a fair Wind and auspicious opportunity will be invading and matching Politicks with King and Council and if the Green-pated Reformer Heads but well and puts Liberty and Property and the Old State Quibble of Personal and Politick Capacity into the Mouth of the Moabites the Man STUART may be cut off and the King ne're the worse hurt A Second Oliver may chance to drop out of the Clouds and then defiance to the Powers of the Earth our Soveraign Lord the People are as assuredly as the Rebels against King John the Army of God Any New Coin gains acceptance with the Lower Mobb from its Stamp of Novelty and if the upper sort of Mobb mints it but with a popular Appâ—ause Vogue and Reputation it has Credit Justice and Authority enough to abide their Test The next thing our good Gentleman does is as wise as he can make Solomon not Solomon him to call his Adversary a Fool and the worst of the sort a self-conceited Fool Surely if Robin Wisdom sets not up for an Author and Fools not the rest of Mankind the Press cannot blame him for it But the would-be Solomon presently starts a Fool out of the Proverbs before he enters the Field no if he had not been besides the Bush Page 18. and had had the good luck to have thrown his UTINAM SAPEREM soon enough in his tail as the No vice-hunter carries Salt to catch the Hare with he had taken him too and might have Sounded his Triumph of the Prey at the first View Many a one has had the fortune to Course the Hare and catch the Witch He mistakes his Fool and his Game And well remembred Wise man of Gotham how the Scot tuke the Tartar and the Tartar prov'd the Conqueror I might have dwelt longer upon his Title-page sufficiently answer'd him and never have gone farther than the Porch But curiosity prompts me to shew his Guests what better entertainment or welcome they and I must be treated with in the House At the Threshold then I shall only premise a gross injury done me and soberly good morrow his passionate ELDERSHIPS scandals and misconstructions of me For in my Remarks or Reflections Page 12. which I allow him to take in the worst sense on his Observations I fully declared my propo's and design which he has run Counter to with a full cry almost throughout his Vindication only coldly chopping on 't here and there The Mungrel-hound often flings off and runs a back-scent But a worse Nose than his might have taken the right Game and made a truer chase of it A false pursuit never obtain'd the least Quarry Having waved the Divinity of his King-killing and traducing Pamphlet let the unbiass'd Judge if it is fair play to be bid keep close to the Text ho Religion is the Province of our Learned Clergy there were eleven Apostles for one Judas and we have Orthodox Divines enough to confute his Schismatical Doctrine though too many follow their Master like Peter at a distance in secular Persecutions and it is well if more do not deny him In all Don Quevedo's Visions Judas was the only Man in Hell for selling his God but there was a number for buying of HIM But I never intended to meddle with those matters
that said the Presbyterians held him down by the Hair while the Independants cut off his Head said true enough they murder'd him as a King before ever they murder'd him as a Man for what may the Independant say to the Presbyter If you 'll take off his Authority we 'll take off his Head if you 'll make him no King we 'll make him no Body if you 'll make him a man of Blood we 'll use him accordingly therefore at your doors O Presbyterian Hypocrites do I lay his innocent Blood it is but like the rest of your Actions committed by your Ancestors to former Princes all along These primed the pan and those gave fire in the very face of Majesty as some are Designers and others put in Execution 'T is true we are miserably divided in point of Politicks and in point of Religion and I wiâ—h the Church and State had not occasion to use St. Augustine's Litany Libera me à me and that her true Sons had no need to pray unto Almighty God that he would save his Church out of the hands of her Church men for she now almost lies upon the ground like the Tree that complained that she was rent in sunder by Wedges made out of her own Body But for Divisions of the first magnitude we are beholden to the Presbyterians and for a lying Observator to level my Desires or Actions at widening the Gap when I wish to be a Phineas to stand in 't and compose or repair it with my own ruins is as irreconcileable a Contradiction as that I should breath hot and cold at once or carry the very entire Elements of Fire and Water together in my mouth Brotherly Love and Charity are sacred Commands of the Gospel and some Libertines practise them like the Oaths in the Play as the best broken Commodities in the Nation But that we break them in being Zealous for those little Trifles as he intimates our Church-Ceremonies or the Authority of our Church are I doubt not but 't would puzzle a solider Head than an Observator's to prove Ceremonies may be Trifles Play things * Scotch Buchanan nick-named them so Theatrical Fopperies by the way of Observatoring and he may villifie our Church to a sanctified sort of Gawdy Toyshop too if his Observatorship please and from what himself meanly advances I cannot but take a hint of Ridicule on the Dissenters for parting with Christian Union at as ignorant frivolous and cheap a rate as a Fondling that parts with his whole Estate for an Apple in the Fairing-season and which a Hobby horse trap'd with glittering Tinsel from a Pedlars shop or a Rattle may purchase at any time of his unthinking Infancy Our Church stands like the everywhere wounded Man in the Almanack pointed and push'd at by more Diabolical and Schismatical Designs than there are Celestial Signs in the Heavens Aries Scorpio Taurus and Leo are her Enemies and all confederate to ravage her The Planets have their Goodness and Malignancy and from Mercury's Conjunction with insulting Mars and Opposition to us our Church expects no favourable Aspect or pacifick Influence If I have done the Presbyterians a Discourtesie that 's all and I have done it without breach of Charity and let the Observator know though our Opinions differ it is not necessary that our Affections should disagree As the best of modern Epistolar Orators hath observed Balsack 's Letters The Head and the Heart have their several Motions and Actions distinct and moral Vertue can reconcile and unite what the Intellectual might separate With Charity I say it to them Travellers may fall out by the way and yet set their Horses up together and both meet at the same Inn at their Journey 's end The Pilgrim must meet with Distractions in his Progress â—unnyan I do not mean the Tinker Notwithstanding there are two principal Things which might advance our Peace and Unanimity so far that we might draw nearer every day to the great Centre of the One Religion and little else would hinder but that we might maintain Christian Commerce and Traffick in things lawful FIRST That the Dissenters would leave Preaching up Novelty and Sedition not maintain our Saviour's Religion by Insurrection and Rebellion for this is to maintain it by means condemned by the same Religion they would maintain And SECONDLY That they would unlearn their Principle of Fighting for the Liberty and Property of the Subject The Religious Rebellion's Stalking-Horse under whose Belly the King is wounded since thereby the Subjects do alter the very property of their Goods and Estates forfeit their Great All their Lives too which they would seem to fight for or preserve Once more let me tell this Pseudo-Moderator that much of that Sarcastick Wit which he miscalls abusive Language has been written in Tears and Pity for our Divisions in point of Religion As Howel neatly complains and languishes in England's Tears pag. 10 11. But the principal thing that I hear that Reverend Lady the Church that Queen of Souls and Key of Heaven make her moan of is that that seemless Garment of Unity and Love which our Saviour left her for a Legacy should be torn and rent into so many Scissures and Sects by those that would make that Coat which she wore in her infancy to serve her in her riper years I hear her cry out at the monstrous exorbitant Liberty that almost every capricious Mechanick takes to himself to shape and form what Religion he lists for the World is come now to that pass that the Taylor and Shooe-maker may cut out what Religion they please the Vintner and Tapster may baoach what Religion they please the Druggist and Apothecary may mingle her as they please the Haberdasher may put her upon what Block he pleases the Armourer and Cutler may furbish her as they please the Dyer may put what Colour the Painter may put what Face upon her he pleases the Weaver may cast her upon what Loom he please the Boat-swain and Mariner may bring her to what Dock they please the Gardiner may lop her as he please the Blacksmith may forge what Religion he please and so every Artizan according to his Profession and Fancy may form her as he please Methinks I hear that venerable Matron complain further how her Pulpits in some places are become Beacons how in lieu of Lights her Churches up and down are full of Firebands Page 27. how every Caprice of the Brain is termed Tenderness of Conscience which well examined is nothing but some frantick Fancy or Frenzy rather of some shallow-brain'd Sciolist and whereas others have been used to run mad for excess of Knowledge some of my Children grow mad now-a-days out of too much ignorance The Mitre never wore the Cleft with more reason of Division than for the Presbyterian Blows it has received and iâ—'s wonderful that the Crown is not cloven too we are divided in point of Politicks Some Men are