light but burnt not But your Zeales have no patience demolishing and consuming even from the Cedar that growes in Lebanon to the Hysop that is upon the wall If such fire become the Assembly then take out Burges and put in Peters D. Burges If men dislike a Book in this Age their Censure is usually It hath no salt in it A discourse of this nature should have salt good store for all sacrifices must be seasoned with salt So is this but intended to season onely not to fret any unlesse by accident Cal. But if salt hath lost it's savour wherewith shall it be seasoned So hath yours Doctor Your Sacrifice then will quickly stinck You are a very bad Phisition for the soul Your kichen Phisick for you have no other were good to keepe a healthfull soul in a good state But when feavors of lust dropsies of drunkennesse plurisies of Blood faint fits of Lukewarmnesse c. accost the soul your seasoned Brothes will faile sometimes the disease will require vomits purges phlebotomy cautherizing scarifying cutting c. But I feare your end is rather to cure your own defects then your patients distempers Repl. I fear Cal. some of the Doctors salt hath fretted your chapt fingers which perchance you strive to wash out with your own vineger which so much troubles you you name some diseases in others but forget your own both acute and chronicall the cardiaca passio the tumour of the spleene the petulancy of the tongue the Cold Fits of uncharitablenesse The first second and fourth of these are inward and habituall and I feare incureable but for the third the Beadel of Bridewell will be your best Phisitian D. Burges Thus have you my Apology if it be one as a smal skreen to hold between you and the fire if you think it be too big or too neare and that it would heate you too much Cal. Doctor Your Apology is as needlesse as your work Your Fire whereby I take it you meane your Zeale newly discovered is but an Ignis lambens or as rotten wood shining in the dark Or if it be a true Fire it is but of Juniper which rather serves to perfume a princes chamber then to warme a Christians heart and so dul that it requires rather a paire of Bellowes then a Skreene Repl. I hope Cal. It is not such a fire as yours called Ignis fatuus which entices poor soules wandering in the dark to breake their necks But as you have excellently although against your will tearmed it a fire of Iuniper No perfume sweeter no Coales hotter This Juniper fire sends up sweet perfumes of Comfort to the broken heart and contrite spirit but threatens the fiercest of Gods Iudgements to the Rebellious and impenitent soule Here Reader be pleased to pause a while and to understand our Calumniator hath done with the Doctors Preface intending now to set upon the body of the work it self wherein he undertakes not his Task progressively but selectively whether he drives at one subject collecting what he findes scattered through the whole book or whether his with can onely daunce after a Pipe of that nature I cannot resolve you You have it as I found it This I perceive by his stragling Method that it was leape yeare in his Braynes as well as in his Kalender And so we begin againe The Fire of the Sanctuary uncoverd D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 39. lin 13. It had not been lawfull for Elijah to put those Idolaters to the sword if he had not been able to plead speciall Commission from God as he did Cal. Take heed Doctor you run not your selfe out of the Assembly into Ely house What speciall Commission had our Parliament to do the like Yet how many thousand more have perisht by the sword at their Command Are not they wise and truly religious and holy Merchants for Gods Glory and blessed Agents for our Kingdomes Reformation And would they do such an act and stand guilty of such a Fratricide so horrible a slaughter had they not a Warrant for it Come Doctor It is wisdome to retract and change a mis-opinion It is a good bargaine to change for the better and get 400. l. per. annum to boot and God knowes what besides Repl. You ride Cal. upon the surer horse as the case stands now Take heed of the Kings plunderers The Parliaments Authority is inscrutable and too great a mistery for a private mans Capacity But if the Doctors opinion be firmly grounded on the word of God my Confidence of his Piety is such that neither feare of Prisons nor hope of Fortunes are able to divert or to corrupt him But Cal. it had been better worth your paines to have refuted his opinion by the strength of holy Scripture then pinned your implicite faith upon the Authority of men though never so learned or religious being the self same Error we cry down in Popery D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 40. line 21. He that being under authority will rather resist then suffer makes the Cause suffer by his resistance and so in stead of standing zealously for it he doth in effect raise forces against it Cal. A high and desperate Malignancy A Doctrine most dangerous and damnable not onely contrary to the practice of all Churches that labour for a Reformation but directly opposite to an Ordinance of Parliament also If this Doctrine be permitted from the Pen of an Assembly man without punishment or publique Retractation our Cause wil carry warme Credit and his bosome a strange Conscience If this Clause be sound we are at a weekly cost to much purpose If unsound our Assembly hath a sound Member Repl. No question Cal. that Malignant Doctrine hath been the ancient and received Tenet of former dayes neither do I know any Religion so opposite to it as the Church of Rome which holds it not venial but meritorious not onely to resist but also to depose the Authority of the Supreme Magistrate But we are better taught by Scripture not alone commanded but also find it frequently exemplifyed unto us by holy men to give all passive obedience to the power of our Princes whether good or bad without which Gods true Religion would surely want that honorable Confirmation of holy Martirdome which formerly it had But whether the yeare 1642. brought new inspirations and revelations with it or whether the thousand six hundred and forty one yeares before it slept in the darknes of this point deluded by false Translations the Doctor if you repaire to him no question can render you a satisfactory accompt D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 41. line 20. Zeale may stand with suffering and fleeing but not with Resistance which is Flat REBELLION And no good Cause calls Rebellion to aid Cal. Here 's more Water from the same Ditch but a little more stincking through the addition of this odious word REBELLION What Malignant Devil haunted this Doctors Pen Nay in those calme dayes when that base tearme REBELLION was
and cannot be compelled to give an accompt to any but to God Against thee against thee onely have I sinned That is to thee to thee only must I give accompt Though I have sinned against Vriah by my Act and against my people by my Example yet against Thee have I onely sinned You cannot deprive or limit them in what you never gave them God gave them their Power and who art thou that darest resist it By me Kings raigne But his Crowne was set up upon his Head by his Subjects upon such and such conditions Why was the penalty upon the faile not expressed then Coronation is but a humane Ceremony And was hee not Proclaimed before hee was crowned Proclaimed but what A King And did not you at the same instant by relative consequence proclaim your selves Subjects And shall Subjects condition with their King or will Kings bind themselves to their Subjects upon the forfeiture of their power after they have received their Regall Authority But the King hath by Writ given his power to his Parliament and therefore what they doe they doe by vertue of his Power The King by his Writ gives not away his power but communicates it By the vertue of which Writ they are called Ad tractandum consulendum de arduis Regni To treat and advise concerning the difficulties of the Kingdom Here is all the power the Writ gives them and where they exceed they usurp the Kings power being both against the Law of God and the constitutions of the Kingdom Well but in case of necessity when Religion and Liberty lies at the sâ—ake the Constitutions of the Kingdom for the preservation of the Kingdome may suffer a Dispensation Admit that But what necessity may dispence with the violation of the Law of God the deviation wherefrom is evill and Thou shalt doe no evill that good may come thereon But we take no Armes against the King but onely to bring Delinlinquents to condigne punishment And who are they even those that take up Arms for the Kings which an unrepealed statute 11. Hen. 7. acquites But admit Statutes may be broken and you seek to punish them Who gave you the power so to doe The Law And what Law denies the King power to pardon Delinquents God that hath put power into the hand of Majesty hath likewise planted Mercy in the heart of Soveraignty And will ye take away both his birth-right and his Blessing also Take heed you doe not slight that which one day may prove your Sanctuary But the King being a Mixt Monarch is bound to his own Lawes There be two sorts of Lawes Directive and Coercive As to the first he is only bound to make his accompt to God so to the second he is onely liable to the hand of God Who shall say unto him what doest thou But Kings now a dayes have not so absolute a power as the Kings mentioned in the Scripture Who limited it God or Man Man could not limit the Power he never gave If God shew me where till then this objection is frivolous But when Kings and their Assistants make an affensive and a destructive warre against their Parliaments may they not then take up defensive Armes It is no offensive War for a King to endeavour the Recovery of his surrepted right however are not the members of a Parliament Subjects to their Soveraign if not what are they If Subjects ought they not to be subject Gods people the Iewes that were to be destroyed by the Kings Command neither did nor durst make a defensive War against his abused power untill they first obtained the Kings Consent But admit it lawfull though neither granted nor warranted that subjects may upon such tearmes make a defensive war does it not quite crosse the nature of a defensive war to assaile pursue and dispossesse Whâ— you shot 5 peeces of Ordnance before one was returned at Edge-hill was that defensive When you besieged Redding which you after slighted was that defensive When ye affronted Basing-House was that defensive The warrantable weapons against an angry King are Exhortation Disswasion wise reproof by such are nearest to him Petition Prayer and Flight All other weapons will at last wound them that use them The Second Example was lest us out of the New Testament by Him that is the true president of holy obedience Our blessed Saviour whose Humility and sufferance was set before us as a Copy for all Generations to practice by The temporall Kingdom of the Jewes successively usurpt by those two heathen Princes Augustus and Tiberius two Contemporaries was his naturall Birth-right descended from his Tipe and Ancestour King David Had not he as great an Interst in that Crowne as wee have in this Common-wealth Was not Hee as tender eyed towards his owne naturall people as we to one another Was not the Truth as deare to Him who was the very Truth and the way to it as direct to Him that was the onely Way as to us Was not He the great Reformer Had the Sword been a necessary stickler in Reformation how hapned it that he mistook his weapon so Instead of a Trumpet hee lifted up his Voice Was Plots Policies Propositions Prophanations Plunderings Military Preparations his way to Reformation Were they not his own words He that taketh up the sword shall perish by the sword Nor was it want of strength that he reformed not in a Martiall way Could not hee command more then twelve legions of Angels Or had he pleased to use the Arme of flesh could not Hee that raised the dead raise a considerable Army Sure S. Iohn the Baptist would have ventured his head upon a fairer Quarrell and S. Peter drawn his sword to a bloodier end No question but S. Paul the twelve Apostles and Disciples would have proved as tough Colonels as your associated Essex Priests did Captaines and doubtlesse S. Peter who converted 3000. in one day would have raised a strong Army in six Our Blessed Saviour well knew that Caesar came not thither without divine permission In respect whereof He became obedient to the very shadow of a King and whom he actively resisted not he passively obeyed I but there was a necessity of his obedience and subjection to make him capable of a shamefull death No his obedience as well death was voluntary which makes you guilty of a shamefull argument But He was a single person We a representative body what is unexpedient in the one is lawfull in the other Worse and worse If our blessed Saviour be not Pepresentative Tell me whereof art thou a Member woe be that body politicke which endeavours not to be conformed according to the Head Mysticall He preacht Peace Your Martiall Ministers by what authority they best know proclaime Warre He Obedience They Sedition He Truth they Lyes He Order They Confusion He Blessednesse to the
it shall not be so with you Our Bishops were Lords as they were Peeres of the Land and as Peeres they had Votes in Parliament which being taken away they are no more now then what the dignity of their Calling and their owne Merits make them As for that place in S. Peter thus it is meant Ye shall not be Lords over Gods inheritance that is Tyrants Lords and Rulers being at that time none but Heathens and Persecutors whose tyrannie made the very name of Lord terrible and odious So that in that place by Lordship is certainly meant Tyrannie Neither can this imply a Parity in our Church for without a Superiority and Inferiority there can be no Government A Parity cannot be considered in order of Government but onely in the work of the Ministry In this all are fellow labourers In the other some command and some obey S. Paul and Timothy had an especiall command and charge over other Ministers As for that place in S. Luke which you alledge The Disciples striving who should be the greatest among them our blessed Saviours answer was to this effect Let Kings exercise power and authority over their vassals as indeed their tyrannie made them little better but it shall be otherwise with you You are all fellow-servants to me that am your chiefe Lord and Bishop of your soules whilst I am here all superiority lyes extinct Christ was then the onely Governour and the Root of Government was in him But at his departure he gave some to be Apostles some to be Pastors c. and yet all those degrees were equall in respect of the work He himselfe said Ye call me Lord and so I am and yet Luk. 22. 27. I am among you as he that serveth whereby it manifestly appeares he intended a parity of the workers in respect of the worke not a parity in the government in respect of the workers Bishops whose office is to promote Religion and to advance the Gospel as is pretended and to encourage Prenching as the ordinary meanes conducing thereunto are so far from so doing that instead thereof they silence godly Ministers and put downe weekly Lectures which were set up at the proper charges and the piety of the people and to the great establishment of true Religion Here lyes a Mysterie being the most crafty advantage the devil ever took of popular piety Admit the piety of the honest hearted People was the first motive to these weekly Lectures how was that piety abused by those weekly Lecturers They were chosen by the people their maintenance consisting most of Gratuities came from the people which ebbed or flowed according as their Lunatick doctrines wrought upon the people Those Lecturers whose whole subsistance thus proceeded from the people must for their owne better livelyhoods please the people And what more pleasing to the people then the preaching of Liberty and how should Liberty be enlarged if not peeced with Prerogative Then down goes Authority and up goes Priviledge Downe goes the Booke and up goes the Spirit Downe goes Learning and up goes Revelation who gaining credit in the weak opinions of the vulgar grew the Seminaries of all Ignorance and the nursing fathers of all Rebellion These are those godly Lecturers that Bishops put downe who never lost themselves so much as in not setting up better and more orthodox in their roomes which had taken away the ground of this Objection Our Bishops being proud idle covetous and Popishly affected are therefore fit to be extirpated Admit some be so must therefore such among them as are humble diligent charitable and enemies to Popery perish Shall they that are bad have more power to pull downe a setled Government then they that be good to keep it up Did Moses the man of God extirpate the Government of Priesthood because Aaron had a hand in the peoples Idolatry Or will you undertake that the Elders in a Presbyteriall Government shall be all faultlesse Let the guilty receive their respective punishments and let others take their office But the innocent to suffer with the guilty is a point of high injustice But admit this Government by Bishops had nothing to plead for it neither prescription nor continuance without Intermission nor the Authority of Parliaments in all Ages yet considering it is now a Government in Being it seemes not consonant to Reason or policy to extirpate it or take it away before an other Government be pitcht upon To pull downe one maine Pillar before another be made to supply the place and to support the roome is the next way to pull the Roofe upon our heads Hath not Episcopacie been long voted downe And is not the Assembly at this time divided and in controversie nay puzzled what Government to set up in the roome of it By which means occasion is administred to all disorder Liberty lyes open to all Schismes Sects and Heresies and Sectaries grow bold to vent their giddy headed opinions without controlment confirming themselves in their owne Errors infecting others with their new fangled and itching doctrines the nature whereof is like a Tetter to run till it over-run the whole Body Have not our eyes beheld all this which if these unsetled times should long continue as God forbid would gather such head and strengthen this our confused Kingdome that if her issue of blood were stopt in one place it would break forth in another and like Hercules his Monster if one head were struck off another would arise to the utter confusion of the true Protestant Religion which already begins to be the least part of this tottering Kingdoms profession and rather conniv'd at then exerciz'd by some Are not complaints preferd against Brownists and Separatists unheard Nay are not men afraid to complain against them for feare of punishment Have not protest Anabaptists challenged our Ministers to dispute with them in their owne open Churches Have not their disputations been permitted nay unadvisedly undertaken by some of our Ministers who themselves are thought little better wherein they have made many Proselites and left many of the vulgar who judge the victory to the most words indifferent Have they not after their disputations retired into their Innes and private lodgings accompanyed with many of their Auditors and all joyned together in their extemporary prayers for a blessing upon their late Exercise How often hath Bow-river which they lately have baptiz'd New Iordan been witnesse to their prophanations How many daily make their private meetings and assemble in the City of London to exercise their Ministery How many have been convicted of Blasphemy and yet unpunisht How many times have their witnesses been taken against some of our most learned and religious Ministers for which some are plundered some sequestred and some imprisoned How many of our Ministers whose severity proceeded formerly against Fornicators Adulterers Drunkards Swearers and such like are now undone upon their revengefull witnesses and testimony appearing now for
in the name of the God of truth too almost impardonably damnable Now Cal. Tell me how you like your Christian stratageme No wonder if your Samuels were not heard T is well for you God Eares were closed against their prayers Had he not been deafe in Mercy and mercifull to admiration and admirable in patience they surely had been heard in Iudgement to the terrible example of such unparalleld Presumption How often have your solemne Petitions set dayes apart for the expedition of your Martiall attempts in a Pitcht field or for the raising of a Seige How often have your solemnities been shewed in plentifull thanksgivings for the blood of those thousands whose soules without infinite mercy you cannot but conceive in one day dropt into the flames of Hell What Bells What Bonefires What tryumphs And yet for the successe of your oft propounded and sometimes accepted Treaties of Peace what one blessed hower hath been sequestred What Church doore hath been opened Which makes me feare and not without just Cause your Fastings and Prayers have been rather to Contention then to Unity and that they have rather been attractive for Iudgements then for mercies upon this blood-bedabbled Kingdom D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 284. lin 1. As for such as will not take out this Lesson let their eyes their tongues their teares their sighs their coates their prayers be what they will be their Carriage savoureth not of Zeale for God which thus casteth dirt and Myre upon the face of his Vicegerent and tendeth to the taking away the life of his life in his subjects hearts in which all good Princes desire as much to live as to enjoy their Crownes And if it be not lawfull thus to smite at their Persons with the tongue onely shall that be thought Zeale for God which seekes their deposition from that Crown which once a just free and absolute Title of Inheritance hath set upon their heads Cal. Doctor you are very confident of your own learning and definitive Judgment to tye every mans Zeale to your Rules and it seemes you are more tender in flinging Dirt as you tearme it in your Soveraignes face then in preserving his soule from the flames of Hell Neither do I conceive it a thing so he ynous to take his Subjects hearts from him as to unite them in the superstitious Bonds of Popery And as for your deposing him from the Crown which you falsely call his absolute Inheritance if he break the Covenants whereby the Crown is set upon his head he dissolves his own Authority and our Obedience and himself is become his own deposer Repl. Cal. It is not the Doctor that prescribes Rules to anothers Zeale but the holy Scriptures from whence he drawes his infallable principles and Conclusions And whereas you censure him for more prizing the cleannesse of his soveraignes face then the wel-fare of his soul your malice wrongs him in your hop-frog confutation wherein you make a wilfull preterition of that poynt whereof you censure his neglect in the wrong place And whereas you turne Deposition upon the default of Princes know kingdoms are neither Copyholds nor Leases subject either to forfeiture or Reentry Kings have from God their power of reigning from Man the Ceremony of Coronation To God they must give account not man on whose pleasure their Titles absolutely depend D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 288. line 4. In fine David thought him viz. that slew Saul worthy of no Reward but death and of this so worthy that instantly he gave order for his execution with this sharp sentence uttered Thy Blood be upon thine own head for thine own mouth hath testified against thee saying I have slaine the Lords Annoynted A memorable example and an Argument unanswerable against all King-killers and deposers of absolute Princes absolutely annoynted by just title as here with us Cal. Here revereud Doctor Your Simile limps First David was a Prophet and knowing the Crown so neare his head spared that life which he knew so neare a Period not willing to dabble his Conscience in such needlesse blood Secondly being confident himself was the next successor commanded present Execution to terrify his new Subjects from the like presumption Thirdly Though you deny it our Kings bold not their Crownes by such an absolute Title as those of Judah and Jerusalem Repl. Is the Doctors Simile lame Cal. Sure 't was your ill usage made it so But say was David a Prophet Had he speciall Revelations then doubtlesse his wayes and actions were the best presidents for us to follow But was he a Prophet Then sure he knew it a heynous sin to take away the life of Gods Vicegerent though an Idolater Had he speciall Revelations then questionlesse he knew death a just Reward for killing the Lords Annoynted though a wicked King But did this Prophets heart smite him for cutting off his Soveraignes skirt then sure God will not let him go unsmitten that takes his Crown from off his head or power from his hand But Cal. how truth will be confest by your unwilling lips which intimate the Prophets conscience had been dabbled in blood had the deed been done and his subjects guilty of presumption that should do the like And whereas you deny our Kings so absolute a power or title as the Kings of former times you should have done to better purpose to shew who limited it and when for your own single assertion is not Classicall D. Burges cap. 7. page 290. line 2. Authority is ever one of Envies eye-sores Subjection a yoake that Humane Nature loathes Although Inferiours cannot help it nor durst complaine Liberty Liberty is every mans desire though most mens ruine Cal. When Authoritie is put into a Right hand Subjection is no Burthen to a good heart But when Tyrannie usurps the Throne of Monarchie then the people may suspend Obedience and cast off the yoke of their Subjection We that are received into the liberty of the sons of God and made heires of an everlasting kingdome have too much priviledge to be enslav'd to men or made vassals to perpetual bondage If desire of holy Liberty be our labour here eternall Soveraignty shall be our Reward hereafter Repl. He that gives Authority knowes not where to place it The people were pleased with goodly Saul God was pleased to choose little David Tell me did the burthen-threatning hand of Rehoboam the son of Solomon the King of Israel and Judah or Ieroboam the rebellious subject of Rehoboam who made Israel to sin deserve the Scepter By your marks neither In Gods wisdome both The one to crush the liberty of the too proud subject The other to exercise the consciences of his chosen people In both to work his secret pleasure But Guild-hall hath wiser counsel and your Conventicling wives are fitter Judges for the setting up or pulling downe of Kings for regulating the power of the good or limiting the prerogatives of the bad But 't were fitting first to correct S. Pauls
Epistles or to vote S. Peters works APOCRYPHA who both instruct us to submit to the Authority of Kings good or bad But indeed the Liberty of the Subject had been a strong plea had not His Majesty spoiled their jest and granted all Petitions and the Badge of slavery had been unanswerable had not our glorious Saviour honoured and worne it upon his seamlesse Garment The God of glory endured what we despise and shewed that example we scorn to follow D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 307. line 14. For my part I am so farre from taking away Prayer from preaching that I could wish not onely more preaching in some places but more Prayer also in other places and I meane onely that Prayer which is allowed too In performance whereof if the fault be not in them who undertake it much more good will be done then will be acknowledged by some who magnifie preaching rather then adorne it Yea I will adde more then by some mens preaching admired by so many Cal. It is very much Doctor you durst so openly wish more preaching in those daies when your dumb-dog-Bishops silenced so many and most of all themselves Nay you are not ashamed to wish more Prayer too What a Lot is this among so many Sodomites But after all this Lot was drunk Our Doctor being afraid to be thought too righteous put in one her be that spoiled his whole pot of Porrage I meane sayes he that Prayer which onely was allowed And what Prayer was that even that English Masse-book which God be thanked the sacred pietie of Souldiers and the holy boldnesse of Inferiour Christians hath most blessedly taken away This is that Prayer our Doctor desires onely should be used This is that Prayer-book our preaching Doctor deifies and prefers before some mens preaching and who were they in those Episcopal daies who knowes not admired by so many This is that Prayer-book that Prelacie which this temporizing Doctor hath now entred into Covenant in the presence of Almighty God to suppresse Repl. It seems Cal. this Book of Common-Prayer is your maine quarrell here and Bishops by the Bye Tell me who composed that Book In whose Reigne was it composed and what Authority confirmed it Were not those blessed Martyrs the composers they who gave their bodies to the flame in the defence of the true Protestant Religion and in defiance of that superstition whereof you say it is a Relique Dare you vye piety with those Martyrs that are so daynty of your passive obedience They composed it You defie it Was not this detestable book composed in that pious Saints dayes Ed. 6. of holy memory when the Protestant Broome swept cleanest and when the cruelty of that bloody Religion was but newly out of breath and fresh in Memory This blessed Saint allowed it You despise it Was not this book ye so revile confirmed by Act of Parliament in those dayes the Members whereof were chosen among those that were excepting the blessed Martyrs the greatest sufferers under the tyranny of that barbarous Religion whereof you say it favours The Authority of this great Councel confirmed it You condemne it Did not the Phoenix of the world and of her Sexe Queen Elizabeth of everlasting Memory in whose dayes God so smiled upon this kingdom and that Monument of learning and wisdom King Iames of never dying memory in all their Parliaments establish it Yet you revile it Did not your self in your oath of Allegiance sweare to maintaine the King in his established government in Church and Common-wealth Yet in this particular you violate it Ponder all this Cal. and then reviewe your own words and if you blush not you are brazen-fac'd D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 309. line 21. If they can pick out some boldfac'd mercenary Emprick that by the help of a Polyanthea or some English Treatise can make a shift five or six times a week with his tongue and teeth to throw over the Pulpit a pack of stolne wares which sometimes the judicious hearer knowes by the mark and sends it home to the right owner againe Pag. 310. line 15. Or if the man hath been drinking feasting or riding that so no time is left to him to search so far as a naked Commentary Postel or some Catechisme yet adventures on the sacred businesse of preaching carrying to the Pulpit a bold face instead of savory provision and thinks it sufficient that the people hear Thunder though they see no Raine and that loudnesse will serve for once instead of matter because if he be earnest silly women and some ninnyes more will count him a very zealous Preacher and impute his want of matter to his wisdome and desire of edifying not to his want of study or ability and say He preaches to the Conscience He stands not upon deep learning He reproveth sin boldly that is to say other mens therefore they love him not theirs otherwise they would abhor him Cal. And such a â—cale of Trumpery that my pen tyres before it come to the teadious Journies end of his invective speech wherein I have so much charity left to excuse him in that he personates some Ministers whom his malice conceives no better them fooles Who indeed though they make no flourish quoate no Fathers repeate no sentences of Greek and Latine and preach not themselves as our learned D. doth yet edifie the simpler sort of people more in two howers then he with his neate Orations and quaint stile doth in five Sermons ushered in by his Popish Lâ—ttany These are those men who in his last clause be covertly saith are admired by too many and whose preaching lesse edifies then the superstitious Common-prayer book Doctor leave your gibeing and presume not too much upon your learning and wit which God hath given you as a sharp knife to cut your own Throat And deride nor those whose Dâ—fects of learning are so bountifully supplyed with Inspirationâ— and Revelations of the spirit Repl. Take hâ—â—d good Cal. you merit not the Honour to be called the Dunces Advocate These are the men that carry their Provaunt Sermons up and down the Country and in their people-pleasing Lectures cry up Liberty aâ—d praâ—e down Government cry up the Spirit and beare down Learning cry up Sedition and preach down Authority But tell in Cal. where were all these Edifyers these inspyred Pneumasticks when the daring Pens of Fisher Campion Harding and other learned Hereticks breathed forth their threatnings against the true Protestant Church when as the hot mouthed Challenges of Romes Goliahs thundred in our English Host where where were all those long-winded Lecturers Which of them took up the Sling What one amongst them threw down his Gauntlet Who among so many struck one blow in the just defence of the true Reformed Religion Or tell me without blushing where are they that did it These that bravely rusht into the Lists defied the Enemy grappled with him nay laid him on his back tore the Crown from the bold