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A91187	A fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring-blasing-stars, & firebrands, stiling themselves nevv-lights, firing our church and state into new combustions. Divided into ten sections, comprising severall most libellous, scandalous, seditious, insolent, uncharitable, (and some blasphemous) passages; published in late unlicensed printed pamphlets, against the ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and power of parliaments, councels, synods, Christian kings and magistrates, in generall; the ordinances and proceedings of this present Parliament, in speciall: the national covenant, assembly, directory, our brethren of Scotland, Presbyterian government; the Church of England, with her ministers, worship; the opposers of independent novelties; ... Whereunto some letters and papers lately sent from the Sommer-Islands, are subjoyned, relating the schismaticall, illegal, tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there, in gathering their new-churches, to the great distraction and prejudice of that plantation. / Published for the common good by William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3963; Thomason E261_5; ESTC R212456	96,461	90

God-fathers and God-mothers Pers My Lord Master Ecclesiasticall supremacy and Master Scotch-government are my God-fathers Mistris State-ambition and Mistris Church-revenue are my God-mothers and I was sprinkled into the Assembly of Divines at the taking of the late SOLEMNE LEAGVE AND COVENANT Judg. 'T is strange that at the making of the late solemne League and Covenant blood-thirsty persecution should be anabaptized present Reformation then HERE 's A DESIGNE OF BLOOD IN THE COVENANT if under the name of Reformation the Clergy have infused the trayterous blood-thirsty spirit of persecution into it J. Human. My Lord there was never any Nationall or provinciall Synod but strengthned the hand of persecution and that under the vizor of Religion J. Reason As soon as these underling Divines are from under their Episcopall Taskmasters and beginning to encroach upon your Lordships power they presently take this notorious bloody traytor persecution stript by your Lordship of his High-commission habit and out of their zeale dresse him in a divine synodicall Garbe and change name from persecution and christen him Reformation so to engage your Lordship and the Kingdome of England and Scotland in blood to settle and establish bloody persecution BY COVENANT over the Consciences of honest and faithfull men to the State under the specious and godly pretence of Reformation page 39. By the late SOLEMNE LEAGVE and COVENANT good Lord deliver us The sacred Decretal runnes in the same straine page 13. 19. When we had introduc'd the Brethren of the holy League we so joyned their hands in the Synodian hands of Presbytery that their League could not be inviolate their COVENANT the bed of their contract undefiled if our presbitry were not concluded Martyn will tell the people that we contrive Oaths and COVENANTS meerly to ensnare and catch the people in our wiles make them carry a face of Reformation according to the Word of God and thereby betray their innocent subscription to our presbyterian construction John Lilbourne in the unlicensed printed Reasons of sending this Letter pag 4. complaines against the Parliament that the COVENANT was as earnestly prest upon tender consciences though their faithfulnesse were no what doubtfull as upon Newtrals and Malignants and refusing because of some expressions put from Offices of trust and publike imployments Yet most of our sectaries and Independents in immitation of the Cavaleers have entred into Ants covenants against this SOLEMNE COVENANT in their private Congregations to defend● and maintaine their owne Independent government even to blood c. whatever forme of government the Parliament shall establish the very extremity and height of seisme and sedition if not of professed rebellion against supreame Authority which makes them thus to villifie traduce and contemptuously refuse the taking of this SOLEMN COVENANT and plead exemption from it for feare of dis-ingaging so faithfull considerable A PARTY as they have in the Army who in time perchance will prescribe their new Church-covenants unto us or else exclude us from our Native soyle as now they doe from their Independent Congregations and the Sacraments unlesse we will submit unto them Section IV. Containing sundry scurrilous seditious libellous railing and blasphemous Invectives against the Assembly of Divines the Presbyterian Members of it and their proceedings though summoned nominated continued and directed in all things by Ordinances of both Houses of Parliament BEfore this Assembly met by Order of both Houses or had given intimation what kind of Ecclesiasticall Government they intended to fix upon our Independent sectaries not only petitioned for such an Assembly to be called but made meanes that as many of their party as possible might be elected Members of it But when at last they discerned the Assembly and Parliament to dis-affect their anomolous absurd Independent way as having no foundation in Divinity nor Policy and tending to utter confusion in Church State and thereupon to incline to a Presbiteriall government embraced by all reformed Churches in the Christian world upon this they presently begin to declaime against the Assembly and their proceedings in private and soon after to libell against them in-publike with such unchristian uncivill approbrious Billingsgate termes as I am confident no Oxford Aulicus or Satyricall cavaleere is able to paralell their very tongues and pens being doubtlesse set on fire of hell And not contented herewith they lately conspired together to exhibit a petition to the Parliament for present dissolving the Assembly and sending them hence to country cures to prevent the setling of any Church-government to which end they met at the Windmil Taverne where Lievteu Col. John Lilbourne a fit instrument for such a seditious designe sate in the chaire and Master Hugh Peter suggested the advice which was accordingly inserted into the Petition but the counsell-men smelling out the designe when the Petition came to their hands most discreetly left out that request as seditious and unjust which yet the libellous Author of Martyns Echho page 15. hath since in wish renewed in these scandalous termes You have as neere as you can made a third party in labouring by your Jesuiticall machiavilian subtilty to divide the Parliament contrary to the trust reposed in them from the godly party who have assisted them with their estates and blood and to deny those their faithfull friends of their just deservings their purchased freedomes which should they doe they would be branded as infamous to posterity even unfaithfull ungratefull c. at meliora spero I hope better of them if your wicked Machiavilian Assembly were but taken from them and sent to their particular charges In what sort they have libelled against them hath partly appeared in other Sections but I shall give you a more particular account thereof in this I shall begin with that most infamous seditious railing Libell intituled The Arraignment of persecution the whole scope whereof against the Assembly is thus boldly expressed in the very Title page The Arraignment of Master Persecution presented to the consideration of the House of Commons and to all the Common people of England In the prosecution whereof the Iesuiticall designes and secret encroachments of his Defendants Sir Simon Synod and the John of all Sir Johns Sir John Presbiter upon the liberty of the subject is detected and laid open by reverend young Martyn Marpriest sonne to old Martyn the Metropolitan printed by Martyn Claw-Clergy Printer to the reverend Assembly of Divines for Bartholinew Bang-Priest and are to be sold at his shop in Toleration-street at the signe of the subjects liberty right opposite to Persecution-court 1645. The seigned License and Epistle Dedicatory to the Assembly before it are altogether libellous as is the whole book against the Assembly and its Members I shall give you only a taste of some phrases and epithites in it viz. Such a holy such a reverend Assembly such a Quagmire of croaking skip-jack Presbiters A reverend synodian disguised with a sophisticall paire of breeches saving your presence in

'l not only fall upon your bones himselfe but hee l set his celestiall brother Christopher Scal●●kie his catechisticall brother Rouland Rattle-priest his divine Brethren Martin Claw-Clergy Bartholmew Bang-priest all upon your back and amongst us all we shall in time turne up the foundation of your classicall supremacy and pull down your Synod your Spheare about your ears behold a troop commeth Sir Simon Martin is of the Tribe of Gad though a host of Sir Iohns overcome him yet he shal over come at last yea heel 'e jeere you out of your black Cloaks and make you ashamed of King Henry the seventh's Chappell and he glad to work with your hands or to be content with the good will of the vulgar and then it will too late to compound with reverend MARTIN and his divine Brethren therefore consider with your selfe Sir Simon before the mighty Acts of the house of Martin be come forth against you we do not intend to dally with you wee 'l handle you with Mittins thwack your Cassocks rattle your Jackets stamp upon the panch of your villany and squeze out the filth and garbidge of your iniquity till you stink in the nostrils of the common people yea wee 'l beat you and your sonne JACK guts and all into a Mouse-hole There 's no one of MARTINS Tribe but is a man of Mettall and hates a Tithe-devouring persecuting Priest as he hates the Devill scornes their bribes and bids defiance to their Malice These are to advise you Sir Simon turne ye to MARTIN in Tolleration-street ye stiffe necked generation of Priests lest the fierce wrath and sore displeasure of mighty MARTIN fall upon you confound you and your whole Sir Johns generation Root and Branch hearken ye rebellious Assembly unto MARTIN persecute no more take no more Tithes be content with the good will of the Vulgar Whether these most seditious menacing passages and railing Libels against the Assembly Presbytery and all Ecclesiasticall Parliamentary proceedings be not published in print by seditious Seectaries to stirre up the people to mutinie against the Parliament Assembly Ministery to fire us into new Civill warres and commotions among our selves and that by the underhand plots of some Jesuiticall spirits and Malignant Royallists I shall humbly submit to the saddest thoughts of our supreame Councell which is best able to judge of them and most able to prevent the eminent dangers which they doe portend I shall close this Section with a new printed Libell intituled The Nativity of Sir Iohn Presbyter Dedicated To the Right Worshipfull the ASS of Divines assembled at Westminster with a most rayling libellous Epistle to which these Verses in derision of it are subjoyned Reverend Assembly up arise and jogge For you have fairly fisht and caught a Frog Now have you set two years pray can you tell A man the way that Christ went downe to Hell In these two years what can a wise man think That ye have done ought else but eat and drink Presbyterie climb'd up to the top of fame Directory and all from Scotland came O monstrous idlenesse alack and welly Our learned Rabbies minds nought but their belly Section V. Containing libellous scurrilous prophane and unchristian passages against the Directory established by Ordinance of Parliament YOU have met with some of these Invectives already in the preceding Sections which I shall not repeat but only adde two or three passages more of this nature full of Athesticall and blasphemous scurrillity The Araignment of Persecution p. 44. desires That his Holinesse Sir Simon Synod my Synodecate a full resolution to these ensuing Queres Whether it would not have been more profitable for the kingdome of England to have forth with hired a Coach and twelve Horses to have set a Directory from Scotland then to have spent the learned consultations pious debates and sacred conclusions of such an holy such a reverend such a heavenly such a godly such a learned such a pious such a grave such a wise such a solid such a discreet such a spirituall such an Evangelicall such an infallible such a venerable such a super-celestioll Queer of Angels such a suparlative Assembly of Divines for almost these two yeares space after the profuse and vast expence of above forty thousand pounds besides their goodly fat Benefices upon their devouring Guts for an English DIRECTORY of worship equivalent to the Scotch DIRECTORY Whether this Directory standing in so many thousands to sumble it together and the Copy sold at 400 and 50 l. be not of more value then the writings of the Prophets and Apostles The sacred Synodicall Decretall or Hue and Cry useth the like Dialect p. 23. Be it secula seculorum as authentick as the Directory c. We had better have set two years longer in our most holy Consultations and made our forty thousand four hundred pound Directory a Directory of fourscore thousand eight hundred pound value Pag. 5. Martin will tell the Country That we sanctifie our new DIRECTORY Gospell but to the temper of the City Tell the City That the Country people know not what to do with it except to stop their Bottles unlesse we spend the State the other odde trifle of 40000 pounds to divide it into Chapters and Verses the Lord put it into their hearts and that as the truth is its sanctity is only grounded upon the Divine Ordinance for Tithes some wiser then some for no longer Penny no longer Pater-noster I will defile no more Paper with such horrid blasphemies only adde That Martins Ecco p. 12. makes the Parliaments endeavouring to establish the Directory the cause of the losse of Leicester in these words And now the Parliament being busied to fortifie your Directory c. in the mean time Leicester is taken thousands are put to the sword c. Which is sufficiently answered by Sir Thomas Fairfax routing the Kings whole Army and re-taking Leicester even whiles the Parliament was most busie in fortifying the Directory But I proceed to another Section Section VI. Containing their libellous scandalous seditious passages against our Brethren of Scotland to raise divisione between us and them contrary to the Act of Pacification and the late solemne League and Covenant MAny are their intolerable libellous Invectives of this kinde I shall transcribe but few Hen. Robinson in his Answer to M. Py●nes 12 Questions made the first assault upon our Brethren in this Language And what think we made our Brethren the Scots so successelesse here in England whilest the warres are now beginning to kindle in their own Countrey if it were not that they joyne with this Nation or rather provoke them to establish their so much idolized Presbyteriall discipline of persecutions when they themselves thought they had just cause to be highly offended with the same their own persecuting spirit in Episcopacy When the Lord required the Israelites to appear before him at Jerusalem thrice a yeare he promised that no man should invade their habitations in

their absence Exod. 34. 23 24. which gracious providence of his no doubt continues still protecting all such as are imployed by his command but unlesse our Brethren of Scotland bethink themselves in time and consider that even as the persecuting Bishops of England attempting to impose their government in Scotland gave occasion to begin the warres in England so if the persecuting Presbyters of Scotland continue to advance and get set up the Scotch government in England it may likely bring all the three Kingdomes to make the seat of warre in Scotland I would be loath to prophesie upon this occasion but do much fear that in how bad condition soever both England and Ireland are at the present if the warres last but little longer Scotland will yet be farre worse God of his infinite mercy open the eyes of all three Kingdomes in this their heavie visitation reconciling himselfe unto them all and them to one another for his dear Sonne Christ Iesus sake The Araignment of Persecution by way of jear and scorne p. 3 8 9. 19 39 42. satyrically inveighes against and derides Scoth government ranking it with Satan Antichrist the Spanish Inquisition Councell of Trent High Commission c. beings in Liberty of conscience thus complaining My Lord Sir Simon Synod is like to pull out my throat with the ravinous clawes of an Assembly and Master Scotch Government was fit to stab me with his Scoth Dagger Iemmy put up thy Dagger Averres The Synod is guided by the Holy Ghost sent in a Cloke-bag from Scotland as of old from Rome to the Councell of Trent Oft mentions by way of scorn and jeere The advancing of the mickle Army into the South addes you may easily perceive how they would pinch your Lordships nose with a paire of SCOTCH SPECTACLES that your Lordship might see nothing but BLEW CAPS he hath plaistred up the wrinkles of his face with SCOTCH MORTER c. The Sacred Synodicall Decretall p. 4. tels us c. of a Blew-capreformation and then Blewcap for us p. 7. Of the ay-blessed Divines of Scotland p. 16. Of laying Rods in pisse for Crumwel let him take heed of a Scotch another course must be taken with Hereticks else our Brethren cannot further engage God speed them well home againe and let all the people in the kingdome say Amen p. 18. Of their running away at Maston-More p. 20. Of an Angel in the Mount upon whom o●● reverend Assembly of grave and learned Divines do daily wait which Mount is Dunce-Hill which by translation out of the Originall by the Divines of Scotland whose countrey-man this Angel is is englished Mount Sion with other such like stuffe And Martins Eccho p. 8. Our Scottish Brethren advanced lately as far into the South as from Brampton-moore to Westmerland for your assistance are all yours by vertue of the Holy League and Covenant which they may in no wise falsifie untill they see it convenient for them to do as in the most sacred Exhortation to the taking of the said League and Covenant you have taught them Many other such seditious passages tending to sow division between both Nations contrary to the fourth clause of the Nationall Covenant these New-Libels have lately published which I forbear to Register Section VII Containing most scurrilus libellous scandelous railing invectives against Presbyterians and Presbyterian government in generall which many of them not long since so much applauded desired before the Bishops removall WE have met with much of this scurrilous stuffe in other Sections to which some few additions only shall be made in this Mr. Henry Robinson his FALSEHOOD c. shall leade up the Forelorne-hope where thus he writes to the Christian Reader Free thy conscience from the thraldome and bondage of those Egyptian Taskmasters who care not what trash and trumpery they vent so they may gaine Proselytes and contributions Which he thus prosecutes p. 9. But what availeth it to have the head of one Lordly Episcopall Prelate cut of when a Hidra a multitude above seventy seven times as many Presbyteriall Prelates succeed instead thereof Prelatia Prelacy Prelacy as we use it vulgarly is a preferring one before another and the Presbyteriall government is much more truly said to be Prelaticall then either Episcopall or Papall unlesse you will say that neither Episcopall nor Papall be Prelaticall at all For in either of those governments there are but few Prelates but in the other there are to wit so many Prelates as there are Presbyters each whereof is an absolute Prelate that is one preferred above his Brethren The Araignment of Persecution declaimes thus against Presbyterian government p. 21. Both Papall and Episcopall government is better then Presbyterian for they are and have been more uniforme and have continued many hundred years longer then Presbyterian and were long before Presbytery was thought on For alas it was but a shift at a pinch the Devill made when neither of the other would serve his turne and so came up Presbyterie but what good the Devill will have of it I know not for who knowes the luck of a lowsie Cur he may prove a good Dog The Sacred Synodicall Decretall inveighes thus against Presbyterian government p. 11. Martin will put the Parliament and people in minde of their Protestation and tell them that by the same rule they pull downe the Bishops they are bound to put downe the Presbyters c. For in Martins Astrologicall judgement all the Plagues of Egypt were but a Flea-biting to what one Presbyterian Church will be vinci si possunt regales cestibus enses we having mortified Episcopall Hercules and possest his Club. p. 19. Indeed the Pope is as truly Christian and his function as equally Jure Divino as our Presbyterie conveyed from his Holiness● by our Fathers the late Lord Bishops upon us The unlicensed Nativity of Presbytery said to be licensed by Rowland Rattle-Priest a terrible Imprimatur writes p. 5. That the Devill made the Vrchin Sir John Presbyter an abject a Fugitive newly come out of Scotland a Witch a Rogue and in apparell delighting in black as his Father the Devill fitter to be a Weather cock then a Divine only the Evill Spirit of Mercury presented him to be the Devils Goat-head Section VIII Conteining sundry Libellous Schismaticall uncharitable and unchristian passages against the Church of England her Worship and Ministers in generall IOhn Lilburne in his Answer to nine Arguments Printed without License London 1645. with his picture cut before it Writes thus of the Church of England pag. 4. The Church of England is a true Whorish mother and you are one of her base-begotten and Bastardly children for you know a Whore is a woman as truly as a true wife and she may have children as proportionable as the children of a true wife yet this doth not prove her children which are base-begotten are true-begotten children because they have all the parts and limbes of children that are begotten in

a true married estate and condition even so say I the Church of England neither is nor never was truly married joyned or united to Jesus Christ in that espousall band which his true Churches are and ought to be but is one of Antichrists Nationall Whorish Churches or Cities spoken of Rev. 16. 19. Vnited joyned knit to the Pope of Lambeth as Head and Husband thereof being substitute to the Pope of Rome from whom he hath received his Arch-Episcopall power and Authority Pag. 18. Your Church is false and Antichristian Therefore if every Parish in England had power in themselves which in the least they have not to choose and make their own Officers yet for all this they would be false for a false and Antichristian Church as yours is can never make true Officers and Ministers of Iesus Christ and though that the Churches of the Separation want Apostles in personall presence to lay hands upon their Officers which lawfully they choose out from among themselves yet have they their Laws Rules and Directions in writing which is their Office and is of as great Authority as their personall presence Pag. 19. And thus have I sufficiently by the Authority of the Sacred Word of God proved all your Officers and Ministers false and Antichristian and none of Christs which if you can groundedly contradict shew your best skill chalenge I you and put you to prop to hold up your tottering and sandy Church and Ministry or else your great brags will prove no better then winde and Fables and you your self found to be a Liar Pag. 22. And as for these two things Of Conversion and confirmation or building up in the wayes of God which you speak of if you mean by conversion and opening of the eyes to turn them from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God or if you mean by conversion a deliverance from the power of darknesse and a translation into the Kingdom of the Son of God both of which the Apostles Ministry did accomplish in the hearts and lives of Gods people Act. 26. 18. Coll. 1. 13. I absolutely deny it that your Ministery in England doth this And therefore I desire you to declare what you mean by Conversion and prove your definition by the holy Scripture and also prove that you in England are so converted which when you have done I shall further answer you by Gods assistance and as for their building them up in the wayes of God as all true Shepherds ought to build up their sheep as Acts 26. 1 Pet. 5. Yet I deny it that your Ministers do it for how can they build them up in that which they themselves are ignorant of and enemies unto for as Jannes and Jambres which withstood Moses so do these men also resist the Truth being men of corrupt mindes and destitute of the truth 2 Tim. 3. 8. And do feed you with husks and Chaffe being neither willing to imbrace it themselves nor to let those that would as their constant preaching and speaking against the truth of God and the Kingdom of his Son doth witnesse c. I have taken the pains by the Word of God and demonstrable Arguments grounded thereupon to prove the Church of England Antichristian I do promise you I will by the strength of the Lord of Hosts for ever seperate from Church Ministery and Worship in England all and every one of them as Antichristian and false Yet thus much I say and do acknowledge and the Scripture proves it that God hath a people or an elect number in spirituall Babylon yea in the Kingdom of Antichrist part of which the Church of England is and none of them shall perish but be eternally saved yet I say it is the duty of all Gods Elect and chosen ones that are yet in the Whorish bosome of the Church of England or in any part of Antichrists Regiment to separate away from it and come out of it least God plague them for their staying there Pag. 23. All the Ministers of the Church of England are not true Ministers of Christ but false and Antichristian Ministers of Antichrist Pag. 24. And as for your Minor and Assumption which is that you in the Church of England do enjoy and outwardly submit your selves to the true worship of God It is most false and a notorious lie and untruth and as well might wicked Faux and the rest of the Gunpowder-Plotters say that they submitted unto Noble King James Laws and Scepter when they went about to blow up the Parliament House that so they might destroy him and all his for you do not only oppose and justle ou● the true worship of God and throw down and trample upon the Scepter of Jesus Christ his son but also you set up false and Antichristian Worship the inventer of which is the Devil and the Man of sin his eldest and most obedient Son Pag. 26 27. Now from that which I have said I frame these Arguments 1. That Worship which is of the Devils and Antichrists invention institution and setting up is no true Divine worship But the Worship of the Church of England is of the Devils and Antichrists invention institution and setting up as Revel 13. doth fully prove Ergo the Worship of the Church of England is no true Worship 2. That Worship which is a main means and Cause of pulling down the Kingdom of Iesus Christ and establishing maintaining and upholding the Kingdom of the Devil and Antichrist and sends more souls to Hell then all the wickednesse impiety ungodlinesse in the Kingdom doth besides is no true worship of God but ought to be detested and abhorred of all his people But such is the worship of the Church of England Ergo c. Pag. 29. I absolutely deny your Argument and affirme that your Religion neither is the true Religion nor that it leads men the true way to salvation Pag. 37 38. I groundedly and absolutely deny that either the Church of England is or ever was a true Church and till you have proved it true all the pains that you have taken in proving that it is possible for corruptions evil livers to be in a true Church is spent in vain and to no purpose and I am confident that you nor none else will ever be able to prove the Church of England true nor any other Nationall Church for Christ Jesus by his death did abolish the Nationall Church of the Iews with all their Laws Rites and Ceremonies thereof and in the New Testament did never institute no Nationall Church nor left no Laws nor Officers for the governing thereof but the Church that he instituted are free and Independent bodies or Congregations depending upon none but only upon Christ their Head Therefore Nationall Churches under the Gospel are of Antichrists that man of sins institution and ordaining who only hath ordained Laws and Officers of his own for the governing of them Therefore for you

Bocardo Sir Simon Synod New upstart frisking Presbiters Synodian Cormorants the Synodian Whore of Babylon the traiterous Synod called the Assembly of Divines presbiterian horse-leeches blood thirsty Cattle this great gore-bellied idoll called the Assembly of Divines Arch-Jesuiticall traytors the Jesuiticall and traiterous designes of the Synod our dissembly Doctors a Consistory of devils and the like These be the charitable modest Independent Epithites which this libeller bestowes upon them See next his libellous and blasphemous speeches against and censure of them and the good end his charity wisheth to them Page 1● The Synod is guided by the holy Ghost sent in a cloke-bagge from Scotland as of old from Rome in the Councell of Trent Because the Assembly have sadled the Parliament it is unlawfull for the Presbiters to goe on foot page 29. The traiterous Synod called the Assembly of Divines labours with might and main to establish and settle this traiterous spirit of persecution in the land page 35. 36. It is most certaine that this fellow whose name Sir Simon faineth to be Reformation is absolute Persecution so that had these Reformers but as much power as Queen Marie's Clergy their reformation would conclude in fire and faggot Judg. Oh insufferable Assembly I see 't is dangerous for a state to pin their faith upon the sleeve of the Clergy J. Reason Further my Lord whereas others are impoverished spend their estates engage and loose their lives in this Quarrell they are enriched and advanced by it save their purses and persons cram and fill their greedy guts too filthy to be carried to a Beare heap up wealth to themselves and give not a penny while others against whom they exclaime venture and expend all yea my Lord this great gorebelly Idol called the Assembly of divines is not ashamed in this time of state-necessity to gull up and devour more at one meale then would make a feast for Bel and the Dragon for besides all their fat Benefices forsooth they must have their foure shillings apeece by the day for sitting in constollidation and poore men when they had filled all benefices with good Trencher-men of their owne presbiterian Tribe they move your Lorpship that all Ministers may be wholy freed from all taxations that now the trade of presbiter is the best trade in England all are taxed and it goes free poore men that have no bread to still the cry of their children must either pay and goe in person to the warres while these devouring Church lubbers live at ease feed on dainties neither pay nor goe themselves but preach out our very hearts they make it a case of conscience to give all but wise men they 'le give none Let the sick the lame and maimed souldiers and those that have lost their limbs and begge in streets let women that have lost their Husbands let parents that have lost their children let children that have lost their parents and let all that have or suffer oppression and misery in and for the publike Cause consider this and be no longer ridden and jaded by Clergy masters but to give the devill his due one thing to their commendations I have observed that they are so zealously affected with the honour of their Cloth that 't were pitty to disrobe them of their cassock Garbe to be led in a string from Westminster to Algate in Leatherne Jackets and Mattockes on their shoulders and my Lord though some thinke they would doe the State more good in leatherne jackets and Mattockes then in long cloakes and cassockes yet my think they would doe the state better service with their canonical girdles were the knot tyed in the right place page 36. 37. Primacy Metropolitanisme prelacy c. are shrunk into the presbytery and our High-commission turned into an Assembly of Divines My Lord they have sate even till they have runne mad you might doe well to adjourne them to Bedlam for my Lord they are raging mad to have the innocent blood of the Anabaptists Brownists Independents c. My Lord they have over-studied themselves even wracked their wits to find out a Religion for us poore men they have beene mightily puzled about it it hath cost them the consumption of many fat pig chicken capon c. the infusion of many a cup of sacke to bring it to birth and after such dolorous pangs and bitter troubles for almost these two yeers who would have thought they would be delivered of such a ridiculous vermine called a Presbyter parturiunt montes nascitur ridiculus mus And now my Lord after this montanous delivery they are at their wits end what dressing to put it out in all the Taylors in the Kingdome are not able to content them what to doe they know not and now the matter 's worse then ever it was they had thought to have shewne the world it in the godly shape of Reformation but upon examination 't is found to be Persecution a sad event there is no way now but Bedlam for our Doctors it may chance to chastise them into their wits againe and then upon their second thoughts it may be they 're bethink themselves to put a blew bonnet upon'● and then it will passe from England to Scotland and Scotland to England againe without question or controle Page 93. Good my Lord have mercy upon me I beseech your honour even for the Clergy sake have mercy upon me consider my Lord that in my death is their ruine it will be the greatest inroad upon the Divines of Christendome that ever was made Oh! I beseech you my Lord. by the Mystery of their holy Convocation by their agony and bloody sweat by their crosse and passion at my shamefull approaching death and burial Good Lord deliver me By their glorious resurrection and assention from the Pulpit above the State by the comming of the holy Ghost to them in a cloak-bag from Scotland Good Lord deliver me By the late solemne League and Covenant by the 400. and 50. l. for the Copy of their Directory because they could get no more by all the fat Benefices and goodly revenues of the Clergy Good Lord deliver me Page 43. 44. It is the sentence of this Court concerning Sir Simon and Sir Iohn Presbyter who have thus Jesuitically endeavoured to pervert the Justce of this Court That Sir Simon be committed close prisoner to King Henry the eights chappell there to be kept in Parliamentary safe custody till the Great Assiges held in the first yeere of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Christ when the Kingdom and the greatnesse of the Kingdoms under the whole Heaven shall be given to the Saints of the most high there and then to be arraigned with the rest of his holy Tribe whether universal national provincial or consistorial counsels or Synods whatsoever before his Highnesse the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and my Lord in the meane time to keep his Holinesse in action I beseech your Honour