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A56846	The vvhipper vvhipt being a reply upon a scandalous pamphlet, called The whip, abusing that excellent work of Cornelius Burges, Dr in divinity, one of the Assembly of Divines, entituled, The fire of the sanctuary newly discovered / inserti authoris, Qui Mockat, Mockabitur.	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.	1644 (1644)	Wing Q121; ESTC R210654	29,690	48

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 I 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 extred 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 Council 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

THE VVHIPPER VVHIPT BEING A REPLY Upon a scandalous Pamphlet CALLED THE WHIP Abusing that Excellent Work of CORNELIUS BURGES Dr in DIVINITY one of the Assembly of DIVINES ENTITULED The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly discovered Incerti Authoris Qui Mockat Mockabitur Imprinted M. DC XLIV TO THE SACRED MAJESTY OF KING CHARLES My most deare and dread Soveraigne SIR BEpleased to cast a gracious eye upon this Book and at Your leasure if Your Royall imployments lend you any to peruse it In Your Three Kingdoms You have three sorts of people The first confident and faithfull The second diffident and fearfull The third indifferent and doubtfull The first are with You in their Persons Purses or desires and good wishes The second are with You neither in their Purses nor good wishes nor with their desires in their Persons The third are with You in their good wishes but neither in their Persons nor Purses nor Desires In this Booke these three sorts are represented in three Persons and presented to the view of Your Sacred Majesty You shall find them as busie with their Penns as the Armyes are with their Pistols How they behave themselves let the People judge I appeale to Cesar Your Majesties honour safety and prosperity The Churches Truth Unity and Uniformity Your Kingdomes Peace Plenty and Felicity is the continued object of his Devotion who is SIR Your Majesties Most Loyall Subject The Replyer THE WHIPPER VVHIPT THere came by chance to my un-enquiring hand a Pamphlet called The Whip whose Pharisaicall Author pretended a transcendent Zeale to my first eye but after a leafes perusall I found his flame so extreamly hot that his Religion seemed for want of due stirring burnt too and so much tasted of the Brasse that no Orthodox palate could relish it nor a well-grounded Conscience digest it The namelesse Author had an Vtopian spirit and the Government he best affected was Anarchie He was a Salamander his very dwelling was in Fire His Heart was a sink of Ignorance his Spleen a spring of Gall a Shemei a Rabshekah his mouth ran bitternesse and malice and his Pen slow'd venime and Rebellion The object of this fiery Pamphlet was the orthodox most excellent work of Doctor Cornelius Burges a man of singular parts and at this time a worthy Member of the Synod or Assembly of Divines entituled The Fire of the Sanctuary newly discovered or A Compleat Tract of Zeale and printed by George Miller and Richard Badger anno 1625. which this Pamphleters unlearned Pen hath so poorely answered so impiously maligned so maliciously calumniated that I have thought good to east away some Inke upon him not in vindication of the Doctor whose Conscience enlightned by the Scriptures needs no Champion but to rectifie the abused vulgar who by the help of such Pneumaticall Fantasticks have turnd their leaden apprehensions into Quick-silverd Zeale which hath swallowed up and devoured their duty to their betters their faire demcanour to their equalls and their charity to all Relations This unworthy Pamphleter in the Progresse of his more unworthy work against this worthy Member uses that method which Beelzebub the prince of Flyes prescribes him who like a Fly buzzes through his whole Larder blowing here there but leaving such fruitfull corruption that in short time his whole store nay if possible the very Bread of life moulded by the hand of heaven which hee hath set apart in his margent would grow unsavoury He begins at the Dedication Epistle repeating the Doctors words then poysoning them with his owne Calumnies whereunto if your Patience equall Readers will admit me by the name of a Replyer you shall have all woven together in one Loome Wherein I purpose not to load your eares with those his frivolous preambles and impertinences which would swell this Pamphlet beyond your Patience but suddenly to rush into the List D. Burges Dedication Title To the Right Honourable WILLIAM Earle of PEMBROKE c. Calumniator Popery and Superstition at the first dash Dedication is a meer Popish Ceremony begun by the Antichristian Hierarchy derived from deo and dicatio which is a vowing to God It was first used when Steeplehouses or Meeting-places were built which Papists call Churches dedicating them to God or to those they honoured as much Saints whereof some of them are now roring in hell under which pretence they juggled holynesse into them more then into Barnes or Stables Now this Book the Doctor dedicates to the Earle of Pembroke whereby he secretly acknowledges him either a God or a Saint If a God he blasphemes If a Saint he lyes for he was a Courtier and preferd the King before the Elect whereas Saints imitate God and should be no Respecters of persons in whose eyes Kings and Subjects are alike Replyer When Ignorance hath shot forth her shady leaves how quickly Impiety budds and then how suddenly Rebellion blossoms Ignorance first taught thee a false Etimologie of a word then Impiety suggests a slight estimation of a Church and then Rebellion insinuates a disreputation of a King Now one lash more at schoole would have helpt all this by curing that Ignorance and letting you know that Dedication is derived from De here taken perfectivè and dicatio which is an offering or a presentation which two words joyned carry the sense of a full or totall presentation of this Book to whom he presented it Now Cal. where 's the Blasphemic or where 's the Lye Let them even both returne to the base mouth from whence they came And that one lash more which might have cured thy Ignorance in time might save Gregory some labour and thee some paines in an undedicated Meeting-place D. Burges in the Epistle Dedicatory It viz. this Treatise speaks of Fire But such as was made to warme and not to burne any thing unlesse stubble Cal. I knew what temper your fire your zeale had luke-warme Master Doctor apt to receive warmth or flame according to the times Rep. It is the devils custome to leave out halfe the Text Let mee supply your defect Cal. To warme solid hearts Not to burne any thing but such stubble as you and then the sentence is perfect D. Burges Here is no ground for an Utopian spirit to mould a new Common-wealth no warrant for Sedition to touch the Lords Anointed so much as with her tongue No occasion administred to Ishmael to scoffe at Isaac no Salamanders lodge themselves here Cal. An Utopian spirit is a word of your owne coyning whereof I confesse my ingenious ignorance But I perceive this opinion which you pin upon Pembrok's sleeve admits rather of an old Popish Government then of the moulding of a New by an holy Reformation It makes such an Idol of your King whom you falsly tearme the Lords Anointed that it brands that hand with the aspersion of Sedition and that tongue with the guilt of Impiety that touches him whereas Kings are but men and wicked Kings but Beasts in Gods eye and

themselves is that of Samuel 1 Sam. 15. 35. mourning and praying for Saul not for Forme onely but heartily and fervently indeed and the worst they can pitch upon unlesse they proceede to open Treason is that of common Newesmongers and seditious spirits who cannot make a Meale spend a Fire drink a Pint or drive away one hower without some pragmaticall discourse and censure of Princes and their State-Affayres Cal. Nay Good Doctor we have had many Samuels or as good that have fasted and prayed at least these twenty moneths That God would be pleased so turne the Kings heart and bring him back to his Parliament but God hath stopt his eares against us and will not be moved And since God hath made his pleasure so openly known through the whole Land nay through the world too that his Majesties heart is fully resolved and knit to Popery and Superstition shall we subjects whom it so much concernes be afraid to communicate the businesse to one another Your conscience Doctor is growen a great Royalist but your tender Zeale of your Princes honour will hardly stop our mouthes or close our eares Our Case is so that our discourse of him and States-matters too cannot be too pragmaticall as you call it We must now take advantage of those his faults which our Fasts Prayers and Petitions could not redresse And since his cruell Course of life and soild behaviour will not be a perfect white we must die it into a sadder colour and these his Crimes which our teares cannot wash sairer for the comfort of ourselves and Children our reports for the countenance of the Cause must make fouler for the exasperating of our Confederates and encouragement of our souldiers so that by this christian Stratageme through the enterchange of newes which you condemne we may facilitate our own designes Repl. Cal. Your christian stratageme is but the modest tearme of a devilish project or in plainer English a peece of errant knavery wherein the father of your contrivements receives much glory and the God of Truth no lesse dishonour Read that statute which God made Levit. 19. 16. Thou shalt not go up and down as a Talebearer among thy people where in the end of the verse he signes it with I am the Lord The falsenes of the Tale doubles the sinne the basenes of the end trobles it the person damnifyed being a King makes it quadruble the persons venting it being subjects makes it terrible but the place where it is commonly vented being Pulpits makes it horrible and by the ministers of the Gospel too and 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 Gods 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 thanks givings 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 heynous 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 hold 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

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 deale of Trumpery that my pen tyres before it come to the ●●adious 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 then 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 Dr. 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 Lettany These are those men who in his last clause he 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 not those whose Defects of learning are so bountifully supplyed with Inspirations and Revelations of the spirit Repl. Take heed 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 and prate down Government cry up the Spirit and beate down Learning cry up Sedition and preach down Authority But tell me 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 Strumpets head and snatcht the Cup of poyson from her trembling hand what Palme or what Reward have they I shame to tell These like undaunted Champions endured the Brunt in dust and sweate and stoutly undertook the Cause whilest they like Trouts all day betook them to their Holds and now in the dark night of Ignorance prey upon the Churches Ruine They fish in Waters which themselves have troubled These these are they that lead silly women Captive and creeping into Widowes houses devoure them under a pretence of long Prayer Learnings shame Religions Mountebanks the vulgars Idols and the Bane of this our late glorious now miserable Kingdom D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 319. line 22. God made a Law that every word of an Accusation should be establisht by two or three witnesses This Law is revived by the Apostle in the Gospel and applyed to the Case of Ministers Against an Elder receive not an Accusation but under two or three witnesses 1 Tim. 5. 19. By an Elder meaning a Minister as Saint Ambrose Epiphanius and others rightly do expound it Pag. 129. line 9. It were therefore a most uncharitable and unchristian Course upon a bare Accusation of an Enemy to condemne a Minister before himself be heard and a competent number of Witnesses of worth produced against him Cal. How now Doctor doth your Guilt begin to call for more witnesses Are you tormented before your time The Law you speake on would in these dayes be needlesse Our Ministers faults are now writ in their foreheads and as apparent as the Sun at noone whose leud and looser Conversations are impudent Confessions and visibly manifest enough without farther Witnesses Our Crime-discovering Century is both Witnesses and Jury and the pious Composer thereof a most sufficient Iudge But some there be so craftily vitious that they can keep their words and Actions from the eyes and eares of Men For such I hold a reasonable Presumption Evidence enough Others there be whose vices want no Witnesses but perchance their Witnessses as the too partiall world expounds it want worth and Credit Some measure worth by a visible Estate some by unimpeachable honesty of body or behaviour others by a religious demeanour according to establisht canstitutions whereas for my part If a poor handicrafts man or whose Infirmity denies him a through-pac'd honesty or whose piety is a little zealously refractory to establisht discipline nay be he a convicted Anabaptist or Blasphemer or what not in case it be for the Cause that brings an Accusation or appears a Witnesse against a Malignant Minister I question not but such a Witnesse may be valuable Repl. The Law denyes it Cal. But now the Law 's asleep all actions are arbitrarie But the ground of that Law was very just for as Theodoret in 1 Tim. 5. sayes Because Ministers touch sinners to the quick it exasperates many against them in respect whereof their Accusations require many witnesses Eutichianus an ancient Bishop about the yeare 276. after Christ if Bishops retaine any credit more then a Turk Ep. 8. Episc. Syri● admonishes to weigh well the Accusation of a Minister because the faithfull execution of his Office gaines him many enemies He also proceedeth to disenable all Heretiques all suspected of Heresie excommunicate persons Malefactors Theeves Sacrilegious Adulterers that seek to Witches or Conjurers and all other Infamous persons In the 3. Councel of Laterane Vide Append. Concil. Lat. 3. par 50. cap. 69. It was decreed That upon an unproved accusation of a Clerick his owne single oath should free him It was agreed in the 7. Councel of Carthage that all servants Stage players uncleane persons wanderers all that came uncalled all under 14. yeares of age and all that the Accuser brings from home with him shall be rejected as Witnesses against a Minister Another Decree of Analectus denyes the Accuser to be a witnesse or the witnesses to be such as are revengefull and must be cleare of all suspition In a Synod at Rome about Constantines time it was decreed No Deacon should be condemned under 44. able witnesses Such tender care was alwayes had of the accusation of a Minister But now Cal. your Tenets can in favour to your new fashiond pieties qualifie secret whoremasters open blasphemers and such as your selfe nay one single Accuser and a sorry one too will doe the feat D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 232. line