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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

of Gods glory or more wise to propagate it then David who accounted it his duty to keep his mouth close whilest the wicked were before him Cal. your zeale tasts a little too rank of the mother a Bellings-gate zeale where the Revenge is often more sinfull then the Offence Perchance you 'ld spit in the offenders face That zeale is a strange fire that produces such moist effects Cal. your Religion is too rhumatick Sure Saint Peter had a good quarrell to draw his sword yet the action had too much rashnesse in it as well as blood to be accepted Where the party offending is not capable of reason or the party Vindicating hath no capacity of discretion the action is not warrantable Better to beare the hazzard of some dishonour then to have it indiscreetly vindicated D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 262. lin. 22. The supreame and soveraigne Prince who hath none between him and God representing the person of God executing his office and in this respect bearing his name to whom he onely is accountable for all his actions by way of Summons and command this person I say must in all things and at all times be handled with all humility and due respect of that high place he holdeth so as all may be taught not to despise but to honour him the more by the carriage of those that are in case of necessity to treate with him in the name and busines of his God Cal. How now Doctor None between him and God Onely accomptable to God for all his Actions Sure Doctor You are now besides your text Shall whole kingdomes then depend upon his extravagant pleasure So many millions of soules lye open to the tyranny of his arbitrary will Is he not bound to his own Lawes not limited by his Coronation oath May he alter establisht Religion by the omnipotence of his own vast power and turn Gods Church into a Rout of Infidells and our Liberties into a tenure of Villanage Is this your Zeale for Gods glory The man hath overwhelmed his Iudgement in the deep gulph of flattery and lost himself in his own Principles Can he represent Gods person that commands what God forbids Doth he execute Gods office that forbids what he commands If this be zeale or common Religion let me turne Amalakite or any thing that is not this No no Doctor saving your private engagements and expectations Kings are no such persons as our late Idolatry hath made them The trust of Kingdomes is put upon them which so long as they faithfully discharge they are to be honoured and obeyed but once being violated their Covenants are broken and they are no longer Kings The safety of the people is the supreme Law and people were not made for the good of Kings but Kings for the good of People Repl. How this Doctors loyalty good Cal. offends you If he would temporize as you do abuse and slander Scripture for his own liberty as you do fly in the face of Majesty as you do indeavour to introduce a new Government in Church and State as you do Blaspheme God and the King as you do he were then a holy a well-affected man a Saint or any thing that 's good But now his Conscience is directed by the Scriptures his Judgement enlightned by the Scriptures his words warranted by the Scriptures especially in a Case of such Consequence Away with him He is a disaffected person a Malignant and what not that 's Bad But concerning Kings Know They represent Gods Person whether good or bad If good they represent him in his Mercy If bad in his Iudgments Christ hath a Rod of Iron as well as a Golden-Scepter a Nebuchadnezzer as well as a Iosiah a Nero as well as a Constantine We must stoope to both He that submits not to the power of a bad King Kicks against Gods Judgments But he that resists snatches Gods Rod out of his hand and refusing Correction falls into DAMNATION We must submit to the Higher Powers Rom. 13. 1. And who are they Whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governours that are sent by HIM 1 Pet. 2. 13. 14. From whence necessarily this followes That Power which he warrants not we have no Warrant to obey and Those Ordinances his power signes not we have no Commission to observe As for your slighting and deposing Kings the Current of the Scriptures runs strong against you and all the examples of Gods children through the whole book of God bend another Course They know no deposing of Kings but by death no determination of Passive obedience but by fire But whether our Translation of the Scriptures be the same with former Ages or whether some strange light hath darted inspirations into these our later dayes which the Apostle denominated perillous I leave to the learned Synod who I hope will at length consult us into a Religion which shall need no future Alteration or that Alteration no further effusion of Christian blood D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 272. line 19. God made a Law to all Not to revile the Gods nor curse the Ruler of the people which Law prohibiteth not onely Imprecations and seditious Raylings which is a hellish impiety though it be but in word onely be the Prince never so impious but even all rude bitter and unseemly speeches although in secret to himself alone much more in publique or in other places behinde his back Cal. What paynes the Man takes to pick out Texts to countenance his Idolatry-royall True Kings are called Gods But what followes They shall dye like men Concerning which dying not a word because it is so opposite to a Living which is the onely Butt he aymes at But marke the Doctrine his Court-ship raises from his well chosen Text Though Princes be never so impious yet to reprove them roundly which in his language is seditious rayling rude bitter and unseemely speeches is a hellish impiety and in his King-clawing Iudgment must neither be done in publique nor yet in private How ready are such Officers to light Princes to the Devill Repl. Cal. If he light Kings to the Devil by his poynt of Doctrine you take a speedy course to send his subjects after him by your use of exhortation But mark your own words you first intimate that he makes him a God then conclude He lights him to the Devil You that can so suddenly make Contraries meet reconcile the King and his two Houses The issue then of all is this You say He makes the King a God by flattering Idolatry and I say you make his subjects Devils by your flat Rebellion Calvin whom you confide in tels you That Princes though most wicked in their Government yet in respect of the dignity of their places their name and Credit must be spared But see a greater then Calvin Elihu the moderatour betwixt Iob and his miserable Comforters Iob 34. 18. saith Is it fit then to say to a King Thou art wicked and to Princes yee are

truly be tearm'd Puritanes with this inconsiderate action of those rude Ephesians Acts 19. 32. If there be any difference it is onely in this that these mad Martin marre prelates professe in their words that they knew God but in their works they deny him Cal. All that hate Popery and Popish Prelates are in our Zealous Doctors esteeme Brownists Anabaptists and schimaticall Sectaries which he brands with that now almost forgotten stile of Puritanes all far honestci men then himself whom compareing them to those rude Ephesians he makes according to the Kings unworthy Declarations the Authors of all these Commotions calling that worthy man Martin marre-prelate mad for touching the apple of his eye the idolatrized Hierarchy A Malignant of the right stamp and coyned at the Kings own Royall Mint Repl. Once again good Cal. if it will not too much prejudice the progresse of your wit correct the frailty of your Memory and remember the doctors book which you so soundly answer was Printed in the yeare 1625. which was a little before this unhappy Commotion which you say he fathers upon the Brownists and Anabaptists and schismaticall sectaries according to His Majesties Declaration Truly Cal. your malice may rather brand him for a witch then a Malignant but your discretion may hold him rather for a Prophet then either that so long since foresaw this Indeed in that poynt he jumps word for word with His Majesties Declaration and if the King speake true the Doctor speakes not falsely For what His Majesty writes now by way of history our Doctor delivered then by way of Prophesie D. Burges cap. 4. pag. 137. line 20. Such as make a great blaze when prosperity credit Peace and Preferment are Bellowes to blow it but are so carried about as hay in a whirlwind with the blast of Time that they wil be ready to fire that which before they maintained if the wind turned never so little about through fears or hopes wil be of any Religion and temper that the strongest faction embraceth resolving to go no further then a faire wind and weather and a calme tide will carry them And if any storme arise presently to make to the shore to prevent perill of life and goods Such Zealots I say as these never had any Coale from the Altar to kindle their Sacrifices they never knew what it is to aime at the Glory of God Cal. Your Doctrine is good had it been as well followed Say Doctor who was he that a little before this Parliament when our brethren the Scots made their first approach into this kingdom and whom a little after the King Injuriously Proclaimed Rebels in his Sermon at Magnes Church by London-bridge flew in their faces vilified them with opprobrious tearms stiled their designe Rebellion proclaimed them Robbers Ravishers Traitors and the disturbers of the Churches Peace called their Doctrines schismaticall new fangled and seditious brought in to refine us with this addition God will not be beholding to the Divel to sweep His Church And not above a month after at the beginning of thu Parliament in another Sermon at the same place out of this Text Act. 17. 30. And the times of this Ignorance God winked at but now commaneth all men every where to repent took an occasion to eate his words contradict every thing he formerly delivered Who was the cowardly cur then according to your own phrase pag. 138. line 3. Who is the Sheeps-heads now according to your own tearme pag. 139. line 23. Who turned his Fiddle to the Base of the times pag. 147. line 1. Who is guilty of Parasiticall basenes pag. 147. line 18. Who is the Whiteliverd Christian to be turned out among dogs and hell-hounds pag. 182. line 11. Doctor now you have told us what he is the whole parish of Magnes can tell you who it is Who was it that was so active for the oath Ex Officio so eager for the two shillings nine pence so contentious with his parishioners The Clergy can witnesse the first the City can testifie the second Magnes can attest the last Yet all this was done by way of zeale Repl. Cal. First your tongue is no slander Secondly your profession gives you a Patent under the broad Seale to lie but to spoyle your jest if any such man was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} True Saint Magnes was the Doctors Church at that time and if any slipt into and abused his pulpit and himself no question but the Doctor is as much troubled for it as you are pleased with it But who ever you taxe if you play not the Poet he may in spite of your bitternesse justify his seeming Contradiction and eate his words as harmelesly as a Potato pie in Lent Whether the Seots were Rebles or no was no matter of Faith but Opinion The object of opinion is Reason and it alters with Reason When His Majesty proclaimed them Rebels being a matter of fact and state was it not reason for him to own it But being pleased by pardon gratiously to take off that odious imputation it had been neither reason manners nor safety not to approve of it When a ship hath made a voyage with one winde into New-England will you blame it for returning back with a quite contrary No wise man Cal. will do it unlesse you or such as you were in it D. Burges cap. 4. pag. 93. line 13. It is then a cleare case that a Christian is not bound to reprove or discourse of Religion to known or suspected scoffers If he testify in secret to his God his dislike of such Varlots avoide needlesse societie and unnecessary commerce with them and in his soul secretly mourne for their dishonouring God he hath done his duty Cal. By your leave Doctor Your zeale here smells a little too much of the Coward Did your dying Saviour endure the base Scoffes and bitter Taunts of the Iewes for your sake and is your Reputation so dainty not to abide a little jeering for his sake Will your zeale sell Gods honour for the impatience of a Scoffe Were it your own case I feare Your wit would finde spirit enough either to contemne it or retort it But you will away and complaine to God in a Corner Mettal to the back Doctor He that refuses the vindication of Gods honour denies him And he that denies him at Court him will God deny in his Chamber Can you heare your Soveraigne abused and be silent perchance as the case now stands you can and make one for company too if you feare not his prevayling power But can you heare your bosome friend injuriously reviled and lend him no Apology but run away and whisper in his eare a tedious Complaint If this you can you are no friend for me This if your zeale belie not your conscience must serve Gods turne nay more you have done your duty too Repl. Have you not an inhibition Cal. to cast Pearles before Swine Are you more tender

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

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