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Room for the cobler of Gloucester and his wife with several cartloads of abominable irregular, pitiful stinking priests : as also a demonstration of their calling after the manner of the Church of Rome, but not according to Magna Charta, the rule of the Gospel : whereunto is added a parallel between the honour of a Lord Bishop, and the honour of a cobler, the cobler being proved the more more honourable person.
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Wallis, Ralph, d. 1669.
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Wife If all our Chancellors were Babers and all our Prebends Viners it would be more for their credit Wife I cannot yet tell that Bishops name But I hope I shall give you an account of it shortly who entered one that was a Barber into Holy Orders and being told that he had formerly been Arrainged for Sheep-stealing he replied I had rather see a Sheep-stealer in the Pulpit than a Presbyterian And now Wife Let 's compare these Porrige-Priests with our Ejected Ministers and see what a vast difference there is between them The former guilty of all the afore-mentioned Abominations the latter free from all just suspicion of such things even in the Iudgment of their very Enemies And if that Kiss which the Great Constantine gave to the hollow of Paphnutius's Eye lost for the sake of Christ be justly reckoned amongst the Trophies of his honour how illustrious would it render his Majesty both to the present and succeeding Ages to give Liberty to those who are as Instruments in the hand of Christ to open eyes of the Blind Wife But Husband I hope all these Cartloads have no relation to the best of our honest Conformists Husb. Yes Wife they 're all Brethren Members of the Mystical Body these Swearing Cheating Ignorant Drunken Whoring Priests are all their Brethren as much as those that both beshit and piss'd their Breeches Pews and Pulpits Why Wife do you think the honest Conformists you speak of will disown their Arch Spiritual Father Canterbury their Swearing Father Lichfield and Coventry or their Papistical Father Worcester and the rest of that Mungrel Crew They can never be true Sons of the Church if they disown these Fathers Wife But Husband after all your Cartloads what do you think of the Body of this Clergy Husb. Why Wife many of them of the old Topers are like the old Boots and Shooes which we Coblers do Vamp they have many of them new Soles new Preferments three or four Livings and Prebendaries but the old Leather is still the same onely now they drink Sack whereas Ale before would liquor the Boots very well A Lady asked one of them some years since Where they had all been during the time they were turned out of their Livings He answered We have lain among the Pots abusing the Scripture To which the Lady answered I thought so by your Red Noses But indeed Wife there are but two small Objections against them two little Faults in our Clergy-men Wife What are those two Exceptions Husband Husb. Why they can neither Preach nor Pray otherwise they are as well qualified both for Drinking and Swearing and some other Vertues that you and I must not talk aloud of as any that ever came out of the Popes Belly Wife Pray Husband what do you think is the true reason why the People are so generally set against the Bishops Husb. Truly Wife I 'll tell thee As they all see they do no good and have no care of their Souls so their business is to vex and torment the people under them by their Appariters summoning them to their Courts that they cannot be quiet in their Callings nor at their Ploughs I am informed by such as have heard it from those that know it That three thousand at one time stood summoned at the Bishop of Lincoln's Court Wife this is one great reason of the miserable poverty that is in every Country I tell thee Wife if our Gracious King would but take theirs and the old Droans of Deans and Prebends Lands into his hands to defray the Publick Charge of the Kingdom the whole Body of the People would keep a Jubilee for it Wife Husband let me ask you one question more What do you find is the reason why the Non-Conformists will not comply with the Bishops Husb. The reason is plain because they cannot say the old Mumpsimus the Service-Book which I have told you before is word by word the old Mass-Book in another Tongue one Pope making one part of it and his Successors the rest Now they can pray better than the Popes can teach them but as for our Clergy-Sâ—â—s if their Books should be burnt there must be no praying And secondly the Non-Conformists cann't swallow the Old Whores painted silly Ceremonies because by the Bishops own Confession they are not Written So that their great sin is that they can Pray and Preach without an old mouldy Mass-Book and would worship as God commands them which makes the people to be generally for them Wife I hope then Husband the King will give them their liberty to Preach to satisfie his People Husb. I will tell thee a true story Wife for you know I read Histories In the Kingdom of Persia about the year 500. the Magitian-Priests such as ours came to the King and told him that there was a voice heard in one of the Temples from under ground That if he gave liberty to the Christians in his Kingdom he would certainly be destroyed Which the King believing a wise Man went to him and desired him to go and hear the voice and then to search under ground if there were not a person there which the King did and found a Priest in a hollow place which spake and so the cheat was discovered Iust such an Oracle is the Priests counsel now But Wife Pray Husband stay there I think you have said enough for a Cobler Husb. No Wife I have something else to say yet which is That the Bishops perswade my King Charles the Government of the Church is laid upon his Shoulders and that they will study the Truth and he shall maintain it But seriously Wife if God the Father had seen that any Migistrate on Earth or all the Angels in Heaven had been capable of so great a care and trust he had never laid it upon the shoulders of his own Son For the Prophet Isaiah tells us The Government shall be upon His Shoulders and the Apostle tells us We have one Law-giver and but one Christ Jesus So that if Christ Iesus be that one Law-giver then my King has no Power to make Laws for the Conscience to bind men to what form of Wonhip the Bishops please But what they are not able to make good by Scripture they would have my King make good by his Laws and so make him their Sword-Bearer which is none of his work and so I would tell him if I might have admission to his presence But Kings and Coblers are no meet Companions Wife But Husband I have heard you say That the Ministers of the Church of England are not called according to Magna Charta Pray how then are they called Husb. Why Wife as the Pear-monger when his Pears are green puts them into hot Horse-dung to ripen them apace so first the Bishop of the Diocess enters men into holy Orders which holy horse-dung Orders makes them ripen as fast for the Ministry as the Pears do for the Market And this entring them into holy