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A43120	Hay any worke for Cooper, or, A briefe pistle directed by way of an Hublication to the Reverend Byshops counselling them if they will needes bee barrelled up for feare of smelling in the nostrills of His Majesty and the state that they would use the advise of Reverend Martin for the providing of their Cooper because trhe Reverend T. C., by which mysticall letters is understood either the bouncing parson of east-meane or Tom Coakes his Chaplaine, to be an unskilfull and a beceitfull Tub-trimmer : wherein worthy Martin Qvits himselfe like a man I warrant you in the modest defence of his selfe and his learned pistles and maketh the Coopers hoopes to slye off and the Bishops Tubs to leake out of all cry / penned and compiled by Martin the metropolitan.	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Penry, John, 1559-1593.	1642 (1642)	Wing H1205; ESTC R13144	39,553	59

thing know that every Dunsticall Logician giveth this for an inviolable precept that the conclusion is not to be denied For that must needs be true if the Major and minor be true he in omitting the Major and minor because he was not able to answer thereby granteth the conclusion to be true His answer unto the conclusion is that all Lord B. were not petty Popes Because page 74 Cranmer Ridley Hooper were not petty Popes They were not petty Popes because they were not Reprobates As though you block you every petty Pope and petty Antichrist were a reprobate Why no man can deny Gregory the great to be a petty Pope and a petty Antichrist For he was the next immediate Pope before Boniface the first that knowne Antichrist and yet this Gregory left behind him vndoubted testimonies of a chosen child of God so might they and yet be petty Popes in respect of their Office Profane T. C. his first and second reason for the lawfulnesse of our church government And what though good men gave their consent vnto our Church government or writing vnto Bishops gave them their Lordly titles Are their offices therefore lawfull Then so is the Popes office For Erasmu●… was a good man you cannot deny and yet he both allowed of the Popes office since his calling and writing vnto him gave him his titles So did Luther since his calling also for hee dedicated his booke of Christian liberty vnto Pope Leo the tenth The book his Epistle vnto the Pope are both in English Heere I would wish the Magistrate to marke what good reasons you are able to afford for your Hierarchie Thirdly saith profane T. C page 75. All Churches have not the governmene of Pastors and Doctors but Saxonie and Denmarck have L. Bishops You are a great State man vndoubtedly T. C. that vnderstand the State of other Churches so well But herein the impudency of a proud foole appeareth egregiously As though the testimony of a silly Schoolemaster being also as vnlearned as a man of that trade and profession can bee with any honesty would be beleeved against knowne experience Yea but Saxonie and Denmarc●… have Superintendents what then ergo L. Archb. and Bishops I deny it Though other Churches had L. Archb. and Bb●… this proueth nothing else but that other Churches are maimed and have their imperfectious Your reason is this other good Churches are deformed therefore ours must needes bee so too The Kings sonne is lame therefore the children of no subjects must goe vpright And these be all the good reasons which you can bring for the government of Archb. and Bishops against the government of Christ You reason thus It must not be admitted into this Kingdome because then Civilians shall not be able to live in that estimatron and wealth wherein they now do Carnall and senslesse Beasts who are not ashamed to preferre the outward estate of men before the glory of Christs Kingdome Here againe let the Magistrate and other Readers consider whether it be not time that such brutish men should be looked unto Which reason thus The body of Christ which is the Church must needes bee maimed and deformed in this Commonwealth because otherwise Civilians should not be able to live Why you enemies to the state you Traytors to GOD and his Word you Mar-prince Mar-law Mar-magistrate Mar-Church and Mar-common wealth doe you not know that the World should rather go a begging then that the glory of God by mayming his Church should be defaced Who can abide this indignity The Prince and state must procure God to wrath against them by continuing the deformity of his church and it may not be otherwise because the Civilians else must fall to decay I will tell you what you monstrous and ungodly Bishops though I had no feare of God before mine eyes and had no hope of a better life yet the love that I owe as a Naturall man unto his Majesty and the state would inforce me to write against you his Majesty and this Kingdome whom the Lord blesse with his mighty hand I unfamedly beseech must endanger them selves under the perill of Gods heav●…e wrath rather then the maime of our Church government must be healed for we had rather it should be so say our Bishops then wee should be thrust out for if we should be thrust out the study of the civill Law must needs goe to wracke Well if I have lived sometimes a Citizen in that old and ancient though Heathenish Rome and had heard King Dojotarus Caesar yea or Pompey himselfe give out this speech namely that the City and Empire of Rome must needes be brought subject unto some danger because otherwise Catolin Lentulus Cethegus with other of the Nobility could not tell how to live but must needs goe a begging I would surely in the love I ought to the safety of that state have called him that had vsed such a speech in judicium capitis whosoever he had beene and I would not have doubted to have given him the overthrow And shal I being a christian English Subject abide to heare a wicked crue of ungodly Bishops with their hangones and parasites affirme that our King and our state must needs be subject unto the greatest danger that may be viz. the wrath of God for deforming his Church and that Gods Church must needes bee maimed and deformed among us because otherwise a few Civilians shall not be able to live Shall I heare and see these things professed and published and in the love I owe unto Gods religion and his Majesty say nothing I cannot I will not I may not bee silent at this speech come what will come of it The love of a Christian Church Prince and State shall I trust worke more in me then the love of a Heathen Empire and State should doe Now judge good Reader who is more tolerable in a Common-wealth Martin that would have the enemies of his Majesty removed thence or our Bishops which would have his life and the whole Kingdomes prosperity hazarded rather then a few Civilians should want maintenance But I pray thee tell me T. C why should the government of Christ impoverish Civilians Because saith he page 77. the Canon law by which they live must be altered if that were admitted Yea but Civilians live by the Court of Amralty and other courts as well as by the Arches viz. Also the Probats of Testaments the controversies of Tythes Matrimony and many other causes which you Bishops Mar-state do usurpingly take from the Civill Magistrate would be a meanes of Civilians maintenance But are not you ashamed to professe your whole government to be a government ruled by the Popes Canon Lawes which are banished by statute out of this Kingdome This notably sheweth that pou are Mar-prince and Mar-state For how dare you retaine these Lawes unlesse by vertue of them you meane either to enforce the supremacy of the Prince to goe again to Rome or to come

I promise you Sir it is no shame to be a L. Bishop if a man could though he were as vnlearned as Iohn of Glocester or William of L●…echfeld And I tell you true our brother Westchester had as live play twenty nobles in a night at Priemeero on the cards as trouble himselfe with any Pulpit labour and yet hee thinks himselfe to be a sufficient Bishop What a Bishop such a cardplaier A Bishop play 20 nobles in a night Why a round threpence serveth the turne to make good sport 3 or foure nights amongst honest neighbours and take heed of it brother Westchester it is an vnlawfull game if you will believe me For in Winter it is no matter to take a little sport for an odde cast braces of twenty nobles when the weather is foule that men cannot goe abroad to bowles or to shoote What would you hav●… men take no recreation Yea but it is an old said s●…w enough is as good as a feast and recreations must not be made a trade and an occupation ka master Martin Mar-prelate I tell you true brother min●… though J have as good a gift in pistle making as you have at Prieme●…ro and f●…re more delight then you can have at your card●… for the love I beare to my brethren yet I dare not vse this sport and cards I tell you though they be without hornes yet they are parlous beasts be they lawfull or vnlawfull take ●…eed of them for all that For you cannot vse them but you must needs say your brother T. C. his ●…men that is swear●… by your faith many a time in the night well I will never stand ●…rgling the matter any more with you if you will leave your card-playing so it is if you will not trust to it it will bee the wo●…se for you I must goe simply and plainely to worke with my brethren that have published T. C. Whosoever have published that booke they have so hooped the Bishops tubs that they have made them to s●…ell farre more odious then ever they did even in the nostrels of all men The booke is of 252 pages the drift thereof is to 〈◊〉 certaine printed and published libels you bestow not full 50 pages in the answer of any thing that ever was published in print the rest are bestowed to maintain the belly and to c●…ute what thinke you Even the 〈◊〉 inventions of your ow●… braines for the most part As that it is not lawfull for his Maiestie to allot any lands vnto the maintenance of the Minister or the Minister to live upon lands for this purpose allot●…ed unto him but is to content himselfe with a small pension and so small as he have nothing to leave for his wife and children after him for who●… hee is not to be car●…full but to rest on Gods providence and is to require no more but foode and raiment that in poverty he might b●… answerable vnto our Saviour Christ and his Apostles in the confutation of these points and the Scriptures corruptly applied to prove them there is bestowed above 100 pages of this Booke that is from the 149 vnto the end Well T. C. whosoever thou art and whatsoever Martin is neither thou nor any man or woman in England shall know while you live suspect and trouble as ●…any as you will and therefore save you●… mony in seeking for him for it may be he is nearer you then you are ware of But whosoever thou a●… I say thou shewest thy selfe to be a most notorious wicked s●…anderer in fa●…hering thes●… things vpo●… those whom they call Puritans which ●…ever any enioying common sense would affirme And bring me him or set downe his name and his reasons that holdeth any of the former points confuted in thy booke and I will prove him to be vtterly bereaved of his wits and his confuter to be either starke mad or a starke enemy to all religion yea to his Majestie and the state of this Kingdome No no T. C. Puritans hold no such points it were well for Bishops that their adversaries were thus sotti●… They might then justly incense his Maiestie and the state against them if they were of this mind These objections in the confutation whereof thou hast bestowed so much time are so farre from having any Puritan to be their author as whosoever readeth the booke were he as blockheaded as Thomas of Winchester himselfe he may easily know them to be obiections onely invented by the author of the booke himselfe For although he be an impudent wretch yet dareth hee not set them downe as writings of any other for then he would have described the author and the booke by some audient The Puritans indeed hold it vnlawfull for a Minister to have such temporall revenewes as whereby 10 ministers might be well maintained vnlesse the said revenews come vnto him by inheritance They hold it also vnlawfull for any state to bestowe the livings of many ministers vpon one alone especially when there is such want of Ministers livings They hold it vnlawfull for any minister to be Lord over his brethren and they hold it vnlawfull for any state to tolerate such vnder their government because it is vnlawfull for states to tolerate men in those places whereinto the word hath forbidden them to enter They affirme that our Saviour Christ hath forbidden all ministers to be Lords Luke 22. 25. And the Apostle Peter sheweth them to be none of Gods Ministers which are Lords over Gods heritage as you Bishops are and would be accounted These things T. C. you should have confuted and not troubled your selfe to execute the fruites of your owne braines as an enemy to the state And in these points I doe challenge you T. C. and you Deane Iohn and you Iohn Whitgift and you Doctor Coosins and you Doctor Capcase Copcoat I thinke your name be and as many else as have or dare write in the defence of the established church government if you cannot confute my former assertions you doe but in vaine think to maintain your selves by slanders in fathering vpon the Puritans the offsprings of your own blockheads And assure your selves I will so be scoop if you cānot defend your selves in these points as all the world shall cry shame vpon you you thinke prettely to escape the point of your Antichristian callings by giving out that Puritans hold it vnlawfull for his Maiestie to leave any lands for the vse of the ministers maintenance J cannot but commend you for I promise you you can shift of an haynous accusation very prettily A true man bringeth vnanswerable witnesses against a robber by the high way side and desireth the Judge that the law may proceed against him Oh no my Lord saith the thiefe in any case let not me be dealt with For these mine accusers have given out that you are a drunkard or they have committed Treason against the state therefore I pray you beleeve my slander against them that they may be

to Lambeth It is treason by statute fot any subject in this Land to proceed Doctor of the Canon law and dare you professe your Church government to bee ruled by that law As though one statute might not referre all matters of the Canon law unto the temporall and common law of this Realme and is this all you can say T. C. 2 Yes saith he the government of Christ would bring in the judiciall law of Moses As much as is morall of that law or of the equity of it would be brought in And doe you again say it But you sodden headed Asse you the most part of that law is abrogated Some part thereof is in force among us as the punishment of a Murtherer by death and presumptuous obstinate Theft by death c. 3. His Majesties prerogative in Ecclesiasticall causes should not be a whit diminished but rather greatly strengthened by Christs government And no law should be altered but such as were contrary to the Law of God and against the profit of the Common wealth and therefore there can be no danger in altering these 4 The Ministers maintenance by Tythe no Puritane denyeth to be vnlawfull For Martin good Mr. Parson you must understand doth account no Brownist to be a Puritane nor yet a sottish Cooperist 5. The inconvenience which you shew of the government which is that men would not be ruled by it is answered afore And I pray you why should not they be better obedient unto Gods Law if the same also were established by the law of the Land then to the Popes Law and his Canons You thinke that all men are like your selves that is like Bishops such as cannot choose but break the Lawes and good orders of God and his Majesty 7 The lawes of England have beene made when there was never a Bishop in the Parliament as in the first yeare of Qeen Eliz. And this reason as all thu rest may serve to maintaine Popery as well as the hierarchy of Bishops 8 The government of the Church of Christ is no popular government but it is Monarchicall in regard of our head Christ Aristocraticall in the Eldership and Democraticall in the people Such is the civill government of our Kingdome Monarchicall in his Majesties person Aristocraticall in the higher house of Parliament or rather at the Counsell Table Democraticall in the body of the Commons of the Lower house of Parliament Therefore profane T. C. this government seeketh no popularity to be brought into the Church much lesse intendeth the alteration of the Civill state that is but your slander of vvhich you make an occupation And I will surely pay you for it I must be briefe now but more worke for Cooper shall examine your standers They are nothing else but proofes that as by your owne Confessions you are Bishops of the Divell so you are enemies unto the state For by these slanders you goe about to blind our State that they may never see a perfect Regiment of the Church in our dayes I say that by your owne Confession you are Bishops of the Divell I will prove it thus You confesse that your Lordly government were not lawfull and tolerable in this Common vvealth if his Majesty and the state of the Land did disclaime the same Tell me doe you not confesse this deny it if you dare For will you say that you ought lawfully to be here in our Common wealth whither his Majesty and the Counsell will or no Is this the thankes that his Majesty shall have for tolerating you in his Kingdome all this while that now you will say that you and your places stand not in this Kingdome by his courtesie but you have as good right vnto your places as he hath vnto his Kingdome And by this meanes your Offices stand not by his good liking and the good liking of the state as doe the Offices of our Lord high Chancellor high Treasurer and high Steward of England But your Offices ought to stand and to bee in force in spight of his Majesty the Parliament Counsell and every man else unlesse they would doe you injury So that I know J you dare not deny but that your Offices were unlawfull in our Common-wealth if his Majesty the Parliament and the Counsell would have them abolished If you grant this then you doe not hold your Offices as from God but as from man His Majesty hee holdeth his Office and his Kingdome as from GOD and is beholding for the same unto no Prince not State under Heaven Your case is otherwise for you hold your Offices as from his Majesty and not from God For otherwise you needed not to bee any more beholding unto his Majesty for the same in regard of right then hee is bound to bee beholding unto other states in regard of his right and so you in regard of your Lordly superiority are not the Bishops of God but as Ierom saith the Bishops of man And this the most of you confesse to be true and you see how dangerous it would be for you to affirme the contrary namely that you hold your Offices as from God Well Sir if you say that you are the Bishops of man Then tell mee whether you like of Deane Iohn his Booke O yes saith T. C. For his grace did peruse that book we know the sufficiency of it to bee such as the Puritans are not able to answer it Well then whatsoever is in this booke is anthenticall It is so saith T. C. otherwise his grace would not have allowed it What say you then to the 140 pag. of that booke where he saith answering the ●…rertise of the Bishop of God the Bi. of Man and the Bishop of the Divell that there is no Bishop of man at all but every Bishop must bee either the Bishop of GOD or the Bishop of the Divell He also affirmeth none to be the Bishop of God but he which hath war●…ant both inclusively and also expresly in Gods Word Now you Bishops of the Divell what say you now are you spighted of the Puritans because you like good subjects defend the Lawes of his Majesty or else because like incarnate Divels you are Bishops of the Divels as you your selves confesse Here againe let the Magistrate once more consider what pestilent and dangerous Beasts these wretches are unto the civill state For either by their owne confession they are the Bishops of the Divell and so by that meanes will bee the undoing of the state if they bee continued therein or else their places ought to be in this Commonwealth whether his Majesty and our state will or no●… because they are not as they say the Bishops of man that is they have not their superiority and their Lordly callings over their brethren by humane constitution as my Lord Chancellor Treasurer and other honourable personages have but by divine ordinance Yea and their callings they hold as you have heard not onely to be inclusively but also

the other I bethought me therefore of a way whereby men might be drawne to doe both perceiving the humours of men in these times especially of those that are in any place to be given to mirth I tooke that course I might lawfully doe it I For jesting is lawfull by circumstances even in the greatest matters The circumstances of time place and persons vrged me therevnto I never profaned the word in any jest Other mirth I vsed as a covert wherein I would bring the truth into light the Lord being the Author both of mirth and gravity Is it not lawfull in it selfe for the truth to vse either of these wayes when the circumstances doe make it lawfull My purpose was and is to doe good I know I have done no harme howsoever some may iudge Martin to mar all They are very weake ones that so think In that which I have written J know vudoubtedly that I have done the Lord and the state of this Kingdome great service Because I have in some sort discovered the greatest enemies thereof And by so much the most pestil●…nt enemies because they wound Gods religion and currupt the State with Atheism and loosenesse so call for Gods vengance vpon vs all even vnder the colour of Religion I affirme them to be the greatest enemies that now our state hath for if it were not for them the truth should have more free passage herein then now it hath All states thereby would be amended and so we should not be subject vnto Gods displeasure as now we are by reason of them Now let me deale with these are in authority I doe make it knowne vnto them that our Bishops are the greatest enemies which we have For they doe not onely goe about but they have long since fully perswaded our state that they may lawfully procure the Lord to take the Sword in hand against the state if this be true have J not said truly that they are the greatest enemies which our state hath The Papists worke no such effect for they are not trusted The Atheifts have not infected our whole state these have The attempts of our forraine enemies may be pernicious But they are men as wee are But that God which when our Bishops have and doe make our Prince and our governours to wadge war who is able to stand against him Well to the point many have put his Maiestie the Parliament and counsell in mind that the church officers now among vs are not such as the Lord alloweth off because they are not of his owne ordaining They have shewed that this fault is to be amended or the Lords hand to be looked for The Bishops on the other side have cried out vpon them that have thus dutifully moved the state They with a loud voyce gave out that the magistrate may lawfully maintaine that church government which best fitteth our estate as living in the time of peace What doe they else herein but say that the magistrate in time of peace may maime and defor●…e the body of Christ his church That Christ hath left the government of his own house vnperfect and left the same to the discretion of the Magistrate whereas Moses before whom in this point of government the Lord Crhist is justly preferred Hob. 3 6. made the government of the legall policy so perfect as hee left not any part thereof to the discretion of the Magistrate Can they deny church Officers to bee members of the church they are refused by the expresse text 1 Cor. 12. will they affirme Christ to have left behind him an vnperfect body of his Church wanting members at y● least wise having such members as were onely permanent at the Magistrates pleasure Why Moses the servant otherwise governed the house in his time And the sonne is commended in this point for Wisedome and faithfulnesse before him Heb. 3. 6. Either then that commendation of the sonne before the servant is a false testimony or the sonne ordained a permanent government in his Church If permanent not to be changed What then doe they that hold it may be changed at the Magistrates pleasure but advise the Magistrate by his positive lawes to proclaime that it is his will that if there shall be a Church within his dominions he will maime and deforme the same hee will ordaine therein what members he thinketh good He will make it knowne that Christ vnder his government shall be made lesse faithfull then Moses was That he hath left the placing of members in his body vnto the Magistrate Oh cursed beasts that bring this guilt vpon our estate Repent Caitifes while you have time you shall not have it I feare when you will And looke you that are in authority vnto the equity of the controversie betweene our wicked Bishops and those vho would have the disorders of our Church amended Take heed you ●…e not carryed away with slanders Christs government is neither Mar-prince Mar-state Mar-law nor Mar-magistrate The living God whose cause is pleaded for will be reuenged of you if you give eare vnto this slander contrary to so many testimonies as are brought out of his word to prove the contrary He denounceth his wrath against all you that thinke it lawfull for you to maime or deform his church he accounteth his Church maimed when those Offices are therein placed which hee hath not appointed to bee members thereof he also testifieth that there be no members of this appointment in the Church but such as hee himselfe hath named in his word and those that he hath named man must not displace for so he should put the body out of joynt Now our Bishops holding the contrary and bearing you in hand that you may practize the contrary doe they not drive you to provoke the Lord to anger against your owne soules And are they not your enemies they hold the contrary J say for they say that his Maiestie may alter this government now established and thereby they shew either this government to be vnlawfull or that the magistrate may presume to place those members in Gods Church which the Lord never mentioned in his word And I 〈◊〉 you marke how the case standeth betweene these wretches those whom they call puritans 1 The puritans falsely so called shew it to be vnlaw full for the Magistrate to goe about to make any members for the body of Christ 2 They hold all officers of the Church to be members of the body Rom. 12 6. 1. Cor. 12. 8. 28. 3 And therfore they hold the altering or the abolishing of the offices of church government to be the altering 〈◊〉 abolishing of the members of the Church 4 The altering and abolishing of which members they hold to be vnlawfull because it must needes be a maime vnto the body 5 They hold Christ Iesus to have set downe as exact and as vnchangeable a Church government as eve●…Moses did Heb. 3. 6. These and such like are the points they hold let their cause