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A64889	Coleman-street conclave visited, and, that grand imposter, the schismaticks cheater in chief (who hath long, slily lurked therein) truly and duly discovered containing a most palpable and plain display of Mr. John Goodwin's self-conviction (under his own hand-writing) and of the notorious heresies, errours, malice, pride, and hypocrisie of his most huge garagantua, in falsly pretended piety, to the lamentable misleading of his too-too credulous soul-murthered proselytes of Coleman-street & elsewhere : collected, principally, out of his own big-bragadochio and wavelike-swelling and swaggering writings, full-fraught with six-footed terms, and flashie rhetoricall phrases, far more than solid and sacred truths, and may fitly serve (if it be the Lords will) like Belshazzars hand-writing, on the wall of his conscience, to strike terrour and shame into his own soul, and shamelesse face, and to un-deceive his most miserably cheated and inchanted, or bewitched followers / by John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing V297; ESTC R1674	42,759	52

paultry and pernicious Pamphlet which like a most intolerable cheater and dissembler he calls or entitles The Divine Authority of the sacred Scriptures asserted Wherein I for my part and I believe others also expected and verily hoped but yet with no little reluctation of spirit fearing the contrary he would now have proved so ingenuous as to have honestly and humbly denyed himself and recanted his former foul errour in his Hagio-mastix but perusing the Book as I did I confesse with no little sorrow and indignation at what I read and found therein in his discourse of the main businesse I found him strongly begin to struggle like a Wasp or Hornet over-whelmed in a honey-pot to maintain and justifie to his just shame and confusion of face if possibly it could be whatsoever he had formerly written in his hatefull Hagio-mastix accounting us all either fools or franticks that had so opposed that his pious piece forsooth single simplicity in all he had delivered therein yea calling us in a most jeering malicious manner Plowers who had made long furrows by our unjust accusations upon his back thus proceeds from pag. 13 to pag. 17. where hee hath these words That notwithstanding that he had the bush of abundant authority at his back like the man in the Moon yet he good man was abused with shamelesse outcries both to Magistrates and people as if he were one of strange opinions an asserter of dangerous Doctrines and a spreader of I know not what absurd he might have said and justly too of damnable Errours and Heresies And so he runs on like a subtill I had almost said a Satanical Sophister with seven positions or conclusions to prove this main matter and impious position which here he seems stifly to deny and which our learned and religious London Divines have truly cited out of his own foresaid Pamphlet pag. 18. l. 36. viz. That questionlesse marke his impudent confidence no writing whatsoever whether Translation or Originall are the foundation of Christian Religion And yet pag. 13. himselfe confesseth That the Scriptures translated as touching the matter substance and things generally contained in all the Books called Canonicall and who ever took them to be the word of God otherwise are of Divine authority and the unquestionable Word of God And then comes with this jugling distinction thinking to cheat others as himselfe viz. Sensu suno forsooth and then also sensu insano which must and does follow in this his own sense he denies the authority of the Scriptures as afterward you shall see more clearly O what a most strangely impudent gracelesse jugler and wicked wrangler with the Truths of God is this And so at last in his seventh Position or Conclusion against Gods Word translated hoping to help his own lame dog over the style as our Proverbe is he most sottishly and foolishly concludes ô the wisdome that is from above how it confounds and ensnares the wisdome of the carnally wise and enforces them to confesse the Truth even against their wils and purposes and catches the crafty in their own wilynesse he concludes I say That the true and proper foundation of Christian Religion is not inke and paper see here the folly and madnesse of this man not any book or books not any writing or writings whether Translations or Originalls But that substance or matter those gracious Counsels of God concerning the salvation of the World of Believers not of All Good and Bad as Iohn Goodwin holds by Jesus Christ represented and declared both in Translations and Originalls are indeed the Word of God and foundation of our Faith and Religion See here then good Christian Reader what an abominable dissembler and jugling Impostor is here discovered out of his own words thus strangely to say and un-say Before to make it out of question as our learned and religious London Divines testifie from his own words That no writings whatsoever whether Translations or Originals are the foundation of Christian Religion And here again That both Translations and Originals are the foundation of our Faith and Salvation Onely we must I say take his lame and beggarly distinction of sensu sano and insano his denyall to be the ink and paper the bare book and books written without the Sense and substance of the holy and divine matter in them contained and most necessarily comprehended and intended which I wonder what Sot but Mr. Goodwin himselfe otherwise takes it And yet this I will not be ashamed nor afraid to affirm notwithstanding the subtil and sly distinctions of this jugling John That even the Scriptures or Translations written with inke and pen the book or books called Canonicall to say no more are the unquestionable Word of God and foundation of our faith and Religion otherwise why did out blessed Saviour himselfe aske his Disciples and the rest of the Jews continually as in that most pertinent place of the Evangelist Jesus said unto the young man that desired to know the way to eternall life What is written in the Book of the Law How readest thou And frequently also It is written It is written And so Search the Scriptures that is the written Scriptures O then the undaunted and deceiveable impudencie of this heart-hardned Hypocrite this wicked White-Devill indeed that thus swaggers against the very written Word of Truth with his base and blasphemous distinctions and impious exceptions and evasions therein And then also he most basely and abusively wrangles with our avouching that the Scriptures Translated or Originals are the foundation of our faith and Religion and thereupon tels us that thus we goe about to build upon two foundations and then quotes that of the Apostle to the Corinths Other foundation can no man Lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ and so goes jeeringly on just still like himselfe except sayes he Jesus Christ be transubstantiated into inke and paper and so most wickedly and blasphemously concludes That no kindes of books or writings whatsoever either Translations or Originals these are his own Words can be in the Apostles sense any foundation of Christian Religion O intolerable deceiver and abominable abuser of the Word of Truth And thus he most impiously and impudently goes about to make Christ and his written Word two opposite and distinct things and two materiall and contradictory confounding foundations whereas this assertion of his is false and a lying one for does not the same Apostle Paul most cleerly and plainly say Yee are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets which must needs be the Scriptures written Translations and Originals how else should we come to know and believe them Jesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone See here now then are not the written Scriptures called and counted most plainly by the Apostle the very foundation Yea and the same holy Apostle goes farther and sayes thus of the Scripture written by himselfe

Sun Which he printed and published immediately after the just hve and cry of Gods people against his felonious Hagio-Mastix as if he would have made us beleive that he would have stopt that sacrilegious Theif for us which indeed was most worthy to have been apprehended and severely punisht by the hangman But he did but therewith also more and more abuse us by his thus jugling with us But because I know that Dolosus versatur in generalibus and that therefore t is not so fair play to deal too long in generalls I will now therefore briefly and truely come to particulars and first will shew the Reader the double-dealing of this notorious white-Deuills most deceiptfull heart and tongue and pen for they all go together as our Saviour himselfe sayes Out of the abundance of the heart the tongue speakes out of what I have seriously observed even to admiration and amazement in his Dedicatory Epistle of that foresaid book to the Parliament wherein first I shall take notice though it comes not first in order or place of his other sawning expressions therein yet because it so peculiarly concernes the Parliament and his vapouring love thereof and respect thereunto of his most false and fallacious jugling and dissembling with Both those Houses professing such obedience to their authority and reverend assent and respect to their waighty employments whereof and unto whom he useth these words I am not conscious to myself of any refusall of subjection to any just law or imposition of men And again I reverence the great concernments of the Kingdome and I hope Religion and Reformation are two of the greatest of them all in your hands wherein from the beginning I have served you with all faithfulnesse and simplicity of heart hithereto Now then whither Mr. Goodwin be a fair-dealing honestman or does not her play the notorious jugling Jesuite with Equivocations and mentall reservation's with the Parliamet and in all these expressions shew himself a notorious lyer and abhominable dissembler let any discreet and impartiall man judge For what greater rebellion and disobedience or refusall of subjection to the Parliaments most just ordinances or impositions can there be than that now when as they are and long have been about the work of Reformation in matters of Religion and Church-Government wherein they have fixedly resolved to setle the Presbyterian-way for Mr. J.G. with others his Schismaticall Companions and brothers in iniquity of his own giddy head and head strong humour not only without but contrary unto Parliamentary-authority or any other lawfull power given unto him to set up a Church-Way of his own and most rebelliously and Schismatically with unbending boldnesse and obstinacie to this very day to persist in it Again How hath this obedient Gentleman scoffed and jeered at yea reviled and abused the Ordinances of Parliament especially that about the preventing and restraining of the spreading of Heresies Errours and blasphemous opinions in an anonimous Pamphlet conteining 38 Queries against that Ordinance which was printed by one Symmons for Overton two of Master Goodwins prime and most pernicious Pandours to all his printed and published spurious Brats Anno 1646 and Master J. G. being indubitably beleeved yea assured to be the bold broacher and impious Author of those blasphemous Queries Together with his 12 subtile and most deceiveable Cautions full fraught with sly insinuations and most abusive expressions against the work and way of Reformation intended by the Parliament These 12 Cautions also being printed by and for these two foresaid base Brokers who for filthy lucre set forth all or most of his bould botcheries and blasphemies Thus you see how obedient Master Goodwin is and hath been to yeild subjection to the just and lawfull impositions of men in lawfull yea supream authority in his practises thus far And now let us see how he reverenceth them in their great concernments of the Kingdome and with what faithfulnesse and simplicity of heart this good and meek-minded man hath observed and respected the Parliament in his judgement and reverend opinion of them And this cannot be better seen and shown than under his own hand writing herein also in his proud and pernicitus piece entituled Innocencies Triumph and in his lavish and licentious preaching in Coleman-street where also he hath notoriously endeavoured to blend and blemish if not quite extinguish as much as in him was the Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction of Parliaments printing and professing That the generality and promiscuous multitude of the World who have aright in nominating persons to Parliamentary trust and power are but a secular root out of which the Independents conceive and Master J. G. with them that there is an impossibility that a spirituall extraction should be made and that a man may as well bring a clean thing out of an unclean in Jobs expression as make a spirituall extraction out of this secular-root which hath no authority no authority marke his words from Christ to nominate or appoint who shall order the affairs of Christs Kingdom or institute the government of his Church c. Thus Mr. Goodwin in sum insinuating that on this ground the Parliament hath no authority or power to enact Laws or Statutes in matters of Religion c. as learned religious and ever to be honoured Master Prin in his * excellent answer to Mr. J. G. hath at large related and judiciously and truly dilated to Mr. Goodwins eternall shame if at least he had any in him for he outfaceth all with most bold lying and subtill denying All as if he poor man were still mistaken and misinterpreted in all he speaks or writes yea notwithstanding that Mr. Prin affirms and I am most confident his testimony is true that Mr. Goodwin voluntarily confessed these things before the Parliaments Committee and for which his so unsufferably audacious and presumptuous affronting and undermining the Parliaments undoubted priviledges he was most worthily sequestred from his living in Coleman-street and should have been farther proceeded against to imprisonment c. had he not been favoured by some far more than he deserved Yea and as Mr. Prin testifies in that foresaid place this most notorious Lyer who as you heard before did pretend such reverence and obsequious observance to the great concernments of the Kingdom in the Parliaments hands and who in this his tother dayes Epistle to the Lords and Commons in Parliament professed like an immarbled Dissembler that he had from the beginning thitherto served them with all faithfulnesse and simplicity of heart did in a most daring manner even whilst he was under examination most boldly preach over the same things in substance again in his pulpit on a solemn Fast day and published them with additions in two severall printed Pamphlets yea and after his censure for this his foule delinquencie and obstinate insolencie he did once more in a higher strain than before like an incorrigible Delinquent or Malignant indeed preach