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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43621	Gregory, Father-Greybeard, with his vizard off, or, News from the Cabal in some reflexions upon a late pamphlet entituled, The rehearsal transpros'd (after the fashion that now obtains) in a letter to our old friend, R.L. from E.H.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1673 (1673)	Wing H1808; ESTC R7617	145,178	344

met Also I deny that it is unlawful for me but rather a duty incumbent upon me to give my servants lieve to play and recreate themselves with any honest sport upon the Sunday or any other Holy-day at convenient times for I ought in mercy and charity to be merciful to my beasts my oxe or my ass in watering them which is not necessary but only expedient for life Much more ought I to be merciful to my poor Prentice my servant my Hand-maiden that have drudg'd and trudg'd to slave and work for me on working days when Sunday or any other Holy-day comes if I be of Christs true Religion and do as I would be done by Nay I ought if I am able to let them drink better liquor and eat better meat eat the fat and drink the sweet as Nehemiah speaks and send portions thereof to the poor according to my ability on those festivals at least give them what I give my beast ease and rest on those vacation-days a penny-worth of ease is worth a penny And the contrary opinion is hypocritical pharisaical hard-hearted apocryphal and prophane and contrary to the great Law of charity and mercy and contrary to those infallible and unanswerable reasons rendred excellently in that proclamation for lawful sports on Sundays and all other Holy-days published by the Command and well setled judgment of King James King Charles I. to that purpose And agreeable with the opinion and practice of all Christians Nations and Kingdoms in the world and even of Geneva it self and contradicted by none but our senceless hypocritical modern orthodox Rebels that write in this particular after nobody but Knox that grand Rebel and Innovator Oh but did not these fellows arm the rabble against the King and Bishops upon this very account They did so the more prophane wretches they by laying a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which God never imposed through their own superstition or rather perverseness Wheedling the silly rabble with pretence of Religion and Gods-day which is not a day that the Lord has made more than any other day nor more holy than so far forth as the King and Parliament have made it and set it apart for holy uses as they have done other Holy-days namely vacation-days from servile and worldly toil that men might be now at leisure for Gods worship merciful and charitable works to our selves our neighbours our servants our handmaidens our Ox and our Ass and the like which are the proper duties for a Sunday and other holy-days And because we are a trading covetous having worldly minded people if the King and Parliament think fit to allow us no other Holy-days but Sundays and half a dozen more in a year I am content And the late wrethced Rebels might with more right and good reason have taken occasion to rebel as Massin●…lla and his mutineers in Naples did by the spilling and overturning of a basket of Apples than from that honest Proclamation for sports published by King James and King Charles I. of blessed memory for lawful refreshments and recreations on Sundays and Holy-days after Divine service So consonant to the doctrine and practice of all Christendom and so agreeable with the great Law of doing as we would be done by And there is never a one of these spleenatick peev●…sh morose unsociable and hypocritical Pharisees but in their practice do as much contradict their own doctrine for the Sabbath as that so much talk'd of Proclamation has done every Sunday when they leave their maid at home carefully to look to the pot and the spit that all be ready piping hot precisely against the time that Lungs comes home when his Auditory is tyr'd perhaps more than himself Binding heavy burdens and grievous to be born and laying them on other mens shoulders but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers and saying as John of Leyden did upon the rack confessing the true cause of his Fanaticism and Impostures The people love to he cheated with Superstition and love them h●…st that gull them most Thus have I as briefly and as fast as my pen could write given an honest and down-right account why and how true Christians should keep a Sunday or other day holy though not according to the hypocritical and modern orthodox but consentaneous with all the truly Orthodox Christians in the world And in answer to what Father Grey-beard in a different character sets down as the Apocryphal opinion of the Reverend Bishop Bramhall but is an infallible truth p. 38. namely he maintains the publick Sports on the Lords day by the Proclamation to that purpose and the example of the Reformed Churches beyond Sea and for the publick dances of our youth upon Countrey-Greens on Sundays after the duties of the day he sees nothing in them but innocent and agreeable to that under-sort of people And he takes the promiscuous License to unqualified persons to read the Scriptures far more prejudicial nay more pernicious than the over-rigorous restraint of the Romanists And he took it well in so taking it For though no man can have a more sacred esteem and value for the holy Scripture and Gods word than I have knowing that it is profitable for instruction and to make the man of God perfect throughly furnished unto every good work Yet this good work of instructing out of it properly belongs to the man of God it is his province not incumbent upon every man nor possible to be undertaken by every man Because our English Bibles are not in every particular the word of God nor in any one thing the words of the Prophets of Christ and the Apostles who not one of them spoke English except perhaps S. Bartholomew and the modern Orthodox have no great kindness for that Apostle because of a certain Reason But chiefly because neither he nor any other Apostle delivered the mind of God and holy writ in the English tongue The English Bibles in the Translation at best being but a paraphrase or Homily of the word of God nor all that neither for these reasons that are unanswerable and infallible First because the English Bibles are in some places erroneous Secondly They are in some places scarce sence and of dangerous consequences when every pert bold and conceited fellow that only understands English takes upon himself to raise doctrines and opinions thence contrary to the sence and meaning of God in his holy word contrary to the mind and meaning of the Holy-Ghost as well as contrary to the sence of the Church and truly Orthodox I love not this discourse and could wish it were any bodies task and employment rather than mine it is so ungrateful and generally displeasing yet since this bold Greg. has given the occasion by reflecting upon the honest words of the most Reverend and learned Bishop Bramhall in these odde animadversions in things far above his shallow pate apprehension and reach Therefore now my hand is in

great pains of Brother Precious therein get a Maudlin Courtsee and thanks very lovingly with great Cake and Posset too over and above mouthing in conclusion most savourly with Hopkins and Sternhold which in modern Gypsee-cant sounds Loth to depart These are worthy cares for those Fathers so called in good earnest it is no laughing matter they become sometimes at such Meetings Fathers by right and good Reason But to fool themselves in Print it renders them to all ingenuous men but so much the more ridiculous who were ridiculous enough God knows before in all conscience Like that little Adventurer who to satisfie Wife who long'd to see dear husbands name in Print and therefore desir'd him to put forth a Ballad No quoth he dear chuck none of us have wit enough to make a Ballad except Brother Wild whose fancy now wants tilting even for Ballad-wit it runs so low and is so sowre and stale withal its briskness such as it was is now with its spirit quite gone he is drain'd now to Taplash Tap-droppings What think you then husband said she of the story the pretty story you told me in bed last night of Puss-cat what think you of putting that same Cat into the Press Oh! dear love replys he I thank thee for that 't is very true the story of the Cat that same that that that and away with it to the Press a whole sheet full of Cat. Cat what Cat do ye think House-cat no Church-cat he would have said but that he forgot it in his Letter to a friend And what news of the Cat Why saith he to this purpose for I cannot write so slovenly as his words are it is too much honour to take notice of such a Scribler except after dinner to laugh a little for digestion sake This same Cat saith he Very good what of the Cat Why once upon a time there was a Cat Good go on this Cat came into the Church good still and when she came there she was a Ratcatcher a Rat-trap and a Mouse-trap well so far good and this same Church-cat stood in spiritual Hieroglyphick for kneeling and the Cross in Baptism those two hateful Ceremonies to honest Gentleman Modern Orthodox man who has an antipathy to that same Church-cat Well go on what of all this what Judge you Gentlemen which is most civil to keep that Cat in the Church and thereby loose the good company of honest Gentleman Cat-hater or else seal a lease of Ejectm●…nt against this Church-cat otherwise Modern Orthodox starts up in a fright saying Sit you m●…y Gentlemen I cannot stay in the room I have a natural antipathy to that same Cat. In fa what an antipathy where 's Hopkins the witch finder search him for a teat or any such imp-suckler any marks of natural antipathy to this same Church-cat can be found about him Well 't is done come give in your evidence have you upon search found this same antipathy-teat about honest Gentleman No he 's free and clear for that matter But I find an ill habit of body and mind contracted by humour of singularity pride envy and lean-chapt malice which is the only cause of this dislike against this Church-cat of his own making and only speaks this same Cat-hater to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a lover only of his own will and good pleasure in Gods service that 's all For to keep to the Allegory since Ceremonies which he calls the Ratcatcher must needs be in the Church one way or other in one form or other whilst we have bodies we must serve God either in the posture of kneeling c. which he calls the Ratcatcher Cat or else in the posture of sitting lolling lying c. which I 'l call Ratcatcher Owl to which I and millions more of honest Christians in these days and ever since our Saviours time have had an antipathy to retort therefore upon this wise disputant and beat the Cat about the Owls-head of the Bouby judge you Gentlemen which is most civil to keep the Owl in the Church by the Ceremonies of sitting and lolling with hat upon skull c. the like irreverent postures to which Church-owl I and millions of honest Gentlemen have an antipathy or rather fright this Ratcatcher Owl out of the Church for with her howtings and scrietching she spoils the musick and harmony of Spiritual Worship so that I and millions of such Owl-haters by antipathy must otherwise avoid the Room and be gone We live in a Foppish Generation Hugh Peters ghost yet walks he us'd to tell a story of Pus-cat and Puss in her Majesty It took wonderfully and this nonsensical story of the Cat because she made a mouth and mew'd against Ceremonies was as good at first to some as are nuts to Mother-midnight What wicked design men can have in blurring paper and make it dear at this rate I cannot tell but sure I am the greatest purchase they get by it is only infamy amongst all wise men by rendring themselves in print publick laughingstocks a scorn and a proverb The truth is I find a great deal more difficulty in perswading my mind to stoop so low as to take any notice of such despicable fellows or what they print than to consute them Why tell me seriously was there ever any argument so vilely ridiculous as this of the Cat A sordid crew what never a Modern Orthodox man that can write like a man or a Scholar can they play the men only to the women I 'l assure you now that I have here thrust out Sermons from Religious Worship that used to thrust out all Religious Worship and have introduc'd Ceremonies as a necessary part of Divine and Holy Worship they had need rally all their forces or they are routed for ever And to encourage the best of them to the Ran-counter I 'l help them with a weapon from Mat. 15. 9. Let them manage it and flourish it as well as they can But I would not have them for their own credit to tell the world any more lyes in print and say I speak against Preaching and Faith and Sermons the means of Faith if they should they tell a damn'd lye I would not have Sermons so they be plain honest and seasonable at all undervalued or disused when occasion calls for it and the peoples ignorance or negligence But I will not yet let them take place in Gods Worship Sermons being but man speaking to man or at best when Gods assistance concurrs it is but heavenly influence upon man which is another thing than Gods Holy Worship which ought to be our daily sacrifice in exercises of Faith the Sacraments as occasion offers constant Prayers Praises and Ceremonies according to our holy heavenly and incomparable Common-prayer-Book Ceremonies will Greg. and the rest of Oliverian Orthodox say Ceremonies they are one ground of our quarrel with your way of worship and the great ground as being superstitious and but bodily worship But bodily