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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

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

most justly cast upon them as it is hardly possible for any other pen to doe more or more sharply or cuttingly as the Apostle Paul pertinently expresseth it Titus 1.13 And truely my Christian Brethren if ever any incorrigible-Worker of iniquity any bould and blasphemous-Heretick together with his brother Paul Best in this our age deserved to be soundly severely lasht even by that most just law of Like for Like Judg. 1.5 and by that right rule of wise King Solomon of answering a fool according to his folly Pro. 26.5 then certainly this proud this presumptuous Fool most worthily meriteth to be met with all and measured by his own bushell as I hope ere long he will by a far better and abler pen than mine is and to be most soundly and severly whipt and scourged that if it be possible he may become sound in the faith which the Lord knows is my souls desire for him These things good Reader I have here thought fit I say to premise to thee thus if it may be to take off all unjust prejudice from thee touching my self and my manner of writing in this ensuing Treatise Wherein if I may prevail with thee and obtain acceptance of ●y poore labours from thee I have all I expect and shall blesse God for it If not I will not yet be daunted nor disheartned in so warrantable a work and way But however shall by Gods gracious assistance in all Christian Charity to thee and godly resolution in my selfe rest Thine in the Truth as it is in Jesus to serve and love thee J. VICARS A Postscript to the Reader Courteous Reader PRovidence having occasionally brought this ensuing Letter of my very Venerable Learned and Religious freind unto my hands and It in no little measure concerning Me and this my Treatise though not in a positive approbation or allowance of it as not being by him perused by reason of his bodily infirmity yet in respect of his fair and freindly esteem opinion and perswasion of me It s unworthy Author and of my former Labours heretofore seen and esteemed by him viz. my Parliamentary Chronicle my Schismatick sifted and others of these Kindes And especially considering that this Reverend and Religious Gentleman does in this his Letter manifest and declare like an impregnable and immoveable Rock his Christian courage and constancie his faithfulnesse and fervour to hate and oppose all the illegitimate and spurious Errours and Heresies of these backsliding and apostatizing times I therefore have made humbly bold as conceiving it not a little concerned his own ever most duly deserved honour thus to make it publike to the World that all may see that blessed be our God Truth wants not valiant Champions to vindicate her pure and spotlesse honour if occasion be offered which Letter in briefe is as followeth To my much esteemed freind Master John Vicars My worthy freind IT is my Losse as well as Greif that I am not able to peruse your Manuscript Surely I should have found in it that Zeal and Wisdome that Quicknesse and Meeknesse that Conviction and Cleernesse that Piety and Reason that candid ingenuity in relating and that solid modesty in confuting which would have well become your selfe advanced Truth and have enervated specious Errours But I am not well and have been enforced lately to omit preaching in my place and am still indisposed to study pray for me Get the view to be supplyed by a better eye and be confident that I joyn with you and all good men for the Truth of Christ against all Heresies and Blasphemies Feb. 29. 1647. Sir Your truly assured freind is Obadiah Sedgewick A pertinent Paralell and Premonition to all pious Presbyterians touching a very great and Common mistake among the most and best of them viz That We and the Independents differ not in any Fundamentalls but only in matters of Discipline or Church-Government Whereas the contrary is heer most unquestionably proved Viz That they are most obstinate Rebels both in Opinion and Practice and perfidious Violaters of such a main and principall Foundation as will inevitably ruinate all other Fundamentals of true Religion if allowed unto them The voice of Korah Dathan and Abiram against Moses and Aaron Num. 16.1 2 3. Korah Dathan and Abiram rose up before Moses and Aaron with certain of the Children of Israel 250 Princes of the Assembly famous in the Congregation men of renowme And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron said unto them Yee take too much upon you Seeing all the Congregation of the Lord are holy every one of them and the Lord is among them Wherefore then lift yee up your-selves above the Congregation of the Lord The Voice of Independents Anabaptists and other Sectaries against the Parliament and Assembly Our Independents Anabaptists Antinomians and such-like Children of Errour and Schisme Men I confesse famous in their generation many of them for Parts and Guifts have gathered themselves together in private Conventicles yea and in publike Assemblies too against our Parliament and Assembly of Divines and say seditiously unto them and of them in their Pulpits and Pamphlets Ye take too much upon you in going about to Conjure all our Religion and Worship of God into your Parliament and the Synodicall Circle of the Assembly Seeing that all our Congregations are made up only of holy Saints and a Godly Party even every one of them Wherefore then lift yee up your-selves above us the Congregations of the Lord and go about to prescribe unto us Rules and Lawes how and where we should worship God And thus make your-selves Lords and Kings over our Consciences and over the Congregations of the Lord since none on Earth but onely King Jesus in heaven hath any thing to doe with us either in conscience or practise as touching Religion and Worship but we and all else are therein being all of us Saints and holy-ones to be tolerated and left to the liberty and freedom of ours and their own consciences without any restraint or the least thought of intended coercive power of any civill Magistrate on earth whatsoever Now then good Reader and you especially my dear Presbyterian brethren let me beseech you in the bowels of the Lord Jesus for the honour of our God and the helping forward of the propagation of the true Reformed Religion according to our sacred Covenant sadly and seriously to consider from this present Paralell so appositely answerable one part to the other that the difference and division of all sorts of Sectaries from us is in them First no lesse than heynous Rebellion in opposing and as the Apostle Jude sayes ver. 8. despising Dominions and speaking evill of those dignities which God himselfe hath set-up and ordained yea such Rebellion as the Lord ye know in that 16 of Numbers most severely punished with a most unparalleld confusion and therefore I beseech you not to extenuate and mince as too many of us now adayes doe the

this most just and severe accusation of the Lord himselfe to be called and counted pseudo-Apostles and false Prophets and how far both Mr. Goodwin himselfe their great Master and his scandalous Schollars of Coleman-street are from that false and flattering Encomium which he most daringly and deceitfully attributes to them of Not suffering themselves to be corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel not to be baptized into any other spirit than that which speaks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1. c. expresly the Scripture language And so consequently what a most notorious lyer and cheater of his soul-murthered poor proselytes Mr. John Goodwin is All that have impartiall and unprejudiced eyes of understanding and which look not with Master Goodwins false and fallacious spectacles may by Gods mercie most easily see and discover But whereas there is no doubt they will here object for themselves that they conceive believe gifts able parts in men of what rank or condition soever they be are together with their great Master and Metrapolitan Mr. Goodwins and his holy Conclaves chamber-call or authority to be a very sufficient call for them to preach and exercise their parts and gifts even in a Ministeriall way and that they have the bush of Scripture-authority at their backs to use Mr. Goodwins own fine phrase to uphold and maintain them therein I shall give no other answer to this most false and frivolous Objection than to desire any impartiall and judicious Christian to read that excellent Treatise now lately come forth entituled Church-Members set in joynt by one Filodexter Transilvanus and he shall therein by Gods grace receive abundance of most solid satisfaction and confutation of Mr. Goodwins and his couzened and couzening companions irreligious sawcinesse with Holy-Things in this way And I shall here only give the Reader as a small sip and taste of what he may more fully drinke with a full draught out of the work it selfe not as any digression but as a most pertinent addition to the truth of what I said before one excellent passage which I have purposely extracted out of that foresaid Treatise for the Readers better present satisfaction which is this One Chillenden the Authors Antagonist a notable Schismatick makes this objection in that foresaid place Talents must not be hid in a napkin What then answers the Author Therefore you would have every man improve his Talent in a disorderly way This is fine reasoning Peradventure a Subject in some Kingdom may be everyway better qualified for the well manageing of the Scepter than the King himselfe may that gifted man therefore take upon him to dethrone his lawfull King or to rule in equall power and authority with him in his Kingdom A woman also may possibly have more wisdome and fluencie of tongue and parts than her husband in the family or more knowledge and grace than a Minister in the Church may she therefore usurp authority over her husband in the family or over the Pastor in the Church The truth is this excellent Sciptore-principle miserably perverted by self-will'd Schismaticks hath been the dark collar wherein that powder hath been hid which hath almost blown up all Government both in the Church State and Army and hurld all things into a black and undigested chaos of confusion all over the Kingdom both in City and Countrey And it is a most deplorable and sad sight to see that such as pretend to Religion and the fear of God should border so neer upon the Spirit of Korah Dathan and Abiram as to be of the same minde and to speak the very same language with them Thus this excellent Author Of which said most pertinent allusion to Korah Dathan and Abiram I have I hope in the beginning of this my present Treatise as a Preface unto it made a pertinent parallel fit I thinke to be seriously noted and observed Thus good Reader thou hast seen a small parcell of the most unparalell'd and unpattern'd unblushing impudency and deceiveable impiety of this most hatefull Grand Impostor and Schismaticks Cheater in Chief the mischievous immoderate Moderator of the accursed Conclave of Coleman-street Master John Goodwin and the most of all these forementioned dreadfull discoveries undenyable under his own hand-writing against him To whom now I beseech thee say Good Reader may not the Lord the great and terrible God the only dreadfull Searcher of the hearts and veins of all men say and speake in his just displeasure even as hee did to the wicked and deceitfull Trayn by holy David These things hast thou done and I kept silence and therefore thou thoughtest I was altogether such an one as thy self But I will reprove thee and in my due time set them in order before thine eyes O Mr. Goodwin you that thus forget what a wise all seeing and dreadfull God you have to deal with in whose presence you have done all these things like Nimrod that mighty Hunter before the Lord to Gods great dishonour and the intolerable abuse of your Brethren O consider these things I beseech you and the Lord give you grace and space so to do lest he teare you in peeces when there is no hope of help or deliverance for you Sir be not deceived God is not cannot be mocked whatsoever you sowe that you shall reap for unquestionably all things are naked and lye wide open unto the eyes of him with whom you have to do And the subtilest Politician that ever was in the World hath ever had to Gods all-seeing eyes Corpus fenestratum a heart and breast full of windows to discover most easily the Abditissima penetralia Pectoris the most intimate and deepest designes even of Machiavils heart himself Think not then I pray Sir in the pride of your heart and accustomed stubbornesse of your perverse spirit That you can dance naked in a Net and no man discover your nakednesse and that because you will not therefore we cannot see your jugling and double-dealing with God and men And be not herein like a little foolish childe as in truth you hitherto have been all along who because he blindes his own eyes thinks no body else sees him But believe it Sir if you will still harden your heart and pride your self in these your pestilent and pernicious deceiveable dealings by your adulterate errours and spurious opinions to infatuate yea fascinate and bewitch others and your self and will not see these your most scelerous and sacrilegious sins and foul enormities by the light of Gods Word and Christian counsell you will one day if not timely and truly repented and prevented see them and smart for them and be made everlastingly miserable by them by the flaming light of hel-fire And now to conclude with a word to my moderate Presbyterian Brethren If any Eliab or Christian Elder Brother whosoever shall as He did unjustly and unkindly blame his blessed younger brother David check this my cordiall