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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85404	Neophytopresbyteros, or, The yongling elder, or, novice-presbyter. Compiled more especially for the Christian instruction and reducement of William Jenkin, a young presbyter, lately gone astray like a lost sheep from the wayes of modesty, conscience and truth. And may indifferently serve for the better regulation of the ill governed Society of Sion Colledge. Occasioned by a late importune pamphlet, published in the name of the said William Jenkin, intituled Allotrioepiskopos; the said pamphlet containing very little in it, but what is chiefly reducible to one, or both, of those two unhappy predicaments of youth, ignorance, & arrogance. Clearly demonstrated by I.G. a servant of God and men in the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. Wherein also the two great questions, the one, concerning the foundation of Christian religion: the other, concerning the power of the naturall man to good supernaturall, are succinctly, yet satisfactorily discussed. With a brief answer in the close, to the frivolous exceptions made by C B. against Sion Colledge visited, in a late trifling pamphlet, called, Sion Colledge what it is, &c.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing G1183; Thomason E447_27	141,216	147

in by themselves 2 o. concerning the particulars wherewith they are burthened in the Pulpit Incendiary I have severall times heard the Author say that he can produce very competent and ●uostantiall witnesses for the proof of them all yea and of many things more of every whit as unchristian a character and import as the vilest and worst of these Pag. 17. Whilst labouring in the fire to find a knot in a rush Sect. 127. a contradiction I mean in a faire consistency as the Reader may soone perceive if it be worth his time to view the passage he deales so kindly with the truth as to spare it twice together For first he saith that I stile the Subscribers learned and pious men as if generally and without exception of any I so stiled them all whereas my expression wherein I use those words is clearly partitive and onely imports a supposall of some to be such 2 o. He saith that I instance in Dr. Gouge Mr. Calamy Mr Case Mr. Cranford is men of great names whereas I speak only of great names of man not any thing at all of men of great names there being no such expression or juncture of words in all that book Nor 3 o. do I so directly instance in the foure persons he speaks of for great names of men as he implieth But 4 o. and lastly whereas he seems very desirous to imply for here his sentence scarce senseth well that I Instance in the said foure men as learned and pious he drawes the face of my words quite awry and seeks to represent me to these men at least to some of them as if I had anintent to abu●e them Pag 19 He makes me a trans●r●ssor in chiefe Sect. 128. only for mentioning a report or information that was brought to me concerning another name by which Sion Colledge or the house now called Sion Colledge was anciently known For I affirm nothing positively concerning either the credit or truth of the information onely once alluding to ●he information I confesse I call it Sinon Colledge Was this so treasonable a practice against the majesty of Sion Colledge be it supposed that this and not the other was the ancient name of it though I have no ground at all from any thing that C. B. hath yet said to suspect the credit of my information a The house that hath for these 24 or 25 years last past been knowne onely by the name of Sion Colledge might very possibly notwithstanding be anciently called Sinon House And if so to say that the ancient Records mention it by the name not of Sion but of Sinon Colledg is not the breadth of a lana caprina out of the way of Truth For that House the present ●olledge being ●aterially the same there wants onely a faire explication to make the saying stand right streight in point of truth as to deserve a tree of fiftie cubits high or to have such a Viall of wrath or such a flood of fiery indignation poured out upon it as this great Rhadamanth hath prepared and decreed in these words Therefore viz. because the Records will speake for themselves i. because the Crow is black and not white Therefore saith hee I know none but himselfe who doth boldly take authority and delights in it to make errors that hath THVS IMPVDENTLY changed the name at pleasure c. It seemes C. B. knowes not himselfe otherwise he might know another besides me who farre more IMPVDENTLY than I changeth names at pleasure For 1 o when a person or thing hath two or more names or appellations he that calleth them by one of these names and not by the other doth not hereby change the name of it When Paul called Peter by the name of Cephas as he doth 1 Cor. 1. 12 did he change his name at pleasure especially calling him Peter elswhere as I usually call C. B. his beloved palace where hee thinkes his HONOR dwelleth by the Name of Sion Colledge Therefore it is a most frivolous and false charge upon me to say that I change the name of his Colledge because I once or sometimes call it by a name by which it is not so vulgarly knowne or called How much more shamelesly false is it to say that I either IMPVDENTLY or at pleasure change this Name when as first I use it but once and 2 o have the ground and inducement of such an information asserting the legitimacie of that Name by which I call it the authority whereof I know no man able ●o disable Secondly though he saith here that he knowes none but me that hath so IMPVDENTLY changed the name of that pleasure of his eyes Sion Colledge yet a few lines before hee had said that he thinkes he knoweth another As for the information saith hee which you intimate out of the ancient Records I THINK it came originally from a famous Atheist Surely this person whom he calls an Atheist by a worse change of a name I wisse than that of Sinon for Sion Colledge yea a famous Atheist whom he susspects for the Author of my information must needs be known unto him But 3 o And lastly to this is not C. B. himself a far more Impudent changer of names and this at pleasure then I He pretends not to lay any other changing of names to my charge but only of a dead edifice Nor is the Name pretended to be given by me by way of exchange any wayes reproachfull or disgracefull unto it but how oft doth he change the Names of living men that of his brethren in the most holy profession of Jesus Christ and this for Names disparaging and stigmaticall Pag. 1. He cals me by the Name of an Apostate member c. In the same page he calls the Author of the Pulpit Incendiary and me together by the name of Gracchi those audacious Gracchi Page 13. he calls me by the name of Bishop John page 15. Presbyter John Page 2. the Mock-visitor of Sion Colledge to omit many other such changes of names as these which at his meere pleasure he gives me for mine own But this is he that complains of so much of the Dragon and so little of the Saint in other m●ns writings But the man containeth not himselfe within the narrow compasse of the indignation uttered against me for my loud-crying sin of changing the name of Sion Colledge as you have heard in the words transcribed but advanceth the motion of his passion and pen together thus And now Mr. Goodwin be serious speake the truth and shame the D. D. Did the Lord Jesus Christ the great Bishop of our soules administer this Piece of your Monitory Visitation No C. B. nor did any man I know of ever say that hee did Or was not your hand guided by another spirit which you well know without my naming You mean I presume that Spirit by which your own hand was guided in drawing up this your vindicative vindication Consider

ΝΕΟΦΥΤΟΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΕΡΟΣ OR The Yongling Elder or Novice-Presbyter Compiled more especially for the Christian Instruction and reducement of William Jenkin a young Presbyter lately gone astray like a lost sheep from the wayes of Modesty Conscience and Truth And may indifferently serve for the better Regulation of the ill governed Society of SION COLLEDGE Occasioned by a late importune Pamphlet published in the name of the said William Jenkin intituled Ἀλλοτριοεπὶσκοπος the said Pamphlet containing very little in it but what is chiefly reducible to one or both of those two unhappy Predicaments of Youth Ignorance Arrogance Clearly demonstrated by I. G. a servant of God and Men in the glorious Gospel of JESUS CHRIST Wherein also the two great Questions the one concerning the Foundation of Christian Religion the other concerning the power of the Naturall Man to good supernaturall are succinctly yet satisfactorily discussed With a brief Answer in the close to the frivolous exceptions made by C B. against Sion Colledge visited in a late trifling Pamphlet called Sion Colledge what it is c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not a Novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil 1 Tim. 3. 6. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so doe these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds c. But they shall proceed no further for their ἄνοια folly or madnesse shall be manifest unto all men as theirs also was 2 Tim. 3. 8 9. Homo peccatum defendendo sibi praeponit sed poenitendo subjicit Aug. Exultatio praepropera ruboris plerunque sementis est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Quò moriture ruis majoraque viribus audes Fallit te incautum pietas tua Nec minùs ille Exultat demens Virg. Aeneid Printed for Henry Overton in Popes-head-Alley 1648. To the unpartiall Reader REader it was the complaint of a faithfull friend and Counsellor unto his Countrey long since that what he gave with the right hand was still taken and received with the left That great servant and Prophet of God David who kept a watch at the doore of his lips a 〈…〉 and was abundantly cautious not to sin or offend with his tongue b 〈…〉 yet met with occasion to take up this complaint against his adversaries that every day they wrested his words or as the originall soundeth they made a kind of labour and toile of it to figure his words i. to put uncouth and strange constructions upon them When righteous Lot did but seek to turn his neighbours the men of Sodome out of the way of their wickednesse though he attempted it in a most sweet and loving way I pray you brethren saith he to them doe not so wickedly c Gen. 19. 7. they through zeale to their lusts being impatient of all admonition fell foule upon him with this answer Stand back This one fellow came in to sojourne and he will needs be a JUDGE Now will we deale worse with thee than with them And they saith the Text pressed sore upon the man even Lot d Verse 9. c. It is not I suppose unknown to thee how that some few months since the Lord Jesus Christ the great Bishop of their soules was pleased to administer by the hand of his unworthy and weak servant a monitory visitation unto some professing themselves his Ministers who it seems stood in eminent need thereof commonly known by the name of the Society of Sion Colledge Which Visitation though administred with all faithfulnesse and singlenesse of heart by him whom the Lord Christ was pleased to use in that service yet the face of it being set to turn the said men out of those wayes of unworthinesse which they have no mind to relinquish hath so farre provoked them at least some of them that in stead of reforming themselves according to the tenor of that visitation they poure out the 〈◊〉 vials of their wrath and discontent in most unmanly passion in most unseemly revilings and reproaches upon that poore instrument of God who unfeignedly sought their peace and wealth in that administration It seems they are a generation dreadlesse of that thunder-bolt from heaven which certainly will strike all dead before it where ever it falls He that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me Luke 10. 16. Not to mention the expressions that have fallen from others of them in this kind the unclean vomit of my Allotrioepiscopolian Antagonist alone is a super-sufficient testimony how dep●●r●ble and sad an effect that visitation hath had upon them not much differing from that which the Ministery of the Messengers and Prophets of old by whose hand God sent to his people and the CHIEFE PRIESTS amongst them had upon them to whom they were sent who as the Text saith mocked these Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy c 2 Chron. 36. 14 15 16. When men are resolved to walk in the light of their own eyes and shall not onely reject but vilifie and scorn the admonitions of the Almighty by what hand soever administred it is a signe that destruction is coming upon them like an armed man 1 Sam. 2. 25. It is said of Hophni and Phineas the Priests that they hearkned not unto the voyce of their Father because the Lord would slay them And the sound of that voice of the Lord himselfe by his Prophet Ezekiel Ezek. 24. 13 is enough to make both the eares of Sion Colledge to tingle In thy filthinesse is lewdnesse because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthinesse any more til I have caused my fury to rest upon thee I feare the foundations of this Colledge are not long-liv'd the iniquity of the Sons thereof hath already so sorely shaken them Notwithstanding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to presse them beyond the line of their demerit it seems in their Provinciall meeting not long after their visitation it was prudently if not piously and with remorce resolved upon the Question that no answer should be given either to Doctor Hamonds Book or mine But as Gehaz● rose up against the spirit of his master Elisha saying thus in himselfe 2 Kine 5. 20. My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian but as the Lord liveth I will run after him and take somewhat of him e 〈…〉 so hath Mr. Jenkin in the vanity and pride of his heart magnified himself against that Spirit of wisdome and counsell which spake in his more advised brethren and whereunto according to rule he ought to have been subject and as the Jewes would needs have Christ crucified when Pilat had judged him to be delivered f Acts 3. 13. so hath the heart of this young man importuned him to make long furrowes of most notorious and importune slanders and reproaches upon

of malignity hypocrisie searednesse of conscience dissimulation of the truth c. which doe not often find men out untill they be somewhat stricken in yeare and gray haires upon them 1. Mr. Jenkin argues himselfe defective in point of conscience by these and many such like passages in his Book In his Title page he calls Sion Colledge visited A very feeble Pamphlet and a while after in his Preface His other writings are below the most but this last piece was below himselfe Though the man speakes these things in good concurrence with my conscience for I verily believe my writings to bee of that sort of weake Sect. 3. feeble and despised things which God hath chosen to confound the things that are mighty yet I have cause to think that hee speakes them with the loud reclamation of his own it being a thing incident to youth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Eth. as Aristotle long since observed to say many things which they beleeve not For first is it like that a man of such Seraphicall parts and learning that he is able to instruct the ignorant in the profound speculation of the Quiddity of Manicheisme whereof Mr. Goodwin and such Abecedarians as he is ignorant a Busic-Bishop p. 45 48 c. would so farre undervalue himselfe and prophane his excellencie as to set himselfe and all the powers of his wit against that he judgeth VERY FEEBLE Subruere est arces stantia moenia virtus Quilibet ignavus praecipitata premit i. Valour strong castles won and walls d'exalt 'T is cowards guise things FEEBLE to assault Secondly if he judged my Pamphlet so very feeble why doth he so studiously amolish and deprecate of his Reverend Sirs the suspition of Ambition in that he should undertake to answer it b Preface p. 2. When an Eagle engageth herself to catch a Fly hath she cause to feare the imputation of Ambition because of such an attempt In this solemne deprecation of his to his Reverend Brethren not to account it ambition that puts him upon the undertaking supposing the Pamphlet he undertakes to be very feeble he either makes his brethren very feeble in their understanding viz. as being obnoxious to account it ambition in him that should attempt to break a rotten stick or otherwise bewrayes the rottennesse of his own conscience in calling that VERY FEEBLE which he inwardly thinks to be very strong And whereas hee presently addes that for the most of them to have performed his taske he should have accounted it an act of not to say too great condescention Questionlesse the condescention in them had been as great as it would be in the Master-fidlers belonging to a countrey consort to excuse the little Boy and carry the great Fiddle themselves Thirdly and lastly is it likely that Mr. Jenkin can have the consent of his conscience to say my other writings are below the most and this last to be VERY FEEBLE and below my selfe when as the fifth rib of Mr. Jenkins Religion High Presbytery I mean for which metaphor I shall give account hereafter lies bleeding at the foot of the other being as good as broken in peeces by them and himselfe with many others of his Collegiate fraternity cast out of the possession of their patience that I say not of their wits by the last If my other writings were below the most the cause of High-Presbytery being so shaken shattered and dismantled by them must needs be in strength and capacity of being maintained below the most of causes unlesse for the staving off of this consequence Mr. Jenkin will say that the cause I speake of is good but the defenders of it are weake and insufficient I give him leave to chuse his horn but goared hee must be either by the one horn or the other of the Dilemma And for Sion Colledge visited if this be below my selfe it is a signe that Mr. Jenkin and his Reverend Sirs grow downwards or backwards as well in patience as in learning and knowledge For I appeal to all judicious and disengaged men that have found so much time as to lose in reading Mr. Jenkins Busie Bishop whether both the patience of the man be not overcome and his learning overcharged with that writing If Mr. Jenkin notwithstanding all this will say in his soule and conscience hee verily beleeves that the said writing called Sion Colledge visited is a very feeble Pamphlet let this Animadversion be removed from under this head and carried on to the third to prove him a Defective in judgement and understanding But I suppose there is no occasion for the remove Secondly Sect. 4. whereas in the said Title page he insinuates me guilty of cavills against the Ministers of London for witnessing against my errors touching the holy Scriptures and the power of Man c. it argues in his own metaphor a crazy conscience For I never cavil'd against nor had any thing to doe with either on the right hand or the left the Ministers of London for witnessing against any errors of mine whatsoever nor did I ever charge them w th any such crime That which I charged them with not cavil'd against them for was unconscionable and indirect dealing with the words writings of their brethren who never wronged them a cōspiracy against several truths of God bound up indeed in the same bundle with many errors as Christ was numbred amongst transgressors and incensing the Magistrates against thousands that are godly peaceable in the land because not of their faction c. With these things and some other of like notorious delinquency with these I confesse I charged them But that they ever witnessed against any error of mine it never came within the verge of my thoughts Doth not then my young adversary abase his conscience greatly in this point also Thirdly Sect. 5. when in the same Title page he affirmeth that in his Busie-Bishop the impertinency of my quotations out of the Fathers M. Bucer and Mr. Ball are manifested he plainy declares that it is all one with him to say that snow is black as that it is white yea more easie to say that what is not done is done than to say that it is not done For alas what hath the young Glorioso done to the value of the least haire of his head towards a manifestation of any impertinencie in any of my quotations he speakes of Or if he understand not what the impertinencie of a quotation meaneth or wherein it consists let this note serve under the third head and prove him debile or crazie in his intellectuals For to cite other words of a different or contrary import to those quoted by me out of the same Author is no manifestation at all of any impertinency in my quotation It is indeed a discovering of the nakednesse of an Author to present him as contradictious to himself Nor is there any practice or course more ready and direct to enervate