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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56836	The profest royalist his quarrell with the times, maintained in three tracts ...	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Loyall convert.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. New distemper.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Whipper whipt.	1645 (1645)	Wing Q113; ESTC R3128	63,032	100

Halls say no Why he hath skill in the Mistery and his Apprentiship is served what hinders him he cannot practice His Master must make him free and he must performe the City Ceremony And shall the calling of a Minister be undertaken by every unexamined tagrag Shall every Cobler Feltmaker or Taylour intrude into that honorable calling and be judges of their own sufficiency and leave their lawfull Trades for unwarrantable Professions according to their own humerous Fansies Our bodyes Cal. expect the help of the most rationall and authoriz'd Phisitians but our soules can be content with every Emprick and accept of every Theologicall Mountibank As for our Bishops you tearme Popish How many of them have lately forsaken for their Conscience sake their lively-hoods and fled from the Popish faction in Ireland hither where instead of charitable reliefe they are thrasht and tribulated with another Flayle D. Burges cap. 3. page 70. line 11. The next way we can possibly take to the best Reformation is by prayers and teares Cal. I see the Doctor loves to sleep in a whole skin and far enough off from Resisting to blood T is true Prayers and Teares are said to be the weapons of the Church And happy it were if such weapons could prevaile But where Entreaty findes defect Compulsion must make supply If Prayers cannot Swords may If Teares may not Blood must Repl. Let them perish by the sword that take up the sword And let them that thirst for blood guzzle blood untill they burst David that fought Gods Battailes commanded by Gods own mouth nay a man after Gods own heart yet his hand that was in blood must not build the Temple And shal we expect by blood a Reformation of the Temple The stroake of a Poleaxe is not acceptable where the noyse of a Hammer was not warrantable D. Burges cap. 4. page 79. line 4. When many people are demanded their Reasons of divers opinions which they stoutly stand unto is not their answer thus Because the contrary is against the word Being pressed to shew wherein they reply We are but ignorant People we cannot dispute with you but so we are taught by Reverend men if you talk with them they will be able to satisfie you to the full Cal. Do Doctor offend those little ones and despise Gods Blossomes All have not learning to maintaine their Opinions by Argument and Sophistry The battail is not alwayes to the strong nor the Race to the swift The perswasion of a Conscience is an able proofe and the opinion of holy men a strong Refuge Better to stand couragiously though ignorant in a Good Cause as some do then to maintaine Error as you do with learned Impiety Repl. Hence it is Cal. your Cause is stronglyer defended by the Sword then by the Pen whose Ignorant Patrons can better thrash then plead T is confest the perswasion of a wel-grounded Conscience is a good proof to the party so perswaded but here it sticks not able to convert a brother Review those world of Pamphlets of both sides published and weigh them In those of the one side you shall have the full consent and Harmony of Scriptures strict precepts commanding holy Examples confirming and all undenyably prest and learnedly urged home to every Conscience that is not feired On those of the other side what Wresting of Scriptures What allegorizing of plaine texts What shuffling What faultring What obscurity of stile What Rhethoricall pretermissions of things materiall What pasquills What invectives What raylings What bitternesse Enough to discover a Bad Cause and to disparage a Good But Cal. your unmaintain'd Opinions are pinned upon the Authority of men Say where 's the Papist now Is not Implicite Beliefe one of our greatest Quarrells with the Church of Rome even unto this day Did not our Saviour himself condemne the old Pharisees for their Traditions If this be not blind Zeale that Scripture is Apochrypha which said Without knowledge the mind is not good Pro. 19. 2. No Cal. such Zeale is the mother of all Sects and Heresies being guided by the opinion we conceive of those men who are subject to Error because but men I advise such to keep their eares open and their mouthes shut D. Burges cap. 4. page 82. line 12. I wish it were no breach of Charity to compare the stirrs of our Brownists Anabaptists and Familists and all the Rabble of such Schismaticall sectaries who may truly be tearm'd Puritanes with this inconsiderate action of those rude Ephesians Acts 19. 32. If there be any difference it is onely in this that these mad Martinmarre prelates professe in their words that they knew God but in their works they deny him Cal. All that hate Popery and Popish Prelates are in our Zealous Doctors esteeme Brownists Anabaptists and schimaticall Sectaries which he brands with that now almost forgotten stile of Puritanes all far honester men then himself whom compareing them to those rude Ephesians he makes according to the Kings unworthy Declarations the Authors of all these Commotions calling that worthy man Martin marre-prelate mad for touching the apple of his eye the idolatrized Hierarchy A Malignant of the right stamp and coyned at the Kings own Royall Mint Repl. Once again good Cal. if it will not too much prejudice the progresse of your wit correct the frailty of your Memory and remember the doctors book which you so soundly answer was Printed in the yeare 1625. which was a little before this unhappy Commotion which you say he fathers upon the Brownists and Anabaptists and schismaticall sectaries according to His Majesties Declaration Truly Cal. your malice may rather brand him for a witch then a Malignant but your discretion may hold him rather for a Prophet then either that so long since foresaw this Indeed in that poynt he jumps word for word with His Majesties Declaration and if the King speake true the Doctor speakes not falsely For what His Majesty writes now by way of history our Doctor delivered then by way of Prophesie D. Burges cap. 4. pag. 137. line 20. Such as make a great blaze when prosperity credit Peace and Preferment are Bellowes to blow it but are so carried about as hay in a whirlwind with the blast of Time that they wil be ready to fire that which before they maintained if the wind turned never so little about through fears or hopes wil be of any Religion and temper that the strongest faction embraceth resolving to go no further then a faire wind and weather and a calme tide will carry them And if any storme arise presently to make to the shore to prevent perill of life and goods Such Zealots I say as these never had any Coale from the Altar to kindle their Sacrifices they never knew what it is to aime at the Glory of God Cal. Your Doctrine is good had it been as well followed Say Doctor who was he that a little before this Parliament when our brethren the Scots made