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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

fruitful in good works holy heavenly Christian in all their conversation as far as men are able to judge liscern shal we then say says this Orthodox man of Coleman-street that such men as these hold not the foundation of Religion as if this were no foundation of Christian Religion whereas it is plainly affirmed to be one by the blessed Apostle S. John the Evangelist in these words There are three that beare Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are One See heer what a wicked man is this to justifie them for sound that deny this and so he goes on to jeere those our Presbyterian Brethren that reprove such denyals thus But it is none of the least or lowest of our Classick Intrusions mark his jeers to umpire among the Stars I mean the doctrine of Christian Religion and to determine positively and above all possibility of mistake which are of the first which are of the second which of the third magnitude and withall to call them All by their names as if they knew them as exactly as he that made them And is not here a most bold blasphemer and a most andacious dissembler and out-facer of God and men Nay more this notorious hereticall man is so impious and bold notwithstanding all his deceiveable boastings what an * Enemy he is to all Errours and Heresies yea most shamefully and audaciously calling God Angels and men to the witnesse thereof as flatly and peremptorily to deny and utterly to overthrow as much as in his rotten heart consisteth another main pillar and most essentiall fundamentall point of Christian Religion just like his father Arminius and teacheth his Disciples stifly and stubbornly to deny it also viz. Gods eternall decree of Predestination unto Reprobation of all wicked and unbeleeving ones notwithstanding that the whole famous Synod of Dort and Arles asserted but especially the holy Scriptures themselves do most evidently confirm the infallible truth thereof And therefore what a most unblushing cheater and intolerable obdurate lyer is this thus to dare in the face of God Angels and men to protest himselfe to be so sound and orthodox such a mourker for and hater of Errours and Heresies who flatly denies such a main and principall fundamentall point of Christian Religion as Predestination Truly good Reader I might most justly deny to have any thing to doe with such an one as * denies grounds and principles of faith and Religion I will therefore herein plead for my selfe in medling thus much with this wretched man M. J. Goodwin as the holy Prophet Elisha did for himselfe in another case in these his words And Elisha said As the Lord of Hosts liveth before whom I stand surely were it not that I regard the presence of Jehosaphat the King of Judah I would not look toward thee meaning wicked Jehoram nor see thee so truly say I I professe sincerely were it not that I regard the sacred presence of precious Truth the blessed Son of the great Lord and King of heaven and earth As mean and unworthy a poor-servant of the Lord as I am I would disdain to have any thing to doe in the least measure with such a degenerous and ignoble and abominable Deceiver as Mr. John Goodwin is but I say for precious Truths sake and for Sions sake I could not hold my peace nor withhold my zealous pen Again in the 4th place to shew that this good man is most tenderly affected with love to the precious souls of men yea and he calls God upon his soul to record therein ô transcendent boldnesse and impiety that he has not the least touch of desire to be wise in the things of God either above or besides the written Word of God This most egregiously unblushing deceiver having heretofore most abominably abused the Authority of the sacred Scriptures and let him timely take heed lest for this and the rest of his abuses of Gods Word for the upholding of his damnable opinions that most fearfull curse of God fall upon him which the Lord himselfe hath denounced against those that adde unto or diminish from his holy Word or wrest it to their own wicked wills even the severe infliction of all the curses and plagues that are written in the Book of God and to have his name blotted out of the Book of life in his most bold and blasphemous book entituled Hagió-Mastix which book as is worthily noted by our learned and religious London Ministers in their most excellent Testimony hath these words and this positive assertion under Mr. John Goodwins own hand writing That it is no foundation of Christian Religion to believe that the English Scriptures or that Book or rather Volume of books called the Bible translated out of the Originall Hebrew and Greek Copies into the English Tongue are the Word of God A horrid and hellish indignity offered to God in his Word and a most intolerable and accursed injury offered to all Gods English people to ruinate as much as in him is the ground of their faith and salvation Now hereupon M. Goodwin having been by divers godly Christians with Divines and others much reproved for it and as diligent endeavours as could be made by some faithfull and zealous Christians in London and particularly by one Mr. Thomas Underhill an honest and Religious Citizen and Stationer who endeavoured to have him and his blasphemous Book to be called into question and him severely to be punished as justly he deserved by the Parliament though all in vain such potent props have these irreligious and rotten builders procured in Parliament both against Gods and mans Laws and all justice both Divine and Civill hereupon Mr. Goodwin begins to sweat and swagger and being rub'd upon his gall'd back to kick and winch most notoriously in print And first most furiously and therefore nonsensically thrusts forth a little more foam and froth of his mad-brain in halfe a sheet of paper which he most vainly and slashily call'd A Candle to the Sun hoping but in vain therewith for the present to have stopt the mouthes blinded the eyes and stifled the judgements of men but indeed thereby making the matter as bad or worse than it was before Whereupon hearing himselfe most justly still cry'd out on both in publike and private for that his most irreligious slandering of Gods sacred Word and most wickedly invalidating the divine authority of it especially in such a time when most impious and audacious Anti-Scrip●urists rose up among us boldly and blasphemously denying the Sacred Scriptures to be the Word of God At last the Lord it seems suffering him still to run himselfe out of breath in his accustomed blasphemies and damnable Errours as a just punishment of adding one accursed errour to another even unto his eternall perdition if not timely and truly repented and recanted he sets forth another hugely blustering book or rather

to all those religious and reverend Ministers of London the grave and godly Subscribers of the Testimony aforesaid In which discovery I will be as brief as may be and most faithfull by Gods grace in the relating of some of the most slanderous terms and impious scoffes and jeers put upon those grave and godly Subscribers In the very Title page of his Vitious visitation of Sion Colledge he scornfully terms the Ministers Testimony a Pamphlet pretended to be written by the Ministers of Christ in London Province in the same page he most falsly charges all the 52 Ministers with indirect and unchristian dealing In the first page of the book it selfe at line 8 he most proudly claims * Nebuchadnezars prerogative to retort here his own words most justly upon himselfe over all the 52 servants of God To slay whom he will and whom he will to keep alive To Saint his own Disciples and make Scythians of the most pious Presbyterians that stand in his way and oppose his most wicked and odious opinions and thus as he did before most abusively un-christian Mr. Prin so here he doth most barbarously Anti-christian at once all those 52 most learned grave and godly Ministers that have faithfully attested against him And in the same first page he calls the said reverend Ministers religious Testimony to the Truth of Christ Jesus in most inferiour contempt and scorn A few papers lately come out of the Presse calling themselve A Testimony c. and there also taxes them with impudency and boldnesse Page the third he jeers the Ministers in these words That those learned and pious men had so forgotten themselves in the body of their booke as to breake the head and Title of it Page 4. he tels the Ministers they have as imperiously sentenced Errours and Heresies as if the Chair of Papall infallibility were of late translated from Rome to Sion Colledge And in the very last line of this page he tels a downright lye of the Ministers concerning the Covenant And in the fifth page he jeers them with meerly and proudly tantologicall emptynes and in the same page slanders and jeers them about the Parliaments tolerating of Errours and Heresies Page 6. He tels them they have prefixed a single-coloured Title to a partie-coloured booke Page 9. He most notoriously jeers the Ministers thus 52 Church men in Conjunction with 60 Church livings And in the same page most wickedly belies slanders them Page 11 He calls them dissemblers shamelesse prevaricators unconscionable dealers and wicked men whose hearts did not smite them though they had unjustly drawn up a bloudie charge against him Page 16 He slanders the London Ministers and excepts not one of them all along with dissimulation and partiall connivence where they please and charges them all with most unworthy and contra-conscientious defaming of men jeering them with their double diligence together with the help of an evill eye And page 18 in one and the same line calls all the London Ministers Lyons and his brethren too Then it seems he is a brother of Lyons by his own confession Page 19 He slanders them to be stigmatizers of Gods Truth with the odious names of infamous and pernicious Errours and Heresies and most wickedly tels them that he findes the best of them all no better than bryers to their deep shame and confusion of faces And page 24 He most jeeringly tels the Reader he is arraigned at the Tribunall of Synon Colledge mark the jeer for an Heretick and hopes to help this lame dog over the style by a note in the marg. as he he says was informed These good Reader and such like are the fairest flowers in that Mr. Goodwins garden or rather the most stinking weeds on his Sion Colledge Visiting dunghill And at the conclusion of all on the back side of his Book or paultrey pamphlet he thinks to put off the Reader with two or three lines of litterall or verball faults or errata pusilla whereas from the Title page to the last line of the pamphlet 't is full fraught and all over staind and bespotted with little or nothing else than grosse and base abuses or ingentia menda mendacia And are these the fruits and effects of this pious and patient Gentlemans professions and protestations of such a tender temper and soft expressions to qualifie hard actions lest he harme the reputation of his Antagonists O intollerable jugling and dissimulation O abominable and even formidable white-Devill indeed thus to hope to gull and beguile the world with such gilded pils of hypocrisie and mischievous conzening We have an old adagie Ne Hercules adversus duos But this great Goliah scorning a single-duell with a little David as Mr. Walker Mr. Prin or Mr. Edwards must boldly and blasphemously bicker with the whole Army of the Lords Prophets 50 or 100 at once are nothing for this Garagantua to encounter and scuffle with Nay in his pride and cruelty to those 52 reverend Ministers that dare oppose his pernicious lying wayes he fears not and cares not to imitate yea transcend bloudy Nero that Roman Tyrant who wisht that all Rome had but one head that he might smite it off at one blow Nero's was but a wish but M. John Goodwins a reall wicked act who as much as in him was set all the heads of the reverend London Ministers precious reputation upon the shoulder of his pernicious pamphlet with the sword of his lyes and slanders smites and strives to cut them all off at one blow of his scandalous Calumniations And therefore to close up this passage and to passe to the rest that follows I will here make bold to make use of Mr. Goodwins own terms in his vile Visitation of Sion Colledge page 22 and retort his own Rhetorick into his own face in these words with a little addition Let the Sun of Christian ingenuity be ashamed and the Moon of humane candor be abashed for questionlesse such a sly and subtill Sophister such a grosse and grand impostor such a bold and un-blushing blasphemer hath not been found or heard of among the sons of nature or of God for many Generations O what a losse hath the Church of Rome sustained that Mr. John Goodwin turned not Jesuite all this while certainly had it been so but God be praised it is not so I think yet somwhat fear it ô what a fruitfull servant would he have been to have purloyned Proselites to that Antichristian Synagogue But now to proceed to a third tryall of this impious and and impudent Impostors integrity and simplicity of heart in the things which more immediately concern God and true godlinesse Againe in the Third place In that foresaid Epistle of his to the Lords and Commons in Parliament before his said * Book I could nor but even with astonishment of Spirit take notice of another notorious vapouring profession of his backt and bound up with an attestation to

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

According to the grace of God which is given unto me as a wise Master builder marke these words I have laid the foundation as a rule for others and others build thereon See then ô thou false tongu'd and rotten-wrangling-hearted Mr. John Goodwin does not the Apostle plainly here professe himselfe even a Master-builder and to have laid the very declarative foundation not the super-structure as thou most lyingly sayest But the super-structure is built upon this his foundation by other men as there thou seest the Apostle himselfe sayes but which thou only most boldly and blasphemously deniest And thou thy selfe hast thus built hay and stubble upon this faithfull foundation of the Apostle for the fire of Gods wrath to burne up in his day of reckoning and tryall And where now then is thy impious and brazen fac'd lying jeer most falsly put upon the learned and religious Subscribers of the Province of London who thou most slanderously sayest call and count thy denyall of the super-structure onely to be the foundation an infamous and pernicious Errour against the Scriptures And is not this * mad-man in Errours and heresie this desperate hereticall jugler thinke you quite and absolutely out of his wits and starke drunk with heresie thus to bluster with and thus to abase and abuse the sacred Scriptures of God and his grave and gracious Ministers thereof yea and all us English Christians also therein so as to make us believe that we are so silly and simple as to hold and believe that the bare or meer inke and paper the written or translated book or books the words or terms and he might as well have added the very falsities and errata in the translating or printing of some words in the Bible so barely and simply considered and separated from the substance sense and matter of the whole frame of Gods counsels and contrivements for the salvation of man by Jesus Christ therein contained and promulgated to the world are the Word of God and the foundation of our faith and Christian Religion and that as you heard before the Sacred Scriptures Originals Translations or written are but a superstructure not the very foundation of our faith and Religion If this then be not blasphemous malice or mischief or at best palpable pride to shew his flashie and frothy wit or down right hereticall rottennesse of heart against the Truth in this wretched man I know not what is Thus contrary to his own words before mentioned yea and to which he most desperately and audaciously calls God to record upon his soul That he has not the least touch of desire to be wise in the things of God either above or besides what is written in the Book of God Let God and man judge in this case whether this man be sober or mad in the things of God Certainly if I be not mightily mistaken this ungodly man hath most exactly acquired and gotten the Jesuites gin to cheat and coozen poor credulous souls only turning the terms a little Theirs was Si non Castè tamen Cautè and his is Si non Verè tamen Vafrè If not Conscienteously yet as craftily as may be And thus he can make even the sacred Scriptures themselves to speak what language he listeth to be Orthodox or Heterodox true or false valid or invalid even as he will and where and when he will And now in the fifth and last place In reading Mr. Goodwins foresaid paultry and pernicious pamphlet which he falsly and fraudulently calls The Divine Authority of Scriptures asserted I could not but with deep admiration take notice of another passage in his Epistle to the besotted Coleman-street Conclave sons and daughters of this their glastly Ghostly-father of Errour and Heresie in which Epistle in the page and lines noted in the margine hee hath these words I shall endeavour to leave as much of my spirit with you as I know how when my bodily presence shall be otherwise disposed of And again You are sayes Mr. Goodwin my present joy and will be I hope my future crown Now in reference to these proud supercilious self-stated expressions of this their holy-hearted Master John Goodwin who it seems hath a monstrous conceit of his own spirit that living or dead he would gladly hae it by a Pythagorean transmigration to come tumbling into the brests of his beloved or rather bewitched Proselytes I shall here therefore give the Reader a remarkable testimony of the fruits and effects of the precious spirit and deceitful desire of this hereticall Doctor of damnable Opinions in one of his tall grown Disciples and deare sons of his Coleman-street Conclave vi● bold and blustering Mr. Quarterman of Southwark lately deceased who since the printing and publication of Mr. Goodwins hatefull Hagio-Mastix had it seems sucked no little soul-murthering poyson from it and his other impious printing and preaching on the falsly-pretended asserting but indeed assaulting of the Divine Authority of the Scriptures Insomuch that this foresaid wretched atheisticall fellow M. Quarterman in the moneth of February last 1647 being in company with one Mr. Bisco an Independent Minister in the Parish or Precinct of Thomas in Southwark the said Mr. Bisco and he had private conference about the Scriptures wherein Quarterman took occasion to tell Mr. Bisco that indeed heretofore still before his reading of the Scriptures he used to put off his hat but of late he would not holding it meer Idolatry and Superstition Why sayes Mr. Bisco do you not hold the Scriptures to be holy and worthy to be reverently and religiously used and read or words to this effect No replyed Quarterman I hold and believe That there is no more holynesse in them than is in a Dogs-tayle Hereupon Mr. Bisco began to be much grieved and moved professing that he feared lest the house would presently fall on their heads and very sharply reproved him for those words but Quarterman according to his accustomed bold and insolent manner of carriage was as angry and testy as Mr. Bisco could be and gave out among his neighbours and acquaintances of his one Schismaticall condition that Mr. Bisco was a very frowards and passionate man and had used him thus and thus upon such an occasion whereof Mr. Bisco understanding on the Wednesday following a day of their accustomed set-meeting in their Church-way as they call it Mr. Bisco took occasion in the presence and audience of about twenty or thirty of them then met together in a sad and patheticall manner to acquaint his Congregation Quarterman also himself being then and there present among them to tell them the cause of his just displeasure at Mr. Quartermans wicked words against the Scriptures whereupon Quarterman again most blasphemously brake out into these or the like words That he would maintayne and justifie there was no more holynesse in the Scriptures than was in 20 in a 100 Dogs-tayls And within a day or two after