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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

most mercilesse and wicked uncharitable charity of this notorious dissembling Saint in pretended meeknesse and innocencie thus to un-christian such a truly religious Gentleman and to make a Turk or Infidell of him Tantaene animis coelestibus irae These together with many other such like rotten rubbish of his rancorous pen did that Prelaticall Priest cite and reciteout of Mr. Goodwins said base Book too tedious and irksome here to relate thus to abase and abuse that most pious and precious Gentleman Mr. Prin. And tell me now good Reader is not this a temperate moderate and meek spirited Saint thus to abse a man far more righteous than himselfe a man whom God himselfe hath most highly honoured not only to believe but gloriously also to suffer and beare about with him on his body the most honorable marks of martyrdome for the truths of the Lord Jesus Christ and yet this Mr. Goodwin most like an impudent and notorious Whetstone-lyer and prodigious hypocrite to protest he never knew or was not conscious to himselfe ah brawney and cauterized conscience that he had ever wronged man woman or childe and how tender hee good man was of the reputation of his mistakers lest they also might suffer therein by his means O egregious dissimulation of as unparallel'd an Impester I thinke as ever was read or heard of But now to proceed Thirdly to instance no more as I might many others even any that have written against him or made any sound or solid discoveries of him and his rotten hereticall heart and who to purpose have pinch'd his sore gangren'd gall'd-back How most abominably and basely unscholarly yea unchristianly hath he also abused learned religious pious and painfull M. Edwards of honorable memory both in his most scurrillous Cretensis also in his as weak as wicked-work and lying lines in answer to M. Edwards his elaborate and learned Schismatick-stinging Antapologia in both which base books and most paultry pamphlets of his because he was utterly unable to refute Mr. Edwards his invincible truths against him and his Schismaticall crew with strong and convincing arguments O! with what base and bitter terms he falls a rayling calumniating and slandering of Mr. Edwards his person and parts just like a Billings-gate-brawler or a Turn-again-lain-Scold most falsly as all ingenuous and judicious Scholars know and maliciously slandering this learned and religious Gentleman and solid Divine with familiar non-sence in his writings want of Grammar-learning yea of ability to write true-English and most shamelesly calling and counting him a man totally void of wit or understandeng grace goodnesse and honesty in such an uncivill and even bruitish manner as if he himself indeed had dofft quite thrown away all conscience Religion and honesty yea even humanity it self or manly nature and nurture and were fallen out of his wits and stark-mad and all because worthy Mr. Edwards had like a faithfull Physician and skilfull Chyrurgeon or exact Anatomist curiously cut out and launched to the quick and found and laid open to the eyes and understandings of all impartiall and unprejudic'd Ones the most noysome and odious Leprosie of Mr. Goodwins pestilent and pernicious rotten heart both in Mr. Edwards his famous Antapologia and in all the three parts of his gallant Gangrena to Mr. Goodwins eternall indelible shame and deserved infamie with all truly religious judicious and ingenuous both Scholars and Christians but the particularizing of all which Mr. Goodwins most base and unworthy dealing with M. Edwards as is above only most briefly touched I have here purposely omitted to avoid prolixity the rather because both those Mr. Goodwins base books and most paultry pamphlets were so lately written and those his abominable abuses therein scattered and bespattered are so fresh or rather stalely-stinking I doubt not in most mens memories And thus as you see hath this monstrous and most malignant Rabsheca railed on and reviled these faithfull servants of the Lord notwithstanding yea most contrary to his foresaid most false and fallacious profession of such a tender temper toward the reputation of other men and of being so fair and facile a sufferer of pretended wrong done unto him rather than a doer of wrong to man woman or child in word or deed And thus most like a mad man and one directly out of his wits or like a swaggering Swashbuckler crost in his humour hath Mr. Goodwin without fear wit or honesty with his most licentious and pernicious pen even most stupendiously abused such eminent and excellent religious grave and godly Gentlemen as I may confidently avouch and easily justifie have more true piety honesty conscience and constancy in holy things in either of their little fingers than this puffie-Puck-fiste Mr. John Goodwin has in all his fat-fed body hollow heart and all And now in the fourth and last place though when I wrote the third instance immediately before this I intended no more instances for the proof of this second tryall of Mr. Goodwins honesty or rather the discovery of his notorious hypocrisie yet there now about this time comming forth in print another most paultry pamphlet of this our unblushing Cheater and bouldest Champion for Schisme and Heresie entituled Sion Colledge Visited whereas hee might have been better busied in having been as he is a vitious Visitor of his own Coleman-s●reet Conclave and finding it so full of filthy weeds of slander calumnie against all the Religious reverend Subscribers of a book of those our famous and faithfull London Ministers entituled A Testimony of the truth of Jesus Christ c. too easily observing the Lord knows with grief of heart that M. I G. had therein also most fouly and falsly abused All of them being about 52 in number at its first impression with most scandalous terms and jeers and all because they also had so neerly toucht his copy-hold of Heresie and stung the gaul'd back and cauterized conscience of this most impious Impostor and scelerous Schismatick I hence therefore perceived what store of matter he had administred more and more to shew and set forth his abominable hypocrisie and dissimulation both with God and men as briefly thus it shall now most plainly appear Whereas this notorious Dissembler had as I mentioned before most proudly falsly and fallaciously protested and boasted In his Epistle to the Lords and Commons in Parliament aforesaid How tender he was of the reputation of those that had mistaken him in his words or writings as to qualifie their hard actions with his soft expressions lest they might possibly suffer by ought he should write in his own vindication professing also that he was not conscious to himselfe of the least wrong done by him to man woman or childe in word or deed See now good Reader how he hath performed those protestations of his even the clean contrary way just as he did with those other three most eminent and well deserving Gentlemen aforesaid

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