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A78585	The character of a puritan; and his gallimaufrey of the antichristian clergie; prepared with D. Bridges sawce for the present time to feed on. By the worthy gentleman, D. Martin Mar-Prelat, Doctor in all the faculties, Primate and Metropolitan.	Mar-Prelat, Martin, Doctor in all the faculties.	1643 (1643)	Wing C1987; Thomason E87_11; ESTC R212793	19,559	29

dealt not so hardly with the Ministers as now he doth and that often in his Sermons at Northampton he would confesse that the Discipline was used and practised in the Primitive Church a long time after the Apostles Puritan It is very true and yet he saith in his Book against Martin that the holy Discipline is a platforme devised he knows not by whom And in another place of the same Booke he confestes that it was practised by the Apostles and long time after in the Primitive Church And upon the words where he saith it is not denyed there is pasted at the commandement of the Bishop of Canterbury It is not yet proved so that there is some jarre between themselves although these two are most conversant together and joyn in one to persecute sincere and faithfull Preachers of the Word and others of the Lords Children Iacke I had thought they would not have dissented one from another of them Puritan Why Sir in the 49. page of the same Booke the Bishop of Winchester saith the Bishop of Canterbury is a giddy head and to be bridled because he authorised Doctor Whitaker his readings against Bellarmine wherein the Apocripha is defaced And Mr. Doctor Some one of their affinite no we and a nonresident he calls the Archbishop of Canterbury An absurd Hereticke because he holds Baptisme administred by Women to be the Seale of Gods Covenant pag. 3. of his Booke against Master Penri and many like things I could cite to you of their dissenting one from another Iacke How like you of these things Master Vicker be not these good Fathers of the Church think you Minist I like never a whit the worse of them for your words for I know they are but slaunders Puritan Master Vicker you I know like well of them although the proofes that their adversaries doe bring be never so manifest and plain against them because you are in the same state or worse and may be in that you doe unlawfully usurpe your place and having no fit Gifts to discharge your duty in any measure Remember what the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 6.19 Woe to me if I preach not the Gospel this is rightly pronounced upon you and all such Idols as you are Minist If I read Sermons and Homilies is it not as much as if I preached for Mr. Doctor Bridges saith that reading is preaching Puritan The Lord hath promised no such blessing unto reading as preaching for the Word preached is the onely ordinary meanes to salvation But I pray you for your comfort heare what the Prophet Ieremy saith to you in the 48 Chap. Cursed be that man that doth the worke of the Lord negligently And Mallac 2.7 saith The Priestes lips should preserve knowledge and they should seeke the law at his mouth but how can you shunne this curse Master Vicker I pray God humble your heart that you may acknowledge your sinne and crave pardon at his hands and leave the Ministry lest the Lord with a strong hand throw you out to your everlasting woe Iacke Master Vicker he gives you good councell it were good for you to follow it if you doe not it will be the worse for you Minist Well Sir it is no matter there be as wise as he will give me other councell Iacke Why I see Master Vicker is obstinate he will not be perswaded by you Puritan Even as he will I speak my Conscience to him he may chuse if he will follow it or no. Iacke I marvell what good hospitality the Bishop of London keeps I have heard that he is very covetous Minist Indeed he doth keep a good house Iacke What doth not the dogs runne away out of his house with whole shoulders I think a man may as soone break his neck as break his fast at his house Puritan Surely I can say thus much by report of one that was his Chaplaine whose name is Haiward Vicker of Saint Martins by Charing crosse that often times when he dined at his Pallace in London he hath made his Servants to take the Fragments and carry them to Fulham but if there be any dainty morsell lest he will wrap it up in his Handkerchiefe and carry it in his bosome for feare lest his men should beguile him Iacke O Master Vicker you have a most bountifull Lord he is so liberall that he will not suffer the scraps to be bestowed upon the poore but to be kept for his Servants Supper Minist It is false for I have often seen alines given at his Gates when he hath lien at London Puritan I le tell you what I have heard him say at Panls Grosse my selfe upon a time following his text very well your must think he burst me out with a great exclamation of himselfe in that he was poore and had no money protesting what charges he had bin at and that Pauls Church can beare me witnesse saith he that I have no money And shortly after some of his own Servants being there present and heard him belike thought to make their good Lord a lyar● very shortly after rob'd him of certain hundred of pounds for which offence he was so good unto his men as to hang them up three or foure in number I although he had the most part of his money againe and some of the parties executed protested to their knowledge he had much more money at usury and that his servants lived only upon bribes Iacke A Bishop a Lyar and a Usurer nay surely Mr. Vicker if your Lord have those two faults it cannot be but he hath more so that for my own part I think him verily to be the Bishop of the Devill Puritan Nay Sir I can give you proofe for the same more that he is surely the Bishop of the Devill for Martin Mar-prelate hath set down a pretty thing in his Epistle to the terrible Priests that the Bishop of London when he throws his Bowle as he useth it commonly upon the Sabbath day he runnes after it and if it be too hard he cries rub rub rub and saith the Divel goe with thee when he goeth himselfe with it So that by those words he nameth himselfe the Bishop of the Divell but by his practise of tyrannicall dealing against the Lords faithfull Ministers not onely calleth but proveth himselfe to be the Bishop of the Devil Iacke Ha ha Master Vicker you see your Lord Bishop is a Devil by his own confession so indeed you are not the Lords Minister but the Minister of the Devil as your Lord Bishop is the Bishop of the Devil Minist You use your speeches at pleasure of my Lord it may be you will not so easily answer them when you are called thereunto Iacke Yes Master Vicker I warrant you Send a Pursuivant when you will for us and we will answer it if we cannot make our parts good enough we will send the Woman of Hampsteed to him Minist What meane you by that Iacke If you will needs have me I will

a Calling and being so farre unfit for it so many as perish for want of teaching in your charge their bloud the Lord will require at your hands Minist The Bishop knew my ability before he mad me Minister Puritan Well he stands in the state of damnation as you do and thus much I say unto you and to all Idoll Ministers and to him and all usurping Archbishops and Lord Bishops leave your unlawfull Callings into which you have intruded your selves and with speed repent and humble your selves before the Majesty of God confessing your horrible and grievous sins with Peters teares in that you are the caufe yea and also the very murtherers of so many soules as perish in your charges knowing that the Lord will in that great and terrible day require their bloud at your hands Iacke O Lord my heart quaketh to heare of so great and grievous sins as are in our Bishops and in the whole Ministry but our Bishops are the cause of all Puritan I will tell you Sir I am perswaded in my very Conscience that the Lord hath given many of our Bishops over into a reprobate sence for they do willfully oppose themselves against the Lord and his known truth yea and persecute it and I suppse them to be in the state of the sinne against the Holy Ghost for they have manifested in their published writings yea and pressed forth by Authority such horrible blasphemous Hereticall yea damnable Doctrines which my very heart trembleth to repeat in sort as they have set them down which if those whom they call Puritans should set down or hold the like errours and dangerous points I warrant you they should soon be cut off from the face of the earth and right well they were worthy Iacke Now Sir I pray you let me heare some of the points they hold and that are so dangerous as you say that I may be able to justifie it to our dumb dogs teeth at Austins Gate in London when I come home Puritan First you shall understand that the Bishop of London hath published in Print and that in an Epistle or Preface before Barnardeus de loques Book of the Church published in English that the Puritans may aswell deny the Sonne of God to be consubstantiall with God the Father as they may deny the superiority of Archbishops and Lord Bishops flat contrary to the saying of our Saviour Christ Luke 22. Iacke O monstrous and blasphemous wretch that to maintaine his fleshly pleasure will make such an odious comparison Puritan Nay what say you to a Bishop that hath two Wives and both now living Do you not thinke it is a thing tollerable in a Christian Common-wealth where the Gospel is professed Iacke No indeed doe I not I hope our Magistrates will not suffer such a Bishop to live it were monstious among common Infidels much more intollerable that a Bishop in such a Land as ours is where the Gospell is truly taught But I pray you is there any such now living Puritan Yes indeed is there and the Bishop of Saint Davids in Wales is the Man he is now living and both his Wives and yet still remaines a Bishop Iacke Is it possible that a Bishop should commit such an horrible act as this how farre are our Bishops from obeying the Commandement of the Apostle Peter who saith Feed the Flocke and be ensamples to the Flock what ensample ●s this And doth not the same God which saith Thou shalt doe no murther which is death by our Laws doth he not say Thou shalt not commit adultery And yet a Bishop to have two Wives at once and live in a Church professing the sincerity of the Gospell What say you to this Master Vicker is not our Church well governed think you Minist If it be true it is I must needs confesse a horrible thing and worthy of death but I do not beleeve it Puritan It is very true for the cause was brought before the High Commissioners at Lambeth and how it is smothered up among the Bishops and the rest of the Commissioners I know not yet but I could tell you the whole conclusion if I were at London but halfe an houre Iacke Why the suffering of this and other like villanies to be committed in our Nation are causes to stirre up the Lord to wrath against the whole Land whereby he may speedily bring his judgements upon us yea even to our utter destruction Minist It is so if it be true but I will not beleeve it Puritan Well for the truth of the matter I referre you to the High Commissioners where it is recorded with his Wives names viz. Elizabeth Gigge and Alice Prime Minist Indeed I have heard of the like before that you Puritans have put forth a Booke in Print under the name of Martin Mar-prelate wherein many such things are mentioned Puritan There is nothing set down in it but there is good proofe of the same and the Bishop of Winchester who took upon him to confute it hath confirmed it for the most part and that he denies is most true Iacke What did he undertake to confute it Alas he is altogether unlearned for I have heard of him in Oxford and the Papists say they can make him beleeve the Moone is made of greene cheese mary to get him a name forsooth being a Correcter with a Printer in Fleet-street in London who Printed a Dictionary called Sir Thomas Eliots Dictionary Cooper transsated a piece of Robert Stephanus his Thesaurus and joyned it to the same with a few Phrases and so bereaved the Famous Knight of his labour and calls it by the name of Coopers Dictionary how say you Master Vicker was not this a knavish tricke tell me Minist I say you deale very unreverently with my Lord for I can say nothing to the matter else for I know it not to be true Puritan What say you to this then Master Vicker did you never heare of your Lord Bishop of London who made the Dyars in Thames-street who were robbed by Theeves that stole their Cloath and brought it within his Liberties which when the poore Dyars hearing where their Cloath was and coming to the Bishop to demand their own goods he said if they would hang the Theeves he would then say more which the Dyars did and at their deaths confessed that to be the Dyars Cloath which the Bishop had but the poore men were never the neare for their Cloath nor cannot get it or any part of it to this day and this is confessed to be true by the Bishop of Winchester in his answer to Martin Mar-prelat published in Print by Authority wherein he saith it is the Bishop of Londons own by the Laws of the Land because it was taken within his Liberties marke he speakes nothing of the Law of God according to Conscience in keeping of Thiefe-stollen goods from their right owners for Conscience is fled from them it seems so soon as they are gotten to