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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

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 Printed in the time of Parliament 1643. THE PREFACE BEING A PRAYER O LORD GOD and most mercifull Father we beseech thee for the honour of thy holy Name to defend us from that Antichrist of Rome and from all his det stable enormities Manners Laws Altars Garments and Ceremonies Destroy the Councel of all Papists and Atheists enemies of thy Gospel and of thu Realme of England Disclose their mischiefes and subtill practises confound their devices let them be taken in their own wilinesses and strenghen all those that maintaine the cause and quarrell of thy Gospel with invincible force and power of thy holy Spirit so that though they be destitute at any time of worldly ayd and comfort that yet they fayle not to proceed and goe forward towards that true godlinesse commanded in thy holy Word with simplicity and sincerity to thy honour and glory the comfort of thine Elect and the comfusion of thine enemies through Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen Amen And say from the heart Amen A DIALOGVE WHEREIN IS PLAINLY LAYD OPEN THE TYRANNICALL DEALING OF LORD BISHOPS against Gods Children The Speakers are these Puritan Papist Iacke of both sides Idoll Minister Puritan YOU are well overtaken Sir doe you travell farre this way I pray you Iacke Towards London Sir Puritan I shall willingly beare you company if it please you Iacke With all my heart I shall be very glad of yours Puritan From whence came you this way Iacke I come out of France Puritan Out of what part of France came you I pray you I came from Rochell my selfe which is a part of France Iacke Is it so but I came not neare that place Puritan Out of what part of France came you then Iacke I came from Orleans Puritan I pray you what News from thence is there any likelyhood of Peace there Iacke Yes surely there is some hope of Peace for where the Kings powers come they doe commonly yeeld presently Puritan It is a good hearing Iacke What is he that comes after us so fast Puritan He seems to be some Preacher or dumb Minister it may be he goes our way if he doe I hope we shall have his company whereby we may passe away the time in some good conference and also heare what News there is at home here in England Iacke I am content Sir for I shall be glad to heare some good News me thinks I have bin very long absent from hence Puritan Very well we will goe the so softlier that he may overtake us I but by the way I pray you if you come from Orleans there they have the Masse for they are of the League and then I suppose you have bin partaker of their Idolatry Iacke No I assure you I detest all Idolatry even from my heart Puritan If you doe so I am very glad of it but I pray you let me heare if you can give me some proofe out of the Word of God for the confirmation of this your protestation against Idolatry Iacke I am content to give you a taste thereof whereby it shall appeare that I am farre from it For so dearely as I tender the salvation of my own soule so carefull am I to shun and fly from all Idolatry For it is written Deut. 6.13 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve And the Apostle Paul to the Gorinth 1 Epist cap. 10. vers 14. commandeth us to Flie from Idolatry for Idolatry is sinne and the mages of sinne is death c. Puritan It is well applyed and somwhat to the purpose I am very glad if it be done in singlenes of heart For me thinks you could not possibly be in that place but you must be forced to be present at their Idolatrous Masse Iacke I was never present at it in my life I thanke God but the Papists stick not to say that our Service Booke in English is a great part of it but a meere translation out of the mass-Masse-Booke Puritan Indeed it is true that most part of our Booke of Common Prayer as they say is a meere translation out of the Masse-Booke but yet there is no such Blasphemic and Idolatry tollerated in it as is dayly in the Masse although it greatly derogate from the Word and is full of great and grievous corruptions But I pray you how long were you in Orleans Sir Iacke I was there about a fortnight Puritan No longer Iacke No Sir Puritan Here comes the Minister now we will heare what News he can tell us he seems to be but an Idoll Shepheard we shall have some good conference with him I hope to passe away the time Minister You are well overtaken Gentlemen which way travell you I pray you Puritan Towards London and if it please God Minist I shall be glad of your company and if it please you Puritan We also shall be glad of yours Sir Iacke I pray you Mr. Vicar or Parson for so you seem to be what good News is there here at home in England for we have been both of us in France and we would gladly heare some good News Minist Indeed I am a poore Vicar truly we have no great good News here Sir For our Church is so sore pestered with Sects and Schismes that the Reverend Fathers and especially my Lords Grace of Canterbury are so sore troubled with them that they have no leasure to recreate themselves for those Fellows they are so bold and mallepert that they preferre Petitions to Her Majesty the Lords of the Councell yea and in Print to the High Court of Parliament Puritan Why Sir what be they that do this what doe you call them are they Papists Minist No they are worse then Papists for they are fant●…sticall Puritans and Brownists and I cannot tell what Puritan What be the points they hold that are so schismaticall and erronious Minist Forsooth they would have no Lord Bishop but every Minister to be of equall Authority one with another and so make a confusion in the whole State for they have set down a new platforme of Discipline forsooth as they call it they cannot tell what themselves Puritan I will tell you my opinion of Lord Bishops it is but an humane constitution and not warrantable by the Word but utterly forbidden and as for the Discipline you speake of I wish all Gods people would practise it Minist Oh I perceive you are one of these Fantasticall Puritans or Brownists I pray you out of what place of France came you Puritan I came from Rochel Minist I thought from Rochel Geneva or Scotland you seem to be a Bird of one of those nests Puritan Sir whatsoever I am I doe not doubt but to be able to prove by the Word what