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A93056	Holy things for holy men: or, The lawyers plea non-suited, his evidence proved insufficient, his foul mouth civilly wiped, and his arrogant railings admonished, and bridled; in some Christian reproofe and pitie expressed towards Mr Prynn's book; intituled, The Lord's supper briefly vindicated, (or rather indeed by him therein exposed, vilified, and profaned: and the conscientious ministry therein abused, injured, and affronted. By S.S. minister of the gospel.	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3037; Thomason E946_2; ESTC R207597	33,401	60

loved thee Because thou hast kept the word of my patience I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth Behold I come quickly hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy Crown Rev. 3. 8 9 10 11. I have no more to add but Beza 's short Epistle to his Diallacton which I shall apply to my self in this work Pacem aliorum quaerere pulchrum est habet certam promissionem Beati Pacifici Sed vereor hoc dum cupide sector ne quod eis qui pugnas diruunt evenire solet idem mihi quoque accidat Illi dum aliorum saluti consulunt ipsi reportant vulnera ego dum id operam ut dissidentes redeaent in gratiam ab i●sdem fortasse nullam inibo gratiam Id si fit illius exemplo me levabo qui dixit si hominibus placuissem Christi servus non essem Vale ac stude Christo placere S. S. Holy things FOR HOLY MEN OR The Lawyers Plea Non-suited his Evidence proved insufficient his foul mouth civilly wiped and his arrogant railings admonished and bridled c. I Cannot give a better censure of M r Pryns late Pamphlet then this That 't is a little Book and a great mischief the shame of the Author the grief of the Godly the strengthening of the Wicked and the wonderment of all and this I speak from what I have beheld and read therein He stileth his Book The Lords Supper Vindicated which makes me remember the old saying Tituli remedium Pyxides venenum for there is indeed Vindication in the Title but Profanation in the drift and event That kind of noble folly is fallen upon him that a Philosopher speaks of Non est Ignobilis gradus stultitiae vel si nescias quiddicas tamen velle de rebus propositis hanc vel illam partem stabilire To undertake something in things on foot though to little purpose In the perusal of his book I have chiefly observed Three things his shameless railing his weak impertinent and failing proof that he brings to confirm his opinion and his groundlesse assertions all which I could not let passe without such an Item as Austin gives Petilian Mira dicitis nova dicitis falsa dicitis Mira stupemus nova caveamus falsa convincimus You speak strange things new things false things The strange things we admire the new we beware and the false we confute And upon all we answer reprove and advise least the unhappy Author should in all this be wise in his own conceit First I say I have observed insulsa jejuna convicia his outragious grosse and insolent reproaches against conscientious Ministers their persons and doctrine Many besides him have taken that irreverend licence as Arminians Papists Anabaptists Quakers c. but as to barbarous base procacious scurrility Mr. Prynne hath surpassed them all And that you may see and hate such sordid vomits I have though loth to foul my Pen transcribed some of them The Ministers of the Gospel that are contrary to his opinion he termeth Novelists Politick charmers pag. 2. New Doctors pag. 6. Audacious a generation of Novellers p. 32. Liers Impostors new Dogmatists Lord Keepers of the great Seal of heaven who refuse to set those Seals where God hath prescribed them as more wise holy carefull of their profanation and nullity then God himself pag. 13. Hard-hearted uncharitable obstinate domineering Ministers domineering Tyrants renouncing the chief part of their Ministerial function and profest Apostates from the Doctrine and practice of Christs Apostles primitive Fathers Churches Christians Ministers of Christ throughout the world in former ages p. 57 and p. 88. we find almost a whole page loaden with such fruit of cursing and slander These are but a few of the wounds that we receive from our friend in whose calamity we put on sackcloth and behaved our selves as if he had been a friend or a brother and went heavily as one that mourneth for his mother This is a practick part of Machievills policie this is some of the deadly some that works out of Mr. Pryns mouth in this fit of his falling sickness Neither speeds the Doctrine of conscientious Ministers better then their persons He calls their doctrine that opposeth his conceit Fals vain absurd dangerous spreading error a self-interest against the institution of our Lord Jesus Christ Epist to Reader an Anti-sacramental absurd impious Paradox Pharasaïcal spreading leaven and Gangreen p. 1. A Cuckows song p. 13. pure non-sense in Divinity p. 14. Soul-starving cruelty p. 20. Soul-murthering crime p. 18. A most absurd unchristian untheological erroneous if not blasphemous assertion These are but a few gleanings of that Harvest of his that replenishes his book in a most odious manner This is the colour of Mr. Pryns tongue dyed red in the reputation of the Saints Behold here the growth of ill weeds in a good soil Is it not pity to see Jordane fall into such a sea of Sodom to see a man in reputation for wisdom with the foolish Emperor to make shew of so many Spiders to boast the greatness of his City to shew the greatness of his reading by the badnesse of his choice Truly I never believed Mr. Prynne had had so foul a stomach till I beheld and loathed the filthy vomit of that book of his Far be it from us to study so base a language as to return railing for railing good breeding civility and piety hath taught us better Better it is and yet it grievs us to do it to spread his book before the Lord with the perplexed words of David Psal 10. This thou hast seen O Lord for thou beholdest mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand c. For Mr. Prynne himself I shall onely tell him as Austin Petilian Whilst he willingly withdraws from our reputation he unwillingly adds to our reward and as learned Beza answered That Cyclops Heshusius Illyricus Haec vero cujus culpâ eveniant vide● Dominus judicabit At ●e neque Deus neque homines nisi serio resipueris à tot calumniis foedissimis mendatiis absolverit God will see and judge where the fault lieth and truly neither God nor men will ever forgive such calumnies and stinking slanders except you repent And let Mr P●ynne remember that hard speeches have judgment following them And if to call a brother Raca and fool be in danger of hell fire to call Fathers and Pastors of the Church of Christ Liers Impostors c. bringeth the Railer into danger of something The praise that the Bishop of Lincoln worthily gave King James Funeral Sermon May 7. 1625. pag. 51. may be the inglorious Trophey of Mr. Prynne However he lived awongst Puritans and was kept as a Ward under them yet he despised their opinion so what ever Mr. Prynne hath pleaded for Puritans and Non-conformists and conscientious men see his Perpetuity in Epist

Holy things FOR HOLY MEN OR The Lawyers Plea Non-suited his Evidence proved insufficient his foul mouth civilly wiped and his arrogant railings admonished and bridled IN Some Christian Reproofe and Pitie expressed towards Mr PRYNN'S Book Intituled The Lord's Supper briefly vindicated or rather indeed by him therein exposed vilified and profaned and the Conscientious Ministry therein abused injured and affronted By S. S. Minister of the Gospel Titus 1. 13. Rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith ● Tim. 3. 14. But continue thou in the things which tho● hast learned and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned them Mr. W. Pryn. Perpetuity pag. 344. The Sacraments do never convey any inward and spiritual grace which may truly regenerate and engraft men into Christ but where there is a hand of Faith to receive them and the grace conveyed by them Cupio propitiis auribus quid sentiam dicere sin minus dicam iratis Sen. Epist 59. London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside over-against the great Conduit 1658. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER And more especially to Mr Will. Prynne Esquire A While since I met an absurd ignorant Pamphlet under the name of one Dr Swadlin pleading for a Promiscuous receiving the Lords Supper by promiscuous sinners a Term as new as unsound and silly I meant to have said somewhat to his madness But perceiving by a later Pamphlet of his own that he is Fame infamia periturus and that 't is likely he writeth such trifles to get a miserable living I waved him not thinking it strange to read what I found there because they were his Neither hath it cost me any great expence of patience to hear such a Spittler as Joh. Spittlehouse in name and deed call us Judasses and all the ill-names that his worse heart hath invented and his loathsome throat spit forth against us Neither have I regarded the ignorant blarings of so base and silly an Almanack-maker as Will Lilly not worth his worthless profession I can as easily slight the ravings of Papists Anabaptists and pitiful Jesuited Quakers as the Lion the bawlings and yappings of a little Cur But to see a petty-martyr an old Professor and a learned one even a Mr. Prynne to fall from his own stedfastness to behold him watching over us like a Leopard and helping the Sons of Lot and hear him even him using as Mr. John Goodwin called it the very language of Dragons against us this grievs once for all and sick as I am I cannot but say to him as dying Caesar to his Brutus Etiam tu Prynne What is our Saul amongst such Prophets even such Prophets as the old Prophet was 1 Kings 13. will he bring us into a praemunire against God and our high trust and calling whilst he tells us a fair tale of what is our duty to do and indure when we find not one word for it in our Commission When I first saw Mr. Prynns book of the Lords Supper vindicated in the Title which came to my hand some few daies since I beheld it with such a spirit as Paul the Athenians Altar to the Unknown God for I perceive Mr. Prynne doth adore a conceit of he knows not what whilst under the Inscription of Vindication hee defameth profaneth and prostituteth the blessed Sacrament Therefore whilst he gives the empty name of a Vindication to his book let him give me leave to do the thing to vindicate the Lords Supper indeed from all wicked unholy bold intruders and usurpers and wherein he ignorantly mistakes himself I will declare unto him if he Please to trust me as willingly in mine as I would him in his Profession In his Book I am very sensible of his change of Spirit since he wrote his useful Book of the Perpetuity of the regenerate had some man then shewed him such a Book as this of his and fo●etold him You shall one day write thus he would have cried out What am I a Dogg that I should do such a thing Then he would have plucked out his eies for the godly Ministers zealous of Reformation but now they are become his enemies because we tell him the Truth And hereunto I cannot but note his fury railing impertinencies and false principles in his book and have laid down better not from my own judgment but from former and later judicious sound Divines at home and abroad I have also observ'd his pomp and confidence the matter and form of his whole book and to satisfie my self I have dared gently to prick his ratling full blown bladder to consider the paint of this Butterfly the feather of this Ostrich or rather the squallid wings of this flitter-mouse whereby I can easily judge according to the old rule Qui se habet pro sapiente hunc Deus homines habent pro ignaro For the profest refutation of the Book I do not look upon it as my work I know the Lawyer hath learned and pious Antagonists with whom I number not my self in point of ability yet a smal measure might be sufficient to answer 100 such Pamphlets or any other that I have had the trouble to see upon their subject My present writing and further I never intend is onely to enter my dissent and protest and not without good evidence to the truth against Mr. Pryns erroneous conceit for which I am grieved and for the reproaches he casts upon conscientious Ministers for the reproaches of those that reproached them are fallen upon me whilst our enemies rejoice that they have found our friend and Brother to be an Executioner rather to grieve then torment us that they have gotten our Demosthenes to write angry Philippicks against us even our own Prynne to implead us and open his mouth against us with a tongue of falshood and compasse us about with words of hatred and fight against us without a cause for our love he is our adversary but we give our selves unto praier vide Psal 109. and our praiers return into our own bosome our hearts are fortified his spittings upon us are wiped off and soul-establishing consolations and promises are applied to the condition calling and person of every godly Minister They shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against the for I am with thee saith the Lord to deliver thee Jer. 1. 19. In nothing terrified by your adversaries which to them is an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God Phil 1. 28 vide Genev. Bezae not as I know thy works behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it for thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and not denied my name Behold I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan which say they are Jews and are not but do lie Behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have

the divine Institution Antonius Praetorius expresseth himself In Homiliis de Coena pag. 248. Vana est questio c. 'T is but a vain question whether the wicked and unbelieving eat the Lords body when the very Symbols of it belong not to them and 't is as impossible that they should eat the flesh of Christ as for a monster without eie hand or mouth to see take or eat And there further The Sacraments are seals of the promises and Covenant of God therefore no man ought to use them but such as find themselves in Covenant and believe the promises of God pag. 246. Bastinguis in his Catachisme quest 82 puts the question May they be admitted to the Supper that declare by their life that they are unbelievers or ungodly No in no wise for by that means the Covenant of God is prophaned c. and by and by in the Explic. saith he if they provoke the wrath of God who without examining themselvs do come to the holy Supper how much more shall God be provoked to wrath if the Church it selfe do wink at such grosse sins in those that receive Which saith he being so if they do offer themselvs to communicate with the rest of the members of the Church it shall be the duty of the Pastors to use the keys given by Christ too that end and by the Authority of them to bar such men from the Supper till there appear in them Testimonies of repentance and change of life This is not like Mr. Prynns Doctrine GERHARD In Loc. Com. de coena cap. 20. numb 215 enters a vaste and learned dissent from Mr. Prynne Num nostra sententia est What saith he do we say that in the Eucharist those that continue in sins and persevere in them against conscience and retain a purpose of sin nor bring the fear of God nor repentance do receive remission of sins No verily but we teach in expresse words that impenitent ones and such as continue in their sins against conscience eat and drink judgment to themselvs And in cap. 21 Numb 223. hee 's larger yet but 't is worth the reading even of Mr. Prynne himself Notorii peccatores c. Notorious sinners which obstinately continue in their sins and wickedness against their consciences nor give any evidence of repentance such are not to be admitted to the holy Supper As well for the dignity of the Sacrament Matth. 7. Give not that which is holy to doggs nor cast your pearls before swine for such are impenitent persons that continue in the filth of their sin As also for the danger that redoundeth unto them for unworthy receiving 1 Cor. 11. 27. Who eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation As also lastly for the Communication of anothers sin of which a Minister makes himself partaker that admitteth notorious impenitent sinners to this holy Banquet 1 Tim. 5. 22. Be not partakers of other mens sins These are the words of Gerhard unto which he adds the expression of Chrysostme in his 83 Homily on Matth. before mentioned that that zealous Father would rather lose blood and life then to the wounding of his conscience admit unworthy persons to the holy Supper yea saith he further if the unclean were kept from the passeover Numb 9. 6. How much more are they that abide in the defilement of great sins without true repentance to be kept from the holy Supper If one that is called a brother 1 Cor. 5. 11. be a fornicator c. with such a one no not to eat how much lesse are they to be admitted to this heavenly Banquet And so he goes on as Mr. Prynne may read more then heart can wish unto which he may add the perusall of 22 and 23 chap. and in cap. 23. num 251. There was saith he in the antient Church a publick confession of Publick scandalls and a private confession made to the Minister of the Church that he might try the examination a man had made of himself whether he did acknowledg his sin with serious remorse and embraced Christ with faith and had a serious purpose to mend his life for by this means not by M. Prynns way the impenitent were reformed the negligent excited the the rude instructed the dejected were comforted with evangelical consolation and the unworthy use of the holy Supper was prevented This is the large and faithful testimony of Gerhard Our own excellent Whitaker is larger then to be transcribed Tom. 1. fol. 94. We must not say that he ears the body of Christ which is not in the body of Christ for they cannot be accounted members of Christ and a little further he addeth He that comes without faith to the Sacraments doth not onely not beget grace but doth make fearfull shipwrack of grace and salvation he that hath no faith receiveth damage by the Sacraments but obtains not grace and salvation Mr Hooker Eccl. pol. lib. 5. Speaking largely of the Sacraments as I noted before Saith Sacraments are not physicall but moral instruments of salvation duties of service and worship which unlesse we perform as the Author of grace commandeth they are unprofitable for all receive not the grace of God that receive the Sacraments of his grace c. Mr. George Gelespie did with his Arons Rod point to more learned and better principles then Mr. Prynn had the happiness to receive I shall note him nothing in particular but refer him to the book it self and the earnest perusall of it once more Dr. Feild lib. 5. cap. 22. M. Perkins Dr. Preston Calvin Musculus Zanchie Amesius Scharpius Willet Bishop Andrews Medit. Lord's Supper cap. 18. Reynalds And lately the Reverend and most industrious Mr. Baxter and a very great number of other witnesses of the truth of God whose names are in the book of Life might be produced If the case required it or this smal tract contain them Onely I crave leave that I may produce one materiall witnes more whilst I must affront Mr. Prynne Gentleman the Author of that Book called the perpetuity of the regenerate mans estate Printed 1626. To Mr. Prynne Esquire the Author of the Scandalous pamphlet now under censure O that ever any mans vast abilities should be so blasted and dwindled into such a pittifull piece of nothing upon such an unworthy if not ungratious subject and in such a scambling pamphlet See whether he hath not don by us what he then complained of in others Then he pitied the Puritan Ministers now with Caligula he wishes surely wee had all but one neck and at his mercy He saith there in his Preface There alwaies hath bin are and shall be a generation of men upon the earth which shal be hated scorned persecuted reproached reviled accused slandered and condemned even of all sorts of men for Mr. Prinn's own worship for no crime no cause o● sin at all but onely for their new gratious godly holy lives and for their detest and hatred of all kind

Authoritatis homines arbitri disceptatoris partes agam quis sum enim ego ut hanc cogitationem suscipiam Sed tamen quando ita tulit occasio QUIS MEUS SITANIMUS Quae QUOTIDIANA SUSPIRIA volui ecclesiae Dei Testari I do intreat those that shall looke upon this Apologie even I indeed the lowest of you all that wee may consider not who kindled these flames but by what manner of way wee may thorowly quench them there is too much strife and railing too many criminations and Apologies neither whilst I write these things have I any thought that such an inconsiderable person as my selfe may take upon mee to be an Arbiter or Judg amongst men of such learning and Authority for who am I to have such a thought Yet because the occasion hath thus hapned I have thought fit to testifie to the Church of God what my mind is and what my dayly prayers are FINIS Bookes Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Sign of the three Crowns c. A Learned Commentary or Exposition upon the first Chapter of he second Epistle to the Corinthians by Dr. Richard Sibbs published for the publick good by Thomas Manton Folio The Journal or Diary of a thankfull Christian a Day-book of National and publick personal and private passages of Gods providence to help Christians to thankfulness and experience By John Beudle Minister of the Gospel at Barnstone in Essex large 8. Mr. Robinsons Christian Armor in large 8. Book of Emblems with Latine and English verses made upon Lights by Robert Farly small 8. A most Excellent Treatise concerning the way to seek Heavens Glory to flye Earths vanity to fear Hells horror with godly prayers and the Bell-mans summons 12. Johnsons Essayes expressed in sundry Exquisite Fancies The one thing necessary By Mr. Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook 8. Sion in the house of mourning because of Sin Suffering being an Exposition on the fifth Chapter of the Lamentations by D. S. Pastor of Vpingham in the County of Rutland Groane of the Spirit or a Trial of the truth of Praier A Handkercher for Parents Wet-eyes upon the death of their Children or Friends Four profitable Treatises very usefull for Christian practice viz. The Killing power of the Law The Spirituall Watch The New Birth Of the Sabbath By the Reverend William Fenner late Minister of Rochford in Essex Peoples Need of a living Pastor at the sunerall of Mr. John Frost M. A. by Mr. Zach. Crofton Catechiz●ng God's Ordinance in sundry Sermons by Mr. Zachary Crofton Minister at Buttolphs Aldgate London the second Edition corrected and augmented A coppy-Coppy-book methodized and ingraven by Thomas Crosse where in fair writing is exprest by which one may learn to write of himselfe that can but read The godly mans Arke in the day of his distresse discovered in Divers Sermons the first of which was preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elisabeth Moore Whereunto is anexed Mrs. Elisabeth Moores Evidences for Heaven composed and collected by her in the time of her health for her comfort in the time of sickness By Ed. Calamy B. D. Pastor of the the Church at Aldermanbury Enchiridion Judicum or Jehosaphats Charge to his Judges Together with Catastrophe Magnatum or King David's Lamentation at Prince Abners Incineration By John Livesey Minister of the Gospel at Atherton There are going to the Press some new pieces of Mr. William Fenners late of Rochford in Essex never yet Printed preserved by a special Providence o●e of which is a Second part of his wilfull impenitency being five Sermons more that he preached upon the 18. of Ez●kiel and the 32. ver A theatre of flying Insects wherein ●●p●cially the manner of right ordering the Bee is excellently described with discourses Historical and Physicall conce●ning them with a Second part of meditations and observations Theological and Moral in 3 Centuries upon the same subject by Samuel Purchas M. A. in 40. The Gale of oportunity and the Beloveb Desciple by Thomas Froysell in 80. Moses unvailed with the Harmony of the Prophets Reformation in which is reconciliation with God and his peopl By William Guild Mr. John Cotton his practical Exposition on the First Ep●stle of John the second Edition corrected and inlarged The Wedding Ring fit for the Finger in a Sermon at a Wedding in Edmonton by William Secker FInding my labors have found such kind acceptance such good entertainment amongst my honest Countrey men it hath incouraged me this seventh time to write for their benefit although this book may prove fruitless to many because not understood nor regarded yet some few may be of that spirit as to comprehend it imbrace it if not openly profess it yet secretly believe it for upon my soul it is truth written in love to those that are afflicted with these distempers commonly called New Diseases And I have taken up the Cudgils in defence of my Predecessor Dr. Culpepper intending to amend his deficiency in point of Art or better to finish where he left off He besieged the Diseases I hope I shal storm them cause the Enemy to fly or yeeld to my medicines which medicines the Colledge if they please may use for the good health of poore Christians Next I am to advertise you that no books are printed without some faults There is not a writer in the world but if Critical fools will he may find some fault or other with his writings to carp at Every man may look into himself before he despises another and whosoever he be let him either allow or amend anothers writing I fear no mans rash censure nor will I plead for the Corrector and Compositor the ingenuous have not onely judgment to discern but courtesie to pass by smal● faults The most remarkable are these following IN the Apologue l in 18. r. prove l. 20. r. my l. 26. r. 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