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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81181	A cup of sack prest forth of the best grapes gathered the last vintage, in the loyall converts new distempered vineyard. Which by frequent using, will make an old lame capon-eater, able to shake his legs, and dance as roundly and as nimbly; as a boy of 18. years of age. Published for the good of those that are so distempered through malignant humours; who may be cured at a cheap rate.		1644 (1644)	Wing C7597; Thomason E21_7; ESTC R14452	5,224	8

A CUP OF SACK Prest forth of the best Grapes gathered the last Vintage in the Loyall Converts new distempered Vineyard Which by frequent using will make an old lame Capon-eater able to shake his legs and dance as roundly and as nimbly as a Boy of 18. years of age Published for the good of those that are so distempered through Malignant humours Who may be cured at a cheap rate LONDON Printed by JANE Coe 1644. A Cup of SACKE IN the vintage of the new distemper there are wines various for different pallats but all Spanish I shall not taste of every sort nor present you with all the gathering but of each vessell that I have drawne take a taste The first is number 12. and that at the first sight seemes good to the eye So that the loyall convert himselfe confesseth That the piety of honest harted people was the first motive to weekely Lectures The more wretches they who went about to suppresse and hinder them But then he drinks to deepe of this cup and that makes him fall to railing against those weekely Lectures for abusing that pietie When as it is well knowen that it was the silken Prelates and there greasie Doctors and full fed Parsons and Vickers that abused both those honest harted people and the Lectures too and laboured to suppresse and silence them One of their fat doctours told his parishioners because they came not in so full a congregation to heare him as the Lecturer that they left the shooemaker to follow a cobler And in his answer in the next Sermon the Lecturer confessed that time was when they might have their work well done at first but now the Shoemakers take there stitches so scurvely that the people are faine to come to the poor cobler to have them mended Oh sayes he but these Lectures must please the people and that thereafter as their Lunaticke Doctrines wrought upon them so their maintainence ebbed and flowed But their actions declared the contrary for they did most of them suffer because they would not be men pleasers Bishop-Wren would suppresse Lecturers at Norwitch because they taught Gods word too plaine yet he liked the simple reader there that giving thanks for the recovery of one in the towne that had been gored with an Ox read the Rubrick for the Churching for women knowing no other wayes how to do it onely in stead of childe-bearing read Ox goring And poore Mallet Lewis Hewes and divers more were put to silence for curing those that were Lunaticke and possessed with devils by prayer and Eastings 〈◊〉 The Prelaticall Priests so there one estate flowed they cared not how their consciences ebbed nor how their poore peoples soules were starved The next glasse of this wine is pleasant to the pallate which made the convert say What more pleasing to the people then the preaching of liberty Betunder savour there were few such Lecturers put in by the people Indeed the lofty persons would sometimes force such upon the people as perticularly Doctour Fuller at Cripplegate forced Huet upon the parish and they must have him or none who would usually be at the play-house when the congregation staid for him at Church and sometimes five or six messengers sent to him to an Ale house and sometimes to a suspected bawdy house before he would come to them and such follower indeed would labour to sow pillowes under mens elbowes and preach liberty in sin this is sweete wine but much distempred And therefore in this he saith right that liberty is inlarged by being pierced with prerogative and had they been let alone a little longer they would have laid claime to the greatest piece too they began to overtop the crown But this distemper hath such an opperation that his sight begins to fail nay indeed he drinkes himself starke blinde and cryes out oh by setting up Lecturers down goes Authority and up goes priviledges down goes the Book of Common Prayer and up goes the spirit down goes learning and up goes Revelation And nothing will follow this but ignorance and Rebellion Thus poore purblinde simple people think to find heaven and salvation in the Book of Common Prayer and have been alwayes ready to pin their faith on the Bishops sleeves were led on in ignorance not knowing whither they were led shall we not goe to the word revealed shall we not seek to be guided by the Spirit of God shall we not have respect to the priviledges of a beleever They would have brought us to come to buy and beg pardons of them as the Papists are perswaded to doe and cared not how many souls they damned as one Rivers a notable Priest said we by our learning must find out wayes to keep the people in ignorance and prescribe rules to keep them in awe else they will by too much preaching gain too much knowledge But their distemper beginning to be more calme he saith that the Bishops never lost themselves so much as in putting down those godly Lecturers and in not taking care to set up better and more Orthodox then they suffered to be which had they been carefull for ought I know they might have stood to this day and England have continued in peace From numb 12. I will give you a taste of the next numb 13. of which the distemper of the opperation is very prelaticall indeed and put the Bishop into a high esteeme of his calling the wine pleaseth him well he drinkes all off to the bottome cocks his catercap sets up his arms on his sides like a Cavalier and saith Am not I a Bishop doe you not know me will you go to take away our government before another be pitched upon who had we neither prescription nor continuance without intercession nor the Authority of Parliament yet it seemes not consonant to reason nor policy to extirpate us or take away our government The Spanish wine vapours in his braine and he thinkes himselfe to be somebody And indeed it is no wonder they were grown so high for Canterbury threatned to make the Church of England low by a blow which should be given But God be thanked the Presbiteriall government is pitched upon which brings prescription with it for the Authority of Parliament But he tells us that liberty lies open to all schismes sects heresies and that sectaries grow bold vent their giddy headed opinions without controulment And indeed the drunken priests had never more liberty It is no more but turning Cavalier as there is good store of them in all the Enemies quarters and then he may drinke roare sweare whore at pleasure teach heresie schisme Blasphemy any thing which if he can doe personally he shall be made a Captaine or Lieutenant at the least of which Hastings hath at the least eight or tenne in his garrisons and good store were driven out of Oxford to follow the Army And for those Malignant Clergie that were lest in Oxford Doctour Vsher told these not long