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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28202	The assembly-man written in the year 1647.	Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679.	1681 (1681)	Wing B2962; ESTC R13117	9,122	17

made the Dumb Devil This one would think should gargle his foul mouth For his only hope why God should hear him against the King is the Devil himself that great Assembler was heard against Job His whole Prayer is such an irrational Bleating that without a Metaphor 't is the Calves of his Lips And commonly 't is Larded with fine new words as Savingable Muchly Christ-Jesusness c. and yet he has the face to Preach against Prayer in an unknown Tongue Sometimes he 's Founder'd and then there is such hideous Coughing But that 's very seldom for he can glibly run over Non-sense as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill When the King girt round the Earl of Essex at Lestythiell an Assembler complain'd that God had drawn his People into the Wilderness and told Him he was bound in Honour to feed them for Lord said he since thou givest them no Meat we pray thee O Lord to give them no Stomachs He tore the Liturgy because forsooth it shackl'd his Spirit he would be a Devil without a Circle and now if he see the Book of Common Prayer the Fire sees it next as sure as the Bishops were burn'd who compil'd it Yet he has Mercy on Hopkins and Sternhold because their Meeters are sung without Authority no Statute Canon or Injunction at all only like himself first crept into private Houses and then into Churches Mr. Rous mov'd those Meeters might be Sequestred and his own new Rithmes to enjoy the Sequestration but was Refused because John Hopkins was as ancient as John Calvin Besides when Rous stood forth for his Trial Robin Wisdom was found the better Poet. 'T is true they have a Directory but 't is good for nothing but Adoniram who sold the Original for 400 l. And the Book must serve both England and Scotland as the Directory Needle points North and South The Assembler's only Ingenuity is that he prays for an ex tempore Spirit since his Conscience tells him he has no Learning His Prayer thus ended he then looks round to observe the Sex of his Congregation and accordingly turns the Apostles Men Fathers and Brethren into Dear Brethren and Sisters For his usual Auditory is most part Female and as many Sisters flock to Him as at Paris on St. Margarets day when all come to Church that are or hope to be with Child that year He divides his Text as he did the Kingdom makes one part fight against another or as Burgess divides the Dean of Paul's House not into Parts but Tenements that is so as 't will yield the most Money And properly they are Tenements for each Part must be dwelt upon though himself comes near it but once a Quarter and so his Text is rather Let out than Divided Yet sometimes to shew his skill in Keckerman he Butchers a Text cuts it just as the Levite did his Concubine into many dead Parts breaking the Sense and Words all to pieces and then they are not Divided but Shatter'd like the Splinters of Don Quixot's Launce If his Text be to the Occasion his first Dish is Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver yet tells not the People what Pictures those were His Sermon and Prayer grin at each other though one is Presbyterian and the other Independent for he Preaches up the Classes yet prays for the Army Let his Doctrine and Reason be what they will his Use is still to save his Benefice and augment his Lecture He talks much of Truth but abhors Peace lest it strip him as naked as Truth and therefore hates a Personal Treaty unless with a Sister He has a rare simpring way of expression he calls a Married Couple Saints that enjoy the Mystery and a man Drunk is a Brother full of the Creature Yet at Wedding Sermons he is very familiar and like that Picture in the Church at Leyden shews Adam and Eve without Fig-leaves At Funerals he gives infallible Signs that the Party is gone to Heaven but his chief Mark of a child of God is to be good to Gods Ministers And hence 't is he calls his Preachment Manna fitted not to his Hearers Necessity but their Palat for 't is to feed himself not them If he chance to tire he refreshes himself with the Peoples Hum as a Collar of Bells do chear up a Pack-horse 'T is no wonder he 'll Preach but that any will hear him and his constant Auditors do but shew the length of their Ears For he is such an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that to hear him makes good Scholars sick but to read him is death Yet though you hear him three hours he 'll ask a fourth as the Beggar at Delph craves your Charity because he eats four pound of Bread at a Meal 'T was from his Larrum the Watch-makers learned their infinite Skrew His Glass and Text are equally handled that is once an hour nay sometimes he sally's and never returns and then we should leave him to the Company of Lorimers for he must be held with Bit and Bridle Who ever once has been at his Church can never doubt the History of Balaam If he have got any new Tale or Expression 't is easier to make Stones speak than him to hold his peace He hates a Church where there is an Eccho for it robs him of his dear Repetition and confounds the Auditory as well as he But of all Mortals I admire the Short-hand-men who have the Patience to write from his Mouth had they the Art to shorten it into Sense they might write his whole Sermon on the back of their Nail For his Invention consists in finding a way to speak Nothing upon any thing and were he in the Grand Seigniors power he would lodge him with his Mutes for Nothing and Nothing to purpose are all one I wonder in Conscience he can Preach against Sleeping at his Opium-Sermons He Preaches indeed both in Season and out of Season for he rails at Popery when the Land is almost lost in Presbytery and would cry out Fire Fire in Noah's Flood Yet all this he so acts with his Hands that in this sence too his Preaching is a Handicraft Nor can we complain that Plays are put down while he can Preach save only his Sermons have worse Sense and less Truth But he Blew down the Stage and Preach'd up the Scaffold And very wisely lest men should track him and find where he pilfers all his best Similes the only thing wherein he is commendable St. Paul himself having cull'd Sentences from Meander's THAIS though 't was his worst that is unchast Comedy Sometimes the Assembler will venture at the Original and then with the Translator of Don Quixot he mistakes Sobs and Sighs for Eggs and Collops But commonly for want of Greek and Latin he learns Hebrew and streight is illuminated that is mad his Brain is broke by a Brick-bat cast from the Tower of Babel And yet this empty windy Teacher has Lectur'd a War quite round the