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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

since in a Sermon that they might be ashamed so to dishonour that Reformation they intend to seeke by being so deboist The next fort of this distempered wine which is Num. 14. makes the loyall convert maudlin drunke and he falls a crying and sayes Oh woe is me what shall I doe why what is the matter man why we have made many complaints against the independents and cannot be relieved and we are afraid to complaine any more Why what is the matter what doe they doe to you Why they challenge us to despute with us in the open Churches the most learned of us all And indeed now I remember the man speakes truth they have bin often challenged Major Lilborne challenged the Archbishop himselfe to dispute with him And it should not be a shame for a Prelate to be pusled in dispute with a lawman But is this all that troubles him and puts him in such a distemper no he saith that when they are come home from hearing of a Sermon they use to pray to God for a blessing at their own houses or lodging on what they have heard Indeed this may make our Enemies weak for our prayers doth us good but them 〈◊〉 prayers of the Church do not meane of the separation only I though not exclude them neither is a strong Bulwarke against the Popish 〈◊〉 Prelaticall Enemy But to coole his stomake he mixes the water of Dow river with his distempered wine and tell us of prophinations there which through the great distemper he was in if he be guilty of God forgive him no doubt they are wicked people in all parts of the Kingdome but your Priests Jesuits and fryers sprinkile their holy water at Masse among you every day and there will a speedy course taken with those that are ●ound so superstituous here Then he tells us that many have been convicted of blasphemy which is very true and Mr White hath put out one centry and there are almost ten times as many upon record and yet these are those he calls learned and Religious ministers which are plundred sequistred imprisoned and is there not just reason for it for they have not had the least share in the raising of these Wars in bringing the guilt of all the blood thereby shed in this Kingdome since the Warres began But still weeping he cryes out against heresie for the Papists call Protestants hereticks Oh they turn Popery out of doores and we shall go for company or at least be forced to shroud our selves in corners as the sectaries did before Oh the fear of this goes to the very heart of them that whereas they thought to have thrust out the Protestant Religion and all power put into their hands and to have setled Popery that now they are not only disappointed but we have hope to not only settle but Reforme the true Protestant Religion in great purity this breakes the heart of them for now their hopes are lost The next taste is num 15. in which the Loyall convert undertakes to tell us some though weak grounds of upholding Popery and Prelacy 1. That Episcopasie is a government coetaneous with this your almost out-dated Religion But those Bishops were nothing coetaneous with our Prelates till Popery made them so In Phaochases time they began 2. That the rubricke of Common Prayer is a booke established by many Acts of Parliament So is the Masse booke 3. To be positived obedient to the King is a duty commanded by Gods own mouth must we obey him if he command against Gods commands 4. That the Clergie are the Ministers of peace therefore not to preach for blood yet they began this warre by contribution to the King against the Scots 5. That those who have sworne canonicall obedience to their ordinary ought not to take the Covenant against Popetry and Prelacy as if the Prelates league was more viled then our Covenants with God which binde us to it 6. Those that have taken the oath of Allegiance and the Protestations ought not to resist the power of their Prince which power is in Parliament and therefore the Prelates abused themselves and there owne actions are hereby to be censured These be his grounds wherupon he would traduce us to beleeve that we are bound to submit to the Papists now in Arms against us But God hath taught us better things and to him wil we trust Then comming to numb 16. the destempered man having well drunk and it may be slept upon it too raiseth us his sences with a fresh cup of sacke which makes him prattle like a nimble Lawyer pleading the Popish cause of the Enemy even they who one and acknowledge the doctrine of the Church of Rome which gives up to understand that some have a dispensation whereby there publike acknowledgement for the present is not exacteed at Rome well the loyall favourite pleades hard in their behalfe 1. That they may not be banished because they have the Kings power and he that resisteth the power shall receive damnation Rom. 13. and to get the Kings power is to make him guilty of pergerie A strange cup of wine and yea this was brude at Oxford by the Loyall convert surely since he turned Papist 2. That the Papists may not be disinherited because there is no law for it yet there is a law because they rise and joyne in Armes against the Parliament 3. That to take away the lives of those that are Romish Catholiques is murder what may the Papists rob spoile steale kill raise and continue Warres against us and to kill them in opposing them herein is this murther and is this that which they do for the defence of the Protestant Religion yet this is the doctrine preached at Oxford and printed there by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the Vniversity but a weeke or two since Titled the new istempered Frst written by the Author of the Loyall convert And therefore to conclude making some use of his own words where O where are you most Royall Soveraigne where O where are you the great Counsells and grave senators of this fading Kingdom where O where are you the learned Colledge of the assembly of divines where O where are you renowned citizens of London where O where are you the great Armies of the Kingdome where O where are you all the Protestants of this languishing Island Are ye all fallen asleep we perish and is there none to awake you open your eyes unlocke your eares and molifie your hearts Behold Behold the miseries of your land and if compassion be not banished from the earth pitie O pitie the approaching ruines of this your groaning this your native Kingdom Hearen O harke to the sad complaints against these proul and insolent Papists and prelats And if your hearts be not of Adamant relent and take speedy care for the setling of this disquieted state Let the breath of this distempered Kingdome contracted into one extream sigh move you to the speedy endeavours of a timely cure examine her distempers Enquire into her constitution and purge out that unhappy popery which doth so disquiet us Let not popery crush us to pieces nor the children of your mother starve in the land of bread and let not the foundation of your naturall Kingdome be longer dabled in unnaturall blood to uphold them Turne O turne your eyes upon her breaches and let not strangers Lord it in her gates how many English Irish French and Flemish papists and of other nations among us seek our ruine For the mercies of that God which hath been merciful to you let not millions of Protestants be murdered and massacred by them with millions of poor children that know not their right hand from their left suffer not your wives and daughters to be ravished and deflowred but joyne as one man against the Common Enemy For the Lord and for his cause Vp Protestants the Papists be upon you FINIS