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A20393	A dialogue. VVherein is plainly laide open, the tyrannicall dealing of l. bishopps against Gods children vvith certaine points of doctrine, vvherein they approue themselues (according to D. Bridges his judgement) to be truely the bishops of the Diuell.	Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.; Marprelate, Martin, pseud, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 6805; ESTC S109672	18,572	34

nowe otherwise troubled with matters of state that he cannot intend it or if he coulde yet it is not for him so to abase himselfe in regarde of his high calling which he is nowe placed in Puritan As though the cause of God were to be neglected in respect of his high place if he were lawfully called thereunto as he doth very vnlawefully vsurpe the same contrarie to the lawe of God for is it possible he can be the true minister of God a temporal magistrate that is to serue God and Mammon to As th'Apostle saith Let him that hath an office attend vppon his office and not offices Minist Why howe dare you presume to say soe Were not L. Bb. established by her Maiestie consent of the whole parliament Puritane I graunt they were but the Lorde hath saide contray in the commaundement he gaue to his ministers Luk. 22. saying The kings of the gentiles raign over them and they that beare rule over them are called gratious Ll. but yee shall not be so but let the greatest amonge you be as the least and the cheefest as him that serueth and 1. Pet. 5. Feede the flocke of God which dependeth vpon you caring for it not by constrainte but willingly not for filthie luker but of a readie minde Not as though ye were Lords over Gods heritage but that yee may be ensamples to the flocke And in the first session of parliament holden in the first yeare of her Maiesties raigne there was neuer a Lorde B. in the lande Minist If you wil haue noe L. Bb. howe shoulde the Church be gouerned then Puritane Accordinge as our Sauiour Christ hath commaunded as the holy Ghost hath set it downe vz. by pastors Doctors Elders and deacons Rom. 12. Ephes 4. 1. Cor. 12. Minist You are very full of scripture as though we haue not the same offices in effect though not in the same titles as for example haue not wee Parsons for Doctors Vickers for Pastors Churchwardens for Elders and Sidemen for Deacons to distribute to the poore Puritane And what for Archbishops and Lorde Bishops Jacke I will tell you for him Archbishopps for Popes and Lord Bishops for Cardinals Ha ha M. Vicker I see you are a good Churchman doe not you vse the pulpit sometimes Minist Noe indeede sir but I reade the Homiles somtimes and the Queenes Injunctions and doe my dutie as other ministers doe Puritane Me thought so by that fitte comparison that you haue made Jacke And haue you no more but one benefice neither and yet do all that Minister Yes in deede I say seruice at two more but I haue little profit by them marie the best is they are somwhat neere for they are all three within foure miles together Puritane And how can you serue them al vpon the Sabboth day Iacke Some of them are but small and I can make quicke dispatche with them betimes take my Mare and r de to the other and can make an ende of all by ten of the clocke and spende an houre with good fellowes at home before dinner to Puritane And Mast Vicker do you thinke herein that you discharge your duerie to God and those congre gations ouer whom you haue taken this charge Minister Why sir I discharge my duetie better then those that take vpon them foure or fiue Puritane Why is there any that takes vpon them the charge of so many Minister Yea a hundred in England Puritane Well I will cell you the fearefull judgements of God hangs ouer our heades and cannot be long deserred but fall vpon the whole land where to such dumbe idolls as you are is committed the charge of soules and to your selues eternall destruction of bodie and soule wherefore M. Vicker as you tender your owne saluation leaue this your vnlawfull calling of the ministery and betake you to some occupation or husbandrie Minist I care not what any of you spightfull Puritans say so long as I can haue the fauor of my Lorde Bishop Jacke I pray you M. Vicker let me spurre a question vnto you if I may be so bolde where do you serue Minist I serue in Middlesex Sir Jacke Who made you minister Minist My good Lord of London Puritane Like enough he hath made a greate many of blinde guides in his time besides you for hee made the Porter of his gate minister of Paddington being blinde Jacke O monstrous is this true did he so indeede Puritane It is most true for the Bishop of Winchester hath recorded it in a booke of his set forth in print Jacke Why what will our Bishops growe to in time if they be suffered for me thinks this is a feareful thing to make such ministers as can neirher see nor speake for it is like if he were his porter no doubt of it he had not the gift of teaching Puritane Very true but because he could doe him noe longer seruice he was so good to him to prouide for the poore blinde man that he might liue Jacke Sure I thinke when they come once to be Lords they cleane forget God and al godlinesse for I haue heard that there was some good thinges in him before he was Bishop of London for he wrote a book called the Harborowe of faithful subiects against Bishops wherein he saith Come downe yee Bishops with your thousands and betake you to your hundreds let your fare be Priestlike and not Princelike c. Puritane Indeede he wrote such a booke and the same words that you repeate I haue read in the same but alasse when he was at the best he was but a corrupt man and the best things in it sauor but of earth for there is many things handled in it very immodestly and vnchristianly but one thing especially he setts downe there which himselfe practiseth cleane contrary where he speaks of the habilitie that shoulde be in every minister of the worde that he shoulde knowe his quarter strooks to be able to conuince the aduersary c. Minist Why will you haue none Ministers but such as can preach I can tell you that the twentieth minister in the lande cannot preach Puritane The more the worse for you and the rest howe many soeuer there be stand without repentance in a most damnable state for you are most notorious murtherers of soules in taking vppon you so high a calling being so farre vnfitte for it so many as perish for want of teaching in your charge their bloude the Lord wil require at your hands Minist The Bishop knewe my abilitie before he made me minister Puritane Wel he stands in the state of damnation as you doe and thus much I say vnto you and to all Idole Ministers and to him and all vsurping Archbishops and Lord Bishops leaue your vnlawful callings into which you haue intruded your selues and with speed repent and humble your selues before the Majestie of God confessing your horrible and grecuous sinnes with Peters teares in that you are the cause yea

the commandement of the Bishop of Canterbury It is not yet prooued so that there is some Iar betweene themselues although these two are most conuersant together and joine in one to persecute sinceere and faithfull preachers of the word and others of the Lords children Jacke I had thought they woulde not haue dissented one from a nother of them Puritane Why sir in the 49. page of the same book the Bishop of winchester saith the Bishop of Canterbury is a giddy head and to be brideled because he authorised Doctor Whitaker his readinges against Bellarmina wherein the Apocripha is defaced And M. Doctor Some one of their affinite no we and a noureresident he calls the Archbishop of Canterbury An absurde Heretike because he holds baptisme administred by weomen to be the seale of Gods couenante page 3. of his booke against Master Penri many like things I could cite to you of their diffenting on from another Jacke Howe like you of these things Master Vicker be not these good fathers of the Church thinke you Minist I like neuer a whit the worse of them for your words for I knowe they are but slaunders Puritane Master Vicker you I knowe like well of them although the proofes that their aduersaries doe bring be neuer so manifest and plaine aganst them because you are in the same state or worse and may be in that you doe vnlawfully vsurpe your place and hauing noe fit gifts to discharge your dutie in any measure Remember what th'Apostle saith 1. Corinth 6.19 Woe is to me if J preach not the Gospel this is rightly pronounced vpon you all such Idoles as you are Minist If I reade sermons and homiles is it not as much as if I preached for Master Doctor Bridges saith that reading is preaching Puritane The Lord hath promised noe such blessing vnto reading as preaching for the word preached is the onely ordinary meanes to saluation 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 Mallac 2.7 saith the priests lips shoulde preserue knowledge they shoulde seeke the lawe at his mouth but howe can you shunne this curse Master Vicker I pray God humble your hart that you may acknowledge your sinne and craue pardon at his hands and leaue the ministery lest the Lord with a strong hand throwe you out to your everlasting woe Jacke Master Vicker he giues you good counsell it were good for you to followe it if you doe not it wil be the worse for you Minist Wel Sir it is noe matter there be as wise as he wil giue me other councell Jacke Why I see Master Vicker is obstinate hee will not be perswaded by you Puritane Even as he will I speake my conscience to him he may chuse if he wil followe it or noe Jack I maruel what good hospitallitie the Bishop of London keepes I haue heard that he is very couetous Minist Indeed he doth keepe a good house Jacke What doth not the doggs run away out of his house with whole shoulders I thinke a man may as soone breake his neck as break his fast at his house Puritane Surely I can say thus much by reporte of one that was his Chaplaine whose name is Haiwarde Vicker of Saint Martins by Charing crosse that often times when he hath dined at his Pallace in London he hath made his seruantes to take the fragments carry them to Fulham but if there be any dainty morcel left he wil wrap it vp in his handkerchefe and cary it in his bosome for feare lest his men should begile him Jacke O Master Vicker you haue a most bountifull Lorde he is so liberall that he will not suffer the scraps to be bestowed vppon the poore but to be kept for his seruants supper Minist It is faulse for I haue often seene almes giuen at his gates when he hath lien at London Puritane I le tell you what I haue hearde him say at Pauls crosse my selfe vppon a time following his text very wel you must thinke he burst me out with a greate exclamation of him selfe in that he was poor and had noe money protesting what charges he had bin at and that Paules Churche can beare me witnesse saith he that I haue noe money And shortely after some of his owne seruants being there present and heard him belike thought to make their good Lord a liar very shortly after robd him of certain hundred of pounds for which offence he was so good vnto his men as to hange them vp three or foure in number although he had the most parte of his money again and some of the parties executed protested to their knoweledge he had much more mony at vsury and that his seruants liued only vpon bribes Jacke A Bishop a lyar and a vserer nay surely M. Vicker if your Lord haue those two faults it cannot be but he hath more so that for mine owne parte I thinke him verely to be the Bishop of the Diuell Puritane Nay Sir I can giue you proofe for the same more that he is surely the Bishop of the Diuel for Martin Marprelate hath set downe a pretty thing in his Epistle to the terrible priests that the Bishope of London when he throwes his bowle as he vseth it commonly vppon the sabboth day he runnes after it and if it be toe harde he cries rub rub rub and saith the Diuel goe with thee when he goeth himselfe with it So that by those words he nameth him selfe the Bishop of the Diuell but by his practise of tiranicall dealing against the Lords faithful ministers not only calleth but prooueth himselfe to be the Bishoppe of the Diuell Jacke Ha ha Master Vicker you see your Lorde Bishop is a Diuel by his owne confession so indeede you are not the Lords Minister but the Minister of the Diuel as your Lorde Bishop is the Bishop of the Diuell Minister You vse your speeches at pleasure of my Lord it may be you wil not so easily answere them when you are called therevnto Jacke Yes Master Vicker I warraant you Send a pursiuant when you will for vs and we wil answere it if wee can not make our parts good enough we will send the weomen of Hampsteed to him Minist What meane you by that Jacke If you will needs haue me I will tell you you shall vnderstand Master Vicker that your good Lorde at his first comming to be the Diuels Lorde at London began to play Rexe as he hath lately done at Fulham in cutting downe the trees there to the greate impouerishing of the towne to cut downe the woods at Hampsteed and needs he woulde doe it and began pretily well with it the townes men became suters to him that he woulde not they coulde not perswade him for he was Lord of it he saide Wel seeing the men coulde doe noe good with him the women tooke the matter