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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64208	A tale in a tub, or, A tub lecture as it was delivered by my-heele Mendsoale and inspired Brownist and a most upright translator : in a meeting house neere Bedlam the one and twentieth of December, last 1641 / vvritten by J. T.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1641 (1641)	Wing T515; ESTC R8979	3,176	10

A TALE In a TUB OR A TUB LECTURE As it was delivered by My-beele Mendsoale an Inspired Brownist and a most upright Translator In a meeting house neere Bedlam the one and twentieth of Decembler Last 1641. VVritten by J.T. London Printed 1641. A TVB Lecture BEloved Sisters and my well infected Brethren attend this Text as you shall find it written in the first Chapter of Bell and the Dragon the third Verse as it followeth Now the Babylonians had an Idoll they called Bell and there were spent upon him every day 12 gress measures of fine flower and 40 sheepe and 6 vessels of wine I will first of all make a Division in the former part of my Text I will leave the latter to the Last and expound that as I shall VVax to an End Now the Babilonians had an Idoll they called Bell This sentence I shall divide into 4 parts because your understandings my Beloved Brethren consisteth chiefly in the Knowledge of Divisions the particles are these 1. The Time 2. The Nation 3. The Crime 4. The Denomination The Time Now The Nation The Babylonians The Crime had an Idoll The Denomination called Bell Now the Babylonians had an Idoll called Bell First I will begin with the time you must not conceive that it was 1 10. 100. 1000 yeares agoe but Now at this present Now the Babylonians c. Beloved there is much evill and abomination to be picked out of these three letters Now according to the explication of a deare deceased Brother of ours which you cald Anthony Now Now and cald he was from us too soone yet the worst the wicked can say of him is that hee dyed a dutifull death and hee did but Come when he was called but leaving our Brother as he hath left us I will proceed with this word Now Now the Babylonians Now doth plainely and significantly expound it self in these words at this time this present this instant and never were people more strangely misled by fals teaching and preaching then Now you shall heare how many sentences or questions this word Now will answer me When were golden Crosses Images pictures suffered to stand in defiance of the Brethren nay even in the open streetes my Text doth answer Now When were lying fcurrilous pamphlets which abuse the Brethren in prose and Verse by the Name of Round-head more in Fashion then Now There was one who writ a Booke intituled A Medicine for the times where assuredly he doth vindicate that pillar of Golden superstition Cheap side Crosse calling us thieves who bare away the lead because those limbes should not be agen set up by Idolatrous people when was this booke generally sold to draw the hearts of the people from us but according as it is in my text Now but were he in our Conventicle that writ it and he that printed it I thinke it were convenient that all of us with one a-cord shold endeavour to hang them to death and were they here no fitter time then Now but sithence they are not present we will defer their execution till wee can confidently say we have them Now but because I will not trespasse upon your patience much longer then my limited time 6 houres I will Now conclude this part of my Text and proceed to the next which is the Nation This Nation were Babylonians for so my Text telleth me Now the Babylonians Beloved these Babylonians are a Nation that inhabited Babylon and derive their names from Nimrods Tower Babel a Tower which according to my Authors description was 4 hundred thousand times higher then the Tower of London bearing twice as many hundred thousand piece of Ordnance for it was the intention of that proud Nimrod to shoot downe heaven amongst this Nation lived that grand enemy to our sect The Whore of Babylon a most fathomlesse Harlot and corrupted every man that had any Part in Babel the more fooles they this Nimrod was the first that ever taught Idolatry for as I have bin told you know I cannot read my selfe before ever the Art of carving or painting was hee taught the people to adore the fire which expressed his hot zeale in Idolatry it was onely their ignorance in arts that kept them from setting up such a Crosse as is in Cheap-side not long after Nimrod succeeded King Astiages after his decease Cyrus of Persia received his Kingdome as you shall read in the first Verse of this Chapter and according to my Text is living at this present for Now the Babylonians had an Idoll Called Bell. And thus much shall suffice to have bin spoken for the second part of my Text which is the Nation Babilonians now the Babilonians I will now proceed unto the third which is their crime their Idolatry their Image worship the Divell by this time had instructed them in the Art of making Idols for so my Text saith Now the Babylonians had an Idoll This Idol was made of Brasse without and clay within a brazen face and an earthen heart fil'd with corruption and fraught with abhomination This word Idoll properly derives it selfe from Idle which in signification my attentive Brethren is sloth Iazinesse they wold imploy their times in nothing but making Images I le warrant you in those dayes a Journeyman Image-Maker might get his halfe crowne a day doe you but censure then my deare Assembly how they flourished in their wickednesse but since they had nothing else to doe but to set up Idols it shall become us to make it the busines of our whole lives to pull them downe but take this caution with you when you next attempt the holy destruction of that nest of Idols Cheap-side Crosse be not too violent least you suffer as our Brother did yet had hee past the Pikes he had bin living to this day This Idoll in my Text was Brasse without and earth within a cheape Idoll to those in Cheap-side for they are Gold without and lead within Beloved Lead was not made to forme Idols with but for the good of mankind which is to make Bullets and Tyle Houses your onely way to confound this aforesaid Cheap-side Crosse is to pull downe to the ground that old Idoll Charin and beat downe this with the stones that wee may have no more cause to say Now the Babylonians had an I doll called Bell I am now come to the Denomination of this Idoll they cald him Bell for so saith the Text Now the Babilonians had an Idol This notorious Babe of Idolatry who hath to name Bell hath his Name derived from that generall enemy to mankind Belze-bub one whom we all know to bee the Devill this Bell was made of brasse that is the only reason my beloved that our Bels be held so much in contempt amongst the Brethren This Bell according to the text had spent upon him every 10 great Measures of fine Flower 40 Sheepe and 6 Vessels of wine now who devoured this Flower Bell who consumed the 40 Sheepe but Bell who dranke the wine so that there was a generall exaction laid upon each Pint and Quart but Bell or A-bell I have observed that there was never any good in that word where Bell had a share in 't what was Adam Bell but a hunter so was Nimrod who built that ambitious Tower Babel I have heard with mine owne eares those blads which call themselvs Cavaleroes call a Crosse Bard sword Troy Bel. what is a Bel-man but a night walker as I apprehend him nay doe not your superstitious papists curse the Bretheren with Bell Booke and Candell was not that Cardinall an arch Heretick who had to name Bell Armine doe not those persecuting papists in Ireland ReBel yes double and Tre-Bel and I hope there will be such an Equall uniformity amongst us who are the select Brethren that no particular man may be sayd to bare the Bel nor shall any man hereafter be counted a man the sounder for being Bel-Metle for Bel was Brasse without and Clay within Now the Babilonians had an Idol called Bell and there was spent upon him every day 12 measures of fine flower and 40 sheepe and 6 Vessels of wine beloved had I been to serve Bell with this banquet I would have made Bels eares ring noone ere he should have had it now who doe you conceive should worship this Bell noe worse man then Cyrus the King as you shall find it in the fourth verse And Syrus worshipped it and went daily to adore it And it is thought by some Authors that this Syrus first made this Bel if hee did hee was but a Bel founder or at least the first that ever was a Bel-founder I shall love a Bel-founder the worse for it all dayes of my life I could proceed further and would but for feare of the law who if I should be too zealous would censure this Lecture to be a Libell therefore this shall suffice at this time next meeting shall perfect the worke begun repaire to your houses and consider of these sayings Farewell FINIS