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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29892	The Brownists synagogue or A late discovery of their conventicles, assemblies; and places of meeting, where they preach, and the manner of their praying and preaching. With a relation of the names, places; and doctrines of those which doe commonly preach. The chiefe of which are these. Greene, the feltmaker. Marler, the buttonmaker. Spencer, the coachman. Rogers the glover. Which sect is much increased of late within this city.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed name.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5191; ESTC R16519	4,046	8

THE BROWNISTS SYNAGOGVE OR A LATE DISCOVERY Of their Conventicles Assemblies and places of meeting Where they Preach and the manner of their praying and preaching With a Relation of the Names places and Doctrines of those which doe commonly Preach The chiefe of which are these Greene the Feltmaker Marler the Buttonmaker Spencer the Coachman Rogers the Clover Which Sect is much increased of late within this City A Kingdome divided cannot stand Printed Anno Dom. 1641. The Brownists Synagogues OR A Discovery of their Conventicles and Assemblies THe distractions of these times are not unknowne to be caused by the Copiousnesse of Sects Religions I cannot terme them least I should disallow of that Axiomaticke of K. Iames of blessed Memory for he acknowledged but two Religions the good and the bad and those were the Protestants and the Papists the Protestant the true and the Papists the false but there are a Company of erroneous Sectarists and Haeriticall opinions crept in amongst us like so many weeds in a pleasant Garden what good counsell hath our Saviour given us and how little use doe wee make of it he bids us take heed least we be led away with the Doctrine of false Prophets Matth. 7. 15. yet how apt are we to believe the Traditions of men How many Sects and Schismes are lately sprung up here in this Kingdome that they like to the Plagues of AEgypt have over-run the Land but namely the Brownists the Brothers of the Separation beare the greatest sway to what an height of impudency have they of late aspired unto being upheld by too many of that Sect they like the Philisti●●s bring their Goliah to fight their battels But there is no doubt but there will arise a David of truth to beate down their violent fantasticall Doctrine by which so many simple Disciples are seduced further these our Sectarists will abide no degrees in Schooles all humane Learning must be layd by Academies are to them abominable nay herein they comply with the Papists whose Doctrine they pretend utterly to abhorre who hold that ignorance is the mother of Devotion and of these opinions was How that notorious Predicant Cobler whose body was buried in the high-way and his Funerall Sermon was preached by one of his Sect in a Brewars Cart such an Anti-Bishop was Eaton the famous Button-maker in St. Martins but because they are translated from life to death I leave them Hence come those violent outrages and Sacrilegious disorders cōmitted in the Church even in the time of Divine Service and hubbubs and strange tumults raised where reverend silence ought to be used by laying violent hands upon the Minister rending his Hood frō his neck and tearing the Surplice from his back he hardly escaping in his own person from being torne in peeces and even when the Psalme is singing and the Preacher ready to goe into the Pulpit to deliver his Sermon as likewise rending the Railes from before the Communion Table chopping them in peeces and burning them in the Church Yard and this to be done without authority commission or order in a riotous manner taking upon them further power then Iustice requireth I hope the Parliament will take into their wise and grave considerations and pious care the peace of the Church and not suffer it to be clowded or eclipsed by these mists and errors of darknesse and ignorance my prayer is let it be prayer of all good Christians that these AEgyptian Locusts that swarme in every corner of this City and Kingdome may be expelled that we may enjoy the light of the Gospell Let me gentle Reader not be prolixious and I shall here relate unto thee the names and places where these illiterate preachers live and make their assemblies with the unlearned Doctrines and opinions they hold The first man that I begin with shall be an Irreverend Glover whose name is Richard Rogers living nigh Whitecrosse-street in the Suburbs of London in Blew-Anchor-Alley he oftentimes doth call a Congregation as he termes it and at his own house tels them what they should doe which is to con●●●● the Church where the Relicks of Religion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to seperate themselves from it and gather themselves to those which doe feed the holy flockes which doe abhorre that Diabolicall function of the Bishops which are nothing but Altarwise the spirit he tells them moves him and so proceeding hee tells them what first comes into his mind his Apologie is that he speakes nothing but that which the spirit gives him utterance for Then there is one Ieremy Manwood whose Doctrine is to be heard in Goate Alley nigh the same street who doth commend the opinion of those wch being Seperatists to abhorre the Society of the wicked once in a forrnight doth he teach Also there is one Edward Gyles whose holy Brothers meet together in Checker-Alley nigh the same place his Doctrine is this That the guilded Crosse in Cheapside is an Idolatrous Crosse for many adore and worship it as an Idoll and that it is an Eye-sore to their uprightnesse and ought to be abolished he teacheth every first day of the moneth There is also a Buttonmaker in Aldersgate-street whose name is Marler which doth seldome misse once in a weeke and his opinion is That every man should follow his owne calling why then doth he robbe Levi of his due Why doth he dare to reckon himselfe amongst the Children of the Prophets his answer to which proposition is because they prove droanes wherefore he to show himselfe a laborious Bee doth supply their places Also there is one Iohn Tucke whose Associates have their Convocation in Fleet-lane and his opinion is That the Booke of Common Prayer had its first Originall from the Masse Humphrey Gosnold doth teach nigh Tower-hill who doth keep his haire long because he would not be knowne to be a Precisi●n he telleth his holy assembly that those Pipes or Organs which are set up in Pauls Church and other places makes more noyse with their roaring then all the Bulls of Basan did when Ogg their King passed by them in tryumph Ionas Hawkins a Fisherman is a provoker to seperation and liveth in Chick-lane Iohn Brumley in Chancery Lane is another Zelote which doth exhort his Brethren to follow him twice in a weeke he teacheth the women his holy zealous sisters well affect him Roger Kennet a Yorkeshire man doth draw a company to him nigh the Royall Exchange his opinion is none can bee saved but those which are of their Elect. Edward Iohnson a Chandlor is the teacher to the Society which Assemble together in More-lane and holdeth these tenents that the house field or Wood wherein their Congregation meets is the Church of God and not the Churches we meet in because the good and bad come both thither neither is it lawfull to have any Society with the wicked Iohn Bennet is he which teacheth nigh Love lane in Westmin he disalloweth of humane Learning his reason is this