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A78585	The character of a puritan; and his gallimaufrey of the antichristian clergie; prepared with D. Bridges sawce for the present time to feed on. By the worthy gentleman, D. Martin Mar-Prelat, Doctor in all the faculties, Primate and Metropolitan.	Mar-Prelat, Martin, Doctor in all the faculties.	1643 (1643)	Wing C1987; Thomason E87_11; ESTC R212793	19,559	29

I have said and namely the unlawfullnesse of Lord Bishops Minist Sir that point hath been handled by your betters and manifestly confuted by my Lords grace in his writings against Cartwright Puritan Indeed he that will be blind cannot see it but he that looks in both their Works with a single eye cannot but confesse Mr. Cartwright to have confuted him by unanswerable evidence or els why would he not have answered Mr. Cartwrights works now a dozen yeares extant and more Minist As you of the Fantasticall crew think but he hath done it and that so sufficiently already that there needs no more Answers and againe his Grace is now otherwise troubled with matters of State that he cannot intend it or if he could yet it is not for him so to abase himselfe in regard of his high Calling which he is now 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 unlawfully usurpe the same contrary to the Law of God for is it possible he can be the true Minister of God and a Temporall Magistrate that is to serve God and Mammon to as the Apostle saith Let him that hath an office attend upon his office and not Offices Minist Why how dare you presume to say so Were not Lord Bishops established by Her Majesty and consent of the whole Parliament Puritan I grant they were but the Lord hath said contrary in the Commandement he gave to his Ministers Luke 22. saying The Kings of the Gentiles raigne over them and they that beare rule over them are called gracious Lords but ye shall not be so but let the greatest among you be as the least and the chiefest as him that serveth And 1 Pet. 5. Feed the Flocke of God which dependeth upon you caring for it not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind Not as though ye were Lords over Gods heritage but that ye may be ensamples to the Flocke And in the first session of Parliament ☜ holden in the First yeare of her Majesties raigne there was never a Lord Bishop in the Land Minist If you will have no Lord Bishop how should the Church be governed then Puritan According as our Saviour Christ hath commanded and as the Holy Ghost hath set it down viz. by Pastors Teachers Elders and Deacons Rom 12. Ephes 4.1 Cor. 12. Minist You are very full of Scripture as though we have not the same Offices in effect though not in the same Titles as for example have not we Parsons for Teachers Vickers for Pastors Churchwardens for Elders and Sidemen for Deacons to distribute to the poore Puritan And what for Archbishops and Lord Bishops Iacke I will tell you for him Archbishops for Popes and Lord Bishops for Cardinals Ha ha Mr Vicker I see you are a good Churchman doe not you use the Pulpit sometimes Minist No indeed Sir but I read the Homilies somtimes and the Queens Injunctions and doe my duty as other Ministers doe Puritan I thought so by that fit comparison that you have made Iacke And have you no more but one Benefice neither and yet doe all that Minist Yes indeed I say Service at two more but I have little profit by them marie the best is they are somwhat neer for they are all three within foure miles together Puritan And how can you serve them all upon the Sabbath day Minist Some of them are but small and I can make quicke dispatch with them betimes and take my Mare and ride to the other and can make an end of all by ten of the clocke and spend an houre with good Fellows at home before Dinner to Puritan And Master Vicker do you think herein that you discharge your duty to God and those Congregations over whom you have taken this charge Minist Why Sir I discharge my duty better then those that take upon them foure or five Puritan Why is there any that takes upon them the charge of so many Minist Yea a hundred in England Puritan Well I will tell you the fearefull judgements of God hangs over our heads and cannot be long deferred but fall upon the whole Land where to such dumb Idolls as you are is committed the charge of soules and to your selves eternall destruction of body and soule wherfore Mr. Vicker as you tender your owne salvation leave this your unlawfull Calling of the Ministry and betake you to some occupation or Husbandry Minist I care not what any of you spightfull Puritans say so long as I can have the favour of my Lord Bishop Iacke I pray you Mr. Vicker let me spurre a question unto you if I may be so bold where do you serve Minist I serve in Middlesex Sir Iacke Who made you Minister Minist My good Lord of London Puritan Like enough he hath made a great many of blind guides in his time besides you for he made the Porter of his Gate Minister of Paddington being blind Iacke O monstrous is this true did he so indeed Puritan It is most true for the Bishop of Winchester hath recorded it in a Booke of his set forth in Print Iacke Why what will our Bishops grow to in time if they be suffered for me thinks this is a fearefull thing to make such Ministers as can neither see nor speake for it is like if he were the Porter no doubt of it he had not the gift of Teaching Puritan Very true but because he could do him no longer service he was so good to him to provide for the poore blind man that he might live Iacke Sure I think when they come once to be Lords they cleane forget God and all Godlinesse for I have heard that there was some good things in him before he was Bishop of London for he wrote a Book called the Harborow of faithfull Subjects against Bishops wherein he saith Come down ye Bishops with your thousands and betake you to your hundreds let your fare be Priestlike and not Princelike c. Puritan Indeed he wrote such a Book and the same words that you repeat I have read in the same but alas when he was at the best he was but a corrupt man and the best things in it savour but of earth for there is many things handled in it very immodestly and unchristianly but one thing especially he sets down there which himselfe practiseth clean contrary where he speaks of the ability that should be in every Minister of the Word that he should know his quarter strocks to be able to convince the adversary c. Minist Why will you have none Ministers but such as can preach I can tell you that the twentieth Minister in the Land cannot preach Puritan The more the worse for you and the rest how many soever there be stand without repentance in a most damnable state for you are most notorious murtherers of soules in taking upon you so high

The Character OF A PURITAN AND His Gallimaufrey of the Antichristian Clergie prepared with D. BRIDGES Sawce for the present time to feed on By the worthy Gentleman D. Martin Mar-Prelat Doctor in all the Faculties Primate and Metropolitan Printed in the time of Parliament 1643. THE PREFACE BEING A PRAYER O LORD GOD and most mercifull Father we beseech thee for the honour of thy holy Name to defend us from that Antichrist of Rome and from all his det stable enormities Manners Laws Altars Garments and Ceremonies Destroy the Councel of all Papists and Atheists enemies of thy Gospel and of thu Realme of England Disclose their mischiefes and subtill practises confound their devices let them be taken in their own wilinesses and strenghen all those that maintaine the cause and quarrell of thy Gospel with invincible force and power of thy holy Spirit so that though they be destitute at any time of worldly ayd and comfort that yet they fayle not to proceed and goe forward towards that true godlinesse commanded in thy holy Word with simplicity and sincerity to thy honour and glory the comfort of thine Elect and the comfusion of thine enemies through Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen Amen And say from the heart Amen A DIALOGVE WHEREIN IS PLAINLY LAYD OPEN THE TYRANNICALL DEALING OF LORD BISHOPS against Gods Children The Speakers are these Puritan Papist Iacke of both sides Idoll Minister Puritan YOU are well overtaken Sir doe you travell farre this way I pray you Iacke Towards London Sir Puritan I shall willingly beare you company if it please you Iacke With all my heart I shall be very glad of yours Puritan From whence came you this way Iacke I come out of France Puritan Out of what part of France came you I pray you I came from Rochell my selfe which is a part of France Iacke Is it so but I came not neare that place Puritan Out of what part of France came you then Iacke I came from Orleans Puritan I pray you what News from thence is there any likelyhood of Peace there Iacke Yes surely there is some hope of Peace for where the Kings powers come they doe commonly yeeld presently Puritan It is a good hearing Iacke What is he that comes after us so fast Puritan He seems to be some Preacher or dumb Minister it may be he goes our way if he doe I hope we shall have his company whereby we may passe away the time in some good conference and also heare what News there is at home here in England Iacke I am content Sir for I shall be glad to heare some good News me thinks I have bin very long absent from hence Puritan Very well we will goe the so softlier that he may overtake us I but by the way I pray you if you come from Orleans there they have the Masse for they are of the League and then I suppose you have bin partaker of their Idolatry Iacke No I assure you I detest all Idolatry even from my heart Puritan If you doe so I am very glad of it but I pray you let me heare if you can give me some proofe out of the Word of God for the confirmation of this your protestation against Idolatry Iacke I am content to give you a taste thereof whereby it shall appeare that I am farre from it For so dearely as I tender the salvation of my own soule so carefull am I to shun and fly from all Idolatry For it is written Deut. 6.13 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve And the Apostle Paul to the Gorinth 1 Epist cap. 10. vers 14. commandeth us to Flie from Idolatry for Idolatry is sinne and the mages of sinne is death c. Puritan It is well applyed and somwhat to the purpose I am very glad if it be done in singlenes of heart For me thinks you could not possibly be in that place but you must be forced to be present at their Idolatrous Masse Iacke I was never present at it in my life I thanke God but the Papists stick not to say that our Service Booke in English is a great part of it but a meere translation out of the mass-Masse-Booke Puritan Indeed it is true that most part of our Booke of Common Prayer as they say is a meere translation out of the Masse-Booke but yet there is no such Blasphemic and Idolatry tollerated in it as is dayly in the Masse although it greatly derogate from the Word and is full of great and grievous corruptions But I pray you how long were you in Orleans Sir Iacke I was there about a fortnight Puritan No longer Iacke No Sir Puritan Here comes the Minister now we will heare what News he can tell us he seems to be but an Idoll Shepheard we shall have some good conference with him I hope to passe away the time Minister You are well overtaken Gentlemen which way travell you I pray you Puritan Towards London and if it please God Minist I shall be glad of your company and if it please you Puritan We also shall be glad of yours Sir Iacke I pray you Mr. Vicar or Parson for so you seem to be what good News is there here at home in England for we have been both of us in France and we would gladly heare some good News Minist Indeed I am a poore Vicar truly we have no great good News here Sir For our Church is so sore pestered with Sects and Schismes that the Reverend Fathers and especially my Lords Grace of Canterbury are so sore troubled with them that they have no leasure to recreate themselves for those Fellows they are so bold and mallepert that they preferre Petitions to Her Majesty the Lords of the Councell yea and in Print to the High Court of Parliament Puritan Why Sir what be they that do this what doe you call them are they Papists Minist No they are worse then Papists for they are fant●…sticall Puritans and Brownists and I cannot tell what Puritan What be the points they hold that are so schismaticall and erronious Minist Forsooth they would have no Lord Bishop but every Minister to be of equall Authority one with another and so make a confusion in the whole State for they have set down a new platforme of Discipline forsooth as they call it they cannot tell what themselves Puritan I will tell you my opinion of Lord Bishops it is but an humane constitution and not warrantable by the Word but utterly forbidden and as for the Discipline you speake of I wish all Gods people would practise it Minist Oh I perceive you are one of these Fantasticall Puritans or Brownists I pray you out of what place of France came you Puritan I came from Rochel Minist I thought from Rochel Geneva or Scotland you seem to be a Bird of one of those nests Puritan Sir whatsoever I am I doe not doubt but to be able to prove by the Word what