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A52757	The great accuser cast down, or, A publick trial of Mr. John Goodwin of Coleman-street, London, at the bar of religion & right reason it being a full answer to a certain scandalous book of his lately published, entituled, The triers tried and cast, &c. whereupon being found guilty of high scandal and malediction both against the present authority, and the commissioners for approbation and ejection, he is here sentenced and brought forth to the deserved execution of the press / by Marchamont Nedham, Gent.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1657 (1657)	Wing N389; ESTC R18604	109,583	156

wherein Old men are twice Boys because he trifleth like any young Lad priding himself all along from page to page Ludere par impar equitare in arundine longa his whole Work being but a kind of Boys-play Insomuch as I must profess in dealing with his Arguments I was possessed with an equal Temperature of Indignation and Pity Pity to see him an antient Minister of the Gospel and one who a good while ago had a reputation of being Consciencious so plainly to prevaricate in point of Conscience to the reviling of Authority and abuse of his Brethren even while he is as it were sounding the trumpet to his own final dissolution or the great day of Account how little these things were in his thoughts when he penn'd his Book you are left to judge by his carriage and this my Answer On the other side my Indignation arose to observe that a man whose Writings shew him to be a Scholar should yet write so unlike a Scholar as he hath done observing neither Rule nor Mood in matter of Argument but rambling through a wilderness of Talsities Tautologies Slanders Self-contradictions and malicious Declamations instead of Reasons or Instances to make proof of what he pretends to he loseth himself and leads the unwary Reader quite out of the Road of Commons Sense and Honesty I would not willingly be tedious but I must needs have you a little more intimately acquainted with the Man and his Character He is worse than a Common Nusance for he doth not only stink and annoy savoury Christians by his rotten Opinions but by plain Lyes pardon the expression and Slanders endeavoureth to make others of all sorts as unsavoury as himself His Scribling Faculty is his disease which he labors under continually and happy it were for him if it would turn to the Hand-gout His Reason usually rides post with pride or passion and so is the more easily over-ridden by a vaporing Phant'sie this is it which gives Law to his Understanding cuts out work for all the other Faculties makes his Pen a ready writer and the Windmill in the Brain keeps the Press always going as if it were his Handmill for rather than it shall stand still he travels through all Shops like a Knight-errant to find out the Gyants in Print making Adversaries rather than want them that he may grinde them to powder Of a very Paper-worm there never was a verier Tyrant in the world He hath a Tool betwixt the Fore-finger and Thumb with which he scrues all things to his purpose he hath made crooked things strait and strait things crooked at pleasure killed all men of same with as little remorse as Domitian didFlies and Nebuchadnezzar like those whom he would he slew and whom he would he kept alive and whom he would he set up and whom he would he put down It hath been the wretched imployment of these his latter days and is still to go forth in the glory of this his strength and either to take or make an occasion to conflict with whatsoever persons or things he lights upon especially if the men be in any repute or acceptation above himself Then it is he bends his Bow makes ready bitter Arrows and feathers them at the Press that he may take them down a pin lower There is not an Instance to be found in this Age of such another Hector a man so full of Quarrels and Contests with men of Conscience and worth as this Mr. G. not sparing even such as he himself owneth for such I mean the Commissioners for Approbation as you may see in his Epistle and tells the world before hand he esteems them such yet as if it were because they are such or at least because they are esteemed by others as such he lifts up his Pen with all his might against them 'T were pitty such a Champion should lose the glory of his Atchievements and therefore to do him right I shall give you a short Story of his Duels and his other publick Engagements wherein I am to inlarge a little and yet no more than needs must The single persons he hath been in the Field with i. e in Print as his Adversaries and whom he used accordingly when he got them under the Presse are these Viz. Mr Gataker Mr Walker Mr Roborough Dr Williams Bishop of Ossory Mr Pryn Sir Francis Nethersole Mr John Geree Mr Herbert Palmer Dr Thomas Goodwin Mr Resbury Dr Hammond Dr Burgess Dr Hill Mr Jenkins Mr Edwards Mr Barlow Mr A. Steward in particular Books printed besides several Members of his own Church that he hath written against and divers others Thus you see what a notable Duellist he hath been But this is not all for this Tenth Worthy hath been so adventurous as to engage also with whole Troops and Regiments in the confidence of his own personal and single valour viz. The Parliament the Assembly of Divines the Ministers of the Province of London the Ministers of Sion-Colledge those Ministers that subscribed a Petition to the Lord Fairfax part of the Company of Stationers the Assembly of Dort and in this Treatise he challengeth forth the Commissioners for Approving and those for Ejecting of Ministers men of the greatest Eminency and worth His Highness with the Advice of his Council could pitch upon in and about the City and in every Shire throughout the Nation Nay he goes further yet and ventureth hereupon to provoke his Highness and Council in a most uncivil and unchristian manner causing them to undergo the Ordeal of his fiery flying Pamphlet turning the edge of his Pen against them and shamefully reproaching them in the eyes of the People as he himself in his Postscript to the Reader acknowledgeth his words may bear such a Construction viz. as savouring of an undue liberty and want of reverence to those that are in Authority yet instead of excusing the matter he goeth on in the same Postscript to justifie and exalt himself above all Authority and undertakes to give several Reasons for it As 1. Because the great men of the Earth might he in danger if he should not give them seasonable smitings 2. That these smitings are more the Reproofs of Jesus Christ than of man by which you see how he spares not even Christ himself but endeavours to entitle him as Patron of his lewd extravagancies against our Rulers 3. Because Kings Princes and Rulers are liable to these Reproofs or smitings as well as meaner men 4. Because Reprovers or Smiters in the Name of Christ are not in this to respect persons 5. Lastly Because the Author viz. himself stands particularly and publickly engaged to this for he boasts he hath formerly defended their Authority and therefore ought now to have a License to smite them Excellent good He in the pride of his heart looks upon himself as the man that is and ought to be exalted above all that is called God on earth being no less than the Pope or Christ's Vicar in

The Great Accuser cast down OR A PUBLICK TRIAL OF Mr John Goodwin Of Coleman-street LONDON At the BAR of RELIGION RIGHT REASON IT BEING A full ANSWER to a certain Scandalous Book of his lately published Entituled The Triers Tried and Cast c. Whereupon being found Guilty of High Scandal and Malediction both against the present Authority and the Commissioners for Approbation and Ejection He is here sentenced and brought forth to the deserved Execution of the PRESS By Marchamont Nedham Gent. Prov. 11. An Hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his Neighbor Prov. 11. 24. Proud and haughty Scorner is his name Difficile est Satyram non scribere London Printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill 1657. TO His Most Serene Highness OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR OF THE Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. SIR IT is a Custom in all Countries when any man hath taken a strange Creature immediately to present it to the Prince Whereupon I having taken one of the strangest that I think any part of Your Highness Dominions hath these many years produced do with all submissiveness make bold to present him bound hand and foot with his own Cords as I ought to bring him to Your Highness He need not to be sent to the Tower for his mischievousness there is no danger in him now nor like to be henceforth as I have handled him For should he break loose again as who knows what wild Creatures may do and get abroad to infest the Stationers and infect your People I that have found him out once may soon meet with him again to keep him in order He seems to be a Leader of that savage Herd which would make the Prince or Magistrate but a Man of Straw or like a Wooden Head or a Golden Neptune fixed over the Stern only for a shew but not at all concerned in the steering of the Ship I in all humility crave Your Highness pardon for this Attempt it being indeed my Adversaries fault whose example in making bold to trample upon Your good Name and Authority hath taught me so much confidence that I presume to set Your great Name before this Book and to offer you the trouble of perusing it at such a time when the Affairs of Three Nations lie all before you If it be worth the reading at all it is because the matter concerns you It defends your Authority and vindicateth one of your best and most Christian Actions together with the Reputation of those Honourable and Reverend persons your Commissioners from common prejudice and from the foulest Imputations that the mouth of Folly and Envy could breath out into the open air and though this poor Mite can add nothing to the Treasury of your Highness Princely Wisdom and Knowledge yet it will serve to call many things to your remembrance much to your Observation When I heard how industriously this Book of Mr. G. hath been dispersed and how high a prejudice arose among the more undiscerning sort by the fine words of the Charmer I thought this business to be my duty and I have done it as I could Where the gravity of the matter merited it I have observed a Stile accordingly serious in all other places I have treated the man like himself not that I affect it but because it was necessary and the most proper way of Return for due correction to intimate unto him and his admirers as well the insolency of his Spirit as the lightness and vanity of his pretended Arguments In the refuting of them I have given him his own to the utmost allowing him fair play by reciting some of them whole the rest by parts in their full strength and force which is more than ever he yet gave to any adversary in Print it having been his manner upon the like occasion to trifle about the Out-works but never fall upon the main Fort nor take the least notice where the strength indeed of an Argument lay If this Address prove unseasonable I shall watch to redeem my Error by a more eminent service upon some happy Occasion which certainly I cannot want seeing your Highness proceeds in the noblest paths of Christian Piety to leave Posterity an Example what Great Things 't is possible for man to do with a vertuous minde in the height of Honour and Fortune May you live long in this State with the favour of God and good will among men to the glory of the most High and the rejoycing of all the People under your Highness Protection So prayeth Your Highness's most humble faithful Subject and Servant MAR NEDHAM July 8. 1657. TO THE READER THough there were no other Reason yet this alone I thought sufficient to warrant me in the present Undertaking and quicken me to my duty That it was necessary the overweening confidence of this turbulent man should be taken down and that by proposing him a Spectacle as he is to men of understanding he may not hereafter go forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with such an ostentation of words as formerly he hath done to deceive the Nations There are a sort of men that love as the Apostle saith to speak great swelling words of vanity in which number if he be reckoned I do him no injury but have the general consent of the Pious and Learned to subscribe to the Censure together with all his own Works to confirm it And therefore observing him to be a man of so elated a Supercilium so audacious a Front that he hath dared to assault even Authority it self and in his pompous way of Affectation with Strains of Oratory to vilifie the most pious of their Ordinances and trample upon their intrusted Servants I conceived now the Swelling is grown to this height it would be an act of charity both to himself and his Friends for me to endeavour the Cure in order whereunto I make use of no other Lancet but my Pen that I may meet with him at his own weapon having sharpned it on purpose to prick the fiery Phlegmon and let out the Corruption Which being done there is hope the man may love the Peace of the Church the better while he lives and at length go to rest with his Fathers in more peace than yet he is like to do Truly 't were high time for him to think of this in good earnest And he would make us believe he doth so For in his Epistle he tells us that being stricken in years and neer his peri●d he is by the high and dreadful concernment of his dissolution approaching importuned to do Feats while his earthly Tabernacle is standing and among other things to give a Testimony against the Commissioners for Approbation and Ejection And in his Title-page he sets himself out to be an Aged Minister True and if you look into his Book you will find it so being arrived I will not say to Dotage but as one would think to that Age of Senes bis Pueri

the Name of Christ to censure the proceedings of Princes and reprove or smite the Potentates Rulers great men of the Earth they being in their Actions subject to his Judgement and Correction he being the man out of all the Tribes and Kindreds of the People separated and set apart in his own conceit for the exercise of this Pontifical Authority over his Highness as if he meant to usurp the Papal Chair and turn out Pope Alexander the seventh And yet this is not all for as if he meant also to be no less than Alexander the great it was well observed lately by a Gentleman in my hearing that as King Alexander having conquer'd the world is said to have sighed because there were no more worlds to conquer so he having in his own Opinion triumphed over a world of Penmen and Powers wanting work elsewhere hath now turned his Arms against a greater in his own eyes than all these put together even against his sacred self most shamefully contradicting himself in many places and thereby hath given the world to understand what a Shuttle-cock this Mr Goodwin is who hath so set out himself with his own Pen and in Print too that the Nation may know he careth not to have his wit and reason and honesty and all obscured together rather then his sparkling Phantsie should not shine in its brightness And these things he hath done not in Anonymous small Kites and Pamphlets but in grave and as he thinks goodly Treatises which he hath set his name to in Capital Letters and out of which I shall give you three or four Instances of the Combats he hath had with himself upon the open Stage One while you have him for the King as in that Book of his called Anticavalierism page 10 11. where you may read this following Passage As for offering violence to the person of a King or attempting to take away his life we leave the proof of the lawfulness of this to those profound disputers the Jesuites who stand engaged by the tenure of their professed Doctrine and Practice either to make good the lawfulnes thereof or else to leave themselves and their Religion and abhorring and hissing to the world As for us who never travelled with desires or thoughts that way but abhor both Mother and Daughter Doctrine and Practice together we conceive it to be the just Prerogative of the persons of Kings in what case soever to be secure from the violence of men and their lives to be as consecrated Corn meet to be reaped and gathered onely by the hand of God himself David's Conscience smote him when he came but so neer the life of a King as the cutting off of the lap of his Garment Not long after contrary to all this he wrote that Book entituled A Defence of the Honourable Sentence passed upon the late King by the High Court of Justice In the 73 Page whereof writing against such as would not have had the King put to death he adviseth them to retract that Inhumane Tenet of exempting Kings from Punishment whereby they encourage Kings to turn Tyrants commit murthers and all abominations that Tenet of theirs saith he I mean wherein they deny unto Kings the help of that Bridle for the ruling of their lusts more needfull for them than for any other sort of men the fear of death by the Sword of Civil Justice upon any occasion whatsoever At the latter end of the same Book he concludes thus The late wars wherein the King by the sword of those men of blood who cast in their lot with him shed so much innocent blood in the land being causelesly and contrary to the frequent obtestations earnest sollicitations grave advisements of his Great Council the Parliament commenced by himself are so far from mediating on his behalf for the bloodshed that they open the mouth of it the wider and cause it to cry so much the louder for vengeance upon Him and His both unto God and men Sic idem jungat vulpes mulgeat hircos A second Instance may be taken out of a certain Letter of his written to T. G. against Independencie which was printed Anno 1643. condemning Separate Congregations so he terms them in his Preface I am saith he as confident as Confidence it self can make me that their way of a Covenant is a mere humane Invention and a strain of that wisdom that desires to exalt it self not only against men but against God himself p. 1. And p. 10. saith he If you have the Truth with you woe to my Wits Reason and Vnderstanding never poor man so strangely misused by such Friends in this world Again p. 13. he hath these words I do profess in the sight of God and in as great singleness and simplicity of heart as ever man in this world spake word unto you that I do as clearly apprehend Error and Mistake throughout the greatest part of your way that is Independencie as I do truth in this Conclusion That twice Two makes Four A lusty Confidence indeed Yet notwithstanding now his twice Two doth not make Four For within a few moneths after he changed his Judgment from the Presbyterian way wherein he then stood and professed himself for this way which he had so confidently decried and took up the practice of it gathered a Separate Church in Coleman street and wrote divers Books in defence of this way and with as much confidence as before as may be seen in his Books against A. Steward Mr. Edwards and other Presbyterians A Third Instance and which is most pertinent to our purpose is in reference to these two Commissions which he flies out against with so much fury the one for Approving and the other for Ejecting and which he in this Pamphlet of his makes the abhorring of his soul and is angry with his Governers about them and tells us he ought to be angry and to smite them with as much shame and reproach before the World as his Pen is able to load upon them Nevertheless both these Commissions are no other not only for substance but also in each material circumstance then what was laid down in certain Proposals for propagation of the Gospel and there distinctly commended one after the other to a Committee of Parliament appointed to receive such Proposals Febr. 8. 1651. as may be seen in Mr Scobels Office in these Words We whose Names are subscribed do with others humbly desire that these Proposals be presented to the Honourable Parliament c. To all which Mr. John Goodwins own self and Mr John Price one of the Elders of his Church together with divers others then subscribed And yet the Tenor of his present Book is against the Magistrate for granting such Commissions as having in his opinion nothing to do with propagating the Gospel and extream severe he is in his language against the Commissioners though the purport of their Commissions to be act according to such Instructions as Mr G.