holiness Hakkadosh but in the Chaldee Tongue and as spurious and adulterate rejected by our Saviour Which do you think is the most Authentick apographical Copy of the Septuagint the Vatican or Alexandrian Much alike yet the Alexandrian is usually preferred we call it the King's Manuscript because it was sent to our King from Constantinople by Cyril Lucaris Patriarch there and brought with him as a famous monument from Alexandria where he was Patriarch till advanc'd to the higher dignity the Patriarchat of Constantinople from whence our Leiger Ambassadour there Sir Thomas Roe sent it to our King The Greek Church heard of no other Bible but this Septuagint 400 years after Christ when St. Hierom first divulg'd commonly the Hebrew Text at which the African Bishops St. Augustine especially was so offended that he interdicted that Hebrew Bible as did also the Greek Bishops which forc'd St. Hierom l. 2. cont Ruffinum in Praf ad 2 Chron. to beg their pardon saying he had no design by that Promulgation to confront the sacred Septuagint And for my part I think if you will not be angry that the Vulgar Latin is a more certain Interpreter and as old I believe as since the times of the Apostles being writ by them or some of their Disciples for the use of the Church of Rome to whom St. Paul writ an Epistle and even Beza as well as Grotius acknowledges it so much the more credibly authentick for that old as well as odd Latine in which it gloried before St. Hierom's time For he indeed pretended to amend and correct it by putting forth another Latine Translation concordant as to the Old Testament with his Hebrew Text encouraged thereunto by Pope Damasus and both his Latine Version and the old Vulgar Latine were confirmed by Gregory the Great But because they made a distraction in the Church they were by the Authority as well as pains of Clement 8. concorporated and now are known by the old name given before St. Hierom was born The Vulgar Latine To which Learned men I 'le assure you give a great deal of Credit and Reverence therein consenting with Baronius Bonfrerius Serrarius c. though they differ in other matters But I speak of my Hebrew Tongue now that it is mended by the University at Tiberias the Masoreth What say you to that I say nothing to it I told you before I love no Tongues when the goodness is quite dry'd out of them I value them no more than a chip though for want of better accommodation they usually serve some vain People to make a show with thinking they are better than nothing if you will believe a grave and learned Authour called Hudibras For Hebrew Roots although th' are found To flourish most in barren Ground c. Be not offended Sir I do not think you Sir nor a thousand more such Hebrew bablers as your self are at all concern'd in the Sarcasme you carry Hebrew only a little at the tip and Tongues end they are no small fools I can tell you that can produce the Roots of that Tongue What Language spoke our Saviour Only one the Syriack or Babylonish his Mother Tongue according to the flesh though as God he understood all Languages and things but he never travell'd during his Incarnation out of the Nation and Language wherein he was born that we read of When our Saviour and the Apostles quoted Scripture out of the Old Testament did they not follow the Hebrew Text No certainly but the Septuagint as 't is evident Nor was the Old Testament compos'd into a Canon as we have it until Esdras first did it after the Captivity And the Samaritans own no Scripture to this day nor in our Saviours time but the Pentateuch the minor Prophets as we have them not till Esdras his time compos'd as now and some of the Holy Scripture is yet quite lost to us namely the Prophecies of the Prophets Iddo Nathan Shemajah c. Besides most part of the Prophecie of Daniel was writ in Chaldee so also Ezra chap. 4. and some other Parts of Holy Scripture that I list not here to recite And St. Augustine l. 18. c. 13. de civit Dei tells us the Grecian Christians knew not in his time whether there were any other sacred Original but the Septuagint Happily made more intelligible if not more legible by the concurrent Testimonies of sacred Apographical Versions and Copies Syriack Armenian Indian Vulgar Latine Aethiopick and the Mungrel Tongue Coptick partly Greek partly Old Aegyptian as to some Books of the Bible Persian Chaldee Paraphrase by the Providence of Almighty God and the indefatigable pains of Learned men preserved and collected namely St. Hierom Cyril Eusebius and Pamphilus Mercer Buxtorf Sixtus Senensis Pradus Nobilius Flaminius Abbas Apollinarius Stephanus Vilalpandus Azorius Simon de Muis Lindanus Kircher Casaubon Bochartus Usherus Fullerus Erasmus Grotius Beza Morinus Breerwood Vatablus Munster Hutter Junius Fabritius Boderianus Masius above all Cardinal Ximenius the Toletan Primate for the first great Polyglot Bible enlarged by Arias Montanus at the charge of Philip King of Spain commonly called the King of Spain's Bible but augmented since by the Parisian Bible at the cost and care of Michael de Jay and now all of them outvied by the Late Polyglot Bible Printed at London with as incomparable profit as pains But do we not find the old Hebrew Tongue in those Bibles Yes Yes But that which is rather construed by comparing with other Languages more certain and better known especially since the old Hebrew that had anciently but three Letters that stood for Vowels we may now make a nose of wax of an old Hebrew word now that we have got a Baker's dozen of Vowels besides Dipthongs added to the former And indeed all those vowels notes and points are not only uncertain but of less standing in the University than Greek accents and aspirations a new invention too of the Grammarians yet both of them are of much longer standing than the distinction of the Holy Books inter Chapters and Verses which yet are useful if they be not always too much insisted upon of all the new Hebrew additions Dagesch pleads the greatest seniority being as old some say as the Letter N. But most old Hebrew Copies neglect him and leave him out In what Language was the New Testament first indited In Greek all of them Autographically as the most universal Language and also in other Languages Autographically as Latine Syriack without controversie and one or two Books thereof some say in the Hebrew Tongue indeed the Apostles could speak all useful Languages but although some ancient MS. say that Matthew's Gospel was writ in the Hebrew Tongue for the Jews at Hierusalem cited by the Learned Doctour Hammond in his Annotations upon Matt. 1. 1. yet because it is certain the Jews then at Hierusalem understood Hebrew at that time no more than you and I by the Hebrew Tongue there must be understood
the Language of the Hebrews then spoken at Hierusalem which was Syriack which Theodoret and many other Learned Antiquaries say is an ancienter Language as well as more certain than your Hebrew Tongue and being as was said the Mother Tongue to the Apostles many Autographical Copies of some Books in the New Testament writ in Syriack were acknowledged for Holy Scripture before some of those sacred Books were indited at least before they were generally received into the Canon of Holy Writ namely the Second Epistle of St. Peter the Second and Third Epistles of St. John the Epistle of St. Jude and the Revelations of St. John The Sun's face when long wrap'd up in a cloud More beauteous shows having cast off that hood The English Genius mourning many a year In sniveling black now grows more debonair Rome as she thrive in Arms so thrive in Arts So England too since she got Loyal Hearts More brisk all Learning 's grown lately deform'd And must the Pulpit be the last reform'd In Parliament and Inns of Court Long Speeches Are reckon'd little worth but to wipe br He best does speak that speaks plain short sweet Is not right Eloquence for the Pulpit meet Great is Diana great long Sermons snivelling By which Craft Holder forth sneaks for a Living Be gone base canting Tribe with your New Lights That only teach men to be Hypocrites Long winded Preachments being now forlorn A Dress now out of fashion being worn Thread-bare by whining Pharisees alone Or 't is the Jews-trump of Religion And is it not deservedly in disgrace It ne'r yet had so much as a good face Or form of Godliness far from the Power The Primitive Sermons not one jot like your Christ and his Servants holy Writ records Converted thousands with a few plain words But still I fear little Priscian pursues me and perhaps will say I wonder what work you will cut out for the Ministers of the Church of England now you have clip'd away all but your own Sermon of six verses as well as Modern Orthodoxy Truly truly Generous Sir I have cut out more and better work for you and all Gospel Ministers than you are well aware of or can readily accomplish though all the shreds and parings as rubbish be thrown into Hell except what is included in these six verses and you shall do your work more profitably and honourably to your selves and the people if you keep your selves within the limits of those six verses do as much good as ever you did and have as much work too and yet neither do nor say any thing mischievously and impertinently For first your conversations at which the enemy is so scandalized as well as your selves will be unblameable by doing as you would be done unto you cannot then chouce poor Gentlemen of their moneys when they play pieces at an Ordinary this Principle will keep you from cheating tricks or being cheated will keep your hands from picking and stealing and defrauding and your tongues from evil speaking lying and slandering why because you would not willingly be so served by others but you must by this principle behave your selves soberly in reference to your own bodies in temperance righteously in reference to all other men by justice and godlily in reference to devotion towards God in duties of Religion and holy worship which is made up of five particulars namely Faith the Seals of Faith Prayers Praises and Ceremonies Unto which some adde Swearing but not well advised therein For though God Almighty says to his people Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God Deut. 6. 13. and serve him and shalt swear by his name yet the last clause is not exegetical of the former nor do men serve God by swearing nor is it any part of Heavenly Liturgy other than as when we serve truth and our generation being called at Courts of Judicature to attest truth calling God to witness and to judge us according to the truth of what we averr and if this be done cordially it assoils such a man of Atheism but not of irreligion if by Religion we mean religious worship which I say has but five parts as abovesaid and all included in my Sermon of six verses Now saith little Modern Orthodox are you there again with your Clypticks having neither accepted Sermon nor Lecture into your holy worship I hope Sermons that have had all the room in the Church when your Liturgy and your Sacraments and your Ceremonies were turn'd out of doors shall yet be taken in for one share part and portion of religious and holy worship of God No not a bit I admit no Sermons Lectures Preachments nor Harangues no not mine own dear Sermon of six verses to have any part or lot in this matter of religious worship I know they have turn'd all religious worship out of the house of God so that now Sermon is taken to be the All of Gods worship and so understood in common phrase Is there a Sermon this After-noon or to day is sermon done were you at sermon to day c. meaning were you at Church or serving God to day sermon sermon for all and if no sermon then there 's nothing at all that amongst silly men and women can sound like religious worship Whereas I come and say quite contrary namely that Ceremonies Sacraments c. are religious necessary and holy worship of God but Sermons Lectures and Harangues are not at all the religious and holy worship of God when they are never so good sermons but the usual sermons of Modern Orthodox that justled true and holy worship out of the Church did not so much as tend to holy worship consisting in Ceremonies the Liturgy Sacraments c. those men being so far from preaching up those parts of holy worship that they preach'd them down and consequently the more sermons and the more eloquent sermons of that nature were the most devillish works of darkness and Hell and the more men heard and believed those sermons the more they were children of wrath and darkness if so be that those five particulars aforesaid contain all the parts and portions of holy worship and that sermons the most admired Preachments be not allowed therein any not so much as the least share sermons at best being only in order to Gods worship as they plainly and honestly comment upon and exhort unto Ceremonies Faith Seals of Faith Prayers and Praises this ought to be the height of the Ambition that sermons can lay claim unto only to be subservient and serviceable to these high and mighty Devotions Faith the seals of Faith Prayers Praises and Ceremonies which three last you have most Evangelically in our Holy Liturgy And all sermons that tend not to the preaching up of these how worthy cares soever Father Grey-beards do esteem them are whimsical and extravagant at best in relation to instructing people in Holy and Gospel worship but if those sermons cry down these or any of these five
himself a French coat a French wit a French head a French wigg French legs French cringes French Tongue and all other members about him in apish and mimick imitation of the French frenchefyed thereby to be taken for a Gentleman whence the Proverb Jack would be a Gentleman if he could speak French At which so probably related by the old Gentleman most of the company laughed heartily and concluded that this new Author designing in his whole book to promote again the good old Cause which he calls modern Orthodoxy and sometimes the cause too good resolving right or wrong to plead the Cause of the Non-Conformists which since he has espous'd he is not asham'd of and therefore confesses p. 282. that if he can do the Non-Conformists no good he is resolv'd to do them no harm and we will believe him without swearing To carry on this goodly design he bespatters the present Government with unparallel'd malice endeavours to stain and blemish the late Kings whole Reign as deform'd rails at Bishops and evil Councellors dead and alive justifies Schisme as shall shortly appear cries up Indulgence and liberty Breda Breda Reformation Reformation and with bitter sarcasmes and invective taunts prosecutes the present Parliament Rallery being the most biting and insufferable Railing and all this with as little fear as wit Rather than not have a fling at the Parliament and pinch it till it recant all especially the Act for Uniformity or any Act against the good old Cause and Non-Conformists to twit it home as wittily and effectually as he can he p. 110. confounds nature to create a Joque turns the Parliament-men into a Parliament of women on purpose to break a jeast upon them which had otherwise missed them viz. Superfoetation of Acts. And new-mints a word Trinkle trinkle the members rather than his beggarly wit should have nothing currant It would make a man sick to see this little Tantalus catch and gape for a jeast and a little Rhetorick And alas it will not come And at other times to see him make a Lyons face and grunt and groan to send forth a little wit but it is right Presbyterian it will not come for the man is as costive as one of the old Assembly of Divines or Smec or Tom Dumby-low who dy'd because he was so And all this pother is for an old Cause that stinks above ground in the nostrils of every honest heart both here and all the world over Yet commend me to the men for one thing they are as restless and indefatigable in their endeavours to promote it though so often baffled by God and man that they still cease not to move every stone bribe and flatter threaten and frown fight and rayl cant and recant pray and lye preach and slander snivel and whine exhort and blaspheme in publique in private in City and Countrey in Churches in Conventicles with License and without License by your leave and in spight of your teeth As if old Knox himself was again metempsuchos'd in every one of them To this purpose in this Authour they assault the Church and State with the old weapons new furbish'd and to make you believe their old cause was good they make the old Kings cause bad and this bold man dares in this juncture of affairs with implacable inveteracy prey upon the dead not permitting to rest in the bed of Honour our gracious and blessed King Englands Martyr That sacrific'd his own life rather than to live in infamy by betraying his people the laws and his own just rights And though we can scarce believe our own eyes when we see the matchless Impudence of this Authour thus to traduce him and his whole Reign and the present Parliament with Taunts as bitter as bold yet to make all this seem but a jeast when he casts firebrands arrows and death like mad he seems to say Am not I in sport In an affected but taking and fashionable Drolling way insinuating into every mans humour to carry on the work Cajoling the Rabble with liberty Indulgence Breda Breda Cajoling the Yeomen and Corporations with Interest and Trade and propriety invaded with fears of Sibthorpianisme Ceremonies Arminianisme and Manwaring Cajoling the Gentlemen and noble men with the dangers that again threaten their Reputation and Honour and make them feel for their Cutto's and draw upon poor Cassock and Lawn-sleeves for fear it should come again to the Proverb of his own making Jack-Gentleman But I being suddenly call'd away was no longer happy with the further discourse of this Cabal of wits only I took notice before I parted that the Virtuoso's all this while made not one Repartee or if they did it was but one little one answering mostly with a countenance compos'd and made up of magisterialness and high conceit mixt with some pity but more scorn and a little smile now and then proceeding from both But with such a paltry and surly grace that I could scarce contain my self and I had much ado to forbear kicking the Coxcombs And they had certainly felt the Print of my toes but that I was not so angry as to hold from laughing right out at such affected gravity they look'd so scurvily With Head toss'd up but bridling in the chin As if with half cheek-bit and Curb reyn'd in Mumbling a little sometimes to themselves as the poor ass does when feeding upon Thistles the sharp pricks gawl his Chaps Whether like right-bred Cocks of the Game they kept their best strength for the Reserve and last Close or that they were good Husbands of their wits and would not spend it but in better company some Cabal of their own or thought that the Moderators place was their own by Patent and just right determining all at the last or did not at that time carry their wit about them as loth to wear it out or like old true hunted Hounds would not open but when the scent was certain or whether they had some peculiar endearances for the Authour I cannot decide But I was so netled with what I had heard of this new Author above all admiring the stupendious contradictions and double-Tongue of the man that though I had read in Diodorus Siculus of an Island in Arabia where the Inhabitants have two tongues in a head but loth to go so far to see them yet since I might see the Marvel at home more prodigious than the child at the Swan by Charing-Cross with two heads I was resolv'd though it cost me a shilling to see what I could find in this marvellous Book and readily finding one at the next Stationers the Bugg almost startled me at first it had such a Portenâ—…ous Title The Rehearsal Transpros'd The Rehearsal Transpros'd Some of the Common Herd of mankind that ne're paid six pence yet at a Club of the Virtuoso's nor so much as once got the word for that night would quietly if not frighted with the Goblin pass by this Title-Page when starch'd up with the
how he again abuses himself by contemning by name Lancelot Andrews late Lord Bishop of Winchester one that never produced any thing mishapen or deform'd but all so lovely and with general liking and applause admired that Greg. by dispraising any thing that was his Issue does but betray his own judgment blinded with folly or implacable malice against all the Clergy To whom he confesses p. 283. he bears a great grudge ever since he was nuzled by one of their Coat as if it was such a marvel Jonye should be chous'd when he comes to Commence Gentleman and Gallant by being made Free of the Company with his pocket full of pieces at an Ordinary From which if he had abstain'd and kept still in his Chamber himself and his Book writ it seems in revenge of his great loss he had been a wiser man and richer too by saving his Pieces and his Credit which if not quite lost is at desperate hazard and at the last stake But if the sins of this Nation should ripen to the like fatal Revolution in making havock and sale of the Kings Lands and Honours the Lands of all his friends as well as the Bishop Lands and Father Grey-beard to his wish should live to keep his own Court-Baron in one of my now Lord Bishops Mannors it cannot be said in shriâ—…t for the Rapine as at the dissolution of Abbeys Possidebant Papistae For Greg. himself assoyls our Prelates of Popery p. 35. not for any great hatred they have to the Popes great head but for fear of his large throat that swallows a whole Patriarchate at a Break-fast and then if they be within reach and too near him swoop goes Lambeth at one mornings-draught like an Egg in Muscadine Yet Greg. with all his Arts will not be able to purge himself then from his filthy share in the Rime and the reason too of the other part of that old Proverb Possident Rapistae But Sacriledge is but a Bugg to a wit and a Droll especially if he have a kindness for modern Orthodoxy which vouches that crime It is but as they use to preach the Israelites robbing the Egyptians It is possible it may be done again therefore for it has been done and some whaat else that I 'le acquaint Mr. Gregory with by and by which he shall not be able to ward off with his none-such weapon called p. 281. in his hide-bound Rhetorick the Butt-end of an Arch-Bishop meaning Abbot But I 'le make him that he had as good have chose the Hinder-end of an Arch-Bishop as the Butt-end of that Arch-Bishop to mouth with before I have done But I have not yet done with him in reference to the other Arch-Bishop of Armagh already stigmatized with his sawcy Pen calling him with much Arrogance and scorn p. 26. Honest man who was deep gone in Grub-street and Polemical Divinity and troubled with fits of modern Orthodoxy nay which is worst of all be undertook to abate of our Episcopal Grandeur and condescended indeed to reduce the Ceremonious discipline in these nations to the primitive simplicity So that Polemical Divinity modern Orthodoxy the abatement of Episcopal Grandeur and primitive Simplicity are if not terms aequivalent yet all put together the great undertakings of this Primate after he was past the sucking-bottle and had so much strength and agility as to leap over a straw Yet how meritorious soever this precious work was in the Primate the honour of it lights upon our friends J. O. c. for J. O. and the confederates were prompted by zeal pure-pute but the honest Primate stoop'd when he could not stand tip-toe any longer in spight of his teeth let go what he could not hold Thank him for nothing I perceive He might have had on all sides as much thanks for his great pains though he had not chang'd his name of Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland to honest James Usher and instead of his new dalliance with strange lovers and making love to his new beloveds the white and blue Aprons had not forsaken his first love And thereby have verified the Anagram that with more autumeing hope than truth was given him when he was James Bishop of Meath in Ireland James Meath Anagr. I am the same The Archbishop did not stand fast because he did not stand on good ground but on the Pinacles of the Temple Episcopal Grandeur and some Devils tempted him either to throw himself down headlong or else they themselves would take the pains to do it to save him a labour He must needs go when the Devil drives Why But does the Devil drive men to modern Orthodoxy I beg your pardon Sir if I mistake a little nevertheless it puts me in mind of the Indenture made at Edinburgh in Scotland the fourteenth day of the second month in the first year of the reign of O. C. Protector betwixt Archebald Mac. Dougal aged 72 years and burnt for a Wizard in the same year under Edinburgh Castle I saw him burnt on the one part and the great Fiend Beelzebub on the other part c. But Arche confest then and there that two of the Articles which the Devil chiefly stood upon before he would seal was that Arche should deny his Baptism and the Covenant solemn League and Covenant With much adoe Arche was content to deny his Baptism but rather than deny his geud Covenant he would never be Wizard whilest he liv'd Nick seeing the man peremptorily resolv'd blotted out The denying of the geud Covenant and seal'd notwithstanding saying the matter was not great for he himself was at the making of the geud Covenant By all which it is as evident and true as is the Manuscript of Arch-Bishop Abbot which Greg. so impudently imposes and asserts as dogmatically and magisterially as if he had stood at the Bishop's elbow when he writ it That this same modern Orthodoxy he must mean the Directory and the geud Covenant its zinee for which his whole book instead of a â—…bining which now takes not so well is a Drolling Apology as he confesses truth will out p. 282. If I can do the Non-conformists no good I am resolv'd I will do them no harm I say it seems this same modern Orthodoxy and primitive Simplicity of Father-gray-beard and the great Fiend were about that time and year at no great Feud at least not of malice forethought I know not how deep-learn'd Mr. Gregory is in modern Orthodoxy yet I durst lay my Spectacles he never read of a King standing on the stool of Repentance in the Primitive Simplicity in the old Records whereof I have seen Lawn sleeves Rochet square Cap and Cassock writ in as fair and legible a hand as Coat in Querpo Black cap white fac'd Breeches and Doublet Stockings and Hat Band and Cuffs Cabala Luggs flappant Hour-glass Pulpit blew and white aprons Simars Peruke or new-fashion'd Cloak For that Roman Penula which St. Paul left at Troas had neither black
because no body can believe that the same tongue does in good earnest in one breath speak contraries and blow hot and cold together at the same time Indeed the man that blew his Pottage to make them cold and blew his fingers to make them hot came something near in likeness to your mouth but the Story says it was at several times and he made two blasts on 't and two Periods But you in one sentence and breath without stop or comma talk of a whole Reign deform'd by the best Prince that ever wielded the English Scepter and the like of the Arch-Bishop you outdo all that ever I heard of And worse than the cruel Panther that allures and entices his Prey to come near him by sending forth a sweet scent and savour from his mouth 'till the silly brutes thus trepan'd come within his grasp and the reach of his bloody paw Your breath is not so intirely perfum'd but has two savours I wonder any body that have their senses intire should be in love with you and but that you are incomparable in your own conceit I wonder you are so much in love with your self And nothing do I admire more excepting always your own unparallel'd confidence than that any body should admire you for such a tall fellow and tough Champion for Modern Orthodoxy which you so often by your self-contradictictions betray as well as therein your own weakness and infirmities Indeed you manage a Cause that is plausible enough God knows in these days when you strike at the Bishops who have not at present too many friends and they themselves scorning to be grave with a Buffoon it is his own phrase and having not many that I see to take up the Gantlet in their defence so readily as my self though I confess with great disadvantage to my own fame The Argument I undertake being not so plausible and taking in defending them now a days as your jolly opposition and affront in which particular alone you have the advantage of me mine is the better though your's be the more acceptable Cause and this alone makes you to be cry'd up for a Sampson because you smite the Church and Clergy Hip and Thigh though it be be not angry with the Jaw-bone of an Ass. Is it not possible there should be true honour and vertue under a Cassock or Lawn sleeve Has Holland shirts Perrywig and light Drugget got the Monopoly of true Nobility As the Noblemen and Gentlemen would be affronted if the Clergy should despise them with your Proverb Jack Gentleman so why should not the Reverend Bishops and others be as much offended when such a Pick-thank in a whole discourse seems to cry Jack Clergy-man The King alone is the Fountain of Honour and are those streams of honour that flow from him more pudled in a Clergy than a Lay-Channel Does not the man forget his own Father I hate the folly as much as the pride of such Upstarts that because in their Pride Jollity and Atheism they would cast contempt on the Clergy in their folly they think they may and should cast contempt on the Clergy Who in the opinion of Greg. himself are the fittest to make the best Politicians in the World if they keep to their Bibles Which none probably does or can better understand nor any in like probability better observe 't is true they are men and subject to frailties but all men as much and in all likelihood more than they And now I am upon 't I will but make tryal what virtue there is in Perriwig Father Gray-beard above all others to make a Politician of For he often ope's and gapes at Politick Lectures like an Oyster against the coming in of the Tide it is his very element and he is either there good or no where worth the opening I can scarce forbear smiling to my self to see how prettily he sets his face and makes up his mouth with such caution and gravity before he begins to read to Princes his Politick would-bees First blaming the Ecclesiastical Politician he must not be forgotten for offering at that which was none of his Province p. 61. Instructing Princes like Sancho how to govern his Island And p. 206. He had put all Princes upon the Rack to stretch them to his dimension And in another place I am asham'd Mr. Bays that you put me on talking thus impertinently for Policy in us is so Now think I we cannot be far off this Politick Lecture it is either in front or reer before or behind it is hereabouts look for Greg. his whole book then and there most condemns what he is forthwith about to practise as formerly is instanced in the case of railing To make the King and Parliament secure he would lull them asleep with saying p. 252. That men are all so weary that he would be knock'd on the head that should raise the first disturbance of the same nature A new war must have like a book that would sell a new Title In the front of his Book you have a strange and unheard of New Title here he gives you the reason of it he resolv'd there should be something in his Boook to make it sell. And what if a man that had a mind to raise a disturbance should give the Good Old Cause a new Title and call it the Cause too good or Modern Orthodoxy are not those Titles as new and as ready made to a mans hand as the the new Title to his book and by the same hand too this man cannot for his life but he must confound himself But he that should raise the first disturbance of the same nature would he knock'd on the head would he so I do not believe any man likes it so well as to be willing to be knock'd on the head except those knocks be fine gentle knocks not Scotch Knox nor Modern Orthodox knocks they did knock so gingerly that not any man I know would be so knock'd with his good will however I suppose by would be knock'd on the head he means he ought or should be knock'd in the head and that is somewhat deeper than on the head it is as much as a mans life is worth to be knock'd in the head but to be knock'd on the head may be but a Tailors blow a knock with a Thimble a Prick-Louse Rap. But not to play further with his words the thing means as plain as it can speak that the first Rebel that should make disturbance must needs be knock'd i' th' head Therefore disband your Red and Blue-Coats you need not fence where there is no fear the Modern Orthodox that use to be so busie and indefatigable are now 't is very strange and news you tell us weary As soon as ever I read this news thought I to my self and whispered this is all Leasing the Factions and Modern Orthodox weary 't is impossible As they are the Modern Orthodox so they are the never-to-be-tired modern
so was Hen. IV. of France the former by Clement a Monk either in revenge of the death of the Duke of Guise and other the confederates in the League whom that King having once catch'd them in his net put them to the pot or whatsoever other bloody motion animated this cursed Monk to that horrid Deed. Hen. IV. his Successor and next Kinsman with much ado and by the help of his Protestant Subjects and our Queen Elizabeth conquered all opposition and was happily crowned but leaving the Protestant Religion wherein he was educated but not altogether his affection and kindness to the Protestants Ravilliack stabs him to the heart at one blow as he sat in his Coach and the Villain being put upon the Rack to the very last denled that he had any Consederates in that bloody assassination but of his own accord and design alone was moved thereunto by reading of a Book writ by a Spanâ—…sh Jesuit called Mariana Both these murderers were tortured their flesh by piece-meal nip'd off with red hot pincers and lastly drawn in pieces with four Horses Ravilliack had a Father and a Mother alive but not the least suspicion of confederacy with their Son in that fatal stroke could be laid to their charge but in detestation of such a monster brought forth into the World his parents were for ever banish'd and the house wherein the villain was born and brought forth into the World was pull'd down and made a Dunghill unto this day This is the truth of the story if it be not let Greg. if he can or has impudence enough deny it and if so then Mr Greg. must either conclude that his Majesty and Cabinet Counsel are very shallow and meanly conversant in the History of his Progenitors and Neighbour Nation and so believe the groundless insinuations of this impertinent man or else he falls upon the party he has espoused with another terrible but-end and counterbuff by perswading his Majesty to follow the example of his Kinsman Hen. IV. of France and his Cabinet and not leave one of our King-killers alive or if there be any on whom the innocent blood of his Father still calls for vengeance that he would first put them upon the Rack and make them confess who it was besides the Devil and their own wicked hearts that did instigate them to so horrid a villany and then pinch off their flesh from their bones with burning pincers and pull their four quarters asunder with wild horses and make their names as hateful as themselves banish their parents and make their houses a perpetual dunghil in example of Henry IV. of France and for an everlasting pattern to all King-killers unto the end of the world And this is all that our Nibler at History gets hitherto by his sly insinuations and indigested impertinencies in the behalf of his minions Now let us proceed and follow him to his next instance for I am resolv'd I 'll take a brush with all the Butt-ends in his book if 't be but for curiosity to try the metal of this vapouring Huff as well as to prove what metal his weapon is made of And now stand clear the next is a none-such a Goliah's Sword They Kings observe how the Parliament of Poland will be their Kings Taylor c. For which unsufferable affront to his Majesty our Gracious Soveraign his Crown and Dignity Hereditary and not Elective and at the good will either of people or Parliament as is the Polish-Crown I leave him to be chastised by those whom it does so highly concern Leaving the consideration to their Comments upon this bold intrenchment and invasion of our Kings Prerogative and Title to his Crown by a comparison so odious as well as false And so much the rather do I wave any enlargment upon this and the rest of his ridiculous instances which would tempt any man alive if he has any laughter in him to laugh and droll upon this foppish Greg. the most impertinent thing that ever offered to tell a story but that I know he must shortly be disciplin'd for them by another hand which by turning up all for want of the Prospect of a more pleasing nudity will make us as good sport with Greg's following Stories that were Nuts to Mother-midnight Go say thy Prayers Greg. and tremble at the rod that is coming upon thee except thou thinkest the wisest way in brief is some way or other to save the Hang-man a labour and so be as insensible of the blows that are coming upon thee as is thine old Masters head Bradshaw's or Father Grey-beard's your name-sake as well as Fellow-sinner's heads when the Jack-daws sh upon them and be thankful likewise that thou hast escap'd my fingers too whose Dexterity in flashing more than any of the former Pedants to your smart you may yet further feel when you give me far less provocation than in these idle instances of your Politick Abilities I tell you true I do not think it was worth your while to go so far as France nay as Italy for a sample of a King that had a Gentlemans memory and could not so much as remember that ever his father was murthered our King-killers for whom you plead so heartily might have made better escape if you had never gone beyond Sea to find out Kings to be for the murtherers of a King Royal Advocates viz. Henry IV. of France and Augustus Caesar whose Father too was murthered And now am I so weary with following this Wild-goose-chace thus long that if I would be knock'd on the head I cannot write one Page more till I throw my pen away and laugh a little at one pretty word he has many on them but this pretty word does so jear the Parliament and flear in their face for the Act of Uniformity and the superfetation of that Act p. 310. I cannot but admire the sagacity of his Raillery It hath been observed that whensoever his Majesty hath had the most urgent occasions for supply others of them Fathers of the Church have made it their business to trinkle with the members of the Parliament for obstructing it unless the King would buy it with a new Law against the Fanaticks And this is that which of late years hath caused such a Superfetation of Acts about the same business Modern Orthodoxy still tooth and nail fly at King and Parliament all dead and alive that have a hand or has had an hand in the Act of Uniformity that bane of the Good Old Cause but quite desperate by the Superfetation-Acts about the same business But this is no laughing matter that which does tickle me spite of my teeth is the word the new coin'd word by Greg. his own self minted is Trinkle trinkle with the members of the Parliament some of the Fathers of the Church when his Majesty hath had the most urgent occasions for supply did make it their busisiness to Trinkle to trinkle with the Members I wish for all
the out-side of every Church in the Kingdom because if the Sermon therein contained be but remembred and put in practice not one Modern Orthodox man will stay without door or content himself with a bo-peep hearing at a Church window but into the Church he must come and must say that if these six verses be but observed it will certainly bring him and all men living to the kingdom of Heaven and bring peace on earth and good will towards men nor is it necessary for any man I 'l justifie it to hear any other Sermon than these six verses so that he practise them nor can any man go to Hell that observes them nor can there be rebellion robbery murder evil-speaking or evil-doing but by transgressing some particular in this Sermon contain'd in six verses Some men are so phantastical and phanatical that they like and esteem nothing but what is far fetcht and dear bought All the Sermons preacht by Modern Orthodox this thirty years in England I 'l maintain it against the best of them have not been so soul-saving good and free from all harm as this little Sermon indeed some people will value those more because they cost more than these six Verses you have so cheap whilst the Modern Orthodox mens Sermons cost some people their plate and monies and some their hearts blood But this Sermon shall cost you nothing esteem it not the less for that the worth of it consists not in the Cabinet or dress but in the Jewels wrapt up and contained within these six Verses which are the Iliads in a Nut-shell the Bible in Epitome and show the nearest way to heaven and heaven upon earth By the Liturgy learn to pray So pray and praise God every day The Apostles Creed believe also Do as you would be done unto Sacraments take as well as you can This is the whole duty of man And is this all Yes this is all and enough to bring thee to peace internal external and eternal peace in thy conscience and soul peace with all good men and peace with God my soul for thine or rather believe not me but him that is the Author thereof Mat. 7. 12. Now do I know what these Modern Orthodox men will say as well as if I were in their bellies away goes to his Congregation calls a meeting sends about Tickets and Messengers throughout the City and Lines of Communication as at Caryls Funeral to assemble the Elders and gather the Churches to a general Randevouz the word is proper enough for most of them have been Military men Souldiers wives widows and following their Husbands into Scotland good honest Leaguer-ladies there Holderforth that is best accoutred with mouth and lungs speaking to this purpose Friends we are here gathered together in the sight of and the face of this Congregation to joyn together Pish pish these common-prayer-Common-prayer-book Phrases have put me quite out and made me quite forget my old canting stile hold try again Friends Do you see friends I now I am in and at it as I said before friends do ye see this Book writ against us friends and against our friends and against Mr. our friends friend by one E. H. What is this E. H Oh! no it it does not spell Oh! surely then surely verily friends this E. H. is one of the race of cursed Meroz He is so far from helping us that he has rob'd to his utmost rob'd us for ever friends even as I said but now friends do you see he has rob'd us in the first place of all our hopes of Plate Bodkins Sack possets Thimbles and Church-gatherings friends Nay do ye see friends Secondly he has rob'd us of our English Bibles our dear English Bibles and then you know as for our parts though I your speaker am somewhat asham'd to say it yet you all know it to be true that if he take the English Translation from me and you he may keep all the other to himself if he will it is all one to us as if he had rob'd us dear friends of all the Bibles in the world friends Thirdly do ye sâ—…e friends he hath rob'd us of our Sabbaths our foe-annoying Sabbaths our gain-procuring Sabbaths our heart-refreshing Sabbaths our heart-chearly Sabbaths and our spiritual market-day Sabbaths Fourthly friends he has rob'd us as I said but now this same E. H. has rob'd us of our very Sermons our dear Sermons Nay fifthly friends he has rob'd us of our Lectures our Tantlin Lectures our soul-reviving our soul-comforting Lectures our every way profitable and gain-procuring Lectures our enemies confounding Lectures those soul-ravishing opportunities of you especially dear sisters dear hearts Sixthly friends what shall I say friends moreover do ye see he has stript us naked left not a fig-leafe upon poor Modern Orthodoxy but has rob'd us even as I may so say and with reverence be it spoken this E. H. has rob'd us of our very Prayers making nothing of them but an impudent Harangue Pharisaical Nonsensical and what shall I call Hypocritical Seventhly More than all this friends he makes us friends us I say us he makes us that have been esteemed in our own and other mens accounts the godly Party to be the most treacherous cheating lying bloody malicious envious splenetick slanderous deceiful dissembling covetous rapacious and damnable villains that ever the earth groaned under and says He has trod upon many parts of the earth but no such wretches are to be found amongst Jews Turks Pagans and other men with hard names Cannibals King killers and man-eaters sure this E. H. is no Gentleman because he has not a Gentlemans memory as Brother M most gravely hints that wicked clowns should remember these things friends Eightly Moreover friends he says this wicked â—…e this E. H. friends says that Paul seems to mean us above all mankind when he prophesies 2 Tim. 3. 1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. That in the last days perilous times shall come and men shall be just such men and women as you and I are and all of us friends and all our friends there pourtrayed as if the Apostle bad an eye upon us friends when he did draw our Picture there so to the very life as if it had been made for the very nonce friends and on purpose for us friends do ye see it does so fit us friends Ninthly he robs us of what I thought the whole world could not have rob'd us of friends he robs us of our very pretences our dear pretences our very vizors and masks our very forms and faces of godliness mark that friends do you see we cannot keep a mask for him this same E. H. will not allow them to be so much as masks true forms nor faces of godliness nor so much as like the primitive face of Gospel-holiness advise and consult dear friends what we shall do for our masks and our vizors of holniess how shall we look when we shall not have so much as