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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89609	A word to Mr. VVil. Prynn Esq; and two for the Parliament and Army. Reproving the one, and justifying the other in their late proceedings. Presented to the consideration of the readers of Mr. William Prynns last books.	Marten, Henry, 1602-1680.	1649 (1649)	Wing M825; Thomason E537_16; ESTC R202874	7,433	18

A WORD TO Mr. VVil. Prynn Esq AND TWO FOR THE Parliament and Army Reproving the one and justifying the other in their late proceedings Presented to the consideration of the Readers of Mr. William Prynns last Book LONDON Printed for T. Brewster and are to be sold at the West-end of Pauls 164● THere was never any age before this in which writing was so much in fashion Scribimus indocti doctique so as it should seem there is a certain Letchery in Scribling to which I fear Mr. William Prynne of Lincolns Inne Esquire is not a little given For how much Paper he hath spoyled in this kinde I leave to the judgment of all men that are not as he pretenders onely to learning When this disease first took him he chose to make the Hierarchy his enemies afterward the King the Queen and all the Court at a time when neither his Pen nor sufferings were he the man he would be thought could advantage the godly party His Books were then as they are now stuft with non-sence railing improper Instances misunderstood and mis-applyed Authorities onely he was ever most careful of a gingling Title as unlovely love locks unhealthy drinking of healths c. And indeed this may be said for him His whole Book is suitable to his Title For writing these Books he suffered very much and truly as I think not altogether undeservedly for it cannot appear to any reasonable man that he brought himself into all his troubles otherwise then following his own wicked spirit of contradiction For the Parliament as soon almost as they were met together sent for him then a Prisoner they review all proceedings both in the High Commission Court and Star Chamber against him they vote them illegal they restore what they can his Liberty but instead of his Ears they being irrecoverable he is voted 5000 l. A man might now without fear of being judged rash ingage himself for this mans honesty to the Parliament but as a Dog to his Vomit he returns to scribling and having catcht at the desires of wisemen who admitted him because of his sufferings to their company fit some yeers after for publication he not being able to hold any longer untimely acquaints the people with what they were not then enabled to understand by which means divers persons staggering betwixt honesty and malignancy quite fell off and many others pretty well inclined to the publike began to waver and thus fitted for temptation soon found an opportunity of departing from us Thus was the common enemy furnisht with friends by the folly and letchery of writing of M. William Prynne and his companions and put into a better condition of rebelling against the Parliament then otherwise he could have been The Wars begun the Parliament seems something too strong for the King the Scots in consideration of a great sum of money present us with a cheat which they call a Covenant divers honest men discovering the snare avoyd it Here 's an opportunity for the Crop-Eared Lawyer he sees the Parliament breaking into faction and now he lays about him First he writes for the Scotch Ecclefiastick Government in England and within six weeks in maner against it The two Factions obtain names of Independent and Presbyterian which is malignant jure divino he now calls them by their names and rayls at them one after another till within these twenty months or thereabouts he hath contented himself to rayl onely on one side This humor of his puts me in minde of a Gentleman that was as nimble with his sword as this Mr. William with his Pen. It happened that two set upon one this blade taking pleasure in fighting draws and takes part with the single man now they are two to two It fell out that two men friends to the single man come by and seeing their friend ingaged take part with him the contentious Gentleman seeing that goes over to the other side and making them three to three fights as eagerly as before Were we so happy as to close up all breaches and that all parties were now resolved into one this Mr. Prynne would singly oppose the whole Common-Wealth and rayl as dogs bark against the Moon Should the Apostles come from Heaven sent thence to institute a Government Mr. Prynne would dissent from and wrangle with them I cannot therefore choose but wonder that he should be so much troubled at his sufferings especially at his present imprisonment since if he have but so much time as to look into himself seriously he must needs finde that he can live in no place nor in any age but that he must suffer For making his Protestation and Printing it I blame him not for I beleeve he could not wellavoyd it his fit thentaking him which must have its course but that he should so much complain of his former sufferings is a non-sence though non-sence be natural to him that becomes him not His business is to write lyes in the Name of the Lord as the Priests of that Sect Preach To rayl to jeer at Saints being a name in which he is uninterested and misapply Scripture By these marks as himself by his no Ears hath his stile been hitherto known I shall not advise him against writing it being as necessary as meat and drink a thing without which he cannot live But I would advise his Readers to read him as they would read or hear a tale of Oyster women soolding with each other at Billings-Gate That his Books can be of no advantage to the people in generall nor particularly to any person is most plaine in themselves for he doth not only make one discourse contradict another which might be excused by his naturall infirmitie of being inconstant but even the same discourse contradict it selfe Besides his scope is not to informe but calumniate to cast dirt in the face though if he throw it it can stick no where long of some one or more men and commonly he picks out the honestest and most faithfull persons too nay saviours of the Common-wealth Witnesse his Protestation in which he endeavours through the sides of Sir Hardresse Waller and Colonell Pride to wound the whole Army by whose valour the Common-wealth is safe and from whom only a safe and wel-grounded peace may be hoped for and expected He complaines in his Protestation that comming to the House of Commons to discharge his duty his spleen he meant for which reason he bought his membership twentie pounds cheaper then Thomas Temple as Master Harris told him He was the sixt of December last stopped on the staires neare the dore of the Commons House and that ever since he hath been restrained of his liberty which he calls a breath of Parliament Priviledge I did intend to have given Mr. Prynne a particular answer but because divers other gentlemen are involved in the same case with Mr. Prynne I shall therefore give no other Then as briefly as may be to shew that the Army was