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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43120	Hay any worke for Cooper, or, A briefe pistle directed by way of an Hublication to the Reverend Byshops counselling them if they will needes bee barrelled up for feare of smelling in the nostrills of His Majesty and the state that they would use the advise of Reverend Martin for the providing of their Cooper because trhe Reverend T. C., by which mysticall letters is understood either the bouncing parson of east-meane or Tom Coakes his Chaplaine, to be an unskilfull and a beceitfull Tub-trimmer : wherein worthy Martin Qvits himselfe like a man I warrant you in the modest defence of his selfe and his learned pistles and maketh the Coopers hoopes to slye off and the Bishops Tubs to leake out of all cry / penned and compiled by Martin the metropolitan.	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Penry, John, 1559-1593.	1642 (1642)	Wing H1205; ESTC R13144	39,553	59

the other I bethought me therefore of a way whereby men might be drawne to doe both perceiving the humours of men in these times especially of those that are in any place to be given to mirth I tooke that course I might lawfully doe it I For jesting is lawfull by circumstances even in the greatest matters The circumstances of time place and persons vrged me therevnto I never profaned the word in any jest Other mirth I vsed as a covert wherein I would bring the truth into light the Lord being the Author both of mirth and gravity Is it not lawfull in it selfe for the truth to vse either of these wayes when the circumstances doe make it lawfull My purpose was and is to doe good I know I have done no harme howsoever some may iudge Martin to mar all They are very weake ones that so think In that which I have written J know vudoubtedly that I have done the Lord and the state of this Kingdome great service Because I have in some sort discovered the greatest enemies thereof And by so much the most pestil●…nt enemies because they wound Gods religion and currupt the State with Atheism and loosenesse so call for Gods vengance vpon vs all even vnder the colour of Religion I affirme them to be the greatest enemies that now our state hath for if it were not for them the truth should have more free passage herein then now it hath All states thereby would be amended and so we should not be subject vnto Gods displeasure as now we are by reason of them Now let me deale with these are in authority I doe make it knowne vnto them that our Bishops are the greatest enemies which we have For they doe not onely goe about but they have long since fully perswaded our state that they may lawfully procure the Lord to take the Sword in hand against the state if this be true have J not said truly that they are the greatest enemies which our state hath The Papists worke no such effect for they are not trusted The Atheifts have not infected our whole state these have The attempts of our forraine enemies may be pernicious But they are men as wee are But that God which when our Bishops have and doe make our Prince and our governours to wadge war who is able to stand against him Well to the point many have put his Maiestie the Parliament and counsell in mind that the church officers now among vs are not such as the Lord alloweth off because they are not of his owne ordaining They have shewed that this fault is to be amended or the Lords hand to be looked for The Bishops on the other side have cried out vpon them that have thus dutifully moved the state They with a loud voyce gave out that the magistrate may lawfully maintaine that church government which best fitteth our estate as living in the time of peace What doe they else herein but say that the magistrate in time of peace may maime and defor●…e the body of Christ his church That Christ hath left the government of his own house vnperfect and left the same to the discretion of the Magistrate whereas Moses before whom in this point of government the Lord Crhist is justly preferred Hob. 3 6. made the government of the legall policy so perfect as hee left not any part thereof to the discretion of the Magistrate Can they deny church Officers to bee members of the church they are refused by the expresse text 1 Cor. 12. will they affirme Christ to have left behind him an vnperfect body of his Church wanting members at y● least wise having such members as were onely permanent at the Magistrates pleasure Why Moses the servant otherwise governed the house in his time And the sonne is commended in this point for Wisedome and faithfulnesse before him Heb. 3. 6. Either then that commendation of the sonne before the servant is a false testimony or the sonne ordained a permanent government in his Church If permanent not to be changed What then doe they that hold it may be changed at the Magistrates pleasure but advise the Magistrate by his positive lawes to proclaime that it is his will that if there shall be a Church within his dominions he will maime and deforme the same hee will ordaine therein what members he thinketh good He will make it knowne that Christ vnder his government shall be made lesse faithfull then Moses was That he hath left the placing of members in his body vnto the Magistrate Oh cursed beasts that bring this guilt vpon our estate Repent Caitifes while you have time you shall not have it I feare when you will And looke you that are in authority vnto the equity of the controversie betweene our wicked Bishops and those vho would have the disorders of our Church amended Take heed you ●…e not carryed away with slanders Christs government is neither Mar-prince Mar-state Mar-law nor Mar-magistrate The living God whose cause is pleaded for will be reuenged of you if you give eare vnto this slander contrary to so many testimonies as are brought out of his word to prove the contrary He denounceth his wrath against all you that thinke it lawfull for you to maime or deform his church he accounteth his Church maimed when those Offices are therein placed which hee hath not appointed to bee members thereof he also testifieth that there be no members of this appointment in the Church but such as hee himselfe hath named in his word and those that he hath named man must not displace for so he should put the body out of joynt Now our Bishops holding the contrary and bearing you in hand that you may practize the contrary doe they not drive you to provoke the Lord to anger against your owne soules And are they not your enemies they hold the contrary J say for they say that his Maiestie may alter this government now established and thereby they shew either this government to be vnlawfull or that the magistrate may presume to place those members in Gods Church which the Lord never mentioned in his word And I 〈◊〉 you marke how the case standeth betweene these wretches those whom they call puritans 1 The puritans falsely so called shew it to be vnlaw full for the Magistrate to goe about to make any members for the body of Christ 2 They hold all officers of the Church to be members of the body Rom. 12 6. 1. Cor. 12. 8. 28. 3 And therfore they hold the altering or the abolishing of the offices of church government to be the altering 〈◊〉 abolishing of the members of the Church 4 The altering and abolishing of which members they hold to be vnlawfull because it must needes be a maime vnto the body 5 They hold Christ Iesus to have set downe as exact and as vnchangeable a Church government as eve●…Moses did Heb. 3. 6. These and such like are the points they hold let their cause

Hay any worke for Cooper OR A BRIEFE PISTLE DIRECTED BY WAY OF an Hublication to the Reverend Byshops counselling them if they will needes bee Barrelled up for feare of smelling in the nostrills of his Majesty and the state that they would use the advise of Reverend Martin for the providing of their Cooper because the Reverend T. C. by which mysticall Letters is understood either the bounsing Parson of Eastmeane or Tom Coakes his Chaplaine to be an unskilfull and a Beceitfull Tub-trimmer WHEREIN WORTHY MARTIN QVITS Himselfe like a Man I warrant you in the modest defence of his selfe and his learned Pistles and maketh the Coopers hoopes to flye off and the Bishops Tubs to leake out of all cry Penned and Compiled by MARTIN the METROPOLITAN Printed in Europe not farre from some of the Bounsing Priests A man of worship to the men of worship that is Marti●… Mar-prelate gentleman Primate and Metropolitane of all the Ma●…tins wheresoever To the Iohn of all the Sir Iohns and to the rest of the terrible Priests saith have among you once againe my clergie masters For O Brethren there is such a deale of love grown of late I perceive betweene you and me tha●… although I would be negligent in sending my Pistles unto you yet I see you cannot forget me I thought you to be very kind when you sent your Pursivaunts about the Country to seeke for me But now that you your selves have taken the paines to write this is out of all cry Why it passes to thinke what loving and carefull Brethren I have who although I cannot be gotten to tell them where I am because I love not the ayre of the Clinke or Gatehouse in this cold time of Winter and by reason of my businesse in Pistle-making will not withstanding make it known vnto the world that they have a moneths mind towards me now truly brethren I find you kind why ye doe not know what a pleasure you have done me My worships bookes were vnknowne to many before you allowed T. C. to admonish the people of England to take heed that if they loved you they would make much of their Prelates and the chiefe of the Clergie Now many seeke after my bookes more then ever they did Againe some knew not that our brother Iohn of Fulham was so good vnto the porter of his gate as to make the poore blind honest soule to be a dum Minister Many did not know either that Amen is as much as by my faith and so that our Saviour Christ ever sware by his faith or that bowling and eating of the Sabboth are of the same nature that Bishops may as lawfully make blind guydes as David might cate of the Shew bread or that father Thomas Tub-trimmer of Winchester good old student is a master of Ar●…s of 45. yeares standing Many I say were ignorant of these things and many other pretty toyes vntill you wrote this pretty booke besides whatsoever you overpasse in my writings and did not gainsay that I hope will be iudged to be true and so Iohn a Bridges his treason out of the 448 page of his booke you grant to be true Your selves you deny not to be petty Popes the Bishop of fir Davids in Wales you deny not to have two wives with an hundred other things which you doe not gain say so that the reader may judge that I am true of my word and vse not to lye like Bishops and thi●… hath greatly commended my worships good dealing But in your confutation of my book you have shewed reverend Martin to be truepeny indeed for you have confirmed rather then confuted him So that brethren the pleasure which you have done vnto me is out of all scotche and notche And should not I againe be as ready to pleasure you Nay then I should be as vngratefull towards my good brethren as Iohn of Ca●…t is to Thomas Cartwright The which Iohn although hee hath beene greatly favoured by the said Thomas in that Thomas hath now these many yeares let him alone and said nothing vnto him for not answering his bookes yet is not ashamed to make a secret comparison betweene himselfe and Thomas Cartwright As who say Iohn of Lambehith were as learned as Thomas Cartwright What say you old deane Iohn a Bridges have not you shewed your selfe thankefull vnto his Majestie in overthrowing his supremacie in the 448 page of your book I will lay on load on your skincoat for this geare anon And I will have my penyworths of all of your brethren ere I have done with you for thi●… paines which your T. C. hath taken with me This is the Puritans craft in procuring me to be confuted I know I le be even with them to a crafty whoresons brethren Bishop did you thinke because the puritans T. C. did set Iohn of Cant. at a non-plus and gave him the overthrow that therefor●… your T. C. alias Thomas Cooper Bishop of Winchester or Thomas Cooke his Chaplaine could set me at a nonplus simple fellowes me thinkes he should not J gesse your T C. to b●…Thomas Cooper but I do●… not peremptorily affirme it because the modest old student of 52 yeares standing set●…eth Winchester after Lincolne and Rochester in the cont●…ts of his booke which blasphemy would not have beene toller●…ted by them that saw and allowed the booke vnlesse Mistresse Coopers husband had beene the author of it Secondly hecuase this T. C the author of this booke is a Bishop and therefore Thomas Cooper he is a Bishop because hee reckon●…th himselfe charged ●…mongst others with those crimes whereof none are accused but Bishops alone pag. 101. lin. 26. Ha olde Martin yet I see ●…hou hast it in thee thou wilt enter into the bowels of the cause in hand I perceive Nay if you will commend me I will give you more reasons yet Th●… stile and the phra●…e is very like her husbands that was sometimes wont to write vnto Doctor Day of Welles You see I can doe it indeed Againe none would be so groshead as to gather because my reverence telleth Deane Iohn that hee shall have twenty fists about his ●…ares more then his owne whereby J meant indeed that many would write against him by reason of his bomination learning which otherwise never meant to take pen in hand that J threatned him with blowes and to deale by stafford law whereas that was farre from my meaning could by no meanes be gathered out of my words but onely by him that pronon●…ced Enlogeni for E●…login in th●… pulpit and by him whom a Papist made to beleeve that the Greek word Eulogein that is to give thankes signifie●…h to make a crosse in the forhead py hy hy hy I cannot but laugh py hy hy hy I cannot but laugh to thinke that an old soaking student in this learned ag●… is not ashamed to be so impud●… as to pre●…me to deale with a Papist when he hath no grue in his pocket But

the now B of Winchester be not perswaded that Reverend Martin hath sufficiently proved it to be vnlawfull for the civill Magistrate to abolish any lawfull church Officer out of the church Because it is vnlawfull for him to maime or deforme the body of Christ by displacing the members thereof But it may be your Coopers noddle profane T. C. doubteth for I know you to be as ignorant in these points as Iohn Whitgift or De●…ne Iohn their selves Whether a lawfull Church officer in regard of his office be a member of the body of Christ which is the church Therefore looke Rom. 12. Uerse 4 5. c. and there you shall see that whosoever hath an office in the body is a member of the body There also you shall see that he that teacheth which is the Do or he y● exhorteth which is the Pastour he that ruleth which is the Elder hee that distributeth which is the Deacon as for him that sheweth mercy that is there spoken off hee is but a church servant and no church officer There I say you shall also see that these 4 Offices of Pa●…tours Doctors Elders and Deacons are members of the body and 1 Cor. 12 8 28 you shall see that God hath ordained them Out of all which hitherto I have spoken T. C. I come vpon you your Bishoprickes with 4 or 5 yea halfe a dozen and need bee such dry soopes as Iohn of London with his two hand sword never gave the like For they answere your whole profane booke First that the platforme of government by Pastours Doctors Elders and Deacons which you say was devised you know not by whom is the invention of our Saviour Christ For God ordained them saith the Ap●…stle 1 Cor. 12 8 28 And therefore vnlesse yo●… will shew yourselfe either to ●…e a blaspemer by terming Iesus Christ to be you cannot tell whom or else to be ignorant who is Iesus Christ you must needs acknowledge the platforme of government which you say was invented by you know not whom to have Christ Jesus for the author thereof Secondly that the word of God teacheth that of necessity the government by Pastours Doctors Elders c. ought to be in every Church which is neither maimed ●…or deformed Because that church must needs be maimed which wanteth those members which the Lord hath appointed to be therein vnlesse the Lord himselfe hath by taking those members away shewed that now his body is to have no vse of them But as hath beene sayd God hath ordained Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons to be in his Church proved out of Rom. 12 6 7 8. 1 Cor. 12. 8 28. Ephe. 4 12. And he hath not taken these officers away out of his church because the church hath continuall need of them As of Pastors to feed with the word of Wisedome Of the Doctors to feed with the Word of knowledge and both to build vp his body in the vnitie of faith of Elders to watch and oversee mens manners of Deacons to looke vnto the poore and church treasurie Therefore where these 4. Officers are wanting there the Church is imperfect in his Regiment Thirdly that this government cannot be inconvenient for any State or Kingdome For is it inconvenient for a State or Kingdome to have the body of Christ perfect therein Fourthly that every Christian Magistrate is bound to receive this government by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons in the Church within his dominions whatsoever inconvenience may be likely to follow the receiving of it Because no likelihood of inconvenience ought to induce the Magistrate willingly to permit the church vnder his government to be maimed or deformed Fifthly that the government of the church by Lord Archbishops and Bishops is a government of deformed and vnshapen members serving for no good vse in the church of God Because it is not the government by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons which as I have shewed are now the onely true members that is the onely true Officers of the visible body Sixtly and lastly That they who defend this false and bastardly government of Archbishops and Bishops and withstand this true naturall government of the church by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons are likely in a while to become Mar-prince Mar-state Mar-law Mar-Magistrate Mar-common wealth As for Mar-church and Mar-religion they have long since proved themselves to bee These sixe points doe necessarily follow of that which before I have set downe namely that it is not lawfull for any to abolish or alter the true and lawfull government of the church Because it is not lawfull for them to maime or deforme the body of the church And I chalenge you T. C. and you Deane Iohn and you Iohn Whitgift and you D. Coosins and you D. Cop●…ot and all the rest that will or dare defend our established Church government to be tryed with me in a Judgement of life and death at any barre in England in this point Namely That you must needs be not onely traytors to God and his word but also enemies unto his Maiestie and the land in defending the established church government to be lawfull You see the accusation which I lay to your charge and here followeth the proofe of it They who defend that the Prince and state may bid God to battell against them they are not onely traitors against God and his word but also enemies to the Prince and state I thinke Iohn of Glocester himselfe will not be so senceles●…e as to deny this But our Archbishops and Bishops which hold it lawfull for his Majestie and the state to retaine this established for me of government and to keepe out the government by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons which was appointed by Christ whom you profane T. C. call you know not whom hold it lawfull for his Maiestie and the state to bid God to battell against them Because they bid the Lord to battell against them which maime and deforme the body of Christ viz. the church And they as was declared maime deforme the body of the church which keep out the lawfull offices apointed by the Lord to be members therof and in their steed place other woodden members of the invetnion of man Therefore you T. C. you Deane Iohn and you Iohn Whitgift and you the rest of the beastly defendors of the corrupt church government are not onely trayters to God and his word but enemies to her Maiesty and the state Like you any of these Nu●…I●…hn Canterbury I am not disposed to jest in this serious ma●…ter I am called Martin Mar-prelat There be many that greatly dislike of my doings I may have my wants I know For I am a man Bot my course I know to be ordinary and lawfull I saw the cause of Christs government and of the Bishops Antichristian to be hidden The most part of men could not be gotten to read any thing written in the defence of the one and against