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A56846	The vvhipper vvhipt being a reply upon a scandalous pamphlet, called The whip, abusing that excellent work of Cornelius Burges, Dr in divinity, one of the Assembly of Divines, entituled, The fire of the sanctuary newly discovered / inserti authoris, Qui Mockat, Mockabitur.	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.	1644 (1644)	Wing Q121; ESTC R210654	29,690	48

Capacity But if the Doctors opinion be firmly grounded on the word of God my Confidence of his Piety is such that neither feare of Prisons nor hope of Fortunes are able to divert or to corrupt him But Cal. it had been better worth your paines to have refuted his opinion by the strength of holy Scripture then pinned your implicite faith upon the Authority of men though never so learned or religious being the self same Error we cry down in Popery D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 40. line 21. He that being under authority will rather resist then suffer makes the Cause suffer by his resistance and so in stead of standing zealously for it he doth in effect raise forces against it Cal. A high and desperate Malignancy A Doctrine most dangerous and damnable not onely contrary to the practice of all Churches that labour for a Reformation but directly opposite to an Ordinance of Parliament also If this Doctrine be permitted from the Pen of an Assembly man without punishment or publique Retractation our Cause wil carry warme Credit and his bosome a strange Conscience If this Clause be sound we are at a weekly cost to much purpose If unsound our Assembly hath a sound Member Repl. No question Cal. that Malignant Doctrine hath been the ancient and received Tenet of former dayes neither do I know any Religion so opposite to it as the Church of Rome which holds it not venial but meritorious not onely to resist but also to depose the Authority of the Supreme Magistrate But we are better taught by Scripture not alone commanded but also find it frequently exemplifyed unto us by holy men to give all passive obedience to the power of our Princes whether good or bad without which Gods true Religion would surely want that honorable Confirmation of holy Martirdome which formerly it had But whether the yeare 1642. brought new inspirations and revelations with it or whether the thousand six hundred and forty one yeares before it slept in the darknes of this point deluded by false Translations the Doctor if you repaire to him no question can render you a satisfactory accompt D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 41. line 20. Zeale may stand with suffering and fleeing but not with Resistance which is Flat REBELLION And no good Cause calls Rebellion to aid Cal. Here 's more Water from the same Ditch but a little more stincking through the addition of this odious word REBELLION What Malignant Devil haunted this Doctors Pen Nay in those ●alme dayes when that base tearme REBELLION was hardly understood but in our Prayers Confessive Nay scarce then A word more fit for those that can submit to the inordinate power of a Prince and crush Religion in a Common-wealth Repl. How now Cal. Does your shoe pinch you there Dare you resist who have liberty to flee Can you resist and not rebell Can you do the Act with a good Conscience not heare of the Action without impatience How willingly can a dog foule the roome and how loath to have his nose rubbed in it Did not I tell you in the Preface where you shewed your teeth that you would clap your tayle between your legs anon and run away He whose enlightned judgment there called his God to witnesse hath condemned your Cause styled you by the Name of Rebell and branded your actions with the style of flat REBELLION His Conscience then had neither Feare to pinch it nor Affection to enlarge it nor could his Merits aime at any By-respects for his maintayning of so known a truth so doubly fortified both by the law of God and Nature REBELLION is a Trade the Devil is free of It is both Trade and Devil too No wonder Cal. to see you run so fast You know who drives you Nay he hath driven you so far beyond your senses that you hold him onely loyal that rebells and him rebellious onely that submits D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 45. lin. 20. I think no wise man doubts that even in the purer times of the old Church in Israel corruptions grew in Ceremonies as well as in the substance of Gods worship and yet pry into the Scriptures never so carefully we shall not finde any of the most Zealous Saints fall on fire for Ceremonies which is worth observation Cal. A true Chip of the old block Canterbury who after he had familiarized the name of the Altar in the common care not daring to bring in Transubstantiation with a full Tide innocently left out those words in his Service book which onely made the difference betwixt a Sacrifice and the Sacrament so that but one step more and the work had been fully done So this our Doctor not daring to urge Ceremonies too loud lest the Godly should heare him sets the peaceable Custome of the former Saints betwixt him and the danger of all good mens Censure He made the example of the Saints the wall by which his creeping Popery might hold for feare of falling who had not this blessed Parliament dropt down from heaven to crush these Superstitions in their Rise had been by this as perfect a Proficient as the worst had had his high tricks his low tricks and perchance his Merry tricks too as well as his fellowes Repl. How you wonder at a sparke of fire Cal. when just now your eyes dazled at the flame I Did not the Doctor in his Dedication as good as confesse himself an enemy to Anticeremonians did not your self taxe him of rank Popery and yet what a busines now you make of his creeping Ceremonies The lyar Cal. and the malitious sometimes are alike forgetfull But to the purpose If you loved the substance of Religion more you would have more lamented that sea of Christian blood that hath been shed about these Ceremonies then I find you do We contend so much about the shell that I feare we have lost the Kirnell But this know Cal. so long as you traduce your brother and thus abuse your spirituall father neither the love of God nor the God of love abides in you D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 66. line 14. Again let such as be Zealous sticklers for Democraticall or Aristocraticall discipline consider how ill the Church can be governed by one policy and the Common-wealth by another Cal. Our Doctor is growne a Machiavilian and forgets that Piety is the best Policy We living under a Monarchicall Governement in the common-wealth how he pleads for a Hierarchicall governement in the Church consequently dissallowing Democraticall or Aristocraticall Discipline which our gratious Parliament is now setting up But 't is no wonder to heare him that hath so Zealously pleaded for the Robes and vanities of the whore to apologize for her governement and by consequent for the whore her self also Repl. When Ignorance and Folly meet how malice domineeres How this government by Bishops erected in the Apostles dayes approved by Polycarpus Saint Iohns Disciple and Irenaeus the Disciple of Polycarpus Ignatius and all those first

Planters of the Gospell submitted unto by the whole Primitive Church confirmed by Lucius the first Christian King in this Island afterwards established by so many Acts of Parliament as yet unrepealed and freely and personally exercized by so many godly and learned Martyrs how this Government sticks in ignorant Cal's stomack whose forgetfull malice would make the Doctor an enemy to the proceedings and designes of Parliament whose writings were printed so many yeares before this Parliament was dream'd of As for his pleading for the whore this know had the popish Strumpet found no better friends then he she had wanted that retrograde Mercy of a Third part when the Protestant Matrone must be content but with a Fift D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 68. line 20. It was long since the Zealous Complaint of a Holy Man that men could no sooner get up their names in the world and be able readily and confidently to muster up a few places of Scripture nothing to the purpose but they thought themselves sufficient to encounter Moses himself setting upon him as furiously as Dathan or Abiram ever did Happy were this age had it none of that Temper Cal. But has that holy man no name Doctor or was it your own self The man we know not but his Intentions are apparent namely to conclude none able for the Ministry but such as have first their Ordination from your popish Bishops from whose imposition of hands they presently receive the spirit till then being neither called nor qualified brave Iuggling when the laying on of Symonaicall hands must enable a drunkard or a whore-master or worse to preach the sacred Word and administer the holy Sacraments who now by the virtue of this Hocas pocas hath a capacity to forgive sins being though formerly very ignorant now gifted more or lesse according to the gift he brings where they that are called by the secret working of Gods spirit inwardly enlightned by knowledge and especiall Revelation and able for Interpretation though never gifted with tongues were not permitted to exercize their ministeriall Function but imprisoned persecuted and pilloryed Repl. True Cal. you hit the intention right and have so plainly discovered yours too that every fool may reade it and being converted by you approve it too wherein you intimate how needlesse Ordination and Learning are to qualify a Minister and that any who finds himself gifted may execute the Priestly office Tel me Cal. may any that hath skill to make a shoe a hat or a suite professe the Trade till he be made free Your Halls say no Why he hath skill in the Mistery and his Apprentiship is served what hinders him he cannot practice His Master must make him free and he must performe the City Ceremony And shall the calling of a Minister be undertaken by every unexamined tagrag Shall every Coblor Feltmaker or Taylour intrude into that honorable calling and be judges of their own sufficiency and leave their lawfull Trades for unwarrantable Professions according to their own humerous Fansies Our bodyes Cal. expect the help of the most rationall and authoriz'd Phisitians but our soules can be content with every Emprick and accept of every Theologicall Mountibank As for our Bishops you tearme Popish How many of them have lately forsaken for their Conscience sake their lively-hoods and fled from the Popish faction in Ireland hither where instead of charitable reliefe they are thrasht and tribulated with another Flayle D. Burges cap. 3. page 70. line 11. The next way we can possibly take to the best Reformation is by prayers and teares Cal. I see the Doctor loves to sleep in a whole skin and far enough off from Resisting to blood T is true Prayers and Teares are said to be the weapons of the Church And happy it were if such weapons could prevaile But where Entreaty findes defect Compulsion must make supply If Prayers cannot Swords may If Teares may not Blood must Repl. Let them perish by the sword that take up the sword And let them that thirst for blood guzzle blood untill they burst David that fought Gods Battailes commanded by Gods own mouth nay a man after Gods own heart yet his hand that was in blood must not build the Temple And shal we expect by blood a Reformation of the Temple The stroake of a Poleaxe is not acceptable where the noyse of a Hammer was not warrantable D. Burges cap. 4. page 79. line 4. When many people are demanded their Reasons of divers opinions which they stoutly stand unto is not their answer thus Because the contrary is against the word Being pressed to shew wherein they reply We are but ignorant People we cannot dispute with you but so we are taught by Reverend men if you talk with them they will be able to satisfie you to the full Cal. Do Doctor offend those little ones and despise Gods Blossomes All have not learning to maintaine their Opinions by Argument and Sophistry The battail is not alwayes to the strong nor the Race to the swift The perswasion of a Conscience is an able proofe and the opinion of holy men a strong Refuge Better to stand couragiously though ignorant in a Good Cause as some do then to maintaine Error as you do with learned Impiety Repl. Hence it is Cal. your Cause is stronglyer defended by the Sword then by the Pen whose Ignorant Patrons can better thrash then plead T is confest the perswasion of a wel-grounded Conscience is a good proof to the party so perswaded but here it sticks not able to convert a brother Review those world of Pamphlets of both sides published and weigh them In those of the one side you shall have the full consent and Harmony of Scriptures strict precepts commanding holy Examples confirming and all undenyable prest and learnedly urged home to every Conscience that is not seired On those of the other side what Wresting of Scriptures What allegorizing of plaine texts What shuffling What faultring What obscurity of stile What Rhethoricall pretermissions of things materiall What pasquills What invectives What raylings What bitternesse Enough to discover a Bad Cause and to disparage a Good But Cal. your unmaintain'd Opinions are pinned upon the Authority of men Say where 's the Papist now Is not Implicite Beliefe one of our greatest Quarrells with the Church of Rome even unto this day Did not our Saviour himself condemne the old Pharisees for their Traditions If this be not blind Zeale that Scripture is Apochrypha which said Without knowledge the mind is not good Pro. 19. 2. No Cal. such Zeale is the mother of all Sects and Heresies being guided by the opinion we conceive of those men who are subject to Error because but men I advise such to keep their eares open and their mouthes shut D. Burges cap. 4. page 82. line 12. I wish it were no breach of Charity to compare the stirrs of our Brownists Anabaptists and Familists and all the Rabble of such Schismaticall sectaries who may

themselves is that of Samuel 1 Sam. 15. 35. mourning and praying for Saul not for Forme onely but heartily and fervently indeed and the worst they can pitch upon unlesse they proceede to open Treason is that of common Newesmongers and seditious spirits who cannot make a Meale spend a Fire drink a Pint or drive away one hower without some pragmaticall discourse and censure of Princes and their State-Affayres Cal. Nay Good Doctor we have had many Samuels or as good that have fasted and prayed at least these twenty moneths That God would be pleased so turne the Kings heart and bring him back to his Parliament but God hath stopt his eares against us and will not be moved And since God hath made his pleasure so openly known through the whole Land nay through the world too that his Majesties heart is fully resolved and knit to Popery and Superstition shall we subjects whom it so much concernes be afraid to communicate the businesse to one another Your conscience Doctor is growen a great Royalist but your tender Zeale of your Princes honour will hardly stop our mouthes or close our eares Our Case is so that our discourse of him and States-matters too cannot be too pragmaticall as you call it We must now take advantage of those his faults which our Fasts Prayers and Petitions could not redresse And since his cruell Course of life and soild behaviour will not be a perfect white we must die it into a sadder colour and these his Crimes which our teares cannot wash sairer for the comfort of ourselves and Children our reports for the countenance of the Cause must make fouler for the exasperating of our Confederates and encouragement of our souldiers so that by this christian Stratageme through the enterchange of newes which you condemne we may facilitate our own designes Repl. Cal. Your christian stratageme is but the modest tearme of a devilish project or in plainer English a peece of errant knavery wherein the father of your contrivements receives much glory and the God of Truth no lesse dishonour Read that statute which God made Levit. 19. 16. Thou shalt not go up and down as a Talebearer among thy people where in the end of the verse he signes it with I am the Lord The falsenes of the Tale doubles the sinne the basenes of the end trobles it the person damnifyed being a King makes it quadruble the persons venting it being subjects makes it terrible but the place where it is commonly vented being Pulpits makes it horrible and by the ministers of the Gospel too and in the name of the God of truth too almost impardonably damnable Now Cal. Tell me how you like your Christian stratageme No wonder if your Samuels were not heard T is well for you Gods Eares were closed against their prayers Had he not been deafe in Mercy and mercifull to admiration and admirable in patience they surely had been heard in Iudgement to the terrible example of such unparalleld Presumption How often have your solemne Petitions set dayes apart for the expedition of your Martiall attempts in a Pitcht field or for the raising of a Seige How often have your solemnities been shewed in plentifull thanks givings for the blood of those thousands whose soules without infinite mercy you cannot but conceive in one day dropt into the flames of Hell What Bells What Bonefires What tryumphs And yet for the successe of your oft propounded and sometimes accepted Treaties of Peace what one blessed hower hath been sequestred What Church doore hath been opened Which makes me feare and not without just Cause your Fastings and Prayers have been rather to Contention then to Unity and that they have rather been attractive for Iudgements then for mercies upon this blood-bedabbled Kingdom D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 284. lin. 1. As for such as will not take out this Lesson let their eyes their tongues their teares their sighs their coates their prayers be what they will be their Carriage savoureth not of Zeale for God which thus casteth dirt and Myre upon the face of his Vicegerent and tendeth to the taking away the life of his life in his subjects hearts in which all good Princes desire as much to live as to enjoy their Crownes And if it be not lawfull thus to smite at their Persons with the tongue onely shall that be thought Zeale for God which seekes their deposition from that Crown which once a just free and absolute Title of Inheritance hath set upon their heads Cal. Doctor you are very confident of your own learning and definitive Judgment to tye every mans Zeale to your Rules and it seemes you are more tender in flinging Dirt as you tearme it in your Soveraignes face then in preserving his soule from the flames of Hell Neither do I conceive it a thing so heynous to take his Subjects hearts from him as to unite them in the superstitious Bonds of Popery And as for your deposing him from the Crown which you falsely call his absolute Inheritance if he break the Covenants whereby the Crown is set upon his head he dissolves his own Authority and our Obedience and himself is become his own deposer Repl. Cal. It is not the Doctor that prescribes Rules to anothers Zeale but the holy Scriptures from whence he drawes his infallable principles and Conclusions And whereas you censure him for more prizing the cleannesse of his soveraignes face then the wel-fare of his soul your malice wrongs him in your hop-frog confutation wherein you make a wilfull preterition of that poynt whereof you censure his neglect in the wrong place And whereas you turne Deposition upon the default of Princes know kingdoms are neither Copyholds nor Leases subject either to forfeiture or Reentry Kings have from God their power of reigning from Man the Ceremony of Coronation To God they must give account not man on whose pleasure their Titles absolutely depend D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 288. line 4. In fine David thought him viz. that slew Saul worthy of no Reward but death and of this so worthy that instantly he gave order for his execution with this sharp sentence uttered Thy Blood be upon thine own head for thine own mouth hath testified against thee saying I have slaine the Lords Annoynted A memorable example and an Argument unanswerable against all King-killers and deposers of absolute Princes absolutely annoynted by just title as here with us Cal. Here revereud Doctor Your Simile limps First David was a Prophet and knowing the Crown so neare his head spared that life which he knew so neare a Period not willing to dabble his Conscience in such needlesse blood Secondly being confident himself was the next successor commanded present Execution to terrify his new Subjects from the like presumption Thirdly Though you deny it our Kings hold not their Crownes by such an absolute Title as those of Judah and Jerusalem Repl. Is the Doctors Simile lame Cal. Sure 't was your ill usage made it