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A56836	The profest royalist his quarrell with the times, maintained in three tracts ...	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Loyall convert.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. New distemper.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Whipper whipt.	1645 (1645)	Wing Q113; ESTC R3128	63,032	100

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 Cobler 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 undenyably prest and learnedly urged home to every Conscience that is not feired 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 truly be tearm'd Puritanes with this inconsiderate action of those rude Ephesians Acts 19. 32. If there be any difference it is onely in this that these mad Martinmarre prelates professe in their words that they knew God but in their works they deny him Cal. All that hate Popery and Popish Prelates are in our Zealous Doctors esteeme Brownists Anabaptists and schimaticall Sectaries which he brands with that now almost forgotten stile of Puritanes all far honester men then himself whom compareing them to those rude Ephesians he makes according to the Kings unworthy Declarations the Authors of all these Commotions calling that worthy man Martin marre-prelate mad for touching the apple of his eye the idolatrized Hierarchy A Malignant of the right stamp and coyned at the Kings own Royall Mint Repl. Once again good Cal. if it will not too much prejudice the progresse of your wit correct the frailty of your Memory and remember the doctors book which you so soundly answer was Printed in the yeare 1625. which was a little before this unhappy Commotion which you say he fathers upon the Brownists and Anabaptists and schismaticall sectaries according to His Majesties Declaration Truly Cal. your malice may rather brand him for a witch then a Malignant but your discretion may hold him rather for a Prophet then either that so long since foresaw this Indeed in that poynt he jumps word for word with His Majesties Declaration and if the King speake true the Doctor speakes not falsely For what His Majesty writes now by way of history our Doctor delivered then by way of Prophesie D. Burges cap. 4. pag. 137. line 20. Such as make a great blaze when prosperity credit Peace and Preferment are Bellowes to blow it but are so carried about as hay in a whirlwind with the blast of Time that they wil be ready to fire that which before they maintained if the wind turned never so little about through fears or hopes wil be of any Religion and temper that the strongest faction embraceth resolving to go no further then a faire wind and weather and a calme tide will carry them And if any storme arise presently to make to the shore to prevent perill of life and goods Such Zealots I say as these never had any Coale from the Altar to kindle their Sacrifices they never knew what it is to aime at the Glory of God Cal. Your Doctrine is good had it been as well followed Say Doctor who was he that a little before this Parliament when our brethren the Scots made

Peace-makers They courage to the Persecutors He Blessedness to the persecuted They brand them with Malignity that call them blessed God was not heard in the whirlewind but in the still voice But his thoughts are not as our thoughts neither are our wayes like his wayes But whence proceeds all this even from a viperous Generation which hath long nested in this unhappy Island and those encreased Multitudes of simple soules seduced by their seeming sanctity who taking advantage of our late too great abuse of Ceremonies are turnd desperate enemies to all Order and Discipline being out of charity with the very Lords Prayer because it comes within the Popish Liturgie How many of these have lately challenged the name of sanctified Vessels for conteyning the poyson of unnaturall Sedition How many of these have usurpt the stile of well-affected for disaffected Peace How many of these have counterfeited the honour of good Patriots for largely contributing towards the Ruines of their Country How many does this Army consist of How for their sakes is Blasphemy connived at Sacriledge permitted How for their encouragement are Lyes and brasle-browd Impudencies invented nay publisht nay published in the very Pulpits and tolerated if not commanded even by them who perchance were this quarrell ended would throw the first stone 〈◊〉 them How many of our Learned Religious and Orthodox Divines who by their able Tongues and Pens have defended and maintained the true ancient and Catholique Faith and vindicated the Reformed Religion from the aspersions of her potent Adversaries are now plundered in their Goods sequestred in their Livings imprisoned in their persons if not forced in their Consciences whilest their wives and poor children begging their Bread are left to the mercy of these unmercifull times even for the encouragement of them whose pedanticke learning durst never shew her ridiculous face before an easie Schoole-man whose livelyhoods they unworthily usurpe not dispensing the bread of life but the darnell of giddy-headed fancie and sedition abhorring the way to peace and maligning those that ensue it I but we desire Peace so we may have Truth too What mean ye by having Truth The preservation of the Old Truth or the Institution of a New If ye feare the alteration of the Old having your Soveraignes Oath which you dare not beleive what other Assurance can you have The Blood you shed is certaine The change you feare is uncertaine It is no wisdome to apply a desperate Remedy to a suspected disease If the enjoyment of Peace depends upon a full Assurance of Truth our discords may beare an everlasting date God hath threatned to remove his Candlesticke and our wickednesse justly feares it And so long as we feare it shall we abjure Peace the blessed meanes to prevent it He that seeks to settle Truth by the sword distracts it Or is it a Truth ye want If so Is it of Doctrine or of Discipline If of doctrine Actum est de nostra Religione Farewell our Religion Or is it of Discipline Discipline is but a Ceremony And did the Lord of the Sabboth dispence with a morall Law for the preservation of an Oxes life or an Asses and shall we to alter some few indifferent Ceremonies allowed by the Parliaments of three pious and wise Princes and the practice of many holy Martyres who sealed the true Protestant Religion with their blood cry downe Peace and shed the blood of many thousand Christians Our seduced Protestants will have no set Formes of Prayer but what proceeds immediatly from their own Fancies This is their Truth Our Semi-Separatists will heare our Sermons if they like the Teacher but no Divine service This is their Truth Our Separatists will not communicate in our Churches nor joy●e in our Congregations That is their Truth Our Auabaptists will not baptize till yeares of discretion and rebaptize That is their Truth Our Antinomians will have no Repentance This is their Truth Our Independants will have an universall Parity This their Truth Good God when shall we have Peace if not till all these Truths meet But Christ sayes I come not to bring Peace but the Sword therefore for the propagation of Peace it is lawfull to use the Sword So He is termed a stumbling Blocke and does that warrant us to stumble So He sayes All you shall be offended because of me and does this patronize our Offences The Law is good and just Because then we had not knowne sin but by the Law is it therefore lawfull for us to sin God forbid Our Saviour brings the Sword among us as wholesome meat brings sicknesse to a weakely sicke stomack or physick to a body abounding with Humours not intentionally but occasionally Thus by your erronious and weak mistakes you make the Prince of Peace the Patron of your unnaturall Warre and the God of Truth the president of your unexamined errors But Almighty God the Champion of his own Truth and maintainer of his own Cause hath to more then common admiration appeared in this great enterprize He that delivered Israels handfull from the hand of Pharaohs Host hath shewed himselfe in the almost incredible proceedings of this heaven-displeasing Warre the briefe relation whereof may move those hearts that are not scared or stone to melt into a thankfull Acknowledgement of his Power and remaine as Monuments of his Mercy that children yet unborne may say hereafter God was here viz. The two Houses of Parliament made first a generall seizure of all the Armes Ammunition Castles Forts Magazines and Ships being the whole visible strength of this unhappy Kingdome to whom having now setled the Militia both by Sea and Land in their own hands tides of Proposition gold came in upon the Publicke Faith Monie like blood from the Liver conveyed through all the veines issued to make a large supply and where it stopt awhile mountaines of massie Plate from the vast Goblet to the slender Thimble this Faith removed into their safe possession And when the great Milch Cow began to ●lake they prest her Nipples and by hard streyning renewd the streame As Physitians evacuate the Body sometimes by Vomit sometimes by Purge sometimes by Phlebetomie sometimes by sweating sometimes by sluxing sometimes diuretically yet purge but the same peccant humour So did they first by Proposition then by way of Contribution now by way of Loane then by way of Subsidie no lesse then 50 at one time hereby way Assessement there by way of Twentieth part then by way of Excise one while by way of Sequestration then by way of Plunder but still the issue MONY And to work the better upon the Affections of the Multitude all this for the behoofe of King and Parliament for the pretended defence of God knowes what Religion Insomuch that Men came in like Swarmes to the next Tree or rather like treacherous Decoyes with their innocent Multitude into the Net and Horses without Number Thus were they supplyed with all necessaries which

and executed against sectaries But to returne to our first matter Admit Episcopacy were a Government accidentally inconvenient and that a more fitting Government were discovered prepared and made ready to be set up It would be but a new untryed Government and not experimentally known what proportion it would beare without temporall Constitutions A horse may be well metled and conditioned and every way commendable for the saddle yet not draw well in a Coach or Chariot A great part of our Common-Law is built upon the Cases of Bishops insomuch that if that Government be changed there must be a necessary alteration of many Lawes of the land And what inconvenience may arise from such an Alteration I leave to the Judgment of Lawyers being not unworthy of some Consideration But let these things be accompted not Inconveniencyes and that the Hierarchicall Government is fit to be demolished either for the abuse of it by some few exorbitant Prelates or for the mischiefes that follow in respect of it self in that it administers such occasion of offence yet the too sudden Execution of a busines of so great a consequence and concernment gives a livelier testimony of passion then discretion if Polititions may have credit and savours of extremity which is opposite to all virtue and too much rashnesse the distemper of all serious and honorable undertakings Too sudden an Alteration in matters of small moment passes not without some inconvenience but in things of such a nature as a Government nay a Church government too the nursery of the whole Kingdoms happinesse or misery it cannot be without imminent danger but the sudden alteration of a fundamentall Government of the Church which necessarily carryes the State with it threatens nay brings no lesse then unavoidable ruine to both A Rashnesse too much we feare relishing of private ends to demolish that government in twelve moneths which hath been setting up and maintained by as wise generations as ours above fourteene hundred yeeres How happy had it been for this at that time prosperous but now miserable Kingdome had we taken the advantage of that greatest blessing that ever gracious Prince conferred upon unthankfull Subjects the Trienniall Parliament wherein we might every 3 years have inspected this new recoverd Kingdome and kept it alwayes in a perfect Crisis the approaching Terror whereof would not have afforded popular evils so long a time or liberty to root themselves or gather head against the peace and welfare of our happy Government through the benefit whereof we might have taken an advantageous leisure and mature deliberation to ripen every Bill and by degrees to rectifie every nonag'd Grievance and indeed what happines was there which we had not then an offerd opportunity to bring upon this now unhappy Land The Government of the State as in many things it was reduced into an excellent temper so questionlesse had not this unnaturall difference interposed it had in all things by the continued goodnesse and favour of His Sacred Majesty been perfected to the comfort of us and the happinesse of succeeding Generations The Government of the Church likewise might by the vertue of the granted Trienniall been narrowly and exactly searcht into The Governours strictly observed The Bad turned out and changed for better They that deserved punishment punisht according to their misdemeanours Others lesse offending through some neglect reproved and checkt and upon no amendment the next Trienniall proceeded against accordingly The Fig-tree was not presently cut downe Root and Branch but suffered till another yeare And punishments before an Admonition are too rashly and severely inflicted Thus by this graduall and Trienniall Course Mercy and Justice would have incorporated the Government of the Church had been establisht the peace of this Kingdome had been secured the bad Governours had been rectified or removed the good encouraged and honoured and Peace and Truth had kist each other But the multitudes of these our nationall sins were too great to permit so great a Blessing on this Nation as the benefit of this Trienniall Prrliament God suffered Abraham to see the holy Land but for the transgressions of the people not to possesse it God shewed us a glimpse of that mercy which our sins made us unworthy to enjoy and snacht it from us In which respect we are now left to our owne wayes and governed by our owne Inventions and what is wors● we are neither penitent for our nationall sins nor our owne nor what is worst of all sensible of Gods Iudgements nor our owne miseries How often have our Moderne Ministers in their unmeditated prayers before the open Congregation given God joyfull thanks for these blessed times Whereas if their hearts had not been hasty to utter any things before God they might have rather petitioned for a removall of these his terrible judgements How often have they prayed for the continuance of these happy dayes ● whereas had not their mouthes been rash they might better have deprecated those miseries How often have they in their Sermons blasphemously challenged God upon the forfeiture of his Justice to crowne their Cause with Victory How often instead of wholsome doctrine have they delivered such reports as their Consciences knew Fables and were before next Sabboth Lyes upon Record How often have they preached downe Subjection to Princes and encouraged the Sword to grow warme in the blood of Christians How often have they Articled against Orthodoxe able and learned Divines and crowded themselves into their Livings who upon my certaine knowledge some of them can neither make true Latine nor write good English and then lay their preferment upon the wisdome of the Parliament How many children above a yeare old because their fathers are suspected to be loyall to their Prince continue unbaptiz'd many parishes can witnesse How long time is it since the last Sacrament of the Lords Supper was administred let the people tell if their memories be so good and then the Elements deliverd in their owne new devised words These are now the faithfull Ministers of the Gospel of Peace These the Ministers of this blessed Reformation These the men that must pull downe Antichrist out of his seat and set up Christ Iesus in his throne Nay rather these are they that for filthy lucre carry men about with divers and strange doctrines These are the men that in former times separated themselves sensuall having not the Spirit These are they that despise dominion and speak evill of dignities These are such as have gone the way of Cain and run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and have perished in the gaine-saying of Core The feare spyes in your feasts of charity feeding themselves without feare clouds that are without Water carried about with the winde rageing waves of the Sea fo●eing out their own shame to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever Is not this a blessed Priesthood Are not these rare materialls for a hopefull Presbytery 〈◊〉

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 God 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 thanksgivings 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 he ynous 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 bold 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 so But say was David a Prophet Had he speciall Revelations then doubtlesse his wayes and actions were the best presidents for us to follow But was he a Prophet Then sure he knew it a heynous sin to take away the life of Gods Vicegerent though an Idolater Had he speciall Revelations then questionlesse he knew death a just Reward for killing the Lords Annoynted though a wicked King But did this Prophets heart smite him for cutting off his Soveraignes skirt then sure God will not let him go unsmitten that takes his Crown from off his head or power from his hand But Cal. how truth will be confest by your unwilling lips which intimate the Prophets conscience had been dabbled in blood had the deed been done and his subjects guilty of presumption that should do the like And whereas you deny our Kings so absolute a power or title as the Kings of former times you should have done to better purpose to shew who limited it and when for your own single assertion is not Classicall D. Burges cap. 7. page 290. line 2. Authority is ever one of Envies eye-sores Subjection a yoake that Humane Nature loathes Although Inferiours cannot help it nor durst complaine Liberty Liberty is every mans desire though most mens ruine Cal. When Authoritie is put into a Right hand Subjection is no Burthen to a good heart But when Tyrannie usurps the Throne of Monarchie then the people may suspend Obedience and cast off the yoke of their Subjection We that are received into the liberty of the sons of God and made heires of an everlasting kingdome have too much priviledge to be enslav'd to men or made vassals to perpetual bondage If desire of holy Liberty be our labour here eternall Soveraignty shall be our Reward hereafter Repl. He that gives Authority knowes not where to place it The people were pleased with goodly Saul God was pleased to choose little David Tell me did the burthen-threatning hand of Rehoboam the son of Solomon the King of Israel and Judah or Ieroboam the rebellious subject of Rehoboam who made Israel to sin deserve the Scepter By your marks neither In Gods wisdome both The one to crush the liberty of the too proud subject The other to exercise the consciences of his chosen people In both to work his secret pleasure But Guild-hall hath wiser counsel and your Conventicling wives are fitter Judges for the setting up or pulling downe of Kings for regulating the power of the good or limiting the prerogatives of the bad But 't were fitting first to correct S. Pauls