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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26348	Medico mastix, or, A pill for the doctor being a short reply to a late vindictive letter, sent to Mr. Vicars in the name of Doctor Bastwick, concerning Leiut. [sic] Coll. John Lilburn / by E.A., a she Presbiterian.	E. A., she Presbiterian.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1645 (1645)	Wing A5; ESTC R18285	2,824	7

Medico Mastix OR A Pill for the Doctor Being a short Reply to a late Vindictive Letter sent to Mr. Vicars in the name of Doctor Bastwick concerning Leiut Coll JOHN LILBURN By E. A. A She PRESBITERIAN 1 COR. 13. Although I give my body to be burn'd and have not charity or love I am but as sounding brasse or as a tincling cymball Printed in the Yeare 1645. Medico Mastix OR A Pill for the Doctor Being a short Reply to a late Vindictive letter sent to Master Vicars c. By E. A. A Shee Presbyterian Brother Bastwick IN regard none of the Independent party hath taken upon them to answer your Booke of no Manners I your Sister a Member of the Church of England have undertaken the taske it being fittest for a Foole to answer a Foole in his Folly YOu say in the first page of your Idle Pamphlet you have taught Leiv Coll Lilburn so much manners That J in answer unto you say You have left your selfe never a whit For you have gone beyond the bounds of Modesty and Civillity In your seventeenth page you have reviled your Creator in the despising of his creatures Secondly The last Petitioners for the Liberty of the subject you call them Gastly Vgly faces having Complexions like the Belly of a Toad O blasphemous lie For God himselfe saith of his works they are all very good In page Six you say the Devill shit out Independent Ministers Brother I feare you are one of his treatles For its like you are of his very nature you know so well what he doth Why are you so foolish to find fault with the Sucking Apothecary seeing you your selfe order the Pipe Brother I thinke you have scoured your Pate as cleane of Wit and your Tongue of Manners as some doe their Closse Stooles after the sound of your Glisters A Taylor or a Controwler of the dreeping pans are better trades then a Milke-Wench that milkes her Cowes backwards and lets them Scomer in the Paile I hope you will not condemne me seeing I am so apt a Scholler of yours to learne your owne Language at the first teaching For it is the manner of Schoolmasters to commend their forward puples I thought to gratifie my Master with a Cap and a Cockes Fether with a Bell a Ladle and a Pudding because he is more fit for a Vice in a Morrice then to be neere a Wise Councell No marvell Dr Bastwick you have so impudently belyed the Independents as you call them to say They purpose to put downe all the Nobility and Gentry in the Kingdome page 21. when as your owne Conscience can witnesse they are the readiest people to give God his due and Cesar his Sir In the latter end of your railing Pamphlet you say that there is no Kindred so good that hath not either a Whore or a Knave in it So it is impossible in such a great Councell as the Parliament is but they should have some Ninnyes and Groles and men that have no more wit then will reach from their Nose to their mouths If I had beene a man and had spoken such words in this Age I should never have lived to come to so great an honour as to have a Gray Beard and a Set of thin teeth of Gods placing But I should surely be Hanged and well I had deserved it For it is as great Treason as any is to make a Kingdome so void of wisedome as to make choise of Naturalls to sit in so great a Court as a Parliament is Oh that the wisedome of the Parliament would consider what you have done for you seeme to vindicate the one party and revile the other and so divide the House Then how shall it stand where workes of Truth and Righteousnesse are they will justifie themselves and have no need of a Foule-mouthed railing-Lyar to mantaine them for that is a great disgrace Brother the number of those honest people whom you call Independents is so greatly increased and so surely grounded are they upon the Rock Christ that its neither you nor I nor all our Brethren the Presbyterians nor the Gates of Hell that shall ever remove them For the rage of man shall turne to the praise of God as it is said in the 76. Psalme Are these the fruits of our Fasts to fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse for even so it appeares by those lying-railing-Pamphlets which daily are suffered to come forth to make Gods People odious but that will never prevaile You call them Independents but I thinke by their Profession and practises we may judge them to be as cheife Dependants as any Presbyterian in the world Brother take their Profession according as I your Sister have taken it from their owne mouths That they depend first upon the great power of Heaven and Earth upon the Father Son and Holy Ghost for protection the Word for their direction life and rule to walke in and by Secondly That they depend upon the Civill Magistrate and submit to all godly Civil Lawes And good brother give me leave to tell you that Gideons Armie had the exercise of their Tongues as well as the use of their hands see Iudges 6. and 7. and 8. And the Lord prospered them and wrought a great deliverance for them And therefore why should you envie at the Lievtenant Collonell or any other for preaching in the Armie Have Souldiers no Soules Surely I thinke the very worst of them have as much as you have Conscience But there is a God above all and he is greater then all Brother The man of God was not seduced by wicked Jeroboam but was deceived by a Prophet that came to him with a lie in his mouth as if it had beene from the word of the Lord see 1 King 13. 10. So this our Parliament was not seduced by the wicked Prelates and I pray they may not be deceived by you and those wee call good men and Prophets of the Lord that come with lies in their mouthes as it were from the word of the Lord Doctor Bastwick surely your cause is bad for a good cause will make the owner better not worse I should have wondred greatly at your great and painefull labour so much in your evill way for our Brethren the Presbyterian Ministers but that they themselves are so helpelesse in thumpping the Pues and managing their businesse almost after your manner that the most of them have scarred away their Hearers And it is not the sent of the Independents pissing and scomering as you speake in their Churches and Pulpits And if you meane the Separates also that is as grosse a lye as to say The Independents can smell the good cheere out of England into other Countryes For surely God never made men such long Noses and the Separates never come neere your Pues to trouble you You say the Independents have demanded their money of you which they gave you and that is false some of them imployed me severall times and I brought you three or foure pounds at a time which was never demanded and many friends more did the like beside my selfe Brother I am sory you have not remembred to be thankfull nor forgotten to lye Gods Children are Children that will not lye So I rest your Sister but no Independent Therefore charge them not with my worke I have sent you but two Letters of my name not for feare have I omitted them but meerly for Modestie sake for truly I am ashamed of my Masters teaching Deare Sir If you happen to conjure for me you shall never find me in a Bulls Hide It may be you may in a Cowes E. A. Allowed and licenced by me this October 1645. IAMES 1. 26 If any man among you seeme to be religious and brideleth not his Tongue but deceiveth his owne heart this mans Religion is but vaine FJNIS I have got great light by Englands Birth-right