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A88806	Laurentius Lutherizans. Or the protestation of George Laurence, Master of Arts, late commoner in Oxford, and late lecturer in the parish-church of George Buttolph-Lane, by Little East-cheap in London. Against certaine calumniations asperged on him by the corrupt clergie, and their lay-proselytes, for some particulars, delivered in two sermons, at Michaels Church in Corne-hill, and else-where, concerning our nationall protestation. As it was declared, by way of digression, in a third sermon at the same church, the 23th. day of Januarie, in the morning lecture, anno, 1642.	Lawrence, George, 1615-1695?	1642 (1642)	Wing L658; Thomason E132_40; ESTC R23031	4,957	12

fellowes as they are Catachrestically called the good and Kuriologically the bad fellowes and not they who by them are called the Puritan-Preachers and the Puritans and preciser people for if you read Act● 26.25 That Paul being converted and out of his Naturall condition hee doth professe against the tearme of mad fellow whereas in the 11. Verse when hee was in a Carnall state hee doth avouch that hee was mad yea exceedingly mad against the Saints persecuting them even unto strange Cities And therefore if you beleeve the Scripture and not as the Popish Church beleeves they themselves are mad and phrentick Mad upon their Idols Ier 50.38 The Prophet is a foole and the Spirituall man is mad Hos 9.7 Mad after Popish Bishops yea mad to bee Bishops though the Bishops themselves were never more mad than in these times as in their late Towring-Swelling ●ower-Aspiring Protestation and therefore if they doe not saile to Rome yet they may as in our Proverb take shipping and saile unto Anticyras yea further so insensibly entoxicated by a strange and an hideous Metamorphosis that as Pope Sergius the second as I remember was called Os porci Swines-snout or Hogges-face because of his uncleanesse So the corrupt Clergies may bee called Dens Diaboli yea Deus Caninus Diaboli The great Dogge-tooth of the Devill as Parisiensis tearmes all dogged and currish Persecuters and Back-biters For as a mad dogge rowling himselfe like the Icneumon or Mus Indicus in a sheet of mud and rising up upon his legs sets a black and a dirtie patch on every post in the street byting every one hee meets So the corrupt Clergy tumbling themselves in the mire of rottenesse and superstition fasten one beastly marke or other yea many dirty spots where they are seated snarling shewing their teeth like so many mad dogges and byting yea tearing in peeces were they able every one who thwarts them in their way and contradicts them in their unwarrantable insolencies and illegall proceedings whatsoever And here Let not any discerning or discreet Reader adjudge mee to be too immoderate in my expressions since the Devill Pope Bishops Corrupt Clergie and their Adherents have neither beene moderate in their blasphemies Modum autem tenere in co difficile est quod honum esse credideris Senec. Epist 23. nor in their tyrannizing persecutions and since according to the Dialect even of Seneca an heathen man In that thing or that cause which thou beleevest in thy conscience yea undoubtedly doest know to be good it is a great difficulty yea a great sinne to use a moderation 4. Lastly I protest against all Popery according to our Nationall Protestation For whereas some have bruited abroad that I and others have extended our discourses further than the Determinaton of the covenant admits Let them 1. Know that the Tearme All popery hath a large Periphery and circumference which as it doth reach out to that Popery which was discovered at the time when the Protestation was composed so also yet with submission bee it spoken may it bee extended to all those severall graines which lay under the Turffe and should hereafter bud forth and appeare to bee superstition and Idolatrie in after times 2. Know that I and my fellow-brethren are of the resolution of Martin Luther who although like him may bee t●armed Hereticks or Schismaticks because wee speake against the Pope and Popish Hierarchie yet by the creditable faith of Christians beseech others to indigitate and point out unto us a better way if a better bee Divinely revealed unto them or else to submit their opinion both to the judgement of God and the reformed Churches for as wee are neither ready to preferre our owne opinions before the judgement of all others so neither are wee so doltish as to place the word of God either below or behind the fables invented by the braines of Brainsick and cloud-pated Lycophrons and the conceptions or rather deceptions of Superstitious Temporizers 3. Know that whatsoever I have delivered in the two former Sermons in this place or what is or shall bee further delivered in this third Sermon or whatsoever I have delivered elsewhere and especially in those Sermons concerning the solemnization of our great deliverance from the Gunpowder Traytours and the Papists Conspiracy Vpon the words of Ezekiel c. 24. v. 2. in the last November in comparing N●buchadnezzar the King of Babylon and the whore of Babylon together who did set themselves against Jerusalem for which I was unsetled from my place of preaching as Iohn Hus was inhibited and forbad the Pulpit by the Pope when he began to preach the Doctrine of Wickliffe against the Pope and his Attendants I shall God willing Martyrolog and God assisting be ready like Iohn Hus to seale the Doctrine and every branch of that Doctrine which I have published elsewhere or in this place with the losse of my dearest bloud comforting my selfe with the Cordiall of an Ancient father saying Gaude O Innocentia exulta Gaude inquam quia ubique illaesa es ubique secura Si tenta●is proficis Si humiliaris erigeris Si pugnas vincis Si occideris cor●naris Constantinopolitanus Bee glad O Innocence and rejoyce Be glad I say for no where art thou hurt and every where thou art secure If thou art tempted thou dost profit if thou art humbled thou shalt be exalted if thou fightest thou dost overcome and if thou art killed thou maist lose thy head but thou shalt not lose thy Crowne And thus being necessitated hereunto have I like Martin Luther vindicated the truth My selfe and my Fellow-labourers by this Protestation and have read it to you distinctly that you might avoid mistakes and that the corrupt Clergy and their Lay Adherents might not say with any just ground against mee as Erasmus of Hierom when hee writ against Vigilantius Conviciis debacchatur Hieronymus what I did I did in hot bloud In Argumento Epistolae adversus Vigilantium and insteed of a vindicating Protestation I brought a vicious and convicious debacchation To conclude with an History suiting with our purpose it is reported of Emme the mother of Edward the Confessor who being falsly accused was constrained to goe bare-footed for her selfe 4. steps upon 4. sharp plough-shares burning hot from the scalding fire and having past them over without any hurt was adjudged innocent In like manner being maliciously oppugned have I beene inforced to run over 4. Particulars as 4. burning plough-shares which were laid not only to scortch sindge my reputation but also to burne up like so much stubble the very cause of God and his Gospell am now confident that that God whose cause I agitate and his despised people in this congregation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuag 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer Od. L. 17. though the Prelaticall faction and their Lay-Proselites may or doe gather into a cloud and thicken into a blustering storme will acquit mee as guiltlesse of all unjust black and opprobrious imputations For I know with David Psalme 140.13 That the Lord will maintaine the cause of the afflicted and the right of him that is distressed and Psalme 18.47.48 That it is God who giveth Avengements for mee and delivereth mee from all mine Enemies The Lord in mercy sanctifie to mee the Calumniation and those whom it doth concerne the Protestation FINIS