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A78585	The character of a puritan; and his gallimaufrey of the antichristian clergie; prepared with D. Bridges sawce for the present time to feed on. By the worthy gentleman, D. Martin Mar-Prelat, Doctor in all the faculties, Primate and Metropolitan.	Mar-Prelat, Martin, Doctor in all the faculties.	1643 (1643)	Wing C1987; Thomason E87_11; ESTC R212793	19,559	29

a Calling and being so farre unfit for it so many as perish for want of teaching in your charge their bloud the Lord will require at your hands Minist The Bishop knew my ability before he mad me Minister Puritan Well he stands in the state of damnation as you do and thus much I say unto you and to all Idoll Ministers and to him and all usurping Archbishops and Lord Bishops leave your unlawfull Callings into which you have intruded your selves and with speed repent and humble your selves before the Majesty of God confessing your horrible and grievous sins with Peters teares in that you are the caufe yea and also the very murtherers of so many soules as perish in your charges knowing that the Lord will in that great and terrible day require their bloud at your hands Iacke O Lord my heart quaketh to heare of so great and grievous sins as are in our Bishops and in the whole Ministry but our Bishops are the cause of all Puritan I will tell you Sir I am perswaded in my very Conscience that the Lord hath given many of our Bishops over into a reprobate sence for they do willfully oppose themselves against the Lord and his known truth yea and persecute it and I suppse them to be in the state of the sinne against the Holy Ghost for they have manifested in their published writings yea and pressed forth by Authority such horrible blasphemous Hereticall yea damnable Doctrines which my very heart trembleth to repeat in sort as they have set them down which if those whom they call Puritans should set down or hold the like errours and dangerous points I warrant you they should soon be cut off from the face of the earth and right well they were worthy Iacke Now Sir I pray you let me heare some of the points they hold and that are so dangerous as you say that I may be able to justifie it to our dumb dogs teeth at Austins Gate in London when I come home Puritan First you shall understand that the Bishop of London hath published in Print and that in an Epistle or Preface before Barnardeus de loques Book of the Church published in English that the Puritans may aswell deny the Sonne of God to be consubstantiall with God the Father as they may deny the superiority of Archbishops and Lord Bishops flat contrary to the saying of our Saviour Christ Luke 22. Iacke O monstrous and blasphemous wretch that to maintaine his fleshly pleasure will make such an odious comparison Puritan Nay what say you to a Bishop that hath two Wives and both now living Do you not thinke it is a thing tollerable in a Christian Common-wealth where the Gospel is professed Iacke No indeed doe I not I hope our Magistrates will not suffer such a Bishop to live it were monstious among common Infidels much more intollerable that a Bishop in such a Land as ours is where the Gospell is truly taught But I pray you is there any such now living Puritan Yes indeed is there and the Bishop of Saint Davids in Wales is the Man he is now living and both his Wives and yet still remaines a Bishop Iacke Is it possible that a Bishop should commit such an horrible act as this how farre are our Bishops from obeying the Commandement of the Apostle Peter who saith Feed the Flocke and be ensamples to the Flock what ensample ●s this And doth not the same God which saith Thou shalt doe no murther which is death by our Laws doth he not say Thou shalt not commit adultery And yet a Bishop to have two Wives at once and live in a Church professing the sincerity of the Gospell What say you to this Master Vicker is not our Church well governed think you Minist If it be true it is I must needs confesse a horrible thing and worthy of death but I do not beleeve it Puritan It is very true for the cause was brought before the High Commissioners at Lambeth and how it is smothered up among the Bishops and the rest of the Commissioners I know not yet but I could tell you the whole conclusion if I were at London but halfe an houre Iacke Why the suffering of this and other like villanies to be committed in our Nation are causes to stirre up the Lord to wrath against the whole Land whereby he may speedily bring his judgements upon us yea even to our utter destruction Minist It is so if it be true but I will not beleeve it Puritan Well for the truth of the matter I referre you to the High Commissioners where it is recorded with his Wives names viz. Elizabeth Gigge and Alice Prime Minist Indeed I have heard of the like before that you Puritans have put forth a Booke in Print under the name of Martin Mar-prelate wherein many such things are mentioned Puritan There is nothing set down in it but there is good proofe of the same and the Bishop of Winchester who took upon him to confute it hath confirmed it for the most part and that he denies is most true Iacke What did he undertake to confute it Alas he is altogether unlearned for I have heard of him in Oxford and the Papists say they can make him beleeve the Moone is made of greene cheese mary to get him a name forsooth being a Correcter with a Printer in Fleet-street in London who Printed a Dictionary called Sir Thomas Eliots Dictionary Cooper transsated a piece of Robert Stephanus his Thesaurus and joyned it to the same with a few Phrases and so bereaved the Famous Knight of his labour and calls it by the name of Coopers Dictionary how say you Master Vicker was not this a knavish tricke tell me Minist I say you deale very unreverently with my Lord for I can say nothing to the matter else for I know it not to be true Puritan What say you to this then Master Vicker did you never heare of your Lord Bishop of London who made the Dyars in Thames-street who were robbed by Theeves that stole their Cloath and brought it within his Liberties which when the poore Dyars hearing where their Cloath was and coming to the Bishop to demand their own goods he said if they would hang the Theeves he would then say more which the Dyars did and at their deaths confessed that to be the Dyars Cloath which the Bishop had but the poore men were never the neare for their Cloath nor cannot get it or any part of it to this day and this is confessed to be true by the Bishop of Winchester in his answer to Martin Mar-prelat published in Print by Authority wherein he saith it is the Bishop of Londons own by the Laws of the Land because it was taken within his Liberties marke he speakes nothing of the Law of God according to Conscience in keeping of Thiefe-stollen goods from their right owners for Conscience is fled from them it seems so soon as they are gotten to

The Character OF A PURITAN AND His Gallimaufrey of the Antichristian Clergie prepared with D. BRIDGES Sawce for the present time to feed on By the worthy Gentleman D. Martin Mar-Prelat Doctor in all the Faculties Primate and Metropolitan Printed in the time of Parliament 1643. THE PREFACE BEING A PRAYER O LORD GOD and most mercifull Father we beseech thee for the honour of thy holy Name to defend us from that Antichrist of Rome and from all his det stable enormities Manners Laws Altars Garments and Ceremonies Destroy the Councel of all Papists and Atheists enemies of thy Gospel and of thu Realme of England Disclose their mischiefes and subtill practises confound their devices let them be taken in their own wilinesses and strenghen all those that maintaine the cause and quarrell of thy Gospel with invincible force and power of thy holy Spirit so that though they be destitute at any time of worldly ayd and comfort that yet they fayle not to proceed and goe forward towards that true godlinesse commanded in thy holy Word with simplicity and sincerity to thy honour and glory the comfort of thine Elect and the comfusion of thine enemies through Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen Amen And say from the heart Amen A DIALOGVE WHEREIN IS PLAINLY LAYD OPEN THE TYRANNICALL DEALING OF LORD BISHOPS against Gods Children The Speakers are these Puritan Papist Iacke of both sides Idoll Minister Puritan YOU are well overtaken Sir doe you travell farre this way I pray you Iacke Towards London Sir Puritan I shall willingly beare you company if it please you Iacke With all my heart I shall be very glad of yours Puritan From whence came you this way Iacke I come out of France Puritan Out of what part of France came you I pray you I came from Rochell my selfe which is a part of France Iacke Is it so but I came not neare that place Puritan Out of what part of France came you then Iacke I came from Orleans Puritan I pray you what News from thence is there any likelyhood of Peace there Iacke Yes surely there is some hope of Peace for where the Kings powers come they doe commonly yeeld presently Puritan It is a good hearing Iacke What is he that comes after us so fast Puritan He seems to be some Preacher or dumb Minister it may be he goes our way if he doe I hope we shall have his company whereby we may passe away the time in some good conference and also heare what News there is at home here in England Iacke I am content Sir for I shall be glad to heare some good News me thinks I have bin very long absent from hence Puritan Very well we will goe the so softlier that he may overtake us I but by the way I pray you if you come from Orleans there they have the Masse for they are of the League and then I suppose you have bin partaker of their Idolatry Iacke No I assure you I detest all Idolatry even from my heart Puritan If you doe so I am very glad of it but I pray you let me heare if you can give me some proofe out of the Word of God for the confirmation of this your protestation against Idolatry Iacke I am content to give you a taste thereof whereby it shall appeare that I am farre from it For so dearely as I tender the salvation of my own soule so carefull am I to shun and fly from all Idolatry For it is written Deut. 6.13 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve And the Apostle Paul to the Gorinth 1 Epist cap. 10. vers 14. commandeth us to Flie from Idolatry for Idolatry is sinne and the mages of sinne is death c. Puritan It is well applyed and somwhat to the purpose I am very glad if it be done in singlenes of heart For me thinks you could not possibly be in that place but you must be forced to be present at their Idolatrous Masse Iacke I was never present at it in my life I thanke God but the Papists stick not to say that our Service Booke in English is a great part of it but a meere translation out of the Masse-Booke Puritan Indeed it is true that most part of our Booke of Common Prayer as they say is a meere translation out of the Masse-Booke but yet there is no such Blasphemic and Idolatry tollerated in it as is dayly in the Masse although it greatly derogate from the Word and is full of great and grievous corruptions But I pray you how long were you in Orleans Sir Iacke I was there about a fortnight Puritan No longer Iacke No Sir Puritan Here comes the Minister now we will heare what News he can tell us he seems to be but an Idoll Shepheard we shall have some good conference with him I hope to passe away the time Minister You are well overtaken Gentlemen which way travell you I pray you Puritan Towards London and if it please God Minist I shall be glad of your company and if it please you Puritan We also shall be glad of yours Sir Iacke I pray you Mr. Vicar or Parson for so you seem to be what good News is there here at home in England for we have been both of us in France and we would gladly heare some good News Minist Indeed I am a poore Vicar truly we have no great good News here Sir For our Church is so sore pestered with Sects and Schismes that the Reverend Fathers and especially my Lords Grace of Canterbury are so sore troubled with them that they have no leasure to recreate themselves for those Fellows they are so bold and mallepert that they preferre Petitions to Her Majesty the Lords of the Councell yea and in Print to the High Court of Parliament Puritan Why Sir what be they that do this what doe you call them are they Papists Minist No they are worse then Papists for they are fant●…sticall Puritans and Brownists and I cannot tell what Puritan What be the points they hold that are so schismaticall and erronious Minist Forsooth they would have no Lord Bishop but every Minister to be of equall Authority one with another and so make a confusion in the whole State for they have set down a new platforme of Discipline forsooth as they call it they cannot tell what themselves Puritan I will tell you my opinion of Lord Bishops it is but an humane constitution and not warrantable by the Word but utterly forbidden and as for the Discipline you speake of I wish all Gods people would practise it Minist Oh I perceive you are one of these Fantasticall Puritans or Brownists I pray you out of what place of France came you Puritan I came from Rochel Minist I thought from Rochel Geneva or Scotland you seem to be a Bird of one of those nests Puritan Sir whatsoever I am I doe not doubt but to be able to prove by the Word what