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A90968	The pulpit incendiary: or, The divinity and devotion of Mr. Calamy, Mr. Case, Mr. Cauton, Mr. Cranford, and other Sion-Colledge preachers in their morning-exercises, with the keen and angry application thereof unto the Parliament and Army. Together with a true vindication of the Covenant from the false glosses put upon it, and a plain indication of Covenant-breakers. Published according to order.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3346; Thomason E438_10; ESTC R203205	55,372	67

de●●uct●ve ●wayes against M●gistracy and Authority if any of that partie and their servants had been found in one insurrection after another with their sword● pistols and other Arm● in profest opposition to the Parliament and M●gistracy of the Kingdom● and Citie as these have been how would Sion Colledge-men have beaten the ear● of their hearers with it how would they have cryed out in their Pulpits This is a second Mu●sier these are your secta●ies your Anabaptists y●●ur Independents these are they that wee often forewarned you of and told you how they desp●sed Magistracy and Government the noise of Munster Munster Munster would have so filled the pulpit● and presses that we should have heard little else from them but we hop● their mouths are for ever stopt from their Munster clam●rs againe howsoever they have furnished men with a sufficient reply to them for time to come about that businesse In the fifth Article of the Covenant wee swear that each one of us according to our place and interest endeavour that England and Scotland may remain conjoyned in a firme peace and union to all p●steritie c Whether these men observe this Article we leave to the judgement of those that observe the many expressions that fall from their lips from day to day asserting that the presbyterie will never be setled in this Kingdome untill the Scots come to settle it here especially those passages from Mr. Jenkins spoken at that very time as hath been said when jealousies and feares were raised in mens hearts of a breach between the two Nations Lord wee thank thee for any hopes thou hast given to make-them speaking of the Scots further instrumantall for the advance of thy truth amongst us LORD BLOW VP THOSE SPARKS INTO A FLAME if this be not an Incendiary in the very latter we know not who is or can be an Incendiary and so Mr. Cawton praying for the Scots Lord give them a heart said he to settle a reformation amongst them and also amongst us and QVASH ALL THOSE THAT SHAL RISE VP AGAINST THEM TO HINDER THEM Whether this be a keeping this Article of the Covenant all things considered let indifferent men judge In the sixth and last Article we engage to defend all those that entered into this League and Covenant in the maintenance and pursuance thereof not suffering our selves by any means to be divided or withdrawn from this blessed union or conjuction but that we shall all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition c. And what we are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome we shall reveale and make known that it may be timely prevented or rem●ved All which we shall doe as in the sight of God Whether that these men can say as in the sight of God that they have kept this Article that they have zealously and constantly continued in the observati●n of this Covenant and the main and principall ends thereof viz. the promotion of the glory of God by the p●opagation of faith and love among brethren the uniting all the well-affected party of both kingdomes against the comm●n enemies the power and interest of the supreme Ju●icatories of both Kingdomes especially the Parliament of England let the generall strain and daily course of their publick prayers and Sermons declare and let heaven and earth judge who they are that are Covenant-breakers the Parliament of England or Sion Colledge we scarce ever heare them mention the Parliament of England in p●ayer or Sermon but with some disparaging reflection upon them as covenant-breakers men that build their own houses but suffering Gods House that is Sion Colledge to lye waste that they have slighted the affaires of Jesus Christ and reformation and th●refore the Kingdome slight and scorn them not regarding their Orders and Ordinances when the truth is these Ministers have put principles into the people leading them into such contempt of the authority of Parliament It cannot be denied but the characters of flesh and blood we mean failings and weaknesse have been seen upon them but it is the property of a Cham to detect his Fathers nakednesse in the face of his brethren and among their failings we know none greater than a permission of such daily affronts from the pulpits in the face of the people as these men offer them without controule It is a very poore and unthankfull requitall of all that the Parliament hath done for them hath not the Parliament freed them from the yoke of Episcopacy Ceremonies high C●mmission court cast out others from their places in the Citie for scandall and malignity and put them in their roome given them all just encouragements to preach the Word suffering nothing to disturb them onely hindering them from disturbing their brethren as holy harmlesse usefull faithfull as themselves and yet as Haman in the like case they cry out All this is nothing so long as Mordec●i sits in the gate and will not dare not cannot in conscience bow unto them submit unto their yoke and bondage And hence it is that they are thus complaining of that people whose lawes are contrary unto them seeming to resolve to shake the very foundations of the Kingdome but they will ro●t them up It is true they charge them with many grievous and bitter things but their proofs are like those that charged Christ alledging many things but able to prove nothing against them and yet represent them so unworthy as if the very permission of such to live was the great sinne of the Parliament and that for which God wil reckon with them even in blood these are the Heretickes Schismatickes Sectaries the non-suppression whereof they cry up to be the cause of the judgements of God upon this land but did they search the Scriptures with a single eye they might finde other matters to be an indication of Gods wrath upon a land namely the sinnes of their Prophets and their Priests their Shepheards their Watchmen their Pastors and their Teachers that bite with their teeth because men put not into their mouthes and he that putteth not into their mouthes they even prepare warre against him Mich. 3. 6. It is not unknown unto themselves that of all sorts of people in a land and nation the holy Scriptures declare the sinnes of that sort of men to have constan●ly as chiefe a hand in pulling down judgements upon the whole people as any other sort whatsoever and it is known unto us that of late the men of that Order viz. the Prophets and Priests c. have venomously bitt●n the Parliament and Army with their teeth and tongues toge●her in respect of their repute and good name more than any other sort of malignants wha●soever have publickly done they frequently complain that we are without government the case being with us as it was with Israel at that time when there was no King in Israel every man doing that which was right in his own eyes

by Mr. Calamy and his party what is this but what hath been Who governed the Kingdome almost when the Parliament was forced by the grand Assertors of Sion Colledge cause and their sturdy boye● to doe and undoe call and recall vote and revote what Orders and Ordinances they pleased Which of you have publickly declaimed against that unparaleld and horrible rebellion either in Pulpi● or Presse Doe you suppose that we can be so dim-sighted or so dull-headed that we neither perceive nor remember these things Had that villanous act been committed by the men of your wrath the non-conformists to your present practice how would you have beaten the eares of your auditors with the sound thereof What was in designe when Massie Poynz and other Reformadoes those famously pious and religious zelots for a blessed Reformation were entertained courted and advanced you know where by whom and by whose influence but for the raising of a factious party to destroy the Armies order the Parliament and govern the Kingdome almost Were they not the Prophets of Sion Colledge that said unto them Go on and prosper go out to meet with that proud and blasphemous Army the Lord hath delivered them into your hands though they have prospered in many battels and enterprises as that blasphemous Army of Senacharib did yet as that Army fell and was destroyed comming against Jerusalem so shall this Army comming to this City therefore goe out and feare them not Was it not the Oracle of Sion Colledge that deceived chanted and charmed severall of our weak and simple-hearted Citizens under the deceitfull notion of keeping covenant promoting reformation establishing religion suppressing error heresie blasphemy into such destructive wayes practices and courses which had not a hand of mercy from heaven graciously interposed would have engaged us all into another unnaturall bloody and cruell warre and without the mercy candor and goodnesse of the Parliament will prove the utter ruine of them and their families who were seduced thereby it was their Leaders that caused them to erre The truth is we commend your charity more in praying for their support in and deliverance from prison than your piety in exhorting them into such actions which brought them thither We shall say no more to your uncivill termes of men raised up from the dunghill to govern the Kingdome almost onely we are apt to beleeve your greatest trouble is that men raised up from the dunghill are not permitted to govern the Kingdome almost For do we not see the center of all your motions What is our reformation but Presbytery What is our solemne league and covenant but Presbytery What is our zeale for God the government of Jesus Christ religion c. but Presbytery Who are the Sectaries and Schismatickes of the times but non embracers of Presbytery And what is Presbytery Surely when we perceive that all that the Parliament hath done by Orders Ordinances c. to establish Presbytery in such a manner as may stand with the word of God and peace of the kingdome yet will not give you content but H●man-like you cry out what is all this so long as M●rd●cai sits in the Kings Gate and a Decree cannot be procured from the Parliament for the ruine of those whose lawes of Church government are divers from yours what can you meane by such a Presbytery but the meere exalting of men raised up from the dunghill to govern the kingdome almost Mr. Calamy civility doth as well become the Pulpit as Nobility the Throne Dunghill men doe not become the Seat of Magistracy nor dunghill termes the mouth of the Ministery Divinity doth not so much appropriate basenesse to mens persons as to mens practises evill words do corrupt good manners but never confirmes divine Doctrine When we come to hear YOU we expect to be instructed in Divinity and not to be corrupted in Civility if we had a desire to learn the language of Billinsgate we should not have gone to Michaels Cornhill in London especially when Mr. Calamy was the Teacher If by your base men you intended the Parliament that these are Dunghillmen raised up from the Dunghill it is a most impudent and intolerable scandall if the Army a most daring and unsufferable slander so that the best is scandalous or slanderous if you intended the Parliament the Army may better escape the reflection thereof than the Parliament can if you intended the Army For suppose you judge the Army not the Parliament the Dunghill men that doe governe the Kingdom almost it must needs be by their governing the Parliament almost and doe not you thereby represent the Parliament to be Dunghill men in suffering themselves to be governed by men raised up from the Dunghill Sir had we a pleasure to be dabling in such filth you have afforded enough of this nature once and again but we desire you would not offend our eares any more herewith Surely the waters of the Sanctuary if genuine are more pure and it is not corrupt communication which becomes the Pulpit but onely such which tends to the use of edifying and remember Sir that the words of the pure are pleasant words Proverbs 15. 26. Mr. Cawton Minister at Bartholomew Exchange London at a morning Lecture at Woodstreet about the 17. of February 1647 preaching upon the 17 of Job v. 8. The Innocent shall stirre up himselfe against the Hypoer●e did most uncivilly and maliciously inveigh against the Army thus Who drave awa● on● good members from the Parliament but THAT GENERATION OF VIPERS THE ARMY Who REBELLED against the authority of Parliament and denied to disband at Chèlmsford c. but that VIPEROUS BROOD THE ARMY proposing severall queries one after another making the answer to be in expresse tearmes the viperous brood the Army the generation of vipers the Army the rebellious Army And preaching upon the same Text the next moneth in Walbrooke at a morning Lecture said thus If the Army had not REBELLED and the Parliament had KEPT THEIR COVENANT we had a bless●d Reformation before this time c. And in Woodstreet speaking about Independents said thus This plot was discovered five or six yeares agoe those that then did set themselves against the hypocrites did clearly discern it but then the cry was Alas they are honest men and pious godly men and usefull in the Church of God and we must use moderation and they must come up into our Pulpits forsooth but now you see what your honest and moderate men are And speaking of the Army thus You must suffer them to goe through the Citie and they would doe no hurt c. But it was the greatest dishonour that ever fell upon the Citie professing his zeale in speaking plai●●y of these things and bewailing the mealy-mouthednesse of the Ministers in mincing and not speaking out these things to the people and in his prayers earnestly pleaded the cause of those worthy Citizens that were cast into prison for their faithfulnesse to the

conversation though they are not for excommunication of Churches yet they are for non-communion with Churches in such cases c Why should there be such an irreconcileable distance betweene one another Thirdly consider there have ever been greater differences in the Churches of God than these are you very well know that among the Churches in the Apostles dayes there were differences about Circumcision and keeping the Law of Moses about the Doctrine of the resurrection about eating meats offered up to Idols c. and the like in after times and though it be granted that there should be no allowance of any evill whatsoever yet th●y managed their differences in such a sweet meek moderate and Christian way as that faith and love and the unity of the Spirit was still preserved among them and were they not meet and fit examples unto us upon whom the ends of the world are come Fourthly what do you complain of whereof you have just cause and which is not in your power to reclaim First you complain of your misery bondage and slavery of oppressions sorrowes and troubles of the Church that is doubtlesse of the Church Presbyterian and no other What doth aile you what troubleth you who doth oppresse you Have you not authority on your side Have you not all the Church livings in the Kingdome Have you not Declaration upon Declaration Ordinance upon Ordinance Order upon Order for to back you Is there the least shew of oppression sorrow or cause of complaint administred unto you except it be because you are not suffered to oppresse vex and gall your brethren that joyn not with you Can you feed upon nothing but blood yea the blood of your brethren that though you have every thing else that onely prohibited you complain of sorrow slavery oppression Is this only your torment that you cannot procure a Decree against your brethren whose lawes are but a very little differing from yours that they should be cut off their houses pulled down their wives and children destroyed as some of your bloody brethren professed even in pulpits an account whereof shall be rendred upon the next occasion offered Is this your slavery and captivity that you cannot enslave and lead into captivity Is this to kill you with the sword that you cannot kill your brethren with the sword Is your brethren● ease your pain their liberty your restraint their plenty your penury their good your evill May you not have what you will almost of Authority but will nothing serve you but John Baptists head Doe you plead your authority for a severe domniering rigid Presbytery from the Presbytery of Jerusalem in the fifteenth of the Acts for which you finde not a syllable in that Chapter And will you reject one of the main Canons of that Presbytery Abstain from blood verse 29. Doe you not know that blood-eating shall be the death of Antichrist which being dissected the Scripture shewes that the blood of Saints was found to be the death of the Whore In her was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints Revel. 18. 24. Will God give blood for drink to bloody Popery Hath he given blood unto bloody Prelacie in our owne Kingdome and will he give milk and hony think you to a bloody Presbytery How long might the Popish government and the Prelaticall government yea and the Presbyterian government also live and flourish in the earth were they not bloody But is not that true of a bloody government which the Scripture speaks of a bloody man that it shall not live out halfe its dayes We know your answer and we expect to heare it over and over in Pulpit Presse from you day after day that you are men of peace and desire not the trouble of any man much lesse of Saints appealing to God that searcheth your hearts whether you are the men whom we thus represent and call God to judgebetween you and us whether it be thus as we have said that it is Gods glory not any mans ruine the blood of errors heresie blasphemy prophanenesse c. that you seek after not the blood of men the building of Gods house not the pulling down of any mens houses the setting up of Christ on the Throne not the casting of any man upon the dunghill the good of mens souls and not the hurt of any mans body yea and happily you wil call upon God to do so to you and more also as your harts are upright and perfect before him in these particulars But to reply to these answers First you may appeale to God that searcheth your hearts but we are taught by God to appeale to your words and actions to understand your hearts God can come at your hearts immediatly we come at them by your words and workes your hearts cannot dec●●ve the eye of God searching your hearts your words and worke● daily constantly deliberatly dispassionatly proceeding from you can hardly deceive the eyes of man looking into your hearts through your tongues and hands what is the meaning of these words Let these Sectaries c. these remnants of Baal be destroyed with their wives and children and their houses pulled downe saith one let these Sectaries these walking dreamers be cudgled ou● of their dreames saith another a viperous brood a generation of vipers croaking Frogs Caterpillers say others an account whereof time may discover is not the heart the treasure from whence these words flow God knew your hearts immediatly you know your own hearts by your Consciences if you have not silenced them and wee come to know your hearts by your words and actions Secondly whereas you pretend your zeale to be for Gods glory not mans ruine the destruction of errors not of men c. Wee answer that the Pope and the papall persecutors said the same the Bishops and the Prelaticall persecutors said the same why should wee beleeve the Presbyter before either when his wayes are the very selfe same with the two former did not the Papists say of the Protestants whom they burned that they were hereticks sectaries schismaticks separatists did not the Prelates say of those whom they persecuted that they were factious seditions hereticks sectaries schismaticks and doe not Presbyterians call those whom they would banish imprison whose houses they would pull downe and whose wives and children they would destroy Independents sectaries hereticks schismaticks c. Their words and sayings their waies and proceedings being as like the Prelates as their wayes were like their fathers in persecution of whom Christ spake in Luk. 6. 23. Secondly Doe you complaine that the Ministery is despised Why doe you make your selven despicable Can sober disengaged men alwayes honour those that leave preaching of Christ the life of Saints the propagation of love and goodnesse among men and fall upon scandalous clamours against Parliament Army Magistrates Ministers that dissent from you throwing fire-brands out of Pulpits from day to day making the Pulpits little else but the Trumpets of