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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

be Lord Bishops once Minist Yes Sir I know there is such a Book named Martin Mar-prelate a most vile and slanderous Libell but I doe not thinke my Lord of Winchester doth approve any thing that is set down there in any of those Books for they have put forth three or foure Books under that Title Iacke Why Master Vicker how do they to get their Books Printed Minist Tush they doe well enough for that there is a Seditious Fellow one Walde-grave who commonly Prints all such Books I know him well enough he did keep a Shop at the Sgne of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard at which time he had his Presse and Letters taken away from him and destroyed for the same cause by my Lords Grace of Canterbury and now he works in corners up and down the Countrey like a Vagabond Puritan With a seared Conscience did the Bishops that violence to him in regard both of the Cause and also for the great charge he hath of Wife and six small Children and now to bereave his Poore Family of him whose labours was their only comfort and maintenance Iacke Master Vicker how long was it since Walde-graves goods were destroyed I have heard of him before now but I know him not Minist Tush you know him well enough I am sure it is since his goods were destroyed about Easter was a twelve moneth Iacke And hath he been all this time absent from his Family Minist I Sir and if he had bin there he would easily have been had for he hath been watcht well enough for that Puritan I will tell you Sir how they deale with him when they have any suspition that he is at home although he durst never come nome they stick not in the dead time of the night to break down the main walls of his house and enter in with Constables and Pursuivants and this a common thing with them Iacke I am perswaded the Bishops had been better to have given him freely 2. hundred pounds towards the setting up of a new Printing house for himselfe then to have destroyed his as they have done Minist I thinke so for it may be he would have followed his Calling some other way then to be imployed in those things Iacke Yonder comes a man plodding a pace after us whatsoever he be Minist It may be our company will increase and so we shall goe the more cheerfull for it begins to be late and it is dangerous going here abouts late I can tell you Puritan It may be he is one of your coate Master Vicker Minist I cannot tell but if he be he shall be welcome to me Iacke Surely he comes apace whatsoever he be Minist It may be he would be glad of company Iacke Well let us goe on and continue our talke Puritan Master Vicker I thinke you be weary of our communication if you be let us know Minist No by my Faith sir not I say what you will a Gods name Puritan Fie Master Vicker will you sweare I think you learned that of your Lord Bishop of London for he useth it often when he is at Boules Iacke What will Bishops sweare Puritan Sweare Sir I that they will and defend it to when they have done For in the first Booke of Martin there is mention made of the Bishop of Londons Swearing when he is at Bowles And the Bishop of Winchester in answering the same saith thus in pag. 62. of his Booke That our Saviour Christ usually sware by his Faith in his Sermon for he said Amen Amen which is as much to say saith he as by my Faith by my Faith Iacke Why is that Bishop of God that will Sweare thus Minist Fo I have heard my Lords Grace of Canterbury Sweare by his Faith an hundred times yea and by God too somtimes and what he doth I take it as a good president for such as I am to follow Puritan I le tell you Master Vicker I am of Doctor Bridges his mind of our Bishops for saith he page 339 340. That all our Lord Bishops in England are the Bishops of the Divel And I am sure of it by these two marks viz. By their tyrannicall dealing against Gods Children And by their wicked and unconscionable lives that they are not of God Iacke I pray you hath Doctor Bridges written any Booke that is published to this effect Puritan Yes indeed and the Bishop of Canterbury hath confirmed it by his authorising of the same and also by his continuall practise against Gods Children Iacke But I pray you Sir how wickedly hath he wrested the Scripture in saying our Saviour Christ continually sware in his Sermons when he said Amen Amen Puritan Why the Bishop of Winchester is most impudent in all his actions for he very blasphemously in his Sermon preached at Mary Overies at London said that a man might aswell find fault with the holy Scripture as with our corrupt Common Booke of Prayer Iacke Out upon him blasphemous wretch he is certainly the Bishop of the Divel as Doctor Bridges saith Puritan Will you heare some more of his Divinity Iacke O yes I pray you Sir And yet my heart trembleth to heare of such odious blasphemies as these Puritan He saith in the 49. page of his Book against Martin Mar-prelate That the Creed of the Apostles Athanasius and the Nicene c. containe in them many palpable lyes Now tell me your opinion of this is it sound and subsantiall Doctrine I pray you tell me Iacke Doctrine yea indeed this may truely be said to be the Doctrine of Devils Why whither will our Bishops runne in time trow you if the Magistrate suffer them Puritan I will tell you even to their Father the Devil For they have at no time taken in hand to write in defence of their Hierarchie but it hath made their eyes so to dazle that they run into most dangerous and damnable errours as in this Booke of the Bishops will be proved neare 500. errours yea in correcting and controuling the mighty word of God and also have interlaced their writings with such contrariety of matter as one part of their own Books may serve to confute the other with infinite absurdities yea and by your leave to even flat Treason Iacke Many good men did never judge the Bishop of Winchester to be but an Hypocrite Puritan He is a most bittrer man to all those that feare God and have to deale with him for he may well be compared to a Horse with a gald backe that hath bin so rub'd that he winces frets and chafes so that he is ready to throw himselfe to utter destruction with purpose to hurt him that rub'd him Even so this Bishop takes to himselfe so much liberty in abusing and profaning the holy word of God against those that write in the Lords Cause against their unlawfull Callings and that I feare me to the indangering both of body and soule Iacke I have heard that when he was at Lincolne he