why may not a Smith as wel work at the Forge or an Husband man at the Plough as a Judge sit to hear Civil Causes on the Sabbath The one hindereth the Sanctification of it as wel as the other And if it be alledged That the one is as before was proved indeed more speciallie Gods work So were the repairing of a Church which yet the Mason or Plummer may not work about on the Sabbath no more then Besaleel or Aholiab might about the work of the Tabernacle for the furtherance whereof God would not admit or give way to the least violating of his Sabbath Thus also there Yea but Mr. G. tho he pleaded so hard for restraint of work on the Lords day yet he preached as earnestlie for play and in particular if Lilie may be believed for Carding and Dicing upon the Lords day For so run the words of his charge here Preaching impudentlie for the Liberties or Sports of the Sabbath Cards and Dice c. Which parcel of his Charge being of the same stamp with the rest is not unlike some short skirt of a beggers coat made up of a few sory snips and shreds unhandsomlie stitcht up and il-favoredlie patcht together having reference in part to King James his Book of Libertie for Disports on Sundays and Holidays and in part to my Treatise of the Nature and Use of Lots but so blended together and entermingled the one with the other that they make a meer medley For as for the former King James indeed in the year 1618. the Sixteenth of His Reign publ shed a Declaration wherein he gave Libertie for some Disports that might be used on the Sabbath or the Lords day But what ones were they that therein he gave way to Cards and dice c. No There is not one word or title at all concerning them in the whole Book but they are expresly therein named these Dancings men or women May-games Whit sun-Ales Morrice-dances Rush-bearings setting up of May-poles and other sports therewith used These ar the Disports by name there designed wherewith leav is given and autoritie to solemnize and celebrate the Lords day An Act il-beseeming so prudent and understanding a Prince And such it may seem as afterward himself was ashamed of and unwilling to own For I have heard it reported that when a Copy of his Works gathered together newlie printed and richlie made up was presented unto him before anie of them should go abroad having upon the opening of it lighted upon this peice not without expression of much indignation he tore it out with his own hands and gave strict charge to have it done out of the whole impression where now none of it appears Which if it were tru for I dare not confidentlie avow it having it onelie by hear-say the greater and more grievous was the sin and shame of those great Prelates who whither to please the King and Court or to cross vex curb and ensnare the Conscientious Ministers not then onelie approved the practise but long after renewed afresh the memorie of it and pressed his Son King Charls to revive it again and to enjoyn the publishing of it by the Ministers of the Word in their several places upon pain of suspension which not a few of them sustained for the refusal thereof Now in defence of this Declaration and in justification of such Sports used on the Sabbath whereas this Lier affirms that I preached it is a most notorious untruth for neither did I ever speak write or preach word in defence or allowance thereof or of anie such Sports used on that day neither was that Declaration ever published first or last either by my self or anie assistant of mine Yea that I did in writing directlie oppose and expresly condemn it may appear plainlie by what was before related tho preached indeed before that Declaration came out yet printed at first two yeer after it Anno 1620. and reprinted without alteration of ought in the yeer 1637. But pass we on to the other Book here related to my Treatise of the Nature and Use of Lots which is girded at in the terms of Cards and Dice shuffled in under the disguise of Sabbath Sports there by to wind and screw in my Treatise within the verg and compass of the subject matter with allowance admitted in that other deservedlie abhorred Book Tru it is I acknowledge it and am not at all ashamed to own it that I published sometime a large Treatise of the Nature and Use of Lots having in the Pulpit before more briefly delivered somewhat of that subject and I published it the rather being by divers of my Reverend Brethren unto whom I had imparted the sum of what I had delivered encited so to do To refel the misreports that some other from whom in some particulars I dissented had raised concerning the Doctrine therein taught by me In this Discours I make it evidentlie to appear that a Lot in the genuine nature and ordinarie use of it and with extraordinarie without special commission and injunction we have nothing to do is no sacred matter nor divine Oracle and may therefore be used indifferentlie as wel in light and ludicrous as in more serious and weightie affairs And that in regard hereof Divisorie and Lusorie Lots ar lawful and warrantable Consultorie and Divinatorie unlawful and damnable And that it is therefore as wel a superstitious conceit on the one hand to condemn anie game in regard of a Lot used in it as it is on the other hand a superstitious and irreligious practise to make use of a Lot for the discoverie of Gods wil and purpose either what he would have done by us or determineth himself to do And in this judgment I stil rest having as occasion hath been sufficientlie and fullie as I conceiv refelled and answered the Arguments and Objections of all who have either published ought herein against me that ever came to my hands or by writing delt in private with me So as that I have not received anie further Replie from anie one of them yea I have so far forth convinced some of the greatest and most eminent among them that they have been enforced to relinqish and have refused to own that ground which together with the most of the other partie they had formerlie with much confidence built on to wit That in everie casualtie there is a special and immediate providence Seeing the palpable absurditie thereof plainlie discovered but in room thereof have endeavored to introduce another new conceit no less absurd then the former as may be seen in the Second Edition of that concerning Lots in English Chap. 4. pag. 52-59 and in mine Antithesis to Dr. Ames his Theses in Latine Nor do I anie further justifie anie Game Sport or Pastime depending either in part or in whole upon casualtie of which kind Cards and Dice indeed ar if they be anie way abused or found otherwise faultie save onelie that they ar not
of Land held from him in the Parish and had covenanted with that partie to have it tithe free if he were once possessed of it The difficultie was much improved by a Caveat they found entred in the Bishops Office by a Gentleman one of the Petti-Bag who pretended a Title as also for that Mr. Attorney solicited by his Tenants and not wel understanding what manner of fellow he was whom they delt for did in their behalf somewhat countenance their proceedings and was indeed desirous himself to deal for the Patronage having much Land in the Parish with intent in some future vacancie thereby to have opportunitie of preferring a yong Scholar who was then School-master in his Familie Those wel-minded persons therefore fearing that either that scandalous partie would be obtruded upon them or some other might chop in while they were bickering with him as it had faln out in a former vacancie wherein one by a wrong title got in and held the place ful two yeers ere he could be ejected and supposing withal that if I would accept of it Mr. Attorney would not onelie surcease to countenance the other partie in that business but would also help to cleer the way for my entrance repaired to Mr. Stock whom they knew to be inward with me reqesting him to deal with me and perswade me to embrace the motion by them formerlie made to me Who thereupon tendring the condition of the place accompanied them to me and was verie earnest with me in it pressing hard what a miserable estate that people were likelie to be in upon my refusal whereas they where I then was were able enough to furnish themselvs again to their own contentment upon my removal At his importunitie upon such grounds seconding and backing their suit I condescended so far forth as to make an assay to try how Mr. Attorney would resent the business and how far forth he would interpose in it To this purpose I made use of Mr. Crew afterward Lord Cheif Justice a man of tried and known integritie to break the matter to him Unto whom his answer was That he would do anie thing in his power that should be to my content and willed that I should come to him So I did and told him that I had upon a motion made to me from some Inhabitants of Rederith engaged my self to come to them and settle with them if the passage were free the cleering whereof they supposed might depend much upon him Who after some Speech had how glad he should have been of my continuance with them and in part blaming himself that nothing had yet been done for the enlargement of my means If they mean said he reallie as they pretend and you deem it may be behoveful for you let them procure you a presentation and upon sight of it you shal see what I wil do This being signified to them they having by some counsel been enformed that albeit the Father had by wil beqeathed the perpetual Advocation to his yonger Sons yet the right thereof by cours of Law rested in the Eldest which for some causes was as yet deemed fit to conceal drew him to join with his Brethren and brought me a Presentation under the Hands and Seals of them all three which being represented to Mr. Attorney he forthwith wrote a Letter to the Bishop whereby all obstructions were removed and I admitted without further ado to the place After it was noised in the House that I was upon removal divers of them repaired to me of whom some out of their private offered to engage themselvs for such a further supplement to what I there then received as should eqal the Revenue of the place motioned to me others endeavored to perswade me to retain the place stil being for the Term time onelie to which purpose also some of my Reverend Brethren in the Ministerie were instant with me But to the former I answered That I had passed my word to come to them and that upon other grounds then means of maintainance onelie to the other That the burden would be too weightie for me And trulie soon I so found and felt being compelled to continu but a Term or two with them until they were fitted to their mind Howsoever divers of those that succeeded me held other places together with it some in the Universitie and some in the Citie and indeed my Reverend Father-in-Law Mr. Charls Pinner whose Daughter I was to marrie by all means disswaded me from hearkning unto those that would have perswaded me thereunto affirming That either place reqired a whole man Who was also right glad that by my removal I had escaped the promised preferment to a Prebendarie nor was he sorrie when he understood that Mr. Attorney had profered me the Title of being his Chaplain which I willinglie accepted being but a titular matter reqiring no constant attendance onelie a visit now and than and a Sermon sometime upon some special occasions the rather that by his power and countenance I might sit the more qietlie and exercise my Ministerie more freelie in such a place especiallie where he had Lands of much value and Tenants deemed to be of the greatest abilitie but my Reverend Father in Law because it might he said Keep me from being Chaplain to anie Bishop for he used to say That as the times then were a Prebends place and a Bishops Chaplainship were two shrewd snares Both which I bless God for it I hereby escaped Nor indeed were my means so much as manie imagined improved by removal to the place where as yet I abide and have now for ful fortie and two yeers resided For besides that I came to a dwelling house wilfultie much mangled and defaced by the late Incumbents Widow out of meer spight and spleen not so much against him that was to succeed being then uncertain as against some of the Parish with whom her Husband had had much contention and the Wharf before it a chargable piece readie to drop down toward the charge whereof albeit some two or three contributed somewhat yet the main matter came out of mine own purs and the first fruits that were to be paid as also that the main Fabrick of the Church supported with Chalkie Pillars of such a bulk as filled up no smal part of the room and were found verie faultie threatning a fail if not a fall unless speedilie prevented to the ruine of the whole which to remov and place strong Timber Columns in the room of them would prov a verie great charge albeit the repair of the Bodie of the Church were no way chargable upon the Rector yet to encourage others to a freer and larger contribution thereunto I lanched out of mine own accord so far having as yet received little benefit of my place that none out-went me few to speak of came neer me Add hereunto that not long after this a ship firing on the River just against my house much endangered it being covered as
and not Jesuitical Independent and not Independent that which in some sense he saith of himself an Amphibious animal or a Chimera made up partlie of Papism partlie of Protestantism and partlie of Independencie In two things especiallie he is just of the same stamp and temper with his frend Lilie who hath good cause therefore to like him the better And it was reported abroad that he had received money of Lilie to write in defence of him against my former Vindication which being told him by a frend of mine occasionallie meeting him in the street he acknowledged that he had been indeed lately with Lilie who had spoken to him his pleasure of me but that he was resolved not to write in defence of him because he knew his practise to be condemned in divers Councels whose autoritie he regarged more then anie privat mans opinion But howsoever behind Lilies back he give in his verdict thus against him which peradventure he wil not do to his face yet in some things he and Lilie so exactlie resemble either other that were their parentage uncertain and were by conjecture to be gathered from their similitude of disposition and demeanure they might well be deemed like Plaâ—tus his Menechmi to be gemini germani two twins of one birth or at least fratres uterini both births of one bellie The one good qalitie wherein they ar so like either to other is that the manner of them both is rather to rail and revile then by arguing and reasoning to refel and refute The other is their extream malice and rage against the Presbyterian partie the Genevan Discipline and Calvin by name both which may easilie appear of this latter for of the other enough hath been said and shewed alreadie both in this and in a former Discours as well by that parcel of stuff that his frend Lilie here presents us with as by other passages also abundantlie yea luxuriantlie in other his writings elsewhere It is a rule in the School that Amor est odio prior odium ex amore oritur that Love ever goeth before hatred and all hatred springs from Love Therefore do wicked men hate God and his Law because they love themselvs and their corruptions which God by his Law doth cross controle and endevor to courb and it is by a grave Writer well observed that men are many times eager against some whom they either deem or would have deemed delinqents 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather out of self-love then anie hatred of evil because they stand in their way or in their light in regard of their ends and interests or because they oppose and thwart them in some corrupt courses that they are stronglie addicted to And this seems to be the ground of this mans extream malice against the Presbyterian partie he pretends indeed to hate them as Gods enemies but can he shew wherein as Presbyterians they are such and in regard of such abominable actions as he knows by them but he tels us not what they are but the main ground of the quarrel seems rather to be because some professed Presbyterians have assayed to discover some of his trains or to deliver the matter in his own terms because Presbyterians as Presbyterians have as he dreems been hurtful and injurious to him which what English to make of I know not well unless his meaning be that all the Presbyterians in the world have so delt with him for he is not ignorant of the Axiom qod convenit tali qatenus tale convenit omni tali and therefore his spleen is accordinglie such against them all in general I remember to have read long since a saying in Jerome tho in what work of his now I remember not and it comes the oftner to my mind because I observ the practise of it so rife in affairs as well publike as private Multi eliguntur and so praeferuntur non sui amore sed alterius odio Manie are chosen and so in choice preferred not so much out of love or good affection to them as out of hatred and dis-affection of some others that stand either in opposition to them or in competition with them And just so is it with this man He professeth to hate Presbyterians and Anabaptists as Gods enemies with a perfect hatred But the Presbyterians most especiallie whom to depress therefore and debase as much as possiblie may be he cares not whom he sets up and prefers before them Anabaptists Schismatiks Hereticks and whom not Against the Anabaptists he writes most bitterlie and yet that he might not be deemed to cast them behind the Presbyterians Altho saith he I bind up the Anabaptists into this heterodox fardle yet I engage my self to make it shine as the Sun that manie Anabaptists are the propugners and maintainers of manie excellent and divine truths and are more justifiable before God and more sufferable with man then Presbyterians and strict Calvinists Again of Heterodox Sectaries and Separatists thus Brethren It burns in my bowels and I cannot hold it Some called Separatists and they are so and more then so as separating from the Church not in Communion onelie but in Faith also are better marowed and more Evangelical then these Pulpit Ignes fatui foolish Fiers then these Teachers ex argilla luto conficti of dirt and clay And that you may not mistake him or make doubt whom he means by these foolish flashes and dirty Preachers to let you know in plain terms they are the Presbyterians and Calvinists whose Doctrine he had in most odious manner traduced and exagitated before he subjoyns immediatlie this scoffing passage which may well go for a specimen of his mysterious Interpretation of Scripture He that compares the Independents with the Presbyterians compares the Nephilim or Giants that made others to fall before them with the Pygmey Archers on the Towres of Tyre For the Presbyterian Archers have crawled up to the top of a little Tyre lerning but the Giants independing of Tyres and Towres are so well grounded that the Pâ—gmies dare not come down to them and meet them on eaven ground and the Independents may cry and hollow it up to the Pygmies on the tops of their Towres that the Presbyterians at the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Septuagint Monsters divided between Men and Asses and the Satyres of the English Bible and might plead with reason that these Asses have formerlie drunk up the Moon Thus to curry favor with the Independents whom he would fain close with he courts them As for the Presbyterians he can find no language foul or broad enough to belch up against them or spew out upon them whom therefore in both his Rabblements fraught with Ribaldrie he bedawbs and bespatters with these and other the like Satyrical and scurrilous Titles Scotch Pharisees Scotch Manichees Scotch Barnacles Scotch Balaks and Balaams with their speaking Asses Brethren of the Scotch
the Husbandman to hedg and ditch or to folow his Tillage on that day as for the Lawyer to employ it in consulting with and attending his Clients And I pressed the point so far that through the good hand of God going along with it and carrying home his own Ordinance to the hearts of the hearers it made so deep an impression upon them that upon a motion made by some of the cheif ones at the next meeting after it a consultation was had what cours might be taken for the future prevention of so common and irregular a practise And after advice therein taken with me it was by common consent agreed on That the Morning Lecture on the Lords day should be drawn down to the usual hour in other places and the Wednesday Lecture transferred to the Afternoon of the Lords day Which howsoever it were a matter of much more labor to my self to speak twice in one day which as I am informed in the French and Dutch Congregations is seldom or never done and some of my Successors have complained of and blamed me for giving way thereunto and by means thereof I was abbridged of that libertie of hearing others abroad which I had formerlie enjoyed yet for the atcheiving of my main ayâ— herein of gaining a more du and diligent observance of the day I right willinglie dispensed with mine own ease and advantages and condescended thereunto And this was the ground of the alteration of the Lectures in that House which I suppose in that manner in which upon this occasion they were then setled continu stil to this day During mine abode at Lincolns Inn the time approaching for my taking the degree of Batchelor in Divinitie I procured a cours at St. Maries in Cambridge for mine English Sermon the first and last that I ever preached there having never had the boldness before to appear in that place This fel out to be the verie next day after Qeen Elizabeths decease which being not known yet at Cambridge the Qeen as stil surviving was at the Forenoon Sermon solemnlie prayed for by him that preached that day at Kings Colledge But about Noon the report came down of the Qeen departed this life and King James proclaimed which caused an exceeding great concours of people at the Afternoon Sermon though it were no Lords day When by advice of the Vice-Chancelor in regard that no publick notice of it was as yet sent down I conceived my Petition for the King in a kind of circumlocution For the present Supream Governor without expression of his name At that branch of my Prayer the tears trickling down my Cheeks and scarce any one drie eie in the whole Assemblie as I was afterward informed This Sermon then had on 1 Tim. 6. 6. at the reqest of some Friends who had seen some Copies of it was manie yeers after published under this Title The Gain of Godliness wherein is extant the ensuing passage concerning the Lords day p. 36-38 For worldlie wealth men can toil and moil all the week long and yet ar they not wearie they think not the whole week long neither but for the heavenlie gain for the spiritual thrift we have but one day of seven and we think that to much too we think the day all to long the labor all lost and the whole time cast away that we imploy and spend to this purpose We say as the profane Jews sometime said When wilâ—he New Moon be past and the Sabbath once over that we may return again to our worldlie affairs Yea manie among us have not the patience to tarry so long but spend a great part of the Sabbath that is Gods Market or Market-day for the getting of this spiritual Gain either about their worldlie affairs or their bodilie delights The Sabbath day I say is Gods Market-day and those that seek to take away the Sabbath attempt to put down Gods Markets and so do the Devil good service whatsoever their intent be As freqenting of Markets makes a rich man so keeping of Sabbaths makes a rich Christian and as we count him a bad Husband that foloweth game on the Market-day so may we as wel count him a spiritual unthrift that spends the Sabbath in that sort But may some say When we have been at Church and heard the Sermon and Service is not Gods Market-day then done I answer If the Sabbath be a day then it is not so soon done Gods Market lasteth all day long Yea grant the principal because the publick of it be past yet as Market-falks returning from Market wil be talking of their Markets as they go by the way and be casting up of their penny-worths when they come home reckon what they have taken and what they have laid out and how much they have gotten So should we after we have heard the Word publickly confer privatelie of it with others at least meditate on it by our selvs and be sure to take an account of our selvs how we have profited that day by the Word that hath been spoken unto us and by other Religious Exercises that have been used of us And us the Market-man counteth that but an evil Market-day that he hath not gained somewhat on more or less so may we wel account it an evil Sabbath to us whereon we have not profited somewhat whereon we have not either increased our knowledge or been bettered in affection whereon we have not been further either informed in judgement or reformed in practise whereon we have added no whit at all to our Talent Thus then and there After my leaving of Lineolâ—s Inn being reqested by my Right Honorable Lord the Lord Hobart to bestow a Sermon on them one Lords day at Serjeants Inn in Fleetstreet before the Judges and Serjeants at Law of that House I preached unto them on Psal 82. 6 7. That which came forth in Print shortlie after about the same time with the former under the Title of Gods Parley with Princes In it pag. 12-14 these words may be seen and read Here let me more particularlie as from God and in Gods Name entreat you to have a special regard of observing Gods Sabbaths You that are to see them observed by others ought you not much more to observ them your selvs Your cariage is a kind of censure that all men fix their eyes upon that most men shape their courses by If others then shal see you riding in your Circuits on the Sabbath wil they not think within themselvs And why may not I ride as wel on the Sabbath to a Fair as the Judg may to the place of Assize If they shal be warned to appear before you for some hearing by themselvs or by their Counsel upon the Sabbath wil they not be readie to argu from the works of your calling to the works of their own And why may not I as wel be about my work as they about theirs And in truth to speak plainlie as the thing is