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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28203	The assembly-man written by John Birkenhead, in the year 1647.	Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679.	1682 (1682)	Wing B2963; ESTC R35660	9,019	11

an Assembly Men come to Church as the Great Alexander went to Sacrifice led by Crows You have seen a small Elder-tree grow in chinks and clefts of Church-walls it seems rather a Weed than a Tree which lend it growth makes a Rent in the Wall and throws down the Church Is not this the Assembler grown from Schisms which himself begot and if permitted will make the Church but a Floor or Church-yard Yet for all this he will be call'd Christ's Minister and Saint as the Rebells against King John were the Army of God Sure when they meet they cannot but smile for the dullest amongst them needs must know that they all cheat the people such gross low impostors that we die the death of the Emperor Claudius poyson'd by Mushromes The old Hereticks had Skill Learning some excuse for a Seduced Church those were Scholars but these Assemblers whose very Brains as Manichaeus's skin are stuff'd with Chaff For they study little preach much ever sick of a Diabetes nor do they read but weed Authors picking up cheap refuse Notes that with Caligula they gather Cockle-shells with Domitian retire into their Studie to catch Flies At Fasts Thank sgivings the Assembler is the State 's Trumpet for then he doth not preach but is blown proclaims News very loud the Trumpet and his Forehead being both of one Metall And yet good man he still prays for Boldness He hackneys out his Voice like a Cryer and is a kind of Spiritual Agitant receives Orders and spreads them In earnest the States can't want this Tool for without him the Saints would scarce Assemble And if the Zealots chance to fly out they are charm'd home by this Sounding Brass There is not on earth a baser Sycophant for he ever is chewing some Vote or Ordinance and tells the People how savoury it is like him who lick'd up the Emperor's spittle and swore 't was sweet Would the two Houses give him Cathedral Lands he would prove Lords and Commons to be Jure Divino but should they offer him the Self-denying-Ordinance he would justifie the Devil and curse them to their faces his Brother Kirk-man did it in Scotland 'T is pleasant to observe how finely they play into each others hands Marshall procures thanks to be given to Sedgwick for his great pains Sedgwick obtains as much for Marshall and so they all pimp for one another But yet to their great comfort be it spoken their whole seven years Sermons at Westminster are now to be sold in Fetter-lane and Pyecorner Before a Battall the Assembler ever speaks to the Souldiers and the holding up of his hands must be as necessary as Moses's against the Amalekites For he pricks them on tells them that God loves none but the valiant but when Bullets flye Himself runs first and then crys All the sons of Adam are cowards Were there any Metempsychosis his Soul would want a Lodgiog no single Beast could fit him being wise as a Sheep and innocent as a Wolf His sole comfort is he cannot out-sin Hugh Peters Sure as Satan hath possessed the Assembler so Hugh Peters hath possessed Satan and is the Devi's Devil He alone would fill a whole Herd of Gadarens He hath suck'd Blood ever since he lay in the Butcher's Sheets and now like his Sultan has a Shambles in his Countenance so crimson and torrid you may there read how St. Laurence dyed and think the three Children were delivered from his face This is St. Hugh who will Levell the Assembler or the Devil 's an Asse Yoke these Brethren and they two couple like a Sadducee and a Pharisae or a Turk and a Persian both Mahumetans But the Assembler's deepest highest Abomination is his Solemn League and Covenant whereby he strives to damn or begger the whole Kingdom out-doing the Devil who onely persuades but the Assembler forces to perjury or starving And this whoever lives to observe it will one day sink both him and his Faction for he and his Oath are so much one that were he halfhang'd and let down again his first word would be Covenant Covenant But I forget a Character should be brief though tedious Length be his best Character Therefore I 'll give ye ' what He denyes the Sequesterd Clergy but a fifth Part. For weigh him single and he has the Pride of three Tyrants the Forehead of six Gaolers and the Fraud of twelve Brokers Or take him in the Bunch and their whole Assembler is a Club of Hypocrites where six dozen of Schismatik-spends two hours for four shillings apiece FINIS