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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91187	A fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring-blasing-stars, & firebrands, stiling themselves nevv-lights, firing our church and state into new combustions. Divided into ten sections, comprising severall most libellous, scandalous, seditious, insolent, uncharitable, (and some blasphemous) passages; published in late unlicensed printed pamphlets, against the ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and power of parliaments, councels, synods, Christian kings and magistrates, in generall; the ordinances and proceedings of this present Parliament, in speciall: the national covenant, assembly, directory, our brethren of Scotland, Presbyterian government; the Church of England, with her ministers, worship; the opposers of independent novelties; ... Whereunto some letters and papers lately sent from the Sommer-Islands, are subjoyned, relating the schismaticall, illegal, tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there, in gathering their new-churches, to the great distraction and prejudice of that plantation. / Published for the common good by William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3963; Thomason E261_5; ESTC R212456	96,461	90

nor hell Onely I shall adde that some of these persons have acted as contemptuously against these Ordinances as they have written and printed For Master Henry Robinson the supposed Author of the Arraignment of persecution A sacr●d Decretal M●●tyns Eccho and other most scurrilous seditious Libels hath maintained a private Printing-presse and sent for Printers from Amsterdam wherewith he hath printed most of the late scandalous libellous Books against the Parliament and though he hath been formerly sent for before the Committee of Examinations for this offence which was passed by in silence yet he hath since presumed and proceeded herein in a farre higher straine then ever besides John L●lburne being questioned before that Committee by speciall Order of the Commons House for printing his libellous Letter contrary to th●se Ordinances hath pending his very Examinations contemptuously printed and dispersed abroad his false and scandalous Reasons delivered in to that Committee for printing his former libellous Letter with some marginall ●nno●ations and a scandalous libellous Petition Remonstrance as formerly Articles against Colonell King to omit other printed unlicensed Papers an insolent contempt not to be parallel'd at least not to be tolerated Secondly I shall proceed to their libellous scurrilous and seditious Invectives against the Ordinance for payment of Tythes which Iohn L●lburne in his forementioned libellous Letter thus affronts charging the Parliament with no lesse then perjury and breach of their Covenant for making it Page 4. 27. If you put the parliament in mind of their Covenant tell them I think they have sworne to root out all Popery and therefore have lately abolished the Common-prayer that great Idol but yet have established Tythes c. the very root and support of popery which I humbly conceive is a contradiction of their Covenant and which will be ● greater snare then the Common-prayer to many of the precious consciences of Gods people whose duty is in my judgement to dye in prison before they act or stoop unto so dishonourable a thing as this is to their Lord and Master as to maintaine the black-coats with Tythes whom they look upon as the professed enemies of their anointed Christ he that payes Tythes is subject to the whole law of tythes in which there was a Lambe to be brought for a sinne Offering which is abolished also he that was to take Tythes was one that was to offer sacrifice daily for sinne which if any doe so now it is to deny Christ come in the flesh and to be the alone sacrifice for sinne by his death and so overthrow all our comfort joy and hope A most insolent scurrilous and seditious passage to stirre up the people to rebell against this Ordinance This Libell is thus seconded in the seditious pamphlet instiled the Arraignment of persecution in the Epistle Dedicatory To the Reverend learned Prolocutor Assessors the Commissioners of the Church of Scotland and the rest of the Venerable Assembly of Divines now sitting in holy Convocation at Westminster Reverend Sirs According to my duty at your divine entreaty I have reduced those pious instructions received from you unto such a pleasing forme as I hope shall not only affect but abundantly edifie the people of this Kingdome under your holy jurisdiction for considering your spirituall care over them and how your time hath been token up wholy in the procurement of that sacred Ordinance for Tythes wisely thought o● before the Directory for he is an Infidell and denieth the faith that doth not provide for his Family c. and pag. 26. lib. Consc My Lord the Defendant smels of a fat benefice see see his pockets are full of presbiterian steeples the spires stick under his Girdle ha ha ha instead of Weather-cocks every spire hath got a black-box upon it and in it the pure and imaculate Ordinance for Tythes Oblations c. sure shortly instead of Moses and Aaron and the two tables we shall have Sir Simon and Sir John holding the late solemne League and covenant and that demure spotlesse pretty lovely sacred divine and holy Ordinance for tythes the two Tables of our new Presbyterian Gospell painted upon all the Churches in England O brave Sir Simon the Bels in your pocket chime all-in ours chime all-out I pray give you a funerall Homily for your friends here before you depart here 's twenty shillings for your paines you know 't is sacriledge to bring downe the price as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Sop. 38. My Lord but our dissembly Doctors teach otherwise yet I think if your Lordship should settle Anabaptistry or the like even that which they now persecute and threaten preach and pray against and forwarne the people of as hereticall and damnable provided you should endow it with goodly fat Benefices and sanctifie it with the halowed Ordinance for Tythes offerings oblations c. questionlesse the generality of those persecutors of Anabaptists would have the wit to turne Anabaptists for their Religion is moved upon the wheele of the State Our Temporizing Doctors our state Protestant Ministers are not so simple to swim against the streame they are wiser in their generation for they know most wealth goes that way as long as our Ordinance is laden with Tythes offerings oblations they 'le be sure to give fire but should the State deprive their Religion of all Ecclesiasticall revenue of parsonages tythes c. yea should it be this very Presbytery they so aime at that they should so impoverish certainly we should have more parishes then Presbyters more steeples then Doctors then they would not be so hot for Presbytery or zealous to persecute its opposers I would your Lordship would make tryall call in but your Ordinance for tythes and turne them to the good will of people and then a tythe-Pig will be sold for a pennie Page 44. there is this scurrilous Quere put among others 5. Whether the late divine Ordinance for tythes offerings oblations and conventions be not better Gospel and in all Presbyterian wisdome to be preferred and provided before the Directory for the worship of God O cives cives quaerenda pecunia primum Virtus post nummos Many more clauses of like nature are in this prophane Libell which I pretermit But that which is the most audacious contemptuous seditious publike affront of all others against the Ordinance is the prophane scurrilous Libell intituled A Sacred DECRETALL nor Hue and cry from his superlative holinesse Sir Simon Synod for the apprehension of reverend young MARTIN MAR-PRIEST In the front whereof there is the picture of a Bull tossing Sir Simon Synod on his hornes and trampling the ordinance for Tythes under his feet with this inscription upon it ORD for TYTHES And page 2. this explanation of it nothing appeareth but a Bull tossing Sir John upon his hornes and stamping the blessed Ordinance for tythes under his cloven feet O PROFANE MARTIN O wicked