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A64152	The anatomy of the separatists, alias, Brownists the factious brethren in these times, wherein this seditious sect is fairely dissected, and perspicuously discovered to the view of world : with the strange hub-bub, and formerly unheard of hurly-burly, which those phanatick and fantastick schismatiks made on Sunday ... the 8 of May ... at the sermon of the Right Rev. Father in God, Henry, Bishop of Chichester ...	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3060B; Wing T427; ESTC R20093	6,282	10

their private malice do endeavour to pollute and contaminate the purity thereof They say they would have Religion reformed but their ayme is to have it deformed These were called in Greeke {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in Hebrew Paratzim viz. Separatists for other men they accounted profane people of the earth but themselves the only holy men in the Land therefore with others they would not converse for feare of defilement In a precise manner they looke down with their eyes when inwardly a whore is not more deceitful They are double-minded hollow-hearted and wil as nimbly swallow up at a bit another mans estate as our Dutch will pills of butter and never purch for it All is fish that comes to their net Vnde habeant nemo quaerit sed oportet habere They make it no matter how they come by it so they have it Their mouths are replenished with yeas and very lyes but their tongs and hearts do as much differ as truth and errour though they do seldome damnably sweare yet they will most abominably lye For lying falsehood and hypocrisy these are their familiar experssions They are much addicted to prayer and fasting for they frame a long Babel-like prayer made up with hums and hawes and though they affect fasting well yet they love their flesh better They much delight in private conventicles and secret and obscure places in which voluptuous wantonnesse has her meeting where the Spirit enlightens the understanding to see a sister in the darke though they are superciliously rigid and censorious yet they seem very charitable for rather then their sisters shall want food they will fill their bellies and rather then they shall be naked they will cover their bodyes Brothers they are but not of the blade for they cannot endure our Cavaleers yet they are lovers of the sisters of the scaberd Brethren they are not of the Corporation but the separation like Simeon and Levi they are fratres in malo They are altogether ignorant therefore they despise all learning for the tongues and languages they utterly abhorre and detest them as profane and for our ordinary Latine they 〈◊〉 it is the language of the beast They are resolved still to be as they are ignorant for they bold it Idolatry and superstition to learne to re●d because the very first letter begins with a Crosse The Crosse they account the marke of the beast and though it be the ancient ensign of Christianity yet by them it is contemned All Crosses they dosie as may-poles the one they hold profane and the other they averre to be superstitious They can endure no Crosse but that on Silver or Gold and for the Crosse in Cheapeside it is the pillar of golden superstition the abomination of the City the City Idoll and a supporter of Idolls having so many images about it which is as displeasing to their sight as the Counter in Woodstreet is to an indebted Citizen All Ceremonies they account Popish a Surplesse the snock of the whor of Babilon the sight wherof is as terrible to them in a Church at noone as the apparition of a Ghost in a Church-yard at midnight An orthodox and lawfuly called and allowed Minister is not minded amongst them for they hold it as lawfull for Artificers and Laymen to preach in publike and those that are most inferior as Coblers Weavers Leather-sellers Box-makers Iron-mongers Felt-makers and such mechanick fellowes These and their holy sisters for they may wel be linkt together are they who by their unreverent gestures in the Church disesteeme of Church-Prayers These are they who contemn the publike service of God and cry down the Lyturgie of the Church of England that solemne Lyturgie celebrous by the piety of Bishops and Martyres hallowed with the blond of some of them who composed it established by the Lawes of this Land by severall Acts of Parliament in this Kingdome attested and approved by the best of all forraigne Divines confirmed by the subscription of all the Clergie accepted of by the most and best of all the Laity and hath continued since in the raignes of Queene Elizabeth King Iames and our gracious King Charles in the Church of England for the service of God these 90. yeares that this holy exercise of Religion should be by them vilified interrupted and depraved what doth it tend to but the advancing of Heresie Schisme Profanenesse Libertinisme Anabaptisme and Atheisme We acknowledge that some parts of our publike Liturgy may be very well corrected and thankes be to God the great Counsell of the King and the Kingdome have consulted and determined about it but the clamours now go very high Impudence or Ignorance is at this time grown so frontlesse that it is confidently expected by many that all formes of publike worship should be utterly abrogated and that our booke of Common-Prayer should bee quite abolished as they would have Episcopacy everlastingly extirpated They affirme that that which is called the Liturgy is the same with the Masse either a Lethargy of worship or a Masse of Idolatry wherein is no purity but all papistry In the Service-booke they say there are foppish and foolish Tautologies as in these words The Lord be with you and with your Spirit And in the Letany there are vaine and ●●ivolous repetitions of words as Good Lord deliver us and We bese●●● to heare us good Lord which they are not ashamed to say are ridiculous Invocations like magick spels and no better than conjuring These moderne Zealots forsooth are offended at the vestments and habits of the Clergie every thing though never so laudable decent and necessary if contrary to their opinion is by them accounted profane or superstitious They make no reckoning of the Church of God than of a barne or a stable either of these is all alike to them Barnes and Stables are for threshers and hostlers the Church is the House of God yet they are so base minded as to conjecture a barne or stable good enough for him whom the heaven of heavens cannot containe the high and lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity They account their own houses as holy as the Church T is strange Divinity and yet I hold no inherent holinesse in either I have read of a sort of Hereticks about the yeare of our Lord 1126. who would have all Churches defaced and demolished as needlesse Fabricks and unnecessary structures for God dwels not in temples made with hands Sure these Separatists are of their minds If they were not they would mind the Church better then they do But these love to stand without at the Church doore I am sure they have no president for it out of the Word of God that whilst the preacher and people are praying within they should stand prating without That description of S. Paul may be properly predicated of them they are lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud disobedient unthankfull unholy without naturall affection truce breakers false accusers incontinent

fierce despisers of others heady high minded {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} magis quam {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof 2 Tim. 3. 2 3 4. Tha likewise of S. Iude may be truly applyed to them they defile the flesh despise dominion and speak evill of dignities 8 ver. These are they who separate themselves sensuall having not the Spirit 19 ver. And who these persons are who say they have the Spirit the subject of this small Tract doth sufficiently declare the Separatists They are offensive to God in the contempt of his Ordinance whose commandement is that every soule should be subject to the higher powers and they are injurious to the King and State whose power they despise and government they affront Their lives are hypocriticall their positions schismaticall their thoughts perilous their words malicious their Acts mischievous and their opinions impious They hold it a matter arbitrary or indifferent which they dispense with at their own wils pleasures to behave themselves irreverently unmannerly undecently and disorderly in Gods House in his presence and that under pretence of avoyding superstition Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt what is this but to avoyd Scylla and fall upon Charybdis to run from one extreame to a worse ex fuma●io flammam out of the smoake into the flame This is the reason they have made so many uproares the like in pristine ages unparalleld motions and commotions in our Churches of late dayes in the Cathedrall of S. Paul within these few months and in S. Olaves Church in the old Iewry on Sunday in the afternoone being the 8. of May I know not by what unhappy fate there was at that present congregated a company of rude Rascals to the number of above 100 who as soon as the right Rev. pious and learned Bishop came up into the Pulpit in his Lawn sleeves and other vestments suitable to a Prelate they presently like an unmannerly and ill-bred crue of unruly curres made such a hideous clamour in the Church of God crying joyntly most impudently and with one accord A Pope a Pope a Pope to the astonishment of the man of God to the admiration and amazement of the L. Major the Parliament Gentlemen and other noble and worthy auditors that were then present Some of the varlets ran out of the Church others by the L. Majors officers were thrust out of the Church and the doore shut upon them And I wish this cursed Sect may beever excluded as from our Churches so from our Cities Assemblies and societies I am sure in the purest times of the Primitive Church there were Ostiarit Doore-keepers to debar from ingresse into the Church notorious Hereticks obstinate Idolaters and profane livers I would not be accounted uncharitable therefore my opinion is that these sons of tumult bare no violent malice to the Right Reverend Bishops person for he is the object of every mans love only I imagine their inveterate spleene aymd at his function A Pope and a Bishop are all one with them when these turbulent Schismatickes were in the street they fell to picking of quarrels and broke many glasse windowes in the Church in the time of the Sermon they were so audacious and impudent as to say that they who were in the Church were at Masse and that the Lord Major was a Papist whom God and the world knowes to be a Gentleman of an approved and unblemished integrity and an unfained Protestant of the Church of England One thing I have more to relate that on of the rascals was the same day apprehended examined by some of the Parliament Gentlemen after Sermon in the Lord Majors house was by his Lordship committed of whom hereafter ye shall heare more for the present I am sorry that such an occasion is offered me to trouble the Readers patience so much with the relation of this viperous generation and with such unsanctified sons of mischiefe as these are Only give me leave before I leave them to leave this wish to them that these Brothers of Schisme and Sedition with their Sisters of Faction and insurrection for they of that sexe are as bad being of the same sect may in due time as I hope shortly they will suffer exemplary and condigne punishment according to their demerits FINIS