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A90968	The pulpit incendiary: or, The divinity and devotion of Mr. Calamy, Mr. Case, Mr. Cauton, Mr. Cranford, and other Sion-Colledge preachers in their morning-exercises, with the keen and angry application thereof unto the Parliament and Army. Together with a true vindication of the Covenant from the false glosses put upon it, and a plain indication of Covenant-breakers. Published according to order.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3346; Thomason E438_10; ESTC R203205	55,372	67

Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches and shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdomes to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in Religion Confession of faith forme of Church government Directory for worship and catechizing that wee and our posterity after us may as brethren live in faith and love and the Lord may delight to d●ell in the midst of us First What is here for Presbytery especially a vexatious Presbytery a briery thorny persecuting Presbytery Wee have engaged our selves for the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and government doth that justifie your railing against your brethren and your charging the Parliament with Covenant-breaking as Mr. Cawton and that peremptory Mr. Jenkins have done in expresse termes What an affront is this upon our brethren of Scotland as if the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of our brethren of Scotland were constituted framed and calculated for the Meridian of wilde beasts of the Desert for Gim and Ogim owles and satyres dragons and vultures that live and prey upon their fellow-creatures and not for the sonnes of Sion who are the children of peace Doe you represent the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of our brethren of Scotland in such horrid black and bloudy colours as such a taking object unto the sonnes of England if the Cannons and Laws Edicts and Orders Statutes and Ordinances of the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of the Church of Scotland enjoyns to raile and rage slander and abuse Magistrates or Ministers Parliament or people that will not act according to the fiery fierce and furious motions of peevish froward and angry spirits such Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government doth more become the American Pequids Cannibals or Men eaters in New-England than those that have heard of a Gospel of peace or the least sound of that sweet Commandement of Jesus Christ our liege Lord who hath said This is my Commandement that yee love one another Secondly Are not Presbyterians by this Covenant as well bound to hearken to the counsels of their dissenting brethren as their dissenting brethren to hearken to their counsels and is not Scotland as well engaged to listen to the advice of England as England to Scotland For are not all of them to make THE WORD OF GOD AND THE EXAMPLE OF THE BEST REFORMED CHURCHES whose walking must be judged by their conformity to the Word of God the golden Standard to measure them by Thirdly who must judge and determine the meaning of the Covenant Presbytery is not in the letter of the covenant and we hope though we doe not in the least implead a holy godly peacefull and pious Presbytery but doe wait and hope for the establishment of it in all our Congregations in the Kingdome that such a Presbytery as seems now to be contended for will never be found to be the meaning of those that imposed the covenant Shall the Parliament of England enjoyn a Covenant upon the people and Sion Colledge in London give nay command or conjure such a meaning into it as was never intended what is this but to put Sion Colledge above the Parliament of England The Parliament of England commands the Kingdome to take the Covenant and Sion Colledge upon the matter commands the Parliament to subject themselves unto their interpretation thereof upon pain of being arraigned in their Pulpits for Covenant-breakers forsakers of their first love yea and of vilifying scorning and abusing them in the eyes of the people stirring up a spirit of contempt in the people against them as many of you have done from day to day Fourthly what is such an interpretation of the covenant but a meere prophaning of the covenant it selfe Does the covenant obliege us to raile and rage revile and abuse men that are holy learned godly peaceable usefull in Church and common-wealth to brand them with the odious names of Heretickes Separatists Schismaticks c. who cannot subject themselves we say not to the covenant for they took it yea defended the taking of it yea stirred up their brethren to take it in its true proper naturall genuine and literall meaning of it but unto such a sense meaning and interpretation as will serve onely to drive on the designes of the faction of Sion Colledge for most confident we are there is at this day no faction in the Kingdome more dangerous and obnoxious unto the peace prosperity and welfare of the Parliament Army and consequently whole Kingdome THAN SION COLLEDGE IS What greater dishonour indignity and scorne can be put upon the SO●EMNE LEAGUE AND COVENANT than to justifie not onely those bitter cruell unbrotherly unchristian nay unnaturall invectives each against other but rebellion treason mutini●s insurrections against the Parliament and Army the raising up of new warres to the utter ruine of the whole kingdome as the sense and meaning of the solemne League and Covenant and do not many of you in your prayers and Sermons justifie the proceedings of those members that fled beyond seas from the justice of the Parliament and the prisoners in the Tower committed thither by Parliaments order for such misdemeanours in pleading their cause with God as men persecuted imprisoned for nothing but keeping their solemne League and Covenant professing for your selves and others that you own their cause so deluding and captivating the judgement● and consciences of many of your hearers as you did some at least of those said prisoners who doubtlesse in the simplicity of their hearts were charmed into that delinquencie through your devout chantings under the colour of zeale for the glory of God a blessed ref●rmation and we know not what as that they are ready upon all 〈◊〉 to side with any mu●inous insurrections against the Parliament and Army what is this but to abuse and prophane the innocent Covenant which intended union peace love and goodnesse amongst brethren and the banding them together as one man against the common enemy Doubtlesse the true naturall soule and spirit of the Covenant was Union and not division amongst brethren But when men force that soule out of the Covenant we mean that meaning of the covenant which is naturall and possesse it with a contrary spirit or meaning though it pretends zeale for God and a blest reformation c. yet this is to represent the covenant like Samuels body without his naturall soule possessed with the spirit of Satan speaking indeed like Samuel but with a wicked and Satanicall designe what is this but to make the covenant not like an Angel of God a messenger of peace and union among brethren but a very Fury from beneath furnishing men with fire-brands to hurle and throw each against other to the danger of fiering and enflaming the whole kingdome You complain of contempt of the covenant that it is looked upon as an Almanack out of date

that they may find thee and themselves And so Mr. Harrison of Grace-church reflecting disparagement upon the Parliament for their proceedings against the Citizens in the Tower for whom hee prayed as for sheep appointed to bee slain or at least to be fleeced c. chusing his text likewise for that very end it seemes to direct the thoughts of his Auditory to his particular meaning from the 44. Psalm vers. 17. All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee nor yet dealt falsly in thy Covenant And so Mr. Cauton bold down right Mr. Cauton couragious valiant Mr. Cauton not so mealy-mouth'd as the rest of his brethren are that speak so covertly and with such caution warinesse and circumspection professed solemnly in prayer unto God that both he and his auditory for their parts did all own them and that cause for which they were imprisoned who is it that hath wrought distempers in the people against the Army but Sion Colledge For doe not we heare the joynt declamations of the members thereof from day to day in Pulpit and otherwise against them Take two or three instances that imperious Mr. Jenkins in a Sermon at Milkstreet preaching for Mr Case exhorting not to feare the Grandees of the times O that the people of God said he would rather feare an Army of lusts within them than an Army of REBELS without them God shall disband them and you shall see them melt and pine and moulder away and come to nothing And Mr. Ash even in a solemne day and duty of humiliation God speake said he to the Generall and other officers of the Army that this Kingdome may at last be delivered from the sad consequences of an OPPRESSING ARMY unworthily representing the A●my as the just object of our d●●●espect though confident we are never an Army in all the world all things considered hath ever proved lesse oppressing ●h●n this Army ha●h done We could name severall more whose tongues have been sharpened like Serpents Adders poyson being under their lips stinging and poysoning the names and reputes of the Army But above all famous Mr. Cawton like Goliah defying the Host of Israel in their very faces defies Englands suc●essfull Army in the presence of all the people for a REBELLIOUS ARMY A GENERATION OF VIPERS A VIPEROUS BROOD A FACTIOUS ARMY A BLALPHEMOUS ARMY c. Who is it that hinders our uniting together of dissenting brethren but Sion Colledge witnesse the carriages of their members in the City as Mr. Case take heed of that thing that is called in our dayes moderation said he we have moderated it so long that we have moderated away the City the priviledges and honour of it the Parliament the honour and soveraignty of it yea the Covenant is moderated away and Jesus Christ and almost Religion out of the Kingdome Go from one end of the Citie to the other and find me but one man that talkes of moderation and cries out for moderation moderation in the vulgar sense that is not tainted in his judgement or unsound in his life or ingaged in THE DESIGNE and I will be bound to ask forgivenesse for what I have said Thus far Mr. Case But Mr. Cawton speakes it out with a grace thus We must use moderation and we must not be bitter against them that dissent no by no meanes they are good men and they must be suffered to come up into our Pulpi●s forsooth but now you see what it is to be so moderate c. Have we not reason to suspect the spring of these bitter waters to be in Sion Colledge For First doe we not see an uniformity among the members thereof in their preachings from day to day that they are commonly all upon one strain Surely we cannot conceive the divine Spirit can direct their hearts and lips in the conception and utterance of such scandalous sla●derous and bitter expressions neither can wee think so badly of the men themselves as if they should be given up to be acted by that spirit which is from beneath in an insensible and secret manner causing them as it were with one shoulder to help on the affairs of the malignants and the works of darknesse division and distempers amongst us Surely God will not wee hope suffer that lying spirit to fill all the mouthes of the Ministers of Sion Colledge as he did the mouthes of the false prophets of old and therefore wee conceive their manner of preaching to bee nothing else but the fruits of combination and consultation and pre-debates Secondly this we have observed that as the constitution of publick affairs do vary amongst us so the constitution of these mens Sermons do alter and change one while we find them all for moderation Christian accommodation and forbearance one of another another while all for reformation againe that is Presbytery in the rigid sense thereof that is that all power may be in the Ministers hands and the Magistrates engaged to put their Orders and Edicts wills and pleasures into execution one while pleading for and pressing the setting up the government of Christ in the hearts of men minding men to be zealous for the great things of the Gospel faith and repentance and love amongst brethren and not thus to contend so strenuously for the mint and cummin Discipline and Government c. Another while calling with might main for Reformation Reformation putting the Crown upon the head of Christ and the Scepter into his hands pleading for the government of Jesus Christ that is the exalting of themselves above their brethren Thirdly our jealousie that Sion Colledge is still that root of bitternesse that fills our pulpits with such bitter clusters from day to day is further strengthened by this that we do observe those Ministers which before they came to the Citie before they walked in the counsell of Sion Colledge stood in their wayes and sa●● in their seats before their soules did enter into their secrets they were men of calme quiet meek sweet and precious spirits but as we have heard of some kind of wormes if brought into some aire are thereby turned into Serpents so these very men once admitted into the assembly of Sion Colledge are very commonly turned into most venemous serpentine and bitter spirits changing their very genius and candid nature and disposition to the very amazement and admiration of those that knew them differing as much from their former customes and behaviour as Nebuchadnezzar did when he lost the nature and noble principles of a man of honour and greatnesse and had in the roome of it the nature of a wilde beast whose nailes grew like talons which he improved doubtlesse in procuring and devouring his prey we could give instances in severall men of our own knowledge who are no more like the men that formerly they were than Hazael when he did set the strong holds of Israel on fire destroyed their young men with the sword

de●●uct●ve ●wayes against M●gistracy and Authority if any of that partie and their servants had been found in one insurrection after another with their sword● pistols and other Arm● in profest opposition to the Parliament and M●gistracy of the Kingdom● and Citie as these have been how would Sion Colledge-men have beaten the ear● of their hearers with it how would they have cryed out in their Pulpits This is a second Mu●sier these are your secta●ies your Anabaptists y●●ur Independents these are they that wee often forewarned you of and told you how they desp●sed Magistracy and Government the noise of Munster Munster Munster would have so filled the pulpit● and presses that we should have heard little else from them but we hop● their mouths are for ever stopt from their Munster clam●rs againe howsoever they have furnished men with a sufficient reply to them for time to come about that businesse In the fifth Article of the Covenant wee swear that each one of us according to our place and interest endeavour that England and Scotland may remain conjoyned in a firme peace and union to all p●steritie c Whether these men observe this Article we leave to the judgement of those that observe the many expressions that fall from their lips from day to day asserting that the presbyterie will never be setled in this Kingdome untill the Scots come to settle it here especially those passages from Mr. Jenkins spoken at that very time as hath been said when jealousies and feares were raised in mens hearts of a breach between the two Nations Lord wee thank thee for any hopes thou hast given to make-them speaking of the Scots further instrumantall for the advance of thy truth amongst us LORD BLOW VP THOSE SPARKS INTO A FLAME if this be not an Incendiary in the very latter we know not who is or can be an Incendiary and so Mr. Cawton praying for the Scots Lord give them a heart said he to settle a reformation amongst them and also amongst us and QVASH ALL THOSE THAT SHAL RISE VP AGAINST THEM TO HINDER THEM Whether this be a keeping this Article of the Covenant all things considered let indifferent men judge In the sixth and last Article we engage to defend all those that entered into this League and Covenant in the maintenance and pursuance thereof not suffering our selves by any means to be divided or withdrawn from this blessed union or conjuction but that we shall all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition c. And what we are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome we shall reveale and make known that it may be timely prevented or rem●ved All which we shall doe as in the sight of God Whether that these men can say as in the sight of God that they have kept this Article that they have zealously and constantly continued in the observati●n of this Covenant and the main and principall ends thereof viz. the promotion of the glory of God by the p●opagation of faith and love among brethren the uniting all the well-affected party of both kingdomes against the comm●n enemies the power and interest of the supreme Ju●icatories of both Kingdomes especially the Parliament of England let the generall strain and daily course of their publick prayers and Sermons declare and let heaven and earth judge who they are that are Covenant-breakers the Parliament of England or Sion Colledge we scarce ever heare them mention the Parliament of England in p●ayer or Sermon but with some disparaging reflection upon them as covenant-breakers men that build their own houses but suffering Gods House that is Sion Colledge to lye waste that they have slighted the affaires of Jesus Christ and reformation and th●refore the Kingdome slight and scorn them not regarding their Orders and Ordinances when the truth is these Ministers have put principles into the people leading them into such contempt of the authority of Parliament It cannot be denied but the characters of flesh and blood we mean failings and weaknesse have been seen upon them but it is the property of a Cham to detect his Fathers nakednesse in the face of his brethren and among their failings we know none greater than a permission of such daily affronts from the pulpits in the face of the people as these men offer them without controule It is a very poore and unthankfull requitall of all that the Parliament hath done for them hath not the Parliament freed them from the yoke of Episcopacy Ceremonies high C●mmission court cast out others from their places in the Citie for scandall and malignity and put them in their roome given them all just encouragements to preach the Word suffering nothing to disturb them onely hindering them from disturbing their brethren as holy harmlesse usefull faithfull as themselves and yet as Haman in the like case they cry out All this is nothing so long as Mordec●i sits in the gate and will not dare not cannot in conscience bow unto them submit unto their yoke and bondage And hence it is that they are thus complaining of that people whose lawes are contrary unto them seeming to resolve to shake the very foundations of the Kingdome but they will ro●t them up It is true they charge them with many grievous and bitter things but their proofs are like those that charged Christ alledging many things but able to prove nothing against them and yet represent them so unworthy as if the very permission of such to live was the great sinne of the Parliament and that for which God wil reckon with them even in blood these are the Heretickes Schismatickes Sectaries the non-suppression whereof they cry up to be the cause of the judgements of God upon this land but did they search the Scriptures with a single eye they might finde other matters to be an indication of Gods wrath upon a land namely the sinnes of their Prophets and their Priests their Shepheards their Watchmen their Pastors and their Teachers that bite with their teeth because men put not into their mouthes and he that putteth not into their mouthes they even prepare warre against him Mich. 3. 6. It is not unknown unto themselves that of all sorts of people in a land and nation the holy Scriptures declare the sinnes of that sort of men to have constan●ly as chiefe a hand in pulling down judgements upon the whole people as any other sort whatsoever and it is known unto us that of late the men of that Order viz. the Prophets and Priests c. have venomously bitt●n the Parliament and Army with their teeth and tongues toge●her in respect of their repute and good name more than any other sort of malignants wha●soever have publickly done they frequently complain that we are without government the case being with us as it was with Israel at that time when there was no King in Israel every man doing that which was right in his own eyes