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A78585	The character of a puritan; and his gallimaufrey of the antichristian clergie; prepared with D. Bridges sawce for the present time to feed on. By the worthy gentleman, D. Martin Mar-Prelat, Doctor in all the faculties, Primate and Metropolitan.	Mar-Prelat, Martin, Doctor in all the faculties.	1643 (1643)	Wing C1987; Thomason E87_11; ESTC R212793	19,559	29

be Lord Bishops once Minist Yes Sir I know there is such a Book named Martin Mar-prelate a most vile and slanderous Libell but I doe not thinke my Lord of Winchester doth approve any thing that is set down there in any of those Books for they have put forth three or foure Books under that Title Iacke Why Master Vicker how do they to get their Books Printed Minist Tush they doe well enough for that there is a Seditious Fellow one Walde-grave who commonly Prints all such Books I know him well enough he did keep a Shop at the Sgne of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard at which time he had his Presse and Letters taken away from him and destroyed for the same cause by my Lords Grace of Canterbury and now he works in corners up and down the Countrey like a Vagabond Puritan With a seared Conscience did the Bishops that violence to him in regard both of the Cause and also for the great charge he hath of Wife and six small Children and now to bereave his Poore Family of him whose labours was their only comfort and maintenance Iacke Master Vicker how long was it since Walde-graves goods were destroyed I have heard of him before now but I know him not Minist Tush you know him well enough I am sure it is since his goods were destroyed about Easter was a twelve moneth Iacke And hath he been all this time absent from his Family Minist I Sir and if he had bin there he would easily have been had for he hath been watcht well enough for that Puritan I will tell you Sir how they deale with him when they have any suspition that he is at home although he durst never come nome they stick not in the dead time of the night to break down the main walls of his house and enter in with Constables and Pursuivants and this a common thing with them Iacke I am perswaded the Bishops had been better to have given him freely 2. hundred pounds towards the setting up of a new Printing house for himselfe then to have destroyed his as they have done Minist I thinke so for it may be he would have followed his Calling some other way then to be imployed in those things Iacke Yonder comes a man plodding a pace after us whatsoever he be Minist It may be our company will increase and so we shall goe the more cheerfull for it begins to be late and it is dangerous going here abouts late I can tell you Puritan It may be he is one of your coate Master Vicker Minist I cannot tell but if he be he shall be welcome to me Iacke Surely he comes apace whatsoever he be Minist It may be he would be glad of company Iacke Well let us goe on and continue our talke Puritan Master Vicker I thinke you be weary of our communication if you be let us know Minist No by my Faith sir not I say what you will a Gods name Puritan Fie Master Vicker will you sweare I think you learned that of your Lord Bishop of London for he useth it often when he is at Boules Iacke What will Bishops sweare Puritan Sweare Sir I that they will and defend it to when they have done For in the first Booke of Martin there is mention made of the Bishop of Londons Swearing when he is at Bowles And the Bishop of Winchester in answering the same saith thus in pag. 62. of his Booke That our Saviour Christ usually sware by his Faith in his Sermon for he said Amen Amen which is as much to say saith he as by my Faith by my Faith Iacke Why is that Bishop of God that will Sweare thus Minist Fo I have heard my Lords Grace of Canterbury Sweare by his Faith an hundred times yea and by God too somtimes and what he doth I take it as a good president for such as I am to follow Puritan I le tell you Master Vicker I am of Doctor Bridges his mind of our Bishops for saith he page 339 340. That all our Lord Bishops in England are the Bishops of the Divel And I am sure of it by these two marks viz. By their tyrannicall dealing against Gods Children And by their wicked and unconscionable lives that they are not of God Iacke I pray you hath Doctor Bridges written any Booke that is published to this effect Puritan Yes indeed and the Bishop of Canterbury hath confirmed it by his authorising of the same and also by his continuall practise against Gods Children Iacke But I pray you Sir how wickedly hath he wrested the Scripture in saying our Saviour Christ continually sware in his Sermons when he said Amen Amen Puritan Why the Bishop of Winchester is most impudent in all his actions for he very blasphemously in his Sermon preached at Mary Overies at London said that a man might aswell find fault with the holy Scripture as with our corrupt Common Booke of Prayer Iacke Out upon him blasphemous wretch he is certainly the Bishop of the Divel as Doctor Bridges saith Puritan Will you heare some more of his Divinity Iacke O yes I pray you Sir And yet my heart trembleth to heare of such odious blasphemies as these Puritan He saith in the 49. page of his Book against Martin Mar-prelate That the Creed of the Apostles Athanasius and the Nicene c. containe in them many palpable lyes Now tell me your opinion of this is it sound and subsantiall Doctrine I pray you tell me Iacke Doctrine yea indeed this may truely be said to be the Doctrine of Devils Why whither will our Bishops runne in time trow you if the Magistrate suffer them Puritan I will tell you even to their Father the Devil For they have at no time taken in hand to write in defence of their Hierarchie but it hath made their eyes so to dazle that they run into most dangerous and damnable errours as in this Booke of the Bishops will be proved neare 500. errours yea in correcting and controuling the mighty word of God and also have interlaced their writings with such contrariety of matter as one part of their own Books may serve to confute the other with infinite absurdities yea and by your leave to even flat Treason Iacke Many good men did never judge the Bishop of Winchester to be but an Hypocrite Puritan He is a most bittrer man to all those that feare God and have to deale with him for he may well be compared to a Horse with a gald backe that hath bin so rub'd that he winces frets and chafes so that he is ready to throw himselfe to utter destruction with purpose to hurt him that rub'd him Even so this Bishop takes to himselfe so much liberty in abusing and profaning the holy word of God against those that write in the Lords Cause against their unlawfull Callings and that I feare me to the indangering both of body and soule Iacke I have heard that when he was at Lincolne he

The Character OF A PURITAN AND His Gallimaufrey of the Antichristian Clergie prepared with D. BRIDGES Sawce for the present time to feed on By the worthy Gentleman D. Martin Mar-Prelat Doctor in all the Faculties Primate and Metropolitan Printed in the time of Parliament 1643. THE PREFACE BEING A PRAYER O LORD GOD and most mercifull Father we beseech thee for the honour of thy holy Name to defend us from that Antichrist of Rome and from all his det stable enormities Manners Laws Altars Garments and Ceremonies Destroy the Councel of all Papists and Atheists enemies of thy Gospel and of thu Realme of England Disclose their mischiefes and subtill practises confound their devices let them be taken in their own wilinesses and strenghen all those that maintaine the cause and quarrell of thy Gospel with invincible force and power of thy holy Spirit so that though they be destitute at any time of worldly ayd and comfort that yet they fayle not to proceed and goe forward towards that true godlinesse commanded in thy holy Word with simplicity and sincerity to thy honour and glory the comfort of thine Elect and the comfusion of thine enemies through Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen Amen And say from the heart Amen A DIALOGVE WHEREIN IS PLAINLY LAYD OPEN THE TYRANNICALL DEALING OF LORD BISHOPS against Gods Children The Speakers are these Puritan Papist Iacke of both sides Idoll Minister Puritan YOU are well overtaken Sir doe you travell farre this way I pray you Iacke Towards London Sir Puritan I shall willingly beare you company if it please you Iacke With all my heart I shall be very glad of yours Puritan From whence came you this way Iacke I come out of France Puritan Out of what part of France came you I pray you I came from Rochell my selfe which is a part of France Iacke Is it so but I came not neare that place Puritan Out of what part of France came you then Iacke I came from Orleans Puritan I pray you what News from thence is there any likelyhood of Peace there Iacke Yes surely there is some hope of Peace for where the Kings powers come they doe commonly yeeld presently Puritan It is a good hearing Iacke What is he that comes after us so fast Puritan He seems to be some Preacher or dumb Minister it may be he goes our way if he doe I hope we shall have his company whereby we may passe away the time in some good conference and also heare what News there is at home here in England Iacke I am content Sir for I shall be glad to heare some good News me thinks I have bin very long absent from hence Puritan Very well we will goe the so softlier that he may overtake us I but by the way I pray you if you come from Orleans there they have the Masse for they are of the League and then I suppose you have bin partaker of their Idolatry Iacke No I assure you I detest all Idolatry even from my heart Puritan If you doe so I am very glad of it but I pray you let me heare if you can give me some proofe out of the Word of God for the confirmation of this your protestation against Idolatry Iacke I am content to give you a taste thereof whereby it shall appeare that I am farre from it For so dearely as I tender the salvation of my own soule so carefull am I to shun and fly from all Idolatry For it is written Deut. 6.13 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve And the Apostle Paul to the Gorinth 1 Epist cap. 10. vers 14. commandeth us to Flie from Idolatry for Idolatry is sinne and the mages of sinne is death c. Puritan It is well applyed and somwhat to the purpose I am very glad if it be done in singlenes of heart For me thinks you could not possibly be in that place but you must be forced to be present at their Idolatrous Masse Iacke I was never present at it in my life I thanke God but the Papists stick not to say that our Service Booke in English is a great part of it but a meere translation out of the Masse-Booke Puritan Indeed it is true that most part of our Booke of Common Prayer as they say is a meere translation out of the Masse-Booke but yet there is no such Blasphemic and Idolatry tollerated in it as is dayly in the Masse although it greatly derogate from the Word and is full of great and grievous corruptions But I pray you how long were you in Orleans Sir Iacke I was there about a fortnight Puritan No longer Iacke No Sir Puritan Here comes the Minister now we will heare what News he can tell us he seems to be but an Idoll Shepheard we shall have some good conference with him I hope to passe away the time Minister You are well overtaken Gentlemen which way travell you I pray you Puritan Towards London and if it please God Minist I shall be glad of your company and if it please you Puritan We also shall be glad of yours Sir Iacke I pray you Mr. Vicar or Parson for so you seem to be what good News is there here at home in England for we have been both of us in France and we would gladly heare some good News Minist Indeed I am a poore Vicar truly we have no great good News here Sir For our Church is so sore pestered with Sects and Schismes that the Reverend Fathers and especially my Lords Grace of Canterbury are so sore troubled with them that they have no leasure to recreate themselves for those Fellows they are so bold and mallepert that they preferre Petitions to Her Majesty the Lords of the Councell yea and in Print to the High Court of Parliament Puritan Why Sir what be they that do this what doe you call them are they Papists Minist No they are worse then Papists for they are fant●…sticall Puritans and Brownists and I cannot tell what Puritan What be the points they hold that are so schismaticall and erronious Minist Forsooth they would have no Lord Bishop but every Minister to be of equall Authority one with another and so make a confusion in the whole State for they have set down a new platforme of Discipline forsooth as they call it they cannot tell what themselves Puritan I will tell you my opinion of Lord Bishops it is but an humane constitution and not warrantable by the Word but utterly forbidden and as for the Discipline you speake of I wish all Gods people would practise it Minist Oh I perceive you are one of these Fantasticall Puritans or Brownists I pray you out of what place of France came you Puritan I came from Rochel Minist I thought from Rochel Geneva or Scotland you seem to be a Bird of one of those nests Puritan Sir whatsoever I am I doe not doubt but to be able to prove by the Word what