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A76113 Mrs. Wardens observations upon her husbands reverend speech in the presence of certaine gentlewomen of Ratcliffe and Wapping. J. B. 1642 (1642) Wing B114; Thomason E115_20; ESTC R22220 4,586 8

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despised if placed upon the right Saints but because they will not resigne them to us and our righteous seed who ought to inherit the Earth And here againe wee have just cause to vent out holy malice against the Lawes for putting a prophane bridle on us but thankes be given the bowels of our hope is somewhat inlarged The Anabaptists most excellently deny a great part if not almost all the Scriptures that make against them any way and do not we as religiously leave out divers Epistles making against us or call them Apocryphal By which Spirit I hope it is no hard thing to prove a Ba●ne or Stable or any hole places most proper to our doctrine conversation for it is Religion makes a church not the Church Religion therefore any place may be made a Church Besides you know we congregate together in the Spirit to feele as well as heare and I pray in what Church of our opposites have you that free conveniency Then for the universality of it what Church can be more universall for Simplicisme Dotagisme and Hypocrisisme As for the Babylonish Rags and Antichristian Wardrop let us leave them to the Kirke of Scotland and Amsterdam their Surplices to make sarkes and their Copes to make cushions Onely our observation voluntarily here thrusts it selfe in in which I must heartily admire our brothers of Scotland that at their first comming hither they could forget for what it had beene for them to remember a greater matter and over-looke all this needlesse trumpery in the Church when they begged the leades of it Which if I could but beleeve they assay'd I should thinke their modesty not the lesse meritorious though they hardly mist Now concerning the pearle Hatband my most ever-Round-headed Husband yawnes at in his Speech you shall see it but truly I confesse I never wore it with that pride and delight since he compared it to Popish beades a word so unnaturall to me that verily I must drinke the other cup to reconcile my stomacke but let me tell you ingeniously it is more for the Popes sake and the King of Spaines then the Religion meerely it selfe for insooth there be many principles in that Religion which we doe not deny for wholsome and Orthodox onely we scorne to owne them from the Jesuites our owne inventions being the onely and infallible rule of all our Faith Hope and Charity As first that Church holdeth Ignorance the Mother of Devotion an Article of our Faith Then they have their Revelations Visions Dissentions so have we They have private Shrifts so we They call it a Veniall sinne with a sister and in case of necessity can forgive a Neighbours wife so we They allow Deposing and regulating of Princes by tumults and other wayes so doe wee They endeavour to domineere over Church and State so would wee They hatch Factions and say it is good fishing in troubled streames so do we And lastly they deny all this in plaine words but grant it in effects and so doe wee And although we cannot endure a Surplice or Crosse the Popes Bulls nor his fiercer beasts the Jesuites yet wee hold it lawfull by the same vertue of equivocations and mentall reservations to cheat sweare and lye with any that is not one of us nay even among our selves if there be an holy cause And to say which is the best subject or most honest the Iesuites or we would be a very hard question if wee were suffered to make our owne lawes Yet by my Husbands leave though he speake in the abundance of his good will to the advancement of the holy Brethren me thinks it would be a more heavenly sight to see Mr. Howe or the grave Observator himself in his Barre-gowne mounted upon the steps at the Banqueting house in White-hall expounding Chapters to the Courtiers and Cavaleers and to have all the Privie Councell chosen out of the Elect the Pentioners Lay doctors and the Guard devout Elders then for Lord Chamberlaine Groome of the stoole and Bed-chamber places indeed most consonant to women some of the Holy Sisters who received their education against the world the flesh and the Devill in the Zion of new-New-England that both the King and State might the more securely confide in their Continence and purity Let us all fling up the whites of our eyes in an holy hope that the strong breathing of the spirit may stir up some worthy instruments to say Amen to the worke But to draw to a conclusion because I perceive by the fervent twinkling of your eies and ardent licking of your lips you would be at your devotions I shall but wag my petticote at the first of his two last reasons concerning Ireland And I observe that the spirit doth never leave us destitute of sanctified shifts to over-reach our adversaries the Protestants for if we be constrained to break in knavery or beggery yet we still have some refuge or land of Promise to flye to Yet sincerely for living in Ireland though I confesse the advantage great wee have wrought of it and the present times I know not what to say because no venemous beast will live there nor need we care since New-England as I verily beleeve was found out to that purpose For the designe there I will speake little now because as the case standeth for my part I had rather all the Souldiers were in Hull then in Ireland for if the King once take that by the helpe of his loving and dutifull Subjects as he calleth them it will put the Brethren to a great many of hard texts and tedious prayers if it doe not breake the heart of our Conventicle And what jealousie and feare can be like that I appeale to any Reverend Round-head that is not a Cuckold if there be such an one therefore it is high time to bestirre us and so please you Mistris Spritsayle but lend me the Chamber-pot we will have the other quart and I will conclude as the same Gentleman began applying all in these words that as our case is not like Scotlands so Scotlands never was nor I thinke can be ever like ours Dixi. J. B.