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A67421
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Rome for good news, or, Good news from Rome in a dialogue between seminary priest, and a supposed Protestant, at large. An exhortation to bishops. Whereunto is also annexed a discourse between a poor man, and his wife.
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Wallis, Ralph, d. 1669.
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Lawes and by their actions in effect charging him thus That he is an imperfect King insufficient for Government wanting wisdom to rule and that his Lawes are very imperfect like the Nouns Heteroclites in quae genus some superant others deficient some have too much in them some too little and therefore they have other Lawes of humane invention which will serve their turn better and by them they hope to keep their Revenues and find themselves somewhat to do for nothing do nothing have and so fall to persecute which as we say in a Countrey Proverb is as natural to them as for a Calf to suck Milk And now Wife prethee tell me are not these a parcel of pretty fellows I believe you 'le say as I say anone but tell me VVife whence had they dost think this their form of Government at first Indeed Husband I do not know whence say you I do imagine Wife where they had it heark a word in your ear because no body shall know what we say I do think the Devil brought it over Sea in his Plocket for it smells very Romish and hath a strong tatch o' th old Whore But of that not a word more good Wife Well Wife now wee 'le speak a word concerning those that speak in his Name some of them they suspend imprison they put the Consciences of others in the Stocks and unless they will set up their posts by Gods posts and their Thresholds by Gods Thresholds of which the Lord complaineth by Ezekiel â—he Ordinances of men by the Ordinances of God they shall not speak in his Name unless they will first give the people a little Frith Froth Riff Roff Slibber Slobber Whish Waysh such stuff in the guts being so windy would quickly endanger and cause the Ilâ—ia capatio and make the Carkass of a poor Soul look like Prometheus sacrifice skin and bone without flesh against which there is an Antipathy in the Souls of those that look for the bread of Life Next they come to such Assembles of the Kings Subjects where they meet to Worship him and take away both their priviledges and their persons or by their means they are so dealt withal contrary to the Magna Charta of their great King Kings-bench Dedford Bridewell Gate-house Newgate and other prisons will testifie it but none in Bedlam One saith that when the Devil shewed our Saviour all the Kingdoms of the earth he never shewed him Ireland he kept that for himself Surely these fellows keep Bedlam for themselves the fittest place for such mad fellows Bedlamites let them be then But Husband you have almost forgotten the Text you were speaking a word about the sin of wearing Hats No Wife I was something long in speaking a word of small Consolation to those that were of the house of Convocation I remember we were speaking of the sin of wearing Hats in Sermon time a Cap of Linnen or woollen is as tollerable as the Doctours silk Cap and if a Wollen Cap may be worn why may not the Felt-maker make him as well as the Taylour Being both species of the same Genus both made of wool the sin must be then in the breedes or brimms which being cut off the sin is done away I know they draw an argument a pari thus If men shew such reverence to an Ambassadour that is sent from an earthly Prince how much more to an Ambassador that is sent from the King of Kings First this is not generally so for in some Countreys as in Russia and other Countreys if you put off your Hat to salute they 'le go nigh to stab taking it for a jeer and the French preach with their Hats on if a man put not off his Hat it s no breach of any Law their being no Statute for it men do it out of civility to an ambassadour it being a Custom and if a man keep on his Hat in Sermon time it s no sin because there is no prohibition if it be not the custom of the place I see no reason why the Preacher should beget a custom seeing he hath no Warrant from the word But to prove that they are sent are Ambassadours from the King of Kings here they 'l have a hard tugg on 't let them prove their Mission or Sending I know how they are called just as Hoggs to the Troughs the Maid comes and puts the meat in the Trough the piggs it may be are grasing in the pastures or Commons she takes the pail jumbles aad knock it from side to side against the Trough and calls them upon the report of the pail away they come as fast as they can creep through Hedges tumble over the little Pigs in their way or out-run them and to the Troughs they come and from one Trough to another leaving it may be a little in the bottom for the little Piggs that come after Even so when they hear the report that such a Deanry Prebendship or fat Parsonage is fallen they take Horse and away they ride Post as fast as they can out-run some of their lesser fellows from one living to another until they have gotten two or three livings then they ' le deal kindly with the Devil they ' le serve in one place let the Devil take t'other or send one in his place that shall do the Devil as little hurt as himself who shall live by the Lickings of the Trough those in some places are called Rats in other places Curates And upon this riding Post the question arose of the two Creatures which were most miserable Horses or Asses it was determined Horses because they were many times rod Post to get livings for Asses but these fellows can swallow a great deal of Popish trash Towers and Steeples and yet cannot endure that a man should sit with his Hat on Wife prethee are they not favoured like those Hypocrites our Saviour speaks of That strein at a Knat and swallow a Camel But cannot they Husband prove their Mission or Sending from the Bishop Yes Wife they can thus according as it is in the Book of Orders after the Priest for so the Book of Orders stiles them hath promised the Bishop due Reverence and Obedience the Bishop puts his hand on his head and saith Receive the holy Ghost whose sins ye remit c. be thou a faithful dispensour of the Word Here he shews himself to be Christ or rather Anti-Christ who sits in the temple of God shewing himself that he is God when the poor Patriarch could give no more then did hang on his fingers when he laid them on the Priests head What say you wife is not this pretty stuff that ever any man in a day after so much light breaking forth should be brought under such Egyptian blindness and as they are that make them so are they that are made by them But stay a little Wife before we go to Bed for our Candle begins to grow short we must not let this go so The Bishop himself whence ere he come God never sent him for God never sent a man and puts him upon impossibilities the word is no more as is commonly known than Overseer to oversee his Flock to be diligent to know the state of the Flock to visit the sick to preach the Word in season and out of season These are part of his duties belonging to his Office these things are impossible for his Lordship to perform and therefore we must send him to look another Master that sends him on his Errand Wee 'le talk a little of his duty for Preaching that he doth not for he neither preacheth in season nor out of season or very seldom nay most of them preaching down preaching and some of the fraternity speaking contemptuously and jearingly against those that preach twice in a day saying that they are like Virgils Cow that bis venit ad mulctram came twice in a day to the Pail indeed they come but seldom to the Pail and when they do come 't is a poor quantity of thin geer they give let it stand there will be no Cream on 't they were as good kick it down for they put some bitter thing or other in it like wormwood which is good in beer but not in Milk and rub the breast with it and wean the Children apace some such Milk the Dean of Norwich lately gave which made boâ—h Man and Owle admire him for in his Sermon at Norwich preaching against preaching and long praâ—ers which some made as he said an Ell long and which as he said he was assured was of no Divine Certified in a Letter to London from a vâ—ry good hand Institution whereat an Owl standing or flying over his head Hemm'd him up with a note of admiration crying Hoo Hoo Hoo. What Milk that was that the Bishop of Liechfield and Coventry gave down about the midst of May as fruitful a season as they ear affords what Milk that was I do not know for he in the Administration of pope Clements Ordinance pope Melciades Sacrament delivered it to the blew coate boyes a mong the rest to one Iohn Hurst a Limner whose Mother dwels at the Swan in Newgate-Market who could never speak nor hear he poured it in at their ears with which they made their confession of Faith for they never open'd their lips and which is to be admired how the Bishop could confirm them in Faith that had none or if they had it was more than he knew The worst on 't is if any give better Milk those curst kine wil endeavour to kick it down or strike down the poor Creature that gave it I could wish those curst kine short horns VVife being time to go to bed we will talk no more to night but leave till another ttme and then we will begin with Magna Charta and talk over three or four sheets more Good Husband you take the Child and the Candle I le take the VVarming-pan and some Coles and so to Bed Read the two lines But this c. in Folio 7. after 27 lines But this our Doctours Proctours could In no wise well digest Read VVhy do we c. in Folio 9. after 16 lines VVhy do we not that would he thought Good Subjects in request First to the Lord then to the King These things may be redrest FINIS