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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

that which they call a testimony to the truth of Jesus and against error heresie blasphemy c. though they tender unto us no argument for the truth of Jesus nor against any error heresie blasphemy c. they will set forth a testimony to their testimony c. And we presume their countrey preaching is like to these mens ●itie-preaching and so Sion Colledge or Sion Colledge-men for the court is not alwayes kept in one place endeavours to steere about the whole Kingdom It is no pleasure unto us to be ingaged in this displeasing subject and long it hath been before we would be provoked hereunto hoping that these men would at last have recovered themselves out of this snare of death viz. railing accusations bitter speeches and perverse language against their brethren that they would at last have seen that their town shall not bee built with blood nor their citie established by iniquity that it is of the Lord that they have laboured in the very fire a great while about the same and wearied themselves with vanity for alas the Sunne is too much up and the earth is too much fill'd with the knowledge of the Lord then that thus we should be charmed into a meer footstoole unto the throne of the Clergy and most confident we are that the Prophets imprecation will ever light upon all attempts of this nature viz a barren womb and dry breasts and therefore waving our further complaints we shall addresse our selves in the most earnest requests of our soules unto these men Reverend Sirs THe long observation of your general proceedings your pulpit-work from day to day your diligent improving of all your interest to advance your selves suppresse your brethren directs our thoughts and troubled spirits in the sad tender of our wofull complaints unto your selves Are you the Ministers of Christ Why are you then the fomenters of trouble Did hee come to setle the world in peace and do not you disturb the peace of the world Your masters worke and designe in the earth was to bring glory to God in the highest by setling on the earth peace and good will towards men but is this your practice Your Lord was humble in mind lowly in heart courteous in his wayes meeke in his words of a lovely kinde and affable deportment towards all men filling the earth with righteousnesse and peace doe you act according to this pa●erne His Kingdome was not of this wor●d neither did He seek for great things here Is i● thus with you Hee went about doing good healing the sicke curing the lame the blinde the deafe the dumb making glad the most miserable in the earth are you like Him Is this to walk as you have Christ for an example to stirre up brethren against brethren and neighbour against neighbour to revile Parliament Army Magistrates Ministers all sorts whatsoever that cannot come up to the full length of your desires and judgements Your Soveraigne Lord gave unto the sonnes of men beauty for ashes but you baldnesse for beauty He the garment of praise for the spirit of heavinesse you sad the hearts of those whom God hath not made sad He took away sack cloth and girded men with joy and gladnesse you endeavour to take away joy and gladnesse and gird them with sack-cloth He preached peace in the earth you stirre up trouble He sild men with principles of love you with principles of wrath Is it not thus with you If not what means your daily invectives your rigid harsh and bitter speeches morning after morning Your Lord did beare with the weak support the feeble instruct teach direct not inveigh declaime revile We know your objectione Object Did not John call the Pharisees and the Sadduces generation of vipers Moses the Israelites Rebels Jesus the Scribes Hypocrites Paul Elimas the child of the Devill why then may not Mr. Cawton call the Army and Independents a generation of vipers Mr. Jenkin an Army of Rebels c. Reply First can Mr. Cawton Mr. Jenkin c. plead that authority as Christ John Paul could Can these say We came downe from the besome of the Father as Christ did That which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes c. declare we unto you as Iohn did that which we have received from the Lord we have delivered unto you as Paul did Can they plead the infallibility of the Spirit as these could if so let them evince it unto us for if other men as godly as learned as wise every way as good as themselves pleading the same authority the same commission c. declare to us in the name of God of Jesus Christ as speaking by the Spirit things contrary unto these mens sayings which of these shall we beleeve Is Christ divided Nay is Christ against himselfe Did he command Peter and the rest of the Apostles to feed his sheep and Mr Cawton Mr. Jenkin c. to worry his sheep Did he command his Apostles to preach peace and Mr Cauton and Mr. Jenkin c. to propagate warre in the earth must others provoke one another to love and may M. Cauton M. Jenkin c provoke one another to revile to abuse to slander one another Must the Apostles and Disciples of Christ doe good to them that hate them pray for them that persecute them and may Mr. Cauton Mr. Jenkin c. hate them that love them persecute them that pray for them Must others of the Disciples of Christ render good for evill and may Mr Cawton Mr. Jenkin c render evill for good raile against the Army and Parliament calling the one Rebels the other covenant breakers for all the good they have received by the courage of the one and the counsels of the other Was it evill in Canterbury Wren and others of the Prelacy to persecute their brethren for non conformity to Episcopacie and is it commendable for Mr Cauton Mr. Jenkin c. to doe the same things for non-conformity to Presbytery Was it a sin in them to abuse raile against and revile their bre●hren calling them Heretickes Schismatickes Sectaries c. and is it a vertue in Mr. Cawton Mr. Jenkin c. to doe the same is this to follow the truth in love to beare one anothers burthens to restore one another fallen with the spirit of meeknesse to be kindly affectioned one towards another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another is this to walk in love is this to cause your faith in Christ Jesus and your love not to some of your own judgement but to all the Saints to be heard abroad in the world is this to be ROOTED and GROUNDED in love are these like the treatings of God with you were they not his soft words which brake the bones of your stubbornnesse against him in your unregenerate state And as you are Embassadours for Christ is it not your duty to BESEECH in Christs stead and to PRAY men to be reconciled unto

conversation though they are not for excommunication of Churches yet they are for non-communion with Churches in such cases c Why should there be such an irreconcileable distance betweene one another Thirdly consider there have ever been greater differences in the Churches of God than these are you very well know that among the Churches in the Apostles dayes there were differences about Circumcision and keeping the Law of Moses about the Doctrine of the resurrection about eating meats offered up to Idols c. and the like in after times and though it be granted that there should be no allowance of any evill whatsoever yet th●y managed their differences in such a sweet meek moderate and Christian way as that faith and love and the unity of the Spirit was still preserved among them and were they not meet and fit examples unto us upon whom the ends of the world are come Fourthly what do you complain of whereof you have just cause and which is not in your power to reclaim First you complain of your misery bondage and slavery of oppressions sorrowes and troubles of the Church that is doubtlesse of the Church Presbyterian and no other What doth aile you what troubleth you who doth oppresse you Have you not authority on your side Have you not all the Church livings in the Kingdome Have you not Declaration upon Declaration Ordinance upon Ordinance Order upon Order for to back you Is there the least shew of oppression sorrow or cause of complaint administred unto you except it be because you are not suffered to oppresse vex and gall your brethren that joyn not with you Can you feed upon nothing but blood yea the blood of your brethren that though you have every thing else that onely prohibited you complain of sorrow slavery oppression Is this only your torment that you cannot procure a Decree against your brethren whose lawes are but a very little differing from yours that they should be cut off their houses pulled down their wives and children destroyed as some of your bloody brethren professed even in pulpits an account whereof shall be rendred upon the next occasion offered Is this your slavery and captivity that you cannot enslave and lead into captivity Is this to kill you with the sword that you cannot kill your brethren with the sword Is your brethren● ease your pain their liberty your restraint their plenty your penury their good your evill May you not have what you will almost of Authority but will nothing serve you but John Baptists head Doe you plead your authority for a severe domniering rigid Presbytery from the Presbytery of Jerusalem in the fifteenth of the Acts for which you finde not a syllable in that Chapter And will you reject one of the main Canons of that Presbytery Abstain from blood verse 29. Doe you not know that blood-eating shall be the death of Antichrist which being dissected the Scripture shewes that the blood of Saints was found to be the death of the Whore In her was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints Revel. 18. 24. Will God give blood for drink to bloody Popery Hath he given blood unto bloody Prelacie in our owne Kingdome and will he give milk and hony think you to a bloody Presbytery How long might the Popish government and the Prelaticall government yea and the Presbyterian government also live and flourish in the earth were they not bloody But is not that true of a bloody government which the Scripture speaks of a bloody man that it shall not live out halfe its dayes We know your answer and we expect to heare it over and over in Pulpit Presse from you day after day that you are men of peace and desire not the trouble of any man much lesse of Saints appealing to God that searcheth your hearts whether you are the men whom we thus represent and call God to judgebetween you and us whether it be thus as we have said that it is Gods glory not any mans ruine the blood of errors heresie blasphemy prophanenesse c. that you seek after not the blood of men the building of Gods house not the pulling down of any mens houses the setting up of Christ on the Throne not the casting of any man upon the dunghill the good of mens souls and not the hurt of any mans body yea and happily you wil call upon God to do so to you and more also as your harts are upright and perfect before him in these particulars But to reply to these answers First you may appeale to God that searcheth your hearts but we are taught by God to appeale to your words and actions to understand your hearts God can come at your hearts immediatly we come at them by your words and workes your hearts cannot dec●●ve the eye of God searching your hearts your words and worke● daily constantly deliberatly dispassionatly proceeding from you can hardly deceive the eyes of man looking into your hearts through your tongues and hands what is the meaning of these words Let these Sectaries c. these remnants of Baal be destroyed with their wives and children and their houses pulled downe saith one let these Sectaries these walking dreamers be cudgled ou● of their dreames saith another a viperous brood a generation of vipers croaking Frogs Caterpillers say others an account whereof time may discover is not the heart the treasure from whence these words flow God knew your hearts immediatly you know your own hearts by your Consciences if you have not silenced them and wee come to know your hearts by your words and actions Secondly whereas you pretend your zeale to be for Gods glory not mans ruine the destruction of errors not of men c. Wee answer that the Pope and the papall persecutors said the same the Bishops and the Prelaticall persecutors said the same why should wee beleeve the Presbyter before either when his wayes are the very selfe same with the two former did not the Papists say of the Protestants whom they burned that they were hereticks sectaries schismaticks separatists did not the Prelates say of those whom they persecuted that they were factious seditions hereticks sectaries schismaticks and doe not Presbyterians call those whom they would banish imprison whose houses they would pull downe and whose wives and children they would destroy Independents sectaries hereticks schismaticks c. Their words and sayings their waies and proceedings being as like the Prelates as their wayes were like their fathers in persecution of whom Christ spake in Luk. 6. 23. Secondly Doe you complaine that the Ministery is despised Why doe you make your selven despicable Can sober disengaged men alwayes honour those that leave preaching of Christ the life of Saints the propagation of love and goodnesse among men and fall upon scandalous clamours against Parliament Army Magistrates Ministers that dissent from you throwing fire-brands out of Pulpits from day to day making the Pulpits little else but the Trumpets of