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A64159	The Brownists conventicle, or, An assemble of Brownists, separatists, and non-conformists as they met together at a private house to heare a sermon of a brother of theirs neere Algate, being a learned felt-maker contayning the whole discourse of his exposition with the manner and forme of his preaching, praying, giving thankes before and after dinner and supper : as it was lately heard and now	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1641 (1641)	Wing T436; ESTC R532	7,363	11

against the Dragon c. Grace peace be multiplied This Text dearly beloved brethren and most dearly beloved sisters may not unproperly be applyed to these present times and to acts late in agitation here is a combat spoken of betwixt Michael and the Dragon now my deare brethren and sisters first to enquire who is personated in Michael and his Angels and who pointed at in the Dragon and his Angels To save you men your looking and you women your longing I will tell you both and that briefly thus By this Michael and his Angels in my Text is meant one particular Church and peculiar Church and you deare Saints of both sexes have bin sensible you know many yeares we have most miserably suffered in all servitude and slavery Now by the Dragon the holy Ghost labours to delineate unto the great Dragon and Devill of Lambeth I say unto you againe brethren wicked Angels are the Bishops Deanes Arch Deacons Prebends non residents which live without the care and charge of soules I could have expressed it in Latin but I hold it to bee the language of the beast of Rome and therefore omit it as a Heathenish language besides his other Procters Prosectors Pursuivants Pariters and all other his Ecclesiasticall Ministers and Officers I had almost forgot his Advocates Surrogates with the Judges of his spirituall and Prerogative Courts all which brethren are abhonomination in the eyes of the Lord their very names stink in his nostrils The Bishops function deare brethren is an Anti-christian calling the Deanes prebends are the frogs the locusts mention'd in the Revelation There is none of these Bishops but hath a pope in their bellies I will tell you deare brethren they be papists in grain they are all of them unleavin'd soules now I say we have turned them over to be buffeted by ye vgly fin Satan What then shall we say of all his toyes and popish trincats his invention and innovations Or what shall we think of their Altars Images unhallowed hoods Surpleces and Coaps with their unchristian cornerd Caps their Palls Albs Rochets Crosiers Miters Crosses with all their traditions Ceremonies and unsanctified Superstitions What my brethren my sisters not forgotten are but as the very rags dropt from the whore of Babylons rotten garments nay their cleanest washt Surpleses are at the best but like Po●ters Frocks which they weare when they carry burthens and they appeare in our eyes more slovenly and sluttish than the very fulsome and foule smock she puts off when she shifts her selfe nay my deare brethren there is another crosse which stands in our way and is an eye-sore to our uprightnesse that guilded idolatrous Crosse in Cheap side which so many adore and reverence whe● they passe by it then there is another crosse which is our eare-sore as well as our eye-sore deare brethren that is those pipes or Organs as the reverend Scots Ministers call them which makes more noyse with their roaring than all the Bulls of Bason did when Og their King passed by them in triumph What further may we liken that dogmaticall Dragon to this litigious Arch Priest of Lambeth than to a tyrannicall Nimrod a proud Pharaoh a politick Achitophel a wicked Haman a cunning Caiphas a iugling Pilot a bloudy minded Herod a persecuting Saul and though he were a Batchelour yet for a long time bore him as proudly as that Apocallypticall Beast of Rome with seven heads of impietie and ten hornes of iniquity for how hath he persecuted this little flock of ours and when he would not be seene in it himselfe be imployed his apostaticall agents to disturbe us in our Conventicles and debar us the libertie of our Consciences and my dear brethren beloved sisters was not this the very device ofan old D●gon nay of a venemoous dragon and are not the Archbishops and Bishops the very Buls of Bashan their superiour and inferiour Officialls and Officers the great and little Foxes Those that wait on them are the Wolves that would worrie the sheep and Lambs and yet you see how in the end wee that may bee called the Michaelists or Michaelitains have in this great battatle late fought since the time of the Parliament have subdued and overcome the Dragon and his Angels so that their Court is no longer to be found at Lambeth● so it is according to my Text no more to be found in Heaven This Dragon I say deare brethren and beloved sisters is that Nimrod of Lambeth the great hunter who with his bloud-hounds hunted and chaced us from one place to another This was that proud Pharaoh who would have us deliver up to the task masters the full tale of Brick and yet would not allow us straw nor stubble to burne it This is that politick Achitophel who having mist of his designes would saddle his Asse if hee had it and ride home to his house at Lambeth and hang himselfe This is that wicked Haman that would make havock of all us poore Mordecais and the whole Nation of us distressed Jewes for I know there be some Christians and Sabaterians amongst us but as he hath Idolatriz'd in the high places wee hope to see him like that Haman mounted upon something fiftie Cubits high This is that cruell Herod but more bloudy hearted he onely slew the Babes and Sucklings but this Dragon woul● make slaughters of all of you deare brothers and sisters for which hee shall bee eaten up with the wormes of his owne Conscience This is that Caiphas that would couzen us of our lives That Pilot that would give partiall sentence against us that Saul before he was Paul that would bring persecution amongst us who are taken for the Olive-branches of the House of the Lord And now where is their Starre-parlour for Star-chamber I cannot call it Chambers as we all know were made for rest and pleasure but this was onely for rigour and punishment and where is now their High Commission Courts by which the Saints hearts could not rest quiet in their bodies nor their eares safe upon their heads But some of his servants report that he was cleare of all these but deare brethren and best beloved sisters I will tell you of what he was cleare cleare from all sinceritie vertue and piety cleare from all charitie veritie and honestie but he with all the rest of the Archiepiscopacy much contaminated with gormundizing and Hypocrisie But where are his full and surfeting Tables where hee safe plentifully feeding with his Chaplins gaping one at another some gaping after fat bits others after fat Benefices they aspiring to the highest degrees after the Prelacy and he alike ambitious after the Papacy But what is now my deare brothers and sweet sisters become of their vehement Orations their demonicall disputations their syllogisticall examinations their Logicall Interpretations their erronious Equivocations their mentall Reservations and their iniust Condemnations of us that are the flock of the faithfull and the onely reserved to eternall Salvation what I say but that this great Dragon and his Angels shall be precipitated to perdition be hurryed to the inferiour parts of the earth which is also called Hell and Gehimon and the tormenting Tophet to which we also leave them with all their Prelaticall trash and popish trumperles

were not so many simple seduced Disciples Now all these Innovators in generall are Arch-enemies to Lent Saints Eves Ember weeks Fast dayes and Good Fridayes Imagine their Exercise is done and high time to goe to refresh themselves this holy brother which preached this and the like sort of Doctrine was envited to another brothers house to dinner which was there present and being come and meat set upon the table and all the Saints set at boord hee began to say Grace which is to this effect having first surveyed every dish and in what order it was placed at the boord he began his thanksgiving as followeth The Grace before Dinner COrroborate these thy good gifts unto our use I beseech thee good Father and make us thankfull for all these thy bountifull blessings upon this boord to nourish our corrupt bodies These are boyl'd Chickens I take it let this dish of Chickens put us in mind of our Saviour who would have gathered Hierusalem together as an Hen gathereth her chickens but she would not but let us praise God for these chickens which are set before us being six in number Let this leg of Mutton call us to remembrance that King David was once a Shepherd and so was Christ the son of David that good Shepherd who having an hundred sheep and losing one to find that left ninetie and nine in the wildernesse Here is an excellent Loyne of Ueale let that prompts us to remember the Parable of the Prodigall child whom to welcome home the Father caused the fat calfe to be killed which I thinke could not yeeld a better rump and kidney than is now visible before our eyes And by this cramm'd and well fed capon let us be mindfull of the cock which crowed three times when Peter had as often denyed his Master for which he went out and wept bitterly These Rabbets re collect us to think having worne fur upon their backs of the two wicked Elders that lay in wait to betray the chastity of Susanna but I feare I have too much over-shot my selfe in alleaging any example out of the prophane Apocrypha What see I there a Potato pye and a Sallad of Sparagus these are stirring meats and provocations to procreation by which good God wee desire thee that according to thy blessings to our first parents in Paradise we may increase and multiply And when that Gamond of Westphalia Bacon comes to be cut up let us think of that herd of Swine into which by the permission of our Saviour the Devils entered and from an high rock hurried them headlong into the sea And as for these thy good blessings that are from the land so likewise make us thankfull for this thy bounty sent us from the sea and first for this ●ole of Sturgeon and let it so far edifie in us as to thinke how great that Whales head was which swallowed the Prophet Ionas and kept him three dayes and nights in his belly And though these Lobsters seeme to be in red coats like Cardinals having clawes like Usurers and more hornes than the Beast of Rome which is the Whore of Babylon yet having taken off their Papisticall copes and cases let us freely feed upon what is within for God regardeth not the outside but the inside of man I conclude with the fruit which may it by thy grace so fructifie in our hearts that these Pippins may put vs in mind of the Apple of the forbidden Tree which our Grand mother Eve by the temptation of the Serpent tasted in the middle of the Garden For had she not vild wretch eaten ye forbidden apple all our Crabs had bin very good Pippins and all our Thistles had beene very good Harti-choaks And these Carawayes call to our remembrance that Manna which was like Coriander seed by which the children of Israel were fed forty yeares together in the wildernesse Thus as briefly as I can I have gone thorow every dish on the boord for every sundry dish ought to have a severall blessing And now let us fall too and feed exceedingly that after our full repast wee may the bettor prophesie Then falling to and feeding lustily and dinner being ended another began his Grace after meat as followeth The Grace after meat WEe thank thee good Lord that as thou hast sufficiently satisfied these our bodies with the blessings of the earth so thou hast the like care to feed our soules with the spirituall food of Heaven And in this our thanksgividing let us remember all the blessed Pastours and Professours whether in Amsterdam or elsewhere but especially the Ministers of the Church in New England the New Ierusalem as Master Samuel Eaton lately come from thence and the rest with all our brethren and sisters the Saints there that little flock of which our Saviour speaks in the Gospell Feare not little flock who forsoking and utterly renouncing all the prophane and Papisticall ceremonies here at home have left the Land to professe the more pure and sincere truth and doctrine abroad as also for the seperated Saints here amongst us the Elders and Deacons of our Cougregations wheresoever assembled whether in any private houses within the city or in any Cow-house Barne or Stable without the wals or whether in the fields woods or groves wheresoever the holy Assembly is convented and gathered As for the prophane Churches in which Idols have been formerly worshipped and Copes and Surplices the garments of the great Babylonish Whore are still worne we utterly abhor them Neither let us forget that holy and good mans precepts who never spake unto us but with a great measure of the Spirit I meane Master How the Cobler nor those Christian admonitions which were broken unto us by the breath of Master Eaton the Button-maker in Saint Martins nor those godly instructions which issued from the mouth of Master Greene the Felt-maker with all the rest of their sanctified Society As also for all our she fellow-Labourers in this our holy and good work I meane those blessed and fruit-bearing women who are not only able to talk on any Text but search into the deep sense of the Scripture and preach both in their owns families and else where Whom though Saint Paul forbade to preach in the Church yet he left them liberty to preach in the chambers nay we all therefore both brethren and sisters so use our Talents together that the brethren may be daily regenerate and new borne and the sisters so labour in their severall vocations that it may be the encrease and multiplying of these thy Saints Amen After which they prepared for their after-noons Exercise You have heard what doctrine hath beene preached by Master Samuel Eaton and others in the countrey now you shall heare part of a Sermon preached which was by one of the Elders who was pickt out for that dayes Exercise who took his Text the 12. of the Revelation the 7 verse And there was a battell in heaven Michael and his Angels fought