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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54793	Speculum crape-gownorum, the second part, or, A continuation of observations and reflections upon the late sermons of some that would be thought Goliah's for the Church of England by the same author.	Phillips, John, 1631-1706.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1682 (1682)	Wing P2111; ESTC R21006	25,619	41

was the Drum and Curse ye Meroz the Beat. By way of Reproof you may tax 'em for Cashiering their Honour by Vice and suffering themselves to be beleaguerd by their Lusts. A Wing of Miscreants the Muzzle of a Gun or the Swords Point are very proper Expressions Forewarn 'em too that they be not Pioneers to blow up Religion Priest-l That 's an Improper Expression Merr. 'T is no matter for that 't will do well enough in a Pulpit And besides you 'l find most of the Red Feather men asleep Then you may compare a good Conscience to a Sentinel and be sure to bid the Souldiers take great care of Leaping over the Lines and breaking their Ranks Priest-l But where are the Blunderbusses and the Bandeleers all this while Merr. I believe they were forgot but I found that the Souldiers came to John the Baptist like a Forlorn-Hope and that they came in the Rear too Priest-l O but I would have had Bandeleers and Blunderbusses in Merr. Why Sir I believe there might be some sort of Blunderbusses among ' em Priest-l I do not mean such Blunderbusses I mean discharging Firing Blunderbusses such as will kill a Man of Ten Thousand a year Merr. What would you have had him done with ' em Priest-l Discharg'd 'em had their been a hundred against the Phanaticks Merr. Why there were a sort of People that the Parson was very angry with but he charged them so furiously himself that there was no need of any other assistance Priest-l Well but where are the Culverin and the Demiculverin were there none of them neither Merr. They never March with them They are too troublesome i' the street Priest-l Well but the Gentleman might have put two or three into his Sermon tho Merr. Why Sir He did as well He had several Thundering Expressions Priest-l Had he so And he was truly angry you say Merr. Truly angry Sir as a Man ought to be that preaches before Souldiers Well but would you now Preach acutely among the Lawyers Priest-l What then Merr. Why then you must use another sort of Dialect as thus God resents the Treason grants a particular Commission of OYER and TERMINER Finds the Bill and presently gives Sentence In an Assize-Sermon you ought to be very Quaint and Magisterial To tell the Judges their Duties the Counsel their's the Jury-men their's and the Plaintiff and Defendant their's Then you are to give the Judges particular Directions about the Giving of Oaths in this manner That they ought to take care that Oaths be administer'd in all Courts of Judicature by those of greatest Authority present and not by the Cryers who are generally young heedless Clerks and only mind their Groats Nay you may tell 'em if you please that No Man ought to take an Oath after he has eaten his Breakfast If you speak of a thing doubtful you may say You will Return a Jury of Twelve Primitive Bishops or more and then I suppose it must be a Grand Jury all good Men and true to prove it Or thus If these things be so I require him to prove it if not St. Paul's Doctrine will be found Billa Vera in Heaven Priest-l But what need of all this What necessity for a Size-Sermon Merr. Only to give the Counsel time to take their Fees and read over their Breviates I could never find any other Reason And therefore I have known some Judges pretend haste of business and desire the Gentleman to keep his Sermon Cold till another time Others I have known when the Gentleman has been too tediously wrapt up in his own conceits that have gone out of the Church and you know the Croud follows the Scarlet and left him to talk out the rest to the Pillars There was one Young Stripling was mighty severe upon the Judges and their Clerks but when the Judge came to the Mayors House whither he was that day invited he found by a fatal mischance the same Sermon in the Mayors Window Printed long before Priestl However there may be some benefits reap'd by these Sermons Merr. Which way As for Example in the Case of Judicial Swearing to talk of the Pythagoreans the Grecian Laws the Ancient Germans Jupiters Old Priests and Kata tou Meizo nos Homnyousi to the Judges they are too well qualified as to understand much more than their Teacher and for the Vnder-Sheriff and his Talis-men as they understand not what was said so they regard it as little I would fain know how far the League between Hannibal and the King of Macedon will affect them or how far it will operate upon a gaping Country Fellow to bid him not Swear in vain because Tertullian disallows it These things are to be press'd upon the People in plain home-spun-Kersey Sermons not in finical Flanders lac'd Harangues to the Judges Either they preach to the People or the Judges But they don't Preach to the People for they can't understand ' em Therefore they Preach to the Judges and that 's but Ill Manners Lastly You are to terrifie 'em with the Day of Judgment which to put in proper Terms you may call The Grand Assize where all Writs of Error shall be rectified Priest-l Well but if they will Preach I think t is very proper that they should use Words and Expressions adapted to the Subject Merr. 'T is very right Sir It tickles the Fancy as you would tickle ones Eare with a Straw however to knock terms of Art out of joynt among Artists seldom produces more then Laughter and Dinner-Discourse Priestl I must confess I would not have a man in an Assize Sermon tell the Judges a Story of the good Samaritan Merr. That 's very proper Sir For a Judge may poure the Balsome of Recovery upon a Gentleman 's almost Lost Estate That will hold Sir Priestl Nor would I have a Man talk to a Company of Seamen like a Dancing Master Merr. That 's very well too Sir For a man may say the Ship Dances in a rough Sea very properly nothing better I tell ye Sir a man of Art and dexterity to speak in Theology like a Seaman may bring any Text to bear upon any point of a Subject he pleases As for Example to prove the Power of King's and particularly of the British Monarchy A Gentleman takes this Text Psalm 51. vers 4. Against thee only have I sinned Priestl This is a great Argument For he that can only sin against God is accomptable to none but God Merr. Sir I do not here go about to dispute the Power or Absolutenless of the British Monarchy For we have Secular Arguments of greater force to prove that Thesis were the Pulpit as it ought to be silent as to those matters but only to shew that it cannot be prov'd from this Text notwithstanding the dexterity of the Gentleman to traverse it and to make it bear upon that Subject Priestl Well proceed Merr. In the first place I would fain know why