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A64889	Coleman-street conclave visited, and, that grand imposter, the schismaticks cheater in chief (who hath long, slily lurked therein) truly and duly discovered containing a most palpable and plain display of Mr. John Goodwin's self-conviction (under his own hand-writing) and of the notorious heresies, errours, malice, pride, and hypocrisie of his most huge garagantua, in falsly pretended piety, to the lamentable misleading of his too-too credulous soul-murthered proselytes of Coleman-street & elsewhere : collected, principally, out of his own big-bragadochio and wavelike-swelling and swaggering writings, full-fraught with six-footed terms, and flashie rhetoricall phrases, far more than solid and sacred truths, and may fitly serve (if it be the Lords will) like Belshazzars hand-writing, on the wall of his conscience, to strike terrour and shame into his own soul, and shamelesse face, and to un-deceive his most miserably cheated and inchanted, or bewitched followers / by John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing V297; ESTC R1674	42,759	52

most justly cast upon them as it is hardly possible for any other pen to doe more or more sharply or cuttingly as the Apostle Paul pertinently expresseth it Titus 1.13 And truely my Christian Brethren if ever any incorrigible-Worker of iniquity any bould and blasphemous-Heretick together with his brother Paul Best in this our age deserved to be soundly severely lasht even by that most just law of Like for Like Judg. 1.5 and by that right rule of wise King Solomon of answering a fool according to his folly Pro. 26.5 then certainly this proud this presumptuous Fool most worthily meriteth to be met with all and measured by his own bushell as I hope ere long he will by a far better and abler pen than mine is and to be most soundly and severly whipt and scourged that if it be possible he may become sound in the faith which the Lord knows is my souls desire for him These things good Reader I have here thought fit I say to premise to thee thus if it may be to take off all unjust prejudice from thee touching my self and my manner of writing in this ensuing Treatise Wherein if I may prevail with thee and obtain acceptance of ●y poore labours from thee I have all I expect and shall blesse God for it If not I will not yet be daunted nor disheartned in so warrantable a work and way But however shall by Gods gracious assistance in all Christian Charity to thee and godly resolution in my selfe rest Thine in the Truth as it is in Jesus to serve and love thee J. VICARS A Postscript to the Reader Courteous Reader PRovidence having occasionally brought this ensuing Letter of my very Venerable Learned and Religious freind unto my hands and It in no little measure concerning Me and this my Treatise though not in a positive approbation or allowance of it as not being by him perused by reason of his bodily infirmity yet in respect of his fair and freindly esteem opinion and perswasion of me It s unworthy Author and of my former Labours heretofore seen and esteemed by him viz. my Parliamentary Chronicle my Schismatick sifted and others of these Kindes And especially considering that this Reverend and Religious Gentleman does in this his Letter manifest and declare like an impregnable and immoveable Rock his Christian courage and constancie his faithfulnesse and fervour to hate and oppose all the illegitimate and spurious Errours and Heresies of these backsliding and apostatizing times I therefore have made humbly bold as conceiving it not a little concerned his own ever most duly deserved honour thus to make it publike to the World that all may see that blessed be our God Truth wants not valiant Champions to vindicate her pure and spotlesse honour if occasion be offered which Letter in briefe is as followeth To my much esteemed freind Master John Vicars My worthy freind IT is my Losse as well as Greif that I am not able to peruse your Manuscript Surely I should have found in it that Zeal and Wisdome that Quicknesse and Meeknesse that Conviction and Cleernesse that Piety and Reason that candid ingenuity in relating and that solid modesty in confuting which would have well become your selfe advanced Truth and have enervated specious Errours But I am not well and have been enforced lately to omit preaching in my place and am still indisposed to study pray for me Get the view to be supplyed by a better eye and be confident that I joyn with you and all good men for the Truth of Christ against all Heresies and Blasphemies Feb. 29. 1647. Sir Your truly assured freind is Obadiah Sedgewick A pertinent Paralell and Premonition to all pious Presbyterians touching a very great and Common mistake among the most and best of them viz That We and the Independents differ not in any Fundamentalls but only in matters of Discipline or Church-Government Whereas the contrary is heer most unquestionably proved Viz That they are most obstinate Rebels both in Opinion and Practice and perfidious Violaters of such a main and principall Foundation as will inevitably ruinate all other Fundamentals of true Religion if allowed unto them The voice of Korah Dathan and Abiram against Moses and Aaron Num. 16.1 2 3. Korah Dathan and Abiram rose up before Moses and Aaron with certain of the Children of Israel 250 Princes of the Assembly famous in the Congregation men of renowme And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron said unto them Yee take too much upon you Seeing all the Congregation of the Lord are holy every one of them and the Lord is among them Wherefore then lift yee up your-selves above the Congregation of the Lord The Voice of Independents Anabaptists and other Sectaries against the Parliament and Assembly Our Independents Anabaptists Antinomians and such-like Children of Errour and Schisme Men I confesse famous in their generation many of them for Parts and Guifts have gathered themselves together in private Conventicles yea and in publike Assemblies too against our Parliament and Assembly of Divines and say seditiously unto them and of them in their Pulpits and Pamphlets Ye take too much upon you in going about to Conjure all our Religion and Worship of God into your Parliament and the Synodicall Circle of the Assembly Seeing that all our Congregations are made up only of holy Saints and a Godly Party even every one of them Wherefore then lift yee up your-selves above us the Congregations of the Lord and go about to prescribe unto us Rules and Lawes how and where we should worship God And thus make your-selves Lords and Kings over our Consciences and over the Congregations of the Lord since none on Earth but onely King Jesus in heaven hath any thing to doe with us either in conscience or practise as touching Religion and Worship but we and all else are therein being all of us Saints and holy-ones to be tolerated and left to the liberty and freedom of ours and their own consciences without any restraint or the least thought of intended coercive power of any civill Magistrate on earth whatsoever Now then good Reader and you especially my dear Presbyterian brethren let me beseech you in the bowels of the Lord Jesus for the honour of our God and the helping forward of the propagation of the true Reformed Religion according to our sacred Covenant sadly and seriously to consider from this present Paralell so appositely answerable one part to the other that the difference and division of all sorts of Sectaries from us is in them First no lesse than heynous Rebellion in opposing and as the Apostle Jude sayes ver. 8. despising Dominions and speaking evill of those dignities which God himselfe hath set-up and ordained yea such Rebellion as the Lord ye know in that 16 of Numbers most severely punished with a most unparalleld confusion and therefore I beseech you not to extenuate and mince as too many of us now adayes doe the

sad and bad and very wide breach which is most unhappily and most unholily made by the Independents and all other Sectaries by saying that our difference is not in fundamentals but only in point of Church discipline or Government as if that if it were no more were a slight thing and not so worthy our zealous opposing and blaming of them even therein Whereas besides that yee see what a high and heynous Rebellion it is against the Lord and against his Vice-Gerents here on earth yee ought most seriously to lay to heart that without Church-discipline which is the hedge pale and strong wall of Religion in what a desperate danger of utter destroying is Gods Garden the Church most rarely and richly adorned with all sorts of sweet and odoriferous flowers wholsome herbs and soul-preserving plants if you take away the pale or fence thereof and lay and leave it open that so wilde and vile Boars and Beasts of all sorts I mean Independents Anabaptists Prelates and Papists may most easily rush in and root-up all those sweet and fragrant flowers and pretious plants But withall I may most faithfully and firmly avouch and aver it that the difference is yet far greater and more grievous between us Presbyterians and even those whom we mincingly call meere or pure Independents and that in a grand fundamentall yea such a fundamentall as is and will be the main means of totall and terrible not onely shaking but shattering in pieces and utter ruining of all fundamentals in the true Religion and of making that breach of all breaches the destruction of all Religion even so as may by no means be admitted or endured unlesse we are resolved to drive away God and all other Good from us and that without remedy or recovery I mean accursed and intolerable Toleration of all opinions and practices which if permitted to them I see no reason but must be permitted to All and so a universall Toleration which most if not all Independents claim to themselves and so an epidemical Libertinisme or Liberty of Conscience as they call it In this respect also therefore I say and hold that all sorts of Independents among us separating themselves into their private Conventicles unwarranted Church Way as they call it against all Authority and Power of the King and Parliament the unquestionable Sovereigne and Supream Magistracie ordained by God himself and in resisting whose Ordinance they apparently oppose and resist even the Lord God of Heaven Himself are not by any means to be admitted or permitted amongst us neither is their Separation or Division from us to be so extenuated or so minced by us as to give any the least allowance to them in their open rebellious wayes of worshipping God where when and how they please Since especially as here you have most evidently and undeniably seen by that foresaid most apposite pertinent Paralell their Sin herein being no lesse than open odious Rebellion which is the sin of Witchcraft against Gods righteous Authority here on earth notwithstanding their plausible pretences as here those Rebels did of Saint-ship forsooth piety and holinesse in everyone of them though most falsly in their thus most directly rising up against Moses and Aaron as our Independents do now adayes against the most just and righteous Authority of Parliament and their power in constituting under them for their assistance in matters of Religion the Synod or Assembly of Divines at Westminster even as the Lord appointed and constituted Aaron under Moses in holy things Which serious Premonition and Consideration I beseech the Lord in the riches of his grace and in the multitudes of his mercies to poor unworthy and almost quite dilacerated because Apostatized England to lay sadly and seriously to the hearts of All both in Parliament Assembly City and Country to make them thereupon more zealous for the Lord and his most righteous Cause even a long and most longed-for thorough-Reformation according to our most Solemne and sacred Covenant Amen and Amen J. VICARS Coleman-street Conclave Visited NOt without exceeding just and most important cause did the Lord Jesus Christ himself the Fountain and Foundation of Truth yea Truth itselfe by way of Premonition Caution and heavenly Counsell tell us before hand That in these latter dayes false-Christs and false-Prophets would arise amongst us saying Lo here is Christ or Lo there he is And shall with lies and deceiveable signes and wonders of pretended parts and piety so craftily carry themselves that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect children of God Behold sayes our Saviour I have told you of this before Wherefore if they shall say unto you see here how our Saviour ingeminates the caution as a thing of serious consideration Behold he is in the desert go not forth behold he is in the secret chambers marke here also how neer our Saviour comes to our Sectaries practises rebellious Church-ways as they call them now adays or he is in shops barns and such like private Conventicles believe it not And as the Apostle Paul sayes so cunningly and craftily will they outwardly appear in white innocent and silly lamb-skins as thereby to transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ And no marvell sayes he for even Satan can transform himselfe into an Angel of light And therefore one very wittily and most worthily distinguishes these close Hypocrites from openly prophane men and loose livers into Black-Devils and White-Devils And our blessed Saviour himselfe confirms the truth of this distinction Have not I chosen you twelve and one of you is a Devill even Judas Iscariot that sheepskin-Devill who so craftily and demurely demeaned himselfe in an outward shew of parts and piety as that none of the honest and true hearted Disciples could discover him to be so but thought him as honest and holy a man as the best of them all till Christ discovered and uncased him and his own close sin at last found him out and shewed him to them all to be a grand Hypocrite indeed And therefore truly these White-Devils are so much the more desperate and dangerous destroyers of mens souls by howmuch the more slily and insinuatingly they with serpents subtilty insensibly creepe into their bosomes and soules and so most devilishly undoe them Wherefore the Lord Christ told the Pharisees especially among the Jews That they were of their father the Devill and that they did his works he was a lyer and a murtherer from the beginning yea and the Father of lies And so indeed are all his hypocriticall Schismaticall sons young White-Devils from their Grand-sire Satan that old White-Devill even such as cannot abide the Truth no nor abide in the Truth but by lying Errours Heresies and most damnable Opinions become like Satan himselfe murtherers of mens most precious souls And have we not here now found out a White-Devill indeed a Pharisaicall Hypocrite in grain a Grand Impostor to

fruitful in good works holy heavenly Christian in all their conversation as far as men are able to judge liscern shal we then say says this Orthodox man of Coleman-street that such men as these hold not the foundation of Religion as if this were no foundation of Christian Religion whereas it is plainly affirmed to be one by the blessed Apostle S. John the Evangelist in these words There are three that beare Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are One See heer what a wicked man is this to justifie them for sound that deny this and so he goes on to jeere those our Presbyterian Brethren that reprove such denyals thus But it is none of the least or lowest of our Classick Intrusions mark his jeers to umpire among the Stars I mean the doctrine of Christian Religion and to determine positively and above all possibility of mistake which are of the first which are of the second which of the third magnitude and withall to call them All by their names as if they knew them as exactly as he that made them And is not here a most bold blasphemer and a most andacious dissembler and out-facer of God and men Nay more this notorious hereticall man is so impious and bold notwithstanding all his deceiveable boastings what an * Enemy he is to all Errours and Heresies yea most shamefully and audaciously calling God Angels and men to the witnesse thereof as flatly and peremptorily to deny and utterly to overthrow as much as in his rotten heart consisteth another main pillar and most essentiall fundamentall point of Christian Religion just like his father Arminius and teacheth his Disciples stifly and stubbornly to deny it also viz. Gods eternall decree of Predestination unto Reprobation of all wicked and unbeleeving ones notwithstanding that the whole famous Synod of Dort and Arles asserted but especially the holy Scriptures themselves do most evidently confirm the infallible truth thereof And therefore what a most unblushing cheater and intolerable obdurate lyer is this thus to dare in the face of God Angels and men to protest himselfe to be so sound and orthodox such a mourker for and hater of Errours and Heresies who flatly denies such a main and principall fundamentall point of Christian Religion as Predestination Truly good Reader I might most justly deny to have any thing to doe with such an one as * denies grounds and principles of faith and Religion I will therefore herein plead for my selfe in medling thus much with this wretched man M. J. Goodwin as the holy Prophet Elisha did for himselfe in another case in these his words And Elisha said As the Lord of Hosts liveth before whom I stand surely were it not that I regard the presence of Jehosaphat the King of Judah I would not look toward thee meaning wicked Jehoram nor see thee so truly say I I professe sincerely were it not that I regard the sacred presence of precious Truth the blessed Son of the great Lord and King of heaven and earth As mean and unworthy a poor-servant of the Lord as I am I would disdain to have any thing to doe in the least measure with such a degenerous and ignoble and abominable Deceiver as Mr. John Goodwin is but I say for precious Truths sake and for Sions sake I could not hold my peace nor withhold my zealous pen Again in the 4th place to shew that this good man is most tenderly affected with love to the precious souls of men yea and he calls God upon his soul to record therein ô transcendent boldnesse and impiety that he has not the least touch of desire to be wise in the things of God either above or besides the written Word of God This most egregiously unblushing deceiver having heretofore most abominably abused the Authority of the sacred Scriptures and let him timely take heed lest for this and the rest of his abuses of Gods Word for the upholding of his damnable opinions that most fearfull curse of God fall upon him which the Lord himselfe hath denounced against those that adde unto or diminish from his holy Word or wrest it to their own wicked wills even the severe infliction of all the curses and plagues that are written in the Book of God and to have his name blotted out of the Book of life in his most bold and blasphemous book entituled Hagió-Mastix which book as is worthily noted by our learned and religious London Ministers in their most excellent Testimony hath these words and this positive assertion under Mr. John Goodwins own hand writing That it is no foundation of Christian Religion to believe that the English Scriptures or that Book or rather Volume of books called the Bible translated out of the Originall Hebrew and Greek Copies into the English Tongue are the Word of God A horrid and hellish indignity offered to God in his Word and a most intolerable and accursed injury offered to all Gods English people to ruinate as much as in him is the ground of their faith and salvation Now hereupon M. Goodwin having been by divers godly Christians with Divines and others much reproved for it and as diligent endeavours as could be made by some faithfull and zealous Christians in London and particularly by one Mr. Thomas Underhill an honest and Religious Citizen and Stationer who endeavoured to have him and his blasphemous Book to be called into question and him severely to be punished as justly he deserved by the Parliament though all in vain such potent props have these irreligious and rotten builders procured in Parliament both against Gods and mans Laws and all justice both Divine and Civill hereupon Mr. Goodwin begins to sweat and swagger and being rub'd upon his gall'd back to kick and winch most notoriously in print And first most furiously and therefore nonsensically thrusts forth a little more foam and froth of his mad-brain in halfe a sheet of paper which he most vainly and slashily call'd A Candle to the Sun hoping but in vain therewith for the present to have stopt the mouthes blinded the eyes and stifled the judgements of men but indeed thereby making the matter as bad or worse than it was before Whereupon hearing himselfe most justly still cry'd out on both in publike and private for that his most irreligious slandering of Gods sacred Word and most wickedly invalidating the divine authority of it especially in such a time when most impious and audacious Anti-Scrip●urists rose up among us boldly and blasphemously denying the Sacred Scriptures to be the Word of God At last the Lord it seems suffering him still to run himselfe out of breath in his accustomed blasphemies and damnable Errours as a just punishment of adding one accursed errour to another even unto his eternall perdition if not timely and truly repented and recanted he sets forth another hugely blustering book or rather

speaking with a neighbour of his about these passages and his said neighbour reproving him he replyed again There was n more holynesse in the Scriptures than was in his Cats tayl All this besides the substance of it testified by many others I received from the mouth of one of Mr. Biscoes Congregation who was present on that Wednesday in the Assembly when Quarterman spake the words and stood close by his ●lbow and perfectly heard him and the same party told me that on the very same day seven-night following Quarterman without any the least signe of repentance for what he had said departed this life And another friend of mine speaking with one of Mr. Goodwins Congregation about these words on Quarterman and telling him that that marvelled they did not excommunicate him out of their Church the said party answered him that indeed they did intend it but that he dyed before they could doe it And thus good Reader thou feest what a spirit of bold and blasphemous Atheisme this proud Priest of Coleman-street had most fearfully transmigrated into the brest of this wicked blasphemer one of his dear Disciples according to that old adagie Malus Corvus malum Ovum an evill Bird an evill Egg and what a present joy and future Crown such desperate Disciples are like to prove to this their hereticall Master and most poysonfull Pastor Again I could not but take special notice of one more most notoriously false and fallacious expression of his in the Epistle to his more deluded than beloved Proselytes of Goose-Alley alias Swan-Alley in Coleman-street wherein among divers other most fawning and flattering expressions to befool their miserably blind folded eyes and bewitched souls and understanding into a fools paradise he hath these words You have not suffered your mindes to be corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel nor your selves to be baptized into any other Spirit than that which speaketh {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1. expresly in the Scriptures c. Again You have kept your selves out of the dint of that sore judgement of God which the Scripture calls A delivering up unto an unjudicious minde together with a great deale more of such like notorious lying and deluding stuffe in those three or foure pages of that Epistle Now were it not that this deceitfull man proudly prizes all his Geese to be Swans and most besottedly thinks like the Ape his own brats fairest He most falsly admiring them and they most flatteringly adoring him as not very long since divers of his Disciples did upon occasion of his Hagio-Mastix being reproved and reprehended by Gods people setting out a whole Treatise in intolerable commendation of this abominable deceiver as if he had been the most Scraphicall and superexcellent Saint that ever earth produced and without any shame or honesty subscribing their names unto it Audactèr jurantes in verba Magistri he saying and they swearing to what hee sayes and thus both of them interchangeably triumphing and trumpeting out highest Eucomiums elegantest Elogies and proud Panegericks of one anothers most ignoble names and shames whereas all this while they and their most audacious Master like Korab Dathau and Abiram are but notorious obstinate Rebels and run on in a bold rebellious course of resisting the supream authority of the Kingdom and insolently despise all Dignities and Dominions which their fanaticall and schismaticall spirits have not set up and cannot pull down as they Impiously desire And thus heer 's the good Prophets proverb indeed most rightly fulfilled Like people like Priest Were it not thus I say how durst this man of impudence thus boldly and unblestringly boast and brag that his Coleman-street jingling Cockleshels are such precious pearls such solid and dainty Disciples as will not suffer their mindes to be corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel and that have kept themselves ô braveselfe-bottom'd ones out of the dint of that sore judgement of Gods fearfull delivering up to an un-judicious or unsound minde or of Gods just sending them strong delusione to believe a lye yea a very many lyes vented and invented by their most deceitfull Master whereas the Lord of heaven knows and all truly godly over the whole City yea and Countrey too whose eyes the Lord hath opened and anoynted with eye-salve of truth and singlenesse of spirit doe alas most evidently see the clean contrary both in him and his miserably blindfolded foolish Proselites who are all of them for the most part most deeply dyed even in grain with all the foule and filthy Spots which are not the spots of Gods children but of all the dangerous and most damnable heresies errours and most wicked opinions before recited and demonstrated to be the deeply imprinted and impressed stains of their great High-Priest their grand Cajaphas Mr. John Goodwin after whose pernicious pipe they dance most delightfully yea and I say again how dares this even Whetssone Lyer so audaciously lye even in the face of God and men in saying that his Proselytes of Coleman-street suffer not themselves to be corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel nor to be baptized into any other spirit than that which speaks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} expresly the Scripture language Whereas this grand Metrapolitan of Coleman-street under a false colour of gifted men forsooth suffers divers of his Disciples and especially one of his prime Proselytes one Mr. Tayler a Mercer in Paternoster-row and other such like Mechanicall daubers with untempered morter whom hee their great Master of misrule hath some other serious avocations some jeering and quibling paultrie pamphlet to publish and thereby sede vacante in a ministeriall manner to officiate and preach to his people And this foresaid most tender-hearted Hen must cluck his pretty chickens under his wings must gather together his hee-Saints and shee-Saints of Coleman-street and all this above and besides yea and most contrary to that Spirit which speaks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} expresse Scripture Language which sayes most directly and clean against their practice How shall they preach except they be sent And again No man taketh this honour to himselfe but he that is called of God as was Aaron And therefore ô how neer doe they come to that condemnation or accusation of the Lord God himselfe by the holy Prophet Jeremie The Prophets prophesie lyes in my name I sent them not neither have I commanded them neither spake I to them they prophesie to you a false vision false new lights and divination and a thing of nought and the deceit of their own hearts See here good Reader Mr. Goodwin and his deceiving and deceived Disciples condition most exactly and even ad amuss●● deciphred to us And again The same Prophet sayes most appositely to our present purpose I have not sent these Prophets yet they ran I have not spoken to them yet they prophesied Thus I say how neer they come to