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A85404 Neophytopresbyteros, or, The yongling elder, or, novice-presbyter. Compiled more especially for the Christian instruction and reducement of William Jenkin, a young presbyter, lately gone astray like a lost sheep from the wayes of modesty, conscience and truth. And may indifferently serve for the better regulation of the ill governed Society of Sion Colledge. Occasioned by a late importune pamphlet, published in the name of the said William Jenkin, intituled Allotrioepiskopos; the said pamphlet containing very little in it, but what is chiefly reducible to one, or both, of those two unhappy predicaments of youth, ignorance, & arrogance. Clearly demonstrated by I.G. a servant of God and men in the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. Wherein also the two great questions, the one, concerning the foundation of Christian religion: the other, concerning the power of the naturall man to good supernaturall, are succinctly, yet satisfactorily discussed. With a brief answer in the close, to the frivolous exceptions made by C B. against Sion Colledge visited, in a late trifling pamphlet, called, Sion Colledge what it is, &c. Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665. 1648 (1648) Wing G1183; Thomason E447_27 141,216 147

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Apostles a better foundation I wisse than that of C. B. his Sion Colledge yet the spark of this honour was soon quenched in the deluge of wickednesse which burst out of him But why or upon what account doth C. B. account it his honour to be a member of Sion Colledge Himselfe tells us pag. 3. that the whole company of the Ministers of London and the suburbs being Incumbents of Churches together with their Assistants and Lecturers for the time being are all incorporated by Charter as fellows of this Colledge So that by his own account it is no more honour to be a member of Sion Colledge than it is to procure a Church-living whether by hook or by crook or a Readers place or a Lecture in London And if this be an honour to any man certainly it is minimum quod sic the least atome or dust that ever was filed off from the masse or wedge of Honour Besides if C. B. be the D. D. my thoughts run so much upon I know not well how according to the tenor of his own informations to allow him that honor which he so highly accounts of I mean of being a member of Sion Colledge For since his Incumbency or leaning upon Magnus Parish which complained grievously of his leaning hardupon it he neither was nor yet is to my knowledge either an Incumbent upon or of any Church in London or suburbs or any Assistant or Lecturer unto any such Incumbent Therfore there is no dore that I know of for him to enter by into Sion Colledge as a member thereof but when the dore is shut he can climb and get in by the window If he hath any colour or pretext of claim to the honour as himselfe reputeth it of the membership which he challengeth it is in the lowest and last capacity of all the rest according to his owne Table of Herauldry I mean that of a Lecturer for the time being But whether he be a naturall or putative member onely of the Colledge he speaks of or whether it be an honour to him to account it his honour to be such a member of it as he is or no certain I am that it would be a greater honour to him by farre if this Colledge could think it an honour to it to have such a member as he But though I cannot much commend this Colledge either for principles of ingenuity or for any great wisdome in providing for their own honour yet I conceive they are not upon any such terms of defiance with their reputation as to say that they account it their honour to have such a member as C. B. In the very entrance of his Piece Sect. 125. he confesseth himself to have been in a great distemper when he read the 2 books which the distemper as it seems yet remaining on him in his Title page as we heard he calls two fell and fiery Satyrs yea here also he mingles words which plainly declare him to have been under the regiment of the Distemper as well when he wrote his own piece as when he read those other So that I cannot beleeve that common saying to be universally true viz. that to tell a dream is the part of a man waking Narrare sommum vigilantis est The words of his confession together with the said mixture are these I have with MVCH ASTONISHMENT read two scurrilous Pasquils one intituled Sion Colledge visited written by an Apostate member thereof the other calls it selfe the Pulpit Incendiary compiled some say the more shame for them by the same visiting Bishop though published by his deare Chancellor the Exchange-man In these words 〈◊〉 giveth his reader a rationall account how it might very well come to passe that he should so far mistake the natures and respective purports of the two discourses he names as to call them one while two fell and fiery Satyrs another while two scurrilous pasquils He read them he saith with MUCH ASTONISHMENT if he had not said it his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of them and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon them would have said it for him For both these speak him a man suffering much in his intellectuals when he perused them A man of a serene and undisturb'd fancy could not lightly have pitched upon such uncouth wild and extravagant appellations as those by which he calleth them That the distemper was not off him any whit more when he wrote than when he read it is beyond all peradventure confirmed by this saying of his that Sion Colledge visited was written by an Apostate member thereof For I would fain know of C. B. if he be yet come to himselfe or to a more considering man upon what account he voteth me an Apostate member of Sion Colledge or wherein stands this my Apostasie Was that blind man to whom Christ restored his sight John 9. an Apostate from the Jewish worship and religion because the Pharisees cast him out a Ioh. 9. 34. by a strong hand Or was David an Apostate from his religion because his enemies drave him out from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord saying unto him Goe serve other Gods b 1 Sam. 26. 19. Or what act have I ever done by which I have either made or declared my selfe an Apostate from Sion Colledge The sin of Apostasie is never committed by suffering Was not C. B. himself far more properly an Apostate member of this Colledge when he voluntarily abandoned his people and Incumbe●cy in Magnus Parish and thereby dismembred himself from the Colledge he speaks of Yea is it not likely that he would have continued in this his Apostasie all his dayes had he not been reduced and reconciled by the friendly mediation of many hundreds per annum But if a Lecturers place in the Citie be the cure of his Apostasie in this kind why is not mine apostasie healed also who have accepted such a relation as well as he For though the hundreds I spake of were his reconciliation motivè yet is his place of a Lecturer simply considered and without the adjunct of an Episcopall demesne annexed which reconciles him formaliter terminativé So that my Lecture in the Citie how poorly soever endowed is as potent to invest me with the honour of being a member of Sion Colledge as his is Again considering that it is so generally known what an Exchange-man himself hath been exchanging first Magnus for Major and then Major for Maximus and withall how studious and diligent he was when time was in furnishing himselfe with that kind of learning which teacheth the Art of Chancellory and how he fau'nd upon Episcopacie the common road to a Chancellorship in those dayes me thinks it argues the reliques at least of a distemper upon him to remind the world of these his disparagements by using the metaphors of Bishop and Chancellor and by describing a man by the emphaticall periphrasis of THE Exchange-man Passing by all his frivolous and indeed ridiculous
ΝΕΟΦΥΤΟΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΕΡΟΣ OR The Yongling Elder or Novice-Presbyter Compiled more especially for the Christian Instruction and reducement of William Jenkin a young Presbyter lately gone astray like a lost sheep from the wayes of Modesty Conscience and Truth And may indifferently serve for the better Regulation of the ill governed Society of SION COLLEDGE Occasioned by a late importune Pamphlet published in the name of the said William Jenkin intituled Ἀλλοτριοεπὶσκοπος the said Pamphlet containing very little in it but what is chiefly reducible to one or both of those two unhappy Predicaments of Youth Ignorance Arrogance Clearly demonstrated by I. G. a servant of God and Men in the glorious Gospel of JESUS CHRIST Wherein also the two great Questions the one concerning the Foundation of Christian Religion the other concerning the power of the Naturall Man to good supernaturall are succinctly yet satisfactorily discussed With a brief Answer in the close to the frivolous exceptions made by C B. against Sion Colledge visited in a late trifling Pamphlet called Sion Colledge what it is c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not a Novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil 1 Tim. 3. 6. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so doe these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds c. But they shall proceed no further for their ἄνοια folly or madnesse shall be manifest unto all men as theirs also was 2 Tim. 3. 8 9. Homo peccatum defendendo sibi praeponit sed poenitendo subjicit Aug. Exultatio praepropera ruboris plerunque sementis est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Quò moriture ruis majoraque viribus audes Fallit te incautum pietas tua Nec minùs ille Exultat demens Virg. Aeneid Printed for Henry Overton in Popes-head-Alley 1648. To the unpartiall Reader REader it was the complaint of a faithfull friend and Counsellor unto his Countrey long since that what he gave with the right hand was still taken and received with the left That great servant and Prophet of God David who kept a watch at the doore of his lips a 〈…〉 and was abundantly cautious not to sin or offend with his tongue b 〈…〉 yet met with occasion to take up this complaint against his adversaries that every day they wrested his words or as the originall soundeth they made a kind of labour and toile of it to figure his words i. to put uncouth and strange constructions upon them When righteous Lot did but seek to turn his neighbours the men of Sodome out of the way of their wickednesse though he attempted it in a most sweet and loving way I pray you brethren saith he to them doe not so wickedly c Gen. 19. 7. they through zeale to their lusts being impatient of all admonition fell foule upon him with this answer Stand back This one fellow came in to sojourne and he will needs be a JUDGE Now will we deale worse with thee than with them And they saith the Text pressed sore upon the man even Lot d Verse 9. c. It is not I suppose unknown to thee how that some few months since the Lord Jesus Christ the great Bishop of their soules was pleased to administer by the hand of his unworthy and weak servant a monitory visitation unto some professing themselves his Ministers who it seems stood in eminent need thereof commonly known by the name of the Society of Sion Colledge Which Visitation though administred with all faithfulnesse and singlenesse of heart by him whom the Lord Christ was pleased to use in that service yet the face of it being set to turn the said men out of those wayes of unworthinesse which they have no mind to relinquish hath so farre provoked them at least some of them that in stead of reforming themselves according to the tenor of that visitation they poure out the 〈◊〉 vials of their wrath and discontent in most unmanly passion in most unseemly revilings and reproaches upon that poore instrument of God who unfeignedly sought their peace and wealth in that administration It seems they are a generation dreadlesse of that thunder-bolt from heaven which certainly will strike all dead before it where ever it falls He that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me Luke 10. 16. Not to mention the expressions that have fallen from others of them in this kind the unclean vomit of my Allotrioepiscopolian Antagonist alone is a super-sufficient testimony how dep●●r●ble and sad an effect that visitation hath had upon them not much differing from that which the Ministery of the Messengers and Prophets of old by whose hand God sent to his people and the CHIEFE PRIESTS amongst them had upon them to whom they were sent who as the Text saith mocked these Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy c 2 Chron. 36. 14 15 16. When men are resolved to walk in the light of their own eyes and shall not onely reject but vilifie and scorn the admonitions of the Almighty by what hand soever administred it is a signe that destruction is coming upon them like an armed man 1 Sam. 2. 25. It is said of Hophni and Phineas the Priests that they hearkned not unto the voyce of their Father because the Lord would slay them And the sound of that voice of the Lord himselfe by his Prophet Ezekiel Ezek. 24. 13 is enough to make both the eares of Sion Colledge to tingle In thy filthinesse is lewdnesse because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthinesse any more til I have caused my fury to rest upon thee I feare the foundations of this Colledge are not long-liv'd the iniquity of the Sons thereof hath already so sorely shaken them Notwithstanding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to presse them beyond the line of their demerit it seems in their Provinciall meeting not long after their visitation it was prudently if not piously and with remorce resolved upon the Question that no answer should be given either to Doctor Hamonds Book or mine But as Gehaz● rose up against the spirit of his master Elisha saying thus in himselfe 2 Kine 5. 20. My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian but as the Lord liveth I will run after him and take somewhat of him e 〈…〉 so hath Mr. Jenkin in the vanity and pride of his heart magnified himself against that Spirit of wisdome and counsell which spake in his more advised brethren and whereunto according to rule he ought to have been subject and as the Jewes would needs have Christ crucified when Pilat had judged him to be delivered f Acts 3. 13. so hath the heart of this young man importuned him to make long furrowes of most notorious and importune slanders and reproaches upon