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A95897	The schismatick sifted. Or, The picture of Independents, freshly and fairly washt-over again. Wherein, the sectaries of these times (I mean, the principall seducers to that dangerous and subtile schisme of Independency) are with their own proper pensils, and self-mixed colours, most lively set forth to be a generation of notorious dissemblers and sly deceivers. Collected (for the most part) from undeniable testimonies under their own hands, in print; for the more fair and full satisfaction, and undeceiving of moderate and much misled Christians; especially by the outward appearance of their piety of life, and a pretence of their preaching sound-doctrine. / By John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1646 (1646)	Wing V326; Thomason E341_8; ESTC R200902	40,154	51

THE SCHISMATICK SIFTED OR The Picture of INDEPENDENTS Freshly and Fairly Washt-over again Wherein the Sectaries of these Times I mean the principall Seducers to that dangerous and subtile Schisme of Independency are with their own proper Pensils and Self-mixed Colours most lively set forth to be a Generation of notorious Dissemblers and fly Deceivers Collected for the most part from undeniable Testimonies under their own Hands in Print for the more fair and full satisfaction and undeceiving of moderate and much misled Christians especially by the outward appearance of their Piety of Life and a pretence of their Preaching sound-Doctrine By JOHN VICARS For Sions sake I cannot hold my peace ISAIAH 62. 1. Now I beseech you Brethren mark them which cause Divisions and Offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them For These that are Such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly And by good words and fair speeches Deceive the Simple ROM. 16. 17 18. London Printed for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham at the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1646. To the Right Honourable and most worthily to be highly honoured THOMAS ADAMS Esquire Lord Major of the most famous and renowned City of LONDON I. V. prayeth all encrease of Gracious Honour here and of Glorious Happinesse hereafter Right Honourable IT was the sad and unhappy complaint of the Prophet Jeremy in his dayes and in that ungracious and ungratefull City Jerusalem That no man among them was valiant for the Truth Jer. 9. 3. Nay the Lord himselfe by the same Prophet seeming to be as it were transported with holy indignation and just jealousie of neglect of his honour and worship bids them Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem to see and seek if they could find any one man that loved the Truth Jer. 5. 1. Yea this penury of pious men was not only among the poor and mean men Ver. 4. But even among the Great Men and Rulers of Jerusalem ver. 5 But ô the honour and happinesse of this most famous faithfull and ever renowned City of London This City of our God of which most justly so many glorious Things are and may and must be spoken to the Glory of God and honour thereof Over which such a renowned and religious such a valiant and vertuous Governour is set verifying that of the Prophet Nah. 2. 3. though there Iconfess spoken in another sense That our valiant men are in Scarlet even your good Lordship who have bin as it were purposely placed and appointed by God himselfe for these times and who are so valiant and couragious for the Truth of your God and the glorious work of Gospell Reformation as cannot be dampt or daunted with any vaporous and seeming Eclipsing Clouds of unworthy Disgusts raised by the selfish and elfish Envy of Schismaticall spirits which of late have only passed over the faire face and cleer Sun-shine of your Honours Piety and Integrity For with unvanquishable Valour and Vigour of Zeal for God and his Truth like a pious Patriot indeed your Honour hath most gravely and graciously dispell'd them all standing still like an immoveable invincible and impregnable Rock or rather running on like the active Sun in the Firmament with so much the more resplendent Beauty and radiant Lustre in a sweet and swift course of Constant Piety and Magnanimity for the advancement of the immaculate Cause of your God and the Common-wealth to the high honour of God and singular joy and comfort of all the true Presbyterian Saints and Sons of our English Sion both in City and Country Ride on prosperously then my most honourable good Lord in the Cause of Truth and Righteousnesse backt with the sacred Suffrages and faithfull Affections of very many thousands of most peaceable honest-hearted and God-honouring Covenanters both in City and Country yea even of a whole Nation of loyall and loving Scottish-Brethren who with us most justly look for and long for the happy and holy consummating of a glorious Reformation of the Kingdoms Grievances and establishment of a blessed Church-Discipline according to the Minde of our great Master Christ Jesus and the plain literal meaning of our sacred solemne Covenant And hence my honourable good Lord I have bin humbly bold emboldened by your Honours much experienced candor and courtesie toward me the meanest and most unworthy of all your Lordships Votaries to dedicate this little but I hope very necessary and usefull Treatise considering these seducing staggering and unstable-times as a small Symbol and though poore and plain yet true Tessera of my bounden Gratitude to your Honours pious Patronage Thus I say both to take fit occasion to manifest my obliged hearts Thankfulnesse for your Lordships many most free and friendly favours As also by this though succinct yet sincere discovery of the sly and subtile Dissemblers and Deceivers of our dayes and consequently the mayn molesters and disturbers of the happy settlement of a godly Church-Government among us As also thus to adde at least one small stick to encrease the flame though I am confident I need not of your good Lordships godly zeale in this glorious work so much and so maliciously opposed by the impious and impudent Sectaries of these most sadly distracted Times Which humbly hoping your Honour will with accustomed Christian candor and exuberant friendly favour candidly accept The continued yea perpetuated Encrease of all Honour and Happinesse to your good Lordship in this your renowned Majoralty and to the period of your pious Pilgrimage shall be the daily devoted prayers of Your Honours most humble and eve● to be commanded observant Servant in the Lord John Vicars To the godly and impartiall READER THe great dishonour good Reader which I have frequently observed to be done to my God in the abuse of his Truth and the strange cockering of Errours and Schismes by Truths too violent and virulent Adversaries and Antagonists Together with the familiar vilifying and extream undervaluing of Truths loyall Presbyterian Propugnators and the most unreasonable high esteeme and loud and lofty Elogies which the foolish World falsly and fondly blatters forth in prayse of Schismaticall Independents and the rest of these Times most seditious and dangerous Sectaries whose great and yet most just unhappinesse it is that they cannot mayntain any thing for the most part of what they schismatically professe but by grosse untruths brainsick Enthusiasmes fictitious New-Lights aliàs old-blasphemous Errours and too often by down-right-lyes All these respects I say have made mee the meanest and most unworthy of ten thousand of my godly Presbyterian-Brethren in fervent Zeal to God and his Truth and in pure love and loyalty to her faithfull Presbyterian Friends thus according to my Talent to set Pen to paper and with as much faithfulnesse as resolved freedome with their own hands to stop the mouths and with their own Pens to give a check to the untrue Tongues of these so high Pretenders to such soundnesse in

suffering-Saints and Martyrs they were insuffering so sorely for their tender-conscience sake This you shall see Apol. Nar. pag. 2 3 Where they tell you of their pitteous banishment forsooth But withall fairely confesse it was a spontaneous or voluntary banishment a banishment of their own choice and election both for Time Place and Company and I may add as easily undergone as undertaken for they went into the choicest and fattest parts of all beautifull Holland no way pincht in body or purse for as reverend Master Edwards notes in his learned Antapologie and at large most notably sets forth they were able some of them to spend two or three hundred pounds a year and to doe other expensive acts besides They went I say in their own time were fitted with all conveniences for themselves and their families had brave company with them Gentlefolke of none of the meanest rank and quality and yet These call themselves Gods poor Exiles or poor despicable banished creatures Which how fairly and fitly let any godly judicious Christian or even meer rationall creature which knows what Banishment is speake and judge by those forementioned premises And now tell mee good Reader whither these our Independents be such fair dealers and truth speakers as the world deems them and as the Spirit of God would have them to be according to the forementioned Characters of the true Saints and Citizens of the New Jeruselem Again In their foresaid Apologeticall Narration pag. 5 6 they have these very words For the Congregations in England where we were by the grace of Christ converted mark this and long exercised our Ministry both in our own and multitudes of the Assemblies and Parochiall-Congregations thereof mark again those words good Reader we make this sincere profession before God and all the world mark here again I beseech thee that notwithstanding all the defilements which we conceived to cleave to the true worship of God in them or of the unwarranted power in Church Government exercised therein yet we ever esteemed and held this opinion of them That they were the true Churches and Bodie of Christ and that the Ministers thereof were true Ministers much lesse did it ever enter into our hearts to judge them Antichristian yea wee always have protested that in these times pray marke these words well when the Churches of England were most actually over-spread with defilements and in the greatest danger thereof We both did and would hold a communion with them as the Churches of Christ and baptized our Children and administred the Lords Supper in their Parochiall Congregations and all this both before and since our returne from our foresaid exile Now then from all these premises see and consider seriously good Reader The Independents most unjust and injurious Separation from us even under their own hands testified and by such a deep and seeming-serious Protestation to God and the whole World protested against themselves wonderfull strange it is me thinks that truly holy and godly men should dare to deale thus in so sacred and serious things nay those premises touching our Churches or Congregations and Ministers being so granted by themselves how most ungodlily and ungroundedly doe they now and long time have forsaken our Assemblies as Antichristian and creep into corners shops and chambers and now adayes also some of their Schismaticall brethren are not ashamed most impiously and most unjustly to preach print and prate against us and our Assemblies directly under such notions even as if we were abominable Babylonians and Antichristians Now truly my Brethren if this be to deale ingenuously and to speake the truth from the heart as becomes the truly godly Saints and Citizens of the New-Jerusalem specified before to be Davids Character of a godly man let any impartiall Christian judge and determine Again In the same Apologeticall Narration pag. 24 25 Those five Apologists and Grandees of the Independent faction Yea those high-grown Sauls that are taller then any of their Presbyterian-Brethren by head and shoulders in parts and piety if we would believe the loud boasts of their Sycophanticall Proselites have these very words in that foresaid place evident to all that have eyes and understanding and wills to see and read the same viz. Wee call God and men to witnesse see how they here begin again with a deep asseveration that through the grace of Christ our spirits are and have been so remote from a spirit of faction division pride and singularity which are the usuall grounds of all Schismes that we have expressed our constant forbearance either to publish our opinions by preaching although wee had the pulpit free or to print any thing of our own or others for the vindication of our selves although the Presses also were more free than the pulpits Marke good Reader I beseech thee these their own words and yet consider how that most insolent and proud-spirited man Mr. Lilburn in his most flashy and foul-mouthed Letter to ever to be honored Mr. Prinne complains of the restraint of Printers-presses as a peece of their persecution forsooth pag. 2 of his said Letter or to act for our selves or for our way All these foresaid particular branches of their protested forbearance were indeed by them and the Presbyterian City Ministers mutually covenanted to be done on both sides but how faithfully religiously and conscienciously they have kept and observed the same yea notwithstanding their protesting before GOD and men neither to write preach dispute or any way to act for themselves or their Church-way and all this thus promised since their last returne into England from their fore-mentioned pretty piece of Banishment now we will see and discover I say how faithfully and fairly they have kept their word and engagement herein Although 't is most true that learned and religious Master Edwards hath in his elaborate Antapologie given his impartiall and unprejudiced Reader aboundant satisfaction touching these things and I might here multiply many testimonies from thence of our Independents self-condemnation touching the premises yet because I maynly endevour brevity in this little Treatise I will content my self with these few following most true and undeniable self-confutations extant there in Print under their owne hands namely that even not all these Apologists who have thus protested as yee have heard have not according to their so deep Protestation before God and Men forborn to Preach or Print any thing of their own in the behalf of their Church-way First then take Master Burroughs his self-conviction herein Who in his Sermons and Expositions on the three first Chapters of Hosea hath Preached and Printed severall things about and for their Church-way As for example In his first Lecture on Hosea the second at 1 2 p. 224 225. And the seventh Lecture Hos. 1 at 11 p. 173. And thirteenth Lecture on Hos. 2 15. Together with many other places in those his Lectures now extant in Print Secondly

for they have nothing to doe For to no purpose should they pronounce their judgements if they might govern according to their own mindes as if every parish were made a particular Soveraignty which would be an Order which was never practised nor used in any place since the Apostles There are many small Parishes in the Countrey where the Consistory is composed of one Minister of none of the greatest capacity and of foure or five countrey-men or clowns who are Elders of that Church And shall to such a Church be given such an absolute Independent authority And if their Minister happen to die will you believe those clowns sitting to judge of the capacity of a new Minister to give him the imposition of hands or to order in this case what ever may be needfull If upon occasion of wars or distractions in the Kingdom it be necessary to keepe a day of fasting and humiliation through all the Churches in the Kingdom who shall ordain this fast or who shall appoint the day of celebration thereof If it be necessary to remonstrate to the Kings Majestie the complaint of all the Churches in generall who shall depute the partie that shall present the Petition of the Churches of the whole Kingdom If upon any occasion it be found needfull to alter any thing in the Discipline of the Church in generall and to make any new necessary Orders in the same to be observed generally can this be done by particular Consistories being Independent and who are not subject to any generall Ordinance In brief It ought to be believed that the Dependencie of particular Churches to superiour powers is that which maintains the union of the Church and this being taken away there would remain no more correspondencie but a wilfull and wofull confusion would soon appear No man ought to be judge in his own cause But if there happen a contention between two Churches as it happeneth too often neither of these two Churches can be judge in their own cause and of necessity there must be reliefe by a superiour authority else all will be naught between them I will not believe though I confesse there is cause of jealousie that those that desire this Independencie have any intelligence with the enemie and that thereby they seeke under pretence of Reformation to bring us into a confusion or at least to expose us to the laughter of our enemies though I say I fear this by many Symptomes thereof I rather will in charity believe they err through want of experience and knowledge of what is profitable for the Church of God The end of every good Christian and Common-wealths man is to glorifie God in maintaining his true Religion to serve the King in the preservation of his royall person and dignity and to procure the Common good in maintaining justice and liberty of the Subject and Kingdom All these though three branches arise and spring from one root and have the same essense and being But it is impossible that any man should truly affect the King or Common-wealth that is slight and negligent in Religion nor can any man fully discharge his duty to God that is not carefull of King and Common-wealth See then ô Independents by this foresaid solid judgement how feeble and false yea how dangerous and destructive your Independent Church-way is The Lord open your eyes to see it and give you hearts affected with much sorrow for your obstinacie in it and in his good time graciously convert you from it to embrace Peace and Truth with your Presbyterian Brethren thus prayes Yours J. V. FINIS Ill weeds grow apace Want of weeding of Gods Garden the Church Plain-English 1 Pretended Piety and holinesse of life one great cause of the growth of Independencie 2 Pretence of Preaching Sound Doctrine another Cause of Independents growth among us Schismaticks are like Salamanders 1 Pretence of Preaching sound Doctrine a cause of Independents growth Sound-Doctrine overthrown by our Independents A pregnant S●●●le The Word Sacraments are the Vineyard or Garden of the Lord Godly Government or Scripturall Church-Discipline is the Wall or Fence about it Fals-doctrines preached and broached by Independents and other Sectaries Object Answ Toleration Liberty of Conscience the only Inlets for all other abominable Opinions Iudges 15. 3 4. Independents and all other Sectaries compared most fitly to Sampsons Foxes 2 Pretended Piety a second Cause of Independents growth among us The seeming Holinesse of Hereticks of the Primitive Church The outward seeming Holy Lives of the Scribes and Pharisees in our Saviours time 2 Cor. 11. 13 14. Mark this ô all yee honest and plain hearted Christians that are apt to be deceived and seduced Holinesse of Life is a false Touchstone to try Sound men by 1 Cor. 11. 1. Soundnesse in Doctrine is a true Touchstone to try a sound man by Gal. 1. 7 8. Soundnesse in doctrine though accompanied with humane infirmities is a safer way to try men than seeming-exact walking accompanied with errours in doctrine The main promised point now proved The certain Characters of a truly Godly-man Psal. 15. 24 4. Matth. 7. 12. Revel. 22. 15. A pretty passage concerning M. Peters Independents a Generation of notorious Dissemblers sly Deceivers Isaiah 62. 1. Cretensis p. 5. M. Iohn Goodwins Retrimentitious-Party of Sectaries The five famous Apologists The Apologeticall Narration intended by the Independents for their credit proved far otherwise The Apologists are Gods poore Exiles and How Antapol p. 190 191. Apol. Nar. p. 22. Apol. Nar. p. 5. 6. See heere the most strange unblushing false dealing of the Independents with Presbyterians contrary to their own words and protestations Another notable and undenyable false dealing of the Independents with the Presbyterians Antapolo p. 213 See heere also how most unblushingly the Independents deal falsly with the Presbyterians A notable passage of fallacy in the Independents acted by Mr. Phil●p Nye one of their grand Politicians A remarkable discovery of the Independents notorious subtilty Double-dealing Mr. Nye palpably coozens Mr. Calamy of the Writing or Instrument that tyed the Independents to be honest Antapol p. 243 The most shamelesse slanderous Remonstrance against the Assembly of Divines owned and subscribed by seven of the most eminent Independents The Independents Double-dealing about their Apolog. Narration The strange most urgent earnest importunity of the Presbyterians to procure a Modell of the Independents Church-Government Answer to the Remonstrance Mr. Tho Goodwin at last chosen by the Independents to frame their new-Modell of their Church-way Parturiunt Montes nascitur ridiculus Mus. A most shamelesse and slanderous Remonstrance against the Assembly exhibited to the Assembly instead of their New-Modell by seven of the most eminent Independents The perfect practice of Deceives An Answer of the Assembly of Divines to the Remonstrance of the Independents In Mr. Burton in his Sermon For God and the King p. 109. A fair tale told by the Sectaries for themselves Still more notorious double dealing under the Independents own hands Mr. Iohn Goodwin Mr. Burton Christ upon his Throne Mr. Iohn Lilburn Arraignment of Mr. Persesecution The notorious Double-dealing of Independents touching the power of Parliaments in Church-Government and matters of Religion The Peace-maker pag. 3. c. The Protestation protested Mr. I. G. in his 12. serious Cautions c. Luke 18. 11 12. The Last Warning to London Our holy Covenant made an ensnaring dangerous Dilemma to our consciences by the Independents subtilties The Peace-maker Ierem. 9. 4. An Independent jugling trick play'd by Doctor Homes with his Parishioners Ier. 9. 4. Mr. Iohn Bachilers approbation of a company of most pernicicious schismaticall Pamphlets yet pretends all to be pious sound and good M. Saltmarsh his singular testimony of M. Edwards his Preaching and conference Toichoructa or Independents razing their own foundation A remarkable piece of Independents impiety Mat. 18. 16. A prettie Independent evasion of all hitherto urged against independents New-Lights Vindication p. 58. Donec ad Triarios redieritres Independents emptie New-lights and Popish equivocation compared together Ioel 2. 18. Acts 2. 16 17. The extreme impiety folly and absurdity of the audacious Sectaries both man and wom●n of our times under a pretence of New-Light from the Prophesie of Ioel. 1 Cor. 14. 34 1 Tim. 2 11 12 1 Pet. 2. 15. Iam. 13 14 15. Here is an old Light and a true light indred The Independent Saints infirmities must not bee medled with Cretensis p. 4. Not only the Retrimentitious-party but the gravest Grandees of the Independent-party Sins of Infirmity briefly described Ragining sins briefly described No errour into be accounted a small sin The Independents tax the Presbyterians with piety for writing against their errours openly Galat. 2. 11. Ibid. 2. 9. Titus 1. 13. Iohn 18 37. Acts 19. 25. Revel. 22. 11.