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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90968	The pulpit incendiary: or, The divinity and devotion of Mr. Calamy, Mr. Case, Mr. Cauton, Mr. Cranford, and other Sion-Colledge preachers in their morning-exercises, with the keen and angry application thereof unto the Parliament and Army. Together with a true vindication of the Covenant from the false glosses put upon it, and a plain indication of Covenant-breakers. Published according to order.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3346; Thomason E438_10; ESTC R203205	55,372	67

power and demonstration from Scripture and Reason would you look to your offending brethren of your own Societies provide for your poor watch over one another for good promote holines love and kindnes among brethren would you endeavour to unite the godly against the common enemie promote the common interest of the Kingdom Did men see your communions beautifull as Tirza comely as Jerusalem Did men see Christ walking in the midst of your golden Candlesticks Did you put on indeed beautifull garments Did men heare the joyfull sound and voyce of the Turtle in your congregations Did your lips drop as the nony comb hony and milk being under your tongues the smell of your congregations being like the smell of Lebanon Did men see that your plants or members were as an Orchard of Pomegranates with pleasant fruits Camphire and Spiknard Calamus and Cynnamon with all the trees of Frankincense Myrrhe and Aloes with all the chiefe spices Did men observe your societies as fountaines of gardens wels of living water and streames from Lebanon the Spirit of God so blowing upon them as that the Spices thereof and their sweet savour did flow out and were acceptable to God and man how would you ravish the lookers on How would they be taken in the beholding your faith and order How would you ravish the hearts of your spectators How would you drain the private meetings of Sectaries as you call them But when men in stead of beauty see nothing but bald●es in stead of the Spirit of Christ wch is a spirit of holinesse love gen●lenes and goodnes men see n●thing but the spirit of pride of envie rigidnesse cruelty slander and mischiefe When you talk of a reformation professe indeed principles of purity in government viz. that your members must be godly prophane persons kept from the Lords Table promoting love goodnesse kindnesse c. and yet act not accordingly for want of power as you say not improving what power you have unto these things but complain of the Parliament as if they were the cause hindering all good government to make them odious in the eyes of the people yea oppose vilifie and reproach your brethren even for reformation What doe these things but harden mens hearts and steele mens spirits so against you that you may as soon unite light and darknesse Christ and Belial as drive on 〈◊〉 reformation which you thus would make the world beleeve you ●o earnestly co●●nd for Are you not offended with your brethren for putting in practice your own very principles Doth it not clearly appeare that their reformation is rather your envie than the want of reformation among your selves is cause of your complaint As the Ruler of the Synagogue envied the glory which the people cast upon Christ for his great workes which he did amongst them yet hee covered his pale of envie with the red of zeale pretending to stand for the honour of the Sabbath There are six dayes said he to the people in which men ought to worke in them therefore come and be healed and not on the Sabbath day Can men be so truly and heartily zealous for a blessed reformation in matters disciplinall and Church government and yet in the meane while breake the very law of moralitie and the rules of good manners abusing Parliament Armie and all that will not bow down their backes and subject their neckes to your yoke it makes men think that your zeale for reformation is your zeale to make your selves great in the world especially when they see you seek the suppression of those that act your own verie principles of reformation Is it not like Herod to pretend to seek Christ to worship him with a true intent to kill him to pretend reformation and to set up principles leading that way and where ever you finde them put in practice to persecute molest and suppresse them that do put them in practice Some of you were great conformitants in the dayes of Episcopacie have you indeed a minde to return again Doe your soules long after the Summer fruits of Poperie Organs and Altars cringings and crouching Tapers and Wafers Copes and Rochets Tippets and Surplices Caps and Hoods Crucifixes and Crosses Pilgrimages and pictures with all the accoutrements and the whole prophane glory of the Romish Synagogue Doe you long indeed to have Lucifer put again into Heaven and the Angels of God thrown down into hell in stead of him viz. Popish and Prelaticall Priests restored to their former thrones and dignities and faithfull Ministers of the Gospel the great troublers of the Israel of the Devill troden and trampled on like clay and mire under their feet Is it the great desire of your soules that prophanenesse and ungodlinesse lightnesse and loosnesse oppression and tyranny drunkennesse uncleannesse and all sorts of wickednesse may fit in the throne and that holinesse and righteousnesse piety and purity religion and liberty should be thrown upon the dunghill If these be not the venison and savoury meat that your soules thirst after why doe you hunt so diligently after it do not you see that all the Malignants the Papists and Atheists the prelaticall and prophane party of the Kingdome joyns with you in your present proceedings are not your present wayes unto them as the resurrection from the dead Some of you have been very zealous against Conformity in the dayes of Prelacy bearing the reproaches of hereticks separatiste schismaticks from your clamorous adversaries had you the glory of God in designe or somewhat else wee have observed in former dayes that some have set out Jehu-like against the superstition pride and oppression of the Clergie over-running even a civill behaviour in some houses where they have come tearing and defacing any devotionall pictures scarce enduring a crosse in a Gentlemans Coat of Armes and yet afterwards a favourable Prebend-winde or Chancellour-ship Deanery or Bishoprick did so cool them that they grew the greatest factors for superstitious innovatione and fiercest persecutors of the contrary minded as once Harding Bishop Jewells adversary who one while was a thundering Preacher wishing he could cry out against Poperie as lowd as the bells of Osney yet afterwards proved a bitter adversary to the truth if such things as those are in your eyes viz. to be some body in poynt of power honour and greatnesse under the forme of Presbyterie as others have been under the shamefull glory of Prelacy What doe you all this while but sow the winde and what shall you reape but the very whirlewinde labour after vanitie and may expect nothing but vexation of spirit digge unto your selves Cisternes but broken Cisternes that will hold no water if this be the first-borne of your desires viz. that you might be honoured before the people as was Souls request unto Samuel 1 Sam. 15. 30. the Lord will rend your kingdome from you as he did the kingdome of Israel from Saul and it may be give it unto others better than you but if this