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A91187	A fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring-blasing-stars, & firebrands, stiling themselves nevv-lights, firing our church and state into new combustions. Divided into ten sections, comprising severall most libellous, scandalous, seditious, insolent, uncharitable, (and some blasphemous) passages; published in late unlicensed printed pamphlets, against the ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and power of parliaments, councels, synods, Christian kings and magistrates, in generall; the ordinances and proceedings of this present Parliament, in speciall: the national covenant, assembly, directory, our brethren of Scotland, Presbyterian government; the Church of England, with her ministers, worship; the opposers of independent novelties; ... Whereunto some letters and papers lately sent from the Sommer-Islands, are subjoyned, relating the schismaticall, illegal, tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there, in gathering their new-churches, to the great distraction and prejudice of that plantation. / Published for the common good by William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3963; Thomason E261_5; ESTC R212456	96,461	90

the Court shall be censured upon or else which they most ayme at to have us contrary to knowledge and conscience acknowledge we have wronged them and there in open Court before the Countrey confesse our selves sorry for what we have done this is our misery yea if I shall speak much more write in our owne defence against their Independent Church laying open their factious and schismaticall government and their envying against our Church and Church government and Discipline though they have proofes and grounds sufficient by the word of God to convince them the which I could never yet see disproved by them together with my name annexed thereunto yet if he threaten me for boldnesse herein to have a Counsell Table called against me I am sure of it and there to bee baited and banded to and againe by a whole Counsell together with our Schismaticall Divines even as a Beare at a stake not one to speak one word in my defence nor in the defence of Gods cause but with an unanimous consent and voyce my writings exclaimed against pronounced Libels and ignominious and slanderous writings though none of them approved so to be nor disproved for the Truth I stand for yet shall I be censured by them for them bound to my good behaviour put in sureties and if at any time afterwards I shall divulge any thing either by pen or tongue against this Independent Church their Governours or Government Doctrine or the like I must then presently be declared infamous and lie in prison till to the contrary we heare out of England yea however for want of Sureties in this case to lie in prison notwithstanding till I can or doe put in Sureties the which I did for the space of five weeks to my great damage and charge and also detriment being an aged poore man of 74 yeares of age and five nights in the cold winter time almost drowned in the prison with raine and sore tempestuous weather having no shelter to save my selfe dry These with other things have I undergon too large for to relate and that chiefely from this White of this Independent Church Pastor I meane by his meanes for if hee sayit it must and shall be by our Rulers who indeed ought to be chiefe instruments in removing and casting out such venomous vermine out of both Church and Common-weal●● But how can it be expected when they themselves are inconfederacy with him and joyne hand in to work wickednesse therefore whoever speaks or writes against one doth it against all therefore with a cunning sleight they put it off as not being done in the behalfe of their Church but as that by it I labour the subversion of the peace of our Countrey as much as in me lay as though our Countreys peace rested wholly upon the planting of this their Independent Church whereby they have made more and greater breaches as can be manifestly proved then ever they will be able to make good both in Church and Common wealth yea in private families also the husband against the wife the wife against the husband the children against the parents the parents against the children and the like according as your selfe have worthily noted in your twelve Interrogatories Is not this a great misery in so little a spot even a handfull of people Oh miserable times Oh unhappy conditions Now if you demand a title or name of this their Church or from whence derived I cannot answer you for I suppose themselves know not only framed of their fancie and braines only to get themselves a name fame and popular applause and estimation of the world But thus much I am sure of it is derived partly from the Anabaptists partly from the Brownists but most especially from the Donatists having in it a smatch of each however they feign it to the Church of New England which as they say is the purest Church this day in the world yet come they farre wide of it so that it is but their saying not their doing But grant that they were in their way aright yet hold it we not requisite that their examples should be rules to us to walk by seeing that both the one and the other have beene constituted and erected by an indirect way without the advice and approbation of lawfull Authority of King Parliament and Synod the which our men say they are not to attend or waite upon Princes nor Parliaments leisures the cause being Christs owne and depending only and alone upon him and not upon any humane power and they his servants and Christ their Lord it refteth on them in his behalfe to doe it it being a spirituall and no carnall work And againe some of them have said it that Parliament and Synod can establish no other Church Discipline or Government then theirs unlesse they will goe contrary to the word of God this hath beene publikely delivered yea by the same party such stuffe hath beene delivered that hath made all modest and shamefull faces to blush eares to glow and hearts to grieve that hath heard it yea and that upon dayes of humiliation making divers people both objects and subjects openly to work upon thundering out punishments and judgements both spirituall and temporall against divers persons as though they had both swords in their owne power or as though they had absolutely knowne Gods secret decree and this hath beene held for sound and good Orthodox Doctrine when divers have repented of their hearing and these not once nor twice but often Infinite might I relate even from their owne mouthes which would make wise men admire but I must passe over them to avoyd tediousnesse to my selfe and trouble to you And that in your wisedome you may the better conceive of this their Church The first beginning was a certaine Feast held every week at severall houses which Feast they called a loblolly Feast which for the common fare of our Countrey is as our watergruell in England so they would have it but of a common food at which Feast each did strive to excell another in the difference of making it after they had once gotten a certaine number unto them and so of an ordinary food they made it extraordinary yea so extraordinary that some in few meetings were forced to sell the feathers out of their bedding for milk butter and creame to feed them withall and to make their Loblolly the more dainty and toothsome others againe to maintaine this Feast for one dayes entertainment themselves and whole family must pinch for it two or three months after by which Feast by the shew of neighbourhood or Feast of Love though never none was found in short time they encreased in every parish to a pretty number At which Feast also their bellies and stomacks being well gormondized the Minister propoundeth certaine questions unto them by way of catechising of his owne framing for halfe an howre which each had in writing one from another and

that he may Synodicate a full resolution to these ensuing Queries 1. Whether it doth not as much conduce to the subjects liberty still to be subjected to Episcopal usurpation as to be given over to Presbyterian cruelty Whether Saint Peters chaire doth not become a Presbyter as well as a Bishop c. As for Sir John Presbit●r this Court hath voted him to the uncleane filthy impious unholy dark and worldly Dungeon called jure Humano c. as for Persecution the sentence of this Court is that thou shalt return to the place from whence thou camest to wit the noysome and filthy Cage of every uncleane and hateful bird The Clergy of Christendome there to be fast bound with inquisition synodical classical Pres●byter al chains untill the appearing of that great and terrible J●dge of the whole earth who shall take thee alive with Sir Simon and his sonne Sir John and cast thee with them and their Confederates into the Lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and the false Prophet are there to be tormented day and right 〈◊〉 ever and ever Here is the Independents incomparible charity to the Assembly Presbyters and their Adherents to adjudge them thus to eternall torments in the fiery Lak● I fear their New-Lights originally sprung upthence without more charity sobriety will undoubtedly be extinguished in this fiery region which they allot to others the rest of the Invectives against the Assembly and Presbytery in this persecuting Arraignment I shall passe by in silence and proceed to some fresher scurrilites of this kind I find another most scurrlous Libell against the Assembly and their proceedings thus intituled A sacred Decretall or Hue and Cry from his superlative Holinesse Sir Simon Synod for the apprehension of reverend young Martin Ma●-priest wherein are displayed many witty synodian conceits both pleasant and commodious printed by Martin Claw-Clergy Printer to the reverend Assembly of Divines for Bartholmew Bang-Priest and are to be sold at his shop in Toleration-street at the signe of the subjects Liberty right opposite to Persecution● Court and it concludes thus Given at our Court of Inquisition in King Henry the sevenths Chappel June 6. 1635. William Twisse Prolocutor Cornelius Burges Assessor Iohn White Assessor Adoniran Byfield Hen. Roborough S●ibes This Libell brings in the Assembly blasphemously abusing the sacred Scripture Names of God as El Eloim Jah Theos Adonas c. in Synodicall Convocation classicall and Presbiteriall Exorcismes pag. 2. Gives the Assembly and Presbiters these most scurrilous railing Epithites classicall Bore-p●gges divine white-faced Bull-calves Presbyterian Turkey-cocks bidding them advance their learned Coxcombs c. Church-owles Jack-dawes blind Bats Presbyterian Wood-cockes Presbyterian Hangmen cruell executioners terrible tormenters synodian Canibals the ravenous tythe-panched numerous headed Hydra of Divines The holy ravenous Order of Syon-Jesuits absolute Jesuites onely a little worse It begins thus page 1. We the Parliament of Divines now Assembly in holy Convocation at Westminster taking into our grave learned and pious consideration all the goodly fat Benefices of the Kingdome the reverend estimation honour and supremacy due unto the Clergy and out of a godly care and pious providence as becommeth Divines for our owne guts having used all subtilty and policy we in our divine wisdomes could devise to take a goodly possession of the dearly beloved glorious inheritance of our Fathers the late Lord Bishops their divine supremacy their sweet their wholsome and nourishing revenues their deare delicate toothsome tythes most supernaturall and pleasant to a divine pallate After which it cals them The p●issant Assembly of Divines Lords Paramount over Church and State in Parliament Assembled at Westminster divine Merchants c. Avers p. 18. That the Order Jesuits may become Disciples to the Order of presby●ers for equivocations mentall reservations dispensations of Oathes Covenants c. Chargeth the Assembly p. 6. For dealing craft●ly with the Parliament and cheating the State Adding this most scandalous seditions passage extreamly derogatory to the Parliaments honour As the way of a serpent upon a rock is unknowable so have our circumventions underminigs and subtill contrivances beene ever invisible insensible to them and so silently secretly and gradually have intic'd them with the bait of Religion and caught them with a synodian hooke we held out the League and Covenant the Cause of God and the like to the Kingdome and at length plucks up a fish called a Parliament out of their proper Magisteriall Element into our synodian spirituallity and thus neatly wrested the Scepter out of their bands that they neither know nor perceive it that in truth the Assembly is Dissembled into the Parliament and the two Houses made but a stalking horse to the designes of the Clergy They say it is decreed and ordained by the Lords and Commons c. but in plaine English it is the Assembly of Divines 't is true 't is the Lords and Commons in the History but the Assembly of Divines in the Mystery as Martin wisely hinted in his License before the booke of the Arraignment for we are become the whole directive and coercive power both in Church and State a supremacy due unto us as well as to the Pope and though we give them as men doe bables to children the title of making and judging of Lawes to please them yet with such distinctions and limitations to speak this under the Rose that we intend for our selves that which we give unto them even as our Brethren of the society of Iesu doe concerning his Holinesse the Pope in the infallibility and temporall power this honour and priviledge was of divine right given and anciently enjoyed by our reverend Fathers the Bishops and why should not we be heires unto it by our legitimate lineall descent All Lawes Statutes and Ordinances both concerning Church and State were Decreed Ordained and enacted by the Lords spiritual and temporal c. And why not now by the Assembly of Divines and Parliament now Assembled at Westminster this is not yet in the History for indeed our matter is not yet ripe for such a discovery c. As all other wicked men so these seditions Libellers grow worse and worse their next most seditious Libell against the Assembly and Parliaments proceedings being intituled Martins Eccho or a Remonstrance from his holinesse reverend young Martin Mar-priest responsory to the late sacred synodical Decretal in all humility presented to the reverend pious and grave consideration of the right reverend Father in God the universall Bishop of our soules his superlative Holinesse Sir Simon Synod It begins thus Whereas his Holinesse reverend young Martin Mar-priest taking into his grave and learned consideration the insufferable arrogance of our ambitions aspiring Presbytery their super-prelaticall supremacy their ravenous blood-thirsty malice against the poor Saints of the most high God their inordinate insatiable covetousnesse after the fat things of the Land their unparallel'd hypocrisie their plausible pretences their incomprehensible policy craft