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A89061	Mercuries message defended, against the vain, foolish, simple, and absurd cavils of Thomas Herbert a ridiculous ballad-maker. Wherein, his witlesse answers are clearly confuted, himselfe found guilty of hypocrisie, catcht broaching of popery, condemned by his owne words, and here and there for his impudent saucinesse jerkt with the rod of correction, to teach him more manners when he writes again. By the author of the said Mercuries message.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1641 (1641)	Wing M1747; Thomason E160_13; ESTC R22299	13,081	24

to scoffe and jeer at this must needs spring from an horrible root of envy and maliciousnesse Answ But if Sir Thomas Wiseacres can make this his position good by the testimony of any authenticke Ballad he hath in his three halfe penny Library we may safely conclude Paul to bee a man of a lofty spirit and full of malicious spleen towards Peter when he blamed him to his face before a great assembly of people for doing some things amisse as ye may reade Gal. 2. Gal. 2.11 Nay we may very well say that Solomon had overshot his judgement when hee writ this among his Sentences Open rebuke is better than secret love Pho. 27.5 And thus hath a few boughes cut off from the tree of Gods Word sweetned these bitter waters of envy which were so harsh to be swallowed by Herbert the Ballad-maker Let me now inquire what makes it so scandalous Is it possible to throw any disgrace upon a man whose actions have beene so ungracious that hee expects no other Exit but by an Axe or an Halter Such an one as by his notorious life hath made himselfe an hissing and a laughing stocke to all England Can this man be scandalized as soone will I beleeve that a bucket of water will slabber the sea because it makes a puddle in a fair hall as that a man of a corrupt life can be blemished by ill words because a man of honest conversation may But I would very faine have him answer mee this one question whether it be possible for a man to be slandered in a matter of truth Quest What I there writ of the Bishop all England will avouch nay he himselfe confesses to be true Where then is all this mighty scandall you talke of O but then 't is libellous libellous as how I pray What lyes hath the piercing eye of his blockish judgement found in it I wonder Had he been so kinde to have told me I le assure you they should have been mended in the next Impression and that is more than he can doe to his I am confident unlesse he take it and throw it into the fire and then cry Now I hope all faults are corrected But by your favour Master Herbert though you past them by so slightly without naming I must a little presume upon your patience whilest I recapitulate the summe of my Booke to try if I can discover these falsities you accuse mee of I will propound the questions do you answer if you can And 1. Quest 1 Doe not our lordly Prelates feare a fall What 's the reason then the great One lies thus caged up in the Tower and the rest questioned in Parliament for their places the expectation of all good men being to see these spirituall Lords drove out of their seats of justice into pulpits of instruction the fitter place of the two Well Quest 2 but did they not domineere in prosperity persecuting Gods faithfull people and ministers that opposed their idolatrous ceremonies setting them them in pillories cutting off their eares branding them banishing them the land and a thousand other cruelties exercised in the High Commission and other such unconscionable illegall Courts kept by them and a viperous brood of promoters pursivants and such like knavish dependants What was the matter then with those three men M. Burton D. Bastwicke and M. Prin with divers others redeemed out of severall prisons by the Parliament nay what means such a numerous company of poor ministers petitions daily presented to the honourable House of Commons that have most cruelly been thrust out of all their lands and meanes of maintenance and so undone themselves their wives and children because their consciences would not suffer them to submit to such base superstitious ceremonies as were imposed upon them Did not our weekly lectures and sunday afternoon Sermons begin to go downe apace under a pretence of getting infection in the Church of God at Sermons more than at Service what 's the reason then that Ministers durst not preach upon week-dayes nor on the Sabbath in the afternoon in many places for fear of suspension and displeasing the Bishop nay what meant little Wren to flutter about so monstrously and silence above 80. in his owne Diocesse for standing above an hour in a sermon though they preached but once a week Was it not the Bishop of Canterbury his chiefest meanes to perswade the King to set out the booke of Toleration for Sports and Pastimes on the Lords day thereby to betray both such good Pastours of their flock as would not reade it and deceive the souls of the people that too greedily receiv'd it how comes it to passe then it was never mov'd nor thought on before Were not altars raised and adorned with wax-candles nay some with Images and Crucifixes Were not men commanded to bow to them as they went forward and backward and likewise to cringe and buckle the knee at the Name of Iesus though the Minister were but praying for Iesus College in Cambridge Quest 7 or noting some proof out of Iesus the son of Sirach Quest 8 Did not our Episcopall Canoneers finely run themselves into a premunire by making New Canons after the last Parliament was dissolved charging them so deepe with an Oath and c. that they recoyled in their faces Quest 9 And did not these things give men just cause to suspect that the Bishop had more than a moneths minde to make a match with the Strumpet of Rome but all these his projects failing hee being catcht napping in his knavery and committed to the Black Rod to be whipt for his offences did not every man that could Quest 10 tosse a jeer after him was not scoffes and flouts of Canterbury common in all mens mouthes alas this is so evident that it cannot be denied and now what 's become of all these envious scandalous and libellous lines What all vanisht so quickly before seen or was it some other book you thought on when you were answering mine sure some such matter or else sucking too long at the ale-tap had dimm'd your eyes and so made you thinke what you writ your selfe in your owne you had seen printed in mine what ever it was 't is fit you should be wound up for your doltishnesse but I am willing to let you part at a distance for he that closes with a begger may expect to part lousie In the next place to fill up the Title we have the resemblance of an arme holding a knife fast clencht as though you had lately made some desperate fray among the two penny pudding-pies in Fleet-lane or perhaps you set it there as a direction to your friends to be in readinesse to cut the rope when you were catcht in a twist for your faucy poetry Thus carping Criticke have I done with the forefront of your book Give me leave now having stood so long at the porch to enter in at the doore and see what ornaments are