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A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

is none of them will stand for it When any benefice falls to any private Colledge in the University it is proffered by the Rector or his Deputy at the meeting of the Fellows or else at dinner or supper to the Fellows according to their seniority and they presently ask what it is worth a year which if it be two hundred pound or thereabouts per annum the Senior most commonly accepts of it If but four score pound a year or very far off from his Friends or in a factious place as they call it amongst Anabaptists Quakers Army Independants or the like then they accept not of it but say send it down and so when none of the fatlings in the Colledge accepts of it some serviture or other whose friends or allowance cannot maintain him longer in the University is necessitated to accept of it and hence it is a common Observation that they that have good Friends or good fellowships seldome go out into the Countrey unless he get a very fat benefice They who intend to get a personage learn to write short hand to furnish themselves with Sermons go to hear all that preach buy good store of practical Divines conform themselves in their habit sit in a place in the Mass-house where they are sure to be seen by the great ones which by way of jear some amongst them call being of the Visable Church and all this they do to get the Doctors hands to their certificate without which they cannot pass the Commissioners but I never read of any but the Pope and his off-spring here in England that did so much as pretend to know God that used any of these practises to make their Ministers but these are of man and by man and not of the Lord Jesus and they infallibly run when he never sends them and as themselves are so are their converts for at the best they can but beget their own image which may plainly be seen to be the very quintensence of the mystery of iniquity They who desire rather to be chaplains to great persons and Ladies learn to dance and sing and do their honours hamsomly study polite and humane learning the better to please their Masters with fine words and elegant expressions and these things they presume will make them acceptable and these are not called by them plain Priests but Gentlemen of Divinity At the Act and Commencement most of the book-sellers in town writes upon a great piece of boord a catologue of the In London the Priests works are stuck upon the posts and pissing places the Reverend D. W. works And next to it sticks a paper intimating where is a stage play interlude or opera under it the works of Mr. such a ones direction for prayer or preaching with such ribaldry c. and on the side hand of that sticks the paper of a wide-mouth'd Montebanck who saies hee 'l cure all the World of all diseases but he deceives and kills more then he cures as doth the Priest who murthers for his belly names and titles of all such Sermons preached at Funerals on thanksgiving dayes fast dayes and the like occasions also all tracts treatises meditations controversies translations out of other Authors also all Catechisms and the like which have been lately published imprinted or reprinted which the Country Priests buy off and carry home so that thereby they may be prepared and ready to preach almost upon any subject or occasion in a short times warning three or four years after Nay are not there some Countrey Priests who allow stipends to their Friends in the City who write short hand to take such mens Sermons who are counted best preachers and every week to send them down by the post or Carrier into the Country against the next first day Let every Priest exaamine his conscience for this hath been practised in some places It was used not long since in the Mass-house which is called Saint Maries for him that preached to say in his prayer good Lord blesse the right honourable the Chancellour the revered the Vice-chancellors all the Doctors both the proctors c. and this was done to the Vice-chancellors face for he is not to be absent but this prophane custome the Independents did nibble at about a year or two since by which some of the most Popish did begin to imitate but whether it be left or at this day practised I cannot Justly tell At the Act on the day called Hen. 8 as soon as he had renounced the Pope took to himself the Priests first fruits which before were payable as an offering to the Pope From Whence all the Kings Queens and chief Magistrates have and do at this day assume the same And the office where these first-fruits are received and by the Priest at this day paid or offered is kept in a house belonging to the Palace in Westminster called by the name of Hell I say in Hell the hirelings offer their first popish fruits But from the eternal Hell there is no redemption Therefore beware offerer and receiver for that offering was and is Popish and Hellish Saturnday a prophane fellow whom they call a Terrae filius makes a prophane Atheistique obcoene filthy speech in the Mass-house where the next day the Drs. preach and the day after again another Terrae filius comes up and does like his predecessor and this is the fruit of them called Ministers And although this cursed practise is constantly performed with as much filthinesse as it is possible any one thing can be of that nature yet the University will not consent to lay it away so that the next year the same abominations are like to be committed Whereas reading of Homilies which were the Sermons of the Fathers translated into English was cried out against in King James and Charles's reign by the then called Puritanes Now they write the same out in paper which is cut according to the bignesse of their Bible and put into the midst of their book and this they read to the people and is called the Ministers notes or expounding All the Colledges in Oxford except two or three at most keep up their painted windows and * Martial Bristol Brevia●orbi in his Apologetical History Bertius and others have seemed to justifie the Romish Church by saying that it was an evident sign that the rulers of England did in their consciences like the Romish Religion because they liked and maintained their pictures and ceremonies wainscot with the pictures of the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and Martyrs so that it is said by Travellers they are not inferiour to them in the Jesuites Chapel in Antwerp And although in some colledges a piece of a window was taken down yet in most Colledges they are not touched under pretence it would be very chargeable to put up new glasse and that now none did reverence them c. Besides I do● believe thay cannot space so much of their pride and out of

A VVord of Reproof And Advice to my late Fellow-Souldiers and Officers of the English Irish and Scotish Army With some Inrhoad made upon the Hireling and his Mass-house University Orders Degrees Vestments Poperies Heathenism c. With a short Catologue of some of the fighting Priests And for just cause given have given them a blow in one of their eyes pickt out of the whores head which they call A Fountain of Religion but is a sink of iniquity Also a word to those old Creatures who are old in iniquity and in the fallen estate yet deny falling away Likewise a word to those Magistrates and Rulers who whip or suffer to be whipt or imprisoned the Saints of the most High as Vagabonds amongst whom there is no Begger As also a word to that bad Generation of people who in their reprobate minds and with their unwholsome tongues blaspheme and belye the dreadful and just God in saying that he hath created some men intentionally to be damned and a particular number to be saved and damn'd Wherefore then doth the Hireling preach and for what hath he his hire Mark the decrees of God are yea Amen and unalterable A word to these who are called Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Lords Barrons Bannerets Baronets Knights of all sorts Esquires and Gentlemen so called Also let that Generation that desire a signe read some of the Examples that have befallen the Persecutors of the Innocent By a lover of good Men good Laws good Governments and Governours good Judges and Ministers as at the beginning Who hates nor fears no man and is a lover and honourer of all men in the Lord but cannot give flattering Titles or respect the person of any man E. B. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. And I said hear I pray you O heads of Jacob and ye Princes of the house of Israel Is it not for you to know judgement Who hate the good and love the evil who pluck off their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones Who also eat the flesh of my people and flay their skin from off them and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot and as flesh within the cauldron Micah 3. 1 2 3. FRIENDS I Do believe that very many among you are not unsensible of your own unfruitfulnesse and unfaithful dealing to God-ward and I know that ye may not deny but if ye had stood in your former integrity that is to say when ye were little in your own eyes when compassion was no stranger and tendernesse was well known amongst ye then was the hireling and all his Jewish and Popish trumpery sentenced and liberty of conscience vowed I say if ye had stood in that integrity ye might have been instrumental to have saved much of the innocent blood that hath been shed for which I know the Lords hand will be speedily and eminently revealed upon some amongst ye who have connived at cruel murthers when as the blood of the innocent hath been laid before ye as James Parnels in the first place was but since him many others have drank of the same cup even to death And I am sure the Lord will rebuke princes for our sakes and let the most sturdiest oak amongst ye know that the indignation and fierce wrath of the dreadful God is kindled and his righteous judgement is nigh even at the door and a sudain and terrible breach will he make amongst ye at unawares when ye look not for his coming for verily his righteous spirit is grieved at the cruelties that are done although ye hedge your selves up with many spears and think to surround your selves with battleaxes yet the same spirit which ye have many of ye like fools gone about to limit will suddainly break through all your contrivances and a day of mourning will overtake ye although for the present ye are not troubled like other men but suffer the Prophets and messengers of the living God to be slain before your faces yea I know the righteous have perished and none of ye have laid it to heart so as to remedy it and if any of them be moved of the Lord to come among you some of ye have even shamefully and cruelly entreated them madly resisting the holy One in his way but let the most surliest among ye know that the blood of the innocent hath reached heaven and he will not spare ye And now that none of ye from the General to the meanest sentinel may be ignorant what innocent blood I mean It is the blood of such who did believe and declare that Christ is come in the flesh and so durst not uphold a Jewish or Popish priest-hood by paying of them tythes and some for going into a Mass-house and desiring the hireling to fear the Lord and turn from the evil of his wayes or asking a sober question and for not swearing which is the breach of an especial command of Christ who sayes swear not at all many others dragged out of their peaceable meetings without the breach of the least Popish law whatsoever and thrown into dungeons and nasty holes amongst theeves and murtherers other being upon their knees at prayer have been taken up by the hair of the head some thrown into prison without so much as a Mittimus there kept for many moneths others have been stoned knockt down with clubs and stones mangled with swords and run into the body and abundance of such cruelties I might name besides the exceeding great number of our friends that have been whipt as vagabonds and committed to prison for vagabonds and yet be it known to the whole World we have not a begger amongst us One and the same woman hath been committed for not coming and coming to the Steeple-house although she spake not a word to either Priest or people others have been invited by the Magistrates in my hearing to the Steeple-house to have a dispute and yet afterwards was committed to prison but the cause of the innocont which of ye have pleaded or what Justice hath there been done to the poor Nazarenes when any of us have been falsly and contrary to all manner of Law imprisoned for the space of a year more or lesse there is some would have us call it a favour when as for shame they are forced to deliver us When some of the Lambs of God have been brought to the bar the Judge hath asked the plaintiff what he had against the Prisoner he answered he abused me he abused me wherein why said the plaintiff he bid me fear the Lord and this he called an abuse and many such rediculous absurdities I might name that hath been committed by the Anti-christian Romish Clergy and those upon whom that beast rides in these our yet bad-reformed times but I shall wade further into that Sea anon Friends It is not unknown to me the exceeding largeness of your borders in

him that made heaven and earth and onely him who abhors your blasphemy do supplicate or humbly beg your Reverence to be present at congregation on the morrow And then the Vice-chancellor must answer Interer● That is I will be present The Masters and Doctors are bound to wear their formalities as long as they stay in the University A Doctor of Sacred and holy Theologie as they call it for sect 6. par 2. his degree is to preach a Latine Sermon dispute in the Divinity School and to read six Lectures expound any part of the Scripture or any of the Apostolical Epistles T is ordered that all Doctors heads of Colledges Fellows Studients Schollars and all that are initiated into Orders Tit. 14 par 1. do wear black or sad coloured cloaths as it becomes those of the Clergy to do Their outside is a true figure of their inside That no Schollar go to a Conventicle under pain of expulsion Mark that That none swear but when he is lawfully required to it under the pain of paying four pence So that there they may swear cheaper then any where else in England When any one goes out Doctor of Divinity he hath the Bible given to him and a Ring of gold put on his finger and after that the Professor must give him * a kisse before the whole The kiss is in imitation of the Patriarchs who fell upon one anothers necks and kissed and Pauls saying to the Church of Corinth Greet ye one another with a Holy kiss mark it was to be a Holy kiss The square cap which is worn by this Popish brood signifieth the helmet of Salvation which they wear against the enemies of Christ The Ring which the Doctors give in the University signifies with what inviolable infidelity they kept the Spirit of Christ The Gloves signifie that they are to keep their hands undefiled from all worldly matters but it is most evident that they are the wordlings of this world and for cruel hearts and bloody hands who may be compared with them Oh mankind consider them and be not deceived by them for verily they are not of God Much of their orders and now practised fopperies are related by Hospinian in his Book concerning Monks and other Popish orders page 270. University The Senior Master of the Act who represents the rest does receive a book of Aristotle and a kisse from the Proctor as Clemens Roman in his 1 Book cap. 6. It s said Abstain from all books of the Gentilts what hast thou to do with other mens sayings and Lawes or false Prophets which truly turns weak men from the true faith and in the councel of carthage a Cannon said that a Christian shall not read a Heathen or Gentiles Book Gratian saith the Priests of God we see have omitted the Evangelists and Prophets reading comedies and love or lust books and have turned them into singing verses Gregory Magnus prohibited all prelacy in general from reading heathen Authors Gaud. de mor. Sec Just part 2. c. 26. page 90. True Christians we never read they learnt Philosophy in Schools but rather turned all from it Scip. Amirat Dissertat Pollit Lib. 3. p. 92. After Constantine c. had taken off the persecution from the Christians he left it simply to every mans choice what form of Religion he would be gathered in the same Eusebius teache● in his ● book cap. 59. that none may be burthened Tertul. ad Sca●ulam saith the law of man hath power onely upon the natural part but every man is to fear that which himself knoweth and not another mans Religion neither is it Religion to think on Religion to take up the form and not the life as also saith Lactant. Oper. Lib. 5. de just pag. 353. Oh! What an honest mind these sufferers had and felt even that nothing humane was to be weighed or valued with their religion and they chused in it rather to die then to kill others to defend it see likewise Themistius his 12 oration made to Jovinian the Emperour all which oration was in commending him and exhorting him to continue to give tolleration in religion Also see Julian the Emperour as bad as he is made what he did for the Christians very justly said he I have statured in favour of all the Gallileans that none bring a matter against them neither draw them into the Temple nor from any other thing but let them have their own liberty and they that wrong them or contems this law let him die for I would have none forced or drawn beyond their own Rock Therefore again I often admonish that none do injury to the Gallileans but suffer them to use their own Religion in the truth according to their own mind rather using them with mercy then with hatred for they are worthy who have so exceedingly endured calamity with patience pledges of his being admitted Master The Doctors of Physick and Law do receive a Ring a kisse and a Book of Justinian or Galen Besides when any Master or Doctor takes his degree he must first kneel down to the Vice-chancellor then afterwards rise and kisse him and he must kisse both the Proctors and the Dean who presented him and this is done before the whole University in the Congregation When any one gives testimony that such a man is worthy of a degree without which none can proceed he must kneele down before the Vice-chancellor and Proctors and speak Batchellours for Batchellours Masters for Masters Doctors for Doctors all kneel on a cushion in their formalities before the Vice-chancellor The three Esquire Beadles at the Act and upon any solemn occasion besides their round velvet caps and guilded staffs have each of them a chain of gold about their necks which reaches four double below their middles The other three Yeomen Beadles go more plain with Prunello or Calimancho round caps and silver staves When any preaches at the place called Saint Maries Church one of the esquire Bedles who is called the Divinity Bedle Was there any of this foppery when Christ or his Apostles went into the Temple or Synagogue and I am sure he that is a Christian is like Christ and he that is at this day his Minister is found in their steps out of all these inventions immitations sorceries and witchcrafts Take with ye neither staff nor scrip nor money and go and teach all Nations and when they come back lacked they any thing and lo he is with his Ministers to the end of the World and doth not change but is the same yesterday as to day and for ever with his gilded staff is to fetch him that preaches from his chamber and wait on him to the pulpit and so back again Tuesdayes and Thursdayes in Lent by reason they dispute then onely tell eleven are called gracious dayes In some Colledges the Beadle-clerk do●h read by vertue of his office a piece of a chapter in one of the Gospels to the Doctors