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A56846	The vvhipper vvhipt being a reply upon a scandalous pamphlet, called The whip, abusing that excellent work of Cornelius Burges, Dr in divinity, one of the Assembly of Divines, entituled, The fire of the sanctuary newly discovered / inserti authoris, Qui Mockat, Mockabitur.	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.	1644 (1644)	Wing Q121; ESTC R210654	29,690	48

Capacity But if the Doctors opinion be firmly grounded on the word of God my Confidence of his Piety is such that neither feare of Prisons nor hope of Fortunes are able to divert or to corrupt him But Cal. it had been better worth your paines to have refuted his opinion by the strength of holy Scripture then pinned your implicite faith upon the Authority of men though never so learned or religious being the self same Error we cry down in Popery D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 40. line 21. He that being under authority will rather resist then suffer makes the Cause suffer by his resistance and so in stead of standing zealously for it he doth in effect raise forces against it Cal. A high and desperate Malignancy A Doctrine most dangerous and damnable not onely contrary to the practice of all Churches that labour for a Reformation but directly opposite to an Ordinance of Parliament also If this Doctrine be permitted from the Pen of an Assembly man without punishment or publique Retractation our Cause wil carry warme Credit and his bosome a strange Conscience If this Clause be sound we are at a weekly cost to much purpose If unsound our Assembly hath a sound Member Repl. No question Cal. that Malignant Doctrine hath been the ancient and received Tenet of former dayes neither do I know any Religion so opposite to it as the Church of Rome which holds it not venial but meritorious not onely to resist but also to depose the Authority of the Supreme Magistrate But we are better taught by Scripture not alone commanded but also find it frequently exemplifyed unto us by holy men to give all passive obedience to the power of our Princes whether good or bad without which Gods true Religion would surely want that honorable Confirmation of holy Martirdome which formerly it had But whether the yeare 1642. brought new inspirations and revelations with it or whether the thousand six hundred and forty one yeares before it slept in the darknes of this point deluded by false Translations the Doctor if you repaire to him no question can render you a satisfactory accompt D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 41. line 20. Zeale may stand with suffering and fleeing but not with Resistance which is Flat REBELLION And no good Cause calls Rebellion to aid Cal. Here 's more Water from the same Ditch but a little more stincking through the addition of this odious word REBELLION What Malignant Devil haunted this Doctors Pen Nay in those ●alme dayes when that base tearme REBELLION was hardly understood but in our Prayers Confessive Nay scarce then A word more fit for those that can submit to the inordinate power of a Prince and crush Religion in a Common-wealth Repl. How now Cal. Does your shoe pinch you there Dare you resist who have liberty to flee Can you resist and not rebell Can you do the Act with a good Conscience not heare of the Action without impatience How willingly can a dog foule the roome and how loath to have his nose rubbed in it Did not I tell you in the Preface where you shewed your teeth that you would clap your tayle between your legs anon and run away He whose enlightned judgment there called his God to witnesse hath condemned your Cause styled you by the Name of Rebell and branded your actions with the style of flat REBELLION His Conscience then had neither Feare to pinch it nor Affection to enlarge it nor could his Merits aime at any By-respects for his maintayning of so known a truth so doubly fortified both by the law of God and Nature REBELLION is a Trade the Devil is free of It is both Trade and Devil too No wonder Cal. to see you run so fast You know who drives you Nay he hath driven you so far beyond your senses that you hold him onely loyal that rebells and him rebellious onely that submits D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 45. lin. 20. I think no wise man doubts that even in the purer times of the old Church in Israel corruptions grew in Ceremonies as well as in the substance of Gods worship and yet pry into the Scriptures never so carefully we shall not finde any of the most Zealous Saints fall on fire for Ceremonies which is worth observation Cal. A true Chip of the old block Canterbury who after he had familiarized the name of the Altar in the common care not daring to bring in Transubstantiation with a full Tide innocently left out those words in his Service book which onely made the difference betwixt a Sacrifice and the Sacrament so that but one step more and the work had been fully done So this our Doctor not daring to urge Ceremonies too loud lest the Godly should heare him sets the peaceable Custome of the former Saints betwixt him and the danger of all good mens Censure He made the example of the Saints the wall by which his creeping Popery might hold for feare of falling who had not this blessed Parliament dropt down from heaven to crush these Superstitions in their Rise had been by this as perfect a Proficient as the worst had had his high tricks his low tricks and perchance his Merry tricks too as well as his fellowes Repl. How you wonder at a sparke of fire Cal. when just now your eyes dazled at the flame I Did not the Doctor in his Dedication as good as confesse himself an enemy to Anticeremonians did not your self taxe him of rank Popery and yet what a busines now you make of his creeping Ceremonies The lyar Cal. and the malitious sometimes are alike forgetfull But to the purpose If you loved the substance of Religion more you would have more lamented that sea of Christian blood that hath been shed about these Ceremonies then I find you do We contend so much about the shell that I feare we have lost the Kirnell But this know Cal. so long as you traduce your brother and thus abuse your spirituall father neither the love of God nor the God of love abides in you D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 66. line 14. Again let such as be Zealous sticklers for Democraticall or Aristocraticall discipline consider how ill the Church can be governed by one policy and the Common-wealth by another Cal. Our Doctor is growne a Machiavilian and forgets that Piety is the best Policy We living under a Monarchicall Governement in the common-wealth how he pleads for a Hierarchicall governement in the Church consequently dissallowing Democraticall or Aristocraticall Discipline which our gratious Parliament is now setting up But 't is no wonder to heare him that hath so Zealously pleaded for the Robes and vanities of the whore to apologize for her governement and by consequent for the whore her self also Repl. When Ignorance and Folly meet how malice domineeres How this government by Bishops erected in the Apostles dayes approved by Polycarpus Saint Iohns Disciple and Irenaeus the Disciple of Polycarpus Ignatius and all those first

Planters of the Gospell submitted unto by the whole Primitive Church confirmed by Lucius the first Christian King in this Island afterwards established by so many Acts of Parliament as yet unrepealed and freely and personally exercized by so many godly and learned Martyrs how this Government sticks in ignorant Cal's stomack whose forgetfull malice would make the Doctor an enemy to the proceedings and designes of Parliament whose writings were printed so many yeares before this Parliament was dream'd of As for his pleading for the whore this know had the popish Strumpet found no better friends then he she had wanted that retrograde Mercy of a Third part when the Protestant Matrone must be content but with a Fift D. Burges cap. 3. pag. 68. line 20. It was long since the Zealous Complaint of a Holy Man that men could no sooner get up their names in the world and be able readily and confidently to muster up a few places of Scripture nothing to the purpose but they thought themselves sufficient to encounter Moses himself setting upon him as furiously as Dathan or Abiram ever did Happy were this age had it none of that Temper Cal. But has that holy man no name Doctor or was it your own self The man we know not but his Intentions are apparent namely to conclude none able for the Ministry but such as have first their Ordination from your popish Bishops from whose imposition of hands they presently receive the spirit till then being neither called nor qualified brave Iuggling when the laying on of Symonaicall hands must enable a drunkard or a whore-master or worse to preach the sacred Word and administer the holy Sacraments who now by the virtue of this Hocas pocas hath a capacity to forgive sins being though formerly very ignorant now gifted more or lesse according to the gift he brings where they that are called by the secret working of Gods spirit inwardly enlightned by knowledge and especiall Revelation and able for Interpretation though never gifted with tongues were not permitted to exercize their ministeriall Function but imprisoned persecuted and pilloryed Repl. True Cal. you hit the intention right and have so plainly discovered yours too that every fool may reade it and being converted by you approve it too wherein you intimate how needlesse Ordination and Learning are to qualify a Minister and that any who finds himself gifted may execute the Priestly office Tel me Cal. may any that hath skill to make a shoe a hat or a suite professe the Trade till he be made free Your Halls say no Why he hath skill in the Mistery and his Apprentiship is served what hinders him he cannot practice His Master must make him free and he must performe the City Ceremony And shall the calling of a Minister be undertaken by every unexamined tagrag Shall every Coblor Feltmaker or Taylour intrude into that honorable calling and be judges of their own sufficiency and leave their lawfull Trades for unwarrantable Professions according to their own humerous Fansies Our bodyes Cal. expect the help of the most rationall and authoriz'd Phisitians but our soules can be content with every Emprick and accept of every Theologicall Mountibank As for our Bishops you tearme Popish How many of them have lately forsaken for their Conscience sake their lively-hoods and fled from the Popish faction in Ireland hither where instead of charitable reliefe they are thrasht and tribulated with another Flayle D. Burges cap. 3. page 70. line 11. The next way we can possibly take to the best Reformation is by prayers and teares Cal. I see the Doctor loves to sleep in a whole skin and far enough off from Resisting to blood T is true Prayers and Teares are said to be the weapons of the Church And happy it were if such weapons could prevaile But where Entreaty findes defect Compulsion must make supply If Prayers cannot Swords may If Teares may not Blood must Repl. Let them perish by the sword that take up the sword And let them that thirst for blood guzzle blood untill they burst David that fought Gods Battailes commanded by Gods own mouth nay a man after Gods own heart yet his hand that was in blood must not build the Temple And shal we expect by blood a Reformation of the Temple The stroake of a Poleaxe is not acceptable where the noyse of a Hammer was not warrantable D. Burges cap. 4. page 79. line 4. When many people are demanded their Reasons of divers opinions which they stoutly stand unto is not their answer thus Because the contrary is against the word Being pressed to shew wherein they reply We are but ignorant People we cannot dispute with you but so we are taught by Reverend men if you talk with them they will be able to satisfie you to the full Cal. Do Doctor offend those little ones and despise Gods Blossomes All have not learning to maintaine their Opinions by Argument and Sophistry The battail is not alwayes to the strong nor the Race to the swift The perswasion of a Conscience is an able proofe and the opinion of holy men a strong Refuge Better to stand couragiously though ignorant in a Good Cause as some do then to maintaine Error as you do with learned Impiety Repl. Hence it is Cal. your Cause is stronglyer defended by the Sword then by the Pen whose Ignorant Patrons can better thrash then plead T is confest the perswasion of a wel-grounded Conscience is a good proof to the party so perswaded but here it sticks not able to convert a brother Review those world of Pamphlets of both sides published and weigh them In those of the one side you shall have the full consent and Harmony of Scriptures strict precepts commanding holy Examples confirming and all undenyable prest and learnedly urged home to every Conscience that is not seired On those of the other side what Wresting of Scriptures What allegorizing of plaine texts What shuffling What faultring What obscurity of stile What Rhethoricall pretermissions of things materiall What pasquills What invectives What raylings What bitternesse Enough to discover a Bad Cause and to disparage a Good But Cal. your unmaintain'd Opinions are pinned upon the Authority of men Say where 's the Papist now Is not Implicite Beliefe one of our greatest Quarrells with the Church of Rome even unto this day Did not our Saviour himself condemne the old Pharisees for their Traditions If this be not blind Zeale that Scripture is Apochrypha which said Without knowledge the mind is not good Pro. 19. 2. No Cal. such Zeale is the mother of all Sects and Heresies being guided by the opinion we conceive of those men who are subject to Error because but men I advise such to keep their eares open and their mouthes shut D. Burges cap. 4. page 82. line 12. I wish it were no breach of Charity to compare the stirrs of our Brownists Anabaptists and Familists and all the Rabble of such Schismaticall sectaries who may

of Gods glory or more wise to propagate it then David who accounted it his duty to keep his mouth close whilest the wicked were before him Cal. your zeale tasts a little too rank of the mother a Bellings-gate zeale where the Revenge is often more sinfull then the Offence Perchance you 'ld spit in the offenders face That zeale is a strange fire that produces such moist effects Cal. your Religion is too rhumatick Sure Saint Peter had a good quarrell to draw his sword yet the action had too much rashnesse in it as well as blood to be accepted Where the party offending is not capable of reason or the party Vindicating hath no capacity of discretion the action is not warrantable Better to beare the hazzard of some dishonour then to have it indiscreetly vindicated D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 262. lin. 22. The supreame and soveraigne Prince who hath none between him and God representing the person of God executing his office and in this respect bearing his name to whom he onely is accountable for all his actions by way of Summons and command this person I say must in all things and at all times be handled with all humility and due respect of that high place he holdeth so as all may be taught not to despise but to honour him the more by the carriage of those that are in case of necessity to treate with him in the name and busines of his God Cal. How now Doctor None between him and God Onely accomptable to God for all his Actions Sure Doctor You are now besides your text Shall whole kingdomes then depend upon his extravagant pleasure So many millions of soules lye open to the tyranny of his arbitrary will Is he not bound to his own Lawes not limited by his Coronation oath May he alter establisht Religion by the omnipotence of his own vast power and turn Gods Church into a Rout of Infidells and our Liberties into a tenure of Villanage Is this your Zeale for Gods glory The man hath overwhelmed his Iudgement in the deep gulph of flattery and lost himself in his own Principles Can he represent Gods person that commands what God forbids Doth he execute Gods office that forbids what he commands If this be zeale or common Religion let me turne Amalakite or any thing that is not this No no Doctor saving your private engagements and expectations Kings are no such persons as our late Idolatry hath made them The trust of Kingdomes is put upon them which so long as they faithfully discharge they are to be honoured and obeyed but once being violated their Covenants are broken and they are no longer Kings The safety of the people is the supreme Law and people were not made for the good of Kings but Kings for the good of People Repl. How this Doctors loyalty good Cal. offends you If he would temporize as you do abuse and slander Scripture for his own liberty as you do fly in the face of Majesty as you do indeavour to introduce a new Government in Church and State as you do Blaspheme God and the King as you do he were then a holy a well-affected man a Saint or any thing that 's good But now his Conscience is directed by the Scriptures his Judgement enlightned by the Scriptures his words warranted by the Scriptures especially in a Case of such Consequence Away with him He is a disaffected person a Malignant and what not that 's Bad But concerning Kings Know They represent Gods Person whether good or bad If good they represent him in his Mercy If bad in his Iudgments Christ hath a Rod of Iron as well as a Golden-Scepter a Nebuchadnezzer as well as a Iosiah a Nero as well as a Constantine We must stoope to both He that submits not to the power of a bad King Kicks against Gods Judgments But he that resists snatches Gods Rod out of his hand and refusing Correction falls into DAMNATION We must submit to the Higher Powers Rom. 13. 1. And who are they Whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governours that are sent by HIM 1 Pet. 2. 13. 14. From whence necessarily this followes That Power which he warrants not we have no Warrant to obey and Those Ordinances his power signes not we have no Commission to observe As for your slighting and deposing Kings the Current of the Scriptures runs strong against you and all the examples of Gods children through the whole book of God bend another Course They know no deposing of Kings but by death no determination of Passive obedience but by fire But whether our Translation of the Scriptures be the same with former Ages or whether some strange light hath darted inspirations into these our later dayes which the Apostle denominated perillous I leave to the learned Synod who I hope will at length consult us into a Religion which shall need no future Alteration or that Alteration no further effusion of Christian blood D. Burges cap. 7. pag. 272. line 19. God made a Law to all Not to revile the Gods nor curse the Ruler of the people which Law prohibiteth not onely Imprecations and seditious Raylings which is a hellish impiety though it be but in word onely be the Prince never so impious but even all rude bitter and unseemly speeches although in secret to himself alone much more in publique or in other places behinde his back Cal. What paynes the Man takes to pick out Texts to countenance his Idolatry-royall True Kings are called Gods But what followes They shall dye like men Concerning which dying not a word because it is so opposite to a Living which is the onely Butt he aymes at But marke the Doctrine his Court-ship raises from his well chosen Text Though Princes be never so impious yet to reprove them roundly which in his language is seditious rayling rude bitter and unseemely speeches is a hellish impiety and in his King-clawing Iudgment must neither be done in publique nor yet in private How ready are such Officers to light Princes to the Devill Repl. Cal. If he light Kings to the Devil by his poynt of Doctrine you take a speedy course to send his subjects after him by your use of exhortation But mark your own words you first intimate that he makes him a God then conclude He lights him to the Devil You that can so suddenly make Contraries meet reconcile the King and his two Houses The issue then of all is this You say He makes the King a God by flattering Idolatry and I say you make his subjects Devils by your flat Rebellion Calvin whom you confide in tels you That Princes though most wicked in their Government yet in respect of the dignity of their places their name and Credit must be spared But see a greater then Calvin Elihu the moderatour betwixt Iob and his miserable Comforters Iob 34. 18. saith Is it fit then to say to a King Thou art wicked and to Princes yee are

20. But what is every tatling Basket-maker or Butcher or mincing Shee a fit Judge of a Ministers doctrine and meet to reprove and confute him for it Is that Zeal which catches at pieces of sentences and then runnes away and gives out that he preaches false doctrine contradictions or Invectives to shame him to his flock Cal. Doctor if some of your Coat I name no bodie were as tender of your Lives as ye are of your Doctrines you would have fairer reports But your bent is to bring the vulgar to beleeve your words without Examination and then you 'ld preach them into what Religion ye list Could you but once work them to Implicite faith the Kingdome of Antichrill were more then halfe set up The horse that winces is galled somewhere or we account it the trick of a Jade that feares riding God hath commanded all to search the Scriptures and will ye take Pett if we examine the Doctrine you raise from thence Did our Saviour storme when the Sadduces reproved his words How often were his Doctrines traduced as false How often was his Authority questioned nay more denyed Yet he reviled them not Doctor stroke downe your stomack The closer you follow Christ the cheerfullier your flock will follow you But know in things so neare concerning us our mouthes shall be as wide as the faults be they of Potentates Generals or Princes and if they doe not what our Conscience tels us is their duties they shall not faile to heare on t Repl. Cal. I think Ignorance hath given thy tongue a Bribe thou playest her Advocate so well Both of their lives and doctrines Ministers must give account to God and his subordinate Authoritie and not to you Cal. you forget the Calling of a Minister He is your spirituall Father Cham was cursed for discovering his fathers nakednesse Put case your Minister should shew his nakednesse in some Error either of life or doctrine it were more modest piety for you to cover it with your silence or to recover it by your prayers then to upbraide Him with it Had you searcht the Scriptures as you ought you would as well have condemned the saucines of the Sadduces as the mildnes of our Saviour whose high Authority needed no Credit among men but our poor Ministers whom the least breath of a Mechanicks mouth is able now to ruine and undoe both wives and children without compassion have reason to be moved with such affronts But Cal. perchance you vindicate your own naturall father whilst you revenge your self upon your spirituall from whence ariseth this doctrine You have more love to the flesh then to the spirit No question Cal. your fancynesse is universall and feares not to be exercized upon the Sword as well as Keyes Your Prince hath found it Your Generall hath found it whose slow designes cannot agree with the Constitutions of your too fiery spirits your discontents have found unbridled tongues to propagate your liberties although by blood But the Synod whose consultations are to settle peace in our distemperd Church can go their own paces without petition or complaint from whence ariseth this doctrine You love your own safeties above the glory of God D. Burges cap. 7. page 335. line 21. I wright this to clip the wings of those Batts and Reremice that are ready to fly in the Ministers face upon all occasions with false accusations fancy Reproofs and proud Censures of his Ministry desiring to be teachers of Law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirme Cal. Doctor you still harp upon the same string But do these Batts these Reremice trouble you Then walke lesse in the Dark You know my meaning But you now pick a Quarrell against your forenamed Reprovers That they desire to be teachers of the Law understanding neither what they say nor what they affirme How your Orthodoxe nose swells at that If ye would be oftner in your Pulpits there would be the lesse roome for them But tell me Doctor If a Smith or a Tinker should happen to be gifted and strike a Naile of edification into the spirituall foot of an unregenerate brother and thereby save his soule would it trouble you because the Smith was not called would it grieve you because the Tinker had no Ordination from a Bitesheepe If a good deed be done true piety will never blame the hand that did it Repl. Cal. You have twice together out of your sinck of bitternesse belched out your naucious malice upon the Dr. in these dark words I meane no body and You know my meaning which like the flatus hypocondriacus fuming from your spleene the Receptacle of all base humors troubles and distracts your head But in His Name I defye both them and thee And as for your Tub-preachers you so much defend I perceive by your Metaphor they edify the cleane contrary way Concerning whom this onely When the great Block of Religion is removed then such Buggs appeare Rebellion like an Easterne-wind brings in such vermine When Ieroboam rebelled against his lawfull Soveraigne and dispossest him of the Crown of Israel he made Priests of the lowest of the people which were not of the house of Levi 1 King 12. 31. And this became sin unto the house of Ieroboam even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth 1 Kin. 13. 34. But your Tubbists have learning enough and understanding too sufficient for an Auditory composed of such as you whom Ignorance cannot injure D. Burges cap. 7. page 360. line 11. If he that seemes religious will yet be idle false undutifull and stub borne raile at Ceremonies Bishops and Common-Prayer disdaine to be corrected and maintaine his fault that man or woman will never have any true Religion in him till with a Cudgel all these Counterfits be beaten off Cal. As our Doctor hath formerly in his severall Clauses and Chops of Zeale set down the particular Items of his ill-affected and malignant opinions so in this last he hath comprehended all in a Summa Totalis And to conclude marke one thing right worthy to be observed and then farewell He that hath buzz'd so long about the Roome like a Flesh-Fly hath now discover'd himself to be a Hornet with a sting in his Tayle He hath at length turn'd the weapons of the Church into a Cudgell and changed the peace of the Gospel into Club-law Repl. Cal. If the Doctors Inventory please thee not the fault lies in thy own Ignorance that knowest not how to prize such Iewels Grains are fitter for Grill then Pearles Our Doctor whom you revile is neither Fly nor Hornet but a painfull Bee who though he carry a sting in his Tayle for such turbulent spirits as you yet he hath likewise honey in his Bag for such as shall deserve it Think not his Zeale cruell because it mentions a Cudgell A Cudgell drawes no blood as your encouraged Swords have done If Iustruction wil not do Correction must but Love in both If Saint Paul cannot perswade subjection to higher powers Nor Solomon obedience to Sacred Majesty Pauls Rod is for the stubborne heart and Solomons Scourge for the fooles back HEB. 6. 4 5 6. It is impossible for those who were once enlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the holy Spirit And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come If they shall fall away to renew them again unto Repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame To the Readers NOw the businesse is ended If you look upon this skirmish with a generall eye you wil see nothing but as in a Battail smoak and confusion But if you mark every ones particular behaviour you wil easily distinguish betwixt a rash fierie spirit and a truly valiant In the Doctor you shall find a David fighting Gods defensive Battailes without sinister respects or private passion In Cal. you shal see the son of Nimshi matching furiously and hewing downe the Priests of Baal yet neverthelesse a great worshipper of Calves In the Replyer you may behold Ionathan comming a Reserve to David though perchance shooting his arrowes sometimes wide and sometimes open It lyes in you Readers now to judge and give the Palme For the Doctors part and mine would Cal. durst make the third we both resigne our shares Let Truth be crowned with the Victory and the God of Truth with Glory FINIS * 1 Trienniall Parliam 2 Starchamber 3 High Commission 4 Shipmoney 5 Coat and Conduct money 6 Monopolies 7 Forrests 8 Tunnage and Pound 9 Regulate the Clerk of the market 10 Knighthood money 11 For the continuance of this Parl.