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A56836	The profest royalist his quarrell with the times, maintained in three tracts ...	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Loyall convert.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. New distemper.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Whipper whipt.	1645 (1645)	Wing Q113; ESTC R3128	63,032	100

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 Cobler 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 undenyably prest and learnedly urged home to every Conscience that is not feired 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 truly be tearm'd Puritanes with this inconsiderate action of those rude Ephesians Acts 19. 32. If there be any difference it is onely in this that these mad Martinmarre prelates professe in their words that they knew God but in their works they deny him Cal. All that hate Popery and Popish Prelates are in our Zealous Doctors esteeme Brownists Anabaptists and schimaticall Sectaries which he brands with that now almost forgotten stile of Puritanes all far honester men then himself whom compareing them to those rude Ephesians he makes according to the Kings unworthy Declarations the Authors of all these Commotions calling that worthy man Martin marre-prelate mad for touching the apple of his eye the idolatrized Hierarchy A Malignant of the right stamp and coyned at the Kings own Royall Mint Repl. Once again good Cal. if it will not too much prejudice the progresse of your wit correct the frailty of your Memory and remember the doctors book which you so soundly answer was Printed in the yeare 1625. which was a little before this unhappy Commotion which you say he fathers upon the Brownists and Anabaptists and schismaticall sectaries according to His Majesties Declaration Truly Cal. your malice may rather brand him for a witch then a Malignant but your discretion may hold him rather for a Prophet then either that so long since foresaw this Indeed in that poynt he jumps word for word with His Majesties Declaration and if the King speake true the Doctor speakes not falsely For what His Majesty writes now by way of history our Doctor delivered then by way of Prophesie D. Burges cap. 4. pag. 137. line 20. Such as make a great blaze when prosperity credit Peace and Preferment are Bellowes to blow it but are so carried about as hay in a whirlwind with the blast of Time that they wil be ready to fire that which before they maintained if the wind turned never so little about through fears or hopes wil be of any Religion and temper that the strongest faction embraceth resolving to go no further then a faire wind and weather and a calme tide will carry them And if any storme arise presently to make to the shore to prevent perill of life and goods Such Zealots I say as these never had any Coale from the Altar to kindle their Sacrifices they never knew what it is to aime at the Glory of God Cal. Your Doctrine is good had it been as well followed Say Doctor who was he that a little before this Parliament when our brethren the Scots made

divers Acts of Parl. in the dayes of Q● Eliz. King Iames and King Charles our now gracious Soveraigne whom Almighty God long preserve But this establisht Discipline had no sooner being but enemies of which sort the devill hath alwayes instruments to nip the Plants of Religion in the Bud whose number daily since encreasing grew hotter and hotter in opposition and stronger and stronger in faction being too long for peace fake conniv'd at and at last too unseasonably and violently opposed insomuch that the disease in these our late dayes grew too powerfull for the Remedy so that the Distemper of our Church in that respect is growne so high that I feare Phlebotomy will rather produce a further languishment being already come to Madnesse then a Cure Nay so far have the Enemies of this establisht Government and Discipline given way to their exorbitant and refractory Opinion that they will neither allow the Matter nor the Forme nor the Authority and testimony of the Composers 1. Not the Matter though they cannot but acknowledge it in the generall to be very good yet because it was unsanctified by superstitious lips 2. Not the Forme because set and composed by Humane Invention 3. Not the Composers because Bishops and so though Martyrs for the Cause of God and his true Religion Members of Antichrist 1. As for their Exceptions against the Matter how ridiculous they are let Reason judge Have not superstitious tongues and eyes viewed and read the Scriptures in their very Originall and purity Shall therefore the Scriptures be disallowed Have not superstitious persons profaned our Churches with their Popish Doctrines Sacraments and Ceremonies and shall our Churches therefore be cryed downe or shut against the Ordinances of God because those Poets were Heathenish was S. Paul afraid to use their sayings Was the Spirit of God too blame to endite them Good things abused work evill effects upon the abusers but lose not their goodnesse by the Abuse 2. As for their Exceptions against the Forme being set and not conceived the Authority of the Scriptures I hope will answer God the Father warrants it God the Son prescribes it God the holy Ghost allowes it 1. God the Father warrants it in the Old Testament at the time of the Law by his command to Moses Numb 6. 21. where he gives him a set forme and words to blesse the people The Lord blesse thee and keep thee the Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee 2. God the Sonne prescribes it in the New Testament in the time of the Gospel Whe● S. Iohn the Baptist had taught his Disciples to pray the Disciples of Jesus Christ whose house was called the house of Prayer humbly requested the fame boone from him who prescribed them that Forme which he had formerly used in the end of his Sermon Mat. 6. 9. which he intended not as a Model as some would have it but a very Prayer it selfe to be used in those very words as they were delivered Luke 11. 2. not After this manner but when ye pray 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say That he will'd the same words to be used is evident For his Disciples would be taught as Iohn taught his And how were they taught S. Iohn taught them the words onely he could not give them the Spirit to make an extemporary descant upon them So that being a direct Set Forme it warranted Set Formes which were used from the beginning of the Primitive Church from whence this part of our Discipline had her originall 3. God the holy Spirit allowes it Who dare question that the holy Spirit inspired S. Paul in all his Epistles written to the Churches In all which Epistles he concludes with this one Prayer The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ c. 3. As for their exceptions against the Composers of this Lyturgie who were no lesse then holy Martyrs and by Fire-light saw more Revelations then these Objectors did by day-light men of approved learning and true piety though some have impudence and spirituall pide enough to think their owne abilities and inspiratious to flye a higher pitch and Ignorance enough to acknowledge greater knowledge in themselves yet the most humble able and truly sanctified minds have alwaies had Martyrdome in so high reverence that they conclude that God that made their blood the seed of the Church and gave them the courage and honour to dye in the maintenance of the Truth would not permit that seed to bring forth such darnel of superstition or them to die guilty of those Errors they so resolutely cryed down with their dying blood 2. As for her government by Episcopacie the extirpation wherof being a great addition to her Distemper It hath as much or more Ius Divinum to plead then that which endeavours to demolish succeed it Presbyterie Both are but mentioned in the Scripture at large but no particular Rules for the executing the office of either which being left wholly as arbitrary it rests in the power of the Supreme Magistrate whom God hath constituted his Vicegerent to choose and establish which may best be found consistent with the Constitutions of the Kingdome and stand to most advantage with the civil Government But admit the Civil Government will stand with either When the Balances stand eavenly poised the least Grain turns it In things indifferent the smallest circumstance casts it This Island of Bitaine if we look back above 1400 yeares being a long Prescription when she first received the Faith was then governed by King Lucius whom God made a great Instrument for reducing of this Kingdome from Paganisme who sending to Rome and accommodated from thence with two Christian and learned Divines by their labours and Gods assistance upon them planted the Gospel At the beginning of which plantation Arch-Flamins and Flamins were put downe and in their roome Archbishops and Bishops were introduced which Government successively continued and flourisht through the reigns of many wise Princes confirmed by many Acts of Parliament since the Reformation exercised and approved by holy Martyrs and allowed of as most fitting until the yeare of our Lord 1641. At which time multitudes of the lower sort of people throughout this Kingdome petitioned and tumultuously troubled the Parliament so that some of the Members perchance according to their inclination and others for quietnesse sake consented to the abolition and extirpation of Episcopacy the unadviz'd Contents of their clamorous Petitions Now if these Governments Hierarchicall and Presbyteriall be indifferent these Circumstances First of the time when Episcopall Government began Secondly of the unintermissive continuance for so many Ages Thirdly the credit of the persons confirming and approving it me thinks should cast such a kind of necessity upon it that the other being an untry'd Government and having no consent or approbation from the Supreme Magistrate and being onely cryed in by the Ignorant multitude affected to novelties and change should have no wise friend to plead for

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 i● 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 eare 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 left 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 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 Ceremenies 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