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A84070 Jack Pudding: or, A minister made a black-pudding. Presented to Mr. R. Farmer parson of Nicholas Church in Bristol: by W.E. Erbery, William, 1604-1654. 1654 (1654) Wing E3228; Thomason E731_24; ESTC R206873 5,355 8

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Jack Pudding Or A MINISTER Made A Black-Pudding Presented To Mr. R. Farmer Parson of Nicholas Church in Bristol By W. E. RBVRY Ye have said 'T is a vain thing to serve God and What profit is it that we have kept his Ordinance and that we have walked mournfully or as the Hebrew reads that we have walked in black Mal. 3.14 To serve God is not in Forms of Worship c. but in waiting continually on God following Christ in the Cross or fellowship of his sufferings Ioh. 12.24 25 26 27. March the 17 Printed at LONDON 1654. 1653 PROEME THere is nothing that the Prophets do more contemptuously speak of then the Priests and their Ordinances being also types of ours Both were once honorable and holy in their season in the Spirits presence but when this was withdrawn and they departed from the primitive institution or from their righteous walkings those Worships though ordained of God were abhorred by him Amos 6.8 There are two several times wherein the Priests or Ministers and their Ordinances were contemned of God and of men too at last 1. When the Church was under Apostacie as ours is see Isai 1.11 12 13 14 15. Jer. 7.21 22. Mal. 2.1 2. to vers 9. where God does curse their blessings corrupt their seed or Tythe-corn spread dung on their faces makes them contemptible and base before the people c. 2. Not onely the Apostacie but the approching glory or glorious appearance of the great God in his people being at hand doth cast contempt and a curse on the Church-Ministers and their Ordinances as Isai 43.19 to vers 28. Isai 66.2 3 5 8 9 10. c. where God profanes the princes of the sanctuary or as the Hebr. reads the holy Princes and Pastors and gives Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproches all their Ordinances being accounted as the cutting off a dogs neck offering swines blood blessing an idol yea butchering a man as the abomination and the mouse c. vers 17. This I thought fit to premise unto the following Discourse which might seem ridiculous to some though serious Truths both Religion and Reason may appear therein to many Farewel Thy W. E. These that sanctifie themselves and purifie themselves in gardens behinde one tree in the midst eating swines flesh and the abomination and the mouse shall be consumed together saith the Lord. Isai 66.17 BEfore I come to my Text I must begin with my Parson a man at first but a Clerk not Clerk of a Parish but to a pettifogging Lawyer or Committee as they say then a Maltster now a Minister of the Gospel or John of all trades that 's Jack-Pudding so he was pleased to call me in Publike at his Parish-meeting where he was merry at the Jest but I shall prove him in earnest to be that indeed not onely a Jack but a Black-Pudding The occasion of his Scomma was this Mr. Morgan Floyd of North Wales and my self of the South meeting together in Bristol the meer hand of providence having brought us thither not any particular designe as some have imagined we had liberty from God with the love of men and the Magistrates leave to speak in publike though the Minister Parson Farmer stole away the Keys and kept the Church-doors fast till by Authority they were opened for us I mean for Mr. Floyd though I spake after he had ended The next day I departed the City and the Sunday following Mr. Farmer like a coward comes behinde my back and smites me in my absence calling me Heretick by name or which is worse Jack-pudding as Mr. Floyd Mountebank though he forbore to particularize my friend who being in the City sent a sober Chalenge to Mr. Farmer to meet him in publike or in private to reason about things controverted and censured by the said Farmer But the man was so faint-hearted he dar'd not appear but refused the Gantlet though he be as bold as a Lion in his Pulpit and roars upon all that cannot conform or crouch to his Doctrine and Discipline Truely I had never tryed his strength nor troubled his patience though his preaching and teaching were never so Traditional and untrue but because he boasts himself as a Minister of the Gospel and many good people are deceived by him and he not daring to talk with any out of his Tub therefore I once thought to question him in publike at his Church but for peace sake I forbore lest I might offend the worthy Governours and Citizens present For this cause I publish it to the world that not onely the Parson might repent of his bitterness his folly and frowardness but that his people might know he is no Minister of Christ nor a Christian man indeed This I prove first as a Scholar by Reason then by Scripture to all rational and religious men in this short Enthymem M. Farmer is a Jack-pudding Therfore no Minister of Christ I prove he is a Jack pudding because he is a Black-pudding yea a Bag-pudding too I could make him because he bears the bag as Judas did and divines for money M●c 3.11 The first onely I now assert in this Syllogism That which is made of fat and blood and a black coat or skin about it is a Black-pudding But Mr. Farmer is made of fat and blood and a black coat or skin about him Therefore he is a Black-pudding Every Tripe-woman or good houswife will prove the Major The Minor is proved in these particulars First their heart is as fat as grease Psal 119.70 so is Mr. Farmer full of the same fat that 's the fulness or height of flesh Isa 17.4 Secondly their feet are swift to shed blood yea their hands are full of blood or bloods as the Hebrew reads Isai 1.15 So is Mr. Farmer 's heart and hands too full of bloods that is a perse●uting spirit covetousness cruelty craft to destroy or deceive yea there 's the blood of souls Ezek. 13. as slaves and souls of men are said to be sold by the Merchants or Ministers Rev. 18.13 but blood especially is the life of the flesh as we call flesh and blood Thus their hands are full of bloods who are wholly in bodily exercises of fleshly Ordinances as those Priests in the Prophet complain What profit is it that we have kept his Ordinance Mark the Ministers are all for profit else the people shall have no Ordinance yet poor fools they think 't is an Ordinance because given by a Black-coat therefore 't is added What profit is it that w● have walked in black for so the Hebr. reads as I said Mal. 3.14 This proves the Minister to be but a Black-pudding because besides his fat and blood he has a black coat or skin about him I do not mention Mr. Farmer 's face or black countenance because God made him so but who made him a Black-coat or Minister after he had done his Malting let men consider onely I 'll prove him to be not
of Gods making as a Minister because he 's a Black-pudding or as Baal's Priests are called Chemarim that is Black-coats Zeph. 11.4 That 's my second Argument He who has no gift of the Spirit by the laying on of hands is no Minister of Christ But Mr. Farmer has no gift of the Spirit Ergo no Minister of Christ The Major is proved 1 Tim. 4.14 2 Tim. 1.6 Heb. 6.1 'T is not the doctrine of Baptism but of Baptisms that 's of the Spirit as well as water without both there is no Church-membership as without laying on of hands and a gift thereby no Minister of Christ. The Minor is proved 1 Cor. 12.8 Among all the gifts of the Spirit the first is a word of wisdom That Minister who has not a gift of wisdom has not the gift of the Spirit But Mr. Farmer has not a gift of wisdom Ergo. Not a gift of the Spirit That Mr. Farmer has not the gift of wisdom is proved by this Because he is a fool That Mr. Farmer is a fool or foolish shepherd is thus asserted He who has the instruments of a foolish shepherd is a fool or foolish shepherd But Mr. Farmer has the instruments of a foolish shepherd Ergo. Mr. Farmer is a fool The Major is proved Zech. 11.15 The Minor is plain because the instruments of a foolish shepherd are 1. when Ministers meddle with Civil matters or intermix with State-affairs there 's One as 't was well said in a Speech at Dunbar 2. The Magistrates call there 's Two 3. A worldly maintenance there 's Three 4. Formal Ordinances in the hands of a fleshly Ministery there 's Four instruments of a foolish shepherd If these are not in Mr. Farmer 's hands then he is no fool but a friend for so we shall be when God shall make him and me and all the Ministers also fools for so all men must be before they be wise or can walk in the way of God where wayfaring men though fools shall not erre therein Isai 35.8 1 Cor. 3.18 Having thus taken my Parson in hand now I shall handle my Text very short and sweet as Mr. Farmer said when he came first to the City that his Sermon should not be long because his books were not come down The fore-going verse tells us that by fire and his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many Isai 66.16 Men have been long fighting with men now the sword of God is drawn against both and man has been long pleading with man now God will plead with all even all flesh which because the Word the sword of the Spirit cannot reach therefore flesh shall have fire kindled within to consume and slay it What 's the fire but the Spirit of the Lord or the Lord himself who is a consuming fire who though dwelling in flesh hath hitherto spar'd it unless in some broken-hearted Saints in whom the everlasting burnings have broken forth and made their flesh and the goodliness of flesh to wither in them their wisdom being turned to folly their spiritual strength to weakness their gifts and graces wasted their joy and peace fled away But this fire is not yet fallen on all but it shall with a vengeance very shortly for as every one shall be salted with fire that is every one who is slain and sacrificed to God for every sacrifice shall be salted with salt so Salt being best to season flesh and fire to slay it the slain of the Lord shall be many indeed when he comes forth in them as fire For as by this he pleads with flesh so his rebukes are said to be with flames of fire Isai 66.15 Words are but winde when man speaks or reproves but when God in man shall rebuke 't will soon be felt as fire in their bones and flames in their bosome Psal The fire comes forth first on the Church for as the Church has not had the baptism of fire but has been content with water so another fire shall baptize yea burn them up as the Prophet phraseth it They shall go out from one fire another fire shall devour them Ezek. 15.5 6. that is the Church has gone forth out of the fire of the Spirit or Baptism of fire into fleshly forms therefore another fire the fire of his jealousie shall devour them This is clear in all the Scriptures that as judgment begins at the house of God so the Church must be judged before the world yea all that wrath judgement fire and a hell upon earth which the Church interprets to be for the world that 's most true of the Church For as the children of the kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness Mat. 8.12 so not strangers but servants are called to account not whores but virgins come to judgment Mat. 25. Yea those carcases are the Churches who as they shall appear as walking Ghosts and to be dead while they live so they are damned above ground and have a hell upon earth whose worm never dies and their fire never quenched Isai 66.24 For as the Lord is said to be a worm or moth unto Judah and our God a consuming fire that shall never be quenched so this Scripture of Isai 66.24 speaks not of hell hereafter for there 's no carcases there nor can one go forth to look upon them for Lazarus could not because of the gulf nor could he being in light see Dives in darkness though Dives in the dark could see Lazarus afar off Besides these carcases are said to be an abhorring to all flesh which shews it to be a hel upon earth And that this fire is first for the Church is clear by my Text They that sanctifie themselves and purifie themselves in the gardens that 's plain of particular Churches for the world is the Common Again they sanctifie and purifie themselves which is not proper to the world But 3. they sanctifie themselves 't is not sanctification of the Spirit through obedience to the truth Besides they are not sanctified throughout their spirit soul and body for the world may see the walkings of Saints as carnal and Churches to be covetous and worldly as any but they sanctifie themselves with some forms and Church-fellowships far from that of the Spirit or Gospel-believers and though they are pure in their own eyes yet God who weigheth the spirits knows they are not washed from their filthiness Prov. 30.12 for the fire hath never touch'd their flesh nor their flesh sacrificed to God therefore as men living in the world and subject to Ordinances they sanctifie themselves purifie themselvs in gardens behind one tree in the midst c. What this one tree is I know not unless it be the forbidden tree which the Churches taste of but the tree of life in the midst of the paradise or garden of God is a mystery to them Rev. 2.7 Rev. 22.14 But there is no such word here as tree in the Hebr. therefore 't is read They sanctifie themselvs and purifie themselvs in the gardens behinde one in the midst This one to me is not a tree but a man even a Minister he is that one in the midst of the Parish-Church and the Church is blest by him for all day and week too after they are sanctified holy men and Christians because they have a Pastor or Parson among them but though in the Sacrament they think to eat the flesh and blood of Christ 't is but swines flesh the abomination and the mouse that 's the Ordinances they feed on People Parson or Pastor together while the Spirit is absent The swines flesh puts me in minde of the Black Pudding before for 't is made of the blood of that yea this very Prophet in the same Chapter tels us that he that offereth an oblation is as he that offereth swines blood Isa 66.3 He that offereth is the Priest or Parson and that he is the Pudding is plain by the words as read in the Original where those words as if he offered are not but thus 't is in the Hebrew He that offereth an oblation swines blood that is he that offereth is swines blood or a black Pudding FINIS Thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy Rev. 16.6