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A64889	Coleman-street conclave visited, and, that grand imposter, the schismaticks cheater in chief (who hath long, slily lurked therein) truly and duly discovered containing a most palpable and plain display of Mr. John Goodwin's self-conviction (under his own hand-writing) and of the notorious heresies, errours, malice, pride, and hypocrisie of his most huge garagantua, in falsly pretended piety, to the lamentable misleading of his too-too credulous soul-murthered proselytes of Coleman-street & elsewhere : collected, principally, out of his own big-bragadochio and wavelike-swelling and swaggering writings, full-fraught with six-footed terms, and flashie rhetoricall phrases, far more than solid and sacred truths, and may fitly serve (if it be the Lords will) like Belshazzars hand-writing, on the wall of his conscience, to strike terrour and shame into his own soul, and shamelesse face, and to un-deceive his most miserably cheated and inchanted, or bewitched followers / by John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing V297; ESTC R1674	42,759	52

According to the grace of God which is given unto me as a wise Master builder marke these words I have laid the foundation as a rule for others and others build thereon See then ô thou false tongu'd and rotten-wrangling-hearted Mr. John Goodwin does not the Apostle plainly here professe himselfe even a Master-builder and to have laid the very declarative foundation not the super-structure as thou most lyingly sayest But the super-structure is built upon this his foundation by other men as there thou seest the Apostle himselfe sayes but which thou only most boldly and blasphemously deniest And thou thy selfe hast thus built hay and stubble upon this faithfull foundation of the Apostle for the fire of Gods wrath to burne up in his day of reckoning and tryall And where now then is thy impious and brazen fac'd lying jeer most falsly put upon the learned and religious Subscribers of the Province of London who thou most slanderously sayest call and count thy denyall of the super-structure onely to be the foundation an infamous and pernicious Errour against the Scriptures And is not this * mad-man in Errours and heresie this desperate hereticall jugler thinke you quite and absolutely out of his wits and starke drunk with heresie thus to bluster with and thus to abase and abuse the sacred Scriptures of God and his grave and gracious Ministers thereof yea and all us English Christians also therein so as to make us believe that we are so silly and simple as to hold and believe that the bare or meer inke and paper the written or translated book or books the words or terms and he might as well have added the very falsities and errata in the translating or printing of some words in the Bible so barely and simply considered and separated from the substance sense and matter of the whole frame of Gods counsels and contrivements for the salvation of man by Jesus Christ therein contained and promulgated to the world are the Word of God and the foundation of our faith and Christian Religion and that as you heard before the Sacred Scriptures Originals Translations or written are but a superstructure not the very foundation of our faith and Religion If this then be not blasphemous malice or mischief or at best palpable pride to shew his flashie and frothy wit or down right hereticall rottennesse of heart against the Truth in this wretched man I know not what is Thus contrary to his own words before mentioned yea and to which he most desperately and audaciously calls God to record upon his soul That he has not the least touch of desire to be wise in the things of God either above or besides what is written in the Book of God Let God and man judge in this case whether this man be sober or mad in the things of God Certainly if I be not mightily mistaken this ungodly man hath most exactly acquired and gotten the Jesuites gin to cheat and coozen poor credulous souls only turning the terms a little Theirs was Si non Castè tamen Cautè and his is Si non Verè tamen Vafrè If not Conscienteously yet as craftily as may be And thus he can make even the sacred Scriptures themselves to speak what language he listeth to be Orthodox or Heterodox true or false valid or invalid even as he will and where and when he will And now in the fifth and last place In reading Mr. Goodwins foresaid paultry and pernicious pamphlet which he falsly and fraudulently calls The Divine Authority of Scriptures asserted I could not but with deep admiration take notice of another passage in his Epistle to the besotted Coleman-street Conclave sons and daughters of this their glastly ghostly-Ghostly-father of Errour and Heresie in which Epistle in the page and lines noted in the margine hee hath these words I shall endeavour to leave as much of my spirit with you as I know how when my bodily presence shall be otherwise disposed of And again You are sayes Mr. Goodwin my present joy and will be I hope my future crown Now in reference to these proud supercilious self-stated expressions of this their holy-hearted Master John Goodwin who it seems hath a monstrous conceit of his own spirit that living or dead he would gladly hae it by a Pythagorean transmigration to come tumbling into the brests of his beloved or rather bewitched Proselytes I shall here therefore give the Reader a remarkable testimony of the fruits and effects of the precious spirit and deceitful desire of this hereticall Doctor of damnable Opinions in one of his tall grown Disciples and deare sons of his Coleman-street Conclave vi● bold and blustering Mr. Quarterman of Southwark lately deceased who since the printing and publication of Mr. Goodwins hatefull Hagio-Mastix had it seems sucked no little soul-murthering poyson from it and his other impious printing and preaching on the falsly-pretended asserting but indeed assaulting of the Divine Authority of the Scriptures Insomuch that this foresaid wretched atheisticall fellow M. Quarterman in the moneth of February last 1647 being in company with one Mr. Bisco an Independent Minister in the Parish or Precinct of Thomas in Southwark the said Mr. Bisco and he had private conference about the Scriptures wherein Quarterman took occasion to tell Mr. Bisco that indeed heretofore still before his reading of the Scriptures he used to put off his hat but of late he would not holding it meer Idolatry and Superstition Why sayes Mr. Bisco do you not hold the Scriptures to be holy and worthy to be reverently and religiously used and read or words to this effect No replyed Quarterman I hold and believe That there is no more holynesse in them than is in a Dogs-tayle Hereupon Mr. Bisco began to be much grieved and moved professing that he feared lest the house would presently fall on their heads and very sharply reproved him for those words but Quarterman according to his accustomed bold and insolent manner of carriage was as angry and testy as Mr. Bisco could be and gave out among his neighbours and acquaintances of his one Schismaticall condition that Mr. Bisco was a very frowards and passionate man and had used him thus and thus upon such an occasion whereof Mr. Bisco understanding on the Wednesday following a day of their accustomed set-meeting in their Church-way as they call it Mr. Bisco took occasion in the presence and audience of about twenty or thirty of them then met together in a sad and patheticall manner to acquaint his Congregation Quarterman also himself being then and there present among them to tell them the cause of his just displeasure at Mr. Quartermans wicked words against the Scriptures whereupon Quarterman again most blasphemously brake out into these or the like words That he would maintayne and justifie there was no more holynesse in the Scriptures than was in 20 in a 100 Dogs-tayls And within a day or two after

these notorious slanders against the Parliament shewing himselfe most palpably a man most desperately despising Government at least any Gouernment that the Parliament should establish not sutable to his fancie stifly selfe wild and boldly speaking evill of dignities notwithstanding those his most false and fallacious brags and boastings of himself like a proud Pharisee indeed to the contrary Again this notorious White-Devill or fly Hypocrite and most arrogant Pharisaicall justiciary of himselfe in the foresaid Epistle to the Lords and Commons in Parliament hath these words I speak the truth and lye not to your honours It is more easie to me to suffer than to complain And so tender am I of the reputation of those that have mistaken me to qualifie a hard action with a soft expression that I can hardly desire a perusall of my vindication lest thereby they also may possibly suffer And again for these his expressions are all of them to render himselfe a most milde patient tender-hearted Saint to All in All that is done unto him or said or written against him I am not conscious to my selfe of the least wrong I have ever done marke these words good Reader I beseech thee either to man woman or childe in word or deed Now how honestly holily and uprightly he hath dealt in all these let these following particulars faithfully taken out of his own writings and expressions extant in print under his own hand which I will but briefly touch upon abundantly manifest and declare to God and Men And first I shall pray the honest and religious Reader to take notice how Mr. Goodwin hath made good these his so seeming serious protestations of his piety and probity his mildenesse and sweetnesse of spirit in his answering of reverend religious and learned Master George Walker a most eminent and ancient Minister of Gods Word in London who had formerly most soundly gravely and godlily convinced him to be a notorious Socinian Pelagian and Arminian To whom in his bold reply thereunto Mr. Goodwin uses these words and most uncivill and unseemly terms That Mr. Walker a Minister of Jesus Christ should transform himself into the likenesse of an Angel of darknesse and besmear the brightnesse of his face with the greace and soot of hell is the most unnaturall and unreasonable Netamorphosis that ever was heard of Again five sober words of Mr. Walkers would have gone farther with me and see here what sober words this molde-man himselfe useth to a grave and godly Minister than a thousand crackers or the raging reasonlesse roaring of ten thousand Beelzebubs Again I regard no more the rage or rubbidge of any mans tongue though in many degrees of outward greatnesse and power Mr. Walkers superiours than I doe the dung that passeth from him therefore Mr. Walker might have kept his Earthquakes and Whirlwinds and fires and have sold them for bug-bears to scare children And again a heap of Mr. Walkers errours absurdittes false and forged cavillations whereby he has laid a new dunghill before my door These with very many more such like yea and worse if it were possible most base sordid and scurrillous expressions hath Mr. Goodwin that meek man used against that godly grave and faithfull servant of the Lord as may more at large be seen in Mr. Ricrafts Nosegay collected together or in Mr. Goodwins own answer which here for brevities sake I omit to recite And thus you see whither this man speaks the truth and lies not and is so moderate temperate and tenderly affected touching the reputation of other men as before he most falsly brag'd and boasted of But Secondly see again I pray you what a patient and easie-sufferer of the pretended indignities done unto him by others this man is as he would make the Parliament and all people else believe in his most base and abusive dealing with ever to be honoured learned and religious Mr. Prin in his Book entituled Calumny arraigned to omit his false and foul-mouth'd standers of this said Gentleman in his other book also most falsly entituled Innocency and Truth triumphing together which I my selfe I thinke did pretty well tell him of not long since in my Letter to him which was immediately after printed but God knows unknown to me till it was printed wherein how remarkably he hath given himselfe and his own conscience the lye by that most dissembling and lying vapour of his innocency in his Epistle to the Parliament from having done the least wrong to man woman or childe by word or deed and how apt he is qualifie a hard action with a soft expression yea and how tender he is of other mens reputations That most slanderous and scurrillous pamphlet of his without any other witnesse will most abundantly testifie against him even under his own hand-writing to his indelible shame and everlasting infamie considering these his loud and proud boastings of innocency therein In which his said most scurrillous pamphlet called Calumnie arraigned and cast he deales just like a Theif who being pursued with a hue and cry stop theif stop theif he runs before and cries aloud stop theif stop theif whereas he is the theif himselfe just so crafty Mr. Goodwin runs fast before and with a full mouth yea a foul mouth cries out Calumnie arraigned Calumnie arraigned whereas himselfe is the grand Calumniator and slanderer indeed And that the Reader may take the more serious notice of his most vile and abusive dealing with Mr. Prin in that his Calumnie arraigned and cast and may see and know also what wicked use is made of that his Booke by others that are the Malignant enemies of Truth and of a sound Reformation against Mr. Prin just it seems as Mr. John Goodwin in his heart desired though his lying tongue hath in his foresaid Epistle to the Parliament pretended and protested the contrary know good Reader That one Symmons a most desperate Prelaticall Priest in a late printed and published Treatise of his which without shame or honesty he calls A Vindication of King Charles being it seems very angry with Mr. Prin for writing a famous History of the infamous lives of the Arch-Prelates and Bishops of England with a most vindicative spirit took occasion from Mr. Goodwins most lying and slanderous pen in that his said * Calumny arraigned and cast most vilely to rail and be revenged on Mr. Prin only with Mr. Goodwins pen and most wicked reviling phrases and lewd language of that base book of his in the page mentioned in the margine before calling Mr. Prins style or manner of writing The Dialect of Dragons and telling his Readers that Mr. Goodwin solemnly protested as there indeed he does that he could hardly refrain from taking a solemne Vow and Protestation in the sight of God Angels and Men never more to have to doe with Mr. Prin in word or deed untill he were turned Christian See here good Reader and admire the

to all those religious and reverend Ministers of London the grave and godly Subscribers of the Testimony aforesaid In which discovery I will be as brief as may be and most faithfull by Gods grace in the relating of some of the most slanderous terms and impious scoffes and jeers put upon those grave and godly Subscribers In the very Title page of his Vitious visitation of Sion Colledge he scornfully terms the Ministers Testimony a Pamphlet pretended to be written by the Ministers of Christ in London Province in the same page he most falsly charges all the 52 Ministers with indirect and unchristian dealing In the first page of the book it selfe at line 8 he most proudly claims * Nebuchadnezars prerogative to retort here his own words most justly upon himselfe over all the 52 servants of God To slay whom he will and whom he will to keep alive To Saint his own Disciples and make Scythians of the most pious Presbyterians that stand in his way and oppose his most wicked and odious opinions and thus as he did before most abusively un-christian Mr. Prin so here he doth most barbarously Anti-christian at once all those 52 most learned grave and godly Ministers that have faithfully attested against him And in the same first page he calls the said reverend Ministers religious Testimony to the Truth of Christ Jesus in most inferiour contempt and scorn A few papers lately come out of the Presse calling themselve A Testimony c. and there also taxes them with impudency and boldnesse Page the third he jeers the Ministers in these words That those learned and pious men had so forgotten themselves in the body of their booke as to breake the head and Title of it Page 4. he tels the Ministers they have as imperiously sentenced Errours and Heresies as if the Chair of Papall infallibility were of late translated from Rome to Sion Colledge And in the very last line of this page he tels a downright lye of the Ministers concerning the Covenant And in the fifth page he jeers them with meerly and proudly tantologicall emptynes and in the same page slanders and jeers them about the Parliaments tolerating of Errours and Heresies Page 6. He tels them they have prefixed a single-coloured Title to a partie-coloured booke Page 9. He most notoriously jeers the Ministers thus 52 Church men in Conjunction with 60 Church livings And in the same page most wickedly belies slanders them Page 11 He calls them dissemblers shamelesse prevaricators unconscionable dealers and wicked men whose hearts did not smite them though they had unjustly drawn up a bloudie charge against him Page 16 He slanders the London Ministers and excepts not one of them all along with dissimulation and partiall connivence where they please and charges them all with most unworthy and contra-conscientious defaming of men jeering them with their double diligence together with the help of an evill eye And page 18 in one and the same line calls all the London Ministers Lyons and his brethren too Then it seems he is a brother of Lyons by his own confession Page 19 He slanders them to be stigmatizers of Gods Truth with the odious names of infamous and pernicious Errours and Heresies and most wickedly tels them that he findes the best of them all no better than bryers to their deep shame and confusion of faces And page 24 He most jeeringly tels the Reader he is arraigned at the Tribunall of Synon Colledge mark the jeer for an Heretick and hopes to help this lame dog over the style by a note in the marg. as he he says was informed These good Reader and such like are the fairest flowers in that Mr. Goodwins garden or rather the most stinking weeds on his Sion Colledge Visiting dunghill And at the conclusion of all on the back side of his Book or paultrey pamphlet he thinks to put off the Reader with two or three lines of litterall or verball faults or errata pusilla whereas from the Title page to the last line of the pamphlet 't is full fraught and all over staind and bespotted with little or nothing else than grosse and base abuses or ingentia menda mendacia And are these the fruits and effects of this pious and patient Gentlemans professions and protestations of such a tender temper and soft expressions to qualifie hard actions lest he harme the reputation of his Antagonists O intollerable jugling and dissimulation O abominable and even formidable white-Devill indeed thus to hope to gull and beguile the world with such gilded pils of hypocrisie and mischievous conzening We have an old adagie Ne Hercules adversus duos But this great Goliah scorning a single-duell with a little David as Mr. Walker Mr. Prin or Mr. Edwards must boldly and blasphemously bicker with the whole Army of the Lords Prophets 50 or 100 at once are nothing for this Garagantua to encounter and scuffle with Nay in his pride and cruelty to those 52 reverend Ministers that dare oppose his pernicious lying wayes he fears not and cares not to imitate yea transcend bloudy Nero that Roman Tyrant who wisht that all Rome had but one head that he might smite it off at one blow Nero's was but a wish but M. John Goodwins a reall wicked act who as much as in him was set all the heads of the reverend London Ministers precious reputation upon the shoulder of his pernicious pamphlet with the sword of his lyes and slanders smites and strives to cut them all off at one blow of his scandalous Calumniations And therefore to close up this passage and to passe to the rest that follows I will here make bold to make use of Mr. Goodwins own terms in his vile Visitation of Sion Colledge page 22 and retort his own Rhetorick into his own face in these words with a little addition Let the Sun of Christian ingenuity be ashamed and the Moon of humane candor be abashed for questionlesse such a sly and subtill Sophister such a grosse and grand impostor such a bold and un-blushing blasphemer hath not been found or heard of among the sons of nature or of God for many Generations O what a losse hath the Church of Rome sustained that Mr. John Goodwin turned not Jesuite all this while certainly had it been so but God be praised it is not so I think yet somwhat fear it ô what a fruitfull servant would he have been to have purloyned Proselites to that Antichristian Synagogue But now to proceed to a third tryall of this impious and and impudent Impostors integrity and simplicity of heart in the things which more immediately concern God and true godlinesse Againe in the Third place In that foresaid Epistle of his to the Lords and Commons in Parliament before his said * Book I could nor but even with astonishment of Spirit take notice of another notorious vapouring profession of his backt and bound up with an attestation to

heaven even of God himself to beare record of those things he now speaks which the Lord knows in him are apparent untruths yea down-right lyes His words are these * I call God for a Record upon my soul that I have not the least touch of a desire to be wise in the things of God eyther above or besides what is written in the Book of God And again For my self my love is such to the precious souls of men that I cannot knowingly suffer any suspicious Doctrine or loose opinion in the things of God to passe through the World neer unto me unexamined especially when any considerable number of men are like to suffer Mark good Christian Reader these words of Mr. John Goodwins yea mark and tremble at them as most justly thou may'st that a man should thus fearfully turn Atheist so boldly to dare to call God on his soul to witnesse such a horrid and hideous lye against himself as I shall ere I have done with this passage to my souls-sorrow for his sake and to his own just shame make it most evident and apparent to God and all men that read and heare it And though I might here lanch out into an Ocean of notable discoveries of his deceive ablenesse in this particular yet I will confine my self to as succinct a relation of instances herein as with all possible convenience I may and by Gods assistance but briefly touch some few discoveries of foul and fearfull contradictions of this his proud and perjurious Protestation most wickedly giving himself the lye and laying him open and naked to be a most hatefull Hypocrite and unsufferable Dissembler And first I shall touch upon his notorious jugling and subtill insinuation for the scelerous and Serpentine working and winding in of a Toleration of all Opinions among us which you may finde in his Printed and publishd Theomachia a Sermon preached by him to his Colemanstreet Proselytes In which Printed piece of his in the Epistle to the Reader and pag. 11.33 44. to 52. as worthy Mr. Prin in his Animadversions on that Sermon most judiciously and soundly observes he hath most injuriously raised unjust jealousies on the Venerable Assembly of Divines at Westminster viz. That they in their sitting and consulting there about the setling of Church Government doe but increase our misery and bondage reject the truth conjure all mens gifts and parts into their Synodicall-Circle as there he contemptuously calls it and that the joy of our faith will be decreased and evill increased by them c. And then in the body of the Sermon he struggles and endeavours to maintain from Gamaliel whose words Act. 5. though Gamaliel himselfe as Mr. Prin excellently notes was no Apostle no nor Christian neither yet Mr. Goodwin makes to be his Text to that Sermon as if they were as true as Gospel although it is exceeding clear from ver. 38 39. that Gamaliel himselfe in those words doubted of the truth even of the Gospel it self yet thence I say Mr. Goodwin strives to mayntain That Toleration of all Religions and Opinions whatsoever is most just and lawfull and in his Theomachia useth these words following in justification thereof viz That it is the greatest impudence or folly under heaven for any whomsoever to appear to oppose or lift up a hand or thought against any way doctrine or practice whatsoever mark good Reader his presumptuous expressions clayming or pretending its originall from God which clayme or pretence as Mr. Goodwin will have it all Hereticks and Schismaticks do most stoutly and stifly urge and lay hold on for the justification of all their Heresies Errours Schismes and Sects whatsoever be they ever so detestable damnable and pernicious till men have security upon security to use his own words evidence upon evidence yea all the security that men in an ordinary way are capable of and foundations as cleer as the noon-day that such wayes or doctrines and practices are only pretences And that wee ought not to act to the value of one haire of our heads against them untill we see their condemnation written with a beam of the Sun by the finger of God himself A brave piece of pernicious Doctrine indeed for Mr. John Goodwin and all other his brother-hereticks to run head-long to Hell without controul if it were as easily granted as t is here most boldly but abominably claymed and that but from a heathenish authority And yet notwithstanding this so plain and evident demonstration of Mr. Goodwins eager and urgent though as craftily as can be desire to advance this wicked work of Toleration of all Religions and Opinions yet in his last and late published Pamphlet called Syon-Colledge Visited hee most deceitfully and audaciously protests against the allowance of this or any other wicked or dangerous opinion most impiously calling God to witnesse the same though we have so many clouds of Witnesses to the contrary against him And in these words hee boldly breaks forth I heere solemnly professe in the sight of God Angels and Men that whosoever they are that beare the Errours and wicked Opinions of the times as a burthen of sorrow upon their hearts and souls I beare my part and share with them Nor do I beleeve says he that any of the London Ministers who seek to render me the hatred of men by the imputation of Delinquency in the contrary have run eyther faster or farther in the way of God for the pulling up of those noysome weeds out of the fields of Christ among us than I have done And again a little after in the foresaid page hee thus goes on I have again and again in severall of my Writings I indeed Sir if we had you not fast in your own Writings to testifie against you you would I see baffle and abuse us all to the purpose who thus dare deny these things notwithstanding that wee have your own hand-writings to dash you in the face of your bold denyals declared my sense and juglingly too yet plain enough to discover your naughty heart and judgement to be that no errour whatsoever ought to be tolerated but that every errour sufficiently detected I here 's the depth of the Deceit indeed and evicted ought to be proceeded against c. and then at last hee gives you forsooth two Expositions of the height of these his jugling interposals viz 1 lest intending to crucifie theeves we crucifie Christ therefore if they doe but onely pretend Christ as all Hereticks doe you must not once dare so much as to touch them 2 Lest we make theeves of those who erre of infirmitie like men therefore hold they ever so dangerous or damnable opinions and be ever so long or desperately hardned in them and obstinately maintained by them and are not and will not be convinced of them yet this must be accounted infirmity in them and till God himselfe from heaven writes the foulnesse of their fact on their forehead that he