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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34201	Concavum cappo-cloacorum, or, A view in little of the great wit and honesty contain'd under a brace of caps, and wrap'd up in the querpo-cloak of a phanatick in some reflections on the second part of a late pamphlet, intituled, Specvlum crapegownorum, being a dialogue between True-man and Cappocloak-man / by an honest gent. and a true lover of all such.	Honest gent. and a true lover of all such.	1682 (1682)	Wing C5692; ESTC R18924	46,034	73

and real Goodness to be thought nothing but Hypocrisie but also because where their pretences of Goodness are not seen through they render them admired and followed and so most dangerous to the Government ought to be most severely dealt withall by our Laws Cap-cloak-man What! nothing from you but Railing and Demonstrations of a Persecuting Spirit Will nothing content you but the Blood of the Saints True-man This is I perceive the general way of answering Arguments from matter of Fact by calling it Railing and indeed I cannot blame you for there is no other way by which they are capable to be answered And as for your Cry of Persecution this is another Help at a dead Lift but to deal plainly with you there is nothing I more hate than the Thoughts of Blood and therefore I so much desire that our Laws may be executed that it may never be in the Power of pretended Saints to raise another War and cause more Blood-shed amongst us Cap-cloak-man Well then what would you have Is it not clearly proved pag. 8. circ med That the Dissenters are not guilty of any Non-conformity in reference to the Ecclesiastical Power True-man Yes truly very clearly as clearly as he that proved there is a World in the Moon because Tobit went forth and his Dog followed him Cap-cloak-man Nay Nay leave your Fooling and consider the Argument and if that doth not convince you for my part I shall give you over as incorrigible True-man I would as willingly as any man be convinced of an Error and shall as readily confess it Go on then Let me not want this Dead-doing Tool of a Demonstration Cap-cloak-man Lay aside your Prejudice and I doubt not but you may find it a sufficient Demonstration It is this ibid. infra The Law enjoyns the Exercise of Religion according to the Liturgy of the Church of England which contains no more than only Truth but the Dissenters do speak Truth nay the Truth of Truth the Divine Truth therefore they exercise according to the Liturgy vid. p. 9. ibid. True-man See now what a parcel of Fools our Logicians are For if any Man living can shew me such a Demonstration as this from Aristotle's Organ to Keckerman Bergersdicius or Herebrood's Comments I will give him leave to prove me an Horse and will be bound to believe it when he hath done I will give you the same Argument in another case and do you judge whether it holds true or no. The Law commands a Witness in any Cause To speak the Truth the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth Now supposing the Case be concerning Brother Bull 's being taken napping with a small Girl in a Bawdy-house and the Witness upon his Oath shall answer by telling a Story of the Victories of the Late Usurper though perhaps the Story may be nothing but the Truth yet do you think that he hath spoke what his Oath bound him to and that he swears that the said the Person was so taken because this also is nothing but the Truth Cap-cloak-man Pish I hate these Similies they never run of all Four and therefore can never be through-pac'd Arguments If you can show me by any substantial Reason the Defects of this Demonstration then you do something True-man The Argument is indeed so ridiculous that I cannot find in my Heart to be serious in confuting it but however for your satisfaction I will endeavor it in as few words as possibly I can As to the first Proposition viz. The Law enjoyns the Exercise of Religion according to the Liturgy of the Church of England which contains no more than what is Truth I readily acknowledge it and am glad to hear that our Dissenters do so too For then I can see no reason why they should dissent from that which contains nothing but the Truth But the Assumption viz. That the Dissenters do speak Truth c. is a meer Falsity or else a meer Fallacy For if they mean that they preach nothing else but the same Truth contain'd in our Liturgy and that they practise according to all those Rules which you acknowledge to be Truth prescribed in it then you know it is utterly false But if they mean that the Doctrines they preach are true if we should allow it which is impossible where there are so many Doctrines preach'd as amongst our contrary Sects of Dissenters this makes a new Term in the latter from that which was in the former Proposition and so concludes nothing at all but that he that argues at that rate either knows not how to make an Argument or else that he hath a mind to deceive as well knowing his Cause cannot be defended any other ways But this is so dull stuff that I am weary of it and am afraid I shall be thought a meer Fool for my pains for endeavoring a serious Confutation of so frivolous an Argument I pray you therefore give me leave for Recreation-sake to tell you a Story which is not absolutely impertinent to this matter Cap-cloak-man Well say that you will I am resolved to hear it lest I should give you that Advantage to say I had not Patience to hear you out True-man The Commonwealth of Birds to redress some Grievances call'd a Parliament where after they had taken their Places that were Representatives and Elected nemine contradicente the Parrot for their Speaker because of its excellent Qualifications of calling Names and Collecting others Voices All the Members were called over and made their personal Appearance before Mr. Speaker Amongst the rest appears a round fac'd Animal that look'd as big us a Burgess commonly call'd an Owl All the rest of the Birds were amazed very much as not being acquainted with any such Corporation that could be represented by it Resolving therefore themselves into a Committee of Elections consisting of the whole House they began to debate the Matter before the Chair-Bird who was a Creature of the same kind with Mr. Speaker The Swallow and the Magpie chatter'd to this purpose that they had flown far and near but never saw any such Creature amongst the Birds The Jay the Goose and the Jack-daw being also Leading Members of that Committee concurring with the former the pretty King in the Chair was presently for clearing the House of such an uncouth Member and began to cry Walk Knave Walk Whereupon the Owl thinking it hard Measure before he was well seen or at all heard to be ejected began to set a good Face of the Business and raising his Ruff to shew its Feather and stretching out its Neck to exalt its Voice look'd so frightfully and made so hideous loud and screeching a Noise that all the Birds were so terrified that they presently left all their Places and the poor Parochete fell out of the Chair in a Swoon altering its Note from Walk Knave to poor Pall and was taken up in a very sad Condition and so all the Debates ended and the whole Assembly

not he be believed as well as they Or why might not there be more Scylla's then one that dyed a strange and unnatural death However surely we may believe that Valerius had some Ground for what he said and that is enough to Authorize a Preacher to take so useful a Story as this upon his Credit Cap-cloak man Well but why must he be quoted when Plutarch and Arrianus say the same True-man Possibly the Notae Variorum upon Valerius would have furnished him with the Names of Plutarch c. but he is more ingenious then to mention such Authors as he hath not read though he hath never so fair an Opportunity offered him I know your Author of that Sermon so well that I dare swear he scorns to appear more learned then he is now I hope it is no great Crime if he that hath so much Business to do so constantly lying upon him should not have Leasure to read all the Historians that ever were And now give me leave to tell you at Parting that I think you have done our Church-mens-Sermons the greatest Honour that could be in this your Dialogue Cap-cloak-man How so I pray you It was utterly beyond my intentions if I have True-man I do believe you but you may have heard of one that design'd to have cut Iason's throat but thereby cured him of his inveterate disease Cap-cloak-man I pray you don't raise such a Report of me you don't know what Injury you may do me by it Do you think the Sisters will contribute to me for my Books-sake if they hear I have done the Church of England-men Service by it True-man I cannot help that but so it is For certainly nothing in the World can more recommend their Sermons then that all the Wit and Malice of their Enemies could not find nor make any more nor greater Faults in them then you have done Nay it may do them more Service then this Cap-cloak-man What is that What more still True-man Yes truly and far greater then the former viz. It may move some Persons that otherwise would not do it to look into the Sermons of your Party and to take Notice what horrid Crimes and Villainies are countenanced in them And nothing can render you so odious as this to all Men that have but a spark of Common Honesty Cap-cloak-man This will be very Fine Work for our Common Enemies to make sport withal will it not All our Quarrells are but de Lanâ Caprinâ about meer Trifles And shall we ruine all Religion for such inconsiderable things as Ceremonies True-man Why then will you do it you have begun to ridicule the Sermons of our Party And if you proceed how can you expect but the same Measure you mete shall be Measured to you again And as for our Differences the less they are the greater is your Fault in not complying with our Church for our Church-men are bound up by Laws so that they cannot if they would come over to you but you are perfectly at Liberty and nothing hinders but your own perversness But that you might joyn with them against the Common Enemies of our Religion Cap-cloak-man You know I have told you p. 39. That it is Interest that governs the World And that there 's the grand Cause of all our Misfortunes True-man You have said a great deal of Truth in a few Words for I verily believe that our Divisions will never have an end so long as you can reap so much Gain by your seperate Assemblies were but these prohibited according to Law and we should soon see an End of all our Misfortunes and Factious Cabals Cap-cloak-man But have not I given you a better Direction out of a Sermon of that Worthy Gentleman Mr. Maurice Preached Ianuary the 30th 1681 Would not this do it without persecuting and ruining one another True-man I believe your Party will Conn you no great thanks for speaking so much Truth of that Worthy Person who hath so ingeniously modestly and fully baffled your Father Baxter's railing Legend against Episcopacy and as for his Direction viz. That if we would weaken that Faction let us take away the open Scandal and Viciousness of our Lives Let us detect their Hypocrisie not by washing off the Paint with Satyr but with Solid and sincere Piety c. I fully assent to it as highly necessary But yet do not think that this will be enough so long as we suffer a Party to say what they please of us without any Answer For the more really pious we are according to the Injunctions of our Church the more such as are our enemies hate us and indeavor the more to raise Lies and Scandalls of us He that observes their Actions cannot but bear Witness to this that if the Devil himself will but appear for their Party he shall be cryed up for an Angel of Light amongst them and on the contrary if an Angel from Heaven should appear against them they would cry him down for a wicked Impostor and therefore a little Satyr may be sometimes very necessary to wash off the Glorious Outside of such Inward Hypocrites And thus good Neighbour I take my leave of you only desiring you to take St. Paul's Advice viz. Study to be quiet and to do your own Business But if you will be medling with other Men you may expect to hear further from me In the mean while I bid you farewel till our next Meeting FINIS

c. of the Parish and County aforesaid Crape-Gown-men being to preach before the Artillery Company did chuse such Texts as were most suitable to the occasion and did not as you ought to have done chuse your Texts out of the Book of the Revelations or out of Daniel's Visions or Ezekiel's Wheels c. and further that you the said Crape-Gown-men did use such Terms of the Military Art and so applied them as might be most useful to the Hearers and might be best remembred by them c. Cap-cloak-man This surely cannot be the Summ of what I charge them withal in those 2 pages If I have either Eyes or Understanding this is all that I can find in them Cap-cloak-man I can't tell how to believe it Well but go on You 'll find enough behind True-man In page 31 and 32. you continue your Charge to this Effect And further that you the said Crape-Gown-men not having the Fear of God before your Eyes out of premeditated malice against our Sovereign Lord the King's Iustices and all the able Council learned in the Law and the wise Iuries at a certain Assizes c. then and there assembled did in their Sermons then and there preach'd put them in mind of their Duties and of the great Sacredness of Oaths even amongst Heathens and terrifie and affright them even to the putting them in fear of their immortal Lives with the Terrors of the last Iudgment before an all-knowing infallible Almighty Iudge c. Cap-cloak-man Read on read on you 'll come to more Material Faults in the following Pages True-man From pag. 33. to p. 39. you proceed in your Indictment to this purpose viz. That you the said Crape-Gown-men in several of your Sermons at other times and in other places not having the fear of God before your Eyes out of premeditated Malice against the good Godly and sober Party of this our Nation have chosen certain malignant Texts of Scripture to prove to the People those damnable Doctrines of the Excellency and Divine Right of Monarchy and that in other Discourses you have defamed his Majesties best Subjects the Presbyterians that were so instrumental to the bringing him in for their own Interest and ever since his Restauration have been most Loyally endeavoring because he will not let them be Kings to throw him out again with a matter of Truth and that you the said Crape-Gown-men to the great prejudice of his Majesties Grammer-School of St. Paul c. have made use of certain Citations out of Valerius Maximus and Cicero because they were pertinent to your purpose and lastly that you the said Crape-Gown-men in other of your Sermons have proved that it is not lawful to make an Act of Parliament to exclude the Right Heir from the Crown because Job tells us Ch. 36. v. 21. that it is not lawful for a man to do evil that good may come of it and that you have most bitterly rail'd against such as endeavored to settle the Crown and the Succession in the right Line by such an Exclusion of the true and lawful Successor whereby the Godly Party have been very much lett and hindered in doing God's Work i. e. in introducing an Holy and thorough Reforming Commonwealth amongst us And all this you have done and said contrary to the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and the Statutes made at the last Sessions of Parliament in Eutopia Anno 1900. of the Reign of Amadis de Gaul c. 201. c. Cap-cloak-man How can you acquit your Crape-Gown-men from these Faults Is not the Indictment fully proved against them True-man I think there is no great need of a Verdict in the Case If it will do you any Service because there 's no Treason in them I 'll confess them Guilty Cap-cloak-man Then you must acknowledge them sufficiently ridiculous True-man I beg your Pardon for that Sweet Dear Neighbour For I cannot see any such thing charg'd upon them Cap-cloak-man You have hudl'd up together what I have said and represented it according to your own Humor but if you would consider particularly as there you may find it I doubt not but you must be forced to confess the Ridiculousness of such preaching True-man I am mistaken if I have not delivered the Sence of your Words according to the Truth and the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth and the reason why I put your whole Accusation in one Summ of an Indictment is because I did not see any thing that you have said that deserved a more particular Consideration but if you have any thing more to say I have Patience enough to hear it let it be never so impertinent Cap-cloak-man In the first place I pray you let me know why you talk of Malignant Texts of Scripture I am sure I made use of no such blasphemous Epithet I have more Reverence for the sacred Scriptures than to blaspheme them at that Rate True-man Possibly you may have now but there was a time when one of your Godly Committees of Sequestration sentenced an honest Clergy-man for want of other Faults merely for chusing malignant Texts of Scripture to be sequestred and executed their Sentence upon him accordingly and therefore you must pardon me if because I saw you so hot against these Texts I did imagine these might be the very malignant Texts for which he was sequesterd For I cannot but think that your hatred to Monarchy may sometimes over-ballance your great Reverence for the Holy Scriptures when they oppose your most dearly beloved Common-weath Doctrines Cap-cloak-man You mistake me I was not hot against any Texts of Scripture but against the Preacher for misapplying them True-man Let 's see then how they are misapplied Cap-cloak man For Example to prove the Power of Kings a Wakefield Gent. takes this Text Psal. 51. v. 4. Against thee only have I sinned vid. p. 33. True-man Had he not reason for it For he that can sin only against God is accountable to none but God for his Sin and therefore cannot nor ought not to be brought to the Block by his own People and Subjects Cap-cloak-man I must acknowledge the Consequence to be true in spight of my Teeth but how are the Premises true from that Text viz. that David as a Monarch could only sin against God or against God only True-man For all any thing that you have said to the Contrary this may be the very true and genuine sense of the Words I did desire a friend of mine to examine Interpreters about them and by the account he hath given me I am much confirm'd in that opinion Cap-cloak-man Let us see your friend's account for I cannot but think it will prove a very strange one True-man I will give it you truely in his own Words let it appear never so strange to you He tells me that St. Hierom who possibly could have writ Hebrew in other kind of Characters then you have done renders the Words thus In