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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

sad and bad and very wide breach which is most unhappily and most unholily made by the Independents and all other Sectaries by saying that our difference is not in fundamentals but only in point of Church discipline or Government as if that if it were no more were a slight thing and not so worthy our zealous opposing and blaming of them even therein Whereas besides that yee see what a high and heynous Rebellion it is against the Lord and against his Vice-Gerents here on earth yee ought most seriously to lay to heart that without Church-discipline which is the hedge pale and strong wall of Religion in what a desperate danger of utter destroying is Gods Garden the Church most rarely and richly adorned with all sorts of sweet and odoriferous flowers wholsome herbs and soul-preserving plants if you take away the pale or fence thereof and lay and leave it open that so wilde and vile Boars and Beasts of all sorts I mean Independents Anabaptists Prelates and Papists may most easily rush in and root-up all those sweet and fragrant flowers and pretious plants But withall I may most faithfully and firmly avouch and aver it that the difference is yet far greater and more grievous between us Presbyterians and even those whom we mincingly call meere or pure Independents and that in a grand fundamentall yea such a fundamentall as is and will be the main means of totall and terrible not onely shaking but shattering in pieces and utter ruining of all fundamentals in the true Religion and of making that breach of all breaches the destruction of all Religion even so as may by no means be admitted or endured unlesse we are resolved to drive away God and all other Good from us and that without remedy or recovery I mean accursed and intolerable Toleration of all opinions and practices which if permitted to them I see no reason but must be permitted to All and so a universall Toleration which most if not all Independents claim to themselves and so an epidemical Libertinisme or Liberty of Conscience as they call it In this respect also therefore I say and hold that all sorts of Independents among us separating themselves into their private Conventicles unwarranted Church Way as they call it against all Authority and Power of the King and Parliament the unquestionable Sovereigne and Supream Magistracie ordained by God himself and in resisting whose Ordinance they apparently oppose and resist even the Lord God of Heaven Himself are not by any means to be admitted or permitted amongst us neither is their Separation or Division from us to be so extenuated or so minced by us as to give any the least allowance to them in their open rebellious wayes of worshipping God where when and how they please Since especially as here you have most evidently and undeniably seen by that foresaid most apposite pertinent Paralell their Sin herein being no lesse than open odious Rebellion which is the sin of Witchcraft against Gods righteous Authority here on earth notwithstanding their plausible pretences as here those Rebels did of Saint-ship forsooth piety and holinesse in everyone of them though most falsly in their thus most directly rising up against Moses and Aaron as our Independents do now adayes against the most just and righteous Authority of Parliament and their power in constituting under them for their assistance in matters of Religion the Synod or Assembly of Divines at Westminster even as the Lord appointed and constituted Aaron under Moses in holy things Which serious Premonition and Consideration I beseech the Lord in the riches of his grace and in the multitudes of his mercies to poor unworthy and almost quite dilacerated because Apostatized England to lay sadly and seriously to the hearts of All both in Parliament Assembly City and Country to make them thereupon more zealous for the Lord and his most righteous Cause even a long and most longed-for thorough-Reformation according to our most Solemne and sacred Covenant Amen and Amen J. VICARS Coleman-street Conclave Visited NOt without exceeding just and most important cause did the Lord Jesus Christ himself the Fountain and Foundation of Truth yea Truth itselfe by way of Premonition Caution and heavenly Counsell tell us before hand That in these latter dayes false-Christs and false-Prophets would arise amongst us saying Lo here is Christ or Lo there he is And shall with lies and deceiveable signes and wonders of pretended parts and piety so craftily carry themselves that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect children of God Behold sayes our Saviour I have told you of this before Wherefore if they shall say unto you see here how our Saviour ingeminates the caution as a thing of serious consideration Behold he is in the desert go not forth behold he is in the secret chambers marke here also how neer our Saviour comes to our Sectaries practises rebellious Church-ways as they call them now adays or he is in shops barns and such like private Conventicles believe it not And as the Apostle Paul sayes so cunningly and craftily will they outwardly appear in white innocent and silly lamb-skins as thereby to transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ And no marvell sayes he for even Satan can transform himselfe into an Angel of light And therefore one very wittily and most worthily distinguishes these close Hypocrites from openly prophane men and loose livers into Black-Devils and White-Devils And our blessed Saviour himselfe confirms the truth of this distinction Have not I chosen you twelve and one of you is a Devill even Judas Iscariot that sheepskin-Devill who so craftily and demurely demeaned himselfe in an outward shew of parts and piety as that none of the honest and true hearted Disciples could discover him to be so but thought him as honest and holy a man as the best of them all till Christ discovered and uncased him and his own close sin at last found him out and shewed him to them all to be a grand Hypocrite indeed And therefore truly these White-Devils are so much the more desperate and dangerous destroyers of mens souls by howmuch the more slily and insinuatingly they with serpents subtilty insensibly creepe into their bosomes and soules and so most devilishly undoe them Wherefore the Lord Christ told the Pharisees especially among the Jews That they were of their father the Devill and that they did his works he was a lyer and a murtherer from the beginning yea and the Father of lies And so indeed are all his hypocriticall Schismaticall sons young White-Devils from their Grand-sire Satan that old White-Devill even such as cannot abide the Truth no nor abide in the Truth but by lying Errours Heresies and most damnable Opinions become like Satan himselfe murtherers of mens most precious souls And have we not here now found out a White-Devill indeed a Pharisaicall Hypocrite in grain a Grand Impostor to

most mercilesse and wicked uncharitable charity of this notorious dissembling Saint in pretended meeknesse and innocencie thus to un-christian such a truly religious Gentleman and to make a Turk or Infidell of him Tantaene animis coelestibus irae These together with many other such like rotten rubbish of his rancorous pen did that Prelaticall Priest cite and reciteout of Mr. Goodwins said base Book too tedious and irksome here to relate thus to abase and abuse that most pious and precious Gentleman Mr. Prin. And tell me now good Reader is not this a temperate moderate and meek spirited Saint thus to abse a man far more righteous than himselfe a man whom God himselfe hath most highly honoured not only to believe but gloriously also to suffer and beare about with him on his body the most honorable marks of martyrdome for the truths of the Lord Jesus Christ and yet this Mr. Goodwin most like an impudent and notorious Whetstone-lyer and prodigious hypocrite to protest he never knew or was not conscious to himselfe ah brawney and cauterized conscience that he had ever wronged man woman or childe and how tender hee good man was of the reputation of his mistakers lest they also might suffer therein by his means O egregious dissimulation of as unparallel'd an Impester I thinke as ever was read or heard of But now to proceed Thirdly to instance no more as I might many others even any that have written against him or made any sound or solid discoveries of him and his rotten hereticall heart and who to purpose have pinch'd his sore gangren'd gall'd-back How most abominably and basely unscholarly yea unchristianly hath he also abused learned religious pious and painfull M. Edwards of honorable memory both in his most scurrillous Cretensis also in his as weak as wicked-work and lying lines in answer to M. Edwards his elaborate and learned Schismatick-stinging Antapologia in both which base books and most paultry pamphlets of his because he was utterly unable to refute Mr. Edwards his invincible truths against him and his Schismaticall crew with strong and convincing arguments O! with what base and bitter terms he falls a rayling calumniating and slandering of Mr. Edwards his person and parts just like a Billings-gate-brawler or a Turn-again-lain-Scold most falsly as all ingenuous and judicious Scholars know and maliciously slandering this learned and religious Gentleman and solid Divine with familiar non-sence in his writings want of Grammar-learning yea of ability to write true-English and most shamelesly calling and counting him a man totally void of wit or understandeng grace goodnesse and honesty in such an uncivill and even bruitish manner as if he himself indeed had dofft quite thrown away all conscience Religion and honesty yea even humanity it self or manly nature and nurture and were fallen out of his wits and stark-mad and all because worthy Mr. Edwards had like a faithfull Physician and skilfull Chyrurgeon or exact Anatomist curiously cut out and launched to the quick and found and laid open to the eyes and understandings of all impartiall and unprejudic'd Ones the most noysome and odious Leprosie of Mr. Goodwins pestilent and pernicious rotten heart both in Mr. Edwards his famous Antapologia and in all the three parts of his gallant Gangrena to Mr. Goodwins eternall indelible shame and deserved infamie with all truly religious judicious and ingenuous both Scholars and Christians but the particularizing of all which Mr. Goodwins most base and unworthy dealing with M. Edwards as is above only most briefly touched I have here purposely omitted to avoid prolixity the rather because both those Mr. Goodwins base books and most paultry pamphlets were so lately written and those his abominable abuses therein scattered and bespattered are so fresh or rather stalely-stinking I doubt not in most mens memories And thus as you see hath this monstrous and most malignant Rabsheca railed on and reviled these faithfull servants of the Lord notwithstanding yea most contrary to his foresaid most false and fallacious profession of such a tender temper toward the reputation of other men and of being so fair and facile a sufferer of pretended wrong done unto him rather than a doer of wrong to man woman or child in word or deed And thus most like a mad man and one directly out of his wits or like a swaggering Swashbuckler crost in his humour hath Mr. Goodwin without fear wit or honesty with his most licentious and pernicious pen even most stupendiously abused such eminent and excellent religious grave and godly Gentlemen as I may confidently avouch and easily justifie have more true piety honesty conscience and constancy in holy things in either of their little fingers than this puffie-Puck-fiste Mr. John Goodwin has in all his fat-fed body hollow heart and all And now in the fourth and last place though when I wrote the third instance immediately before this I intended no more instances for the proof of this second tryall of Mr. Goodwins honesty or rather the discovery of his notorious hypocrisie yet there now about this time comming forth in print another most paultry pamphlet of this our unblushing Cheater and bouldest Champion for Schisme and Heresie entituled Sion Colledge Visited whereas hee might have been better busied in having been as he is a vitious Visitor of his own Coleman-s●reet Conclave and finding it so full of filthy weeds of slander calumnie against all the Religious reverend Subscribers of a book of those our famous and faithfull London Ministers entituled A Testimony of the truth of Jesus Christ c. too easily observing the Lord knows with grief of heart that M. I G. had therein also most fouly and falsly abused All of them being about 52 in number at its first impression with most scandalous terms and jeers and all because they also had so neerly toucht his copy-hold of Heresie and stung the gaul'd back and cauterized conscience of this most impious Impostor and scelerous Schismatick I hence therefore perceived what store of matter he had administred more and more to shew and set forth his abominable hypocrisie and dissimulation both with God and men as briefly thus it shall now most plainly appear Whereas this notorious Dissembler had as I mentioned before most proudly falsly and fallaciously protested and boasted In his Epistle to the Lords and Commons in Parliament aforesaid How tender he was of the reputation of those that had mistaken him in his words or writings as to qualifie their hard actions with his soft expressions lest they might possibly suffer by ought he should write in his own vindication professing also that he was not conscious to himselfe of the least wrong done by him to man woman or childe in word or deed See now good Reader how he hath performed those protestations of his even the clean contrary way just as he did with those other three most eminent and well deserving Gentlemen aforesaid

that runs may read it we must not dare to touch them for it this is the most deceiveable sense of this Religious Gentlemens pleading against a Toleration even as you have seen and read from his own hand-writing See therefore from hence good Reader and be astonished at the extream wickednesse and most audacious deceiveablenesse of this mans heart which as the Prophet sayes is desperately wicked that thus strugles to be wise contrary to his own words before above and besides the written word of God in the things of God whereof I suppose ye will all grant this is one and a most essentiall one to Secondly Mr. J. G. in his brave book so beautified as aforesaid with his paultry picture for sooth at the portall or front and with the addition of Don Taylers most false and flattering verses most impiously endeovours to justifie That a naturall man hath free will and power to doe supernaturall good as our famous and faithfull loyall learned and religious London Ministers have in their late most excellent and zealous Testimony of the Truth of Jesus Christ their great Lord and Master discovered out of Mr. Goodwins foresaid Divine Authority of Scripture Asserted where he hath these very words That if God should deprive men of all ability and power to repent and believe and yet should still move perswade and beseech them with pathetic allnesse of affection wherein he expresseth himselfe in the Scriptures even to those that perish as well as to those that are saved This would seem very hard yea harder than injustice it selfe but this sayes Mr. J. G. is not so A palpable lye against God and his Word for the Lord very frequently and earnestly as M. G. himself before confesses commands and urges that to be done by man and that most justly though man hath no ability to doe the thing commanded nor is God bound to bestow ability on him thereunto he having once had it but most wilfully lost it and then he there addes a most false and lying simile or example to confirm his foresaid bold and blasphemous Charge thus laid on God viz. If a King sayes he cutting off a mans legs yea though in a way of justice and then commanding him yea and urgently perswading him with heart-melting expressions of love and bowels of tender mercy to run a race with one that hath his legs and limbs and is swift of foot and to come as soon to the Goal as he that so runs with him this were sayes M. Goodwin a bloudy carriage in the King and savouring of unmanly insolency over the poore wretch in his misery c. And so he applyes all this to God and insinuatingly and most blasphemously makes God the Authour of mans infidelity and impossibility of doing Gods will Marvellous strange it is me thinks and I cannot but wonder what was become of Mr. John Goodwins Divinity when he wrote this thus to slander God with cutting off mans legs whereas 't is well known to all that rightly know Gods Word that God gave man perfect legs and limbs but man only cut off his own legs himself and so made himself wickedly and wilfully unable to do Gods will Again this wretched Truth-wresting man sayes That if God should not make men capable of beleeving that is should not endue them with such principles and abilities of reason and understanding as by the diligent improvement thereof they might come to be willing and readie to receive grace upon their repentance and beleeving in God wicked men would and might have their mouthes upon against Gods dealing with them and be furnished with just excuses for themselves Thus still either making God a cruell Master or a false Impostor yea and he is not ashamed or affraid as our loyall learned and religious Divines have noted in their excellent Book entituled A Testimony c. pag. 13. most falsly and blasphemously to make the blessed Apostles Paul and Peter to be asserters countenancers and maintainers of this Arminian Doctrine of Free will saying assuredly they are so but tels us not where wee may see it is so and that therefore the false Doctrine of free will ought not to suffer any dispuragment for being found among the tenets of Arminius And is not Mr. Goodwin thinkest thou good Christian Reader most blasphemously saucie with the sacred things of God in this particular also Above and besides you most crosse and contrary to the written Word of God Again in the third place Mr. Goodwin as out learned and religious London Divines have farther discovered in their excellent Testimony to the Truth of Christ in his foresaid Divine Authority of the Scriptures asserted hath these most dangerous words and therein holds a most pernicious opinion against the true nature and ground of faith viz. That those that are without the Gospel written or preacht upon such terms as we daily have it among us have sufficient means if not large and plentifull for beleeving namely they who only have the heavens the Sun Moon and Stars and Gods goodnesse in governing the World thus only to preach the Gospel unto them That is to say Heathen Philosophers Turks infidels and such like who never heard otherwise of Christ they also have reason sufficient if not in abundance to thinke the same thought and to judge the same judgement even with us who have the letter of the Gospel in the point in hand that is to believe the Gospel as well as we even by the preaching of those Apostles these are Mr. Goodwins own words the Sun Moon and stars Gods patience goodnesse and bounty on governing the world c. And that 't is clear from the Scriptures that all the world even heathens and unbeleevers who have not the letter of the Gospel have sufficient means of beleeving That God is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seeke him which sayes M. Goodwin and heer 's the marrow of the businesse is all the faith which the Apostle makes simply necessary to bring man into Gods love and favour yea and to prevent the wrath and indignation of God which is to come And if this be so as 't is most false and unfound to say and hold the Scriptures being most plentifully against it then what need of Christ without particular applicatory faith in whom and in whose righteousnesse imputed to us it is impossible to please God and out of whom all the most glorious and glittering works of civill and morall righteousnesse of the most famous morall Philosophers and heathens in the world and farther they did not they could not goe were but as St. Augustine sayes splendida peccata specious gay and gaudy sins yea and without whom as the holy Apostle sayes All our righneousnesses are but as filthy cloathes and menstruous rags No marvell then if this brazen-fac'd man Mr. Goodwin be yet more hold with God and the holy things of God both above and beyond

Coleman-street Conclave Visited AND That Grand Impostor 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 this most huge Garagantua in falsly pretended Piety to the lamentable misleading of his too-too credulous Soul-murthered Proselytes of Coleman-steet elswhere 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 Genes 34.31 Should He deal with our Brethren as with Varlets or vile Men 1 Sam. 17.29 What therefore have I now done Is there not a Cause Pro. 19.25 Smite a Scorner and the Simple will beware Psal. 120.3 4. What shall be given to thee or what shall be done unto thee O thou false Tongue Sharp arrows of the mighty with fierce coals of Iuniper Psal. 139.21 22. Do I not hate them O Lord that hate Thee and thy Truth and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with a perfect hatred yea I count them my very enemies London Printed for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham at the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1648. To the READER CHristian Reader whither Presbyterian Prelaticall or Independent I have thought fit briefly to premise unto thee three or four Considerations both for Thy better satisfaction and the cleering of mine-own integrity and ingenuity as also by way of anticipation of some objections which perhaps may arise in thee touching the manner of my penning and publishing of this ensuing Treatise viz That whereas first of all it may peradventure be imputed unto me for levity or indecencie in thus prefixing Mr. Goodwin's picture to this my Treatise I answer in breif though I could say much more in justification of what I have herein done That when I considered the excessive Pride of the man to be so shamelessely Narcissus-like in love with his own picture as to have it or to suffer it to be prefixed before at least three or foure of his formerly published hereticall and most poysonous Pamphlets I therefore resolved so far to indulge his own humour and tumour of Pride as to set him forth in his proper posture with an Ecce Homo Her 's the man That is the Patron of Heresie and Shame of Divinity As for the Embleme over his head of the Winde-Mill and Weather-Cock Certainly t is no more than his Vanity and Vitiosity of minde have justly merited which is continually Coyning and Contriving in his busie-brain and hereticall-heart one blasphemous Errour or another Still to pollute and poyson the Soules of his miserably Seduced Proselytes For the Motto out of his mouth T is but his own fraudulent and fallacious Engine whereby he Still hopes to help himself at a dead lift when he is closly put to it Namely to print and protest to his Proselytes That he Poore innocent Man is evermore herein unhappy to be continually mistaken in what he writes or Speakes and to have his words daily wrested and taken alwayes in the worst Sense By that Motto therefore I thought fit to minde him of his own Machivillian-Machination wherewith he familiarly abuses his too credulus Coleman-street Companions As for Moro-Mastix A whip for a Fool which you see He scornfully puts away with his hand as a too-stinging Noli me tangere t is but in a just requitall of his most hereticall Hagio-Mastix his lashing and lying against Truth and her pious Presbyterian Servants And as for that notorious lying-Elogie penn'd by it seems one of his prime and most precious Proselytes under his picture I was I confesse so transported at the first sight thereof with holy indignation against it that I could not forbear to retort those blasphemous untruths into the teeth of the Malepart Master his daubing-Disciple to let the world see more truely the insolent Arrogancie of the One and the lying-Vanity of the Other And whereas yet again 't is like it will be objected by Some That surely notwithstanding all you have hitherto said yet this making his picture especially in such a posture will but exasperate and provoke more and more wrath and discontent both in their writing and speaking against us for it To which I answer Truly my Brethren in my judgement It is most fit it should do so yea and vex and sting them to the very quick You know Deare Friends who it was that said Vex the Midianites and smite them And why must this be so The Lord himself gives the answer and reason Because they vex you with their wiles and gull and beguile you And I beseech you tell me what have we gotten all this while by our so tender handling these angry-Nettles Have they not thereby stung us the more foundly Whereas had wee at the first handled these thistles brambles and bryers like the plain Plowman with roughly-grasping hedging-cuffs of just and lawfull severity VVe had I doubt not long ere this made them bend and bow VVhereas now by most unseemly and sinfull sufferance they are become unto us like Israels Canaanites thorns in our eyes and goads to our sides to prick and spoil us if the Lord in mercie prevent it not But whereas in the last place it is more than probable that Some yea many will be too apt to taxe me with too-much rigidnesse and austerity of my Style in writing too-roughly and bitterly against him To these I reply That I cannot but wonder that any especially Independents should herein reprove or reprehend me since even this their great pretended Master of Moderation himself doth so frequently and familiarly use this manner of writing even as if it were connative and genuine unto him yea in his most impious answer to ever to be honored Mr. Edwards his famous Antapologia he hath written a peice of a Treatise in justification of this manner of writing But what need I nay I even disdain his pattern or practise as t is his to apologize for me herein Since the whole-stream and Current of the Sacred Scripture it Self whose Copy to write by cannot but be above all most Comely and Canonicall doth so amply authorize and so abundantly justifie this manner of writing which the world calls rough and rigid in a narrative or historicall way of most sharply reproving the Works and obstinate Workers of iniquity impiety and blasphemy against precious and unspotted Truth yea and that with such ironicall-jeerings and scoffings of them such bitter and biting taunts and termes with holy reverence to Gods word be it spoken

fruitful in good works holy heavenly Christian in all their conversation as far as men are able to judge liscern shal we then say says this Orthodox man of Coleman-street that such men as these hold not the foundation of Religion as if this were no foundation of Christian Religion whereas it is plainly affirmed to be one by the blessed Apostle S. John the Evangelist in these words There are three that beare Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are One See heer what a wicked man is this to justifie them for sound that deny this and so he goes on to jeere those our Presbyterian Brethren that reprove such denyals thus But it is none of the least or lowest of our Classick Intrusions mark his jeers to umpire among the Stars I mean the doctrine of Christian Religion and to determine positively and above all possibility of mistake which are of the first which are of the second which of the third magnitude and withall to call them All by their names as if they knew them as exactly as he that made them And is not here a most bold blasphemer and a most andacious dissembler and out-facer of God and men Nay more this notorious hereticall man is so impious and bold notwithstanding all his deceiveable boastings what an * Enemy he is to all Errours and Heresies yea most shamefully and audaciously calling God Angels and men to the witnesse thereof as flatly and peremptorily to deny and utterly to overthrow as much as in his rotten heart consisteth another main pillar and most essentiall fundamentall point of Christian Religion just like his father Arminius and teacheth his Disciples stifly and stubbornly to deny it also viz. Gods eternall decree of Predestination unto Reprobation of all wicked and unbeleeving ones notwithstanding that the whole famous Synod of Dort and Arles asserted but especially the holy Scriptures themselves do most evidently confirm the infallible truth thereof And therefore what a most unblushing cheater and intolerable obdurate lyer is this thus to dare in the face of God Angels and men to protest himselfe to be so sound and orthodox such a mourker for and hater of Errours and Heresies who flatly denies such a main and principall fundamentall point of Christian Religion as Predestination Truly good Reader I might most justly deny to have any thing to doe with such an one as * denies grounds and principles of faith and Religion I will therefore herein plead for my selfe in medling thus much with this wretched man M. J. Goodwin as the holy Prophet Elisha did for himselfe in another case in these his words And Elisha said As the Lord of Hosts liveth before whom I stand surely were it not that I regard the presence of Jehosaphat the King of Judah I would not look toward thee meaning wicked Jehoram nor see thee so truly say I I professe sincerely were it not that I regard the sacred presence of precious Truth the blessed Son of the great Lord and King of heaven and earth As mean and unworthy a poor-servant of the Lord as I am I would disdain to have any thing to doe in the least measure with such a degenerous and ignoble and abominable Deceiver as Mr. John Goodwin is but I say for precious Truths sake and for Sions sake I could not hold my peace nor withhold my zealous pen Again in the 4th place to shew that this good man is most tenderly affected with love to the precious souls of men yea and he calls God upon his soul to record therein ô transcendent boldnesse and impiety that he has not the least touch of desire to be wise in the things of God either above or besides the written Word of God This most egregiously unblushing deceiver having heretofore most abominably abused the Authority of the sacred Scriptures and let him timely take heed lest for this and the rest of his abuses of Gods Word for the upholding of his damnable opinions that most fearfull curse of God fall upon him which the Lord himselfe hath denounced against those that adde unto or diminish from his holy Word or wrest it to their own wicked wills even the severe infliction of all the curses and plagues that are written in the Book of God and to have his name blotted out of the Book of life in his most bold and blasphemous book entituled Hagió-Mastix which book as is worthily noted by our learned and religious London Ministers in their most excellent Testimony hath these words and this positive assertion under Mr. John Goodwins own hand writing That it is no foundation of Christian Religion to believe that the English Scriptures or that Book or rather Volume of books called the Bible translated out of the Originall Hebrew and Greek Copies into the English Tongue are the Word of God A horrid and hellish indignity offered to God in his Word and a most intolerable and accursed injury offered to all Gods English people to ruinate as much as in him is the ground of their faith and salvation Now hereupon M. Goodwin having been by divers godly Christians with Divines and others much reproved for it and as diligent endeavours as could be made by some faithfull and zealous Christians in London and particularly by one Mr. Thomas Underhill an honest and Religious Citizen and Stationer who endeavoured to have him and his blasphemous Book to be called into question and him severely to be punished as justly he deserved by the Parliament though all in vain such potent props have these irreligious and rotten builders procured in Parliament both against Gods and mans Laws and all justice both Divine and Civill hereupon Mr. Goodwin begins to sweat and swagger and being rub'd upon his gall'd back to kick and winch most notoriously in print And first most furiously and therefore nonsensically thrusts forth a little more foam and froth of his mad-brain in halfe a sheet of paper which he most vainly and slashily call'd A Candle to the Sun hoping but in vain therewith for the present to have stopt the mouthes blinded the eyes and stifled the judgements of men but indeed thereby making the matter as bad or worse than it was before Whereupon hearing himselfe most justly still cry'd out on both in publike and private for that his most irreligious slandering of Gods sacred Word and most wickedly invalidating the divine authority of it especially in such a time when most impious and audacious Anti-Scrip●urists rose up among us boldly and blasphemously denying the Sacred Scriptures to be the Word of God At last the Lord it seems suffering him still to run himselfe out of breath in his accustomed blasphemies and damnable Errours as a just punishment of adding one accursed errour to another even unto his eternall perdition if not timely and truly repented and recanted he sets forth another hugely blustering book or rather

zeal and unfeigned fervour the Lord knows for God his most pure precious Truth because I saw my most dearly beloved Presbyterian Brethren both of the Ministry and others most basely abused and scandalized and scorned by this ungodly great Goliah for his big blustring pretended parts and gifts mainly if not meerly of subtile sophistry and intolerable impudency I mean Master John Goodwin who thus continues still most boldly to out-brave and proudly to oppose and defie or defile those Scripture Truths and all Truths faithfull Champions who necessitously and as they are justly bound do oppugne him therein And if they shall which God forbid unjustly and unkindly count it pride or arrogancy or any other naughtinesse of heart in mee that I a poore mean and despicable younger brother in parts and gifts in comparison of him and thousands others of my Presbyterian Brethren have thus taken upon me to encounter this great Goliah this huge Garagantua in meerly pretended piety and this hungry Helluo Errorum this greedy Heliogabolus and desperate devourer and smooth digester of all kinde almost of horrid heresies who hath so scornfully and contumeliously all along defied the Presbyterian Army-royall of the living God to any such I will only answer for my selfe now at the last as I briefly did at the first in my Title-page in holy Davids fervency honesty humility and brevity What have I now done Is there not a cause Should I suffer such a wretched proud man to deal with my reverend religious grave and godly Presbyterian Brethren as with Varlets or vile men to ravish them of their reputation their precious good name for piety probity and sound learning No truly my deare Brethren For Syons sake the Lord knows I could not hold my peace nor with-hold my pen for precious Truths sake and her faithfull servants sakes whom I saw and observed to be continually so baffled with and so grosly abused by this bold and unblushing Mountebanke I could not let him alone And because I have very good reason confidently to believe that hereby I have mightily molested a humming Hornets-nest I therfore undauntedly resolved by the grace of my God to prepare my back for the smiters my cheeks for them that I doubted not would endevour to pluck off the haire of my honest actions and intentions if they could and not to hide my face from their shamelesse spitting of calumny and slander upon it For I know the Lord my God will help mee therefore shall I not be confounded and therefore have I set my face like a flint and know that I need not be ashamed of what I have herein done All therefore good Christian Reader which I desire of thee is that thou wilt with Christian candor and ingenuity accept my plain dealing labours herein and courteously over-look and passe-by my humane infirmities and pray for the weak and unworthy Author who in the Lord desires to love and serve thee J.V. FINIS Trin-Uni Deo sit omnis Honor Gloria Num. 25.17 18. Mat. 24.23 24.25 26. Mat. 13.21 22 2 Cor. 11 13 14. Black Devils and White-Devils John 6 70. White-Devils the most dangerous Deceivers and Soul-destroyers John 8.44 Mr. Iohn Goodwin a most notorious White-Devil indeed and a Grand Impostor Prolicit ampullas Sesquipedalia verba Horat. de arte Poeticâ M. Goodwin like the Smiths anvill or a nethermilstone M. Goodwins damnable heresies briefly mentioned M. Goodwins grand-Engine to cheat All that will believe him Psal. 56.5 Jer. 3.3 Simulata pietas est duplex im● Diabolica iniquitas The Authority of Divine Scriptures asserted Hagio-Mastix M. Goodwins Candle to the Sun Mat. 12.34 Divine Authority of the Scriptures asserted Epist. to the Parlc Pag. 2. line 21. and p. 4. l. 14. The first tryal of M. Goodwins honesty and discovery of his notorious jugling hypocrisie Mr. Iohn Goodwins radicall reverence unto and pious Opinion of the Parl● * Truth triumphing over Falshood and Antiquity over Novelty p. 106 107 108 c. Oportet mendacem es●e memorem audatem 1 Pet. 2.10 1 Tim. 3.2 4 5 2 The second triall Epistle to the Lords and Commons pag. 1. l. 25. pag. 2. l. 5. Pag. 2. l 21. M. Goodwins big boast of his own innocency and meeknes of Spirit 1 M. Goodwins meek spirit to reverend M. Walker M. Ricrafts Nosegay of such ranke smelling flowers as grow in M. ● Goodwins garden p. 6.7 2 M. Goodwins meek spirit toward ever to be honoured M. Prynne Calumny arraigned and cast Innocency and Truth-triumphing together Vindication of K. Charles p. 129. * Calumny ar p. 12 13 14 c. M. Goodwins most unchristian Charity toward Mr. Prin. 3 M. Goodwins meeknesse and tender-heartedness toward reverend and religious Mr. Edwards Cretensis Reply to Mr. Edwards his Antapelogia The true cause of M. I. Goodwins rage and rancor against M. Edwards 4 Mr. Goodwins tender-heartedness and meekness of spirit toward the reverend and religious Ministers of London * Dan. 5.19 The fair flowers of M. Goodwins garden or rather the stinking weeds growing on the dunghill of his Syon-Col Visitation Ne Hercules adversus duos M. Goodwin fitly compared to Nero 3 The third tryall of M. Goodwins pure Piety * Authority of Scriptures asserted p. 3. l. 6. p. 4. l. 3. * Hear ô Heavens and give care ô earth ô what a child hath the Lord brought up thus to rebell and dissemble with him Isay 1.2 1 M.I. Goodwins fly insinuation of a Toleration of all opinions by that engine of h●s his Theomachia Toleration of al religions justified by Mr. Iohn Goodwin from Gamaliels words Acts 5. In his Theomachia p. 18.22 52 elsewhere in that said Pamphlet Syon-Colledge Visited r. 29. Jer. 17.9 2 M. Iohn Goodwin maintains mans free-will to supernaturall good The divine Authority of Scriptures asserted p. 168 169. Here Mr. I. Goodwin most blasphemously belies the Lord God in this Simile like a Dunce in Divinity misstaking the thing attributes that to God which man absolutely did to himself And so he deals with God again P. 202. l 6. c. Ibid. p. 200. Ibid. p. 202. Testim. p. 14 15. 3 M. I. Goodwins dangerous opinion concerning the nature ground of Faith The Divine Authority of Scriptures asserted p. 182. 189. Isaiah 64.6 Faith must be grounded upon mans reason sayes Mr. Goodwin Justifying faith by Christs righteousness imputed to us denied by M. Goodwin M. H. B. Protested against Mr Iohn Goodwin touching this point of justifying faith M.I.G. proved a most impudent Lyer for the whetstone Universall-Redemption taught and maintain'd by M. Goodwin in his Conclave in Coleman-street 1 John 5.7 * Syon-Colledge Visited p. 23. Predestination unto reprobation of the wicked utterly denyed by Mr. I. Goodwin Synod of Dort c. 1. Artic. 6. p. 5 * Contra negantem principia non est disput andum 2 Kings 3.14 4 M. I. Goodwin abuseth the Authority of Sacred Scriptures in his Hagio-mastix Sect. 28. p. 57. Deut. 4 12. Revel. 22.18 19. A Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ p. 5. M. Goodwin complain'd of to the Parliament about his Hagio-Mastix A Candle to the Sun Authority of sacred Scriptures asserted p. 2.7 l. 21. Ibid p. 7. l. 19. Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ c. p. 5. So Hagio-mastix p. 35 36. M. I. Goodwins Sensus sanus insanus to know the Scriptures discovering his gross folly and fraud thereby Magna est veritas valebit Authority of the Scriptures c. p. 17. Luke 10.26 Mat. 4.6 7 10. John 5.39 7.52 Syril Colledge Visited p. 2. 1 Cor. 3.11 Ephes. 2.20 1 Cor. 3.10 * M. I. Goodwins bold and base abusing of the sacred Scriptures cleerly discovered Jer. 50.38 M. I. Goodwins most desperate dissimulation with God and men M. I. Goodwin is expert at the Jesuits gin mutatis solum modo terminis M. I. Goodwins proud vain-glorious boasting of his most miserably misled Proselytes Epistle to his besotted Sons and Daughters of Coleman-street Conclave p. 3. l. 6. 20 21. M. Quarterman one of M. Goodwins Disciples his most blasphemous and atheisticall speeches and opinion touching the sacred Scriptures Malus Corvus malum Ovum Epistle to his besotted and poysoned Proselytes p. 3. l. 24 p. 4. l. 2. Sic mulus ●●●lum scabie Hosea 4.14 M.I. Goodwins the great Metrapolitan of Coleman-street Conclave Rom. 10.15 Heb. 5.4 Jerem. 14.14 Jerem. 23.21 An Objection in justification of the preaching of gifted men Answer Church Members set in joynt p. 13. Psal. 50.21 Gen. 10.9 Gal. 6.7 Good counsell to M. I. Goodwin if he be not by hardness of heart and pride of spirit uncapable of it 1 Sam. 17.28 Isa. 50.6 7.