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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

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

paultry and pernicious Pamphlet which like a most intolerable cheater and dissembler he calls or entitles The Divine Authority of the sacred Scriptures asserted Wherein I for my part and I believe others also expected and verily hoped but yet with no little reluctation of spirit fearing the contrary he would now have proved so ingenuous as to have honestly and humbly denyed himself and recanted his former foul errour in his Hagio-mastix but perusing the Book as I did I confesse with no little sorrow and indignation at what I read and found therein in his discourse of the main businesse I found him strongly begin to struggle like a Wasp or Hornet over-whelmed in a honey-pot to maintain and justifie to his just shame and confusion of face if possibly it could be whatsoever he had formerly written in his hatefull Hagio-mastix accounting us all either fools or franticks that had so opposed that his pious piece forsooth single simplicity in all he had delivered therein yea calling us in a most jeering malicious manner Plowers who had made long furrows by our unjust accusations upon his back thus proceeds from pag. 13 to pag. 17. where hee hath these words That notwithstanding that he had the bush of abundant authority at his back like the man in the Moon yet he good man was abused with shamelesse outcries both to Magistrates and people as if he were one of strange opinions an asserter of dangerous Doctrines and a spreader of I know not what absurd he might have said and justly too of damnable Errours and Heresies And so he runs on like a subtill I had almost said a Satanical Sophister with seven positions or conclusions to prove this main matter and impious position which here he seems stifly to deny and which our learned and religious London Divines have truly cited out of his own foresaid Pamphlet pag. 18. l. 36. viz. That questionlesse marke his impudent confidence no writing whatsoever whether Translation or Originall are the foundation of Christian Religion And yet pag. 13. himselfe confesseth That the Scriptures translated as touching the matter substance and things generally contained in all the Books called Canonicall and who ever took them to be the word of God otherwise are of Divine authority and the unquestionable Word of God And then comes with this jugling distinction thinking to cheat others as himselfe viz. Sensu suno forsooth and then also sensu insano which must and does follow in this his own sense he denies the authority of the Scriptures as afterward you shall see more clearly O what a most strangely impudent gracelesse jugler and wicked wrangler with the Truths of God is this And so at last in his seventh Position or Conclusion against Gods Word translated hoping to help his own lame dog over the style as our Proverbe is he most sottishly and foolishly concludes ô the wisdome that is from above how it confounds and ensnares the wisdome of the carnally wise and enforces them to confesse the Truth even against their wils and purposes and catches the crafty in their own wilynesse he concludes I say That the true and proper foundation of Christian Religion is not inke and paper see here the folly and madnesse of this man not any book or books not any writing or writings whether Translations or Originalls But that substance or matter those gracious Counsels of God concerning the salvation of the World of Believers not of All Good and Bad as Iohn Goodwin holds by Jesus Christ represented and declared both in Translations and Originalls are indeed the Word of God and foundation of our Faith and Religion See here then good Christian Reader what an abominable dissembler and jugling Impostor is here discovered out of his own words thus strangely to say and un-say Before to make it out of question as our learned and religious London Divines testifie from his own words That no writings whatsoever whether Translations or Originals are the foundation of Christian Religion And here again That both Translations and Originals are the foundation of our Faith and Salvation Onely we must I say take his lame and beggarly distinction of sensu sano and insano his denyall to be the ink and paper the bare book and books written without the Sense and substance of the holy and divine matter in them contained and most necessarily comprehended and intended which I wonder what Sot but Mr. Goodwin himselfe otherwise takes it And yet this I will not be ashamed nor afraid to affirm notwithstanding the subtil and sly distinctions of this jugling John That even the Scriptures or Translations written with inke and pen the book or books called Canonicall to say no more are the unquestionable Word of God and foundation of our faith and Religion otherwise why did out blessed Saviour himselfe aske his Disciples and the rest of the Jews continually as in that most pertinent place of the Evangelist Jesus said unto the young man that desired to know the way to eternall life What is written in the Book of the Law How readest thou And frequently also It is written It is written And so Search the Scriptures that is the written Scriptures O then the undaunted and deceiveable impudencie of this heart-hardned Hypocrite this wicked White-Devill indeed that thus swaggers against the very written Word of Truth with his base and blasphemous distinctions and impious exceptions and evasions therein And then also he most basely and abusively wrangles with our avouching that the Scriptures Translated or Originals are the foundation of our faith and Religion and thereupon tels us that thus we goe about to build upon two foundations and then quotes that of the Apostle to the Corinths Other foundation can no man Lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ and so goes jeeringly on just still like himselfe except sayes he Jesus Christ be transubstantiated into inke and paper and so most wickedly and blasphemously concludes That no kindes of books or writings whatsoever either Translations or Originals these are his own Words can be in the Apostles sense any foundation of Christian Religion O intolerable deceiver and abominable abuser of the Word of Truth And thus he most impiously and impudently goes about to make Christ and his written Word two opposite and distinct things and two materiall and contradictory confounding foundations whereas this assertion of his is false and a lying one for does not the same Apostle Paul most cleerly and plainly say Yee are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets which must needs be the Scriptures written Translations and Originals how else should we come to know and believe them Jesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone See here now then are not the written Scriptures called and counted most plainly by the Apostle the very foundation Yea and the same holy Apostle goes farther and sayes thus of the Scripture written by himselfe

speaking with a neighbour of his about these passages and his said neighbour reproving him he replyed again There was n more holynesse in the Scriptures than was in his Cats tayl All this besides the substance of it testified by many others I received from the mouth of one of Mr. Biscoes Congregation who was present on that Wednesday in the Assembly when Quarterman spake the words and stood close by his ●lbow and perfectly heard him and the same party told me that on the very same day seven-night following Quarterman without any the least signe of repentance for what he had said departed this life And another friend of mine speaking with one of Mr. Goodwins Congregation about these words on Quarterman and telling him that that marvelled they did not excommunicate him out of their Church the said party answered him that indeed they did intend it but that he dyed before they could doe it And thus good Reader thou feest what a spirit of bold and blasphemous Atheisme this proud Priest of Coleman-street had most fearfully transmigrated into the brest of this wicked blasphemer one of his dear Disciples according to that old adagie Malus Corvus malum Ovum an evill Bird an evill Egg and what a present joy and future Crown such desperate Disciples are like to prove to this their hereticall Master and most poysonfull Pastor Again I could not but take special notice of one more most notoriously false and fallacious expression of his in the Epistle to his more deluded than beloved Proselytes of Goose-Alley alias Swan-Alley in Coleman-street wherein among divers other most fawning and flattering expressions to befool their miserably blind folded eyes and bewitched souls and understanding into a fools paradise he hath these words You have not suffered your mindes to be corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel nor your selves to be baptized into any other Spirit than that which speaketh {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1. expresly in the Scriptures c. Again You have kept your selves out of the dint of that sore judgement of God which the Scripture calls A delivering up unto an unjudicious minde together with a great deale more of such like notorious lying and deluding stuffe in those three or foure pages of that Epistle Now were it not that this deceitfull man proudly prizes all his Geese to be Swans and most besottedly thinks like the Ape his own brats fairest He most falsly admiring them and they most flatteringly adoring him as not very long since divers of his Disciples did upon occasion of his Hagio-Mastix being reproved and reprehended by Gods people setting out a whole Treatise in intolerable commendation of this abominable deceiver as if he had been the most Scraphicall and superexcellent Saint that ever earth produced and without any shame or honesty subscribing their names unto it Audactèr jurantes in verba Magistri he saying and they swearing to what hee sayes and thus both of them interchangeably triumphing and trumpeting out highest Eucomiums elegantest Elogies and proud Panegericks of one anothers most ignoble names and shames whereas all this while they and their most audacious Master like Korab Dathau and Abiram are but notorious obstinate Rebels and run on in a bold rebellious course of resisting the supream authority of the Kingdom and insolently despise all Dignities and Dominions which their fanaticall and schismaticall spirits have not set up and cannot pull down as they Impiously desire And thus heer 's the good Prophets proverb indeed most rightly fulfilled Like people like Priest Were it not thus I say how durst this man of impudence thus boldly and unblestringly boast and brag that his Coleman-street jingling Cockleshels are such precious pearls such solid and dainty Disciples as will not suffer their mindes to be corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel and that have kept themselves ô braveselfe-bottom'd ones out of the dint of that sore judgement of Gods fearfull delivering up to an un-judicious or unsound minde or of Gods just sending them strong delusione to believe a lye yea a very many lyes vented and invented by their most deceitfull Master whereas the Lord of heaven knows and all truly godly over the whole City yea and Countrey too whose eyes the Lord hath opened and anoynted with eye-salve of truth and singlenesse of spirit doe alas most evidently see the clean contrary both in him and his miserably blindfolded foolish Proselites who are all of them for the most part most deeply dyed even in grain with all the foule and filthy Spots which are not the spots of Gods children but of all the dangerous and most damnable heresies errours and most wicked opinions before recited and demonstrated to be the deeply imprinted and impressed stains of their great High-Priest their grand Cajaphas Mr. John Goodwin after whose pernicious pipe they dance most delightfully yea and I say again how dares this even Whetssone Lyer so audaciously lye even in the face of God and men in saying that his Proselytes of Coleman-street suffer not themselves to be corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel nor to be baptized into any other spirit than that which speaks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} expresly the Scripture language Whereas this grand Metrapolitan of Coleman-street under a false colour of gifted men forsooth suffers divers of his Disciples and especially one of his prime Proselytes one Mr. Tayler a Mercer in Paternoster-row and other such like Mechanicall daubers with untempered morter whom hee their great Master of misrule hath some other serious avocations some jeering and quibling paultrie pamphlet to publish and thereby sede vacante in a ministeriall manner to officiate and preach to his people And this foresaid most tender-hearted Hen must cluck his pretty chickens under his wings must gather together his hee-Saints and shee-Saints of Coleman-street and all this above and besides yea and most contrary to that Spirit which speaks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} expresse Scripture Language which sayes most directly and clean against their practice How shall they preach except they be sent And again No man taketh this honour to himselfe but he that is called of God as was Aaron And therefore ô how neer doe they come to that condemnation or accusation of the Lord God himselfe by the holy Prophet Jeremie The Prophets prophesie lyes in my name I sent them not neither have I commanded them neither spake I to them they prophesie to you a false vision false new lights and divination and a thing of nought and the deceit of their own hearts See here good Reader Mr. Goodwin and his deceiving and deceived Disciples condition most exactly and even ad amuss●● deciphred to us And again The same Prophet sayes most appositely to our present purpose I have not sent these Prophets yet they ran I have not spoken to them yet they prophesied Thus I say how neer they come to