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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

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

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

most justly cast upon them as it is hardly possible for any other pen to doe more or more sharply or cuttingly as the Apostle Paul pertinently expresseth it Titus 1.13 And truely my Christian Brethren if ever any incorrigible-Worker of iniquity any bould and blasphemous-Heretick together with his brother Paul Best in this our age deserved to be soundly severely lasht even by that most just law of Like for Like Judg. 1.5 and by that right rule of wise King Solomon of answering a fool according to his folly Pro. 26.5 then certainly this proud this presumptuous Fool most worthily meriteth to be met with all and measured by his own bushell as I hope ere long he will by a far better and abler pen than mine is and to be most soundly and severly whipt and scourged that if it be possible he may become sound in the faith which the Lord knows is my souls desire for him These things good Reader I have here thought fit I say to premise to thee thus if it may be to take off all unjust prejudice from thee touching my self and my manner of writing in this ensuing Treatise Wherein if I may prevail with thee and obtain acceptance of ●y poore labours from thee I have all I expect and shall blesse God for it If not I will not yet be daunted nor disheartned in so warrantable a work and way But however shall by Gods gracious assistance in all Christian Charity to thee and godly resolution in my selfe rest Thine in the Truth as it is in Jesus to serve and love thee J. VICARS A Postscript to the Reader Courteous Reader PRovidence having occasionally brought this ensuing Letter of my very Venerable Learned and Religious freind unto my hands and It in no little measure concerning Me and this my Treatise though not in a positive approbation or allowance of it as not being by him perused by reason of his bodily infirmity yet in respect of his fair and freindly esteem opinion and perswasion of me It s unworthy Author and of my former Labours heretofore seen and esteemed by him viz. my Parliamentary Chronicle my Schismatick sifted and others of these Kindes And especially considering that this Reverend and Religious Gentleman does in this his Letter manifest and declare like an impregnable and immoveable Rock his Christian courage and constancie his faithfulnesse and fervour to hate and oppose all the illegitimate and spurious Errours and Heresies of these backsliding and apostatizing times I therefore have made humbly bold as conceiving it not a little concerned his own ever most duly deserved honour thus to make it publike to the World that all may see that blessed be our God Truth wants not valiant Champions to vindicate her pure and spotlesse honour if occasion be offered which Letter in briefe is as followeth To my much esteemed freind Master John Vicars My worthy freind IT is my Losse as well as Greif that I am not able to peruse your Manuscript Surely I should have found in it that Zeal and Wisdome that Quicknesse and Meeknesse that Conviction and Cleernesse that Piety and Reason that candid ingenuity in relating and that solid modesty in confuting which would have well become your selfe advanced Truth and have enervated specious Errours But I am not well and have been enforced lately to omit preaching in my place and am still indisposed to study pray for me Get the view to be supplyed by a better eye and be confident that I joyn with you and all good men for the Truth of Christ against all Heresies and Blasphemies Feb. 29. 1647. Sir Your truly assured freind is Obadiah Sedgewick A pertinent Paralell and Premonition to all pious Presbyterians touching a very great and Common mistake among the most and best of them viz That We and the Independents differ not in any Fundamentalls but only in matters of Discipline or Church-Government Whereas the contrary is heer most unquestionably proved Viz That they are most obstinate Rebels both in Opinion and Practice and perfidious Violaters of such a main and principall Foundation as will inevitably ruinate all other Fundamentals of true Religion if allowed unto them The voice of Korah Dathan and Abiram against Moses and Aaron Num. 16.1 2 3. Korah Dathan and Abiram rose up before Moses and Aaron with certain of the Children of Israel 250 Princes of the Assembly famous in the Congregation men of renowme And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron said unto them Yee take too much upon you Seeing all the Congregation of the Lord are holy every one of them and the Lord is among them Wherefore then lift yee up your-selves above the Congregation of the Lord The Voice of Independents Anabaptists and other Sectaries against the Parliament and Assembly Our Independents Anabaptists Antinomians and such-like Children of Errour and Schisme Men I confesse famous in their generation many of them for Parts and Guifts have gathered themselves together in private Conventicles yea and in publike Assemblies too against our Parliament and Assembly of Divines and say seditiously unto them and of them in their Pulpits and Pamphlets Ye take too much upon you in going about to Conjure all our Religion and Worship of God into your Parliament and the Synodicall Circle of the Assembly Seeing that all our Congregations are made up only of holy Saints and a Godly Party even every one of them Wherefore then lift yee up your-selves above us the Congregations of the Lord and go about to prescribe unto us Rules and Lawes how and where we should worship God And thus make your-selves Lords and Kings over our Consciences and over the Congregations of the Lord since none on Earth but onely King Jesus in heaven hath any thing to doe with us either in conscience or practise as touching Religion and Worship but we and all else are therein being all of us Saints and holy-ones to be tolerated and left to the liberty and freedom of ours and their own consciences without any restraint or the least thought of intended coercive power of any civill Magistrate on earth whatsoever Now then good Reader and you especially my dear Presbyterian brethren let me beseech you in the bowels of the Lord Jesus for the honour of our God and the helping forward of the propagation of the true Reformed Religion according to our sacred Covenant sadly and seriously to consider from this present Paralell so appositely answerable one part to the other that the difference and division of all sorts of Sectaries from us is in them First no lesse than heynous Rebellion in opposing and as the Apostle Jude sayes ver. 8. despising Dominions and speaking evill of those dignities which God himselfe hath set-up and ordained yea such Rebellion as the Lord ye know in that 16 of Numbers most severely punished with a most unparalleld confusion and therefore I beseech you not to extenuate and mince as too many of us now adayes doe the