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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

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

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

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

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

the written Word of God and dares thus to jest with such sharp edged tools and thus to tamper and tincle by his subtile and Satanicall sophystry with that most excellent grace of faith in preaching publikely in his seditious Conclave or Conventicle in Coleman-street That mans own reason must be the ground and foundation of faith yea and that God did not care for that faith which was not thus bottomed and founded This he both preached and stoutly strugled to maintain in divers Sermons as aforesaid and this was assured and testified to me by a very honest intelligent and religious freind of mine who purposely went to hear him on this subject and the truth whereof was afterwards seconded and confirmed unto me by the testimony of Mr. William Greenhill preacher at Stepney who himselfe told me upon occasion of conference with him about these things that he himselfe heard Mr. J. G. deliver this lying Doctrine and said unto me that it grieved him very much to have heard him deliver such a dangerous point with such boldnesse and confidence as Mr. Goodwin did Nay more my old loving and well beloved freind Mr. Henry Burton lately deceased told me and my wife at mine own house in the presence and hearing also of Mr. Burtons own wife and of one M. Carter once a Perfumes of gloves in London but now an Officer in Sir Thomas Fairfax Army That Mr. John Goodwin had publikely delivered both in preaching and as I remember in print also a most wicked and damnable doctrine to use Mr. Burtons own words touching justifying faith by Christs righteousnesse imputed unto us which he directly denyed and from which he most audaciously detracted and Mr. Burton vowed most seriously before us all that he also would publikely preach against M. Goodwin touching this point notwithstanding that the said Mr. Carter came to my house with Master and Mistris Burton at that same time purposely to intreat and as he did earnestly to perswade and beseech Mr. Burton that by any means he would not clash with his brother Goodwin in a publike contestation in the pulpit urging what a prejudice it would be to the Independent cause if Mr. Burton should doe so and what pitty it was that two such ancient and eminent brethren should thus fall foule upon one another But yet for all this Mr. Burton protested most vehemently and earnestly that he would not be disswaded nor diverted from his said resolution and yet notwithstanding this huge seeming hubbub and noise herein about a quarter of a year after Mr. Burton coming again to my house together with his wife add I demanding a freindly reason why in all that time he had not performed his so serious promise and protestation of preaching against Mr. Goodwin as aforesaid Mr. Burton told me That in that interim his brother Goodwin the Lord knows I speak nothing but the truth and use his own words to me and he had met together and that Mr. Goodwin had promised him seriously to recant what he therein had delivered and to give publike satisfaction to the world about the same and that for this cause onely he had desisted from his purpose aforesaid But no such matter was ever done by Mr. Goodwin neither could I nor I think any else that knew Mr. Goadwins pride and high spirit ever believe he had so much honesty humility or selfe-denyall to doe any such thing But however it was here was notable double dealing somwhere I forbeare to judge or say where And about this very point had my learned grave and godly freind Mr. Walker a notable bickering to the purpose with Mr. Goodwin and gave him a sore and sure foil therein which it seemed was one of the greatest causes of Master Goodwins most irreligious and irrationall false and foulmouth'd dealing with that reverend Gentleman as was fore-mentioned And yet this wretched man this is one of his sore wretchednesses and miseries indeed hath divers times since and now more lately in his most mischievous and horribly lying paultry Pamphlet entituled Syon Colledge Visited not out of any self-denyall I beleeve but for very shame utterly denyed that ever he printed or preached any such doctrine but rather the contrary orthodox truth therein and as if this man were given over to a reprobate sense and benummed stupidity of soule and conscience to lye for the Whetstone as our Proverbe is that he never held the ●● credere to be the faith that saves us and thus he playes in and out and at bo-peep fast and loose with Gods people and Gods most ●oly things without shame or honesty when he is narrowly sifted and closely put to it And now tell me good Christian and impartiall Reader if this be not strange love to the precious souls of his soul-murthered Proselytes who hold all these opinions most stifly with himself yet so tender is he as hee pretends as not to suffer any suspitious doctrine or loose opinion in the things of God to passe by him unexamined to the prejudice of any Or rather Is not Mr. John Goodwin a most notorious and nefarious lyer and dissembler herein also And as a yet farther out most false godlesse and ungrounded testimony of his large indeed too large love to the souls of all men and women in the World without exception both good and bad He presumptuously preacheth or rather prateth with undaunted confidence and a most cankered conscience That most wicked-opinion and false doctrine of Universall-Redemption upon occasion of delivering which doctrine he neither shames nor trembles blasphemously to call and count God an Impostor or Deceiver as I was most credibly informed by a very judicious and truly religious friend of mine who purposely went to heare him on that point and the truth whereof I need not much struggle to justifie he having printed no lesse in his Divine Authority of Scriptures asserted Yea Mr. Goodwin accounts those to be Saints and sayes they are holy and heavenly men who deny that there is one God in three Persons this he hath a vouched in a serious assertion of his under his own hand in his Hagio-Mastix Take his own words good Reader and then thou wilt the more cleerly judge of his most bould and blasphemous jugling and cheating in this particular And though for my self sayth Mr. Goodwin here I can and do without scruple subscribe to the truth of this Doctrine yea and am ready God assisting to dye observe this proud Cheaters words for it viz That God is one in three Persons Yet I know some who deny it whom notwithstanding this Denyall I know also in part by mine own experience and acquaintance but more fully by the testimony of others worthy credit in as great a matter as this see here how this most wretched man seems to undervalue this tenet in as great a matter as this saye he as if this were but a smal matter wch him to be of exēplary life

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