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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80534	The Iesuit, and the monk: or, The serpent, and the dragon: or, Profession, and practice. Being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1656. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C622; Thomason E897_5; ESTC R206691	27,529	33

Gather your thoughts together now and I pray note with me that here in the beginning of Genesis the first Book of Holy Scripture the beast into which the Devil entred hath his Name à Serpendo from creeping He was but a creeping beast when he first began to plot against us I utter the words of my Soul Heart and Spirit The Jesuites and Monks if I may religiously say so have egregiously out-done him and gone excessively beyond all that he did or could have done when he was a Creeper Now it is plain that the Serpent the Creeper is in length of time grown into a Dragon such we find him in the last Book of Scripture the Revelation Chap. 7. 12. And there was War in Heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angels Had not the Dragon been a Spirit and his Enemy Michael a Spirit ye had heard here perhaps in the introit of the last Times of the first Powder-Plot But however the Devil is grown from a Creeping Serpent to a Flying Dragon think not I beseech you I am heartily sorry that I have cause to say it that the Jesuit and the Monk fly far behind him Indeed and in truth A Man skill'd in the Motions Promotions Actions Transactions and Overtures of Rome would have reasonably thought that if there were any pure and silken threads of true Christian sincerity simplicity interweav'd into the Practice of the Church they would have been found amongst the Benedictine Monks these having been the most antient order and the most Sun-beam'd from Christ as the most near to him And I grant there are apparently such amongst the Religious of other Nations But casting aside all the vain Follies and Falshoods of Love with which I humbly confess I have been captivated and enchained for extravagant Love and Hatred are alwayes erroneous and never sound and piercing in their judgements I declare upon my Christian Word our English Monks who in the flourishing days of an old Monk the Behemoth of humane Policy for whose Ashes I have yet so much Reverence as to conceal his name though I beleeve the Chronicling of his notable Actions would yeeld a great access to the knowledge of Despotical Dominion expended no time upon me to penance and prepare me for Profession but much to perswade me that the Jesuites are the grand Abusers of Mankind and the mighty Plot-Masters of the world are now themselves in regard that the Devil is grown from a Serpent to a Dragon become I will hold my Peace but I was in the way to say Deceivers and Impostors beyond a Parallel and beyond a Rival And to adde never any Dancer on the Ropes educated his tumbling Boy never any vile man tutor'd his Ape to so many strange tricks and wondrous Faces as these tumbling and Apish Monks are apted to and exactly taught when they are furnish'd out and manumised into this Nation from their Monasteries But not a word of this Many put it upon the question What kind of Serpent it was into which the Devil entred Eugub Eugubinus thinks it to have been a Basilisk because he is the King of Serpents Perer. Camar in cap. 3. Gen. Pererius that it was a Serpent called Scytales because the back thereof is variously coloured Martinus del Rio Disq Mag. Martinus del Rio a Viper Camara a common Snake Others think otherwise and when we have all thought we have but thought and can but think I would verily believe if I durst that it was a Serpent most fitly chosen as having certain subtil postures motions and tumblings that our young Monks and Jesuits now use My Reason is The Devil had it in his comm●nds from God that he should not assume a shape but one most shewing his nature to the end Eve might thereby be advertised S. Aug. lib. de Genes ad literam● cap. 3. For as St. Austin divinely admonishes Had the Work been referred to the arbitriment of the Devil he would have rather covered his treachery let me not say his Jesuitism his Monkishness under the sweet shape of a Lamb or Pigeon as often times the old Monks and Jesuits do Questionless It was a Serpent that could move turn wind all manner of ways and had Men say so but they speak as they please part of the motions windings turnings returnings and overturnings of blessed Father Garnet when he was religiously instructing his godly Ghostly Children in Confession and sub sacro Sigillo under the sacred Seal to blow up the Parliament House and moreover had it is not I that say it but another out of the clouds part of the motions and mutations of our old Monk and Behemoth when he was instilling in his close and private Chamber his black Art of Policy into his Novices But the Dragon was the compleat and master-Workman he that polished their high Performances And that these are the children of Cain all the children of Abel easily believe Gen. 4. 8. Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him These rose up against many thousand Fathers and Brethren and would have slain them and given them over to a most horrible Death They had a most pregnant and efficacious Will to it and the Effect was not wanting on their part They did not impede it but concurred to the production of it with the last dram of their Power Cain was in the Cause that his Brother Abel became Hebel Vanity and they would have turned all these their Fathers the Fathers of their Country and Brethren into Vain smoke A man is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little House Wherefore the Hebrews call a Son Ben quasi Domum as it were a House quam bana that is which the Father hath built How many fair Houses of Flesh had the Fathers of the Persons then designed for destruction richly built and educated which our base Children of the Serpent and of Cain would have most suddenly and most cruelly destroyed King Prince Bishops Nobility Gentry and thousands of innocent and ignorant people near to the Place in the heat of their other Thoughts should have been fir'd and torn without a grain of Mercy Let me tell thee O thou Jesuit or O thou Monk some other Power offended at thee speaks this by me that now outactest the Jesuit in all the high and airie motions of transcendent Villany the Devil could not have raised the dust of his Body to this Plot had he stood a Serpent he could not until he came through all the Degrees and Ascents of his Experience to swell into a Dragon and until the worst of times offered you for his Instruments Some curiously enquire especially of the Jewish Rabbins what Sign● it was which God set upon Cain answerably to Scripture Gen. 14. 15. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain lest any finding him should kill him Rabbini Some fancied this Mark or Sign to have been a most horrid yelling

manner of Salutation betwixt Easter and Whitsuntide One meeting an other saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Our Lord is risen The other answereth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is true he is risen He that began replieth● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he liveth and reigneth for ever and ever It were pure Devotion if for some daies after the Celebration of this Deliverance we did salute in our meetings one the other after some remarkable Form wherin we might join Spirit to Spirit as in a holy Kisse As thus One should begin By the Goodness and Mercy of God we were delivered The other might answer It is true By the Goodness and Mercy of God and by those alone And then the first again We are as men risen from the grave Coloss 3. 1. and if we be risen with Christ let us seek those things which are above And the other might conclude It is most just that God should live and reign in us to him be glorie for ever and ever Finally Beloved It is a good Mark when we are afflicted The Hebrew Divines observe That Jona signifying a Dove is so called from Janah which is latin'd afflixit moerore affecit he hath afflicted he hath griev'd Because the Dove is persecuted by Hawks and other Birds of Prey Psal 34. 19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all God make you righteous I do assure you It is my Glorie that I bear in my face a Mark of barbarous cruelty given by one linag'd from such like Saints with an Irish Dagger and this in the maintenance and Defence of Vertue and Reprehension of Vice Let me send forth one sigh and a groan after it O that unwise Ewe and ignorant of future Things that gave suck to the forsaken whelps of the Wolf which afterwards would have destroyed her and her young and all the Flock One word more I seldom see a Jesuitical or Monkish Good-Man so they are called but methinks I behold a stately Swan in his swimming The swimming Swan shews his white feathers but he hides his black leggs under the water Take the Swan from his swimming and ye will quickly perceive his black Walkings Go now O ye Jesuits to produce and print several shapes of Garnet's Straw which I have seen All your shapes and all the shapes of the Straw are not wor●h one poor untainted Straw that has the shape wherein God made it A Word now to you as ye are a Companie That ye if ye concurr with the end of your Vocation are great Instruments of the Advancement of God's Glorie and of Learning is a Truth plain to the Eie of Reason but what it is to concurr with the end of your Vocation is not easily discernable Therefore to concur with the End of your Vocation is to Print and advance divine Truths and true Learning by the which only God is glorified For if ye walk otherwise ye advance God's dishonour and are Enemies to sound and true Learning and ye print Garnet's Straw in several shapes Ye are the Conduit-Pipes and Chanels by the which water is conveyed to the World But ye are reasonable Conduit-Pipes and Chanels no senseless and inanimate and therefore be ye sure and secure that the Water be not foul and infectious As the Case and the Die of Chance falls now It is your Dutie to know the Subjects of the Discourses which ye Print and Ignorantia non excusat hominem in his quae pertinent ad Officium ejus Ignorance doth not excuse a man in the Things which pertain to his Office or Dutie Indeed when that Office was an others who might act at Pleasure there was a large difference Give me leave to speak the Words of my own Dutie One Thing more Because Learning is so deeply concern'd in your Vocation ye more comply and are more congruous with your Vocation that have received some tincture of Learning Learning is helpfull to all Christians especially to those into whose Vocation it falls We read Psal 71. in the end of the fifteenth Verse and in the beginning of the sixteenth I know not the numbers thereof I will go in the strength of the Lord God Edit Vulg. The Vulgar Latin clothes it Quoniam non cognovi literaturam introibo in potentias Domini Because I have not known Learning I will enter into the powers of God as if they had more of the Power of God and drew nearer to him that are ignorant of Learning Sept. The Septuagint gives us also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Learning Text. Heb. The Hebrew word is Siphrot and signifies Ciphers numbers Sym. Rabbini Arnob. S. Chrysost S. Aug. in Psal 71. Thus Symmachus translates it thus the Rabbins to whom Arnobius St. Chrysostom and St. Austin do fully and freely consent who take the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 negotiation or merchandizing or if ye will pragmatizing which indeed throngs a man with temporal business and diverts him from knowing the Works and Wonders of Gods ower when true Learning enables him to a further Compliance with divine Power I shut up all in the Commendation of one serious Matter to you I have not anie Thing of this Orb or Nature more fitly to commend to you in the Publishing of which ye may advance the Wonders of God's Power than such Matters as declare the Goodness and Power of God in the blazoning of this most horrible Plot ●…d of the Discoverie attending upon it It is clear That as a Flower may be painted with it 's own colour and survive it self so this most horrid Wickedness hath black enough in it self wherewith to be painted in it's own foul hue But the Tongues and Pens of Scholars are also needfull as the skilfull hand of the Painter that it may be translated in it's own Colour from Age to Age from Day to Day untill we come to the black Day which the Plotters would have represented amongst us the Day of Doom And as the Children and Common People were taught in the Primitive Church commonly to sing and say Allelujah Praise ye Jah or God who is St. Hieron Ep. ad Laetam ad Marcellam So let it be in use with us And let the Reason follow with a Train For he hath delivered us from the Devil and the English Jesuits and I will here lose the Word that should follow that cursed Rabble which blows up all in this our blessed Deliverance from the Powder-Treason I have here eatnestly defended those whom God hath wonderfully delivered and in effect I have defended God and his wonderfull Deliverance I have been vehement against wickedness and wicked Persons wheresoever I found them So was Christ and his Apostles and all the Fathers I have inveighed against unpriestly Priests and irreligious religious Men Thus did St. Austin Salvianus Gildas and Armies of others Ma-Many will hastily let fly their uneven Censures concerning the ground of my Quarrel against the Monks Assuredly it is greater yea more intricate and winding than to be comprized presently by an ordinary Fancy but I may be able to express it hereafter Let it suffice here that one Action wherein they and their envenom'd Friends were busie Bees and Competitors was more than a Powder-Plot against me and against that which the Law of God of Nature and of Nations call'd mine until they came with their Volumus Jubemus we Will and Command Laus Deo Liberatori Praise be unto God o●… Deliverer FINIS