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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93625	The speech of a warden to the fellowes of his company: touching the great affaires of the kingdome. Wherein your judgement will stand amazed to decide whether his wisdome or learning did exceed. And doubtlesse is such a speech as was never spoken by any warden since the Citie was made a corporation. / Published by Antibrownistus Puritanomastix.	Puritanomastix, Antibrownistus.; Puritanomastix, Antibrownistus. Three speeches, being such speeches as the like were never spoken in the city.	1642 (1642)	Wing S4862; Thomason E200_47; ESTC R13378	6,888	8

already but I meane let them fall within the limitation and censures of all laws establisht against Popery and popish innovasion And therefore let him that honours the name of Jesus be reputed a Jesuite him that takes degrees at the universities be held a Seminary and so consequently let them both be hangd drawn and quarterd for high Treason for that 's the doome my charity can afford them Nay let not a woman wear Beads least we ●udge she numbers her prayers by them unlesse it be Pearl-beads in a Hatband because my wife her selfe that impregnable piece of devout obstinacie hath adjudged and followed that fashion as a decent wearing and speciall vestment to give evidence of the haughty and vain glorious pride of a Citizens wife And further for this purpose Let us draw the King if it be possible to become no naturall man that is never to reflect on any man for his excellency of learning pregnancie of wit affability and sweetnesse of behaviour fluency of language or any other perfection of Art or Nature whatsoever unlesse he can likewise give sufficient Testimony of his affection to Roundheadisme that he never heard any Common-prayers but can pray himself four hours with more vehemencie than the best Divine in Christendome that prayes but a quarter That he beleeves it not possible that a Sermon in any language under Heaven can save a soul except English and Hebrew Now truly for my part I cannot very perfectly speak this same Hebrew-tongue I mentioned so often but I honour it because I take it to be the language they speake at Amsterdam where the most famous Lay-Doctors in all the World do exercise But I say what a glorious Court would men of these qualities and saith make the Kings graces before-meat and after-meat would be longer than his morning and evening prayers are the reversion of his Dyet not given away but all eaten as swiftly as a Cormorant swallows an Eele Embassadours would be answered before they had an Audience even by instinct of the spirit long locks would be converted to large ears Masques and Playes to Conventicles and Psalm-singing the very sight or ugly aspect of them would flight these same pritty Taffata-beauties out of the Virge so that no sinners but themselves should come neere the Throne of Majesty whereby they would be as their ambition ever was the prime sinners of the Kingdome How fit would these men be for State imployment too would not How the Cobler make a speciall Keeper of the great Seal in regard of his experience in Wax Or Walker the spirituall Bailod-wrighter become the Office of Secretary of State Or the Lock-Smith that preached in Crooked-lane make an excellent Master of the Wards And the Taylor at Bridewell-Docke might be Maister of the Liveries Who fitter to be Master of the Horse than my Lord Whatchicallums Groom I tell you plainly he is able to do more service in the Stable besides what he can do in the Pulpit then he that enjoyes the place And would not Browne the Upholster make a proper Groom of the Bedchamber Why I my selfe am Warden of my Company and could not I think you as well be Warden of the Cinque Ports Well well I am verily perswaded we shall never attain to these preferments but it doth me good to build a Castle in the Aire with the thought of it to thinke how we should firke the Popish and Malignant partie what now in them is but Petty-larciny should then be accounted high Treason what now is but Superstition should then be blasphemy Innovation should be Heresie and Latine in a Sermon should be reputed flat Damnation O there was never any Tyger Dragon or Eliphant did raign domineer rule and tyrannize as we would do we would be very Lyons in the Namean woods Hydraes in the Lernean Fennes Eagles in the Skies Whales in the Seas Pikes in the Rivers and Neroes in the Empire nay all the Devils in hell Hags Furies Witches and Instruments of damnation whatsoever should never paralell us for inventions to plague these luke-warm Locusts these Mercurialls of Religion that stand upon Philosophy Reason Sence and I know not what as if reason and sence and such fooleries were pertinent to religion and the graces of the Spirit This Rapture had almost begot an extasie m●me but that a proverb amongst the wicked came in the nick to cool the fumosity of my Chollerick rhume that the curst Cow hath short horns And truly now I think better on it whatsoever our mad frenzies do perswade us to imagine our selves yet we are not the peo●le that must have all the sway the Kings part will ●ear half for let us think what we will of our selves the truth is the wiser sort do hold us but Round-heads silly rascalls ignorant coxcombs indiscreetly zealous fools yea even Cuckolds and know us to be so too yet I have onely intimated my proper zeale and customary desires unto you that you might all with my affection expect this happy change which we would call by the name of Reformation for this might it come to passe as it never will do were a sure way to banish Popery and bring the Kingdome into a way of extemporary preaching and spirituall blasphemy And here I end with the Papists I should have prolonged my invection against them but that I saw the Proclamation for executing Laws upon them wherefore Though I do not love them yet I think the better of them because the King pursues them so eagerly The next thing which I will plunder my braines and beat out the very quintesence of my noddle about is the designe for Ireland upon which subject I doubt not but to belabour my invention so strongly that you would thinke Tully were making an Oration against Cataline or that an Apple-wench were scolding with a Pedlar in Barthalomew faire about a standing or that a railing Lecturer were preaching a Sermon of damnation in a reprobate Auditory nay I feare not but you will crown me Cob-warden of all the Wardens in Europe or New-England which is more The great necessity of this Designe appeares to my conscience but in two particulars onely First the reparation of our losses past and secondly the expectation of a mighty profit to come for which two causes onely without any collaterall or other consideration of blood-shed or any thing else I doe urge this unto you As for our losses they are more then Arirhmaticke can number and that is a great deale you will say yet it is true though he that counts it easie to multiply the Sands and the Starres were to be the accountant And thus it appeares many of us here present and many hundreds more have wittily taken the opportunity of the Rebellion in Ireland to compound their debts here under pretence of losses there which in my judgement is a most inscrutinous and unsearchable pretence and he that gave the first example thereof deserves to be made Master of the Company