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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

sad and bad and very wide breach which is most unhappily and most unholily made by the Independents and all other Sectaries by saying that our difference is not in fundamentals but only in point of Church discipline or Government as if that if it were no more were a slight thing and not so worthy our zealous opposing and blaming of them even therein Whereas besides that yee see what a high and heynous Rebellion it is against the Lord and against his Vice-Gerents here on earth yee ought most seriously to lay to heart that without Church-discipline which is the hedge pale and strong wall of Religion in what a desperate danger of utter destroying is Gods Garden the Church most rarely and richly adorned with all sorts of sweet and odoriferous flowers wholsome herbs and soul-preserving plants if you take away the pale or fence thereof and lay and leave it open that so wilde and vile Boars and Beasts of all sorts I mean Independents Anabaptists Prelates and Papists may most easily rush in and root-up all those sweet and fragrant flowers and pretious plants But withall I may most faithfully and firmly avouch and aver it that the difference is yet far greater and more grievous between us Presbyterians and even those whom we mincingly call meere or pure Independents and that in a grand fundamentall yea such a fundamentall as is and will be the main means of totall and terrible not onely shaking but shattering in pieces and utter ruining of all fundamentals in the true Religion and of making that breach of all breaches the destruction of all Religion even so as may by no means be admitted or endured unlesse we are resolved to drive away God and all other Good from us and that without remedy or recovery I mean accursed and intolerable Toleration of all opinions and practices which if permitted to them I see no reason but must be permitted to All and so a universall Toleration which most if not all Independents claim to themselves and so an epidemical Libertinisme or Liberty of Conscience as they call it In this respect also therefore I say and hold that all sorts of Independents among us separating themselves into their private Conventicles unwarranted Church Way as they call it against all Authority and Power of the King and Parliament the unquestionable Sovereigne and Supream Magistracie ordained by God himself and in resisting whose Ordinance they apparently oppose and resist even the Lord God of Heaven Himself are not by any means to be admitted or permitted amongst us neither is their Separation or Division from us to be so extenuated or so minced by us as to give any the least allowance to them in their open rebellious wayes of worshipping God where when and how they please Since especially as here you have most evidently and undeniably seen by that foresaid most apposite pertinent Paralell their Sin herein being no lesse than open odious Rebellion which is the sin of Witchcraft against Gods righteous Authority here on earth notwithstanding their plausible pretences as here those Rebels did of Saint-ship forsooth piety and holinesse in everyone of them though most falsly in their thus most directly rising up against Moses and Aaron as our Independents do now adayes against the most just and righteous Authority of Parliament and their power in constituting under them for their assistance in matters of Religion the Synod or Assembly of Divines at Westminster even as the Lord appointed and constituted Aaron under Moses in holy things Which serious Premonition and Consideration I beseech the Lord in the riches of his grace and in the multitudes of his mercies to poor unworthy and almost quite dilacerated because Apostatized England to lay sadly and seriously to the hearts of All both in Parliament Assembly City and Country to make them thereupon more zealous for the Lord and his most righteous Cause even a long and most longed-for thorough-Reformation according to our most Solemne and sacred Covenant Amen and Amen J. VICARS Coleman-street Conclave Visited NOt without exceeding just and most important cause did the Lord Jesus Christ himself the Fountain and Foundation of Truth yea Truth itselfe by way of Premonition Caution and heavenly Counsell tell us before hand That in these latter dayes false-Christs and false-Prophets would arise amongst us saying Lo here is Christ or Lo there he is And shall with lies and deceiveable signes and wonders of pretended parts and piety so craftily carry themselves that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect children of God Behold sayes our Saviour I have told you of this before Wherefore if they shall say unto you see here how our Saviour ingeminates the caution as a thing of serious consideration Behold he is in the desert go not forth behold he is in the secret chambers marke here also how neer our Saviour comes to our Sectaries practises rebellious Church-ways as they call them now adays or he is in shops barns and such like private Conventicles believe it not And as the Apostle Paul sayes so cunningly and craftily will they outwardly appear in white innocent and silly lamb-skins as thereby to transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ And no marvell sayes he for even Satan can transform himselfe into an Angel of light And therefore one very wittily and most worthily distinguishes these close Hypocrites from openly prophane men white- and loose livers into black-Black-Devils and white-White-Devils And our blessed Saviour himselfe confirms the truth of this distinction Have not I chosen you twelve and one of you is a Devill even Judas Iscariot that sheepskin-Devill who so craftily and demurely demeaned himselfe in an outward shew of parts and piety as that none of the honest and true hearted Disciples could discover him to be so but thought him as honest and holy a man as the best of them all till Christ discovered and uncased him and his own close sin at last found him out and shewed him to them all to be a grand Hypocrite indeed And therefore truly these White-Devils are so much the more desperate and dangerous destroyers of mens souls by howmuch the more slily and insinuatingly they with serpents subtilty insensibly creepe into their bosomes and soules and so most devilishly undoe them Wherefore the Lord Christ told the Pharisees especially among the Jews That they were of their father the Devill and that they did his works he was a lyer and a murtherer from the beginning yea and the Father of lies And so indeed are all his hypocriticall Schismaticall sons young white-White-Devils from their Grand-sire Satan that old white-White-Devill even such as cannot abide the Truth no nor abide in the Truth but by lying Errours Heresies and most damnable Opinions become like Satan himselfe murtherers of mens most precious souls And have we not here now found out a White-Devill indeed a Pharisaicall Hypocrite in grain a Grand Impostor to

these notorious slanders against the Parliament shewing himselfe most palpably a man most desperately despising Government at least any Gouernment that the Parliament should establish not sutable to his fancie stifly selfe wild and boldly speaking evill of dignities notwithstanding those his most false and fallacious brags and boastings of himself like a proud Pharisee indeed to the contrary Again this notorious white-White-Devill or fly Hypocrite and most arrogant Pharisaicall justiciary of himselfe in the foresaid Epistle to the Lords and Commons in Parliament hath these words I speak the truth and lye not to your honours It is more easie to me to suffer than to complain And so tender am I of the reputation of those that have mistaken me to qualifie a hard action with a soft expression that I can hardly desire a perusall of my vindication lest thereby they also may possibly suffer And again for these his expressions are all of them to render himselfe a most milde patient tender-hearted Saint to All in All that is done unto him or said or written against him I am not conscious to my selfe of the least wrong I have ever done marke these words good Reader I beseech thee either to man woman or childe in word or deed Now how honestly holily and uprightly he hath dealt in all these let these following particulars faithfully taken out of his own writings and expressions extant in print under his own hand which I will but briefly touch upon abundantly manifest and declare to God and Men And first I shall pray the honest and religious Reader to take notice how Mr. Goodwin hath made good these his so seeming serious protestations of his piety and probity his mildenesse and sweetnesse of spirit in his answering of reverend religious and learned Master George Walker a most eminent and ancient Minister of Gods Word in London who had formerly most soundly gravely and godlily convinced him to be a notorious Socinian Pelagian and Arminian To whom in his bold reply thereunto Mr. Goodwin uses these words and most uncivill and unseemly terms That Mr. Walker a Minister of Jesus Christ should transform himself into the likenesse of an Angel of darknesse and besmear the brightnesse of his face with the greace and soot of hell is the most unnaturall and unreasonable Netamorphosis that ever was heard of Again five sober words of Mr. Walkers would have gone farther with me and see here what sober words this molde-man himselfe useth to a grave and godly Minister than a thousand crackers or the raging reasonlesse roaring of ten thousand Beelzebubs Again I regard no more the rage or rubbidge of any mans tongue though in many degrees of outward greatnesse and power Mr. Walkers superiours than I doe the dung that passeth from him therefore Mr. Walker might have kept his Earthquakes and Whirlwinds and fires and have sold them for bug-bears to scare children And again a heap of Mr. Walkers errours absurdittes false and forged cavillations whereby he has laid a new dunghill before my door These with very many more such like yea and worse if it were possible most base sordid and scurrillous expressions hath Mr. Goodwin that meek man used against that godly grave and faithfull servant of the Lord as may more at large be seen in Mr. Ricrafts Nosegay collected together or in Mr. Goodwins own answer which here for brevities sake I omit to recite And thus you see whither this man speaks the truth and lies not and is so moderate temperate and tenderly affected touching the reputation of other men as before he most falsly brag'd and boasted of But Secondly see again I pray you what a patient and easie-sufferer of the pretended indignities done unto him by others this man is as he would make the Parliament and all people else believe in his most base and abusive dealing with ever to be honoured learned and religious Mr. Prin in his Book entituled Calumny arraigned to omit his false and foul-mouth'd standers of this said Gentleman in his other book also most falsly entituled Innocency and Truth triumphing together which I my selfe I thinke did pretty well tell him of not long since in my Letter to him which was immediately after printed but God knows unknown to me till it was printed wherein how remarkably he hath given himselfe and his own conscience the lye by that most dissembling and lying vapour of his innocency in his Epistle to the Parliament from having done the least wrong to man woman or childe by word or deed and how apt he is qualifie a hard action with a soft expression yea and how tender he is of other mens reputations That most slanderous and scurrillous pamphlet of his without any other witnesse will most abundantly testifie against him even under his own hand-writing to his indelible shame and everlasting infamie considering these his loud and proud boastings of innocency therein In which his said most scurrillous pamphlet called Calumnie arraigned and cast he deales just like a Theif who being pursued with a hue and cry stop theif stop theif he runs before and cries aloud stop theif stop theif whereas he is the theif himselfe just so crafty Mr. Goodwin runs fast before and with a full mouth yea a foul mouth cries out Calumnie arraigned Calumnie arraigned whereas himselfe is the grand Calumniator and slanderer indeed And that the Reader may take the more serious notice of his most vile and abusive dealing with Mr. Prin in that his Calumnie arraigned and cast and may see and know also what wicked use is made of that his Booke by others that are the Malignant enemies of Truth and of a sound Reformation against Mr. Prin just it seems as Mr. John Goodwin in his heart desired though his lying tongue hath in his foresaid Epistle to the Parliament pretended and protested the contrary know good Reader That one Symmons a most desperate Prelaticall Priest in a late printed and published Treatise of his which without shame or honesty he calls A Vindication of King Charles being it seems very angry with Mr. Prin for writing a famous History of the infamous lives of the Arch-Prelates and Bishops of England with a most vindicative spirit took occasion from Mr. Goodwins most lying and slanderous pen in that his said * Calumny arraigned and cast most vilely to rail and be revenged on Mr. Prin only with Mr. Goodwins pen and most wicked reviling phrases and lewd language of that base book of his in the page mentioned in the margine before calling Mr. Prins style or manner of writing The Dialect of Dragons and telling his Readers that Mr. Goodwin solemnly protested as there indeed he does that he could hardly refrain from taking a solemne Vow and Protestation in the sight of God Angels and Men never more to have to doe with Mr. Prin in word or deed untill he were turned Christian See here good Reader and admire the

fruitful in good works holy heavenly Christian in all their conversation as far as men are able to judge liscern shal we then say says this Orthodox man of Coleman-street that such men as these hold not the foundation of Religion as if this were no foundation of Christian Religion whereas it is plainly affirmed to be one by the blessed Apostle S. John the Evangelist in these words There are three that beare Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are One See heer what a wicked man is this to justifie them for sound that deny this and so he goes on to jeere those our Presbyterian Brethren that reprove such denyals thus But it is none of the least or lowest of our Classick Intrusions mark his jeers to umpire among the Stars I mean the doctrine of Christian Religion and to determine positively and above all possibility of mistake which are of the first which are of the second which of the third magnitude and withall to call them All by their names as if they knew them as exactly as he that made them And is not here a most bold blasphemer and a most andacious dissembler and out-facer of God and men Nay more this notorious hereticall man is so impious and bold notwithstanding all his deceiveable boastings what an * Enemy he is to all Errours and Heresies yea most shamefully and audaciously calling God Angels and men to the witnesse thereof as flatly and peremptorily to deny and utterly to overthrow as much as in his rotten heart consisteth another main pillar and most essentiall fundamentall point of Christian Religion just like his father Arminius and teacheth his Disciples stifly and stubbornly to deny it also viz. Gods eternall decree of Predestination unto Reprobation of all wicked and unbeleeving ones notwithstanding that the whole famous Synod of Dort and Arles asserted but especially the holy Scriptures themselves do most evidently confirm the infallible truth thereof And therefore what a most unblushing cheater and intolerable obdurate lyer is this thus to dare in the face of God Angels and men to protest himselfe to be so sound and orthodox such a mourker for and hater of Errours and Heresies who flatly denies such a main and principall fundamentall point of Christian Religion as Predestination Truly good Reader I might most justly deny to have any thing to doe with such an one as * denies grounds and principles of faith and Religion I will therefore herein plead for my selfe in medling thus much with this wretched man M. J. Goodwin as the holy Prophet Elisha did for himselfe in another case in these his words And Elisha said As the Lord of Hosts liveth before whom I stand surely were it not that I regard the presence of Jehosaphat the King of Judah I would not look toward thee meaning wicked Jehoram nor see thee so truly say I I professe sincerely were it not that I regard the sacred presence of precious Truth the blessed Son of the great Lord and King of heaven and earth As mean and unworthy a poor-servant of the Lord as I am I would disdain to have any thing to doe in the least measure with such a degenerous and ignoble and abominable Deceiver as Mr. John Goodwin is but I say for precious Truths sake and for Sions sake I could not hold my peace nor withhold my zealous pen Again in the 4th place to shew that this good man is most tenderly affected with love to the precious souls of men yea and he calls God upon his soul to record therein ô transcendent boldnesse and impiety that he has not the least touch of desire to be wise in the things of God either above or besides the written Word of God This most egregiously unblushing deceiver having heretofore most abominably abused the Authority of the sacred Scriptures and let him timely take heed lest for this and the rest of his abuses of Gods Word for the upholding of his damnable opinions that most fearfull curse of God fall upon him which the Lord himselfe hath denounced against those that adde unto or diminish from his holy Word or wrest it to their own wicked wills even the severe infliction of all the curses and plagues that are written in the Book of God and to have his name blotted out of the Book of life in his most bold and blasphemous book entituled Hagió-Mastix which book as is worthily noted by our learned and religious London Ministers in their most excellent Testimony hath these words and this positive assertion under Mr. John Goodwins own hand writing That it is no foundation of Christian Religion to believe that the English Scriptures or that Book or rather Volume of books called the Bible translated out of the Originall Hebrew and Greek Copies into the English Tongue are the Word of God A horrid and hellish indignity offered to God in his Word and a most intolerable and accursed injury offered to all Gods English people to ruinate as much as in him is the ground of their faith and salvation Now hereupon M. Goodwin having been by divers godly Christians with Divines and others much reproved for it and as diligent endeavours as could be made by some faithfull and zealous Christians in London and particularly by one Mr. Thomas Underhill an honest and Religious Citizen and Stationer who endeavoured to have him and his blasphemous Book to be called into question and him severely to be punished as justly he deserved by the Parliament though all in vain such potent props have these irreligious and rotten builders procured in Parliament both against Gods and mans Laws and all justice both Divine and Civill hereupon Mr. Goodwin begins to sweat and swagger and being rub'd upon his gall'd back to kick and winch most notoriously in print And first most furiously and therefore nonsensically thrusts forth a little more foam and froth of his mad-brain in halfe a sheet of paper which he most vainly and slashily call'd A Candle to the Sun hoping but in vain therewith for the present to have stopt the mouthes blinded the eyes and stifled the judgements of men but indeed thereby making the matter as bad or worse than it was before Whereupon hearing himselfe most justly still cry'd out on both in publike and private for that his most irreligious slandering of Gods sacred Word and most wickedly invalidating the divine authority of it especially in such a time when most impious and audacious Anti-Scrip●urists rose up among us boldly and blasphemously denying the Sacred Scriptures to be the Word of God At last the Lord it seems suffering him still to run himselfe out of breath in his accustomed blasphemies and damnable Errours as a just punishment of adding one accursed errour to another even unto his eternall perdition if not timely and truly repented and recanted he sets forth another hugely blustering book or rather

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-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