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A28201
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The assembly-man
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Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679.
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1663
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Wing B2961; ESTC R17326
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READER THis Pamphlet was torn from me by those who say they cannot rob because all is Theirs They found it where it slept many years forgotten but they ' waken'd it and made false Transcripts They Exciz'd what they liked not so mangled and Reform'd that 't was no Character of an Assembler but of Themselves A Copy of that Reformling had crept to the Press I seiz'd and stopt it unwilling to father other mens sins Here therefore you have it as 't was first scribled without addition of a syllable I wish I durst say here 's nothing lopt off but Men and Manners are chang'd at least they say so If yet this Trifle seem born with Teeth you know whose hands were knuckle-deep in the bloud of that renowned Chancellour of Oxon Archbishop LAUD though when they cut up that great Martyr his two greatest Crimes were the two greatest Glories Great Britain can boast of St Paul's Church and the Oxford Library Where you find no coherence remember this Paper hath suffer'd Decimation better Times have made it worse and that 's no fault of J. B. THE Assembly-man Written in the Year 1647. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. He seditiously stirr's up men to fight he 'll teach others the way whereof himself is most ignorant and perswades men to take an Oath because himself had sworn it before LONDON Printed for Richard Marriot and are to be sold at his shop under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street 1662 3. THE Assembly-man AN Assembler is part of the States ' Chattels nor Priest nor Burgess but a Participle that shark's upon both He was chosen as Sir Nathaniel because he knew least of all his Profession not by the Votes of a whole Diocese but by one whole Parliament-man He ha's sate four years towards a new Religion but in the interim left none at all as his Masters the Commons had a long Debate whether Candles or no Candles but all the mean while sate still in the Dark And therefore when the Moon quits her old Light and has acquir'd no new Astronomers say she is in her Synode Shew me such a Picture of Judas as the Assembler a griping false Reforming Brother rail's at Wast spent upon the Anointed persecutes most those Hands which Ordein'd him brings in men with swords and staves and all for Money from the Honourable Scribes and Pharisees One Touch more a Line tyed to his Name-sake Elder-tree had made him Judas Root and Branch This Assembly at first was a full Century which should be reckon'd as the Scholiast's Hecatomb by their Feet not Heads or count them by Scores for in things without Heads Six-core to go to an Hundred They would be a New Septuagint the Old translated Scripture out of Hebrew into Greek these turn it to four shillings a day And all these Assemblers were begot in one day as Hercules's fifty Bastards all in one night Their first List was sprinkled with some names of Honour Dr. Sanderson Dr. Morley Dr. Hammond c. But these were Divines too worthy to mix with such scandalous Ministers and would not Assemble without the Royal Call Nay the first List had one Archbishop one Bishop and an Half for Bishop Brownrigg was then but Elect. But now their Assembly as Philosophers think the World consists of Atoms petty small Levites whose Parts are not perceptible And yet these inferior postern Teachers have intoxicated England for a man sometimes grow's drunk by a Glister When they all meet they shew Beasts in Africk by promiscuous coupling ingender Monsters Mr. Selden visit's them as Persians use to see wild Asses fight when the Commons have tyr'd him with their new Law these Brethren refresh him with their mad Gospel They lately were gravell'd 'twixt Jerusalem and Jericho they knew not the distance 'twixt those two places one cry'd twenty miles another ten 't was concluded seven for this reason that Fish was brought from Jericho to Jerusalem market Mr Selden smil'd and said perhaps the Fish was salt fish and so stopp'd their mouths Earl Philip goes thither to hear them spend when he heard them toss their NATIONALL PROVINCIALL CLASSICALL CONGREGATIONALL he swore damnably that a pack of good Dogs made better Musick His Allusion was proper since the Elder 's Maid had a four-legg'd Husband To speak truth this Assembly is the two Houses Tiring-room where the Lords and Commons put on their Visards and Masques of Religion And their Honors have so sifted the Church that at last they have found the Bran of the Clergy Yet such poor Church-menders must Reform and shuffle though they find Church-Government may a thousand wayes be chang'd for the worse but not one way for the better They have lately publish'd ANNOTATIONS on the Bible where their first Note on the word CREATE is a Libel against Kings for creating of Honors Their Annotation on Jacob's two Kids is that two Kids are too much for one mans supper but he had say they but one Kid and the other made Sauce They observe upon Herod what a Tyrant he was to kill Infants under two years old without giving them a legal Tryal that they might speak for themselves Commonly they follow the Geneva Margin as those Sea-men who understood not the Compass crept along the Shore But I hear they threaten a second Edition and in the interim thrust forth a paultry Catechism which expounds Nine Commandments and eleven Articles of the Creed Of late they are much in love with Chronograms because if possible they are duller than Anagrams O how they have torn the poor Bishops names to pick out the number 666 little dreaming that a whole Bakers dozen of their own Assembly have that Beastly Number in each of their Names and that as exactly as their Solemn League and Covenant consist's of 666 words But though the Assembler's Brains are Lead his Countenance is Brass for he damn'd such as held two Benefices while himself has four or five besides his Concubin Lecture He is not against Pluralities but Dualities He say's 't is unlawful to have Two of his own though Four of other mens and observes how the Hebrew word for Life has no Singular number Yet 't is some Relief to a Sequester'd Person to see two Assemblers snarl for his Tithes for of al◠kind of Beasts none can match an Assembler bu◠an Assembler He never enters a Church by the Door but clambers up through a Window of Sequestration or steals in through Vaults and Cellars by clandestine Contracts with an Expecting Patron He is most sure no Law can hurt him for Lawes dyed in England the year before the Assembler was born The best way to hold him is as our King Richard bound ths King of Cyprus in silver chains He love's to discourse of the new Jerusalem because her streets are of fine gold and yet could like London as well were Cheapside pav'd with the Philosophers stone Nay he would say his Prayers with Beads if