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A52757	The great accuser cast down, or, A publick trial of Mr. John Goodwin of Coleman-street, London, at the bar of religion & right reason it being a full answer to a certain scandalous book of his lately published, entituled, The triers tried and cast, &c. whereupon being found guilty of high scandal and malediction both against the present authority, and the commissioners for approbation and ejection, he is here sentenced and brought forth to the deserved execution of the press / by Marchamont Nedham, Gent.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1657 (1657)	Wing N389; ESTC R18604	109,583	156

the Name of Christ to censure the proceedings of Princes and reprove or smite the Potentates Rulers great men of the Earth they being in their Actions subject to his Judgement and Correction he being the man out of all the Tribes and Kindreds of the People separated and set apart in his own conceit for the exercise of this Pontifical Authority over his Highness as if he meant to usurp the Papal Chair and turn out Pope Alexander the seventh And yet this is not all for as if he meant also to be no less than Alexander the great it was well observed lately by a Gentleman in my hearing that as King Alexander having conquer'd the world is said to have sighed because there were no more worlds to conquer so he having in his own Opinion triumphed over a world of Penmen and Powers wanting work elsewhere hath now turned his Arms against a greater in his own eyes than all these put together even against his sacred self most shamefully contradicting himself in many places and thereby hath given the world to understand what a Shuttle-cock this Mr Goodwin is who hath so set out himself with his own Pen and in Print too that the Nation may know he careth not to have his wit and reason and honesty and all obscured together rather then his sparkling Phantsie should not shine in its brightness And these things he hath done not in Anonymous small Kites and Pamphlets but in grave and as he thinks goodly Treatises which he hath set his name to in Capital Letters and out of which I shall give you three or four Instances of the Combats he hath had with himself upon the open Stage One while you have him for the King as in that Book of his called Anticavalierism page 10 11. where you may read this following Passage As for offering violence to the person of a King or attempting to take away his life we leave the proof of the lawfulness of this to those profound disputers the Jesuites who stand engaged by the tenure of their professed Doctrine and Practice either to make good the lawfulnes thereof or else to leave themselves and their Religion and abhorring and hissing to the world As for us who never travelled with desires or thoughts that way but abhor both Mother and Daughter Doctrine and Practice together we conceive it to be the just Prerogative of the persons of Kings in what case soever to be secure from the violence of men and their lives to be as consecrated Corn meet to be reaped and gathered onely by the hand of God himself David's Conscience smote him when he came but so neer the life of a King as the cutting off of the lap of his Garment Not long after contrary to all this he wrote that Book entituled A Defence of the Honourable Sentence passed upon the late King by the High Court of Justice In the 73 Page whereof writing against such as would not have had the King put to death he adviseth them to retract that Inhumane Tenet of exempting Kings from Punishment whereby they encourage Kings to turn Tyrants commit murthers and all abominations that Tenet of theirs saith he I mean wherein they deny unto Kings the help of that Bridle for the ruling of their lusts more needfull for them than for any other sort of men the fear of death by the Sword of Civil Justice upon any occasion whatsoever At the latter end of the same Book he concludes thus The late wars wherein the King by the sword of those men of blood who cast in their lot with him shed so much innocent blood in the land being causelesly and contrary to the frequent obtestations earnest sollicitations grave advisements of his Great Council the Parliament commenced by himself are so far from mediating on his behalf for the bloodshed that they open the mouth of it the wider and cause it to cry so much the louder for vengeance upon Him and His both unto God and men Sic idem jungat vulpes mulgeat hircos A second Instance may be taken out of a certain Letter of his written to T. G. against Independencie which was printed Anno 1643. condemning Separate Congregations so he terms them in his Preface I am saith he as confident as Confidence it self can make me that their way of a Covenant is a mere humane Invention and a strain of that wisdom that desires to exalt it self not only against men but against God himself p. 1. And p. 10. saith he If you have the Truth with you woe to my Wits Reason and Vnderstanding never poor man so strangely misused by such Friends in this world Again p. 13. he hath these words I do profess in the sight of God and in as great singleness and simplicity of heart as ever man in this world spake word unto you that I do as clearly apprehend Error and Mistake throughout the greatest part of your way that is Independencie as I do truth in this Conclusion That twice Two makes Four A lusty Confidence indeed Yet notwithstanding now his twice Two doth not make Four For within a few moneths after he changed his Judgment from the Presbyterian way wherein he then stood and professed himself for this way which he had so confidently decried and took up the practice of it gathered a Separate Church in Coleman street and wrote divers Books in defence of this way and with as much confidence as before as may be seen in his Books against A. Steward Mr. Edwards and other Presbyterians A Third Instance and which is most pertinent to our purpose is in reference to these two Commissions which he flies out against with so much fury the one for Approving and the other for Ejecting and which he in this Pamphlet of his makes the abhorring of his soul and is angry with his Governers about them and tells us he ought to be angry and to smite them with as much shame and reproach before the World as his Pen is able to load upon them Nevertheless both these Commissions are no other not only for substance but also in each material circumstance then what was laid down in certain Proposals for propagation of the Gospel and there distinctly commended one after the other to a Committee of Parliament appointed to receive such Proposals Febr. 8. 1651. as may be seen in Mr Scobels Office in these Words We whose Names are subscribed do with others humbly desire that these Proposals be presented to the Honourable Parliament c. To all which Mr. John Goodwins own self and Mr John Price one of the Elders of his Church together with divers others then subscribed And yet the Tenor of his present Book is against the Magistrate for granting such Commissions as having in his opinion nothing to do with propagating the Gospel and extream severe he is in his language against the Commissioners though the purport of their Commissions to be act according to such Instructions as Mr G.

make a ratling noise in Rhetorick to please childish fancie but what are these things to men of solidity and sobriety that would inform their understandings But 't is all one with him he is every jot as light and toyish also in managing matter of Argument And this appears by his trifling with another Scripture which he hath drawn in I know not how to prove that Christ hath left Rules enough of such a nature as there needs no help of any prudence to promote the preaching of the Gospel But what trow ye is the proof Even such another Text save only it makes less if that were possible to his purpose than the former It is Luk. 12. 49. I am come to send fire on the earth and what will I if it be already kindled This he tells us signifieth that Christ desired nothing in this world at least comparatively before his departure from it but only to see that fire kindled which he came to send on the earth that is to see the Gospel as it were to have gotten footing and taken some hold in the world Well admit this be the right interpretation what doth he infer from it Ergo doubtless the Lord Christ who was desirous to see this was sollicitous and provident enough by himself or by his Apostles at least to order and enjoin all things necessary or meet for the spreading of the Gospel upon terms of the best advantage after him and not to leave so important an affair to the care and contrivance of the Secular Powers Doubtless while Christ and his Apostles were upon the earth they neglected not to order things which were then necessary and meet for the then spreading of the Gospel So much of Inference may be admitted But Mr. G. stretcheth it further and inferreth from this Text what it never intended to import His Argument stands thus Christs great desire was while he was on earth to see the fire of the Gospel kindled Ergo He by himself or his Apostles laid down such Rules and Directions so full in all circumstances that the Magistrate hath no liberty left to use his discretion for the kindling or promoting of it upon any occasion in After-Ages I shall not now resume the debate whether there are such large Rules and Directions to be found or whether the Magistrate may exert his Civil power and wisdom to settle any Course upon a Civil Account for the publication of the Gospel the former part of this Discourse having sufficiently cleared the Truth already concerning those Particulars but the matter under question here is this whether from such an Antecedent as this That Christ desired to see the Gospel take footing while he lived any such Consequence as this do naturally clearly follow Therfore he by himself or his Apostles left such universal Rules to promote it as exclude all endeavour and care of the Magistrate from assisting thereunto in succeeding times and generations It must be a rare Logical Engine that can serue in such a Consequence without the mighty help of Mr. G. who seems to have an extraordinary faculty of tormenting his own Brains and the Scripture to bring about shadowie pretences of Reason and Religion to cover the peevish designs and odd purposes of an angry spleen But he goeth on to tell us Experience hath manifested in all Ages that for men whoever they be to compound the wisdom counsels and institutions of Christ for the advancement of the Gospel in the world with their own devices and Inventions is the next way to obstruct the course of the Gospel And yet the professing powers of this world have always had itching desires to be officious unto Christ in this kind to obtrude upon him their own Projections and Inventions to accommodate and help him through the world with his worship and Gospel It is readily granted that the Civil Powers of the world have been too much engaged in mingling their own Inventions with the Institutions of Christ and Gospel-worship which hath been the great hindrance to a progress of the Gospel in the Truth and Power of it But why is this brought in here to be insinuated against the Civil Powers now in England and why is such a heap of words erouded in here to incumber the Reader and countenance the Insinuation Certainly Mr. Goodwin cannot charge the present Governors for mingling their own Inventions with the Institutions and Worship of Christ Could he have done it we should have seen him descending to particulars to prove the charge and have heard of him in a more lofty tune but knowing in his Conscience there is no such matter it serveth his turn well enough by packing and shuffling a company of words together thereby slily to cheat and instill an ill Opinion of the present Authority into the unwary Reader as if they compounded their own Inventions with Gospel-worship and Institutions But take away the Boxes and then what becomes of the Jugler Remove the deceptio visus Viz. the Mist of words from before the eyes of the Reader and then Mr G. his tricks and slights of Insinuation signifie nothing at all to the meanest understanding The Ordinances for Approbation and Ejection made by his Highness and the Councel are the present Subject of this bold mans discourse and therefore we are to suppose his meaning is that by those they have compounded their own devices with Christs Institution and worship If it be so he might have done well to have shewn us wherein they have so done by naming to us some Particulars in the mean time the very Title and Text of the said Ordinances do evince the contrary there being not the least 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or tittle that so much as mentioneth any thing concerning any Institution of Christ or concerning Worship further than this that the Ordinance for Approbation is purposedly directed to the encouraging and preserving of that Institution of Christ which is called Preaching in the power and purity of it according to the sence and meaning of Christ and his Apostles and the Ordinance for ejecting takes especiall care beside other things to preserve the sincere instituted Gospel-worship free from any humane mixtures or additions whatsoever by appointing the ejection of persons that frequently use the Common-Prayer-Book or who are superstitious and Popishly minded which is a manifest evidence not only of this mans licentious boldness against Authority but also how much his Highness and the Councel abhor the mingling of humane Inventions with the Institutions and Worship of the Gospel and yet such strange stuffe he is fain to make use of to fill up the number fourteen ARGUMENT XV. THis pious Pretender having in the former Argument begun to give us a proof of his extraordinary faculties in speaking evill of dignities now in this takes upon him to dispute the Pedigree of their power and as if he were possessed with the Ghost of Plato or Aristotle very sagely determines what is the right