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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08533	The picture of a Puritane: or, A relation of the opinions, qualities, and practises of the Anabaptists in Germanie, and of the Puritanes in England VVherein is firmely prooued, that the Puritanes doe resemble the Anabaptists, in aboue fourescore seuerall thinges. By Oliuer Ormerod, of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge. Wherunto is annexed a short treatise, entituled, Puritano-papismus: or a discouerie of Puritan-papisme.	Ormerod, Oliver, 1580?-1626.	1605 (1605)	STC 18852; ESTC S113478	77,758	124

God hath giuen his Vrim and his Thummim may I present it to you The Right reuerend gracious Lord who not long since was among you as a Diamond set in Gold had great experience of their opprobrious speeches peremptory practises could haue spoken by experience as Aeneas did of the troubles of Troy et quorum pars magnafui And it is not vnknowne to any of your Lordships how that the Puritanes blush not to write that b Hay any worke pag. 14. 15. 20. 21. Marli● marprelate in his Epistle to ● terrible Priestes Archbishops and Bishops are superfluous members of the body of Christ that they are vnlawfull false and bastardly gouernours of the Church that they are the ordinances of the Deuill yea that they are petty Popes petty Antichrists Bishops of the Deuil and incarnate Deuils But who am I that I should presume to present this to so great Personages Alas I am peccatorum maximus Apostolorum minimus Cathedrall Churches may I tender it to you I cannot but taxe the rayling c Admoni pag. 224. 225. Puritanes for calling you the dennes of loytring lubbers where as d Ibid. they say M. Deane M. Vice-deane M. Cannons or M. Prebendaries the greater M. Pettie Cannons or Cannons the lesser M. Chauncelor of the Church M. Treasuror or otherwise called Iudas the purse-bearer the chiefe Chaunter singing men speciall fauourers of Religion squeaking Quiristers Organ-players Gospellers Pistlers Pentioners Readers and Vergers liue in great idlenes and haue their abiding But not to forget my Mother and her Sister the famous Vniuersities of Cambridge and Oxford may I present it to you I holde it an especiall part of my duty to acquaint you with their slaundering and odious traducing of your Children a S. H. in his plea. page 193. 194. There is saith a fauourer of the new-fangle factiō a strange manner of preaching in vse in many places both in the Vniuersities and elsewhere which no man wel affected but if he knoweth it he doth exceedingly pittie it One as though the Pulpit were but a Scaffolde in which hee like a Master of Defence were to play his prizes and to giue testimony of his wit playeth vpon euery word and descanteth vpon euery letter in his text and as though the Scripture were but a Rattle for children and fooles to make sporte withall he tosseth it hither and thither and will not faile to offer it any violence to frame it to an imagined conceite and to draw it to an idle purpose An other as if his purpose were onely to amaze the vulgar and to affright and astonish the multitude mounteth aloft and is all in his greate wordes and new coyned phrases more fit for a Mimick or Tragedian then a Minister of the Gospell A third to gaine the opinion of a profound man that looketh into matters of more depth then the commō sorte rubbeth ouer the vnsauory writings of some Moth-eaten Fryer and by an vncoth fashion of teaching together with a multitude of allegories and intricate distinctions amazeth both himselfe and all those whose vnhappy chance it is to bee his hearers A fourth to be reputed a good linguist and a man of great reading stuffeth his Sermon with a legion of allegations and enterlaceth it with many shreddings of Latine and Greeke and by that meanes though his Doctrine perhaps may be profitable yet hee confoundeth the memorie of the diligent and attentiue hearer To conclude I present this to them and to none but them whome the Puritanes haue and whom haue they not laden with contumelies slaunders defamations opprobrious detractions and vncharitable accusations asking pardon for my boldenesse and patronage for these my simple endeauours and beseeching the God of heauen and earth to multiply his richest blessings vpon all those that in simplicity ● Cor. 1. 12 and Godly purenesse haue their conuersation in the world The true affectionate Louer of all that are pure in heart Oliuer Ormerod To all Fauourites of the Puritan-faction peace and truth IT is not vnknowne to any that hath perused the writinges of Heathen writers how that the Persians kept in their Houses the picture of an Epicure sleeping with meate in his mouth and most horribly ouerladen with wine that by the viewe of such an vgly sight they might learne to eschew the meanes of the like excesse It is also reported that the Parthians to make their youths to loath the alluring traines and deceitfull entisements of Harlots had most curiously carued in their Houses a yong man blind besides whom was adioyned a woman far more excellent then Pigmalions image hauing one hand in his pocket as noting her theft and holding a knife in the other hand to cutte his throate The like meanes louing Country-men wish I you to vse for the restraint of Puritanisme Vouchsafe I beseech you to keepe in your Houses this Picture of a Puritane as the Persians did the Picture of an Epicure and the Parthians the Picture of an Harlot and I doubt not but the verie sight therof will bring your selues your wiues your Children and your seruants to a full detestation of the Puritan-faction Farewell To the Reader WHen Bucephalus was painted Apelles asked the judgement of none but Zeuxis now the Puritane is painted I appeale onely to the learned As for the vnlearned I say vnto them as Apelles said to the Shoemaker Ne sutor vltra crepidam Iudge thou not of this pictures thigh Except thine Arte doe reach so high The Picture of a Puritane OR A relation of the opinions qualities and practises of the Anabaptists in Germanie and of the Puritanes in England Made Dialogue-wise in a moste plaine and familiar manner The Englishman WEll met Sir let vs two walke and talke together as those two a Luk. 24. 14 Disciples of Christ did that went from Ierusalem to Enimaus of the thinges which are come to passe in these our daies The Germaine What thinges The Englishman Art thou onely a stranger in England and hast not knowne the thinges which are come to passe therein in these daies hast thou not heard of a Scismaticall and vndiscreete companie that resemble the Anabaptists in Germanie The Germaine I haue read in one of your English writers that b Perkins in his treatise of applying gods word to the cōscience page v●● there is in England a Scismatical and vndiscreete company that would s●eme to crie out for discipline their whole talke is of it and yet they neither knowe it nor will be reformed by it that they are ful of pride thinking thēselues to be ful when they are emptie to haue al knowledge when they are ignorant and had neede to be catechized that the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes and that they refuse not to speake euill of the blessed seruants of God Are these they that resemble our Anabaptists The Englishman Yes if you please to relate the opinions qualities and practises of your Anabaptists you shall