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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

purpose I mean Mr. John Goodwin that couzening Cajaphas and monstrous Metropolitan of Coleman-street Conclave a most sly and subtill Deceiver and desperate Murtherer of mens and womens precious souls by his intolerable Pride Self seeking Singularity and plausible Popularity but all of them nauseously stincking most strongly in the intrals and reality of them of the filthy snufs of rotten Pelagianisme Socinianisme Arminianisme and almost of all sorts of Sects and Schismes and most dangerous and damnable Opinions But yet all of them so confidently and craftily gilded-over with specious shews and deep pretences of piety and protestations of singlenesse of heart and sincerity and with such studyed terms and rhetoricall phrases of artificiall Sophistry wherein he is one of Satans most exquisitely documented Disciples and interlaced or interlarded with such bumbasted six-footed inchanting terms and deep dissembled flourishes vows and attestations of God Angels and men of nothing but simplicity of spirit and Saint-like Sanctimonie in this good man thus to puzle mens understandings and to dazle their eyes and delude the judgements even oftentimes of deeply discerning spirits who on a sodain peruse his works or writings untill the file of second thoughts and more serious consideration by the helpe of Gods grace comes upon them and then they most palpably appear in their connative colours and smell most unsavourily of abominable Collusions dangerous and damnable Heresies Schismes and Blasphemies And thus for these many years he hath most boldly gone on to deceive the world but especially his own miserable soule and cauterized conscience and is now become like the Smiths anvill or a Nethermilstone more and more obdurate and inpenetrably hardned by often hammering and hatching his notorious Errours and Blasphemies even to this very day in flatly denying Scripture fundamentals as Gods eternall decree of predestination to reprobation yea the translated Scriptures and Originals too to be the ground of our faith In justifying mans free will to supernaturall good Universall redemption of all both good and bad Mans naturall reason to be the ground of faith And his naturall abilities to improve gifts of nature and morall endowments so as to merit salvation And such like most detestable and damnable Pelagean Arminian Papisticall and Socinian Heresies And withall he hath gotten one most notorious cheating Engine to help himself as he hopes at a dead lift and to harden himself in these his wickednesses and deceivable practises the smoothlyer to cheat his pittifully puzled Proselytes beside the lying and flattering Encomtums and Elogies most unjustly bedawbing him over even by these his own bewitched Sycophanticall Followers who magnifie and elevate to the clouds his falsly pretended Piety and precious Parts gifts and graces forsooth Namely That when he is put clostly to it by any of his solid sound and learned Opposites and Antagonists about these or any other his damnable Opinions He most dissemblingly and deceitfully professes and protests to his Proselytes and those that will beleive him That Goodman t is his great Unhappinesse to be still mistaken both in his preaching and writings And this base and beggarly put-off is also by him most bouldly backt with that Scripture Every day they wrest my words and all their thoughts are against me for evill And this hee hath done in print in the front of his Pamphlets Calumny arreigned and cast Hagio-Mastix and others whereas the Lord of heaven knows and all that read impartially can truly testifie He does but cry whore first as the Proverb is he himselfe being the most egregious Lyer and Slanderer as anon in its more proper place you shall see most truly and punctually proved under his own hand And thus most audaciously and with a brazen face and as the Prophet sayes even with a Whores forehead he denyes and disclaims his own bastardly brats his wicked holding or maintaining of any such dogmaticall and dangerous tenets or ever having preach'd or written any such impious or damnable heresies and destructive opinions as are above or besides or contrary to Gods written Word yea though we have his own words under his own hand writing or printed Pamphlets most evidently and undenyably testifying the truth of what wee object against him as if because he is wilfully blinde himselfe he could as easily or forcibly blinde our eyes and stop our mouthes and befool our judgements that we should neither be able to see or say or believe the visible and undenyable evidences we heare and see read and have in his words and writings against him which is such intolerable and unparallel'd impudencie as hath hardly been heard or found in any Hereticks or Schismaticks before and besides him But now to come to the matter which I mainly intend in this little Treatise of the discovery of his most false and fallacious double-dealing with God and the world and his bold and blasphemous opinions and errours frequently and most confidently brewed and broached by this Arts-Master or Arch-Master of Impudencie and impiety who yet most lyingly protests and professes the contrary and that he Good man does all in the integrity and sincerity of his soul I having lately read as oftentimes I heretofore have done many of Mr. John Goodwins other Works a pretended rare Master-piece of his now lately printed and published entituled The Authority of Divine Scriptures Asserted gaudily garnished and pranked up with a flourishing Frontespiece and big-promising Title and his Picture forsooth bravely set out by the side of it like a Vimners brave Bush at the Tavern door to grace or rather disgrace the porch of that stately structure and underneath it some of Mr. Daniel Taylers most abusive and flattering poetry or Encomiastick lying lines besmearing it And as my custome is in reading any mens labours I first reading his Epistles and after them the ensuing Subject or Matter of his book whereas I most seriously expected to have met with an ingenuous and just recantation of his wicked and blasphemous dealings with the Translated-Scriptures yea and the Originalls too in his Hagio-Mastix I contrary wise encountred a second scelerous encounter of his against the said sacred Scriptures and a strong and strenuously strugling endeavour in him most superciliously and proudly to maintain yea and magnifie what he had formerly said and held in his foresaid hellish Hagio-Mastix pretending in this second assault only the use of his forementioned old Engine viz how He good man was miserably mistaken in his meaning and managing of that businesse and now in this last book most persidiously and proudly pretending an Asserting of the Authority of the translated Scriptures whereas he falls a fresh into a swaggering humour of saucily tampering with and temerariously contaminating of the Sacred Scriptures with his pernicious and polluted pen even as desperately and deceiveably as he did before and as he had formerly done in a deluding half sheet of paper which he called A Candle to the

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-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

that runs may read it we must not dare to touch them for it this is the most deceiveable sense of this Religious Gentlemens pleading against a Toleration even as you have seen and read from his own hand-writing See therefore from hence good Reader and be astonished at the extream wickednesse and most audacious deceiveablenesse of this mans heart which as the Prophet sayes is desperately wicked that thus strugles to be wise contrary to his own words before above and besides the written word of God in the things of God whereof I suppose ye will all grant this is one and a most essentiall one to Secondly Mr. J. G. in his brave book so beautified as aforesaid with his paultry picture for sooth at the portall or front and with the addition of Don Taylers most false and flattering verses most impiously endeovours to justifie That a naturall man hath free will and power to doe supernaturall good as our famous and faithfull loyall learned and religious London Ministers have in their late most excellent and zealous Testimony of the Truth of Jesus Christ their great Lord and Master discovered out of Mr. Goodwins foresaid Divine Authority of Scripture Asserted where he hath these very words That if God should deprive men of all ability and power to repent and believe and yet should still move perswade and beseech them with pathetic allnesse of affection wherein he expresseth himselfe in the Scriptures even to those that perish as well as to those that are saved This would seem very hard yea harder than injustice it selfe but this sayes Mr. J. G. is not so A palpable lye against God and his Word for the Lord very frequently and earnestly as M. G. himself before confesses commands and urges that to be done by man and that most justly though man hath no ability to doe the thing commanded nor is God bound to bestow ability on him thereunto he having once had it but most wilfully lost it and then he there addes a most false and lying simile or example to confirm his foresaid bold and blasphemous Charge thus laid on God viz. If a King sayes he cutting off a mans legs yea though in a way of justice and then commanding him yea and urgently perswading him with heart-melting expressions of love and bowels of tender mercy to run a race with one that hath his legs and limbs and is swift of foot and to come as soon to the Goal as he that so runs with him this were sayes M. Goodwin a bloudy carriage in the King and savouring of unmanly insolency over the poore wretch in his misery c. And so he applyes all this to God and insinuatingly and most blasphemously makes God the Authour of mans infidelity and impossibility of doing Gods will Marvellous strange it is me thinks and I cannot but wonder what was become of Mr. John Goodwins Divinity when he wrote this thus to slander God with cutting off mans legs whereas 't is well known to all that rightly know Gods Word that God gave man perfect legs and limbs but man only cut off his own legs himself and so made himself wickedly and wilfully unable to do Gods will Again this wretched Truth-wresting man sayes That if God should not make men capable of beleeving that is should not endue them with such principles and abilities of reason and understanding as by the diligent improvement thereof they might come to be willing and readie to receive grace upon their repentance and beleeving in God wicked men would and might have their mouthes upon against Gods dealing with them and be furnished with just excuses for themselves Thus still either making God a cruell Master or a false Impostor yea and he is not ashamed or affraid as our loyall learned and religious Divines have noted in their excellent Book entituled A Testimony c. pag. 13. most falsly and blasphemously to make the blessed Apostles Paul and Peter to be asserters countenancers and maintainers of this Arminian Doctrine of Free will saying assuredly they are so but tels us not where wee may see it is so and that therefore the false Doctrine of free will ought not to suffer any dispuragment for being found among the tenets of Arminius And is not Mr. Goodwin thinkest thou good Christian Reader most blasphemously saucie with the sacred things of God in this particular also Above and besides you most crosse and contrary to the written Word of God Again in the third place Mr. Goodwin as out learned and religious London Divines have farther discovered in their excellent Testimony to the Truth of Christ in his foresaid Divine Authority of the Scriptures asserted hath these most dangerous words and therein holds a most pernicious opinion against the true nature and ground of faith viz. That those that are without the Gospel written or preacht upon such terms as we daily have it among us have sufficient means if not large and plentifull for beleeving namely they who only have the heavens the Sun Moon and Stars and Gods goodnesse in governing the World thus only to preach the Gospel unto them That is to say Heathen Philosophers Turks infidels and such like who never heard otherwise of Christ they also have reason sufficient if not in abundance to thinke the same thought and to judge the same judgement even with us who have the letter of the Gospel in the point in hand that is to believe the Gospel as well as we even by the preaching of those Apostles these are Mr. Goodwins own words the Sun Moon and stars Gods patience goodnesse and bounty on governing the world c. And that 't is clear from the Scriptures that all the world even heathens and unbeleevers who have not the letter of the Gospel have sufficient means of beleeving That God is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seeke him which sayes M. Goodwin and heer 's the marrow of the businesse is all the faith which the Apostle makes simply necessary to bring man into Gods love and favour yea and to prevent the wrath and indignation of God which is to come And if this be so as 't is most false and unfound to say and hold the Scriptures being most plentifully against it then what need of Christ without particular applicatory faith in whom and in whose righteousnesse imputed to us it is impossible to please God and out of whom all the most glorious and glittering works of civill and morall righteousnesse of the most famous morall Philosophers and heathens in the world and farther they did not they could not goe were but as St. Augustine sayes splendida peccata specious gay and gaudy sins yea and without whom as the holy Apostle sayes All our righneousnesses are but as filthy cloathes and menstruous rags No marvell then if this brazen-fac'd man Mr. Goodwin be yet more hold with God and the holy things of God both above and beyond