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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90968	The pulpit incendiary: or, The divinity and devotion of Mr. Calamy, Mr. Case, Mr. Cauton, Mr. Cranford, and other Sion-Colledge preachers in their morning-exercises, with the keen and angry application thereof unto the Parliament and Army. Together with a true vindication of the Covenant from the false glosses put upon it, and a plain indication of Covenant-breakers. Published according to order.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3346; Thomason E438_10; ESTC R203205	55,372	67

dashed childrens braines against the stones and ript up womens bellies great with child was like himselfe when he said unto the Prophet who told him he should commit these cruelties Is thy servant a dogge that bee should doe these things Fourthly and lastly another ground of our jealousie that Sion Colledge is still the womb of all these illegitimate and unchristian peevish froward perverse and bitter passages that we meet withall in pulpit from morning to morning and from day to day from the lips of Sion Colledge men is the changing of their countenance towards some of their members that at last recover themselves from out of that snare of death a froward heart and a perverse tongue against their brethren When any Minister sits among them observing their order and feeling their spirits but cannot approve of their bitter proceedings against their dissenting brethren or if any formerly overtaken with the guilded species of their zeal for God and Jesus Christ a reformation of ordinances c. that joyned with them upon a due and experimental perception of their deceitfull guiles and crafty wiles promoting little more than their owne interest under the glorious pretence of a blessed reformation who cannot act in pulpit according to the supposed resolves of Sion Assembly what an ill aspect is cast upon him by the rest of his brethren how are their countenances changed and the form of their visages altered towards him Nay if he shall publickly especially at Pauls before the Magistrates of the City preach for moderation peace gentlenesse goodnesse forbearance a good accomodation between dissenting brethren how is he malign'd and lookt upon as an apostate a man that hath lost his first love because he cannot say a confederacie with thm in their present practices all which considered gives us just cause to suspect at least if not to conclude that Sion Colledge is Londons nay Englands distemper for doe we not perceive that this great Wheel sets the Citie and Countrey in motion is not this the method as the Apostle speaks of lust when it is conceived bringeth forth sin and sin when it is perfected bringeth forth death even so I doe not selfe-love and selfe-interest honour and greatnesse fomented promoted and begotten in one another by conjunction of counsels and debates in Sion Colledge conceive sinfull resolution to engage tamper privatly with chiefe Citizens in publick places as Common-councell men c. and publickly in Pulpit and Presse stirring up the people by all possible meanes under the pretence of the glory of God a blessed reformation the keeping of the covenant the suppression of error blasphemy heresie c. to set us all together by the eares fighting to set up the interest of the Clergy under the colour of a new form of government Secondly how often have conception● of theirs brought forth sinne we meane sinfull practices suitable thereunto were not the Citie Remonstrance the solemne Engagement promoted in the Citie the forcing of the House by the rude multitude the endeavours to raise up a new warre the delinquencie of the Aldermen and other Citizens about that businesse the feares of troubles and warres that are now upon us c. were not all these birds hatcht at Sion Colledge Truly they give us just cause to suspect it for who pleads more for the City-Remonstrance than the members thereof which of them declaimes against that rebellious force made upon the House We heare enough of rebellion fixed else-where though all their Logick cannot make it good Who promoted the raising up of a new warre Did not they read a Declaration in the Churches to little lesse purpose when the Army was coming towards the citie Did not these men in their several places at least divers of them stirre up the people to withstand the Army and to this day declaim against the citie for not standing up at that time but gave in and would not stand to the cause of God as they are pleased to call it complaining ever since in their prayers that the citie is become desolate she that was great among the nations and a Princesse among the provinces is now become solitary and tributary upbraiding them for their heartlesnesse in declining their zeale for God in the day of triall doe not severall of them publickly and privatly upon all occasions gird at the Parliament for their imprisoning the citizens and represent their cause to be no Delinquencie but keeping their covenant And for our present feares of a new warre which God divert may we not justly feare if not Sion Colledge yet that Sion Colledge men doe what in them lies to promote the same some of them not sticking to say we shall never have Presbytery setled untill our brethren of Scotland come into the ki●gdome to settle it And Mr. Cawton even in pulpit Lord said he put it into the hearts of our brethren of Scotland to settle Reformation in their own Kingdome and in this also and quash all those that shall rise up against them And so Mr. Jenkin that Metropolitan-like Mr Jenkin of Christ church praying for Scotland praising God for the good which this Kingdome hath received by them used these words Wee thank thee for any hopes thou hast given us to make them further instrumental for the advance of thy truth amongstus LORD BLOW UP THOSE SPARKS INTO A FLAME What can these words imply considering the time when they were spoken viz. the fifth of April 1648. when there was a common jealousie and feare of a breach between the two kingdomes but to kindle and heighten divisions betweene the two Nations Thirdly as these mens lusts have conceived and brought forth sin so these sins among others without the mighty and mercifull hand of heaven interposing will bring forth ruine destruction and death unto us How neare unto ruine were we but as yesterday through these mens means when a new army was endeavoured to be raised sing the advance of the Army towards the citie How did these men encourage and stirre up the citie hereunto which if once had been begun might have concluded in the ruines and heaps and ashes of the citie and have caused the generations to come to call them cursed that provoked her● unto And as the influence of Sion Colledge doth thus work in the citie so who seeth not how this great Wheele causeth the motions of the severall parts of the Kingdome in the same circle Is not that the center and are not the eyes of the Ministers of the countreyes round about fixed upon it and are not their motions spi●ited and enlivened from hence as these act they act if these stand still they stand still if these set out any thing in poynt of dislike of the Parliaments proceedings that they do not act vigorously in suppressing those which perhaps are more righteous than themselves you shall have the Ministers of Lancashire Essex Suffolk c. to appear in the same colours if these set forth

God Object Wee have often heard your Apologie Rebuke them sharply or cuttingly that they may be sound in the Faith Will you be pleased to receive a Reply Are you commanded to reprove cuttingly and not to convince clearly are you alwayes to inveigh and never to instruct doth not the Apostle in the very same Chapter and upon the very same occasion command the Bishop or PRESBYTER to be able by sound doctrine first to exhort and convince gain-sayers and so to stop their mouths by arguments and reasonings and after if that will not serve turne to rebuke them cuttingly that they may be sound in the faith And have you yet taken this course with your dissenting brethren if you have refer us to your paines of this nature surely your brethren will presently either yeeld unto you or give you good reason for the contrary Secondly the Apostle commands to rebuke them sharply but WHOM must they rebuke sharply or cuttingly their brethren acknowledged to be holy learned usefull in the Church and Common-wealth on●ly differing in judgement about government and discipline as for matters doctrinall no more differing from the Presbyterians than the Presbyterians differ among themselves are these the men that must be reproved or rebuked sharply Surely the Apostle gives no such instruction unto Titus concerning such men but the unruly vaine talkers deceivers they of the Circumcision who subver● whole houses much more Cities and Countreys teaching that which they ought not for filthy lucres s●ke ly●rs evill beasts slow bellies these are to be rebuked cuttingly and ma● not this as truly be charged upon some Presby●erians as upon some Independents and may not as cleare an account hereof be rendred as well by the one as by the other but when shall this striving for mastery between them both have an end Thirdly rebuke them sharply or cuttingly not slanderously uncivily charging them falsly and scandalously with rebellion as Mr. Cawton hath charged the Army and Covenant-breaking as Mr. Jenkin hath charged the Parliament c. You have yet another covering for this nakednesse which you steale away from the divine Wardrobe the holy Scriptures which serves you no more to that purpose than Jonas Gourd did to cover him in his pettish mood and that is the saying of our Lord Object I came not to send peace but a sword for I am come to set a m●● at variance against his father and the daughter against the mother and the daughter in law against the mother in law c. and the like in the 12 Ia●k 51. I am come to send fire on earth c. Reply 1. How often have you taught us that these are the accidentall not the naturall products of Christs coming into the world was not the proper end of his coming to furnish his Ministers with the subject matter of their Commission viz. a message of peace that they may say to every Countrey every Citie every man peace be to this Countrey this Citie this man if they know not or minde not or acknowledge not the things that belong unto their peace if they will not receive a message of peace but stand it out to the utmost against God their bloud is upon their own heads have not you often told us thus Secondly Did Christ come into the world to put a sword into the hands of his converted ones to kill and destroy the unconverted or the contrary Did he come into the world to make wolves or sheep leopards or ●ambs vultures or doves that beleevers should destroy or save men from destruction Thirdly Did Christ come into the world to send a sword among brethren that they may be digging one anothers bowels cutting one anothers throats bite devour and consume one another what miserable Text-men are these to take the minde and meaning of Satan and fasten it upon the words of God may not truth justly complain of these men as David in the like case they wrest or torture my words daily intending to doe me mischiefe doth not the Apostle bid us mark such which cause divisions and tels us that such how ever they pretend serve not our Lord Jesus but their own bellies and by good words and faire speeches deceive the hearts of the simple and is not the consent to divide the childe an argument of no naturall relation to the childe the trick of a strange woman and not of a naturall mother Wee meet yet with your main Objection with which you alwayes flourish as if that like the sword of Saul or bow of Jonathan did never returne emptie and when that you have spent your selves by searching up and down the Scriptures for some grounds to justifie your unbrotherly proceedings in bitternesse against your brethren fishing night and day and catching nothing to relieve you in this poynt at last you take up the Covenant the solemne League and Covenant that blessed Covenant and make such a noise with the word Coven●r as if no man could pronounce it but your selves you mannage this after such a manner as that if the word of God cannot help you yet the Covenant will if principles of civility morality will not help you the Covenant will if Orders Votes and Ordinances of Parliament cannot help you yet the Covenant will as if the Covenant did say unto you as Peter did unto Christ Though all forsake you though Scripture and reason and argument and principles of common honesty forsake you yet will not I but alas if you will but a little throughly examine the Covenant with a very few Queries as the maid examined Peter the Covenant it selfe will be ready to protest that how ever it might be indeed with some of the thoughts of those that did promote the Covenant at the beginning yet in true construction and intent it never knew any such meanings as you are pleased to put upon it but if truly and throughly examined it will prove as B●alam did unto Balack though it was sent for out of Scotland with a designe of some it seemes to curse Israel yet it will not curse them but blesse them altogether for what can you find in this Covenant either feeding or justifying that spirit of bitternes wherewith you are possest against your brethren is there any one word jod or tittle of Presbytery in any Article line or letter of the Covenant Is there any one word that looks towards such a thing as a rigid fierce biting devouring persecuting Presbytery All that possibly you can plead for out of the Covenant to your purpose is it not contained in the first Article and what is that With hands lifted up to the m●st high God wee doe sweare that wee shall sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God endeavour in our severali places and callings the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government against us common enemies the reform●tion of our Religion in the Kingdomes of England and