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A80782	An abstract of some late characters. Or, how the principall means appointed for our reformation is become the maine fuell of our wickednes. Laid downe in sundry characters of L. Bishops. Dumb dogs. Non-residenciaries. Men-pleasers. Unpreaching ministers, that edify to damnation, by their scandalous living. false wresting. mis-applying the Scripture. So turning the truth of God into a lye, that they may discourage the godly; incourage the wicked. In which the blind world may see, to their shame, how Satan guls them with a multitude of misprisions, and false surmises against the godly; that so he may barricado [sic] their hearts against all good. Necessary to be knowne in these times of discovery.	Cranford, James, d. 1657, attributed name.; Craufurd, James, 17th cent, attributed name.	1643 (1643)	Wing C6851B; Thomason E67_35; ESTC R7704	68,958	47

by their Masters yea he filleth their hearts Joh. 13. 2. stretcheth forth their hands Revel 2. 10. and opens their mouthes Mat. 16. 23. speaking in and by them as once he did by the Serpent Gen. 3. 1. 4. 2. As Satan hath many tempters to set upon us so he hath diverse and sundry wayes through mens helpe to beguile us many strings to his bow that if some breake the rest may hold Yea like a cunning Engineer he can invent new Instruments according to the present occasion and he inventeth all he can and puts in practise all that he inventeth 3. Satans servants are more bold subtle and industrious in tempting to lewdnesse than GODS people are in perswading to holinesse 4. If they cannot win men to hell by faire meanes they will use foule If they cannot intice they will seeke to inforce men to sin with them 5. An evill suggestion is more ready at hand than a good 6. We are more prone by nature to follow evill counsell than good 7. The world like Jael begins with milke and ends with an hammer whereas CHRIST keepes backe the good wine untill afterwards and makes his servants breake their fast with the rod. Luk 9. 23. 8. The devill and his instruments can so delude the judgements of naturall men that they shall neither see any thing desirable in a Religious life nor give credit to any thing that the godly affirme Yea they shall esteeme Religion no better than foolishnesse 1 Cor. 1. 18. 9. They can so forestall them with prejudice against GODS people and goodnesse by their slanders and aspersions that they shall resolve never to be religious so long as they live 10. Whereas they that turne to GOD barre themselves of all sinfull delights and pleasures yea are restrained in their very thoughts Their Disciples may satisfie themselves and their lusts to the full and be applauded for it 11. Satans servants have farre more peace with him than the godly for he fights not with his owne subjects or souldiers 12. They are at peace with the world for the world loves her owne but hates ●●outs and persecutes all that are chosen out of it Joh. 15. 19. 13. They have farre more peace with their owne hearts than the godly for their Consciences being brawned with the custome of sin are cast into a dead sleep by Satan they never checke them doe they what they will nor are they ever troubled in mind as many scrupleous fooles are 14. Satans servants are better proficients under him and thrive more in sin than GODS servants can doe in grace because First He so blindes their eyes that the light of the glorious Gospel cannot shine unto them 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. 2 Thess 2. 9 10. Secondly When he sets upon any poore soule he shews the baite hides the hooke letting nothing appeare to the eye but pleasure profit and seeming happinesse Thirdly Custome bringeth sin to be so familiar that the horror of it is turned into delight 15. Whereas CHRIST hath instituted as a remedy to prevent the spreading of sin and a meanes of conversion from sin That all notorious offenders when neither admonition nor reprehension will serve to reclaime them should first be separated from the company of Beleevers and in case they still remaine obstinate should be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the LORD JESVS Mat. 18. 15 to 19. 1 Cor. 5. 5. 2 Thess 3. 14. Which was the practice of the primitive Church Now by an equall bounty to the godly and wicked there is an equall incouragement to godlinesse and iniquity which is a greater advantage to Satan than any of the former Object But you will say CHRIST hath his Ministers in every Parish to preach for him whereas Satan hath none Answ This is the mistake that undoes us For did we according to our Saviours rule judge righteous judgement and not after the appearance onely John 7. 24. We should finde that as once in Israel 1 King 18. 22. 22. 6 7. 22 23 24. So now in England Satan hath a more numerous Clergie than CHRIST himselfe and that they edifie more to damnation than CHRISTS faithfull Ministers can doe to salvation Neither is Satan so much beholding to any men alive as to them For although all wicked men are seed of the same old Serpent Gen. 3. 15. And children of the Devill Job 8. 44. And so resemble and imitate him in tempting to sin and drawing to perdition yet none have so helpt to fill hell and to people that infernall Kingdome like false prophets in seducing either by their vitious lives and serpentine preaching or in betraying by their not Preaching or fruitlesse and unprofitable Preaching And therefore when Satan would appeare disguised he transformes himselfe into one of these Angels of light 2 Cor. 11. 13 14. And alwayes chooseth them to be his instruments to tempt rather than other men because they in regard of their parts and eminency are more fit for it than any other as of all the creatures which GOD made Satan chose the Serpent to be his instrument to tempt Eve because It was more subtle than any beast of the field Gen. 3. 1. But first take a view of them and then say whether Satan be so much beholding to any men alive as to his Chaplaines whether he hath any servants that doe him such faithfull service any Factors that make him such a returne of soules any Generals that subdue so many souldiers to him any Advocates that plead so hard for him as his Ministers of the Clergy which may be marshalled into Two Bands viz. Ministers 1. Non-preaching 2. Vn-preaching Of which severally But with a difference For as touching the first sort because they are lesse principall in that starving the people seemes not altogether so bad as poysoning them I will onely deale with them as our Reverend Judges doe with seditious Atturnies call them to the Bench Pitch them over the Barre Put out their names from the Roll and let them goe Now non-preaching Ministers are either 1 Dumb Dogs 2 Non-Residenciaries and Double-Beneficedmen or 3 Men-pleasers As for Lord Bishops I hold them fit rather to be ranked with unpreaching Ministers though they are the principall of both kind First Dumb Dogs be such as are Tongue-tyed and for the most part hand-tyed also and cannot Preach for insufficiency Their place hath set them to charge but they have neither pouder nor shot Perhaps they can snarle against such as doe and brow-beat GODS people but that is all Indeed they are skilfull in Fleecing though unskilfull in feeding the Flocke as it was said of Geffery Bishop of Lincolne being as the Prophet stiles them Greedy dogs that can never have enough Isay 56. 10 11. Now these barren trees that occupy the roome where better trees might grow are not onely liable to a fearefull curse Luk. 13. 7. But have made themselves guilty of

Apostle preach CHRIST even of envy and strife and some also of good will The one part preach CHRIST of contention and not purely Supposing to adde more affliction to my bonds Phil. 1. 15. 16. The envious emulate what they cannot imitate The seed of the Serpent mortally hates the seed of the Woman And the world that onely loves her owne inveterately hates them that are not of the world We read that Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury so spleened godly Ministers and such as heard them that he not onely inveighed against them in the Pulpit but swore at the Table He would not leave one slip of professors in this land And Solomon gives the reason Prov. 29. He that is upright in his way is abomination to the wicked Vers 27. Which envy and malice so steepes their tongues in Gall and Vinegar that nothing can proceed from them of the parties envied but bitter and sharpe words Yea their hearts are so full of the Serpents enmity that if they should not vent themselves this way their uncontainable malice and envy would soone burst them as Seneca thought And yet in this they hurt themselves more then us like the Fly who singeth her owne wings and torments her selfe in the flaming light which she labours to extinguish and put out How these Nadabs and Abihu's will answer GOD for offering this strange fire upon his Altar I know not onely this I say Hereafter it will be too late to dispute the matter when GOD will give no other reason of their damnation but this I will bee sanctified in them that come neare mee Levit. 10. Vers 3. 3. Another reason is Having made try all of a contrary way of preaching and missing to be fed with such broth as he loves as finding-neither the applause nor preferment hee looked for and thought himselfe worthy of though no body else thought so hee doubts not but to have it this way Whereupon he inveighs most leudly and loudly against them that as he thinkes scorne him and screene his hopes from him Wherefore now the Trumpet of Moses is made a Trunke to shoot Pellets at Truths and Moses his friends And the Characters of slander must be drawne in the oyle of the Tabernacle to the abomination of GOD and man Arius driving ambitiously at a Bishoprick was prevented by Alexander his Competitor the worthier man though not esteemed his match for some naturall parts Upon rhe missing his suit he pursued his spite by broaching an heresie That after the repulse he might seeme some body and draw a world of Disciples after him As Theodoret observes Which is much the condition of these men They know they are no way gifted to further the Gospell with credit and gaine to themselves Therefore resolve to have it by bending their wits another way As you have heard what a little man said once to his Chamber-fellow in the Vniversitie who taking the same course came afterward to Great preferment and hath sped thereafter And having sound out how this way of preaching takes with naturall men and how they are applauded as I shall shew afterward they thirst after nothing more then to excell in this kind and so proceed from bad to worse As the praise that Sylla gave to Cinna made him commit perjury Now let goe all kind of preaching that may profit let goe truth let goe the glory of God he is resolved to become famous though it be for infamy Like Herostratus who burnt with wild fire the famous Temple of Diana to get himselfe perpetuall fame And that the birth may answer the conception he turnes all his stocke into foure or six Sermons which shall serve his whole life at the Court Vniversitie Pauls Crosse and as he travels abroad the Countrey resembling some Needy flanting Gold-Smith who hath nothing in the inner roome but all on the Cupbord Not that he saves by it For perhaps the meanest of them shall bee Elephanti Partum a yeeres Bird or a child of two yeares breeding one whereof is spent in the conception another in fashioning the members In which Sermons their principall care is how to bewitch and spoyle their hearers through a kind of Philosophy and vaine deceit or beguile them with enticing words which shall have a shew of humane wisedome and bumblenesse of minde or voluntary Religion in wil-worship and a pretence of mens traditions and rudiments of the world Col 2. 8. And to give them their due they are such ingenious sophisters that by recreating the sense they can delude the understanding and make good seeme evill and evill good For they give Dragons Gall in a Crystall Glasse or with the Whore in the Apocalyps Poyson in a Golden Cup So killing soules with poysoned doctrine wrapt up in sugred and sweet words Yea these Sophisters have such a singular transcendency this way and are so gifted in the Art of deception that like their Holy Father the Pope they can make every thing of any thing Or like the Sophisters of Greece with their eloquence and copiousnesse of wit can make of a Mouse an Elephant and a Mountain of a Molehill For they onely exercise their wits how to bastardize and corrupt the very essence of things by subtile distinctions turning false matters into true Syllogismes or the like Wherein they fall not short of subtile Carneades of whom wise Cato confest that whiles he disputed scarce any man could discerne which was the truth Whence it is Saint Bernard calling good Preachers the Light of the world compares bad ones to Fogs and Mists which keepe the people from seeing the light of the Gospell and receiving the Grace of GOD. Thus they preach but it is backward as Arithmeticians write And creepe into the Church for the same end that the Serpent crept into Paradise That like Hananiah Jerem. ●8 they may seduce in the place of the Sanctuary Neither saile they of their purpose For by this meanes one of them edifies more to damnation then many of the best Preachers in the land can doe to salvation and bring more to hell then they can doe to Heaven for many soules receive from their Sermons those lessons of darkenesse which lead them steadily unto eternall darkenesse And ●o give them their due they have learned to handle the sensuall so sweetly that they thinke it a pleasure to be seduced For as a lustfull person prefers a painted Harlot before a modest and chast Woman So it is not hard for the Affection to Cosen the Judgement And he is worthy to be Deceived that either values things as they seeme or loves falshood better then truth And so you have their Reasons at least so many of them as time will permit In the next place Observe their Serpentine subtilty For lest their Slanders should not he Beleeved and the hook of their false doctrine swallowed In the first place they use to guild over their counterfeit metall with Scripture that so it may passe currant Even as Physitians sheath