Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	line_n	page_n	read_v	2,076	5	9.0614	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95347	Tub-preachers overturn'd or Independency to be abandon'd and abhor'd as destructive to the majestracy and ministery, of the church and common-wealth of England. Proved in a satisfactory answer to a lybellous pamphlet, intituled A letter to Mr Thomas Edwards, with an infamous dedication. Shewing the vanity, folly, madness of the deboyst buff-coat, mechanick frize-coat, lay illiterate men and women, to usurpe the ministery, and audaciously vent their own hereticall opinions, in their hous- (alias tub) -- preachings. viz. Wiet a cobler. Robine a sadler. Sammon a sho-maker. Barde a smith. Kiffin a glover. Patience a taylor. Tue a girdler. Wilkin the meal-man. Fletcher a cooper. Hobson a taylor. Oates a button-maker. Ives a box-maker. Barbone a lether-seller. Parvis a gold-smith. Lamb a sope-boyler. Bignall a porter. Henshaw a confectioner, alias infectioner. Bulcher a chicken-man. Hawes a broaker. Duper a cow-keeper. Reader, I cannot inform thee of their christen names because 'tis questionable whether they have any.		1647 (1647)	Wing T3207; Thomason E384_7; ESTC R201446	10,578	16

Socinians Pelagians Self-seckers Are these dare ye say the very apple of Gods eye No I le tell ye of what kind of apples ye are much like those goodly apples of Sodom that are of a fair aspect but touch them they fall to ashes or of that fruit or kernels of those temping apples of Paradise that were pleasant to the eye and seemed good for food yet had a most deadly rotten coar and therefore the most fit for the devils use to deceive our silly mother Eve whose practise is yours because ye know they are the weaker vessels or rather vassels to you ye act the devils part of a strong man and take possession Page 2. line 26. Lay aside the sqiut-eyed byasing respects of this adulterous generation and let conscience speak Sir first I most credulously beleeve what Mr. Edwards doth do to inform of your vicious ways is for conscience sake that you reform them and not for any sinister or byassing respect Sir your calling this an adulterous generation I beleeve it more then others heretofore and increases with your New-Light because it is adulterate your name shews your nature Sir I could give you twenty more of those very apples you put into Gods eyes to put out ours with all their several workings Antiscripturians Antisabatarians Adamites Millenaries Apostolicks all of the brotherens holding yet the sisters are and hold but one are loving familists hold divorce however they differ in other your fundamentals in this they are absolute We Saints more freedom have then other men * Tho. Watson in Duck-lane married in Moor-fields by one Smith a Tailor and many more I can nominate To marry at mid-night or no matter when When e'er a sister promise she ' lindeaver To keep her word or do the deed however No wonder ye call this an adulterous generation when ye account it a light thing to say put cut the candle and kiss mee Page 2. line 27. Who under God have been the pillars and only supporters of a reeling and tottering State Hold le ts have no swearing sure I am there 's lying if you intend your party of Ildependents you the only Pillers and Supporters do you not in this act the part of Allexander the Copper-smith to Brazon out your untruths and notable lies thus Sir I know the Ambition of the party that falsly assume to themselves the Repairers of our breach and restorers of our pathes to dwell in Sirrah I did verily beleeve ye had bin so fully satissfied in this point by that Right-worthy Dr. Iohn Bastwick that he had stopt all the mouthes of such Railing Lying Black-mouth conni-catching adversuries that you had not had the Brazenfacest impudence once more to assert it in his most industrious Book intituled the utter Routing of all the Independents and Sectaries c. Which Book is to be bought or borrowed at the Book-seller shop over against London stone Unto which Book I recommend the Reader for this full satisfaction there shall he read a catalogue of our worthy Pillars Heroes Patriots of this Reeling and tottering state nor then were or now are Independents those that injured she most trouble and danger in the heat of the day Page 3. line 14. We could tell the world and you a truer story of the late Pranks of Mr. c. whose name you know but we wil spare of his late suplanting the Marchant and getting his espowsed Mistris with child which act with all its Circumstances we find not in all your gangrein Parralle'd of Sir I very well know where your shoe pinches you the late Pranks of Mr. c. or etcetera Sir I had thought c. had been such a former vexation to you in the oath Exofficio that ever after you would forbare to charg it upon another Sure this is one like the rest if any Presbitarian should so disorderly walk you would not be so meal-mouthed as to forbear to name him But I rather beleev in this you Iackan-apes like immitatet the actions of Auicus the Oxford Scribler Saving in this your Simplicities you discover your self the contrary that when he wanted novellties could forg them so you because Mr. Edwards in his Gangrena doth justly truly reprove you you unjustly and untrewly intimate you could say so or so but I wil tell truth of one of a 100000 thousand Mr. Edwards hath not heard of Mr. Armstrong that on the 10. of March 1647. The day the Parliament ordered to be set apart for Publique humiliation to beseech Almighty God to stop the growth or increase of Herisies Blassphemies c. He being of a quesie stomake to this came into Foster-lane he is well known at the dagger before that Godly minister Mr. Norton and Mr. _____ had ended their afternoons Sermon Armstrong said have not these Fellows done cursing us it wil teey curse us all the day I think they will never have done cursing of us P 4 l. 4. To carry on the design you dewel usher in a forraign force the Neatherlands have done you good service Sir your party hath done the devil more Let any indifferent Reader judg between us whose design yours or ours for now I am of the plurall number too your design are Rebellions Irish Hodg-Podg curdled mess of all together or ours a united conjealed Semented Selected government whose designe I say is the most like to give way too or usher in a foraine force further whether the Netherlands have done us good service is refer'd to Judgement whether I or no I am sure like Factions to your owne hath done Germanie an evill service yea has been their utter ruine and almost totall desolation He referte my Judicious Reader to the Historie of Anabaptists of High and Low Germanie in which to his griefe of heart he may justiy feare the like sad events approaching upon this by this reproachfull adulterate generation of Vipers Page 4. line 27. Sir you with your Gangrene have been weighed and are found too light and verily your expected Kingdome is departing Sir doe you put your Foole-point here me thinks your semy alias silly Colon is a stop too much Sir you with your six-leav'd scurrulous Pamphlet have beene weigh'd in the Scale of Judgement you are found a worthlesse witlesse Noddie Sir it proclaimes you a meere Mechanick my Genius prompts me you are by Profession one of these two a Weaver or Cobler a Weaver I guesse by that home-spun course grosse-weaved Fustian in your Booke a Cobler by your Patching and Borching nick-named Heresie malignant-Prelacie wyre-drawne-Covenant yea a Cobler I could wish you the rather then should I hope in time you 'd mend Reader I shall be carefull to avoid prolixitie a thing extremely affected by my Antagonist therefore for brevitie sake I shall not trace him in his nonsencicall reiterated lines but in those of most concernment remembring the wise mans Mandamus Answer not a foole according to his folly lest thou be like him Page 5. line 19.

Know you not who saith the weapons of our warfare are not carnall why then as men distracted crie ye out so loud for Magisteriall externall force Sir we know the Apostle so saith in that insancie of the Gospel-Doctrine of Jesus Christ the whole world almost in opposition against them they had nor nor could have such Magisteriall or outward force yet God invested them with Miracles mightily to compell or convince their like yours stiffe-necked and uncircumcised of heart which you more cunningly appropriate to tender conscience but we have the Precept of Jesus Christ for our example to inflict corporall penall punishments upon such incorrigible blasphemers and offenders Sir with a three string'd whip he yerkt out of the Temple those abusers of it Iohn 2. inferiour to your selves Sir can you denie this Legall punishment to be a Gospel-right and know if through our silence to God the Magistrate and Ministers you should persist in your unholyed unsanctified unwarranted progresse the very stones in our streets I verily believe would crie out against us Page 5. line 36. Ye warre indeed but it is after the flesh no wonder your conquest is no more for the Spirit of the Lord we feare is departed from you Pray ye speake softly give your charitie to ther stretch upon the Tenters or I le give you rope enough to stretch necks If you the troublers of our Israel were all departed far enough good enough to your good new Canaan a good riddance because you separate from us account your selves all the Spirit of the Lord. There is more reason and I rather believe it ye are of your father the Devil his worke ye doe then at least ye are the Devils Journeymen and I feare hee 'l recompence yee Sir we warre not after the flesh but against it we hold fight the good fight of Faith and our conquest over you is the overthrow of your Babel so vast and unlimited and all you that contribute your utmost assistance carrying up your Dung and untempered Mortar to make up the Bulke in this Fall or Confusion themselves are lost in the Rubbish Page 6. line 22. Tell us not Sir of a specious Ordination any farther then you can attest its Divinitie by the concomitancie of the Sp●r●t we shall else looke upon it as a meanes to delude the simple tell us not as your predecessors did of order and decencie in the Church Sir this specious Ordination which your Faction doth restractorily oppose we can and have done with all circumstances prove its Divinitie by the un-erring Spirit of Truth by the example of Christ that at one time ordained 70 Disciples and then sent them forth the practise of his blessed Apostles and since in the Primitive Church in all Ages successively which I here omit as I said to avoid prolixitie But now Sir I doe demand of your Il dependant illiterate partie man or woman by what specious Ordination or Call ordinarie or extraordinatie doe ye intrade your selves into our Pulpits to infect or touch our Congregations with your Leprous Doctrines In this ye imitate the Devils practise Iob 1. In the day the sonnes of God appeared before God Satan likewife came in amongst them but for hurt and affliction of godly Iob and therefore this Ordination we use it not as a meanes to deceive the simple were ye so wise as to believe it but as an Ordinance of Christ Tell us not of order and decencie in the Church Shall I tell ye if not worthy M. Edwards shall tell the world of you of your too too many disorders irreverent Antichristian behaviours in all Churches where ye come by your pragmaticall schismaticall preaching alias pratling Buffe-Coats and others I le name but one of 100000 where they pissed in a Font and brought a bald horse in the Church to the Font and baptized him by the name of Ball-Esau because said they he was Harry Gangrena 3. And although you will not be told of order and decencie in the Church I tell ye these disorders and undecent distractions and confusions the God of order and peace is not the Author of but the Devill 1 Cor. 14. 33. Page 7. line 18. Sir were you a messenger of Christ your work would be to goe and preach and hold forth the everlasting Gospel which alone is the arme of God to salvation you would more crie up the sword of God then of Gidion you would see more cogent convincing authority to subdue the heart by one Evangelicall scriptum est then a thousand politicall fiat Justitia's or all the arbitrarie boundlesse Canonicall Ipse Dixit's in the world Sir this I professe your Master-piece Sir to doubt M. Edwards to be a messenger of Christ I account it impertinent not worth resolving His servants or messengers ye are to whom ye obey That he obeyes followes Christs precepts or example I prove thus Christ his great and principall work was to redeem the world and save it but his first work as most necessary was to confute or convince the world of sin and this he began at 12 years age He had a greater work to doe yet this though inferiour was first as most requisite to confound put to silence such Rabbies and Ring-leaders as your selves that opposed his Kingdome Doctrine when he disputed with those Doctors that were astonied at his Wisdome Doctrine This was S. Pauls practise a chosen Vessell of Christs by a Call extraordinarie who fought the good fight of Faith with Beasts of Ephesus as M. Edwards doth in England after the manner of men he wrought with his hands not that every dispenser of the Gospel should doe so as ye doe but because he would not bring a reproach on the Gospel of Christ as ye doe Sir tell me now is there nothing to be done by a Minister or messenger of Christ but onely to preach you as we well know where God hath his Church the Devil hath his Chappell and though his messengers give all diligence yet the Devils Agents will make Bookes to sowe their Tares therefore there is something more to be done then onely to preach the everlasting Gospel Surely M. Edwards in these sad times holds forth this contention betweene the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent to be Evangelicall and approved of by the everlasting Gospel and as the right and strong Arme of God to salvation You would more crie up the sword of God then of Gidion Sir why must we have this distinction as if the sword of Gidion was not the Lords The Israelites as we doe cryed up the sword of the Lord and of Gidion or Magistrate This we well know is your way of babbling Sir this way of M. Edwards reprehending you and reproving you sharply as the Apostle commands is of a great convincing Authoritie to subject the heart and rip off that fore-skin were not your Adamite hearts harder then the Adamant yea it would be to you an Evange●icall