Lucifer's lackey, OR, The devil's new Creature.  
BEING The true Character of a dissembling Brownist, whose life is hypocritical, instructions schismatical, thoughts dangerous, Actions malicious, and opinions impious.  
With the Relation of their repulse from the Parliament house upon Thursday the 4. of December  
And the reason why Constables had warrants in the City and Liberties of London to take up men to guard the Parliament-house upon Friday the 12. of December, 1641.  
LONDON, Printed for John Greensmith, 1641.   

Lucifer's lackey, OR, The devil's new Creature.  
IT is but very requisite that i should begin this short Treatise with the words of our Saviour, that a kingdom divided cannot stand. Oh then poor England in what a miserable estate art thou groaning under the burden of so many Divisions.  
Thy towns and Cities are filled with a company of yea and Verilies, whose tongues and hearts do as much differ as truth and error, they plead for conscience forsooth, & they will hazard their ears rather than lose the truth, they stand in defiance against Bishops, and the book of Common Prayer with them is abominable, the Lettime hath too many by's inn it, in which judgement (in my opinion) they sell their reputations and pawn their credits to the Arch-Broker the devil, who at the last day, the day of judgement will require more than ten in the hundred of them. The Tap as they profess is abominable, and yet they do idolize the Tub, which as they suppose doth consecrate their devotion instead of a Pulpit, the Congregation being assembled, rather dissembled in a barn top.  
They affirm that Papists are damned, Arminians shall not enjoy Heaven, for why, they are like to a green stick which doth bow too much.  
They pity Adamites and do proffer them garments because they know they will not receive them, they seem more innocent than Do●es, and yet will be accounted as wise as Serpents.  
They profess they will honour all teachers unless the Pope, and yet will be ready to raise an unnatural siege against their own Father if he do but cross them.  
They would be accounted all friends to downright, but yet cannot effect plain Dealing or Tom-tell-troth.  
They love their Neighbour as themselves, they say, but they must not then if Males be widowers or being married have unhandsome wives.  
They say they would have Religion reformed, and the true Church only to be adored, adored say I, the Parson may chance to have a scrape on the Sunday morning, and it shall be accounted no prejudice to their Hobnayles, otherwise all outward worship and Ceremony, and that their seeming Piety doth spit, at the name of Jesus no knee must bow except that of the heart, although he that saved the one, saved the other, and he that made the one made the other.  
This sort of people were not once a handful, and then crept in corners, but now they are like to the Egyptian Locust covering the whole-Land, and they will rule Religion, nor Religion them, or else they will go against Religion, as the Jews did to meet our Saviour with Swords and staves, and there is not amongst them only one Judas, but many which seek to betray it.  
And yet are there amongst this holy assembly (as they term themselves) as many several opinions, as men, which will easily be made manifest by their last Congregation in the Malt-house of one Job a Brewer, the number being about sevenscore, there had every one a Religion by himself, and every one a nigher way to Heaven than the other, each showed his opinion, which to relate it would be too tedious, but their ambitious zeal was so hot, that in snuff each left the other, but not long after the Reverend boxmaker elevated as high as little St. Bartholomew's Pulpit, where he threw more stones against the Bishops and the book of Common Prayer, then little boys use to do snowballs in the time of Winter.  
What shall I say of this sort of people? Shall I commend their Actions? God forbid.  
They go about to rob Levi of his due, and it is to be feared lest that unawares they deceive the Tribe of Judah.  
Twice have their troops been collected being armed with Swords and staves, and what place have they gone to besiege, a place of no lesser consequence than the Parliament house. The first day was upon Thursday the 4. of Decemb. the second upon Friday the 12 of December, upon the first day the train Band ceased upon them, not knowing otherwise but that they came against the Parliament house, but their plea was they came to defend the truth, but it was very true that many of them were committed to prison.  
Upon Friday notice was given to the Parliament, how that their number was so great, so that instantly there was warrants sent unto each Constable to command sufficient men, with swords, and halberds, to guard the Parliament house from schismatical oppression; all shcismaticks good Lord either convert, or confound, that this kingdom may conclude of nothing, but what may be pleasing In thy sight.  
FINIS.   

 
When Women Preach, and cobblers Pray,  
The fiends in Hell, make holiday.