THE DISCOVERY Of a Swarm of Separatists, OR, A Leathersellers' SERMON.  
Being a most true and exact Relation of the tumultuous combustion in Fleetstreet last Sabbath day being the 29. of Decem. truly describing how Burboon a Letherseller had a Conventicle of Brownists met at his house that day about the number of an hundred and fifty, who preached there himself about five hours in the afternoon.  
Showing likewise how they were discovered, and what means, as also how the Constable scattered their Nest, and of the great tumult in the Street.  
With another Relation of a Sermon, that Prophet Hunt preached in St. Pulchers Church the same day aforesaid, making another combustion in the said Parish, with a description of that Sermon, which he preached in Westminster-hall not long since, with a Relation also of that, which he would have preached in the Old Exchange.  
LONDON, Printed for John Greensmith, 16●1.   

A Nest of Brownists discovered.  
THe various Factions, which the Brownists do daily induce among us, and the distracted divisions, which they intruce against the glorious sincerity of our Christian Church are so numerous, that I need not to relate each particular herein, lest I should overload your patience with too long Battologismes. Wherefore I will in no regard digress from my intended Subject, but proceed with all celerity herein.  
At the lower end of Fleetstreet near Fetterlane, one Burboone a Letherseller entertained a whole swarm of Brownists in his house (as by credible information about the number of an hundred and fifty) who last Sabbath day being the 19 of December preached himself (I suppose) as the Spirit moved him to his Brownistical Congregation. But he yelped so loud with an horrid exclamation, that divers men passing by gave some audience thereunto, and immediately conceiving that they were some Nest of Schismatics, they stayed longer, and longer, in expectation to hear some of his too-erroneous Doctrine (as was afterward declared to sufficient men) and as they still waited in anticular captation, so their number increased, and at length they came to a full head. And being impatient of the aforesaid Leather-Sellers Sermons, which was full of Heretical opinions, they began to make a combustion thereabouts and on a sudden broke down all the glass windowed, and withal striving to break down the door: thus they continued in this diffusive hurly-burly from five of the clock in the afternoon, until past seven, than the Constable of that Ward commanded the door of the said Conventicle house to be opened, while they sent them all away, there was a tumultuous clamour among the Popular conflux of the vulgar, and some of the said Brownists being obstinate, and desperate, were committed some to Bridewell, and others to to the Counters, yet notwithstanding there was still an acclamation among the Apprentices and others, who would have pulled down the house, had not the Constable come again, and mitigated them with his guard: yet still their raging fury could not be abated in a perfect tranquillity, and pacification, but they broke the sign of the said Leather-Sellers house, having a various distraction, and great mutiny among them.  
The said, Burboone preached very nigh five houred, crying divers times, as was audibly heard, Hell and Damnation, telling them they were all damned, he did speak likewise much against the Book of Common Prayer, against the Bishops and many others, but the flexibility of his voice was so various, that we could hear no perfect sentence of his Sermon, but only some fragments thereof, sometimes casting an aspersion on the Bishops, and sometimes detraction on the Book of common Prayer. O horrid Blasphemy! That Book which the pious, undaunted and religious Martyrs sealed with their blood, and when as they came to the stake, they held it, their chiefest ambition to die with this divine service Book Sealed to their breasts, intimating that their whole hearts was therein: and therefore died in the maintenance thereof, I say this Book is now despicable and contemned of these Amsterdam whelps and tubbish of the world.  
Oh that we had a Cicero alive, to cry out, O tempora, O mores, or rather the Boonerges or Sons of thunder, to tell them of their aspiring Heresy. But it is in vain to speak to stones, or such flinty-hearted men, whose obstinacy is grown to so high a degree, that they will neither hear, nor admit of any that shall either confute them by apparent reason, or contradict them by the exemplary word of God, and his holy Gospel: yea rather than they will have any opposers, they say those are all damned, that speak against them; Thus the aforementioned Letherseller houled out his new-coined Doctrine to his new-minted Auditors, who of late have all surreptitiously crept in among us. There was as many women as men, and if the Constable had not came seasonably, as he did, there had been great murder among them, for the Apprentices were fully resolved to break open the doors immediately, therefore in the debate that there was, many o● the said Brownists crauled over the Tiles, and houses, escaping some one way, and some another. But at length they catcht one of them alone, but they kicked him so vehemently, as if they meant to beat him into a jelly: It is ambiguous whither they have killed him or no: but for a certainty they did knock him, as if they meant to pull him in pieces. I confess, it had been no matter, if they had beaten their whole Tribe in the like manner.  
But to omit these superliminary circumstances, I will describe the breaking up of their Conventicle: For whereas they supposed they should be taken either by the Constable, or the said confluxe of the people, they did break down the backe-walles, and some escaped that way, and others crawled over the houses, till at length the Constable entered, and took many of them, who were apprehended, and the Letherseller with his whole swarm answered last Monday for these troublesome distractions, & confused disturbances in the street.   

A Relation of Prophet Hunts Sermon, Preached at St. Pulchers Church the 19 of Decem.  
THe Sermon being ended at St. Pulchers Church, this Hunt a Prophet, who have been very troublesome in this City heretofore, and once before committed to the Counter for a Sermon, which he preached at Christs-Church before, have been dehorted divers times: Yet notwithstanding his sick-brained obstinacy would not be retracted, but rather extended farther; For (as it appeareth) he raised a combustion at this Parish, and standing up cried with a full voice, Mon and Brethren I pray give ear unto my text, which is taken out of the 7 chap. of the Revel. v. 3. than he began to bawl so loud, concerning fire and water with such peremptory confidence, that there did arise a great tumultuous murmur among the Parishioners, and without much prolixity of words he was pulled down by the Constables and others: Yet he was very confident of himself, for he said, that he was sent a messenger from God, and therefore without their contradiction he would deliver his Message: but immediately they haled him before the Lord Maior, a great multitude of People following him: who yet was very peremptory before his Honour, whereupon the Lord Maior perceiving his arrogant protervitie, propounded many interrogations unto him, ask him whether he had the Spirit or no, or how he dare presume to preach having no warrant for the Ministerial function, his reply was that he had sufficient warrant from God, for he knew that he was his Messenger, and as for the Spirit he was confident that he had that, which he said they apparently might conceive by the fruits thereof But for my part I do verily believe, that if he has any Spirit it is the Spirit of error, rather than the Spirit of truth.  
Yet it would be to tedious for us to describe each circumstance, that the Lord Maior had with him, when afore he at length perspicuosly perceiving his erroneous & Schismatical obstinacy, he committed him to the Counter, where I will leave him, and all his confederates.  
This Prophet Hunt preached a Sermon once in Westminster Hall, but his Auditors then seeing the weak madness of his giddy-braine, derided and abused him there extremely. Another time he preached in the old Exchange, but he was there almost pulled in pieces, he have likewise divers times put himself forward in many Churches, for which he had great rebuke. Yet withstanding he proceeded daily in his former errors, so long as he was at liberty, and I fuppose he expected better success in this Church, than he have had heretofore in other, but I wish, that his whole Sect may find no better, than he had in his last enterprise.  
FINIS.