Os Ossis & Oris. OR A COLLECTION OF The most remarkable passages in a book entitled, Os Ossorianum. OR A bone for a Bishop to pick, Written By a worthy Minister of the Word, JOHN GOODWIN, of Coleman street. Viz. 1. The most grave and weighty Sentences and Proverbs. 2. His most meek and charitable demeanour. 3. The most home and reverend similitudes. 4. The neatest phrases, and most quaint expressions. 5. His excellency in the allegorical use of the Militia. 6. The most concordant, and consonant passages. 7. His most modest, and mannerly behaviour towards his Adversary. viz. The Reverend Father in God, Gr. Williams, Lord Bishop of Ossory. Printed in the year. 1643. A Collection of the most remarkable passages in a Book entitled, Os Ossorianum. HAving fall'n upon this Tract, written by a most judicious Divine of this City, by which I seriously profess myself to be more improved then by any other of the same nature; and considering that books of that bulk and value are not so generally dispersed, or so throughly read in these nimble and dispatchful times; I have thought it not unworthy my Christian pains to cull out the most useful and edifying passages, as well for the ease and benefit of this City and Kingdom, as for the more speedy advancement of the Cause in hand, and the reputation of the grave, learned, modest, ingenious, humble, and charitable Author. Which are as followeth. 1. The most grave and weighty Sentences and Proverbs. 1 THe Country Proverb is, that Good Ale never wants a friend on the Bench, (applied to the Episcopal chair) Page 1 2 Much like a Rat, before he is ware, He squeaks himself into a trapping snare. p. 8 3 You will never thrive by hogs, if you bring them to no fairer market than this. p. 13 4 It may be he was afraid of the end of an old Saw. Pauperis est numerare pecus. 'Tis poor man's guise his cattle ere to number. p. 17 5 I see it is ill halting before a cripple, however the common saying is, Set a thief to take a thief. p. 19 6 But in the mean time let the saddle be set on the right horse, and he that cries out against the thief, be laid hold of for the thief himself. p. 40 7 They tell you they have a needle of ninepences in a bottle of hay, disprove them if you can. p. 55 8 Therefore Sir you are fallen into the Praemunire of the old Proverb, Suitor ultra crepidam, having played the Cobbler beyond your Last. p. 61 9 They have laid your wallet upon your own neck, and have concluded Stop the thief, to be the thief himself. ibid. II. His most meek and charitable demeanour. 1 INtending chief to abuse the consciences of the weaker, he blusters, and thunders, and arms himself with hellfire. p. 9 2 Which is an accusation of that desperate malice, that the Accuser of the Brethren seems to have given him his power & his throne, as being more able to manage them for his advantage then himself. p. 36. 3. Let the Bishop bear testimony against me, and upon due proof made Satiet se sanguine, quem semper sitivit. let the Anticavalier be sacrificed upon his Antichristian and bloody Spirit. p. 40. 4. Bishops surely are more afraid of scruples, and qualms of conscience, than they are of hellfire. p. 50 5. He is enforced to furnish his pen with the rankest slanders and lies he could rake off from the Devil's dunghill. p. 54. 6. Surely he hath good correspondence with Pluto; for we have here stamped together, as the principal ingredients in the composition. p. 58. Oris Cerberei spumas & virus echidnae. (i. e.) The foamy froth of Cerberus triple chaps, Mixed with the poison of a female aspe. Brai●… & Stairs. III. The most home and reverend similitudes. 1. AS Peter and John had neither silver nor gold, but gave the poor cripple such as they had; so this man hath neither learning nor modesty, but such as he hath he gives his poor brother, Ignorance and Impudence. p. 14. 2. To say that any Magistrate, hath any power at all from God to lay punishment unjustly upon any man, is as like the sound of an empty tub as may be. p. 15 3 When Herod had killed James, because he saw that it pleased the people, he proceeded further to take Peter also, Act. 12. 2, 3. The Bishop it seems hath either so pleased himself or his friends, with confuting the Anticavalier (over the shoulder) once, that he proceeds to the like confutation of him the second time. p. 36 4 However the Lamb hath no great cause to be sorry if the Wolf knew her not; nor hath this Goodwin any cause to be troubled, that these great overseers overlook him. p. 37 5 This is but a saying of like notion with this, that all the fishes in the sea that are fowls in the air, are able to fly: Or this, all the lambs in the fold, that are Lions in the forest, will be able enough to deal with the wolf. p. 44 6 But is he as strong in his evidence as he is in his judgement? Not by as many degrees as the Sun went back in the dial of Ahaz in Hezekiahs' days. p. 47 7 In this Nation your credit is broken in pieces like a Potter's vessel, whereof there remains not so much as a sheard or piece, wherewith to take either a little fire from the hearth, or a little water out of the pit. p. 56 8 His angry Lordship in joining the Anticavalier with M. Burroughs, hath accommodated him with the like honour, wherewith the blind man restored to sight by our Saviour, (Joh. 9) was gratified by the Scribes and Pharisees, who excommunicated him, and cast him out of their society to Christ and his Apostles. p. 57 9 It may be you are best in the dark, and the light is to you that which Job says it is to thiefs, in the shadow of death, Job 24. 17. p. 60 IU. The neatest Phrases and most quaint Expressions. 1. I Wonder what crotchet hath fallen in conjunction with the Rotcher. p. 21 2. The ruin and destruction of the land by those walking sacks of blood the Cavaliers. ib. 3. Hence it fully appears how lefthanded the Bishop is in his understanding of Scriptures. p. 31 4. The design of this confession seems to be to indigitate his adversary, as a filius terrae, and himself brother to the Sun and Moon. p. 37 5. He casts out his sacred anchor, betakes himself to his bottom answer. p. 45 6. I profess ingeniously I have not so bad an opinion of the man, as to set the foot of my judgement by his in this. p. 48 7. A man would have thought that what the Anticavalier hath written should have been a bridle in the lips of this man's pen. But jacta est alta, he hath adventured upon a Bishopric. p. 50 8. Sir let me tell you one thing which may be worth many a two that are told you otherwise. p. 56 9 When this heaven falls he makes no question but he shall have larks enough to feast the Bishop. p. 57 10. I wonder a little how the Bishop came by his simples for this receipt. p. 58 V. His excellency in the Allegorical use of the Militia. 1. HE shelters himself behind Kilkenny as his bulwark, and let's fly at the Parliament in England. p. 8 2. In the contents of the 2. Chap. he hath the first encounter of the 3. Chap. the second encounter of the 4. the 3. assault of the 5. Chap. the 4. encounter of the Bishop with the Anticavalier, in which he chargeth him with lies, and of the 6. Chap. the last encounter wherein he chargeth him with little less. 3. The quarter in this discourse which the Philo-Cavalier falls upon is this. p. 36 Against this the Bp. advanceth with this answer. p. 37 The forlorn hope or first advance of his answer is, etc. ibid. In the next place comes on the van of his answer. ibid. 4. Now to the heat and strength of the battle, his first charge is, etc. p. 41 5. Thus we see the Episcopal batteries and assaults are of no value, to pierce or shake the fortifications and bulwarks which the Anti-Cavaleir hath raised for the defence of the cause undertaken by him. p. 49 6. But because in this encounter he quits his intellectuals & falls on with his patheticals, I will be at no further expense of words upon him. p. 53 VI The most concordant and consonant passages. 1. THe man is so well experienced in the point of impudency, that he discerns it where it is not, yea where there is not the least colour or appearance of it. p. 19 2. To make your conscience leave muttering, you seal up your resolution with another egg of the same bird. p. 29 3. Nor would any man who hath not his forehead fenced with iron and brass, ever have adventured his reputation in such a rotten bottom. p. 21 The like follows. p. 51 4. Now I would know of a man that had not made shipwreck of his forehead, whether, etc. p. 51 VII. His most moderate and mannerly behaviour towards his Adversary. 1. HE that affirmeth Gregory or Griffeth Williams (or whatever the name of the hobgoblin Gr. be,) etc. p. 23 2. Juggler's can hid and find at pleasure. This man I believe hath learned his Terence. Si sapis quod scis necis, and his Cato too. p. 43 3. Whether God will assist any man, much more a colloguing Bp, etc. p. 44 4. I answer, If this be his meaning, then have at the butcher with his own hatchet. p. 46 5. He that thus turns himself every way, and cuts and lashes himself like Baal's Priests for an answer, it is a plain sign he knows not which way to turn him. ibid. 6. Therefore the Bp. goes out in a snuff here. p. 47 7. May not a man eat Oysters without disturbing the Bp. at his roast beef? p. 48 8. For the maintenance of his cause he presently eases his foul stomach, by disgorging this vomit in the Anti-Cavaleirs face. p. 49 9 It is a slander worthy that order of men from whence it comes, whose tongues and pens are no slander. p. 5● 10. I presume the Bp is nescient (not to rub him with the course towel of Ignorance, wherewith not withstanding he bescrubs the poor Anti-Cavaleir over and o● over.) p. 53 11. The oil in his cruse being formerly spent, the Bp. here comes to his Vinegar bottle, having run himself out of his small stock of learning before he was ware, etc. p. 54 12. The man by this time hath reasoned himself quite out of all his learning, reason, and patience, into a moody, choleric, and bloody passion. p. 58 13. The man is here in his rhetoricals, and we do him some wrong to make him speak Logic, that is reason and truth against his will. p. 59 FINIS.