A NEW DIRECTORY: Compiled by these most grave, venerable, and Orthodox Divines: Videlicet.  

wyatt the cobbler.  
Ford the trumpeter.  
Dupper the Cow-Keeper.  
Bulcher the Chicken-man.  
Patience the tailor, &c.   
Wherein it doth appear, that manual practitioners may very probably be, and produce the best proficients in Divinity.  
Printed in the year 1647.   

A New Directory.  
AS I do not Idolize Learning, so I conceive it no way tolerable, that an illiterate Minister should be spurnd into the abstract of infamy; because conscience doth transcend science, being sooner reduced into practise. Therefore give attention to Goodman wyatt.  

wyatt the cobbler.  
ALL ye, beloved Mechanickes, members of our mystical corporation, with a great deal of supernatural solace and rejoicing, may it be spoken: The people of this poor distracted kingdom do not tread so much a wry as formerly they did, but now wax more and more upright. Me thinks I see both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge( although their Surplices are out of fashion) stand very decently in a white sheet to suffer penance, for committing of Poultry on the privilege of conscience, being of late bound over to the Hollands Leaguer of the Whore of Babylon: O how providentially hath the Whitligig of these latter dayes, hooped the constitution of Church Government, into Cubicle Congregations, or equivalent Tubs: One ecclesiastical Pewe may now serve for a Pulpit, and a Parish Church, oeconomicall or of a Family fashion; for take this for an infallible position, the closer the Consistory ▪ the better Conventicle; but what may the ignorant soul say, how can this agree to liberty of conscience to be so crowded, notwithstanding our mean natural sense will give him the lye?  
Beloved there are three things conducible to the watering of the younger plants of our sisterhood, they being the weaker vessells may quickly leak into a certain barrenness.  

1. An hearty exercise.  
2. An handsome edification.  
3. An humble or downright dealing.   
First, of the first, which is twofold: inward and outward.  
1. Inward, belonging to the three principal parts, as the 1. animal, 2. vital, and 3. natural: the first is that of the brains or head, which hath been much beaten or impaired in exercising of you in particular, and in reference to the public in Translating of Religion, into Liberty of Conscience; which at this time stands upright, although it hath but a single sole: the two last being of the heart and liver, contribute much to the sensitive organs, for the tuning of your mystical bagpipes. We can handle no point materially without this hearty exercise. 2. The outward exercise belongs to the official members, as hands, feet, or as many more as you like, being carnal, would not burden your memories, nor have you underlaid thereby, and the wicked which are without, are All in All addicted thereunto.  
2. Handsome edification, not meaning your parochial preaching Presbytery, which is Scotisticall, and so altogether sophistical; but to bring you on the mending hand by appropriate spirit of ex tempore infusion, withall gently sowing together the upper and lower Leather of soul and body, which hath been wonderfully unwelted these times of Division: for how have distractions been multiplied since our helping to pull down the golden calf of the Common Prayer book, and made that Balaams ass of the Directory shamefully retreat? But to the third particular.  
3. An humble and downright dealing. As were it not for a downright trading in the way of motion, our trade would quickly be brought to its last, so if you assume any posture but that of humility natural, though you be backward in it to, you are as creatures without soles.   

Ford the Trumpeter.  
PArdon me brethren and sisters, if by Revelation I rouse up your senses; I must tell you that I am so infused with a spirit of the lungs or a long winded spirit, that I must make a little noise before you this day, the gift of utterance was lately put upon me, therefore let me make bold to put into you the gift of entrance: our proposition shall be negative, and by way of a caveat( be not blown a way with every wind of Doctrine:) First, there are four winds, which the Popish Writers call cardinal, these doubtless ye know; but are not meant here.  
2. corporal, which cannot have reference to our doctrinal wind, because every one doth voluntarily and naturally expel it, having no need of a proviso.  
3. incorporeal, or spiritual, which is here represented: as much as if I should say, take heed of the profane puff of every spirit, but more especially of a presbyterial one; for I am to tell you, that as our Tubs are hollow artificially, so are their hearts metaphorically. Beware lest ye be seduced into the most damnable concavity of their Pulpits: for my part I can sound the depth of their devices: let me speak, Me thinks I could entertain any wind of doctrine before theirs; it is so canonically constituted by way of Directory, directly in opposition to us, I could willingly sound a day of judgement for the mayor part of them, together with both Houses, who sit and sit, but will not walk according to our divine motions, who do not only breath by the air, but live by the spirit, yet they shall be forced to stand to some thing:[ pray you sister do not sleep.] I will wind up all with one use: Bee constant and confirmed in your opinion, frequent our humble cottages or cubicle, and avoid Temples which are so high, exposed to so many blasts.   

Dupper the Cowkeeper.  
YOU my goodly flock, who are not unlike,( let me presume by way of comparison) unto those of my well favoured Kine: I am to set before you a mess of Metaphoricall milk this day: The title of a Pastor being of the latin translation came from Rome, therefore I abominate it as catholic, and you may call me as I am; for the great gift of exercising doth much relate our function, and it being our practical profession to prevent the going astray of the greater cattle, do you think wee can have the heart to see our little flock of harmless sheep err? no beloved( any of you may milk a Bull as soon) so that it remaines in our power to congregate; but had it not been for the great Engine of our late happy gathering together, you all had been simply converted from sincere sucking Lambs into mere sophisticated owls, dispersed throughout the Desert of desolation; and Satanically shephearded by Presbyterian policy, perhaps driven into the dirty ditch of Popish profanation: Howsoever the contrary condition being achieved, O how I could with the arms of amity embrace your full flecced felicity, and with triumphant acclamations charm your almost eternal residence in my fold or mystical Cowpen; But I had almost forgot my Doctrine which is this, separate yourselves, and be ye gathered together, which seems to be a contradiction; therefore we will ●osse a disti●ction unto you, which hath in a manner two ●ornes, as belonging to the ten horned beasts of Rome, being Latinisticall; but by our application may be sanctified: There is a two fold separation, and gathering together local or vocal in respect of place, & of voice or opinions; in reference to both which, there must be an holy going away from, and an hearty detestation of the very situation and denomination of a Presbyter, or Jockies little devil incarnate( which my brother trump noised forth to you very well) and be ye congregated by divine suffrages, devout speeches, be saintlike synonimous as they say, vellebally and mentally as they say( Hum) that lastly wee may be united into a head, as they say of Cattle, and our horns exalted for ever.   

Bulcher the Chickenman.  
MY sweet and prity Chickes, let me flutter a word or two about you, and I shall not be too tedious, but winged in dispatch: My Text is this: Be alive to us, but dead unto the world; as I according to profession carry these infantine P●ultry dead or alive; so do men and women, young and old, in their transitory actions carry themselves as if they were alive or dead; but few in a right sense, the carnal man gives up the ghost to all goodness; yet is not dead to the would, the drunkard hath hardly sense to demonstrate his being; yet is alive in that sense, the very formal Presbyter though he act not as wee do by the spirit; yet he takes breath; but this is the meaning in the way of similitude, as my dead Chickens are unnaturally dead to those that naturally live in the world; so be you spiritually dead to those that carnally live to the world, and as those that are living be alive to each other, though conjoined to the dead for secular profit; so let your spirits be the same by lively infusion, and private revelation with ours; notwithstanding a mutual commerce with the world for the pecking up the common crumbs of substitance for economicall subsistence; but my blessed bro●d, I am afraid I have carried you to far, therefore here i'le leave you.   

Patience the tailor.  
Have patience beloved and I will cut out a spiritual piece of stuff for you, having already taken measure of most of your consciences since our late blessed victory over Principalities and Powers, which were risen up against us, but more especially myself, whom most impatiently they supprized, and had almost pulled; nay martyred or massacred into mere shreds; but now me thinks I see a vision, our adversaries sitting cross legged on the shopboard of despaite, and so rent asunder from their late expectations, that time will scarce stitch them together again with the needle of invention; but to the point, which is by way of instruction( Have patience and I will pay you all) the first that may the more properly be ▪ spoken to our adversaries who are now the Subjects of suffering; the second to our friends who are behind in arrears; but of the first, suppose that the shears of persecution should in a manner clip,( beloved, soul from body) Patience would quickly piece them together again, all other moral virtues are but like so many inferior butchers to her; but a word of patience as it relates to our adversaries.( O blessed Army) how do the Saints now make pack-horses of the sinful, and press the rich worldlings for hacknies by way of Evangelicall extortion, ever since the great shout in southwark, which sounded in my ears next to an Hallelujah? our London hath had very much need of patience, I warrant you to berevenged they would forfeit the Charter of Bartholomew Faire, for their green goose. I protest although I had the gift of patience, yet I would scarce have the patience to exercise that gift, in such cases of such contradictions; yet have patience, be ye suited therewith, it is the only fashion which now becomes both the outward and inward man; likewise the overture of a cloak made out of the same piece would be very expedient, both to eclipse the glimpse of an angry look upon us saints, or to vail a frown by way of mufling, each of which although they could not hazard an inditement, before the Magistrate, yet they would be so aggravated, that you must be summoned for high misdemeanours, but have patience: Now a word of the second that which is the ground of our request, and I will pay you all, in reference to arrears; but mistake me not, the ground is not so large to pay all upon it, but the meaning is you shall be paid all, that is some of you, most high and holy have all, for all, or thus, all for some of you, but none for all of you: This is all that I can give you for the present, but have patience and I will pay you all.   
FINIS.