MARTIN'S echo: OR A REMONSTRANCE, FROM His holiness reverend Young Martin Mar-Priest, responsory to the late Sacred Synoddicall decretal, in all humility presented to the reverend, pious, and grave consideration of the Right Reverend Father in God, the universal Bishop of our souls, his superlative holiness Sir Simon Synod.  
WHereas his holiness, Reverend Young MARTIN-MAR-PRIEST, taking into his Grave and Learned consideration, the insufferable Arogancy of our Ambitious aspiring presbytery, their super-prelatical Supremacy, their ravenous bloodthirsty malice against the poor Saints of the most High GOD, their inordinate insatiable covetousness after the fat things of the Land, their unparalleled hypocrisy, their plausible pretences, their incomprehensible policy, craft and subtlety, their cunning insensible encroachments upon the privileges of Parliament, the just Liberties and freedom of the People, their enchanting delusions, wherewith they bewitch both Parlialiament and multitude, the cruel thraldom, inhuman Slavery, insufferable bondage they would Reform us and our Children into from Generation to Generation, their powerful endeavours to make the Parliament betray their Trust, break their oaths, pull down Old Courts of Tyranny and Opression, to set up new; free us from episcopal Persecution, to devour us with Presbyterian cruelty, convey our native Rights and freedom to the pontifical usurpation of the Clergy, that neither we nor our Children after us, (notwithstanding the expense of our Estates, ruin of our Families, effusion of our Blood to redeem them) may live in the Land, without the hazard of Imprisonment, loss of goods, banishment▪ hanging, &c. except we be Presbyterian, these and many other things of high concernment, reverened Young MARTIN taking into his serious and deliberate consideration, and seeing this eminent irrecoverable ruin, ready to devour both Parliament and people, hang over their Heads, threatening certain destruction to us and our Posterity, if not timely and suddenly prevented; Hereupon his holiness, reverend Young MARTIN, out of sincerity to God, and natural love unto his distressed Country, most willingly became servant to your superlative holiness, to ease your burden in this your toilsome time of classical Exaltation, of a little State-Ambition, and spiritual Supremacy, and as much as in him lieth, to vindicate the privilege of Parliament, our birthrights and native freedom from your divine spirituality, ehat you might have the more time to stuff your guts, extend your paunches, cram your bellies, farcinate your ventricles, snort out Directories, blurt out Ordinances, grin at Christ, and snerle at his Sectaries, and for his meritorious pious endeavours, MARTIN expected a reward, as very justly he might; but to cloak your covetousness and ingratitude, you pick quarrels against him for some small failings in his Treatise; I hope you will deal better with Mr. Prynne for his midnight dreams, his distracted subitaine apprehensions, I can tell you▪ he expects it, but MARTIN might have considered your ingratitude to the Lord Bishops, from whom formerly you received the Holy Ghost, with all your spiritual Preferments, and were first put into a capacity of Lording it, as you now do, over the people, whom, like ungra●ious children, viperous vermin, inhuman cannibals, notwithstanding their grace and favour, you have devoured up, and share their inheritance amongst you; (O divine pillage! grateful children!) Or if he had considered your pious providence to make sure the Ordinance for Tithes, before you could be inspired with the Directory, he would first have had his 400l. per annum, with the Dean of Paul's house, confirmed by an Ordinance of Parliament, upon him during his natural life, like as our Brother Burges hath (a super-episcopal Induction!) or else dedicated his labours according to your ancient practice, to some great Lord or other in the kingdom, in whose hands was the disposal of some good Church Livings, and then doubtless, the spirit of his Lord (like as it was wont to do with you,) would have moved upon Dr. MARTIN▪ to lift up his hands, and elevated his eyes unto the skies for his Lordship, his most honoured Lord and Patron, or rather have done, as now in your divine wisdoms, you find it expedient to give us example, all Livings being fallen into the hands of the Parliament, to have Dedicated my Book, To the Honourable House of Commons, &c. But forasmuch, as instead of a considerable gratuity, you threaten to deal with him as ill or worse than your bloody Fathers did with those Worthy and faithful Servants of God and their country, Barrow, Greenwood, Penry, and others, he is resolved to deal with you according to your Iniquity, yet that you might have nothing against MARTIN, and that his holiness (like yours) might appear immaculate and Infallible to the whole World, MARTIN Proclaimeth and Remonstrates to all persons ecclesiastical, by what Name or Title soever dignified or distinguished, whether Archbishop-Calamies, or other inferior single-soled Presbyters, That his holiness, Reverend Young MARTIN MAR-PRIEST, freely offereth plenary Pardon and full Remission to that traitorous bloodthirsty Man-eater, Sir Simon Synod, for his foul ingratitude, his malicious, mischievous, murderous Debates, Consultations and Conclusions, to shed the innocent blood of His holiness, Reverend Young MARTIN MAR-PRIEST, and deliver him as a Prey to the monstrous, 
Psal. 58. 6.  huge Iron Fangs, and venomous Boarish Tusks of his son Jack, and his bloody crew, (* Break their Teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great Teeth of the young lions, O LORD:) if the said savage barbarous cannibal, Sir Simon Synod, the next day of Humiliation, after the publishing hereof, shall very penetentially, (as if he were to Preach a Fast Sermon) come in unto Reverend MARTIN, and humbly submit himself to his holiness at his Sanctuary in tolerationstreet, right opposite to State-opression, and Synodian Tyranny, and there humbly before Reverend Young MARTIN, confess his evil, acknowledge his errors, and be heartily sorry for the same, live sociably and quietly amongst his Neighbours, never molest or injure any man for Conscience, suffer his Teeth and nails to be plucked out and pared by an honest Independent Barber, that hereafter he may never bite nor scratch, and then peaceably return to his parochial Charge, render up all the goodly fat Benefices in the kingdom to supply the necessities of the State, pay their arrears in the Army, gratify their sick, Lame, and maimed-Souldiers with a Reward more honourable (according to their deserts) than a Ticket to beg, supply the calamity, poverty and misery of poor widows and Orphans, whose dear Husbands and Fathers have been slain in the service of the State, and not (out of Synodean State-policy) to save their Charity, subject the innocent Babes to be led by the Spirit into Indian Deserts and Wildernesses, and under pretence of Authority, rob the tender Mothers of the fruit of their wombs (a wickedness insufferable in a commonwealth) and to send the freeborn out of their native Protection, to foreign Destruction, lest the Cry of the fatherless and widows should call for relief out of their fat Benefices, pontifical Revenues, &c. O the covetousness of the Priests, and the Mercy of God (as the German saith) endure for ever, If he shall hereto assent, renounce the Ordinance of tithes, be content with the good will of the vulgar, lay down his State-Ambition, and usurpation of the civil Power, suffer the Commons of the Land (both rich and poor) which are a freeborn people, to enjoy quietly their own native freedom, that we may freely & unanimously engage our lives, fortunes and estates in the just defence of the Parliament, whom we have honoured, and are still ready to honour with the sacrifice of our heart's blood against their Enemies in all fidelity, uprightness and sincerity, for their just privileges, and redemption of the Common Liberty of the Common people of England, &c. and that as we have been faithful, and done better service for the State than all the English or Scotch Presbyters in the kingdom have done, that in justice and honour to the Parliament and kingdom of England, we may equally enjoy our freedoms and Protection with them, and be numbered amongst the freeborn of the Land: If Sir Simon shall hereunto freely assent, and humbly accept of this grace offered, Reverend Young MARTIN-MAR-PRIEST poclaimeth unto the whole world, that after the assurement thereof, he will not deride you any more, but will as freely engage his life and fortunes for honest mild presbytery, without any grudge or heartburning for by-past injuries, as for any other Sect of people whatsoever. But if Sir Simon shall reject this grace and favour freely offered to him, and to all the Sir John's in the kingdom by his holiness, reverend young MARTIN MAR-PRIEST, out of his divine Clemency thus graciously extended from his holiness, that the said MARTIN (with reverence be it spoken) Remonstrates and Proclaimeth to the whole Assembly of Sir John's, and to the whole kingdom, that come Bondage, come Liberty, come life, come death, come what come will, by the grace of God, Young MARTIN is resolved to unmask your villainy to Posterity and lay a foundation for a future, if not for a present recovery of the privilege of Parliament, and Liberties of the common People from your synodical classical Presbyterian predominancy, and therefore Sir Simon be advised betime, accept of this Grace and favour offered, harden not your hearts, as in the days of the Bishops, lest the fierce wrath of the Lord, even sudden destruction fall upon you, as it did upon them, for be assured, swift and fearful destruction and ruin does attend you, and the Lord will avenge his quarrel at your hands, and as it is done unto your Fathers the Bishops, so shall it be done unto you, and if your rising ambition be not suddenly repelled, your rise, reign and fall will be terrible to the kingdom, you may delude the people a while, but the time hasteneth, that the people will call you to an account, the Lord grant, it be not as I fear, by the sword.  
As for your 400l. (Sir Simon) thy many perish with thee, thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity, &c. And MARTIN must have a 1000 Tithe Goose-egges per annum forsooth, well said Simon suck-egg: I thought something was the matter, that made you so lusty, Sir Simon, you have such good store of eggs, 'tis true indeed, the holy Tribe's as venereous as venerable, but Martin, for the honour of his cloth, will whist there a little.  
Well Sr. Simon, if you will not mend your manners, Martin will observe hears all your Postures, and tells you plainly, that he'll not only fall upon your bones himself, but he'll set his celestial Brother, Christopher scale-sky, his Chatachisticall brother Rowland Rattle-Priest, his divine Brethren, Martin Claw-Clergy, and Brtholmew Bang-Priest, all upon your back, and amongst us all, we shall in time turn up the foundation of your classical Supremacy, and pull down your Synodean sphere about your ears; Behold a troop cometh Sir Simon, MARTIN is of the Tribe of God, though an host of Sir John's overcome him, yet he shall overcome at last, yea, he'll jeer you out of your Black Cloaks, and make you ashamed of King Henry the Seventh chapel, and be glad to work with your hands, or to be content with the good will of the vulgar, and then it will be too late to compound with Reverend MARTIN and his Divine Brethren, therefore consider with yourself, Sir Simon, before the Mighty Acts of the House of Martin come out against you, we do not intend to dally with you, we'll handle you without Mittins, thwack your Cassocks, rattle your Jackets, stamp upon the Panch of your villainy, and squeeze out the filth and garbage of your Iniquity, till you stink in the nostrils of the Common-People, yea, we'll beat you and your Son Jack, guts and all into a mousehole, there's not one of the Martin's Tribe, but's a man of mettle, and hates a Tyth-devouring persecuting Priest, as he hates the devil, scorns their bribes, and bids defiance to their malice: These are to advise you Sir Simon, turn ye to MARTIN, into Tolerationstreet, ye stiffnecked generation of Priests, lest the fierce wrath, and fore displeasure of Mighty MARTIN fall upon you, confound you and your whole Sir John generation, Root and Branch; harken ye rebellious Assembly unto MARTIN, persecute no more, take no more tithes, be content with the good will of the Vulgar.  
But to leave off jesting, on the sudden I am struck with compassion over you, to remember the great complaints made of divers of you, that the hedge of your vineyard is broken down, all Government and Discipline of the Church laid in her grave, 
Burges, Serm. Nov. 5. 1641. pag. 60.  and all the putredinous vermin of bold schismatics, and frantic Sectaries glory in her ashes, making their fall their own rising to mount your Pulpits, &c. and alas (as old Ephraim saith) your poor Church is oppressed, and who layeth hand to help, the plague of Heresy is among you, and you have no power to keep the sick from the whole; The Wolves that were went to lie in the woods, are come into your sheepfold, and roar in the holy Congregations. Oh thou shepherd of Israel, why hast thou broken down the HEDGE of this thy Vinyeard, which thy right hand hath planted? The Bore of the wood, and the wild boast out of the field do devour, &c. Heresiog. pag. 41.  
I cannot but very much deplore your grievous loss thereby sustained; But why did you yourselves put to your hands with such violence to break down the HEDGE by pulling up the Hedge-stakes thereof, the Lord Bishops, &c. as was evident by your Petitioning and Preaching against them, and therefore if the Wolves, or the wild Beast of the field, or the Bullock MARTIN roar in your Congregations, waste and devour your Vinyeard, yet do not you blame the Parliament for it; what would you have them always to attend you, that as soon as you, at your pleasures have plucked up the Bishops, the Old stakes, that they be ready with their Hedging-Betles to knock down the new stiff Presbyters into their Holes? such hath been their good service to the Church and State, that for my part, it should not much trouble me to see them all well knocked down; I mean to see to Dr. Burges, and a competent number of his Brethren, set down upon their Presbyterian Thrones, judging the Tribes of this our Israel; Oh than our Church would shine most gloriously in their satin doublets, and cloaks lined through with Plush, their Wives and Children Flourish like young Princes, their spits filled with pigs, Geese and Capons, their Caldrons with beef, their barns with corn, their Pastures with sheep, their Prisons with heretics; widows, orphans, and Lame soldiers, standing with their Pitchers, begging Pottage at others doors, and the independents, Brownists and Anabaptists driven into Augure-holes, as it was in the primitive times— we have forgot the Chapter and Verse, and so cannot quote the place, wherefore dear Brethren, for the accomplishment hereof, let me advise you in good sober-sadness, to take Martin's counsel: for I have seriously considered your indefatigable industry, to wrestle through this Great work of Church Reformation from Episcopacy to presbytery, and your difficulties, lets, and inconveniences to be innumerable, your enemies inexpugnable, desperate and factious, yet (Good Sym) be not discouraged, let not your hands be feeble, your tongues remiss and silent, or your inventions slow and unactive, for a great part of the people of the land, besides our Scoth Brethren, advanced lately as far into the South, as from BramptonMo●re to Westmoreland for your assistance, are all yours, by virtue of the Holy League and Covenant, which they may in no wise falsify, until they see it convenient for them so to do, as in your most sacred Exhortation to the taking of the said League and Covenant you have taught them, pag 4.  
The church's Reformation, as hath been often declared by our Reverend Brother, the new Dean of Paul's, by Mr. Sedgewick and others in their learned Sermons, hath ever proved a difficult work: Nehemiah and the Jews with him at the rebuild of the Wall of the city of Jerusalem was so assaulted by Sanballet, Tobiah, &c. that in one hand they were fain to hold a weapon, whilst they wrought with the other; do you every man of you the like, be ye mounted upon your great Coach-Horses, which trundle you too and fro from London to Westminster; mount all your New Canons, and advance like mighty men of Valour, the horsemen and Chariots of Israel, even whole black Regiments of you into the fields, under the conduct of your Generallissimo Wil. Twisse prolocutor, and fire all your new cast Ordinances at once in the face of your enemies, and so finish your Good work yourselves, and trust your Sacred Cause no longer in the hands of the Profane, nor yet rely upon the help of your Enemies the Brownists and Anabaptists, (those white noon devils, as Mr. Edward's in his Antipol. very virtuously calleth them, which now will hardly ever do you any good, though formerly they intruded themselves into your service) but obtain an Ordinance to expel them especially, and all their Tub-preaching out of the Cities of Strength, Garrisons, and several Armies, yea forth of the kingdom, to the depopulated Cities in Munster in Ireland, and so wash your own hands (Pilate-like) from their blood, by delivering them to the rebels, to slaughter them for you, and then there is no fear but your work will prosper and go forward, if that withal you be but careful to continue your zealous course of Fasting, Long Prayers, &c. and in the mean time, cease not to possess both Parliament and People, that all that oppose you by word or writing, (though never so conformable to Truth) are unnatural enemies and rebels to their country, and insufferable in a commonwealth, and that it is not against your Sect and faction they only strike at, but through your sides all Persons, laws and Government, both magisterial and ecclesiastical, even utterly to confound all, and reduce all to confusion and community, and leave us neither the face of a Church or commonwealth, as in your various Sermons and Writings you have in a good measure already performed; these are only to put you in remembrance of these things; I know you are not ignorant hereof, let not their writings come into the public against you, and if they chance like martin's, to steal into the world, be sure to blast them with nonsense, Ignorance, Blasphemy, Heresy, &c. to prejudicate the people against them, and make those Sectaries, and all, who like the men of Su●eoth, and the Inhabitants of Meroz, refuse to come into your assistance against the mighty, seem odious and contemptible in the affections and estimations of your hearers, with infamous reproaches, lies, slanders and calumnies, as if they were the monsters of men, the most vile, blasphemous, and wicked under the whole heavens, overshadow their good actions with an esteem of Hypocrisy, vainglory or the like; if they propose any Course (though never so considerable and honest) unto the Parliament, for their Assistance, blast it with Sedition, brand it with conspiracy, be sure to anticipate their acceptance, for should they be inclined to their fidelity, it would be very prejudicial to your policy, you know what you have to do, deal wisely with them, so that they neither see nor perceive it, if any Petitions for redress, or Remonstrances of their miseries from them be presented to the House, let them have a courteous and compassionate acceptance, and a friendly compliance in some trivials to keep them in hope, and defer their business through the urgency of present occasion to another time, and like humble moderate men, they'll depart with much content and gratitude for your favourable respect, and thus suspend the business; and it will bury itself in a small process of time: But if they shall further persist, and renew their addresses to the Parliament, be sure to traduce the Promoters and Presenters of such matters, as too furious and heady, and reward their sticklers and chief men in the business with a Prison, and then the poor innocent souls will easily let the suit fall, and you may tread upon them most triumphantly, like mire in the street.  
Further, you must be very vigilant in their conversations, and if you catch them in any failings or transgression, remember them in your Pulpits, draw them out to the full length, set them upon the Tentures, aggrevate them to the utmost; As for their tenants, sift them, and cull out those that the Vulgar distaste and speak ill of, and thereon be sure to lay load, so shall you more easily grind to powder the credit of their faction, and work your wills over them.  
For their opinions that are generally received, and reputed as Orthodox, christian them with other Names, such as is contemptible and ridiculous in the vulgar acceptance, and under that Banner you may render them and all that they hold wicked and intolerable in a commonwealth, and conquer them as you please.  
And in your dealing with them, take your advantage at their several and various opinions, their controversies and dissensions among themselves, make their divisions greater, if you can possible, but be sure to present them in a multiplying-glass to the People, that the people may conclude, there's nothing but madness and confusion amongst them, and be afraid to come near them, thus maugre their Innocency and uprightness, your designs will be carried on the more smoothly against them through the people.  
These my Instructions and such like chiefly relate unto your Predicatory practice, wherefore I would have you, according to your lawdible custom, before you devote them to the press, pare off such passages as too grossly betray your policy, or may incite them to a just vindication of themselves, and a discovery of your knavery, as passages which only in speaking had their use, the more to inculcate, and the better to set on the matter, 
Cor. Burges, Serm.  but would not have been so grateful in writing, &c.  
I speak not this to undervallue you, 
Nov. 17. 1640.  for I know you are most expert thereat; If you have any design against them, conceal your purpose, 
Epist. Ded. p. 2.  and face your intentions with some show of lenity, or tender respect over them, be sure of substantial pretences in the procurement of laws and Ordinances against them, observe the temper and humour of the Parliament, which way it runs, and be sure to comply therewith, magnify them, as if they were so many Gods, buzz into their ears things suitable to their natures, and so you shall make them your own, incense them against those that oppose your Ambition and covetousness (as I know you can easily do it) and then they will Vote for you against them, and an Ordinance will be quickly dispatched to enjoin all men under the pain of a Fine, Imprisonment without bail or Mainprise, and Banishment (except MARTIN) not to speak or write against the Directory, to engage every one in the forfeiture of— that abstaineth a month from his Parish-Church, and the like; such like Ordinances, if you'll be but wise, you shall have at your pleasure, and Brethren, I do not blame you of folly, only as a Brother I advise you: You must not respect what your Adversaries say against you, you must be instant in season and out of season, never leave undermining and suggesting with plausible specious pretences, if one Project fail, set upon another, never give out, till you obtain your just desires, your new intended High-Commission, I know I miscall it, but you must pardon my weakness, lapsus linguae non est error mentis, you can never long enjoy the inheritance of your Fathers without it; What though your Adversaries say, such Courts are unlawful and destructive to their Liberties, you must not regard what they say, tell them, 
Burges, Serm.  these Whips of Scorpions, the back-breaking, heart-sinking Courts, which are now broken down and dissolved, 
Nov. 5. 1641.  were unlawful for the Bishops, but not for the Presbyters, that know how to use them; you must be careful that your Directory, 
pag. 54.  and all other your ecclesiastical Acts, be with great sanctity and reverence adored amongst the People, or else your esteem will go down, and this cannot be done without some severe laws, Ordinances, and the like to that end, which you must put the Parliament upon, you know your Power, and Influence upon them, they'll gratify you with such toys, it may be the Sectaries will tell you, that while they have harkened unto you, to deal evilly with them, the Lord hath delivered their strength into the hands of the enemy.  
While they were in debate how to suppress the Anabaptists, &c. Exeer became a prey to the enemy.  
Another time consulting upon your motion, to send them out of the Land, the Besiegers at Newark upon Trent were routed, all their arms taken; &c.  
And when you had overpowered the Parliament, and had procured an Ordinance to be drawn up to suppress them in the Armies and elsewhere, the day before it was to be drawn up, news came that his Excellency was wholly routed in the West, bag and baggage, all their Armestaken, and forced to composition for their lives.  
And now being busied to satisfy your cry to fortify your Directory, &c. in the mean time Leicester is taken, thousands put to the sword, &c.  
The Sectaries will tell you these are tokens of God's wrath to forewarn them from harkening longer to your delusions, but do not believe them what ever they say, or can make out against you with unanswerable proof, steel your hearts against them, make to yourselves faces of brass, and out-brazen them in your Pulpits, though they manifestly make it appear, that you have been the fomenters, and are the proroguers of this war, that you intend to enslave the kingdom in greater bondage than the Bishops, &c. to confute them before your hearers, 
Newcom.  and regain and retain your esteem, cry to the LORD, if we have done this, 
Serm.  if there be such iniquity in our hands, then let the enemy persecute our soul, 
Craft & Cruelty.  and take it; let them tread down our life upon the earth, and lay our Honour in the dust, &c. and the people will believe you; 
N●v. 5. 1643.  I need not tell you, you know it by experience, you can wipe off a thousand of these infamies with a wet eye; you see, I improve my wits for your advance above the State and People, 
pag. 39  but do not think evilly of me for my loving advice, as some unhappy Varlets would make me believe, who say that you are intended for a reserve to the City, lest their fat beef and Mutton should putrify in the butcher's Shambles, I hear that you have more mind to eat then to fight, and I partly believe it, I would it were otherwise; if you think it not yet convenient to restrain the wicked Anabaptists, Brownists and independents from spilling their blood, and ruinating their families, to help forward your Reformation, be careful to keep them from all places of Command, as you did in the new moulding of your Army, that so you may be able to crush them at your pleasure, least according to your practice and Principles for the Preservation of Religion and Liberties, as dear to them as to yourselves, they should having power in their hands, scramble for a share amongst you. Knit your brows against them, thunder them in your Pulpits, and especially when you are Victorious against the King's party, otherwise be somewhat silent, as if you meant to suffer them to inherit in the Kingdom their native Birth-Rights with yourselves, keep them in suspense, lest they should be too soon wholly discouraged, and so in your greatest need desert you, as you know not what may come to pass. Yet nevertheless, according to your usual customs, in Lords, Knights, Aldermen, and gentlemen's houses, you may privately solicit against them, declare them to be the only disturbers of the kingdom's Peace, and so keep them under contempt and ignomy, and though their valour and fidelity be never so prosperous and successful, yet possess them, That God useth the wicked for his own ends, and often effecteth glorious things by them, yet he will destroy them, and those that are competitors with them in the end, so that though they suffer some of them to venture their lives in their behalves, yet they must be wary, that in the end, when the Cavaliers are all killed, holy presbytery established, and our Seotch Brethren gone home again, that according to their Covenant taken for that intent, they conscionably and piously recompense the remainder of them, with the gallows, Prison, or banishment.  
But some happily will say, that this will be very hard measure, thus to requite your friends, you may be sure that they are none of your own faction that so say, and consequently destitute of the Spirit, and so not able to judge in cases of this nature, for it is the spiritual men, such as yourselves, that judgeth all things, and these themselves are to be judged of no man, 1 Cor. 2. 15. if of your own party, as why not? for it is an evil Rot, where no sheep escape; in that tyrant Nero his own family, some were found enemies to tyranny, than you are to tell them, that you have taken a Covenant, which according to our dear Brother Edwards his interpretation, binds you thus to do, as you will as swear it at the last day; and the spirit of all the Prophets must be subject to the spirit of this Prophet, 1 Cor. 14. 29. according to the obedient example of Mr. Prinne, in his second dozen of Queries, the last page, as I take it, and Old Ephraim Pagett, in his Epist. Ded. to his Heresiogr.  
And in the mean time, you are also to move, that Order may be taken, that the Supervisers, whom the Malignants blasphemously and ignorantly call the Heaven-drivers, because (as they conceive) by their practice, they drive whole herds to heaven against their wills, which otherwise (as the Arminians say) would have run headlong to hell; that they be very zealous in their places, make diligent search and enquiry after all Conventicles and private meetings, &c. for they are very dangerous and destructive to your proceedings, for truly their practice and obedience of Christ, will make your Law and Gospel, your Ord for Tithes, and your Directory, the two Great commandments, the fulfilling of the Law, and the Prophets your Fathers, of none effect.  
Wherefere be ye sure, to prepare an Ordinance against all such private Meetings, to be published after your next great Victory over the King, that being judged by you, as I conceive by your former proceedings, the most convenient time, to attempt their total suppression; until which time, seeing they are a great party, and some of them silken ones too, as was lately observed by Dr. Bastwick, who perchance have yet some money left, let that be scraped out of them under one pretence or another, and when they have nothing left, they are easily suppressed, make them poor, and you may do what you will with them, Poverty will humble a stout spirit, so that if happily they chance to beggar, or lie in the streets, the Spirits as happily may steal them away from you, for your wisdoms cannot think it safe, to carry yourselves too insolently against them, until first triumphantly you have set your feet upon your father's necks, the Lord Bishops, as the Israelites captains did upon the necks of those five wicked Kings. Josh. 10. 24.  
One thing I had like to have forgot, which I must needs trouble your patience with, or else all my Instructions will prove dangerous and prejudicial to you, you must not forget to make all the pulpits in London, to ring against MARTIN, and persuade the people, that he is a Jesuit, and under that notion you'll easily prejudice them against his writings, but you must do it cunningly, with powerful persuasions, and all Presbyterian subtlety that may be, forewarn them of him, as of a Serpent, tell them, That wherein he is most rational, and hath the greatest show of truth, therein he is most delusive, latet anguis in herba, believe him by no means, his seeming Reasons are but wiles to entrap you, to delude and seduce your understandings, so that you shall persuade them not to believe their own eyes though they see it never so plainly, tell him that his imitation of your practice, prosecuting your steps through the Society of JESV, the villainy of Machiavelli, and the taking your sayings into his mouth, to discover your Hypocrisy, subtlety and policy is Blasphemy, and brand him for an Incendiary and a divider of the Two Nations, when 'tis but of your villainy from the Parliament and people.  
Tell them he's an Agent sent from the King's Quarters, to foment Principles of division amongst ourselves, to divide us one against another, &c. when as indeed it is yourselves that are the original of all our Divisions; You first divided the kingdom into two desperate Parties, each resolved to devour other, old soaking Episcopacy, and new upstart frisking presbytery, wrestling for mastery, and now lest any beside yourselves should reap the benefit of purchase in this quarrel, you have, as near as you can, made a third party, in labouring by your Jesuitical Machiavilian subtlety to divide the Parliament, contrary to the trust reposed in them from the godly party, who have assisted them with their Estates and blood, and to deny those their faithful friends of their just deservings, their purchased freedoms, which should they do, they would be branded as infamous to posterity, even unfaithful, ungrateful, &c. at meliora spero, I hope better of them, if your wicked Machiavillian Assembly were but taken from them, and sent to their particular Charges. Yea, tell the people, that MARTIN is a Conjurer, and deals with the devil, and the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST is not in the least measure to be found in his Writings, but are stuffed with nothing but profaneness, hypocrisy, blasphemy, &c. when by your favour, good Sym, mutatio nomine de te fabula narratur, they are your own, which in the personating of your Worship forsooth, he useth, to make a discovery thereof, that the people might not longer be fed with Glosses, Pretences, shadows, &c.  
Thus you may see, MARTIN is very jealous over you, even with an holy jealousy (and well he may, that hath got such a pair of Reverend horns,) yet notwithstanding this his pure Advice, elabourately gathered from you forth of the Schools, the venerable examples of the men of your own cloth, as also from a diligent observation of the course of the present Times, he shall hardly find either acceptance with you for the same, or any considerable Reward, the gallows excepted, &c.  
I have many other things to write unto you, which by Pen and ink are not fit to be revealed, which I shall suspend for the present: for it may be, shortly I shall see you, and we shall speak face to face, and that of mine own accord I should have endeavoured it, and ere this have come unto you (even I MARTIN) once and again, but Satan (with your four Hundred Pound) hindered me. Wherefore I shall leave you for this time, and commit this my Pure Advice to your sacred perusal, and apply myself in a word or two to the Common People, as you call them, and so conclude.   

Rejoice! Rejoice, good People, for this blessed Reformation; which is ready, like an Evening wolf, to cease upon you, and your loving Friends and Neighbours, stand still gaping with your mouths, and quietly bow down your backs, whilst you are bridled and saddled, and let the holy, humble, and gentle Presbyters get up and ride, they will doubtless deal very meekly with you, and not put you out of your pace, though the proverb be, s●t a beggar a horseback, and he'll ride to the devil, though they have spurs, yet they will not use them; you remember how the Bishops posted you furiously too and fro like Jehu the son of Nimshy, until with foundering and surbates they had even wearied you of your lives, the gentle Presbyters will in no wise ride you so hard, though some Malignants would make you believe, that Sir John will never be off of your backs, because it is intended he shall have his holy spiritual Courts in every Parish in the kingdom, but this benefit you are like to have, that if by his continual riding, he so gall your backs and shoulders, that you can no longer endure, but cry out by reason of your soar oppression, you shall have Liberty granted you, to leap out of the frying-pan into the fire, by making your appeal to the common-council of Presbyters forsooth, where when you shall come with this complaint, Your Fathers the Bishops made our yoke grievous, and our parochial Presbyters, (those lion's Whelps,) do add thereto, now do you ease somewhat the grievous servitude, and heavy yoke put upon us. You may expect from this Honourable Court, an Answer like unto that of Rehoboam's to those distressed people that cried unto him, Our Fathers made your yokes heavy, but we will add thereto; Our Fathers chastised you with whips, but we will chastise you with Scorpions, and mend yourselves as you can, for we are the divine Power, and consequently the lawgivers both of Church and State, and therefore you are to be content, and submit yourselves to your superiors: your several Presbyters, in your several Parishes, that have the rule over you, must in no wise be resisted, but as it is meet, be humbly obeyed in all things, that they shall command you, and their Power is not to be questioned, for the same Power which lately was resident and confined to the breast of one man, to wit, an Archbishop, is inherent, and of divine Right in the body of the presbytery, and conveyed equally to every particular Presbyter, therefore if their episcopal Power be offensive and obnoxious to you, never expect to have it otherwise, for your Parliaments themselves cannot lawfully help you.  
Now have you not cause to rejoice for this Jubilee, this year of deliverance from your Antichristian servitude to Egyptian bondage? yes sure; therefore, I say, rejoice and be glad, & again rejoice, lift up your heads, for doubtless your Redemption draweth nigh, the Righteous shall be delivered out of trouble, and the wicked shall come into his stead. Prov. 11. 8.  
But in plain terms (loving friends, Neighbours and countrymen,) let us a little reason together seriously: Have not you borne the brunt and heat of this unnatural war? Is it not you that pay all the Taxes, Cessments and Oppressions whatsoever? Is not the whole burden laid upon your backs? burden after burden, even till your backs break? How many thousands of you, who were of great estate, are even reduced yourselves, your dear Wives and Children to misery and extreme Poverty? How many Thousands and Millions have you exhausted; yea, hath not your hands been liberal beyond your abilities? how freely have you brought in your Gold, your Silver, your jewels, Rings, &c. which in London, Midlesex, and Essex, amounted to above 11. Millions, besides Threescore Millions extracted out of the Counties, with the innumerable sums otherwise raised, and spent in this service? Hath not your blood, the blood of your dear Children and Friends, been only engaged and spilled, and is it not daily shed in this quarrel, while the Presbyters clap you on the backs, animate, encourage and Preach out your very Lives and Estates, and involve you in all these miseries, and themselves touch it not with the tip of their little finger, you have your Husbands, your sons and Servants impressed from you, and forsooth, a Priest must not be meddled withal, under sacralidge, blasphemy or profaneness at least; they are freed from all Charges, a●d Taxations, and all is laid upon you, and notwithstanding your insufferable misery, your unsupportable charge and oppression under which you groan, and are fit to expire, those greedy wretches are not ashamed to exact their tithes, though they pluck it out of your children's mouths, there had been more need of an Ordinance to have cessed the Priests, and impressed them to the wars, for that would have been more conducent to the kingdom's good; for should but the King set his episcopal Clergy, and the Parliament their Presbyterian Clergy in the forefront of their battles, forlorn Hopes, and put them in stead of other honest Innocent harmless souls, upon all their desperate Attempts, without doubt they would as zealously preach for Peace, as they do now for war, they would quickly agree, and turn as they were, rather than lose all, I am confident, this would prove the most effectual means for our reconciliation, than any that hath yet been attempted; consider this I beseech you, call to mind all your former expenses, Ventures and Cessements for this present War, and the miserable condition you and the whole kingdom struggleth in, as it were for life, and are now all ready to be devoured, your estates are wasted, your men slain, your hands weakened, and the kingdom is fit to be overrun, your strength decayeth, and your enemy increaseth, and all your assistance hath been conveyed through the hands of the Presbyterian Party, they have borne all Offices, and have had all in their own disposing, but what is become of it? wise men say, that the Treasures and wealth that hath been spent for the managing of this war, would have maintained a greater war seven years longer, some body have feathered their Nests, though yours are bare; now how think you it is otherwise possible, but the kingdom must be ruined, if this course be con●inued, and to add more certainty of destruction to it, these men now in this our greatest extremity, labour to divide the Parliament party in twain; Before the Synod was Assembled, the cries of the people were heard, their Petitions answered, miseries redressed, Monopolies removed, Oppression eased, tender Consciences respected, the servants of God delivered out of Prisons, Courts of Tyranny and Oppression suppressed, &c. But since their Session the case is quite altered, nothing but Jesuitical and Machiavillian policy hath been on foot, thousands of Petitions of poor widows, Orphans, and all manner of distressed, oppressed persons, who Cry daily, and cannot be heard, and these fat Priests can have Ordinance upon Ordinance for their ends, they can have the sweat of other men's brows confirmed upon them by an Ordinance, whiles others cannot have their just requests for their own Rights answered, though their wives and children perish, our presbyters wives must go like Ladies, with their silks and taffeta, some with their Fans, and silver Watches forsooth hang by their girdles, to please the Pretty sweet-faced lovely Mopphets withal; pretty Things, 'tis pity there's not an Ordinance all this while for them to wear Rattles: consider this with yourselves, and for what your Estates and blood hath been engaged, The Liberties of the Subject, and the Protestant Religion, now how much, after this vast expense, this sea of blood, of the Subjects Liberties, have you attained? even thus much; he that shall open his mouth freely for the vindication of your Native Liberties, cannot do it without the hazard of his own, yea of his life; I know that the Priests thirst after my blood; but I call the GOD of heaven to witness, would it quench their thirst, and be a ransom for our Posterity, I would freely offer it to the common good: and as for the Protestant Religion, hath it not been locked up in the breasts of the Assembly? hath not your faith been pined upon their sleeve? your estates spent, and your blood shed for the result of their minds, right or wrong, and so have fought for you know not what? but it may be you'll say, you have engaged for the suppression of Prelacy, High-Commission, &c. you have indeed beat the bush, but the Presbyters have caught the Hare, in stead of one High-Commission, in the whole Kingdom, you shall have one in every Parish under the name of a parochial Sessions, besides the general High Commission called the Common counsel of Presbyters, now have you not, to shun the smoke, skipped into the fire? is the matter any thing amended; sure you have got a worthy Reformation, but it may be you have a better esteem of these new Courts, than of the Old High Commission; let me ask you? do you think that they'll be better than their pattern? let me give you a glance of the Proceedings of our Scotch Brethren in Ireland, and I think you may discern a Bear by his paw: One Timothy Miller, and Adam Lease, Englishmen of Belfast in Irel being chosen to the eldership there, but through their ignorance of the Office, and inability to perform their duties therein, they refused the place, whereupon they were summoned to appear before the Presbyters of the Scotch Nation at Newtowne, Aug. 7. 1644. Mr. Mackeleand Minister being moderator, where after many eatching Intergatories to entrap them, Mackeleland demanded, if they had taken the Covenant; their answer was yea; Mackeleland said, you shall fare the worse for it, and we will deal worse with you, then with him that hath not taken the Covenant: They answered, We desire to be dealt by as the Covenant was read and explained unto us, it is not yet determined by the Parl. of England, that the Kirk of Scotland is to be a pattern to the Church of England and Ireland, we now join with you in hearing, &c. Mackeleland. We will not let their Church alone till the Parliaments determination, but see to correct and do what is fitting for present, and the Parliament is bound to give us thanks for so doing. And all that will not join with us, and do as we do, shall pack and be gone, &c. and in the conclusion they were banished, and could not obtain a copy of their Censure, Thus you may see what you are to rely upon, if in conscience you cannot submit to any thing they command, you know your wages, you must be banished; and do not our Presbyters not only labour for the banishment, but for the lives of the contrary minded to them? and is not this think you, as evil measure as ever was measured out of the High-Commission? wherefore I beseech you friends, consider what you do, consider the fruit of your bodies, into what slavery you are fit to enthrawl them, I know you would be loath your children after you should be deprived of trading or living in the Kingdom, though they should differ a little in opinion from others. I could wish we might lay down this Controversy about opinions, and not thus devour, rend and tear one another about them, every one with violence labouring to exalt himself, & his own, but with patience bearing one with another, unanimously to join together against the common Adversary, for the general purchase of our freedoms, &c. for never was there greater need, we are weakened, and divided, and the enemy is strengthened; I may be bold to presage certain & sudden destruction to the Kingdom, if this breach be not healed, & our differences amongst ourselves composed, for how is it possible in all human judgement, to conquer, or defend ourselves, when our strength is departed? I beseech you therefore, save yourselves from this wicked generation, who have spent your estates, your blood and all, and you are now worse than ever you were hitherto, all hath been in their disposing, and you are betrayed and daily delivered as a prey to the enemy: The Lord deliver us, Amen.  
Young Martin Mar-Priest.  
FINIS.