Tub-preachers overturned OR independency to be abandoned and abhorred ●s destructive to the Majestracy and Ministry, of the Church and Commonwealth of England. Proved in a satisfactory Answer to a Lybellous Pamphlet, Entitled A Letter to Mr Thomas Edward's, with an infamous Dedication. Showing the Vanity, folly, madness of the deboyst Buff-coate, Mechanic Frize-coat, Lay illiterate men and women, to usurp the Ministry, and Audaciously vent their own Heretical opinions, in their house- (alias Tub)— Preach. viz. Wiet a Cobbler. Robine a Saddler. Sammon a Shoemaker. Barde a Smith. Kiffin a Glover. Patience a Tailor. Tue a Girdler. Willkin the Mealman. Fletcher a Cooper. Hobson a Tailor. Oats a Button-maker. Ives a Boxmaker. Barbone a Letherseller. Parvis a Goldsmith. Lamb a Soap-boiler. Bignall a Porter. Henshaw a Confectioner, alias infectioner. Bulcher a Chicken-man. Hawes a Broker. Duper a Cowkeeper. Reader, I cannot inform thee of their christian names because 'tis questionable whether they have any. Judas ver. 13. Raging waves of the Sea, foaming out their own shame, wand'ring stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of Darkness for ever. London, Printed for George Lindsey and are to be sold at his shop over against London-stone. 1647. Tub-Preachers overturned, or Independency to be abandoned and abhorred, as destructive to the Magistracy and Ministry of the Church and Common— wealth of ENGLAND: Proved in a satisfactory Answer to a Libellous Pamphlet, (Entitled, A Letter to Mr Thomas Edward's with an infamous Dedication.) SIR, Worthy Sir, Reverend, Honoured, Grave, Dear Friend, Father, Good Master. WE cannot wonder at the loftiness of your looks, nor at the exorbitant humour of your spirit, when we find you so woefully bespattered and courted from every part of the Kingdom, where Satan we fear hath his Throne. Sirrah, you the Dictator, that in the first word and line call yourself we, what loftiness of looks; what humour of spirit behold you in Master Edward's, or how woefully be spattered and courted from every part of the Kingdm, which is (in the first place) amongst your too too many Errors, a Contradiction; to be bespattered and yet courted. Sir, I verily believe good Mr Edwards (as in your ridiculous title) is first good in withstanding to your face your most blasphemous evils: secondly Master, because by him you are ta●ght to amend your manners both of words and doctrines: Sir, He sets the saddle upon the right hose, and has rid you till your galled backs compel you to kick. But, say you, these court come from every part of the Kingdom, where Satan, you fear, hath his Throne. By which I hope, though ye, like him, have name and nature; for name legions, nature compassing all the parts of this Kingdom; So, like to him, shall you fall like lightning: if ye have two natures this is one of a Sectary. The erring spirit transforms and makes to vary From what men should, do most, yea quite contrary. Page 1. line 12. Our thoughts are extremely divided; we know not well whether to look upon you under the blindness of a deluded brother, or perverseness of a resolved enemy; having once (we once believed) received the knowledge of the truth, we will put our charity on the tenters (as you have put the Covenant). What ribble rabble is this. Sir, I truly believe your thoughts are extremely divided, so your hearts, your judgements, I spare to say your wives: Division is your delightful Harmony; your music's Concord: your thoughts, hearts, households, Churches are divided. You look upon him under the blindness of a deluded brother, yet ye believe he once received the knowledge of the truth. In this see your own blindness which your wall-eyes look under; Not all your delusions of profits, advancements, which your party hath encroached upon in your new moulded Church-Conventicle-gatherings, could be able to shake his foundation; nor could he, having once the knowledge of the truth, be deceived by your errors by all your glozing specious pretences of New-Light, Christ upon his Throne, Godly Party, Freegrace, Saints, Comfort of believers, Divine Light, Pilgrim of the Saints, and Honeycomb, and a thousand sweet lies in them to have a man go slumbering to hell in a featherbed. If Mr Edward's recites to the world the ungodly blasphemous unworthiness of your ways in your own Dialect: you fell foully with him, and cry out Persecution, the ruin of the Saints, etc. As though you should go on in your crooked erroneous paths uncontrolled or unrecalled, and then if you afford him (as you have but few) a good thought or word, you stretch your charity upon the tenters as he the Covenant, when it is notoriously known there hath not been in any age in Christendom like Covenant-breakers to yourselves Malignants or others, for which I thus brand you. The Independent Crew, throughout this Nation, With eagerness pursue a Toleration For all Religions; break their Covenant They once did make with God, true Protestant Religion to maintain; Sects Heresy, To ' bandon and extirpate Popery, Blasphemy, Avarice, by which I gather You THAN, Delinquents were, NOW, perjured rather. * If you rock not the Covenant. Page first, line last, Sir in the so desperate Career, give us leave sadly to ask you whence and whither so fast? Sir, I shall gladly resolve you, this posthaste is to overtake you that so madly gallop into all the parrs of this Kingdom, where you have vented your blasphemies the doctrine of devils; therefore ask you, so I believe, Satan may be truly said to have his Throne there; where ye have crept into widow's houses, and have bewitched or deceived silly women, men and women servants, children; and since your entrance ye have, like Fezabel, painted your brazen faced pretences, and look out of those uppermost windows. No wonder then if Mr Edward's, like Jehu, drive on furiously for your outhrowing and destruction; putting behind him all your messengers of threats and flatteries) to peace with you; I dare be bold to affirm, (if ye persist) that if the dogs lick not up your blood yet the black Ravens of the valley shall pick out your eyes. Page 2. line 14. God shall smite thee, thou whited wall, that thut in the pride of thy heart fliest in his face and strikest at the very apple of his eye. Sirrah, call you zealous Mr Edward's a whited wall? Sir, pray observe the Apostles doctrine and fellowship, judge yourselves: and then if your feared conscience and judgement blinded through too too much New-Light, I'll inform them and tell truth: Your painted Sepulchers, nought but ignomy and hollow-hearted rottenness within; a noisome cage of unclean birds, I should say beasts. Sir, call not your party (that brood of crocodiles) the very apple of God's eye, for very shame, to them that know you to be the devil's spectacles; but because he's old and crazed, your New-Lights (alias old Heresies and Blasphemies long since adjudged and condemned by all former Counsels and Sinods) makes him behold you the clearer; you, Sir, are Arrians, Antinomians, Libertines, Soul-sleepers, Anti baptists, Socinians, Pelagians, Self-seckers. Are these, dare ye say, the very apple of God's eye? No, I'll tell ye of what kind of apples ye are, much like those goodly apples of Sodom that are of a fair aspect, but touch them they fall to ashes, or of that fruit or kernels of those temping apples of Paradise; that were pleasant to the eye and seemed good for food, yet had a most deadly rotten coat; and therefore the most fit for the devils use to deceive our silly mother Eve, whose practice is yours; because ye know they are the weaker vessels, or rather vassals to you: ye act the devil's part of a strong man and take possession. Page 2. line 26. Lay aside the sqiut-eyed byasing respects of this adulterous generation, and let conscience speak. Sir, first I most credulously believe what Mr. Edward's doth do to inform of your vicious ways, is for conscience sake that you reform them, and not for any sinister or byassing respect. Sir, your calling this an adulterous generation, I believe it more than others heretofore, and increases with your New-Light, because it is adulterate, your name shows your nature; Sir, I could give you twenty more of those very apples you put into God's eyes to put out ours, with all their several workings, Antiscripturians, Antisabatarians, Adamites, Millenaries, apostolics: all of the brotherens holding, yet the sisters are and hold but one, are loving familists, hold divorce, however they differ in other your fundamentals, in this they are absolute. We Saints more freedom have then other men, * Tho. Watson in Duck-lane married in moorfield's by one Smith a Tailor, and many more I can nominate. To marry at midnight, or no matter when; When e'er a sister promise, she ' lindeaver To keep her word, or do the deed however. No wonder ye call this an adulterous generation when ye account it a light thing to say put cut the candle and kiss me. Page 2. line 27. Who (under God) have been the pillars and only supporters of a reeling and tottering State? Hold, let's have no swearing: sure I am there's lying (if you intent your party of Ildependents;) you the only Pillars and Supporters? do you not (in this) act the part of Allexander the Coppersmith, to Brazon out your untruths and notable lies thus? Sir, I know the Ambition of the party that falsely assume to themselves the Repairers of our breach, and restorers of our paths to dwell in. Sirrah, I did verily believe, ye had been so fully satissfied in this point by that Right-worthy Dr. john Bastwick; that he had stopped all the mouths of such Railing, Lying, Blackmouth coney-catching adversuries, that you had not had the Brazenfacest impudence once more to assert it, in his most industrious Book entitled, the utter Routing of all the Independents and Sectaries etc. Which Book is to be bought or borrowed at the Bookseller shop over against London stone. Unto which Book I recommend the Reader, for this full satisfaction there shall he read a catalogue of our worthy Pillars, Heroes, Patriots of this Reeling and tottering state; nor then were, or, now are Independents, those that injured she most trouble and danger in the heat of the day. Page 3. line 14. We could tell the world and you, a truer story of the late Pranks of Mr. etc. (whose name you know; but we will spare) of his late suplanting the Merchant: and getting his espoused Mistress with child: (which act with all its Circumstances, we find not in all your gangrein Parralleed) of Sir, I very well know where your shoe pinches you; the late Pranks of Mr. etc. or etcetera, Sir, I had thought etc. had been such a former vexation to you in the oath Exofficio; that ever after you would forbore to charge it upon another, Sure this is one like the rest: if any Presbitarian should so disorderly walk, you would not be so meal-mouthed as to forbear to name him; But I rather believe (in this) you (jackan-apes like) immitatet the actions of Auicus the Oxford Scribbler (Saving in this your Simplicities, you discover yourself the contrary) that when he wanted novellties; could forge them; so you because Mr. Edward's in his Gangrena doth justly, truly reprove you, you unjustly, and untrewly intimate, you could say so or so; but I will tell truth of one of a 100000 thousand (Mr. Edward's hath not heard of) Mr. Armstrong that on the 10. of March 1647. The day the Parliament ordered, to be set apart for Public humiliation: to beseech Almighty God to stop the growth or, increase of Heresies, Blassphemies etc. He being of a queasy stomach to this came into Foster-lane (he is well known at the dagger) before that Godly minister Mr. Norton and Mr. _____ had ended their afternoons Sermon, Armstrong said, have not these Fellows done cursing us it? will teey curse us all the day? I think they will never have done cursing of us. P, 4 l. 4. To carry on the design you dewel usher in a foreign force; the netherlands have done you good service, Sir, your party hath done the devil more. Let any indifferent Reader judge between us, whose design? yours, or ours; (for now I am of the plural number too) your design are Rebellions Irish Hodg-Podg, curdled mess of all together: or, ours a united, conjealed, Semented, Selected, government whose design I say; is the most like to give way too or usher in a foreign force: further whether the Netherlands have done us good service, is referred to Judgement; whether I, or no, I am sure like Factions to your own hath done Germany an evil service, yea, has been their utter ruin, and (almost) total desolation. He referte my Judicious Reader to the History of Anabaptists of High and Low Germany; in which, to his grief of heart, he may justiy fear the like sad events approaching upon this, by this reproachful adulterate generation of Vipers. Page 4. line 27. Sir, you with your Gangrene have been weighed, and are found too light, and verily your expected Kingdom is departing. Sir, do you put your Foole-point here? me thinks your semi (alias) silly Colon, is a stop too much: Sir, you with your six-leaved scurrilous Pamphlet have been weighed in the Scale of Judgement, & you are found a worthless, witless Noddy; Sir, it proclaims you a mere Mechanic: my Genius prompts me, you are by Profession one of these two, a Weaver, or Cobbler; a Weaver I guess, by that homespun, course, grosse-weaved Fustian in your Book; a Cobbler, by your Patching and Borching, nicknamed Heresy, malignant-Prelacie, wyre-drawne-Covenant; yea, a Cobbler I could wish you the rather, then should I hope in time you'd mend. Reader, I shall be careful to avoid prolixity, (a thing extremely affected by my Antagonist) therefore for brevity sake I shall not trace him in his nonsencicall reiterated lines, but in those of most concernment, remembering the wise man's Mandamus, Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be like him. Page 5. line 19 Know you not who saith, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal: why then, as men distracted, cry ye out so loud for Magisteriall external force? Sir, we know the Apostle so saith: in that infancy of the Gospel-Doctrine of Jesus Christ, the whole world (almost) in opposition against them, they had nor, nor could have, such Magisteriall or outward force; yet God invested them with Miracles, mightily to compel or convince their (like yours) stiffnecked and uncircumcised of heart, which you more cunningly appropriate to tender conscience: but we have the Precept of Jesus Christ for our example, to inflict corporal, penal punishments upon such incorrigible blasphemers and offenders. Sir, with a three. stringed whip he yerked out of the Temple those abusers of it, john 2. inferior to yourselves. Sir, can you deny this Legal punishment to be a Gospel-right? and know, if through our silence to God, the Magistrate, and Ministers, you should persist in your unholyed unsanctified, unwarranted progress, the very stones in our streets (I verily believe) would cry out against us. Page 5. line 36. Ye war indeed, but it is after the flesh; no wonder your conquest is no more, for the Spirit of the Lord we fear is departed from you. Pray ye speak softly, give your charity to there stretch upon the Tenters, or I'll give you rope enough to stretch necks. If you, the troublers of our Israel, were all departed far enough, good enough, to your good new Canaan, a good riddance: because you separate from us, account yourselves all the Spirit of the Lord. There is more reason, and I rather believe it, ye are of your father the Devil, his work ye do; then at least, ye are the Devils Journeymen, and I fear he'll recompense ye. Sir, we war not after the flesh, but against it, we hold, fight the good fight of Faith; and our conquest over you, is the overthrow of your Babel, so vast and unlimited, and all you that contribute your utmost assistance, carrying up your Dung and untempered Mortar to make up the Bulk: in this Fall, or Confusion, themselves are lost in the Rubbish. Page 6. line 22. Tell us not, Sir, of a specious Ordination, any farther than you can attest its Divinity by the concomitancy of the Sp●r●t, we shall else look upon it as a means to delude the simple; tell us not (as your predecessors did) of order and decency in the Church. Sir, this specious Ordination, which your Faction doth restractorily oppose we can (and have done with all circumstances) prove its Divinity by the un-erring Spirit of Truth, by the example of Christ, that at one time ordained 70 Disciples, and then sent them forth, the practice of his blessed Apostles, and since in the Primitive Church, in all Ages successively; which I here omit (as I said) to avoid prolixity. But now Sir, I do demand of your Il dependant illiterate party, man or woman, by what specious Ordination, or Call, ordinary or extraordinatie, do ye intrade yourselves into our Pulpits, to infect or touch our Congregations with your Leprous Doctrines? In this ye imitate the Devils practise. job 1. In the day the sons of God appeared before God, Satan likewife came in amongst them but for hurt and affliction of godly job: and therefore, this Ordination we use it not as a means to deceive the simple (were ye so wise as to believe it) but as an Ordinance of Christ. Tell us not of order and decency in the Church. Shall I tell ye? if not, worthy M. Edward's shall tell the world of you: of your too too many disorders, irreverent Antichristian behaviours in all Churches (where ye come) by your pragmatical schismatical preaching (alias) prattling Buffe-Coats, and others: I'll name but one of 100000, where they pissed in a Font, and brought a bald horse in the Church to the Font, and baptised him by the name of Ball-Esau, because said they he was Harry. Gangrena 3. And although you will not be told of order and decency in the Church, I tell ye these disorders and undecent distractions and confusions, the God of order and peace is not the Author of, but the Devil, 1 Cor. 14. 33. Page 7. line 18. Sir, were you a messenger of Christ, your work would be to go and preach, and hold forth the everlasting Gospel, which alone is the arm of God to salvation, you would more cry up the sword of God then of Gidion, you would see more cogent convincing authority to subdue the heart by one Evangelicall scriptum est, than a thousand political fiat Justitia's, or all the arbitrary boundless Canonical Ipse Dixit's in the world. Sir, this I profess your Masterpiece. Sir, to doubt M. Edward's to be a messenger of Christ, I account it impertinent, not worth resolving: His servants (or messengers) ye are, to whom ye obey. That he obeys & follows Christ's precepts, or example, I prove thus: Christ his great and principal work was, to redeem the world and save it; but his first work, as most necessary, was to confute or convince the world of sin, and this he began at 12 years' age: He had a greater work to do; yet this (though inferior) was first, as most requisite, to confound & put to silence such Rabbis and Ringleaders (as yourselves, that opposed his Kingdom & Doctrine, when he disputed with those Doctors that were astonished at his Wisdom & Doctrine. This was S. Paul's practice (a chosen Vessel of Christ's by a Call extraordinary) who fought the good fight of Faith with Beasts of Ephesus (as M. Edward's doth in England) after the manner of men: he wrought with his hands, not that every dispenser of the Gospel should do so (as ye do) but because he would not bring a reproach on the Gospel of Christ (as ye do.) Sir, tell me now, is there nothing to be done by a Minister, or messenger of Christ but only to preach? you (as we) well know, where God hath his Church, the Devil hath his Chapel; and though his messengers give all diligence, yet the Devils Agents will make Books to sow their Tares: therefore, there is something more to be done, then only to preach the everlasting Gospel. Surely, M. Edwards (in these sad times) holds forth this contention between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent, to be Evangelicall, and approved of by the everlasting Gospel, and as the right and strong Arm of God to salvation. You would more cry up the sword of God, then of Gidion. Sir, why must we have this distinction, as if the sword of Gidion was not the Lords? The Israelites (as we do) cried up, the sword of the Lord and of Gidion, or Magistrate: This we well know is your way of babbling. Sir, this way of M. Edward's, reprehending you and reproving you sharply (as the Apostle commands) is of a great convincing Authority to subject the heart, and rip off that foreskin, were not your Adamite hearts harder than the Adamant; yea, it would be to you an Evange●icall Scriptum est. Page 8. line 8. The way to Heaven ye tell men, is by the gate of Hell; and more than halfe-damned they must be, ere they must think of being saved: and who but ye (in the despair of poor creatures) ordained to speak peace? Sir, indeed this Doctrine, so much of it as we maintain, is fare different or separate from your pleasing one: yet this we know, the way to Heaven is not strewed with rushes, and that those which will live godly in Christ Jesus, must suffer Persecution, Tribulation, Anguish, grief of heart and mind, etc. This is not (as yours) to nihilate the Doctrine of Repentance, but to bring them to humility to whom God giveth grace; when he resisteth such proud, Pharisaical, highminded, Soule-murtherers, Braggadochio's, as yourselves. Is this by the gate of Hell? I am sure it is the way to know themselves; a thing ye are most ignorant of. And who but ye ordained to speak peace. Why Sir who but they? who are ye? are any of you the Prophets, or the sons of the Prophets? Sir, remember that Uzziah was struck (by God) with a Leprosy, for inrruding presumptuously upon the Priest's Office: I hold you (if Prophets) to be the sons of that old lying Prophet, which countermanded that Prophet sent on God's message, who believing his lies, was destroyed by a Lion in the way. If we should believe your peace, when you squeale out pax, pax, (as I could instance in many your blasphemous doctrines) we should wholly neglect our eternal and everlasting peace. Pag. 8. l. 35. But Sir, in good earnest let's have more sense, and less volumes, four tales and more truths, smaller books and bigger Arguments (these bum baste Editions tyre all, but satisfy none) Reasons are sold by weight, and not by tale. Yea Sir, in sober sadness, ye shall have more sense when your illiterate numbers learn to read, then they'll love to write and speak sense when they cry up Humane earning, and other external properties, as these unlearned Rabbis account them; till when these volumes of necessity must increase with your Numbers; you shall have fewer tales and more truths, when you forget your lying Mother-tongue, as well as your Latin one; for take this for truth, so long as ye pray, preach, dispute nonsense, lies, and those knaveries y'are ashamed to own; in your own dialect they shall be repeated, and thrown as dung in your face; and then shall you have more weightier Reasons of the Sun, when such Moon-calves shall be brought to the Knowledge and Love of God and of his Wisdom and Truth, and to love and Charity to their brethren. Now he comes to a ruff draught of a simple Inventory of Mr Edward's Books; this hairy ruffenesse shows them to be of the hated brood of Esau, whose hoary-hairy escapes God doth and shall smite with a frenzy lunacy, which they call illumination of the spirit. Imprimis, given to the Honourable House of Commons, out of hopes to find favour there, so many Books. Sir, what you call hopes. I can affirm is, he hath assurance to find favour with the Honourable House of Commons, the King, and House or Lords too, yea with the Assembly of Divines, and all the knowing Orthodox men in Christendom: Sir seed not your fancies with vain hopes of the late brags you made of the strength of your Party in the Parliament-Houses, Armies and Kingdom; these are but mere scar-crow●s which your unlicensed Printing-Presse hath divulged, of which Overton in Newgate can give testimony, as well as Lilburne in the Tower. Item, given to your reverend self for your reverend Copy so many 40. s. in dry money (too much by 39 in so dry a bargain) See Reverend Mr. Edwards (if you were not of the viperous Generation) is Right Worthy by you to be revernced as your best and most reverend Master or Tutor, and therefore take warning that if you persist to bristle up your prick-eares at him, with your wildlookt meager countenance, that he, or some in his behalf shall pick your guberd teeth with such a bed staff as Dr. Bastwick did. Item, given to a Schoolboy, to correct your false Latin, and other amendments, 40. s. in dry money, (too much by 39 in so dry a bargain.) Sir, he that can write true Latin, can as truly correct it as Mr. Edward's doth himself. But Sir if you have not broke Priscian's head more than once, I'll give you leave to break mine: But I'll take the pains as I would give you correction, to correct your Page last, line first, Ambobus manibus iterum iterumque approbatar, which I thus correct, Ambabus manibus iterumque iterumque approbatur. Sir, for the rest of the Inventory, it is so full of nonsensical simplicity not worth the repeating, or answering; yet for the Readers satisfaction let him judge. Item, given to the Grecian, for helping you to the Originals, and filling up the Hebrew blanks 59 shillings and 3. groats: I fear you want one groatsworth of wit. Item, so many sold for little or nothing, to the Exchange, to Grocers, Cooks, etc. Item so many sequestered for my own proper use, in my study behind the door (alias the house of Office) and for my servants so many; and many more such like Items: But Sir, take this one Item from me, that if these thin leaved empty volumes of a sheet and a half, and your saucy lies in them shall still be vented against the Parliament, Assembly, Church of England, Mr. Edward's, Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Pryn, etc. I'll publish to the world your illicerate, mechanic, nonsensical cobled-fustian-Tubbers, men and women, the names and qualities of some of them for this time I'll but nominate, viz. Wyet a Cobbler, Robin a Saddler, Lamb a Sopeboiler, Bignall a Porter. Kiffin a Glover, Tue a Girdler, Major Tulidagh a Scot Patience a Tailor. Parvis a Goldsmith. Barebones a Leatherseller. Henshaw a Confectioner, (alias Infector.) Bulcher a Chicken-man (alias, dead and alive.) These and 40. more for the men-preachers; and for your women-Tubbers, alias Dubber's, my Muse shall only sing of one. The Church of * Revel. 2. Thyatyrah threatened sore, For suffering Jezabell, that Scarlet Whore, Thus to seduce God's people, and to teach Them disobedience, ye (poor souls) bewitch Them her to follow; Like her, such another, Sold Bonelace in Cheapside, that had a Brother Did walk disorderly, him to befriend For his Conversion, at a Tables end Did take a Text, and boldly did descant, The lawfulness to Preach of a she-saint, Informed her Auditory, that there was More need she edify 'em, then sell Lace; And that her zeal, piety, and knowledge, Surpassed the gravest Student in the College, Who strived thus Humane Learning to advance, She with her Bible and a Concordance, Can Preach nine times a week, morning and night, Such revelations had she from new light. The tedions, godless, nonsense sermon ended, Her sainted Convert, whom she thus befriended, Desired a private Application, Unto the point in Agitation. The Feast when ended, and the Saints all gone, Who left behind a large Collection. " Dear Brother, said she, if you would be wise, " i'll teach you how your gifts to exercise; " One Concordance will serve us both to note; " Such Scriptures as we'll easily get by rote: He with her wind of Doctrine led away, For sooke his wife, with her went over Sea, So she her husband, where they both expressed Each others gifts, I blush to preach the rest. Sir, that this estimate is more infailible than yours, to which ye: subscribed R. S. I have likewise annexed G. L. for the honest Reader to judge. Reader this R. S. or Ralph Smith is the Bookseller that prints and publisheth Mr. Edward's Gangrena's; Sir, if he should make such a lame account as you bring, he would show little wisdom to re-print such volumes: But sirrah, this is like one of your falsities you said of Dr. bastwick's, viz. That his Books had made more Independanss than they had desswaded from it. And Sir, for that whibling scandalous Pamphlet, called A sudden Answer to Dr. Bastwicks' utter routing of all the Independants and sectaries, of one sheet of paper, in which you undertake to answer his 100 sheets; But because it is not worth his while to reply too't; I shall (God willing) give any indifferent Reader a full and good account to answer in your own Dialect excepting your railing and lying, etc. Sir, let me (for your own sake) desire you as a Christian Brother, to recall these passions, and reclaim them, to set Christ before you as the truest pattern to learn of him to be meek, humble, lowly in your own eyes, this will raise you to a high pitch of piery and acceptance with Almighty God. Sir, let me exhort ye as a Christian Brother, to set Christ's blessed Apostle S. Peter as a true pattern before you to imitate him (in your unerring Church) although S. Paul reproved S. Peter, Gal. 2. 11. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I with stood him to the face, because he was to be blamed; yet Peter of that godly knowledge doth acknowledge and approve of all S. Paul's Epistles, 2 Pet. 3. 15. 16. And accouns that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you. As also in all his Epistles speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrist as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. FINIS.