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7n anſwer of a lewd Libell lately foricated

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Entituled Purgatories sriumpt oner Hell.

Digeſtcd in foi me of a Dialogue by N 1 c x-groome of the Ho n1x-Stable ReGiNOBvRGI,

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6. Of this ſort are BY which creepe into houſes, and lea captine ſimple women laden with ſinnes, andlea with digers luſt s.

7. Which women are ener learnin 4 and are neuer able to come to the knowledge of the truth,

8. And aslannesand Iambres withſtood Moſes, ſo ave the ſe alſo reſiſt the truth, men of corrupt mindes, re- pro bate concerning the faith.

9. But they ſhall prenati no longer, for their mad- neſſe ſhall be enident to allmen, astheirs a'(o was.

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r Ot gente vngentle, nor vngentle gentle, Se: gentle (gentle N: Reader, ] 'deſire-no. - better Patron for this my rufticke Dialogue, then thy fa- uourable ſmile. Many things pal- ſed in this conference which eſca- |

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and the diſgraceoftall. pamphlecting Libellers, who ſtrut like brane Gal- lantstill cheir bombaſted ſtuffings bee diſcouered,. and then haue no- thing to ſhew but poore meagre carcaſes, whichit would pitiea.ten- der eie to behold. VV ith what fide- litie ] haue dealt in producing the | Aduerfaries affertions, I muſt re- ferre my ſelfe rothe 1ndifferent ſur- uey-of his booke, by which it will appearethat I haue notſert him on the racke, to compell him to'vtter that whicli was againſt hisminde, but tooke euery. clauſe as ir did drop of it -owne accord from. the voluntarte evidence of his perne, The method cannot bee lo exact

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By-path as well as the Rode-way. Herein: could-I not. þe my. owne Caruer, being ouer-ſwayed with the current of hits: Streame. For

ſome few formall paſſages happi- ly-are tranſpoled, but without al- ceration either of words or ſenſe. [f hee complaine of too much

thundring , which turned my {weeer VVine into ſowre Vine-

| | haue thought good ro beſtow vpon him this ſmall caſt. of my | Office, for which'it he cunne me | {mall chankes, [ ſhall yer comfort |my ſelfe with the loyaltie of my {eruiceable intention. And thus

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ENCOMIASTIQVE Epigrams

prefixed as a Prologue to the eAnthers Dialogue.

N Ick-Groome,thy quillhath flowne [o paſong well, That none denies - + Curry-combe the Bell, If Bellarmine do ſemd his Mare to thee ,

Her necke, if not her heart, will broken be.

The head-ſtrong lade that ſcormes the reynes and bit, Will bythy Art be =__ for Saddle fit.

Ere while we ſaw thu Jabal, skittiſh, wild,

IVincing aloft; thy ſpurre had mage him mile.

Oh how he fumes and foes in fawle dpight,

To (ee his pride ſocurb'd by ſuch « wight.

Ti fit the Foole who cannot rule his bable,

Should find ſome fetters in the Hoby-Zable.

Hozy MoxToN,

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N Ick,thouſay## i that Miracles are done, 1 hy lines do proue thas they are ſcarce begunne: That Stable-groomes ſhould Ieſpites confront ,

As yet was nener heard in Helleſpont : | Had not (ome higher Genius thy thoughts inſpired Thy Mulſe,thy cauſe,thy credit had beene bemired. Nor Hall nor Sichem do ſuch wonders yeeld,

Their wonders vaniſh, thine hath wonne the field.

ee.

Edmund Langſton,

B” my conſent that noble Sydneys verſe, Ihen thou art dead ſhall cleaue nts thy herſe. Ifthat the man ſuch praiſe muſt have,

T hen what mult he that keepes the knaue? *

Idem ad Eundem. :

[ F Tabal »veet thee, Nick, thou myſt to Hell,” Ther's now no middle plate for ſontes to dwell: Tis not the T ygre on thy ſleewe ſhal(baylethee,, Thy comfort is, thy peune will nener faile thee:

. William Epſcley,

Joe free their friends by purſe from Purgatory pains,

Some by their Oray ſans, ſome by Oblations: Nick-Groome hath fully tlear'd that coaft without the Which hallowed bene, or other duplications (graynes. of

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of Aue Marics, orthat mammung foppery, Which makes the wiſer world deride ail popery.,

To ſacke thoſe walls it coſt him not a groat, His pen hath ſet Don Charons barke «float.

Anthony Tonſtall,

WW is this Tabal,» out-landiſh man ? AMonk,:Punck, or Pembliconian 2 Simon Fitz-Magus calls him Talon Raguel, But he's more kinto Nabal or Pantagruel.

Nabal azdlabal differ but «letter,

Nabal « foole, this labalizitle better.

| TabalisFloud in Eghſb, Rachil DetraRtion, That notifies his name, this diſplayes his taQtion.

Idem. { [5 Jabal Dottor by degree in Schooles? Tf hecomment'd,' twas in the ſhippe of fooles, = i Though never grac d with Lambskins ſeniority, He bieats in corners hy the Popes authority.

Peregrine Hoby. v/£1onenſis.

He mildle Ghoſts twixt Limbo «xd the Lake, Which neither Sunne nor Moone of long time ſaw, Of this thy Knell doe ioyfull notice take | | They ſhowt to ſee their Taylor prou'd « Dave.

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their laylor being put to flight,

They all breake looſe from ſhadowes of the night.

GiLtes DABn1iTOT.

Hen Rome ſhall hegre of Pargatorics Knell, Nick w## be curſ'd with candle, book,end bell,

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O happy Nick to be a Martyrs Syre ! They hardly ſhall,whether they bleſſe or curſe, Make Nick much better,or his lines much worſe, He tooke 4 lucky time his booke to vent, Tis thought the Pope hath all hiscutles ſpent.

Robert Flint, twice Maior of Queenborough.

Ow many tongues ſpeakesTabal ? fine at leaſt. Hs He lies is Englilh, Latin, French and Dutch, i hether he ſþeake or write heli:s; that s much.

lying tongue doth farre ſurpdſſe the reſt.

TJaxcas PaxsoNs.

E that Triumphs before the field be wonne, | * *cMaybeledcaptiue ere the firht be done, ' Saweſ thou how proudly Jabals Charret vaunted*

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My fellow Nick hath now his courage daunted. Nick tyes him to the racke (thus fortunes alter) Nickclippes his mane, Nick /eades him in a halter.

Tho. Cooke.

M” traſty Nick, thinke not that 1collogue, 1 coprote# Ilike thy Dialogue. |

Thy Matter, Method, and thy pleaſing ftraine,

Hae let the Brauo bloudin th' Antique vane,

Thy Curry-combe hath inſt as many notches,

As Tabals pybald Coxcombe Iagges and ſcotches. Thou ſhalt haue paſſage to the March-beere borrell, For foyling Tabal in thy Maſters quarrell,

Sim, the Butler.

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Ome ſay that Tabal hath a Swiniſh looke,

And others ſay be wrote adogged booke.

I rather thinke it was « Hogge that wrought it,

And wot you why ? twas Chaunce onr dogge that. (brought 8t.

Harry the Portar.-

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Idemde eodcm.

V ome Chance came in,he ſcem'd to bring aprize, Y Nick /ook'd, and/ound a fardle full of Lies, And when he tooke it, Chance did wag his tayie, Preſaging that the Groome ſhould Jabal = Ithen Dags bring popilh Lebels tween their gills,

Tts time for Groomes ts exerciſe their quills.

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THE CO N T E NTS of the ſeuer all Chapters of

this Booke.

CHAP, r. Pag.r. U lx Libell:rs malice, fraud, and folly deteQed, CHAP.-2, Pag 71. The Machabees vathronized, CHAP. 3- Pag.103» Purgatorics deduRion Legealy and Theologically diſ- prooued, CHAP, 4. Pag. 150. The Scriptures authority and tufficienc Ian again? Praicr tor the dead,and other Romiſh traditions, CHAP. 5. Pag. 206. Liphan Miracles morterized. CHAP. 6. Pag. 246. Great Cregories proud Delegate diſmounted , and popifh: pretended deuotion yacaſed,

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The Libelkers malice, pride, fraud,and fol- ly detefed. Ms.

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KAY > ick, I thanke God ADS &- $k / Sir, all well. My Maſter remembers his loue to your Worlhip,to you Maſter Vicar, and to all his friendsin theſe parts.

Min, We are much bound to him for his kinde remembrance;but I wonder what winde drives you

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The Libellers malice, pride, fraud,and fol. - ly detefted.

Pfaff Hat, honeſt Nick ! Wel-

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& and all thetruc Trojans # at home ?

LJ AS2 Nick. I thanke God

II 2419s Sir, all well. My Maſter

Vicar, and to all his friends in theſe parts. HMin, We are much bound to him for his kinde

remembrance;but I wonder what winde drives you hither.

remembers his loue to your Worlhip,to you Maſter |

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hither ? we may ſtrew greene ruſhes for you; I thinke pu were neucr-hcere lince Maſter Maior tooke his oath.

Nick. Sir, you arc in the right, but ſuch trouble- ſome gueſts come ſoone enovgh, like foule weather, before they be ſent for.

Az. Nay lay not ſo Nick, the worſt doggein your maſters houſe cannot come vnwelcome to Queen» borowzh.

Nick, That's more of your kindneſſc then our merit; but I pray you what's the reaſon the bowling greene is ſoemptic vpon ſo fairea day ?

Min. Why man, theres a great Faire at Sitting- burne, thithcr they arc all gone, tag, rag, and long- taile.

Nuk. Then I fcareI amcome at anill time,

Me. Whylo?

Nick, My maſter hath ſent me for the pyde nagge, hee would hauc him runne in /ames parke, leſt hee ſpoile himſelfe this drie ſeaſon : beſides, I hane ap- pointed the Smith to bee heere in the afternoone. Now if the Caſtle-keeper bee gone to buy Hobby- horſes too, Iam in a fairecaſle.

Min. Toput you out of doubt, vpon my know- ledge heisridde out, morethen an hourc anda halfe

Ince.

Nick. Then it islikely to be darke night before he inde the way home.

A, Aſſure your ſelfe of that it isa forfeit for a

Sheppy-man tocome from a Fairetill Sunne ſer.

Nick. Scetheill luckez and the worſt is, I know not

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not how to ſpend the timeal! this liue-long day. ;CMzs As if I haue not a gooddilhof Oyſters,

and a cold pye at home to hold you tacke. Nick. Many thankes good Maſter Maior : but in

very decd I brake my faſt ſowell with our old Gar-

little mawe to any meate till night,

Min, T hen what will youdoe ?

Nick, On my little honeſtie I know not , vnleſſe ſome good bodice would lende mcea Play-booketo make my worſhip laugh.

Me. Faith Nick I doe notremember any ſuch in my cuſtodic, bur our Searcher lent mea merry book which came to his hands the laſt weceke.

Min, Sir, you meane that ſquibbing pamphlet againſt Sir Elvod Hoby , which I borrowed of you yeſterday morning.

: Aa. The very lame: I would you would take

Min. T hat labour ſhall be ſaued, we never parted companies {ince we met.

Nick, Now if you bee kinde gentlemen, let vs fit downe yonder, vpon * Pennyleſle Bench, and ſar- vey it, -

"Ma Agreed ; for thinke wee ſhall haue no bo- die in haſt cometo trouble vs.

Nick. What may the title ofthe booke bee ? and whois the Author?

Mix. He may be N#holas neme,for ought ] know,

dincr at Ypberyy before I came qut,that I ſhall haue

a Secretum o& filentium mags difputationibus conuents ne ſtr- mo mterpelletur 4 tanta vitro cj- troq, euntium bomnum e+> fre- quent'a & ſire- pitn.

b Conſcia ſplen- dentem formi-

he diſcovers himſelfe only by the marke of * I. R.

Nick, I dare lay a good wager it is that Jſbmee! | A 2 Rab. |

dat notina ſo. lem,

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c 1llt faciem velantqui ſe pu- denda dicere cognoſcunt, fa- tentur ſe non di- cenda dicere, Laur.Val. de yoJupr. lib.z.

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ter-ſnarle: my minde giuesmeitis the ſame Gargulho, whole late arriuall makes him ſo much mcrriment. Mix. Not vnlike: hee hath wonne the ſpurres for anarch-rayler. The moſt rauing,and brauing Paſ+ q#il rhatcuer read. Had he gotten any prize by his

his maskers ſute: he ſtands cloſe behinde his pifure: if itpaſſe currant, he will then peepeour, otherwiſe he will hide his head in a Bench-hole. |

Ha. But is this the falhion of profeſſed. © Di- uines, to broach Poſitions which they darcnot juſti- fie with the ſubſcription of their names, and being nameleſſe themſelues,toperbreake perſons of note.

Nick. Doe you wonder at that? As if old purſc- takers will preſent themſelues in their owne likenes without vizaras, and ſcarfes.

ls, Indeede that were the next way to the Gallowes ; but ſurely this kinde of cunning -ioy- ned with ſogreat ſcurrility (which in my little view I diſcoucred) would make me ſhrewdly ſuſpe&tkeir | 4 ſinceritic, who areſo intemperate in their owne

| affetions, and regardleſſe of better mens credits.

Min. This is the Catholike charitic, and ſoule- gaining patience praiſed now adayes zbut heisnot without his ſhifts. T hat he concealeth his name, it is his © humilitie, as rcgardleſſe of worldly reſpedts. "That hee is ſortarte, it proceedeth from his zeale of thecauſe, notany hatred of the perſon.

A:, In my opinion he needs not feare,any great applauſe, for the extraordinary skil of his work. T 'is

laſt worke, you ſhould have now ſeene him out of

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well if he-ſcapeinthis learned age without reproof- But to, make zcale the Patron for his * perſonall frumps, is intollerable hypocriſie, |

Ad. Could he thew any ſuch fparkes of perſo-

k for a Coxe-combe, FF

nall difdaine, flying from Saint _Aaug»/tiverpenne, there were yet lomelitrle hope, that hee hath ar leaft a dramme- of | that Primitive Spirit: but you ſhall | heare how.he contradicts himſclfe. 8 Saint CAuge- femme ((aith he) did endeauour tocurbe the motions of an-

of iniurious reproaches, to diſgrace their perſons, but by cleare Demonſtrations of the vittorious truth.

Mt, Thenis hee as like Saint Augs/line, asan Owleroan luic buſh.

Nick. And could hee ſingle ont-no body but my Maſter to make the Anuill of his malice? I doubt hee hath taken awrong Sowe by the care; if his coate be not ſwingd' well and chrifi y, let me bec held for | a fowced Gurnet.

Ain. Indeede it had beene the wiſer way, firſtto have beleguercd the Caftle which he formerly loſt; and had noteither vaine hope of a ſecond voluntarie lapſe, or neceſlarie: feare of ſome foule diſconerie, diucrted his force, heewould rather hauec followed the chaſe of his oldeprey. Well, hee is hot vnlike to haue ſome horners about” his cares : But for Sir E4- ward, hee hath paſled his word to anſwere him with contempt.

Me. Silence verily is fitteſt for a Gentleman of his place, wnleſle his aduerſaric were of more worth

ger, ſeeking to ouercome his Aduerſaries , mot byreturne/|

then this-Start-vp. .

f Arimwe Minion,one of a merry \col- fing wit, Frier- like.Stepb.Win- ton: againſt G,

Joy. page 2.

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1 Doc not Owles har bour in the Barne of his braine ?

Nick, T wonderin my heart what /weel meant to come vpon him with a frelh reply,hauling publike notice of his reſolution,

Ma. This wasit that animated him the Knights i Dormitabo (ccur'd his pen free paſſage without con- troll,

Nick. Nay,then I would my girdle might breake; ſeeing he will wakea ſleeping Lyon, as long as Ican hold a Currie-:ombe in my band, I will Ferret his ſides till he crie & F/ebs,

Min, I perceive thou art truc bred ; ſuch a Whelp is htteſt for this game : But how cameſt thou by thy Latin?

Nick. Faith, I waited on a yong Gentleman, at Oxford, ſome three, or foure yeares, where I got a few broken ends together, cnough to patch Rab/þ.

| his Cox-combe with a Sternigoguls.

Ma. On my foule thou art a merrie grigge: :1 | would not for the price of a good Breake-faſt have | wanted thy companicin the review of this diſcourſe.

Nick, Perhaps you will ſay ſo, by that time wee have done; It ſhall goc hard if I find not Crotchets in this Beetle-head, to deſcant vpon his plaine ſong, But IT long toheare the bookesname.

Min. Ir is called Purgatories! Triumph euer Hell,

Nick. What ! 1/-mael the Conqueror ? O viRto- rious Rebſhacheh. In what pompcartthou led to the Capitoll?

Min. Would you know how ? his Charriot is drawne with foure griſly Anticques : Sophiſtrie , Scur- rilitie, Impudencie, and Hypocriſie, and attended with

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Me, It he triumphaſter the old Roman' maner, | he muſt (for the gaining of applaule) be very liberall in bis gifts tothe people. 1.3% 1 AT |

Min. Hee paſſeth tor that of all rhatever Iknew. Here he flingsa Rams horne, there a Tobacco prpe;here hee beſtowes a ® Black-more Girleot his owne taking; there hee caſts our Ladies Gloues. Aſſesare his ordina- rie fauours; and as for //ine, Suger, Honnie-ſops,Greene Goſlings, C ocatrices, Wood-cockes, Cockes egges, and Sal- lets, you would admire hislubberalitic.

A. Stop there good M. Yicar , Nickes teeth will watcr, if you talkectany more ſuch Iunckets,

Nick, No not it hee gave Quailes infteede of ood- cockes z theſe dainterils haue layen ſo long vpon his hands, that I feare me they are "and lweete.

Ma. His laſt T reatiſc, (if I be well aduiſed) where. in hec beganto flingat the Knight, was Chriſtned, The ouerthrow of the Proteſtants pulpit Babels,

Nick. The Ouertbrow? 0 Hereules | They muſt bee Bablcs indeed if he bee able romoue them. What a brave Lad is this, thatdreames of nothing but O- uerthrowes, and Triumphs? No doubt hee reſcued many Shauelings in this skirmiſh. T was pittic hee | was notin England when my Lord DelaIWare vnder- | rooke his voyage : Then ſhould his Lordſhip haue had no neede to have ſtood to the curteſie ofthe two Vniuerſities. Rebſhacheh alone would baue ſoon brought thoſe poore Savages, vnder the belt of his Diſcipline. But had he not great lucke(trow you)to ſcape Cerberws his fanges, comming ſonecre the con-

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Ma. Hecomplayneth that he met with a * Cer- ber, mcaning the Knights Connter-ſnarle_, Which entertained him with an unfriendly welcome , and ſalu- ted his pinnace with a peale of unlonely termes.

Aw. And well. worthic, tor hec gaue the.onſet without achallenge, neither came he asa Merchant (according to his colourable pretcnce) with an ® Oline branch, towards the hauen of his fauour ; but as a man of Warre with a flagge of defiance, to batter the in- viſicible Fortof the Knights reputation.

Ms. Nay by yourlcave , S*. Edward caſt out his Glouctoany P Romified Rennegado.

Nick. What was that to 1. R.? what needed hee hauc foughtas the Popes 4 Yoluntarie, vnderthoſe colours ? Had he ſuch intereſt in the Title, that hee could not forbearethe Claime ?

Min. As tor that , it had beene pardonable, if in theconfidence of hiscaule, hee had endeauourcd to diſable the Knights refutation of Purgatorie, by the Dint of argument ; but to dart his Pereupine quill to blemiſh hiscredit, to /nufſe at 4 Tobacco pipe , to ieſt with his ſword, nay to make him a © Peglerto vent 0- ther mens patches , 'as i argueth rather an aking tooth, then a religious minde, ſo isirable todriue Sobrietie her ſelfcintoan ! arring peſdion.

Ma. Had the Cumaan Yirgin,l meane Diſcretion, | . beene his guide in that journcy ; had the reſpett of the Knights henor , or deſire of well-fare of his ſoule , beene ſuperintendent in his thoughts , hce would haue found another way to the wood. *Tis ſtrange Rhe- torique to alienate his affeRions, whoſc 1udgments we labourto informe, Nick.

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for « Coxe-combe.

Nick. Will you have the right ? I haue gotten the length of his tootc. Praurit-erus Wilſon ſees that 1þ- maci hath a Wind-mill in his head, therefore hee buzzerh jn his cares to ſer theclappera togge,that fo he may get a good Grill,

Ma. Had there not been ſome ſuch pecuniary,or

linilterayme, I verily thinke Rabſpacheh his pen had beenc at a full period. Hee would have accepred the | Knights rcaſonable fatistaRion, and endured alittle lhowre, eſpecially raiſed by the bluſtring windes of his owncdiſtemper: hee would not haue prouoked the grimme Porter the ſecond time, whom he found ſo fellat the firſt. Somewhatir is that makes him ſo bray inthe cares of his ſuppoſed Cerberus , who was well contented to haue taken a nappe,and to lethim palle without regard.

Min, Yct would he make the world beleene hee is ſo deſirous of peace,that hee. hath nowour of the aboundance of his charity brought him a hony {op to ſtop his mouth,

At. Truſt mectruly, hee comes over him with kindneſſe ; this hony was not fetched from the Bees hive,but from the 4pes hole,more like to fir choller thentoprocure reſt, *

Nick. This tricke he learned in his paſſage of Che. ron the Ferriman ; to looke towards peace with his face,and rowe towards diſcord with his pen. He ſcts outthe 4 Oliue branch (or a ligne , but his'veſlels are full ofgall and wo! mewood within.

Mm. If we may take his owne word in his owne

ſound of a ſolid anſwere, * It is a C purgatory

t Melin ore,

verba laflis fel in corde,ſraus

fadti

u Preface.

| * Preface.

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oA Curri-combe

£

x This AVego-

ry was bearen |

in the mortac of malice, with the peſtle of his pcſtilent wit. Ouctith.p.

y Pag, 27.

| purgatory ſallet to purge his prophane humonrs , made of fiue meaicinable hearbs,wherein he hath powred the oyle— of charitable exhortations , mingled with the vineger of ſharpereprehenſion , yet ſo ſparingly that it canwot be diſ- pleaſing to his taſt. X

N#k.. It hee had preſented him with the ivice of Rue, andstymad bony, it had beene more proper for the dimneſle of his ſight. It ſcemes he hath not been brought vp vnder an C4potheeary, but rather in a Cooktes [hop , he is ſo cunning in diſhing out this ſau- cy Allegory,

my beit to * quench the fire which flaſhed from the bram- | ble buſh of your diitempered thoughts, not with cold ws | ter of a dull deniall, nor with the oyle of ſinners, which might increaſe the flame, by ſoothing you in your errour, but with wine and ſugar. T hope you will not taxethis to be broken-winded.

Nick, 1promiſe you an excellent cloſe. Had my maſter ſucha Ska{/in his kirchin, that would quench the fire with wineand ſugar, the Vintners and Gro- cers would ſoone ſhare his lands: his ” patrimony would then be in adangerous conſumption indeed,

Min. Nick, you are ſomewhat too quicke, his ho- neſt meaning is to bee acceptcd : yet if I haue any idgement, hee is more clegantin one leafe of this booke then in all the other he wrote before.

Mt. Marry hce may thanke Sir Edwardfor that, whoſe phraſes arc ſo interlaced throughout the

| to bauc put on her ho!li-day coate,

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Ain, What will ye ſay then to this ? 7haue done |

wholcdiſcourſe, that Rabſhicheh his ſtile may ſeeme

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quality obſerue,that hee bath an extraordinary gift intherctorting of conccipts: And withall prorelted that be thought 1/þ-14el was begotten on the {ide of a hill, be fo returns word for word like an Eccho,

Ain, The truth is, thepoore man hatha very weake ſtomacke , heecaſts vp whole periods as they went downe, without digeſtion or alteration.

Aa, If I were his Phitttion, L would preſcribe him

| a cup of wincand ſugarnext his heart, for what with his watching, weeping and * whipping, he hath a very

bad ſtomacke,and a worle braine,

Nick. He ill deſerues it, who meaſures other mens liquor, by the ſhallow panne of his owne wheeling Skonce. If hee breake his faſt with nymble-brained vilſon ſomewhat more liberally, bee ſtrait fumbles in the mouth, and-tumbles our a dewb/e * foole in c- uery anſwere according to his /mple folly.

Min, He was not then miſtaken that did Hierogl:-

phick him bythe name of Rabſhacheh which vpo long

ſearch he hath found to ſignifie® Multum Ebriws : as much to ſay, as Cozen German to Floud the 1gnatian, who hath in his time made more razlingIndentures, then the beſt Scriuener in Doway or S*. Omers,

Nick. Yctas fluſtred as hee was, when his wench told him that he kifled like a Clowter, hee could text her with Zabia Sacerdotis cuſtodiunt ſapientian, And when thee pleaded that ir went againſt her heart, he

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could proteſt by the taith ofa Catholique, not to come within a « foote of her conſcience,

Mn. Itlcemesindeed he ſpeakes not by gueſle C2 like

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a P. efacce,

b Pag.34.'-

c Iuft the length of a

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Tobacco Pipe.

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like a Nowice , but as one beaten to the trade by ex- pcrimentall proote,when he faith, / know that the cu- ſlome of men that are tipled x, when they ſtagger them- ſelues, ts thinke that Churches, ana the very heauens reele about th:m. Marke how feclingly heſpeakes cuen of the thoughr.

Ma. Lect him be what he will, this is no fit Court rodraw his Inditement : hce wilitraucrſcit with an Appeale ; Let vs rather hearc how he bcſtirs himſeltfe tor Purgatory.

Min. Nay by your leaue Sir, his Apology tou- ching the exceptions in the Counter-ſnarle muithauc

| theprecedence. This hath he cunningly in bis firſt

chapterprelixed toa worke; by good probability, long ſtudicd, againſt the Knights firſt letter, ſome fixe yeares (ince direted ro MF, T.H,

Ma. Bee it as itliſt: ſeeing weeare come as Au» ditors to ſitte vpon his account, let vs firſt [ce his charge,and then his diſcharge.

Ain, Indeed cquity her lelfe cannot preſcribe a more indifferent courſe then this . T here is great rcaſon your fi ſhould ſtand inthele precintts.

Nick, Nodoubt he bath placcd a Lion in the fore- front to make the betrer way, for the Marſhalling of his weakcr and more heartlefle troopes,

Aa, If he haue the leaſt dramme 0 Rhetorical] Chiualry, bc will be ſure toput the beſt © legge for- moſt,

Min, Youare both wide in ſtead of a Lion, hee hath committed the condutt of his forces to Reynald tac foxe, whom hce preſents on his paper ſtage with

a TI ar-

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for a Coxe=combe.

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a T arget,ro ſhicld bim fromthe imputationsf w77e- ring any thing ta the Knights reproach,

Mes. Itmult bea nimble Foxe that can ſhift off ſo many palpable wrongs ; hee bad necde have his ' ioynts thoroughly annointed with the oyleof lea- ZINg.

Min. Doubt you not that; his poynts are well ragg'd with fraud. And firſt, as if hee (good man) meant nothing but purc devotion, heedeplores the hard hap of his ifortunate treatiſe,jn falling pon ſo un deſerned miſconſtruttion , wilhing that the few-lines which concerned the Knight, bad beene read by him when he was faſting,

Neck, Hce were a wife man wouldlooſea good Breakfaſt, for better repaſtthen I could cuer diſco- uer in his Larger. It ſeemeshis booke is omewhata

attendance of an houre-glaſlc, and a Spanilh /ergicio. Hee that darcs not but allowa certainenumber of

is angry it his owne lines bee peruſed when a man hath dined. It there bee any ſuch danger in taking hisreceits vpon a full ſtomack,he ſhould haue done well topreſcribe both dietandtime.

Ma, Vndoubtedly hee hath a reference tothe wine and ſugar, mentioncd in his Preface, which li- quor he faith the Knight loves well. T bis holy. wa» ter runnes from bispen in- ſuch aboundanceas if. he had B:chwe his tunne for a Standiſh: heedreames of no body but? Emnizes,who in his merry veyne wrote more wile ſentences , then euecr iſſued fram Rabſha- | C 3 cheh

kinne to an Apathecariesdrugge , which m__ the |

Plalms in our Ladies Pſalterto be read after ſupper,

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f Pag. 94.

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eA\Cnrri-combe

fa P - - oe Pueſinit nitm I:64A1 CAYINED AC- —_ fic j1 ICHI!S {

Cato Maicr,

h Marth, 11.15. WO air LACGQE2,13,

KIUG:C.9.36,

I Stapleton. Prompt, Moral.

|

c:eb his moſt ſober thoughts, heercin he diſplayeth

his folly , or rather his malice, inthe higheſt degree, |

Bur the beſtis, heis ike ro purchaſe as much thanks of the tudicious Reader, by this his iniurious /can- #all, as Sophocleshis vigracious Sonnes got by trady. cingtheir old Father tora 8 Dotard, and ſovnhit for the management of his eſtate. T he Knight is able co ſhew him more then a Tragedyto wipe away this blurre: where Mate is the prompter, you mult ima- ginc 7mpucency will deliucra good cuidence.

Min. h Ecce potator vin," yAtukus peueroyeyn fg are no new inuentions,norgrounded truths: as it a Gen- tl2man cannotdrinkea cvp of wine but hee muſt in- itantly be as wiſe as ſtaring * Gaal. T he Knight isof an affable, and pleaſant diſpoſition , yer hee comes not alwaies vp to #rlary T carme. Y/itf/es was no Plough-man, though once fora private end he fai- ned himſelfe a Ruſticke, and pur bis handstothe (hare. Cato was vpbraided for being all night ina lta- ucrne, buthowdid hee anſwere for himſcitc? Tow {bould relate (quoth he) how many dies beſore 1/pent at my booke,and nener bude'dont of my ſtruc). .

Ms, Iſhmael cannot heare with that care: Hee ſhou!d have ſhewed more diſcretion in ſhaping his credu!ous Cen{ures, according to the preſcript of this dirc&tion ; had he Iremd the /zmpe oy/e, as well as hee ſummed the Spamſh wine, his intruding curioſity would haue paſſed with leſſe blame. emo ommibus horis ſapit. Hee that is lumpiſh at his meales, will prove butaſlug in his more ſerious affaires.

Nick. Tam ure the 01d Fricr was of your minde in

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in this z for handling thoſe: words ®/inum non ba- | bent, He made his dwilionithus, Here is firſt 2mm, ib1 optimus liquor. Secondly, non habent, thi peſoimus clamor. | al avlci2 |

Ma. Gra-mercy Nick, I pereciyvethon haſt notilefc all chy Latine ſhrcads at-home. But [ would gladly know what the Knight: miſtooke inthe peruſall of ais diſcourſe that he ſhould bethus charged with an incon/iderate ſurety. * <> 10

Min, T he Knight(if you beremembred)tooke itin ill part that hee was taxed by the Ceeroprdan for want of learning, wit,va/our,and conſcience,as allo with

the /urpluſſage of ſelfe-concett, | Mi Andcan hee either blame the acceptance, or deny the cauſe, which isyet extant vnder his own hand?

Cir, Yes, hee forſooth doth not ſimply dero- gate from the Knight in any of theſe, bur. compara- tively matching them together, giues the-prece- dence, where he thinks he had moſt cauſe.» 41d'® as- | wide (ſaith he) the three degrees of compariſon, betwixt

your thr ee moſt commendable qualities, Valoar, Learning, iVitte. 1gane the poſitine to your valenr ; The compars- | tine 1 did afſigne to your pen* To your wit I did reſeriue.} the ſuperlatiue degree: my conceit did without (yauae, /in- cerely aime at your praiſe, If Idid * preferre your wit & Learning before your Yalour, you haue noinſt cauſe of of- | ence. ©]

Ma. \Werethere no more but this, it isgmorethen common Cuuility can well warrant ; had hee not bin

n Pag.2.

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q Peiora Nout(- ima primis.

r Pag.9. [ Pag. 11»

t Pag.12. u Pag. 15.

*Pag.13+

| areodious. Might not the Knights commendable

qualities ſay vnto him, 2#s te conſlituit indicem inter nos? The queſtion de promatu was not allowable a- mongſt the Diſciples. In this caſc P d7uidatur,ſhewes little careof the whole. The Poer might haue in- formed him, Que non proſunt ſingula,juntts iuuant: he that bath butan vnce of each ot thoſe former pro- perties, wants nota graineofa worthy man. Sothat by ſundring them he labours to leſſen their eſteem, and by diſparaging that which he ſcemes to hold in higheſt regard, hee plainly nullifies the repute of the relt, \ Ain. Hee thathath but halfean eye, may calily perceiue his comparatne praiſes, to be indecde pri uativediſgraces: as you may {ce by his4 Comment vpon his owne text. For wheras he ſtiled rhe Knights booke an vnlearned Letter he now explancs himſelf, thatthe want of * Philsſophicall and theological wert- ties occaſioned that cenſure. 1 The learning ( ſaith hce) with wt whereof 1 charged your Letter , wncither Per- naſiian, nor Pocticall , nor Prophane, but Sacred, Holic_ and Deuine, Is this the comparatiue degree wherewith hee ; dubs his pen ? Eff alsqeidproadrre tenws : ſecing Rabſha- ; cheh will afford no more, tis well wee bave this. But | ſuch a Booneis nor like long to be enioyed. I fearc | Rabſhachehrepents himſclfe already of his ſeeming | bounty ; For as if his pen had beenc ouer lauiſh, hee | doth interpret the Perneſhan learning tormerly ac- knowledged, to lignific * Fuitianphraſes, nulity of iudgement without any mediocrity of Logicke, * aſlippery

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| ward the ſame party ſhould tell him that be ſhewed

is fora Coxe-combe,

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| wveyne of writing, * impertiment and ridiculow anno;:tt ons,Y language that mutt hiue a Parliament tonaturalize | it, ® witlefie cauils, * babbling able to make learned men | heads ake, * ſpeech not ſo wiſe as the braying of Belaams Aſſe, © ag:md)y ftile fa bead blanke without matter , defi- ling,nay < loading his margent witha manner of imperti- | nent /luſfe, as * Va/gar ſentences, $ tructailverſes,Þ chil- diſh authors," reeling, tottering , and * ridicu/ons phra- ſes, ſeruing only to waſt inke and to blurre paper.

{Nick, 1 promiſe you he bath mended the matter well,theſe milde cenſures arcable roraiſe! firsof cho- ler, Isthis the Pernafian Lawrei with which hee is | content tocrowne my Maſters temples ? Is this the runc which thc poeticallſiſters [ing m Apolizes quire? | then may the gingling of my Curry-combe palle cur-

rant for reaſonable good melody. I ealily beleeue hee went.® young from Helicon, who canno better iudge ofthoſc Chriſtall treames. |

Me. Tfaman ſhould giue Floudthisattribute,that he is® tam Philoſophie, quam theologie peritus , which (bearing a double conſtruftion) may be warranted, albeit he have becne ſcarce ſealoned with the Prin- ciples of eyther Science, and ſoa Dullaid in both: how cou'd he but hold himſelte ill handled, ifafter-

more foole/ythen Philoſophy,more Dunſerythen Diut- nity*Bur the beſt i5,(as I beard the Knight once ay) he makes no more reckoning of bis praiſe, in giving him that hee had not, then of his diſpraiſe,in taking from him that he had ; as hauing neither more nor leſſe, for either of both. |

| x P2236, y Pog-1,

z Pag.16. a Pag.16g. b Pag.126, c Pag.2.

d Pag.3*, c Pag.4-

t Pag.35., [+4 Ibid,

h Ibid.

1 Pag.127, k Pag.35.

I Pag.2.

m Pag, 9.

n Ibid,

D Min.

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q Pag9.

r Preface.

ſ Pag.1c,

t Ibid.

Min. Yetthis comes ſhort of Rabſhacheh his cqui- uocating {traine. For did hee fincerely ayme at the | Knights praiſe in his granto/ Pernaſtan learning, why | doth hee then gainelay it in thole his contradictory | imputarions? or did his mentail entendment lecke | thediſparagement of the Knights Icarning ( 4s now | the cucnt hath made apparant) to what ende then | dorh he proteſt the P [tncerity of his good meaning? Why doth he labour to colour his tormer trumpe with a diſtin&ion of learning, yeilding the leſſer arm of thattree tothe Knight, and keeping the greater | (as purchaſed by his long 4 ſtudy and delight) to | himſelf? whereas in fine hediſpoſlcſſeth him otal|, | cucn of the lea(t leafe of rhe ſmalleſt branch. |

Ms, Thus is the Foxenow vncaſed, his (*) Flag | of duereſpeR, and dutifullaffeftion,prooucd to bee | but the En/igne of Sabtilty: bur I would gladly fce vpon what ground he builderh thoſe his derogato- ry and diſgracefullrermes.

Mir. Forſooth he hath gotten the wind of an op- polition betweenethe Knights poetry,and his proſe_, andthatin the firſt ſentence of his Counter-/narle, which he produceth as af p-r/þefiiue wnto the reſt. He- re/re (faith hee) hath in «ll ages contriued artifictall ſha- dowes which he inſtifieth with this marginal verſe, Arti- bus impietas ingenroſa caret? T his Rabſhacheh reading without an Intergatory faith, that the marginall Muſe © gainſaith the text, whereas the argument is drawnc ab impoſdbili viet. that ir cannot be that witty /mpre- ty ſhould beto ſeeke of cunning conneighance, then

which nothing can bce more ſutable to the purpoſe. Bur

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But admit there were no da{h viſible to his ſquinting | eyes, belides the full poynt, yet might his wiſdome haue taken it for ſpoken /ronically, in which accepta- tion it is no lefſe then warcent tothe Proſe, Ma, Tut, this Make-batc hath no otherproie& | bat to ſer Ephraim againſt Meneſſes, and Manaſſes a- | gainft Ephraim, to caſt a bone betweene the CMar- | gent,and the * Text, andro fet them both together | u Pag-11. by thecares with thetruth : but the beſt is, the lcaſt daſhdf apen will ealily reconcile them. Ain. Nay this is not all, hee challengeth the Proſe alſo, as * netoriouſly falſe, inauerring that the counte- | nance of venerable Antiquity ts the artificial colour wher- | with Hereſie doth pant - [elfe, whereas (ſaith b&) He- | reſie hath in all ages diſclatmed the Award of Antiquity. Nick. Then I am {ure,our Preacher deliuered falſe doQrine the laſt Sunday,tor hee ſpake much of Patrem habemus _Abrahamum, and I remember hee | had ſuch a word as Templum Domini, which was fre- | quent (as he ſaid) inthe mouth of the /dolatrowe and | Hypocriticall lewes. Hee ſpake ſomewhat alſo of the | * Adamians, who vouched nothing but Antiquity, | * F#ipor. ' and of the Acephali who Y pleaded the authority of | !,,. —_— | Athanaſiusand Cyril forthe paſſage of their hereſie: | 7+ gurws, ; the particulars are crept out of my {lippery braine. | Ain. Hce might further have informed you of the Heretique Dr9/corus, who inthe open Conneel/ ; did vant ofthe Pedegreeanddefcent ef his doatine, from all the ancient Fathers of the Church, = Ego | ® Concil. (hal- ' teſ/1monia habes ſanftorum petrum, Athanaſy, Gregory | —— Ic. Ego defends patrum dogmata. 1haue the witneſſe_ D 2 (faith

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(ſaith hee) of rhe holy Fathers ; 1 bom tine tathers &9-

| d{rine.” Was not Care/res an Herettq: ef? yer torſooth | hedid belceue, ® /ec: ke ex poſtrionem trecentorin

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ecem ce! otto patrim; acceraing is the expoſition of the three handred ani etchteene Fathers, It the Plea of An- tiquity WCre nor { glittering varnilh, 4n«7eas Barbatt- 7: would not hauc gone lo high to fetchthedeſeent of his Komiſh Caraimalls grounding their foundation vpon thole words of Hanneh, » Dominiſunt Cardines terre,et peſuit ſuper eos orbem.

a. Hee might have [hewen himſclfe a more $kilfull Hcrauld,and gone ncerer the ound, & ſence, had he drawne their original] from theſe wordes of

the Apoſtle © : Yosautem cxrmales eftss 4 butthele Ay- ca41an; muſt bee a day or two elder then the Moone, or cle they will hold themſeclues no Gentlemen : their holy water mult either flow from E/1zews , or cl{c it hath bura baſe current; and could they not tetch theauthority of their Monaſticke life from the ſampieof Chriſt himſc]te,they would repute it,as of d an vpſtart family. ] applaud their witte; this is not the worſt ictch togainecſteeme. Were Ia rich manit ſhould colt me an hundred < pound tiwice told, but I would hauc Satzrme or Priamm to ſtand on the zopot my:

w* #1 Nt.

' line. I wouid nor flicke to alter two or three letters

ofmy name,to make my felfe of kinne to* Pantagra- | ef. Methinks8 Macengs atanis eaite regtous 1s a ſtate-

| ly Ismbicl,itrunncs ſo full in the mouth,

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licious ſpirit) is this that hee playeth vpon the 6 let-

12. TI he beltieſt (the linely Embleme of his ma-

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| ters which fall inordcr, ' without any:choice , as'dlr | res tothe marginall notes. Hee had charged the | Knight with an-vnlearnes Letter: heereupon Sir Ed- | ward,diſcoucring divers his. Solaci/1nesand imcongrar | 2tes, (more then were namegd):rpabridge thelength of his Letier did margentthug.5/ egopnd:igne (which word hce fallly cited) ac contumelia, tu maignta qui facerestamen. This falling vader the letter, O, Rab- ſbacheb wittely tells him that,that hadreaſon tocry*,0, with whichletter it was marked. Inlike manner he deſ- cants vpon the letter, T, by which hee vnderſtands Throne.

Nick, Alas poorc man, I beſhrew my heartif I co notpitty the penury of his barren conceir. He was necre driuen, (God wot) when hee was faine to ranſacke the Wardrope ot his witte,for ſuch thred- bare ſhifts.

Min. \What thinke you of this? when the Knight tells him that hee had aſpight onely at one page, which liesin the heart of his Letter , hee inthe quaintneſle of his nimble Conceiptretorts it thus. * 7thes iw the- heart. Was not here an Ecchsfarre- ferch'd ? When the Knight ſayes,well flawne Buzzard, he conceited- ly anſweres1 7 did not marke how neere a kinne that ſ04- ring bird was to a Buzzard. For tMiles glorioſue hath beene long ſince hiſſed off the ſiagehe returnes ®-you play Miles glorioſus : lomewhat more Arte hee ſhewes in putting Cerbergs, for Gelons dogge ; For 4 good mans Dogge hath broken his ley ge over aleſſeſlule, healtering the perſon faith, * 7 feare your good cozge hath broken bis legge, And as for the XN #ddy,the Conentree Cappe,

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and the Tohacco pipe,he bandies them vp and downe, as if the Fenny/-court would affoord him 'no orher balls. Thus doth he play Tom Skwl/, reucrberating according to his R hetoricall $kill the ſame ſyllables without any variety of inuention.

CAM. Sir, It was well obſerued, Inow fe Nicks report was grounded vpon good warrant. //hmacl is a perfeRt Atomiſt, there cannot a More paſſe his fin- gers, he notes thevery ® number of the lines. Sir Edward cites a part of two verſes out of a knowne Poet,onely with alteration of one word, vizt, —//ulta eff cle- mentiz ——— perituro parcere funi. Whereupon Rab- ſpachehtells his reader,thatthe Knight makes a verſe that e exceedeth no leſſe in ſury then tn feete,

Nick. He hath nor onely a quarrell to my Maſters Poctry , but for want of better ſtuffe hee ſcannes his q w204s alſo vpon his fingers, and findes them too (hort by many feete. Yet I dare vndertake there are Oakes enough left ſtanding to beare a millon of as ſtout Scar-crowes as Rabſhacheh.

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now * poſſeſſeth the lands , which were formerly in the | f tenure of Romiſh Catheliques. Nick. Now you ſpeak of that, you put me in mind ota merry an{were which I heard my Maſter make touching that point. The Woods (quorth hee) ſtan- ding vpon holy ground, he hath little reaſon to find | fault it Igaue them primam Ton/nuram ; withall hee | concluded, that he was nota lirtleglad he had pow- \cr ſo to order them ; and the rather, for that ſuch | Dawes % Puttocks might be diſappointed for building their nelts there.

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Ma The telling of thoſe Woods (as I baue | heard) will be the railing ota more charitable work: Burot what timber are thoſe fellowesmade,, who with their goggle cycs prye into cucry mans priuate affaires-? Is thus the next way to further Purgatories | Trizmph ? but amongeſt other things, I mule how

this quarrell ; tis a wonder hce doth ſoquietly part with his prey , «nd tread ſo tenderly in that path , with ſokind areſpett.

Nick, Aſſure your ſelfe there is a pad in the ſtraw. . [tis cither for feare of ſome foule difcoucry, or for hope of his recoucry : hce finds it his beſt courſe, to | ſooth him with the acknowledgement of a * learwed an1jithy Treatiſe, andto free bin from the vices of vulgar life,.

Min. We will not diuce ſodcepein his thoughts. [ warrant the Knight lavgbes his heart ſorc at the « Black-moore wench, which 1/bmacls igucntion- hath lately landed on our Engliſhcoaſt.

Nick. Laugh! I proteſt tberecomes not a friend- to vilithim, burhee tcllshim ot the Negro, & how friendly Reb/bakeh hath promiſcd to bring him to the * houſe where ſhee is to bee * found: onely hee teares ſhee is ſome caſt wench ; and ifthe Frier her Ghoſtly Father, by whom {he was converted, hane b'owne vpon her, hee hath paſſed his word to turne herouerto Nick Groome. And (hall nor I (thinke you)be well promoted with the /aponians reverſion? But the beſt1s he coniures them all not to acquaint the Ladies by any meanes, left they ſuſpect his neglect

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Aa, Ifthe Knight ſhould make vſc of Rabſba- chehhiscurteſicin this, he ſhall hauc good cauſe ro confeſle that there is a Purgatory indeed. When he (hall meet with Plutees Neece vpon Earth , hee will giue themore credite to thoſe linging flames. , and ghaſtly Ghoſts inthe after World.

dreames moſt commonly ariſe, cithcr Ex prexis co- gitatione, lo ſaies 1/idor, Y Sepe que in die cogitamus, in note cogneſcimus ; or Ex cerebri perturbatione, and then, Mira & inaudits ſomniamms, ſecundum vaporem cellulam phantaſticam inficientem ; or elle ex ſanguinis mfettione,and then ſomniant ſe ambulare per loca ins- munda. Now perhaps 1. R. hauing anill braine, and worſe bloud, had becne reading of 1x/o#, and his | Clowde: orof Helides,or elſe the Poet Nicews, who bad both faire daughters of Negroes * or of AHlexan- der & his «/£zyptian Cleopatra, and lo having a ſpleen arthe Knight, doth with a ſtrong imagination falten the ſuppoſed crimes vpon him, as if hee had bin pec- cant in that kind.

Nick. Peccant in that kind;I heard him fay one day in the Stable, hce would giue 20, pound Rabſpache!

| bad ſaid troth, wiſhing that all rich widdowes necre London might rcad his booke : for then they won'd:

hold him fierce,and craue no other teſtimony for the approbation of his courage and virility. Ma. The like fable the 7:icaoxite coyneth to dil-

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Knights fellow * robaccean Wrighters, who(faith the Cecropidan ) with morning and enening denotions, did proftrate himelfe on the ground tothe Pittureof bis Mi- ftreſſe, with this prater ; lilumina tenebr as meas : Ligh- ten my darneſſe ſweet Lady,

Nick. O notable figment! this is invented tocry

quittance for our Ladies borrowed face, mentioned in theLetter to the Collapſed Ladbes.

Ain, As Tamatruc man, Tcannot imaginethat ſo impiousan aftcion can harborin any Proteſtant breaſt: bur I remember I mer notlong fince with a pretty Eprgram , not altogether diſſonant from this purpoſe, made vpon the credible relation ofa Gen- tleman who had trauclled forraine parts: which as ncer6as I can hit it,runncs thus.

Euthycrates, Veneris, puerique Cupidinis ond Clarus Apeliza finxerat ors manu:

Vidit vt hes LMonachu,fletFens,cece alma Maris,

Ecce puercaita virgine nate, ait ! | Eceipit hunc 1i/n Piftor non falleris, mquit Ita, Maria tuae#;Chriſtae, et ifte, tus;

Nick, 1promiſeyou this is more then an inch _ thereach of my Latin: I wouldit were Eng- iſhed. Min. Onthe ſudden Icannot render it better then thus. Enthycrates by matchleſſe Arte had drawne this toye, Lomes faireſt Queene dendling ber louely boy +

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Nick. If mydoublet had no- better buttons then 2 7obs Clements of Bruxels had , I ſhould cracke them all with laughing at this conccipt. I trow J{bwacls darkneſſc will bee ſuthciently enlightned with this more paſſable probability. Ifhee haue any ſparke of {ſhame he will not heercafter ſecke ſuch glow-worms, which ſhow themſclues inthe blackneſle of vgly vn- truth, when they are once brought to thelight of T riall,

Ae. Surcly his braineis very like the ſoyle of Africa, which (as Coſmographers ſay ) ycelds cucry Moone, a new ſupply of ſtrange Monſters, and de- formed creatures, not to be paralcld by any former przlidents. Butall this while wee haue ouerſlipped his peſitine degree. What faics he to the Knights va- lour?

Min. Tn my opinion he might well have given 0- uerthatchaſe,as having received a modeſt, ſhort ſuf- ficient, and diſcreet Þ anſwere. Yct ſaith he,* your let- ter gaue me inſt cauſe to ſuſpetI your valour. For you con- feſſe that the berror of the gun-pouger plot doth liuely re- preſent before you, euen in your dreames, and imprint in Your moſt ſerious thoughts,that farious blaſt, which your [clfe, your poor ſelf ſhould haue ſenſibly fe't. Had you trem- bled at the bloudy maſſacres of many worthy Peeres,ſuch a fit might have beſeemed « Knight; Now the onely cauſe_ of your feares and teares- was the immoderate feeling of

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your owne prinate danger ; Aud whit if your eies badtvin Pat out with nn fbould the Conmen-wealth bane loit any whit of her ſight. | Neck, It were berter the Crowes (ſhould picke our the cics of tenne thouſand ſuch 5Imurieres, whoarc not onely as fo many wetes , but truge'® Serames bie- miſhing the fight ofthe body polliticke. Thongh he think there is not ſuch a+ ab?ing i»/ice of peace gait in aconntry holding bim no wiſer chenf MET. D. ww ſo politicke ad the $ Statiſt deceaſed, yetit is welt knowne his approucd ſufficiencies neede no ſuch trumpet ro

Me. You hanenoreaſontotakeitin il part, hee ſcrues all Tuſtices of peace alike,glawncingarchemas h 990d for nothing but to waſf payer and inke in frinolous

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Me. You ſay well;he builds vpon that Adege_, Degeneres animss troy arcait which might bee calily falurd with that euthentrque Maxime , Charit as imes-

#49), cxi bonns ? Hee that is regardlefſſe of his owne ſoule,life,and tte, is no firguardizn fora Common- weale. But {ee how purblind this? exe-mater ts; when

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becne vnacquainted *{ince hee could number thrice | fine yeares of his life; tor had he but caſt his eye(O par- tiall eye) alide, hee might haue ſcene! Zacretins be- dewing his checkes with this lament, Ys dies dabit

chmaregni, So that if the queſtion be how it could | ſtand with the Knights valourto imprintthe horror of | that furions blaſt in bis moſt ſerious thoughts, he brings in Zecretig epitomizng that, which himſelf chorow the amazement ofa ſo monſtrous projet was ® vna- ble to particularize to the full: vizt. that the glorious fabrike of this auncient and famous King dome ſhould haue lyen flat on the ground. |

Min. Hins ille lachrime. T his winde no doubt | raiſed the ſtorme of the Knights paſhon, wherof that the reader might entertaine more then a generall,or curſoryapprehenlion,he giues him an hint by him- ſelfe, and hisowne fricnds, what cucry true Brittaine ſhould haue cither corporally or rclatiuely telr.

Nick, Had he made an enumeration of the wor- thyPceres, whoſe maſſacre was murtherouſly inten- | ded,then would he havecharged him(as I heare he |

nowmed , andeuer memorable ® _1rchbiſhap) with 0 baſe deuotion, fawning, flattering conceipte, fooliſh fid- ling in their praiſes,and what not ? Orelſe you ſhould | haue ſeenethemall ſummed vp, with one and the

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ſome of his owneprofeſhon who deteſt that bloudy plot more, and for higher xeſpets then-the Knight, yet it ſcems this Libeller is pone of that number:for albeit there was an-impoſſibility that Sir Edward ' ſhould have gone to thepot alone, without the com» | | pany of many noble Lords, and thereſt his worthy | | affociates thereaſſembled, he ſticks not to ſay , tht | if that pouder had blowne him wp , the Common-wealth | ſhould haue had no cauſe to bewale her loſſe. T hus doth | the Ieba! Rachil bewray his true intention in the | | q particular, which pollicy aduiſeth him to colour | 1. ** 6 on ehiteng and conccale inthe*® generall, Fon danpr? Min. Jabal Rachil | here is a new Hieroglphicke—, | ys | ſpick and ſpanne, from the mint : you haue on the | ,"p* ſonilibus odainc giuen himas fit a- name as the beſt Zzngai#? | idemet indicis. could poſſibly. haue inuented.. Theſe two wordes do import as much as Fluuius DetratZionts, a Floud of Slaunders the firſt of which hath no neerer affinity with his name,then the other with his nature, as be- | ing rerum falſarum hamaxarins, lo regardIcffe of Kiffe and Kinne, that he will be calily drawne, according ; | to the Prouerb£ (with Geed)to libell againſt his own: | r rrammwm quo. | Father and ncereſt of bloud. que gratia rara

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Men. You hauc not yer heard al he harh ro ſay,for thedegrading ofthe Knights valour , who (ſairh /«- bal) ſheweth no ſmallwamt of © nability and valowr in de- faring that the moſt ſuperlatine ſenerity might bee pratt+- | ſedlin the ſharpeſt reſearch of that viperous brood, thoſe> | merei-leſſe hell-hounds,the Prieſts and teſuites , whome— Mercy it ſelfe ſhould bee thought crael! ener to for-

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Ms. Were hee not paſtall ſhame, hee would have ſwallowed downe that morſel! with filence; The more he rubs that ſore, the more he renewes the me- mory of that T ragicall ende of Henry the foarth of | Frarce, whole princely breaſt carried to his grave the | CharaQers of their graceleſſe,and vngratetul diſloy- | alry, Their murther of Kings, their garboyles rai- ſed in free States, and their alienating the bearts of fubic&s from their obliged obedience,muſt not in a- ny hand in them bee held treaſon, butdevortion; wheras onthe contrary it1s not Courage;but Cow- ardiſe, to ſeeke by the execution of penall lawes (which are now grownrufty for want of vſe) tofree che country from ſuch t#olues,whomake themfelnes drunke with the blond of the Sarnts, playing with imperiall Globes, as Whales do with barrels, which they tolle vp and downe at their pleaſures,

Ain, Yet as if theſe things were nifles, no whit preiudiciall roa Common-weale, hecomplaineth of | want of rhe Knights Charity , * Cm any noble b oud (faith hee) harbour m that heart, tht is ſo greedy of Inv

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not finale any /inne He/ides an aucr-feruent deferets *helpe | Jou toheauen.

As. An quer-feruent delire indecede. Caleſcany plus ſatis. Racher.then faile,ifthere beany powderin 2a Country, they will ſend fiery Chariots to hoiſe vs vp intothe Clouds..

Nik. It were better in my opinion totrauct thi- ther on foot $3 hee ſhall bee ſure to loſe much lether who ſpurres Cucſo faſt:: butby his lcaucl will not hyre ſuch a blind Guideat fo deere a rate, When I come to S* Omers, Doway or Reme,he will beare mee in hand, that I hauea line further rotrauell; as be- ing in the Suburbs of Paradiſe, whereas (God wat) I ſhall haue gone fo farre out of my way, and then ltand inneed of a new helpe,to bring mee our of the Devuilts mouth.

Min, Wee (hall hearc anon-wharghoſtly direQi» ons hee will giue vs to further vs in this voyage: In

kill hee vſeth in perucrting the Knights meaning. | The Knight indeed profeſſerh. irreconcilable detc- ſtation; bur of whom? Of the Incendiaries of the Re- wiſh forge. Hee proclaimes not warre againſt the /n- weazled Ladies, and other poore ſeduced ſouls ; bis

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diſcretion hath taught him not to- bind the nocent and innocent in one- bundle. T hey are Incendiaries whom hee brandcth as worthy perpernall dereſtati- on. Et quamdis tales, as long as they deſerue that de-- nomination; I cannot ſee how. the moſt regular Che- rity dare bid them God ſpeed ; neithcr doth he mali- tiouſly deſire, but rather vpon morethen probable

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the like incouragements,and meritorious attributes, to ſuch future atrempts from the Papall Sea, b whoſe Agentsthart plot is now(in ſhew)difclaimed; y Proditiovem | though rather for the Ycontrary lucceſle, then the nr redite- | barbarous immanity thereof. iſe ſimulant Ma. 1 am verily perſwaded the moſt Chriſtian | Charity would not ſticke to profeſle cternall oppoſi- tion to that iperows brood, whole hearts barbour | | dangerous faRions, whole tongues are tip'd with malitious ſcandalls, whoſe hands are imbrued in a z Foriscants, | Sea of innocent bloud. If the great Judge haue® ſhut 4106.23-15- | thegatesof heauen againſt ſuch inueterate, and im- | penitent Murtherers, I cannot ſce how mercy can be hired by the Popes i#dulgeucestolend them a key þ for their entranccinto life. | Nick. Tempora mu:antur.1t was no cruelty of yore } | a 4s ard Mo- | to Calt a poore harmeleſle ® infant ſpringing from the HNENtS. | ſcorched womb of the mother,into the ficry flames, there to be conſumed ; but now the very ' der of | Parliament ſeucrity againſt notorious traytours, and | matchleſſe MaletaQtors, argues want of Nobility and | Yaleur: the truth is,our Tuſtices may be wel ſuſpeted | for both,as being according to /ebals account b taller ; men of their tongues,then of their hands. Did they im- | ploy their authority in ſuppreſſing them in their | particular Shircs, as well as they vſc their wits in decrecing

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decreeing againſt them inthe Parkament houſe, the y | ſhould gaihe more honour andthe Countreyreape | farre morepood.e + WITS 5 | Min, Queſupranos nivil ad nos] dare lay you long ' rill you heare how helaies abouthimi inthe defence | of Purgatory,buc his mvaning is to try you? patience: | The ſecond patt of his Apology touching eettaine | exceptions againſt himſc)te , takath'vp theremain- | der of his firſt Chapter. For the diſpatclrof theſe © ropes (ſo hee tearmes them) as it bee were challen- | ging his Copes-mateat' /#i/equanter tris, hee dorh | mcthodically diuidethis ſequele into Flier, Fiefand Lies. TY 2 | , $4. 0 8

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Ma. Sir Edward (Iremember)toabate the pride | of his ſpurtling quill in'blemiſhing the worth of 0- thermenslincs,giucs bim a ta(tof ſuch an imdecorum, woven throughout tharwork;agwovld inforce true Literazuve to bluſlvar the very firſt (igherherof, there being very few leaves whereinthe Reader ſhall nor

meet with a Cobweb,a Spider or #&lye.Yome of which hethcre paged to faye himſelfealabovrinthe diſco- | ueryofthofe many other Solaciſmras, Incomgruities, | and Jobbing Parentheſes,which any curious cye with: out the helpe'of Spetacles nig/Sratly diſcerne, Nick, And what flappe hath he gotten to free his paper from theſe magorring creatures, whoſe blow-

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Min.He doth-confeſſe,and avoid. Hetorlooth had rather viter bis minde in; a crabbed then anew rreated

| phraſe, as being © more cariows that hus aattrine be true,

then hss ſþeech/mooth; K:40d

Ag. Hee that will take vpon him to Minorize the Icarning of Authors, and to dedicate his workes vato perlons of that extraordinary note, and ſuper- latiue iudgement, mult nor onely weigh his poſiti- ons inthe ballance of the ſanfuary, that they bce conſonant tothe truth, but® polyſþ them alſo with a R hctoricall fie, that they want not thoſe comely $ ornaments which arc requilite in the Profefiors of Art. T he fabricke of T heologicall worke ought 0 bee tailed ex lepidrbus poliits. Ragged and rugged ſtones are firter for the wild Querry then tv ſtand in the beautifnl/gate, T arunne a poorelilly heartiefle Metaphor out of ®breath,argucs little variety of wit and lcfle ſolidiry of wdgement, |

Min. Will you ſee ni! play her prizc?then liften how pretily Recbilcan defend So'ac:ſmes. * Suck ſee- ming fauits (ſaith he).are by-meiciouns cenſures efleemed xot to be blemifoes , but rather ernam:nts tw the pureſt 'Vriters. The flile i chilarſþ which (til feareth the rod, not dering te depart one [illable {rom the rw's of Gram:

| ma”. ASine Conſort of ſweet w191ces, a Diſcord vow and

| hen doth make the Wnſiche mote pleafruy . fo the worthi: | eff writers hane let ſome robs paſſe in their workes, whrsh

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| rather delight then offend a Indicious Bearer. Nick, Heere is a Ladde for the nonceto hclpea |

lamedogge over a ſtile. O thow ratcly patronized & Ba birity downe on thy marrow- bones, proſtrate

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chy ſelf arthe foote of thisthy: valorous Champion bornein! Brinitenia, who hath ſtretched his hue wits | on the Tenter-hooks ro maintaine thy worth. -T is zreat pitt y that this luſt y /aventms came ſo rawirom che fer#/«; bad he continued alictle longer ar School by this time he would hauc made the //elkzs roare, . Mes. I know not how other men ſtand affeted: for my owne part, I hauc euer beld that Fidler wor- thy to bee turned cur of dooresamong theraſcall company, (chough he hauea badge on hisfleeve as broad as my hand) who (till harpes vpon one [tring, and dwells vpon onecune, be it the beft horne- pipe, chat eucr Zawcoln-ſhire aftoorded.Doth not one harth bleating voice diſgrace a whole quire? Dothnotone vnlauory hearbgiur arclilh to the whole pot ofpor- tage? A diſcord I grant may be admitted with ſome grace,bur not continued without ſome intollerable diſguſt. In a word, if one flye mar a boxe of ſweeteſt oinrment, I cannot ſce what credit this multiplicity of Spiders,Cobwebs,%; Elyrs can bring to /abals booke, Nick. | hope we (hall find better ſtufte inthe reſt , how doth he ſhake off the Fyes? they ſticke Ifeare ſo cloſe to his skin, (maugre his ® Neqpolitan perfume) tharthey will hardly oor of the bone. Min. He *® bluſters mainly that the Knight ſhold cric, Fie pon his genericall and «ceidentall Chriflming of ,relatine honour of Images, and metephoricall dnuſion

As. Is he ſo impudent as toſtand/in the defence of theſe vncouth and ridiculous fopperiesy which |

can ſhew noother pedegree but hearheniſh folly , and F 2 Idolatrous |

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[dolatros ſuperſtition to countenancethem trom ex- | ploding contempt ? | \/ ad . Mis. Astouching the firſt pratiſe he doth nor tis. 5 ll; | fay that Bells are® Chriſtned z but rhat the Blerngs/ GS: campanne | bells hath ſome genertead! fam.uude with the Chrijiming apud Durand de | of. 4 Chis, | Kii01-c4-22. | Ma, Whetheritbea ſimilitude,, oran? 7dentity Vit tantidem, | TIamnotho cunning a Logician to djitinguilh, It skils not much how they pleale totcarme it, whoare dri- ucn to their ſhifts in ſeeking ſome colourable man- tle to ſhroud it fromthe inglorious note of beatheniſe ba/lardy. Thequeſtion is,quotare, what warrant be hath for this generical] [inulitude, (which he confel- ſeth) betweene the Bleſirng of Belis,and the Chriſining of a Child. Min. Nay there he lcaucs you to your own ſcarch, [ft you can neither find Scripture, Father, nor ancient Councellto warrant this praftile, hee meanes not to be your Informer, It ſufhceth him beeing betweene Hawke and Buzzard to turnc. it oucr with a witleſle ' and vnciuill icſt, which he deuideth betweene his 01d q Pag15- | fimiliars the 4 Buzzwd and the 4/e. | Nick, Ihauc heard ſome ſay there was once much r Eraſcz4d:zg. | adocaboutthe® ſhadow of an 4ſ/e: but there becing ... © | ſtoreof that brecd at Doway, labal is now growne ſo | nice, that he will not be ſecne vpon the backe of his | olde animal, whercfore the poore wearicd Hſe is faine toride him, | 474, Tispitty they ſhould part companies; yet ; did I neyer ſce man motetrtoubled with the mare in | his {Icepe ; then, Rachilis at mid-day with the A/c,

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trolicke; yet Imuſt needes ſay it 1s but Lex talzons :

Foradmita Yenetian Panger,ſhould put on thePopes robes, his Trifle Crowne, his ſiipper, come with $, Pe- ters keyes,(it downe in the Conclane on the Chayre ap- propriated to his Holincſle : and-that he ſhould in his paſſage be ſaluted by the Vulgar as Pope ( bea- ring thoſeenſignes with which that Deity alone is dignified ) Should henot beſurero becalled Coram, and pay deare for this his genericall,and accidentall reſemblance? Will it ſerve his turne colay, Alas no | manheard mceſay that I was Paulus Quintys, bdid ' but wearc his veſtiments, and alittle counterfeit his | ſtate. | Nick. I will give him my word hee ſhall finde it | berter to play the Dexi, then ſo to immitate the | Pope. Hz. T hecaſeis of the ſame nature, The blcC ' ſing of Bells is no lefſe preſumprtuouſly accampani- cd with the ſacred rites,and ceremonies of Baptiſme, (yea with greater ſolcmnities ) then the Chriſtning | of Children: 'ſorhat the Laye people know not how

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to Ciſtinguiſhthem. Now marke ho /abal playes | | WM _ thel

Min, My maſtcrs I-am glad to ſce your wits (0 |

belides,hisreaſoning approoucs more then you ſay.

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TIO oY TP} _ eee a Der PERIL

| of whom hegroncs to bedilburdened, Faine would 1

; he haue the! Printer beare part of his luggage ;- but, * P2g-16.

[ceing it i5 now: more then a yeere and 2d2y fince:

the Lazr-ns was found as adtray ,' anderyed inmopen,

Martby Rabſbakeh, the cultome of the Mannor - cundum warm Sarum) makes it hisowne, without cut- |

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y Pag. 17.

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the Pardar,he doth notlay that ® Bellsare Chriſtned, |

onely this, The bleſſing of Bells hath ſome genericall re- ſemblance with Chrittnmg. Nether is the Venetian Pandar Pope, though habited likethe Poper Shall hc nar be ſureto haue this peale orthe like rung in his cares, by one * _Mnripho or other. Quopergu ganes? wnde emergis, veſtitum hunc nattus ? quid t:bi queris? Satin' [anus ? quid (ibt hic eſtitus querit ? T have lo charitable an opinion of Rachnl, that hisreverent rel- pe to the Primate of the R omith Seca, would make him ſay, Fye vpon ſucha Pope. Yer (ſee how blind deuotion ouer-ſwaies th'cquity of his indgement in che like) hee quarrels with the Knight tor ſaying,

Bells,

Nick, Sets hee no better gloſſe vpon his rclatiue honour of Images?

Mm. He begs the queſtion,and wondersany man ſhould be ſo* df, not to vnderftand that which c- uen children conceiue, that honour done to the Image us n0 iniury to the perſon , or that a Chriſtian will deny to Chriſt in his Imaze,what any honourable perſon may chal- lenge to his.) You (faith hee) that crye fie vpon the rela- tine hononr of our Sautour in his Croſſe , haw would you hawe ſnarled at the noble Ladies of the Primitine Church, that did licke with their religious tongues the duſt of that thrice Venerable Releque.® O gleriow cauſe, which by ſuch Epicareans is impu, ned, who worſhip Bacchus or Capid in their Chambers.

Nick. Tntheir Chambers ? Tis well he hath got: tctithe ground of Imaginary Chamber-worke, to

ſupport

Fye vpon your genericall and accidentallChritlemng of

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ſupport the glory ofhis ſaperſtirious Church-work. Aa. It would make any pious brealt bleede, ro recount thole infinite and trange pollutions, wherc- with thcir religious houſes have beene (as appeareth vpon authentique Records) monttrowlly intetted. [ hope our chambers-compared with their Monaſte- ries,are as Chappells paralcl/d withimpurc Sryes. . Nick. 5ir,itis our happinesthathe canchallenge | vs onely withthe * pitures of faire Ladies. Hadnor

There was a Berefattoy called Satisfatiory Penmance,

|untaries belides. | Me. Yer purthemallrogether; weareable to in- ſtance as many charitable © workes done in England: within theſe 62 yeares,as Ithinke were ſcene in ma- ny more before, eſpecially if you compare the pri- zes,and rates, wirh thoſe of formerand leſſepcopled | kimEs, | Avn. Letnothis taunts make vs lofe the conclu- 110n; Onr Relative loue of ſenceles piftures (which - he cauſeleſly teareth cannot parronize the Relatiue

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c Willet his c#- talogue of charitable workes.

| honourot Images, )* he [dolatroufiy prattiſeth,and | iirteratelydefendeth. For if hee challengeno more/

honour for his Images, then noble perſons ro their | pitures, (a3 he pretends) we will paſſe his ſuite, asa | motion farouring of equity: bur it is morethen c+- | thera ciuill renerence, or an hiſtorical remembrance

d Nx fas ct (brifttanum pcr ooules ſnſyenſr:m temer). ſed per 0ccupa tienen | ments. |

| tor which hee labourcth, wherein his inſtance of the

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Matron Pals will not ſuccour; him: © Shee lying pro:

.ad | flratebejare the croſſe kiſſed (as'S, Hicrome lajth ) the

| ff onc of the Sepulcher , which the Angell remooned ; yea W/ e licked tbe place where the Lord bad lyen. &H14, ThisIthinkeis notto br diſallowed: inthe

| killing of thoſe ſacredReliques, {hee gaue teſtimo-

ny ot her holy zeale, faith, and loue to/Chrilt, But cid {hee deeme them. as Inſtruments; bythe touch whereof thee expeed any cllulion, orinflucnce, of grace!

Min, labal would fainc wreſt it to his purpoſe, by mill anſlation:She did ſe. ({aith he)to he frojtrare be- ore the Croſſe, therein with al:uely fauh acoring.Ghrift ; —__ Hieromes wordes runnc thus. 7; eftrating ber ſel/e be) cre the Croſſe, ſhe did adoregasif ſhe had ſeene the Lora hangs thereon. Hitreme laith not, ſpee wed

; tolye proitrete before the croſſe y bus, that now beeing ' cometo Hieruſalem, where {hee met with,the reall

Crofle,/he proſtrated her ſelfe and how? before it , not

' 2atoit: Neither doth hee ſay that herein ſoce adored

Chriſt (there 7abs/is out) but Proſtrating her ſelfe be

| {ore the Creſjeof Chriſt, ſhe did agore ; as 1} [04 bad {eene

| the Lord hanging thereon; that is,

thee hxcdher re-

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didadore. So that this being not the Image of the Crofle, but the Croſle it ſclfe,concludes not that ho-: nor of ages, which the f Rowaniſts maintaine, who'| dodrinally aucrre, that the mage, and the pattcrne of the Image,ovght to bcc honoured with one, and the ſame honourof $ Latriz ; making the Image par- taker of Diuize wo:ſvip , (at the leaſt hs y)

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for a Coxe-rombe;

whereas Divine worſhip'is in ne part, or ſemblance, appliable toany , but ro.a Diuine Eſſence.

Ms. In my conceipt abal is defirous to picke a quarrell withthe Knight, whodorh not.condemne all relative Adoration, which'his owne Church'pra- | iſeth in the receiving of the Communion, where we doe divinely remember,and adore Chriſt, as dying vpon the Croſle, that being vnto vsa ſacred remem- brance of his death, vntill his comming :'but helay- | eth the Fye vpon that Relatiuc honour, whereinthe dumbe creature, is made morethen a dex-204), and honoured with Yowes and Supplications, as it one and the ſame Saint could be preſent in all places , where his pitures arc worſhipped , to-takenoticeofrhoſe particular homages, which whileſthe was liuing vp- on the earth, he would neuer have permitted to be done to his owne perſon: Thele' Praters and Offe- rings , neither "did Paris praftife; neither had the Knight reaſon'toallow, Beſides; we mult beg leaue to put a difference betweene an hiforice/lrelation,and | a determinatine poſition, th'one being de fatto, the o- ther de wre, | |

Ain, T otake 14balinhis right ſence, (I mean his .,1 ts | Antemeridian,) | would faine know whether the Pa- | chra, ed eosin

| bus colimus | « £ , ns e4as that worſhipped the Images of the heather Gods | dedicatio rt

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did not worſhip them by a Þ rclatine adoration. | Gere. Har ts. CAz.' Nay vnder your correQion,Þ bave reade in | !9 4 Pagans

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ceremonious,did viterly diſallow, that the glorious {catureof the immortali Gods, ſhould bee counter.

fcited by any mortall ſhapes. Yca I haue hcard a

good Divineallcage S.k 1ugaſtimecauthority , that

theancient Romanes for 175. yeares did worlhippe

their Gods without any Image.

Min, 1 graunt there was atime, when Images werenotatall, at leaft not ſo vniuerſall; they that were the firſt founders of them, | Cinitatibus ſuis me- tum dempſerunt., et errorem addiderunt: which made thoſe ot the deepeſt reach politiuely forbid them, Ne Deorum maieſlas ſimulachrorum ſtoliditate contemme- | rentur : leaſt the maiefly of the Gods might grow into con- tempt,through the fooliſhinuentions, and baſe met- tall, or matter, wherein they were repreſented ; But I ſpeake of thoſe nations,and thoſe times, wherein I- mages were in moſt requeſt.

Nick. EitherTI heard a lye, orclſe there was a Phj- lo/epher,who hauing in his houſe a wooden Image of Hercules,did ſo highly eſteeme it, that when hering grew very ſcarce, hee firſt cleft it, and then laideit a- long vnder the pot, ſaying; ® Now Hercules thy labors ſhall amount to a full Bakers dozen : thy thirteenth labour ſhall bee to ſeeth a Calfes head for my dinner. T his was the relatiue honour, wherewith hee honoured his Idol.

Ma. I can tel] youas prettya Tale asthat : there have not beene yet three moones, ſince adainty col- lapſed creature, ſold a very faire Crucifixe to buy her ſelfe a Fanne;and being reproued by adouble-chind

Maſtix, her beſt anſwer was this : that ſhee mcantto

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haue anotherengrauen vpon the handle, (ip ſtead of her Armecs) which (hould ſtill bein her ſight.

Min, I will not fay ſhee made amore vſetull cx- change;for ſuch pitures may well ſerueas hiſtoricall monuments,by way of reprclentation. Buttheir ad- mired ® Gregory abſolurcly excludes them from all manner of worſhip,and adoration. Adorare Imagimes omnibus modys deuits. 1n any caſe ( laith hc) bewere- thow worſhip net Images, * S. Hierame (if Poligdare may be credited) aflignes the reaſon, 0b metum Japlolairie, for feare of Idolatry, which by this meanes bath ſpred it ſelfe too farre among the ruder ſort,

Ma. Then ] perceive the diſtinRion ab relative, and improper honowr,is hatched onely for ancualion, leaſt they ſeem to oppugne Antiquity, by their ido- latrous practiſe.

Min. The ghoſtly Fathers, the Prieſts, have long fate vponit, bur yet it isnot fledge,P Belarmine mars all ch2t they baue made z heallowes more then rela- | tive honour. /magines Chriith, et SeniForum , (faith he) venerande ſunt,non ſolum per acciaens,get improprie, | [ed eticmper ſe, c proprie &c. now ſolum vt vicem ge- runt exemp'aris. The Imagesof Chriſt, and of his Sunts are to be worſhipped, not onely accidentaly and improper- | ly, but imply and properly : that is, not onely as they are. | reſemblances of the Prototype,but a4 they are conſidered in | themſelues. On the contrary, 4 Origen holds it no | better thcn a foolihand adultcrous Prophanation,

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| q Xon tantnm

ſe quis preces ſt- mulacbr;s offe- rat ,vernmuetia cum 1d aliqais ſimulat, Aduerſ. Celſum.lib. 7. vt Caſſandey con- ſult. Art.2, fag. I53-

QLudte ad fal- ſas imagines m- elina:? Dnid ad mepta ſimu'a- chya corpus in enruas & fc,

Is ſapernis De-

, cucnoutwardly to ſcem to worſhip an Image. How

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| Mz. Idonotfinde that the Cherubims (having a

| divineand ſpeciall inſtitution )were cucr applied b | the Iewcs vnto holy worſhip z whertfore there is lefſe | colour for this relatiue honour of Images, whoſe e-

| retion is arb:trary, wholc forme hath little orno cer-

| tainty, whoſe * makers are perſons contemptible,and |

| of {mall regard.

; _ Min, Now you ſpeake of the forme of theſe Ima-

gcs, you put mce in minde of the confeſſion of their

owne Stepu/cn/is, who in his booke De vna-ex tribus

eMaria, writes thus : Fateor equraem libere, picture 4-

lIrquot cane Domini mihi diſplicuere, et etiam eaque, niſi

| memoria me fallit, viſitur Medwolant 7c. Idotindeede_ freely confe(ſr,that Thaue beene ſometimes ſcarce pleaſed

with certaine pictures of our Lords Supper ,cuen with that

which, if Tbe not miſtaken, is yet to bee ſcene in acertaine

Monaſtery at Mediolanum ; not that 1 diſliked the Pain-

ters Skill, which was very rare,but becauſe he kept no good

| decorum: Quandoquidem Tohannem mags puellam refe-

| rentem,quam Virum,et quam Apoſtolum ai Chriſti latus

| collecauit. Forſooth hee placed lohn by Chrifts ſide, more

| like a maide, then a man,or ar Apoſtle.

Xtk, Wehaucthe like piture in our Parlourat

: the Black Friers, but I warrant I ſhould haue looked

; vpon it till doomesday, bctore I ſhould have noted thatQuirke. I promiſe you Faber ſhewes himſelte a right honeſt man, to let them ſce their owne /ncon-

| 2ruous abſurdity.

Os. Inmyopinion /aba/{hould haue done wel

' to haue ſpecified the extenſiue, and intenliue de-

| grees ofthisrelatiue honour; tor I haue beene m_

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' med by ſundry travellers, landed in this Port, thar | ' one and the fame Saint hath not alwaics oncand the | ' ame degree of honour, beeing more or lefle rel- | | pected, with concourſe, offerings, andadorations,|. , _ according tothe! trimneſſe of the torme, richneſle | [anzurcs que of the marter,or the celebrity ofthe place, wherein | pretiopucs. | the latuc is ereted. | | Nick. This is right like one of our neighbours | * | Girles: if the Baby hauc not the holliday- partlet, all | the fatisinthe fire,thcisin thepowr,all a mort. | Min. Such is the ſimplicity of ignorant people, | they are carried away by thele impoſtors with our. | ward ſhewes: which made the poore Clarke in Saint | | Ozers ſecretly toremooue the piftureof the bleſſed | | Virgin, from an obſcure lſeate, intoa moreconſpi- | | cuous place ofthe Church ; making as if the piure | had in diſcontent of the former neglet,remooued it | (cle toa Site fitter foradoration, He law there was | ; no other feate but this,toimproouc his vailes, ' Cla, Andhad not Cdwarice whilpered in Rachi.s | care, his pen would not haue beene halfe ſo violent | | inthe defence of this heatheniſh,and rcelatiuc honor, | wherein hee ſhewes himſelfe no leſſe ſenceleſſe then | ; the braine-lcſſe piures, for which heeis byred to | picad, ' Ain. Wcllatlength wee are arriued at Puddle | wharfe, I meaneat the lalt Fye. In this ſqueamiſh weine | (faith he) you caſt 4 Fye pon my [ajing , that by Meta- | * Piniſomim-

| phor Goa may be ſaid to hin * denided bis kingdom with |\,. 0. ta,

, the Virgin: What if 1had [41d God had ginen her his whole |

| Kin 2 dome, his Throne, Scepter ; that Chriſl in perſon did | 3 wait

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| wart 03 her, ſitting at the table of glory 3 how would your | | Carre haue beene maide at theſe Metaphors?

| MANick, My Maſter thought hee had to doe with a

| Divine, but I percceiue he hath mer witha bangling

| Sophiſler. | u Pag-112. Ma. It ſeemes Jaball hath not yer put his * noſe in- | to the ſweet cup of Gods zlory,who hath ſo dull a ſent in winding heaucn]y things. | Min. His argument is drawne « minoread mais, and carries this ſence. Itall the fairhfull ſeruantsof

| God {hall bee partakers of this ſo great honour,

then much more that glorious creature, who hatha

as! preheminenceabouerhem all. Bur Chriſt hath pro- Piſpono v0b3 | Miſed the ſoriery of the faithful not onely to* appoint ſent &4. | unto them akingdom,as his Father had appointed to him: gh | but alſo to make them ſit * downe at Table, to come forth

' to mintiter vnto them. Therefore the Virgin may be

| aide to haue his whole Kingdome, Scepter and

| Throne.

| Mz. Iſthis colleftion bac good, cuery Chriſtian | y Plalt49.v9. | ſhall haue thelike Soucraignty: for this Charter, as | poop farreas ] perceiue, runnes with 4 7064. Y Such honor | ſicvite gloria. | hane all his Saints. The * table which our Saviour Gere#d .;, | mentionethis an Emblem of that reſt , and ſatiety etcruitats crins | OF ioyes wherewith we ſhall at his comming bee all i= ciruitzert- | repleniſhed. His ſerving vs is not mini/terinm 05e- IG quf,to bee taken as an at of humility : but rather a Li in tera | miniſterium ſuſfragy , ſeu beneficy , as an att of his fa- | /urautor 5% |therly bounty, in *crowning vs with more high ad- i'm m clo cf} keg ditributor pre- | nancement, then if the pooreſt vaſſall vpon earth, pp {horld haue the greateſt Monarch to waite at his

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| quality, but of likeneſſe , eirherinthe order, orinthe participation, of ſo much of hisglory, as fhall ſuf- tice for their perfe@ happineſle.

Min. 1abal makes no queſtion ofthisz he is not ig- norant, that where it is ſaid,he (hall /er /heÞ Grepe on his right hand, weare to vnderſtand the perticipation not © an equali?y ; much lefle any priority of hisglo-

ry. He acknowledgerhrtheſe to be® Metaphors, wher- with God doth vſeto exaggerate the happy cſtarc of meaner Saints then his Mother : neither hath hee a- ny other meaning by this Metaphoricall divifionof theKingdome,betweene God andthe Virgin, but that® ſhe 4» in greateſt fanor with God: ſo potent in her interceſſion that ſhe deltnereth from dangers,and beftow- eth fauors, and graces on whom = pleaſeth;zs one who by fanour and friendſhip doth both ower-rule the Court of is- tice, topping ſuch proceſſes agarnſt vs, as our ſinnes doe deſerue,andrule the Conrt of mercy, being able by her in- terceflon to obtaine for vs in that Court, whatſoeuer wee do either need,or can reaſonably deſire.

Nick, I have heard the ſchollars of Oxford talke much of a non ſequitsr; were there any ofthem heere he wonld put leba/to prooue this inference. The bleſ-

| trencher. Neither doe I take Sicut to bee anote ofe- |

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| | b Mat.25. 33.

c Nulla compae ratio inter Crea- tiras et Deum cadit, quia finiti | ad infinitis nulla eſt Propertis. Petirus Jerem, + d Pag.19.

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{ed Virgints in great fanour with God, therefore ſhee ts Qucene Regent in the Conrt of heauen : * ergo to bee inuo-| cated, ergo tobe adored. |

Mime Indeed thisplea could not free thes Colh- | rydians from the blur of Epiphanixs his pen, by which they arc branded with the infamous note of hererical

1delitry : and not without iuſt cauſe, for albeit the Saints

f Gloriam mil alters non dabo. Iſa 42.v.8.

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| cannot beconucighed to theperſon of any creature:

| Saints are inveſted in the glory of immortality, yet

doth the Lord reſcrue the glory of his divinity as proper to himſclfe,whereot heis ſo icalous, that hee can inno hand endure ſuch Zuciferies ſpirits as ſhall aitempttoÞ rob him of any of his peculiar claymes: as Yowes, Prayers, Sacrifice, and the like religious ho- mages. He it is ar ſerene the hearts , andthe_- reines , whoſe mercy us aboue all his workes. It is honour cnough for the bleſſed Virgin to behold the face of her Sauiour, tohauc a prime manſion in that ſpati- ous houſe, tocry Aleluiah betore the throne: but to erc a Court of ſpeciall i appeale, to ſummon ſu- rors to proſtrate themſclucs beforc her throne, is morethencither A/titit regina 4 dextris, or ir, 4 vobss regnum, dare probably auouch. Such politiue | conciutions built ypon Mectaphoricall grounds, doe ; proue little better then fallacies,a ditto ſecundum quid, | ad dictum ſimpliciter.

CH, You lay right. For Chriſts ſoueraigne pow- | | croucr the whole world is incommunicable, and

but the fruit and benefit of this power cuery one that isin Chriſt reapeth inhis ſaluatio:being exalted thereby, to (it in the heauenly places,as a partaker of Chriſtsglory z R having power from thence,cuen in

his owne perſon, to triumph over Sinnc, Death, and

| Hell, and ro breake them in peeces as the! Veſſels of |

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a potter. This is the royaity there intended : if Jabal ſer this ſiring any higher, it will breake, and flye in his facc,

Min. "The ſtretching of thoſe Metaphors to _y_ their

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owne ſence occaſioned ® Po;y4ores complaint. Bene | m. De inuent.l, multi rudiores ( (aith hee) imaginibus magus frdunt, | __ quam Chriito, Very many jimple jolke repoje more c0n- | fidence w Images, then im Chriſt. And that of ® ves, | oy pg 4 AlultiChriſtiant in re bonaplerumque peccant,quod Di- | TOO | u0s Dinaſque nonaliter venerantur , quam Deum. Meny | worſhip the Saints with the ſyme honour , which is au vntoGod. Had it not bcene for theſe ſuperſtitious, and vn boundcd Encomieſtiques, and metaphoricall doxolog yes, this Idolatryhad nottound the way into the Church dore: but when the people were taught that God had giucn the Virgin the better halfe of his Kingdome, (which they vaderſtood to be a ſubordi- | nate Turiſdiion) then you muſt thinke they ſparcd no coſtather $hryne: then werethcy as willing to | o Altarisfu- ſet our the pifturelike a Golay-locks, with Rebatoes, | red Sattin Petticotes,and looſe Gownes,as they were to | roapg vp her child, with a Yeluct Cappe and. Fea- | ther. Ag. This bomage ſcemes to have ſome coun- | tenance, from the acknowledgement of the fonre and twenty E/ders,who ſpeak ? thus vnto the Lamb, | Thou haſt made vs vnto our God, Kings and Priejts, and ' we ſhallraigne vpon the earth; by which they intimate akind of Regall Turiſdition, ouet thoſe that breath vponthis terreſtriall Globe\, which ifit beegranted, | there can nocoſt be thought too much, either in the ; honour of her ſtatue,orthe putchaſeof her favour; ; who byalllikelihood, is of higheſt cſteeme in the | Court of heaven, | PR" | Min, 1abal hath this 4 text by theend, but (God | };... 6. © H wot} |

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| wot) 1ttwiliiiand himinitttle iced: torthole foure and ewenty Elders, Gonot repreſent the ſtate of the | Saints in heaucn, but ofthe® Church miltantvpon | earth, Richardus ae Santo Vith, expounds the harpes in their hands, to bce thegood works of the Saints, | whole ſweet barmony and dclightfull ſound draw-

remplation and liking of heauenly things : their or- dinary G!oſſe vnderſtands by them the mortification of the fleſh. Their /g#atian ! Yiegas takes thele harps to ſignifi the commemoration of Divine prayſes , which (faith he) the foure and twenty Elzers doe (et | torth two maner of waies, 1z.m20rtificatione paſgori, | > dinint verbipredicatione: by the mortification of their | paſons,cs the preaching of the dinine wordboth which | aionsarc to be performed by the living, & no way appliable to the departed, who fcele neither the re- lufation ofthe fleſh, nor the 5 defe of knowledge. | As for the golden 74alk ſullof edours, hee vnderſtands by them 7he hearts of the Saints, ſhining and glittering with Charity, wherewith they are ſo ® repleniſhed , that they pray not only for their frieuds, but alſo for their ene- mics (which duty our Sauiourimpoſcth vpon his1i- | ving Diſciples) who are ſubie& to the Croſſe, from which thoſe which arcdeccaſcd arc tree.

but how are thoſe Elders then ſaid to bee betore the Lambe,to be about the T hrone, and torcigne vpon the carth, ſceing thechildren of God are heere * /e

| poſits, depo/iti,wanting the glorious * light of Gods viſion and the prehemincnce of the worlds graceful | Y eftimation?

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Arm. T he Lord who hath promiſed not to leauc | vs, butto be with vs vato the end of the world,is dai- | ly relident in themiddeſt of bis ſanftuary ; where | wee cnioy the ſwecte comforts of his preſence, as | ſenlibly as if he were viſible amongeſt vs, Wee offer | vnto him from the Vialls of our hcartsthe ſweet 0- dours,and pleaſing incenſe of our harty prayers:by

vertue alſo of his ſpirit wee are enabJedro ouercome | theZ concupiſcence of the flz{h, and all carnall de- fires, T hus doe wee not onely performe the ofhces \ of our ſpirituall Prieſt-hood, but allo bythe lawe of

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| theroyall przrogatiue there ſpecihed,

| Nick, Thenl ce /abals Relative honour of Ima-

{ ges,and his figuratiuediuilion of Gods kingdome to

| the Virgin, had ncede beſpeake a new patre of Stilts,

| his old Crutches will not carry him out of the reach ofchat Fye,by which he is juſtly attached for nolcſſc

| then petty-treaſon, in adulterating the generall, and |

| genuine ſence of holy Writte. T he Paper bee bach

| ſpent in this petrilh veyne, would have made cxce]-

| lent prouender forb Dunne.

| Min. Y ct will hee make you ſtoppe yournoſe a

' little longer. He preſents vs further with a Polye of |

| ſuch ranke flowers, as arc able to poyſon a quicke |

ſent : We muſt befaine to trace him one round more |

| 2bout this Dune-bill of vnſavory Fjes, which noy- |

| ſome Weedes he binderh vp, as if they were ſo ma- | | ty ſweet Violets, or wholſom hony-luckles.

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| . <td : _ | Teſs Chriſti vecart wvoluiſtt, ſed Ut accet lex dining, tu

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Min. © Tewth:nke (quoth he) you haue brought mee to abaye, when you force me to confeſſe that our Church | Hymns are figuratine Poems : but arenot the Pſalmes of Dauid the chiefeſt Hymnes of God his Church? and are not | theſe Po:ms fullsf fr, uratine ſpeeches ? hy then may not | a Theological inuocation bee vitered in a fuguratine_ ſpeech ?

Nik. My Maſter hath beenc a peece ofa Poct in his daics, therefore I cannot thinke hee would de- barre thatcommendable Science from her moſt lau- dablevſc.

Ain, T hat which the Knight diſtaſtcd was this: whereas Rabſhacheh could not bce ignorant of the cencrall poſition, and praQiſe of his fellow Cacol:- ques, in adoring, and inuocating the Virgin Mary

ſerorum, Vera Mater Orphanoram , Tu leuamen op- preſſorum, medicamen infirmorum, omnibus es omnia ; And againe, Gwde Matrona celica &c. Tu ancilla

rÞ/ins es © Domina, nam ths habet et ratio matrem pre- eſſe filio ec. Hee notwithſtanding plaies the cow- ard, and lcaucs Sedulizs in the lurch, who doth deſcant vppon the fame playne-fong ; anſwering the exceptions taken againſt his * Scyibaniwe for the like blaſphemics , with this colourable evaſi- on. Such isthe notorious folly of your Preacher $(aith hee, that hee gathereth a Goſpell out of a Poemt, and that not written h1#torually , or dottrinally, but in pa- thetic! verſe, fullof Metaphors, Metonomies , _Apo- ſirophs, Proſopopeis, and other as well rhethericall

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figures,as Poeticall flowers, which to take inaproper and | of rigorous ſence,ts folly,to urge them as points & articles | faith, is ſach a ſolemne ſoolery, that it may ſeeme the next ',, Wy degree ko maaneſſe. ® Hee ſhould know the difference be- | pag.qo, | twixt an Enanzeliſt, anda Poet, a Goſpelland a Poems,

| riad traeth, and figuratine ſpeech , Articles of Faith,

' and poeticall /ancies.

Ma. Is not this to [hift off their /do/atrows eppeales, | ; oy, their mental, and | imaginary petitions tothe Pocts | pag 44- pen? Doth hee nor plainely proclaime their Church | ; 11;4, Hymnes to be * fizuratine porms, and poeticall fancies? | Thus for all the world did his Grandfire Harding |

play his prize, /aying it was not blaſphemy, but ſptrituall | dalltamce, to bid the Virgin command her Sonne, and to | ſbew her ſelfe ta be a mother.

Nick, Calls hee this daliance? there is no ieſting with edge-tooles: their !graue, learned, and venera- | 1 $0 he Riteth ble Fathers I fee are merrie men, to dally with the | the Author of Oueene of Heauen, as children with puppets,to whom | ©'*Poeme- they ſpeake in as ſober ſadneffe, as ifthey did vader- [tand what goſhipping meant.

Un. Thendoth Is a daunce after bis pipe. The verſes which Maſter Craſhawe taxed for too much ſaucincfle were thele.

| m- Say to thy mother ſeeing brothers thirſt, | m Ouerth, | Mother your milke would eaſe bim at the firſt. | 29838

This ſpeech, faich Tazar, i imagined to ſhew the great familiaritie,be'wixt Chri/t,and hu bleſſed Mother,

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(metapborically termed milke ) that flow into thes oule, by the denout contemp/ation of her bleſſed breaſts;n hich com- forts are not grantea,but to whom ſhe cath ſingularly [a- uenr, nor ginen without ber conſent.

Nick, Nimiafamiliaritas parit centemptum :this cx- poſition is farre {etci'd, deare bought, and fit for his Ladies tooth,

Min, Indeed he ® confeſ/eth that herein the recreation

of ſome Catholiques 12s eſpeci aly intenged : as if any true Chriſlian heart could take any comtlort, to ſec Chriſt ſoGegraded, asto becomea ſuppliant ro his Mother: lodebarred that heecannor grant ſpirt- tuall comforts, but by her conſent.

Nick. Hceplaiesthe Tinker vpand downe : hee ſtops onc hoic, and makes two.

Ma. Itisan old ſaying, Iniquum petas vf aquum fe- 7:5: Becauſe he would have no queſtion made, but tharthc //irgim may be lollicited to be a mediator to her ſonne, he takes it for granted, that in contemplats- | on Chriſt may be imagined to ſuc vnto her asif rel:-

| gious meditation had no better p ground, then impoſh-

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ble and vnwarranted ſuppoſition. Ain, What doc youtalkeof contemplation ? For

| that he puts P Rreerree and Puentesto ſchoole : Will

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you hcarc his poſitions? hen one doth meaitate(ſaith

hee) on the Virgins 4 breaſtes as ſhee is Gods mother,

the obiet is ecutl to the obrett we thinke of in the wonnt's and bloud of c 'hriſl, And why? Becanſeinthe breaſts

of the Virgit, as ſkee is Gods mother, we muſt needes con-

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template awd behoid Chrift in ker Pirgizall armes. Nay more, For a manto ri vnetoChriſls bloud, which was

fred!

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ſhed toclewſe ſinners, is a token that he doth acknowledze | himſelſe a ſinner , and a needie ſuppliant: but to*approach | * —_ the Virgins bre:fls, which were not filled with milke, but | £24 only to nurſe the Sonne of Go, and comfort th eſpceiall | denoted to Chriſls bleſſedchild-hood,might ſeeme to ſauor | | of pride, and arrogance. | a. T he very relation of theſe vncouth phraſes, | isa ſufficient confutaiion, His diuinitic meethinkes | ſpeakes a ſtrange language: The © obied? of the Pir- | FE, £ins breaſts is equallto the obiedt of Chriſts wounds; To | he,may be rai- runne to Chriſts bloud is humilitie , to approach the Vir- | pat yore ins breaſls arroganciez thele are new Poſitions, ney- | 8 Dn ther have they beene long acquainted, for th'one is | pa.47- at daggers drawing with th'other. Ifthe obiets bee cqua!}, they cannot but admit like acceſſetoareli- gious minde. Bur is there no difference betweene | that which is an obicft terminative per ſe, asthe|, .. ,. 't waundsof Chriſt, and that which is an obicRrgle- | pum couifxrm | tiveper ascidens, as the Virgins brealts ? Is the # con- | 1 Finu cormat ſummation, or the Initiation of more eſtecme? Quod | ef ficit tale mags eff tale, It there were any ſuch ima- ginarie vertuc as /abal ſuppoſeth in the Virgins breaſts, whence did it procced, but from thechildof her wombe,for whom alone (hee [aith) it was prepared? It for him alone,then arc they like to find her a drie | Nurſeand togeta ſimple ſope; that come ſolong at ter the weaning. I would gladly bee informed what Scriptureswe haue to draw vs to this obicet, | Nick. 1bal willnot bee found in his Chamberat | * Cacopolis,when he [hould bringin bis authoritie;Je | 738-'97: mult be faineto ſtaic vpon the firſ# * operation of- his | P2E-44 owre

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| one vnderſianumg. His ſhe-pupilis muſt app? ehenat,

| | | | ſtand, !Wirether hee ſhauld more admire his Sautoar blee-

' without Y in "ging it to be ſo a5 they apprehend.

Ain, He would faine countenance this his ima- | 8inarie Ercame, withan inſtanceof * Saint Auftens | devotion, who brake out into theſe words : I» meats | poſirms, quo me vertam neſcio : Hine paſeor a vulnere: \ Hinclacto; ab vbere; wacrethat holy Father was ata

| ding on the Croſſe, or ſnthing of his mothers * breaſts.S0 comfortable, and mcritorious was his ineffable hu- | nulitic inth'one, and his matchlcfſe Charitic inth'o- | ther, that hee ſpeaketh Metonymically (naming the

| breaſts for him that ſuck'd the breaſts)it is to bee at-

| tributed to the like roneand cadence, which his ſen.

| rences doc ordinarily affe& : for on the ſudden I can not cal} to mind where hedireAs vs to repairc to the Virgins breaſts for ſpiritu1]l comforts.

Ma. Itit ſavour of pride and arrogancie to ap- proach vnto them, we will be content toJeave them rothe pontificiall ſoaring ſpirits : our humilitic ſhall | content it ſelfe to know Chriſt and him crucified, Had | notthe bleſſed Virgin her ſelfe fed vpon this obic, the milke of her breaſtes would not have ſlakedthe thirſt of her ſoule:

Nick. Had I beene at his clbow, I could have hel. | ped him ro a merrie Fable, which I once heard rela- | ted 6ut of Friar ® Jeremie. T hat there was a certaine | man, who cuery day deuoutly falured the Virgin | with an Ae Morie, dying notwithſtanding in mor- | tall ſin afterwards: And when, (I tremble to ſpeake) \ | rhe Deuils would haue ſeized vpon his ſovle, the | An-

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Angels, (O com forta ble meſſage) bad them Naic,cill

| ſencence were giuen by Chriſt. Then were all his

| innes put in one Scale, (marry hee told mec not by whom the Ballance was held ) and the © ave ' Maries in the other : vpon which the Bleſſed Firgin no ſooner laid her helping hand, butir ouer weyed

further pennance. Here had bin a proofe for 1abe/, beyond D. la. ſol.

Ain, Vnleſſe we were ſure ofaday,aslong 4as Alc- menaes night, we muſt make more haſt. Jabe/ hath with a pretie ſlight drawne vs intoa Labyrinth : for whereas the Counter ſnarle branded his Pocts penne, with reference to his Onerthrow pag. 37:he cunningly feechotha © circuit, and meets him pag. 164. and takes that which was quoted of Sequim the Poct, to be meant of Bernardinus the Preacher. :

Nick, Rechil knowes how to turne the Cat inthe panne , toling two partesin one, as well asthe bel Chaunter in the Popes Quire: whereforethat we may at laſt rake our tunc inaright Key, let vs beare what he hath to juſtice Sedalixs bis figurative inuocation of the f Croſſe; What canit ſay for it ſelfe,why it ſhould paſſe without a fye? | Mi. He hath gottena proecQion from the praRile ofthe Prophet $-1/ay4h,who by the like figure, [pea- keth tothe heauens and clouds, to ſend downe the | Sauiour of Mankind. 0 youheauens, (faith hc) poure

downe your dew, and let the claudes raine downe the $4- wour: T his praior(ſaith zbal Jis ment ynto God that I ruleth

the firſt by many ounces. And ſothe Virgin obtai- | ned that hee might bereltorcd to life againe, todoe

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longior,Plaur.

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um inſidendo ad my alem v|- que peraenit, Claud., Tauri ncn

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ruleth in-che Heavens, and the,Cloudes;though ſee- | ingly direfted tothevery Heauens and Cloudes, Neck, He might haue learned from the Counter-

/zarle to haue diltinguithed betweene an byperbols-

call exaggeralion and a ſaperſittions otſearation. Y et doth he-come over my Malter witha why not, ſay- |

| ing, iy may nota T beologicall Inwocation be vitered in

| 4 force ſpeech?

Ah, Firit let him proouc Innocation to bee duc to the b Crojje, and then will wee not land with-bim forthe figure. Figures areto bee vicd as ornaments of the truth, not as ſhelters of faiſhood, Did 1/aiah fall downeto the Clouges,and worlhip them,as they the Croſſe? Did he ſay AU hatle O Clonaes, as they , eAl haile O Croſſe, increaſe Inſtice and Righteouſneſſe in god- ly men,and grant parden tothe guiltie..1t not,then quor- ſum hee? as iuſt as Germans lippes, ninc milea ſun- der.

Min. His Serapbical/ Door Thomas * Aquinas made no luch colle&tion out of that text of JZjazah: his words are theſe, fic deſeribzt natiuititem Cyri ſub

' Metaphora frac us arboris gd cur generations ”=requir te |

| tur humor terre & p/nuta, & ros deexlo. Here he deſcrt-

beth the birth of Cyrus, b y the metaphor of the fruit of a |

, t-ee,, to the ripening whereof there muſt concurre, the moilnerof the earth, the dew of heazcn, T hetruth is, ler him take the words in what ſence he will, eyther | lite rally of Cyrus, or according ro Saint Hierome, Ti-

k Non font v9- | 1:22 of Chriſt,the context makes it cuident, thatthe

Propher ſpeakesnot in his owne perſonas a k ſup-

pliant,but inthe petfon of God, whoſeimperatiue | man.

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mundames , for the comfort of all true Iſraelites, hee

there Prophetically recordeth. | Ma, Ifthis bee his beſt colour, alittle ſhoure wil | walhit of; Wedoenor find thatthe Prophet praicd vntothe Angels, wheretore itisnot probable, hee would cyther worlhip or dirc.religious petitions tothe ſenceleſſe Cloudes, Indeed hee !' ellewhere cals vpon the Heawens, and the Earthtoheare ; bur with what intent? only to vpbraid the flupidicic of the graceleſſe people , who Ropped theireares like the death Adder; © Jnuvcatur Creature ( faith Tho. mas ) ut arbiter trangreſtons in indicium, que fuit teitis obligation 4d pr aceptum. Nick. Ifthis be his doughtic argument it islike to proue but a woodden Croſſe. lebd mult caſt a bet- ter figure, if hemeane torayle any fpirituall adora- tion thereunto,- To put no diftcrence. betweene ſpeaking to the cloudes, and praying to the Croſ/e_ argues a dull Dowsft indeed. But are wenot yer paſt his odoriferous Fyes? | verily thinke Auger did not put Hercules to more drudgeric in emptying his ſta- ble, then he hath done vs, in turnipg ouerthis vnſa- vourietralh,

Min, Y.es, he now bringeth in his Compurgators to free him from th'imputation of thoſe ſlanderous | Lyes, wherewith heis iuſtly charged.

44. They muſt be of his owne ranke or elſc he muſt giue vs leaue to put them by.

Nick. Then muſt weeexpeta goodly Fraterni- tic, rather then file bee will foiftina. ® Knight of the Poſtto backe kis falſe Aſlertions, or elſe ſome of | I 2 | thoſe

IIfayc.r.y.z. K&AuT2 ruy

a Nas oy a0 £Leus UBpJ%y,

m Super I[ayam. Cap.45.

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thoſe Fryers, whole portraiture Stephen Gardiner de- lincatethin this forme, The Dewi © quoth he, 7, hineman iale, and voidof good workes,procured out Par- dons from Rome, wherein Heauen was ſold for alittle— monte: And for to retaile that Merchandize he vſed Fri- ers for his Miniſters. Now they be gone, with all their trumpery, both the Merchandize is abhorred, and the- | Miniſters alſo;iVe cannot away with the Fryers,ne can 4- bid: the name, Sothar wee have reaſon to except a- | gainſt theſe,

Min, T perſwade my felfe he will hardly find any ſo brazen-taced,as to auerre that /»P England Mint-

| ſters ſometimes preſume to giue Baptiſme in the inice of

hearbes,or flowers, asin Roſe water, which Jabal ſcan- dalouſly profeficth, that he hath credibly heard. Ma. Maliceit ſc|fcannotbe fo purblind,as not to

diſcerne in what Limbeck this water was diſtilled, | which hath ſo ſtrong arcliſh of a Cretian braine, If this bce not a Zye in Folio, wee muſt confeſſe, there can nothing but trueth droppe from a Shaxelings penne. |

Nick, The fume of the holy water, wherewith he beſprinckled his Zadies, was in his noſe, when hee breathed out this notorious fition. Yet of the twaine, Thadrather bedip'd oucr head and cares in Roſewatergthen hauc ſuch agoatith Gergoniry to ſpit inmy mouth.

Min, Thereis noremedie but his imaginarie ſup. poſals muſt paſſeas currant Oracles. Tfthe Pope can- not crre, you muſt thinke a Prieſt cannot lie. It hee | raxe our Miniſters as being 4 skilfallin taking of par- |

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hisleaden Legends, with their credulous aſſent, Cz. Hee would nor bee ſo bulic in blaſting our Miniſters, aid he remember the letter, which a Fry- cr brought from hell co ccrtaine Prieſts of his owne Order ; therenor whereof was this. Principes tene- brarum, Principibus Eccleſiarum Salutem, Gratias vo- bis referimus, quis quot vobis commiſi, tot ſunt mobis

mſi.

itvpon record, wherefore Jabal hath reaſon to be- lecue it ; butT feare the poore Fryer is like to haue but a\{imple fee for his paines.

Nick. Racbil ſhall be ſure to haue my voice forthe wherſtone; hed wells among ſuch kind neighbours that he hath a credible author alwaics at hand,to ſer wings vpon his deprauing quill, which he cannot in- dureto be ſtopped inthe prxcipirate flight.

Ain. Ir ſore grieued the heart ofhoneſt Helme- tius to ſcethe prophaneſle of that tribe. * Hen, hew, (faith hee ) 7p/is lemonibus impudentiores, et carnaliores ſunt multi Sacerdotes, et Scurris ſceleratiores. T'is well ' he hath nothing to cbarge vs withal, but that which hee gathereth from fatious rumours ſpread by malcuelous ſpirits, to bring our perſons and do- Arine into contempt. Yet asif his eares were made

| wharſocucr he hath heard, though ir /we{ten times |

| how hce takes on withthe Knight.: Tow cannot * be-

rr. on

of touchſtone to try the truth, hce ſtands to juſtifie

bigger, by the touch of his venemous penne, Harke

cures vnder peril of a premunire,are bound to ſecond.

Min. You fay well, Fryer © Jeremy hath regiſtred |

leene

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for a Coxe-combe. | 61 {es, oras ordinary f{udents in © impure bookes, his crea- 'r Ouerth. Pag-'53.

C Inſermone de

feſto Santli

Blaſy pag.36.b.

t Hewr Helme- tius.Tom.z. Ser.

Sep.in die cit- cumciſ.

u Fides non COUT. *

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| leene (faith hee) that a Gentleman of honour, frommy

| pleaſe, with th'impreſſe of his owne liniſter imagina-

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Lord Dela Wares owne mouth brought me newes, that he could not get of your Vaiuerſities more then one Miniſter, ts 20 tothe Euangelicall voyage of Virginia. |

Mz. The Knight ſhould bce ill aduiſed rocope with ſuch a Chimney-ſweeper as this Rachil is, from whom he ſhall get nothing but ſoor, though he giue him the toyle. What hope can there be of good dea- ling from him, who is ncuer deſtitute of ſome ho- nourable perſon or other, to Father his misbegotten hAtions ? who will nor belecuc the teſtimony of a Gentleman of Honour? the very title gaines credite whereſocuer it goes. Thus will heecoyne what he

tion. But firſtlet vs haue aſlurance of his good be- hauiour, if he would hauc vs beleeuc, that hee hath ſuch a familiar conucrle, with men of that note : 0 therwiſc we cannot but [uſpe his authors witte, in the prodigall emptying of newes to ſuch a blabbe, who hath no more hold of his tongue,thenhe wold leeme to hauc of his *purſe. | Nick, Well;becauſe hee ſhall bee beholding vnto vs, let vs graunt hritthat the founder was honoura- | ble, though perhaps no better man then Jabal: Se- | condly that therelation was true, which my Ma- | ſter doth not gaine-ſayz what will hee thence in- | faxre ? Min. Nay for Logicall deduftions let him alone, hee will hgle his intent with a Cart-rope of forced Abſurdities,rather then faile of his purpoſe; Witneſle theſe conſequences: Sir Edward # ſaid to loue * Wine and

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| far a Coxe-combe,

| and Sugar ; Ergowhen tee wrote, the Y ſingle Lampe/ | doubled in hiseve, which hapneth to them that loue wine, | when they haue their Cup in their hand. Ergoin Father Z Enmius caſe. Againe, Sir Edward can repeat more then | apiece of Auznſtime without a prompter ; Ergo he bath the | large * Volumes of that learned Father without bookeÞ.

| And his Þ noſe 41d not [moake ſo much 2s his Chimneys,

Ergo he hath abizneſe : with a millionof ſuch ſandy © Enthymems.

Nick. Is this the 4 rigour of Zogicke? thisis right, Baculus tat in angulo. Ergo, Tobies Dogge wazg d bis taile. It rhis bee the validity of his inuincible argu-

coſtly merchandize, or elſc he will hardly mainraine

limbes in this conflict. His beſt way will bee togiue them a Paſport fo beg forreleefe.

UHMa. He profeſſeth that heedid* ſeriouſly vnder- take ths taske, therefore I would gladly be informed

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what diſparagement can be faftened vpon our Mint- ltery, from the Paucity of VirgincanPreachers. Min, Marry want of zcale, as rather 8 conuerting

| themſelues to their wines then bringing Heathens, and S-

j |

wages, n10 God. For my part (ſaith he) Imake no doubt but had there beene a married Miniſtry in theChurch tm former ages, moſt nations had beene unconuerted at this dates.

4. Asif our Acatemicks, who arc Fellowes of

Colledges(whom he vpbraiderh) were maried men, then had he ſpoken ſomewhatro the purpoſe: bur

(not roputhim belides his opinionatiueconeRure) hce

ments, he muſt be faincro ſell his © cloth of /luer, and

choſe halt & maimed reaſons, which will looſe their |

| 6- |

| y Pag. 56,

z Pag.94-

a Pag:3. b Pag. 85,

c Well beſee- ming a Bang ring d:ſputant. Pag. 168.

d Pag. 84. © Pretace.

fPag.13,

g Ouerth, Pag.320,

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h Campian

had order fro his Prouoſt,as

he profeſerh bet: derrooke his YOYage.

ore hee vn-

| bee thould rather haue commended their diſcretion. | Forthoughthey bad neither wiucs nor parochiall

|

chargesto detaine them, yet might they well think rodalittle good, the language of that people being not yet vnderitood by thoſe of the firit plantation. Moreover it is not fitthat ſtudents in Diuinity ſhold be of /aballs gadding humour, to runne ralhly into forraine parts,without thed command of authorityz Neither had authority reaſon to ſ{cnd , before they had lawfull power of command in the Territoryes ofthe Infidells. As ſoone as Commerce hath bred greater familiarity,he may aſſure himſclſe, the La- bourers ſhall not be few; And for the conueriion of the Indies, wherewith he ſcemes to confront vs, the Chriſtian world hath taken ſufficient notice. It was wrought rather ere glady, then Gladio oris, with the,/ point of the ſword, then with the dinſof argument z 0- therwiſetheir tyrannousand auaricious proiefts had becne enough to drive them from the faith; though they had beene ſomewhat addifted thercunto be- fore.

Min. Thcſe and many more reaſons might the Knight haue alleaged, which he rather choſeto leaue to his menuring, to whoſe purchaſe that ſubiett did apper- taine. T he Libellers inquiſitive curioſity, in fufbng his booke with heare-ſayes, and reports, was that a- g2inſt which he did inucigh, as holding it not fit for a private obſcure fellow,to intermeddleintheSecre- cies of priuy Counſcllers, much lefle in the mana- ging of publique affaires, wherin thereare many ab- | ſiraſe myſteries farre aboue common reach, |

Nick.

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Nick. But did hee nor tcarme his Country-men |

' Parlamentarians?Did kee not coucrtly exclude that glorious 2ueenes Ghoſt, from the company ofher Aunceſtors? Darcs he put a mentrri allovpon theſe?

i Ouerth, pag 81,

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Ma, Howlocuer hee vnderſtand the word FPar- | , cert. | /arm2ntarians, we may count it the great happincs of | bi facile nec tor.

| our Engliſh nation, that they who deſcrued the | greatelt interc(t in that name, haue teſtihed their re- | ligious and well diſpoſed minds in ſuch a kind, as /4- | bal will cither vnwillingly heare, or hardly belecue, | $. Margarets Church at Weftminſter (where vpon the | euenteenth of 47x laſt) rhe whole houſe of Com- | monsthenarriued, by their owne voluntary order recciued the Communion together )can ſuthciently reſtifie the vnanimity of their conſent, the picty,loy- alty, and charity oftheir afteQtions ; Neither was a- ny afcer admitted intothat houſe, vntill hee had gi- | ven teſtimony of his ſincerity by ſeconding he | lame, Nick, 1fthis be the fruit of Parlamertarians, then | out of doubt the Popes cake is dow : Antichr:ft will | be ſoone out of heart and hope, for cuer dzſplaying his | holy banner w/pon Britaines Soyle, It is not the ſuppo- | ſed ruſticity of one mans pen, that can make that na- | tion bee reputed cither Clowni/hor infamous, which | hath variety of ſuch worthy and well diſpoſed Bur- ' zeſſes. Butlet vs heare how hee [hiſts off that impli- , cite cenſure, whereby he debarred the late Queenes ſoule from accompanying her predecefſours, His

Ang.Co28. 1,

day preſent.

wordsare yet extant in this forme. This Queene is now | m Overth,

gathered 10 her Father (®1 cannot ſay Fathers)ſceirig not | x y one

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one of her noble Aunceſtors beſides him, were of her faith, nor be but in part.)

Min. Jabal (hewes himſclfea man of valour, hee will not budge an inch from his worde, hee now a boundsthis his ſhameles Parentheſic with aſtrong fence. Why ſhoald his company (ſaith he) ſeeme diſho- nourable to that Saint? Do you feare he may marry with his daughter in that world, as it is 9 reported hee did in this? Or do youglaunce at the doubtfuineſſe of her bloud, that perchayce not the King , but ſome other put to death with her mother, was inaced her true father?

Nick, He mends the matter well, and ſpeaks like a graue Diuine: this is aright model of Romiſh cha- rity. Had /abals Grandfathcr blurted out halfe ſo much , his head would haue beene ſoone ſet higher then his hands could haue well reached, his clothes would haue dropped into the hangmans budget.

M4. The wrong complaincd of was inconſor- ting her with her Father, but in ſcqueſtring them both from the relt of their royal! progenitors,thogh it pleaſc him tocaſt doubts with his wit, for his Ca- thulique partiality to decide. But if none of her fore- fathers were of her Faith, then was thcre no (ſmall iniuſtice inthe Pope to p depoſe, and murther fo

Faith,whcre there was ſuch apparance of hazarding their Crownes,

Min, Wee muſt confelle her Father was a man, and fo ſubic@ro infirmities, which yet had bin much leſſe, had they not bcene fuclled by the Popes tem-

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for a Coxe- combe. |

porizing diſpenſations. le was alſoa potent King,& ſo ſubie&ro vniult detraRtions. But were 01d Byhop |

Longlend his Conteſſor now aliue, he would take vp |

| uing polterity,

late, touching that King, whom 1abalcollyeth with | ' his ſiniſter and cauſleſle doubts.

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| owneq phraſe, Hui eruditis /ingularis,pradentiaſum- | q ty Epiſt-pre-

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terpoſition ofan inceſtuous crime. Nay hedoth not

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| ant: concluding that whatſoeuer was eminent in | Danias vertues, was eucry way appliable to Henry | theeightz Cai (ſaith he) cum ceteris earundem beatitu- | dimum candidatis, in oct autilla atateſaluset glorianon | dubitanter expeZ7antur. So that till 7abals credit bee held equiualent with the Bilhops worth ; wee muſt

labal tor Hawks-meate. and teach him artricke for | blowing the duſt of dead Princes into the cyes of li- |

Mz. What was the opinion of that reuerend Pre-

Min. You (hall hearc him deliver his mind in his |

ma,moderatiocerta , temperaniia mira , paticntia firma, benignitas abſo/uta,pict as admnirande,indictum gran, per ſpicax, ſol;dum, et perfettum, virtutum omnium ex- ercitatio quotidiana. T hus doth hecextoll that King, whoſe renowne Jabal [eckes ſo to eccliple, by the in-

ſticke toſay , P/almorum ques Dwwidotto beatitudini- | bus predit us conſcripſit mnterpretationes ,' «ad Henricnm e- tus nominis Oftauum invidtiſimum Anglie regem ſpe-

crave leaue to belceue him, to whom the King was

beſt knowne. Ma. Had he not named Henry the eight,I ſhould |

' verily have thought,l had heard a viue deſcriptio of | that Noble Lady, that Match-lefſe PrinceſſeQueen

K 2 Eliza- |

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| /urc of his pronidence, who feedeth the bird's of the ayre.

Elizabethin whom all theſe rarc qualities had ſuch a vilible eſſence: and had her Father beeneilent , the (hould yet have becne © more then probablic iud- gcd,to be the royal f daughter of ſogreata King, |

Nik. I would not wiſh his brother the Jen jentte | of Portuzallto tir this Pamphlettcr too much, if hee | do he wil not ſpare to impeach his own mothers ho- | neſty to proouc himillcgitimate. If all mcn were of my minde,there ſhould none vow Virginity, ſceing thercis ſolittlereſpet ofa Virgin Queene.

Azz, You ſce how tender his conſcience is, in bolting out his owne conicures againſt the dead, the hemme of whoſe garments hee was vaworthie ro rouchz What hath hee moreto ſay ? Let vs heare him out tothe alt period,

Min. He will not yeeld that he was hyred by the t LaZies liberal purſe-promiſes; this is a baſe ſurmiſe—: Education hath made him too proud, to ſloopto ſuch baſe cares, Hee(good man ) ts content with the inexhauſi trea-

Ma. T is wel expericnce bathyet at laſt made thoſe honorable Ladics wiſcr,thcn to waſt their huſbands patrimonies vpon ſuch Ep:icures, whoſe bellics are deeper thenthe bottomlcile pir. Let them once rid their hands of theſe Zocyſtes, and I dare vndertake their Lords wil turn purchaſers: Wherſocuer theſe

leane Kinecome, they will foone deuourethe farteſt | Mannor:both head, hide, and hoofe; they will make | no bones of a Lord{hip. It muſt be an incxhauſt trea- | ſure indeed, that can ſtop a Popelings mouth ; wit- | ncfſe thoſe infinite reucncwes, not farre inferiour to | thoſe

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for a Coxe-combe,

did ſuck,out of this little Ile. 1 thiuke the Popes haue beene well payed for their pretended conuerlion of this Land, fo that it is now injuſtice for their hire- lingsto ® twit vs in the tecth therewith any more | bcing anſwered to the full,

Nick, Sure Rachi! hath better fortune then all his fellowes, that he is growne (o carclefle of coyne : his

thoſe of the Crowne, which thar Antichriſtien beaſt |

ju Ouerth. | Pag+-323»+

poore Camraegnrs of Doway (who thinkethemſelues not inferiour ) complaineof their * poorceſtate in ; baniſhment. Had they had 74vals purle, their tran(- lation of the old teſtament ſhould.not have lien ſo | | long vpon thcir hands, | AM. Thereis great reaſon they ſhold*part ſtakes. | Bur do you obſcructheiriugling? when they would hauctheir Ladies ſtrech their purſc»ſtrings,taen they complaine of poore cſtare, pretending extreame po- ucrtie; though they haue enough ofthe old ſtorc, to tee the traiterous Agents to weary the preſſe with (candalousvntruths,& to trouble whole States,wirh | (cditious garboiles: but when they are accuſed as | mercenarie hirclings, aiming ratherat the diſgrace

*Preface to the Dowy Bi- ble.

x Socy laboris Pariizipes Mere

cedjs.

| of particular perſons,then the trial ofthe truth;then | forſooth they ſcorne the motion,then Y our Mini» | fters are more skilfull in taking other mens purſes , then | they are in keeping their owne.

Min. He profeſſeth,if he may beecredited vpon his word, that he was not a pexme richer by that de- ceaſed Ladie, who was thought to giue the firft pecu- Eiarie incourazement 10 his pen.

Nick, Me thinkes I ſmell a Rat, fora wager here is

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| a pinch, | Pag.2z

lofa.

Cic.

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b We inguam &> inquit ſeptus

interponerentur.

Non tam ſer- wiendum wenuſ- tati Dialogorum quam materte commoditatt, cum ftultum fo+ ret maiorem tie |

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1s aca(t ot equiuo cation. Hee was not a pennie riche! | by her. vizt.after ſhee renounced the Romy traſh: | and with this reſeruation, I date ſwcare Rachil ſpeaks

truth,

| in. Nay he heard a * nameleſſe Knight of bet-

Catholtke faith, | Nick, Thatisinthe faith which Proteſtants hold ' to be Catholike : Otherwilc ſhee would ncuer hauc | ſought tor new ſervants, of another lare, to bee pla- ; ced about ber;neyther would {he hauc heard divine | Service (though ſecretly ) according to our Engliſh | Lyturgic, nor refuſed conteſhon : bappily {hee was ot throughly reſolucd in all points, neyther was it 2 poſhble,thatan habit ſo long continued, ſhould | be ſo ſuddenly remoued, T hetruth is, ſhee found her ſelte ſo wearied with the Jenatian fepperzes, that ſhe could not indure their acccſle, which ſome of them did not well digeſt. Win, Then here isthe Cataſſrophe of this Scene: ' his next Chapreris wholy Elenchticall; but ſeeing he | can no better defend him ſelfe, there is no great like- f lihood he ſhould much offend vs. By my conſent in this his next materiall trat?, Þ Jabal (hal have a courſe

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litatem propter. | to ſpeake in his owne perſon, fo ſhall our Dialogue minorem neglt- |

{ gere. Laur. Val. de.rol.lib.3

make a full meſle. Nick. T hen enter Door 74bal, thou ſhalt hauc my good leave to play the Proloquuter.

| ter credit then your Maſter auonch that ſhee diedin the-

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wrto, I will © boldly ſuruey the Knights Hell, or Letter avainft Purgatorie. The 4 Indicious Reader will not n only that your rude hammering with heawie reproa-

ches on the Rocke of truth,doth fetch out ſome liuely ſparks

of inſt diſdaine.

diſdaine? fo blunt at the firſt daſh ? are theſe your Dowey

a Pag.26,

nine Antagoniſts; Tet Þ now ſeeing you prouoke me there- | b Pag.z.

c Pag.29, d Pret,

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| Doway ſalutations? Tis well, Maſter Mator, we haue | your companic to keepethe peace. Out of doubt

the; Doftor hath piſled on a nettle : his Nurſe was too blame, ſhe ſhould hauc giuen him more (tamp'd Grun/ilin his milke, hce is ſo exceedingly troublcd withthe fret,

2a, Surely Sir (with your favour) I ſceno ſuch reaſon for your contemprtuous difdaine.If you ſtand vpon your Scholler{hipp?, I dare ſay our Vicar hath goneas long to SchoolezIfvpon your place, I would you ſhou!d know, Iam not the meancit man in my

| Corporationz Orif the opinion of your wit,hauc : blowne vp the emptic bladder of this your ſwolnc | conceit, here is honeſt Vick a boone Lad , onethat

'* knowes how to take, and returnea ieſt, as well as

tae beſt youth-in the Pariſh. 1 dare vndertake hee {hall hold you play to the laft caſt : alwaies prouided that there doe no 8 ſmoakie miſts of pcrſonal] Scoftes againſt the Knight his Maſter vampe from your mariſh mouth, for then hee will _ hot as a toſte, you ſhall tind hee will carric no coMFes, if once

' you touch his copic-hold.

Min, T hen (hall we not need to decline this ſur- ucy Þ tllopponent being thus fitted ad omni qua- rez whether he be material, faccte,or verbal, he ſhalbe

met withall vpon equall termes with his owne wea- |

| pons in his owne kind : Yhercfore Domive TAZAL rem aggredere : what i Folly and Falſ,ood can you { diſcoucrin the Knights Letter to TH?

lab, If * lying killeth the ſoule, what are the Knights

| [eaues but a dead letter , wherein there are greſſe and in- EXCH»

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excuſable corruptions of the moſt learned of the Ancient Fathers, concerning apoint of hugheſt importance, to wit the C amonicall authoritie of the Booke of (Macchabees, where Purgatorie,and other points of Catholike Doctrime, which you peremptorily denie, are direttly proved.

Ma. 1cannot blame you for fo high eſtecming the Booke of Macchabers, If that Lock bee once cut off, your (trengrh_ for the maintenance of Par- gatorie will ſoone faile. ' It thatCefterne yeeld you no water, your tongue will cleave tothe roofe of your mouth , for want of that moyfture, which now makes it ſo glibbe; your Prayer tor the dead will bee then ſoone puttoſilence, and enforced to begge Pa- tronaze from the Legends. Well I doubr not but you wil bedriuen from that Holde before thiscom- bate beatan end, In the meane ſeaſon you may doe well to acquaint vs with the grofe, and inexcuſable- corruptions, wherewith you chargethe Knights Let- ter, as injurious to the moſt learnedof the Ancient Fa- thers. |

lab. His Letter to prone that the Machabeeswere- Canonicil in Saint Aug. Indement ſaith in this ſort. It is not our ſurmiſe, that Saint Augaſtine ſeemeth to ſignifie ſo much, who elſewhere, to wit , in the Booke De Mirabi- livas ſacre Scripture doth plainly and determinately ſaie, That they are not of the dinine Canon.

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Ms. Nay good Door, let vs haue faire plays Shew mce where hee endeanovrs to proue thatthe

| Macchabees were Canonicall? and we wil be caſily in-

treated to yeeld you the bucklers : hee pleades and

proves thecontraric throughout his diſcourſe. -Be- ſides

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iidesit is no honeſt dealing to inſert a Parentheſis in- to your Aduerſaries text. T heſe wordes { to wit in the Booke De mirabilibus ſacrs Scripture ) bearc the counterfeit ſtamp of your owne will, The Knight ſaith only , that Saivt Aug. elſewhere excludeth chem from the Dinine Crnon;tor proofe whereof hee dorhin the ſame page cite his words Con!re Gaudent, and forthe better paſſage hereof, be premiſeth ateſti- monic out ofthe booke De Mirabilibus, written Anno Domini 627, which be margents with Saint CAnen- /tinz5 narne, as being to bee found only amongelt his romes,

Jab. " IVas not Sir Edward (thinke you) here bobbed by the Bchelor or ſome Lefturer? He ® citeth the Bogke de Mirabilibus by their directions as Saint _Auzuſtines, which all learned men with one conſent diſcard from the number, a5 a Booke of no ascount. Can ® any ſtaine 70 his Knizhthood be greater , then tobee thought (6 notorious 4 Falſifier of ſo great and learned a Father, enen in

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An, Isthis ſoincxpiablean crrour, that no ſa- tisfation may redeeme ? I had thought his manie reaſons alleadged in the Counter-ſnarle would haue giuen content to any judicious cyec, but I percciue

malice will hold the leaſt aduantage with tooth and

naile. lab. Did Þ heonly notein the margent where that

| Book eand ſentence might bee found , and notreſolute- | ly auerre in his text, that it was plarnly, and aeterminate-

| ty his ſaying ?

Clin. I muſtbe your Ecche, He did only notein the mWAY -

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mergent. And you mult know there is great diffe-

rence, betwcenea curſorie marginal] note, and a rc-

ſoJure textuall aſſertion. It might bauc ſufficed you, |

' that that Booke was very neareathoufand yearcold |

long (as he tels you) before Zuthes was born;and of |

ſuch eſteeme thar ir was annexed to his writings, | who was then molt eminent. Soancicnta teltimonie |

could not but giue a great Shaketo the Macehabees, + |

| Jab. But 4 whyaid hee wteut for Saint CAugi- | 4 Pag34 | | tines, againſt his conſcience and knowledge, as hee jnce

| confeſſeth ? | |

| Aim, You may as well aske Zudonicns Yinalds | |

| why in the very text of his Tractate, De Veritate Con- |

| tritionis, pag.31, he citeththe ſame father fora ſay-|

_ | ing taken out of the Booke De duodecim Abuſio-

| num gradibus , laying, Hee Auguſtinus : whereas in

che 42.pageot the ſaid Booke hee maketh this ac-

knowledgement of the ſame workez Hic liber a qui-

| buſdam aſcribitur Hugoni de Santto Vittore, Aly woero

' tr1buurt Cypriano. You might hauc done well to

hauc taken him to ſchoole , and raught him never to

| haue cited that Booke, without that tedious Jppem

dix. So ſhould 4ugyſftine haue beene well attended,

witha man or two {till waiting at his hecles, | Ma. Verily the good man would have taken ir | ill at his hands who ſhould have laid /grorance or |

| Fraude to his charge : To have taxed him with

* Reſernaticns,and Equizocations in his writings about | , p,, |

matters of Religion to decetue his lefſe warie Readers,had on

beene an irrecompenſable wrong; Yetis hee in the |

| fame predicament with the Knight, Eucric penne |

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{eſpecially in marginall direfts) is not paticnt at all times of ſuch tedious circumlocutions, The quo- ting of the place where the ſentence may bee found, freeth the Author. from the ſuſpition of Fandulent trickes. It was neyther his /2norancenor Fraud: that he ſo quoted it, but a ſtrong preſumption of his Ad- uerſaries skill, whom hee deemed no ſtranger tothe worſt retainor to Saint Augnſtizes workes,

Nick. I would gladly be inform'd how you would have had my maſter alleage that place. Had the margent been blanke,the coherence perhaps would | bauecarried it as S, Auguſtines ſpeech, whereas now the Reader hatha reference to the place, where hce may bce informed, both ofthe Antiquity and cre- dit of the Author, and ſo paſſe his cenſure as he ſhall hind cauſe.

Jab. * Hadit been any diſcredit to hane confeſſed thoſe quotations were by ſome Miniſter ſug geſted unto him ? | your valiaut writer and Deane Dottour Morton , was

he not drinen dy his aduerſaries to acknowledge that he had taken ſome corrupted teſtimonies of our Authors wp- on the credit of Tohn Stocke,and R. C?

Nick. Sec how modelty creepes vpon DoRour Smooth-beotes. O how icalous he would ſeeme to be of my maſters credit, which hce ſpareth not to over- lay at his pleaſure, with Cart-loades of kitchin-ſtuffe ſcraped from the ſluttiſh ſides of his owne greazic kettles!

Hz. How corrupt the teſtimonies of your owne

Authors arelI will not take vpon me to iudge, but/as

I haue heard) R. Stock hath ſatisfied for himſclfe, &

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theſe eyes haue ſecne a ſufficient diſcharge for rhe otherin a late learned Encounter againſt Maſter Par- ſons ; (o that the Obiefor hath little cauſe ro glory, vnleſſeitbce in hisowne ſhame. As for the Knight, howſocuer you may thinke him beholding vnto you * for deuiſmg in his defence ſuch an honoureble ex- |. Paggr. | cu/e, hee needeth neicher yourdeuice nordefence, thar being no leſle preiudiciall tothe lincerity of his cntendments,then this u diſhonorableto his perſo- | nall endowments. Your quaint deuiles ( fitteſt for | » crack'd cauſes) will I feare be too thinne to fence your | eft, ſub bonoris owne head from a fatallblow. _ contume-

Min. He ſhall not necd to Father this quotation | 7: vpon any Miniſter : what will you ſay DoCtor Jabal, ifthe Knight beable to produce this booke ſo fathe- red vpon S.Av2uſtine, without your diſtintion of * Anonymicuiuſdam, cuen by yourowne diſputants? | , pay, ;z, I hope you will then confeſſe , this Reſernetron was worth the concealing, to hitthe nayle home tothe head at thelaſt blow.

Nick. What 7abal ! who hath caſt milke in your face? neuer change countenance for the matter, ;

lab. Y Allearned men by oneconſent diſeardit from | , _ that number 25 a boske of no account. It s amoſt groſſe | * oo”

and mmexenſable Corruption ſuggeſted by ſome notorious |

fal/ificator, trencher Schoole-maſter, er Merceniry Le- | urer, perchanceeuen by Maſter Craſhaw him{elfe.

Min. Yourayme then is this : whoſoeuer allea- | gcth the booke De Mirabilibis vnder S. Augnſtines | name, is a Notorious &c, Burt becing ſome two mo- neths ſince with Sir Edward vpon occaſion of a Ken-

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| -.. , | tilh Zibrary which wasto be (old, he thewed me the | z Confeſſ, Als | | exfin..4.c10, | ſame booke ſocitcd, not onely by * Hierom Torren- | Scct6, | [{s, tO prooue Enoch in viuis adhac eſſe, et Unemquem, | | | recipere ſpiritum ſar.tum in baptiſmo;but allo by your a Confe(.Pctri- x San. fry Ho/:rs,t0 pProouc E/dramrejtituſ/e tbros ; khanca.89% | legs, Now Wick make you the conclulion. | | Ark. Ergo labals conſorts mult devide the Neto- | rious falſifier berweene them : Ergo Jabal right haue | ſparcd a number of waſt words : Ergo thelc Popins- ans haue morc kill of > tremchers then of Authors: Ergo ; the Church of Pome hath played many ſuch falſetricks: L oPaatd | Erz0,it was citherthcir © /2yorarce that indeed they 7 , thought that booke was his ; ; or 1heir fraud which made_ | | th em wviter what they knew was fa'{e,to aeeciue the Rea- ' der: Ergo their Ea/tions both auncicnt and Moderne, | doccithernot atall,or not ſo vilibly,diſtinguiſhtheſe | ſuppolititious works from thoſc of the auncient Fa- | ' thers, with Anonym! crinſdam in cuery page, as our 4 Pag.33. | 4.Bibl +do dil ioynethe Apecryphatromhe Canoni- call Scriptures; Ergo, if 11b:l hauc the leaſt graine of | wit , Or grace, he will giucno more ſuch {wingeto his vnruly and pettilh pen. | Mz. Dettor Iabal, vnlcſle you be partiall,theſe ih- | ; ferences muſt needs be graunted, they are your own vpon the like ſuppoſition, T is fit cucry bird ſhould have her owne feathers. T hat which you darenot |. diſallow in your owne writers, muſt not ſo ſcucrely | be proſecuted againſt ours. It pittics me to ſee how | ' you are plunged. T he Knight isablcto teach twen- ty ſuch fabling diſputants. I cannot bur ſmilc to | thinke how artificially he hath trayn'd you along to bewray|

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| bewray your w4#t of iit,and ſwrpluſage of malice, Let | this be a warning vnto you,in your next worketo be | more conſiderate. For now the notorious falſhood | (wherewith you haue beene ſo inraged) © cleaues /o ' fait to your fingers, that vnleſſe you haue ſomewhat elle of greater moment tc ſay, you muſt be faine to rub them rudely pon your owne Coat.

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Jab. The* ſecond place he brought out of S. Auguſtine acainſt the bookeof Machabees,was a ſentence in his book azainſt the Epiſtle to Gaudentius, againſt which my accu- ſation was that his Miniſter had aldedthelaſt ſentence, containing the ſubſtance of the matter unto Saint _Au- euſtine.

modeſt an anſwere you receaued, Thu laſt clauſe (ſaith he) /wonger how it ſhould paſſe my ſight in the re- view:for peruſing my firſt draught 1 find go written ſhort

Ma. You ſhould rather tell vs how honeſt and |

in another letter, to diitinguiſh my inference from Augu- ſlines proofe. It ſeemeth either my Manuaries haſt, or the Printers miſpriſion hath turned go into (ed, as if the ſame | had beene continued, which former error made them omit | [conſequently )in the Engliſh reddition. | Jab. That there was a ſhort go in bis firſt draught | ſeemes not very probable, for $ what likeneſſe there | betweeme go and (ed that his Manuary or printer ſhould take the one for the other? Mw. Nay read it with Sedas it was printed z and | then you ſhall hardly find common ſence, Machabeo- | rum Scriptura recepts e#t abeccleſienon inutiliter, ſiſo. | brie legztur,uel audiatur,maxime propter iſtos Martyres |

Macchabeos, ſed ob hanc cauſam in Canone morum non |

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fidei cenſcripoſſet,T his ſed ob hanc cau/am doth nor re- 1:{h of a Schollars penne, which ſhould rather bee,

| et ob hans cauſam. So that you may well thinkethe | Knight was not ſo ſimple, in ſogroſſe a manner wit- | tingly to make that ſweet Father ſpeake grbbriſh ina Dialect (o vnlike his owne ; you are a happy man

Nick. I pray you what likeneſlc is there between Sacerdotes and Scortatores ? yet as I hbaue heard my maſter ſay; in one Eaztion ot the new T cſtament ſet out at Coley ,in ſtecd of theſe words Þ Neg, Scortate- res regnn ati poſidebunt,he hath found it thus printed: Neg, Seceraotes regnium deipoſidebuut.l hope you will

trade, Iperſwade my ſelfe it was his miſprilion, chough ſome hauc thought hee did itto cry quit- tance with his wiues Confefſour. I hope this was

the head ofa d.throvgh baſt of a ſpeedy pen.” To put wt for at is no ſuch capitall crime.

Ma. You ſhould rather demand of him, what like- ncile therc is between 34. and 42. 169. and 168.176, and 172. Such errours are ſo frequent in his booke, thatir muſt ofneceſhtycauſe wrong quotations: yet in my conſcience I do not thinke the Door was ac-

cellary to theſe, or the like ſcapes whercewith bis | lines doe abound, Tis like the Printer thought hee | had no great good match of your booke: Had hee ; not miſdoubted thecurrant ſale thereof, hee would

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whoſclincs doc paſle the Preſie without any ſcarre.

more then the change of one poore lillable,rhe tayle | ofthe 2 being the ſame with a Romane/: anda runs» | nirgo. notvnprobably ro be ſuppoſed to have Joſt |

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haue had a more vigilant eye ouer the preſle : this

his preſage made him put giue for deny. * Indeleble | | © for undeniable." Edition for Reddition. ® Deniſed for |). 6 tins. devided. ® long for low. » Ioyned for moxed. ? Burned | | Vag.92:N.3. for drowned, 4 was for (his old ſerviceable attendant) | N nh As.T he ſurplulage, and defeft of many other words

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n Pag.y2.N.29 giucs vs juſt cauſe to ſuſpeR either the Printers care, orthe Authorsskill : ſo that you may well winkeat

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lab. Why * ſhould he make his Inference in Latinwri- | © 8 ting in Engliſh ? what Engliſh Author wſeth that idle | manner of Writing but himſelſe? | |

Min. Asit a Schollar being in his owne Element |

may not be ealily carried away with a ftrong imagi- nation that he is inthe Schooles , eſpecially writing | roa 5chollarabout T heologicall queſtions. T his] | haue many times obſerucd in the Knight, that it is | Ga vnto him to writeany thing Yerbatimgwhich

ath paſſed his penne betore, neither doth hee without vrgent neceſſity render that authority-in | Engliſh, which hee hath quoted in Latin. All wittes haue not thepatiencealike to cndure the repetition ofthe ſamethings, and ſuch tor the moſt part take that firſt, which firſt offereth it ſelfe and may bee dil- patched with feweſt CharaQers taking vp thelcaſt roome.

Ma. Whether his Inference were in Latineor |

Engliſh, itis /zt5g1um de forma; 1 am ſure hevouched S. Hieromes © authority, that the Church read the book | (1, pref ih.gul

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| but receaued them not amongſt the Cinonicall Scriptures, for the authorizing of Eccleſrafticall decrees : which was as much as the Knight intended by ſecluding them from the Canon of Faith.

lab. This ts nothing to the purpoſe* to proue $, Au- guſtine did reieft them,who might bee contrary to S, Hie- | rome in this paint not beeing then defined by any general Conneell,

Ma, S. Hierome contrary to S, Augaſtine ? Is not this goocly RKhererique to draw the Ladics to build their faith vpon the writings ofthe ancient Fathcrs? Is thereany morethen one truth? Either the booke | of Machabres is Canonicall, or not. You ſay S. ,4#- guſtine auerrs it ; wee prouec that S. Hierome, Lyra, Bri- to, Rabanus,Caietangec. deny it. Whom {hall your Creatures belecue ? Will you ſuffer them to hauc luch recling and tottering Conſciences ?

labs % Caictangwhom he citeth , tumps not altozether with your conceit,and though he didghis ſayings are not 0- | racles with vs. ; «Clin, This kind of diſputing will neither get you ; a Mitergnor a Cardinalls Hatte, Ser you ſolight by -the kead-men of your pariſh? Good DQour let vs | know to whoſe verdit you will ſtand: dare you ſay ; to S. Auguſtines? arcall his ſayings Oracles in your ; Church? Nay faith * Lorinus, Augu#tinus incertum | putat an Iſte Theophilus idem ſit, cui Lntas Enangelium et Attanuncupanerit : Atqui res certa T'idetur,T he Di- vines of 7 Loxane lay Sophiſtry ro his charge, So likewiſe writeth your /eſuite ® CMaldonate, Auguſti- vi et Innocents primi ſententiafuit,que ſexcentos fere_ | annos

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| annos vigwit in eccleſia, Enchariſtiam etiam infantibus ne-

| ceſſariam eſſe, que tandem ab eccleſla reietta eft, The opi-|

| n107 of Auguſtine and Innocentins the firſt, which was re- ccined in the Church wellnigh ſixe hundred yeares, was | this : that the Euchari#t was neceſſarily to bee miniſlred | vrto Infants, which at length is reiefted by the Church. Negare non pa{/umms, (aith * Vazquez, predittam opt- monem fui{/e Auguflini et Fulgenty , a qua non mulium Gregorins Magnus abborret tamen meo iudicio probabi- lior, cos nulla alia pena quam damni,id eit priuatione bea- litudins gyunri. Albeit we cannot deny that Þ Anz. and Fulgentize did teach that Infants dying withour Baptiſmedid preſently deſcend intothe place ofthe damned, to be ſenſibly rormented in hell-fire, yet notwithſtanding in my judgement it is more probable that they undergoe no other puniſhment , then the loſſe— and priuztion of beatituae, The like cenſure doth © Barradins paſle vpon Euthyminus, Hoc loco (ſaith he) Enthymizs non rette de Virgine ſanttiſiima hee ſcripſit: Non credidit ſicut Zacharias &c.Procul a Chriitiano pe- tore et auribus huiuſmod: fint werba. T hus doth your Church ſpunge out the opinions of the anci- | ws Fathcrs, vpon whom you ſcem fo ſtedfaſtlie to relye,

” T henit ſeems the matter is not great,what S; Auguſiines opinion was touching the Legitimati- on of the Machabees,ſeeing his wordsare no Oracles, cucn with the Doors of the Romiſh Church; and | the rather becauſe the booke (according to /abals | confeſhon)was not then naturalized, by the conſent | ofany Occumenicall Councell. M 2

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a InThom.diſp I ;4.C4þ.2. & 3»

b Ser.t4. de verb.Apeſt. et L. 5.contlulia,c.s.

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d Pag.43

e InPref.lib. Salomon.

' f DeCinit. Dei lib.18-cap.38.

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Nick. This is a prettic (light: The Fathers are bur as fcarhers when they doe not ſtick ro the Pope- lings. I trow Saint Hierome (hall find more fauour at your hands,

1sb. Saint ® Hicroxze may ſeeme to ſpeake according to the opinion of the Hebrewes , as hee wJeth to doe, not in his awne.. |

44. T his ſhiftis ferch'd beyond._the circumfe- rence of all probable Appararance. Hee ſpeakesin the © preſent (not in thepreterperteR) tenſe of the Church then being: Legit E ccLts1 a, ſedeos inter Canonics Scripturas non recipn. Yea by way of

rolcration he delivers his minde permiſſiuely thus,"

Legat Eccleſia ad edificationem plebys, (yet with this Li- mitation) von ad authoritatem dogmatum Eccleſiaftico- rum conſurmandam. Y ca $. Auguſtine himlelte con- teflcthrhat oneand the ſame man may write ſome thinges hi/forica diligentia,which (though procecding from himſelfc) may ſcrue ad vbertatem cognitions : and other things ex in/piratione aiuina, which mult be receiucd ad authoritatems religions.

lab, Theſe 8 wordes come ſhort of your ſumme, to

proue your Proteſtant diſtinction of the Canon of Man- ners,and Canon of faith.

Ma, I grant Saint Hieromes ſentence doth not dcliuer theſe wordes in ſo many cxplicite (illables, yerdoth it neceſſarily imply as much inthe impli- cite ſence. The Church readeth them for the edification of the people, therefore they arc in the Canon of Manners, and ſcruc to the bettering of knowledge: The Church receiueth them not amongeſt the Canonicall

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S:riptares, Therefore they are not inth c Canon of | aich, as rending to th'authoritie of Religion. lab. Egerie booke ® that maybee read for edifice | Þ Ibid, tion in the Church , may not bee termed arale of Man- | ners What & inſt with the rule of Manners, is cerraitily''| good, But at7ions axcording to theſe bookes wee ſpeak of, | the Knight granteth may bee wicked. For example, to kull- himſelfe, is a thing vnlawfull , yet it i conformable to' thoſe attiows, that he = are prayſed in the Macchabees: | How then can they bee the Canon ani Rule of Man- ners? | i Sowecall Min. Beſides the Primarie and Divine Canon of / 'hat awedge of Manners,properly fo called(I meane the Canonicall-/ "awe _ Scripture) which is abſolutely to bee received, as | drofſe. wholy authenticall, by and in it ſelfe, rhereisalſoa | #5 42-10» Subordinate Eccleliaſticall rule, which by vertue of | 1iqua exrowaieg Concordance,is ſo farre ro bee admirtedtora rule,as.| 7 ropter it is conſonant tothe firſt, Thus the Macehabeestrom ER i the beſt andereateſt part, ( which is certainly go0d) | Canonica autho- may derivariuely receivethe Denomination of the | 0/17 p84 | Canon of Manners, albcir ſomelirrle portion there- | 15.cap.z;. of be nor levelled and ſquared according tothe firſt | | 4 PiuoHiere- vnerrable ſquire. This Deviation though it exclude | mm nery ng not the reading of the reſt, which may ſcrucasa Sub- | /upputantur, & idiarie promoter of edification, yer can it not bur | JM"? 4974 debarre the whole from the Supremacie of * Ca- ns nonicall eſtecme. lms reducends Ma. Sir,[tis your courteſic thus to explane your fu top tte | ſelfe. Yet vndercorreftion you doe not wellro flic | quan Dodtormm,

after the Doors Lure. Itis ſufficient for you that | Caicran-adn.

: K . . comment. Saint } Hieremes vndeniable teſtimonic hath ex- | 11,6.yer. TER.

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n Pag-58,

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planed Saint Auguſtines, Si Sobrie:by which, though chetoleration ot the Macchaebees bee permitted, yer the'Canonization ts viterly ® diſanulled. Ir be- longeth to his taske to prooue them to bee of the Di- vine Cancn, which hee {hall more calily atrempr, thenaccomplith, ſeeing Saint _ungzu/tmme himſelfe confeſſctb,that the Ancient Jewes ( viriu{que tabule cyſtodes) did nor reccive them, a>they-did the Law, the Prophets , and the //almes : So that it will bee a pointof no ſmall dithcultic ( without ſome Night- Ghoſts reuclation) to ſhew by what warrant or meanesthe Church of Chriſt was after moucd to a- dopt them.

lab. Icould * toynewith Saint Auzuſtine other Fa- thers, no leſſe ancient then hee , canonizing the ſame bookes, but his teflimonie may ſuſfice alone , which brin- geth with it the authoritre of the Church in his dayes,

Nick. Alas poore Dodor Bragge, this is but a cop- pie of your countenance : you will make but a mean living, by ſinging Sous cum Solo, I trowe Maſter Vi- car wilbee able ro vic fathers, as faſtas you. Your Maſterſhippe may perhaps findea Counter for the Poſt, but you dare not for your cares bee inat the Payre,

Az. Verily I thinke Clichtouwews was more then

| halfeaProphet, hee doth fo viſibly deſchipher the |

guiſe of our Diſputant, asif hee were here preſent. * Ay ſunt (ſaith hee) qui non miſt ſuo credunt con- ſilto, & quod ſemel aſſeruerunt, volunt oraculoſolidius vt haberi. Als auterm authoritatula na, aut vnius [ci bentis dicto,v1 equus capiitro retinentur , &* ceterosaſ-

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Pernwntur, qui eade re aut dixerunt aut ſeripſerunt. Min, Sir,itis faire play to till this gameſter on by reſeruing the beſt card till the laſtrricke. The An- cient records ofthe Church ſhall be produced when they ſhall trikeaildead; forthepreſent, Ithinke ſhall luiciently diſcharge my part, if I makegood the Knights argument out of S. Auguſtines ground toratifie our concluſton. | Ag. Herein ſhall you not beſtow your paines amiſle. | | Min, Then thus :? In Holy Canonicall Scripture” there is no Dinine precept or permiſſion to bee found, that either to gaine Immoertalitie, or ts eſcape any peril we may 4 make. away with oar ſelues, But Razias ( mentioned im the Mecchabees ) is commended for «fad# of this kind:Er- 20 * theyare not Canonicall. | 3446 Ib. It was * farre from Saint Auguſtines grauitie to read the Muchabees with ſo little Sobrietie, a518 thinke that Razias was prayſed for killmg himſelfe— : © writing againſt the Circumcellians,hee doth often teach,

for that fait , which the Scripture did report , not proſe. ; |

Min. I will not preſſe you with antologies, ney- ther would I willingly bring Zyram ad Aſomum, vi- lcſſe you were a better 2{ujitzan. Lyraesrecord is ex- tant, that ®* the Scripture of that Booke which is recciued by the Church ro beread for the Informa tion of Manners, doth not ſeeme to reproouc Ra- <1. , butrather to commend him, for killing him- ſelfe, &c.

1 ab.

p Connterſ.pa.r

qui per ferrum

aut precipitiun ſbi ipſis mortem inferunt nul'a

pro illis in obla- tone commemo-

ratio fiat.Concil. Bracaren.1.ca. 34 r His non adbj- betur fides in quibus etiam

| Contra fidem li- and largely prooue, that Razias was not tommenadable.. |

brorum Canoni- Corum quedam leguntur. Aug. de Ciuir.Dei lib.18.cap,z$ ſ Pag.49.

t Pag.5t,

u Ifraims. Macb.cap.14

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| z De veritate cdtrition:s.f0!,53

lab. This * falſe, and againſt the minde of Samt Auguſtine who denies it expreſſely,Y neyther u Lyracs Doctrine to the purpoſe,

Min, It yougrant that Saint AMuguſitme was one of the principall Doors of the Church , then lifien a while to Ludowicus Fiualdus * De Razia (faith he) nobiliſſims milite legimas in 2.1ib. Mach, &c. quod ſeip- ſum * animoſe ac magnifice in mortem- dederit , cus mors commendatur, ac landibue extollitur AD © cT 0- K1BVSs CATHOLICIS, c0quodob renerentian Dei, atque ob [alutem boni publici conſummata fuerit. We read

| of Razias, ep. Whoſe death is commended, and highly | extolied bythe CATHoLIQva Doctors,

Ma. Was this the opinion of Catholique Do-

tors in Viaaldws his age?thenit ſeemes Saint Augn- /{ine was either not well vnderſtood, or not repured in that ranke, or that thoſe Doors have ſince chan- ged their mindes: Howlſoeuer the Minor , viz. that Razins is commended for that fact, bath the warrant ofthe Catholique Doors, asalſo of Zadewicws and Lyra,maugrethe ſpurning of your Wilde Aſſes® Colt : T herefore the concluſion, that the Macchabees are not Canonicall, muſt by vertue of Auguſtines ground bee returned with the © Gooſe and /oodcock vnto your owne keeping.

Nick,Saint* Awgnſlines Eagle hath alreadie pick't out theireyes, and putthem to flight; they beginneto droopand hang the wings, ſo that they will have little maw to ſhew their heads any more on this | Coalt, | lab, Is © it not credible that ſome fathers who on

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theſe bookes were ignor ant of the Churches warrant rather then Saint Aug. ſo raſb and preſumptuous a5 to canonize them without it,

Ma. Lord what ſhift the Door makes to get looſe! his ſtrugling makes mee remember the com- plaintofan * elegant writer which may well be-

| ſeeme Maſter Rachyls cares : Quid factas prau mgenys

que terg iuerſantur, & manifeſtis rationibus repugnant, nec ſe a veritate capi fanunt?

Min. Nay on my word hee begins to deale more plainly, then I expe&ed. For whereas before he did ſet Saint Hierome and Sant Auguſtine at oddes, ma- king no more account of Catetans pearles thenordi- nary pebbles, itis to be attributed to the chollericke fit, wherewith he was ouertaken:But now vpon bet» ter and more mature deliberation hee ſpeakes by the book,and tels vs that ſome Fathers deny theſe books. Y et hecrein heis not well aduiſed,in that ro free S. Augu-

/tine from ra{hneſſe and preſumption, hee ſticks not tocharge the reſt with ignorance.

HMa. In verydeede Door, you are anvngrati- ous child,not worthy of your Mothers blefhng, Wil you make the Fathers of your Church ignorant in the warrant of your Church? Shall they bee admit- ted to teach others in doubtfull controverſies of faith, who are themſeluesto ſeekein the Canon of

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Hagiographicall Scripture, which is the ground of faith? I cannot thinke, that if the foure firſt general! Counccls had receiued theſe books into the Canon, they would haue becne eyther ſo ignorant, or ſo

raſb and preſumptuew,as to haue dilallowed them, N ab.

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1ab. Why 8 ſhould not the Bookes of Machabees be {a-

cred, though they prayſe Razias for this fact , as well as

the Booke of Indzes, where Sampſon s prayſed, who aid the like? If this be Saint Auguſtines ſentence which the Knight ates out © of Lyra, that hee did that fat by

| {peciall inſtin?# of the Holy Ghoſt , who doth not ſee that

your argument toproue the Mechabees not to be Scripture, is not wortharuſh ?

Ain. Whether Saint Augu/iime were of this mind or no, the Knight referred it ro Zyraes report, who there relates (as he * ſayth) eyther the wverie words,or the receined ſence. T he Knight doth not perempto- rily take vpon him to juſtifie the words to haue pro- ceeded from Aagn//incs pen:hee only preſumed fo farre vpon the Readers patience, as to write out what Zyrathere wrote (without any diſtinion of Character)touching the general opinion of the com» mendation of Razias his fat : wherein as Lyra k ſpeakes, ſome thought Saint Avgu/tinedid bearc a part.

Nik. Whether it were _Aven#ines aſſertion, or Lyraes relation,it was ſufficient to.prouc the Minor, viz. That Razias his murther was there prayſed.Bur how will you anſwer the like of Sampſon, which 14 bal bringeth our of the Booke of Judges? this maie ſceme to inferre a ſecret addition to Auguſtine his ground. Where hee ſayth Vs Canonicall Booke doth commend or praiſe kiting ones ſelfe, labal by way of ſup- polition annexeth this clauſe,viz. without /pectall in- ſtin@t of the Holy Gho#t.

AM, Maſter Vicar you thinke Beggars hauc

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Purge tories K nell,

{ noLice, VVho would haue looked for this from the Groome? It is fit you ſhould ſtop this gap.

Min. Had Razias killed himſelfe by that ſpeciall inſtint,then would not Saint Auguſtine haue ventu- red ro cenſure this fatas worthie reproofe : bur (as. you ſay) he proues againſt the Circumcelhans, that Ra- zias was 1 not commendable for that fatt, which the- Scripture didreport not praiſe.Belides,the textaſcribes

ri: that he choſe rather to die * nobly, Thomas CA- quinas allo trees the ſpirit from that motion in this

fait: non amen eſt vera fortitudo , ſed magis quedam molities animi. T hus doth hee brand itas anaberra- tion from true fortitude, which defeR isnot inci dent to that ſpirit, which leades intoall truth.

Me. Y ou may ſpare your paines for anie further

| proote, the Door I thinke is of your mindeinthis.

[t pleaſed him by occaſion of that report which the Knight laid vpon Zyrees penne, touching ſome mens

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conitruction of A»guſtines ſence, and Bazias his fatt, to play the Queſtion;/t, and to makea doubr of thar, wherein it ſcemes by his lilence hee holds himſelfe now ſatisfied.

Nick, Then cannot the Booke of Machabees bee ſacred, which both by cuidence of the text, and th' aſſent of the Catholique Doors, doth prayle Ra- zias for that, whch true fortitude doth diſclaime, .

it to his own choice, ſeying, Eligens potius nobiliter mo- |

verdit. Quidam ((aith hee) ſeipſos * interfecerunt, &- | 1 Secund. ſtimantes ſe fortiter agere , de quorum numero Razias | %

and Canonical! Scripture diſallow.

lab. Truly Saint Auguſtine * doth ſo often clearly N 2 and |

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m 2.Mch.cap, 14-verſ 42.

weſt 64.47t,5.

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and peremptori'y auouch the Charter of the Machabees, which confirmeth Purzatorie, to bee ſacred, that 1 wonder any man that hath read bis workes,wil undertake to proue the contrarie. hen he makes the Catalogue of Canonical | Bookes,aoth not he ranke theſe with the reſt ? Did hee not ſubſcribe to the Councell of Carthage where thoſe Bookes were canonized?

Mz. T his is that which the Knight did wilcly forelce and cautelouſly labour to prevent. Hee fea- red leaſt his aduerſaric might be ouer- ſwayed by mi- ſtaking ofthe word Canozical/, which is ſometimes taken largely,to ſignhe aſwel the Bookes that might concerne the Rule of Manners, as thole which ſcrue for the foundation of the doftrine of Fazth, in which ſence your Father and Conncellarc to be vnderſtood : whereas the ſame word in the (tri and proper ſigni- fication, doth only comprehend the Bookes, which agree with the Canon ofthe Hebrewes, according to the generall conſent of the Ancicnt Fathers ot all Churches, before the dayes of Saint Auguſtine. To thisend, hee ſent no worſe P- Meſſenger to cleare this doubt;then a perſon,cminent, both by name and place;I mcane that famous Cardinall Cajetan.Ne tar- berts Nonitie (ſaith he) $7 alicubi reperias libros iſtes in- ter Canonicos ſupputari, Cum hac diſtiniTione poteris diſ- cernere aicta Augultini, & [cripta in Concilio Proutm- cial; Carthaginenſi, Heetcls you that they arcthusto be vnderſtood, as alſo that none but Voxices inthe writing of the Ancicnt Fathers will trouble them- {elues,by making any queſtion in ſo apparit a truth.

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| trow he hath ſentthe Cardinall away with a flea in his care. If Caietan had beche-Pope, hee would hane

| beenc twice aduiſed, before he had ſo rudely reieted

his Oracles. My fellow /ack Footeman would hauc

nogreat Maw, tocarry a Meſlage to ſuch acurriſh

Swaine,from whom hee expects no detterentertain- ment.

Min, Caictan | wis, had more wit in his little fin- ger, then 1ab4{in his whole body, Beats Pacifict was his aime. Should ſuch hot-ſpurres as our Nourees haue beene made Arbitrators, there would hauc beene ſuch a broyle amongſt the Fathers as would not be calily reconciled. For if you take __ this fauourable & moſt probable diſtinRion, you [ſhould ſoone ſee a field pitch'd betweene q Cyril, Cyprian, O- rigen, © Nazianzene, Hierome, * Ruffinns, Epipha- nius, Athanaſius, Euſebins, and Gregory, on th'one (ide diſcarding them : and CAguſtine, the Councel/of Carthage,& Trent, on th'other part defending them, When this pitch'd battel ſhould bave beene tought, the Romaniſts might haue ſought our valiant Sarge vnder the T rundle-bedde, till the hurly burly had beene at at end: vnleſfe they had pluckt him out by the hceles, no perſwaſion would have drawne him to ſhew his face ; they are all ſoperemptory and plaine, againſt the Canonizing of theſe 4pogriphall bookes. T his was not voknowne to the Cardinal: | who was thereby induced to thinkethat S. Augs- | ſine tooke the word Canonicallinthe larger ſence; as comprehending the Eccleſiaſtical writings,within the verge thereof,

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ſ Anthonn, Summ maior, | Par-.34it. 18. cap.6.J.2.

t Aly libri ſunt quti non Canonci ſed Eccleſiaſtici a maionibus ap- pellati ſunt:eiuſ- dem ordinis To- bie, Indith et Macbabeorium libri.Ruffi. in Symbol.fal. 575- u Suat Cano- ict weteris te- ſlamentt libri vignti duo Lite- ris bebraicis nu6- mero pares.A- tban.ex Synopſe .

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Ma. Hadit becne anerror in the ewes not to haue receiucd theſe bookes, as they did the Zaw, and the Prophets; 1 cannot thinke, but that Chriſt or his Apo-

| (tles would ſurely hauereproucd ſonotable a crime,

ſeeing they were not meale-mouthed in the repre- henſion otlefler faults. And whereas we receiue this

| maine benetir by the 4poZacy of the lewes,that ther-

by the world ({ceing themencmics-vntothe Mei 4) cannot but give the greater credence to the bookes of th'old Teſtament, withour ſuſpeRof par. tiality, which otherwiſe might haue beene doub- icd : the adopting ot theſc other 4pocriphellintothe Canon, were as much as in vs lieth to vilifie th'au- cthority of theirauthentiquerecords, who may not

wereadulterine, as well asto haue degraded thoſe that arc found to haue bcene diuine.

Mm. Itall other reaſons were mute, me thinkes the Author, Matter,and Maxner of the hiſtory,might

x Vide Zanch.

lib. 4-ca-4. | y 2.Mac.2.23. | z Spirits ſanito rn(pirati loquuti ſunt ſanft; Dei homies, 2.Pet. Caſe i,U.Z1,

a 1-Sam.c-I3» v.19,

b 2.Mac, 3. v. 26.

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well make an ingenuous perſon very ſparing in the

ging Epitomizer of theſe bookes,is Y: Iaſon Cirenews a z hcathen man ( for-ſooth)a fit Secretaric for the Court of heauen. Ir ſeemes pen-men were then as ſcanty, (as ſometimes * Smiths) in Paleſtine. This muſt needs bee &4Gabr4pos Ayes which requireth [c much® watching, ſweating,and pains in the refining, Calamus Scribe velociter ſcribentis , would haue caſed all this toyle,which is not to bee feared, where the Omniſcient ſpirit is the Diator, As touching thc

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would be ſorry at his heart, to bee taken tripping in ſuch contrary tales. One while © Antiec2m dicd tor griefe in Babilon. Another while hee was ſlaine in ' the Temple of 4 Nanes, where his head was cur off. And yet is not A4nriochws out of his paine; Asit he had as many lives as a Cat, you {hal ſee him fiaike once more vpon this hiſtoricall Stage ; and then at laſt fall downe and dye, with a moſt noyſome ltin- king ſmell, conſumed with © wormes. Indeede I mult needs fay he is very modeſt in thedelivery : He writes not f «;i$+5iay ixay as one who had the cutiody of the minr,to warrant the mettle whereunto he bad put his ſtampe, but is 7w #d Gay xe inrrepen xetpry, forthe $ pleaſure ,and recreation of the reader. Had he had the warrant ofthe ſpirit, hee would baue ſpared the labour of begging tauor,and ſuing out a pardon, for which heeis faine'to crowchto the Readers gentle- neſſe.

Ma. T hen had the holy Father S. Auguſtin good cauſe to ſay, that they arerecciucd profitably it they bec read Soberly. For if they ſhould bee read with a precipitate opinion as Canonicall Scriptures inthe tri ſence: the many leakes which are tranſparantin them, would goe very ncereto {inketÞauthority of the reſt,

lab. It appeareth by that teſtimeny againſt the Epiſtle of Gaudentius, that the Chriſtians gaue that authority to thoſe Þ bookes, which the Iewes did not grant vnto them : that the Church did ſet them wp in the throne,

traditions, that a man who regardeth his credi t:

Cc 1,Mach. c.6. V.16.

d 2.Mac.c.r. V-13.

e 2. Mack.c.g. V.9.

Duct ad inferos & reducit.

t Math.7.v.29

g @5 cvs ve- | T1 OV YKEpaG- 6415.

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| Were Varne. | CHz. Thceoppolition(ifany)ſtands not in the de- grcc, but rather bearcth the ſence ofa preucntion. Foras much as the /ewes, from whomthe old ſacred records were originally deriued , would not center them into the Diuine Canon, it-could not but occa- | ſion many conſiderate Chriſtians vtterly to caſhere them. Forthe auoiding heercof S. Auguſtine, ſeeing they might tend to ſome good vſc, tells vs that albe- itthe /ewes did not receiue them as Canonical,yet the Church receiued them not w#profitably, ifthey bee read /oberly. He ſaith not, that the Churchreceiued them into higher authority then the Jewes : but as | books which might ſerue to as good purpoſe,ifthey werercad warily amongſt vs, as they did among the lewes. Neither doth hee ſay Recipienda eff Seriptura Machabeorum , as implying an vndeniable neceſſity z butrecepta eſt non mutiliter, as noting a voluntary ac- ceptance vpon a probable end ,with th'addition of this Prouiſe, if they be read ſoberly: which, howſocucr you otherwiſe deeme,cannot be htly ſpoken of Ca- nonica!l writ, which is neceſſarily to be embraced, and isalwaics profitable tothe Church, which eucr- more bringeth Scbriety to the reading thereof: nci- ther is it any leſle behoofull ro the Church, though it be peruerted by reprcbates to their owne damna- tion. But as for humane writings, the caſe is other- wiſe:they are then onely recceiued profitably by the Church, when they arc read warily, A good = V

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ground ( of which ſort the ſacred writ affoordeth none) may makea faulty inference: which mooued ; Saint Auguſtine to inlinuate, that there are rocks by

which he would haue vs warily to faile. Nick. What if wee admit ( for diſputation ſake) | that S._Anguſtmmedcliuereth this,as his reſolute opi- ; nion in 7abals ſence? I would gladly learne what rea- | ſon hee can yeeld, why this ſhould ouer-\way the ioynt.iudgement, and conſent, of ſo many tar morc | ancient Fathers,who tcach the contrary, |

| moſt faithful witneſſe of Antiquity : how can hee then | be excuſed from great temcrity if heerein he erred? | Ma. Errarehumanum eſt: T he ſpirit of God alone | is free from errour. The Church eucnin hisdaics was ſomewhat clowded withthe miſts of ſuperiti- | tion, Had he notan Eagles eyc,he could hardly hauc | diſcoucred thoſe beames, which Antichriſt had then laid in the way:It was hard, ifnot impoſhble, for one man todiſcernecucry mote, which then houcred in the airc of the Papal regiment. Jab. | This ſentence may (uf fice alone, to giue any I#-

by attributing roo much to an vnwarrantable

lab. i Caluin doth allow him the flyle of the beſt and |

dicious eare to wnderitnd your oppoſition with S. Au-

\W ” THS1 ine.

k It was law-

ful to contradift the Fathers and doubt of them, Guida de Heriſ. C.7.

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Mz. Weehonour his memory as a bleſſed Saint, from whoſe pen the Church of God hath receiued | incffable good. and wee account it not the leaſt part | of our happineſſe, that for one ſceming teſtimony, | which you wreſt to ſerue yaur owne turne, weeare | ableto ſhew a million toright our caule,

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n Decſt grati« quicquid meritis deputas:Nolo meritum quod gratiam exclu- dit. Bern. ſuper- Can Ser.67.

o Inills opera ſua glorificant: Iniflis onera non ſua condemnant Fulgen ad Mor. lib.r.

p Opera bona babemus non ex nobis nata, ſed Deo donata. Fulg.ibidem.

| wages due to righteouſneſſe is life eternall? And againe,

lab. Can you deny that S. Auguſtine taught our Ca. thol:que doctrine concerning the point of Merit? ® Doth he not ſay, that as the wages due to ſinne is death: ſo the—

The reward cannot go before merits, nor bee yu before a man be worthy thereof: yeathat God ſhould be vniuſt, if he that is truly iuſt be not admitted into his kingdome. Can any Catholique [peak more plainly then he doth of Merits?

dodtrine againſt merit: The Analogy which he makes berweene S1mneand Death, Righteouſneſſe and life, conliſteth not in the quality of Deſert, but ot the " effett: Auguſtine ſaith not that the wages of righte- ouſneſſe, which is Heagew , is as duc as the wages of linne, which is death: th* Analogy is in regard of the conſequenteſfeR, to ſignifie, that heauey, the wages which is due to righteouſneſle, (hall as truly bee be- ftowed vpon the taithfull, as Helor Death, ſhall bee inflited vpon the wicked. Forif wee conſider th'e- quality of deſert , and condignity; there is according tothe dofrineof S, Avguſtine,a threefold diſpropor- tion. One in reſpe ofthe Rewarder , whoſe rewar- ding of ſinne witheternall torment is the propera&t

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teouſneſſe,vpon them whom he hath accepted vnro Grace,is only the 1uſtice of his mercifull ® promiſe. Secondly in refpe& of the Subie&: for the Sinne which a wicked man commitrteth is properly: his owne, but therightcouſneſſe ofthe Regenerate is the gift P of Cod:ſothatthe reward of death is more

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receined , but gime that which thou haſt promiſed. And

righteouſneſſe: Thirdly in regard of the objed : ber cauſe the finne of the wickcd is perfeRly imperfeR, but the righteouſnes of the molt godly ts imperfc- ly perfe&,that is but a ſtained goodnefle, wherefore there cannot bean equal! condignity in both.

Ma, Wegrant that che reward cannot goe beforc merites, nor bee giuen before a man bee wor- thy thereof: but 1abs' muſt learne that theſe merits arc 1 Chriſts,by the /mpetation whereof, wethat arc altogether vaworthy ot our ſelues,are made through Gods gracious acceptance of his ſonnes obedience, worthy of this reward. Otherwiſe New ſunt condig- ne paſciones, our greateſt ſufferings are not worthy of the leaſt degree of glory which ſhall bee reucaled to | the ſfonnes of God. * Gretia enim /aluats es, faith the Apoſile : For you are ſaued by Grace through Faith , and that not of your (ciucs.

Min. Fulgentius makes the caſe plaincin this gol- den ſentence 1 Yunus Dews et qui gratu et wocat pre- deſtinatos, et inſtificat vocatos, et glorificat iuſlificatos: and againe, * Sicwt gratis ip/ius opus eff cum facit iuſtos, | [ic gratis ipſius erit cum faciet g'orieſos * Debitorem ſe 1p/e Dominus fecit, ſaith S. Auguſtme, non accipiendo, | ſed promittends: non ei dicitur, Redde quod accepiſti, ſed |

receening any thing from vs, but by the paſſing of his pro- miſe unto vs : wee ſay not to him, Render that thaw haſt

che ſame * Father, Nonpro merits accipies vitem eter- namſed progratia. Thou ſhalt not receixe life eternall for

merit, but for grace.

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q Mors tins meritum meum, Aug .in Manual. 6,33.

r Epheſ.z v8.

ſ De predeft, ad Monmun,lib.1

t Ibid.

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Nick. How thinke you now of S. Auguſtines opi- nion touching merit ? were you not vtrerly deuoid ofall ſhame, you would neuer have cited him in this cauſe, wherein you finde him wholly averſe. You were better ſcanne my Malters Letter,and let S.4s- guſline alone.

lab. Howy Y muth reaſon 1 had to tearme his Let- ter learned, you may inlge, by his laying together on an heape the points of Catholique Dottrine , which he— miſlikes. hereof he thinks Purgatory to be the ground.- worke, Is it nota learned enumeration , to make Me- rits, Miſſes, Vigils, Superaltaries, Noone-day- Lampes , Grames, Holy-water, Ole, Salt, Spittle, &rc. to haue- not onely mutuall reference, but fundementall depen- dance on Purzatory? What hath