not only at me and my Books, and some few fa••ithfull Ministers and servants of God, but against all Presbyterians Assembled or not Assembled in Eng∣land, Scotland, France and Ireland, coming forth just like Goliath, rai∣ling and defying the armies of the living God, that I have much ado to keep my selfe from answering him according to his folly, and beating him with his own weapon, Difficile est S••tyram••on scribere, and my indignation to see the unworthinesse and insolencie of the man much provokes me. But I consider what becomes me as a Minister of the Gospel to do in such a case, rather then what he hath deserved, and therefore shall passe by his railings, and scoff••, not rendring evill for evill, or railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing, knowing that I am thereunto called: And instead of railing and vilifying Master Goodwin, I will a little expostulate with him; M. Goodwin, will you never leave your scoffing and scorning, your reviling and reproaching of all men, stuffing your pages with great swelling words, and filling whole leaves with nothing but jeers and multitude of six footed words instead of Reasons and Arguments? will you by all your writings and preachings make good that Title which by way of re∣proach was first given to you, namely, The great Red Dragon of Coleman-street? will you still speak as a Dragon, and Dragon like flie fiercely in the faces of all, spitting your poyson and venome against all, casting fire-brands every where? will you alwayes use your mouth to speak great things and blasphemies, and open your mouth in blasphemy against God, his name and his Tabernacle, as you have done in your Books of Controversie? will you never learn to be meek and lowly, to deny your passion, speak as a Lamb, and repent of your deeds? let me tell you, that if you belong to God, this spirit of yours, and the way of managing things in your Books of M.S. Theomachia, Answers to Mr Prynne, Cretensis will cost you dear, and you will be saved as by fire. For my part instead of reproaching and scoffing you (though not for want of matter, Cretensis being a very fruitfull subject for a man to exercise his wit upon) all I will do either in this brief, or in my full and large Reply shall be to draw to one head all the Errours and strange wayes Cretensis holds and hath walked in, by which if (God wil) he may be a∣shamed and truly humbled, and his spirit saved in the day of Christ, or however, that godly weak Christians may know him as a dangerous erroneous man, and avoid him: All I will say now (reserving particulars, and the proofs of them till my full Reply) shall be this, that Cretensis hath an hereticall wit, and holds many wicked opinions, being an Hermorphradite and a compound of an Ar∣minian, So••inian, Libertine, Anabaptist, &c. and in regard of some strange opi∣nions he hath held many years, and others that in time he might fall unto (which in the Presbyterian way he could never enjoy with quiet, nor have liberty to propagate them) therefore he took sanctuary in Independency, falling from our Church, and the Presbyteriall Government (which a little before the first sitt∣ting