The vvhipper vvhipt being a reply upon a scandalous pamphlet, called The whip, abusing that excellent work of Cornelius Burges, Dr in divinity, one of the Assembly of Divines, entituled, The fire of the sanctuary newly discovered / inserti authoris, Qui Mockat, Mockabitur.

Cal.

How now Doctor, doth your Guilt begin to call for more witnesses? Are you tormented before your time? The Law (you speake on) would in these dayes, be needlesse: Our Ministers faults are now writ in their foreheads, and as apparent as the Sun at noone, whose leud and looser Conversations, are impudent Confessions, and visibly manifest, enough without farther Witnesses: Our Crime-discovering Century, is both Witnesses and Jury, and the pious Composer thereof, a most sufficient Iudge: But some there be so craftily vitious, that they can keep their words and Actions from the eyes and eares of Men: For such, I hold a reasonable Presumption, Evidence enough; Others there be, whose vices want no Witnesses, but, perchance, their Witnes∣sses, (as the too partiall world expounds it) want worth and Credit. Some measure worth by a visible Estate; some, by unimpeachable ho∣nesty of body, or behaviour; others, by a religious demeanour accor∣ding to establisht canstitutions; whereas, for my part, If a poor handi∣crafts

man, or whose Infirmity denies him a through-pac'd honesty, or whose piety is a little zealously refractory to establisht discipline; nay, be he a convicted Anabaptist, or Blasphemer, or what not? (in case it be for the Cause) that brings an Accusation, or appears a Wit∣nesse against a Malignant Minister, I question not, but such a Wit∣nesse may be valuable.