A Relation of some Stories, and remarkable Passages concerning the Sectaries.
THere is one Lawrence Clarkson, a Seeker, spoken of in my Gangraena, pag. 104, and 105. who put forth a Pamphlet called The Pilgrimage of Saints, wherein are many passages highly derogatory to the Scriptures, deny∣ing them to be the rule of a Christian, or that in Doctrine or Practise half of Gods glory was revealed as yet; this man a Taylor and a Blasphemer preach∣ed on the Lords day, March eight, at Bow-Church in Cheapside, in the after∣noone: He began his prayer to God, with Right Honourable Lord God, and in his Prayer he prayed that God would blesse the Kings Army, and blesse the Saints both in the Parliaments Army and the Kings, his Sermon was a Rapsody of nonsence. This was not done in a corner, but in a great and full Audience; there was present at this Sermon one Member of the House of Commons, if not more, besides divers other persons of quality; and though this Clarkson was in London some time after this, and may be still for ought that I know, yet was he never questioned, nor called to any account for this, or for his Pilgri∣mage of Saints, as ever I could learn.
Saturday, March ••he seventh, a Minister who preached at Martins near White-Hall, told me, that lately since my Book came forth, he preaching in a Sermon against sin and the Divell, a woman on the morrow came to him (a Nurse-keeper dwelling in Clare street) and questioned with him about his Sermon, asking him his grounds for speaking of sin and the Divell, the Minister brought some places of Scripture, shee sleighted the Scriptures, and denied there was any such thing as sin, or Hell, or the Divell, or temptation, or the holy Ghost, or Scriptures; shee said, all the Hell that was, was the darknesse of