Page [unnumbered]
Proper Persecution, or the sandy Foundation of a general Toleration, Discovered and Portrayed in its proper Colors.
By the fruit ye shal know the tree; And by the waters the fountain. Read and Consider what the Envious man hath done.
J shall begin with Martins cursed shrill Eccho. pag. 5, 6.
1 THe life of Sir John Presbyter is like nei∣ther to be long nor good.
2. That he will be brought to a sudden untimely end, perhaps to hanging.
3. That Presbytery shall live but a short time to do mischief, and then the common people will sing, Hey tosse the Devils dead.
4. The Synod will soon be dissolved, the devill chain'd up.
5. Clap thy hands for joy, O England, Pres∣bytery shal have never a child to vex thee shortly, or imprison thy free Denisons, and to suck up thy fat.
6. Then farewel persecution for conscience, then farewel Ordinance for tithes; farewel Ecclesiasti∣cal supremacy: farewel Pontifical revenue.
7. Farewel Assembly of Divines, Dissembled at Westminster, Sir Simon Synod, and his son Presby∣ter Jack.
In Persecution Araignment, Pag. 2.
8. Persecution hath a thousand Iack tricks a∣bove all the rest to block up all passages and stop all mouths.
9. He turned Reverend Imprimatur and here all was as sure as the Devil and Presbyter could make it.
10. Pag. 14. We imploy Dr. Featlyes Devil a very reverend ten pound Sir John, to make up a description of the Anabaptists, &c.
Against Tithes in a scurrilous Libel:
11. Time hath been wholy taken up in the Pro∣curement of that sacred Ordinance of Tithes, wisely thought on before the Directory; for he is an Infidel and denyeth the faith that doth not provide for his Family.
12. My Lord the Defendant smels of a fat be∣nefice; see his pockets are ful of Presbyterian steeples, the spires stick under his girdle; ha, ha, ha, instead of weathercocks, every spire hath got a black box on it.
13. Instead of Moses, Aaron, and the two tables, we shal have Sir Ssmon and Sir John holding the late solemn League and Covenant.
14. And then that demure, spotless, pretty, lovely, sacred, divine, and holy Ordinance for Tithes. The two tables of our Presbyterian Go∣spel painted upon all the Churches in England.
15. O brave Sir Simon the Bels in your pocket chime all in, ours chime all out.
16. I pray you give a funeral homily for your friends here before you depart, heres twenty shil∣lings for your pains.
17. Yea tis sacriledge to bring down the prise as it was in the beginning is now, and ever shal bee, world without end, Amen.
18. Our Temporizing Doctors are not so simple to swim against the stream, they are wiser in their generation and know most state goes that way.
19. Their Religion moves upon the wheel of the State.
20. I would your Lordships would cal in your Ordinance for tithes, & turn them to the peoples goodwils; Then a tithe pig would be sold for a penny.
In the Sacred Decretal, or Hue and C••y.
21. From his superlative holiness Sir Simon Synod, &c. In the front whereof is the picture of a Bul tossing Sir Simon Synod on his horns, Tram∣pling the Ordinance for tithes under his feet, with this Inscription upon it. Ordinance for Tithes.
22. That the Ordinance permitting none to preach, but such as are or∣dained is a pattern of the spirit worse then the Monopoly of Sope, hereby to get all trading into their own hands.
23, Sir Iohn Gurns being lately rob'd with a Parliament Corall, that late Ordinance is made to put his boarish Tusks, his great huge iron fangs in execution, to divorce, rend and teare these Hereticks.
24. Therefore we wisely consulted of a Committee of examination to be chosen out of us, it must not be esteemed a Court of Iuquision thats po∣pery, not a Renovation of the High Commission, thats Antichristian, only an Inlet to a through Reformation, thats a godly name that may doe much good, &c.
25. The Classicall Clarks and Sextons of the three Kingdoms demolish and put down all the Martins nests from your Church-wals and Steeples, that no birds build, chatter, or doe their busines there.
26. But Church owles, Jack-dawes, otherwayes called Sir Iohn blind Batts Presbyterian Wood cocks.
27. O yee two Houses of Parliament make another Ordinance, that all the meetings may be made to fly the three Kingdoms the next Mid-summer with Cuckowes and Swallows.
28. Thar so we may have a blew Cap Reformation, amongst Bats, Owles, Jack-dawes and Wood cocks and the blew Cap for us.
Araignment of Persecution, pag. 33. 34.
29. Persecution is thy name, Perfect Reformation.
Persecu. Yes my Lord, Iudge. Who gave you that name? I. Reasen, his God fathers and God-mothers in his Baptism wherein he was made a mem∣ber of the Assembly, and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Antichrist.
30. Iudg. Who are your God-fathers, and God-mothers?
Persecu. My Lord, Master Ecclesiasticall Supremacy, and Master Scotch government my God-fathers, Mistris State ambition, and Church Revenue are my God-mothers.
31. And I was sprinkled into the Assembly of Divines, at the taking of the late solemn League and Covenant.
32. Iudg. Tis strange, that at the making of the late solemne league and Covenant, blood Thirsty Persecution should be Anabaptist present before Reformation.
33. Then here's a designe of blood in the Covenant, if under the name of Reformation the Clergy have infused the spirit of Persecution into it.
34. My Lord there was never any National or Provincial Synod, but strengthned the hand of Persecution under the vizard of Religion.
35. I. Reason, as soon as these underling Di∣vines are from under their Episcopall Task-ma∣sters, and begin to incroach your Lordships pow∣er, they presently take this notorious bloody Traytor Persecution, stript by your Lordships of his High Commission habit, and out of their zeal dresse him in a divine Synodical garb, and change his name from Persecution to Reformation.
Pag. 39. By the late solemn League and Cove∣nant, Good Lord deliver us.
Araignment of Persecution in the Epistle.
36. A Reverend Assembly such a quagmire of croaking skipjack Presbyters &c.
37. New upstart trifling Presbyters, Synodi∣an Cormorants; the Synodian whore of Babylon; The trayterous Synod called the Assembly of Divines.
38. Presbyterian Horse leeches, blood-thirsty cattel.
39. The great gore-bellyed Idol, called the Assembly of Divines.
40. Jesuitical Traytors, designs of the Synod.
41. Our dissembly Doctors a Consistory of Devils.
42. Pag. 1. The Synod is guided by the holy Ghost, sent in Cloakbag from Scotland.
43. Because the Assembly have sadled the Par∣liament, it is unlawful for the Presbyterians to go on foot.
44. Pag. 35. 36. It is most certain that this fellow, whose name Sir Simon fains to be Refor∣mation, is absolute Persecution; so that had these Reformers as much power as Queen Maries Cler∣gy, their Reformation would conclude in fire and faggot.
45. Judge, oh insufferable Assembly, I see tis dangerous for a State to pin their faith upon the sleeve of the Clergy.
46. Others are impoverisht and lose their lives in the Quarrel, but these are inricht and ad∣vanced by it, save their purses and persons, cram their filthy greedy guts too il to carry to a bear.
47. Yea my Lord this great gore belly Idoll called the Assembly of Divines is not ashamed in this time of necessity to devour more at one Meal then Bel and the Dragon.
48. Besides all their fat Benefices forsooth they must have four shillings a peece by the day, &c.
49. They move your Lordship that all the Clergy may be freed from taxations that now the trade of Presbytery is the best.
50. All are taxt and it goes free, thus these Church-lubbers live at ease.
51. Let all that suffer opppression consider this and no longer be Riden and Jaded by Clergy∣masters.
52. But to give the Devil his due, they are zea∣lously affected to the honor of the cloth, that it is pity to disrobe them of the cassock garb to be led in strings from Westminster to Algate in leathern Jackets and mattock on their shouldiers.
53. Pag. 36, 37. Primacy, Metra politanism, Prelacy &c. are shrunk into the Presbytery, and the High Commission court turned into an As∣sembly of Divines.
With numerous such like cursed expressions the like whereof I perswade my self all our Iesui∣ticall State-destroying Romish enemies are no way able to paralel, thus in plain English we see a goodly Foundation layd for a Toleration, pre∣tended for tender consciences but contradicted by hellish, heathenish and cursed carnal practises.