Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht

SECT. 6.

VVHat, tell them of preaching in season, and out of season,* 1.1 2 Tim. 4. 2. Not for filthy lucre, but of a ready minde, 1 Pet. 5. 2. Not to be a drinker of Wine, not to preach with the in∣••icing

words if mens wisedome, 1 Cor. 2. 1. 4. but in the demon∣stration of the Spirit, to be blamelesse, apt to teach, not to be a stri∣ker, not given to filthy lucre, not to be a brawler, or covetous, 1 Tim. 3. 3. Not to be Lords over Gods heritage, but examples to the flock, 1 Pet. 5. 3.

No Paul, and Peter, you are the most fit for those things your selves, you can preach by the Spirit, and pray by the Spirit; and as for you Paul, you have lungs to preach, and pray untill mid∣night, Act. 20. &c. you were the chiefe Tub-preachers of your dayes, you care not where you preach, whether in a Chamber amongst your holy brethren, Act. 20. 7. or by a river side amongst your holy Sisters, Act. 16. 13. yea, you could goe from house to house, to pray, and preach, Act. 20. 20. yea, you hired a house for that purpose, Act. 28. 30. but for our parts we scorne such actions, for we can pray, and preach, as much in an houre, as you did in six; you pray and preach as the Spirit moves you, but the pray∣ers and Sermons which we make, are so pleasing to our Auditors, as that they wil produce hums from them; we can run such divi∣sions, and subdivisions, and subdivisions upon subdivisions with the stringed instrument of our tongue, as a right good Organist can 〈◊〉〈◊〉 upon his full blowne Organ, so that your Sermonds in compa∣rison of ours are poore, and beggerly, such as the rest of your Brethren make in these dayes. I should be ashamed to speake* 1.2 such things of them, had I not been so well acquainted with them, and their expressions of this nature; yea I perswade my selfe, that they are so well knowne to every Professor of Christ, as that they think I have not spoken more then they would performe in case the Apostles were extant amongst us; yea it is cleerly ap∣parent, that they have done, now doe, and hereafter will doe as much as I have spoken. Christ telleth his Disciples, that he that dispised them, dispised him; and is it not their daily custome to deride the Professors of Christ, with taunting language? and in so doing they doe not only reproach the Brethren, (who practise according to the example of the Apostles) but the Apostles themselves, who left us the examples to follow; and in villify∣ing them, it must consequently follow, that they doe the like to our Saviour himselfe, who saith of them (and so conse∣quently of his Professors) He that despiseth you, despiseth

me, and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me Luke 10. 16.

Now these being such a sort of people, how is it possible they should be thought fit instruments, to execute the Apostles office, in the now gathering of the Church and people of God, out of their Antichristian estate, and condition, being it selfe predomi∣nant over them) as if a Devill would perswade a man to Christianity.

Notes

• * 1.1

  How they de∣spise the pra∣ctise of the Apostles.
• * 1.2

  The Cavalier Priests re∣proach Christ himselfe.