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<P>A Fresh Bit of Mutton, for tho&s;e Fle&s;hy minded Canibals that cannot endure Pottadge.</P>
<P>OR A Defence of <HI>Giles Calfine's</HI> Me&s;&s;e of Pottadge well &s;ea&s;oned and well crummed.</P>
<P>Again&s;t the idle yet in&s;olent exceptions of his mon&s;trous Adver&s;ary <HI>MT.ST.RA.IS.PH.</HI></P>
<P>By <HI>Drupheyra Thexylvenic: Co&s;mopolites</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>IOELL 2.17.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Let the Prie&s;ts the Mini&s;ters of the Lord weep betweene the Porch and the Altar and let them &s;ay, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the Heathen &s;hould rule over them, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>ECCLESIAST. 5.2.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Be not ra&s;h with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be ha&s;ty to utter any thing before God; for God is in Heaven and thou upon Earth, therefore let thy words be few.</P></Q>
<P>Printed for <HI>T. P. in Queens head-Alley,</HI> 1462.</P>
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<HEAD>A Fresh bit of Mutton for tho&s;e fle&s;hy minded Cannibals that cannot endure Pottadge.</HEAD>
<P>_OVr ble&s;&s;ed Saviour him&s;elfe, and al&s;o <HI>Iohn</HI> the Bapti&s;t ju|&s;tly called the Phari&s;es of their times, <HI>a Generation of Vipers and Hypocrites;</HI> And certainly the new re&s;ined Phari&s;ees of our dayes are ju&s;t the &s;ame, profe&s;&s;ing all good, yet practi&s;ing nothing but what is evill and de|&s;tructive to the peace of the Church. The old Phari&s;ees &s;aid of <HI>John Bapti&s;t,</HI> who came neither eating or drinking, that <HI>he had a Devill;</HI> of our Saviour (who came both eating and drinking) that <HI>he was a Glutton and Winebiber,</HI> &amp;c. and that he al&s;o had a Devill: Of the &s;ame humour are our new nice Phari&s;ees, if fa&s;ting at Church like hone&s;t Chri&s;tians, or full fed in a Conventicle among&s;t their own li|centious Libertines, they are &s;till the &s;ame, &s;till going contrary to the the Orders of the Church, fa&s;ting when they are allowed to fea&s;t, and fea&s;ting when fa&s;ts are enjoyned. But the&s;e men go beyond the old Phari&s;ees in this, that they are not content to deny obedience to Church Orders, but revile the Church as adulterous, for not confor|ming her &s;elfe to their giddy devi&s;es. They are never &s;o happy in their own opinions, as when they are ca&s;ting foule indignities &amp; a&s;per&s;ions on tho&s;e whom Chri&s;t hath cho&s;en, and his Church ordained to be the faithful di&s;pen&s;ors of his word &amp; Sacramets. Hence proceeds tho&s;e &s;can|dalous reproachs again&s;t that &s;acred government, which Chri&s;t in&s;titu|ted in his Church. It is true, as Chri&s;t &s;aid to his Apo&s;tles, <HI>Men&s;hal think they do God good &s;ervice when they revile and per&s;ecute you</HI> It appeares nowby the&s;e mens practi&s;es, who think them&s;elves almo&s;t capable of Heaven, If they can but raile at Gods faithfull Mini&s;ters and Amba&s;&s;a|dors. Traducing their calling as diabolicall and Antichri&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">an, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ropha|ning
<PB N="2" REF="3">their practi&s;e and wor&s;hip as Idolatrous and Super&s;titious, bla|&s;ting their good names as odious and &s;candalous, and calumniating their lives as lewd and licentious; but why do I rake in this dunghill of bla&s;phemies and reproaches? For what good language can Chri&s;ts Me&s;&s;engers expect from &s;uch incendiaries, who&s;e tongues are &s;et on fire from Hel? What calamities this viperous generation hath brought on poore <HI>Germany</HI> is known to all and what it may bring on us is ve|ry much to be feared, by the mon&s;trous encrea&s;e of the&s;e pe&s;tilent &s;ects of late in this Kingdom? We &s;ee how they re&s;i&s;t the Orders of our Church in troupes, and labour by their multitudes to effect that, which by plaine arguments and rea&s;on they cannot accompli&s;h.</P>
<P>The patient and pious humble Remon&s;trance met with a plural ad|ver&s;ary, a five headed mon&s;ter, &s;tiled <HI>Smecty m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s;</HI> Out of the &s;ame &s;ea was revealed the &s;econd Bea&s;t with 7 heads, in armes again&s;t our <HI>Ly|turgy, (known by the name of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">walphineramis</HI>) but that the my&s;tery of ini|quity may appeare every day more abominable, <HI>Giles Calfines</HI> an&s;wers are di&s;covered under this heatheni&s;h name, <HI>MT.ST.RA.IS.PH.</HI> And now that you may know him to be a true viper, you may &s;ee he hath eaten his way through the belly of his damme: Impudently proclaim|ing in his Title and Book, that the <HI>Lyturgy</HI> of our Church is no better than <HI>Popi&s;h Poradge,</HI> &amp;c. Making the Church (too good a mother for &s;uch a ba&s;tard) no better than an harlot. He &s;ays he hath &s;uch argu|ments again&s;t it, as are unan&s;werable. A bold &s;peech of an uncircumci|&s;ed <HI>Philistim:</HI> Yet in the name of God I will throw one &s;tone out of <HI>Davids</HI> &s;ling at this <HI>Goliah,</HI> though I cannot put on <HI>Sauls</HI> armour, nor was ever wrapped in <HI>Samuels</HI> mantle. And now Sir, I mu&s;t a little rea&s;on with you, if you will allow of any rea&s;on.</P>
<P>This you &s;ay, It is no indignity to call the Service Book Porradge, by a metaphor, becau&s;e fat Cooks out of the <HI>Popes</HI> Kitchin compo&s;ed it. I had though (my unlettered many lettered brethren) that Cooks did make Porradge within, not out of the Kitchin, and if it had been com|po&s;ed by the <HI>Popes</HI> Cooks, it would never have had &s;o many arguments again&s;t Popery, as may with &s;mall paines be deduced from thence. If it be Porradge it is milk Porradge made of the fincere milk of the word, and boyled before the <HI>Pope</HI> had either Cook or Kitchin, at lea&s;t allow it to be as <HI>Giles Calfine</HI> affirmes good whole&s;ome Porradge well ea|&s;oned and well crummed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> If there be any thing that doth not a|gree with your nice pallate, it is hearb of Grace, whereof there is good &s;tore; an ingredient which you cannot abide, becau&s;e it will vex your fle&s;hly de&s;ires. But if the whore of <HI>Babylon</HI> did chop into it (as you &s;ay) weeds of Idolatry, to poy&s;on the children of Grace; The ble&s;&s;ed Reformers did by their Porradge as <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> did by tho&s;e (whereof the
<PB N="3" REF="3">&s;ons of the Prophets cry'd out, &s;aying, <HI>there is death in the pot,</HI> that is, not throw them away, but cure them, by putting therin the fine flower of Gods Word, and making them conformable to the truth. So that there is now nothing in them, but that which is in for our nouri&s;hment and comfort; and I dare confidently affirme that never any child of Grace peri&s;hed by any night-&s;hade or <HI>Colloquintida</HI> in the Porradge. But you &s;ay, the name <HI>Lyturgy</HI> and <HI>Ma&s;&s;e</HI> are u&s;ed promi&s;cuou&s;ly by <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> and therfore the <HI>Lyturgy</HI> is unlawful. A pretty formal argument, the word <HI>Communion</HI> and <HI>Sacrament</HI> are u&s;ed promi&s;cuou&s;ly by us and the Papi&s;ts by the &s;ame argument wee &s;hould not receive the Lords Supper, be|cau&s;e Papi&s;ts agree with us in the name: By this you may behold on what &s;lender argument your found opinions are grounded. But, you &s;ay, Na<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nes are the Images of things, and therfore the <HI>Lyturgy</HI> is either a Lethargy of Will-wor&s;hip, or a Ma&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Idolatry. Well bowl'd Bre|ther <HI>Nicholas,</HI> but that one is too wide, &amp; the other too narrow. <HI>Ten|terdon Steeple</HI> is the cau&s;e of <HI>Goodwins &s;ands,</HI> the more Logical argument of the two; if the Name be always the Image of a thing, then every one that is named <HI>John</HI> mu&s;t be as good as S. <HI>John,</HI> and he that is called <HI>Peter</HI> as S. <HI>Peter.</HI> I warrant that is the matter that S <HI>Paul</HI> was &s;o wick|ed before his name was altered, becau&s;e he was King <HI>Sauls</HI> name &s;ake. I by this can &s;ee the rea&s;on why you delight to give Scripture names to your children, becau&s;e you thinke their names will make them good; when as wee &s;ee the&s;e poore children, being mi&s;led by their parents &amp; &s;eparating from Gods Church into Conventicles, loo&s;e all Religion &amp; God too, while they run a whoring after their own invention<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and wor&s;hip the Calves of their own imagination. But again the name being the image of a thing, you hence a&s;&s;irme that bowing to a name is bowing to an Image; <HI>Ergo,</HI> it is Idolatry tobow to he name of <HI>Ie&s;us.</HI> If this be your Logick, God keep me from your conclu&s;ions. You have I beleeve forgot bow a worthy <HI>Gous:</HI> did of late vindicate this part of wor&s;hip; but I will beare with your &s;hort memory &s;eeing you have al|mo&s;t &s;poyled it by hearing long winded Sermons. But now comes another of your great arguments, that the <HI>Lyturgy</HI> is taken out of the Popi&s;h Brevia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y, and therefore it is unlawfull. I can tell you that the Lords prayer is taken from thence, will you therfore &s;ay it is unlawful? Your Brethren do as good, for many of them will not u&s;e it; the Apo|&s;tles Creed is there too, but tho&s;e Articles are now no part of your &s;aith; <HI>Turner</HI> is your Apo&s;tle; (but I am &s;ure his Creed will never &s;ave your &s;oules) the ten Commandements are there too, but the World, the Fle&s;h and the Devill are &s;o potent in your affections, that you will not keepe them, and therefore de&s;ire not to heare them. But if the Papi&s;ts mix with our Prayers their &s;uper&s;trtious ones, mu&s;t not we therfore u&s;e the good ones? The Divell confe&s;&s;ed Chri&s;t to be the Son of God, &s;o did <HI>Peter,</HI> yet our Saviour never blamed <HI>Peter</HI> for u&s;ing the Divels confe&s;|&s;ion.
<PB N="4" REF="4">Next you find fault with the tran&s;lation of the P&s;almes in the <HI>Liturgie;</HI> for an&s;wer to this, pray under&s;tand (if you can) that the P&s;almes in the Service booke were never yet allowed of by any Pa|pi&s;ts, but were one of the fir&s;t tran&s;lations &s;ince our ble&s;&s;ed Re&s;orma|tion, and authorized by Act or Parliament for publike Service. This la&s;t which is the be&s;t tran&s;lation, was done by King <HI>Iames</HI> his Com|mand, and by him appoynted to be read in Churches; and if they were (as I wi&s;h they might) be enjoyned by Parliament to that u&s;e, I dare &s;ay, none would refu&s;e to read them in&s;tead of the old. Next you find fault that we u&s;e <HI>Gloria Patri,</HI> in&s;tead of prai&s;e the Lord: It &s;eemes you thinke holy duties enjoyned are unlawfull to be perfor|med, for what is <HI>Gloria Patri,</HI> but prai&s;e be to the Lord?</P>
<P>Another frivolous Cavill you have again&s;t reading parts of Chap|ters, as in the Epi&s;tles and Go&s;pels; he is a foole they &s;ay, that can &s;ay nothing, and rather than you will have nothing to &s;ay, you will talke like a foole; for tell me (good Sir) is it not lawfull nor commendable on &s;uch occa&s;ions to take tho&s;e parts of holy Writ only, as are agreea|ble and pertinent to the time and occa&s;ion? If you will not allow a part of a Chapter, do not allow a Chapter of a Booke; for the divi&s;ion of bookes into Chapters was not originall, but of latter times, done few ages ago. I will give you one in&s;tance more delightfull to your fle&s;hly de&s;ires; Why is your Mutton your own deare di&s;h, brought to your table by the joynt, and not by the whole &s;heep? and why do you cate but part of that joynt only, &s;uch as you be&s;t like, and not all of it; you cannot give me a rea&s;on of one, but I can returne it to you in be|halfe of the other, only this one excepted: that this your trade of Pamphleting will not maintaine &s;o great a table, as a whole &s;heep e|very meale, and two legged Mutton into the bargaine.</P>
<P>Your la&s;t and wor&s;t argument is again&s;t the <HI>Letany,</HI> which (you &s;ay) is not the &s;tumpe or limbe of <HI>Dagon,</HI> but the head of the Ma&s;&s;e booke, in which you &s;ay are nothing but repetitions, and a multitude of words, as <HI>Good Lord deliver us, heare us</HI> &amp;c. ridiculous invocations, Magick &s;pels, and no beeter than conjuring. Oh horrid Prophanation of true zealous devotions! &s;top thy mouth audatious Bla&s;phemer, and blu&s;h for the abu&s;e of tho&s;e cries for mercy, and &s;hort ejaculations for and ience at the Throne of grace.</P>
<P>Looke on <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 136. and &s;ee if there be not more repetitions in the&s;e very words, <HI>for his mercy endures for ever:</HI> See al&s;o our Saviours pra|cti&s;e, <HI>Matth.</HI> 26. praying three times the very &s;ame words, <HI>Father if it be po&s;&s;ible let this cup pa&s;&s;e from me:</HI> Can you teach <HI>David</HI> and our Sa|viour? will you charge them with vaine repetitions? He that is wi&s;e in his own conceit is a foole; but take heed, pride goeth before a fall, and an high mind before de&s;truction. You have great need to &s;ay one part of the <HI>Letany, from all blindne&s;&s;e of heart, from pride, vaine glory,
<PB N="5" REF="4">and hypocri&s;ie, from envy hatred and malice, and all uncharitablene&s;&s;e,</HI> &amp;c, Look I be&s;eech you to an extemporary prayer of one of your own trib; how many vaine and impious Tautologes have you there, a dozen ex|pre&s;&s;ions of one thing; crying good Lord, mercifull Father, gracious Lord, &amp;c. three times in a breath to &s;top a gap, and keep his tongue in play, prophaning the name and attributes of God, to fill up his non-&s;ence, and helpe out his dull invention. La&s;tly tell me, do you ever thinke to come to heaven by conjuring? Can you come thither with|out the Incarnation, Nativity, Circumci&s;ion, Temptation and Agony, the death and buriall, the glorious Re&s;urrection and A&s;&s;ention of Chri&s;t? This it is to ca&s;t mo&s;t glorious pearles before Swine, who will be &s;ure to trample them in the mire. You need no other an&s;wer but the whipping po&s;t or gallowes, that dare defame the my&s;teries of Salvation. But though you will call it conjuring, it &s;hall ever bee the chiefe part of my publike devotions, and I will adde this to my pri|vate <HI>Letany.</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>From the numerous generation of Smects.</HI></L>
<L><HI>From viperous tub Preachers and their giddy Sects,</HI></L>
<L><HI>From tho&s;e who holy prayers of our Church neglects,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Good Lord deliver me.</HI></L></Q>
<P>And now Sir, having in &s;ome mea&s;ure layed open the invalidity of your arguments, I crave leave a little to rub you by the elbow for your jeering; I perceive you are a carnall man fle&s;hly minded, you love Mutton well, but cannot away with Porridge: Take heed you do not &s;urfet your &s;elfe, too much of your &s;traight-laced Mutton it wil bring you to a Con&s;umption, and then good Porridge well &s;ea&s;oned and well boyled, will prove the be&s;t nouri&s;hing dyet to re&s;tore your decayed nature.</P>
<P>You are I perceive a Cook too, but no ordinary Cook, for you ne|ver would dre&s;&s;e Porridge.</P>
<P>One of the <HI>Popes</HI> fat Cooks you are not, for they put poy&s;on in the Porridge, You are then a leane Cook, &amp; for your leane&s;&s;e you may thank your <HI>Mutton.</HI> You are no ignorant Cook, but one that is well expe|rienced, one that knowes the whore of <HI>Babilon</HI> well, and cannot abide her, becau&s;e &s;hee is out of your reach. For if &s;hee were neare you would be one of her be&s;t cu&s;tomers, having as good a de&s;ire to the fle&s;h as the be&s;t. Experience is gained by old age, &s;o it &s;eems you are an old Cook; and then (if the name be the image of a thing) you are a Cook-old. But will nothing down with you but <HI>Mutton,</HI> &s;ure your &s;tomach is very &s;trong. Your extemporary exerci&s;es are but raw meats full of crudities, but you know where to vent them, and no carryon will kill an old Crow. The learned Clergy you wil not heare, for they
<PB N="6" REF="5">are <HI>Baals</HI> Prie&s;ts you &s;ay. But you love &s;trong backed men, as Potte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Carmen, in&s;pired Weavers, and &s;oule-curing Coblers; &s;uch as were <HI>Ieroboamb's</HI> Prie&s;ts made of the lowe&s;t of the people. I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e ceive you hope to gaine &s;omething by their Calves. But to return to the mat|ter in hand, and come to a Conclu&s;ion; &s;ince I perceive you are &s;uch a great <HI>Mutton</HI> monger, pray what part of the <HI>Mutton</HI> &s;hall I a&s;&s;igne. If I allot you the head, you may thinke I account you a Sheeps head, (blow your R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ms Horne, and a&s;&s;emble your tribe to a con&s;ul;tation) if the neck, you will &s;ay, I jeere your &s;tiffe neckedne&s;&s;e. The &s;houlders you are content to keep for Fryday nightsu &s;pper, with the helpe of a good fat Coney for your dige&s;tion. The brea&s;t and loynes you and your Brethren love dearely. But above all, I commend unto you the rumpe, and lea&s;t you &s;hould blend legs with your &s;i&s;ters, I will take the legs and begone.</P>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;alm. 78.30, 31.</HI></BIBL>
<P>They were not estranged of their lu&s;ts, But while their meat was yet in their mouths, The wrath of God came upon them, and &s;lew the fatte&s;t of them and &s;mote down the cho&s;en men of I&s;rael.</P>
<BIBL><HI>Levit. 19.27.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Yee &s;hall not round the corners of your heads, neither &s;halt thou marre the corners of thy beard.</P></Q>
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