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<P>THE Devil in his Dumps: Or a &s;ad COMPLAINT OF <HI>MALIGNANT SPIRITS,</HI> At the &s;ettling of PEACE and TRVTH In a late CONVENTICLE held neer the TOWER for the better influence of Iohn Lilburns Coun&s;els&punc;</P>
<P>ALSO A full and true Relation of the Sectaries de&s;perate Conclu&s;ions concerning their la&s;t and pre&s;ent De&s;ign for the utter Ruine of Church and State.</P>
<P><ADD>Aug. 3^d</ADD> <HI>London,</HI> Printed in the Year 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>The Devil in his dumps, or a &s;ad complaint of Malignant &s;pirits <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALthough the Liberty of this age (wherin your <HI>Curranto's, Pa&s;quils</HI> and <HI>lying Pamphlets</HI> &s;warm &s;o abundantly) hath made all News (how &s;erious and &s;ub&s;tantial &s;oe|ver) liable to the jealous imputation of fal&s;hood; yet I a&s;&s;ure you, this pre&s;ent Relation, though pre&s;ented unto you in a borrowed form, yet for the &s;ub&s;tance or matter is as neer allied to <HI>truth,</HI> as <HI>light to the Sun.</HI></P>
<P>To hold you then in no further &s;u&s;pence, know, that about the be|ginning of this pre&s;ent <HI>Summer,</HI> the Prince of darkne&s;s, called a gene|ral A&s;&s;embly of all the infernal <HI>spirits,</HI> who with winged ha&s;t atten|ded his &s;ummons, and being met and the grand <HI>Diabolo</HI> mounted on a throne of <HI>&s;ulphur,</HI> accompanied with his Cabinet Councel the <HI>&s;even deadly &s;ins,</HI> he began a very pa&s;&s;ionate complaint of the great decay and imminent ruine of his Kingdom, if &s;ome &s;peedy cour&s;e were not taken to prevent it, for which he had called them together requiring their devili&s;h advice. He recounted unto them, how they were altogether ca&s;t out of heaven by the Almighty Power, for which common wrong although their confederate malice did oblige them all to &s;eek revenge, yet him&s;elf had done it by a mo&s;t &s;ubtile in&s;inuation, withdrawing the <HI>fir&s;t</HI><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Adam.</NOTE> <HI>man</HI> that ever was from's obedience to his <HI>Maker.</HI> And this fir&s;t atchievement (quoth he, my friends and fellow fiends) was by your a&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;o happily pro&s;ecuted, that in a &s;hort &s;pace I got the &s;overaignty of all the world, and the whole race of mankind became my va&s;&s;als.<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Hearheu|i&s;m.</NOTE> I had my Temples and Statues, my Oracles and Altars whereat I was &s;ought with that devotion, and all my he&s;ts ob&s;erved with that &s;ingular obedience, that I accounted my &s;elf the god of this world, for whom they thought not them&s;elves and the children of their own bodies too dear a <HI>&s;acrifice.</HI> In the pride of this univer&s;al Mo|narchy I &s;ate Lord Paramount without controul above 3000. years, but then you know a<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Chri&s;t.</NOTE> child was born, in whom was all the fulne&s;s of the eternal godhead, by who&s;e divine power and wi&s;dom my Oracles were &s;ilenced, my Temples &s;lighted, my Wor&s;hip ca&s;t out, my Altars ca&s;t down, my Statues overthrown, and indeed my whole Kingdom &s;o &s;hattered, that all my Diabolical &s;tratagems were little erough to keep together the pieces of a broken State. I mu&s;t confe&s;s that the true Chri&s;tian State was nothing in compari|&s;on
<PB N="3" REF="2">of my va&s;t <HI>Empire,</HI> but yet the greatne&s;s of our pride and ma|lice that could not endure a rival in this inferior world, or that a creature &s;o inferior to us &s;hould enjoy tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ed &s;eats, from whence we our &s;elves were with &s;o much indignation detruded, after it had in vain attempted the per&s;on of this heavenly King<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Per&s;ecu|tion.</NOTE> en|deavored with as ill &s;ucce&s;s the extirpation of his &s;ubjects and King|dom. Many were the ways and projects I u&s;ed for the effecting hereof, but all in vain, till at la&s;t my devilli&s;h invention found out a device, being a&s;&s;i&s;ted in it, I acknowledg, with all your helli&s;h coun|cels, that I thought all the power and policy under heaven could ne|ver fru&s;trate: I broke my brains and crackt my mi&s;chievous pate &s;o about it, that I doubt I &s;hal never do the like again. And indeed for a long time it an&s;wered my expectation to the full, for I built a gorgeous palace upon one of the &s;even hils<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Rome.</NOTE> in <HI>Italy,</HI> wherein I pla|ced my own dear &s;i&s;ter<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">The Pope.</NOTE> <HI>Jezabel</HI> (a notable cunning whore) who acted her part &s;o wel, with her<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Popery.</NOTE> paintings, dre&s;&s;ings, counterfeit beauties and &s;hews of holine&s;s, that in &s;hort time &s;he was courted by all the Princes and Gallants of Chri&s;tendom, whom &s;he intoxi|cated &s;o with a philtre that I gave her in a cup of gold compounded of all the damnable impo&s;tures, lyes, here&s;ies and bla&s;phemies, that my bottomle&s;s wit could po&s;&s;ibly devi&s;e or afford, that by her means, in the very mid&s;t of that temple that was built to the name and honor of God, my own image was &s;et up and vi&s;ited from all parts of the earth. But the&s;e happy days had their end at la&s;t; all my impo&s;tures were di&s;covered by one of my own<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Luther.</NOTE> votaries, and &s;uch a<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">The Go&s;pel.</NOTE> light of everla&s;ting truth &s;et up, that I &s;hal never be able to extingui&s;h again; and yet my devilli&s;h pate did not quite fail me at this pinch, but at that very in&s;tant hatcht another brood of<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg"><HI>Anabap|ti&s;ts</HI> and other Se|ctaries.</NOTE> Cro|codiles, who by their fained tears, counterfeit humilty and &s;hews of holine&s;s, inticed thou&s;ands to run after them, and by new lights or <HI>ignes fatui</HI> of their own giddy heads, lead them about &s;uch vagaries, that they brought 'em at la&s;t to a gro&s;&s;er darkne&s;s then that they e&s;caped and to the mid&s;t of that <HI>Babel</HI> that they thought they were clean got out of: What &s;weet villanies they acted by vertue of their dreams &amp; revelations, as &s;editions, rebelions, murders, rapes, robberies, &s;acriledge, crying down Mini&s;ters, Churches, Sabbaths, Sacraments Scriptures, even Chri&s;t him&s;elf, till they had left in mo&s;t places &s;carce any face of Religion, I cannot without much contentment remem|ber. In mo&s;t places they found a &s;trong oppo&s;ition, but e&s;pecially in England, by means of 26.<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Bi&s;hops.</NOTE> <HI>Elders</HI> that then governed there, but that
<PB N="4" REF="3">was not much to my lo&s;s, for indeed as the game then went, it was all one to me who won. But now the ca&s;e is <HI>altered there,</HI> my &s;un is quire &s;et, and now I am like to end my days in everla&s;ting &s;orrow; for in that <HI>poor</HI> de&s;pi&s;ed <HI>Country there is a Parliament</HI> called that wil give Laws, I doubt, to all the <HI>world,</HI> they <HI>are</HI> to <HI>&s;trongly</HI> a&s;si&s;ted with coun&s;el and <HI>&s;trength;</HI> and A&s;&s;embly of Divines and a potent City, that&mdash;he had <HI>&s;urely</HI> gone on but his <HI>troubled</HI> thoughts knew not which ways to <HI>render</HI> them&s;elves, and &s;o his &s;peech failing, he began to &s;wel<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">With cuvy</NOTE> as though he would have <HI>bur&s;t.</HI> The damned <HI>crew</HI> then and there <HI>pre&s;ent,</HI> &s;eeing <HI>their &s;overaign</HI> &s;o di&s;con&s;olate, be|gan to <HI>cheer</HI> him up with <HI>comfortable &s;peeches,</HI> and the &s;even dead|ly &s;ins <HI>&s;upported</HI> him, or el&s;e he had &s;unk down in a fwoon.</P>
<P><HI>Dear &s;overaign</HI> (quoth they) why <HI>are</HI> you troubled &s;o at a trifling <HI>matter?</HI> What if that pedling Kingdom were quite lo&s;t, have you not &s;till a world of va&s;t Signiories be&s;ides? You have <HI>more rea&s;on to rejoyce</HI> at that you have left, then <HI>grieve</HI> at a little that is fort; and yet it is not lo&s;t neither.</P>
<P><HI>For</HI> if you plea&s;e to take a view of that Kingdom, or if that be too much <HI>labor,</HI> of <HI>their chief</HI><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">London.</NOTE> <HI>City,</HI> (and by that you may judg of the <HI>re&s;t</HI>) you &s;hal find (we &s;peak within compa&s;s) <HI>three parts of four are yours &s;til.</HI> At that <HI>word</HI> the envious man began to &s;mile and look up a little. If you will but con&s;ider (quoth they) their bea&s;t|ly drunkenne&s;s, their horrible &s;wearing, whoring, lying, couzening, cheating, envy, malice, &s;landering, open and &s;ecret murder, cove|tou&s;ne&s;s, oppre&s;&s;ion; how devoutly they wor&s;hip God upon their elbows and out-face him in his own hou&s;, with their pride, painting, perfuming, curling. How they fa&s;t to &s;ave a dinner, and humble them&s;elves upon their cu&s;hions, in ti&s;&s;ue, &s;ilk, &s;atin, and &s;trange apparel, beauty &s;pots, naked brea&s;ts, and breeches about their heels, as if they were offering &s;ome &s;acrifice to <HI>Venus;</HI> be&s;ides their un|&s;peakable epicuri&s;m, gluttony, riot, and all exce&s;s. If you did but know all your &s;ecret friends and &s;ee all your profe&s;t &s;ervants that wear your Livery in their locks and badg in their faces: Do but mark how our &s;chollers out-do us that taught them, and rec|kon what millions we poor &s;even have multiplied unto, and then you wil &s;ay we have done our parts, and not lo&s;t but gained you a Kingdom. And of tho&s;e that &s;cape our claws, we beleeve that He|re&s;ie and Hypocri&s;ie can give you a rea&s;onable account. The grand <HI>Diabolo</HI> gave them all thanks for their faithful &s;ervices, but heard
<PB N="5" REF="3">their di&s;cour&s;e with &s;mal contentment, for &s;til (he told them) they mi&s;t the mark he &s;hot at. For quoth he, if this<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Par<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">+ment A&s;&s;em<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"></NOTE> Triumvirate hold together, what wil become of all us? No, No, I know too wel, the commanding power of that divine word, they are now &s;etting up, what an alteration it makes in mens minds; If that de&s;ign go forward, you &s;hal quickly find a general revolt of mens affections from you, and then what wil become of all you, when every man &s;hal become a Con&s;table to apprehend, a Judg to condemn you, and his own con&s;cience, a <HI>tribunal to arraign you at?</HI> No, No, if this go <HI>forward,</HI> we may bid farewel to the&s;e upper regions, and confine our &s;elves to the Land of darkne&s;s eternally. For be&s;ides the lo&s;s of that pretty place, which perhaps I might brook with &s;ome degree of forc't patience, it will be &s;uch a pre&s;ident for all the world to follow, that I am at my wits end to think of it? No, No, if ever we hope for happy days again, we mu&s;t defeat the purpo&s;es of this Triumvirate: and that by <HI>Stix</HI> I know not how to do, they go on with &s;uch unanimity and undaunted re&s;olution. Divide them, and &s;o I &s;hal ma&s;ter them, and now I think on't I have a fit in&s;trument for that purpo&s;e; and that is my co&s;en <HI>Ignatius, Provincial</HI> of the<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Je&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"></NOTE> order of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Loyo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"></NOTE> rogue? I think you all know him; when they heard him but named, there was a great &s;hout, as if their dying hopes were in him revived again, that he &s;hould be &s;ent for: Indeed quoth <HI>Diabolo,</HI> he is the only &s;taff of my old age, and &s;tay of my tottering &s;tate; and in brief, &s;uch di&s;patches were made, that the <HI>Je&s;uite</HI> was with them that night. To pa&s;s by the entertainment, being &s;ate at his right hand, the father of lies communicated to him <HI>their former con&s;ulta|tions,</HI> in a word de&s;iring his advice. The <HI>Frier reployed, a three|fold cord is not ea&s;ily broken,</HI> unle&s;s it be fir&s;t <HI>untwi&s;ted,</HI> for the do|ing <HI>whereof he offered his be&s;t &s;ervice.</HI> The old <HI>Serpent</HI> accepted it very thankfully, con&s;iding much in the <HI>Friers</HI> malice and mi&s;che|vous wit, and the <HI>rather,</HI> becau&s;e he was one of his own <HI>brood.</HI> But the <HI>red Dragon</HI> out of tender affection to his va&s;&s;als, by rea&s;on of a cruel Law in England, was much troubled at one thing, how he &s;hould &s;cape the gallows if he came there. The <HI>Je&s;uite</HI> &s;miling at the Divels &s;implicity, and fooli&s;h pitty; Good Sir (quoth he) take you no care of that;
<PB N="6" REF="4">For if there were a pure nece&s;sity of my per&s;onal &s;ervice, I can carry two faces under one hood, and yet I have more hoods then one too; I have &s;o many tricks to delude all laws that indeed I fear none: I can &s;wear, ly, di&s;&s;emble, aequivocate, &s;wagger, and look demure, I can play fa&s;t, and loo&s;e, Ruffian or Round-head, Puritan or Pro|te&s;tant, <HI>Separati&s;t, Athei&s;t, Independent,</HI> or any thing, and change my &s;hape a thou&s;and times a day. I can u&s;e the matter &s;o, that they which hate me mo&s;t, u&s;e me be&s;t, bani&s;h me the Country by a Pub|lick Law, and open their very bo&s;oms to me through a private mi|&s;take. By this means I have a key to every lock, that neither coun|cels of Princes, nor clo&s;ets of great men, nor pre&s;s, nor pulpit, nor Church, nor conventicle, can &s;hut me out of doors. Having &s;o many advantages and &s;uch opportunities, what end &s;o difficult that I can|not compa&s;s? Or what mi&s;chief &s;o horrid and de&s;parate that I dare not attempt, having &s;o many di&s;gui&s;es to e&s;cape and fly away in? The old Serpent &s;tood amazed at the tran&s;cendent villany of this whor&s;on, and to &s;ee him&s;elf out-done &s;o by &s;uch a young&s;ter, was half a&s;hamed; &s;ome think jealous and afraid too, lea&s;t in time he might depo&s;e him, and u&s;urp his Kingdom of darkne&s;s.</P>
<P>But Sir, to be &s;hort, (quoth the <HI>frier</HI>) you are more afraid then hurt; and I much admire your intelligence fails you &s;o much. For <HI>Pride</HI> and <HI>Coveteou&s;ne&s;s, lying</HI> and <HI>&s;landering</HI> have made &s;uch di|vi&s;ions already, that I hope there is no more for us to do, but fall upon the &s;poyl: And one thing puts me almo&s;t clear out of doubt, that all wil be ours, we have &s;uch an Army of friends there, that are very active, and indeed &s;tout Champions for you: you have <HI>Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, Seperati&s;ts, Famili&s;ts, Antinomians, Arminians, Socinians, Arrians, Anti&s;criptu|ri&s;ts, Anti&s;abbatarians, &s;oul-&s;leepers, &s;elf-&s;eekers, Adamites, Famili&s;ts, Independents,</HI> and Millions more; but that I am loth to puzzle your memory with &s;uch a Catalogue of hard names. That little Country is grown <HI>Affrick</HI> yeilds yearly as many Mon&s;ters in Religion, as all that quarter of the world doth in nature.</P>
<P>The old Devil with a filthy &s;hrug and an ugly look, &s;hewed &s;ome di&s;content for all this, for (quoth he) they are mo&s;t of them &s;uchgrand di&s;&s;emblers, that I dare not tru&s;t them my &s;elf; and their daily rai|lings on me what ever your opinion is, makes my jealous of them.</P>
<P>What the divel ailes you, quoth the <HI>Frier?</HI> cannot you tel when you are wel? if they &s;peak again&s;t you and do for you; if they put down one &s;in, and &s;et up three; pul down one Pope, and &s;et up
<PB N="7" REF="4">many thou&s;ands; cannot bear with an idle word, and yet belch out a thou&s;and horrid Bla&s;phemies: I think you are never the wor&s;e, if you can be content, you have more friends then ever you did hope for; and tho&s;e that wil do more for you, then you can in mode&s;ty reque&s;t, or ever had the confidence to ask of any rea&s;onable men. For they reject the <HI>Scriptures,</HI> refu&s;e the <HI>Sacraments,</HI> deface, pro|phane, and pul down temples, deny the <HI>Church,</HI> &s;upplant the <HI>Mi|ni&s;try,</HI> damn tithes, though Gods own portion, &s;peak evil of Dig|nities, and not only de&s;pi&s;e, but ovgerthrow all government, and &s;o lay all level, and common for all comers. Indeed they deny <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> bla&s;pheme the holy <HI>Trinity,</HI> whereat we all tremble, and even cur&s;e God to his face: and now what could you devi&s;e to ask more, if you were to be your own choo&s;er? And now becau&s;e per|haps another doubt or fear may trouble you, that &s;ure &s;uch <HI>horrid</HI> things &s;hould never find admittance, in any Common-wealth of Chri|&s;tians or civil men; To re&s;olve you further, I can tel you what pretty engines they have to &s;crew them in. fir&s;t, (though tithes be Gods own portion which all the world knows, he gave to his Mini&s;ters for their labours in the <HI>Church,</HI> and no man can tel when they were taken away again) yet they have damned tithes, and all enforced maintenance (as they call it) as <HI>Antichri&s;tian,</HI> when as indeed it is the only way to &s;et up <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> or any thing el&s;e, what your &s;elf can devi&s;e to po&s;&s;e&s;s the many and giddy-headed people withal to require. And &s;o whereas heretofore it was, like Prie&s;ts, like people; now it wil be a great deal wor&s;e, like people, like Prie&s;t: all makes for you &s;til. And this engine the &s;illy people them&s;elves tug at for a &s;mal advantage, though it may prove their e|ternal ruin; for when the &s;hepards that watch over the flock are &s;cat|tered for want of a livelihood, we may worry the flock at our plea|fure. A &s;econd engine, whereby they work in all the&s;e abomina|tions, is a Toleration of Religion, and Liberty of Con&s;cience; for if that be once granted for the ea&s;e of all their tender Con&s;ciences; then why not for <HI>Papi&s;ts, Jews, Turks,</HI> and <HI>Pagans:</HI> for they may have as tender Con&s;ciences to plead for, as any of the other? And if the&s;e things be once effected, what prophane&s;s, here&s;ie or villany under heaven wil not ea&s;ily be acted? I might add, how they per|&s;wade the people, 'tis contrary to the freedom of a Go&s;pel-people, to be fettered with any Laws or Government. And that you may &s;ee how wel the Lawes of man are like to &s;cape, they have begun with the Law of God, and abrogated that already. To be
<PB N="8" REF="5">brief, Sir; heretofore all the burden of Chri&s;tendom lay upon my neck, but now the&s;e good &s;ouls, have ea&s;ed me of a great deal of labour, and you of a great deal of care: The di&s;tempers of that Kingdom you &s;hal &s;ee a&s;cend to the head or chief place, and cau&s;e a phren&s;y of confu&s;ion; The Aflembly make their wil, and the <HI>Par|liament</HI> by &s;peechle&s;s for a time; and if it <HI>recovers</HI> not beyond ex|pectation, <HI>Iron-&s;ides</HI> &s;hal do you &s;uch a piece of <HI>&s;ervice,</HI> &s;hal make you a <HI>glorious Prince</HI> again. The Rogue was heard with the gene|ral applau&s;e, and good likeing of all the A&s;&s;embly, and &s;o the old Devil between hope and fear, adjourned the A&s;&s;embly until their next meeting.</P>
<P>We are warned hereby, what a &s;weet puddle, our fal&s;e <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> &s;uck their <HI>principles from:</HI> and what black ends their fair <HI>pretences &s;o furiou&s;ly drive at,</HI> that are &s;o zealous for <HI>toleration,</HI> and &s;o maliciou&s;ly mad again&s;t all <HI>Church</HI> maintenance and <HI>Government.</HI> They have begun with the <HI>Church,</HI> and the <HI>vermin</HI> lay <HI>ferretting</HI> at the Common wealth too, and wil never leave til they gnaw out the very bowels of it. And <HI>therefore</HI> hone&s;t Country men, take heed of tho&s;e that to plea&s;e you, and <HI>plea&s;ure</HI> them&s;elves, plead &s;o hotly again&s;t Tithes. Many there be that plead for the ea&s;e of the bea&s;t til they get into the &s;adle them&s;elves, and then who <HI>ride harder</HI> then they? Take heed of tho&s;e that plead &s;o <HI>hard for toleration;</HI> tho&s;e almo&s;t <HI>Chri&s;tians, half-Turks, &s;emi-Jewes;</HI> take heed how you hear them, or what you grant them, for they know not what to ask, or when to make an end: Would their de&s;ires were as harmle&s;s, as boundle&s;s; but if &s;ome &s;peedy cour&s;e be not taken to &s;top <HI>their farther progre&s;s,</HI> we &s;hal have <HI>Mahomet the &s;econd &s;tart up at la&s;t,</HI> with <HI>new revelations,</HI> and in &s;tead of holy Scrip|tures already condemned, thru&s;t upon us another <HI>Alcaron,</HI> patcht up of all the damned <HI>Here&s;ies &s;ince the beginning.</HI> When <HI>their out-cries for liberty have &s;ilenced all your Laws,</HI> then be|gins your &s;lavery, not only of Con&s;cience, but of body and goods <HI>too; for they can pillage your goods and cut your throats,</HI> and ju&s;ti|fy it when they have done, with &s;ome new <HI>dream or revelation, as their fathers did in Germany;</HI> and <HI>the practi&s;e whereof them&s;elves have ju&s;tified in diver&s;e expre&s;&s;ions, that their mad Pamphlets bear the records of. Rub your eyes, be wi&s;e, and &s;ee in time whom you tru&s;t.</HI></P>
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