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<P> A NEVV DIRECTORY: Compiled by the&s;e mo&s;t grave, ve|nerable, and Orthodox Divines: <HI>Videlicet.</HI></P>
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<ITEM><HI>Wyat</HI> the Cobler.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ford</HI> the Trumpetter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dupper</HI> the Cow-Keeper.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bulcher</HI> the Chicken-man.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Patience</HI> the Tayler, &amp;c.</ITEM>
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<P>Wherein it doth appeare, that manuall practi|tioners may very probably be, and produce the be&s;t proficients in Divinity.</P>
<P>Printed in the Yeere 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>A New Directory.</HEAD>
<P>_AS I doe not Idolize Learning, &s;o I conceive it no way tolerable, that an illiterate Mini&s;ter &s;hould be &s;purnd into the ab&s;tract of infamy; becau&s;e con&s;cience doth tran&s;cend &s;cience, being &s;ooner reduced into practice. There|fore give attention to Goodman <HI>Wiat.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Wiat</HI> the Cobler.</HEAD>
<P>ALL ye, beloved Mechanickes, members of our my&s;ticall corporation, with a great deale of &s;upernaturall &s;olace and rejoycing, may it be &s;poken: The people of this poore di&s;tracted Kingdome doe not tread &s;o much a wry as formerly they did, but now wax more and more upright. Me thinkes I &s;ee both the Univer&s;ities of Oxford and Cambridge (although their Surplices are out of fa&s;hion) &s;tand very decently in a white &s;heet to &s;uffer penance, for committing of Poultry on the priviledge of con&s;cience, being of late bound over to the Hollands Leaguer of the Whore of Babylon: O how provi|dentially hath the Whitligig of the&s;e latter dayes, hooped the con&s;titution of Church Government, into Cubicle Congre|gations, or equivalent Tubs: One Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Pewe may now &s;erve for a Pulpit, and a Pari&s;h Church, oeconomicall or of a Family fa&s;hion; for take this for an infallible po&s;ition, the clo&s;er the Con&s;i&s;tory&punc; the better Conventicle; but what may the ignorant &s;oule &s;ay, how can this agree to liberty of con&s;cience to be &s;o crowded, notwith&s;tanding our meane naturall &s;ence will give him the lie?</P>
<P>Beloved there are three things conducible to the watring of the yonger plants of our &s;i&s;terhood, they being the weaker ve&s;&s;ells may quickly leake into a certaine barrenne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<ITEM>1. An hearty exerci&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. An han&s;ome edification.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. An humble or downeright dealing.</ITEM>
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<P>Fir&s;t, of the fir&s;t, which is twofold: inward and outward.</P>
<P N="1">1. Inward, belonging to the three principall parts, as the 1. animal, 2. vitall, and 3. naturall: the fir&s;t is that of the brains or head, which hath beene much beaten or impayred in exer|ci&s;ing of you in particular, and in reference to the publike in Tran&s;lating of Religion, into Liberty of Con&s;cience; which at this time &s;tands upright, although it hath but a &s;ingle &s;ole: the two la&s;t being of the heart and liver, contribute much to the &s;en&s;itive organs, for the tuning of your my&s;ticall bagpipes. We can handle no point materially without this hearty exer|ci&s;e. 2. The outward exerci&s;e belongs to the officiall mem|bers, as hands, feet, or as many more as you like, being carn|all, would not burden your memories, nor have you underlaid thereby, and the wicked which are without, are All in All ad|dicted thereunto.</P>
<P N="2">2. Hand&s;ome edification, not meaning your Parochiall preaching Presbytery, which is Scoti&s;ticall, and &s;o altogether &s;ophi&s;ticall; but to bring you on the mending hand by appro|priate &s;pirit of <HI>ex tempore</HI> infu&s;ion, withall gently &s;owing toge|ther the upper and lower Leather of &s;oule and body, which hath beene wonderfully unwelted the&s;e times of Divi&s;ion: for how have di&s;tractions beene multiplied &s;ince our helping to pull downe the golden Calfe of the Common Prayer Booke, and made that Balaams A&s;&s;e of the Directory &s;hamefully re|treat? But to the third particular.</P>
<P N="3">3. An humble and downeright dealing. As were it not for a downeright trading in the way of motion, our trade would quickly be brought to its la&s;t, &s;o if you a&s;&s;ume any po|&s;ture but that of humility naturall, though you be backward in it to, you are as creatures without &s;oles.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Ford</HI> the Trumpeter.</HEAD>
<P>PArdon me brethren and &s;i&s;ters, if by Revelation I row&s;e up your &s;en&s;es; I mu&s;t tell you that I am &s;o infu&s;ed with a &s;pirit of the lungs or a long winded &s;pirit, that I mu&s;t make a little noy&s;e before you this day, the gift of utterance was late|ly put upon me, therefore let me make bold to put into you the gift of entrance: our propo&s;ition &s;hall be negative, and by way of a caveat (be not blowne a way with every winde of Doctrine:) Fir&s;t, there are foure windes, which the Popi&s;h Writers call Cardinall, the&s;e doubtle&s;&s;e ye know; but are not meant heere.</P>
<P>2. Corporall, which cannot have reference to our do|ctrinall winde, becau&s;e every one doth voluntarily and natu|rally expell it, having no need of a provi&s;o.</P>
<P>3. Incorporeall, or &s;pirituall, which is heere repre&s;ented: as much as if I &s;hould &s;ay, take heed of the prophane puffe of every &s;pirit, but more e&s;pecially of a Presbyteriall one; for I am to tell you, that as our Tubs are hollow artificially, &s;o are their hearts metaphorically. Beware le&s;t ye be &s;educed into the mo&s;t damnable concavity of their Pulpits: for my part I can &s;ound the depth of their devices: let me &s;peak, Me thinks I could entertaine any wind of doctrine before theirs; it is &s;o canonically con&s;tituted by way of Directory, directly in oppo&s;ition to us, I could willingly &s;ound a day of judgement for the major part of them, together with both Hou&s;es, who &s;it and &s;it, but will not walke according to our divine moti|ons, who doe not only breath by the ayre, but live by the &s;pi|rit, yet they &s;hall be forced to &s;tand to &s;ome thing: [pray you &s;i&s;ter doe not &s;leepe.] I will wind up all with one u&s;e: Bee con&s;tant and confirmd in your opinion, frequent our humble cottages or cubicle, and avoyd Temples which are &s;o high, expo&s;ed to &s;o many bla&s;ts.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Dupper</HI> the Cowkeeper.</HEAD>
<P>YOU my goodly flocke, who are not unlike, (let me pre|&s;ume by way of compari&s;on) unto tho&s;e of my well favou|red Kine: I am to &s;et before you a me&s;&s;e of Metaphoricall milke this day: The title of a Pa&s;tor being of the Latine tran&s;|lation came from Rome, therefore I abominate it as Catholick, and you may call me as I am; for the great gift of exerci&s;ing doth much relate our function, and it being our practicall pro|fe&s;&s;ion to prevent the going a&s;tray of the greater Cattell, doe you thinke wee can have the heart to &s;ee our little flocke of harmele&s;&s;e &s;heepe erre? no beloved (any of you may milke a Bull as &s;oone) &s;o that it remaines in our power to congregate; but had it not beene for the great Engine of our late happy ga|thering together, you all had beene &s;imply converted from &s;incere &s;ucking Lambs into meere &s;ophi&s;ticated Owles, di&s;|per&s;ed throughout the De&s;ert of de&s;olation; and Satanically &s;hephearded by Presbyterian policy, perhaps driven into the dirty ditch of Popi&s;h profanation: How&s;oever the contrary condition being atcheived, O how I could with the armes of amity embrace your full flecced felicity, and with triumphant acclamations charme your almo&s;t eternal re&s;idence in my fold or my&s;ticall Cowpen; But I had almo&s;t forgot my Doctrine which is this, &s;eperate your &s;elves, and be yee gathered toge|ther, which &s;eemes to be a contradiction; therefore we will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;&s;e a di&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ction unto you, which hath in a manner two <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ornes, as belonging to the ten horned bea&s;ts of Rome, being Latini&s;ticall; but by our application may be &s;anctified: There is a two fold &s;eperation, and gathering together locall or vo|call in re&s;pect of place, &amp; of voice or opinions; in reference to both which, there mu&s;t be an holy going away from, and an hearty dete&s;tation of the very &s;cituation and denomination of a Presbyter, or <HI>Jockies</HI> little Divell incarnate (which my bro|ther <HI>Trumpe</HI> noi&s;ed forth to you very well) and be ye congre|gated by divine &s;uffrages, devout &s;peeches, be &s;aintlike &s;yno|nimous as they &s;ay, vellebally and mentally as they &s;ay (Hum)
<PB N="5" REF="4"> that la&s;tly wee may be united into a head, as they &s;ay of Cattle, and our hornes exalted for ever.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Bulcher</HI> the Chickenman.</HEAD>
<P>MY &s;weet and prity Chickes, let me flutter a word or two about you, and I &s;hall not be too tedious, but winged in di&s;patch: My Text is this: <HI>Be alive to us, but dead unto the world;</HI> as I according to profe&s;&s;ion carry the&s;e infantine P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ultry dead or alive; &s;o doe men and women, young and old, in their tran&s;itory actions carry them&s;elves as if they were alive or dead; but few in a right &s;ence, the carnall man gives up the gho&s;t to all goodne&s;&s;e; yet is not dead to the would, the drunkard hath hardly &s;ence to demon&s;trate his being; yet is alive in that &s;ence, the very formall Presbyter though he act not as wee doe by the &s;pirit; yet he takes breath; but this is the meaning in the way of &s;imilitude, as my dead Chickens are unnaturally dead to tho&s;e that naturally live in the world; &s;o be you &s;piritually dead to tho&s;e that carnally live to the world, and as tho&s;e that are living be alive to each other, though conjoyned to the dead for &s;ecular profit; &s;o let your &s;pirits be the &s;ame by lively infu&s;ion, and private revelation with ours; notwith&s;tanding a mutuall commerce with the world for the pecking up the common crums of &s;ub&s;titance for economicall &s;ub&s;i&s;tence; but my ble&s;&s;ed bro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d, I am a|fraid I have carryed you to far, therefore here ile leave you.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Patience</HI> the Taylour.</HEAD>
<P>Have patience beloved and I will cut out a &s;pirituall peece of &s;tuffe for you, having already taken mea&s;ure of mo&s;t of your con&s;ciences &s;ince our late ble&s;&s;ed victory over Principali|ties and Powers, which were ri&s;en up again&s;t us, but more e|&s;pecially my &s;elfe, whom mo&s;t impatiently they &s;upprized, and had almo&s;t pulled; nay martyred or ma&s;&s;acred into meere &s;hreds; but now me thinkes I &s;ee a vi&s;ion, our adver&s;aries &s;itting cro&s;&s;e legged on the &s;hopboard of de&s;paite, and &s;o rent
<PB N="6" REF="5"> a&s;under from their late expectations, that time will &s;carce &s;titch them together againe with the needle of invention; but to the point, which is by way of in&s;truction (Have pati|ence and I will pay you all) the fir&s;t that may the more proper|ly be&punc;&s;poken to our adver&s;aries who are now the Subjects of &s;uffering; the &s;econd to our friends who are behind in ar|reares; but of the fir&s;t, &s;uppo&s;e that the &s;heeres of per&s;ecution &s;hould in a manner clip, (beloved, &s;oule from body) <HI>Patience</HI> would quickly peece them together againe, all other morall vertues are but like &s;o many inferiour Botchers to her; but a word of patience as it relates to our adver&s;aries. (O ble&s;&s;ed Ar|my) how doe the Saints now make pack-hor&s;es of the &s;infull, and pre&s;&s;e the rich worldlings for hacknies by way of Evange|licall extortion, ever &s;ince the great &s;hout in Southwarke, which &s;ounded in my eares next to an Hallelujah? our London hath had very much neede of patience, I warrant you to bere|venged they would forfeit the Charter of Bartholomew Faire, for their greene goo&s;e. I prote&s;t although I had the gift of patience, yet I would &s;carce have the patience to exerci&s;e that gift, in &s;uch ca&s;es of &s;uch contradictions; yet have pati|ence, be yee &s;uted therewith, it is the only fa&s;hion which now becomes both the outward and inward man; likewi&s;e the overture of a cloake made out of the &s;ame peece would be very expedient, both to ecclip&s;e the glimp&s;e of an angry looke upon us &s;aints, or to vaile a frowne by way of mufling, each of which although they could not hazard an inditement, before the Magi&s;trate, yet they would be &s;o agravated, that you mu&s;t be &s;ummoned for high mi&s;demeanours, but have pa|tience: Now a word of the &s;econd that which is the ground of our reque&s;t, and I will pay you all, in reference to arreares; but mi&s;take me not, the ground is not &s;o large to pay all upon it, but the meaning is you &s;hall be paid all, that is &s;ome of you, mo&s;t high and holy have all, for all, or thus, all for &s;ome of you, but none for all of you: This is all that I can give you for the pre&s;ent, but have patience and I will pay you all.</P>
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