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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Sources. 2006-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-09 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2006-09 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion READER , THis Pamphlet was torn from me by those who say they cannot rob , because all is Theirs . They found it where it slept many years forgotten ; but they ' waken'd it , and made false Transcripts . They Exciz'd what they liked not ; so mangled and Reform'd , that 't was no Character of an Assembler , but of Themselves . A Copy of that Reformling had crept to the Press . I seiz'd and stopt it , unwilling to father other mens sins . Here therefore you have it ( as 't was first scribled ) without addition of a syllable ; I wish I durst say here 's nothing lopt off . but Men and Manners are chang'd , at least they say so . If yet this Trifle seem born with Teeth , you know whose hands were knuckle-deep in the bloud of that renowned Chancellour of Oxon ( Archbishop LAUD ) though when they cut up that great Martyr , his two greatest Crimes were the two greatest Glories Great Britain can boast of , St Paul's Church and the Oxford Library . Where you find no coherence , remember this Paper hath suffer'd Decimation : better Times have made it worse , and that 's no fault of J. B. THE Assembly-man ; Written in the Year 1647. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. He seditiously stirr's up men to fight : he 'll teach others the way whereof himself is most ignorant ; and perswades men to take an Oath , because himself had sworn it before . LONDON : Printed for Richard Marriot , and are to be sold at his shop under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street , 1662 / 3. THE Assembly-man . AN Assembler is part of the States ' Chattels : nor Priest , nor Burgess , but a Participle that shark's upon both . He was chosen , as Sir Nathaniel , because he knew least of all his Profession : not by the Votes of a whole Diocese , but by one whole Parliament-man . He ha's sate four years towards a new Religion , but in the interim left none at all : as his Masters , the Commons , had a long Debate whether Candles or no Candles , but all the mean while sate still in the Dark : And therefore when the Moon quits her old Light , and has acquir'd no new , Astronomers say she is in her Synode . Shew me such a Picture of Judas as the Assembler , ( a griping , false , Reforming Brother ; rail's at Wast spent upon the Anointed ; persecutes most those Hands which Ordein'd him ; brings in men with swords and staves ; and all for Money from the Honourable Scribes and Pharisees : ) One Touch more ( a Line tyed to his Name-sake Elder-tree ) had made him Judas Root and Branch . This Assembly at first was a full Century ; which should be reckon'd as the Scholiast's Hecatomb , by their Feet , not Heads : or count them by Scores , for in things without Heads Six-core to go to an Hundred . They would be a New Septuagint ; the Old translated Scripture out of Hebrew into Greek , these turn it to four shillings a day . And all these Assemblers were begot in one day , as Hercules's fifty Bastards all in one night . Their first List was sprinkled with some names of Honour ( Dr. Sanderson , Dr. Morley , Dr. Hammond , &c. ) But these were Divines ; too worthy to mix with such scandalous Ministers , and would not Assemble without the Royal Call. Nay , the first List had one Archbishop , one Bishop , and an Half , ( for Bishop Brownrigg was then but Elect. ) But now their Assembly ( as Philosophers think the World ) consists of Atoms ; petty small Levites , whose Parts are not perceptible . And yet these inferior postern Teachers have intoxicated England , ( for a man sometimes grow's drunk by a Glister . ) When they all meet , they shew Beasts in Africk by promiscuous coupling ingender Monsters . Mr. Selden . visit's them ( as Persians use ) to see wild Asses fight : when the Commons have tyr'd him with their new Law , these Brethren refresh him with their mad Gospel : They lately were gravell'd 'twixt Jerusalem and Jericho ; they knew not the distance 'twixt those two places ; one cry'd twenty miles , another ten , 't was concluded seven , for this reason , that Fish was brought from Jericho to Jerusalem market : Mr Selden smil'd , and said perhaps the Fish was salt fish , and so stopp'd their mouths . Earl Philip goes thither to hear them spend ; when he heard them toss their NATIONALL , PROVINCIALL , CLASSICALL , CONGREGATIONALL ; he swore damnably , that a pack of good Dogs made better Musick : His Allusion was proper since the Elder 's Maid had a four-legg'd Husband . To speak truth , this Assembly is the two Houses Tiring-room , where the Lords and Commons put on their Visards and Masques of Religion . And their Honors have so sifted the Church , that at last they have found the Bran of the Clergy . Yet such poor Church-menders must Reform and shuffle , though they find Church-Government may a thousand wayes be chang'd for the worse , but not one way for the better . They have lately publish'd ANNOTATIONS on the Bible , where their first Note ( on the word CREATE ) is a Libel against Kings for creating of Honors . Their Annotation on Jacob's two Kids , is , that two Kids are too much for one mans supper : but he had ( say they ) but one Kid , and the other made Sauce . They observe upon Herod , what a Tyrant he was , to kill Infants under two years old , without giving them a legal Tryal that they might speak for themselves . Commonly they follow the Geneva Margin , as those Sea-men who understood not the Compass crept along the Shore . But I hear they threaten a second Edition , and in the interim thrust forth a paultry Catechism , which expounds Nine Commandments , and eleven Articles of the Creed . Of late they are much in love with Chronograms , because ( if possible ) they are duller than Anagrams ; O how they have torn the poor Bishops names to pick out the number 666 ! little dreaming that a whole Bakers dozen of their own Assembly have that Beastly Number in each of their Names , and that as exactly as their Solemn League and Covenant consist's of 666 words . But though the Assembler's Brains are Lead , his Countenance is Brass ; for he damn'd such as held two Benefices , while himself has four or five , besides his Concubin . Lecture . He is not against Pluralities , but Dualities ; He say's 't is unlawful to have Two of his own , though Four of other mens ; and observes how the Hebrew word for Life has no Singular number Yet 't is some Relief to a Sequester'd Person to see two Assemblers snarl for his Tithes ; for of al● kind of Beasts none can match an Assembler bu● an Assembler . He never enters a Church by the Door , but clambers up through a Window of Sequestration , or steals in through Vaults and Cellars by clandestine Contracts with an Expecting Patron . He is most sure no Law can hurt him , for Lawes dyed in England the year before the Assembler was born . The best way to hold him , is ( as our King Richard bound ths King of Cyprus ) in silver chains . He love's to discourse of the new Jerusalem , because her streets are of fine gold ; and yet could like London as well ; were Cheapside pav'd with the Philosophers stone . Nay , he would say his Prayers with Beads , if he might have a Set made all of Diamonds : This , this is it which tempts him to such mad Articles against the Loyal Clergie , whom he dresse's as he would have them appear ; just as the Ballad of Dr. Faustus brings forth the Devil in a Friars weed . He accus'd one Minister , for saying the Blessed Virgin was the Mother of God , ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as the Ancients call her . ) Another he charg'd for a common Drunkard , whom all the Countrey knows has drunk nothing but Water these six and twenty years . But the Assembler himself can drink Widows Tears though their Husbands are not dead . Sure , if Paracelsus's Doctrine were true , ( that to eat creatures alive will perpetuate mans life ) the Assembler were immortal , for he swallows quick Men , Wives , and Children ; and devours Lives as well as Livings ; as if he were born in that Pagan Province where None might marry till he had kill'd twelve Christians . This makes him kneel to Lieutenant General Cromwell ( as Indians to the Devil ; ) for he saw how Oliver first threw — , then — , and can with a wink do as much for — : like Milo in the Olympicks , by practising on a Calf grew strong enough for a Bull , and could with ease give a lift to an Asse . The Great Turk was sending his Ambassador , to congratulate the Assembly's Proceedings against the Christians ; He Order'd them Thanks for Licencing his Alcoran to be printed in English ; but hearing Ottoman Cromwell had talk'd of marching to the walls of Constantinople , that Embassy was stopt . The onely difference 'twixt the Assembler and a Turk , is , that one plant's Religion by the power of the Sword , and the other by the power of the Cymetar . Nay , the greatest strife in their whole Conventicle , is who shall do worst ; for they all intend to make the Church but a Sepulchre , having not onely plunder'd , but anatomiz'd all the true Clergy ; whose Torment is heightned in being destroy'd by such dull Instruments ; as the Prophet Isaiah was sawn to pieces with a wooden Saw. The Assembler wonder 's that the King and his Friends live still in Hope ; he thinks them all in St. Clemens case , drown'd with an Anchor tyed about his neck . He has now got power to Visit the Universities ; where these blinking Visitors look on eminent Scholars ( as the Blind-man who saw Men like Trees ) as Timber growing within the Root-and-Branch Ordinance . The Assembler has now left Scholars so poor , they have scarce Raggs wherewith to make Paper . A man would think the Two Houses intend to transport the Universities , since they load Asses with Colledge-revenues . For though these Assemblers made themselves Heads , they are rather the Hands of Colledges , for they all are Takers , and take all . And yet they are such creeping Tyrants , that Scholars are expell'd the two Universities , as the old Thracians , forc'd from their Countrey by Ratts and Mice . So that Learning now is so much advanc'd , as Arrowsmith's Glasseye sees more than his Natural . They never admit a good Scholar to a Benefice , for the Assembly's Balance is the Lake of Sodom , where Iron swims and Feathers sink . Their Divinity-Disputations are with Women or Lay-men ; and 't is onely on one Question ( Episcopacy ) where the Assembler talks all that he and his friends can say , ( though his best medium to prove Presbyters more ancient than Bishops , is , that Scribes , Pharisees , Priests and Elders were before the Apostles ; ) Yet if a Scholar or good Argument come , he flie's them as much as if they were his Text. This made him curse Dr. Steward , Dr. Laney , and Dr. Hammond ; and had he not had more Brass in his Face then in his Kitchin , he had hang'd himself at Uxbridge , and ended with that Treaty . For he has naught of Logick , but her clutch'd fist , and rail's at Philosophy as Beggars do at Gentlemen . He has very bad luck when he deals in Philologie , as one of them ( and that no mean man ) who , in his Preface to the Reader , sayes , that St. Paul had read Eustathius upon Homer , though the Apostle dyed a thousand years before Eustathius was born . The Assembler's Dyet is strangely different , for he dines wretchedly on dry Bread at Westminster , four Assemblers for thirteen pence : But this sharpens and whets him for Supper , where he feeds gratis with his City-Landlord , to whom he brings a huge Stomach and News ; for which cramm'd Capons cram him . He screw's into Families where there is some rich Daughter or Heir ; but whoever takes him into their bosom , will dye like Cleopatra . When it rain's he is Coach'd ( a Classis of them together ) rowling his Eyes to mark who beholds him . His shortest things are his Hair and his Cloak . His Hair is cut to the figure of 3 ; two high Cliffs run up his Temples , whose Cape of shorn hair shoot's down his Forehead , with Creeks indented , where his Ears ride at Anchor . Had this false Prophet been carried with Habbakuk , the Angel had caught fast hold of his Ears , and led him as he leads his Auditory . His Eyes are part of his Tithe at Easter , which he boyles at each Sermon . He has two Mouthes , his Nose is one , for he speaks through both . His Hands are not in his Gloves , but his Gloves in his Hands , for 'twixt Sweatings , that is , Sermons , he handles little else , except his dear Mammon . His Gown ( I mean his Cloak ) reache's but his pockets : when he rides in that Mantle , with a Hood on his shoulders and a Hat above both , is he not then his own Man of sin with the Triple Crown ? you would swear some honest Carpenter dress'd him , and made him the Tunnell of a Country Chimney . His Doubles and Hose are of dark Blew , a grain deeper than pure Coventry : but of late he 's in Black , since the Loyal Clergy were persecuted into Colours His two longest things are his Nayles and his Prayer . But the cleanest thing about him is his Pulpit-Cushion , for he still beats the Dust out of it . To do him right , commonly he weares a pair of good Lungs , whereby he turns the Church into a Belfry , for his Clapper make's such a Din , you cannot hear the Cymball for the Tinkling . If his Pulpit be large , he walk's his Round , and speaks as from a Garrison , ( his own Neck is Palizado'd with Ruff ) When he first enters his Prayer before Sermon , he wink's and gasp's , and gasp's and wink's , as if he prepar'd to preach in another world : He seems in a Slumber , then in a Dream ; then rumbles awhile ; at last he sound 's forth , and then throw's so much Dirt and Non-sense towards Heaven , as he durst not offer to a Member of Parliament . Now because Scripture bids him not curse the King in his Thought , he do's it in his Pulpit by word of mouth ; though Heaven strike him dumb in the very Act , as it did Hill at Cambridge , who while he pray'd , Depose Him , O Lord , who would depose us , was made the dumb Devil . This ( one would think ) should gargle his foul mouth . For his only hope why God should hear him against the King , is the Devil himself ( that great Assembler ) was heard against Job . His whole Prayer is such an irrational Bleating that ( without a Metaphor ) 't is the Calves of his Lipps : And commonly 't is larded with fine new words , as Savingable , Muchly , Christ-Jesusness , &c. and yet he has the face to preach against Prayer in an unknown Tongue . Sometimes he 's founder'd , and then there is such hideous Coughing ! But that 's very seldom , for he can glibly run over Non-sense , as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill. When the King girt round the Earl of Essex at Lestythiell , an Assembler complain'd that God had drawn his People into the Wildernesse , and told Him , He was bound in honour to feed them ; for , Lord , said he , since thou giv'st them no Meat , we pray thee , O Lord , to give them no Stomachs . He tore the Liturgie , because , forsooth , it shackled his Spirit , ( he would be a Devil without a circle ; ) and now if he see the Book of Common Prayer , the Fire sees it next , as sure as the Bishops were burn'd who compil'd it . Yet he has mercy on Hopkins and Sternhold , because their Meeters are sung without Authority ( no Statute , Canon , or Injunction at all ; ) only , like himself , first crept into private Houses , and then into Churches . Mr. Rous mov'd those Meetres might be Sequestred , and his own new Rithmes to enjoy the Sequestration ; but was Refus'd , because John Hopkins was as ancient as John Calvin ; Besides , when Rous stood forth for his Trial , Robin Wisdom was found the better Poet. T is true they have a Directory , but 't is good for nothing but Adoniram , who sold the Original for 400 l. And the Book must serve both England and Scotland , as the Directory Needle point's North and South . The Assembler's only Ingenuity is , that he pray's for an ex tempore Spirit , since his Conscience tell 's him he has no Learning . His Prayer thus ended , he then look'd round , to observe the Sex of his Congregation , and accordingly turn's the Apostle's Men , Fathers , and Brethren into Dear Brethren and Sisters . For , his usual Auditory is most part Female ; and as many Sisters flock to Him , as at Paris on Saint Margaret's day , when all come to Church that are or hope to be with child that year . He divides his Text as he did the Kingdom , make 's one part fight against another : or as Burges divides the Dean of Paul's House , not into Parts , but Tenements , that is , so as 't will yield most money . And properly they are Tenements ; for each Part must be dwelt upon , though himself comes near it but once a Quarter ; and so his Text is rather Let out than Divided . Yet sometimes ( to shew his skill in Keckerman , ) he Butcher's a Text , cut 's it ( just as the Levite did his Concubine ) into many dead Parts , breaking the Sense and Words all to pieces , and then they are not Divided , but shatter'd , like the Splinters of Don Quixot's Lance. If his Text be to the Occasion , his first Dish is Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver ; yet tells not the People what Pictures those were . His Sermon and Prayer grin at each other , the one is Presbyterian , the other Independent , for he preaches up the Classes , yet pray's for the Army . Let his Doctrine and Reason be what they will , his Use is still to save his Benefice and augment his Lecture . He talks much of Truth , but abhors Peace , lest it strip him as naked as Truth ; and therefore hates a Personal Treaty , unlesse with a Sister . He has a rare simpring way of expression ; he call's a Marryed Couple Saints that enjoy the Mystery ; and a man Drunk , is a Brother full of the Creature . Yet at Wedding Sermons he is very familiar , and ( like that Picture in the Church at Leyden ) shew's Adam and Eve without Fig-leaves . At Funerals he gives infallible Signs that the Party is gone to Heaven ; but his chief Mark of a child of God , is to be good to God's Ministers . And hence 't is he call's his Preachment Manna , fitted not to his Hearers Necessity , but their Palat , for 't is to feed Himself , not them . If he chance to tire , he refreshes himself with the People's Hum , as a Collar of Bells do chear up a Pack-horse . 'T is no wonder hee 'l preach , but that any will hear him ; ( and his constant Auditors do but shew the length of their Ears ; ) For he is such an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , that to hear him make's good Scholars sick , but to read him is death . Yet though you heard him three hours hee 'l ask a fourth , as the Beggar at Delph craves your Charity because he eats four pound of Bread at a Meal . 'T was from his Larum the Watch-makers learn'd their infinit Skrew . His Glasse and Text are equally handled , that is , once an hour : nay sometimes he sally's and never returns , and then we should leave him to the Company of Lorimers , for he must be held with Bit and Bridle . Who ever once has been at his Church can never doubt the History of Balaam . If he have got any new Tale or Expression , 't is easier to make Stones speak than him to hold his peace . He hates a Church where there is an Eccho , for it robs him of his dear Repetition , and confounds the Auditory as well as he . But of all Mortals I admire the Short-hand-men , who have the patience to write from his Mouth : had they the art to shorten it into Sense , they might write his whole Sermon on the back of their Nail . For his Invention consist's in finding a way to speak Nothing upon any thing ; and were he in the Grand Seigniors power , he would lodge him with his Mutes ; for Nothing and Nothing to purpose are all one . I wonder in conscience he can preach against Sleeping at his Opium-Sermons . He preaches indeed both in season and out of season ; for he rayl's at Popery , when the Land is almost lost in Presbytery , and would cry out Fire , Fire , in Noah's Flood . Yet all this he so act 's with his Hands , that in this sense too his Preaching is a Handicraft . Nor can we complain that Playes are put down while he can preach , save only his Sermons have worse Sense , and lesse Truth . But he blew down the Stage and preach'd up the Scaffold . And very wisely , lest men should track him , and find where he pilsers all his best Simile's , ( the only thing wherein he 's commendable , St. Paul himself having cull'd Sentences from Menander's THAIS , though 't was his worst , that is , unchast Comedy . ) Sometimes the Assembler will venture at the Original , and then ( with the Translator of Don Quixot ) he mistake's Sobs and Sighs for Eggs and Collops . But commonly ( for want of Greek and Latin ) he learns Hebrew , and streight is illuminated ; that is , mad ; his Brain is broke by a Brickbat cast from the Tower of Babel . And yet this empty windy Teacher has Lectur'd a War quite round the Kingdom : he has found a Circulation of Bloud for Destruction ( as famous Harvey for Preservation ) of Mankind . 'T was easie to foresee a great Mortality when Ravens were heard in all Corporations . For , as Multitude of Froggs presage a Pestilence , so croaking Lecturers foretold an Assembly . Men come to Church , as the Great Alexander went to Sacrifice , led by Crows . You have seen a small Elder-tree grow in Chinks and Clefts of Church-walls ; it seems rather a Weed than a Tree ; which , lend it growth , make 's a Rent in the Wall , and throw's downe the Church . Is not this the Assembler ? grown from Schismes ( which himself begot , ) and if permitted , will make the Church but a Floor or Church-yard . Yet , for all this , he will be call'd Christ's Munster and Saint , as the Rebels against King John were the Army of God. Sure when they meet , they cannot but smile ; for the dullest among them needs must know that they all cheat the people : such grosse low Impostors , that we die the death of the Emperor Claudius , poyson'd by Mushromes . The old Hereticks had Skill and Learning ( some excuse for a Seduced Church , ) Those were Scholars , but these are Assemblers ; whose very Brains ( as Manichaeu's skin ) are stuff'd with Chaff . For they study little , and preach much , ever sick of a Diabete : nor do they read , but weed Authours , picking up cheap and refuse Notes , that with Caligula they gather Cockle-shells , and with Domitian retire into their Studie to catch Flies . At Fasts and Thanksgivings the Assembler is the States ' Trumpet ; for then he doth not preach , but is blown ; proclaims News , very loud , the Trumpet and his Forehead being both of one metal . ( And yet , good Man , he still prayes for Boldness . ) He hackney's out his Voice like a Crier ; and is a kind of Spiritual Agitant , receives Orders , and spreads them . In earnest the States can't want this Tool , for without him the Saints would scarce Assemble . And if the Zealots chance to fly out , they are charm'd home by this Sounding Brass . There is not on earth a baser Sycophant ; for he ever is chewing some Vote or Ordinance ; and tells the People how savoury it is ; like him who lick'd up the Emperour's spittle and swore 't was sweet . Would the two Houses give him Cathedral Lands , he would prove Lords and Commons to be Jure Divino : but should they offer him the Self-denying Ordinance , he would justifie the Devil and curse them to their faces , ( his Brother Kirk-man did it in Scotland . ) ' T is pleasant to observe how finely they play into each others hands ; Marshall procures Thanks to be given to Sedgwick ( for his great pains ) Sedgwick obtains as much for Marshall , and so they all pimp for one another . But yet ( to their great comfort be it spoken ) their whole seven-years Sermons at Westminster are now to be sold in Fetter-lane and Pye-corner . Before a Battail the Assembler ever speaks to the Souldiers ; and the holding up of his hands must be as necessary as Moses's against the Amalekites : For he prick's them on , tells them that God loves none but the valiant : but when Bullets flye , Himself runns first , and then cry's All the sonns of Adam are cowards ! Were there any Metempsychosis his Soul would want a Lodging ; no single Beast could fit him , being wise as a Sheep and innocent as a Wolf. His sole comfort is , he cannot out-sin Hugh Peters : Sure , as Satan hath possessed the Assembler , so Hugh Peters hath possessed Satan , and is the Devil's Devil . He alone would fill a whole Herd of Gadarens . He hath suck'd Bloud ever since he lay in the Butcher's Sheets ; and now ( like his Sultan ) has a Shambles in his Countenance ; so crimson and torrid , you may there read how St. Lawrence dyed , and think the three children were delivered from his face . This is St. Hugh , who will Levell the Assembler , or the Devil 's an Asse . Yoke these Brethren ; and they two couple like a Sadducee and a Pharisee , or a Turk and a Persian , both Mahumetans . But the Assembler's deepest highest Abomination , is his Solemn League and Covenant ; whereby he strive's to damn or begger the whole Kingdom ; out-doing the Devil , who onely perswades , but the Assembler force's to perjury or starving . And this ( whoever live's to observe it ) will one day sink both him and his Faction : for he and his Oath are so much one , that were he half-hang'd and let down again , his first word would be Covenant ! Covenant ! But I forget a Character should be brief : ( though tedious Length be his best Character . ) Therefore I 'll give yee ( what He denyes the Sequester'd Clergy ) but a Fifth Part. For weigh him single , and he has the Pride of three Tyrants , the Forhead of six Gaolers , and the Fraud of twelve Brokers . Or take him in the Bunch , and their whole Assembly is a Club of Hypocrites , where six dozen of Schismaticks spend two hours for four shillings apiece . FINIS .