FIrst whereas that Libell begins with our head, wee therefore pronounce it a Capitall Li­bell.

It then butts at our hornes which in despite of that Libell shall shoot out to a greater length, and be more visible then they were, there being no con­tradicting since Doctors Commons suffred an E­clipse.

As for the Cavalliers, our black and blew Armes and Sides doe confesse that deere truth, and we one­ly say they are a Company of Absoloms, and wee hope to see them hang'd in their long Locks for that affront.

To the shutting upon Shopps, we answer, that e­ven as when the Sky falls you may catch Larkes, just so when Bishops goe downe we may set up a­gaine.

As for the Whitebrothes, &c. they are dishes the Libeller would lick his lips at, and we say, that at one of those Feasts we edifie so much, and grow so strong, that the Devill himselfe cannot tame us.

To that point where he saith that wee hold to maintaine Bishop, Order, learning and Unity, in the Church, Universityes and Common-Wealth, [Page] is Prophanenesse, superstition, and plaine Popery, Though it be put upon us as a jeere, yet thus wee confirme it; First, to maintain Order is proph [...] ­nesse; for if there were no Order (as it is amongst as) there could be no transgression of the Order, and consequently no prophanesse. Secondly, Lear­ning is superstition, for thereby Schollers are so fur­nisht with suffient arguments against us, that they dare stand stiffe upon their owne knowledge and as it were overtopps us. Lastly peace and Vnion is Po­pery, for what doe the Papists more boast of then their Uniformity, That we may not therefore be like them, we entend as long as we may have any Countenance, to set all the Kingdome together by the ears, whereby we in time shall become as famous for our seperations as they, for their Uniformity.

As for the Tearmes of Roundheads and prickears, we say it is a seemly sight, and if our example could but beget that fashion, amongst the Courtiers, they would look just like so many Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednegoes, in the Kings House, to the amazement nay afrightment of all forraign nations that should behold them, which some of them may easily doe, without the helpe of a Barber, 'tis but even pulling off a Cap of haire, and the thing is done if not over done.

Then for our Lecturers of both Sexes, I pray you who is it but they that beget Children Dayly and Hourly in our Churches? The men haild out of the world, and the women pull them in by the shirts of the flesh, and in short, time draw them emptie of Carnall things, abating much of their fleshly lust, [Page] leaving them onely to the comfort of a crestfalne Spirit which wee call Repentance, and after that brunts over they quickly learne the Mistery of con­venticle, break-fasts which surely proveth Cordiall and Restorative, enabling them to goe through with the worke they take in hand Cheerefully and power­fully.

Concerning the Community betwixt the Bre­thren and the Sisters, surely surely no flesh is able to resist the sweet alurement of a zealous fleire when she heares a not able piece of stuffe from the impu­dent Lecturer, or of a goodly Sky-coloured gleg up­wards, upon the pricking of her conscience, and the Deepe-sigh of two minuits long presently after it, for these causes we wonder that the yong Gentlemen of the Inns of Court do not convert, verily the provo­catives thereunto are plump, and smoath, and yet rough enough in some places, (but those are Com­mon places, and therefore not worth mentioning) They are no Iesebels paynted or brayded, but rather faithfull Rahabs, penitent Harlots. Another induce­ment to the Gentlemen might be good Husbandry: for questionlesse, the Commons are larger, and the payment lesser. Besides, they teach the Tone of the Nose an Artificiall way, as wel as the Sisters of Saint Giles in ruefull earnest▪ and we hope this will be considered.

Touching the Woods and Sawpits, they were pla­ces frequented onely in those times, when Learning played the Tyrant, by Commission, since which extir­pation; every of our own houses are Synagogues for that purpose. And for the putting out lights, some reasons may be shewed, and some not; one cause [Page] thereof may be, for that in our Prayers we should see each others yawning, gaping and staring upward, the divine rapture would be converted to a lowd laughter at one anothers ill-favoured faces, and we so prevented of that fruit, which from the exercise will otherwise arise▪ as for other reasons they are not to be discovered to any reprobate, whose haire is longer then his eares.

Then the Lybel wrings us by the Nose, the Nose is to be considered as part of the Face, and is the in­strument of one Sence (then 'tis well you'l say we have some sence) but you shall finde we make other use of it then you expect, for even as the Apostles did speak with Tongues, so verily do we speake with Noses, yea, with fiery Noses, which do guide a Musi­call and Tintinable rellish to our Language; like the hum of a Bel, or the drove of a Bagpipe; but (as the Song hath it) let Symons Beard alone, so let Be­ters Nose alone.

For the Ruffe, the Dublet, and the Breeches, they have their significations▪ the Ruffe sheweth how ter­rible we are in our Choller, the Doublet is the Em­blem of the Stomacke which is spacious, and the shortnesse of the Breeches, conduceth to the length of the Leg, and therefore demonstrates our advers­nesse to the Charactor of the Duck, O Ducks, plaguie Creatures.

As for our Faith, Charity and good Works, we linke them thus together▪ our Religion is built on Faith only, and great need there is it should be strong, in respect the other Graces and Symptomes of hea­venly mindednesse are seldome apparant in us, not need they be so, For Faith applyeth it selfe to things [Page] not seen, our Charity and good Works were never seen nor ever shall be, for that is the common way of Sal­vation, and dissonant from the rules of singularity; but ours prescribeth a new way to be saved by stratagem.

The length of the Prayer is a qualification in the Lungs, the toutologie thereof a Vertigo in the Braine, and the earnestnesse of the same, a habit got by pra­ctise, which seemeth to straine the interiours of the whole man, with a kind of Divine Witchcraft, even ravisheth the Soules of the tender Sisters, and filleth them with a servent desire to experience the strength of those able bodies that retain such powerfull graces.

As for the Robes, Gestures, and Utensils Ecclesi­astick, what is a Canonical cote, but a woollen Smock; or a Surplesse, but an over-wide Linnen Smock, and is a habite quite contrary to a plaine Text, that men should not put on Womens Apparell, what are the ornaments of the Altar, but Images of Gold and Sil­ver in the forme of Candlesticks and Embossed Books, and the Cringes and Bowings, but Sacrifices of dexterous hamstrings thereunto.

As for the Synod of Morefields and Pimlico, wee doubt not but the Canons there devised, will hould good with as much successe as those last enacted a Paules, especially for that the Agent of them are now, &c.

Now truely and verily for the Resolution and the Reformation, it could not have been [...]ed, though the Ironmonger, Law [...]t of our Family had draw [...] it; but onely the rascally Libeller put it in jearing Termes; but that may be requited when we meet him in Cheapside.

Now for an Addition of better Arguments for the maintenance of this Religion, take these few; It is [Page] confirmed by the lamentable death of a godly Knight, the Proto-Martyr of the Spiritual cause, who because he is dead, our Secretary (being principall Councell in this Vindication) thinks it good manners or, let him rest in peace; but in his life time Ram-Ally knew him well.

Rome is the Beast with ten Hornes, we having but two Hornes, are therefore no Roman Beasts; those Horns were empailed with Crownes, which our horns rather push against. A glorious Whore did ride on that Beast▪ but we are Beasts our selves, and ride the Whore.

The Jesuits are the onely Roman Puritans, that our singularities ought to take the right hand of theirs▪ they are the Brothers of Jesus the Sirname▪ but we are the Brothers of Christ the proper name, which alwaies preserves the eminence of the Pedigree in every great Family.

That this Religion is meerly of the Spirit, what do you say to many of us, that can reade as perfectly at the wrong end of the Book, as at the right end; or to a Brown-Baker that will take a Sermon Verbatim in Charactors (which you would take for Conjuring formes, they look so ghastly) and yet could never reade a Letter of the Book, or to another, that never read his Accidence, and hateth Latine, yet derives Hebrew roots with facility; if these be not peculiar and si [...] ­ple gifts of the Spirit, then we have no good Spirit in us, and the Resolution is an honest Libel.