The utter routing of the whole army of all the Independents & Sectaries, with the totall overthrow of their hierarchy that new Babel, more groundless than that of the prelates. Or Independency not Gods ordinance : in which all the frontires of the Presbytery, with al the quarters of the same are defended, against all enemies. And all the forces of the three generals and commanders of the sectaries, Hanserdo Knollys, J.S. & Henry Burton are all dissipated, with all their whibling reserves, and the field of truth still kept, viz. That the Presbyterian government dependent is Gods ordinance, and not the Presbyterian government independent. Unto which is annexed an appendix in way of answer to Henry Burton clerk, one of his quondam fellow sufferers, in which all his calumnies are wiped away by the sponge of innocency, and the postscript vindicated; the honour also of all our renouned generalls and commanders is vindicated; the honour of the city of London; the honour of our brethern the Scots; the honour likewise of all the Presbyters through the Kingdome are vindicated from the obloquie of all the Independents and Sectaries and their due prayse given unto them in all their severall ranks and orders, as next under God tohave been the principall and primary repairers of our breach and the restorers of our pathes to dwell in: the honour of all which the Sectaries wholy and solely ascribe to their Party / By John Bastvvick, Captain in the Presbyterian army, Dr in physick and phisitian in ordinary to all the ill-dependents and sectaries to sweat them with arguments twice a year gratis, spring and fall, who discovering their distempers and maladies finds by the severall symptomes of their diseases that they are very unsound root and branch and therefore ought (with their venemous and intolerable toleration of all religions) to be shunned and avoyded as a company of infected persons by all such as are found in the faith.

By: Bastwick, John, 1593-1654

Contributor(s): Cross, Thomas, active 1632-1682 | Bastwick, John, 1593-1654

Material type: Text

Subject(s): Burton, Henry, 1578-1648 -- Controversial literature | Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691 -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800 | Sadler, John, 1615-1674 -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800 | Dissenters, Religious -- England -- Early works to 1800 | Presbyterianism -- Early works to 1800 | Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Early works to 1800 | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800