Os Ossis & Oris. OR A COLLECTION OF The most remarkeable passages in a book intituled, Os Ossorianum. OR A bone for a Bishop to pick,

Written By a worthy Minister of the VVord, JOHN GOODWIN, of Coleman street.

Viz. 1. The most grave and weighty Sentences and Proverbs. 2. His most meeke and charitable demeanour. 3. The most home and reverent similitudes. 4. The neatest phrases, and most queint expressions. 5. His excellency in the allegoricall use of the Militia. 6. The most concordant, and consonant passages. 7. His most modest, and mannerly behaviour towards his Ad­versary. viz. The Reverend Father in God, Gr. Williams, Lord Bishop of Ossory.

Printed in the yeere. 1643.

A Collection of the most remarkable passages in a Book entituled, Os Ossorianum.

HAving falne upon this Tract, written by a most judici­ous Divine of this City, by which I seriously professe my selfe to be more improved then by any other of the same nature; and considering that books of that bulk and value are not so generally dispersed, or so throughly read in these nimble and dispatchfull times; I have thought it not unworthy my Christian pains to cull out the most usefull and edifying pas­sages, as well for the ease and benefit of this City and King­dome, as for the more speedy advancement of the Cause in hand, and the reputation of the grave, learned, modest, in­genious, humble, and charitable Author. Which are as fol­loweth.

1. The most grave and weighty Sentences and Proverbs.

  • 1 THe Countrey Proverb is, that Good Ale never wants a friend on the Bench, (applyed to the Epi­scopall chaire) Page 1
  • 2
    Much like a Rat, before he is aware,
    He squeaks himselfe into a trapping snare.
    p. 8
  • 3 You will never thrive by hogs, if you bring them to no fairer market then this. p. 13
  • 4 It may be he was afraid of the end of an old Saw.
    Pauperis est numerare pecus.
    'Tis poor mans guise his cattle ere to number. p. 17
  • 5 I see it is ill halting before a cripple, however the common saying is, Set a thief to take a thief. p. 19
  • 6 But in the meane time let the saddle be set on the [Page 2] right horse, and he that cries out against the thiefe, be laid hold of for the thiefe himselfe. p. 40
  • 7 They tell you they have a needle of nine-pence in a bottle of hay, disprove them if you can. p. 55
  • 8 Therefore Sir you are faln into the Premunire of the old Proverb, Sutor ultra crepidam, having playd the Cobler beyond your Last. p. 61
  • 9 They have laid your wallet upon your owne neck, and have concluded Stop the thiefe, to be the thiefe himselfe. ibid.

II. His most meek and charitable demeanour.

  • 1 INtending chiefly to abuse the consciences of the weaker, he blusters, and thunders, and arms him­selfe with hell-fire. p. 9
  • 2 Which is an accusation of that desperate malice, that the Accuser of the Brethren seems to have given him his power & his throne, as being more able to ma­nage them for his advantage then himselfe. p. 36.
  • 3. Let the Bishop beare testimony against me, and up­on due proofe made Satiet se sanguine, quem semper sitivit. let the Anti-cavalier be sacrificed upon his Anti-Christian and bloudy Spirit. p. 40.
  • 4. Bishops surely are more afraid of scruples, and qualmes of conscience, then they are of hell-fire. p. 50
  • 5. He is inforced to furnish his pen with the rankest slanders and lies he could rake off from the Divels dunghill. p. 54.
  • 6. Surely he hath good correspondence with Pluto; for we have here stampt together, as the principall in­gredients in the composition. p. 58.
  • Oris Cerberei spumas & virus echidnae. (i. e.)
    [Page 3]The foamy froth of Cerberus triple chaps,
    Mixt with the poyson of a female aspe.
    Brai [...] & Stairs.

III. The most home and reverent similitudes.

  • 1. AS Peter and John had neither silver nor gold, but gave the poor cripple such as they had; so this man hath neither learning nor modesty, but such as he hath he gives his poore brother, Igno­rance and Impudence. p. 14.
  • 2. To say that any Magistrate, hath any power at all from God to lay punishment unjustly upon any man, is as like the sound of an empty tub as may be. p. 15
  • 3 When Herod had killed James, because he saw that it pleased the people, he proceeded further to take Peter also, Act. 12. 2, 3. The Bishop it seems hath ei­ther so pleased himself or his friends, with confu­ting the Anti-Cavalier (over the shoulder) once, that he proceeds to the like confutation of him the second time. p. 36
  • 4 However the Lamb hath no great cause to be sorry if the Wolfe knew her not; nor hath this Goodwin any cause to be troubled, that these great overseers over-look him. p. 37
  • 5 This is but a saying of like notion with this, that all the fishes in the sea that are fowles in the ayre, are able to fly: Or this, all the lambs in the fold, that are Lions in the forest, will be able enough to deale with the wolfe. p. 44
  • 6 But is he as strong in his evidence as he is in his judg­ment? Not by as many degrees as the Sun went [Page 4] back in the diall of Ahaz in Hezekiahs dayes. p. 47
  • 7 In this Nation your credit is broken in pieces like a Potters vessel, whereof there remains not so much as a sheard or piece, wherewith to take either a little fire from the harth, or a little water out of the pit. p. 56
  • 8 His angry Lordship in joyning the Anti-Cavalier with M. Burroughs, hath accommodated him with the like honour, wherewith the blind man restored to sight by our Saviour, ( Joh. 9.) vvas gratified by the Scribes and Pharisees, who excommunicated him, and cast him out of their society to Christ and his Apostles. p. 57
  • 9 It may be you are best in the dark, and the light is to you that which Job sayes it is to theeves, in the sha­dow of death, Job 24. 17. p. 60

IV. The neatest Phrases and most queint Expressions.

  • 1. I Wonder what crotchet hath fallen in conjuncti­on with the Rotcher. p. 21
  • 2. The ruine and destruction of the land by those walking sacks of blood the Cavaliers. ib.
  • 3. Hence it fully appeares how left-handed the Bi­shop is in his understanding of Scriptures. p. 31
  • 4. The design of this confession seems to be to indi­gitate his adversary, as a filius terrae, and himselfe bro­ther to the Sunne and Moone. p. 37
  • 5. He casts out his sacred anchor, betakes himself to his bottome answer. p. 45
  • 6. I professe ingeniously I have not so bad an opini­on of the man, as to set the foote of my judgement by his in this. p. 48
  • [Page 5]7. A man would have thought that what the Anti-Cavalier hath written should have beene a bridle in the lips of this mans pen. But jacta est alta, he hath ad­ventured upon a Bishoprick. p. 50
  • 8. Sir let me tel you one thing which may be worth many a two that are told you otherwise. p. 56
  • 9. When this heaven falls he makes no question but he shall have larkes enough to feast the Bishop. p. 57
  • 10. I wonder a little how the Bishop came by his simples for this receipt. p. 58

V. His excellencie in the Allegoricall use of the Militia.

  • 1. HE shelters himself behind Kilkenny as his bul­warke, and lets fly at the Parliament in Eng­land. p. 8
  • 2. In the contents of the 2. Chap. he hath the first encounter of the 3. Chap. the second encounter of the 4. the 3. assault of the 5. Chap. the 4. encounter of the Bishop with the Anti-Cavalier, in which he chargeth him with lies, and of the 6. Chap. the last encounter wherein he chargeth him with little lesse.
  • 3. The quarter in this discourse which the Philo-Cavalier fals upon is this. p. 36
  • Against this the Bp. advanceth with this answer. p. 37
  • The forlorne hope or first advance of his answer is, &c. ibid.
  • In the next place comes on the van of his answer. ibid.
  • 4. Now to the heate and strength of the battel, his first charge is, &c. p. 41
  • 5. Thus we see the Episcopal batteries and assaults [Page 6] are of no value, to pierce or shake the fortifications and bulwarks which the Anti-Cavaleir hath raised for the defence of the cause undertaken by him. p. 49
  • 6. But because in this encounter he quits his intelle­ctuals & falls on with his patheticals, I wil be at no fur­ther expence of words upon him. p. 53

VI. The most concordant and consonant passages.

  • 1. THe man is so well experienced in the point of impudencie, that he discernes it where it is not, yea where there is not the least colour or appearance of it. p. 19
  • 2. To make your conscience leave muttering, you seale up your resolution with another egge of the same bird. p. 29
  • 3. Nor would any man who hath not his fore-head fenced with iron and brasse, ever have adventured his reputation in such a rotten bottome. p. 21
  • The like follows. p. 51
  • 4. Now I would know of a man that had not made ship-wrack of his fore-head, whether, &c. p. 51

VII. His most moderate and mannerly behaviour to­wards his Adversary.

  • 1. HE that affirmeth Gregory or Griffeth Williams (or whatever the name of the hobgobling Gr. be,) &c. p. 23
  • 2. Juglers can hide and finde at pleasure. This man I beleeue hath learn'd his Terence. Si sapis quod scis ne­cis, and his Cato too. p. 43
  • 3. Whether God wil assist any man, much more a [Page 7] colloguing Bp, &c. p. 44
  • 4. I answer, If this be his meaning, then have at the butcher with his own hatchet. p. 46
  • 5. He that thus turnes him selfe every way, and cuts and lashes him selfe like Baals Priests for an answer, it is a plaine signe he knowes not which way to turne him. ibid.
  • 6. Therefore the Bp. goes out in a snuffe here. p. 47
  • 7. May not a man eate Oisters without disturbing the Bp. at his rost beefe? p. 48
  • 8. For the maintenance of his cause he presently ea­ses his foule stomach, by disgorging this vomit in the Anti-Cavaleirs face. p. 49
  • 9. It is a slander worthy that order of men from whence it comes, whose tongues and pens are no slander. p. 5 [...]
  • 10. I presume the Bp is nescient (not to rub him with the coorse towel of Ignorance, wherewith not withstand­ing he bescrubs the poore Anti-Cavaleir over and o [...] over.) p. 53
  • 11. The oyle in his cruce being formerly spent, the Bp. here comes to his Vineger bottle, having run him­selfe out of his small stock of learning before he was aware, &c. p. 54
  • 12. The man by this time hath reasond him selfe quite out of al his learning, reason, and patience, into a moody, cholerick, and bloody passion. p. 58
  • 13. The man is here in his rhetoricals, and we doe him some wrong to make him speake Logick, that is reason and truth against his will. p. 59.
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