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A
TALE
In
a
TUB
OR
,
A
TUB
LECTURE
As
it
was
delivered
by
My-beele
Mendsoale
,
an
Inspired
Brownist
,
and
a
most
upright
Translator
.
In
a
meeting
house
neere
Bedlam
,
the
one
and
twentieth
of
Decembler
,
Last
,
1641.
VVritten
by
J.T.
London
,
Printed
1641.
A
TVB
Lecture
BEloved
Sisters
,
and
my
well
infected
Brethren
,
attend
this
Text
,
as
you
shall
find
it
written
in
the
first
Chapter
of
Bell
and
the
Dragon
,
the
third
Verse
,
as
it
followeth
,
Now
the
Babylonians
had
an
Idoll
they
called
Bell
,
and
there
were
spent
upon
him
every
day
,
12
gress
measures
of
fine
flower
,
and
40
sheepe
,
and
6
vessels
of
wine
.
I
will
first
of
all
make
a
Division
in
the
former
part
of
my
Text
,
I
will
leave
the
latter
to
the
Last
,
and
expound
that
as
I
shall
VVax
to
an
End
.
Now
the
Babilonians
had
an
Idoll
they
called
Bell
.
This
sentence
I
shall
divide
into
4
parts
,
because
your
understandings
my
Beloved
Brethren
,
consisteth
chiefly
in
the
Knowledge
of
Divisions
,
the
particles
are
these
.
1.
The
Time
.
2.
The
Nation
.
3.
The
Crime
.
4.
The
Denomination
.
The
Time
.
Now
.
The
Nation
,
The
Babylonians
.
The
Crime
,
had
an
Idoll
.
The
Denomination
,
called
Bell
.
Now
the
Babylonians
had
an
Idoll
called
Bell
.
First
I
will
begin
with
the
time
,
you
must
not
conceive
that
it
was
1
,
10.
100.
1000
yeares
agoe
,
but
Now
,
at
this
present
,
Now
the
Babylonians
,
&c.
Beloved
there
is
much
evill
and
abomination
to
be
picked
out
of
these
three
letters
Now
,
according
to
the
explication
of
a
deare
deceased
Brother
of
ours
which
you
cald
Anthony
Now
,
Now
,
and
cald
he
was
from
us
too
soone
,
yet
the
worst
the
wicked
can
say
of
him
is
,
that
hee
dyed
a
dutifull
death
,
and
hee
did
but
Come
when
he
was
called
,
but
leaving
our
Brother
as
he
hath
left
us
,
I
will
proceed
with
this
word
Now
,
Now
the
Babylonians
,
Now
doth
,
plainely
and
significantly
expound
it self
in
these
words
,
at
this
time
,
this
present
,
this
instant
,
and
never
were
people
more
strangely
misled
by
fals
teaching
and
preaching
then
Now
:
you
shall
heare
how
many
sentences
or
questions
this
word
Now
will
answer
me
:
When
were
golden
Crosses
,
Images
&
pictures
suffered
to
stand
in
defiance
of
the
Brethren
,
nay
even
in
the
open
streetes
?
my
Text
doth
answer
Now
:
When
were
lying
,
fcurrilous
pamphlets
,
which
abuse
the
Brethren
in
prose
and
Verse
,
by
the
Name
of
Round-head
,
more
in
Fashion
then
Now
.
There
was
one
who
writ
a
Booke
,
intituled
,
A
Medicine
for
the
times
,
where
assuredly
he
doth
vindicate
that
pillar
of
Golden
superstition
,
Cheap
side
Crosse
,
calling
us
thieves
,
who
bare
away
the
lead
,
because
those
limbes
should
not
be
agen
set
up
by
Idolatrous
people
,
&
when
was
this
booke
generally
sold
to
draw
the
hearts
of
the
people
from
us
,
but
according
as
it
is
in
my
text
,
Now
:
but
were
he
in
our
Conventicle
that
writ
it
,
and
he
that
printed
it
,
I
thinke
it
were
convenient
that
all
of
us
with
one
a-cord
shold
endeavour
to
hang
them
to
death
,
and
were
they
here
,
no
fitter
time
then
Now
:
but
sithence
they
are
not
present
,
we
will
defer
their
execution
till
wee
can
confidently
say
we
have
them
Now
:
but
because
I
will
not
trespasse
upon
your
patience
much
longer
then
my
limited
time
,
6
houres
,
I
will
Now
conclude
this
part
of
my
Text
,
and
proceed
to
the
next
,
which
is
the
Nation
.
This
Nation
were
Babylonians
,
for
so
my
Text
telleth
me
,
Now
the
Babylonians
.
Beloved
,
these
Babylonians
are
a
Nation
that
inhabited
Babylon
,
and
derive
their
names
from
Nimrods
Tower
,
Babel
,
a
Tower
,
which
according
to
my
Authors
description
,
was
4
hundred
thousand
times
higher
then
the
Tower
of
London
,
bearing
twice
as
many
hundred
thousand
piece
of
Ordnance
,
for
it
was
the
intention
of
that
proud
Nimrod
,
to
shoot
downe
heaven
:
amongst
this
Nation
lived
that
grand
enemy
to
our
sect
,
The
Whore
of
Babylon
,
a
most
fathomlesse
Harlot
,
and
corrupted
every
man
that
had
any
Part
in
Babel
(
the
more
fooles
they
)
this
Nimrod
was
the
first
that
ever
taught
Idolatry
,
for
(
as
I
have
bin
told
)
you
know
I
cannot
read
my selfe
,
before
ever
the
Art
of
carving
or
painting
was
,
hee
taught
the
people
to
adore
the
fire
,
which
expressed
his
hot
zeale
in
Idolatry
,
it
was
onely
their
ignorance
in
arts
,
that
kept
them
from
setting
up
such
a
Crosse
,
as
is
in
Cheap-side
:
not
long
after
Nimrod
succeeded
King
Astiages
:
after
his
decease
,
Cyrus
of
Persia
received
his
Kingdome
,
as
you
shall
read
in
the
first
Verse
of
this
Chapter
,
and
according
to
my
Text
is
living
at
this
present
,
for
,
Now
the
Babylonians
had
an
Idoll
,
Called
Bell.
And
thus
much
shall
suffice
to
have
bin
spoken
for
the
second
part
of
my
Text
,
which
is
the
Nation
,
Babilonians
,
now
the
Babilonians
,
I
will
now
proceed
unto
the
third
,
which
is
their
crime
,
their
Idolatry
,
their
Image
worship
the
Divell
by
this
time
had
instructed
them
in
the
Art
of
making
Idols
,
for
so
my
Text
saith
,
Now
the
Babylonians
had
an
Idoll
.
This
Idol
was
made
of
Brasse
without
and
clay
within
,
a
brazen
face
,
and
an
earthen
heart
,
fil'd
with
corruption
and
fraught
with
abhomination
.
This
word
Idoll
properly
derives
it selfe
from
Idle
,
which
in
signification
,
my
attentive
Brethren
,
is
sloth
,
Iazinesse
,
they
wold
imploy
their
times
in
nothing
but
making
Images
.
I
le
warrant
you
in
those
dayes
a
Journeyman
Image-Maker
might
get
his
halfe
crowne
a
day
,
doe
you
but
censure
then
,
my
deare
Assembly
,
how
they
flourished
in
their
wickednesse
,
but
,
since
they
had
nothing
else
to
doe
but
to
set
up
Idols
,
it
shall
become
us
to
make
it
the
busines
of
our
whole
lives
to
pull
them
downe
:
but
take
this
caution
with
you
,
when
you
next
attempt
the
holy
destruction
of
that
nest
of
Idols
,
Cheap-side
Crosse
,
be
not
too
violent
,
least
you
suffer
as
our
Brother
did
,
yet
had
hee
past
the
Pikes
,
he
had
bin
living
to
this
day
.
This
Idoll
in
my
Text
,
was
Brasse
without
,
and
earth
within
,
a
cheape
Idoll
to
those
in
Cheap-side
,
for
they
are
Gold
without
,
and
lead
within
.
Beloved
,
Lead
was
not
made
to
forme
Idols
with
,
but
for
the
good
of
mankind
,
which
is
to
make
Bullets
,
and
Tyle
Houses
;
your
onely
way
to
confound
this
aforesaid
Cheap-side
Crosse
,
is
to
pull
downe
to
the
ground
,
that
old
Idoll
Charin
,
and
beat
downe
this
with
the
stones
,
that
wee
may
have
no
more
cause
to
say
,
Now
the
Babylonians
had
an
I
doll
called
Bell
.
I
am
now
come
to
the
Denomination
of
this
Idoll
,
they
cald
him
Bell
,
for
so
saith
the
Text
.
Now
the
Babilonians
had
an
Idol
.
This
notorious
Babe
of
Idolatry
,
who
hath
to
name
,
Bell
,
hath
his
Name
derived
from
that
generall
enemy
to
mankind
Belze-bub
,
one
whom
we
all
know
to
bee
the
Devill
;
this
Bell
was
made
of
brasse
,
&
that
is
the
only
reason
(
my
beloved
)
that
our
Bels
be
held
so
much
in
contempt
amongst
the
Brethren
.
This
Bell
according
to
the
text
had
spent
upon
him
every
10
great
Measures
of
fine
Flower
,
40
Sheepe
,
and
6
Vessels
of
wine
:
now
who
devoured
this
Flower
?
Bell
,
who
consumed
the
40
Sheepe
,
but
Bell
,
who
dranke
the
wine
,
so
that
there
was
a
generall
exaction
laid
upon
each
Pint
and
Quart
,
but
Bell
,
or
A-bell
.
I
have
observed
that
there
was
never
any
good
in
that
word
where
Bell
had
a
share
in
't
what
was
Adam
Bell
,
but
a
hunter
,
so
was
Nimrod
,
who
built
that
ambitious
Tower
Babel
;
I
have
heard
with
mine
owne
eares
,
those
blads
which
call
themselvs
Cavaleroes
call
a
Crosse
Bard
sword
Troy
Bel.
what
is
a
Bel-man
but
a
night
walker
(
as
I
apprehend
him
)
nay
doe
not
your
superstitious
papists
curse
the
Bretheren
with
Bell
Booke
and
Candell
;
was
not
that
Cardinall
an
arch
Heretick
who
had
to
name
Bell
Armine
;
doe
not
those
persecuting
papists
in
Ireland
ReBel
,
yes
double
and
Tre-Bel
;
and
I
hope
there
will
be
such
an
Equall
uniformity
amongst
us
who
are
the
select
Brethren
that
no
particular
man
may
be
sayd
to
bare
the
Bel
:
nor
shall
any
man
hereafter
be
counted
a
man
the
sounder
for
being
Bel-Metle
,
for
Bel
was
Brasse
without
and
Clay
within
.
Now
the
Babilonians
had
an
Idol
called
Bell
,
and
there
was
spent
upon
him
every
day
12
measures
of
fine
flower
,
and
40
sheepe
and
6
Vessels
of
wine
,
beloved
had
I
been
to
serve
Bell
with
this
banquet
I
would
have
made
Bels
eares
ring
noone
ere
he
should
have
had
it
;
now
who
doe
you
conceive
should
worship
this
Bell
?
noe
worse
man
then
Cyrus
the
King
,
as
you
shall
find
it
in
the
fourth
verse
;
And
Syrus
worshipped
it
and
went
daily
to
adore
it
.
And
it
is
thought
(
by
some
Authors
)
that
this
Syrus
first
made
this
Bel
,
if
hee
did
,
hee
was
but
a
Bel
founder
;
or
at
least
the
first
that
ever
was
a
Bel-founder
.
I
shall
love
a
Bel-founder
the
worse
for
it
all
dayes
of
my
life
;
I
could
proceed
further
and
would
but
for
feare
of
the
law
,
who
if
I
should
be
too
zealous
,
would
censure
this
Lecture
to
be
a
Libell
,
therefore
,
this
shall
suffice
at
this
time
,
next
meeting
shall
perfect
the
worke
begun
:
repaire
to
your
houses
and
consider
of
these
sayings
,
Farewell
.
FINIS
.