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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43613	The ceremony-monger his character in five chapters ... with some remarks (in the introduction) upon the new-star-chamber, or late course of the Court of King's Bench, of the nature of a libel, and scandalum magnatum, and in conclusion, hinting at some mathematical untruths and escapes in the common-prayer book, both as to doctrine and discipline, and what bishops, were, are, and should be, and concerning ordination, humbly proposed to the consideration of the Parliament / by E. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing H1799; ESTC R20364	90,871	81

a Presbyter or Elder or Elderman or Grand Senior no greater name can well be given St. Peter was a Presbyter can there be a greater Disciple of Christ And the Presbyters to whom he preach't and were under him are the same with Bishops and those Presbyters also to whom St. Paul preach't at Ephesus and are called Presbyters in one verse are called Bishops in another and their Auditors or Flock are called the Clergy or God's Heritage 1 Pet. 5.3 How came Cassock men and Lawne-sleev'd-men first to make an Impropriation of this Word Clergy or God's Heritage to themselves forsooth I 'le tell you First it is clear that in all the Holy Scriptures this word Clergy or God's Heritage is never mentioned except in this place 1 P●t 5.3 Secondly It is as clear that the word Clergy or Gods Lo● belongs as much at least to the Layety as they call them in scorne if not more than to Presbyters or Bishops or Pastors who by another proud word too call themselves Divines for distinction sake from the Flock just as they have rob'd the Layety of their good name Clergy which by God was given to the Layety in Holy Writ Thirdly When the Pope and Bishops made Encroachments and Usurpations upon the Princes and Emperours taking their Dominions into the Church and St. Peters Patrimony then the Pope and Bishops feeling their own strength that they had strength enough of themselves as a distinct Body to go alone then they set up for themselves and made a new and distinct Corporation in the World called The Church The Clergy The Clergy The Lords Spiritual which is a Title absolutely and by Name forbidden as a prophane Name 1 Pet. 5.3 and also in the very next words in the same Verse they are forbid to Rob the people of the good Name of Clergy or God's Heritage because God gave the Flock that Name and Peter charg'd the Bishops as our Saviour did before that they should not be Lords nor Domineer nor exercise Lordship as the Princes of the Gentiles do For there was no such distinction nor prophane Names of distinction as Clergy and Layety Spiritual Lords and Temporal Lords there was but one sort of Clergy the Flock and but one sort of Lords Temporal The Princes or Temporal Lords for it is a Jesuitical Tenet which we practice and an old Popish Tenet and Errour in making Dominion to be Founded in Grace or to talk of Spiritual Lordship quatenus Spiritual Men or Apostles for it is totidem Verbis and by Name forbidden the Apostles I grant that a more Honourable Office or Officer cannot be in Nature than a good Presbyter or Bishop nor can that Holy and Spiritual Office be more debauch't and prophan'd than by making steps of Divinity to mount over all Humanity This is to Rancounter and Ruffle the whole course of Nature and make Heaven a pair of Stairs whither go you so fast To Hell To Hell And the Devil by the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked world contrary to that pretended Vow in Baptism of which a Bishop one would think should make a Conscience Thou that sayst a Man should not Steal saith Paul dost thou Steal and Filch M●ns good Names that God hath given them the Clergy the Church and appropriates them to thy self and thy Coat ●●le for shame this is a proud and covetous Encroachment taking in the Common by wicked Inclosures forsake the Devil and the Pope the Pomp● and Vanities of this Wicked World. In the Conclusion I 'le tell thee what Bishop were in the purest and Primitive Times and how much now they are unlike what they ought to be if they have any Conscience or Reason in them but if not they are sit for any thing rather than Bishops Which Honour of Bishop or Presbyter for they are all one or little or no difference 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith C●●●sosteme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Tim. very little no more than 〈◊〉 betwixt the Honourable Speaker of the House of Commons and the Honourable Members no more if so much But this Honour no Man taketh of himself but he that is called of God as was Aaron where note by the way that he that is called by the Church is said to be called by God or the Holy Ghost as Acts 13.2 3. But how was Aaron called of God By being Ordained High-Priest Who Ordain'd him The Captain the Lay-man as you call him the Prince by Name Moses And why may not Moses or any King or Prince Preach in his own Person and Administer the Church Keys in his own Person as well as Ordain a Deputy or Deputies called Aaron's if he be a Member as surely the Head is the chiefest Member A King Preach You 'le say that would be worth the hearing Yea so it is and does not his Sacred Majesty now Preach publickly once a Week more or less as occasion serves What in the Pulpit as the other King Henry aforesaid What matter is that Whether in the Pulpit or the Throne or the Chair or the Church or the Banqueting-House or Parliament-house The place alters not the Sermon or Speech But he does not Preach an Hour by the Glass No but Preaches more Divinity Wisdom and Sence in a Minute than the best of them do in an Hour that I can Hear and Preaches oftener than the Arch-bishop It is a Thousand times more skill to speak much in sew words than to talk Impertinently a whole Hour Oh! but Preaching is not the Arch-bishop's Province but ruling I thought that Ruling had been only the Kings Province Yea the Arch-bishop is Deputed by the King and Commissionated for the Work. I am glad to hear it he should be so Deputed and Commissionated a● other Judges are but he that gives a Deputation may upon Male-administration take it away and if either Arch Bishop Bishop or other Prelate of them all pretend jus Divinum for that prelacy it is not only false but they incurr all of them a Premunire by the Statutes of Provisor●s made even in popish times against those bold Intruders and Usurpers upon the Throne nay nay If the Rook or the Bishop can Check-mate the King put them all together in a Bag the Game is at an end What 's the matter with these People that do not know themselves If they do not they must be made to know themselves wherefore else do I bestow all this pains upon them St. Peter after he was an Apostle are these Men more was a Lay-man so were all the Apostles even the 13th too St. Paul Peter said Lo I go a Fishing we also quoth they will go with thee Did they throw their nets with their Cassocks on Or did St. Paul Weave Tent in his Gown If not what Flesh alive would have taken them for Clergy men more than other Fisher-men or Weavers as we foolishly and falsely accept and use the Word Clergy-man In the Old Testament Eli Samuel c. were no more Ministers than Magistrats no