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A43636	A speech without-doors, or, Some modest inquiries humbly proposed to the right honourable the Convention of Estates, assembled at Westminster, Jan. 22, 1688/9 concerning, I. Bigotism, or religious madness, II. Tests, and the present test in particular, III. Penal laws in matters of religion, IV. The necessity of changing and recanting our opinions in religion, V. Restraint of the press / by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing H1827; ESTC R20396	31,636	44

run but the Errours of which no Man nor Book is free ought to be Re●●nted and publickly too if required yea as publickly as the Books that have been Publick St. Augustine has a large Recantation and a Heavenly one in Print called His Books of Confessions so the Learned and Excellent B●z● and a Man worth them all St. Paul. Confessing and Recanting his Persecuting Spirit It is not in any Mortal Man's Power to be free from Sin or Error Homo sum Humanum a me nibil alienum puto at Humanum est Errare was an old and too true a Proverb If we be Mortals we are subject to 〈◊〉 and then if we be Christians or hope for Mercy we must Recant For though we may Err the Frail●y of our Vaderstandings yet we need not be guilty of Heresie or Obstinacy in B●ro● the fault of our Wills. Thus the Church of England makes us all Recant publickly in the Church twice a Day in sober sadness if we do not Dissemble saying We have left undone these things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done and there is no Health in us The most Learned and Elaborate Authors in our Age need no other Confutation of their humane Frailties and Errors than their own Contradicting-Books his pretty to show if it more worth the while how the Dean gives the Parson the Lie and the Arch-Deacon the Bishop and how desperately they stabb themselves and are Felones de se in some sence if a Lie deserves a stab they need to other Dagger than their own which is enough to abate the Hussing Pride of the greatest S●hollars and Noblest Souls amongst us as well as to Mortifie the Bigot that is so full and puffe up with his present Notion Nay Parliaments Lords Spiritual and Temporal and House of Commons have Recanted publickly bewailing begging Pardon and asking forgiveness of the Popes Nuntio Cardinal Pool on bended Knees when frighted with the Apprehensions of Queen Maries Smithfield-F●res and which is worst of all did for fear also Recant God's Truth at least they Recanted what the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and House of Commons had about six years before by Statute-Law Declared to be Gods Truth 2 3 Edw. 6. c. 1. and made by the Aid of the Holy Ghost surely you 'll say then that must be the Bible which they recanted And so one would think indeed but it was a far Inferiour Business viz. only the Common Prayer-Book saying 1 and 2. Phil and Mar. c. 8. Seeing by the goodness of God our own Errors have knowledged the same to the said most Reverend Father Cardinal Pool the Popes Legate Therefore We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in this present Parliament Representing the whole Body of the Realm of ENGLAND c. Do Declare our selves very sorry and Rep●ntant Poor Hearts of the Schism and Disobedience c. against the See Apostolick c. And all this Recantation the Bishops and Parliament when the times turn'd Re●ant again about five years after in 1 Elig 1. Resuming again this same Common-Peayer-Book and setting up a High-Commission-Court c. which was for Cruelties and Oppressions Condemn'd by 17 Car. 1.2 And when the King and Parliament were offended because Bishops were too busie or too much busied in Temporal Employments Powers and Authorities they were Disabled by 17 Car. 1.27 but made Capable again by 13 Car. 2.2 What Variation of the Compass is here What Turnings and Windings and Returnings again Then Facing about as you were of which I might give many hundreds of Instances let this suffice for England And if we cross the Seas and make a Progress to Rome to the Infallible Chair we shall find that even that too stands as unsteady or more unsteady than any other In proof whereof I 'll have no other Vouchers than Papists and Cardinals and for Cleanliness sake give but a small Touch at the dirty Work. Was not the Bones of Pope Formosus digged up by the Pope his Successor his Decrees Rescinded and the poor Dead Pope thrown into Tyber for a Heretick not worthy of Christian Burial c Platina Theodore 197. and John 10.897 tells us That Pope Theodore II. made Null and Void the Decrees of Romanus And did not Pope John X. do as much for him I care not which was in the Right it sufficeth my present purpose to shew That one of the Infallible Don 's did Err and was Fallible And does not Cardinal Baronius ad an 900 on this Score cry out Alas For Shame and Sorrow that so many Monsters a horrible thing to see should mount that Chair which deserves Sir Reverence of Angels Was not Pope Bennet IX made Pope at twelve years of Age by the means of his Father the Marquess of Tuseta and could not so much as read Mass And afterwards skill'd in nothing but the Black Art by which the Letcher as Cardinal Benno affirms enticed pretty Wenches into the Woods and there Debanch'd them Well might Cardinal Barronius ad An. 1033. call him The Shame of the Romish Church Ecclesiae Opprobrium Does not Luithrand lib. 2. c. 3. tell us That the Council of Lateran did Depose Pope John XII First for Ordaining Deacons in a Stable Secondly For making Boys but ten years of Age Bishops Thirdly For Praying to the Devil to help him when he was at Dice to a lucky Throw Fourthly For making his House the L●teran-Palace a Common Stews Fifthly For lying with Stephana his own Fathers Whore. Sixthly For Drinking a Health to the Devil Does not Platina Silvest 2. An. 998. tell us That Pope Sylvester II. made a Bargain with the Devil to give him Body and Soul upon two Conditions First That the Devil would help him into the Infallible Chair Secondly That he should never die but in Hierusalem whither he was resolved never to come The Contract thus made the Devil helpt him to the Popedom Pontificatum adjurante Diabolo consecutus est hâc tamen lege ut post Mortem totus illius esset But the Devil was as crafty as a Jesuice for he cheated with an Equivocation the Pope himself who Died horribly C. Malmesbur 2.10 whilst he was saying Mass in Rome in the Church called Jerusalem I might fill Volumns with these Instances to shew that even Popes ought to change and Recant if ever they hope to be Saved for there are no good Men here on Earth nor Glorified Saints in Heaven except Recanters Honest Parliaments have Recanted St. Peter St. Paul St. Augustine Beza and all Honest Men have Recanted And must not all good Protestants then come into the Fashion of all good Men in Heaven and Earth SECT V. Of the Restraint of the PRINTING-PRESS PRinting though reckon'd amongst the New Inventions is now become an Old Trade in London and has begot one or two more Trades the Book-sellor and Stationer which are all Incorporated into a Body-Politick called The