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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

all with them no not the Pope himself But what if I prove that our Kings at their Coronations have at the same time been ordain'd Clergy-men they are no more excluded then by our Laws from the power of the Keys then Mr. Archdeen or the Pope himself What is Ordination but the ordering designing or setting a Man a part to some office if to the Ministry then there are certain significant Words to that purpose and what more significant words for Ordination to the Priest-hood or making a Man a Clergy man than those the Bishops uses to our Kings namely with Unction Anthems Prayers and Imposition of Hands as is usual in the Ordination of Priests with the same Hymn come Holy Ghost Eternal God c. The Bishop saying also amongst other things Let him obtain favour of the people like Aaron in the Tabernacle Elisha in the water Zacharias in the Temple give him Peters Key of Discipline and Pauls Doctrine Which last Clause was pretermitted in times of Popery from the Coronation of Hen. 6. till Charles 1. and Charles 2d lest it should imply the King to be more a Clergy man and Ecclesiastical Person than these Archdeacons could afford him but our Gracious King Charles 2d and his Father at their Coronations had the antients forms of crowning Kings reviv'd and in the Anointing the Bishop said Let those Hands be Anointed with Holy Oyl as Kings and Prophets have been Anointed and as Samuel c. Then ●he Arch-bishop and Dean of Westminster put the Coif on the King's Head then put upon his Body the Surplice saying this Prayer O God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords c. And surely of old the very Pope himself look't upon our Anointed Kings as Clergymen else why did the Pope make Hen. 2 his Legate De Latere here in England the usual office of the Archbishop of Canterbury usually styled Legati Nati Therefore Mr. Arch-deacon you talk like an unthinking Black-coat stockt with a little superficial Learning when you say our Laws exclude the King from the Keys of the Church to which he has as good right as your D. D. Divinity ship And indeed to give the Man his due he is glad afterwards to confess that Constantine and the Eminent Christian Emperours called Councels and approv'd their Canons Then by your leave dear D. D. They also for the same reason might upon occasion and if they had seen cause also disprove the same who then was Papa of old Pater Pa-trum surely no other but he that is PaPa I mean Pa●ter Pa-triae All the Male-Administrations in Ecclesia stical Government take their Rise and Original from our Ignorance of the Power of the Keys or who are the Clavigers Key-keepers or Porters to let them in and turn them out of the Church The bulky Clergyman called a Bishop an Ordinary or a Diocesian he we say keeps the Church-Keys he Excommunicats and Excludes Sinners out of the Church and he alone receives them and lets them in but that 's false the sneaking Register and Surrogate do that Job Ay But who entrusted a Bishop alon● to be the Church-Porter Door-keeper or Church-key-keeper Where is his Commission Where is his Authority and who gave him this Authority For it is evident in Holy Scripture that God never gave him any such Commission Place Office or Authority to keep the Keys of the Church any more than the Speaker of the House of Commons or Chair-man to a Committee has power to turn out of the House or let in any of his Fellow-Members For does a Bishop differ from another Presbyter more than the Chair-man from the rest of the Committee or he that gives the Rule of the Court at Session differ from the rest of his Brethren and Fellow-Justices he is no better man nor the more learned wise nor more honest a man though he be Ordain'd to be the mouth of them that 's all to to speak what they put into his Mouth The Speaker takes too much upon him to speak the Sense of the House 'till the Majority of Votes has given him Instructions and Commissions to pronounce a Sentence or the Sense of the House or to turn any Member out of the House of Commons he has no such Authority he is the Speaker indeed and is look't upon as the wisest and fittest Man for that place it should be so it is not always so one or other of the Members must be chosen Speaker or Chairman and have precedency for Order●salte and to avoid confusion but he no otherwayes differs from other Members except only that the Honourable Speaker is the Honourable Mouth that 's all after the Members have chosen and ordain'd him and the King has confirm'd him Even so a Bishop has no new Character confer'd upon him more then when he was but a Presbyter or Elder save only the Kings Ordination or Mandate or Conge d' Estire The E●●ction of the Dean and Chapter is a mee● mockery as aforesaid besides the playing with the Edge●ools and mocking of God. Bishops and presbyters used to be chosen just as Parliament Men are chosen by the Majority of the Vows of the people as shall be more particularly proved in the 〈◊〉 in the Chapters concerning Bishops and Ordination Thus Paul and Barnabas were chosen and ordain'd by the whole Church Acts 13.3 Perhaps the chief Church-members laid their Hands upon or ordain'd the Ministers Missioners or Messengers of the Church but the worst Member had as much power and vertue to ordain a Messenger Elder or Bishop as the best Bishop or presbyter if the Majority of Votes had ordain'd and so appointed as is clear from Scripture and the practise of the primitive Church and shall be more particularly insisted upon in the Conclusion of the Chapter of Ordination Ordination What is it more then chusing approving or setting a Man a part for an Office to do business relating to this life or a better I will not say in Church or State or as a Clergy-man or Lay-man for these are idle ungrounded vain and odious names of distinction where God and Holy Scripture never made any such distinction and has not only confounded our notions of things but has been and yet is the cause of most of our Confusions in what Men mischievously distinguish and call Church and State which are not two things nor two distinct Bodies if you make them so you must make two Kings and two distinct Heads to these distinct Bodies and that is one too much And if you make a Clergy-man and a Lay-man two distinct sorts of persons you make a Man that God never made And if so Then Clergy-man I must Catechize you Who made you so God It is false For God in Holy Scripture does not call the Preachers but the Hearers not the Bishops Presbyters and Minister's the Clergy but the Hearers and Flock are God's Clergy 1 Pet. 5.1 2 3. The Presbyters which are amongst you I exhort who am also

Church as well as the better half of the Kingdom and consequently has made the Church so little so schismatical so divided and therefore weak dull and dark as being so mainly dedicated to the spurious and irrational Whimsies of his Ecclesiastical Noddle and Invention But how Nonsensical soever his Whimsies are he has made true steps thereon sometimes to mount to the Pinnacles of the Temple and there secure as well as engross the Honours and Priviledges of the Church as a Monopoly to himself if possible and to the Men of his scantling and little way Have we not the like Con●●lsions in 1●89 a● in 1639 both in Church and State and from a like Cause too The then Star-chamber was reviv'd in the late King's Bench and the High-Commission Court sat again in the Council Chamber the Popish like Ceremony-monger has again debauch'● the Virgin Purity of Primitive Religion and ravish't her mo●● impudently in the very Church where we that have se●n both the Years 39 and 89 may well be affrighted to see the Ghost of little Doctor Laud that occasion'd the Commotions of Civil War first in Sco●land afterwards in England now again to our great astonishment to walk in the Church I have done my endeavour to lay the Ghost and charm it down let it go to Rome its birth●place what does it do here in a Protestant Church where if my Ceremony-monger Sin before all Rebuke before all nay rebuke them sharply saith St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cuttingly The Corruptions are great and deeply impo●humated a Gangreen may well be feared and if I have with sharp and cu●●ing Words sometimes gone to the very bottom of the Sore why should they roar so 't is but to let out the Filth my Ceremony-monger will thank me if he overlive his Ulcer was it ever before now drest to the bottom They 'l say my Style bites Yes truly I have made a File of it for the very nonce to file off the Rost of an Iron Ag● I have lent a hand to polish it Let them call it an Incision Knife a File or what they will a Besom if they please I care not so it do but help to sweep down the Futile and frail Church Cobwebs though they hang aloft And tho I have anointed my Incision-Ka●●e with Weapon Salve to cure as it cuts yet I But as Bellarmine in a far it is but wise foresight to ●eek some noble Shelter and where better than under Your Lordship's Patronage and Protection To which I might make some remote and modest Title by Consanguinity for no Man was ever counted Vain or Arrogant in making claim to his Bl●th right one half of the Blood in my Veins my Mother ●●ing a Troutbeck is lineally descended and derived from the Noble Blood of the Trout●eeks the Autient Earls of Shrewsbury whence you derive half of your Noble Blood and all your Noble Title But as ●ellarmine in a far greater Case having writ several Treatises of the Merit of Goods Works concludes that in reference to the Soul's Salvation The best Title is Free Grace so in this far Inferiour Case to protect and save this little Treatise from the desperate Assaults of devilish and wicked Men by your Noble Patronage The best Title I can make to it is your own Free-Grace and Generous Goodness which be pleased to vouchsafe to My LORD Your Lordship 's most devoted Servant and Admirer E. Hickeringill The INTRODUCTION AS Black as my Ceremony-monger is here describ'd he is neither Moor nor Tawny-Moor Infidel nor Jew but a Protestant-profess'd he may be a Papist or worse an Atheist in Masquera●e but his Face is Protestant I grant that I have Censur'd Condemn'd and Hang'd him up in Effigie yet I have drawn no Blood done hurt to none for my Man is a Man of Clouts a Man in the Clouds a meer Individuum Vagum so that no Man alive can be offended because let his Guilt be never so great in being like my Whiffler-Ecclesisstical though ●e●●ip him to the very Heart and fly in so much influance the Throne come thither and make him blush yet he is as sate as a Thief in a Miln except he come into Court and confess himself to be the Man which is here for his guilt Expos'd and Sentenc'd If the Fool Confess he must Suffer like that silly Wit-all who shal he nameless and not being content to be a Cuckold he must needs Wind his Horn and Proclaim his own shame in open Court by good Evidence and so he remains a Cuckold upon Record like the silly Snall who had never been taken for a Cornudo or Horn'd-Brute if he himself had not thrust out his own Horns If such Disasters behappen a Wise Man his Wisest way is to make no Words on 't but to cover the shame as decently as may be and put his Horns in his Pocket This Brute with his Irrational Ceremonies should belong to a Protestant Church and Constitution but like an out-lying Deer which are usually the ●ustiest and fattest of all the Brutish Herd has through Wantonness or greedy Ravage broke out of the Pale of the Church where if he would be content to keep 〈◊〉 would be safer for him and my design is in pure Love and Kindness to his Welfare thus gently to Hunt him Home and so he will acknowledge it surely But what Gratitude can a Man in Reason expect from a Brute who hears no Reason but is guided by furious Passion and Appetite And I deny not but that he may owe much of the Flesh on his Back ●o his Rambling after Popish like Ceremonies when Popery did so much influance the Throne in the happy days of the two Castle-mains and Fa●her Peter who not being able to bring in Popery Bare-fac'd therefore the Quid pro Quo the something like it and near it must be countenanc'd ●d preferr'd And my Ceremony-Monger is now as loth to depart with ●em his Dear dear Silly and Illegal Ceremonies for old Acquain●nce-sake as with his old Dog or old Horse that though past Service yet ●e retains them for old Kindness and old done Deeds And yet they are such as neither the Laws of God nor Man ever made ●d therefore must be Condemn'd and Executed if brought to the Bar of ●ly Writ and right Reason At which Bar no Man has a better Commission of Oyer and Terminer to ●raign and Judge him than my self as being lawfully into the Sacred ●der of Priest-hood Ordain'd and the Holy Bible then put into my ●nds by the Learned Saunderson then Bishop of Lincoln and now I ●bt not a Saint in Heaven though he was Nick-nam'd the Presbyterian an Bishop and of a Captain both perswaded me and made me a Priest saying Take thou Anthority to preach the Gospel There 's my Commission and let any Man Pope or Bishop shew a patent more Authentick to Teach all Nations and I will never Preach nor Writ Divinity hereafter but there are but

Curats must all assent and consent that this falshood is a truth and such a falshood it is and of so evil consequence that it makes a blunder and confounds all our wise Methods of uniformity in Common-prayers Episties Gospels and Lessons And if we do not confess and subscribe that this falshood and untruth is 〈◊〉 truth then starve and dir I can give several other instances of our irrational Doctrine and Discipline but I am loth to offend let them even go on they 'l give me but little thanks for my pains already but I thank God I do not find the fault to expose it to shame but to cure it I know how And let me tell you it requires some skill in the Cure Why may not Lightning sometime come from a black Cloud and a dull By-stander see better sometime than he that play Some part of that seven-hill'd City Rome is scituated in a Vale as well as Westminster Hall and therefore no wonder 〈◊〉 sometimes both of them be in a Fog And if it abate the proved pragmatical imposing self-conceited dogmatical and imperious Spirit that confounds the whole Creation by Methods and Aims of Uniformity point blank against those different Measurer of God and Nature it is well CHAP. III. Concerning Bishops WHat I am going to speak concerning Bishops may the more favourably be received because so contrary to self-interest the worst of evil Counsellors For why may not I as well as any other live in hopes of a pair of Lawn Sleeves rightly put on since nothing else keeps me from making as good a Speech in the House of Lords as that which of late was only a Speech without Doors and proves so genuine and well aim'd that all of it 〈◊〉 now a Speech within Doors However I could serve as well as the best to make up the number of the Yea's or No's And that 's all the wise Speech that some men ever did make I do not say that ever they can make for the more frugal any man is and the less he spends the greater is his Stock But if I had been so hasty as to bespeak the Lawn-Sleeves this Sheet that I am going to write will spoil all my finery And certainly there cannot be such a Fool in England or the World as to think that the King's Letters Patents or Conge de Slyer can make the Baronet or the Bishop a Linguist or a Learned Man except he was so before though usually the Vulgar are of Opinion that if a Bishop or a Lord says it writes or preaches it O Heavenly because O Earthly and is a Judgment as preposterous a● that Action of the Orator when pointing to the Earth he declaimed O Caelum But it is a received Maxime No Bishop no King I know not who invented it but it may be true in some sense but it is false If it be meant no Rich Bishop no King for that the Rich Bishops were so Rich that what with the Hank they got upon silly Mens Consciences and the Interest that their Lands good Leases and Dependencies their Tenants Servants and Friends they were so prevalent when united that when our Kings have sometimes been so hardy and boid as to displease them they have either taken the Crown from his Head as the Rich Bishop of winchester unking'd his Brother King Stephen on whose Head that Nimrod of a Clergy-man had without any right clapt it on and upon displeasure the Bishop chiefly unking'd him again and in effect spurn'd 〈◊〉 off as Pandolfus the Popes Nuncio did the ●rown off King John's Head which say groveling at his Foot whilst the proud Prelat put it on and to shew the Ecclesiastical Insolence of some Lawn-Sleeves he up with his foot and kick't it off from the Kings Head. So that no Bishop no King Stephen or John and a Bishop no King Stephen or John for that Rich Bishops like other Rich Lords are a Strength to the Crown when it does not displease them and on the contrary have been too great and dangerous when controul'd growing musty and morose a King had as good be a Slave in Turky as to be at the mercy of such Popish-like Ecclesiastical Pride Nay did not the very Dean of westminster and the Arch-bishop of York chiefly though with others bandyed make the Reign of Hen. 4. and Hen. 5. very uncasie For which cause the wise King Henry 7. Invented a way to pull down the Stomacks of the great Temporal Lords with their own hands by enabling them to alienate and sell their Lands of which many were so glad that it was the first Bargain they would make to chuse away runs the Foot-man for the Usurer and Scrivener who were as glad to buy as the other to sell when both sides are willing the Bargain is soon struck up and Time was unwing'd till the Entail was dockt Then his Son Hen. 8. he reform'd the Clergy with a Witness and pocketed up the Reformation by Act of Parliament and excluded from the House of Lords all the spirtual Lords Abbots and ●ut their Lands in his Pocket by Statute Law. Edw. 6. and Queen Elizabeth were his own Children too for they and their wise Counsel finding that though the Spiritual Lords Abbors were excluded the House of Lords yet the other Spiritual Lords Bishops were so proud sometimes and high that no Body could imagine them to be the best Disciples of Christ who was meek and lowly therefore Edw. 6. took at once from the Arch-bishop of York about 37 great Mannors and were annext to the Crown and Queen Elizabeth amongst other things took all the Lands belonging to the Prince Palatine of Ely Bishop in the Vacancy and gave 2000 l. to be paid out of the Exchequer Annually a sufficient Competency and an Injury to no Man for the Bishoprick was in Abayance as the Law calls it in nubibus it being in posse any bodies but in esse no bodies So that I also am so much a Friend to that Proverb No Bishop no King and so very much a Friend to Bishops that where there is one now in England I wish there were twenty and as old as I am I hope to live to see it and yet not take one Farthing from the present Incumbenrs nor in the least diminish the vast Revenues and Grandeur of my Lords the Bishops that are in possession let them keep it I say till they die and die they must and then their Bishopricks being vacant by Death however if not sooner justly forfeited it will be no Injury to any Man to share out and divide the vast Incomes to many Bishops who must take the pains and perform the Work of a Bishop in their proper persons which is now done by Proxies Sureties and Implicite Faith. And I doubt not but that all my Lords the Bishops would be of my mind herein as to the Work of a Bishop which they themselves and all English-men find to be so great a Work and a