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A43631	The naked truth. The second part in several inquiries concerning the canons and ecclesiastical jurisdiction, canonical obedience, convocations, procurations, synodals and visitations : also of the Church of England and church-wardens and the oath of church-wardens and of sacriledge.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1822; ESTC R43249	69,524	40

the Sheriffs c. cannot as the Law then was and now is make such Execution and give the Clerks presented Jus in Re or possession And if a Bishop or Arch-deacon for they are but men do refuse the same wantonly or through prejudice or design for a Kingsman or a Friend of his own when modestly requested by the Clerk presented and will not admit him habilem then the Law has provided a Writ called Quare Impedit to force him to shew a Lawful cause in the Kings-Courts and by them approved or otherwise to force the Bishop to make Execution according to the Patrons Presentment Thus we see in Times of greatest Popery our Ancestors did assert their own Proprieties against Arbitrary Proceedings of Men that call'd themselves the Church the Church I le give but one Instance more to show what little pretence the Clergy alone have to entitle themselves alone the Church Representative of England distinct from the Lay-Brethren and that is in making a Canon to Cringe to the East and Bow at the Name of Jesus Object How now will some say Of all instances you might have forborn this For can any good Christian do too much Reverence to the Name of Jesus We now know what you would be at Phil. 2.10 11. for does not the Apostle say that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow c. this might have been let alone Answ But I will not let it go so yet must acknowledge readily and chearfully That there is no other Name under Heaven by which we can be saved nor any other name except that of God and Jehovah that deserves more signal Reverence And yet notwithstanding Bernardus non videt omnia nor the Church the Church I mean the Clergy in her Placet's always rational much less Infallible The words in Phil. 2.10 11. are That at the Name of Jesus every knee not every head should how of things in Heaven therefore not litterally to be understood for there is no knees there to bow and things in Earth and things under the Earth there is no knees there neither except those in Graves and they are too senceless at least too stiff to bow And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord Therefore such as take the words litterally ought at the same time that they bow the head or knee to use also their Tongues and confess at the same time that Jesus Christ is Lord. But I say in obedience to this Holy Scripture or rather some Clergy-men's Comment thereon Men at this day at the Name of Jesus bow their heads not their knees yet the Text speaks not one word of that nay in all discourse as well as in the Church men that understand it in the litteral sence ought to bow the knee and not dop the head and also at the same time they ought with their Tongues confess That Jesus Christ is Lord. Thus when we hear a Common-Swearer 100 times in an hour swear by Jesus as is usual and often we ought by this Interpretation to make a Legg every time and with our Tongues Eccho to him and cry out Jesus Christ is Lord. But such was the wisedom for want of comparing the Words with the Context For by the Name of Jesus there is understood the Power and Soveraignty of Jesus to which God hath highly Exalted him not those 4. or 5. Letters but a Power above every Name that is above every Creature or above all created Powers whether in Heaven or in Earth or under the Earth that they might how the knee to him that is adore him So Prov. 18.10 The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower not the Letters Jehovah or Jah is a strong Tower or the found and noise of those words but The Power of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous run unto it and are safe not into the Letters or found of the Name Yet notwithstanding if any man will show Reverence at the Name of Jesus I am not offended so he shew as much Reverence at the Name of God and at the Name of the Holy Ghost It is a hard and harsh saying of some and borders upon Blasphemy to make distinctions in the Holy Trinity as if we were more beholden to the Second Person of the Holy Trinity than to the First or Third Person This Grates to make a difference in Reverencing The Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity But in this Instance I only show that the Clergy the Clergy much less a few of the Clergy because Higher and Taler have shown no Charter hitherto nor reason to have such a Charter granted to them to be without the Laity The Church The Churth of England The whole Oecumenical Council of Nice had erred shamefully but for one single ey'd man Paphnutius And it is pretty reading in the Council of Trent to see how at a loss the Fathers were for a Resolution 'till Post-Night till the Packet return'd from Rome one said with their Holy Ghost in a Cloak-bagg So that the next day after the Post came in People repair'd to the Counsel-House for News and to know how squares would go as men do now to a Country Coffee-house on a Post-night to know how things go above But is it not strange Impudence Atheism and Effrontery thus to take Gods holy Name and Spirit in vain by making the Holy Ghost father all our Escapes and By-blows adulterately begotten by Self-Interest Pride Passion Revenge crasty Fetches covetons designs whether the French or the Spanish Interest carry it still The stile is It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us God forgive them And this is the Church The Church that is the Clergy the Clergy or rather the Few the Few the least in number I will not say I cannot say the worst of the number nor the Idlest of the number But add to them Lay-Chancellors or Vicar-Generals Sumners Registers c. To make up this Church the Church of England And you make them worse and worse I look upon the Church of England as the greatest Bull-Work against Popery what This latter sort of men are they such a Bull-work no the Protestants of England The Protestant Laws of England embodied with the Fundamental-Laws of the Realm Ruine one and you ruine the other for they must live and die together Thus have I evidenced that the Laity in the Apostles times were the Church and as much Canon-makers and Rule-makers and had the conduct of the infallible Spirit and gifts of the Holy Ghost as well as the Apostles and therefore certainly the Christian People as well as the Clergy of England are the Church of England Nay In Hen. 3. time when the Popish Prelates were most Rampant and Othoben the Pope's Nuncio had almost Beggar'd that King keeping him poor and doing what he list with him yet when they were to be excommunicated that Infringed Magna Charta The Clergy nor the Synod did not make it but the King and

though never so high-mounted look upwards still to Heaven they 'l say with King David in all humility I am a worm and no man The Contemplation of the Vastness and Glory of Heaven as Cicero observes in Somnio Scipionis will make them best see what a pitiful Spot in comparison the whole Globe of the Earth is and the glory of it and much more with humble Eyes reflect upon their own pittiful punyships But if they are alwayes looking downwards upon the many under them their Brains usually Crawl with scorn pride and disdain and turning Giddy they forget themselves till they catch a fall if not their Ruine And though they may pride themselves and strut in their High Shoes and take delight in exposing their Inferiors whom they ought to protect to contempt and scorn or for sport suffer them to be baited by Dogs and perhaps cry Hollou 'T is ten to one but they meet at some time or other with so Rugged a Repartee as to make them sick of such Unchristian Games and sometimes to their shame expose also the knotty side of their own gay Arras and prove that all is not Gold that glisters Popery and Mahometism were born both in one and the same Century and had one and the same Midwife namely Ignorance or Barbarism Truth and the Press would stifle them both and the Turk knows it as well and therefore Politickly prohibits Printing so also doth the Pope prohibit what he can all Printing but what passes with his own Imprimatur's and some others also would have the Press at the same lock and they alone to keep the Key And thus whilst men hear but of one Ear and from one Mouth they are kept in ignorance and seldom grow wiser than the Pope and Conclave that Excommunicated Galileo I think it was for holding the Motion of the Earth For Errors and Superstition Tyranny and Oppression like Owls and all other works of darkness hate the light and cannot endure to be seen by day-light whereas the Naked Truth feeks no Corners is bare indeed but is not nor needs not to be ashamed Lording over Gods Heritage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dominantes Cleris 1 Pet. 5.3 Domineering over Gods People was never the mind of Christ nor St. Peter nor had ever any Bishops any such lawful Commission even when the High-Commission-Courts were up whereby alone they had Authority and Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical to Lord it over Gods Heritage No no It is the Reliques of the Luciferian Pride of that Grand Impostor that ridiculously stiles himself The Successor of St. Peter yet imitates him in nothing but in denying his Master that sets his insulting Toe upon the Necks of Kings and Emperors enslaves mens Bodies and Estates as well as Souls wheresoever he can domineer 'T is this Prelatical Pride this Exercising Dominion Luke 22.24 like the Princes of the Gentiles which is here condemned and is but a Brat of Popery whereever the Changeling is found and which our Blessed Saviour would banish from amongst his Clergy Luke 22.25 It shall not be so amongst you But say some It shall be so though let Christ and Laws let God and Man say what they will at least some men would practise it still which is worse than saying so but Rome was not built nor cannot be destroyed in one day THE Naked Truth The Second Part. THE Bishops and Convocation held at London Anno Dom. 1552. in the Reign of King Edward VI. whereof many of them were Martyrs at their Death as well as the first Reformers in their life-time in their Articles now usually called The Articles of the Church of England the 19 20 21. I meet with very remarkable Passages to begin this Discourse ARTICLE 19. ECclesia Christi visibilis est coetus fidelium in quo verbum c. The visible Church of Christ is a Congregation of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is Preached and the Sacraments be duly Administred according to Christs Ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same Where note by the way that a Parish Church may be the right Church of Christ by this Definition As the Church of Jerusalem of Alexandria and of Antioch hath Erred so also the Church of Rome hath Erred not only in their living but also in matters of Faith ARTICLE 20. IT is not Lawful for the Church to Ordain any thing that is contrary to Gods Word written neither may it so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to another wherefore although the Church be a Witness and Keeper of holy Writ yet as it ought not to Decree any thing against the same so beside the same ought not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation ARTICLE 21. GEneral Councils may not be gathered together without the Commandment and Will of Princes And when they be gathered forasmuch as they be an Assembly of men whereof all be not Governed with the Spirit and Word of God they may Err and sometimes have Erred not only in worldly matters but also in things pertaining unto God Wherefore things Ordained by them as necessary to Salvation have neither strength nor Authority unless it may be declared that they be taken out of the holy Scripture Whence it is evident that by the Articles of the Church of England men the best of them are subject to Error which if true and very few except the Pope and Papists do deny Then with what Front can any Synod or Assembly of men Anathematize and Damn and by Excommunication deliver to the Devil all that obey not their Canons and Decrees except those Decrees be evident from the plain and undisputed sense of Holy Scriptures For if it be acknowledged that they may be in the wrong then others that they condemn may be in the right and owned by God though disowned by frail men The Popes whereof their own Writers say some have been Arrians and denyed the Divinity of Christ as Pope Liberius some Idolaters as Marcellinus some Atheists as Alexander VI. and Leo X. that said Hem quantum reddit nobis haec fabula Christi and Sextus IV. that built a Male Stew for Sodomy some Conjurers and Socerers Platina c vit Pap. as Martin II. Silvester II. John XIX John XX. John XXI Silvester III. Benedict VIII Sergius IV. Gregory VI. and many others which see at large in the lives of the Popes writ by one of their own Secretaries Platina But I love not to rake in this sink nor had I mentioned it here but as necessary to my design in shewing first all men are Erroneous none Infallible no not the Pope himself as the * Test Rhem. Annot. Mat. 23.2 a Enchir. Cont. cap. 3. de Sum. Pont. b Stella in Lucae cap. 9. Rhemists vainly vaunt and suppose And so says a Costerus the Jesuite and also b Didacus Stella Suarez Stapleton and many others and indeed the whole Fabrick of their