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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

against the holy Ghost whom I only Eccho for the holy Ghost by the holy Apostle St. Paul puts this very Question Rom. 14.4 Who art thou that Judgest another Man's Servant To his own Master he standeth or falleth Yea he shall be holden up for God is able to make him stand Then from that 4th Verse the Apostle proceeds to state some cases wherein Christians were not Vniform neither needed to be Uniform as being therein a Royal Priesthood and Priviledged Kings exempt from humane Punishment Judgment Impositions Correction or Condemnation as being accountable for their Opinions finally to God only Rom. 14.11 Whence he Concludes with this Apostolical Canon that to all intents and purposes repeals makes void and disanulls all humane Canons Impositions or Acts of Uniformity in matters of Faith or in Imposing their own Attainments and Creeds upon all others saying Let us not therefore Judge one another any more but judge rather that no man put a Stumbling-Block Scandal or occasion to fall in his Brothers way Rom. 15.1 But let the Strong bear the Infirmities of the Weak and not please themselves with their own Bigoted Notions laying heavy burdens and grievous to be born which they themselves in their Sins of Commission without Rule Wilfull Idle and unaccountable Ceremonies will not touch with one of their Fingers But is there any Conscience that the Weak should bear the Infirmities of the strong In Defiance and Rancounter to that said Text Rom. 15.1 From all which Premises does it not clearly follow and may we not Conclude Conclusion I. 1. That God is the only King of Consciences as King Charles I. of Pious Memory concludes saying Who am I Eik Basil that I should Invade God's Throne the only King of Consciences Wherefore did Lucifer become a Devil He aspir'd to God's Throne and would be like him Wherefore is that Wicked Wretch in 2 Thess 2. that must and shall fall called the Man of Sin But because he attempts God's Throne sitting in the Temple of God imposing his own Faith Opinions Creeds and Canons tail'd with a Fire-brand an Anathema a Curse against all Nonconformists when he himself also is the greatest Nonconformist but keep most unjustly and unsufferably both false Weights and false Measures one to buy by and another to s●…ll by as shall be shewn unanswerably by and by May we not therefore without any the least Suspition of Sawciness put this sober Question again Who art thou that judgest another Man's Servant What is thy Name Is it Lucifer Is it Antichrist or Man of Sin Is that thy Name Thou that like another God sittest there Domineering over Men's Faith Lording it over God's Heritage God's Dominion who is the only Kardiagnostos or Searcher of Hearts Consciences where thou canst take no Cognizance if thou wouldst judge Who art thou I say Art thou a God commanding the Waves and saying Hitherto shalt thou go and no further and here shall thy Proud Waves be stay'd Art thou the Hercules-Pillars or Hercules with his Club Art thou the Ne Plus ultra in Religion In Nomine Domini What art thou And where is thy Commission thy Authority And who gave thee this Authority to do these Things Our blessed Saviour commands us to call no Man Father no Man Master upon Earth that is not implicitely jurare in Verba Magistri to believe just as our Masters our Fathers believe because Faith is not the Gift of a Synod of a Convocation of a Council but is the Gift of God And never was there Peace in the Christian Church since Councils and Synods and Bishops and Parliaments and Kings took upon them to make Acts of Vniformity Impositions of Faith and Creeds Cursing and Imprisoning and sometimes Burning and Starving all Gain sayers but by what Commission Is not this as irrational as that Cannon and Decree of the Egyptian Priests commanding all men on Pain of Fine and Imprisonment to Believe that their two Gods Isis and Osyris never had been Men when all the Countrey knew to the contrary And some of them well remembred them and had Eat and Drank with them Most Excellent Bigotism The first general Council of Nice had shamefully err'd but for Paphnutius a poor Dissenter a One-ey'd Man that saw more than they all and fet them to rights and brought all the Bishops to a better Sight and Understanding The greatest General Council that ever was in the Christian World was call'd and convocated at Ariminum seven hundred and odd Bishops twice as many Laun-sleeves as was at Constantine's first great Council And they all unanimously concluded against the Divinity of the second Person of the Holy Trinity Goodly Sleeves for a Man to pin his Faith upon Athanasins that was such a Stickler with his Creed that now bears his Name in the Common-Prayer-Book Begining and Ending with an Anathema to all that do not believe just as he does what got he by this Dogmatical Imposition of his Faith upon all other Christians A Nick-name the Age he liv'd in very ungratefully some say called him Sathanasius Is it not enough for us to believe as our blessed Saviour says that his Father is greater than he and yet that he is one with his Father God in Christ and Christ in God and Christ in Believers that they also may be one with both But where do we read in Scripture that Christ is God of God very God of very God What language is this The Father Vncreate the Son Vncreate the Holy Ghost Vncreate and yet they are not Three Vncreate but One Vncreate We are not Arrians but surely the Holy Ghost in Scripture has found sufficient Words and the Holy Scripture and Apostles Creed is a sufficient Rule of Faith and surely was sufficient to carry a man to Heaven three hundred years before Athanasius was born and three hundred years before the Nicene and Constantinopolitan-Creed was invented and 1400 years before that Packt Convention at Trent patch'd up with Nominal Lord Bishops that were Shepherds without a Flock yet had as good a Vote as the best Is it not sad that men must starve and die because they obey not such frothy Men like Froth and Scum because uppermost Is it not a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation that all Christian Men must be forc'd to see with other men's Eyes and to believe by Proxy and obey Blindfold and also swallow like Cramm'd Capons all that is put down their Throats Is not this Mahomet-like who carried his Bible his Alcoran in one Hand and his Sword in the other saying if the first will not do the other shall We are all as good Church-of-England-Men as the uppermost Men we hope Is it not enough for us Church-of England Men to be Humble Seekers and confess with the 39 Articles that we mar err and consequently it is unaccountable to impose our Errors on others and then back our Errors with Penal Laws or to impose Creeds in other Words than the