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A64133	Hieragonisticon, or, Corah's doom being an answer to two letters of enquiry into the grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion : in vindication of the contemned [sic] : by way of epistle to the author of the said enquiry.	D. T.	1672 (1672)	Wing T4; ESTC R20586	77,186	216

Years last past is full of such Follies c. Then the conclusion followeth by clear consequence viz. that therefore the Preaching usual in the Church of England for an Hundred Years last past is such as is at present usual therein and consequently by your own position a hinderance of Salvation rather then the means to it the Preachers Fools and the Preaching Murther That is to say the Faith and Doctrine usually Preached yea and Printed too for both Press Pulpit Writings as well as Sermons are by you charged contended for lived and dyed in yea and by many of them sealing with their Blood what they professed by Tongue or Pen dyed for by our first Reformadoes Protestant-Champions and Church-Worthies our Marian Martyrs all our Orthodox Learned Pious Painful Preachers under the Reign of Q. Elizab. K. James Charles the first in times past and what hath been still is under our present Soveraign King Charles the II. usually Preached published is a hindrance of Salvation rather then the means to it consequently the Church of England since the Sun of Righteousness arose in it with his healing wing of Reformation no true Church for as extra Ecclesiam nulla salus there is no ordinary Salvation without the Line of Church-Communion so there is no true Church without the appropriated meanes of Salvation and then according to your Divinity Ichabod farewell Church of England And now Sir what do you think of your self upon recollection or what will your Reader think of you have I not here convincingly made out against you from your own Principles and positions a base unworthy pestilent designe upon the Reformed Religion and Clergy and in them upon our Church to what in you lies the utter subverting and nullifying of the whole And what you mean by your mysterious reserves namely that what you intend by usual Preaching Lett. 1. p. 81. Lett. 2. p. 101. you will not here go about to explain and the reasons of your Letters might be further explained when occasion should require but I have done it to your hand in a paraphrase very congruous to the original what you mean I say by such Reserves and shrew'd hints as those are we may by this time very plainly perceive especially with the additional help of a short Glosse of your own dropt from you it seemes unawares a great way off from the Text where you explain the good time by those despaired of dayes of vertue Lett. 1. p. 124. of having the Tithes restored to the Church most unjustly robb'd of them by the Sacrilegious Church-Publican Henry the Eight to wit when like a wise Man he rejected the Yoak of Papal Supremacy Anglia non patitur duos Caesares which other Christian Princes Issachar like couch and crouch under and forraged its Antichristian supports Monkish Nests and Nurseries with which the Nation was at that time much more over-stock'd then now it is with an Orthodox Clergy though in so doing he onely kill'd the Pope's Body as Luther said of him in the mean time saving his Soul c. Encrease of Church-Patrimony Sir I do as heartily wish and pray for as your self but I 'll be sure that it be a Reformed Church which upon any such score I enter into my Litany but this you aim to subvert But good Sir pray tell me how comes it to pass that you adventure to explain the good time in the plausible circumstance of Church-Tyth which you doe so mysteriously conceal in the concern of usual-Church Preaching 'T is very odd here you are express but in the case of Preaching you treat your Reader with Morose Reserves what I intend by usual Preaching I shall not here go about to explain the reasons of my Writing may be further explained when occasion shal require Sir I doe not like these odd hints of your hic nunc I understood by your last Lett. 2. p. 200. that you was gon into Devonshire to secure the World from your being ever troublesom in this kind any more Amen said I a good riddance and what other kind of trouble you design for it the God of Heaven knowes your reticentiae's of time place and occasion when where and upon what account you intend it may be by Letters of Credence to be produced in a good time further to explain to us the reasons of your Enquiry and what you understand by usual Preaching in the Church of England I must tell you are very suspicious what do you mean to comment upon it with the sensible gloss of Fire and Faggott or a second dose of the Jesuite's Powder or the new game of Trapp-Law or t'other Coal from the Altar because the first did not the business and thus of Inquisitor turn Executioner In the name of God Father Son and Holy Ghost we defie the Divel and all his Works Being that your Charge Sir is commenced from and coextended with Englands Evangelick Century and blessed Aera of Reformation the hundred Yeares last past whereas had it been limited to the last twenty or thirty we had less suspected your morals and consequently Vulpes Bovem agit the Reformed Religion and Clergy therein attacted and what in you lies subverted insomuch that it is plainly manifest that the Christian Religion founded and fixed in the Nation is with you the Apple of contention who therefore criminates Ministers being two bent upon Preaching of it Lett. 2. p. 72. index sufficient of yours It highly concerns the Church of England to stand in Justification of her first Reformation her original Protestancy and remonstrance against and separation from the Church of Rome the Religion by her professed her Clergy the official Preachers and Publishers of that Religion and the usual Preaching of that Clergy which in her name as her Advocate I have vouch'd to doe Well then The Essentials constitutive of a true Church Sir of the Mystical aswell as of the natural Body being these three namely the Head the Body and intimate Vnion and Communion between both the onely Head of the Christian Church being Jesus Christ God and Man in one Person appointed and anointed by God the Father King Priest and Prophet thereof the only mystical Ligament and bond of Community in this holy Corporation being the Divine Spirit originally derived from the Head through the whole Body the Church as Heiress thereof being the common foundation of that Sacred patronymick Christian under the New Testament as well as of that other Meschiahim as Eusebius notes under the Old or the Catholick Faith the product of that Spirit or both whence it comes to pass that the Founder Foundation Superstructure and medium or instrument of conjunction are all in Holy Scripture propounded as so many Vnites admitting of no consort or collateral One God and Father of all One onely Lord Mediator Saviour Foundation Name Way c. One Body One Spirit Faith Hope and Religion And being that the Religion professed and practised

commendation-worthy and laudable and then at last a summary recapitulation of the whole First then I reckon the Oyster-Litany and the Flounder-Creed Let. 1. p. 52. Let. 2. p. 128. Let. 2. p. 59 60. ib. p. 64. the likening of of Isaiah's Wine and Milk to a Spiritual Sack-Posset Christ's coming into the world to save Sinners to a Christmass-Feast of three Dishes the Son of God to the Dauphin of Heaven the Son of God not the Daughter of God c. as by you represented though I am much perswaded that your own endeared Volupia is the Authoress of all abominable Blasphemy Let. 1. p. 57 58. Parson Slip-Stocking and the spiritual Shop-keeper such a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Athanasius complained of in his time both grosly ridiculous Let. 1. p. 55 56. Your Chymical Divinity of Aqua-fortis Sal-armoniack and Aqua Regia as also the Sope of Sorrow and the Fullers Earth of Contrition Let. 1. p. 63 68. your chyming Divinity of Reason and Revelation as also of ingress egress and regress number and name manner and measure Let. 1. p. 62. Let. 1.66 c. your harmonious Divinity of the Sphears and Peal of Faith Hope and Charity your Mechanick Divinity of the stradling Compasses ib. p. 67. your Meteorological Divinity of the Text dropping and melting asunder ib. p. 69. your Horological Divinity of Spiritual Dialling c. All Folly and Impertinency Let. 2. p. 72 c. The Wedding Ring fit for the Finger will not I assure you fit mine who by no means likes arctum annulum gestare a ridiculous immodest lascivious Epithalamium inspired from Hymen more like than from the Innonocent Dove and becoming a Wanton Let. 2. p. 123. ib. p. 124. rather than a Pulpiteer The Butt of spiritual Wine will hold no common Water I would it had never been broach'd The Chest and Cupboard of Truth is as empty as the Butt unless the Author mean the Ark of the Testimony Faith likened to a Foot a Leg a Hose c. L. 1. p. 59 L. 2. p. 63 L. 1. p 60 ib. p. 71. ib. p. 68. Let. 2. p. 124. The adulterating of the Apostolical Coyn the Milky way to Jupiter's Palace the threshing worm Jacob the Doctors weeping 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the note of great Sacks and many Sacks c. sweeping the Walks of the Heart spiritual Leech Angle of Prayer Fishing for Mercy L. 1. p. 75 ib. 72 73. laying the Soul a whitening holy girding and trussing up for Heaven and the like Discoveries and Expressions like your Salt-water-Language of Starboard and Lar-board c. all affected Strains of Irreverence Folly and Impertinency Again Sir L. 2. p. 64 L. 1. p. 53 ib. p. 56. ib. p. 72. ib. p. 74. the Sun of Righteousness not Moon of Righteousness this Sun passing the Signs of the Zodiack c. your Omnipotent All c. the Bulrush-repentance Christs taking the Disciples a Cubit lower while they were taking thought for a Cubit the Scribes following of a Thou rather than a That that is ib. p. 75. Person rather than Mercenary Advantage Mercy turning Justice into a Rainbow Let. 2. p. ●24 the Rainbow a Bow indeed but what hath no Arrow in it and the like though not like the more solid Divinity yet very excusable yea being prudentially managed as to use justifiable too as being frequent quickners of Fancy as this is of Attention in sacred performances Let. 1. p. 67. Moreover Accusatio vera Comminatio severa englished a Charge full of Verity and a Discharge as full of Severity the Textual Dividends by you criminated as also miraculum in modo and miraculum in nodo and the like are all brisk laudable Notions much like that strain which is known to have been very familiar to S. Augustine Bernard and other Fathers of the Church witness their Works whom therefore you might as justly in this respect traduce and expose to Contempt as English Clergy-men Of this nature was that which my self heard but very lately from an eminent Pulpiteer citing those words of the Psalmist I am wonderfully made his Gloss was Acupictus sun Englishing it I am a curious piece of Embroidery or Needle-work and very laudable favoured I believe as those who understand the Hebrew better than your Countrey-Parson or I do can inform you by the Original And certainly intermixtures of such innocent brisk strictures and quaint Notions as these are do much add to the life of a Discourse You shall be my debtor for another and then I return to yours which you will say is as acute a remark from the Pulpit and delicacy of wit as any that occurrs throughout all your Narrative namely this that S. Paul is a spiritual Hermaphrodite a rare one indeed if true but how is that proved By his own testimony else we had never known it thus he begot the Corinthians and travail'd in birth of the Galatians and all this mystically is he not then a spiritual Hermaphrodite A quaint notion indeed which with many more witty and very laudable Attra●bives of Fancy and Attention we should never enjoy from the Pulpit should you exhaust that delicate Vein in the Vniversity or render it contemptible to the Laity The proving of Monarchy or Kingly Government from Christ's advice Seek first the Kingdom of God c. and of Episcopacy yea of Peerage too from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Jaylors question as if no better Gentleman had usher'd the Bishops into the House of Lords and arguing from Abraham's begetting of Isaac Let. 1. p. 76 77 78. against Non-residence I take to be amongst many more witty Calumnies of your own contrivance wherein there is more of Mercury than of Saturn and less of Divinity than of either In the mean time you remind me of one more which I can furnish you withal and no more for me till your first Doomsday which is hard by One Criticizing upon that place of S. Paul Evil Conversations corrupt good Manners because forsooth there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Original did read instead of evil conversations wretched Homilies a Phanatick I warrant him but whom shall we blame here Since the Greek will bear this Translation him or S. Paul or Heathen-Menander from whom the Apostle adopted it into the Sacred Canon I leave it in medio and proceed Again Sir amongst Laudables in the Foolishness of Preaching what is sufficiently pertinent significant and commendation-worthy in the Sermons or Books of those whom you condemn Let. 1. pag. 52. I reckon the likening of the Apple of that Tree which grows upon the Banks of the River Euphrates which is to the Eye fair and tempting but inwardly dust and rottenness to the frail corruptible state of man ib. p. 60. The likening of Scripture-Doctrines Precepts Promises Threatnings and Histories to the five smooth stones c. and should highly applaud it were the