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A43611	The black non-conformist, discover'd in more naked truth proving, that excommunication, confirmation, the two great Episcopal appurtenances & diocesan bishops, are not (as now in use) of divine, but human make and shape, and that not only some lay-men, but all the keen-cringing clergy are non-conformists ... : also a libel, and answer (thereunto) fitted to every man's case (be it what it will) that is cited to ecclesiastical courts, whose shallow foundation is unbared, and a true table of ecclesiastical court fees, as it was return'd into the star-chamber, Anno Domini 1630, by the ecclesiastical fellows themselves, and compar'd with the statutes : also concerning the unlawfulness of granting licences to marry, Quakers-marriages, folly, as well as other evil consequences of that new law-maxim, viz. that no non-conformists ought to be jury-men : shewing also, that, religion, religion, that should have been the world's great blessing, is become the plague of mankind, and the curse of Christendom ... / by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1797; ESTC R22899	136,499	106

makes it a necessary qualification of a Priest to be a Linguist and yet to my knowledge not a Fryar in forty can speak true Latin Did the Apostle deliver the Incestuous Person by his spirit to Satan and also the Blasphemers Why the Pope would be at it too though he cannot Kill whom he Excommunicates for Hereticks 'till he makes the silly Bigotted Magistrate Gregory it for him And so also most of the Popish Prelatical-tricks are meer Mimickry and Idle as well as Apish Imitation of the Apostles And he is fore't to pretend to this Juggle and Cheat because his Ambition has Entitul'd him Peter's Successor and his pretty Cardinals and Bishops Apostolical men give the Word backward for these Apostolical men Apostolical men Thus the Gypsies imitated Moses and Aaron with their Inchantments Exod. 7. till Aaron's Rod swallowed up their Rods yet Pharaoh's heart was hardned and he and all his Conjurers look't upon all Religion as a humane Invention till by being abominably Lousie and like Atheistical Herod eaten up with Lice they confest Digitum Dei the Finger of God Nor do I think the Popish Conjurers will ever part with their dear dear precious gainful Money-Trade of the Keys till some remarkable Judgment fall upon them for the Abominable and Atheistical abuse Alas the Keys 't is plain were no silver Keys nor earthly worldly mens Keys and therefore when Christ gave them to Peter he calls them Matt. 16.19 The Keys of the kingdom of Heaven So that an Excommunicate Person clave non errant if justly and duly Excommunicated by Persons qualified as the Apostles were with the Gift of the Holy-Ghost called the Gift of Discerning of Spirits without which we never read in Holy Scripture that any Man or Church took upon him or them to Excommunicate any body I say such an Excommunicate Person is by the Evangelical Precept to be as much shut out of Church as if he had never entred in or as much as and no more than a Heathen-man or a Publican But that ever Christ or his Apostles or the Primitive-Church did ever intend by Excommunication to lay claim to his Purse or deprive him of his Freedom Liberty or Property Moneys or Lands as the Jesuits held by asserting that Dominion is founded in Grace and is the ground-work of the Pope's Tyranny and Vsurpation over Princes and their Subjects is no where found in Holy Writ nor any such Appendix Writ or Label hanging at any Excommunication that ever I heard of in the Gospel or Primitive Church Nor the least hint in the Gospel that our blessed Saviour who would not suffer a Prelate no not St. Peter amongst his Disciples should under colour and by vertue of Excommunication grant them a Licence to rend and tear rant and domineer as nay more than the Princes of the Gentiles over one another much less by such a stratagem to deprive Nonconformists Atheists or Libertines of their Lands or Goods Freedom or Free-hold nor ever attempted any such Invasion of the Heathen Emperors Dominions but quite contrary paid them Tribute taught subjection to them by vertue of Religion not usurpation upon their civil Rights under colour of Religion and this no Man can deny who does believe our Saviour when he said My Kingdom is not of this world And therefore he never meant when he parted with these Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to his Church and Servants that they should flourish them huff and vapor with them fight and quarrel threaten and revenge or vend their malice with them or much less knock Mens brains out with these Keys or by the help of these Keys by more nimble conveyance get into their Purses or pick their Pockets or which is worse lock them up in a Jayle by vertue of these Keys and deprive them of their Lands and Livings Liberties and Properties No no it was the Pope the Pope and his Off-spring that first turn'd these Keys the wrong way as I have said and contrary to the way of Christ for which he and all such as he meritoriously deserves the name of Antichrist or contrary to Christ 'T is Pride devilish Pride call 't what you will that makes men Lord it over God's Heritage and enslave their Bodies and Souls too together with insatiable Avarice in greedy Dogs that can never have enough 'till they get the Devil and all This makes the Popes both the greater and the lesser by the abuse of Excommunication or the power of the Keys to cram their Coffers to enrich their Nephews and satisfie their Whores when decrepit old Age cannot surrogate to their Lust and therefore my Letany is From the Popes both the greater and the lesser From Le Chese the French Confessor And from his Popish Successor Libera Libera CHAP. IV. ANd I 'le justifie it it is but a Branch of Popery in any sort of people that decry the Pope and all his Works if they do the very same things whilst poor men change their Lords indeed but not the Lordliness and Vsurpation And that Incestuous Person that was Excommunicated and Delivered to Satan I Cor. 5.4 Wherefore was it To what end and purpose The same Text tells us for the destruction of the flesh his lustful Flesh or fleshly Lusts not for the destruction of his Estate Freedom or earthly Priviledges but that his spirit might be saved All the design and all the management and all the consequences were spiritual purely spiritual Our Blessed Saviour though it was proffer'd him and some would never have refused the Preferment that have not the mind of Christ would not be a Judg in Civil matters Counsellor nor Privy-Counsellor For his Kingdom was a spiritual Kingdom his Rule a spiritual Rule in mens Hearts and Spirits by his Word and Spirit his Weapons were not Carnal but Spiritual for the bringing down of strong Holds not Castles and Mannors No no the Devil and the Pope and such as follow the steps of Antichrist set up and maintain and uphold this Anti-Kingdom in opposition to the Kingdom of Christ but the Pope was glad to uphold his tottering Kingdom with the Inquisition High-Commission Racks and Gibbets Fire and Faggot Fines and Imprisonments or which is all one deliver them over to the Magistate to be Excontioners for him We thought it a fair deliverance from this Popish thraldom when we were delivered from the Inquisition High-Commission Racks and Gibbets Fire and Faggot too of late by condemning the Writ de Heretico Comburendo I do not deny though but that the two last Fines that is unjust Fees and Imprisonments are to this day in England the Consequences of Excommunication But they are mistaken that think these Consequences are held forth to us in the Gospel of Christ or the practise of the Apostles or Primitive Church No no Fines and Imprisonments attend Excommunication upon another score namely the Law of the Land and therefore you hear me say nothing against it I know what I could say if

Souls The Apostolical pretenders Preach not one farthing better many much less I do not say much worse than when they were poor Priests Peter set ope ' the Prison-Doors and made a Goal-delivery But some the Goals would fill if they might have their Will Peter said indeed Silver and gold have I none And these indeed scarce know when nor think they have enough In short as I said once before I protest I do not know wherein St. Peter's pretended Successor imitates Peter but in denying his Master I wish I could see him on the stool of Repentance and weep as Peter did weep bitterly Instead of making others weep with their Inquisitions High-Commissions and their Tricks and Shams making the poor Widow and Orphans weep and curse them Apostolical men Successors and Imitators of the Apostle For shame no more With what Forehead I hate the Impudence more than the Hypocrisie Paul labour'd with his hands to get a Living others labour to undo men and their Families Paul had a Viper on his hand did him no hurt others have Vipers in their hearts and do as much hurt and mischief as in them lyes Paul raised Jairus's Daughter to life these breathe nothing but Goals Pillories Excommunication and Destruction Paul Excommunicated Swearers and Blasphemers and some Popes History says and Apostolical men would Blaspheme upon occasion Curse and Swear like Hectors But what and wherefore in nomine Domini do these men pretend Right to Excommunicate because St. Paul did it or the Primitive Church of Corinth that had both St. Paul's special order for it and his Spirit and his Sentence 1 Cor. 5.3 4. They had Gifts of the Holy-Ghost particularly that without which no man was so impudent to bind or loose or pretend to the power of the Keys in the Primitive times that wanted it namely the Gift of Discerning of Spirits St. Paul could see through a man into him into his very heart so could St. Peter and therefore did that which is a sin in any of us to do that have not the gift of Discerning of Spirits Therefore St. Paul called the Conjurer Elymas Enemy of all righteousness and Son of a Devil and St. Peter by his Spirit perceiv'd that Simon Magus was in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity The Pope and Popelings are ready enough at calling of Names but clavis errans they Nick-name men and call him a Child of the Devil that is more a Child of God a thousand times than themselves and yet they 'l be doing their endeavour and good-will to deliver them to Satan and yet God will not suffer Satan to take one of them that they Excommunicate that we know of no signs nor marks on 't but rather as they say of the Foxes proverbially The more they are curst the better they thrive Take him Satan Satan will not then take him Magistrate he must Whereas the Apostle Paul that made the Church of Corinth Excommunicate the Incestuous person it was for the destruction of the Flesh and Diseases as they did Job when God Excommunicated him or delivered him to Satan either kill'd him or brought him nigh unto the Grave if great Godly sorrow did not intervene Away with this Mimickry and Pageantry and Apish Imitation If we have the Spirit of the Apostles we are Apostolical men indeed they Peter and John Acts 8.17 Layd their hands on the Disciples and they received the gifts of the Holy-Ghost So the Pope and Cardinals c. they will be imitating and seem to do something and they 'l Confirm by Laying on of Hands but not that neither right according to their own Rubricks as I 'le show by and by but cui bono Away with Lying and Vanity let God be True and every man a Lyar I would appeal to any mans Conscience If ever he received any Gift of the Holy-Ghost by such Imposition of Hands and speak the Naked-Truth now and do not cogg lye and flatter your self nor dissemble any of you that ever was B Be-Pop't or that any Pope would tell truly and not lye Whether he felt whilst he was at it with Imposition of Hands that any vertue went out of him as it did out of our Saviour when he did the Woman good Away Away with Folly and Pageantry at this time of day God will not be mocked And every Plant that my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out saith our Blessed Redeemer and I believe him let Hell and the Pope think themselves never so cock-sure and culminant 'T is readily granted that if any man was a Heretick they should avoid him or reject him and cast off his Company in ordinary Conversation and if any Brother walked disorderly they should not eat nor drink nor dine nor sup with him that he might be ashamed But to think that God or good Men the Prophets Christ or his Apostles did ever in the Old or New Testament command any Men Synod or Synagogue Church or Court that they should shut the Church Doors and shut out the worst of Sinners from the Sacraments or Communion or hale them into Church either by the Head and Ears or which is the same Excommunicate him or put him out of Commons or the Communion of the Church the only Food and Cure of our Souls and made on purpose for Sinners is an opinion as senceless and groundless as it has been baneful and mischievous to all Societies and the Peace of Christendom I grant though sacra sacris and Holy things ought not to be cast to Dogs therefore the Text says Examin your selves and so eat of this bread and drink of this cup. Examin himself It is not said examin him Priest and confess him you Priest and Catechize him John Presbyter nor you Lay-Elder But let him examin himself and so let him come but sao piculo at his own Peril But the Church nor the best of men are not defiled with communicating with the vilest of sinners Was there ever any better than our Blessed Saviour or worse than Judas yet Christ eat the Passeover with him and probably the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper yet he then knew him and had Publisht him a Traytor whom before he call'd Devil I hate the Puritanical Pharisaical Hypocrisie of any Religion they shall be defiled with communicating with Sinners Drunkards c. And yet St. Paul and the Church of Corinth as good as the best of them are not commanded to forsake the Lords-Table though we read that some came thither Drunk and to fill their Bellies with the Bread and Wine 1 Cor. 11.21 Alas every man has enough to do if he mind it well to look after his own Preparation but that any that had not the Gist of Discerning of Spirits nor these neither did Excommunicate or forbid the Communion to any in the Old or New Testament I boldly say 't is false Nor can they prove but that he that was delivered to Satan did also come if

look't ugly and deform'd ever since to all Christendom that have but eyes of Reason or Religion or any heart of a man in them to see with pity the Butcheries of that cruel man of sin surrounded and upheld by Curses Excommunications Absolutions Inquisitions Writs and Goals St. Peter indeed was put into a Goal but he got out without paying any Fee and never help't any man to a Goal by cursing him or help't the Goaler to his Fees much less Gregory Of old the Heathens Persecuted the Christians now Christians in name I mean Persecute Christians more cruelly than those under Mahomet and the Great Turk Oh the Impudence as well as the Villany and Bloody Hypocrisie of such Religion 't was this Blood-red Religion that made the Indian Heaven to forswear because he heard the Spaniards were there Gore-blood Religion thus Confounds The Naked Truth with Blood and Wounds Conniving at known Whores and Whoremasters Atheists Infidels Debauchees Drunkards Cursers Swearers and Blasphemers I wonder who ever saw a Whore or Whoremaster call'd to Doctors-Commons or other Court-Ecclesiastical and do Penance in a White-Sheet since the Restauration of his Gracious Majesty I never did they find fairer Quarter Spiritual-Courts are no Bawdy-Courts I would have you know But does any man speak against their Fees or bring down the Fee of a Marriage from 15 s. to poor 5 s. or dare speak against Illegal Ceremonies bowing and ducking and cringing to the East to the Altar towards the lighted Candles Where is the Villain stop his Mouth Gagg him Pillory him Crop him Curse him Excommunicate him Gaol him nay Man-catch him Indict him Sue him Vex him Plague the Tom-Tell-Truth nay hang him if possible What should he do in a Church where a Tory-Teague newly Converted thereunto Fait and Trot Joy shall have fairer Quarter But is there any Christianity Law Equity Reason or Conscience for such Methods or to damn a man by Proxy or Deputy Gaol a man by Proxy feed the Flock by Proxy well let men do to themselves what they do to others and feed themselves too only by Proxy and Deputy and see if in a little while they do not look as lean and cadaverous as the poor starv'd Flock that is fed by Proxy and rul'd by Proxy and Deputies and under Officers Chancellors Officials Surrogates Registers and Apparitors Shall Wolves in Sheeps-cloathing that have Nayls and Teeth and Fangs behold the Print govern the Sheep of Christ that neither knows them nor are known by them jealous and zealous far more for the breach of a Ceremony Human Laws their own profit and honour at ten thousand times more than Adulterers Blasphemers c. breaker of Laws Divine and dishonourers of the Almighty God oh the abominable Hypocrisie of such Religion Worms-meat Acts 12.23 shall know that God will not be mocked The CONCLUSION THus you see my gentle Readers what an Example the Ecclesiastical-men have made of me in plaguing me in their Spiritual-Courts as you have heard and at the Assizes and Ctown-Office and in the name of our Good and Gracious King too for Barretry Barretry And will not this be a terror to all English-men for the future for ever writing or speaking any more Naked-Truths against them and their Extortions and Illegal and unconscionable Fees in the Courts of Conscience or Courts-Christian in Probates of Wills Letters of Administrations Ordinations Institutions Inductions and Sequestrations Licences Indulgences and Dispensations Absolutions Suspensions and Excommunications Synodals Procurations and Visitations c. There were more old Naked-Truths to the same purpose made against them for the like Crimes namely the said Statutes as 31 Edw. 3.5 3 Hen. 5.1 and 21 Hen. 8.5 c. And why did they not fret and gnash their Teeth as well also against those Naked-Truths They durst not but they dare and do to this day live in defiance of the said Naked-Truths and Statutes the more bold and overbold they you 'l say but they cannot for fear of a Praemunire call a Statute and Parliament-men to account before them coram nobis as formerly into the Star-Chamber and High-Commission-Court no not now Dat Deus immiti cornua curti bovi Curst Cows have short Horns saith the Proverb But foenum in cornu still I had need be shie of them For besides the said Promotion of the said Henry Bishop of London against me in the Arches and Barretry in the Kings-Bench in both which they have hitherto no cause to glory or rejoice praised be Almighty God for his help and assistance There is Still another Vexation and Law-Suit brought against me and in the Kings-Bench too and at the Suit of the said Henry Bishop of London upon the Statute Scandalum Magnatum 2 Rich. 2.5 Help me still good God! when shall we have done Burthen upon Burthen Suit upon Suit Vexation upon Vexations Canons upon Canons Burthens and Canons enow one would think almost to sink a stout Frigat or Bluffe Man of War Indeed that Statute was made when Popish Prelacy was in its Splendor and Meridian they even made what Laws they lift yet the House of Commons have attempted at it more than once and our blessed Saviour absolutely condemns all Clergy-Domineering one over another that whatever the Princes of the Gentiles do in exercising Lordship and Dominion over one another yet his Clergy shou'd not do so 't is a shame especially for Apostolical men and such as pretend to be the Successors of the Apostles that they should not be as ambitious also to succeed them in their Christian humility and Brotherly kindness And I have read somewhere I think in Cook 's Institutes That all Laws of men are ipso facto null and void if contrary to the Laws of Christ And this Scandal forsooth must be sworn too by the said little Vicar Harris an incomparable person that not being able to defeat me of my ancient Rights and Profits of my said Parish of St. Buttolphs in Colchester which have been enjoyed by me above 20 years and by my Predecessors Rectors of All-Saints about Sixscore years before even since the dissolution of Monasteries yet the said Henry Bishop of London granted the said Harris a Sequestration of them but in vain yet some hope 't is not in vain to bring the said Action of Scandalum Magnatum against me and the said Harris has sworn it already and the said Bishop has declar'd against me accordingly That I should say the said Bishop was ignorant and impudent and had a hand in the Plot and that I thereby meant that the said Bishop had a hand in the Popish Plot or to that effect I have heard that the said Bishop has of all Bishops been accounted without reflection the Protestant Bishop with an Emphasis But that ever any Man should imagine that he was Popishly affected much less that ever he had a hand in the Popish Plot many People say also there is no such Plot never never sure yet came into any