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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

16 17 nay the Holy Ghost fell upon the whole Auditory Acts 10.44 And that there should be no mistake St. Peter you must know it was before he was Pope he confesses there was no difference nor Preference nor Prelacy for like Priest like People The people have received the Holy Ghost as well as we The Disciples were filled with the Holy Ghost Acts 13.52 so also the Gentiles Acts 15.8 and the Holy Ghost made no difference vers 9. no no 'T is Pride and ambition that makes the difference The Holy Ghost in his gifts made none in Temporal affairs there must be a difference but to Spiritual gifts the poor are entituled as much as the Rich. A Deacon a Presbyter or Priest are names wherewith the Apostles and Primitive Christians were well acquainted but Arch Deacon and Arch Priest c. are but modern coyn and did not pass currant in the Primitive times of Christianity Yet if the ambitions of men did not extend nor aim at any higher reach than to vye with or out vye their equals contemporaries or betters it is still but humane ambition and pardonable But most of the Councils whether Oecumenical Provincial or Synodical since the Primitive times have ever since the Gifts extraordinary of the Holy Ghost left the Church vy'd with the Apostles for the Infallible Spirit in their Assemblies not an ace less would they go Nay which is an ambition not less groundless than vain and ridiculous they would outvy the Apostles in Monopolizing the infallible Spirit to themselves alone the Clergy forsooth Whereas all the people all the brethren as aforesaid received the Holy Ghost as well as the Apostles and they were consulted and their advice askt in framing Canons as aforesaid It being meet that they that were oblig'd should have a hand and a heart a vote and a consent at least by their Representatives in those Decrees that obliged them to obedience But no such matter no for when the French or Spanish faction prevails in the Conclave when an Arrian Emper or makes an Arrian Council and consequently an Arrian Creed as at Ariminum and when an Homousian Emperor makes an Athanasian as in the first General Council of Nice when an Idolatrous Empress makes Canons for worshipping of Images Harangu'd to it by some of her favourite Priests as in the second Council of Nice when Simony Flattery Hypocrisie or Sorcery creates a Pope and a thousand Fopperies Partialities and Interest of Princes swayes in the Conclave of Cardinals yet none of them all will bate a Tittle of the old Preface to their Canons namely It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us Constantine the great was no Arrian nor yet Eusebius Bishop of Caesarea before praised whatever some men imagine but without dispute he made the greatest part of the Creed for the whole Council of Nice As may be seen at large in his Epistle to the people of his own Diocess Theod. lib. 1. c. 12. which the great Constantine very well approved of But the Council of Nice had a hand in altering it a little and made some little addition of the word Homousios or Consubstantial which neither Eusebius nor any Orthodox man does gain-say nevertheless that un scriptural word though according to the sense of Scripture made the greatest Schism in the Church that ever was and was at last the great cause of the Turks Conquests and Triumphs over Christendom The Arrians which once was the Major part of Christendom chusing rather to turn Turks that owned and to this day own the Lord Jesus Christ to be the great Prophet of God and with whom they met with fairer quarters than amongst some of the Orthodox so fatal has it been to Christendom to impose unscriptural words upon mens Consciences under the Title of the Infallible Spirit and Holy-Ghost in meer disputable points that will endure Contest to the worlds end As if God and our Lord Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost The Holy Trinity did condemn all men as fast as one man condemns another and meerly too because they cannot see to split a hair as few men of all mankind are so quick-sighted betwixt Homousion and Homoiousion or betwixt one substance with the Father and alike substance with the Father I 'le only add the words of Eusebius Theod. l. 1. c. 12. namely Therein in the said first Council of Nice It was Prohibited that any man should make use of any Terms which the Custom of the Scriptures do not allow by which Phrases or Terms have happened all these Revels and Disorders wherewith the Church is thus disturb'd Observe how agreeable that Note of Eusebius is to that Divine 20th Article of the Church of England set down at length in the beginning of this Discourse And how careful our first Reformers were and tender of laying Stumbling-blocks before the weak not delighting to make them fall in hopes to get a top of them or get some booty from them much less did they cram unscriptural Articles Canons and Creeds down mens throats and ram them down with a Curse an Anathema or Excommunication However no c. Creeds and Canons are so ramm'd down Again by what Authority do they lay Injunctions and Burdens Canons and Decrees on all mankind that are Christians Whilst the Roman-Emperour had the universal Monarchy there might be General Councils to whom he gave Command to sit approv'd or disprov'd their Acts and gave life and vigour to their Canons when Enacted But now it is next to Impossible now that both Emperour and Pope have such a Precarious sway that there should be an Oecumenical Council the Old House is too much broken to pieces and divided against it self Besides if there were a General-Council what Tokens are upon them of the Holy Ghost more than upon a Parliament who pretend not to be Bigots nor to have the people Bigotted but ruled by God according to the Laws of the Land they live in in all quietness godliness and honesty and in Righteousness and Holiness according to the Divine Laws of the Land Men live in For if once Men come to dispute Authority and the wisdom of the Laws and Law-makers the next step is Confusion and Rebellion nor did or can any Government under Heaven subsist when they are not able to avow and execute their Laws against all Gainsayers This notwithstanding does not urge that Governours if wise should be wanton in Power and lay unnecessary Burdens upon their people though weak for they are the least able to bear and if the Laws or Canons they impose be nothing but some necessary things as did the said Synod of Jerusalem there are none but obstinate and querulous persons that will refuse Obedience and such must be made to know themselves or else the Government sits very unsteady as being precarious the condition of Supplicants not of such as bear Sway and Authority And one would wonder that those that have Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction if now