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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

COnfirmation was at first a good Invention of the Church and politickly and wisely ordain'd not in supplement to Infant-Baptism for that is sufficient without it but to the end that when Children come to the years of discretion and have learned in the Church-Catechism what their Godfathers and Godmothers vowed and promised for them as their Sureties and Pledges 'till they came to Age that they should in their own persons vow the same with their own mouth and consent openly before the Congregation But it is not a Sacrament or necessary to Salvation as the Papists insinuate for it is certain by God's Word as said in the Rubrick of the said first English Common-Prayer Book since the Reformation made in the Reign of Edward VI. That children beeying Baptised yf they depart out of this lyfe in their infancye are undoubtedly saved And this Common-Prayer Book as is said before is declared to be composed by the Aid of the Holy Ghost in the Statute 2 Ed. 6.1 And there is the Church-Catechism set down beginning as ours What is your Name And ending with these words And therefore I say Amen so be it But our Catechism is much larger and all of it ought to be learnt by all before they be brought to the Bishop to be confirm'd And 'till they can say this Catechism and give account of it not like a Parrot hudling it over but sensible and understanding what they say shall they be confirm'd by the Bishop who ought by himself or such as he shall appoint Pose them or Appose them in it nor then neither except they also bring with them one Godfather or Godmother that every Child may have a Witness of their Confirmation Nor then neither ought they to be confirm'd except the Curate of the Parish where they dwell come along with them or at least send a Certificate in writing with his hand subscribed thereunto the Names of all such Persons within his Parish as he shall think fit to be presented to the Bishop to be confirmed And then if the Bishop upon Posing them find them fit they shall be confirmed in manner as prescrib'd in the Common-Prayer Book But are these things observed or who regards them I have been 19 or 20 years Rector of the Rectory of All-Saints in Colchester and during that time have had three several Bishops or Diocesans Gilbert Bishop of London never made any Visitation into the Countrey and over his Diocess to confirm any and yet the same Rubrick says None shall be admitted to the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 'till they be confirmed or desire to be confirmed which last words are not in the first Common-Prayer Book of Edw. VI. Humphrey Bishop of London made but two Visitations and in the latter never came near Harwich and that Countrey by twenty Miles nor near Colchester by above eight Miles Henry Bishop of London has also made two Visitations and consequently Confirmations and several of my Parish have been confirmed by them But how I never gave a Certificate of the Names of such as I thought fit and capable of Confirmation the Question was never ask'd me nor of any Minister that I know of nor Godfathers and Godmothers requir'd as the Rubrick enjoins to every one that is confirm'd nor many if any of the children Men or Women appos'd or pos'd by any Bishop or other by him appointed to examine the fitness of them for the same Nor did I ever see any Bishop ever examine any if they did I that was present saw it not done and I am sure many if not all were confirm'd without questioning the matter or any such said Certificate from the Curate Surely Confirmation was godlily design'd but a perfunctory performance thereof at all adventures is quite contrary to the Institution and Act of Vn●… Nor did I ever hear this essential Question put by the Bishop namely Do ye here in the presence of God and of this Congregation renew the Solemn Promise and Vow that was made in your Name at your Baptism nay some have been confirm'd to my knowledge that were never baptized ratifying and confirming the same in your own persons and acknowledging your selves bound to believe and to do all those things which your Godfathers and Godmothers then undertook and most of them I am sure of my Parish never had any Godfathers or Godmothers nor their Parents could be persuaded to procure them or if they were willing they were not able by any means or persuasion to procure Sureties to be bound promise and vow for their Children or undertake by Vow that they should forsake the Devil and all his works and obediently keep Gods Holy Will and Commandments for you Answer I do But I say there required no Answer where the Question was not put nor the Answer particularly requir'd of each of them For all that was required or I am sure of a great many was but to kneel down whil'st the Bishop with a Common-Prayer Book in one hand and the other hand upon the head of the person to be confirmed said over each of them these words Defend O Lord this thy Child or this thy Servant if past Infancy or Childhood with thy heavenly grace that he may continue thine for ever and daily increase in thy holy Spirit more and more until he come unto thy everlasting Kingdom But in King Edward VI's Common-Prayer Book Confirmation was quite another thing and the words these First The Minister signed them with the Sign of the Cross saying Signe them O Lord and mark them to be thine for ever by the vertue of thy holy Crosse and Passion confirme and strengthen them with the inward Unction of thy Holy Ghoste mercifully unto everlasting life Then the Bishop shall cross them in the forehead and lay his hand upon their head saying N. or M. or any other Name N. I Signe thee with the Signe of the Crosse and lay my hand upon thee In the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Amen But the Prayer preceding is the very same with ours observe it Almightie and everliving God who hast vouchesafed to regenerate these thy Servants of water and the Holy Ghost And hast geven unto them forgevenesse of all their sinnes Sende down from Heaven we beseeche thee O Lord upon them thy Holy Goste the Coumforter with the manifolde giftes of Grace the Spirite of wysedom and understanding The Spirite of councell and gostly strength The Spirite of knowledge and true godlinesse and fulfyll them O Lorde with the Spirite of thy holy feare but ours adde onely now and for ever And then this Collect following is almost the same with that of King Edw. 6. I 'll set down only part of it namely Almightie everliving God whiche makest us bothe to will and to doe those thinges that be good and acceptable unto thy Majestie we make our humble supplications unto thee for these Children upon whome after the xample of thy holy Apostles

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

and no man of my Quality m●…e Blest and Protected depressa resurgo says the Palm-tree more weight more ●…ght like Israel the more they were afflicted the more they grew God give a blessing to my poor endeavours to do much good if at least they have but so much vertue as Common Ink to allay the spreading venom of such Ring●…ms whose fingers itch to be at it in the Portugal and Spanish-mode of Inquisition and Persecution which has made a Desolation Rebellion Poverty want of Trade and Depopulation in those Countries rather than any great Conversion how Hypocritical soever to the Roman Faith But ye fools when will ye be wise saith holy David Psal 94.8 as if he should say Will you ne'r be good 'till you 're beaten to 't with your own rods Go to and let men of little and narrow Souls uncapable of any love or regard to the publick good and their Countries welfare smile at the Improvidence of such as like Lamps and Torches waste scorch and consume themselves to enlighten others And if the Cathedral Highflyers or any Bishops be offended that I have thus publickly rebuk't before all their publick transgressions and defiance of the Act of Vniformity in the said Illegal Rites and Ceremonies they may in part thank the peevishness and frowardness of some that occasion'd it irritated perhaps thereunto by that old inveterate and everlasting piece of malice and hatred S. J. S. who has always though always in conclusion to his own shame and loss endeavour'd to set men upon me by getting false Calumnies and Slaunders invented in his hollow and canker'd Breast to which one-ear'd men giving credit and therewith also prejudic't and pre-possest and knowing my Spirit and Temper not over-patient to bear Affronts he knew there would be what he labour'd for a Quarrel I know it is a Devilish thing and the very daily work of the Devil to devise wicked imaginations and with a proud look lying tongue hands ready to shed innocent Blood and feet that be swift in running to mischief to be a false witness that speaketh lies only to sowe discord amongst Brethren And are the six or rather seven things that are abomination to the Almighty Prov. 6.16 17 18 19. Yet he that created Light out of Darkness and life preservation to Israel ought of the malice of Joseph 's Brethren in selling him to the Gypsies and unity and amity to his people by mens Differences and Dissentions can and I hope will create beauty and order out of our Confusions Chaos Disorders and Discords and out of the eater bring forth meat and out of the strong sweetness and Truth and Light from the Collisions Interferings and mutual strikings of the hardest and blackest Flints Thus the contentions of Paul and Barnabas tended by their Parting and Dissentions to the more nimble Propagation of the Naked Truth Therefore be not all of a flame like that fiery-fac'd bloody Bishop Bonner against all Dissenters and Non-conformists Bandying and Ecchoing the word Heretick Heretick at one another and to and again For the servant of the Lord should not strive should not be a Jupiter Altitonans a Boanerges all for consuming and destroying with fire from Heaven or Earth ye know not what manner of spirits ye are of A Bishop should not be a striker 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is no Persecutor no striking at second hand signifying and giving aim to the Magistrate where and whom and when to strike as well as no Gladiator 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not a litigious Informer former nor Promoter but a stranger to Law-Suits and Contentions as Plaintiff especially either through covetousness in hopes thereby to enrich themselves by beggaring their Brethren like the said old Bonner that seem'd to be in Fee with the Gaolers and the Hangman But bid farewel to the plum'd Troops and the big Wars that make Revenge vertue but in patience forbearance temperance and in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves or are Non-Conformists concluding as I will with wise Gamaliel that even for your own sakes ye ought to take heed to your selves what ye intend to do as touching these men Act. 5.35 38 39 40. And now I say unto you Refrain from these men and let them alone For if this counsel or work be of men it will come to nought But if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to fight against God And to him they agreed Discite Justinian moniti non temnere Divos Omnia cum liceant non licet esse pium Take warning whilst you may and dread Heavens Rod Do not with Gyant-Force brave the Great God Shall he that checks sin have for Tears more Cause Than those Suborning Pimps that break the Laws In Dangers Cowards Bold at Heaven to strike Are these true English-men Tories more like A True Table of all such FEES as are Due or can be Claimed in any Bishops-Courts in all Cases As they were Given in to the Commissioners of His Majesty King Charles I. Nov. 1630. By the Commissaries Registers Proctors c. under their own Hands in the Star-Chamber Necessary to be known by all Persons liable to be Concerned in the said Bishops-Courts 'T IS no part of the Scope of the ensuing Table to debate the Legality Expediency or Inconveniency of those Courts and Jurisdictions commonly called Spiritual or Ecclesiastick as they are now managed Nor whether the Persons that hold them and grant forth Citations in their own Names and Stiles and not in the KINGS do not thereby Incur the Penalty of a Praemunure But its Business is to Present you with an Exact Copy of their FEES as they were stated by themselves to certain Commissioners appointed by King Charles I. to Inspect them Nov. 1630. which Table being long since stifled as much as in them lies it is thought fit to Re-print the same from the Original first Printed Anno Dom. 1631. In cases of Instance that is between Party and Party To the Comissary To the Register To the Apparitor   s. d. s. d. d.   IMprimis For Decreeing the Original Citation and for Sealing of it 00 06 00 06 00   Item For Decreeing the Original Citation in a Matrimonial Cause with an Inhibition and for Sealing of it 01 00 01 00 00   Item For the Decree of every Party principal 00 09 00 09 00   Item For every Decree V●is Modis 00 09 00 09 00   Item Only at the Release For every Excommunication or Suspension in Writing 00 09 00 09 04   Item For every Absolution from an Excommunication or Suspension 00 09 00 09 04   Item For Letters Testimonial to be made upon a Search or any other Cause 06 08 06 08 00   Item For the Oath of every Witness upon any matter 00 00 00 00 02   Item For Examination of every First Witness upon any matter 00 09 00 09 00   Item For Examination of