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A43627	The lay-clergy, or, The lay-elder in a short essay in answer to this query : whether it be lawful for persons in holy orders to exercise temporal offices, honours, jurisdictions and authorities : with arguments and objections on both sides, poyz'd and indifferently weigh'd / by Edm. Hickeringil ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1695 (1695)	Wing H1818; ESTC R10850	22,034	36

are not two but one and Lay-Clergy is but one word and what God has joyn'd together let not wicked man put asunder This Unity of Persons Clergy and Lay takes away all distinctions of Lands as Church-lands and Lay-fees which King H. 8. and his Parliament begun practically to understand when they took the Church-lands which the Popelings Superstition had Monopoliz'd to the Clergy alone robbing the State and made them Crown-lands For to the Crown all Deodands appertain and I will justify it against all the Bigots that they were Lawfully disposed of by Act of Parliament which in England is the only thing that distinguishes and ascertains all mens Properties and Liberties and places all Lawful Land-marks Nature makes no distinction of meum and tuum for Property and Right in the Kingdom is only ascertain'd and known by the Law of the Land But 2dly How can God be robb'd except it can be proved that those Church-lands were his and that he who hates Robbery for a Burnt-Offering did ever accept thereof How can it be prov'd that his word was one of the two words that went to the bargain when such Holy-lands and Sacred Persons were Dedicated to him Tythes and Offerings were God's Lot under the Law of which he might have been robb'd not so under the Gospel Sacred they were only in the use whilst well imployed in the more immediate service of God Divine Service but the Character is not indelible they cease to be so when the good and right use ceases or turns to an Abuse and never were accepted by God that we know of or ever were acknowledged to be God's peculiar especially when purchased by Superstitious craft robbery and fraud for it is written Let no man go beyond out-wit or defraud his Brother in any matter for the Lord is the Avenger of all such The Magistrate is God's Deputy and the Avenger and in England he has done his Duty in Redeeming these superstitious Church-lands reducing them to the State their antient Channel and who art thou that darest to gain-say this Minister of God to thee for good Demas was Ordain'd but what became of the Indelible Character when he turn'd an Apostate-Priest in the Ido!-Temple at Thessalonica Julian the Emperour was once in Holy Orders and given or ordain'd or devoted to God but if God had accepted the gift he had not afterwards by his Apostacy given himself to the Devil but where 's the Indelible Character all this while so much boasted of by the Papists and so much prated of by some Protestants Our Holy Religion is of its own store rich enough without borrowing from Hypocritical dresses or groundless and vain Pretences Moses the chief Magistrate Ordain'd his Elder Brother Aaron Chief Priest and Nature wrought in him so that he prefer'd all his own Family and Tribe Ordaining all the Tribe of Levi fit or unfit even before they were Born to be Clergy-men to the World's end and gave them not only great Gleabes but the Tenth whereas Levi was at most but the twelfth part of the other Tribes even of all their Labour and Increase the eleven Tribes drudg'd hard to make the Tribe of Levi easy I do not say Lazy But under the Gospel there are no such entail'd Ordinations nor a Clergy-Tribe the Laity and Clergy are now all of one Flesh and they ought to be all of one mind which can never be whilst they are distinct corporations either in Fact or Name Even under the Law the chief Magistrate King Solomon deem'd it no Sacriledg to degrade and deprive the High-Priest Abiathar and Ordain'd and Install'd in his room one of his own Favourites Nay Moses could not so monopolize the Priest's Office and Church-Benefices and Benefits to his own Tribe but other Tribes put in for a warm share long before Jeroboam's time one of the House of Judah was an Interloper and got Ordination Judg. 17.7 So that neither the Church-Affairs were Administred only by the Tribe of Levi nor the chief Administration and Government in the State was confin'd to the Tribe of Judah as King David's good nature and kindness to his own Tribe did design it for King David's project lasted not three Generations Judah was the Royal Family during the Reigns of David and Solomon but the Scepter departed from Judah by the Revolt of ten of the Tribes in the Reign of that impolitick Prince Rehoboam and an Ephraimite Reigned in Jeroboam who had the Art or King-Craft to cajole the people who must be pleased or else their King's Crown sits neither easy nor fast upon his head Jeroboam had the knack of it whilst silly and Rash Rehoboam was Abdicated what portion say the people have we in David neither have we inheritance in the Son of Jesse To your Tents Oh Israel now see to thine House David Thus we see that even under the Occonomy of the Old Testament neither Offices in the Church nor State were confined to One Set of Men much less to such a distinct Tribe of Levi or Church-men distinguished and characterized from other men no not so much as in Habit Garb or Name For St. Peter a Fisher-man was a Fisher-man still even after he was a Preacher and Fisher of men and I doubt not but he wore a Fisher-man's Habit Clothes and Garb suitable to his Trade as did St. Paul and the rest Nor were Magistrates excluded from Degrading Ordaining or Commissionating Church-men and Depriving them likewise making Church-men Statesmen and vice versa Statesmen Churchmen Ministers of the Church and State or Servants to the State for they are not as I said before two distinct Bodies two distinct Corporations but the Church is a Member and part of the State It was only Popish Pride and Antichristian Prelacy that advanc'd the Mitre above the Crown And all our aucient Statutes made in the Unhappy Reign of Popery run in one strain as if the Church of England was adistinct Body from the Kingdom of England Thus the first Chapter of Magna Charta grants That the Church of England shall be free and shall have Her whole Rights and Liberties inviolable and 3 Rich. 2.1 That Holy Church have and wholly enjoy Her Franchises and Liberties by the manner she as hath had c. What a do is here to maintain this She This She Holy Church can never be meant to be the same Body with the He the State for which cause the old Statutes often mention the Lay-Fec in opposition and distinction to Church-lands But it was never-well with the King and Kingdom of England when this She strove to wear the Britches and kept a Purse and Cupboard by her Self alone peculiar and independent of the He the King For in the days of yore when Popery or Antichristianism was rampant above all that is called God the Magistrate our King could not durst not hang a Murderer or Traitor if he were a Clergy-man or Church-man 'till Holy Church was pleased to Depose Disrobe and unclergy

Lawyers to be Ordain'd Elders of the Church nor why Elders of the Church may not if qualified be Elders in the State Sacred Places sacred Persons sacred Churches and Holy Lands were only so called because they were Consecrated or made over and Dedicated to God for his more immediate service But in these as in all other gists bargains and Sales there goes two words to the Bargain or gift viz. The consent of the Bargainer and the Bargainee the Donorand the Donee Now when and where and how did All-mighty God ever discover that he accepted these gifts Especially in those times of Popery when most of those Deo dands were by superstitutious men given or consecrated to God For 1st The Sacred Things and Holy Lands so Dedicated could not properly be called Gifts to God because they were usually Extortious forced through Superstition and extorted from Devout Sick Men and Dying Men in Expiation for their former wicked and lewd Lives Thus by Commutation to escape the pains of an imaginary Purgatory Redeeming the Penalty of their Debaucheries with their Purses and Lands These the crafty Priests from that time forward called Holy Lands Church-Lands or the Liberties and Franchises of Holy Church But Protestants and all Rational Men whose Judgments warp not through silly and imbibed Superstitions call these Commutations of Penance Holy Cheats And it is probable God All-mighty calls them so and saith who requireth these things at your hands To bring the Price of a Whore or a Dog into the House of the Lord by scaring and frighting poor silly men out of their Lands their Monies and their little Wits with that old gainful Bugbear and useful scare-crow Purgatory An High-way-man is Hang'd for saying with Pistol in hand Deliver your Purse but these Holy Pick-pockets are rewarded and applauded for saying Purgatory Purgatory Deliver your Purse Then with an impudent and whores fore-head making the Holy God an Accessary a party and consenting to those Holy Cheats And if the Popes themselves their Cardinals and Priests did believe these Frauds to be really Sacred God's Right and God's Lot they would never have consented to the Sacriledg by alienating them and converting them to Saecular uses and a Lay-fee as formerly they had been But Cardinal Woolsey and the Pope understood one another when Woolsey to satisfy his Ambition prevail'd with the Pope for a good round Bribe for the Pope's Wheels seldom move well without greazing and got a Licence to dissolve many little Monasteries Nunneries and Friaries and to convert them into monies to purchase and Build himself a Name by erecting therewith those two famous Fabricks and Foundations at Ipswich and Oxford the former his Birth-place the latter the place of his Education With design to Eternize his Fame and Name a most needless project for the known Whoredoms and Debaucheries of that Butcher's Son of Ipswich are sufficient Chronicles to perpetuate the filthy memory of such an Erostratus However this Indulgence of the Pope to alienate Church Lands opened the Eyes of King Hen. 8. and his Parliament ' and let them see that the Pope and Cardinals did not believe that such sacred Church-lands and Tythes were so perpetually Consecrated and given to God but that they might to gratify their own Avarice and Woolsey's Ambition without any scruple of Conscience be converted to worldly uses again and become as they were in the beginning a Lay-fee For the King and Parliament perceiv'd and yet they were Papists purblind with Superstitions that the Laity had been most abominably gull'd of their Lands at that extravagant rate that the Church-Lands were more than a third part of the Kingdom which caused so many Statutes of Mortmain as in Magna Charta cap. 36. and many more since that time So that of all Affections with which the Soul of Man is possest Superstition seems to be the most powerful and Violent it opens the griping hand of the most Covetous Miser it tears out all Natural Affection from the Bowels of the most tender Parent witness Phillip of Spain that Sacrific'd his dearest Son to the Bloody Inquisition as of old such Bigots Sacrific'd their Children to Moloch it Sanctifies and Hallowes all Murder and Villany it humbles the most Ambitious Potentate witness Hen. II. of England for personage none more proper stout and aimable for Armies and Victories so powerful and successful yet he gave his back to the smiters and was whipt by the shaven Crowns the Monks of Canterbury 'till the Blood run down his Royal Back in superstitious Expiation of the Death of a proud Prelatical Rebel Becket whose shrine was an hundred times more rich and more Devotion paid to his Altar than to that of the Blessed Jesus such is the force of mad Bigotry and Superstition But that mist broke up in a great measure when the light broke out in the Reign of Hen. VIII the contemporary of Martin Luther and John Calvin in so much that the word Sacriledg Sacriledg with which the Wily Priests had done Wonders to Enrich themselves and Beggar the Kingdom had lost the greatest part of its Bugbear-force and Terror Which was happy for this Kingdom for if the crafty Priests had prosper'd a little longer in their Holy Frauds all England had long e're this been St. Peter's Patrimony the Church of England had not been in the Kingdom but the Kingdom in the Church the Clergy that at first came out of the Laity had long e're this devour'd as the Papists say they do their Maker and Creatour But it was Priestly and Antichristian Pride alone that made the Clergy such Cormorants and then to distinguish themselves from the Laity and be a distinct body of themselves setting themselves above all that is called God the Lay-magistrate But such distinction of Lay and Clergy is a stranger to the Language of Holy Scripture and to the sentiments of right Reasoning Was not St. Peter a Clergy-man And yet he Exhorts the Pastors of the Church to feed the Clergy or God's-lot and Flock viz. The Laity as we improperly term them as was said before for Clergy is their Christian-Name Search the Scripture and you shall always find that by Church of God is meant the Laity with their Pastor's at the Head of them quite contrary our Antient Statutes Penned by Popish-Priests by Holy Church and all her Liberties and Franchises mean only the Clergy forsooth excluding the Laity but I say Laity and Clergy Lay-fee and Church lands are distinguishing Terms that God never made and is the sole Invention of Antichristian Pride And so long as these two words Church and State are kept in vogue as if they were two Bodies two distinct Corporations they will always be clashing and quarrelling in their Interests and drive on several Designs and Projects of which we may say as of two Ships that sailing contrary ways meet in the Ocean Si collidimur frangimur if we clash one against another we shall split one another but they