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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43632	Reflections on a late libel intituled, Observations on a late famous sermon intituled, Curse ye Meroz in a letter to our old friend, R.L.; Reflections on a late libel, intituled, Observations on a late famous sermon, intituled, Curse ye Meroz	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1824; ESTC R3189	26,477	48

be to authorize the Bible by an Act and furnish People with Bottoms of Faith If the Observator was not very illiterate in the Laws of the Land he might find Acts of Parliament enow before he was born and almost as old as Paul's for England was the first christian-Christian-Kingdom to make the Bible Canonical and to furnish People with bottoms of Faith For though the Holy Bible was and is the Word of God though never a King or Parliament had told us so yet it does not become Canonical that is a Canon or Law to Subjects till it be commanded by Lawful Authority and therefore our Holy Bible is not onely the Word of God and so Sacred but also the Law of the Land and so Canonical and all the Laws of the Land lawfully made and by lawful Authority are also the Laws of God to which we ought to submit not only for wrath but also for conscience-sake And then where would there be place for Mutinies and Rebellions for the Spirit of Popery or spirit of Foppery This makes that Devil rage at Mr. Hickeringill having great wrath because his time is short but to attacque or answer him or his Sermon only with Calumnies Lyes and Slanders Is this Scholar-like Manlike or Christian-like Truth is Truth whoever proclaims it and 't is a base Requital of Ingenuous men onely to load them with false Invectives and Hatred instead of good Will such Returns will make men of more than Vulgar Learning and Attainments say with the Popish Cardinal Si Populus vult decipi decipiatur If the People have a mind to be blockish so let them continue for all me Yet the Observator seems to be in great trouble of mind that the Sermon should p. 38. call the English the most Generous and ingenuous Nation ah Sycophant in the world the blockish English Was it not greatly done of our little Observer to reflect so severely upon that innocent Passage in the Sermon The most loyal Text in all the Bible Whereupon he very gravely observes p. 4. in these words Comparisons are generally odious especially when between things incomparable Why Are they so indeed Beloved Some of the blockish English that are not so concern'd to lessen the Reputation of the Author or his Sermon would have past by so innocent a Passage and never have knit their brows at it nor yet have mark'd it with so sharp-pointed an Asterism Whil'st you live look to your hits and place your words in order when you come within ken of a little Observer Such a Fool was I that I had thought a man might be very innocent though he had said by way of comparison more Spiritual knowledge and comfort is to be had from the New Testament than the Old and from some Texts and Verses therein than from other and from the latter end of the first Chapter of St. Matthew than from the middle or beginning and yet the Holy Bible is Incomparable that is above all other Books but not when compar'd within its self I never till now knew where or how much St. Paul was a Sinner and to be blam'd by the Observator for saying I thought harmlesly 1 Cor. 15.10 I labour'd more abundantly than they all namely All the Apostles Happy St. Paul that never met with such an Observator amongst all the Corinthians that had a Design to lessen the Reputation of him and his Writings if he had how might they have descanted upon him in the words of our Observator Comparisons Paul are generally odious especially when between things incomparable Surely the Corinthians were very blockish Corinthians that could not spy faults at least not so ill-natur'd and malicious as our Observator and willing to spy faults and expose them to lessen mens Reputation or else our Observator is as blockish as envious to make such severe Observations upon so innocent an Expression and more blockish to imagine that any of the Generous and ingenuous English can be such blockish English as not to see that whilst the Observator is so trivially and keenly busie to lessen the Reputation of Mr. Hickeringil He has onely thereby lessen'd his own if ever he had any amongst the generous and ingenuous English at least This Trifler is I say like Mercury in the Planets good with the good and bad with the bad sometimes he cokes's the Clergy sometimes the Fanaticks as p. 7. because Mr. Hickeringill sayes p. 23. If there was not a Papist in England yet they would fright the People with fears of Popery Now for my part such a plain blockish Englishman was I that I could not spy where the Mischief or the Popery lay in that harmless and true Expression But comes me our Observator and very gravely and formally as he never opens but he makes up his Mouth in Mood and Figure nay you ' scape well if he does not gore you with one or other of his dilemma's a keen tool with which just such another W.S. gall'd him that writ concerning the Contempt of the Clergy sagely observing That This Aphorism is but borrowed from another Brother of the Quill Now if the Observator had not a mischievous Design to spoil Mr. Hickeringill's Credit for ever borrowing any more he need not have told every Body how much he was indebted and did borrow of a Brother of the Quill But dear Sir why may not one Brother borrow of another but that the Observator must be concern'd I dare say that neither of the said Brothers of the Quill nor are there any other Brothers of the Quill in England but would make shift with their own Pittance and scanty Store rather than go a borrowing to our little Observator and if they should he would tell all he met and lessen their Credit spoil them for ever borrowing any more But as honest and Loyal Hearts may joyn so good Wits may jump as well as bad ones and if so then though the Observator would seem to tell Tales out of School 't is but a Tale and a Story of his own making like all the rest of the Sham's he would gladly put upon the Author of that Sermon with Design to make them both odious but such a Rayler will but be the black-patch to Curse ye Meroz And most People think that the Author has hired this Zany to set him off with greater Lustre and provoke him or his Friends to a Vindication of himself and his Sermon both which but that Comparisons are odious except when a mans Credit and Reputation lyes at stake may possibly appear in good time as innocent polite unblemisht and unreproveable as any other of his Coat let Lyers and Slanderers vent their utmost Gall and Bitterness our blessed Saviour the holy Apostles pious King Charles the greatest Innocence cannot escape them Nor can the worst of the Authors Adversaries be able to prove in any the worst Instances of his whole Life that any Infirmity Sin or Temptation has befallen him but such

untruth in alledging Marginal Notes that were never heard of is not the first he has told as I will shew by and by But the first Cavil he makes is against the Author's Veracity and Memory because he sayes That this Text was never before insisted on by him at any time yet notwithstanding he finds a Sermon made of it by the same Author in Gregory Father Gray-beard three or four Octavo pages long which is an Instance that the man was resolv'd to find fault right or wrong or otherwise he had not at the beginning tyr'd upon so impertinent a Quarry that he can get so little by except shame and contempt by all ingenuous men Does the Observator think indeed and indeed that that was a Sermon and ever preach't in any Pulpit by Mr. Hickeringill which he confesses was onely a little Ryme Burlesque But such a Trifler is not worth the answering no more than his Cavil against those fix Verses in Greg. which a far better but as immodest a Pen as his answered onely as he does by giving it as he does an ill Name Ryme Doggerel namely By the Liturgy learn to pray So pray and praise God every Day Th' Apostles Creed believe also Do as you would be done unto Sacraments take as well as you can This is the whole Duty of man He is a Stranger in England that does not know that Papists and Fanaticks Atheists and Debauchee's are very considerable Parties in the Kingdom now if no man can be any of these if he observes those six verses they are certainly the most useful Rymes doggerel that ever were made Another Untruth we meet with p. 4. where the Observator alledges out of the said Sermon That the most Loyal Text in all the Bible is now like a piece of Apocrypha laid aside antiquated and out of Date which he calls an odd indeed a sawcy Reflection on all the Loyal Clergy in England This lying Libeller says so but there is no such Assertion in the whole Sermon there is indeed a quaere in the said Sermon in these words shall this Text now like a piece of Apocrypha be laid aside antiquated and out of Date Not asserting it is so but querying whether it be not so which whether it be not a very inoffensive Quaere and whether the said Text be not very seldome if at all insisted upon in these times I leave to you the ingenuous Reader to judge craving your Pardon that I should vouchsafe to trouble you with pointing at Mistakes in this same thick-skull'd Observator that to every vulgar Capacity are so obvious and readily discern'd without this Index But I must either mind such Untruths or nothing in the whole Libel for it is but one continued and scurrilous Lye and Slander a whole Sheet full from one end to the other And therefore I shall take notice of no more but that for which the whole Pamphlet seems to be writ and that is to cast an Aspersion very slyly though and by way of Supposal which yet he recants and retracts immediately his own Conscience if he have any telling him that it is as he acknowledges impertinent and no more to the Reverend man as he styles the Author in his first Line than to the man in the Moon Yet p. 7. we are entertain'd as indeed all the Entertainments in the whole Pamphlet and all the Truths therein are only the Expressions he Re-prints out of the said Sermon as in these Words But above all that Passage p. 26. namely of the Sermon is remarkable A Holder-forth may yawl and yawn snivle and whine thump and bawl 'till his Lungs and his Heart ake and yet neither make open-hearted nor open-handed their close-fisted Disciples nay he shall turn up the white of his Eye and play as many Tricks as Hocus Pocus at a Fair and yet not get so much Money at Night as a common and prophane Hocus This well consider'd as a most enlightning Paragraph are things thus indeed Well Suppose then there were ever a graceless Villain in a Country that had first cousin'd his Tutor of a Fellowship by gobling up the Covenant himself whilst he perswaded the old man there was Rats-bane in it that had renounced his Christendom and been publickly dipt in hopes to thrive among the Anabaptists that had listed himself in the Rebbels Army and both preach't and fought against his Sovereign that had-afterwards got a Shipboard and even there kik't for fear of debauching the Tarpaulins after all these Disappointments and trading being so horrible dull amongst the Conventiclers do you imagine such a Fool would not think it high time to change Note and Coat if it were possible to get into some fatter Pastures and rave and rant to the purpose to be taken notice of Yes marry would he and kiss the Mass-Book most reverently I 'le warrant him if there were any thing to be got by it But what is all this to our Sermon Nothing at all I hope But why may not a man be impertinent now and then Pretty heart take breath after all this impertinence But if he means or else he means nothing by this Impertinence to reflect upon or calumniate the Author of the Sermon on Curse ye Meroz I 'le give this plain and true short and yet full Narrative of Mr. Hickeringill's Life which had been as needless as foolish and impertinent as his idle Supposal if the Observator's Impudence and falshood had not given this just Provocation and occasion to this Vindication I have known Mr. Hickeringill since first he came to the University of Cambridge where he was admitted Pensioner in St. John's Colledge at fourteen years of Age he got not nor possibly could get his Tutor's Fellowship for he was made Fellow of Gonvile and Cajus Colledge when he was eighteen years of Age and junior Batchelor Anno Domini 1650. He never swallowed nor gobled up the Covenant in his Life not but that perhaps he might have had stomach enough to it but it was off the Stage before he came on yet both he and the whole University were sufficiently of Fanatical Rebellious Anabaptistical and Factious Principles and Practises as all men living are in their Infancy of that Religion alone in which they are educated and he when he was a child did as a child nay as wiser men than he did and if he had been educated at Rome or Constantinople in the National Religion there profess'd he had also certainly been a Papist or Mahometan without a Miracle Thus St. Paul by Education became a Jewish zealot Luther Calvin Beza and our Fore-fathers all Papists upon better Information they became Protestants as St. Paul a Christian The Devil and Devillish men rag'd and call'd them Apostates but the Saints said He that persecuted us in times past now preacheth the Gospel and they glorified God in me saith St. Paul they did not rail rage upbraid and calumniate as Devillish men do The Strength the Spirit and