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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

it a day after But these are rich and mighty and with Beaver cock'd make Speeches and give in charge to pay Procurations to one another that will not be forgotten I 'le warrant and not as the holy Scripture says Remember the Poor but Rememember the Rich Arch-deacon and the richer Bishop with your Procurations Synodals and Visitations though the poor Vicar's Family pine and pinch for 't a Month after And if they may not thus gò snips and share in every Benefice throughout the whole Diocess then Woe be to you with Suspensions Anathema's Excommunications and the Goal And yet some of these Arch-Deacons pay neither to Church nor Poor neither to Assessments nor yet keeping Hospitality or so much as keeping House These Undue-dues then thus coming into Mr. Arch-Deacons hands though he be alive and alive's like 't is no contradiction to say they come in manus mortuas Is it not within the Statutes of Mortmain If they can shew any License from the King or any of his Predecessors to vex his Subjects thus against Law Reason and Equity If they had orderly sued out their Writ ad quod Damnum out of Chancery before they had established this Ecclesiastical Revenue and Annuity let them shew it But to plead only a Custom of Sinning against Law Reason and Conscience is the absurdest of all their Pleas. And in good earnest if there were no Law against it Is there any Conscience that a poor lean bare-bone-Vicar should thus greaze a fat Arch-deacon in the Fist I know that when the Devil shew'd our blessed Saviour all the Kingdoms of the World in a moment of time he said unto him All this power will I give thee and the glory of them Luke 4.5 6. for that is delivered unto me and to whomsoever I will I give it But that was a Lie Yet the Pope says that all the Kingdoms of the World and the Power and the Glory of them are his and delivered unto him and to whomsoever he will he gives them but most especially all Bishopricks and Benefices are his in his donation And he gave them conditionally to go snips in them all that as the High-priest under the Law had the Tenth of the Priest's Tythes so he would have the tenth part of every Bishoprick and Benefice And though the Bishop is not the High-Priest as Aaron was and also that His Majesty has the Tenths yet they would be known too in their places and go snips with all the Rectors and Vicars in the Diocess by Procurations Synodals and Visitations c. which amounts to as much as His Majesties Tenths in many Benefices and in many also much more Though Aaron's Law is exemplified in paying the Tenths in England yet never did Aaron exact two Tenths or three Tenths of the Tribe of Levi let them even take all for me I hope in time they 'l have enough Inventum est quod in quibusdam locis Presbyteri duo denos vel quatuor denos denarios Episcopis in censum annis singulis darent quod penitus abolendum esse decrevinus Syn. Cab. 2● cap. 17. that is We hear says the Synod that in some places the Elders or Presbyters pay the Bishops every year twelve pence or fourteen pence as a Subsidy or Annuity which we hereby Decree shall henceforth be utterly abolished It is to be hoped the King and Parliament will be Petition'd to make such a Decree too here in England Twelve pence or fourteen pence yearly for Procurations It would be well for thousands of poor Benefic'd Vicars in England if they could put off the rich Bishop or his Great Eye the Arch-deacon with ten times so much no they 'l have it to a peny or else suspend the profits of the Benefice silence the Minister ab officio and not leave him and his Family a farthing to live upon till they be paid and till the charges of the Sequestration and costs of Suit be also paid or else by Excommunication his Soul is delivered to Satan and his Body to the Goal from whence there is no deliverance till the charges of putting him also into Goal and for his delivery thence be also paid which is about seven pounds for Spiritual-Court-Fees and other consequents thereof I know it So that want of Money delivers the poor Priest to Satan and the Goal soul and body and ready Cash again delivers him from both The Pope that has the Keys of Heaven-gates if he says true pay the Porter and he lets you in And our Absolution-men pretend to have the Key of Hell-gates and to let men out from the Devil to whom they themselves had delivered them for being poor and un-able to pay but upon condition tho' that if they have any credit to borrow money enough or empty the Pewter-shelf to Alchymize into money to pay the Porter they let you out and you are as you were rectus in Curiâ as honest Christians as ever and you and they as good Friends as ever Thus Orpheus is said to trade to Hell by the Poets and also to redeem men thence by Musick These by Money do the feat Oh Money Money oh the vertue of Money the vice of wanting Money our blessed Saviour says It is hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but at this rate quite contrary It is hard for a poor Man or a poor Vicar to come there if he do not pinch very hard to get money for these men whoever goes without or in whose debt soever he dies if he dies in their debt He had better no he knows his doom There wants nothing but * A yellow co●t painted with Devils and Hell fire with which the Inquisition do array the Jews and Hereticks when they burn them in Spain and Portugal Sambenitas and a Faggot with the Writ de Haeretico comburendo to make him the most Wretched This is a pretty thriving Trade if it would but last and for my part I that have as much power to Curse Anathematize and Excommunicate as any Bishop or Arch-deacon of them all and to absolve them again with all my reading and experience in their Spiritual Courts and Jurisdictions few men have had more or so much as I I say I here protest considering the premisses and the repealing of 1 Eliz. 1. that I know not by what Authority we do these things by what Authority we deliver the King's Subjects to the Devil and back again at pleasure what Rule Canon Law or Authority we go by and who gave us this Authority and Commission since His Majesty cannot give any such Commission by 13 Car. 2.12 Luther spoil'd the Pope's Market for Indulgences to this day and 't is an even lay but some honest Protestant or other will by vertue of the Naked Truth spoil this Trade to Hell and back again But how the Devil should be so much at their devotion and beck as if he was their Goaler to take all that