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A43613	The ceremony-monger his character in five chapters ... with some remarks (in the introduction) upon the new-star-chamber, or late course of the Court of King's Bench, of the nature of a libel, and scandalum magnatum, and in conclusion, hinting at some mathematical untruths and escapes in the common-prayer book, both as to doctrine and discipline, and what bishops, were, are, and should be, and concerning ordination, humbly proposed to the consideration of the Parliament / by E. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing H1799; ESTC R20364	90,871	81

Synod ep l. 2. c. 8. for not being contented with small Bishopricks and no bigger than a Bishop might superintend in his own person If Rapin be no sin It was never ● good World since ●he Clergy and Layety drove on two several Interests and two Bodies distinct and made the Church one thing and the State another If the Clergy endeavour to keep the people in subjection and under their Girdle Canonical by Impositions Canons and Acts of Uniformity endeavouring to Lord it over God's Heritage the Layety no wonder that they strugle for life and liberty and that the Feuds and Animosities betwixt them are Immortal but they would die cease and decease If Clergy-men studied to restore sinners and erroneous persons in the spirit of meekness Ay but the obstinate will not so be restored then let him alone perhaps he knows more than thou dost that art his Teacher However to his own Master he standeth or falleth and thou by giving him Warning hast deliver'd thy Soul as to matters of Faith and Opinion but as to evil works that is the Magistrates Province and care to correct and punish But if we cannot fright our Parishoners they will not care a Pin for us No you should say they do not care for you nor love you because you are such Scare-crows and Bug bears that would be If they fear you only they 'l never love you Do but labour diligently in the Word and Doctrine and fear not but that all good men will give thee of all men living as the Apostle says double honour which is due to a Ruling Elder much more to the Ministers ●hat labour in the Word and Doctrine though with us quite contrary to Scripture The Ruling Elder or Bishop is the man of double Honou● amongst us and the Pastor or Teaching Elder must ●carce keep his Har●on in the presence of the great Ruling Bishop to who● the Apostle indeed commands us to give double honour but more especially to the Ministers or Pastors that Labour in the Word and Doctrine Those are the most honourable the most reverend Jure divino if you believe the holy Scriptures But Fops mind chiefly who speaks not wha● is spoken if it be the word of a Lord It is with them more valued and obey'd than the Word of the LORD These are unjust and corrupt Judges but I will not punish them if I had power as King Cambyses did one of his unjust Judges of the Kings-Bench viz. pull'd his Skin over his Ears stuf● it with Straw and there Hung my Gentleman over the Bench in terrorem that other Tresylians might learn to beware of undermining the chief Pillar of any Government the Fundamental Laws Since therefore to give a Ruling Elder or Bishop more honour than a Paster or a good Preacher is expresly against holy Writ as aforesaid look you to that but that great Scripture which they bring to prove that every City had a Bishop and but one Bishop and every Bishop had but one City you see by what has been said both these assertions are sufficiently prov'd to be false though we had no other instance than in Tit. 1.5 For this cause left I thee in Greet to ordain Bishops 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greet is an Island that 〈…〉 a hundred Cities and was therefore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Reign of Leosophus the Emperor and Anno 880. there were but Twelve Bishops but all that time why should we imagine that they were all Christians when the third great City of the Empire Antioch where Disciples were first called Christians and bigger than any City except Rome and Alexandria yet had no more Christians in is than one Church will hold Acts 13.44 Nay Jerusalem where our Lord was Crucified had so few Christians fourty years after at the destruction thereof that all the Christians being warned by God to depart did depart to Pella a poor little Village says Eusebius lib. 3. c. 5. held them all But we will take it for granted that Titus ordain'd in every City in the Island of Creet a Bishop namely a hundred And which is not at all likely that all were Christians for till Constantines time one Church held all the Christians in Rome and one great Church in Alexandria held all the Christians there as their Bishop Athanasius gives an account in his Epistle to Constantius the Son of Constanine yet Heylin in his Cosmeg p. 263 says There are in Creet but two hundred and seven Parishes then by that account the great Bishops will get but a Plurality two Parishes for their Diocesses And ever since that Bishops first Monopoliz'd so many Parishes all under their Ecclesiastical Government There has been no Ecclesiastical Government at all but a meer Anarchy and confusion as at this day and has been the occasion of setting up so many Independent Churches to the care of themselves and one another for whom the Ruling Bishop could not poisibly take care E●grossing all Government we have none at all but some silly face of it in a poor surrogate and Register that minds little else than to singer the Pence and shear the poor Clergy and Church-Wardens twice a year in Visitations c. Deliver your Purse Poor Sheep escape better than we they are clipt but once a year and the Master that seeds them has the Wool but they that shear us poor Lambs take our Wool but seed us not they have it for nothing and their great Revenues will not satisfie but as I said in my naked truth It is not a sin for a rich man to rob the Spittle Let such hard hearted Clergy-men who have such exceeding many Flocks and Herds read their Neck Verse 2 Sam. 12.5 6. In Nathan's Parable of the Lamb and the Sentence And David's anger was greatly Kindled against the man and he said to Nathan As the Lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall surely die and he shall restore the Lamb four fold because he did this thing and because he had no pity And what do they visit for To see that all be Uniform Pish it is not to be done they themselves are not Uniform nor their Cathedral Worship Uniform with one another nor with Countrey Churches nor with the Act of Uniformity And what harm So all things be done decently and in order it needs not by order of Uniformity Nay Pope Gregory the 〈◊〉 Six hundred years after Christ commends variety of Usages In unâ fide nibil officit Sanctae Ecclesiae diversa consuetudo Let them show us one such Diocesan Bishop as we have got in England In the best and purest Times or one Bishop that ever durst pretend to Govern the Church by Implicite Faith in others for the first three hundred years or any thing like it In holy Scriptures or any reason for it or any possibility to discharge that heavy charge And I 'le strike out Avarice and Ambition as the

down as one did a certain Chappel in the memory of Man because the Chancel stood East and by Nore a little sideling whereas it should have stood better dut East that with one Cringe he might how to the Altar and the East also he was the wiser for so he kills two Birds with one Stone and one single bow by this laborious Regulation will serve to the Altar and the East also so to case his unweildly body he punishes his Purse by Eccle●astical Policy called Commutation O the Wit of an Ecclesiastical Politician But Fortuna favet fat Fortune favours ●●t falks a poor man might have been beggar'd by such a venture but the old D●tard Mr. Superstitions Noddy was his Name made Stairs of the Chappel-Stones and so got up to the Top of Pauls But let the Ceremony monger by his ●●ppery grow never so great he is paid in his own Coin for in requital his only Adorers are Women and Fops or such as love any thing that is great only because it is great May they not by the same reason adore an Asses Head with Flapping Luggs for they also are great very great Thus the Hog●n-Dutchman got Money being carried about from Fair to Fair amongst the ●ops that admir'd his Brawny-Buik the result of B●con and the Butter-Box The greatest Ingenuity of my Ceremony monger is that of an Ape viz. Imitation or Mimickry for the Monky has indeed something of the V●a●e and Resemblance of a Man and so has the Ceremony-mo●ger's worship the Face of Religion and Devotion but bo●h of them wants Reason and therefore the more abominable and of all Brutes most o●lous to radonal Men Simia quam similis turpissima Bestia nobis Of Brutes none are so lo●thsome as the Ape Wanting Man's Soul he only has Man's Shape But such is the force of Mimickry amongst Fops that it is far more easie to make a cringing dancing Ass than a dancing Horie in our Academy but the Mischief is there is so many of them they are not a R●e-Show they are so common that it will not quit cost to carry them about and show them at Sturbridge-Hair or Bartholomew Fair. Come Friends You shall see one of the Youngsters the Foal of a cringing Ass for nothing Come to your Postures Lad Hold up thy Head and in thy Chin thy Breast out and thy Belly in Now your Reverences well done face about again down I say close down to the hast to the Altar c. well done there 's hopes in thee thou may'st come to be a tall Man in the Church in time if this Trade do but hold For my Ceremony monger is an Ecclesiastical Thomas Anello or corruptly and vulgarly Masanello a despicable Tool to look on take him out of his Robes as filly a Fisher as heart can wish and yet he may grow great by as trivial Occasions the scrambling for a little rotten Ware Nuts and Apples in Midsummer Moons when the People run mad and are oppress'd But the worst is This Beast of the People is soon abus'd and soon disabus'd and is seldom long and quietly in England bestrid I will not say Priest-ridden by Fops they are apt as suddenly to play as Jade's T●k and after they have Huzz●'d loud Hosanna's one day soon after ready enough upon a contrary Provocation to cry Crucifi●ite Crucifigite Yet the Fool Masanello trusted to the unsteady Populace which made him insolent and insufferable Proud and morose till the same Mouths that cry'd him up soon after were ready to eat him dragging at a Horses Tall whom ten days before they cry'd up to the Skies they would have done the same to a Broom-staff if it could but have stood them in stead or could help to withstand the Gabels and Oppression but the Fool thought that the people ador'd his own worth which made the Fool insufferably petulant and was his Ruine Yet after all now that I better bethink my self and that seven years ago in my Black Nonconformist I did in vain wa●h this Aethiope I 'll even compound the Business with my Ceremony monger And because he has been many times a topping Ecclehastical Fellow Proun and Stomachfull Uncontrouiable and Wilful right or wrong he will l●ve his Will his Suring and his way let who will stand in his Way therefore since he says he will still bow like a Fop to nothing for he dare not say the Wafer is there hid slyly under the Carpet nor yet that God is more there than every where yet I 'll grant him a License upon two Conditions First That he never shake his empty Noddle at the Altar but when it is cover'd with a Cap a Sottin Cap to chuse the more decently to hide the soft place in his Head. Secondly That also then he hide the Popish Face of Adoration by putting on a Protestant Vizor Masque not only that his blushes be not visible a Braz●n Face may do that but to cover the Popish Physiognomy le● the undiscerning and superficial Judgments of the rude Vulgar spy it and nothing else for they search not the 〈◊〉 side and consequently handle him as if he really were a popish Priest his Cope his Hood his Surplice his Cringing Worship his Altar with Candles on it most Nonsensically unlighted too his Bag●pipes o Organs and in some places Viols Viollos singing Men and singing B●●s are all so very like Popery and all but the Vestments illegal that I protest when I came in 1660. first from beyond Sea to Pauls and White Hall I could scarce think my self to be in England but in Spain or Portugal again I saw so little Difference but that their Service was in Latine and ours in English but less intelligeable and less Edifying for one half thereof than Latine by reason of the I●articulate Boatus and Braylog whilst all the People read half the Psalms with a N●●se as confused as the Rumbling Thunder as I will prove more particularly by and by that any man in the World that had seen High Mass beyond Sea must say That the contrivance of both was to keep people in Ignorance the Mother of Devotion Faith comes by Hearing saith the Scripture but the Papist and Ceremony monger make as though it comes by Seeing they are all for a Show a vain show And shall not those that sin before all be rebuk'd before all That all may learn and all may be comforted But may some say to me perhaps That I talk very boldly why do I And do you th●●k in your Conscience that they do not sin more boldly There is a sinful Bishfulness in being loth to reprove as well as an Impudent Sin●e and a Whores forehead And shall a B● Ceremony monger dare to transgress the Laws of God and Man and Right and Reason And is there not a man amongst us all that has Courage enough to antique him Let him Huff like a blasphemous Goliah I fear him not if I were young and in my Prime

maintain and uphold that single and paramount Vertue of his Foppish and illegal Ceremonies and therefore at the Choice of Parliament men what pains and cost does he lavish in making Parties for such men as are most like himself and such as he thinks will keep up the out-side of the Church how little soever of true Devotion is within being Zealous for Faith and perhaps true Faith in his head though he banishes Charity by a Penal Law Good or bad are but empty Names with him and things indifferent Is he a Ceremony monger That 's his Test by which he tries all Mens Religion and Devotion Like the Prince of darkness he hates the very Sun in the Firmament if it discover his dark abode This Eccle●cal Fop espouses Religion as other Fops Marry only for the fair F● Portion and gaudy Dress and may be a Son of God notwithstanding I mean in that Sence the Scriptures called the Old Gyants the ●●ns of God that seeing the Daughters of Men that they were fair took them Wives of all which they chose meerly for the Skin deep perfection Eyeing nothing of inward goodness nor the Beauties of the mind for both of them are Carnally-minded and Fleshly given hankering after the Law of a Carnal Commandment and Carnal Ordinances O! how he hugs them And if any Man dare speak a word against the Beauty of his Mis or dare make Comparisons or prefer a richer Beauty Oh! how he Suaggers with his curses and Anathema's and Damms him for a Schismatick and if he can Jay is him too and there lets him D●● and Rot what speak against Mis● Thus he is indeed the great Scare crow in the Church a man of Clouts that looks like a man at a distance but if you search him he has no bowels he wants not Will but Power to make his 〈◊〉 Finger thicker than his Predecessors Loyns His Conscience is always just of the Size with that of his Prince If his Prince be given to Wantonness he dares not so much as quote the Seventh Commandment in his Sermon nor name Adultery If he had liv'd in Maoedon in the Reign of Alexander you might have known him for a true Courtier by his Wry neck Regis ad exemplum His Ceremonies are more futile and thin than a Spiders Web and can neither catch nor hold any body but Flyes or such silly Infects yet he has in their Defence the Venom and Gall of a Spider which transcends him in one thing for she begins her Web at her Bowels but he has none as being of the Opinion of the Philosopher Zeno who amongst the Diseases of the Soul which he reckons up makes Humane Compassion to be One. He keeps a bustle for his Trinkets let it make never so great a Disturbance or Danger to the Church or Sate pro Aris Focis he cries stand up for the Church though indeed his Area is the Ara to which he bows so devourly and demurely Not that he cares for his Trinkets neither if he could make more Money by parting with them than he has got by keeping of them He would forsake them and the Saints too with Demas for love of this present World upon a fair Prospect of a better Market at Thessalonica in the Idols Temple Amicus Plato he cries amicus Socrates fed magis amici Divitiae Honores He is worse than Balaam who would not curse Israel tho' Balak would have given him his House full of Silver and Gold. For my Ceremony-monger is always for that Religion that is most in Vogue For my Ceremony-monger is always for that Religion that is most in Vogue and like a French-man loves any thing that is infashion but when out of fashion he leaves it like Lice that prey only upon the Living but forsake men when they are going to die or like Rats that by Instinct desert the House that is ready to fall Thus he worships with the Indian the Rising Sun. When the Mendicant Fryar preach'd before Cardinal Odescalcho this present Pope before he got up to the Infallible Chair and Cardinal Sachetti he begun his Sermon thus St. Peter was a Fool St. Paul was a Fool the Prophets and Aposties all Fools for wandring about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being destitute afflicted and tormented in their way to Heaven when they might as well have gone thither as their Successors in Scarlet Gowns and Scarlet Hats The Capuchin had an Eye to my Ceremony-monger or to one as like him as ever he can look For this Ceremony-monger notwithstanding his voluntary humility it as proud as Lueifer and hectors like a Pope against all Opposition exalts himself above all that is called God valuing his Canons above the Statutes of the Realm Thus as the Papists preach up the Rules of St. Francis St. Benedict and St. Dominick that may be good things too many of them not only above the Laws of the Land but above the Laws of God too and strains at a G●at at the same time when he swallows a Camel for in his Prayer before Sermon he speaks like a Mouse in a Cheese when he prays to God there but when he preaches up ●he Gospel Rules then he makes the Pulpet thunder till the Church Eccho again with the Canons The Canons which may be good things too some of them so that they make no comparisons with their betters making a hideous noise with preaching up them and his Ceremonies methinks he then looks like the Emperour Caligula when with a numerous Army he march'd with Colours flying Trumpets sounding and Drums beating loud as a Thunder clap to gather Cockie Shells No man more zealously cries up the Laws of the Land and Acts of Uniformity when he gets a Non-conformist thereby upon the Hip and to Penal-Law him but when the point of the same Acts and Laws of the Land are turn'd upon himself or he be commanded to do any thing he does not like he cries out Conscience and the Liberties of Holy Church are Invaded Just as the Jews to affront Caesar they cry'd out That God alone was their King but to affront Christ They alter their note and say We have no King but Caesar Thus he lays heavy Burdens upon others and grievous to be born but he himself that is the greatest Non-conformist to the Act of Uniformity with his irrational and illegal Ceremonies does not touch the Burden with one of his fingers Yet you cannot well discover him for ye shall not readily see him walk but like a Spaniard never or seldom abroad without his Cloak Beggarly enough too for the most part and can scarcely cover his Rags and his beggarly Elements and Will-worship CHAP. VI. Concerning unlighted Candles on the Altar Organs Church-Musick and other Foppish Symbols c. THE Papists like the Cynick Diogenes that went with his Candle and Lanthorn at Noon-day into the Market-place to see if he could find an honest Man there because the Sun could not show one at

Burden so much too heavy for any single Shoulder that they are forc'd to perform the great Acts of a Bishop in Ordinations Confirmations Excommunications Absolutions c. only by Foppish as well as Popish like Implicite Faith seeing with other Mens Eyes and hearing with other Mens Ears that it is no wonder that they err so often Oh! but the Wages then must be divided as well as the Work Flesh and Blood cannot bear this Doctrine No it cannot therefore Flesh and Blood cannot enter neither into the Kingdom of Heaven But a Bishop of all others ought not to consult with Flesh and Blood and self-Interest which above all things in the World does bribe Mens Judgments that they cannot because they will not give their Assent and Consent to so great a Truth King Charles I. was tenaciously in love with Bishops as now in England constituted even to death so great was his Opinionatree in the Case ●nd yet he says they were not Bishops Jure Divino by Divine Right and yet neither contra Jus Divinum But I think quite contrary viz. that ●here is nothing in Scripture more plain than that Bishops are Jure divino and nothing more plain than that the Bishops in Eng●and now constituted are contrary absolutely contrary to Jus Divi●um or Divine Right so far as they act like Novices in Implicite Faith Tim. 3.3 A Bishop must neither be a Novice nor given to filthy ●ucre For any B●y-Bishop any ignorant and unlearned Bishop is as ●ood as the best in those Acts of Implicite Faith any Novice can see ●ith other Mens Eyes and hear with other Mens Ears any Novice can and the greater Novice the fitter too believe as others believe without any other Reason Therefore since the Holy Scripture says a Bishop ought not to be a Novice if he be a Novice that sees but by Implicite Faith then tell me count them if you can How many Novices have we in England that do all their greatest Acts by Implicite Faith This is as bold a Stroke you 'l say as ever was and yet not a jot too bold to strike at so Grand so Poppish so Popish a Folly as Implicite Faith by which it must be granted and cannot be denied our protestant Bishops do all their mighty Businesses and is the cause of such a contemptible and ignorant Glergy ill grounded Excommunications and Absolutions and ●apias's thereupon and such unscriptural irrational and Blind Confirmations perswading the Ignorant that they are fit to receive the other Sacrament of of the Lord's Supper when they know nothing of the Creed and sometimes were never listed or matriculated into Mother-Church by the Initiating Ordinance of Baptism But that is the Fault of the Person not of the Constitution If that were true it might be amended but it is false for it is not the Fault of the Person only but the Fault of the Constitution which obliges no Bishop in his Office and performance of these great Episcopal Acts but only to the knowledge of a Novice or implicite Faith. Nay if our Constitution did oblige him it would oblige him to Impossibilities for his Work is more than any Mortal can perform in propriâ personâ and the great charge of Souls which he takes upon him more terrible if his Conscience be awake or not brib'd with the Wages it must be sensible that no Plety Parts or Prudence can possibly discharge except as now by implicite Faith which any Bay a● Child a● Nevice can perform as well as the best It was Covetousness therefore and Ambition that first made Bishopricks so large for the sake of making all the Bishops Lands therein one Man's Monopoly and also made Bishops Consciences so large as to gape and swallow all the relishing Bit was so gustful and grateful to a greedy Gut but from the beginning it was not so Now every County must have a Bishop nay sometimes two or three or four Counties will scarcely hold one great Bishop nay to them too must be added sometimes a Rich Deanery Is it not strange that a Bishop should be a Deacon again for the Mony sake and a Parson again by Commendum for the sake of some bulky Parsonage like Wiggin in Lancashire in Commendum held by Dr. Cartwright Bishop of Chester now advanc'd to be a non-such Protestant Reader in Popish France and Curat to a Popish Prince in the Protestant Chappel in the Castle of Merli And I am perswaded they will have the Grace to blush if it do not also make their heartsake before I have done at the horrible Burthen they have undertaken which the Shoulders of the strongest and ablest Apostles of Christ never did or durst renture to take upon themselves no Mortal ever did or can discharge it but in this Novice way by Proxy or blind Implicite Faith God in his Mercy forgive them they know not what they do Philippi nay Jerusalem a little scanty City not so big and populous as Colchester by half and yet had several Bishops at a time therein Philip 1.1 To all the Saints which art at Philippi with the Bishops and Deacons How many Bishops of London at this rate must there needs be in London not to mention the three Counties of Hartford Essex and Middlesex into the bargain Ay but the House of Lords will not hold so many Bishops No I grant There are Bishops ●now there already as some have laid and angerly grudge that we Clergy-men who are as much represented in the House of Commons as any Commoners in England and make as great a bustle at an Election of Members to get Men for our turn should also be represented in the other House which no other Commoners are and that my Lords the Bishops are tried by their Peers that is by their Equals Commoners but the Lords are Conciliarii Nati It is part of their Inheritance to be the King's Councellors and a Seat in the House of Lords is part of their Estate and State. But such Men talk like those that say that we had English Parliaments before Bishops and Abbots sat in the House of Lords and many Statutes the Judges say are good Law tho made in several Parliaments excluso Clere the Lord-Bishops and Lord-Abbots being shut out of Doors and not permitted into the House of Lords nay the Lord Abbots that had as good and as antient Right to sit in the House of Lords as Lord-Bishops are Long ago and to this day excluded Notwithstanding my known Devotion to my Lords the Bishops I confess I have not skill enough to answer such Reasons and Records It behoves them that have more wit and are more concern'd than I to give this a Rational Answer I consels my Ignorance but my Devotion to them is well enough known And I cannot deny but that the Bookish-men as my Lords are bred and usually Fellows of Colledges by that state they take upon them in the Colledge all but themselves going bare to them if they do but

to Numbers and Estates A Plurality then is more people than any one man can probably visit and regard either by reason of their numbers or distance of place no men did rule or feed the people in the Scripture times purest and primitive times by Proxies Journey-men-Curats Sureties Registers Surrogats or Implicite Faith 't is Non sence all over as well as Irreligious until blind men can learn to see as our great men do now by other mens eyes and implicite Faith I grant that the blind Beggar of Bednal-green did do his business by the eyes of his Dog and a Bell and got they say thereby a great Estate but still in Spirituals it will not hold good and if it would it would be no great honour for a Bishop to be accounted the great Blind-beggar-Ecclesiastical yet so he must always ways beg the Question and do his great Church-works by blind implic●te Faith or else be cannot possibly do business Therefore some Repairs must of necessity be done and in time too or else a Church so Cr●zy in her Discipline and ●o Non sensical in her Ceremonies cannot stand long propl● how we can The Papists upholds theirs with Dragoons Constables Jaylors Summers Registers ●●ng m●n and the Inquisition with Cu●ses An●them●● 〈◊〉 To●●●●●● and Jayles if ●ny body m●k● 〈◊〉 ●ment of like Props they 'l ●●●d th●m 〈◊〉 and give them the slip now in there day and 〈…〉 when Governours whose duty it is to Reform do negl●●●●o long 〈…〉 years ago in 〈…〉 the people could beat no longer and took them to do but the people are but Tinker-like Refor●ness if they mend one hole they make two Force and Jayles Impositions ●●●ght do in the Days of Ignorance A German Writer tells us That the people were 〈◊〉 ●illy there before ●●ther's time and so Devoutly priest-ridden that i● the priests had 〈◊〉 them they would have Eat G●●●s as our Asses and Ja●●s do But those happy Days are done and past nor must we expect such success formerly the Pe●●●● were the only Clerks the only Schollar● and the G●ntry went to no School but the Dancing School but now qui●● contrary the G●ntry are the most Accomplish'● Vertuoso's 〈◊〉 knowledge and the great Accomplishment of a Clergy Ceremony mon●er is 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 bowings and Alamode postures Ecclesiastical 〈◊〉 the two Art demiss those two Fountain of such Dancing ●●●●ature 〈…〉 Ceremonies wherein being pretty well improv'd so Seven Years 〈◊〉 hot and long a Skirmish of Ergo versus Ergo is but Addressing to ●●me 〈◊〉 Chamber maid or Groom to a Patron that has a void Living in his G●● and he is forthwith by the help of Implicite Faith made free of the 〈◊〉 pit This may be done because it is frequently done and then the Flo●● are no● guideable by such a Novice but go to the Conventicles and 〈◊〉 out for better Pastures What then Then they are prefound and 〈◊〉 then Then the Registers Shears them takes their Fl●●●● and 〈…〉 go to 〈◊〉 more Wool against the ●●x 〈…〉 the next Vis●on which begins as all other matter of that Nature with a Nomin 〈◊〉 〈…〉 to be ready to pay th● 〈◊〉 to the Registers whi●● the Bishop's great E●● 〈…〉 is getting himself a 〈…〉 with Wine and Oysters 〈◊〉 nex● Question is I D●ncer R●ady Then after Dinner call 〈◊〉 to pay there the poor C●ergy mu● pay again after D●●●er when the had pay'd for it once before in their Procucations and Synodal● 〈◊〉 they Eat a bit well the World grows worse and worse Old Bishop Humfrey Late Bishop of London did indeed makes us pay our Visie o● Pro●●●ations incended and given at first to be● charges and pay the Common Reckming and so he did we never pay'd Twice but that lanovation came in as soon as he was Dead Then after ●●nuer to Church they go again when the Clergy are Short to do as much to the Church-Wardens and Swearing them to be forswor● for no Man ever did or can keep that Oath sometimes a Church-Wat● den pays Four or Five Shillings sometimes Two Shillings and Four pence the Sell-Soul seldome refuses ready Money then take in their Presentments and having thereby notice where the Covy lies by the help of his Stalking horse the Apparitor he catches some to be sure in his Net whence they never escape but with the loss of some Fathers at least Well may the Fops say Here 's a Hea●th to the Church of England for never did any Sickly Church stand in more need thereof if by the Church they mean the said Black Guard and Ragged Regiment of Sumners Jaylo●● Sworn I had almost ●aid for●word Church-Wardens Apparitors Registers Surrogates Officials and Ceremony-Mongers here 's an Ecclesiastical Body of a Church for you the like of it is no where in the World for though the Papists have the same Tools and for the same use and by the same Names called and known yet every Priest Secular besides the Swarming Monks and Itinerary Frier 's performs more Ecclesiastical Discipline in their way than the best Bishop does here in making Pen●●●nes Is it not high time for our Governours to Imitate our blessed Saviour and make a Whip of small Cords and Slash these Ecclesiastical money-changers our of the Temple When ●urrs get into the Church the Sexton does not stand asking how they came in when he sees the Doors stand open but Whips them out Even so it is a folly to spend time in inquiring how these Ceremony-mong●●s and Ragged Regiment got so high into Church but Slash them out For tho' the favour of a Jesuite or a Court-Whore might have done Wonders in pu●●ing a great Fapping-Cap upon my Ceremony-monger's Head yet I cannot Imagine how they could open his Skul and put in more Brains except Schollars and Wits could be made like Knights by Dubbing or as Kings make Lords by Letters Patents Not but that the Vulgar and the Fool himself thinks himself some body for W●t and knowledge forsooth Vertue and Valour more than before his Father or Elder Brother Dyed or before he got I know how to be a Court-favourite But Anatomize and Rip him up and you will not find him to be made of Clay one jot more Refined then the other Mortals by the Sound or Title of Honour but he that was a Fool and a Coward before is to still tho he had Fools Fortune the luck to have a King for his God-father an● to give him a Name but in all other respects he is just as God Almigh●● made him and as his Sin and Ignorance has Polluted him only a great de●● more Lofty and Confident I dare not say impudent Proud and High. But the Canons of our Church now in force I 'le prove foreseeing the Arrogance Ecclesiastical took care as well as our Saviour did to prevent it nay even in Minute matters such as that namely That a Bishop should not suffer a Presbyter his Reverend Brother so much as