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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

Bishop it for filthy lucre against the Law of the Land and Magna Charta against Sacred Councels Fathers and Canons and all this because 't is easie to prey upon their own poor gentle kind though so unnatural as aforesaid I wonder they are not afraid of these Curses and Anathema's if they themselves do believe the vertue of them and Excommunications thunder'd out against the Impugners of Magna Charta so often by the Bishops of old with Bell Book and Candle or do think all these Ceremonial Curses were only of force against the Impugners of the first clause of Magna Charta namely that Holy Church shall be free And do they keep two measures one to buy by and another to sell by But let Magna Charta and the Laws of the Land sleep at present I 'le only henceforth play my Canons against these Exactions turn their own Canons upon them their Canon-Law and the Civil Law and sure their Lay-Chancellors will herein stand by them to divert the shock for they are either good at skill in Civil and Canon Laws of which they are Professors or else what are they good for And can there be any fairer play than to fight a man with his own weapons that he is us'd to and has skill in if in any 'T is Argumentum ad hominem which I 'le make use of and which of all Arguments soonest stop the mouth out of thine own mouth will I condemn thee thou wicked Servant says the Parrable and then it soons follows He was speechless The Apostle Paul us'd such a stabbing Argument ad hominem Rom. 2. Thou that sayest by thine own Law Rom. 2.22 a man should not steal doest thou steal Thou that abhorrest Idols dost thou commit Sacriledge I have instanced enough in the Canon-Law already but if those many already recited will not do I 'le stop their mouths for ever if Canons can do it For none are so frequently met with as Canons to this effect that Censum à Presbyteris Parochianis exigere Tyrannicum est Constitut Apostol l. 2. cap. 32. de Agapis Presbyteris ut qui laborant in verbo doctrina duplex seponatur pars in gratiam Apostolorum Domini cujus locum sustinent tanquam Conciliarii Episcoporum Ecclesia corona Let the Presbyters that labour in the Word and Doctrine have double maintainance for the sake of the Apostles of our Lord whose Successors they are mark that being the Bishops Counsellors and the Churches Crown And those Canons and Constitutions Apostolical in 8. Books are numbred amongst the Books of Canonical Scripture by John Damascen and by Eusebius as also Epiphanius lib. 1. adversus Haereses J. Damasc de orthodoxa fide of the same opinion is Proclus Patriarch of Constantinople and Oecumenius in Comment in Epist 1. ad Timoth. so also in Can. Apostol 84. Athanasius indeed allows them to be of good and wholesome use in the Church but not Canonical as composed by St. Clement the disciple and companion of the Apostles But there are so many things foisted in amongst them by the Pope who long had the keeping of them that though many good things are amongst them they are none of my Creed but good enough to shew against the Canon-Law men and to prove that Presbyters or Priests are not in the judgement of Antiquity such scums and pitiful fellows to stand with cap in hand like so many School-boys before the Bishop whilst he schools them catechises them lectures them and calls them to account from the beginning it was not so as I will shew anon they were his Fellows and Counsellors any where even in the Church The only difference was he sat uppermost but all sat not stood bare-head like so many Boys And can there be any greater cause of the contempt of the Clergy and their neglect amongst the Laity then when they see how the Bishop one of their own Cloth that should best understand their worth slights them good God! whither will not pride and oppression hurry frail man Jubemus Presbyterum tantùm docere Can. Apostol l. 3. cap. 20. baptizare benedicere populo Diaconum ministrare Episcopo Presbyteris We ordain That only the Priest or Presbyter shall preach baptize and bless the people and the Deacon although Arch-Deacon but that he was not then born nor baptized in the Church ought to wait upon the Bishop and the Priests or Presbyters Cavendum sanè est Cabil Synod 2. cap. 14. nè cùm Episcopi Parochias suas peragrant quandam damnosam c. which I 'le faithfully English thus Special care should be taken saith that learned Council lest the Bishops going to visit their Diocesses should play the Tyrants over their Inferiours or over their Fellows and Comrades not exacting money of them by strict and rigorous courses Then follows a Lecture to teach Bishops what they ought to do in their Visitations and what they ought not to do ' They ought to spend their time in inquirendis rebus emendatione dignis in praedicatione verbi Dei in lucris animarum potius quam depraedandis spoliandis hominibus scandalizandis fratribus operam dent in confirming men in reforming what is amiss in preaching the Word busying themselves in gaining Souls and not in spoiling and making a prey of men and giving offence to their Brethren Et si quando eis ad peragrandum ministerium suum à fratribus aut subditis aliquid accipiendum est hoc summoperè observare debent nè quem scandalizent aut gravent Tanta ergò in hâc re discretio tenenda est ut verbi Dei praedicator sumptus ubi proprli desunt à fratribus accipiat item fratres illius potentiâ non graventur exemplo Apostoli Pauli qui nè quem gravaret arte manibus victum quaerebat And if for the work of the Ministery somewhat be to be received either of their Brethren or else of their Inferiours yet let them look to 't that they neither burthen any man nor give offence Such prudence therefore is to be used in this affair that as on the one hand a Preacher of God's Word may recieve somewhat of his Brethren to bear his charges when he has mark that no proper maintenance and Revenue of his own so also his Brethren ought not to be burthen'd with his Mightiship In imitation of the Apostle Paul who chose rather to get his living with his hands and Trade then to be burthensom or chargeable to any Get living with their hands there 's no need of that blessed be God for the munificence and legal provision is enough enough if avarice can possibly have enough to glut men without being burthensom to poor Priests and Vicars Indeed if these Bishops and Arch-deacons were as poor as St. Paul and should come a begging our charity as he did hard-hearted would that man be that would not open his purse for his relief though his Family fasted for