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

Cursers and Damners in a Parish than twenty Preachers But of late times Preaching has justled all other Duties almost out of the Church as if Prayers and Sacraments by which men have the most immediate Communion with God were but the Parenthesis of our Religion and our sence of Religion sufficiently preserved tho they be omitted and left out Obj. 8. Again it was objected Obj. 8 that our blessed Saviour gives a Prohibition to his Apostles Luke 22.25 lest his Disciples exercise Lordship and aim at Dominion as do the Princes of the Gentiles and the Apostle Peter Commands the Elders not to Lord it over God's-Clergy and Diotrephes is blamed for seeking preheminence Answ Answ This is the Argument of the Levellers and may as well be used to Level all Christian men and make an equality of all Honours and Estates in the State as well as the Church Drive it Home as they would and it Levels all Christian Princes Judges and Magistrates in the State as well as the Church For all Christians are or should be Disciples and Servants of Christ whereas our Blessed Saviour in the foresaid Prohibition Levels not all Orders of men but only Pride and Ambition he would abate their Pride restrain their Malice and mortify their Avarice and Ambition A great Prince a great States-man a great Prelate should be Humble loving and kind to his fellow Creatures their greatest Honour is Humility and the greatest Humility of Inferiours consists in Honouring all men especially the King Nay Servants who are under the yoak would cause the Gospel to be Blasphemed if they do not count their Masters worthy of all Honours 1 Tim. 6.1 The Holy Scriptures then are the Magna Charta to conserve Orders and Respects amongst Christians not to Level and Confound all degrees and Qualities to an Equality Obj. Obj. 9 9. Lastly It is Objected that Spiritual Persons are not fitted and qualified by their Education for Temporal Offices and Honours Answ Answ To which I answer then let no such unqualified Persons be called to such Places Offices and Trusts But none in England be it spoken without exception or offence have had more liberal and ingenuous Education than some of the Clergy improved not only by Study but Travel and are Learned in the Knowledg of Men as well as Books and in the Laws of God and the King Who are more likely to be improved in all manner of Learning than such as have been Students all the days of their Lives Who likely to be more accomplish't as to Conversation and Business than such as have always kept the choicest Company Nay some of them are of as good and noble Families as any other Gentlemen and is a man less a Man less a Gentleman less a Knight or Nobleman by being a more immediate Servant of God By being a Spiritual Person does he undress himself and lay aside his Body wherefore then must he needs divest himself of all care for the Body St. Peter never exerted more fiery Zeal than when Ananias and Saphira turn'd Church Robbers by purloyning that Temporal Estate and Riches which was indeed once their own and Sacrilegiously picking the Churches Pocket of what was Devoted and might have otherwise lawfully been kept in their own Pockets Is a good man the most unsit to be a great man I had thought that he had been more fit to serve his Country faithfully the more Faithfully he had serv'd his God Moses his frequent Communion with God made him not only more able but consequently more capable to govern the People And Samuel had no pretence to the Throne till he was the more qualified to be a Judg over men after some Discourse betwixt God and him Nor was David the less but the better King by being the Prophet David nor his Son Solomon less but more wise by being Ecclesiastes or the Preacher Was Isaiah less a Prince and less of the Blood-Royal by being a Prophet of God Nay all Nations that ever I saw or heard of pay the greatest respects to the Priesthood What greater King in all Africa at this day than Proster John that is to say Presbyter John or Priest-John The Aegyptians and so the Ancient Hebrews by one and the same word signified Priest and Prince Gen. 41.45 Potipherah Priest of Ou in the Margent Prince of Ou I say all Nations except our Britain since the late confusions have thought no Station too good or too great for their Priests both Civil and Barbarous Nations gave thus much to Religion and what Nation is there in Christendom Turky or Heathenism wherein Men in Holy Orders are not a Constitutive and Essential Part of the Government Popish Priests whom the ignorant Papists believe to be able to make a God must needs be not only Respected but Adored But Protestant Ministers in Holy Orders can never without as great a Miracle be kept from Contempt and given to Hospitality if they be kept poor by the many Impropriations now appropriated to the Crown and great Men which once belong'd to the Clergy and now they shall be stript too of all Temporal Offices and Honours their just due by the Laws of Nature of God and of the Realm as those enjoy'd by them you call Lay-men Bishops have their Baronies jure Humano who denies it No Barons have other Right the Law of the Land is their Birth-right of which when by the Heats and rage of the late Dog-days time they were madly depriv'd what was the Consequence but the Ruin and Confusion of all men's Birthrights It must be confest that Envy pure Envy made Sir Francis Bacon Lord Verulam when Lord Chancellour of England one of the First and Worst Lord Chancellours of a Lay-man that ever had the Custody of the Great Seal of England by shameful Briberies for which he lost it say when it was told him that a poor Clergy-man waited to speak with him below stairs Let him come up quoth he for I love to see a poor Clergy-man There are no doubt very many that have had the same love for the Clergy they love to see them Poor they love to see a poor Clergy-man The Lord Chancellors Antient Title is Clericus Primae sedis Clerk of the first Form Clerk not Clark a name now commonly given to every Scribler and Lawyers Clark but Clerk from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clergy-man or the Lord's lot I know as before that Pride and Self-conceit monopoliz'd this name unjustly to men in Orders but it has obtain'd by custom to signify Spiritual persons be it so not the Law of God nor the Language of Holy Scripture but only Ordination Presentation or the Kings's Commission makes the Distinction at this Day The famous Dr. Donne was a favourite Lay-Courtier when King James gave him his Hand to Kiss in assurance that he should be Dean of Pauls he afterwards was Ordain'd Deacon and Priest and well became his Spiritual sunction I know no Law that hinders grave and sober