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A43619	The fourth part of naked truth, or, The complaint of the church to some of her sons for breach of her articles in a friendly dialogue between Titus and Timothy, both ministers of the Church of England / by a legal son and since conformist to the Church of England, as established by law.; Naked truth. Part 4	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1806; ESTC R14467	65,265	43

Preach according to the Articles you have subscribed or not But by the way I observe Tim. you have a Whisking Faculty at handling to handle Three such Points in two half hours or thereabouts Tim. Nay I was not longer yet performed so well that I had as many thankful scrapes as Dr. O. himself for his long interwoven Discourse of late at Tit. 'T is like you might have as many Tongues but I doubt not so many Guineys as he Tim. Guineys what are they Tit. Now I see thou art ignorant of something besides the Articles Guineys they are the great Procurers of Advousons Presentations and Ecclesiastical Preferments their Principal Residence is about the Court and they sometimes help a Church-man at a dead lift when Merits and Friends both fail Tim. I wish I could meet with one of these Courteous Gentlemen I am sure none ever stood in more need of his Assistance Tit. One no less than some hundreds according as the Place may be Thousands will do you any kindness at all Tim. Nay then I despair for having lived Forty years and never met with one 't is more than probable I shall be dead before I procure a Thousand to stand my Friends Tit. It will do you more good to understand the Articles of the Church and practise them for that will make you happier in Forty years more than all the Guineys in England can Therefore push on to the next Article V. The Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son is of one Substance Majesty and Glory with the Father and the Son very and eternal God Tit. Here I hope you are found too Tim. Yes truly for the Athanasian Creed teacheth me thus much touching the Holy Ghost which Creed I have often Repeated and do most stedfastly believe Tit. I wish all that have subscribed this Article could say as much But let us have the Sixth Article VI. Tim. Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church Tit. As to this I hope you are perfectly Orthodox Tim. So perfectly that I wish all but the Canonical Books of Scripture had been left out of our Calendar for since our Church here Affirms that these Contain all things necessary to Salvation and consequently are sufficient for Example of Life and instruction of Manners I think we might have made a pretty good shift with these especially on Sundays without Tobias Bell and the Dragon with the use of the Apocraphites Tit. And I Assure you if our Calendar were to suffer a new impression and I were the Corrector I should not boggle much to gratifie you in this Opinion Tim. I thank you for your good will but since it is not in my power nor yours to amend it we must be content and make as much use of the former and as little of the latter as possibly we may Tit. Very good I wish we agree in the next as well as we do in this Article VII The Old Testament is not Contrary to the New for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ who is the only Mediator between God and Man being both God and Man Wherefore they are not to be heard which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises Although the Law given from God by Moses as touching Ceremonies and Rites do not bind Christian men nor the civil Precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any Common-Wealth Yet notwithstanding no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called Moral Tit. This Article hath a great Deal in it Tim. Where lies it I don't perceive it Tit. No Why it Requires of every Christian Man Obedience to all the Commands called Moral now how do you Comport with it in your Practice Tim. I own it Obedience is Due to all the Commands that are Moral Tit. Why is there any that is not Moral Tim. Yes I think so Tit. Which is that Tim. The Fourth Tit. Why so Don't the Article term it so Tim. I can't tell I don't believe it Tit. Nor a great many besides you who have subscribed this Article yet deny the sence of it Tim. I must be plain In troth I hold it no more moral than All Saints or the Fifth of November Tit. I thought somewhat was the matter you make so slight of it Why doth the Church require all her Members when this Command is read to say Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law c. that you can share one half of it Weekly to your own use and Service Tim. And I hope no Offence Tit. And as you give your People leave in the Afternoon so many of them take leave for the Forenoon and thus you share the whole betwixt you leaving the rest to God Almighty Yet no Offence I hope Tim. If it be Moral why is it not perpetuall without Alteration Tit. 'T is the shameful Prophanation of this Day by you and such as have Sucked in your Principles that hath Ushered in so much Irreligion amongst us and helped to pull down such severe Judgments upon us But hoping being better informed you will become reformed hear me a little as to this point Tim. When you have said all you can you can never prove it Moral and perpetual Tit. You have owned 't is so by your Subscription of this Article and will you now question it Tim. Yes I do for I knew not there was any such Article amongst them if I had known it I Tit. Nay never Repent you have done it for you have no cause if you understood as you ought Tim. Understand what Tit. That the Morality of this Fourth Command lies not in observing the Seventh day from the Creation for the Fourth Commandment doth not require to use and sanctifie the Seventh Day from the Creation not from any other period or Date of time but only the Seventh Day after Six of Labour or coming between Six of Labour in a settled Course of Numbring from any Period that God should appoint and so in the Meaning of that Commandment we do now and ever must use the Seventh Day For the Seventh is that part in order of Numbering which still comes between Six having Six before it and Six after it continually and so our Sunday our Day of rest hath and therefore we also rest the Seventh Day Tim. I deny it ours is the first not the Seventh Tit. And the Seventh as much as the first the first of our Week and Seventh after Six of Labour Indeed the Period

The Fourth Part of Naked Truth OR THE COMPLAINT OF THE CHURCH To some of Her SONS For breach of HER ARTICLES In a Friendly Dialogue between TITVS and TIMOTHY both Ministers of the Church of England By a Legal Son and sincere Conformist to the Church of England as established by Law Non recipit mendacium veritas nec patitur religio impietatem D. Hillar Non temerè dico sed ut affectus sum ac ut sentio non arbitror Sacerdotes multos esse qui salvi fiant sed multò plures qui pereant Chrys Hom. 3. in Act. Apost Neque enim aliorum salutem sedulò unquam curabit qui suam negligit Calvin LONDON Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens-head Alley in Pater-noster-Row 1682. Naked Truth THE FOURTH PART Titus REverend Tim well met I have thought long for a little serious discourse with thee and now opportunity favours me Come here a convenient Arbour let 's sit down and enjoy one another one quarter of an hour Tim. Enjoy one another prithee I can't enjoy my self Tit. Bless me What dost mean Tim. I mean I can't I won't talk Tit. I confess you have some ill symptoms upon you are you not well Sir Tim. No not so well as I would be Tit. Why who or what would you be Tim. I would be a Bishop Dean Archdeacon or a fat Pastor at least Tit. I commend thee Tim as mad as thou art I see thou wilt wish no harm to thy self And though I never reckoned thy Stars so lucky as to exalt thee to a Bishoprick or Deanary yet were it not that thy threadbear Cassock and superannuated Beaver suit it not I should have thought a lusty Parsonage or plentifully endowed Vicaridge had been thy lot long ere this Tim. No in truth no such plumbs will fall in my dish Tit. Where lies thy misfortune Tim. In my Conformity which is too scanty yet I know not any punctilio required wherein I have fail'd Tit. Fail'd no thou art so perfectly innocent in this matter that if thou wilt call me before the Bishop I will witness for thee Tim. Witness what will you witness Tit. That which if any thing will do you a kindness and help you to your desired preferment Tim. What 's that Tit. In short I can testifie verbo Sacerdotis that thou art so far from being defective that thou art redundant out-doest the Act for Conformity it self in Practice and many of the 39. Articles in Doctrine Tim. Good Mr. Titus you make my heart leap within me I should begin to be proud of my self if you would but explain your meaning Tit. Nay not too proud Tim neither for you are not the only man doth this there are many too many such Conformists besides you Tim. Good still The more the merrier Tit. True but the fewer the better cheer Tim. Well but your meaning You say I and some others out-do the very Act of Conformity in Practice and many of the 39. Articles in Doctrine Your meaning now Tit. That is in plain English you use those Ceremonies which the Act for Uniformity enjoyns not and preach such Doctrines as the Articles of our Church the standing Rule next the Scriptures for our preaching allow not This do you and many more of our brethren in the Church Tim. 'T is easily said but how do you prove it Tit. The thing proves it self only by having recourse to the Act and to the Articles and comparing what you do and say with these touchstones But before we meddle with proof let me ask thee a question or two Tim and prithee answer me seriously come here 's no body hears but thee and I. First didst thou ever peruse the Act of Uniformity Tim. Never in all my life what need I I know my duty without reading the Act. Tit. Huge well no doubt Next did you ever for you never yet were possessed of a Benefice though you often possess the Pulpit for half an hour or so did you I say ever seriously read and consider the Articles of our Church Tim. No neither Tit. But you have subscribed them have you not Tim. Yes Tit. And not read them Tim. No. Tit. A hopeful youth I wish you were single subscribe you know not what and this makes you preach you know not what rise a note beyond Ela and to out do all your sober brethren preach down the Doctrines of the Church you ought to maintain and destroy with your tongue what you have subscribed to preserve with your hand This makes our enemies on both sides laugh in their sleeves to see so many profound Drs. sin for ignorance sake and some for interest sake rend in peices our very foundations preach and write contrary to each other as if the only contest were not who shall be the honestest and most conscientious but the greatest Church-man For go to this Congregation and there Dr. Socinus preaches to that and there the Reverend Arminius holds forth to a third and there the much admired Calvin is reading a Geneva Lecture yet all of the Church of England and all subscribers to her Articles This is fine indeed don't you think so Tim. I shall think nothing till you come to prove something Tit. Well remembred First then I am to prove that you and many more of your Cue use some Ceremonies which the Act of Uniformity doth not enjoyn and consequently do more than you need or shall have thanks for from our Lawmakers Tim. Ay that prove that Tit. Thus then Tim That Act requires the use of no more Ceremonies than are contained and prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer The Act for Uniform Caroli 2d 14. if therefore you use any Ceremonies not contained and prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer you use more than the Act requires Tim. What are those Ceremonies contained and prescribed in the Liturgy or Common-Prayer-Book Tit. The Surplice the Cross in Baptism and kneeling at the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Tim. Goodman Ninny and do I use any more than these Tit. Yes Goodman Confidence and more besides you too Tim. Which be they Tit. What think you of bowing at the name of Jesus and bowing to or towards the Altar Are not these as much and as great Ceremonies as either of the former Tim. Granted and as innocent too Tit. That 's not the case but are they enjoyned For if saying this or that is an innocent Ceremony will justifie the making and use of it we may quickly have as many as the Church of Rome her self and then what 's become of our Reformation for all her Ceremonies are innocent her self being Judge But where I say again are these required Tim. In the Liturgy are they not Tit. Not in that which my Church-Wardens bought for me and they tell me they are sure they bought the newest Edition Tim. I 'le protest you 've stunded me I le consider of it Tit. Consider it be ashamed of it for you transgress the Law as

much in adding to as in taking from what is contained and prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer for the Act establisheth that and no other the Ceremonies therein contained and no more For your fuller satisfaction read the words of the Act in this point they are these And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no form or order of Common-Prayers administration of Sacraments Rites or Ceremonies mark that shall be openly used in any Church Chappel or other publick place of or in any Colledg or Hall in either of the Vniversities c. other than what is prescribed and appointed to be used in and by the said Book note that also And lest once mentioning of this should not be sufficient you have afterwards when the said Book with the Prayers Rites and Ceremonies prescribed and appointed by it is named these words and no other again repeated What think you now Tim Tim. I think bowing towards the Altar and bowing at the name of Jesus are works of supererogation and not at all meritorious For the Act seems not only not to enjoyn them but to forbid them in as much as they are no where contained in the said Book Tit. Thus you give offence and become a scandal to weak brethren where you need not nay in things you ought not Tim. I see it and hope I shall avoid it for the future and shall endeavour my brethren of the Clergy about me may do the same Tit. I wish they may But there is that which is far worse than all this Tim. What should that be brother Titus Tit. Thank you Sir for that friendly title I wish we of the Clergy were all true brethren in heart and deed that we might all speak and do the same things as our Rule requires I am pleased I say with this expression of amity and 't will make me the more free in my talk with you as well as serious Tim. The more free the more grateful for you have gained upon me by your plain dealing and strong arguments Go on brother with what you were about to say was worse than the addition of those Ceremonies Tit. 'T is this brother That many of our publick Preachers some ignorantly some I fear designedly oppose and preach down the very Articles of our Church which they have subscribed and which we all are bound to maintain and keep close to which hath been matter of great grief to me to consider Tim. But surely there are none do this Tit. As sure as you are there too many and if I mistake not you for one and that too oft Tim. I am not conscious to my self I do or ever did Tit. I confess I have so much charity as to think so and that your sin is a sin of ignorance because you said but now you never read the Articles Though I must tell you Tim 't is vincible ignorance for that you have not read them is your own fault Tim. No I profess they are so scarce to be got that I know not where to have them and I withal so short of money that I know not how to purchase them Tit. To remove this obstacle and cure your ignorance in some measure here they are I hope you can read as well as preach Tim. Yes yes I am not so ignorant neither pray let me see them Tit. Hold not without Conditions Tim. What are they Tit. Nay reasonable enough First that you will stay so long here as to read them over deliberately and Secondly admit of a short debate as we pass along upon some of them and then tell me whether I do any wrong to you and many others in saying that your Doctrines and theirs do not admirably well agree with them For I meddle only with those that have subscribed yet do not keep to them Tim. All this is highly reasonable and I readily yeild to it Tit. Begin then and read carefully not hastily Article 1. Tim. There is but one living and true God everlasting without body parts or passions of infinite power wisdom and goodness the maker and preserver of all things both visible and invisible And in unity of this Godhead there be three persons of one substance power and eternity the Father the Son and the holy Ghost Tit. Hold now what think you of this Article Tim. Mighty well sound and good and no body surely but believe and approve it both in part and in whole Tit. I am afraid not how else come you and many others to discourse sometimes against and deride what is contained in it I don't mean the being of a God for tho' some in their works and with David's fool in their hearts say there is no God yet I know you dare not do it in words But that which is next door by they dare and do say Tim. What 's that Tit. That there is no Providence Tim. Admit it wherein doth that cross this Article that hath not a word of Providence in it I don't see but a man may think so and yet safely subscribe this Article Tit. Right 't is what I expected and doubtless there are many of your judgment but what if I prove a Divine Providence governing the world and all that there is and after that prove too that this first Article of our Church plainly asserts it Tim. Then I shall say I never understood it Tit. A worthy satisfaction for your gross wilful ignorance and the great mischief you have thereby done to the Christian Religion and the Church of God established amongst us Tell me what think you of those words of our Saviour Mat. 18.29 30. Not a Sparrow falls to the ground without your father and the hairs of your head are all numbered I think this bids fair to prove a protecting preserving disposing providence and that not only as to the great changes and revolutions in Kingdoms and Nations but even as to smaller matters such as relate to you and me and every man nay to the very beasts and birds And he that shall seriously consider the workings of God now in the world and even in that spot of it which we inhabit and think how the wise and profound Polititians of Rome are baffled in their enterprises and detected in their hellish Plots and Counsels even beyond their expectation or belief must either put out the eye of his Reason or else he must needs see and adore a special hand of Providence acting for us to admiration What prevented the further designed mischief from taking place when London was put in flames if providence did not How came the late as well as former Popish Plot against King the Kingdom our Religion and Lives to light but by providence In a word Tim think then say what was the safeguard of our present gracious Sovereign in many battels when divers fell on his right hand and left in sundry pursuits and in foreign Countries and what restored him to his Rights Crowns and people without