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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43623	The horrid sin of man-catching, explained in a sermon upon Jer. 5, 25, 26 preach'd at Colchester, July 10, 1681 / by Edmond Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1811; ESTC R32965	25,824	42

To whom with the Father and Son be Glory for ever Amen FINIS THE POSTSCRIPT TO THE READERS ANd now Gentle Readers if ever I had need to beg your Candour or to make an Apology for publishing a crude Sermon now is the time For as it is true that I had not so much as short Notes when I preach'd it nor time to make them so as near as my Memory serves me I have set down verbatim at least the Substance of what I preach'd writing immediately what I preach'd whilst fresh in my Memory and so sent it the next day by a special Messenger to the Press You 'll say perhaps why What haste If this had never been Printed or Printed seven years hence it is soon enough And all may be For neither in the Preaching nor Publishing had I the least Reflection to hit any particular Man alive But I know the Sin of setting Snares to catch Men is so common too too common God knows in these Days such Shamming and Trepanning that scarce an honest Man in England of any Eminency but has or may have cause to say with Holy David Every day they wrest my Words all their Thoughts are against me for Evil. If this Discourse then be but conimoda ut accommoda as profitable as seasonable I have my end and only aim purposely waving in this Sermon all vain Rhetorical Flourishes idle or elaborate Quotations much more that scenical gaping or endeavour at Wit Pun or Quibble so much admir'd by the Humming-Tribe In which little Arts I have no Skill and less Will as thinking no Rhetorick nor Quotations comparable to that and those in Holy Writ leaving to Pulpit-Stagers the little Hitts Hintings and Glances at Wit unbecoming the Gravity and Grandeur of a Divine and better befitting the levity of a Stage or a Barber's Shop than the sacred Pulpit And as I have no Malice against any Man alive so I do not know nor believe that I have an Enemy in the World but such as are so upon the same Score and for the same Reason with which St. Paul upbraids the bewitched and foolish Galatians Am I therefore become your Enemy because I tell you the Truth Some think our Divisions and Distractions are so great that they will not find a shorter Period than the Wars and Miseries of Greece of the end whereof the Oracle of Apollo being consulted replyed They should surcease when they should double the Altar at Delos which was Cubique-form Whereupon all Hands went to work in haste to add another Altar to the old one of a like Cubique-Form to it but to little Purpose for the Miserie 's abated not a whit But Plato better expounded the riddling God telling them the Oracle meant They should never have end for the doubling a Cube in Solids is as the Quadrature of a Circle in Plano amongst Geometricians or as the Philosophers Stonc amongst the vain-promising and vain-boasting Chymists never alas never to be found out Yet I have other Thoughts more Faith and better Hope that our Distractions will find a happy Conclusion and the Death of the Plots and Sham-Plots in good time be fathom'd sounded to the bottom and discovered yet truly I think as is said of the Altar at Delos a period and end of our Distractions is impossible 'till all Popish Altars Popish Hopes and Popish Claim by the Pope and his Emissaries to these three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and the propagation of his Superstition amongst us be extirpate and rooted out nay Root and Branch for there always were Plots Popish Plots in the Reigns of all our Kings ever since the Pope's Supremacy and Usurpations have been rejected and whilst there is a fair prospect and hopes of Redemption of this Golden-Fleece though they be but Glimpses Popish Plots and Conspiracies cannot possibly cease nor the English Scotish and Irish-Papists cease their Assistance and Conspiracies except they apostatize from the Principles of Popery Do they not all follow the Fathers of the Council of Trent into which not a Man was admitted to Vote 'till he had taken this Oath Ego N. c. Papatum Romanae Ecclesiae regulas Sanctorum Patrum adjutor ero ad defendendum retinendum salvo ordine meo contra omnes Homines In English thus I. N. c. will be an Assistant to defend and maintain the Papacy of the Church of Rome and the Commands of the Holy-Fathers the Popes of Rome against all Men Living How inconsistent is this Oath with the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy How impossible to reconcile these two Oaths How impossible for a Man to be a right and true Papist and at the same time a right and true Subject to a Protestant Prince For which cause no doubt it was made Treason by the Statutes 23 Eliz. cap. 1. and 3 Jacob. 4. In the Reigns of those two wise Princes not only to persuade the King's Subjects bred and educated in the Protestant Religion to apostatize and turn Papists but the very Apostates themselves are Traitors declared in these very Words And if any Person shall after the end of this Session of Parliament by any means be willingly absolved or withdrawn as aforesaid or willingly be reconciled to the Romish Religion before recited or shall promise any Obedience to any such pretended Authority Prince State or Potentate as is aforesaid that then every such Person their Procurors and Counsellors thereunto being thereof lawfully Convicted shall be taken tryed and adjudged and shall suffer and forfeit as in Cases of High Creason Then the said Statute which see at large makes it misprision of Treason wittingly to aid or maintain such an Apostate or conceal his Offence twenty days together without discovering it to a Justice of Peace or other High Officer nay he shall pay an hundred Marks and be imprisoned a Year that shall willingly hear Mass As it follows in the said Statute And by the said Statute tertio Jacobi The Apostate to the Romish Religion shall be indicted tryed and proceeded against as a Traitor either at the Assizes and Goal Delivery of the County for the time being or before the Justices of the Court of Kings-Bench So careful have our Kings and Parliaments been to brand that Julian that being educated in an honest and true Religion built upon Holy Wait should be such a Fool or Knave or Atheist for one of the three or all of the three such an Apostate must be to change such a Religion for a Superstition forged and invented by Prelatical Pride and Rapacity For the maintenance whereof all their pious Frauds and Cheats all their lying Miracles Indulgencies Purgatories Limbus's Crosses Images Agnus Dei's Holy Water Masses Canonizations Prayers to Saints baptizing of Bells Excommunications Fulminations Inquisitions burning of Hereticks Massacres Fopperies Plots and Sham-Plots are calculated design'd and contriv'd I do not think that every silly Papist knows these things for they poor Puppets dance

Protestant Neighbour let the World judg except they defy the Pope and the Devil and all their Works of Popish and Hellish Darkness Plots and Designs And I think I am not at all herein strait-lac'd in my Charity though I must expect never the fairer quarter from them for this Declaration But where is our true Christian true Protestant and true English Courage now become Who but he that 's unfit to live would fear to die in and for so just a Cause Better a thousand times if possible to die a true Protestant and a true English Man by the Sham-Plots False Witnesses and Popish Machinations than willingly to enslave a Man's self and Posterity Soul Body Honour Honesty Religion and Estate to Arbitrary and Popish Sway I put them together for like Hippocrates-Twins they are born and live and die together Does not Pope Boniface himself with as little Modesty as Truth assert his Vniversal Power over all Nations as well in Temporals as Spirituals from that Scripture Luk. 22.38 Behold here are two Swords no jot to his Purpose nor the least colour more than the bare sound of the Words two Swords which were no Allegorical nor Metaphorical but plain travailing Swords of Ammunition Hilt and Blade And yet this Vsurper though he can show no Warrant no Commission nor Authority for his Claim from Christ or Holy Scripture yet like another late Vsurper he can lay his Hand upon the Hilt of his two Swords Spiritual and Temporal and cry This is my Commission For if his Temporal Sword which is no small one be too short then he unsheaths his Spiritual Sword and with Fulminations Excommunications Curses and Anathema's with Bell Book and Candle he huffs and swaggers roars nants hectors and blusters all Mankind that either fear his vain Thunderings or come within the dint of his Thunderbolts To keep up therefore this usurped Power or to regain it where lost there is and ever will be Popish Plots when and where there are any blooming hopes to accomplish them in any Protestant Kingdom whatsoever They are not now though they have been much troubled with these Popish Plots in Sweden and Denmark wherefore I 'le tell you For two Reasons One is that the Laws against Papists are so fully put in Execution without connivance that I have rid a hundred Miles together in those Countries and could not upon Inquiry hear of one known and profess'd Papist 2. Another Reason is and they have found it by Experience a most incomparable Remedy They gueld all the Popish Priests they catch in their Kingdoms and Dominions They used to hang them formerly but that would not do for the hopes of being Canoniz'd and Sainted as Martyrs drill'd some silly Priests thither 'till a converted Nun I know not from what Experience persuaded Authority to gueld all the Popish Priests they took They took her Advice and it proves a wonderful Cure and Remedy against propagation of Popery in these Kingdoms I say therefore 't is senceless to doubt the being of a Popish Plot that never ceas'd since the Reign of Hen. 8. in England but now by Coleman's Letters it infallibly appears that they never had such blessed hopes of converting these three Kingdoms since the Bone-fires in Smithfield in Queen Mary's Days as now now at this time now that And the more impudently they deny so clear a Truth the more cause we have to abominate the Villany of that Religion that hardens Men in Lies or Equivocations even to Death And the more they deny it after such apparent and manifold Conviction the more suspicious and dangerous it is by the combined endeavour to conceal it and to turn the Edge thereof upon the Protestants Thus the Prophet did first blindfold the Syrians and then how easily did he lead them into the Enemies Camp And indeed no Man can deny but 't is politickly and craftily done to endeavour to put out the Eyes of those Men that are most quick-sighted to discern their dark mysterious and hellish Intrigues Or if they could but be Godfreydiz'd strangl'd hang'd or stab'd the Business would be done as effectually and to all Intents and Purposes Especially if the Sham-Evidences would but be improv'd and manag'd with some Lawyer 's Hackney-Tongue whose Conscience is so often sold pro and con right or wrong for Plaintiff or Defendant who bids most and who comes first prostituted and set to sale when Merchandize is indifferently and equally made of Truth and Falshood the Snare of catching Men would be the stronger and the Feat more currant But that honest English Juries do know that a Hackney-Tongue is no Slander and they 'll believe them no further than they list They have heard them so often bawle babble and bluster so loud and clamorous for Plantiff one day for Defendant another that no wise Man heeds them but knows that Words are but Wind Windy Words from Hackney-Tongues as empty and variable as the Wind but that it costs more to buy such Winds than it does the becalmed Mariners in the Baltick-Sea when they as I have sometimes known them buy a Wind of a Lapland-Witch But 't is observable that this Hackney Wind as well as the other is usually fatal to all that buy them ending in a Wreck at least a repented Bluster and Storm Whilst these Merchants of Truth and Falshood Merchants of Law and sometimes of very little or no Law but with the same Hackney Tongues vilify and disgrace all that stand in their way without respect to their own Modesty I thank you some of them have none without respect to Ingenuity common Civility or good Manners without respect to any Man's Worth or Quality except they expect a Fee from them for that alone opens and shuts the Breath-seller's Mouth they cannot open but Dirt flys out to bespatter as if they had got a Priviledg or Patent to be the Common-Shoars and common Filth common Slanderers under the colour of a Fee and under the Protection of a Motley or Button-Gown Nay I know it and will maintain it for a great Truth that a Gentleman's Credit and Estate Life and Honour are in less Danger and Hazard in the Field amongst ten thousand Enemies than amongst those sneaking Split-Causes these Snappers Ensnarers and Catchers of Men. For they can make the righteous Law execute their Malice and Spleen by wresting wrong setting and turning its Edge so that no Innocence Honesty Honour or Ingenuity can prove a sufficient Safeguard The wary Hollanders therefore though the greatest and wisest encouragers of Trade of all Trades and Mysteries of Iniquity suffer not the Merchandize of these Hucksters of Law in any of their Territories They suffer neither Bar-Gowns nor Button-Gowns amongst them They suffer no Tinkerly Pleadings of mending one hole and making too They suffer no Man's Cause to perish by the Error or Folly Knavery or Inadvertency of any Scribe or Attorney by a word mis-placed mis-recited or mis-pleaded but every Man knows an

end of his Cause the same day he commences it and pleads his own Cause before the Lords who seek not to trap and catch at their Ignorance And they must be very ignorant indeed if they make more bungling work or can defeat their own Cause disguize or disgrace Truth so readily as these split-Causes and spoil-Chuses Notwithstanding all this I would not be construed to reflect in the least upon those honest and learned Gentlemen of the Long-Robe of which sort are very many that have more Integrity and Honour than to abuse their learned Skill by entrapping ensnaring and catching Men with Law-tricks and Sham-tricks turning Darkness to Light and Light to Darkness and turning Pleading to Rayling Lying and Slandering now so much the Mode at Bar a Shame it should be suffered 'T is these alone as the World goes that can defend us from the catching Snares laid by the former to catch a Man and his Cause a Man and his Heritage 'T is these alone with the Authority Justice and Wisdom of the Reverend Judges that can deliver Men out of the Snares that are laid for them by those prostituted Hirelings But none of the Snares that are laid to catch Men are comparable to the Subtilty and Cruelty of the Romish Priests for the speediest Execution of a Sham-Plot is an Absolution from a Jesuit or a Bull of Indulgence or Jubilee from the Pope like that of Pardon to the late Irish Rebels and Cut-Throats So that the most Cheveril-Charity can scarcely have other Opinion of these Romish Emissaries than St. Hierome had of the Clergy of his time who were so generally debanch'd and mischievous that the good Father cryed out non puto multos inter Sacerdotes salvos fieri I cannot imagine saith he how it is possible that many Clergy-Men can go to Heaven So say I of these Romish Priests if they stick to the Principles of their bloody Religion I cannot imagine how they can possibly be saved For does not the Inquisition come out of their holy Ar●dnal Are not all the bloody Popish Plots and Sham Flots contrived and managed by them Did not they invent and forge in England the Writ de Haeretico comburendo to condemn Hereticks namely all that oppose their Pride and Covetousness to Fire and Faggot But how not by setting Fire to the Faggot themselves or turning Hang-men no those holy Men will not dip their Sacred Hands in Blood Oh the Hypocrisy of such Devotion No no they knew a way worth two on 't they made tht poor enslaved Bigotted Magistrate do that Drudgery And before the Statute of Queen Elizabeth that awards the Writ of Excommunicato capiendo and confines it to about ten sort of Offenders only some think the same Popish Engineers in Popish Times were the first Inventers and Forgers of that Writ also if they were they were as unmannerly as unmerciful to invent a Discipline that God never made and that which our Blessed Saviour the Holy Apostles and Primitive Church never know and then when they had anathematiz'd and curst a Man to the Devil and the Devil did not or would not take him then to make the Sheriff and the Jaylor to take the Devil's Leavings and when Hell would not or did not then the Goal should The Spanish Inquisition and bloody Bishop Bonner Bishop of London made great use of this Engine The former Writ de Haeretico comburendo has found its just Doom and Catastrophe but that of Excommunicato capiendo shall stand in force when it is awarded according to the Statute as long as When as long as the King and Parliament shall please But if I thought that all our Mischiefs come from Rome and Popish Priests I should think as some have done that there was more cause than only the bare Error of the Press that in the Popish New Testament in Latin Printed at Cologn in 1 Cor. 6.9 stands Printed instead of neque Scortatores these words neque Sacerdotes regnum Dei possidebunt No wonder therefore that Pope Adrian 6. commanded Cheregatus his Legate de latere to declare in a Dyet of the Empire assembled and held at Norimberg in Germany A Sacerdotibus Iniquitatem Populi dimanare multis nunc annis graviter multisque modis peccatum esse Romae inde à Pontificio culmine malum hoc atque luem ad Inferiores omnes Ecclesiarum Praefectos defluxisse The Iniquity of the People came from the Priests And that now for the space of many Years there have been great and grievous Enormities committed at Rome And that all this Plague and Mischief hath flowed unto all the Inferior Prelates of the Church from the High Throne of the Pope's Holiness No wonder then that their own Abbot St. Bernard saith Bestia illa de Apocalypsi cui datum est os loquens Blasphemias bellum gerere cùm Sanctis Petri Cathedram occupat tanquàm Leo paratus ad Praedam In English thus That Beast that is spoken of in the Revelations to whom is given a Mouth speaking Blasphemies and to make War against the Saints is now got up into Peter's Chair like a Lion ready for his Prey And Albertus magnus saith Illi qui modo Praesunt in Ecclesiis plurimum sunt Fures Latrones plus Exactores quam Pastores plus Spoliatores quam Tutores plus Mactatores quam Custodes plus Perversores quam Doctores plus Seductores quam Ductores Isti sunt Nuncii Antichristi Subversores Ovium Christi that is The Prelates of the Church are most of them Theeves and Robbers Wolves rather than Shepherds rather Spoilers than Defenders rather Killers than Keepers rather Deceivers than Doctors rather Perverters than Converters These be the Ambassadors and Nuntio's of Antichrist the Devourers of the Sheep of Christ And in the Council of Rhemes the same Bernard before praised told the Bishops to their Faces in open Council and in open Court though he himself was no Bishop Dicimini Pastores cùm sitis raptores Fratres Jesus hodiè elegit sibi multos Diabolos Episcopos non sunt Pastores sed Traditores In English thus My Brethren ye are called Bishops but ye are meer Men-catchers and Robbers Jesus now adays has chosen to himself many Devils to be Bishops They are not Pastors but treacherous Judas-ses And Johannes Sarisburiensis gave this Reason to Pope Adrian 4. why Popes are usually so short-liv'd Nè totam corrumpant Ecclesiam lest they should quoth he infect the whole Church And one of their own Cardinals writes That Pope Hildebrand poysoned six Popes successively one after another to make room for himself to leap into the Papal Chair which he purchased by those Divine Arts Here was a Pope-catcher as well as a Man-catcher And Pope Vrban 6. was a Cardinal-catcher for he catch'd five of his Cardinals at one time in a Sack and threw them alive into the Sea and drown'd them And Pope John 12.