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

Curats must all assent and consent that this falshood is a truth and such a falshood it is and of so evil consequence that it makes a blunder and confounds all our wise Methods of uniformity in Common-prayers Episties Gospels and Lessons And if we do not confess and subscribe that this falshood and untruth is 〈◊〉 truth then starve and dir I can give several other instances of our irrational Doctrine and Discipline but I am loth to offend let them even go on they 'l give me but little thanks for my pains already but I thank God I do not find the fault to expose it to shame but to cure it I know how And let me tell you it requires some skill in the Cure Why may not Lightning sometime come from a black Cloud and a dull By-stander see better sometime than he that play Some part of that seven-hill'd City Rome is scituated in a Vale as well as Westminster Hall and therefore no wonder 〈◊〉 sometimes both of them be in a Fog And if it abate the proved pragmatical imposing self-conceited dogmatical and imperious Spirit that confounds the whole Creation by Methods and Aims of Uniformity point blank against those different Measurer of God and Nature it is well CHAP. III. Concerning Bishops WHat I am going to speak concerning Bishops may the more favourably be received because so contrary to self-interest the worst of evil Counsellors For why may not I as well as any other live in hopes of a pair of Lawn Sleeves rightly put on since nothing else keeps me from making as good a Speech in the House of Lords as that which of late was only a Speech without Doors and proves so genuine and well aim'd that all of it 〈◊〉 now a Speech within Doors However I could serve as well as the best to make up the number of the Yea's or No's And that 's all the wise Speech that some men ever did make I do not say that ever they can make for the more frugal any man is and the less he spends the greater is his Stock But if I had been so hasty as to bespeak the Lawn-Sleeves this Sheet that I am going to write will spoil all my finery And certainly there cannot be such a Fool in England or the World as to think that the King's Letters Patents or Conge de Slyer can make the Baronet or the Bishop a Linguist or a Learned Man except he was so before though usually the Vulgar are of Opinion that if a Bishop or a Lord says it writes or preaches it O Heavenly because O Earthly and is a Judgment as preposterous a● that Action of the Orator when pointing to the Earth he declaimed O Caelum But it is a received Maxime No Bishop no King I know not who invented it but it may be true in some sense but it is false If it be meant no Rich Bishop no King for that the Rich Bishops were so Rich that what with the Hank they got upon silly Mens Consciences and the Interest that their Lands good Leases and Dependencies their Tenants Servants and Friends they were so prevalent when united that when our Kings have sometimes been so hardy and boid as to displease them they have either taken the Crown from his Head as the Rich Bishop of winchester unking'd his Brother King Stephen on whose Head that Nimrod of a Clergy-man had without any right clapt it on and upon displeasure the Bishop chiefly unking'd him again and in effect spurn'd 〈◊〉 off as Pandolfus the Popes Nuncio did the ●rown off King John's Head which say groveling at his Foot whilst the proud Prelat put it on and to shew the Ecclesiastical Insolence of some Lawn-Sleeves he up with his foot and kick't it off from the Kings Head. So that no Bishop no King Stephen or John and a Bishop no King Stephen or John for that Rich Bishops like other Rich Lords are a Strength to the Crown when it does not displease them and on the contrary have been too great and dangerous when controul'd growing musty and morose a King had as good be a Slave in Turky as to be at the mercy of such Popish-like Ecclesiastical Pride Nay did not the very Dean of westminster and the Arch-bishop of York chiefly though with others bandyed make the Reign of Hen. 4. and Hen. 5. very uncasie For which cause the wise King Henry 7. Invented a way to pull down the Stomacks of the great Temporal Lords with their own hands by enabling them to alienate and sell their Lands of which many were so glad that it was the first Bargain they would make to chuse away runs the Foot-man for the Usurer and Scrivener who were as glad to buy as the other to sell when both sides are willing the Bargain is soon struck up and Time was unwing'd till the Entail was dockt Then his Son Hen. 8. he reform'd the Clergy with a Witness and pocketed up the Reformation by Act of Parliament and excluded from the House of Lords all the spirtual Lords Abbots and ●ut their Lands in his Pocket by Statute Law. Edw. 6. and Queen Elizabeth were his own Children too for they and their wise Counsel finding that though the Spiritual Lords Abbors were excluded the House of Lords yet the other Spiritual Lords Bishops were so proud sometimes and high that no Body could imagine them to be the best Disciples of Christ who was meek and lowly therefore Edw. 6. took at once from the Arch-bishop of York about 37 great Mannors and were annext to the Crown and Queen Elizabeth amongst other things took all the Lands belonging to the Prince Palatine of Ely Bishop in the Vacancy and gave 2000 l. to be paid out of the Exchequer Annually a sufficient Competency and an Injury to no Man for the Bishoprick was in Abayance as the Law calls it in nubibus it being in posse any bodies but in esse no bodies So that I also am so much a Friend to that Proverb No Bishop no King and so very much a Friend to Bishops that where there is one now in England I wish there were twenty and as old as I am I hope to live to see it and yet not take one Farthing from the present Incumbenrs nor in the least diminish the vast Revenues and Grandeur of my Lords the Bishops that are in possession let them keep it I say till they die and die they must and then their Bishopricks being vacant by Death however if not sooner justly forfeited it will be no Injury to any Man to share out and divide the vast Incomes to many Bishops who must take the pains and perform the Work of a Bishop in their proper persons which is now done by Proxies Sureties and Implicite Faith. And I doubt not but that all my Lords the Bishops would be of my mind herein as to the Work of a Bishop which they themselves and all English-men find to be so great a Work and a