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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

boys to feed which Mouthing Tribe so vast an Income is Yearly thrown away in Gathedrais that would easily supply together with the Sleepy Prebendaries when Vacant all the scandalous Livings in England For what Heart can a poor Minister of Twenty or Thirty pound per annum have to Study A Carpenter Journey man has more besides out of that Synodals Procurations First Fruits Tenths Delapidations Repairs Poor-Rates Arms Assesments and Taxes besides a great deal of Money most unconscionably to the Rich Bishop or his Secretary for Ordination Seven or Eight pound more for Institution to the Bishop then to the Rich Arch-deacon for Induction c. though he seldom or never stirs one foot about it but he and his Register agree to Pocket up the Money these charges Preliminary must be payed out of the poor Pittance and Trade he cannot Farm he may not nay Beg he may 〈◊〉 Starve he may except his great Task be to Study how to get Bread Drink and Cloaths and how to keep out of his Creditors Clutches Serjeants and Bum bailiffs This is his greatest Study and closest concern If he can spare a Six-pence or two to buy a Printed Sermon his Study has Books enow whilst the Lazy Fat Prebend and Ceremony-monger with two Livings a Prebendry or Deanry and Arch-Deaconry and two or three more unseen Incomes Advantages and Pluralities Drink Wine in Bowles and is not affected with the affliction of Joseph but as Red in the Gills as a Turky-cock or his Searler hood ever since he was made Doctor by Mandamus or the Morrocco Ambassadour Vertue and Learning always Shoot low If there he not some high and glorious Mark set to aim at Never greater Warriors in the World nor more Succesful than the Old Romans Why They were not so big as the Gauls much less then the Germans nay less then the little Don Diego the Spaniard yet Conquer'd them all wherefore The Historian tells us by the great Triumphs Priviledges and Rewards they gave the Emperours or Generals with all his Souldiers which made them Fight like Mad. This is certain Would you have a good Army Pay them well A Learned Ministry Pay them well but do not permit as they do in some Fish-ponds Ten or Twenty great Jacks to devour all the small Fry Yet too great Preferment breaks a good Back by over loading it A Scanty mean Presbyterlan-level of Preferments makes Scanty and mean Schollars for who will mend his pace and pains when fast or flow is all one all of a price all of one Reckonine And poor Scandalous Livings must make a poor and Scandalous Glergy and reduce us again to Barbarism How would such a Primitive episcopacy as I have shown here Reconcile the difference betwixt Presbyterians Episcoparians so truely construe that saying of Jerom Epist ad Evagrium I know not what a Bishop has more than a Presbyter except Ordination which is by our Bishops for want of Numbers now performed by ●he laying on the Hands of the Presbyters in Conjunction with the great Bishop who yet knew no more of the matter as to the Fitness of the Person Ordain'd than the Bishop himself viz. by Implicite Faith in oculo Episcopi called Mr. Arch-deacon or some Surrogate as is usual in his Room The Apostle Paul from Miletus sent to Ephesus and called the Elders of the Church Acts 20.17 which are there called ver 28. Bishops Nay Mr. Mede in his proof for Churches in the second Century evidences That no one Bishop had more than one Altar and that o●e Bishop and one Altar were Correlates But Pride Avarice and the Pope first made one Bishop serve many Altars by Curates and Journey-men and in requital they made the Pope The one great Bishop of Bishops Papa as every bulky Bishop is usually Styled in our Ecclesiastical Histories a Pope Pater Patrum ●ay the Pope himself called our great Bishop of Canterbury alterius orbis Papa And Mr. Fuller a great Friend to our Episcopacy confesses in his History of the Holy War lib. 2. c. 2. p. 45 46. that Bishops were set of old too thick for all to grow Tall and to such a Height as now and Palestine fed too many Cathedral Churches to have them generally fat Lidda Jamnia and Joppa three Episcopal Towns were within four Miles one o● a●other ●●d surely many of their Bishops to use Bishop Langham's expression had high Racks but poor Mangers Ay! this alone will breed the quarrel against all that I have said my lean Project starves greedy Avarice that will be ready to eat me for my pains well actum est de Episcopatu meo this is not the way for me to get a pair of dainty Lawn sl●eves I have read my own Doom and may use the Words of Bishop Chrysostome upon Heb. 13.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The fear of that threatning as they that must give an account makes my ●ul to tremble continually And the p●ous Learned Bishops will thank me heartily and those that are otherwise may live to amend Here has been a sad do with some of them in this poor Kingdom and all to keep up that Eccles●●stica● Grandeur that God never made which makes Chrys●stome say in Hev Hom. 34. I wonder how it is possible for a Bishop ●o go to Heaven or to be saved Read se●●ously his Homilles in Tit. in Act. in Heb. and if thou hast Grace thou wilt not so strive so for a Bishoprick and if thou hast not Grace thou arr not fit for a Parish-Priest to whom Bishops allow no part of Discipline or Government they are are only to Feed not to Rule the Flock But the Learned Fuller proceeds after this Interruption Neither let it stagger the Reader if in that Catalogue of Tyrius we light on many Bishops Seats which are not to be found in Mercator Ortelius or any other Geographer for some of them were such poor places that they were ashamed to appear in a Map and fell so much under a Geographers notice that they fell not under it No but as little as 〈…〉 pace tuâ quaint Mr. Fuller it is a great Bull for in that Age Bishops had their Sees at poor and contemptible Villages The Apostles Paul and Barnabas ordained Eiders Bishops In every City at Antioch Iconium Derbe and Lystra the three last are there called Cities Acts 14. Antioch was a great City the third in the World but in that almost all the Christian Inhabitants could meet together in one place to hear a Sermon Act. 13.44 And I●onium was but a small Village says Strabo l. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Derbe only a Cittadel in Isauria and Lystra only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ● Village in Isauria too And as for the Names of Bishops and Presbyters or Elders of Aldermen they are in holy Writ Indifferently used to signifie one and the same Grand Seigniour Why are the Arians so condemned by the Orthodox as Theodor

to stand bare or keep off his Hat in his Presence and Imitate our Saviour in Washing his Disciples Fee● both of those Significant Ceremonies had no other meaning but the Ruin of Prelatical Pride which begun amongst the very Twelve Apostles as soon as ever they came from Receiving the Sacrament or first Holy at S●●ife amongst themselves who should be Pope or Arch-bishop Just like the Mother of James and John the Love of Prelatical Price made her Pray such was the height of her Devotion that her Sons might fit Check by Jowle with our Blessed Saviour upon the Throne one on the Right Hand and the other on the Left let not my Ink herein seem too Corrosive it is the more proper Remedy to cure this spreading Cancrous and Ecclesi●stical Ring-worm that defaces the Beauty of a Church-Man making him more like Lucifer than Christ who was meek and lowly I have compar'd Popeth Prelacy which I have s●en beyond S●● as ●●ll as Read of with our English Prelacy and I profess in the prescence of Almighty God and before Men that I could not discern any the least difference within nor without more than what was between two Crows-Eggs no specifical difference but mostly Individual and where there is any difference the Papists have much more Reason for theirs than we have for ours For an Italian Bishop has not the Hundredth part so big a Diocess neither in N●mbers not Extent as is the Bishoprick of London nor scarce a Twentieth part of the Value and yet in that little Extent of a Diocess he has a hundred times more Presbyters to help him in Discipline or Pennance then the 〈◊〉 of London we are suffered indeed if We Bleare the Bishop to Prea● sometim ●●or to Feed but as to Church-Discipline we are just so many Cyphers the Papists defrand the People of half the Sacrament and the Bishops take from their Brethren the Presbyters half the Work of a Presbyter that they may be the Domini Doe all 's and yet they cannot do at all except by Sell-Soul Registers and Sumners of whom a Presbyter is but the meer Eccho What a Church have we got The Rulling Elder in Scripture i● worthy of double Honour but especially the Preaching Elder that Labours in the Word and Doctrine but quite contrary with us For the Preaching Elders is no body to the Register Bishop or Arch-bishop who if they be not Ruling Elders are some of them nothing at all for Preach they do not Rule they cannot except by Proxy Sureties or God-father's and Implicite Faith Where lies their chief use ●hen more than of old 〈◊〉 and Antiquated Statutes long laid aside amongst old Almanacks and out of Date Ay say some but old things and old Men must not be cast away No God forbid no more then Novices or little Children but wo be to that Land whose King is a Child and the Land Rul'd by Sureties God-Fathers Proxies and Administrators so wo be to that Church whose Ecclesiastical Men are Nozices or Antiquated and Twice Children an old Lawyer is not cast away when he casts himself off as unfit for the Bar being half Deaf and half Blind 't is time to have done when Nature gives a Man his Quietus est Oh! but no matter who does the Work say some yet the Profits the Profits the Wages the Wages To that I 'le Answer Avarice Ava●ice which made an Apostle ●ell his Lord the work the work which none but a God that is Omnipresent 〈◊〉 discharge honestly except by Deputies and Curates a Name unknown 〈…〉 and the Primitive Church till Pride and Covetousness would stoop to that Load that is enough to break the Back of any Mortal bonâ interim Conscientiâ fremente intùs objurgante saltem susurrante meliora we hoped and are still not without some hopes that as we have lately chang'd our Popish Task-Master our Popish Bondage also would have been eased for it is meer Hypocrisie and Mocking of God to make a Thanksgiving for our D●llverance from Slavery and Popery if we be only Translated Latin into English and the Amendment only in words meer words of the same Tenour and Signification and are really Comrades Ecclesiastical and Prelatical whom our Lord has Condemn'd in every thing except for Order or Methods sake our Saviour has past a Sentence against all Spiritual Lordships but Temporal Lordships and Temporal Lords only does he admit Excluso Clero I know not how when or how soon it shall come to pass but the time shall come I 'le say with my Saviour Mat. 15.13 that every Plant which my Heavenly Father hath not Planted shall be Rooted no. The Devil and the Popes made certain Laws called Canon-Laws and to encourage Men to profess the Magick or Black Art a thing was advanc't called a Professor or Doctor of Cannon-Law and we are such Wise Reformers as to Chuse our Officials Commissaries Registers and Chancellours out of this Rubbish it will cost a Man honestly 500 l. before his Son can he Free of the Sell-Soul Trade but then then when he happens to have a Sell-Souls Place given given said I Fool that I am I mean granted to him when he gets understanding to know the English of Consideratis Considerandis or the meaning of a Gratulty an Income or a Fine he may get the Devil and all of Money and a Purse as large as his Conscience As for Instance I my self Read an Absolution in my Church of All-Saints lent to me from Doctors-Commons to publish in pain of the Law namely I must cure a Young Lady by Absolving her that was Excommunicated for breaking her Leg or coming before her time and because she was loath to Repent she punish't her Purse sent up the Guinees to Doctors-Commons where a Proctor that shall be Nameless for 't is usual Swore in my presence before the Vicar-general in animam Dominae for the Soul of his Mistriss the said Young Lady whom he never saw nor ever will see for she is Dead that he did believe her very penitent for her Sin of Fornication 't is true she never spoke to him nor to the Register nor to the Vicar nor Surrogate nor to any of that stabble but her Guinees did to my knowledge this is no telling Tales out of School for I always defy'd them and all their Works they are so profligate and prostitute without shame or Conscience A Whore in Rome may have a pardon or Absolution for a Julio or two and for Twelve Royals a Noble English Money in Spain or Portugal but our Sell-Souls have no Conscience in them if they get a Rich Whore into their handling Besides The papists Colour over the pick pocket Rapin with Enjoyning some penance as to say Forty Ave-Maries or sit all Night Naked upon a Cold Stone to Cool and Mortifie them at least to Colour the Robbery of their Purses but our ●i●ciplineri●ans bare●ac't bid you deliver your Purse full of Guinees sometimes or else go