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A43611	The black non-conformist, discover'd in more naked truth proving, that excommunication, confirmation, the two great Episcopal appurtenances & diocesan bishops, are not (as now in use) of divine, but human make and shape, and that not only some lay-men, but all the keen-cringing clergy are non-conformists ... : also a libel, and answer (thereunto) fitted to every man's case (be it what it will) that is cited to ecclesiastical courts, whose shallow foundation is unbared, and a true table of ecclesiastical court fees, as it was return'd into the star-chamber, Anno Domini 1630, by the ecclesiastical fellows themselves, and compar'd with the statutes : also concerning the unlawfulness of granting licences to marry, Quakers-marriages, folly, as well as other evil consequences of that new law-maxim, viz. that no non-conformists ought to be jury-men : shewing also, that, religion, religion, that should have been the world's great blessing, is become the plague of mankind, and the curse of Christendom ... / by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1797; ESTC R22899	136,499	106

I know many People think 't is a hard world since the Inquisition and High-Commission-Court were dissolved now that Curst Cows have short Horns yet let them comfort themselves with Excommunication and the Writ de Excommunicato Capiendo for though the Writ de Heretico comburendo be burnt and we cannot burn an Heretick for our Lives yet the Writ de Excommunicato Capiendo shall imprison the Heretick and bury him alive in a Jayl and what would men have Methinks that should content them Enough Enough in all Conscience a man would think if they have any Conscience in them What would they be at Do they know Do they not know when they are well Will nothing serve but Hang the Rogue burn the Heretick or crop the Roundhead in a Pillory Time was Ay Ay Time was when a bold Fellow that durst speak the Naked-Truth or tell Rich men of their Roguery he had as good have eat his Ears in the merry days of the Inquisition and High-Commission But who can help the thing that will away Truly my Lord I daily expect the Effects of the Fury and Rage of the Devil and devilish men that rage so much the more as foreseeing their time is short But blessed be God my shoulders are as big and large of the largest size as the most of Mortals and can bear as much I doubt not but they 'll try my strength A whole Legion of Sell-Souls will fall upon me for this little Book better make one Back crack than not load the Wretch that takes away the Trade of the Higlers and Retailers of Heaven and Hell by which they have liv'd so long and so plentifully But I believe in God not without some Faith and Hope sure I have some grounds for it in your Grace and Clemency And for all your sayings that yet you will alter your word and not leave me to your Under-Officers Alas I am in their Clutches already they have begun to squeeze me already When shall I get out of their hands can you tell me How well will it become your Lordship to heal the Breaches and not stretch the Wounds wider they gape and are ghastly enough already and all that I have hitherto writ I told them so before but they would not believe is but an Earnest-penny of what I have at their service And to serve you and the Church I have much more in my head and heart I am scarce yet warm in my work extorted from me too and I do but play a little about the skirts of the business though some perhaps could wish me warm in Smithfield their Christian requital for my great pains if they might have leave to carry me and the Fagots thither But those days are not yet come To confute the Naked-Truth with the Arguments of Bloody Bonner a Bone-fire or a Jayl a Dungeon and a Pillory Here 's enough in all Reason for a Letter writ Raptim and in Haste I dare say your Grace never had such another Letter for length in your life And take it not in dudgeon that in memory of our mutual and spiritual Alliance I make bold to subscribe my self MY LORD Your most loving Brother Most obedient Son And most humble Servant Edm Hickeringill COLCHESTER Decemb. 4. 1681. POSTSCRIPT THE said Bishop St. Ambrose was not asham'd of his spiritual Kindred to his Flock Vos miht est is Parentes qui Sacerdotium tulistis vos inquam filii vel parentes filii singuli universi Parentes Ambrose Tom. 3. p. 89. in Luk. 18. No no Bishop Ambrose was not asham'd of his poor Kinsmen and Relations spiritual as high and stout as he was and scorn'd to Try them Judge them much less Curse them Silence them Stop their Mouths and Excommunicate them by Proxy or by his Vnder-Officers And yet he was a great Ecclesiastical Judge as well as your Lordship not a Judge at or of Common-Law Statute-Law the Municipal-Law but a Judge by and according to Canon-Law Canon-Law Ay if any Body can or does Judge by it this day Canon-Law Canon-Law four or five great Folio's of it too bulky to get well into any man's head that is already stufft full of Divinity Canon-Law 'T is as easie to make a Rope of Sand as to make the Canon-Law agree with its self one Canon and one Council does so thwart and thwack one another Canon-Law in which whosoever is vers't shall find enough to fit almost any purpose Had we not as good keep to the Canon of Holy Scripture as to be led to Sentence by Proxy and Lay-Doctors of Canon-Law even just as they shall nuzzle things into our heads But give me leave to mind you of one Canon-Law more most agreeable to our English Laws Concil Carthag 4. Can. 22 23 29 30 32. Episcopus si Clerico vel Laico crimen imposuerit deducatur ad probationem in Synodum Can. 30. Caveant Judices Ecclesiae ne absente eo cujus causa ventilatur sententiam proferant quia irrita erit imo causam in Synodo pro facto dabunt Let the Ecclesiastical Judges have a care and look to that they pronounce no Sentence in the absence of the Party accus'd nor without consent of a Synod of Presbyters if otherwise it shall be null and void c. And most reasonable such Presbyters too as are of the Neighborhood for shall not our Temporal Estates Free-holds or Monies no not in Trifles be given away from us without a Jury of the Neighborhood And shall our everlasting Souls and the liberty of our Bodies be given away by Proxy and a blind implicit Faith in the Certificavit or Significavit of a single malicious peevish interested and revengeful Sell-Soul Surrogate Official or Register King Balak himself could not with all his Gifts persuade the wicked and mercenary Prophet Balaam to curse whom God had not cursed but in spight of his teeth he was glad to say How can I desie whom the Lord hath not defied Yet he loved Cursing and Mischief in his heart and accordingly gave King Balak most wicked counsel which ended in mischievous Events on all sides No Judge that has any thing of a Man in him can pass Sentence of Death upon a Malefactor that deserves it without some yernings of the Bowels of Humane Compassion to Humane Kind And shall a keen-spiritual Judge make no more of it than to be yare and brisk and ready prest and bent to anathematize excommunicate silence suspend and curse to eternal death the Souls of poor Christians for every Trifle to the Pit of Hell and his Body to the Jayl Is this Christianity Is this Religion Learnt we this of our Saviour God forbid God forbid that Protestant-Bishops should be like the Bishops Lather speaks of for this cause To. 2. p. 310. Adversus falsum nominatum ordinem Episcop Perinde c. It is with these wicked Bishops all one as if the Devil himself should sit Mitred in the Chair and Rule the People The

he could for Diseases to Sacraments Prayers and to Church the ready road to have his Spirit saved in the day of the Lord Jesus I wish they were cut off that trouble you that is I wish the Devil had them in his power to inflict Death or Diseases upon them for it is impossible that the Apostles should be so uncharitable to their Spirits or Souls as to wish them cut off from the Church Militant or Triumphant except by some extraordinary and particular Revelation For cutting off and delivering to Satan are the same thing and it is clear the Apostles lookt upon the Incestuous Person that was delivered over to Satan as a dying or dead man because he adds That his spirit might be sav'd in the day of the Lord Jesus And so both in the Old Testament by the Septuagint and in the New the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taking out of the middle of you cutting off is never used that I remember but for the death of the Body or Soul and therefore can never signifie Excommunication Besides we never find in Holy Writ that Interdicting the Sacraments or debarring from the Communion was ever used for a Punishment The Leper or he that had touched a Dead Body or a Menstrous Woman c. were Excommunicated properly or put from Holy Communion but these Impediments did as likely befall to the good as well as to the bad and was not put for a Punishment Oh! but this was a Type of Excommunication under the Gospel That 's good and well said a Type of that that never was and never will be first prove Excommunication a Gospel-Ordinance and then 't is time enough to show where it was Typified And as if Real and not only Typical holiness were not as requisite under the Law as under the Gospel it was a sin then as well as now to make many Prayers when the hands were full of Blood And strange it is that the Apostle that warns Timothy Tites and the Presbyters or Bishops for the Presbyters Vers 17. are called Bishops Ver. 28. Acts 20.17 28. of Ephesus to do their Duty should not besides feeding the Flock charge them also to fleece the Flock and starve the Flock by depriving them of Communion or Spiritual-food upon occasion if Excommunication be the Appurtenance of a Bishop or Presbyter And that our Blessed Jesus that took such care to mind Peter if he lov'd him to feed his Lambs and seed his Sheep should not if it be a sacred Ordinance speak a word to fleece them and scourge them and interdict them spiritual food upon occasion or if they stray No no if they stray thou that art a good Shepherd reduce them thou art well kept and paid for the very nonce Which brings to my mind this Parable or Story I will not say 't is true and real more than the Parable of Dives and Lazarus And it begins too just as that Parable begins There was two certain rich men which were Cloathed in Purple and Fine-Linnen and fared sumptuously every day but all these good things were frankly bestowed on them at the mercy and by the favour of the King upon condition though that they would be Shepherds and feed his Sheep and anoint them for the Scab and underlook them but not worry them nor destroy them nor Fleece them nor Shear them to their own private use nor plague them nor vex them though perhaps the Sheep might sometimes stray and straggle and go a wrong Road and tire perhaps and fret the Shepherds with following and running after them yet they were not to revenge themselves upon the stray Sheep and set their Wit against theirs but gently reduce them and do nothing rashly maliciously revengefully or peevishly except perhaps some of the Sheep should be incurably scab'd and then the King promised he would give the Shepherds good Wages and Hire and they should want for nothing Who would have refus'd a Shepherds office upon these easie terms or who would desire better terms than to do good not to kill not to do mischief not to destroy But so it hapned that the two Shepherds though they had several Flocks and several fat Pastures yet the Sheep graz'd all on one Common in distinct Flocks whilst the Shepherds could meet together and view them and over-see them and yet enjoy one another feast together and laugh and talk together And as I said before they wanted for nothing but their Pouches was full of Money their Bottles full of good Wine and their Scrips full of good Victuals and variety enough Yet so it was one morning one of the Shepherds came to the other puffing and blowing fretting and fuming and so out of breath that he could scarce tell his Tale. At length and after some pause recovering himself Brother Shepherd quoth he was ever man so plagu'd as I have been this morning with running after a stray Sheep Wanton and Fat I think he has led me a fair dance I am so tyred I have scarce breath enough left to tell you and to make this complaint Indeed and indeed quoth the other to his Brother and is this true yea very true replied he see but how I fret and sweat his Brother being tender-hearted could not but pity and take compassion on his fellow Labourer and so much the more because for ought he knew his own Flock might take example thereat and lead him a dance he knew not how soon and put him also in the same pickle sweat and balnio They parted though for that time to consider alone and afterwards joyn Heads together and study how to be reveng'd of the said wanton fat Weather if it were but for example-sake to all the other fat Sheep in the Flock for the lean Hags poor Souls were tame enough they had more mind to graze and eat than to be gamesome and they kept them to sharper Commons on purpose to make them be gentle and easie to be guided Well something must be done that was resolv'd but what or how to proceed they could not well tell Let 's eat him says one Ay quoth the other that would not be amiss but the craft's in the catching him you saw I sweat with but running after him and could scarce give him a turn Besides we have Victuals enough of our own and need it not and also the King has commanded Feed my Sheep but Fleece them not much more do not kill Do not steal let them live and 'mend they would have turn'd him out of the Flock too but they had no Commission for that At length one of them found out a Quirk an Evasion an Exception in their Commission viz. Except perhaps some of the Sheep should be incurably scab'd and I say He is a scabbed Sheep How shall we prove that quoth the other for I understand by you that he is so wanton he would never suffer you to come so near him as to feel him and