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A43610	The black non-conformist discover'd in more naked truth proving that excommunication & confirmation ... and diocesan bishops are ... of human make and shape, and that not only some lay-men, but all the keen-cringing clergy are non-conformists ... / by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1796; ESTC R3140	128,573	98

sorc't to Communicate alone by themselves Well say some but is it not clear that Titus was commanded to Excommunicate a Heretick after the first or second Admonitions Does not the Learned Doctor Hammond upon the Word Reject 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translate it Excommunicate him or cut him off by Excommunication So Doctor Taylor says the Word signifies to be drawn out of the City as an outcast and that is rejecting with a witness if they will also eject deject and stone him to death as they did St. Stephen And a great many more like Horses in a Teame Jog on through thick and thin without chusing their way following their Leaders if they have great and hard names And yet such an illiterate man as I can see no reason in the World that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reject in English should be construed that the Apostle meant that Titus should throw a Heretick out of the Church by Excommunication And this I will make bold to desend against all the Fierce Bloody and Sanguine-complexion'd Greek-Criticks in the World But in short can any man expound the Apostles meaning by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which for the present we will construe Excommunicate the Heretick bet-better than by the usage he makes of it himself in another place And can any thing better clear his meaning Compare then with this 1 Tim. 5.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the younger Widows Excommunicate or throw out of the Church for what for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ they will marry And thus if men had not two measures one to buy by and another to sell by they would not by their Interpretations and Comments to gratifie their spleen set all the young Widdows in the Kingdom about their ears For If a young Widdow brisk healthful and buxom according to the Guerdon and Dictates of Nature to propagate her kind make a slip or so What then then Excommunicate her if a Register or a Sumner smell it out or have it in the Wind. But then you 'l say let her Marry rather than Burn Ay but my fierce Interpreters will still have her upon the Hip again and Excommunicate her for Marrying by vertue of 1 Tim. 5.11 so impossible it is for a young Widow to come fairly out of their clutches if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie necessarily Excommunicate Nay in the whole Bible 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 never signifies Excommunication We meet with it 1 Tim. 4.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And there we can be content to translate it gently refuse prophane and vain bablings and exercise thy self rather unto godlines So here A Heretick after the first or second admonition refuse or avoid his company and rather exercise thy self with men Orthodox or men of Godliness This Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you meet with also in Luk. 14.18 19. and there it is translated as it ought to excuse forbear or be excused And then the sense will be A Heretick after the first or second Admonition excuse or forbear or meddle no more with him What a Hub-bub What Smithfield-fires has this doubtful Word kindled in the World How many Goals has this fiery and fierce construction fill'd Blessed Apostle little didst thou intend by that harmless expression and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that thereby so many Martyrs in the day of Henry 8. and Queen Mary should have ascended like Elijah's to Heaven in a fiery Chariot from famous Smithfield or that the Goals and Goalers should have been enrich't with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Can 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 refuse avoid excuse or forbear be a sufficient Commission wherewith to Plunder Imprison and Kill all Christendom over in Bloody Massacres Fines Goals Dungeons and Confiscations 'till for shelter like the Hungarians they fly for Refuge to the Turk that though a Graecian born yet never at this sad rate learnt to Construe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Known is the Story of that Arrian-Heretick Mahomet afterwards the great Prophet of the Turks who to inveagle his Followers and easie Mussel-men told them he would show them some Tricks and by Faith remove Mountains and make two adjoyning Hills come together though he did not thereby show his Faith so much as his Brazen-face For mounting to the top of one of the Mountains with his Disciples he admonish't the adjacent Mountain to come to him but it stirr'd not then he gave it a second Admonition but lapidi loquitur it made as if it did not hear and budg'd not no not upon the third summons No quoth Mahomet Will you not budg then if the Hill will not come to Mahomet Mahomet shall budg to the Hill and so fairly marcht to it I will not apply it but this I will say concerning some call'd Hereticks that seem sixt as a Mountain to their Principles and who but Infallible-Sirs can tell but that after the way some men call Heresie so Worship they the God of their Fathers If these fixed Hereticks will not be removed if we had faith like a grain of mustard-seed we could remove these mountains without the carnal helps of Spades Axes and Pick-axes but 'till then if the Mountains will not come to us nor we so supple and condescending as to march over to them let them stand and fall to their own Master and Creator that there fixt them except they obey the first second and third Admonition Their Souls are their own they best know on whose Errand they go we have deliver'd our Souls and done our duty 't is they must suffer and is it not punishment enough to lose Heaven hereafter but we must take their Purses upon the High-way thither or Goal them Sequester them Kill and Slay Fine and Confiscate and make them take Heaven by violence in a wrong sense vi armis with Sword and Gun Is the Church for this call'd Militant Beside Heresie is not so ill-natur'd a Word as fierce men make it Constantine the Emperor calls Christian Religion Heresie that is a Sect or Profession or Opinion The Sect of the Sadduces Acts 5.17 and Sect of the Pharisces Act. 15.5 in the Greek is of the Heresie of the Pharisees who believed Non sum in eadem cum illo Heresi i.e. sententia says Cicero in his Paradoxes Quest 3. Against what Offenders and Offences Excommunication was made use of Answ 3. This requires considering the large Premises but a compendious Answer namely This Sword of Excommunication was never drawn that we read of by our Blessed Saviour at all nor yet by his Apostles except that St. Paul drew it twice once against an Incestuous Person and then afterwards against Hymenaeus and Alexander for Blasphemy Not a Fornicator nor an Adulterer Excommunicated in those days more than in our days nor a Common-swearer or Blasphemer amongst them more than amongst us Excommunicated except the said Hymenaeus and Alexander that we read of And these by

Father never taught them thus to fight and quarrel upon the Road to Heaven Why suppose a Man will not go our way or think his Business rather lies another way a shorter cut a nearer way and a better Road. Must we because we think the Man is in an Error and Mistake draw our Weapons whether carnal or spiritual upon him where 's the Reason the Conscience the Christianity of it Does not every Man best understand his own Concern or if he doth not 't is not our loss but the harm is his own We may advise him friendlily and tell him of the dangerous way he is in of which yet none of us the wisest of us are certainly infallible and assured But if he will not take our Advice fare him well curse him not but pray for him and say God bless him and teach him and us the right way Indeed if our Actions and Manners be against the indisputable and unquestionable Laws of God and Nature as Blasphemy Adultery Drunkenness and Rebellion Treason c. Then take him Goaler and let the Magistrate correct him But to curse whip lash flash and Bridewel a Man for not thinking as we do Opinion and Thought being free and impossible to be compell'd is a Spanish Inquisition High-Commission and Romish Tyranny and a Lunacy to boot beyond that of Bedlam God grant us to be all of one Heart and Mind in God's Worship and Service and to keep the Unity of the Spirit at least in the Bond of Peace and Comprehension But if thus Praying will not do cursing and excommunicating and damning should not do I am sure Which makes me think of a Gain and I 'll not think it Battology to recite it again namely That admirable and Christian-like Direction and only safe Prescription of the said Incomparable Sir Matthew Hale amongst his said 18 Caveats given to himself in these Words That I be not too rigid in Matters purely consoientious where all the harm is Diversity of Judgment and if in Criminals it be a Measuring-cast to encline to Mercy and Acquittal This is true Plety indeed and the only true Christianity but the contrary is true Impiety and the only true Antichristianism Besides 'T is true Policy too no Man quarrels with another that is not just of his Size Complexion and Pitch and why not Because there 's no Law to sine every Man that is not of such a common Standard Size and Pitch if there were Covetousness and Tyranny would set the Uniform and common Sandard-men at work if it were but for the Fine sake to hale in the Nonconformists and dissenting Scanltings and then what old tugging and quarrelling goaling and baleing would there be to the perpetual Disturbance of the Neighbourhood and the Kingdom as well as to the shameful Scandal of Christianity that makes Doves and Lambs indeed but neither Wolves nor Bloody Bonners or Tygers Whereas now that we have a general Comprehension as to all Sizes of the Body and no Man is bound to grow to just such a Soantling and no higher we have no quarrelling about the Matter no more than there is in Holland about Religion where tho they have different Religions yet every Man being left to God and his Liberty to go to Heaven which way he please they never curse damn excommunicate or quarrel about the matter but leave every Man to stand and fall to his own Master and Creator further than Christian Admonitions and State-Encouragements and Preserments do invite or allure For they admit and courteously entertain like Men and Christians all Mankind except the said Inhospitable and Anrichristian Bloodhounds the Jesuits and those if they catch hunting or resting in any of their Dominions they immediately upon proof boil them to death in scalding Oil. And to this Severity they are forc'd and constrain'd through that Jesuitical Maxime that Dominion is founded in Grace and consequently All the Kingdoms of the World Territories People and Dominions ought to be subject to Christ's only Vicar or Vice-Gerent upon Earth the Pope For Severity and Cruelty may make many Hypocrites but cannot make one Saint it can do much Mischief when in Power the only thing that wicked Men mind but not any Good it can surrogate to Destruction but not to Edification it can like Erostratus get a Name and Fame for destroying the Temple and Church but wants the Heart of Holy David and the wise Head of Solomon and the Apostles to build the Temple and Church of God Our Blessed Saviour came neither to destroy the material or spiritual Temple but if Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites destroy it he said he could build it again in three days But some Mens Arts are like the late Bishop of London Bonner his Arts they can destroy and fire the Spiritual Temples of God in few days more than they will erect and build up all their Life-time Sic facilis descensus Averni The way to Hell is very easie And down-hill all way to 't an 't please ye And therefore away with Mens Prate and Talk vouching their private Malice and Revenge with the Constitutions of the Church The Church if they be not according to the Constitutions of Christ in the Gospel for as Cyprian says Serm. 5. de Lapsis non est Pax fed Bellum nec Ecclesiae jungitur qui ab Evangelio separatur Then trust ye not in lying Words Jer. 7.4 saying The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord are these Behold ye trust in lying Words that cannot profit Will ye steal murder commit Adultery c. and come and stand before me in this Houses which is called by my Name and say We are delivered to do all these Abominations If this House which is called by my Name become a Den of Robbers in your Eyes Behold even I have seen it saith the Lord. But go ye now unto my Place which was in Shiloh where I set my Name at first and see what I did unto it for the Wickedness of my People c. Whence I note that no People or Church how dear soever it has been unto God has a Charter of Priviledges to offend rob or murder their Brethren under the Title Umbrage and Name of the Church the Church which Church is not exempt from God's Visitation and Punishment if not Extinguishment Which brings to my Mind what Heylin in his Geography says of Poland l. 2.150 The King at his Goronation takes an Oath to confirm all the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject granted by any of his Predecessors and also adds this Clause Quod si Sacramentum meum violavero incolae Regni nullâ nobis Obedientiâ tenebuntur That if I break my Oath the Subjects are not obliged to us in Allegiance or Obedience A Clause that seems to me proper only if proper at all for an Elective King as is the King of Poland and not for a King whose Kingdom is Hereditary as Sweden Denmark England France and Spain nor can it or