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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43630	The mushroom, or, A satyr against libelling Tories and prelatical tantivies in answer to a satyr against sedition called The meddal, by the author of Absalom and Achitophel / and here answered by the author of The black nonconformist ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1820; ESTC R16923	14,425	20

c. for so long as they sit in the Parl House the Gospel shall be kept under and Christ Persecuted in his faithful members Indeed and indeed no man can do great mischief except he have great power for curst-Cows that have short horns may be handled and kept to the Peace and good Behaviour Take me not here saith he that I condemn any Bishop or Priest that is Godly doing those offices the Scripture commandeth as Preaching the Gospel Providing for the Poor c. But against Bloudy Butchers that murder Gods People and make havock of Christs Congregation to maintain Iewish-Ceremonies and Paganish-Superstition in the Christian-Church These are not Bishops but Sheep-biters Tirants Tormentors and the Devils Slaughter-men and the Devils Slaughter-men But such as in Poverty Preach the Gospel provide for the Poor rebuke the wicked world of Pride Idolatry Hypocrisie They are not only worthy of Competent living but worthy of double Honour But from the inordinate excess of Riches Priests and Prelates ought of all men to be sequestred will they not sooner send out sequestrations to beggar and starve the Orphans whom they have bereaved and made Orphans Desolate and Comfortless the Lord reward them according to their works Consider that the wicked nature of Mammon is always to Corrupt yea the very Elect of God when they grew monstrous great were not more merciful saith he The Learned and Pious Stalbridge whose name is yet so precious amongst the Germans and Switzers for his learned labours works books and naked-truth and an Honour to his Country this kingdom of England and precious to all true English men But onley that he was a Protestant Therefore listen to a Papist or two more St. Bernard and Abbot in his Epist. ad Eugenium Papam To Pope Eugenius thus For Tythes Testaments Administrations Servitude Legitimations and such like saith St. Bernard to the Pope and one of the worse of Popes that ever sate being deprived by a general Council for his damnable and notorious cruelties villanies c. you went beyond your bounds when you restrained them namely the cognizance of Tythes Testaments Administrations Servitude Legittimations or Matrimony and the like To your Courts and without Caesar made laws for things that did belong to Caesar as a Tantivie Preacher in the Temple upon that Text Give unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God the things which are Gods said what is Caesars what things I answer Caesar shall have your Goods your Lands your VVives your Children your All All is Caesars But some may say quoth Tantivee-Preacher fitter to preach at Tyburn than the Temple If Caesar shall have All then what shall God have I answer quoth he God shall have your Souls But as for your Bodies your Lands your Goods your Livings your Lives your Children and your Wives They are Caesar's But listen to St. Bernard For the Goods Lands Livings Estates of Laymen and Clerks also are Caesars charge by Caesar he means the Supream Temporal Government whether Monarchy absolute or a Republick or Monarchy mixt as here in England Caesars charge and not yours nor the Prelates My Kingdom saith Christ is not of this World If then the Pope Prelates and Priests will be the servants of Christ saith St. Ambrose upon those words and he was a Popish Prelate too they must not challenge any worldly Kingdom The Servant is not above his Master And if the Master deny it the Servant may not affirm it and usurp it Souldiers of Christ must not entangle themselves with the affairs this world much less to make themselves Lords and Iudges of Earthly matters You call the Popes hard names Bears Wolves and Sherks For miscief what is then th' Bishop and 's Clerks At the Lands-end of England those Dire stones On which Ships Men are lost Body and Bones In all Ages God raised up Naked Truth men but they were crusht and run down like the Lord Cobham Sir Iohn Old Castle Butcher'd and martyr'd and burnt in Smithfield by the cruelty of Prelates c. for Scandal ' Magnat ' in these slanderous seditious scandalous and Heretical Words namely The will of God is That Priests being secluded from all worldliness should conform themselves to the example of Christ and his Apostles that is in Poverty oh bloody word and Scandal ' Magnat and teaching the Scriptures purely and giving good Example to others more than any sort of People Where saith he to the Prelates do ye find in Gods Law that you should sit in judgment of any Christian-man But in Annas and Caiaphas that sat thus upon Christ and upon his Apostles after his Ascension of whom only have ye taken it to judge Christ's Members as ye do since the venom of Iudas was shed into the Church And by venome saith he I mean your Iudas-Baggs your great Purses your Possessions and Lordships For then an Angel cryed in the Ayre wo-wo-wo This day is venom shed into the Church as your own Churches mention Before that time all the Bishops of Rome in a manner were Martyrs if it were so now Misses would not be sought to for a then they would say nolo Episcapari nolo Episcopari I am not ambitious to be a Bishop Or ambitious of Martyrdom But since that time Popes and Bishops one hath cursed and poysoned slain and done much mischief to another Christ was weak and merciful Oh dangerous word But they are proud and Tyrannical Christ was poor but they are rich c. Well! they did his business for him in Smithfield more is the pitty God knows amongst Christians too you`le say nay amongst the Successors of the Apostles Peter and Paul Oh Hypocrisy I hourly expect the fruits of the like rage and cruelty God enable me to undergo it chearfully patiently and couragiously as the Lord Cobham did of whom they said as now they say of me for the like Naked-Truth in declaring their Extortions Cruelty and Illegal oppressions Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should live Take but one Story more in good part and I 'le trouble you no more at present and 't is from a Papist a Country-man of our own an English-Papist Alexander Fabritius in his Destructorium vitiorum part 6. cap. 79. vixit Anno Domini 1420. In these words viz. Who are more horribly enthralled to the Devils Servitude than those who are placed in the sublimity of Honour Ecclesiastical Fellows who ought to be the Light of the World yet where is more abundant Darkness of Vices Where more aboundant gaping after Earthly things then in modern Prelates who are fatted in both powers as well Temporal as Spiritual where is greater Pomp in all Appendixes yea and that so much that having left the Poverty of the Primitive Church they are now rather to be termed Princes of Provinces than Pastors of Souls c. with aboundance more to this Purpose which you may see at large Dear Tantivees