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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

THE Ceremony-Monger HIS CHARACTER In Five Chapters CHAP. 1. Concerning Bowing to the Altar To the east CHAP. 2. Of Implicite Faith. CHAP. 3. Concerning the Reading-Dons of the Pulpit CHAP. 4. Concerning Bowing at the Name Jesu and the Power of the Keys The Church-Keys CHAP. 5. Concerning Vnlighted Candles on the Altar Organs Church-musick and other Popish-like and Foppish Ceremonies 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 the 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 Ye men of Athens I perceive that in all things ye are too Superstitious Acts. 17.23 Behold the Devil shal cast some of you our into Prison Rev. 2.10 But those that walk in Pride God is able to Abase Dan. 4.37 By E. HICKERINGILL Rector of the Rectory of All-Saints in Colchester EDINBURGH Re-printed in the year 1689. To the Right Honourable CHARLES Earl of Shrewsbury in England of Waterford and Weshford in Ireland Lord Furnival c. His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State. My LORD I Come not now to praise you 't is needless for who can be ignorant what a mighty Hand both Military and Civil you have as successfully as vigorously extended under the happy Influence of their Sacred Majesties as a Tutelar and Angelical Guardian of these Kingdoms amongst other Worthies in this auspicious and late Revolution And in the Hand of the Almighty a signal Instrument of our Deliverance from impending Ruine venturing all that was near and dear unto you as well as your Life to help to save ours by a Kindness as superlative as your Courage and Conduct Much less do I come with this little Manual to avert your more Important Studies It will rather I hope divert your Cares in your softer Minutes But however if the Picture I draw do not please yet being in minoture so short a view cannot long detain you That Church-Ruffler in this following Character expos'd has so discompos'd and d●fa●'d to his uttermost the Church that to pourtr●y his Deformity in its proper Features requires more of the skill and dexterity of a Titian than to limn a perfect Beauty and the Divertisement is as pleasant to a judicious Eye that Examines even the Shades of every Line and Lineament but my Ink is not black enough to draw him in his proper Colours and sutable to that Havock he has made in the Church in our Age. For like the Moor of Venice he has been as bloody as black and to decipher his Face to the Life my blunter Pen should have been sharpned and imitating the keen Fury against the less Haggard Face of Witches scratch't it 'till the trickling Blood had supply'd my Pen with Colours proper for his Character Some perhaps will wonder where this Ecclesiastical Scarramuchio has ●●rk't all this while that he should not be visible enough 'till his Picture ●e drawn But I bring no News nor tell any false Tales for he has long ●een descry'd but now is the Time to let him see the Spots in his dirty ●ace if he will but impartially view himself in this Mirrour But if he happen to be enraged at his own Physyognomy like that ●d Lady that broke all the Looking-glasses she could come at because ●ot one of them would show her a handsome Face and he offer to break his Glass where can it better seek for shelter than under your Lordships ●tronage that is as generously willing as able to protect oppressed inocence For as such I must and may recommend it to your Honourable Protecti●● which would be affronted if it appear not to be so very Innocent ●at it hurts no Man describing and characterizing the Vice not the ●lty Person vitium non virum offending none but that dull Fool if ●ere be any so dull as to hold up his hand and cry Culprit Some Ceremonies are as necessary as useful in our Address to Heaven as also whenwe pay our due Respects to the Thrones below but the Ceremonies here expos'd are the Bastard-brood that Popery and Foppery begot in our Protestant Church and which neither the Laws of God nor the King does legitimate For when the Popish Ceremony monger was at the Reformation excluded and shut out of our Protestant Church he had 'till now Interest enough notwithstanding to make my Ceremony monger his Surrogate or dull Tool And the duller Tool the fairer Candidate for the place so he had but wit enough to remember his Creator and know his Cue And since Popery plain bare fac't Popery was inconsistent with the Laws of our holier Church and being Adulterate and consequently Illegitimate Therefore a Popish Ceremony in Masquerade an Ecclesiastical Symn●● must be laid in its room But none of their Spiritual Changlings shal inherit here nor is any other here condemned but what has made great waste and disturbed the Peace of the Church and must necessarily bring True Religion to an irrecoverable weakness and Consumption if much longer tolerated That Redemption which St. George the Champion of England gave to the Virgin ready to be ravaged by the Dragon may be fabulous but it is certain that your Lordship cannot better deserve the most Honourable George and Garter nor more immortalize your great Name than by improving your happy Talent and Interest in their Sacred Majesties that they may by redeeming the Church from Popish-like Slavery in non-sensical and illegal Ceremonies grace with fresh Lustre that old but sometimes sullied Flower of the Crown Defender of the Faith That so as our Renowned King William the Conqueror of Hearts and therefore the Conqueror of Kingdoms may perfect a Redemption for us in the Church without Blood as well as our late miraculous because not sanguinary Redemption in the State Whereby Pri●e has the fairest Ground in the World whereon to build her self a so idly so illegal despair of the vain Attempt their Sacred Majesties being as humble as high like the State-house at Amsterdam whose Foundation is as deep in the Ground as their Pinacles high and ma●ing the Skies And what Rebel to Heaven as well as Traitors to their Sacred Majesties can refuse due Homage and Fealty to such Landlords to whom God himself has deign'd to give Livery and Seizin and given by his visible Hand Possession of the Throne And as the Countenance only of former Kings gave Life to these Popish like Brats meerly for their likeness to Popery so their sacred Majesties can kill the Changling only with a Frown so futile so idly so illegal and Spiritless a thing is this same Ecclesiastical Bugg here character●z'd And yet as little and as weak as he is he has been a most mischievous Scandal and Stumbling blo●k to keep his Betters out of the