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A43627	The lay-clergy, or, The lay-elder in a short essay in answer to this query : whether it be lawful for persons in holy orders to exercise temporal offices, honours, jurisdictions and authorities : with arguments and objections on both sides, poyz'd and indifferently weigh'd / by Edm. Hickeringil ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1695 (1695)	Wing H1818; ESTC R10850	22,034	36

who is the Lord Or lest I be poor and steal and take the name of my God in Vain Great Riches are a Temptation and a Share apt to entangle them in Pride and make Gold their God Great Poverty is a Temptation and a snare too apt to tempt men to steal oppress take bribes c. Not but that a Rich Man may be an Oppressour a Cheat a Thief a taker of Bribes Not but that a poor man too may be poor and proud and make Mammon his God But the usual Temptations that attend great Riches are Pride and confidence in Riches And the usual Temptations that attend great Poverty is Cheating Stealing and other unlawful Pollutions that are in the world Now what is become of our Argument No man that Warreth no Christian Man that would please God who hath chosen him to be a Souldier should be entangled and to his utmost he should take care that he be not entangled in and with the Snares and Pollutions of the World They that thus apply this Text to the Clergy alone which belongs to all Christians would exempt themselves from being obliged to look to themselves that they be not Polluted with the World tho they live in it As if none but Clergy-men were obliged to be good men Spiritual men and good Church-men and Disciples of Christ St. Peter was a Spiritual Person and an Apostle and Fisher of men but still kept to the old Trade of Fishing to maintain his Body So St. Paul as he was born a Freeman of Rome he stands up for his Birth-right when Invaded and calls to the Roman Army to help him against 40. Cut-throats that had sworn that they would be the Death of him Therefore taking care of a mans Life and Lively-hood a duty indispensable except a man be felo de se is so far from being a Snare or Entanglement that it is expresly Commanded by the Laws Divine as well as Human The Laws of God the Law of Nature and Law of the Land If any thing be an Entanglement or a snare to hinder a man in his Heavenly Race one would think a Wife should as likely be such a Clog as a Place of Honour or Profit but that is so far from it that it is expresly made a qualification of a Bishop that he be the Husband of one Wife as St. Peter was and as St. Paul said he had Power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a License to Marry when he listed Obj. 4. Obj. 4 Another Topick whence these Orators did raise the Arguments against Clergy-men's intermedling with Temporal Offices and Honours is taken from Acts 6.2 It is not reason say the twelve Apostles That we should leave the word of God and serve Tables Ans This has less of Sence to your purpose Answ than the former Objections The Greek-Converts or Christians murmured because there was not that care taken for their Poor as was for the Jewish-Christians wherefore the Apostles caused seven Church-wardens or Deacons or Overseers for the Poor to be chosen for that Work Every Member of the Church cannot be the Head nor Eye some have gifts inferior as the Hands and Feet all are useful for the Body this hinders not but the chief Heads and Eyes of the Church may give directions and have an Eye to the Poor and to see that the Feet and Hands do their Office Obj. 5. Obj. 5 A fifth Objection was taken from the greatness of the Work of the Ministry implied in that question 2 Cor. 2.16 who is sufficient for those things Answ Answ Who is sufficient I answer None are sufficient What then Must we despair lye down and Die No no we must do as we can though we cannot do all we should The Duty of a Minister of Christ is no where in sewer words more fully recommended and described than in 1 Pet. 5.1 2 3 4. Feed the Flock of God called in the 3d. v. as I said before the Clergy Our English word Feed does but speak by halves the meaning of the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rule and Feed the Flock So St. Paul commands the Hebrews to pay Obedience to their Rulers Pastors Teachers that watch for their Souls Heb. 13.17 Not but that a good Magistrate a good Judg may be a good Preacher and many a good Sermon have I heard from the Bench in some Judg his Charge there as well as from the Pulpit The Elders and Pastors are positively Commissionated and Commanded in 1 Cor. 6.1 2 3 4 5 6. to be Judges in all matters of Law or Controversy that can happen betwixt one Christian and another And so at this day all Christendom over the Teachers are also Lawyers and Chancellours and Masters of the Rolls c. and the Lawyers may Preach too if they be Gifted and Ordain'd thereto Obj. Obj. 6 6. Another flourish of these mens Rhetorick is taken from the Writ Reg. 187.6 which among other things hath these words Non est consonum quod ille qui Salubri Statui animarum piis operibus continue deservit ad insistendum in secularibus negotiis compellatur Ans Answ Any Clergy-man may bring this Writ of Priviledge if he be chosen a Church-warden Constable Scavinger or any other place which he does not like he shall be excused by this Writ of Priviledge if he please Non Compellatur he shall not against his good liking serve So shall now an Apothecary be excused and discharged from such troublesome Offices but he is at his choice he may serve if he please the Law does not incapacitate him but is made in his favour Is not the Life more than Meat and the Body than Rayment Therefore the Law only takes care that they who are more immediately concerned in taking care for the Soul the Life or the Body of Man shall be at leisure to attend the great work and shall not be forc'd to attend the less to the hindrance of what is more necessary But what 's this to the question For there are many Authorities and Jurisdictions Temporal as that of a Justice of Peace Privy-Councellour c. wherein a Clergy-man can better Rule and Feed the Flock than those who though never so able and accomplish't for the place cannot do the good they would to their Flock for want of Temporal Power Jurisdiction and Authority Obj. 7. Oh! But this hinders his Preaching Obj. 7 Ans 1. In answer there-unto I first say Ans 1 I do not believe it But 2. Is there now a days such need of Preaching of Piety as there is of the Practice of Piety There are few so silly but they know their Duty and those that do not may have Preaching enough store of Preaching in the Pulpit in the Press Sermons Sermons The truth on 't is Sermons are of great use to Feed the Flock but not of more use than Discipline to Rule the Flock which is equally a Duty A Justice of Peace shall make ten times fewer Swearers and

the Traytor or Murderer And if the King and State had never so much need of Money not a Farthing durst they Assess this same She Holy Church in pain of Excommunication a terrible Bug in those days tho Solomon said The curse that 's causeless shall not come and in pain of Transgressing Magna Charta except She her self consented to such Assessment in Convocation for which cause Parliaments and Convocations were usually Contemporaries So also are they now from Custome rather than use Convocations being now little more than a meer formality the King and Parliament make bold to pass such Royal Aids into Acts without asking the consent or so much as consulting the Convocation Houses no not so much as in matters of Religion little or no notice being taken of them For Noblemen and Gentlemen are now Book-learn'd and generally may entitle themselves to K. Hen. the first 's cognomination Beau-Clerks And the benefit of the Clergy in Felon's Convict is now by Common-Law and Statute-Law granted in common to Lay-men who also have the mercy of the Book and as the Lay-men are capable of the benefit of the Clergy why not also of the Benefices of the Clergy if the King Ordain or Commissionate them So also Clergy-men are capable of any Benefit in the State if the King Ordain or Commission them thereunto even as they usually are Commissionated in all other kingdoms of the World whether Christians or Turks Jews or Gentiles And every man that is capable may justly to himself adopt the Motto of Julius Caesar who was Pope of Rome and Roman Emperor both Pontifex Maximus and Imperatour High-Priest in the Church and General and Dictator in the State as famous for his Sermons and Orations as for his Bastails and Conquests as Eloquent as Valiant renowned for the sharpness of his Pen as his Pyke both for the Word and Sword ex utroque If a man be able for both he is capable of both this is the common consent of all Nations and therefore ought in Cicero's Opinion to be esteemed The Law of Nature which is never contrary to the Law of God Omni in re Consensio Omnium Gentium lex naturae putanda est All the Lawyers in Israel and Judah were Divines and all their Divines Lawyers and so it is at this day in all those vast Territories where Mahomet anism does obtain and which spreads more Land in these three best Inhabited Parts of the World Europe Asia and Africa than Christianity and Gentilism both put together But to come nearer home Leges Angliae were of old truly stiled Leges Dei the Laws of England are called the Laws of God not only because they are for the most part extracted out of holy-writ but because they are the Long-approved dictates of right Reason the only Image of God in which man was Created And can it be improper for a Divine to be well-skill'd in the most lively Draughts of his Maker's likeness The gross or supine ignorance of our English Laws and Constitutions gave vent to those Flaguy-Doctrines of Non-resistance and Absolute and Arbitrary Government after the mode of France in Loanes Free-quarter Shipmony c. during the unhapy Ministry of Buckingham Strafford and Laud that countenanc'd those two Court-Parasites and Ear-wigs Mountague and Manwaring who poyson'd the Ears of Charles I. with such infectious Doctrines that prov'd to be so fatal to the King and three Kingdoms 'T is true indeed both Mountaigne and Manwaring were doom'd and condemn'd for the same in open Parliament Sentenc'd and Fin'd and made incapable of all Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions But the Parliament was no sooner dissolved but they were both of them punish'd with two Fat Bishopricks but of fatal consequence For duckoy'd and drill'd on with such like hopes of Preferment a numerous crowd of Tories and Tantivees in the three late Reigns trod in Manwaring's steps in hopes thereby of Manwaring's Fate Which yet was not worth the aspiring unto for he did not long enjoy the Fruits of his Court-Sycophantry but dyed poor and an Heterodox-Divine because he was not an Orthodox-Lawyer And was therefore condemn'd by the Parliament as unfit for the Church because he was so ignorant of the Laws of the Land a fault unpardonable in a Divine of the Church of England who wants the one half of his Trade or Profession and is not compleat Master of his Art without good knowledg in the Laws Municipal Thus have I shown That the Lay-Clergy is but one goodword and a Lay-Elder in this sence no Centaur but though a great rarity The most Accomplish't Divine and able for and therefore capable of Secular Authorities and of both Provinces or if you please or rather if the King please they make but one good Province But whether such a Divine thinks it expedient to accept thereof is a Second Question For he is accounted the wisest Divine at least one that best consults his own welfare and repose who withdraws himself from the Crowd and Bustle of this silly World betimes before he be so far engag'd that all Return is impracticable and no fair way left for an honourable and safe retreat It is easy to get into Place not so easy to stay in but much more difficult when plung'd in to scramble out The Conclusion Pro Captu Lectoris habent sua fata Libelli Books have their fates they hit they miss Just as the Reader 's Palate is And what does one man's Gusto please Is to another a Disease Or in Burlesque thus Each Book has several fates Videlicet Even as the Readers please to relish it Thus have I gentle Reader with good and honest design endeavour'd to demolish that Partition-wall betwixt Church and State Layety and Clergy erected by Popish and Prelatical pride making the Church and Churchmen a Body and Corporation distinct from the State and driving on several and opposite Ends and Designs whereas they should be United and go hand in hand or rather are indeed one and the same or ought to be so in a Christian State As the King is head of the State so is he also recognized to be the Head of the Church 26. Hen. 8.1 What Two Bodies to one head Out upon 't 't is Monstrous I cannot abide to see it And herein if I have not pleased thee I have done my endeavour and therein have pleased my self And if I be in an Error it is one of the most harmless in these mad times wherein Quis non molitur inepte Nullum magnum Ingenium sine mixtura dementioe A Worm or Magot in the Head Of the most subtle man is bred Wisemen at some odd hours we see Have some short fits of Lunacy And every skull all must confess Has a soft place in 't more or less FINIS ADVERTISEMENT ☞ THE Letter written by Sir DVNCOMB COLCHESTER a little before his Death containing his Remarkable Instance which Letter was read publickly by his order in the Parish Churches of Michael-Dean and Westbury is now Publisht with other late instances of that Nature All which are annext to Mr. TVRNER's Essay upon the Works of Creation and Providence lately published To this ESSAY is added a SCHEME of the History of Remarkable Providences now preparing for the Press As also a large SPECIMEN of that Work Price bound 2 s. Both Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street And may also be had of Edm. Richardson near the Poultrey-Church ☞ If any Ministers VVidow or other person have any Library or parcel of books to dispose of if they will send a Catalogue of them or notice where they are to John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street they shall have ready mony for them to the full of what they are worth