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A43636	A speech without-doors, or, Some modest inquiries humbly proposed to the right honourable the Convention of Estates, assembled at Westminster, Jan. 22, 1688/9 concerning, I. Bigotism, or religious madness, II. Tests, and the present test in particular, III. Penal laws in matters of religion, IV. The necessity of changing and recanting our opinions in religion, V. Restraint of the press / by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing H1827; ESTC R20396	31,636	44

c. that would not leave worshiping of God according to the Common-Prayer-Book wouldst not thou thou Weapon'd-Vniformity Bigot Exclaim at least grumble at such a Test But with what reason canst thou grumble Except thou conclude that Church of England is infallible in spight of her own 39 Articles to the contrary or except thou art not content to take such measure as now thou metest to others that are as Pious and Learned as thy self Where is the Justice of such Grumbling Thou art for Uniformity one Mind and one Mouth so are all Rational Men but thou art also for Weapon'd Uniformity that 's unreasonable and unscriptural and unapostolical and also because of another little thing called Impossibility It is not to be done by Sword or Gun Tests or Penal Laws Have we not been trying Conclusions and Experiments about it in the Body Politick many years even to the Consumption of the Body Politicks And who has got any thing by it saving a few Priests But we must always be tampering with ungodly unreasonable and Antichristian Physick only to enrich the Physitian and keep up his Practice and his Hand in Ure Do we de claim against Arbitrary Power and Tyranny and yet suffer such Tests to take away our Birth-rights Queen Maries Fives consum'd the Heats between Con and Noncon when in Prison together they shook Hands and were Friends Ay says Bigot most true therefore we would have them like us Vniform and of one Mouth meaning that every Mouth should be alike and one with his Wide Mouth But suppose that Little Mouth let that be his Name stretches and stretches his Mouth that so it may be Vniform and like to Great Mouth and cannot do it for his Heart and Blood by Scripture-Rule He that is strong should stoop and bear the Infirmities of the weak and condescend and to keep my Allegory Wide Mouth should meet Little Mouth half way contracting his large Gape and Swallow that so they may be of one Mouth But what cares some Men for Scripture If that will not do what do you say to Reason Is it reasonable that if Little Mouth should happen to get into the Saddle and get the Staff in his Hand and thou be dismounted for Arbitrary Government wilful and un-scriptural and unreasonable Impositions and Oppressions wouldst thou think it reasonable that he should pare and cut and pinch thy Wade Mouth to the scantling of his Narrow Chaps If not then out of thine own Wide mouth will I judge thee thou wicked Servant Shouldst not thou have Compassion on thy Fellow-servant like thy self erroneous as thou wouldst have him or Almighty God have Pity on thee To our Comfort God seeth and he that is higher than the Highest regardeth and there are Higher than they Eccles 5.8 But will some say though it be a Test suspiciously Prophane if any Holy thing in the World can be prophan'd by making Religion and the Sacraments the most Venerable and Sacred of all the Parts or Offices in Religion Tools and Tricks of State yet this Test has done good Service against the Common Enemy the irreconcileable Enemies of our Religion It has kept out the Papist from Offices in Church and State Navy and Army Never I answer it never did keep out any Papist nor any but Dissenters yet if all this should be as true as it is evidently false yet this Test is not justifiable because we may not lay an evident Temptation of stumbling in our Brothers way to make him fall nor do Evil that good may come thereon as aforesaid nor thus keep up Gods Church What is the bringing the Abomination of Desolation into the Holy Place but making Holy things and the Lord Jesus Christ a Drudge and Slave to Machiavel O Prophanation abominable Must the blessed Sacrament of Divine Love his Institution made on purpose to Incorporate us with him and one with another in Divine Love be the only Entrance and means to let us in to a Body Politick or Corporation or into the Door of Preferment Sacra Sacris Sacri Sacris was the Old Rule Wickedness may make a man unfit to be employed in the State but is it not prophane to make the blessed Sacrament a Political Engine or Qualification to let a Man into Money and Mammon but we cannot thus serve two Masters God and Mammon Besides I deny that this Test of the Sacrament did any good at any time in keeping so much as one Papist out of any Office Employment or Preferment either in Church or State. And if this be true then Hatred against Popery is but a Colour wherewith Hypocrisie paints the ugly Face and Deformity of Hatred and Malice against Dissenters that have not so wide a Swallow as themselves with the pretence of Vniformity and Zeal against Popery Otherwise why did this Test-Bill pass so readily and the Exclusion-Bill thrown out without a Conference which is not usual There may be many good Reasons which I will not now inquire into But was it Loyalty and a Religious Awe to hurt no man in his Goods and Birth right upon the score of Religion That 's impossible to be a Reason that prevailed with those Lords and Gentlemen that stood to their Arms and Power till the King was divested of both which are His Birth-Right now at this day as much nay more than at the time of the Exclusion-Bill for no man that spoke best and most against the Exclusion-Bill did touch upon that String namely that the King and Parliament cannot dispose of the Crown of England for fear I supose of the Penalty mentioned in the Statute of Queen Elizabeth to that purpose And to repeat the words of that most Excellent Speaker in the House of Commons If there were a Lyon in the Lobby shall it be still a Question amongst Wise men Whether it were better to keep him out now he is out or to open the Door and let him in and then bind him Some wise men chose the latter and if God had not been miraculously kind to us to show his Grace and Finger when some thought we had neglected the means if the Lion had prov'd a Rampant Lion or had had a Lion's Heart and the Cruelty of a Lion there might have been Scratching Work and Thousands had e'er this followed those otherwise Incomparable Patriots Essex Russel Sidney and Cornish c. for who has not had a Hand upon his Hilt to Fight the King's Guards his Irish Souldiers when the word was They are a coming VVhereas the Lord Russel was condemn'd for being only in the Room where there was some discourse of Surprizing the Kings Guards But we must leave these things to him that judgeth Righteously The Iniquity of the Amorites was not then full Popery was not drunk enough with Blood. The Papists have for a hundred years last past been kept out of the Government and have been Exluded all Offices Ecclesiastical Civil and Military by that Ancient and Honest Test

run but the Errours of which no Man nor Book is free ought to be Re●●nted and publickly too if required yea as publickly as the Books that have been Publick St. Augustine has a large Recantation and a Heavenly one in Print called His Books of Confessions so the Learned and Excellent B●z● and a Man worth them all St. Paul. Confessing and Recanting his Persecuting Spirit It is not in any Mortal Man's Power to be free from Sin or Error Homo sum Humanum a me nibil alienum puto at Humanum est Errare was an old and too true a Proverb If we be Mortals we are subject to 〈◊〉 and then if we be Christians or hope for Mercy we must Recant For though we may Err the Frail●y of our Vaderstandings yet we need not be guilty of Heresie or Obstinacy in B●ro● the fault of our Wills. Thus the Church of England makes us all Recant publickly in the Church twice a Day in sober sadness if we do not Dissemble saying We have left undone these things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done and there is no Health in us The most Learned and Elaborate Authors in our Age need no other Confutation of their humane Frailties and Errors than their own Contradicting-Books his pretty to show if it more worth the while how the Dean gives the Parson the Lie and the Arch-Deacon the Bishop and how desperately they stabb themselves and are Felones de se in some sence if a Lie deserves a stab they need to other Dagger than their own which is enough to abate the Hussing Pride of the greatest S●hollars and Noblest Souls amongst us as well as to Mortifie the Bigot that is so full and puffe up with his present Notion Nay Parliaments Lords Spiritual and Temporal and House of Commons have Recanted publickly bewailing begging Pardon and asking forgiveness of the Popes Nuntio Cardinal Pool on bended Knees when frighted with the Apprehensions of Queen Maries Smithfield-F●res and which is worst of all did for fear also Recant God's Truth at least they Recanted what the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and House of Commons had about six years before by Statute-Law Declared to be Gods Truth 2 3 Edw. 6. c. 1. and made by the Aid of the Holy Ghost surely you 'll say then that must be the Bible which they recanted And so one would think indeed but it was a far Inferiour Business viz. only the Common Prayer-Book saying 1 and 2. Phil and Mar. c. 8. Seeing by the goodness of God our own Errors have knowledged the same to the said most Reverend Father Cardinal Pool the Popes Legate Therefore We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in this present Parliament Representing the whole Body of the Realm of ENGLAND c. Do Declare our selves very sorry and Rep●ntant Poor Hearts of the Schism and Disobedience c. against the See Apostolick c. And all this Recantation the Bishops and Parliament when the times turn'd Re●ant again about five years after in 1 Elig 1. Resuming again this same Common-Peayer-Book and setting up a High-Commission-Court c. which was for Cruelties and Oppressions Condemn'd by 17 Car. 1.2 And when the King and Parliament were offended because Bishops were too busie or too much busied in Temporal Employments Powers and Authorities they were Disabled by 17 Car. 1.27 but made Capable again by 13 Car. 2.2 What Variation of the Compass is here What Turnings and Windings and Returnings again Then Facing about as you were of which I might give many hundreds of Instances let this suffice for England And if we cross the Seas and make a Progress to Rome to the Infallible Chair we shall find that even that too stands as unsteady or more unsteady than any other In proof whereof I 'll have no other Vouchers than Papists and Cardinals and for Cleanliness sake give but a small Touch at the dirty Work. Was not the Bones of Pope Formosus digged up by the Pope his Successor his Decrees Rescinded and the poor Dead Pope thrown into Tyber for a Heretick not worthy of Christian Burial c Platina Theodore 197. and John 10.897 tells us That Pope Theodore II. made Null and Void the Decrees of Romanus And did not Pope John X. do as much for him I care not which was in the Right it sufficeth my present purpose to shew That one of the Infallible Don 's did Err and was Fallible And does not Cardinal Baronius ad an 900 on this Score cry out Alas For Shame and Sorrow that so many Monsters a horrible thing to see should mount that Chair which deserves Sir Reverence of Angels Was not Pope Bennet IX made Pope at twelve years of Age by the means of his Father the Marquess of Tuseta and could not so much as read Mass And afterwards skill'd in nothing but the Black Art by which the Letcher as Cardinal Benno affirms enticed pretty Wenches into the Woods and there Debanch'd them Well might Cardinal Barronius ad An. 1033. call him The Shame of the Romish Church Ecclesiae Opprobrium Does not Luithrand lib. 2. c. 3. tell us That the Council of Lateran did Depose Pope John XII First for Ordaining Deacons in a Stable Secondly For making Boys but ten years of Age Bishops Thirdly For Praying to the Devil to help him when he was at Dice to a lucky Throw Fourthly For making his House the L●teran-Palace a Common Stews Fifthly For lying with Stephana his own Fathers Whore. Sixthly For Drinking a Health to the Devil Does not Platina Silvest 2. An. 998. tell us That Pope Sylvester II. made a Bargain with the Devil to give him Body and Soul upon two Conditions First That the Devil would help him into the Infallible Chair Secondly That he should never die but in Hierusalem whither he was resolved never to come The Contract thus made the Devil helpt him to the Popedom Pontificatum adjurante Diabolo consecutus est hâc tamen lege ut post Mortem totus illius esset But the Devil was as crafty as a Jesuice for he cheated with an Equivocation the Pope himself who Died horribly C. Malmesbur 2.10 whilst he was saying Mass in Rome in the Church called Jerusalem I might fill Volumns with these Instances to shew that even Popes ought to change and Recant if ever they hope to be Saved for there are no good Men here on Earth nor Glorified Saints in Heaven except Recanters Honest Parliaments have Recanted St. Peter St. Paul St. Augustine Beza and all Honest Men have Recanted And must not all good Protestants then come into the Fashion of all good Men in Heaven and Earth SECT V. Of the Restraint of the PRINTING-PRESS PRinting though reckon'd amongst the New Inventions is now become an Old Trade in London and has begot one or two more Trades the Book-sellor and Stationer which are all Incorporated into a Body-Politick called The

Company of Stationers no despicable nor mean Company or Hall in this splendid City one Stationer was enough for a City before Printing came up and of Book-sellers there were none but Scriveners But now they are become the Numerous Issue of the Press and enabled to make By-Laws for the Regulating their Trade which is their Lively-hood And the Question is Whether it be reasonable and lawful to hinder them of their Lively-hood of their Trade under pretence of Publique-good by shutting up the Press and stopping their Trade by excluding all that have not a Passe and some say you may with as much reason Exclude all men from the Kings-High-Way the Birth-light of every Englisk-man or stop their Mouths and starve them except they bring a Passe Sign'd by Sir Roger the Bishops Chaplain or the like to permit them to Earn their Livings There 's an Act of Parliament for it you 'll say and for that Trick I say I 'll determine nothing positively against it But Acts of Parliament are not like the Laws of the Medes and Persians which cannot be alter'd The Aegyptian Priests told Herodotus that the Sun had chang'd it's course four times within the last Preceding Eleven thousand and odd years an Aera as long before Adam as since But if the Sun change it's course sometimes and the Moon often times and Parliaments change their Acts sometimes twice in Ten Years as afore-said then surely this Act for Restraint of the Press without the License of the Bishops Chaplain or Sir Roger c. is not immutable The Arguments to keep the Press-doors shut center all in this That a Liberty thereof without the Pass of a License may prove pernicious not only to private men but to the Publique to the Church to the State. Libels will fly about to wound mens Reputations and which is a consideration of greater weight The Church and State may thus be shot at and mounded and yet like shooting with White Powder the Wound is felt but none knows whence the Bullets came This is an Inconvenience but if this be all the Argument is fallacious For as in other Trades things that are rare dear and hard to come by are the readiest Commodity so also in the Book-sellers Trade no Books vend so nimbly as those that are sold by Stealth as it were and want Imprimaturs This Restraint by Licensers will not prevent the flying Pamphlets and Reputation-Wounders we may well say it will not because by Experience 't is found it never did But if the By-Law already made by the Stationers Company were Enacted by Parliament with some additions all the Inconveniencies of Restraining the Press from Printing the best Books because it is perh●ps against the Diana of Mr. Licenser or the Craft by which he gets his Wealth will be prevented and all the Reputation-Wounders will be discovered and without further Proof brought to Cendign Punishment Namely A Law that every Author's and Printer's Name and their several places of Residence and the mans Name for whom they were Printed and who Publishes and Vends them be Printed in the Title-Page of every Book or Pamphlet And that such Printed Names shall be a sufficient Evidence as if under their own Hand-Writting provided it be proved by Witnesses and Writing that the Author gave order for it and that the Printer there named did really Print the same And that it shall be Felony or some Crime or Punishment to Print any Book or Pamphlet in other manner or to Print false Names Or with what other Proviso's the Wisdom of a Parliament shall think meet The Pope indeed has some Reason to Restrain all Printing without his Approbation License or Instruction because it is very meet and right so to do granting his Infallibility An Index Expurgatorius is a necessary and just Consequence thereof But Church of England that disclaims all such Impudent pretence what Reason can she give to be the only Door-keeper to the Press except she could also get an Act of Parliament that it shall not be Lawful hereafter for God Almighty to open any mans Understanding clearer nor to give him better Eyes then the Licenser For How many Excellent Books both in Divinity and Humanity are Suppress'd because they are excellent and too good to get an Imprimatur This made the Great Duke of Buckingham say That the Clergy have but one Vote for the Inseriour Clergy generally think themselves notably sharp-sighted in Affairs if they can but look up to the Top of the Church-Steeple and see how the Cock stands and as the Wind blows many of them sometimes Conform themselves Thus Haggards listen to the Huntsmans Halloo and Horn but seldome put their Noses to the Ground to examine the Scent For which the Huntsman Whips them smartly sometimes yet 't is all one No men are greater Vassals then small Clergy-men or at least more Oppress'd with unreasonable Assents and Consents in spight of Mathematicks and illegal Procurations Synodals c. even when there is no Synod no Visitation c. yet poor Hearts they out with their Purse and pay the Bishops Silver and the Rich Arch-Deacons Silver though some of them Pawa the Pewter-Dish for it and yet for all this V●ssallage some of them does not so much as Whimper Groan nor Complain nor Vote otherwise then as the Word is Ecchoed amongst them though at such a time as this when a Parliament can help us Thus have I seen a Step-Mother Whip the Child till it Roar again and then take it up again and Whip it for Roaring and then make it go down on its Knees ask Forgiveness Kiss the Rod threatning to give it twice as much if it tell it's Father But come on 't what will I will say God help the while Has any man in the World any other or better Commission to Preach then what Christ gave his Disciples Mat. 28.19 namely To go and teach and make all Nations Disciples by Baptizing them and he will be with such to the end of the World not with those Individual Apostles who are dead but their Successours Lawfully ordain'd to ●ue end of the World. Let any man show me a Reason if he can why a Presbyter Lawfully ordain'd and therefore Commissionated by Christ to Teach all Nations c. should need any other License And is not teaching in Print from the Press the same or better and of more general and universal benefit to all-men and all Nations then the narrow Pulpit though it stand aloft And dare any Christian prefer the Worth of an Act of Parliament before the Words of God and our Lord Jesus who has commanded all Men to let their Light so shine before Men that they may see their good Works in Print the most Excellent Universal and Charitable Good Works in the World if they be agreeable to Holy Scripture and right Reason and glorifie their Father which is in Heaven without leave or License Does not our Law-Books say That all Statutes

namely in Renouncing the Pope and all his Evil Works by the Oath of Supremacy which our present King King James II. by his Dispensing Power vacated in the first place as being a Long-approved and sufficient Bar and Bulwark to keep out Popery in the four last preceding Reigns It is also as true that as he left no stone unturn'd that lay in the way of bringing in Popery so he was necessitatid therefore also to set aside and disponce with this New Test which did inflict grievous Penalties upon them that durst or did venture in without taking it But they had all been kept out to this day and were kept out an hundred years before and could not therefore need his Dispensing Power until he let them in two years before by Dispensing with the Oath of Supremacy A Test that perhaps had been still thought sufficient if this Test had not jumpt right with some men's Malice that hated Protestant Dissenters as much if not more than Papists Indeed I grant That the King by that Gracious Indulgence gain'd the Dissenters and thereby lost the Love of High-Church-men who were as quiet and gentle as Lambs and Loyal as Heart could wish when he dispenc'd with that great and approved Test the Oath of Supremacy for two long years together whilst he permitted them and maintain'd them and their Penal Laws against Dissenters But when he put out his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience the Magna Charta that God the only King of Consciences has given to all Mankind would some Men so much as read the Indulgence which His Majesty the best Act that ever he did in his Life both in Piety and Policy too for it has been the Life of Trade in Holland and the Penal Laws or Inquisition their Dis-peopling and Destruction of Trade and Riches in Flanders as God's Deputy Re-inforc'd and Ordain'd No no! Though expresly enjoyn'd in the Rubrick of the Common-Prayer-Books What Combination What Bandying against it And perhaps for good Reasons But have they scrupled to read and make Prayers for worse things that I say not Impostures Or was it because it was Evil as to the Matter None had the Face to say so But Evil as to the Form of Dispensing because not done in Form of Law namely not Repealed by the same Power that Enacted it which Reason perhaps is a good Reason but how could it be more a Reason now in this Case then it was when he Dispenc'd with the Oath of Supremacy Which was as much against Law as this Dispensation and yet whilst he maintain'd the Church of England to Prosecute Dissenters with their Excommunications Capias's Fines and Imprisonments they were hush'd and Serene and as loyal as could be Preaching up Passive Obedience Prayers and Tears as the only Weapons of a Christian Groaning under the Oppression of Superiours during all the long time that they were uppermost and felt no Smart The Patriarch of Constantinople is as great an Enemy to Popery as any Prelate or Lay-man amongst us yet he holds more ridiculous and unaccountable Errors than the Papists and enslaves the poor Greeks as tyrannically as the Pope does enslave his Italian Papists What are the poor Greeks the better for this Bulwark against the Pope and Popery The Patriarch scornes to kiss the Pope's Toe and to be Tenant at will to the Pope or to hold his Patriarchate of him or under him and Preaches and Writes against Popish Errors but holds the poor Greeks to as bad Errors And is not the Pope on the other side the Water as Fierce Dogmatical and Pragmatical a Bigot in forcing the poor Greeks to believe as he believes and to be as Vniformable and Conformable to his Trinckets and Ceremonies as the Pope with his Inquisition in Italy What good does Graecia get by such a Bulwark against Popery when Pope and Popery cannot possibly make their Condition much worse then it is A true Christian Protestant should protest against and abominate Popery of the New as well as of the Old Edition and should keep close to the Apostolical and Primitive Rule of Charity in ease of Nonconformity There were Dissenters in the Church of Philippi as now amongst us so many Men to many different Minds so many Men so many different Features perhaps in doubtful Matters of Faith and some had better Eyes and Brains Hearts and Legs than others and therefore had different Apprehensions Opinions and Attainments Now What shall be done in this Case was the Question All prest forward towards the Mark of the Prize of the High-Calling of God in Christ Jesus Phil. 3.14 But some lagg'd behind as is usual in a Race to which the Apostle aludes Ver. 13. Now the Question is VVhat should be done with these that lagg'd behind and cannot come up so near the Mark as we Burn them Consume them with Fire from Heaven or Earth says zealous James and John and the Papists Or shall we spur them up with Penal Laws or Excommunicate them and then Goal them No Ye know not what manner of Spirit ye are of saith Christ And St. Paul in the 15th verse of that 3d Chapter of the Philippians If any Man be otherwise minded or be a Dissenter of another Opinion then make use of what Remedy Of your VVrath Your Passion Your Penal Laws and Tests No no wait God's Leisure make use of your Charity rather than Wrath of your Patience rather than Passion leave him to the King to whom alone Conscience belongs for if any man be a Nonconformist or otherwise minded God shall Reveal even this unto him He did not bid them do as some spiritual Watchmen now do call the Corporal call the Constable So that indeed Antichristian weapons and Christ's weapons are vastly different quite of another Shape Form and Fashion and made of quite contrary Stuff and Matter Christ and his Holy Apostles converted the World not with Earthly Carnal and Political Tests and Penal Laws and are we Wiser than they Did they borrow any of the Magistrates Weapons or Weapons like Mabomet from the Arms of Flesh No they are purely Spiritual Heavenly and Divine God did forbid in the Old Law the wearing of Lindsey-Wolsey or the yoaking of an Ox and an Ass together not without a Mystery Almighty God and Christ under the Gospel especially hating the Chaos of mingling Heaven and Earth together jumbling carnal and spiritual Tools in Hodge-podge they will not mingle will they cannot possibly Incorporate nor carry on one main End and one onely Design For if ye have bitter Envying and Strife in your Hearts striving with carnal Tools carnal VVeapons carnal Laws and carnal Tests this VVisdom descendeth not from above but is fetch'd from Hell and is therefore Earthly Sensual Devilish But the Wisdom that is from above is first pure so should the Holy Sacraments be pure and unmix'd with carnal Polices then Peaceable Gentle and easie to be intreated c. binding men to the Peace and good