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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

a great Crack't Bell that is good for nothing but to fill up the Vocancy But must Apocryphal books too Justle the Holy Scriptures also out of the Church You 'l say the Mass-book did it before we did it Yea that 's true so a Popish interest also possibly brought this great Crack't Bell into a Protestant Steeple What does it do there there it hangs but had never been hang'd so high but that it was crack't and good for nothing but to give an unintelligible and Jarring sound to keep out a better and in room of a better it will serve well enough to make up the number of the Yea's and the No's Well may this Crack't Ceremony monger dread a wise and a pious and honest English Parliament more than he sears either God or the Devil more than Heaven or Hell lest they spy this Church-Cobweb though it hang alost and sweep it down or new Cast this useless Crack't Bell. You may know him by this certain mark for conscious of Guilt and of his own uselessness and Futility through well-grounded sear like the murmuring Israelites he longs for the Flesh pots of Egypt again Egyptian or Popish d●rkness which has cover'd as darkness does all his faults this Pope Joan in the dark has been as good as my Lady and a Popish King he joyes in to chuse rather than Angels food Manna What is it he knows not he relishes it not For he loves Popery in his heart as the Carpenter loves his Ladder because it helps him up so high to overlook his betters Well! let him even march then after his Brother Cartwright he is fit for nothing so well as to read Common-Prayer in the French Protestant Chappel in the Castle of Merli Thus have I run him to an Inavoidable Dilemma one of the Horns whereof must Gore my Ceremony-monger for it he obstinatly persist in his irrational and illegal Ceremonies the Law and the next Jury deprives him by his own Celebrated Act The Act of Uniformity which condemns all Ceremony mongers and all Ceremonies not contained in the Common-Prayer Book and then the King may in the Vacancy without Invading any mans propriety like Queen Elizabeth put this unprofitable and impossibly to be performed Nusance to its proper use and to a good use But if he Recant Abhor Repent and Forsake his Illegal and Popish-like Ceremonies we have got the day he is converted to be a good man and will then voluntarily relinquish that burden which no mortal can bear for fear of the Torments Eternal which none can bear the saying of St. Chrysostome in Heb. 13 7. H●mil ult 24 will penetrare his hard Heart and ●cared Conscience 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. I wonder in my heart 〈…〉 〈◊〉 it is posh 〈◊〉 for a chief Bishop in the Church to be saved c. High Priest Aaron said Nolo Episcopari Moses also was as loath to come into the Collar Send by the hand of whom thou wilt send said he in a Pet to God Almighty foreseeing the dreadful burthen St. Chrysostome in that Homily says in effect concerning a great Bishop as one said of an Executor viz. If I had a mind to send a man to the Devil I would make him my Executor and if I had a mind to send a man to the Devil I would make him a great Lord Bless me That vain ambitious man should hope to comb Heaven by that very sin of Haughtiness and Pride which made Lucifer a Devil I well know that in this Juncture every Projector is full of his Notion which may do well to in Utopia but is not practicable here And I 'le Answer such well-meaning Noddles is a grave Senator of Old Rome did his pious Friend that brought him an excellent Model of Government my Friend This would do well in Plato's Common-wealth but it is not feazable for us who live in the Dregs of Romulus But nothing is here propos'd but what is easie good for all sound pure primitive and practicable as well as profitable and hurts no body no not the great Diocesan and sleepy fat Prebend in their present Incumbencies and Possessions if they can with a safe Conscience continue them For St. Chrysostome is bolder with such Bishops as are so addicted to filthy Lucre that he quite incapacitates their for the place 〈…〉 in Ep. ad Tat. c. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hic ut indigenus Sacerdotio est removendus Let him be Depos'd nay Degraded as unworthy of that holy Function Some Repairs of necessity must be done as the Wisdom of a Pious King and Parliament shall think meet upon those that have by their filly illegal and foppish and Popish-like Constitutions and Ceremonies reduc't all true Devotion to a meer Pharisaical and Out-side Superstition which is also very silly and non-sensical to boor Does not St. Cyprian tell us Ep. 68. That in the Ordination of Sabinus the Bishoprick was conferred upon him by the Suffrage that is the Vote of the whole Fraternity or Brethren and by the Judgment of the Bishops that mee together in our presence c. That Exhortation in the Common-Prayer-Book before the Communion concerning the quieting of a troubled Conscience when the guilty person thinks himself not qualified sufficiently for the receiving that blessed Sacrament gives the Minister power of Absolution that is power of the Keys the Church Keys good reason of his own Church whereby I judge that every Minister has power to loose what any R●gister or Bishop or Surrogate has ●ound if he think fit tho' they also have bound the Spirit down to Hill or his body afterwards lies bound for want of Absolution in a ayl I think a Minister has power like Orphtus to setch him back from Satan but not from the Jaylor is not this to give the power of the Keys to a Minister by the Stature or Common Prayer Book which the common practice or Canons do not allow or admit This is to give and take again this is to give we do not know what this is to give the great Bishop more eyes than those same large eyes called Archdeacons this is to give Ministers the power that Christ gave them to Ru●e and Feed for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 1 Pet. 5 2. Signifies both Feed and Rule and one as much as the other God has joy ' d them together and wo be to him that sepatates those whom God hath joyned together only to gratifie his own ambitious and avaricious Claw that grasps more than it can possibly hold and by endeavouring to be Mr. Do all becomes Mr. Do ill this is to mock the Presbyrery give and take again this is just like the silly Charm In-Dock Out Nettle Ye shall saith the Stature Ye shall not says the Present Discipline here is wise work and most cousounded clashing and irreconeileable Ministrations Ecclesiastical well it is well in Apology that we can say it was made in

fit to come to the Bar and the Body of Physick by Physitians before they are fit to feel the Pulse or be Licensed His Answer is That he trust to his Deacon or Arch-deacon by implicite Faith He believes as the Arch-deacon tells him and that the form and manner of ordaining Deacons Priests and Bishops requires no more well it is well 't is very well answer'd and most Episcopally And why do you Confirm and lay Hands suddenly upon so many ignorant Persons that understand not one Article of Faith nor can so much as say the Creed The answer is The Common-prayer Book requires no more than to believe oy Implicit Faith the fitness of all that the Parish Priest says is fit he must take it for granted and believe as the Priest believes and see with other Mens Eyes but that is the Fault Brother of your Constitution that obliges you no more Work and Inspection than any Mortal can perform Besides where do we read except in the Mass Book and Common-Prayer Book of such a thing in Scripture as Confirmation by a Bishop That Scripture of little Children coming to Christ and he laid his Hands upon them and blessed them is in the Common-Prayer Book apply'd to infant Baptism in the Office of Publick Baptism and most incongruously too for that purpose for Jesus baptized none neither Men Women nor Children but his Disciples did that Nay the great Apostle of the Gentlies went about confirming the Disciples by sound Preaching but he baptized very few one or two or three he confeiles that he did baptize and if he had baptized any more he had forgo● therefore he did not make such a business of it in his own Person And as for laying Hands upon any Children or other there is not the least mention of any such Matter How came it then into the Church I 'le tell you Infants being not able to make a Confession or Profession of Faith and Repentance which two are required of all persons before they be baptized as saith the Church of England in her Doctrine Catechistical in the Common-Prayer Book and so said St. Augustine but I believe neither of them But because that Infants by reason of their tender Age cannot perform them therefore they do perform th● by Proxy 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 because the Sureties do promise a wise Reason for ●ises may be broken they shall perform both Faith and Repentance when they come to Age. Ay! Here 's a wise Reason for a Learned Church and enough to make all Rational Men that have not lost their Reason be Anabaptists or at least like Witches to deny their Baptism so Infancy For all Promises and Vowes are either broken or kept but the Promises and Vowes of God-fathers and God-mothers in infant Baptism are seldom or never kept but are broken Vows and broken Bonds and Promises The Sureties Promise and Vow that the poor Insolvent Child that cannot speak for it self shall when it can hear for Faith comes by hearing have Faith and when it can speak and gets Wit then it shall have Grace to confess and repent But suppose the Child live to have Wit enough to be a Ceremony-monger Had ever any Man or Woman of them the Grace to confess recant and repent And then the Promise of the Sureties is not worth more than some Lord's Promise nor worth a Farthing Again suppose the Child prove Deaf or Dumb or a Fool the Sureties Vow they do not know what nay if it live to be hang'd as many are for Thieves Witches Murderers Hlow is the God-fathers and Godmothers Vow and Promise perform'd when they vow'd and promised for poor Child in Baptism that it should forsake the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh 2dly They vow and promise that Child shall believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith do they not break their Vow If poor Child prove to be a sceptick a Hobbist or an Athlest 3dly They vow that the poor Child shall keep God's Holy Will and Commandment and walk in the same all the days of its Life Do they not break their Vow if poor Child for whom they swore a solemn Vow and Promise in the presence of God being an Oath happen to turn Apostate Papist Mahometan or Infidel are not the Sureties all forsworn And though they be or be not there 's the mischief no good can possibly come of it but that which is lucumbent upon Parents and which Sureties seldom or never mind namely Christian Education and if so they should not Swear and Vow in the Child's Name that the Child does or shall believe and repent It is enough to promise good Education if the God-fathers and God-mothers be barren or old and past Children in such case it is enough to 〈◊〉 kind and careful of another Man's Child But if they have Children of their own or likely to have any it is too much because Charity should begin at Home And therefore the said Vow and Promise is but usually like the common Discourse of Hectors and Bullies I swear and Vow they cry on all Occasions when they intend nothing by Vowing and Swearing but forswearing and adding a Lye to the Promise and Vow First Then the Sureties promise that which no honest Man can honestly promise who makes Conscience of a Vow because he promises that which is impossible for him to perform Secondly If the Insolvent Child be bound by Sureties and good Bayl if he leave them in the lurch he wrongs them not he gave them no such Commission Power Deputation Authority or Request to promise and vow in his Name And therefore that talk of a Vow in Baptism it non-sense idle and vain How can a Man break a Vow or a Bond that he never made but his Sureties made it in his behalf Ay without his order knowledge care or desire How is Child concern'd therein any more than other Children in the World I have to hear Non-sense much more to preach it except I were sure I was to preach to none but Fops that swallow every thing that the Priest puts in their Mouth like the Wafer God without chewing Thirdly Suppose another Man's Faith or Repentance that has enough of both for his own Salvation and also Merits called Works of Supererogation by the Papists to spare heaped up and running over which the Saints departed St. Bridget St. Winifred St. Francis St. Ignatius Loyola St. Coleman c. has left at their Departure as a last Legacy to the Pope as the Papists hold Faith and Repentance enough to save all the Whores and Rogues in the World to whom the Pope gives no Sells to any that has Money and is willing to Buy If Works of Supererogation be true it is the first Market I would make I had rather buy Heaven than a Knight-hood or a Bishop●ick But suppose the Fool and his Money be soon parted and a Man get nothing