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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

all with them no not the Pope himself But what if I prove that our Kings at their Coronations have at the same time been ordain'd Clergy-men they are no more excluded then by our Laws from the power of the Keys then Mr. Archdeen or the Pope himself What is Ordination but the ordering designing or setting a Man a part to some office if to the Ministry then there are certain significant Words to that purpose and what more significant words for Ordination to the Priest-hood or making a Man a Clergy man than those the Bishops uses to our Kings namely with Unction Anthems Prayers and Imposition of Hands as is usual in the Ordination of Priests with the same Hymn come Holy Ghost Eternal God c. The Bishop saying also amongst other things Let him obtain favour of the people like Aaron in the Tabernacle Elisha in the water Zacharias in the Temple give him Peters Key of Discipline and Pauls Doctrine Which last Clause was pretermitted in times of Popery from the Coronation of Hen. 6. till Charles 1. and Charles 2d lest it should imply the King to be more a Clergy man and Ecclesiastical Person than these Archdeacons could afford him but our Gracious King Charles 2d and his Father at their Coronations had the antients forms of crowning Kings reviv'd and in the Anointing the Bishop said Let those Hands be Anointed with Holy Oyl as Kings and Prophets have been Anointed and as Samuel c. Then ●he Arch-bishop and Dean of Westminster put the Coif on the King's Head then put upon his Body the Surplice saying this Prayer O God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords c. And surely of old the very Pope himself look't upon our Anointed Kings as Clergymen else why did the Pope make Hen. 2 his Legate De Latere here in England the usual office of the Archbishop of Canterbury usually styled Legati Nati Therefore Mr. Arch-deacon you talk like an unthinking Black-coat stockt with a little superficial Learning when you say our Laws exclude the King from the Keys of the Church to which he has as good right as your D. D. Divinity ship And indeed to give the Man his due he is glad afterwards to confess that Constantine and the Eminent Christian Emperours called Councels and approv'd their Canons Then by your leave dear D. D. They also for the same reason might upon occasion and if they had seen cause also disprove the same who then was Papa of old Pater Pa-trum surely no other but he that is PaPa I mean Pa●ter Pa-triae All the Male-Administrations in Ecclesia stical Government take their Rise and Original from our Ignorance of the Power of the Keys or who are the Clavigers Key-keepers or Porters to let them in and turn them out of the Church The bulky Clergyman called a Bishop an Ordinary or a Diocesian he we say keeps the Church-Keys he Excommunicats and Excludes Sinners out of the Church and he alone receives them and lets them in but that 's false the sneaking Register and Surrogate do that Job Ay But who entrusted a Bishop alon● to be the Church-Porter Door-keeper or Church-key-keeper Where is his Commission Where is his Authority and who gave him this Authority For it is evident in Holy Scripture that God never gave him any such Commission Place Office or Authority to keep the Keys of the Church any more than the Speaker of the House of Commons or Chair-man to a Committee has power to turn out of the House or let in any of his Fellow-Members For does a Bishop differ from another Presbyter more than the Chair-man from the rest of the Committee or he that gives the Rule of the Court at Session differ from the rest of his Brethren and Fellow-Justices he is no better man nor the more learned wise nor more honest a man though he be Ordain'd to be the mouth of them that 's all to to speak what they put into his Mouth The Speaker takes too much upon him to speak the Sense of the House 'till the Majority of Votes has given him Instructions and Commissions to pronounce a Sentence or the Sense of the House or to turn any Member out of the House of Commons he has no such Authority he is the Speaker indeed and is look't upon as the wisest and fittest Man for that place it should be so it is not always so one or other of the Members must be chosen Speaker or Chairman and have precedency for Order●salte and to avoid confusion but he no otherwayes differs from other Members except only that the Honourable Speaker is the Honourable Mouth that 's all after the Members have chosen and ordain'd him and the King has confirm'd him Even so a Bishop has no new Character confer'd upon him more then when he was but a Presbyter or Elder save only the Kings Ordination or Mandate or Conge d' Estire The E●●ction of the Dean and Chapter is a mee● mockery as aforesaid besides the playing with the Edge●ools and mocking of God. Bishops and presbyters used to be chosen just as Parliament Men are chosen by the Majority of the Vows of the people as shall be more particularly proved in the 〈◊〉 in the Chapters concerning Bishops and Ordination Thus Paul and Barnabas were chosen and ordain'd by the whole Church Acts 13.3 Perhaps the chief Church-members laid their Hands upon or ordain'd the Ministers Missioners or Messengers of the Church but the worst Member had as much power and vertue to ordain a Messenger Elder or Bishop as the best Bishop or presbyter if the Majority of Votes had ordain'd and so appointed as is clear from Scripture and the practise of the primitive Church and shall be more particularly insisted upon in the Conclusion of the Chapter of Ordination Ordination What is it more then chusing approving or setting a Man a part for an Office to do business relating to this life or a better I will not say in Church or State or as a Clergy-man or Lay-man for these are idle ungrounded vain and odious names of distinction where God and Holy Scripture never made any such distinction and has not only confounded our notions of things but has been and yet is the cause of most of our Confusions in what Men mischievously distinguish and call Church and State which are not two things nor two distinct Bodies if you make them so you must make two Kings and two distinct Heads to these distinct Bodies and that is one too much And if you make a Clergy-man and a Lay-man two distinct sorts of persons you make a Man that God never made And if so Then Clergy-man I must Catechize you Who made you so God It is false For God in Holy Scripture does not call the Preachers but the Hearers not the Bishops Presbyters and Minister's the Clergy but the Hearers and Flock are God's Clergy 1 Pet. 5.1 2 3. The Presbyters which are amongst you I exhort who am also

the T●uth whatever be the Tune And why do all the People say this Verie There 's no Rule no Rubrick for it Or is it because the Ministers are wise and know better things and therefore will give the loolish unthinking M●mick's leave to tell that false Story But I am quite Tyced It is end●ess to find fault I had much rather see it amended the Common-Prayer Book is the more Amiable to me as Old Gold is more acceptable than New it has been long Tryed and has endured the Test pretty well which is more than can be said of any other Desultory Prayers that like New Guinees may many times be Counterfeit but as the most Tryed Gold will well endure to it may sometimes need the Refiners Fire But as for the said Black-Guard of Sumners Surr●gaces Apparitor's Informers Registers c. that Live by the Sins of the People it is as much beyond the Art of Man to 'mend them as it is to 'mend a broken Cob-Web and when you have u●'d your utmost skill it will not quit cost I have Studied the Point and yet am I not one jot the better Artist at it than I was Seven Years ago when my advice in my Naked Truth was to dress them according to the Vertuoso's Receipt to dress 〈◊〉 viz After you have wash't them in several Waters then Salt them Pepper them and lastly the surest way to prevent their Maliguity is to throw them on the Dunghill A Racr To bring the Pillory in D●sgrace Fruges consumere nati as if they were born for no other end but like Rats M●ce Polcats and other Vermin to cat up the Victuals Hunt about for a Prey and Run Squeaking up and down N●ver was there such Church Discipline and such Ecclesiastical Fellows to Manage it in the whole Christian World except amongst the Papists they indeed have the like Harpyes but every private Priest there is more than a Bishop here can take Confessions search their Entra●s and enjoyn Pennance Whereas we are Cumber'd with the same great Diocesan's but every P●●st there has Power to Rule as well as Feed the Flock and the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 1 Pet. 5.2 Si●infies both to Rule and Feed God commands both to every Presbyter but the Bishops Counter-check God's Commands and will take all the Weight upon themselves with the help of Sumners Notaries Register's c. Well God help them and forgive them they can take the Charge and strive for 〈◊〉 and think it a great Honour Ay so it is if rightly d●arged which is impo●s●c in our present Circumstances therefore have a care that the great H●nos ●e not too great an Onus a Burthen heavy enough to break the Back of any Mortal no Apostle duest undertake it but took care to leave Res●●entiary Bishops in Creet one for every Two Parishes when the Tenth part of those were not Christians neither but the generality of our People also differ from ●●fi less only in Name or the Baptismal Vow of Sureties in Baptism if ever they had any and is not worth a Rush nay it is ●orse than nothing by the P●rjury And in Italy at this Day they have many Diocesses that are not half so bigg nor by half so Rich and Populous as the Pa●ish●s of St. Andrews-Holborn St. Margarets-Westminster Sr. Martins Stepney St. Giles and many others yet not any of these is thought a Charge great enough for one single Shoulder under the Bishop whereas good St Augustine knew not how to discharge alone the Eplscopal Work of little Hippo without Co adjutors and in the little Teritory Adjoyning there were many Bishops as one at the Castle Synica near H●ppo another at the Castle Eussula ad Ecclesiae H●pponensis Paraeciam August de Civitate Dei l. 22. c. 8 Epist 261. Epist 68 Ecce Interim Episcopos nosires qui sunt in Regione Hepponensi ubi a vestris tanta mala patimu● convenite Aslemble our Bishops that are in the Territory of Hippo c. B●shops that had a City to Govern did not use to Bishop it in the Ter●ory Adjoyning the Bishop of Rome never pretended that his Diocess of Rome reached beyond the City for at this Day there are Forty Bishops in the Ter●tory of Rome and of old there were Sixty Nine Bishops there and not one of their Diocesles is so Great so Populous and so Rich as St. Andrews-Holborn Pope Innocent I. Epist ad Descentium Episcopum Eugubi Ep c. 4 cum omnes Ecclesi●e nostrae intrae Civitatem Constitutae sunt All the Churches of my Diocess are within the City and Acts 14.23 A Bishop or Elder had but one Church And Bishop usher Irish Relig. p. 63. says that the Diocess of the Bishop of Duplin in Ireland did not Reach over the City Wall tantum intra muros exercet Episcopale Offi●ium This which I have said is enough to pious Bishops but to such as are given to Filthy Lucre nothing will satisfie but more Mammon more more even Pope Leo himself Condemns such Bishops saying Domìnarì magis quam Consulere subditis quaerunt They make it their business to Dominter but not to Consult the Welfare of those under their Charge Pope Gregory Appointed Twelve Bishops in the County of York Respon ad 8. Interrog Surely our Bishops and great Doctors have contemptible thoughts of the Common Prayers as a Mean Underling Office or else why do they put mean Underling Curates and Singing men Sadlers or Coblers that can Sing and therefore made Deacon's to serve to Road Prayers and ●lo● them to some Tune and as soon as that Drudgery is over then a way goes the Quer●ster to his Shop whilst the Doctor and the Bishop reserve themselves for the Topping Pulpit if they say any thing except benedicite leaving the Common Prayer to Readers some School-boys not yet ●n●ncipated from School-dames will Read more Audibly and distinctly than many of them In short the Common-Prayer if ' mended will serve for a Crutch to the Lame and though I blessed be God need none yet the Crutch must not be thrown out of the Church for then you must throw the Parson after it general'y all England over The Common Prayer Book Oh! 'T is all in all it is a Crutch to the Lame Parson Eyes to the Blind Parson and puts Words into the Mouth of the otherwise Dumb Parson nay it is Ears too to the Deaf Disciples and Musick Ceremony monger the very O●accusticon of the Spirit Therefore here 's my Hand to it it shall have my Vote for my poor Brethrens sake upon condition tho' that it be not G●amb'd down other Men's Throats that need not be so Fed but can Chew what they swallow and also upon condition That we do no longer exclude a great part of Holy Scripture to make Room for Tobit and his Dog I mean The Apocrypha Have we not Apocryphal and unscriptural Ceremony-mongers enow that fill up the Steeples and High Places in the Church l●ke