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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

Presby●ery by all wh●c● Ceremonies of Kneeling Standing and Laying on of Hands is only meant P●ayers made when they were in that posture now who can Imagin then that the Prei●●● of a Bishop i● more needful than the Presence of the Presby●ers or People except he could Pray more heartly and more Sp●ri●ually than the rest Which he u●ually was supposed to do because his Worth no● his Friends Relations Mon●y or K●nd●ed advanc'● him in Gospel Times and in the Primitive-Tin●s When Timothy was Ordain'd a Bish●p the Presbyters only did it except Presbyters and Bishops be only two Names for one person as undoub●edly they are after-times did d●●●inguish them how Only by P●ec●dency as the Chair Man of a Comm●tee the Speaker he that in Sessions gives the Rule of the Court but no better Men nor other Character ●han his other Brethren the Justices or Memb●rs except for Order sake Precedency And therefore for Order-sake the Bishop with the Presbyters or the Presbyters or in default any Church Member or the whole Church might have L●id on Hands as well as have Prayed at an Ordination thus when the holy Ghost had chosen Paul and Barnabas th●y had their Mission from the whole Church Acts 13.2 3. Je●om and Chrysostom agree that there is no difference be●wix● a Pr●●by●●r and Bishop but only Ordination and that was by Custom as the best man not as the sole men he never could Lawfully Ordain but in his own Church and his own Church Members only and by the consent of the rest of the Members for Bishops for Three Hundred Years after Christ had no more Souls in their Diocesses than they were intimately and familiarly acquainted with this makes Chrysostome say that notwithstanding the Custom of a Bishops Presence at Ordination yet betwixt Presbyters and Bishops there was little or no difference Homil. 11. in 1 Tun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very little difference and in Scripture times nothing at all Theop●●lact calls it ferme ni●il next to nothing namely Precedency but the Church in Scripture or the Faithful Ordain'd as many Bishops as was needful and may not Presbyters Ordain now without a Bishop's Presence as well as of old in Scripture Times or as well as Bishops do Ordain Arch-bishops and Metropolitan's But in Holy Writ if any had the Precedency the Presbyter had it The Presbyter's that are amongst you saith St. Peter I exhort who am also a Presbyter 1 Pet. 5.1 no greater Titles of Honour can be given than what Age and Nature gives thence comes Sieur Monsieur Syre and Sir or Father Ma●am a diminutive of Dame or dam Madam my dam or Mother and Age being Honour●ble the greatest Title of Honour is thence deriv'd Senior Seniore Seignior G●and Seniore in Spanish Italian and Lingua Franka Presbyter amongst the Greeks Elder or Alderman or Earl all is one derivative from Seniority to that if People be Ambitious of a Name Presbyter or Earl Alderman or Earl of the Church is far before Overseer or Bishop whose Diocess was at first no bigger than that he might ●asily Oversee it or see over it now it is Monstrous The burden of a Bishop is so great and the danger greater in Male-administration that 〈◊〉 H●mil ult 23 6. 13 in Heb. 12.17 says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What 〈…〉 for Sours Y●● and at his 〈◊〉 too Does not the Horrid Hazard threaten his Head But what cares some Men for the Thunder of Heaven's Vengeance till it fall upon them they are Stouter than those two Atheistical Emperours Tiberius and Caligula they would Run under Ground in Yaults and Caves when it Thunder'd but some are as unre●enring as the High. Priest of Rome called Julius Caesar that notwithstanding that he Rea● Divinity Lectu● in Rome to the People was the greatest Robber and Murderer in the World and Sacrific'd to his Ambitious and Greedy Rapacity the bravest C●mmon wealth that ever the Sun saw but he fell in the height of h●s J●li●y and to shall all ●erably whose Portion is as they d●sire in this 〈◊〉 only In short the difference betwixt Presbyter and Bishop in Holy Writ is nothing at all no not in Ordinations As in Asrica Presbyters did Ordain and so now at this day in Germany France and in the most Prorestant Churches And must we Schismatice from Scripture And from all the Protestants in the World to follow a Custom they got into the Greek Church Fourty Customs they had besi●es this contrary to Scripture Customs Chrysostome being a Greek Bishop and Hierom though Writing in Latin yet dwelling and conversing amongst the Greeks but would never make so bold a venture as to be a Bishop in those times so the Fourth Century when the Task was fourty times easier because the Province or D●●cess was fourty times less nay a Hundred times less than now in England and Wales besides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make the most on 't is but per Civitates alongst the Cities which being a Hundred in Creet and the Parisheth 〈◊〉 two Handred and Seven and not a Tenth part Chilmans this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is only sillily Construed to make such Havock 〈◊〉 it has both in the State and all true Devotion Yet Men drink Healths to the Prosperity of the Church of England I they mean hereby a good Health to the Protestant Head of the Church and the Protestant Members the only True meaning with all my Heart let it pass Bu● if by the Church of England they Scandalously mean there by only the great Diocesan's that cannot possibly Watch over Sou●s excep● by 〈◊〉 Faith in the Black Guard of Apparitors Sumners Register● Proctors Canonists Lay-V●cars Vicar-Generals Commissaries Officials Surrogates or I do not know who at the General Randevo●z and Head Quarters at Doctors-Commons What an affront is this to the True Protest●nt Church of England I grant that the 〈◊〉 have all this whole Ragged Regiment and by the same Names too and for the same Service in their Popish Muster-Roll But God forbid That the Reformed Church of England should signally d●ffer from Popish Church Discipline not so much as Nominally and so little really and to purpose that some have only been Starved to Death in a J●yl and many Hundreds and their Families undone whilst the Smith field Fire 's were fierce indeed but the ●ortures did not last long Our Marciful Hands made Men feel Death long and often before that King of Terrors was permitted to end the Pains Oh! blessed Reforma●n Y●● you 'le say our L●rany is in English the Mass Litany in Latin and the Saints are omitted and Te D●um is ●ung in English or half Jabb●rd over unintelligibly after the firth Le●n We praise thee O God We Ack●ow●●ge thee to be the Lord All the Earth doth worship thee c. All the Earth 〈◊〉 wish it did but in my little Travels I know it is lasse for more than half the Earth are Infidels to old Day There we are out of

much less now when there are so few Sands in the Hour glass of my Life yet to run out by the Course of Nature the greatest Wrath can precipitate but a few minutes dye we must and can any man dye or suffer in a better Quarrel than in vindicating the Laws of God and the King in spight of the Pope in Italy or any other in his likeness CHAP. II. Of Implicite Faith. THat man has neither Worth nor Honour in him that does not truly love and honour a Person of Honour and true Vertue and Worth and so much the more for the Grandeur but to idolize a mee Image because a great and golden Image and because Neouchadne● Zar the King set it up what is it out Popery Idolatry or Flactery or Poppery I know not how to absolve the Princes in Dan. 3.3 the Governours the Judges the Treasurers the Counsellors wise Fellows ●nd the She●iffs When they ador'd the Golden Image which Nebuchadnezzar the King had set up though I confess being sixty Cublts high as high as the top of the Steeple it made a great Figure in the World. And what can my Ceremony-Monger say more for himself than that great golden Image Both of them have a great Face and Bulk but want 〈◊〉 for their standing and are dumb and blind For my ceremony Monger in the Church I am in good earnest and in sober sa●ness telling a woful Truth which has almost ruin'd our Church does almost all his great Acts in the Church like the Papists by blind Devotion and implicite Faith. Is there any to be admitted into the Sacred Function of Priesthood who ought to be apt and fit for so great so Holy and so Divine an Office otherwise The contempt of the Clergy and a Contemptible Clergy is the necessary and sad Consequence yet this is hudled up by Implicite Faith in M● Archdeacon or some casic Deputy or Surrogate The Bishop that Ordains is not obliged to know any thing of the matter but goes upon Trust for all in that great Work of Ordination as you may see in the words of Ordination in the Common-Prayer Book all is done I said before by Implicite Faith as the Papists call it but this more silly than Popery for it is more rational to believe as the Church believes than to believe as a silly Surrogate believes Is there a man to be thrown out of the Church This is done by Implicite Faith too in an casie Surrogate and Sell Soul R●gister that perhaps has not paid the last payment for his place and Money must be had whereas the Bishop that signifies it knows nothing of the Matter nor of the Proceedings or Proof but by Implicite Faith in the Registers Certificavit ●s aforesaid and then the Judges grant a Capias by Implicite Faith too in his hand that knows nothing of the Matter neither of his own knowledge Is not here fine doings the while in the greatest of Church Works The out and in The in and out is all by an Implicite Faith more irrational than that of the Papists Nay the poor Parson of the Parish must neither will nor Choose but must in pain of the Law Excommunicate and deliver to Satan any bedy that the Registers Hand and Seal marks out with an Anathema by meer Implicite Faith in Pope-Sell-Soul the Register So when the Devil and the Jaylor has worried him and tortured him as they do suspected Witches 'till they confess and he be willing to say or do any thing to get out of the Tormentor's Clutches and the Excommunicated Person humble enough to open his Purse to Mr. Register poor Parson must absolve him again by the old and Implicite Faith in the Register In Confirmation too all 's done by Implicite Faith in the Parish-Priest nay usually not so well but hand over head to all that kneels for it though some of them to my knowledge were never Baptized nor can yet say the Creed so well as it is possible to teach a Parrot nor understanding one Article thereof much better than a Parrot Here 's sine doings And a rare Consti●ution to sight for Tooth and Nalt Swear and Forswear by a blind Devotion and Implicite Faith and scarce a man knows wherefore But no Kettles make so great a Sound and Noise as those that are empty But when men go out of God's Way the further and faster they go the further and faster they go astray The very Disciples of Christ as well as Popish Priests and Cardinals sell to Justling one another even in the presence for the place the chief and uppermost but our Lord told them they behaved themselves more like worldly Princes than his Disciples saying It shall not be so amongst you Pride says It shall be so but will my Ceremony Monger on his Death-bed and at the tremendous Judgement Seat say so as he does now In spight of Christ and his Word I am your humble Servant says the Pope nay your Servants Servant Servus Servorum yet Lucifer himself is not prouder Dear Brother says a Popish Bishop in his Style to the rest of the Presbyters when at the same time he makes no more of them than a meer Pavement in State to walk upon and trample money too the poorest Priest must give his Highness though the Family at home want Bread Nay the poor Sheep must not bleat neither but though clipt twice a year like Sheep before Shearers they must be dumb so open they not the Mouth yet I told the Outlandish Bishops seven years ago of this unconscionable Avarice to as little purpose in my ●aked Truth saying I have read that Pharaoh's Lean Kine eat up the Fat ones but for the Fat to eat up the Lean 't is most unconscionable have a care of Bare-bones lest they stick in your Throat or in your ' what shall I call thee Ecclesiastical Greedy-gut you 'll never leave your Gormandizing 'till you surfeit I fear This is the true Reason of Implicite Faith in Italy and England Bishops gape more than they can swallow in spight of that terrible Thunder Their Blood will I require at the Watchman's hand They have Charge upon them that no flesh alive can discharge Bishops and Cu●ates says the Common-Prayer implying that we of the small Fry are only Journey-men or Curates to the Bishops well with all my heart the greater Charge lies heavy on his Soul. No he may say though I cannot be here and there too yet I have Journey-men every where I must by Implicite Faith believe my Journey-man my Proctor my Surrogate and my Register but in requital they also by Implicite Faith believe me Is not here rare doings And all this Inconveniencie came at first only by Avarice and Arabition which a whole Dincess and sometimes a D●ancry and a rich Commundum added thereunto could not glut well that 's as to the Wages if they were twice as big one Man can make a shift to swallow yea but as for the Work it