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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43631	The naked truth. The second part in several inquiries concerning the canons and ecclesiastical jurisdiction, canonical obedience, convocations, procurations, synodals and visitations : also of the Church of England and church-wardens and the oath of church-wardens and of sacriledge.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1822; ESTC R43249	69,524	40

were the 12th part of Israel Except this be proved a Parity of maintainance cannot hence be argued by paying the Tenth or Tithes unless a Parity of numbers of the Clergy of England bore the like proportion to England that the Tribe of Levi did to Israel that is a 12th part And therefore it is an Idle Dream and a Bug-Bear to call detaining of Tithes Sacriledge except it can be prov'd that God or Christ or the Apostles ever took or commanded to be taken the Tenth to Gospel-Ministers as God expresly commanded the Tythes of all Israel to the Levites That bear no proportion in number to the Tribe of Levi nor are the Tenth part nor scarce the hundreth part of most Parishes and yet shall lick up the whole Tenth part of the Parish But though detaining of Tythes from Ministers is not Sacriledge yet detaining of Tithes from Ministers is as great a Sin as and no greater sin than detaining Tithes from Impropriators namely as other frauds and wrongs A transgression of the Laws of the Land Which the wily Priests never cared to trust to if they could help it nor to be beholden to though to the Law of the Land alone and Acts of Parliament they are beholden for any Tithes or portion of Tithes that they do enjoy and therefore they secure their Tithes with this same frightful word Sacriledge and also Jure Divino A Vicar has not the great Tithes no nor a poor man has not the great Mannors and Lordships that others have but the poor and poor Vicars have all that is their due and allowed them as their Propriety and let them be thankful to God and the Laws for that though not so great as other men's and perhaps neither do they deserve so much as other men howsoever it is their Lot and therefore poor Vicar Sorte tuâ contentus abi though I wish thee well and more For it is not Sacriledge for a Gentleman to have the great Tithes or Abbey-Lands disposed of by Acts of Parliament if he honestly purchas'd them of the Crown But 't is Robbery at least in heart for thee poor Vicar thus to covet thy Neighbours Goods thy Neighbours great Tithes that never never no not in the days of Popery never were thine nor thy Predecessors but belong'd to the said Abbots and Nun's from whom by the Law of the Land they as being got by a Cheat Escheated to the King and never were God's Propriety or Gods Purchase for if this could be prov'd All the Kings and Parliaments in the World cannot take them away and Alienate them But fair and softly Though the said Whores Extortioners Usurers and Murderers c. being deluded and Cheated with an Imaginary Purgatory and Paradise over the Gates whereof the Pope writes in Capital Letters This House is to be Let Enquire of St. Peter's Successor for the Key The silly Purchasers like those of old that bartred their Silver-Spoons Bodkins and Tankards for the Publique-Faith were Fob'd of their Moneys Goods and Lands Nay Deat 23.18 though the Moneys and Lands be tendred to God and by deed of Gift fairly engros'd Sealed and deliver'd in the presence of Witnesses and super altare too as Bishop Andrews notably observes who can prove that God Accepts this Tender and strikes up the Bargain because there ought to go always two Words to a bargain namely as both buyer and seller can agree And when and where did God say that he Accepted these cheating Purchases these fruits of Sin for Deodates Nay I know that God has said to the contrary that he will not accept of any such Gift Offering Bargain or Sale in Deut. 23.18 Thou shalt not bring the Hire of a Whore or the Price of a Dogg into the House of the Lord thy God for any vow for even both these are an abomination unto the Lord thy God It was Politickly done tho' to fence in the Abbey-Lands with a Jure Divino and yet even in the days of Popery The noyse the wyly Priests made eccho'd by the silly Priests Sacriledge Sacriledge did not Affright our Kings and Parliaments from making many Statutes of Mortmayn to stop the Current of this Cheating Deluge of Charity to the Church almost ready to drown the Common-wealth And yet like Pharaoh's Lean-kine the greedy-Priests that had Eat up the Fat of the Land look'd as Hungry and Sharp as if they had really kept and observ'd their Vow of Poverty and yet were the richest Cormorants in the Land which Vow notwithstanding some think they kept as well as their Vow of Chastity And yet they were the Archest Fellows in nature at a Wench Insomuch as one of their own Popes and the Learnedest of them all Aeneas Sylvius used to say that Marriage of Priests had Ruin'd many But a Single Life had Damn'd many more For which Causes amongst other the King and Parliament made those Nunneries those Abbey-Lands a just forfeiture to the Crown And though the said old Charm Jure Divino and Sacriledge Sacriledge have lost their wonted vigour as being now disoover'd to be meer Stalking-Horses under whose shaddow crafty Men catch their Prey yet still it is in use amongst us Protestants on many such Accounts And does feats still amongst the simple and unwary Nay some of the Learned whether affectedly and colourably only or no or that Interest the great Sollicitor and best Advocate but the worst Judge bribes their Judgments I cannot tell but sure I am many of them seem to pin their Faith upon it Thus a Learned Bishop of our own in his Book of the Collection of the Canons A.S. Bishop o Norwich quotes another Learned Bishop deceased In his Title-Page concerning the form of Consecration of a Church or Chappel c. In these very words namely Bishop Andrews Notes upon the Liturgy It is not to be forgotten though It be forgotten that whoever gave any Lands or Endowments to the Service of God gave it in a formal Writing as now-adays betwixt Man and Man Sealed and Witnessed and the Tender of the Gift was super altare by the Donor on his Knees And why And why why a Deed in Writing Sealed and Witnessed and Delivered And why had not God the keeping of it then So he had as near as they could come to him super altare where they suppos'd he stood Metamorphos'd from a Wafer and Transubst antiated Inclosed also in the Pix Or else I guess the Bargain and Sale had been as effectual to all Intents and Purposes though the said formal Writing had been Seal'd and deliver'd in the Belfrey the Body of the Church or in the Church-Yard or Moot-Hall But why I wonder is not all this Ceremony to be forgotten now that the days of Transubstantiation are at an End with English Bishops And why must this formal Story be filed up amongst the Memorandums of those odd Reliques and Canons And together also with the form of Consecrating a Church or Chappel and of the place of

Christian Burial And all this exemplified by the R.R. Father in God Lancelot Andrews late Lord Bishop of Winchester But above all those Admirable Collections the greatest wonder is how any Man durst Print and revive as he does the Proclamation of King Charles I. wherein the Proceedings of His Majesties Ecclesiastical Courts and Ministers are Proclaimed to be according to the Laws of this Realm Indeed when that Proclamation was put out They were so The Star-Chamber and High-Commission Court being then in being and 1 Eliz. 1. not repealed but in force But now the Case is alter'd and these Courts and that Law that founded them is taken away sure the structure then built upon it must follow the same fate and the Church left but with just the same Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical they had in the days of Queen Mary a little before the 1 Elizabeth 1. which by their own Confession was taken away from them as aforesaid And therefore It is high time surely That these Doubts were clear'd and resolv'd that both the Bishop's Jurisdiction might not be so precarious as it is And also that the People might know at length How much of the Canon-Law and How many Canons or whether any Canons be in force at this Day and when and for what Ecclesiastical matters they are lyable to be Excommunicated and Goaled or whether the Wisdom and Piety of the Realm does not think it most fit to make the same use of this same two-edged Sword as the Ancient Jews did of Goliah's Sword which was carefully preserved in the Temple and laid up behind the Ephod and never to be made use of but by David himself and not by every Whipster that knows not how to wield it no nor by David neither but in Cases of Vrgent Necessity The Apostle Paul that had the Gift of Discerning of Spirits and therefore never drew this Sword in a wrong cause as now adays but against the Enemy of Christ onely never drew it neither but Twice and that against Horrible Sinners An Incestuous Person and Blafphemers And therefore though Excommunication was in use in the Church whilst the said Gifts of Discerning of Spirits were frequent and onely against Notorious Offenders and Offences yet Quaere Whether every Commissary and Lay-Vicar-General though he has a Priest by him sometimes for fashion-sake did ever wield this sharp-Weapon or draw it upon every Occasion as when the Register's Fees and Sumner's Fees are not paid especially in these Days when Men may justly scruple whether they ought to obey their Processes as not being in the King's Name and under the King's Seal as the Law enjoyns 'T is sad thus to send Men to Satan because they do not pay the Knave a Groat especially when the Sumner does not Cite Men according to Law and to make Appearance before a Court too that does not pretend to Sit by His Majesties Commission nor by Vertue of their Original Constitution and ordinary Jurisdiction from the Pope This to Assert would make them incurr a Proemunire what can they say for themselves The Apostle Paul did many things that we cannot do our Blessed Saviour did many things which would be sin in us to Attempt to do He walk't upon the Waters he Fasted 40 Days and 40 Nights he commanded his Servants to take away a Man's Ass and Colt tyed we may not Attempt these things they are above our Skill And so I fear it is beyond our Skill and Abilities to wield and draw sheath and unsheath that Goliah's Sword of Excommunication Especially when Men offend onely our Interests and not the Law of the Land and yet it is often brandished against this sin of Sacriledge Sacriledge and by those many times that do not or will not know what Sacriledge is Nay I have heard some Men speak great Words against the King and Parliament in Hen. 8. time and against all Parliaments ever since that Alienated or consent to Alienate these Abbey-Lands and Nunneries as if they would smite them with this Thunder-bolt of Excommunication as guilty of Sacriledge if they durst It was as safe for Naboth and his Vineyard to lye conveniently and next Hedge to Ahab's as sometimes to have had Lands bordering upon St. Petèr's Patrimony why so what can't St. Peter or his Pretended Successors do Oh! this Religion this Engine of pretended Religion this Dart of Excommunication when 't is out of the Magistrates keeping shall wound and mawl them wonderfully Ask the Excommunicated Venetians when Dandalus their Ambassador came with a Rope about his Neck to beg their Peace ask the poor Duke of Ferrara if this be true Let the King Command a Becket or a Woolsey to his Allegiance They will be his Humble Servants with a Salvo honore Dei And say others in omnibus nisi rebus Christi so that these kind of Religious Bigots always keep in Reserve a Starting-Hole a Loop-Hole a Sally-Port always ready and open when their Forces and occasion calls to Attempt against the King's Supremacy especially when their Humours are cros't or their Pride Affronted or their Revenge unappeas'd or their Covetousness unglutted And 't is a hard matter to Glut it The Popish Religious Houses had once a third part of the Land and were they Glutted Bishops and Arch-Deacons have enough to live on without sharing with and pareing every Benefice in the Diocess yet though they know not how they came honestly and lawfully by their Procurations Synodals and Visitations though it be against Law Conscience and Compassion for the Rich thus to pinch the Poor yet take it from them And 't is a hundred to one if they do not plead Jure Divino for the Tenure and cry out Sacriledge Sacriledge Of the Church of England Quaere What it is THere 's nothing more ordinary than for People to say in these days of Part-taking and distinguishing who Men are for I am for the Church of England Whereas there is not one of a Thousand understands what he means or who he means in saying so In the Days of Popish Prelacy Men were Taught to believe as the Church believes meaning as the Clergy believes So that for Salvation they needed no further Knowledge or Insight than a blind Implicite Faith in the Church that is in the Clergy To see with Clergy-mens Eyes to believe as they pleas'd to prescribe to be led thus by the Nose to Heaven was the Divinity of Old And so a Man did but follow his Nose in the dark no matter for Eyes The Arch-Deacons those oculi Episcoporum together with the Bishops they could see and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Oversee for us all 'till at last the Church had no other Members but Head and Eyes a monstrous Church sure And though the Holy Apostles and Elders had as good Eyes one would think as these Pretenders and pretended Successors yet they never had the Forehead that those Men put on who confine and Monopolize the Church of Christ to themselves alone