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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

there be any such thing should desire to hold it at this Precarious Rate they do I say not this that I grudge any Power they have but wish them more But Power though fading is so pleasant to some Men that they are loth to part with it or like frank Gamesters venture it for a better and as much more rather like drowning Men they lay hold of that that does but help to sink and drown them in conclusion And is it not worth the greatest care to give relief in this Extremity or set the Church that is the Kingdom to rights which has gone so long lame and limping on the right side But how shall this be done there 's the skill or who shall do it The Synod sure that call themselves the Representative Church of England in pain of Anathema to all that dare deny Ay but the Laity the Laity have got generally an odd opinion to see with their own Eyes and not by Spectacles especially not Spectacles of Clergy make which of old they were so long us'd to they thought it spoiled their eye-sight and so being kept blind the Clergy led them by the nose whilst the ignorant Laity pinn'd their Faith upon the Clergy-mans sleeve and Ignorance was the Mother of their Devotion Besides The naked Truth is uniform but Canons and Decrees of Clergymen do so differ and clash one with another that it is impossible they should all be truth Truth which never yet was patcht and Pye-bal'd or wore a Party-colour'd Coat But how has one Council condemn'd and curst another to the pit of Hell How usual for one Pope to dig up the Carcase of his immediate Predecessour and either hang him up in Effigie at least or throw his dead Body after it has been sufficiently abused at farewell into Tyber Again why do Clergy men only Represent in Council and not all the Brethren the Laity as of old How come Synod men to be so lickt that all others compar'd to them are but an ugly shapeless Lump of deformity Or how come they the Clergy to be the Representative Church of England when met in Synod though the Lay-people never gave any Votes in their Election nor so much as any of their Advices consulted about the chusing those Members of the Convocation And if not how come they obliged to obey their Decrees and Canons when they never gave them their Suffrages and consent Though the Clergy chuse some of them the Nether-house for so they distinguish Parliament like yet the Vpper house is made up of Bishops and the Richer Dignitaries Deans Arch-Deacons c. which make up by far the major part the Inferiour Clergy of the Kingdom have no Vote in their Election and yet must be concluded by them their Canons and Decrees as if they really had given their Suffrages to their Election and the Constituting of the Synod for it is all but umbrage As for Example In the Diocess of London there are Five Arch-deaconries namely the Arch-deaconries of London Essex Middlesex Colchester and Hartford In each of these Arch-deaconries Two of their Inferiour Clergy are chosen Procurators for the ensuing Synod Elected de novo as often as there is a new Parliament chosen And these Ten one would think should be a very fine ballance to the Hierarchy and Richer Dignitaries the Bishop Dean Five Arch-deacons the Chapter c. and almost but not altogether able to turn the Scales But I thank you when it comes to there 's no such matter for it is five to one that not one of those Synod men which with such ado are Elected shall sit For the Bishop out of these Ten chuses and culls out Two and sends the rest home again as if they never had been chosen And how then should these Synod men be called properly and in pain of Damnation so owned for the Representative Church of England since they are not at all Elected by the Laity nor any of the Vpper-house chosen by the Clergy and of the Nether house but Two of Ten that are chosen are suffered to sit Besides that said Branch of 1 Eliz. 1. on which the Convocation did once flourish being now wither'd and made of no effect what does a Convocation signifie all these things consider'd together towards a Representative Church of England and to lay Burthens and Impositions necessary or unnecessary upon the Natives without his Majesties Commission Besides since 1 Eliz. 1. is repealed whereby the High-Commission-Court had so great Power as by vertue of that Statute to dispense with the said Statute of 1 Edw. 6.2 after it was revived by 1 Jacob. 25. all the Reign of King James and part of Car. 1. so that they never did admit the King's Arms into the Seal of the Court nor yet vouchsafe to send Process and Citations c. in any other Name no not the Kings but their own only is to be attributed to the dreadful awe in which Nobles Lawyers Gentry and Commonalty were kept by the Terrors of a Star-Chamber and High Commission-Court Which being now Dissolved Quere whether they must not be accountable for the neglect of that Statute of 1 Edw. 6.2 whenever Authority shall reckon with them in good time But in other cases 't is said Forbearance is no Acquittance These Oecumenical Provincial Synodical Classical c. Assemblies and Synods with their Directories and Impositions Canons and Decrees have made a great deal of noise and bub-bub in the World Theod. lib. 1. c. 6. which brings to my mind that passage of Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia an Arrian to the Lord Paulinus Bishop of Tyrus namely Some approved one Party some another The Actions of both parts lookt not only like a Tragedy but also deserved much weeping and lamentation The case was not now as in former times for they were not Forraign Enemies that took Arms against the Church but Men of one Houshold of one Kindred yea and such as were Fellows at one Table instead of Lances they whetted their Tongues one against another Nay moreover when they were Members compacted and united into one body yet for all that they were armed to Battle within themselves Then since as must be confessed men whilst humane are subject to erre and especially in their own cases and for their own Interest to be partial cruel and passionate since one Canon contradicts another one Synod another one Assembly another and perhaps all of them repugnant to Truth Holy Scripture and the Laws of this Realm Until it please God to send us the Infallible Spirit God grant us the humble meek and milde Spirit not this bloody cruel Horse-leach Spirit of imposing upon men and making them believe in spight of their teeth and putting out their eyes because they are not so good and clearly discerning or more quicksighted than our own calling one another Heretick to the end of the Chapter which has as aforesaid caused most of the Miseries Wars Mutinies Bloodshed and Calamities in the

the Sheriffs c. cannot as the Law then was and now is make such Execution and give the Clerks presented Jus in Re or possession And if a Bishop or Arch-deacon for they are but men do refuse the same wantonly or through prejudice or design for a Kingsman or a Friend of his own when modestly requested by the Clerk presented and will not admit him habilem then the Law has provided a Writ called Quare Impedit to force him to shew a Lawful cause in the Kings-Courts and by them approved or otherwise to force the Bishop to make Execution according to the Patrons Presentment Thus we see in Times of greatest Popery our Ancestors did assert their own Proprieties against Arbitrary Proceedings of Men that call'd themselves the Church the Church I le give but one Instance more to show what little pretence the Clergy alone have to entitle themselves alone the Church Representative of England distinct from the Lay-Brethren and that is in making a Canon to Cringe to the East and Bow at the Name of Jesus Object How now will some say Of all instances you might have forborn this For can any good Christian do too much Reverence to the Name of Jesus We now know what you would be at Phil. 2.10 11. for does not the Apostle say that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow c. this might have been let alone Answ But I will not let it go so yet must acknowledge readily and chearfully That there is no other Name under Heaven by which we can be saved nor any other name except that of God and Jehovah that deserves more signal Reverence And yet notwithstanding Bernardus non videt omnia nor the Church the Church I mean the Clergy in her Placet's always rational much less Infallible The words in Phil. 2.10 11. are That at the Name of Jesus every knee not every head should how of things in Heaven therefore not litterally to be understood for there is no knees there to bow and things in Earth and things under the Earth there is no knees there neither except those in Graves and they are too senceless at least too stiff to bow And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord Therefore such as take the words litterally ought at the same time that they bow the head or knee to use also their Tongues and confess at the same time that Jesus Christ is Lord. But I say in obedience to this Holy Scripture or rather some Clergy-men's Comment thereon Men at this day at the Name of Jesus bow their heads not their knees yet the Text speaks not one word of that nay in all discourse as well as in the Church men that understand it in the litteral sence ought to bow the knee and not dop the head and also at the same time they ought with their Tongues confess That Jesus Christ is Lord. Thus when we hear a Common-Swearer 100 times in an hour swear by Jesus as is usual and often we ought by this Interpretation to make a Legg every time and with our Tongues Eccho to him and cry out Jesus Christ is Lord. But such was the wisedom for want of comparing the Words with the Context For by the Name of Jesus there is understood the Power and Soveraignty of Jesus to which God hath highly Exalted him not those 4. or 5. Letters but a Power above every Name that is above every Creature or above all created Powers whether in Heaven or in Earth or under the Earth that they might how the knee to him that is adore him So Prov. 18.10 The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower not the Letters Jehovah or Jah is a strong Tower or the found and noise of those words but The Power of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous run unto it and are safe not into the Letters or found of the Name Yet notwithstanding if any man will show Reverence at the Name of Jesus I am not offended so he shew as much Reverence at the Name of God and at the Name of the Holy Ghost It is a hard and harsh saying of some and borders upon Blasphemy to make distinctions in the Holy Trinity as if we were more beholden to the Second Person of the Holy Trinity than to the First or Third Person This Grates to make a difference in Reverencing The Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity But in this Instance I only show that the Clergy the Clergy much less a few of the Clergy because Higher and Taler have shown no Charter hitherto nor reason to have such a Charter granted to them to be without the Laity The Church The Churth of England The whole Oecumenical Council of Nice had erred shamefully but for one single ey'd man Paphnutius And it is pretty reading in the Council of Trent to see how at a loss the Fathers were for a Resolution 'till Post-Night till the Packet return'd from Rome one said with their Holy Ghost in a Cloak-bagg So that the next day after the Post came in People repair'd to the Counsel-House for News and to know how squares would go as men do now to a Country Coffee-house on a Post-night to know how things go above But is it not strange Impudence Atheism and Effrontery thus to take Gods holy Name and Spirit in vain by making the Holy Ghost father all our Escapes and By-blows adulterately begotten by Self-Interest Pride Passion Revenge crasty Fetches covetons designs whether the French or the Spanish Interest carry it still The stile is It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us God forgive them And this is the Church The Church that is the Clergy the Clergy or rather the Few the Few the least in number I will not say I cannot say the worst of the number nor the Idlest of the number But add to them Lay-Chancellors or Vicar-Generals Sumners Registers c. To make up this Church the Church of England And you make them worse and worse I look upon the Church of England as the greatest Bull-Work against Popery what This latter sort of men are they such a Bull-work no the Protestants of England The Protestant Laws of England embodied with the Fundamental-Laws of the Realm Ruine one and you ruine the other for they must live and die together Thus have I evidenced that the Laity in the Apostles times were the Church and as much Canon-makers and Rule-makers and had the conduct of the infallible Spirit and gifts of the Holy Ghost as well as the Apostles and therefore certainly the Christian People as well as the Clergy of England are the Church of England Nay In Hen. 3. time when the Popish Prelates were most Rampant and Othoben the Pope's Nuncio had almost Beggar'd that King keeping him poor and doing what he list with him yet when they were to be excommunicated that Infringed Magna Charta The Clergy nor the Synod did not make it but the King and