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A43636	A speech without-doors, or, Some modest inquiries humbly proposed to the right honourable the Convention of Estates, assembled at Westminster, Jan. 22, 1688/9 concerning, I. Bigotism, or religious madness, II. Tests, and the present test in particular, III. Penal laws in matters of religion, IV. The necessity of changing and recanting our opinions in religion, V. Restraint of the press / by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing H1827; ESTC R20396	31,636	44

undoubted instance of his Profaness cannot Well be given than in this present Test Is it not profane and most abominable if the Learned and Pious Gr●●tus and Dr. Hammond and other Interpreters of greatest vogue amongst us do give us the true genuine rational and pious meaning thereof in their Comments upon 1 Cor. 11.29 saying That to eat and drink unworthily anaxios is to eat and drink unsutably or unmeetly to the end design and Institution of the Blessed Sacrament so we are commanded to walk worthy axios of the Gospel that is sutably to the Gospel Then he that eateth and drinketh unmeetly namely to the end and Institution of the Sacrament not that he may get Christ but a Gown a Sword a Place or Preferment making a Test of the Blessed Sacrament making Christ who is the only Door and the only Way to High-places in Heaven the only Door to High-places on Earth making the Bread of Life the only way to fill the lean Bellies of a Man and his Family with Bakers Bread He that Eateth and Drinketh thus unmeetly Eateth and Drinketh his own Damnation A sad Choice to Starve here or be Damn'd hereafter nay some that have often taken it worthily or meetly are not always fit in Three Months to take it Worthily then take your choice to Starve or be Damn'd What a Temptation is here to damn even a Conformist What a Temptation to Blasphemy Atheism and mocking of God Is not this as bold a Stinting the Grace of God to come within three Months time Just like the Canon that enjoyns the Sacrament However at Easter What fit or unfit What right or wrong Yes starve in a Goal or Eat and Drink your own Damnation Oh! Abomination in a Church of Christians Nay a Church of Protestants and a Protestant Nation Have we not still as we formerly had some Quid pro quo's amongst us Papists in Masquerade Papists with a Protestant Vizor and Church of England's Vizor on Turn up his Masque let us see But God will not long be mocked with Political Tricks It is dangerous Playing our Politick Pranks with Edge-Tools And is there no way to bar the Earthly Doors but with Heavenly Edge-Tools Have a care of cutting thy Fingers Machiavel Must the Laws made against Popish Recusants always be made of use against Protestant Recusants who are out of the Reason of them But can any Nation subsist without a Test a Fence and a Barr'd Door to keep out the common Enemy thereof No I answer No There 's none but Fools will neglect their Fence But the Oath of Supremacy a long-try'd and approv'd Test and making the Declaration against Transubstantiation enjoyned 25 Car. 2. c 2. 30 Car. 2. c. 2. has and will do that Feat Oh! But Protestant Dissenters then will come in and get their Birth-Rights in Church and State as well as we Surely there is a way to bar the Door against our Enemies and yet let in our Friends except we think the House will not hold us all or rather not feed us all Ay! Is that it If it pinch there Zeal against Popery is but a Sconce and a Vizard drawn over the ugly Face of Covetousness and Self-ends When Boys are scrambling in a Room for Nuts and Apples those that are in Possession and upon the Place and got in will be sure to Bar the Doors and keep out others especially such as are active and nimbler than themselves Ay they are the Wiser you 'll say But where 's the Honesty all this while Where 's the Piety Nay where 's the Wisdom And where 's the Policy For if the lucky Scramblers be beset or set upon with bloody High-way-men as they carry away their Booty would they not be glad that those they barr'd out should assist them Yes surely for who ever denied a Dissenter the Peril the Hazard and the Pains so that we go away with the Gains But is there any Equity or Conscience in all this Has not a certain Nation in our Time been hazarded a Third Time by Patriots that have been Priest-ridden Bigotted and Nuzled to maintain Priest-Craft and Compulsion to Vniformity in Religion Who dislikes it But how VVhat upon Compulsion Uniformity by force of Arms It has been found an Idle Vain VVicked Bloody Bigotted Popish Antichristian and Impossible Attempt in all Ages in all Nations The old Rule was In Necessariis Vnitas in Adiaphoris Libertas in Vtrijsque Charitas Unity in things Necessary Liberty in Indifferent Things in Both Charity For 'till all men be of one size one feature one complexion and face 't is impossible they should be Vniform nay God and Nature seem to delight in Variety But vain man mad with self-love Opinionatry and Bigotism would compel all men to be of his own Dimensions and Attainments whereas there are scarce two Men to be found in the VVorld alike This Folly proceeds from a Vulgar Error that ●ops have Espous'd namely that there can be no Vnity without Vniformity and when they pray to God as they ought to make us all of one Mind and one Mouth if by one Mouth they mean their own Mouth then they are Bigotted with an Opinion of their own Infallibity and are no Church-of-England-Men in that particular Alas alas we are commanded to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace but that may be done without Vniformity there is scarcely two Brethren in the World alike and Vniform yet they may live in Vnity and love like Brethren Can men be wise that value the keeping of their Trinckets above their Lives and above the Peace and Welfare of the Church and Protestant Religion And why should not a Protestant Church be as large and wide as to hold all Prot●stants Come come let them have a Care that they do not hold up the Price of their Trinckets at too dear a rate lest they slip their Market and be glad to part with them e'er long for an Old Song and seriously read Isa 14. from Verse 4. to Verse 15. Bless us Cannot men live and let live even let those live that have not so many Brains nor so good Eyes as themselves Though they are not one Mouth with you nor so wide a Mouth and Swallow they are as God made them as well as you and though they see not so well as they should they see as well as they can to their own Master they stand and fall What Rational Man in the World if his Reason be Judge and not Dethron'd and Depos'd Benighted and Eclipsed with Passion Self-interest Self-conceit and the like but must say That it is very meet that we should do to others as we would that others in like Circumstances should do to us 'T is possible for what has been may be again that the Old Test may be many Ages hence Renewed which bar'd the Church Doors and the Doors of Preserment in Church and State Excluding all from being Church-men Judges Justices Mayors Aldermen

all their Inferiours and Dependants Imposing Creed and Faith as Magisterially as great Athanasius himself making believers and Faith by Statute-Law Cannon-Law which they must and shall believe in spight of their hearts or else by Penal Laws take what follows Curses and Anathema Fire and Faggot as least Hell and Damnation Fines and Imprisonments but Put up thy dagger Bigot Does not Antichrist thus set up the Abomination of Desolation in the holy place the Chymera's of his Noddle in the Temple of God where he sits commanding Faith and Consciences as Peremtorily and Infallibly as if he were God breathing Vengeance and spitting Fire at all that oppose him and like a distracted Indian Bigot runing a Mack at all Mankind till he kill or be kill'd by all that stand in his way Thus the Bigotted Spaniard converted the Indies with a long Tuck and thus the hair-brain'd French in Bloody Devotion to Popedom of Two Millions of Hereticks Confuted and Extirpated Two hundred Thousand of them and made Eighteen Hundred Thousand new Converts with Troops of Dragoons Possest with this Evil Spirit of Bigotisme and devout Phrenzy King Manassah Sacrific'd his Son to Moloch in the Flames And King Phillip of Spain gave up his Son to be Murthered in the Bloody Inquesition upon suspition of Lutheranism And what Spirit possest our Neighbour Nation when no man was Suffer'd to buy or sell or give meat or drink or other Comfort to any whom holy Church had Excommunicated Nay at home here How now No more Hold there Come not near It is as safe to Kennel with a mad Bull-dog or with the Lyons in the Tower or cohabit with a Mad-man in Bedlam as with a Zealous and Furious Bigot there is no living with him or near him except he be muzled fetter'd or chain'd for if he break loose all the sober part of mankind are concern'd to joyn hands in their own defence and in Self-Preservation to tye him up And if I have here made a Whip of small Cords to lash this Tom of Bedlam out of the Church where he has made such havock and disturbance with his magot it is but in order to his cure by gentle stripes to bring him if possible to his wits again and to reason Reason I say which is the Souls best Centinel which should carefully examine every thing before it enter strictly challenging not who but what comes there Nothing is more frequently inculcated in Scripture than Examine your selves prove your own selves try the Spirits whether they are of God but for want of this Popery Priest-craft and Bigotism has been the Inveterate and Old Disease of Christendom for Popery and Priestcraft always preacht up Ignorance as the only Mother and so it is of Bigotism and silly Devotion Samson must first have his Eyes put out before he can be managed to make sport I am sensible that I treat of a Subject that is seldom or never handled in this method and of a Distemper that will make the mad-men rage the more there is witchcrast in this frenzy they are so bewitcht as to be in love with their Disease and will like other Lunaticks to choose fall upon the Physitian above all others if he attempt to cure them But is it not a Lunacy beyond the wild fury of Bedlam that Protestants should now think of new farbushing and whetting the Penal Laws against Dissenters to their Placet's arbitrary and wilfull Impositions in doubtful and trivial matters Lana caprina and Bar them out of the Church and State their Birth-rights as Men and Christians with Tests design'd at first only against the irreconcileable Enemies of our Religion and when the Oath of Supremacy alone will do the feat straitning the Church of England to a few is it that they alone may monopolize all the Preferments in Church and State when all the Wisdom Piety and Policy in the World cries aloud to widen the Churches Pale and enlarge her Interest now now especially when the Common Enemy has drawn a Sword never to be sheath'd but in our Throats Shall Abraham and Lot Gen. 13.7 be at strife between themselves about trifles when the Canaanite and Perizzite is ready to Land Is it not yet time to loose the hands of wickedness to undo the heavy burdens to let the Oppressed go free and to break every Insolent and Bigotted Yoak Isai 58.6 Read seriously Rom. 14. the whole Chapter is an approved Cure for Dogmatical and Pragmatical Bigotism We read in Scripture that all Christians should endeavour to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace but where do we read that any Christians did or ought to Compel Vniformity as the Bond of Peace But Hold may some say and have a care whilst you speak against Bigotted Impositions do you not transgress the 39 Articles of the Church of England that says The Church has Power to Impose Rites and Ceremonies I answer That it is time enough to answer that when you have read what is said concerning the same here in the second and Third Section and also when any good Body that can tell will tell what and who is this same Church of England Who is the Head of it this day And what Language does a Head speak when it is separated from and not United with nor of the same Complexion Nutriment and Constitution with the Body Ay! But grant that what you say here be Truth yet a grave Author says That all Truths are not to be spoken at all times And Grave Author might to as wise purpose add therefore all Truths are not to be spoken at any time when you touch the sore place No no they will always then kick you 'l please them at no time Thus Gypsees cant and would gravely perswade us to shut our Eyes and not discover their jugling Tricks wink till ours or our Friends Pockets be pickt and then we shall have a License to discover the Naked Truth Ay Ay! Dear Gravity but then it is too late Thus the old Gentleman that was resolved to dye a Batchelor silenc'd his Friends when they propos'd a Match for him in his Youth Oh no quoth he It is not seasonable it is too soon to marry but when they reiterated the same Proposal to him in his decrepit age answers Now you speak too late so that what men like not is at no time seasonable they 'l always quarrel with the time Are not things now just now upon the Hinge Is not this time like the third and last time of Publishing the Banes of Matrimony Either now Speak or else forever hereafter hold your Peace Reason mans chiefest Light shines bright enough in many mad men on one side of the skull when it is benighted on the other side of the Pericranium and craz'd with a notion on that side the head Many mad-men in Bedlam will talk rationally enough on any subject except that which first beclouded their Reason but then when you touch upon that sore