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A43630	The mushroom, or, A satyr against libelling Tories and prelatical tantivies in answer to a satyr against sedition called The meddal, by the author of Absalom and Achitophel / and here answered by the author of The black nonconformist ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1820; ESTC R16923	14,425	20

Prelates for the most part did their business which made Aeneas Silvius who was afterwards Pope of Rome and wrote the Book of the Council of Basil in his Thirty eighth Epistle to Cardinal Iulian concerning these Cardinals who so magnified the Authority of the Cburch as if they would spend their lives for the same and yet slipt home from that Councel of Basil c. deridingly say that they had rather lose their faith then their preferment c. And Prosper ex Illirico saith That holy men did not challenge the Church-goods as their own but as given to the poor to be divided to all them that have nothing neither ought they to give any thing to those that have of their own enough for that is but to cast away things Concel Lateran Anno Domini 1179. held at Rome by Pope Alexander and 110 Bishops It is Decreed That none of the Clergy within Orders should meddle with any Temporal Business and that Priests should have but one Benefice and that Bishops should be charged to maintain such Priests as they did Ordain c. And not beggar surely those Priests Ordained and premoted already and swallow them up Which made Cardinal Aralatensis say in the said Council of Basil That all Bishops ought to understand that they come to have greater power than Priests onely by Custom and not by Dispensation of the truth of God and that they ought to rule the Church together for a Priest is the very same that a Bishop is by divine Institution for there is such a Concordance saith he between a Bishop and a Priest that Paul to Titus calleth Bishops Priests And Christ saith blessed are the poor in spirit neither was there any rich Bishop in the Primitive Church neither did the Antient Church reject Dionisius Bishop of Millan nor Eusehius Bishop of Vercellus Hillary Bishop of Pictavia although they were very poor but if we will grant the naked truth well spoke Cardinal The poor are more apt to give right judgment than the rich because riches causeth fear lest they should to be taken from them too true And Poverty causeth liberty for The poor fear no Tyranny as rich men do who are given over to all kind of vanity idleness and sloth and will deny Christ and Truth rather than lose their riches Not love to the Flock for that 's too big and numerous for them to feed but love to the Revenues makes them Bishops Iohn Gerson a Popish Chancellor of Paris and a great Civilian saith that the neglect to observe that ancient Canon namely that Bishops should have poor Apparel Lodging and Diet and should not strive for Transitory things but to imitate the Apostles Hence Hence the Root of all mischief in the Church Also he saith their making of Laws such as they have no Authority from God to make and their enjoyning men by Censures and Excommunications to observe their Laws their Courts c. Which is the cause of Division which he saith will never be appeas'd in France until the Heads spiritual be reformed When Episcopacy first crept into the Earth it was not so inconsistent with Gospel-rule and they were chosen by the people and Ministers who were to live under their inspection c. Yea Popes themselves were chosen by the People and the Priests and after confirmed by the Emperour and were not chosen by Cardinals and Curtesans as they now are c. By ancient Canons the Bishop ought not to Ordain any without the Councel of the Clergy and Testimony of the People Distinct. 70. Tit. Ordinationis Distinct. 29. quando And he shall be no Prince henceforth whom neither Clergy nor People of his own City hath Elected Distinct. 64. Tit. si forte according to Acts 1.23 24 25 26. Acts 6.3.4.6.7 See more of this Extravag de Institot cap. ex frequentibus Extravagant de Prescript Tit. 51. diligent c. cum omne Mr. Henry Stalbridg our Countreyman in his Exhortative Epist. printed at Basil hath these words I say yet once again and that in the zeal of the Lord as he is my Judg I wish if his gracious pleasure so were That first the King's Majesty and so all those to whom God hath given power and authority on Earth may throughly see and perceive how that not onely the bloudy Bear and Wolf of Rome but also the most part of other B and stout-sturdy Canons of Cathedral-Churches with other pretty Prowlers and prestigious Priests of Baal in all Realms of Christendom especially in do roar about like Lions fret like angry Bears and like cruel Wolves should enter not sparing the Flock Acts 20.29 These Spiritual man-hunters are the very off-spring of Cain children of Caiaphas and successors of Simon Magus as their Doctrine and living declare Most cruel Enemies have they been in all ages to the verity of God and most Fierce Persecutors of Christ and his Church marvel not ye Bishops and Prelates saith he though I thus in the zeal of Elias and Phineas stomach against your Sturdy stubbornness for never was any Tyranny ministred upon Christs members but by your procurement never did Christ send such bloudy Apostles and two horned Warriors But the Devil-vicar Antichrist sent them who is deadly destroyer of faithful believers c. And so on at a great rate which see at large then Consider your beginning never came you in with your Miters Robes and Rings c. at the door as did the poor Apostles but by the window unrequired like Robbers thieves and Manquellers with Simon Magus Marcion and Menander never was your Pontifical-Power of our heavenly fathers planting and therefore must be routed up Mat. 15.13 If any thing under Heaven need reformation let them that mind any Godliness Ay ay but where shall we find such think this to be one for if these be not Spiritual Thieves Soul Murtherers Hereticks Schismaticks Church robbers Rebels and Traytors to God and Man where are any to be looked for in the world 't is strange that this holy man was not bound to the good behaviour as some common rogue for this Naked Truth and plain-dealing for nothing can they do saith he but daily mischief c. And may as well be spared in the Common-wealth saith he as Kites Crows Buzzards Polcats Bless us Rats Weasels Otters where Was the Proctors Doctors and Promoters and Affidavit-men in those dayes to plague him with their Lawsuites and Actions and Scandal Magnat's Articles old Statutes Libels Oathes and Writs Capiasses Bums Iaylors Supplicavits Silencings Suspensions Deprivations Excommunications Apparitors Hangmen Promoters c. But listen he goes on Wolves and Foxes bodily Fleas or flesh-Flyes or other devouring noisome vermin For so long as they sat in the Par having before said I reckon it high time for all Christian-Princes which pretend to receive the Gospel of Salvation and to live in peace and tranquillity for ever to cast the Bishops out of Privy-Councels and utterly to seclude you from all Administrations

c. for so long as they sit in the Parl House the Gospel shall be kept under and Christ Persecuted in his faithful members Indeed and indeed no man can do great mischief except he have great power for curst-Cows that have short horns may be handled and kept to the Peace and good Behaviour Take me not here saith he that I condemn any Bishop or Priest that is Godly doing those offices the Scripture commandeth as Preaching the Gospel Providing for the Poor c. But against Bloudy Butchers that murder Gods People and make havock of Christs Congregation to maintain Iewish-Ceremonies and Paganish-Superstition in the Christian-Church These are not Bishops but Sheep-biters Tirants Tormentors and the Devils Slaughter-men and the Devils Slaughter-men But such as in Poverty Preach the Gospel provide for the Poor rebuke the wicked world of Pride Idolatry Hypocrisie They are not only worthy of Competent living but worthy of double Honour But from the inordinate excess of Riches Priests and Prelates ought of all men to be sequestred will they not sooner send out sequestrations to beggar and starve the Orphans whom they have bereaved and made Orphans Desolate and Comfortless the Lord reward them according to their works Consider that the wicked nature of Mammon is always to Corrupt yea the very Elect of God when they grew monstrous great were not more merciful saith he The Learned and Pious Stalbridge whose name is yet so precious amongst the Germans and Switzers for his learned labours works books and naked-naked-truth and an Honour to his Country this kingdom of England and precious to all true English men But onley that he was a Protestant Therefore listen to a Papist or two more St. Bernard and Abbot in his Epist. ad Eugenium Papam To Pope Eugenius thus For Tythes Testaments Administrations Servitude Legitimations and such like saith St. Bernard to the Pope and one of the worse of Popes that ever sate being deprived by a general Council for his damnable and notorious cruelties villanies c. you went beyond your bounds when you restrained them namely the cognizance of Tythes Testaments Administrations Servitude Legittimations or Matrimony and the like To your Courts and without Caesar made laws for things that did belong to Caesar as a Tantivie Preacher in the Temple upon that Text Give unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God the things which are Gods said what is Caesars what things I answer Caesar shall have your Goods your Lands your VVives your Children your All All is Caesars But some may say quoth Tantivee-Preacher fitter to preach at Tyburn than the Temple If Caesar shall have All then what shall God have I answer quoth he God shall have your Souls But as for your Bodies your Lands your Goods your Livings your Lives your Children and your Wives They are Caesar's But listen to St. Bernard For the Goods Lands Livings Estates of Laymen and Clerks also are Caesars charge by Caesar he means the Supream Temporal Government whether Monarchy absolute or a Republick or Monarchy mixt as here in England Caesars charge and not yours nor the Prelates My Kingdom saith Christ is not of this World If then the Pope Prelates and Priests will be the servants of Christ saith St. Ambrose upon those words and he was a Popish Prelate too they must not challenge any worldly Kingdom The Servant is not above his Master And if the Master deny it the Servant may not affirm it and usurp it Souldiers of Christ must not entangle themselves with the affairs this world much less to make themselves Lords and Iudges of Earthly matters You call the Popes hard names Bears Wolves and Sherks For miscief what is then th' Bishop and 's Clerks At the Lands-end of England those Dire stones On which Ships Men are lost Body and Bones In all Ages God raised up Naked Truth men but they were crusht and run down like the Lord Cobham Sir Iohn Old Castle Butcher'd and martyr'd and burnt in Smithfield by the cruelty of Prelates c. for Scandal ' Magnat ' in these slanderous seditious scandalous and Heretical Words namely The will of God is That Priests being secluded from all worldliness should conform themselves to the example of Christ and his Apostles that is in Poverty oh bloody word and Scandal ' Magnat and teaching the Scriptures purely and giving good Example to others more than any sort of People Where saith he to the Prelates do ye find in Gods Law that you should sit in judgment of any Christian-man But in Annas and Caiaphas that sat thus upon Christ and upon his Apostles after his Ascension of whom only have ye taken it to judge Christ's Members as ye do since the venom of Iudas was shed into the Church And by venome saith he I mean your Iudas-Baggs your great Purses your Possessions and Lordships For then an Angel cryed in the Ayre wo-wo-wo This day is venom shed into the Church as your own Churches mention Before that time all the Bishops of Rome in a manner were Martyrs if it were so now Misses would not be sought to for a then they would say nolo Episcapari nolo Episcopari I am not ambitious to be a Bishop Or ambitious of Martyrdom But since that time Popes and Bishops one hath cursed and poysoned slain and done much mischief to another Christ was weak and merciful Oh dangerous word But they are proud and Tyrannical Christ was poor but they are rich c. Well! they did his business for him in Smithfield more is the pitty God knows amongst Christians too you`le say nay amongst the Successors of the Apostles Peter and Paul Oh Hypocrisy I hourly expect the fruits of the like rage and cruelty God enable me to undergo it chearfully patiently and couragiously as the Lord Cobham did of whom they said as now they say of me for the like Naked-Truth in declaring their Extortions Cruelty and Illegal oppressions Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should live Take but one Story more in good part and I 'le trouble you no more at present and 't is from a Papist a Country-man of our own an English-Papist Alexander Fabritius in his Destructorium vitiorum part 6. cap. 79. vixit Anno Domini 1420. In these words viz. Who are more horribly enthralled to the Devils Servitude than those who are placed in the sublimity of Honour Ecclesiastical Fellows who ought to be the Light of the World yet where is more abundant Darkness of Vices Where more aboundant gaping after Earthly things then in modern Prelates who are fatted in both powers as well Temporal as Spiritual where is greater Pomp in all Appendixes yea and that so much that having left the Poverty of the Primitive Church they are now rather to be termed Princes of Provinces than Pastors of Souls c. with aboundance more to this Purpose which you may see at large Dear Tantivees