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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

or Lord of the first House was wonderfully culminant and strong or else it is imposible that Irregularity and Folly could ever have been so notourly signified If I can erect thy Scheme I do prognosticat thou art in thy Detriment Fall and Azimuth I confess that amongst Dancing masters Rop-dancers Spanials and Monkeyes he is the fairest Candidate for a Reward or Crust that cringes comes over and bends the most nimbly but that men by Illegal and Irrational Capricio's should cherish their hopes so to become Favourites in the Church I do not understand it if I were as supple as the best I can only say as Cicero in his Declamation against Cataline Vivunt imó vivunt in senatum veniunt Oh tempora Oh mores It was a sad time when Father Peter or Madam Portsmouth chose Senators and that a poor Lad should find it out that the readiest Road to get into the Church or to the Steeple and Pinacle is to be like a young Setting-dog that first learns to stoop when he is bidden to nothing there 's hopes of him he 's coming on and may be a right Setting-dog in time and stoop to something CHAP. V. Of Bowing at the Name of Jesu THere is but one of these said Irregular and Illegal and Irrational Ceremonies afore-mentioned that have any colour of Law and that is the Canon for bowing at the Name Jesu but that Canon is nail'd by Scripture and Reason as well as by the Act of Uniformity which enacts great Penalties even Deprivation if any Ceremony monger obstinately persist in the Practise of any Ceremonies except those alone that are contained in the Common-Prayer-Bock of which that same of bowing at the Name of Joshua or Jesu and all their other Bowings and Cringes to the Altar to the East are none at all I protest I wonder at the Ceremony mongers Audacity and Fool-hardness that he still dare to do it in defiance of the Law Reason and Scripture except he think to set the Convocation-House over and above and on the Top of the Parliament-House where it will stand most Totteringly and subject to the Storms Let no man therefore think this Discourse to be bold or over-hold having the Law of God and Man Holy Scriptures and right Reason on my side and can therefore with such great Advantages baffle them all wonder rather at my incorrigible Ceremony-monger that will take no warning till he be forc'd publickly to recant the Schisms and Mischiefs his Noddle has forc'd in the Church of God. The strength of his Mai-Guards like that of Hell and Popery lies all in stopping the several Avenues of Light that none may enter into the Kingdom of Darkness for they hate the Light because their Deeds are Evil and therefore would if they could keep the Keys of the Press doors as well as the Pulpit doors that no glimmering may appear without License Thus the Devil Rages the more because his time is short and Frets and Fumes when you discover his cloven-Cloven-Foot especially when he has long been ador'd of which he is most Ambitious as an Angel of Light But Blessed be God that is above the Devil Truth and Light are his Glorious Attributes as Error and Darkness are the properties of Heil And if the Devil were not great in men and greatly strong they would submit to Law and Reason to God and his Holy Writ to the Laws of the Land. Equity and Conscience and not call to the Bevil and the Goaler to help them to wreek their Malice upon Innocent men that only show them their dirty Faces in a Glass God's Will be done I say with Chrysostome to Eudoxia the Empress I fear nothing but Sin and I must Sin except I reprove my Brethren and not suffer Sin upon them for as they have Sinn'd before all 't is sit they should Recant before all And so all of them will except they be past shame and consequently past Grace When Sick Men are deadly Sick and their whole Constitution so Distemper'd and out of Frame that the very N●ble Parts are senseless stupid and past feeling 't is high time to Toll the Bell for them they have not long to live Come then give Glory to God Confess and Recant publickly in the Church where thy Nonsense was committed and defy the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanitles of this wicked World. Oh! but may ●ome say It cannot be deny'd but that your Coremony-Monger is the Fop of all Fops for bowing to the Altar to the East now his Wafer-God is departed bu● have a care of condemning him when he bows at the Name of Jesu for Holy Scripture the Canon and Right Reason all three are his Vouchers Poor heares And as Solomon says Ye Fools when will ye be wise have not I wash● the●● ●●aok●mor●s and to as little purpose long ago For First That 〈◊〉 Philipptans the second At the Name of Jesu every knee shall bow woether in Heaven or Earth c. is no Precept but a Prophesie That the time shall come it is not yet come that the Name of Jesus shall 〈◊〉 above every Name whether Barchochobab the Jews Messias in English the Son of the Star Mehomet Antichrist or any other The th●e is not yet come for Jews Tu●ks Athlests and Devils do no● own the Name of Jesus above every Name whether in Heaven or Earth or Hell or things under the Earth but it shall come at least at the day o● Judgment and probably before Besides That Text At the Name of Jesus is depraved and ill 〈◊〉 to say no worse for if I did not revere to cast Dire upon the Ashe● of the Dead I could name a great Favourite-Bishop under King Charles the 〈◊〉 that made that Text speak false English to Countenance his ●illy and Fopplsh Warship from that Text for because he could not bring himself and his Silly Worship to the Scripture he as Impudently as Prophanely brought the Scripture to his Whimsey Thus Mahomet pretending to have Faith to remove Mountains told the People his Followers and Musselmen that he would make that great Mountain that stood before him to come down to him at his third Call and therefore most gravely admonished it to come Once Twice Thrice but no Mountain would come whereupon without changing Countenance he said If the Hill will not come to Mahomet Mahomet shall go to the Hi●l and so marcht till they met For by that Holy Scripture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the Name is meant In the vertue and power of J●us Every 〈◊〉 shall how c. As the Name of the Lord is a st●on Power the Righteous shall run to it and 〈◊〉 Prov. 19.10 No● the Letters or sound of Je●ovah not the Tetragrammat●n but the Power of God is the Tower not the four Letters or Sound of the Name whither the Righteous run and are safe Besides my Ceremont-Monger does not bow at the Name of Joshua which is the very word Jesu in

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

Apparitor to drive them by Shoales to the Play House if they should admit any such dull Tools and Actors that could not say a Word without Book but must read every Word they say or else they are dumb For take away the Play-Book or No●es and they are mute as Fish the Play is at an end though you have paid your Money some small note indeed or prompter the best may need sometimes or some Breviate even so my Reading Don Ecclesiastical is a noteless Fellow without his Notes and worse than an Ass for he can Bray without book nay worse than a Peacok for he can yawl against Rain but this Gay Fowl has nothing that speaks him divine but his gay out 〈◊〉 The Propher Eztkiel calls him Dumb-Dog that cannot bark meaning not that these Dumb Prophets or Dumb-dogs had no Tongue and could make no barking Noise but when he seeth the Sword or a Thief coming he giveth no warning but being senceless and noteless is therefore a dumb dog For he poor Heart has his Lesion before him there is his stint like a Horse in a Mill he cannot go out of the Track if he does he must leav● work if the Notes drop out of the Pulpit or the Candles go out or the Spectacles fall down from his Nose or a dark day or any such woful disaster befal him his busi●eis is done he needs no Bishop to silence him Come Sir you may even come down out of the Pulpit The Play is done N●y his very Prayers to Alrighty God in the Pulpit he is glad to read them too except perhaps he has like a Pariot got a few words by ●ote which all the people of the Church can say as well as himself for like a Turn-spit Dog in a Wheel he keeps ado but makes no Progress For alas for Shame and Sorrow how should he speak to God who is a Spirit From his Heart or Spirit or to the People's Hearts that never had any Divinity in his Head or Heart It is sufficient that he has It in the Book of Homilles or in his Notes stylo novo of another Sermon book that is more in Yogue and 〈◊〉 because more adapted to our present Language and Age● Stole said I he 'll bring his Action against me of Scandalum magnatum perhaps but I 'll prevent him for I recant He did not steal his Sermon nor Sermon Notes for they were his own upon a double account First because he lawfully bought and paid for the● six pence a piece witness the Book seller Secondly because all the Sermons in Print are dedicated to him To the Reader All To the Reader sometimes to Coaks him out of six pence To the curteous Reader If Parents have a Ricketty Son and crook'd legg'd and Baker-knee'd he 'll serve to make a Parson his Cassock will hide his Legs Is the poor Child Pur-blind also He 'll serve to make a Parson say his Parents If he have but Eye enough to spy Advent Sunday the day of the Month and the first and second Lessons for the day Is he a half witted Lad He 'll serve poor Child say his Parents well enough for the Pulpi● if he but hold his Notes to his Pur-blind Eyes it is but holding them the Closer and the bunness is done especially if his Parents or Friends scrape Acquaintance with a Patron I know how or buy 〈◊〉 Advousion or the next Avoydance And then make room for the Parson a true Son of the Church Why do you smlle It is too serious too great and too dismal a Truth and Mischief to draw Tears from your Eyes by laughing you have more cause to be weeping Jeremies and make Lamentations at so mischievous a Constitution of a Church in making Watchmen that are blind and lame and dumb being ordained unto Holy Orders by blind Implicite Faith which we all condemn in the Papists but in the Church of England draw a new Scene and it is received with Applause Oh poor English A foolish people and unwise though the most Courageable and best Hearts as well as the most plain hearted Nation under Heaven You think now that this is a Romance and not literally true well then so let it go 'T is so much the fitter for this Character of a Ceremony-monger which is all a Romance A Romance What 's that It comes from Roma Rome the Ground and Platform of the truest and best Histories of Truth and the Scene of the greatest Acts the Sun ever saw And a Romance is as like a true Roman History as my Ceremony-Monger is like a Papist he is not a Papist he says no he is not a bare-sac'd Papist I 'll do him right but to see to he is as like a Papist as ever he can look and his Devotion as like Popery as ever it can look He does not say the Mass indeed in Latine but his Hood his Cope his Surplice his Rocker his Altar Rall'd in his Candles and Cushions and Book thereon his bowing to it his bowing or rather Nodding at the name Jesu his Organs his Violins his Singing Men his Singing-Boys with their Alternate Jabbering and Mouthings as Unintelligible as Latine-Service and so very like Popery that I profess when I came from beyond Sea about the year 1660. to Pauls and White-Hall I almost thought at first blush that I was still in Spain or Portugal only the Candles on our Altars most Nonsensically stand unlighted to signifie what The darkness of our Noddles or to tempt the Chandlers to turo down-right Papists as the more suitable Religion for their Trade for ours mocks them seeds them with Hopes only he gapes and stares to see the lucky Minute when the Candics should be lighted but he is cheated for they do not burn out in an Age. But the Foppery is Homogeneal all of a piece foolish and illegal Ceremonies all over only my Ceremony-monger has got Law of his side for his Surplice and his Common-Prayers which are both very good things and though perhaps he may be perswaded to part with the former if you take away the latter viz. the Common-Prayer-Book ye had is good cut out his Tongue nay even few up his Mou●h also for he has no occasion for it nor for his Teeth neither for his Body most starys and be as clean and jejune as his Soul Therefore as you love his Life and Soul let him have his Common-prayer Book or else his Curate will have nothing in the World to do but must be forc'd to turn Sexton why should not the Dead bury the Dead The dead in Sin bury the Dead for Sin to so liseless and spiritless a thing is Religion reduc'd by my Ceromony-Monger nay some of them in their pretended prayer before Sermon do mock both God and the people praying or pretending to pray as the mouth of the people in the pulpit and yet like good Hannah's private prayer their Lips only move but their Voice is not heard Old Eli

Burden so much too heavy for any single Shoulder that they are forc'd to perform the great Acts of a Bishop in Ordinations Confirmations Excommunications Absolutions c. only by Foppish as well as Popish like Implicite Faith seeing with other Mens Eyes and hearing with other Mens Ears that it is no wonder that they err so often Oh! but the Wages then must be divided as well as the Work Flesh and Blood cannot bear this Doctrine No it cannot therefore Flesh and Blood cannot enter neither into the Kingdom of Heaven But a Bishop of all others ought not to consult with Flesh and Blood and self-Interest which above all things in the World does bribe Mens Judgments that they cannot because they will not give their Assent and Consent to so great a Truth King Charles I. was tenaciously in love with Bishops as now in England constituted even to death so great was his Opinionatree in the Case ●nd yet he says they were not Bishops Jure Divino by Divine Right and yet neither contra Jus Divinum But I think quite contrary viz. that ●here is nothing in Scripture more plain than that Bishops are Jure divino and nothing more plain than that the Bishops in Eng●and now constituted are contrary absolutely contrary to Jus Divi●um or Divine Right so far as they act like Novices in Implicite Faith Tim. 3.3 A Bishop must neither be a Novice nor given to filthy ●ucre For any B●y-Bishop any ignorant and unlearned Bishop is as ●ood as the best in those Acts of Implicite Faith any Novice can see ●ith other Mens Eyes and hear with other Mens Ears any Novice can and the greater Novice the fitter too believe as others believe without any other Reason Therefore since the Holy Scripture says a Bishop ought not to be a Novice if he be a Novice that sees but by Implicite Faith then tell me count them if you can How many Novices have we in England that do all their greatest Acts by Implicite Faith This is as bold a Stroke you 'l say as ever was and yet not a jot too bold to strike at so Grand so Poppish so Popish a Folly as Implicite Faith by which it must be granted and cannot be denied our protestant Bishops do all their mighty Businesses and is the cause of such a contemptible and ignorant Glergy ill grounded Excommunications and Absolutions and ●apias's thereupon and such unscriptural irrational and Blind Confirmations perswading the Ignorant that they are fit to receive the other Sacrament of of the Lord's Supper when they know nothing of the Creed and sometimes were never listed or matriculated into Mother-Church by the Initiating Ordinance of Baptism But that is the Fault of the Person not of the Constitution If that were true it might be amended but it is false for it is not the Fault of the Person only but the Fault of the Constitution which obliges no Bishop in his Office and performance of these great Episcopal Acts but only to the knowledge of a Novice or implicite Faith. Nay if our Constitution did oblige him it would oblige him to Impossibilities for his Work is more than any Mortal can perform in propriâ personâ and the great charge of Souls which he takes upon him more terrible if his Conscience be awake or not brib'd with the Wages it must be sensible that no Plety Parts or Prudence can possibly discharge except as now by implicite Faith which any Bay a● Child a● Nevice can perform as well as the best It was Covetousness therefore and Ambition that first made Bishopricks so large for the sake of making all the Bishops Lands therein one Man's Monopoly and also made Bishops Consciences so large as to gape and swallow all the relishing Bit was so gustful and grateful to a greedy Gut but from the beginning it was not so Now every County must have a Bishop nay sometimes two or three or four Counties will scarcely hold one great Bishop nay to them too must be added sometimes a Rich Deanery Is it not strange that a Bishop should be a Deacon again for the Mony sake and a Parson again by Commendum for the sake of some bulky Parsonage like Wiggin in Lancashire in Commendum held by Dr. Cartwright Bishop of Chester now advanc'd to be a non-such Protestant Reader in Popish France and Curat to a Popish Prince in the Protestant Chappel in the Castle of Merli And I am perswaded they will have the Grace to blush if it do not also make their heartsake before I have done at the horrible Burthen they have undertaken which the Shoulders of the strongest and ablest Apostles of Christ never did or durst renture to take upon themselves no Mortal ever did or can discharge it but in this Novice way by Proxy or blind Implicite Faith God in his Mercy forgive them they know not what they do Philippi nay Jerusalem a little scanty City not so big and populous as Colchester by half and yet had several Bishops at a time therein Philip 1.1 To all the Saints which art at Philippi with the Bishops and Deacons How many Bishops of London at this rate must there needs be in London not to mention the three Counties of Hartford Essex and Middlesex into the bargain Ay but the House of Lords will not hold so many Bishops No I grant There are Bishops ●now there already as some have laid and angerly grudge that we Clergy-men who are as much represented in the House of Commons as any Commoners in England and make as great a bustle at an Election of Members to get Men for our turn should also be represented in the other House which no other Commoners are and that my Lords the Bishops are tried by their Peers that is by their Equals Commoners but the Lords are Conciliarii Nati It is part of their Inheritance to be the King's Councellors and a Seat in the House of Lords is part of their Estate and State. But such Men talk like those that say that we had English Parliaments before Bishops and Abbots sat in the House of Lords and many Statutes the Judges say are good Law tho made in several Parliaments excluso Clere the Lord-Bishops and Lord-Abbots being shut out of Doors and not permitted into the House of Lords nay the Lord Abbots that had as good and as antient Right to sit in the House of Lords as Lord-Bishops are Long ago and to this day excluded Notwithstanding my known Devotion to my Lords the Bishops I confess I have not skill enough to answer such Reasons and Records It behoves them that have more wit and are more concern'd than I to give this a Rational Answer I consels my Ignorance but my Devotion to them is well enough known And I cannot deny but that the Bookish-men as my Lords are bred and usually Fellows of Colledges by that state they take upon them in the Colledge all but themselves going bare to them if they do but