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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Behaviour not permitting them to stickle with carnal VVeapons against Men of different Opinions in matters of meer Religion but commanding us if possible and as much as lieth in us to live peaceably with all men surely it is possible nay easie in this Case most easie All Yes if they be Men our Brethren as being Sons of Adam though not of our Religion nor of our size and pitch nor of our Features and Complexion though of different Religion or of no Religion yet they are Men and where God makes no Exception how dare we make Exceptions Since we are obliged to have a Charity as Vniversal as Mankind and to live peaceably with all men If this be Gospel what becomes of our Tests and Penal Laws All our Lawyers are agreed that all Statutes are Null and Ipso facto void in themselves if they be contrary to the Laws of God and Laws of Nature or Right Reason And this present Test though Enacted by ten thousand Parliaments is never the more justifiable because it is a prophane Temptation even to Conformists sometimes and to Nonconformists at all times to take their choice chuse them whether either to starve here or at least be kept out of their Birth-rights as men and Christians or else to Eat and Drink it unmeetly to the Holy End Design and Institution of that blessed Sacrament which was not Political Carnal and Worldly but Pure Spiritual Heavenly and Divine and therefore to Eat and Drink for a Political Test and State-Policy is to Eat and Drink it Vnworthily and Vnmeetly and therefore Men so Eating and Drinking it Eat and Drink their own Damnation Away with it for Shame Let it not be such a Scandal to our Holy Protestant Religion SECT III. Of Penal Laws in Matters of meer Religion MAny people cry up the Church of England and drink healths to the Prosperity of the Church of England And yet neither know what makes a true Church of Christ nor who are this same thing of some mens making or marring called the Church What constitutes a true Church but true Doctrine and true Sa●raments according to plain Scriptures The Discipline is left to discretion For I suppose we are all agreed that this or that form of Church Government is not Jure Divino King Charles I. a great Episcopal-man yet denied that Bishops as we have them are Jure Divino other than as Priests or Presbyters and Bishops are one and the same thing and undistinguished in many places of Scripture but yet that wise King held them not to be contra jus Divinum not contrary to Gods Law that is I suppose when they feed the Flocks not Lording it over God's Heritage as if they had Dominion over our Faith which even the Apostles renounc'd imposing what they believe and their attainments upon us to believe whether we can or no or else Anathematize Goal and Imprison them and lot them lye there till they starve and dye What comfort is it with so much strugling to keep out an Italian Bishop Romish cruelty Fire and Faggot that soon dispatches men out of their pain and still to keep something like it Nay a worse if to lye in Prison after Excommunication and there to starve and dye a lingring death like Crucifixion feeling a thousand deaths he and his Family and all this for not paying the Register or taking the Church-wardens Oath or the Holy Sacrament at Easter neither of which the persons durst do for fear of Damnation Then take your choice Death or Damnation a lingring Death Crucifying them and making them and their poor Families feel many deaths And is this amendment I hope our Bishops will now recant these violent and carnal weapons since several of them have done it already promising to be willing to come to a temper in their Petition to the King And thereby confessing that they had been too hot and distempered before and yet even at this day I am afraid that some men are only against Carnal Weapons Prophane-Tests and Penal Laws not because they like them not but because they see they cannot hold them the Genius of the Nation being universally against such a Wild-fire Church St. Paul defind all carnal Weapons in his Spiritual Warfare The Weapons of our Warfare are not Carnal but Spiritual Indeed he stood up stoutly in defence of the Priviledge of his Birth-Right when that was invaded by Arbitrary Government Tyranny and Oppression and therefore for Remedy St. Paul sent for an honest General and his Army to come to his Rescue and his Excellency Claudius Lycias after St. Paul had given him to understand that he was a Roman and wrong'd of his Birth-right came with an Army and delivered him out of the hands of his Oppressors having understood the matter of wrong Act. 23.27 Act. 22.29 Then good night Church of England if the Jaylor do not help it will some say and so say I good night And happiness to her and long life for the Gates of Hell Hadou of the Grave shall never prevail against the true Church that is the Church shall never have a Grave it shall never dye but to the Worlds end there shall be some always that believe in and confess the Lord Jesus Son of the living God. The Doctrine of the Church of England which is Confirm'd by Act of Parliament is contained in the Comman Prayer-Book and also in the 39 Articles and in the Homilies that are set out or shall be set out by Authority This last is a deep one He must have a wide Swallow that has an implicit Faith and believes as the Church believes when that same Church in whom he doth believe confesseth the truth namely that she may Err or teach what is not truth Now would I in all Humility and Modesty put this sober Query Query 1. How can a Man subscribe to the Doctrine in Homilies that shall be put out except he have a Popish Implicit Faith to believe as the Church believes before he knows what Doctrinal Homilies Authority will put forth And such Authority that has perhaps Err'd in Doctrinal points already put forth by Authority or by their own Confession may Err. as well as the Church of Rome Antioch Jerusalem c. that have Err'd already as the 39 Articles ingeniously and modestly confess Query 2. It is worth a modest Inquiry and now most seasonable to Inquire now I say when things are come to a full stop and in the fairest and most probable way to settle upon a lasting Foundation Is it now high time modestly to Inquire who is the Judge of matters of Faith which all Christian Protestants a new Name only for the old Apostolical and Primitive Christian ought to obey in pain of the Jayle h●re and Damnation hereafter if he persist in his Diss●nt and Non-conformity thereunto though some Bigots call it a wicked Error This is a sawcy Question will some say But I Answer that he that says so is an Impudent Blasphemer

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