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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

Company of Stationers no despicable nor mean Company or Hall in this splendid City one Stationer was enough for a City before Printing came up and of Book-sellers there were none but Scriveners But now they are become the Numerous Issue of the Press and enabled to make By-Laws for the Regulating their Trade which is their Lively-hood And the Question is Whether it be reasonable and lawful to hinder them of their Lively-hood of their Trade under pretence of Publique-good by shutting up the Press and stopping their Trade by excluding all that have not a Passe and some say you may with as much reason Exclude all men from the Kings-High-Way the Birth-light of every Englisk-man or stop their Mouths and starve them except they bring a Passe Sign'd by Sir Roger the Bishops Chaplain or the like to permit them to Earn their Livings There 's an Act of Parliament for it you 'll say and for that Trick I say I 'll determine nothing positively against it But Acts of Parliament are not like the Laws of the Medes and Persians which cannot be alter'd The Aegyptian Priests told Herodotus that the Sun had chang'd it's course four times within the last Preceding Eleven thousand and odd years an Aera as long before Adam as since But if the Sun change it's course sometimes and the Moon often times and Parliaments change their Acts sometimes twice in Ten Years as afore-said then surely this Act for Restraint of the Press without the License of the Bishops Chaplain or Sir Roger c. is not immutable The Arguments to keep the Press-doors shut center all in this That a Liberty thereof without the Pass of a License may prove pernicious not only to private men but to the Publique to the Church to the State. Libels will fly about to wound mens Reputations and which is a consideration of greater weight The Church and State may thus be shot at and mounded and yet like shooting with White Powder the Wound is felt but none knows whence the Bullets came This is an Inconvenience but if this be all the Argument is fallacious For as in other Trades things that are rare dear and hard to come by are the readiest Commodity so also in the Book-sellers Trade no Books vend so nimbly as those that are sold by Stealth as it were and want Imprimaturs This Restraint by Licensers will not prevent the flying Pamphlets and Reputation-Wounders we may well say it will not because by Experience 't is found it never did But if the By-Law already made by the Stationers Company were Enacted by Parliament with some additions all the Inconveniencies of Restraining the Press from Printing the best Books because it is perh●ps against the Diana of Mr. Licenser or the Craft by which he gets his Wealth will be prevented and all the Reputation-Wounders will be discovered and without further Proof brought to Cendign Punishment Namely A Law that every Author's and Printer's Name and their several places of Residence and the mans Name for whom they were Printed and who Publishes and Vends them be Printed in the Title-Page of every Book or Pamphlet And that such Printed Names shall be a sufficient Evidence as if under their own Hand-Writting provided it be proved by Witnesses and Writing that the Author gave order for it and that the Printer there named did really Print the same And that it shall be Felony or some Crime or Punishment to Print any Book or Pamphlet in other manner or to Print false Names Or with what other Proviso's the Wisdom of a Parliament shall think meet The Pope indeed has some Reason to Restrain all Printing without his Approbation License or Instruction because it is very meet and right so to do granting his Infallibility An Index Expurgatorius is a necessary and just Consequence thereof But Church of England that disclaims all such Impudent pretence what Reason can she give to be the only Door-keeper to the Press except she could also get an Act of Parliament that it shall not be Lawful hereafter for God Almighty to open any mans Understanding clearer nor to give him better Eyes then the Licenser For How many Excellent Books both in Divinity and Humanity are Suppress'd because they are excellent and too good to get an Imprimatur This made the Great Duke of Buckingham say That the Clergy have but one Vote for the Inseriour Clergy generally think themselves notably sharp-sighted in Affairs if they can but look up to the Top of the Church-Steeple and see how the Cock stands and as the Wind blows many of them sometimes Conform themselves Thus Haggards listen to the Huntsmans Halloo and Horn but seldome put their Noses to the Ground to examine the Scent For which the Huntsman Whips them smartly sometimes yet 't is all one No men are greater Vassals then small Clergy-men or at least more Oppress'd with unreasonable Assents and Consents in spight of Mathematicks and illegal Procurations Synodals c. even when there is no Synod no Visitation c. yet poor Hearts they out with their Purse and pay the Bishops Silver and the Rich Arch-Deacons Silver though some of them Pawa the Pewter-Dish for it and yet for all this V●ssallage some of them does not so much as Whimper Groan nor Complain nor Vote otherwise then as the Word is Ecchoed amongst them though at such a time as this when a Parliament can help us Thus have I seen a Step-Mother Whip the Child till it Roar again and then take it up again and Whip it for Roaring and then make it go down on its Knees ask Forgiveness Kiss the Rod threatning to give it twice as much if it tell it's Father But come on 't what will I will say God help the while Has any man in the World any other or better Commission to Preach then what Christ gave his Disciples Mat. 28.19 namely To go and teach and make all Nations Disciples by Baptizing them and he will be with such to the end of the World not with those Individual Apostles who are dead but their Successours Lawfully ordain'd to ●ue end of the World. Let any man show me a Reason if he can why a Presbyter Lawfully ordain'd and therefore Commissionated by Christ to Teach all Nations c. should need any other License And is not teaching in Print from the Press the same or better and of more general and universal benefit to all-men and all Nations then the narrow Pulpit though it stand aloft And dare any Christian prefer the Worth of an Act of Parliament before the Words of God and our Lord Jesus who has commanded all Men to let their Light so shine before Men that they may see their good Works in Print the most Excellent Universal and Charitable Good Works in the World if they be agreeable to Holy Scripture and right Reason and glorifie their Father which is in Heaven without leave or License Does not our Law-Books say That all Statutes

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 Rector of the Rectory of All Saints in Colchester LONDON Printed by George Larkin at the Two Swans without Bishopsgate MDCLXXXIX To the Illustrious Right Honourable and Honourable The Convention of Estates Assembled at WESTMINSTER Jan. 22. 1688. Illustrious Right Honourable and Honourable FOr as much as you are Esteemed by the whole Body of the People the wisest and honestest and therefore the most able and proper Healers of our present Breaches and Distractions so you cannot better approve your selves such than by the best Testimonal thereof that Possibly can be viz. Moderation For no Extreams last long When Passion Pride and Self-Interest the boldest and worst of Usurpers do come to be the Domineering and Prevailing-Party then Right Reason and consequently true Religion and Justice are depos'd and dethron'd and then comes Confusion and every evill work There never can be nor ever were more than two sorts of Polititians in Christendom The one thinks Justice Piety and Honesty the best Policy as our blessed Saviour the Apostles and all Christians that follow their steps The other makes use of Justice and Religion too sometimes but no further than they serve his Politick turn his worldly greatness and glory which if Justice and Christian Religion will not bring to him then he tries what Oppression and Superstition will do For this Brute as if he had the Soul of a Beast and not an Immortal Soul never looks up to Heaven nor takes his measures from him that Made and Rules the World and the Kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will but calculates all his Plots to the Glory of this World and terminates them in this life And if his Plots and the Devil ●ail him like Achitophet he does or is ready to hang himself or like that Brute the King Nebuc●●adnezzar driven from his People and turned to Grass like a Brute as he was until he knew that the Most High R●leth in the Kingdoms of men and and giveth them to whomsoever he will. Our Saviour says his Kingdom is not of this World when therefore we pray Thy Kingdom come we ought not to wish much less endeavour that Antichrist's Kingdom should come But in carrying on True and Pure Religion and the Gospel we ought to content our selves with such Engines wherewith Christ and the Apostles propagated the same all the World over three hundred years before Constantine was born Nor ought we to follow the Antichristian steps of the Pope or Turk For Antichrist or the man of Sin are surely nouns of multitude accumulative words and signifie those that carry on a Superstition contrary to Christ's Religion they are Antichrist or against Christ and they that sit in the Temple of God God's Throne commanding Souls and Consciences as if they were Gods they are limbs of that man of sin which shall fall by the Finger of God. Which Finger of God was never more apparently and miraculously seen than in this late Revolution which is like a Resurrection from the Dead Dead I say for both we and our irreconcileable Adversaries had past the Sentence of Death upon us unreprievable without a Miracle And whoever treads in the Antichristian steps and Policies of the Man of Sin by Propagating the Gospel with force of Arms can they expect other than to stand or fall with such ill Company But as our Riders are chang'd we hope also to have our heavy Burdens and unreasonable Loads taken off For by force chiefly Antichristian Mahomet made Converts with his Alcoran or Bible in one hand and his Sword in the other with this motto If one will not do the other shall And thus the Most Christian Turk makes Converts with Constables Hangmen Jaylors Penal Laws Tests and Troops of Dragoons Will the bolder English never be wiser than to follow French-Fashions Shall nothing be the mode here no not in Religion neither but what is A-la-mode de Francois Never had any Englishmen a greater Trust put upon them nor a greater Power put into their hands than is put into yours this day in this extraordinary rare necessary and therefore Just Convention You have virtually in you the power of all the Laws and all the Kings and Parliaments that ever were or ever shall be again in England to the worlds End because it is in your Breasts to save destroy continue or abrogate them or any of them arbitrarily at your good pleasure It becomes not me to determine positively whether the Monarchy be dissolv'd by the Kings d●parture throwing up the Reynes of Government and will Guide no longer quitting the Helm of Empire and leaving the ship once more to the mercy of the Waves to sink or Swim refusing to call Parliaments the only Scourge of Evil Courcellors and in whom jonytly with himself was lodg'd the Ligislative Power Or Whether the General Revolt had taken from him the Power of Guidance forfeited by Male-Administration of the Executive Power of the Laws Or whether also the Invading of the Legislative Power by erecting a Dispensing Power which seems in effect but a New Name for a New Legislative Power The Executive Power of our Laws was by our late Constitution lodg'd in the King alone as the Sole Power of the Militia making Alliances Judges Sheriffs c. a Burden thought to be too heavy for any single Shoulder and has occasion'd two or three general Revolts and Expulsions of the Monarchs in the three last Raigns for the Males Administration thereof as was at least pretended together with other sad Consequences too dismal to be remembred here and too lately done to be forgot nor need we mention the many and general Revolts in our Fore-Fathers times during all the Vnhappy Raigns since William the First all of them arising from the same occasion Yet will it not well become your Wisdoms quaerere vias antiquas to keep to the old frame of Government Monarchical with what limits of the Executive Power you shall please and as near as may be with any convenience to the old line too and next Heir Not only because a more awful Deference and Veneration is paid to what is anciently the Royal Family than to anyVpstart Family but because the Finger of God seems to point out and direct to that Incomparable and Blessed Branch thereof which God has made so strong for his own Self and the chief Instrument in the Hand of the Almighty for our Salvation from Popery and Slavery Nothing here hinted at is to inform your Wiser Judgments that knows much more of this already far be such Vanity from me But to stir up your

namely in Renouncing the Pope and all his Evil Works by the Oath of Supremacy which our present King King James II. by his Dispensing Power vacated in the first place as being a Long-approved and sufficient Bar and Bulwark to keep out Popery in the four last preceding Reigns It is also as true that as he left no stone unturn'd that lay in the way of bringing in Popery so he was necessitatid therefore also to set aside and disponce with this New Test which did inflict grievous Penalties upon them that durst or did venture in without taking it But they had all been kept out to this day and were kept out an hundred years before and could not therefore need his Dispensing Power until he let them in two years before by Dispensing with the Oath of Supremacy A Test that perhaps had been still thought sufficient if this Test had not jumpt right with some men's Malice that hated Protestant Dissenters as much if not more than Papists Indeed I grant That the King by that Gracious Indulgence gain'd the Dissenters and thereby lost the Love of High-Church-men who were as quiet and gentle as Lambs and Loyal as Heart could wish when he dispenc'd with that great and approved Test the Oath of Supremacy for two long years together whilst he permitted them and maintain'd them and their Penal Laws against Dissenters But when he put out his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience the Magna Charta that God the only King of Consciences has given to all Mankind would some Men so much as read the Indulgence which His Majesty the best Act that ever he did in his Life both in Piety and Policy too for it has been the Life of Trade in Holland and the Penal Laws or Inquisition their Dis-peopling and Destruction of Trade and Riches in Flanders as God's Deputy Re-inforc'd and Ordain'd No no! Though expresly enjoyn'd in the Rubrick of the Common-Prayer-Books What Combination What Bandying against it And perhaps for good Reasons But have they scrupled to read and make Prayers for worse things that I say not Impostures Or was it because it was Evil as to the Matter None had the Face to say so But Evil as to the Form of Dispensing because not done in Form of Law namely not Repealed by the same Power that Enacted it which Reason perhaps is a good Reason but how could it be more a Reason now in this Case then it was when he Dispenc'd with the Oath of Supremacy Which was as much against Law as this Dispensation and yet whilst he maintain'd the Church of England to Prosecute Dissenters with their Excommunications Capias's Fines and Imprisonments they were hush'd and Serene and as loyal as could be Preaching up Passive Obedience Prayers and Tears as the only Weapons of a Christian Groaning under the Oppression of Superiours during all the long time that they were uppermost and felt no Smart The Patriarch of Constantinople is as great an Enemy to Popery as any Prelate or Lay-man amongst us yet he holds more ridiculous and unaccountable Errors than the Papists and enslaves the poor Greeks as tyrannically as the Pope does enslave his Italian Papists What are the poor Greeks the better for this Bulwark against the Pope and Popery The Patriarch scornes to kiss the Pope's Toe and to be Tenant at will to the Pope or to hold his Patriarchate of him or under him and Preaches and Writes against Popish Errors but holds the poor Greeks to as bad Errors And is not the Pope on the other side the Water as Fierce Dogmatical and Pragmatical a Bigot in forcing the poor Greeks to believe as he believes and to be as Vniformable and Conformable to his Trinckets and Ceremonies as the Pope with his Inquisition in Italy What good does Graecia get by such a Bulwark against Popery when Pope and Popery cannot possibly make their Condition much worse then it is A true Christian Protestant should protest against and abominate Popery of the New as well as of the Old Edition and should keep close to the Apostolical and Primitive Rule of Charity in ease of Nonconformity There were Dissenters in the Church of Philippi as now amongst us so many Men to many different Minds so many Men so many different Features perhaps in doubtful Matters of Faith and some had better Eyes and Brains Hearts and Legs than others and therefore had different Apprehensions Opinions and Attainments Now What shall be done in this Case was the Question All prest forward towards the Mark of the Prize of the High-Calling of God in Christ Jesus Phil. 3.14 But some lagg'd behind as is usual in a Race to which the Apostle aludes Ver. 13. Now the Question is VVhat should be done with these that lagg'd behind and cannot come up so near the Mark as we Burn them Consume them with Fire from Heaven or Earth says zealous James and John and the Papists Or shall we spur them up with Penal Laws or Excommunicate them and then Goal them No Ye know not what manner of Spirit ye are of saith Christ And St. Paul in the 15th verse of that 3d Chapter of the Philippians If any Man be otherwise minded or be a Dissenter of another Opinion then make use of what Remedy Of your VVrath Your Passion Your Penal Laws and Tests No no wait God's Leisure make use of your Charity rather than Wrath of your Patience rather than Passion leave him to the King to whom alone Conscience belongs for if any man be a Nonconformist or otherwise minded God shall Reveal even this unto him He did not bid them do as some spiritual Watchmen now do call the Corporal call the Constable So that indeed Antichristian weapons and Christ's weapons are vastly different quite of another Shape Form and Fashion and made of quite contrary Stuff and Matter Christ and his Holy Apostles converted the World not with Earthly Carnal and Political Tests and Penal Laws and are we Wiser than they Did they borrow any of the Magistrates Weapons or Weapons like Mabomet from the Arms of Flesh No they are purely Spiritual Heavenly and Divine God did forbid in the Old Law the wearing of Lindsey-Wolsey or the yoaking of an Ox and an Ass together not without a Mystery Almighty God and Christ under the Gospel especially hating the Chaos of mingling Heaven and Earth together jumbling carnal and spiritual Tools in Hodge-podge they will not mingle will they cannot possibly Incorporate nor carry on one main End and one onely Design For if ye have bitter Envying and Strife in your Hearts striving with carnal Tools carnal VVeapons carnal Laws and carnal Tests this VVisdom descendeth not from above but is fetch'd from Hell and is therefore Earthly Sensual Devilish But the Wisdom that is from above is first pure so should the Holy Sacraments be pure and unmix'd with carnal Polices then Peaceable Gentle and easie to be intreated c. binding men to the Peace and good