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A47283	Ichabod: or, Five groans of the church: Prudently foreseeing, and passionately bewailing her second fall: Threatened by these five dangerous, though undiscerned, miscarriages that caused her first: Viz. [bracket] 1. Undue ordination, 2. Loose prophaness, 3. Unconscionable symony, 4. Careless non-residence, 5. Encroaching pluralities. Humbly presented to her supreme head and governour, the kings most excellent majesty, and his great council, the Parliament of England.; Ichabod.	Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.	1663 (1663)	Wing K264A; ESTC R22531	49,473	66

hand to be Stewards of the misteries of God to watch for precious souls as they that must give an account How can you govern others who cannot govern your selves What power have you ov●● others who have hardly any power over your selves What esteem can you find among them who will naturally dispise your youth Did not Philosophy think you fit O young men to ●ear Morals and shall Divinity admit you to read divine Lectures How can you in the heat of youth in the vigour of your lusts appear in the world perswading men to mortifie their lusts to crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts With what hope can you endeavour to compase the world to that great Rule to which you cannot compose your selves How will you behave your selves as Guides among persons whose years and experience are so much beyond yours How impertinently will you converse how weakly will you discourse how imprudently will you deal how contemptibly will you live among a staid and discreet people wiser then you in their Generations The goodness of God having furnished man with two chief Instruments saith an incomparable man both necessary for this life hands to exercise and a mind to devise great things the one is not profitable longer then the vigour of youth doth strengthen it nor the other greatly t●ll age and experience have brought it to perfection SECT 2. Of Dibauched Men ordained 1500. OH am I as Iulian blasphemed the sanctuary of all prophaneness Am I a re●uge for all licentiousness Whom a strict Colledge expels whom the severe University discountenanceth whom civil men note with a mark of hatred and abhorrence must I admit to my sacred Order and honour with my most solemne Ministrations My care is that each Minister should be of an holy and unblameable conversation What have these poor creatures to doe to take Gods Word held forth by me in their mouths seeing they hate to be reformed O my reverend Sons what do you bring a man to ●each the world a God and his service Who is without God in the world What do you send them to speak of that God who is not in all their thoughts Why are they employed to propagate the knowledge of God who desire that the knowledge of the holy One may cease from them To what purpose do they preach an holy Life who never intend to live it Why do they put those poor souls to pray for those things of God which they doe not desire to read that Bible which they do not believe to bind thosa heavy burthens upon the people which they themselves do not intend to bear to teach that on the Sabbath demurely which they will con●radict throughout the Week profanely Is there any need of authorizing publick patterns of impiety Do you intend to destroy what ye have built I know you not Why then do you send lewd Ministers to teach men by an evil example that prophanenesse which I have endeavoured to reform by my good instruction Wo is me that I ●ee those within me running to all excess of riot who are employed to teach a pure Religion and undefiled before God You O reverend Fathers taught men to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and live soberly justly and godly in this present world and will you suffer men to go from among you to reach all ungodlinesse and worldlie lusts O ala● one man a Divine and a Beast What consecrated to God and devoted to sin An abomination in the holie place Behold thou are called a Minister and re●test in the Law and makest thy boast of God and knowest his will and approvest the things that are more excellent being instructed out of the Law and art confident that thou thy selfe art a Guide to the blind a light of them which are in darknesse an Instructor of the foolish a Teacher of babes which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth of the Law thou therefore 〈…〉 another reachest thou not thy self thou that preachest a man should not steal dost thou steal thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou commit adulterio thou that abhorres●●dols dost thou com●it Sac●iledge thou that makest thy boast of the law through breaking the La● dishonourest thou God for the Name of God is blasphemed among the people through you SECT 3. Of Vnlearned Men Ordained I Am ashamed that than ignorance which formerlie found preforment should now find orders too and that I should settle them legally in that calling whereunto I alwaies said they had illegallie intruded themselves It was too much to suffer that daring ignorance to Vsurp the sacred Office much more to consecrate it to it The late Miscarriages want nothing to compleat them but to be hallowed The Catholick Church never enter●ained a Ministry but what was qualified either with extraordinarie gifts from above or with humane lea●ning from below by which the mind being instructed and improved in all the riches of wisdome and knowledge which are part of the glorie and image of God in man by this learning all truths are clearlie unfolded How do you think poor souls can clear divine truths lying hid in the depth darknesse and ambiguity of Original words without skill in Languages How can the attain the genuine and emphatick sense of the Word of God without skill in the Original words and phrases How can they maintain the truths I have established and con●ute the errours● I have condemned How can they detect the fallacies with which my poor people are deluded and convince the gain-sayers with which I am ●roubled and discover those sophisms in which poor souls wrap themselves darkning wisdome with words without understanding without the art of sound reasoning How can they convey the holy truths they are furnished with to others without an holy Eloquence a sacred Perswasion and Rhetorick which may commend them to mens minds and enforce them upon their hearts how can they satisfie themselves and others in the Controversies of this Age without the Observations Histories and Customs of former Ages and standing in the wa●es and asking for the old which is the good way and walk therein so find rest for their souls How is it possible for those poor creatures to understand sundry passages of Scripture depending upon propriety of words ●dioms or upon the Cu●toms Rites Proverbs Forms Usages Laws Offices and Antiquitie o● the Assyrian Persian Gre●k and Roman Governments without a competent portion of humane Learning My Religion was as the Kings Daughter all glorious within attended on by Arts and Sciences those Handmaids who cloathed her with garments wrought with needle-work of divers colours embroidering her with pathetick 〈◊〉 ●ith solid Eloquence and Orations with Sublimity and Gravity with Method and Acu●eness with excellent Morals and useful Observations of a very sober sense But now alas it 's exposed to a prophane world with the ridiculous impertinencies and foolish adventures of men zealous but not according to knowled●e

Noblenesse of St. Basil and those who come neer●st the Apostolical pattern and resemble the most of any Christians or Ministers the Grace and Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. I●en●eavour that my Bish●ps may be among Christians the most faithful among Men the most civil among Preachers the most painful among Orato● the most perswasive among Governours the most moderate among pious Men the most ●ervent among Professors the most forward among Severe Men the most exact among Sufferers the most p●tient among Perseverants the most constant the most compleat every way and perfect unto every good w●rk These I take care should be duely chosen should be esteemed with honour and reverenced with love My Rule to them is That they should over-rule with vigilance should rule with joynt counsel neither levelled with younger Preachers and Novices nor exalted too much above the Grave and Elder I allow these men an honourable competencie with eminencie wherewith they may exercise a large heart and liberal hand which may conciliare a general respect and deserve the common love My dir●ction to them is that their vertue and piety may preserve the Authority of their places and this in the order peace and digni●y of the Church that they may be the Tou●hst●ne of Truth the Loadstone of Love the Standard of Faith the Pattern of Holinesse the Pillars of Stability and the Centres of Vnity such as the Erroneous may hate the Factious envy good men may love and bad men may fear 2. Can ye blame my Doctrine approved by the Ref●rmed and agreeable with the Primitive Church a doctrine according to godliness teaching●a●l men that denying all ungodli●●ss and worldly ●ust they should live righteously soberly and godly in this present world 3. Doe you find fault with my Devotion in the Publick worship of God by Confession prayers praises Psalms and other holy Oblations of a Rational and Evangelical service offered up to our God by the joint piety of all my children the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Communi Oratio where nothing is expressed as my mind which I thought not agreeable with the mind of Gods spirit in the Scripture nor do I know any part of it to which a judicious Christian might not in Faith s●y Amen taking the expressions of it in that pious and benign sense which the Church intended and the words may well bear Indeed the whole composure of my Li●urgy is in my judgement so wholesome so holy so compleat so discreet so devout so useful so savoury so well-advised that I find nothing in the eighteen Li●urgies composed in the Eastern and Western Church that is excellent but is in this of mine and many things which are less clear or necessary in them are better expressed or wisely omitted here the whole being so ordered as might best inform all peoples understandings stir up their affections and quicken their devotions in a wholesome form of sound words such as Moses David the Prophets and the Lord Jesus left behind them solemnly recorded in the Scriptures So that according to the primitive care I first laid down Scripture grounds in the Creeds and Confessions and then I enlarged and fixed my Lyturgies and devotions as near as I could to the majesty 〈◊〉 and exactness unanimity and fulness of publick prayers upon all holy publick occasions so plainly that the devout soul knows well what it should desire of God and so affectionately that it earnestly desires in it what it knoweth God alloweth and so uniformly that it peaceably goeth along with the Congregation with one mind and one heart in the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace 4. Is it the Rites and Ceremonies I impose that displease you Alas I find the God of Heaven which we worship in England enjoyning more Ceremonies on his own people and forbidding no holy custome to any Christians in order to advance the decency and order of his service or Christ●stians mutual edification and joint devotion under the Gospel Our blessed Saviour hath by his spirt guiding the pens and practises of the Apostles sufficiently manifested the power and liberty given the Church and the Governours of it for the choice and use of such decent customes Rites and Ceremonies not as divine institutions upon the consciences but as humane injunctions upon the practises as agree with godly manners and the truth of the Gospel and may best serve for order de●ency peace solemnity and mutual edification of Christians agreed upon by publick consents in which every ones vote is personally or vertually included It 's true as the Lyturgy so the Ceremonies have something of Rome in them for to deal plainly I did freely and justly assert to my own use and Gods glory whatever upon due tryal I found to have the stamp of Gods truth and grace or the Churches wisdome and charity upon it I would not refuse any good I found amongst them because i● was mixed with some evil but trying all things I held fast that which was good beingintent upon the great ends of p●ety devotion and charity It 's true I enjoyn my people an inward worship of soul in sp●ri● and in truth before God but withal I enjoyn outward worship of the body which is but a reasonable service to God 〈…〉 the body exemplary and significan● before men in such habits an● gestures as ma● 〈◊〉 co●●uce by the advice of the whole Church for the private spirit of the prophets in th●●● things ought to be subject to the p●blick spirit of the Pr●●hets to reverence devotion and e●i●i●ation in knowing ●umble meek and q●iet spirits righ●●y discerning the innocent nature of such things not prohibited and so indifferent and the Christian liberty allowed to them to use those things indifferent when commanded and to la● them a side when not commanded However let the many Obligations to unity by the true Faith you jointl● professe give you more satisfaction then the occasions of dividing the Ceremonies in which you differ give you offence so that you may not upon so small occasions in such small m●tters sacrifice to your private passion and perswasion the publick peace and prosperity of the Church esp●cially since I never heard of any sober Christian or truely godly Minister who being in other things prudent unblameable and sincere did ever suffer any check of conscience meerly upon the account of having been conformable to and keeping communion with me nor did they ever complaine of Ce●emoni● Lyturgy and Episcopacy as any damps to their real graces or to their holy communion with Gods blessed Spirit but admired them as the united influence the joynt consent the combined devotion of all good Christians in this Nation who publickly agreed with one mind and in one manner to serve the Lord in a way allowed by the most pious of Princes practised by the best Nobility owned by the wisest Gentry maintained by the most learned Clergy and embraced by the

severe and through Repentance servent and devout Prayers godly and un●eigned Sorrow spiritual and unspeakable Comfo●●● well grounded and firm Hope heavenlie and holie Conversation a meek obedience and submission in the general frame of Christian mens carriage Though I have men famous for greatness of Learning soundness of Judgement gravity of M●n●ers and Sanctity of Lives ye● among my ten thousand Ministers it 's likely some may doe amiss If when there were but three men in the world one was a Murtherer if among Noah's sons one of the three was disobedient if among Iacob's children of two one was prophane if of twelve Apostles one was a Divel another dissembled and a third denyed his Master if among the Asian Angels there is none but was to be reproved if among the few Primitive Preachers there was a Demas that loved the present world a Diotrephes that loved the pre-eminence among my so many thousand Clergy it 's not likely but that some may fall short of the severe exactnesse required in all Ministers who ought to be patterns in good works Oh my Clergy are not Angels but men subject to the like in●rmicies with other men If they should say they have no sin they would decer●e themselves and the truth would not be in them but if they confess their sins he is faithful and just to forgive them their sins and to cleanse them from all unrighteousness Be Perfection the glory of other Church-members the glory of mine is Sincerity Without all peradventure the most holy and all-seeing God who walketh in the midst of the Golden Candlesticks whose pure eyes are most intent upon the Ministers of the Church hath found iniquity in his servants the Bishops and other Ministers both as to their persons and professions all things being open and naked to him with whom we have to do 1. He observes how many consecrated and set apart to the service of God and his Church in the name place power and authority of Jesus Christ and approaching his gracious presence with Aaron in ●he holy of holies in the glorious ●anifestations of God in Christ to his Church by publick Ordinances and spiritual Influences have not so sanctified the Name of the Lord God their God in their Hearts and Lives in their Doctrines and Duties 2. The great Searcher of hearts knoweth how rashly many of his Ministers undertake how carelesly they manage that great and terrible work under which Angels may swoon and great Apostles cry Who is sufficient for these things how vulgarl● they converse how lazily they live how loosely they behave themselves how ambitiously they designe how cove●ously they reach how enviously they repine how unexemplarily they walk unworthy of the favour and indulgence shewed them to the amazement of their High-calling the dishonor of their Profession to the forfeiture of their Dignity and Plenty the endangering of their Peace and Safety 3. He that is about our paths and about our dwellings hath observed how unprep●●edly negligently and irreverently rently how partially popularly and passionately how formally and vainly without any power of godliness Life of Religion some performe the work of God the great work of Eternal concernment to our own and other mens souls 4. He whose eyes see whose eye-lids try the children of men hath looked down from heaven and observed the iniquity of some mens holy things their dead and unreasonable instead of a living and acceptable serviee he hath taken notice of that supine negligence which hath sunk some mens Ministrations below the just majesty solidity and gravity of Gospel-dispensations others by an affected height and depth for want of plain instruction and charitable condescending amuse the poor people who know not what they say nor whereof they do affirm 5. He that will reprove and set mens sins in order before them hath taken notice of some mens remiss compliance and others exact rigours according to their private tempers judgements and passions whereby they swerved too much from that just charity discretion legality and constancy which my Canons intented and my constitution health and peace required especially in the peevish touchinesse of these times when so many subtle and envious ones lie in wait to destroy me Yet my Church-mens exorbitancies are not my constitutions their failings are not my frame their infirmities are not my nature their fall is no more mine who disallows it then the Angels fall may be the Heavens that forbid it their weaknesses are humane my authority is divine that charity which thinketh no evil will not lay upon me those enormities which I forbid by a Law which I restraine by Discipline which I mourn for in mine Humiliation and discountenance in those great patterns that shew a most excellent way These sinnes O the Christian world are transgressions of my Law affronts to my Authority the baffles of my Canons and Injunctions O that my Apologie were written yea printed in a book for the satisfaction of the world that the good that I would do that I cannot do and the evil that I would not doe that I do I find a law of my members against the law of my mind So that it 's no more I but the sins and the finners that dwell in me 4. It 's you it 's you whom I have nourished and brought up as children whom I have encouraged as Ministers whom I have promoted as Governours it 's you that have brought this reproach and danger upon me When I had with heroick patience endured the oppression of adversa●ies by a Christian prudence defeated the attemps of Schismaticks by an exemplary humility and piety turned the hearts of enemies and by a miracle of Restauration silenced the mouths of all men you my Sons opened the mouth of scandal strengthned the cry of reproach raised the clamours of the envious Oh if an enemy had done this I could with the same Christian courage I have suffered these twenty years have born it but it 's you of my own bosome family and profession O you my Clergy whom I expected more glori●us more steemed more reverenced before all the world after your constant sufferings who coming out of this fiery furnace might shine brighter then ever you did with the love of Christ and of me his Church both as to the care of those private charges and publik inspections committed to you in excellent order and by due authority and I expected that neither pride nor envy pomp nor popularity neither covetousnesse nor ambition should distract the thoughts divide the hearts exasperate the humours or provoke the reproach of an incensed people against my Order and Government and the good of all sorts of Christians Whosoever of you notwithstanding the miracles both of your sufferings and reliefe at such a time as this when the mouth of Hell is open against me shall open any other mouth to joyne in the cry against the Church give life or tongue to any scandalous sin and set that to its clamans

four hundreds pounds yearlie during a short life that you should appear in a Pulpit if yet you doe appear in a Pulpit for a little Maintenance that you should appear very solemnly every Sunday onely to put a trick upon God and men I hope better things of you and things that accompany salvation though thus I speak In the Primitive times every Church of so many souls as are of your Parishes had many Ministers whereof the ablest speakers did most in publick and the rest did the more of the less publick work which some mistake for ruling Elders but now one of you takes the care of many Churches The Popish times I mean years 632. could divide England into Parishes for the better discharging of the cure of souls our times unite those Parishes again for the better maintenance of pride and vanity Is it for this that we are reformed is it for this we are Protestants then each Parish had their Ministers to pray with them ferventlie to teach them faithfullie to comfort them seasonablie to converse with them usefullie to relieve them charitablie to direct them carefullie Ah! in quae nos reservamur tempora Now now my people are neglected my buildings are ruined my hospitalitie is lost my authoritie is shrunk and faln and the Church of England is thought to be nothing else but the interest of a few crafty Clergie-men ordering all things to their best advantage Though Envy may know and Prejudice it self may consider I am a Church made up of godly and religious men Princes Nobles Gentry Bishops Ministers and People maintaining an Orthodox Doctrine a Primitive Government a pure and orderly Worship a severe Discipline and a Christian Communion in Word and Sacrament who have forbid these extravagancies by wholsome Laws checked them by severe Canons and disallowed them by fair and just means imaginable In the darkest and most superstitious times I ordered That no Monks i.e. idle persons should take Livings of Bishops or appropriate the Revenues of them to themselves but that the Priests serving in those Cures and the Churches might be provided with necessaries Do you know why Monks were pulled down in H. 8. time Lay it to heart I beseech you for many look for your fall too 1. They were accused for engrossing Wealth and trade and do you hear what the world saith of you 2. They were accused for impoverishing Parish-Priests by decrying Preaching as ministring matter of Schisms and Disputes and magnifying their own performances of Prayer and Devotion by which and other Artifices they undermined the poor Priests and procured that many Churches presentative with their Glebes and Tythes were appropriated to their Covents leaving but a poor pittance for the Parish-Vicar This was the occasion of the first Impropriations I pray God your carelesness doth not occasion another Oh remember Robert Whigifts the Abbot of Wellow's speech who was wont to say That they and their Religion could not long continue because said he I have read the whole Scripture over and over and never found that Monasteries and I may adde Pluralities were founded by God for said the honest Abbot every planting which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up Do you remember that Lay-parliament in King H. 8. his time wherein the Nobles and Commons assembled signified to the King That the Temporal profession of Abbots Priors c. vainly spent would suffice to finde 150 Earls 1500 Knights 6200 Esquires 100 Hospitals Doe you remember those Mock-parliaments that often considered how many 1000 men your Tythes ill bestowed upon you as they thought would maintain You were once undone now are you made whole I beseech you my Sons sinne no more left a worse thing come unto you Bishop Iewel on 1 Thes. p 71. Forasmuch brethren as we were kept from you for a season concerning sight but not in heart we are enforced the more to s●e your face with great desire Therefore we would have come unto you I Paul at least once or twice but Satan hindred us Such a zeal and care had he over the people of God Oh in what case then are they that are careless and have no regard of the people of God! which hunt after 〈◊〉 and bend not themselves to do good which serve their own belly and seek to be rich and eat up the people of God as if they were bread They cannot say they have a desire to sée the face of their flock and that their heart is with them howsoevar they find time for other matters they can never take time to know their sheep and 〈◊〉 doe the work of the Ministry among them they care not for them they think not of them they plant not they water not they watch not they give no warning of the dangers at hand they teach them not to deny all ungodliness and worldly lust● and to live soverly righteously and godly in this present world It were happy if all such were removed out of the Church of God they destroy the souls and lead them to destruction by their negligence What account shall they give unto God for the souls of their Brethren Where shall they stand or what will they say when he shall bid them make a strait account This is the practise of Satan he useth all means to snare us and withdraw us from that blessed hope sometimes he letteth the encrease of the Gospel by raising up tumults and disquieting the Church of God 〈…〉 the heart of such as are in Authority to per●ecute by all means the teachers of the Gospel of Christ. Again when God gives peace and quietness to his Church he leadeth the Overséers of the people to a forgetfulness of their duty to séek the pleasures and delight of this life and to have no regard of the work of the Lord such occasion the Devil séeketh to hinder our salvation and to withstand the truth and glory of God CHAP. V. The Church of England's resentment of Non-residence OH my Sons I have no pleasure in exposing you yet have I no power to excuse you you know that I have charity for you that suffereth long that is kind that is not easily provoked thinketh no evil beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things Alas what shall I do now my people complain my adversaries reproach my Soveraign is displeased my Nobility and Gentry are incensed and where-ever I turn my self Complaints are made Petitions are drawn up Jealousies are whispered and Fears are murmured If I should hold my peace I should be thought altogether such a one as you are if I should speak my tongue fails me I am in a great strait yet you had better hear your miscarriages faithfully reproved by me to your reformation then mali●iously aggravated by others to your destruction My words may be smart yet they are wholsome severe they may be yet kind you hear me with sorrow but not with more then I speak to you with 1. It