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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09838	Against sacrilege three sermons / preached by Maister Robert Pont ...	Pont, Robert, 1524-1606.	1599 (1599)	STC 20100; ESTC S4419	43,712	129

Kirkes abbayes other places of superstition to employ the same and the prises thereof to resist the enemies The most parte of the Realme beand in their contrarie This I say cannot be altogether blamed For in like cases wee finde examples in the Scriptures how things dedicated euen to the true seruice of God for necessities cause were distracted and employed to stay the fury of enemies not onely by such Kinges as had made defection from the puritie of Religion but also by one of the most godly Kings of Iuda EZECHIAS by name who gaue to the king of Ashur to pacifie his inuasion not onely all the money that was founde in the house of the Lorde a●…d in the Kings treasurie but also pulled off the plates that couered the doores of the Temple and the Pillers which he himselfe had couered with golde And by the Ciuill Lawes and Cannons of councelles it is permitted for necessities cause as for ransoming of Captaines to annaly such things as be dedicat to the seruice of God But this is no excuse to them who in that time of tumult for their owne particular gaines cause medled either with gold siluer or other thing that mainteined the Idolatrie superstitiō of Papists For they could not vsurp it with good conscience Although for eschewing of great inconueniences there was a law and act of parliamēt made to absolue thē before men called the acte of Obliuion Albeit I can not see how these men not being constrained for maintenance of the publick actiō may be sufficiētly excused in good cōscience before God that meddle with either bels lead relicques Iewels stones timber or such like things of any effectual valure taken by thē of the demolishing of abbeies cathedral-kirks Frieries nunries or any such like places which ought rather to haue bin bestowed vpō the kirks affaires or vpō the poor And in tokē that God was offended with thē making the spoile of the kirk to cleaue to their hands it was shortly sene that the Lorde blew so vpon it that it vanished away from the most part of them And they that thinke now to make profit by spoyling the kirk shall feele a judgment of God following them as many of them already confesse by experience that their houses are nothing enriched but rather damnified therby For there followeth such a curse secret mishap vpō that kinde of graith that when euen for necessarye causes it is applyed to profane vses oftentimes it neither profiteth them that giue it nor that receue it EZECHIAS was not delivered from SENNACHERIB for al that he gaue him For he immediatly brake his promise And the Lead that was taken off our Kirkes and Monasteries a greate parte perished by Sea and an other was little advantage to them who medled therewith But all this was of small accounte in respect of that which after hath followed and dayly falleth out in this vnruly common-wealth For from the yeare of our Lorde 1560. vnto this present time the greatest study of all men of power of this land hes bene by all kinde of inventions to spoyle the Kirk of Christ of her patrimonie by chopping and changing diminishing of rentals cōuerting of victual in small sumes of money setting of fewes within the availe ●…ong tackes vppon tackes with two or three life-rentes with many twentie yeares in an tack annexationes erectiones of Kirk rents in temporall liuings and heritage pensiones simple donationes erecting of new patronages vnion of teindes making of new Abbattes Commendatares Priors with other Papistical titles which ought to haue no place in a reformed Kirk and cuntrie with an infinite of other corrupt and fraudfull waies to the detriment and hurte of the Kirke the schooles and the poore without any stay or gaine-calling till all the reuenues of the Kirke are so wracked that the posteritie may looke for a playne decay of Religion which cannot stande vnlesse it be holden vp by preaching and preaching cannot be had without prouision vnlesse God by some meanes put to his mercifull hand and remeid these euils For this deceitfull Idole of auarice in spoyling the Kirke goodes hath so seased the selfe in mens heartes that amongst vs the meanes are already taken away in many parts where by the ordinarie ministerie should be susteined Yea a great part of the Realme lacke Pastours and Ministers The Kirks are reviued and manye of them made Sheepe-coates or applyed to more filthy vses O what barbarous crueltie is it to beholde and suffer so many poore soules perishing for lacke of their ordinarie foode which is the word of God not onely in the out-Iles Hie-landes and Bordoures of Scotland but also in many partes of the Law-lande so that either Papistr●…e and Idolatrie must needes enter in againe or either plaine Athiesme take place with all contempt of Religion amongst these miserable destitute people And what a count shall they giue vnto God that are the cause not onely of murthering the poore by withdrawing from them the foode of their bodies but by causing so many soules lacke the Spirituall foode whereby they should be nourished vnto euerlasting life in Christ by their insatiable auarice Trueth it is Parliamentes haue bene conveened and actes haue bene made for providing Ministers of competent liuinges for reparaling of Parish-Kirkes for trayning vp the youth in schooles of Theologie It hath bene also promised and subscribed in writte by a greate parte of the Nobilitie that the poore labourers of the grounde should haue an ease and reliefe of the rigorous exacting of their teindes and many other good thinges haue bene devised tending to the advancement of the glorie of GOD and establishing of Christ his Kingdome Amongst vs namely in time of the gouernemente of that good Regente whome for honoures cause I name who although he could not doe all that hee woould haue done hauing so manie hinderances and enemies yet his dooings might haue bin a perfite paterne of Godlinesse to the reste of the Nobilitie to make them bene content to liue vppon their owne rentes and to cease from robbing and spoyling the Patrimonie of the Kirke But experience hath declared and dayly doth declare the moste parte of such professoures vnder-takers of Religion and for-faking of Idolatrie to haue fought and yet seeke none other thing but to pull to them-selues the Kirke-goodes possest by Papistes And to foster as a Serpente in their bosome that venemous Idole of auarice For all insatiable auaricious persones are Idolaters indeed and it cannot be but by making a God of vnlawful gaine they deny the liuing God dishonoring him most ignominiously by setting in their hearts that Mammon of iniquitie which they loue better then him in his place And if all avariceous men generally after this maner may be called Idolaters how much more they who spare not to fil their houses with the spoile of the Lord his house and of the poore How dare they either call vpon his Maiestie or come