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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07397	The vickers challenge claiming a maintainance as due by proofes out of the gospell : wherein is manifested, that there is a competencie due unto them / by Ios. Meene, vicker.	Meene, Joshua.	1640 (1640)	STC 17780.5; ESTC S2818	46,566	86

themselves with benevolences arising out of t he others ruines These crooked practices have already had their dangerous consequences the world hath seldome been without many bleeding witnesses hereof Germany in particular may be wayle not onely her flain thousands with Saul nor ten thousands with David but her handred thousands For Schisme is not accustomed to stay long confined in the Church but shee is likewise wont to disseminate Faction in the State Archbishop Sands of excellent memory for the cause of the Gospel preached at Pauls Crosse that by reason of the want of worthy wages unto these workmen for salvation this mischief spreadeth wider and regardeth as little the Throne of David as the Chaire of Moses the Scepter as the Book the Prince a the Prophet the Civill a the Ecclesiasticall State Thus as unity and peace between the Soveraigne and the Subjects and withall the people mutually among themselves comprehends the true and proper glory of earthly Kingdomes typically figuring the celestiall unity in blessednesse and eminency of the Triumphant Church of God So Schisme and Division of any people into variety of opinions and affections is the bane and subversion of a Church and Nation resembling the confusions and perturbations of Satans infernall Regiment But these will never be totally suppressed nor can there want wicked instruments to incourage the Subjects for to run a course of contrariety and opposition to the laws and personall practice of the Prince himselfe in matters conversant about the exercise of Religion Neither shall we be free from the hazard of perillous Faction in our State by occasion hereof untill the establishment of a proportionable mayntenance for the spirituall Pastors doth arme and animate them by example and doctrine to teach and practice without pusillanimous dread or dependance upon any man religious and loyall obedience the giving to God the things which are Gods and unto Caesar the things which are Caesars the feare of the Lord and the honour of the King Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth c. 7. I alledge the divine curses against bad and dishonest tithing therfore still rather where a requisite supply and provision for the sufficient mayntenance of spirituall Pastors is wanting It is manifest Malac. 3. that as upon the performance of this duty a marvellous prosperity of the severall fruits of the ground a gracious opening of the windows of Heaven and the pouring down plentifull showres of blessings are promised So for the neglect and contempt of this notable present confider in the same Chapter most grievous maledictions threatned Our Elders Saint Augustine expresseth had a happy abundance of all good things because they were faithfull in the paying to God his tenths and unto Caesar his Tribute But since that devotion of tithing waxed cold sacrilegious persons have by their covetousnesse in that kinde defrauded themselves of a double blessing namely of the promises of this life and of the life to come Other exactions arise to punish their execrable avarice what is stoln from the Church cannot be preserved in the chest what is grudged towards the Sanctuary is urged into the treasury when men murmure to give the tenth they are made to forego the totall Dabis impio militi quod non vis dare Sacerdoti whiles men deprive the carefull Ministers they become a spoyle to the cruell souldiers The Lord is always ready and liberall to blesse but the wicked perversnesse of man opposeth wretched impediments to hinder it for he would have God bestow all things upon him and yet hee will offer nothing againe unto this bountifull owner of all things Quid faceres si novem partibus sibi sumptis tibi decimans reliquisset What couldest thou doe if hee took all the nine parts to himselfe and left the tenth onely unto thee Thus indeed he not seldome dealeth when as he withholdeth his former and latter raine to wither and waste away thy wished harvest with a wofull drought or when hee smiteth thy fruits with unseasonable stormes of hayle or blasteth them with extremitie of untimely Frosts And so thou grievously failest of thy covetous and greedy computation the nine parts being taken away from thee because thou refusedst to pay the tenth which the Lord requited For this is his most righteous course to turn them unto the tenth which will not offer to him the tenth to punish them with want which famish those which worke Witnesse either the proper experience of offending persons or else the events of their posterities Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the corn The use of the whole premises is to admonish all sorts of Christians to practise the doctrine of my text to tithe and conferre towards their Ministers mayntenance according to the rules of holy Writ within the compasse of their severall vocations Private persons must apply themselves unto Christians patience the properly have no warrantable power to redresse and alter publike inconveniences Neverthelesse they must omit the duty of diligent and zealous praier unto God who is able and willing to helpe and succour They must appeare likewise chearefull and forward in any legall course to procure a remedy against these sacrilegious incroachments and usurpations They ought faithfully herein to ayd and further their Ministers by liberall contribution and all other justifiable assistances they poor men for the most part are least able to undergoe expences And as the nature of their Calling affordeth commonly small leysure so concerning temporall affaires they have but litle skill and experience Oh how liberally doe the wise children of this world in their generations see their Lawyers in matters appertaining to their outward estates yea not seldome in strifes and contentions which come from the evill lusts that warre in their members Moreover if a sickenesse seizeth on their bodies they spare neither horses nor Caroches nor peeces no travail nor cost for a Physitian Is it possible then that such a multitude of them will shew their selves so base and blockish as to grudge and repine almost at every penny that they part with to the heavenly Physitians of their souls when as notwithstanding the certainty is that upon the health and happinesse of the soule all the good promises all true welfare of body and estate depend Let none then miserably pinch and spare in cases of this kinde which indeed be Gods cause and wherein the prosperity of their soules their bodies their posterities be very deeply interessed Personages of Superior place and ability as they have the best meanes so in no wise may they slacke behind in cheerefull imployment of them in every loyall and lawfull occasion to releeve and right our holy and venerable mother the Church They will finde at length nothing to bee more noble pious nor remunerable Finally I beseech all sortes touching the reverend Clergies maintenance to take into serious consideration that the God of equity hath in his divine wisedome and goodnesse built his ordinance