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A03481	The burthen of the ministerie Gathered out of the sixt chapiter of the Epistles of S. Paul to the Galathians, the first verse. Verie profitable to be read of euery faithfull subiect, and of all that desire to be taught in the waie of truth. By Iohn Holme.	Holme, John.	1592 (1592)	STC 13601; ESTC S117238	18,041	50

England it did swallowe vp and spoile the goods of the Church but hearken ye deafe Adders it is meete for you to dwell in your seeled houses and the house of God to ly waste 1. Hag. And therefore it is that many of vs in England haue sowen muche and bring in little and haue eaten but had not enough drunke and were not filled wee haue cloathed ourselues and yet we be not warme and he that earneth wages hath put it in a broken bagge Ye looked for much saith the Prophet and loe it came to lyttle and when ye brought it home I did blowe vpon it saith the Lord because of my house that it is waste and ye run euery man to his owne house The Lord hath placed vs heere in a friutful land and yet for this sinne of robbing the Church the dew of heauen did not fal vpon the earth to moisten it and so all our riches could not deliuer vs from great penury thy destruction therefore is of thy selfe ô England repent therefore betime runne not a whoring after thine owne inuentions and now build a second Church farre more glorious then the first and goe about it betime The children of the Iewes were hindred had many lets because they let slip the opportunitie Restore the goods of the Church betymes and you shall see if your little doe not encrease to aboundaunce and then euerye student will labour for knowledge and Religion to benefit the Church to the confusion of Antichrist to the conforming and conducting of your soules through the wildernes of this worlde to the kingdome of Heauen this burthen if there were no moe in England it were sufficient to bring fire and brimstone suddenlye to consume vs but at the preaching of Ionas the Niniuites repented though his sermon was very shorte yet 40. daies and Niniuie shall be destroyed turned the wreath of the Almightie cleane away from them And it may bee likewise that the reading of this little Pamphlet will at the least make some of them blush when they consider how many learned men they hinder that are fain to stay stil in Cambridge for the great want that is in the Countrey abroad The Lord in times past had a controuersie with the children of Israel because there was no trueth no mercie no knowledge of God in their land Ose 4.1 And what wil he doe with this mercilesse nation wherein by the wicked the Prophets are almost stoned yet in the best part they are scourged and whipt by extreame penurie VVill hee not haue a controuersie with vs and hath he not shewed tokens of it These last yeares when a mightie nation did rise vp against vs like the sandes of the sea though at that instant wee had some good motions yet now when the peril is past our hearts are hardened with Pharao and we returne with the dogge to his vomit Pharaoh had tenne mightie blowes at his heart and yet would not be reclaimed and England hath had a thousand warnings and yet still is hardened Moses smit the rocke and water gushed out to the comforting of the children of Israel And I would to God that teares of repentance might make suche men to weep day night for the desolation of this Ierusalem and is it not a confusion of our owne faces that beeing vnder such a most gratious Queene by whose gouernement now this 33. yeeres wee haue enioyed all blessinges both spirituall and temporall more than all our neighbor countreys about vs that we I say should deale so vngratiously in with-holding the goodes of the Church which by the bountifull hands of so gratious a Queene and so prudent a Councell is bestowed vppon vs and yet this burthen doth seeme to vs to bee so light that we can wipe our mouthes and say wee haue not sinned Let Fraunce confirme vs in this doctrine for by this sinne there came vp sectes and heresies and had increased to a great and vnquenchable flame had not the sling of Dauid and the sword of Gedeon bene giuen into the Kings hand to fight the battell of the Almightie God for true religion and for the establishing of the Church Lord prosper his iourney that through his hand Israel may be deliuered from Aegypt where it lyeth in bondage vnder the Pope or vnder the Turke that the God of England may shew himselfe to be the true God and therefore that it is impossible for them to kicke against the pricke or for dust and ashes to wage warre against the immortall euer-liuing God whose power indeede no creature is able to resist I haue dwelt long as you may see in setting forth one of the burthens of this lande But I may excuse my selfe for this one is all and where this one is remooued there all other burthens may easily be taken away So indeede it is a rocke of offence a stone to stumble at which except it bee taken out of out way it is impossible that we shuld passe by it except it be such men as will strayne a gnat and swallow vp a cammell And vnto these what is it but is possible who can speak to the Church out of euerie text all thinges and these be they that condemn learning in Sermons because indeede they haue none themselues And this is the cause that the common people can better tell of cappe and surplesse than of faith and a good conscience which that sect wants for the most part Our Sauiour pronounced a woe to the Scribes Pharisies because they were diligent in tything mint and rue and euerie little trifle leauing the weightier points of the lawe But what if Christ were on the earth againe doe you thinke they should escape with a thousand woes because they haue beene the destruction of many mens souls driuing them to desperation as by wofull experience wee see it daily and all for want of learning Such deale with our auncient Fathers writings as they that haue cutte a purse who takes the mony and casts the purse away for fear their wickednes should be knowne to the world and they for all that they cannot abide our Fathers yet they are faine to flie to their writings to releeue their necessitie yet they cast away the purse But all is for vaineglorie to set out themselues as though it were theyr owne inuentions or their owne arme which helped them Thus they set at varience the minds of the people one holding of Apollo another of Paul the third of Cephas one of this man another of that man which things except they be lookt too in time doe foretell the ruine of the Church to come And though by reason of our most gratious Queene it come not in our dayes yet it may come in the time of our posteritie and the ages that are to come to the end of the world and though our life be short or lighter than vanitie because our dayes are numbred yet let vs worke those thinges in this short life

with whome wee haue walked in the house of God together who went out from vs but were not of vs that most cruelly are bent against vs and like vnnaturall children destroy their owne deare mother by whome they haue been broght vp and cherished yet many of them wil cal for a learned ministerye but can any gather grapes of thornes or figs of thristles Can there bee any knowledge where there is no labour or labour where there is no maintenance No surely for who would labour to become poore and base and destitute of all things or who would be a minister to haue the skin and the bone almost for apparell so that he must take more care to preserue life than to instruct his people being other wise condemned of the most O what a wofull case is this we hang our Harps vpon the trees and sit down by the waters of Babilon weeping when we which are young schollers remember this Sion And looke forth of our Studies with many salt teares when we remember the vnmerciful dealing of these that with-holde our maintenaunce from vs. They may well bee compared to Pharaoh for when the iudgement of God was great and terrible in his land that hee could not deny but it was the extraordinary worke of God yet for all this his hart was so hardened that he could not be content to let the people go and serue the Lord but vpon this condition that they should leaue their substaunce for him and his posteritie euen so the men of this worlde deale with the poote ministers of God for thogh their consciences in keeping the maintenance of the Church do accuse thē yet they are content to call for a learned ministry but prouided still they keepe their former possessions the spoile of the Church No maruaile then if no residencye bee great in this land when scarce two liuings wil find a man bread and apparel Is there not greater fault in the gredie cormorants of this worlde who are the causes of all suche mischiefe than in those that for necessitie and conscience sake are constrained to take them and surely there be manye that crye against it but with no ground for God knowes the simplicitie of many hartes that haue two liuinges The Minister is said to be a feeder 33. Ezechiel 1. and how can he feed others when he can scarce feed himselfe How can his life and doctrine agree together when the cares of this worlde do choake his minde The children of Israel made Bricke by reason of their task-maisters a long time our Ministers are fain to become seruile yea as it were bond slaues because their cruell task-maisters with-hold their right their children crie in the streets being fatherlesse what stonie heart will not bleed at this and desire the Lord day and night till it be restored Which if it were then all the outcries of our monstrous hypocrites men that cary the outward forme of godlinesse would soone cease that we might all agree in the spirit of truth which is the bond of peace that England might flourish and bee brought to all the Nations of the earth as the Sunne in perfect beautie for want of discretion is the cause that hath caused so many libels to bee written against our auncient Fathers of the Church who are indeede the reformers of such abuses if euer they be reformed This want of learning and Iudgement doth cause them to shoote at al aduenturs and to discouer the shame of their parents if by any meanes possibly they could such gracelesse children are nourished broght vp in the bosome of this Church which except they be cut off betim it wil be a destruction to the whole cōmon welth for a kingdome deuided against it selfe can not stand Nay if any house be against it selfe it can not endure If our realme be the one halfe papists the other Brownests how can the gospell take place in the hartes and conscience of men But that destruction calamitie and miserie should come vpon the whole body They preache peace indeede with their mouthes but they haue swordes in their handes and hartes They are like vnto the graue faire without but within full of rottennesse and corruption The Crocodile seekes to see a man but it is but to dispatche him and these men they would bring in reformation to deform vs which liue in peace and quiet one with another Moyses was full fortie yeeres olde before it came into his harte to visite his brethren but our yong heads will be scarce fourteen before they be medlers with the godly Bisshops and fathers of our Church The Boyes of Beyell must call balepate balepate so long till the beares deuour thē well take heed ye that be infected with that louen for there is a rodde prepared for you by the wisedome of our gatious Prince Councel Did Paule euer reproue by libels or did the Apostles sowe sedicion by their doctrine which 2. things doe argue in you the spirite of errour the spirite of lyes withdrawing the mindes of the people frō their loyall obedience to their soueraigne Queen but I warrant you when they come to ryper yeeres to try wisedome got by experience then they sing cleane another song turne the backeside of the booke vpwards wherby it appeareth that they were braine sicke in their youth and a little giddie of the frensie their whole zeale was but their vnbridled affections which did driue them on with cordes of vanity to speake euill of our learned fathers and thus many of them the disease being cured haue confessed Nowe where the fountaines is muddye what hope is there that the riuer should bee cleere If the minister be infected with this heresie then the people must needes be in a wofull case for such preache themselues not the substance of the sinceere and true doctrine The ignorant places are full of contentions Ephraim against Manasses and Manasses against Ephraim and euery Coblers stal is full of the controuersies of the Church all comes by yong vnlearned bablers that of good meat giue the people nothing but a bone to gnawe of and yet they must fight for it like dogs yea all the former euilles which I haue named come of one euil namly the wante of maintenuance for a learned ministery which they so oft call for would to God I had the tongue of men and Angelles to mollifie their heartes that keepes it from the Church and to write it therin with the pen of a Diamond Nay I am perswaded that the Papists with their blinde deuotion towards the Church shal rise vp at the last day and condempne vs professed Christians for our negligence heerein They were neuer so forward in giuing to the Church as wee are in taking from it so that wee liue vppon the bloode of the people and become fatte in wickednes euen in the pleasures of sinne though they endure but for a season thus couetousnes deerly beeloued when it crept into