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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	justice_n	peace_n	session_n	1,454	5	10.8701	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33914	The office of a chaplain enquir'd into and vindicated from servility and contempt	Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.	1688 (1688)	Wing C5258; ESTC R24123	17,677	42

the same person To this I answer That if eating by the year makes a man a servant for a year then eating by the day must make him a servant for that day the only difference in this case is ●●at the one who eats but a meal or two comes into his Liberty sooner than the other But possibly 't is the Priests contracting for Diet which makes him mistaken for a servant to him that affords it and here 't is supposed to come under the notion of Wages because the Priest is to do something for it Now because a consideration of this nature whether it be received in money or diet or both is the same thing I shall prove that a man's receiving money in consideration of bestowing his time and pains upon another does not make him a servant to him that returns him a recompence for his trouble For example Lawyers and Physicians have their Fees or their Wages if you please and yet I suppose none will say that they are servants to all the Clients and Patients that imploy them and if not to all then for the same reason not to any The Judges have a Fee for every Cause which is tried at the Nisi prius Bar and a Justice of Peace hath money allow'd him for making a Warrant which both of them may receive without forfeiting their Authoty The House of Commons likewise have Pensions from their Electors during the Session of Parliament I confess 't is not usually paid now but if they did receive it as formerly they have done I hope no one would say a Knight of a Shire was servant to a man of Fourty shillings per annum because he contributed something towards his maintenance On all these cases a man is engaged in the business of others and receives a consideration for his employment and yet hath no reason to be accounted a servant for his pains If it be said that in most of these instances the Salaries are assign'd by Law and consequently that there is no contract between him that receives and him that gives the consideration I answer that there is a vertual though not an express contract because the people have agreed to consent to whatever their Representatives shall determine 2ly As to the case of the Lawyers though their Fees are stated by Law yet every one chooses whom he will make use of so that the voluntary Retaining any one is no less than a plain Contract and the giving him so much money upon condition that he will plead for him 3ly 'T is not the contracting for money in lieu of some other exchange which makes a man a servant for then every one that sells for money would be a servant to the buyer and consequently a Pedlar might make himself Master of the best Merchant in London if he should happen to be so ambitious as to be his customer and which is most to be lamented if a man could not by way of Contract receive money with one hand without parting with his Liberty with the other then the Landlord must be a servant to the Tenant for the bare contracting for Rent though he never receiv'd a peny is enough to bring him under so that according to this opinion a man cannot let his Farm without Demising and Granting away himself But further That the entertaining the Clergy with Diet and Salary is no argument of their subjection will appear if we consider that we are bound to contribute towards the support of our Parents if they stand in need of it and yet I suppose it does not follow that this makes us their Superiors 'T is so far from it that our assisting them is accounted part of that honour which the Fifth Commandment enjoyns us to pay them and is so interpreted by our Saviour himself St Matth. 15.4 5 6. The communication therefore of part of our wealth to the Clergy officiating in our houses is in reason nothing but a due respect to their Function and a gratefull acknowledgement of their care What the Priest receives from us is in effect offered to God Almighty because 't is given upon the account of the Relation he hath to him and the advantages we receive from thence This is honouring God with our substance who in regard he stands in need of nothing himself hath order'd those persons whom he hath set apart to keep up his Service and Worship to receive what men present to him in token of his Sovereignty and Providence Thus what was offer'd to God under the old Testament except what was spent in sacrificing was the Priests portion assign'd by the Divine appointment Numb 18.8 9. and in the 20th verse of that Chapter the reason why the Tribe of Levi was to have no Inheritance in the Land which was to be divided is given because God promised to be their Inheritance that is to give them those offerings which were made to him and that this was a very liberal assignment and much exceeded the provision which was made for the rest of the Tribes might easily be made good were it not foreign to the present argument There are many other places in the Old Testament which may be alledg'd for the confirmation of this Truth as Deut. 18.2 Iosh. 13.14 Ezek. 44.28 c. And that this practice did not depend upon any Ceremonial Constitution but was founded in the unalterable reason of things will appear if we look into the New Testament where St. Paul tells us that God has ordained that those that Preach the Gospel which every Priest does who reads the New Testament should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9.14 Our Spiritual Governours are Ministers of God to us as well as our Temporal Rom. 13.4 and therefore the Apostle's inference v. 6. may in a qualified sense at least be applied to them For this cause pay you Tribute also And that the same Apostle did not believe that a Consideration of this nature ought to subject the Clergy to Distance and submissive behaviour is beyond question for he plainly tells the Corinthians 1 Cor. 9.11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things It seems he did not believe this Favour so extraordinary or to have any such commanding quality in it as to make him their servant or dependant if he had received it Nay he tells them that he had power to eat and to drink that is God had given him a right to a Competent maintenance out of the Estates of those he instructed which without question where the circumstances of the person will permit ought to be proportioned with respect to the person Represented and to the nature and quality of the Employ 'T is plain therefore that the Apostle thought that if Gods Ministers lived out of the Fortunes of their charge yet they were not so mightily indebted beyond a possibility of Requital but that the Obligation was full as great on the other side and the reason