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A19267	An admonition to the people of England vvherein are ansvvered, not onely the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by Martin the libeller, but also many other crimes by some of his broode, obiected generally against all bishops, and the chiefe of the cleargie, purposely to deface and discredite the present state of the Church. Seene and allowed by authoritie.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1589 (1589)	STC 5682; ESTC S118522	145,211	254

and therefore not of the church of God and the Primitiue church doeth confirme these to bee heresies in Saturninus Marcion Tatian Montane and many other And I pray you what doth this Assertion differ from the other when it is said It is not lawful for Ecclesiasticall persons to haue temporall landes to liue vpon As mariage is the ordinance of God and left free by his word to al men As meates and drinkes are the good creatures of our God and to be vsed of al such as receiue them with thankesgiuing so are landes possessions money cattell the good giftes of God and the right vse of them not prohibited to any of his people For to their benefite he ordained them as his good blessings Christ by his death made vs free from all such legall obseruations Therefore S. Paul Colos 2. If ye be dead with Christ to the iudgements of the worlde why are you ledde with traditions Touch not Taste not Handle not which all doe perish in abusing This boldnesse to bridle Christian libertie and to make it sinne and matter of conscience to vse the creatures of God was the very foundation of al Papistical and Antichristian superstition Vpon this foundation was builded the holinesse in vsing or not vsing of this or that manner of apparell in eating or forbearing these or those kindes of meates in obseruing this or that day or time of the yeere in keeping this or that externall forme of life with 1000. like inuentions and traditions of men Neither do I thinke euer any errour did greater harme in the Church or brought more corruption of doctrine then that did Therefore I am sorie to see some in these dayes to leane so much to that dangerous stay for the helpe of their strange opinions in things externall For what doe men when they say It is not lawfull for a Christian man to weare a square Cappe to vse a Surplesse to kneele at the Communion What I say doe they but bridle Christian libertie and to the burden of consciences make sinnes vvhere GOD made none And in like maner hee that sayeth It is vvicked and not lavvfull that Bishops Preachers or Ecclesiasticall persons shoulde haue any temporall landes to liue vpon hee seemeth to finde fault with the creature of God For that Bishops may haue liuing allowed them is not denied but to liue by landes that say they is sinne and prohibited and therefore the temporall lands and glebe must be taken from Bishops and other Ministers This doctrine notwithstanding must bee proued and iustified by the Scriptures and first by the ordinance of God himselfe in the olde testament In the Numbers when God had declared to Aaron what portion he should haue to liue vpon hee addeth Thou shalt haue no inheritance in their lande neither shalt thou haue any part among them I am thy part and thy inheritance among the children of Israel Behold I haue giuen the children of Leui all the tenth of Israel to inherit for the seruice which they serue in the Tabernacle And againe after It shalbe a law for euer in your generations that among the children of Israel they possesse no inheritance And in Deut. 10. the Lorde separated the tribe of Leui c. Wherefore the Leuites haue no part nor inheritance with their Brethren but the Lorde is their inheritance as the Lord thy God hath promised them In the 14. Chapter and in the 18. and in diuers other partes of the law and in Iosua 14. Moses gaue inheritance vnto two tribes and a halfe on the other side of Iordan but vnto the Leuites hee gaue no inheritance among them Vpon these testimonies the application and conclusion is inferred in this manner Obiection Here it may bee seene what liuing God appoynted his Priestes to haue not landes and possessions but tithes and offerings Seing then God denied it to his Priestes it is not lawfull for our Priestes Whose Priestes are they If they be Gods Priests it is not there permitted If they be Antichrists priests what doe we with them Answere As this reason may haue some small shew or likelihoode to the ignorant so I am sure they that haue trauiled in the Scriptures any thing vnderstand the state of Christianity vvil marueile to see this application of the Texts and the conclusion inferred Shall the Ministers of the Church of God novve in the time of grace by necessitie be bound to those orders that vvere among the Ievves appoynted for Priestes and Leuites by Moses Will they bring the heauie yoke and burthen of the Lavve againe vpon the people of God after that Christ hath redeemed vs and set vs free from it Wil they haue Aaronicall and sacrificing Priestes againe to offer for the sinnes of the people When it is in derision asked Whose Priests ours are if they be not Gods Priests giuing signification that they be the Priestes of Antichrist it may be right vvell and truely ansvvered that they are the Priestes of Gods holy blessed and true Church and yet that they are not such sacrificing Priests of God as are mentioned in those places nor in any way bound to those things that they were the morall Lawe of God onely excepted Obiection It is obiected to our Bishoppes and Ministers that in their Landes and possessions they reteine the corruption of the Romish Church Answere But I marueile to see them vvhich so boldely controll other to builde their assertions vpon the ruinous foundations of the Synagogue of Antichrist As I noted a little before that they layde their grounde vpon the restraint of Christian libertie so nowe they settle it vpon the imitation of the legall and Aaronicall priesthood as the Church of Rome did Whence I pray you came the massing apparel and almost all the furniture of their Church in censing and singing burning of Tapers their altars their propitiatorie sacrifice their high Bishop and generall head ouer all the Church with a number of other corruptions of the Church of God but onely out of this imitation of the Aaronicall priesthood and legall obseruations Surely while they thus vphold as good the wicked foundations of the Synagogue of Sathan they shall neuer so purely builde vp the Church of Christ as they vvould bee accounted to doe They may seeme to be in a hard streight that to batter down the state of the Church of England must craue ayde of Antichrist to set vp a fort vpon his foundation The learned fathers of the primitiue Church did so much as they coulde striue to be furthest off from the imitation of the Iewes and of the Aaronicall priesthood in so much that they vvould needes alter not onely the Sabboth day but also the solemnizing of the feast of Easter And shall the Lawe of the Leuites and maner of their liuing bee layde downe to vs as a patterne of necessitie vvhich the Prince must follovve in refourming her Church or else the priestes thereof shall not be the

priestes of God but of Antichrist Is there no more reuerence and feare of the maiestie of Gods Prince and sacred minister then by such grosse absurdities to seeke to seduce her If this be a conclusion of such necessitie then let them go further for by as good reason they may God sayeth to Aaron Thou shalt not drinke wine nor strong drinke thou nor thy sonnes that are with thee when ye goe into the Tabernacle of the Congregation least ye die Letit be a Lawe for euer throughout your generations In an other place commaundement is giuen to the Priestes That they may not eate of that which is rent of wilde beasts And in the same chapter If the Priestes daughter bee married to any of the common people shee may not eate of the hallowed offerings but if shee be a Widowe or diuorced from her husbande and haue no childe and is returned into her fathers house againe shee may eate of her fathers meate as she did in her youth but there shall no stranger eate thereof In the 21. of Leuiticus it is sayde Speake vnto the Priests the sonnes of Aaron and say Let none bee defiled by the dead among their people And a little after Let them not make baldnes vpon their head nor shaue off the lockes of their beard And againe Let him take a Virgine to wife but a widowe a diuorced woman or a polluted c. shall he not marry Now if the obseruation of the orders appoynted by God to the Priests and Leuites of the olde Law be a thing so necessary in the church of God Why then the Ministers of the Gospell may not drinke wine or strong drinke they may not suffer their daughters married forth if they come vnto their houses to eate any of the tenths and oblations whereby they liue they may not come nigh a dead body nor bury it they may marry no widowes but maydes onely And so likewise shall you bring in by as good authoritie infinite numbers mo of Leuiticall orders into the Church and make it rather like a superstitious Synagogue as the popes church was then like a sincere vndefiled Church of God as you would pretend to do But let vs descende further into this allegation and see howe they ouerthrowe themselues in their owne purpose If vpon this proofe it be so necessarie that bishops and other ministers shoulde not liue by landes then as the negatiue is necessarie in the one branch so is the affirmatiue in the other When God hath sayd Thou shalt haue no inheritance in their land he addeth Beholde I haue giuen the children of Leui all the tenth of Israel to inherite for the seruice which they doe c. Then it is of necessitie by the Lawe of God that bishops and preachers shoulde liue vpon tenths and offerings neither may this order be altered by any authoritie And here is an other errour of the Papists that tenths and offerings are in the Church Iure diuino by the lawe of God and not by any positiue Law of the Church Thus we see that these men are not able to stand to their positions but they must ioyne arme in arme with the Papists in their greatest and grossest errors And if it be of necessitie that ministers must liue by oblations and tithes and no otherwise howe can the prince by Gods Lawe take away their Landes and set them to meere pensions in money Or if princes haue libertie by the Lawe of God according to their discretions to appoynt the liuings of ministers by pensions of money contrary to the order that God hath prescribed to his priests in his Law why haue they not like authoritie by the same worde of God if they see it conuenient for the state to allot vnto them some portion of temporall Landes and much more to suffer and beare with that order being alreadie setled in the Church By this it appeareth that the assertion of the aduersaries doeth not hang together in it selfe but that the one part impugneth and ouerthroweth the other But mee thinkes these men deale not directly but seeme to hide and conceale that which maketh against them For in the same place of Iosua by which they will prooue that bishoppes and ministers may not haue any possession of Landes because hee saith To the Leuites he gaue no inheritance among them Immediatly hee addeth Sauing Cities to dwell in and the fieldes about the Cities for their beastes and cattell And in like manner The Lorde sayde to Moyses Commaunde the children of Israel that they giue vnto the Leuites of the inheritaunce of their possession Cities to dwell in And yee shall giue also vnto the Cities Suburbes hard by their Cities rounde about them the Cities they shall haue to dwell in and the Suburbes or fieldes about their cities for their cattell and all manner beastes of theirs And the Suburbes of the Cities which you shall giue to the Leuites shall reach from the wall of the Citie rounde about outward a thousande cubites c. And you shall measure on the East side two thousande cubites and on the West side two thousande cubites c. In the twentie one Chapter of Iosua The number of these Cities is mentioned And the lotte came out of the kinred of the Caathites the children of Aaron the Priest which were of the Leuites and giuen them by lot out of the tribe of Iudae Simeon and Beniamin thirteene Cities And the rest of the children of Caath had by lot of the kinreds of the tribe of Ephraim Dan and halfe the tribe of Manasses tenne cities And the children of Gerson had by lotte out of the kinred of the Cities of Isachar Aser Nepthaly and the other halfe of the tribe of Manasses in Basan thirteene cities And the children of Merari by their kinreds had out of the Tribes of Ruben Gad and Zabulon twelue cities The whole number therfore of the cities assigned to the Leuites in the lande of Iurie amounted to fortie eight Nowe I woulde demaund of indifferent Christians that vvere not obstinately set to maintaine an euill purpose Whether the state of inheritance without rent of fortie eight Cities in one Region no bigger then England with the fieldes almost a mile compasse may bee thought in trueth to bee temporall possessions or no Surely I thinke there is no man so wayward that will denie it to be most true Wherefore eyther the worde of God must bee found vntrue which is blasphemie to thinke or els that boulde assertion that is made of the contrary is found vaine and the argument to prooue it false and deceitful They that had to their portions fortie eight Cities with the fields thereof did not liue by tithes and oblations onely You see therefore good Christians howe they vnderstand the Scriptures that in such immodest and confident maner take vpon them to be masters and controllers of other and by how fleight allegations absurde arguments they seeke to