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A11498	D. Sarauia. 1. Of the diuerse degrees of the ministers of the gospell. 2. Of the honor vvhich is due vnto the priestes and prelates of the church. 3. Of sacrilege, and the punishment thereof. The particular contents of the afore saide Treatises to be seene in the next pages; De diversis ministrorum evangelii gradibus. English	Saravia, Adrien, 1530-1612.	1591 (1591)	STC 21749; ESTC S107871	200,148	283

And therefore he exhorteth those vppon whome this deadly desire groweth that they would vse to sacrifice for the same and humbly to fly to the Temple of the Gods to frequent the company of good men to heare theyr godly conference and to endeuour themselues to doe and to speake those things which are honest and iust But if so be that infirmity wil not so depart death for such a wretch were better then life Wherefore he enacteth this Law VVhosoeuer is aprehended for Sacrilege De legib Dialog 9. if hee be a seruant or a foreyner his fault being written in his forehead and his handes and being well whipped with so many stripes as the Iudge shall award let him bee thrust naked out of the borders of the land For happely by this punishment being brought to shame he may amend his manners For no punishment is appointed for any mans hurt but of two thinges it commonly effecteth the one it maketh him eyther much better or not so bad that sustaineth the punishment But if it be a Cittizen which shall be found to haue commited any such thing against the Gods or to haue done some great and gracelesse wrong to his parentes or his countrey let the iudge so censure of him as of one which is incurable considering this with himselfe what honest instruction and education he hath had of a childe and yet hath not absteyned from the most heynous sinnes VVherefore let this mans punishment be death the least of all euils So shall he profite others by his example while he is made infamous among all and is put to death beyond the borders of his own countrey The lawes of the twelue tables prouide thus against the same sinne VVho so stealeth or pilfereth any holy thing or committed to the holy place let him be held and handled as a murtherer of his Father But what neede I recite the seuerity of Lawes in this behalfe it is a thing well enough knowen if it were but halfe so much feared But euen they also which escape the lawes and iudgements of men because they are eyther too mighty or too crafty yet can they not escape the vengeance of God For it is one of the most detested sins after the which the wrath of God yearneth till it be reuenged The examples whereof are to be seene in Histories both sacred and prophane Chap. IX Certaine examples of Gods vengeance against Sacrilege THe first example of Sacrilege may be that which we read of Achan in the 7. of Iosua who took of the excommunicate things of Hierico a Babylonish garment two hundred sickles of siluer a wedge of gold For this offence of one wretched fellow did not all Israell feel the heauy wrath of God till satisfaction was made by the death of that accursed party and his whole family To this I may adde an other committed by the Priests and no lesse seuerely punished of God then was that of Achan In the first of Samuel the second Chapter we read of a certayn man of God who came to Ely the chiefe Priest and sayd vnto him Thus saith the Lorde did not I plainly appeare to the house of thy Father when they were in Egypt in Pharaos house and I chose him out of all the tribes of Israell to he my Priest to offer vppon mine Altar and to burne incense and to weare an Ephode before me I gaue to the house of thy Father al the offerings made by fire of the children of Israell VVherefore haue you kicked against my sacrifice and against mine offerings which I cōmāded in my tabernacle honorest thy children aboue me to make your selues fat of the first fruites of all the offerings of Israell my people VVherefore the Lord God of Israell sayth I sayd that thy house and the house of thy Father should walke before me but now the Lord saith it shall not be so for them that honor me I will honor and they that despise me shall be despised Behold the dayes come that I will cut off thine arme and the arme of thy Fathers house and ther shall not be an old man in thy house And thou shalt see thine enemy in the habitation of the Lord in all things wherein God blesseth Israel and there shall not bee an olde man in thy house for euer Neuer the lesse I will not destroye euery one of thine from mine Altar to make thine eyes to fayle and to make thine heart sorrowfull And all the multitude of thine house shall dye when they bee men And this shall be a signe vnto thee that shall come vppon thy two sonnes Hophny and Phinees In one day shall they die both And I wil stirre mee vp a faithfull Priest that shall doe according to mine heart and according to my minde And I will builde him a sure house and hee shall walke before myne annoynted for euer And it shal come to passe that whosoeuer is left in thy house shal come and bow down to him for a piece of siluer and a morsel of bread and shal say appoint me I pray thee to one of the Priests offices that I may eat a morsel of bread c. Thus saith the mā of God al which things as he foreshewed came to passe not long after For the sons of Ely were slaine in battayle the Arke of the couenant was taken of prophane men And Ely hearing the dolefull messenger of these wretched newes fell from his seate backeward and brake his necke his daughter in law the wife of Phinees died in childe-bed the holy mount Sylo was forsaken of the Lord neyther was the Arke of the Lorde euer brought thither againe And after all this 80. and 5. men Priests of the house of Ely were slain vnder Saul I need not speak of the calamities which befel that whole family for the Sacrilege of two men only And albeit the prophane Philistines did honorably vse the sacred Arke after their manner Yet notwithstanding God plagued them also for their prophanation neither was it forgiuen thē that they once handled so holy a matter But I omit the Sacrileges committed from that time to the captiuity of Babylon Wher the infamous act of Balthasar may be a notable exāple of Gods iustice against al Sacrilegers He in a brauery cōmanded those holy vessels which his father Nabuchadnezar had stollen frō Hierusalem to be set forth for a cupbord of plate in sumptuous banquet that out of them both he his cup-mates might carouse a full despite to the dishonor of God But the wrath of God found the sot in the deede doing brought him in a sharp reckoning with an heauy vp shot in the miraculous motion of a hand writing And here Daniel cald before the king to read expound the heauenly drawn writ in stead of a taking away taketh him vp amōg many other things bordeth him thus Thou hast lift vp thy self against the lord of heauē they haue broght the vessels of his house