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city_n	abbey_n	abbot_n	archbishop_n	33	3	7.6538	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39573	Baby-baptism meer babism, or, An answer to nobody in five words to every-body who finds himself concern'd in't by Samuel Fisher.	Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing F1055; ESTC R25405	966,848	642

the tenth of corn the profits of all Christ●…dom falls into the mouth of this Caterpillar but also the camel of free gifts glebes first fruits oblations and other obventions Arch-deaconries Deaneries Prebendaries Bishopricks and Arch-bishopricks and I know not how many kinds of spiritual livings spiritual Lordships and spiritual dignities spiritual Patrimonies that are assigned for the maintenance of the CCClergie among whom its catch as catch can too so that some get all the devil and all and some none and yet some of those poor wretches that get least get as little of God as those that lose him altogether and sell him for the mess of pottage of some fat parsonage or as sometimes men do whom I am ashamed to call Ministers unlesse I mean of the Pope for two or three fat parsonages or special benefices together t is a shame that for all the night is so far spent here in England yet even here there is such endevouring for preferments still such heaping up of more spiritual dignities and Ecclesiastical emoluments then one and plutalities of profitable places ingrost by single persons and such as would be singularly accounted of too but never will be by wise men had in so little as single shame whilst they harp so much after such double honour the Pope and Arch-bishops in the Popish times were till of late they grew more corrupt complainers and correcters of this greedy practise Alexander the third and 301 Bishops in a Lateran councel saies Mr. Den in a Sermon of his concerning Iohn the Bap. p. 64. concluded no Priests should have 2benefices 1179. 1231. Richard the costly Archbishop of Canterbury complained to the Pope that Priests in England held more livings then one and though it hath been thought that many livings are a good step to a Bishoprick yet I have read of one John Bland saith he elected Archbishop of Canterbury but refused by the Pope chiefly for holding two livings without dispennsation 1233. and John Pecham Archbishop of Canterbury made aCanon that no Clergy man within his province should hold two livings 1304. what a stinking shame is it therefore that to this day there is such inhauncing ingrossing for my part I am well assuted that though it be not yet yet long it will not be before stick and stone of the whole fabrick of the tripple BBBabel or National Ministry will fall and all their severall sorts of forced maintenances fall with them throughout Europe but first here in England for the tenth part of the City i. e. the Clergy here falls first yea as there have two woes to the Clergy fell on them here already which have cast out the two corrupter sorts of these spiritual men and all their spiritual maintenance and revenues the first whereof fell upon the slat Popish false Ministry viz. Cardinals Votaries Friers Abbots Nuns and Abbeyes and with them all their maintenance and the foolish forms of their false ministrations viz. their golden legend and book of false miracles bulls indulgences Masses dirges trigintals and other trumpery the second upon the second part of the great City or Clergy viz the Archbishops Bishops Chancellers Comissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Archdeacons and their Officials and with them fell all their land means and maintenance together with all their false manner of ministration viz. the Common-prayer liturgy book of ordination of Priests and Deacons Homilies and all the Crutches of that lame and lazy Clergy so the third is now nigh to come upon the Presbyterian Clergy whether they see it or no for the face of the skies and Scriptures do both look and lour a like upon them with whom will fall that their still pleaded for maintenance by 〈◊〉 Gl●…s Parsonages Vicarages and all their Ecclesiastical Profits and emoluments whatsoever together with all their Church const●…tions Synodical directories and formes of worship and government Classes creeds Catechisms parochial posture yea their Euphrates too is dayly drying up in the hot sunshine of the Gospel though they for the most part scorched with great beat rather blaspheme the name of God that hath power of these plagues then repent to give him glory Rev. 16. 9. I say most certainly all these false national parochial constitutions of Church and Ministry Babi-baptism and maintenance must down in due time but in the mean time though I wish its fall yet I heartily wish that you Clergy were ●…o charitable as to share the maintenance that 's yet alloted you as the National Ministry a little more evenly among your selves and not be so basely covetous as to sherk one another without reproof and to suffer some to have two or three livings or if but one yet that worth two happily three perhaps four five six or 700 per annum as some livings are and some as honest and painful and worthy in their way and godly in suo genere as the other to be pincht within the income of as few scores as the rest have 100ds by the year some having but seven some six others but five others four three two and some scarce a score of pounds to bring the year about with and yet have not a farthing worth of help from the high slown favorites of their times Dr. Featley had two livings while he was alive as it seems by himself in his Epistle to Mr. D●…nham to whom he complaines that both his pulpits were taken from him but though Episcopal Parasites did hold no more then they could get yet we being six or seven years past the darknesse of those times me thinks now the Clergy should cry out upon each other when they see any clambering beyond a competency and consider the incompetency of their fellows voluntarily whether the Parliament augment one out of another yea or no but no bubble stands higher then the rest of the water it rides on for a while but t will break within a while and be level'd to the residue of its element in the mean time they have enough among them if they can be contented to enjoy it in equal portions and not fall out about the shifting it so much is yet left though so much already is confiscated that moderate minded men that mean not to erre from the faith by the love of money more then of Christ need not set up their Notes to the State to administer more I le tell thee what thou hast had and yet hast oh HHHireling SSShepheard within this Island of Brittain nay in England which is but the one half the whole of which is but a poor patch of about a tenth part of the rest of Christndome and this out of thy own mouth I mean a man of thy own fraternity see Helin Geog. p. 464. 465 an Episcopal Clergy man vaunting of the greatnesse of thy maintetenance which mouth of thine is still opening in some or other of the younger brothers of the present Presbytery to this day to call out for more The Clergy saith he meaning of