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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	penny_n	pound_n	shilling_n	22,719	5	13.6986	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01958	The anatomie of Ananias: or, Gods censure against sacriledge With a breife scholie vpon Psalm. 83. concerning the same subiect. By Roger Gostvvyke Batchelour of Diuinitie, and minister of Sampford Courtnie in the countie of Deuonsh.	Gostwick, Roger, b. 1567 or 8.	1616 (1616)	STC 12100; ESTC S103327	99,971	192

whom God will one day repaie in like kinde punishing their sinne of greedines with the greedines of sinning 4. An other maine obiection is laid hold vpon either by gentlemen that haue trauailed or Ministers that relish a little too much of the Geneua fashion that other Countries doe not mainetaine their Ministers by Tithes but contributions poore salaries such as the pollicie of men or the iniquitie of times haue left vnto them But wee are here to dispute not de facto but de iure not what is but what should be done Viuendum legibus non exemplis it is not the deedes of men but the doctrine of God that should be our guide for the same Countries allow of tolerations shall I say or commixtions rather of all kinde of religions But whatsoeuer other doe either vpon errour or necessitie non fuit sic à principio the syncerest times and primest Churches haue better presidents For many haue enthralled theit liuings and liberties together to the importunities of their troubles or abitrement of their Kings as the French to Carolus Martellus saith Gaguine and the Churches of Saxonie saith Aventine who to redeeme their liues gaue all the Church demeanes vnto the Turke though they were redeemed by Arnulphus Duke of Bauoir And some haue thought that what the Bishops in that case haue done is good against themselues but it is to childish to change the most naturall and wise order of the world for an idol of a trauellers braine seeing it can neither be bettered nor paralled with the like some in inequalitie must be confessed which might be redressed which is accidentall no deformitie that is substantiall And so much of Lay mens vsurpations which needed not so much proofe as reproofe CHAP. IIII. Against the exemptions that some Cities and great Townes doe clame in Church duties THere is an other sort of men that albeit they lurch not the Church lands nor count them Antichristian yet enfranchise themselues with a false priuiledge that they are as free from the commandement of God in this case or any other ordinance of man concerning that matter as from the rescripts of the Sheriffe of the out-shiere to pay nothing for the maintenance of the Minister more then their owne mind shall voluntarie condescend vnto or order taken vpon their agreement at the Hall shall make them liable vnto And therefore it seemes a thing most absurd and verie vnreasonable that Personall Tithes of Artificers trades-men and Merchants should be demaunded By which meanes they sad and dull the hearts of their Ministers by a couetous and vnconscionable prescription to allow him nothing but his two-pennie offrings at Easter and a verie small quillet not to be accounted of beside But they must vnderstand that first at least a personall Tithe is due which that poore portion no way doth counteruaile by a thousand part Secondly if not in act yet in equitie some proportionate summe vnto that which God and man hath indifferently set downe And of this assertion I haue these reasons beside those I haue set downe in generall 1. It is the dictate of nature and positiue law of God to honour God with our riches and the good things of this life as is Gods ordinance and as the holy men of God haue done Abraham Iacob and all the holy nation and all our countrie beside What charter then or charitie what custome or conscience can be pretended to free vs from that which all the Christian world nay all the Vniuersall world are bound vnto They may obiect that one man may serue that turne for a whole Citie or Towne and for one man their maintenance may be sufficient First it is not credible or possible that any one should feed more thousands with a morsell of bread then euer Christ fedde with 7. loaues and 2. fishes Besides what Stento●s voice or Eolus lungs or iron sides may be sufficient to stretch to so many thousands but that is as grosse as all the rest that he that should take so much paines should haue no more then that slender reward 2. Will not God at his generall Audit obiect this vnto such that labourers in the Countrie and fishermen in poore Townes of the coast whom he neuer honoured with the tenth of their ease the twentieth of their opportunity the hundreth part of their happines yet returne him by Tithe a couuenient portion of their labours his blessing but these that ought to haue been manie miles before them in godlines come short of them many leagues in gratefullnesse The parable of the talents is well knowne and remembred but not euer practised and therefore God many times sends vs other remembrancers Pirats at sea and prowlers at land to consume our substance bringing men ofttimes from the wealth and pride of the Cittie to the want and drudgerie of the Countrie for such forgetfullnesse and contempt 3. The seruice vnder the law was a costly seruice where men were to allocate the third part of their estate to the ministration of the Tabernacle what by sacrifices of all sorts what by peculiar charges rising on some occasions but vnder Poperie this charge was doubled and trebled where the third part of the land went to the blinde and the lame Clergie From the first we are freed by Christ from the second by Christian Princes What to be exempt as by a Magna Charta from all suit and seruice that belongs to God No but wee are still tied to performe to God an honorable seruice that his Gospel may be continued his praier perpetuated his ministers maintained his houses repaired his members comforted his infanterie nursed his seruants saued What pittie is it then to see so many sheep without shepheards so many shepheards without meanes that of so many parishes as are many times found in such places all the wages of single and double halls together not able to amount to one sufficient stipend of a good Minister that is to say where the most housholders shal giue a matter of two shillings two pence to his Minister by the yeare and the best but fowre shillings fowre pence I speake within compasse vnder 5. shillings and yet some of these men by their owne esteem and other mens worth many thousands and as they are merchants may gaine many hundreds of pounds that yeere And where I may be challenged that euen this in all the Towne and Citie through may rise to more then a competent liuing for one man though I spake of no more then the parish maintenance I will put all the Lecturers wages in beside it will not so bee more then enough or competent when all can accrew hardly to 200. pounds by the yeare and that to such a man as I speak of and they should labour for yet scarce competent for why should we not value a godly learned well borne man and Minister in equal ranke with the best merchant when as in such an one the