Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	case_n	church_n	resolution_n	1,650	5	9.9602	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95748	Noli me tangere, or, A thing to be thought on. Scilicet, vox carnis sacræ clamantis ab altare ad aquilam sacrilegam, noli me tangere, ne te perdam.	Udall, Ephraim, d. 1647.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.	1642 (1642)	Wing U12; Thomason E133_4	22,793	48

the charge of God to Moses That Eleazar should take the Brasen Censures of the seditious Levites Numb 36.37 which God appointed them not to make nor appointed that service to be so performed by them yet must they be searched and scraped out of the Dust and Ashes of the burning to make broad plates for a covering for the Altar and not to be turned to any private use for saith the Text They are hallowed that is consecrate to the Lord although in a strong and a preposterous way Now this may be done with the Cathedrals in my apprehension with great glory and beauty to the Christian reformed Religion in this or some such way First Where every Cathedrall hath Revenues enough to maintain the Deanes Canons Prebend without any other Benefices that have cure of Soules let them drink the water of their own Cisterne without drawing from any other Well and be denied the possession of any Ecclesiasticall endowment and kept to their motions within their own Sphere id est their Cathedrals Secondly Whereas every Prebend that hath a Corp might afford a sufficient maintenance but that it is let out at present in a long Lease for a small Rent some one singular Prebend now and then making benefit of a great time to whose Let it falls the lesse living bravely on the Lease in the meane time and the Prebend having little yearely Income It would doe well to raise a yearly maintenance of one hundred two hundred or three hundred pound per Annum or as much as the Prebend will beare And where the Prebend will not beare it as in small Prebends or those that have no Corps to put two or three of them together and so lessen the number of them or let the bigger helpe the lesser that so there may be a sufficient maintenance for every Prebend without any other Ecclesiasticall Living This may be done by letring the Prebends to the Tenents in Fee Farme for ever onely yeelding such an Annuall Rent as the perpetuall Inheretance were worth to purchase unlesse we can be content with patience to suffer the Leases to run out neerer their end till they would afford sufficiency of maintenance which were the better way of the two to produce a sufficiency for so excellent a worke as this may prove if wise men have the handling of it Then let every Deane Canon and Prebend be bound to residence at the Cathedrall Church and therein to Preach duely in his course Where let there be two Sermons every Lords-day and two every Holyday and one every other weeke day and these Sermons to be preached by themselves in their turnes and not by Substitutes the case of sicknesse necessary absence or other inavoydable imployment or impediment onely excepted Fourthly Let these Prebends when any of them is void be fetched out of one of the Universitie in their turnes out of one Universitie this time and out of the other the next time of the Fellowes of the Colledges of the best Learning and Life that be willing to leave the Universitie and let them have liberty to marry and attend their study at the Cathedrall to Preach to answer all Books of Controversies that come forth and be ready by often preaching and study of Divinity to come abroad into the Church to some pastorall charge when they shall be called Thus shall the Church when any Church is void have place in every part of the Kingdome to repaire unto to fetch a Man prepared and fitted for the Ministery in a pastorall charge And so also shall many that have not a capacity to live unmarried in the Universitie finde a reliefe hereby to sustaine them in honourable sinlesse Matrimony And many good Schollers whose Gifts languish and die in the Universities without any benefit to the publike because as the poore man at the Poole they have none to helpe them out to the Service of the Church shall be brought forth by this meanes to the great benefit thereof Or if it be not thought so fit to make the Cathedralls Colledges of young Divines it may to my apprehension doe very well or rather better to make them Colledges of old Divines Numb 8.24 God gave Moses charge concerning the Levites that they should not goe in to wait on the Service of the Tabernacle till twenty five years of age and that from the age of fifty they should cease waiting on that Service and should serve no more but Minister with their Brethren in the Tabernacle to keep the charge and shall serve no more id est tanquam milites emeriti they are exempted from the carrying of Burthens and other laborious workes and are now ad placitum in respect thereof onely overseeing about the Tabernacle and directing the younger Levites or helping them voluntarily as it seemed good to them and as they found themselves able without that tye and obligation that lay upon the younger Which hath in it no doubt a morality referring to the Ministers of the Gospell whose labour is more consuming than that of the Levites and requires a maturity of judgement in which respect Saint Paul would not have a Minister be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so also requires it that strength of body and minde that in age and the infirmities that a sedentary and studious life brings on affiduous and diligent Preachers are withered and decayed Now it is neither fit that a Minister when he is worne out by labour should live in want nor that any perticular Flocke should want a pastorall supply which some may possible be unfit and unable to by age or sickenesse Therefore now if it may so seeme good it were not amisse That the Cathedralls every Prebend being made a sufficient maintenance might be a place of rest and ease to those old Veterani that have served in the Ministery who may be chosen in case of unfitnesse to a pastorall charge into the Society of the Prebends as any Prebend shall fall void out of the Ministers of the same Diocesse where the Cathedrall is upon which choice he may give over his pastorall charge to one younger stronger and more fit and able for the constant duties of a pastorall Ministery and finde both a remission from labour in his age and infirmity and attend upon the dayly service of God in the Cathedrall and performe the duty of preaching therein which will not befall him so often by far as is requisite in him that hath the charge of a Congregation which requires constant and unintermitted labour And here also by this meanes may younger Ministers or any other in doubtfull and difficult cases of Conscience finde resolution from experienced Divines who being many of them together shall be able to give the better satisfaction Yet I thinke it not fit in my opinion to deprive any that are in present possession of any dignity in the Church of that dignity so long as they live be they young or be they old but that the