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B22780	Englands deplorable condition shewing the common-wealths malady, by [brace] sacriledge, and want of duty in the people, contention, want of charity in the ministery, perjury, and want of truth in both : and its remedy by [brace] the peoples obedience and liberality, the ministers love and unity, both their repentance and fidelity : briefly declar'd in three treatises of [brace] the ministers patrimony and peoples duty, proposals to reconcile such as are for lordly episcopacy and un-ordain'd presbytery, for popular independancy and upstart antipædobaptistry, and against perjury : also, a petition for the Jews.	E. F.	1659 (1659)	Wing F18	72,509	69

page 171 and printed 1610. Idolaters of old conferred Lands and Riches yea much of their Goods on their Idols service and Priests witnesse these Scriptures z H●s 218. Ezel 16. and 1 Kings 18 19 and the wisest of them were afraid for fear of death to commit Sacriledge or to take away any Lands or Goods devoted to their gods such they reputed Atheists a Valer Max. lib 1 cap. 2 as Dionysius Senior Nero Julian the Apostate and others and the living God to shew his detestation of his Sin hath accordingly plagued the same As Swanus the first Danish King in England that wasted and spoiled the Land of St. Edmond devoted to Gods service shortly after saith Fox he died suddenly crying and yelling among his Knights some say he was stricken with the Sword of St. Edmond of which he died the third day b Fox ut supra page 145. which caused his Son Canutus after his death to grant them their Freedom and Liberties and to enlarg their Possessions building a Church and Abby there after which it was used that the Kings of England when they were Crowned sent their Crown for an Offering to St. Edmonds shrine and after redeemed the same at a dear rate c Fox ut supra page 146. Julians Uncle Faelix the Kings Treasurer who took d Theod Eccles Hist l. 3. c. 11 12. away the Silver and Gold Constantine had Dedicated by fearful Plagues perished the one Vomited at his mouth his Ordour till he died and the other Blood Many yet alas in these Iron dayes which are mixt with Clay e Dan. 2. 42 without fear or shame have attempted to devour things Consecrated and have effected wicked devices as the Psalmist saith f Psal 37. 7. but they have been cut off and are not what they were Do but diligently consider there where their place stood and they are not I mean the Parliament that first sold the Bishops Lands and those after them that sold the Dean and Chapters Lands and what may be the end of those that have bought these and retain these to their own use without Repentance may be conjectured by what hapned to HENRY the Eighth and his Favourite the Earle of ESSEX who sold and alienated the Land and Revenues of the Monastries i Mal 3. 8 9 10 11 12. Non remitti●ur peccatum nisi restituatur ablatum Aug. Circuite totum mundum non reperietis tam effrenem licentiam in gentibus qualis inter vos grassatur Illi enim obsequium aliquod reddunt diis suis sacrilegium illis est ahominabile vos autem me fraudatis Calvin in locum prelect they were cut off and their Posterity is not known And truly I think this was not the least sin that stuck too and devoured like the Eagles feathers the Crown Land Gods Revenues wrung from him by violence or stoln away under any specious pretence proving like the Gold of Tholouse that prejudiced still the owners of it or like Acans Wedge which was indeed devoted Gold that kindled a fire on himself his Family and the rest of his goods which prov'd his utter destruction g Josh 7 And yet though divine vengeance sleepeth not nor spareth the greatest Delinquents in this sin yet such hath been the prophaneness and Atheism of some the ignorance and blind zeal of others to Petition to have all the Chu●ches Revenues sold and to have a Law confirmed for the taking away of Tythes h See the Resolution on the Question by the Parl April 29. 1652. and some other competent Maintenance to be setled in lieu of it But what is this but as if men under pretence of Liberty should desire Property to be taken away and that it may be lawful for any man to steal from his Neighbor nay from his God under pretence of given them satisfaction for it another way for so the Lord of Hosts by his Statute Law by which all shall be judg'd accounts it Ye have robbed me in Tythes and Offerings And to terrifie those of that age from this sin he sets down the punishments to be infl●cted on them unless they repented of it and restored the Goods taken by making satisfaction for the Sacri●edge and forsaking afterward the sin and hereupon he promiseth i Mat. 3. 9. a blessing on them when they should so do God needeth not our Offerings Gifts nor Tythes but his poor Members do and what is done to any of them is done to himself and his Ministers wants these that helped by these they might attend on his Service and Worship and therefore well may he call these his which are destinated for things so dear unto him as are the poor who are his Children as dear to him as the apple of his eye and his Worship and Glory which he will not give to another k Suum Deus merit● vocat ac censet quod destinat in cultum suum Ideo sacrilegi sumus quoties non reddimus fratribus nostris quod Deus jubet Calv. ut supra therefore without doubt saith one God is wrong'd of his Right and Sacriledge is committed which the very Heathen abhord when either Christs Ministers or the Poor are defrauded of their due Now God challengeth the Tyth for his due l Levi● 27. 30 31. All the Tyth was Jehovahs Holiness to him nor was it to be redeemed or changed and that by the Law of Nations for 't was allowed of and approved and practised long before the Ceremonial Law was given by Moses as m Gen. 14. 20. 28. 21 22. in Abraham and Jacobs dayes who paid their Tythes n Gen. 14. 20. 28. 21 22. Yea this seems to be a positive Law of God given unto Adams Sons from the beginning for both Cain and Abel brought their Oblations o Gen. 4. 3 4. and first Fruits of the Corn and of the Beast and God required of the Souldiers that fought against Midian before the Israelites had any Land to pay their Tythes out of it to pay the Tenth of their Spoyles p Numb 31. 28 c. yea the first City on this side Jordan which the Israelites took in Canaan by War was by Jesus Christ himself devoted to the maintenance of the Priests and to his own Service I mean the Silver Gold vessels of Brass and Iron in Jericho they were all to come in into the Troas●●y of the Lord q Josh 6. 17 19. yea he was so careful for his own portion th● Achan having taken of the devoted thing by stealth and dissembling it hiding the 200 sheekles of Silver and the Wedge of Gold in his Tent under the Earth that God is displeased with all Israel for it and would not go forth with their Armies until this accursed thing with Achan and his Family were consumed by fire r Josh 7. 26. And truly we shall find that the Devil who is Gods ape set his Children and

in force still Therefore I humbly conceive that the Ministers of the Gospel ought to live of those things that are given and by devout men consecrated to Gods service according to the Laws of God and man and that their maintenance ought to be according to the greatness of their employment and to the number of Wife and Children in their Families which they are obliged to provide for e Acts 4. 37. 6. 2. 1 Tim. ● 8. Lev. 22. 11 12 as the Priests and Levites did of old with their Families And the Civil Magistrates if there be disorder in the dividing of the Churches Goods or ignorance and slouth in the Ministers or obstinacy and neglect in those that should pay their Tythes and Offerings may command the same to be rightly divided and see it be done as did Hezekias f 2 Chron. 31. 45 c who is said to do that which is good and right and truth before God verse 20. and they may punish or remove those Ministers that are ignorant or prophane even the chiefest of them as David and Solomon did of old g 1 King 2. 26. and 35. and C●nstantine the Great and Theodosius other Christian Princes under the New Testament h Theod Eccles Hist lib. 1. c. 20. lib. 5. c. 19 and cause the Tythes to be paid to the Ministers as Nehemiah did i Nehem 13. 10 11 c. who caused the portions of the Levites to be given and so did the pious Magistrates in our Land who made those Laws above specified requiring all sorts of persons to pay their Tythes on penalty as being due to Christs Ministers both by the Law of God and man Well they knew it was not in mans power to detain or take from God that which God required or by the motion of his Spirit was devoted to him and his Service such Houses Lands Goods under the Law was not to be sold or redeemed it was holy to the Lord k Levit. 27. 28. or as it is in the Original t was holiness of holiness that is most holy in respect of them that devoted them and therefore not to be sold detained or denied l God would not suffer them to redeem it to teach them constancy in all good purposes and words that so in them we may be unchangeable as God is Ainsw Annot. in loc no part of it may be held or kept back without theft that I say not Sacriledge the property being altered after it 's devoted as St. Peter told Ananias m Acts 5. 1 4. both before he sold 't was his own and after he had sold and received the mony 't was in his own power to dispose of it but when he had devoted the whole money to the free use and benefit of the Church to be distributed by the Apostles for him then to keep back part of it and to lay down the residue as the whole and to confirm it to be the whole with a wilful lye for this the Apostle sharply reproved him for thereby he tempted God and lyed to the Holy Ghost and therefore God made him a spectacle of divine vengeance for his detaining the truth in unrighteousness and for his Sacriledge for such a sin there is under the Gospel n Rom 2 22. as well as there was under the Law which is theft in the highest degree which St. Austin compares to Judas treachery o Ideoque Ananias Saphira in cons●etu Ecclesi●e mortui sunt ut Apostolica Atthoritas quanta esset ostenderetur quam magnum peccatum esset quod oblatum iterum ab Ecclaesia retraheretur monstraretur caeteri exemplo hujus castigarentur Aug. lib. 3. de Mirab. Sacr. Script for if he be accounted a Thief that steals goods from a private man how much more is a sacrilegious person a th●ef who dares to steal from God and his Church Qui aliquid de Ecclesia furatur Jurae perdito comparatur He which steals from the Church is to be compared with cursed Judas p Aug. in Evang John tract p. 50. the Heathens abhord this sin therefore we read that Joseph when in the Famine in Egypt he bought with Corn all the Land of the Egyptians yet the Land of the Priests he bought not for they had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh nor sold they their Land q Gen. 47. 22. whence Theodoret saith if wicked men so much reverenced ●hose gods which were not gods so that their Priests Lands given to them for the worship of those gods were not sold nor taken from them what impiety do those commit under the Gospel who will not suffer the Ministers of the living God to enjoy this liberty r Theodor. quest in Gen cap. 27. that so his service may be preserved and continue with them The Heathen to preserve their gifts devoted from the hands of prophane sacrilegious persons engraved on them these words Sunt bona Decrum ad h●c ne quis manum admoliretur s Valcrius max. lib. 1. cap. 2. and the Jews calld their devoted things chosen in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t Levit. 27. 28. Luke 21. 5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wishing and judging them accursed that turnd them to any other use than to that they were devoted unto and so amongst us Christians the most of the Lands in this Island they were given to God and the Church with an execration on those to be separated from Christ and given to the Devil that should alter them or employ them to any other use than by the Donors they were at fi●st devoted unto which in general was the service of God although many in the times of Popery faild in the superstitious observing and requiring of many things which might have been Reformed and the deceased devout persons wills been observed inviolably in the general though not in that specifical service required 'T was so high a crime in the eyes of those that saw only by the light of nature that the Areopagit condemned Aelians boy for this sin u Aelian Hist lib. 5 cap 16. Var Hist God almost miraculously killd King Rufus w See Hoywoods History of the death of King Rufus by an Arrow shot by Sir Walter Tirrel at a Deer He was wont to call that got from the Church sweet-bread but it proved bitter to him at the last when he was slain in his sports in the new Forrest which for his pleasure he had made thereby depriving seventeen Churches of their Revenues and the Ministers of the Churches and also the people of dwellings depopulating those Parishes God had warned him x Prov 20 5. that it was a snare to devour that which was holy and after vows to make enquiry He had at that time also in his hand three gre●t Bishopricks viz. Canterbury Winchester Sarum and twelve Abbies in Farm his Brothers Son also was slain there y Fox Acts and Mon 1 Part

our weak Brother b Rom. 14 per totum Phil. 3. 15 16 for if it be necessary for him God will sooner or later reveal the same unto him nevertheless whereunto we have attained we should walk in love and speak the truth in love c Eph. 4. 15 2 John 1 and love one mother in the truth Thirdly But for those who have been Baptized in their Infancy and through ignorance shall not be able to give a reason of the hope that is in them nor do not know how to examine themselvs nor undeastand nor in any competent measure the Covenant of Grace nor the nature use and end of receiving the Lord● Supper d 1 Cor. il 28 29 26 27 or are scandalous in their Lives and Conversations and so unfit to eat with the Godly e 1 Cor. 5. 11. 13 or through prophaneness carnal shame or fear or out of hardness of heart or perverseness of spirit shall refuse to give an account of their Faith or to obey and submit unto their Guides cleaving unto them f Acts 17. 34 will●ngly freesy and sincerely g Psalm 110. 3 Mark 8. 38 Luke 14. 23 Philem 14 let them be suspend●d from receiving the Lords Supper that they may be ashamed yet let not the communicates count them as enemies but admonish them as Brethren 2 Thes 3. 14 15. and the Rule by which all Members are to walk is the Scriptures which ●s able to make the Man of God perfect throughly furnished to every good work h 2 Tim. 3 16. 17 hereby the Spirit is to be tryed by which we speak i Esay 8. 20 1 John 4. 1 for if any speak not according hereunto 't is because there is no light in him nay if an Angel from Heaven should bring anothsr Doctrine than that which is to be plainly proved by the Scriptures we are to repute him accursed k Gal. 1. 8 9 Christ and his Apostles have already revealed the whole Will of God to the Church and who so shall add to it or diminish from it shall be damn'd for it l John 17. 6 Acts 20. 20 21 Rev. 22. 18 19. 4. In all cases of Offence between Brethren let that golden rule of Christs be observed m Matt. 18. 15 16 c. If any be obstinate in any scandalous sin or fundamental error after the first and second admonition reject him and repute him as a publican n Tit. 3. 10 11 Mar. 28. 17 If he shall refuse to hear the Church after that the Presbitery gathered together in the Name of the Lord Jesus have by Christs power delivered him over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh o 1 Cor. 5. 4 and the people have put away from themselves that wicked person p 1 Cor. 5. 1. 3 until he shall to the whole Church shew evident testimony of his Repentance after his Excommunication as the incestuous pe●son did q 2 Cor. 2. 6 7 c to 1● But if he shall Apostatize from the Christian Faith and become an open and wilful blasphemer of the Truth or an Idolater and false Teacher seducing others from the Faith to believe and receive his fundamental Errors and blasphemies he ought by the civil Magistrate if he be a Christian to be put to death as God commanded r Levlt 24. 16 Deut. 12. 6 c or at least to be severely punished ſ Zach 13. 3 as Pious Kings in Israel and Christian Princes in the Primative times have done t Euseb Eccles Hist 2 Chron. 15. 13. But in superstructive Points of Doctrine each man ought to walk according to his knowledge and conscience Phil 3. 15 16. Rom. 14. 22 23. Si●h whatever is not of Faith is sin and we ought to bear with the weak and not to judge each other about meats or dayes or such like things u Rom. 15 1 14. 3 ● c. If any man be overtaken in a fault such as are spiritual ought to restore such an one with the Spirit of Meekness considering himself lest he also be tempted Gal. 6. 1. Each man should abide in that Vocation wherein he is called with God w 1 Cor 7. 20. 24. 14. 33 12. 17 25 and not usurpe each others Calling or Office no more than the Members of the natural Body do but having Gifts differing according to the Grace given us so let us use them x Rom. 12. 6 Ephes 4 2 3 for the profit of the whole Body endeavouring in all lowliness meekness and long-suffering forbearing one another in love to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Every one should observe those general rules Rom. 12. 1 9 c Phil. 2. 2 c. Eph. 4. 31 32. Heb. 3. 10 11. 10 24. 12. 1. 14 c. ad finem Epist 1 Cor. 1. 40. in particular for our thoughts all of us should observe those two rules Pro. 4. 23. Phil 4. 8. Col. 3. 1. for our words those two Eph. 4. 29. Col 4 6. remembring that he whatever he be in his seeming Devotions that bridles not his tongue his Religion is vain y James 1. 26 And for our actions those rules of the Apostle Col. 3. 16 17. Heb. 11. 6. Matth 7. 12. 1 Cor. 16 14. 1 Cor. 10. 31. doing all things in Charity and in Faith in Christs Name to his glory denying our selves taking up our Cross le ts follow Christ z Mat. 16. 24 and deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and live soberly godly and righteously a Titus 2. 14 following God as dear Children b Ephes 5. 1 walking in love as Christ hath loved us being ready to lay down not only our Goods but our Lives for the Brethren c 1 John 3. 16 and le ts abstain from the appearance of evil 1 Thes 5. 22. Le ts do nothing doubtingly against Conscience or undutifully against Authority for Conscience sake Rom. 13. 5. 14 22. or uncharitably against our Brother in things that d 1 Cor. 8. 7 c. Rom. 14. 5 c are indifferent but le ts walk as Children of the light circumspectly as wise men Eph. 5. 15. daily growing in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ abounding more and more in well-doing and persevering therein unto the end e Mat. 10. 22 being faithful unto the death that so we may receive the crown of life f Revel 2. 10 In observing of these things through Gods blessing the Churches of Christ which are amongst us shall be edified and walking according to these rules and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost Acts 9. 31 be multiplyed and all the Saints be in one united to serve God with one lip g Zeph. 3. 9 and shoulder h Zach. 14. 21 and no Canaanite shall dwell in the House of the Lord unwarn'd or unpunished which is the earnest Desire and shall be

1 Harm of Confes sect 10 Mockets Book of God the King I fidore Beda Dr. Featly Saunderson c. Yea and the very Heathen too c As Menander Plato Cisero Aristotle Seneca Plutarchs Lives c. for not only Gods Name is abused whom they invocate to witnesse which is most fearful and glorious but also men are hereby cheated and deceived and made to beleeve a Lie instead of Truth God much complains of this sin d Jer. 3. 10. 2 Cron. 34 32 and threatens severely to plague it e Ezek. 17 15 Jun. Annot. in locum It provoked the Lord to break forth as a man in passion shall he break the Covenant and be delivered Nay God swears in his wrath as one mightily offended severely to plague Zedekiah though a King for desp●sing the Oath and breaking the Covenant which God calls his Oath and his Covenant because as Junius observes was sworn in his Name and he was the Author of it by his Prophet f Jer. 34. 11 Aecolam Exp. in loc As also to shew as one saith Tthat he will revenge the breach of Oath and Covenant made o men as much as if it had been made to himself he had prophaned Gods Name and God would not hold him guiltless but his imprecation shall fall on his own head for his perfidiousnesse which indeed was fulfilled on him and his in severity g 2 King 25 6 7 Jer. 52. 1 when his Children and Nobles were slain before his face and then his eyes put out and he himself carried Captive into Babylon and kept there till the day of his death And yet alas our Land is too much guilty of this crying scandalou● sin which cryes aloud for vengeance for such were and are for the most part the Oaths that have been taken by Papists and Church-Protestants against the Popes Supremacy the Oath of Abjuration which thousands never intend to keep they having their Dispensations Equivocations mental Reservations and secret Evasions to delude God the Magistrates but chiefly themselves for in their hearts they are still resolved to yield Obedience to the See of Rome and beleeve Transubstantiation and Purgatory use Pilgrimages and Prayers to and for the Dead yea some Protestants are too much Jesuited who took the former Oaths Protestation and Covenant when in the very taking of them I fear they intended not to keep them for generally the Country took one or more of these for fear rather than love by constraint rather than willingly for self-ends and not for Gods glory Generally the whole Nation feared not an Oath but some either ignorantly rashly or presumptuously took them or which is worse resolved prophanely and perfidiously not to keep them like those that took the Covenant in Josias dayes in falshood h Jer. 3. 10 returning unto the Lord feignedly Nor to this day is there any fit means used as I know of to remove the guilt of this crying sin from the Land which in the opinion of an enlightned Jesuite i Emman Sa. Aph●r tit de Jurament 26 Perjurium gravius est Homicidio c. is greater than Murther Therefore one long since wished That as the Murtherer in our Land for Murder was hanged by the Neck so the Perjured person for his sin might be by the Tongue k Dr. Mortons Confut of Equivocation c●p 5. And though we punish not so severely this sin as other Nations have done and God hath out of his patience and goodnesse forbore with us thereby leading us to Repentance yet their Damnation slumbreth not that shall to their lives end persist in the same God will hasten his vengeance and cast such out of his sight as the Prophet speaks l Ier. 14. 11 and if they continue in this sin God will not hear them God hath oft and clearly forbad this sin m Deut. 23 21 Numb 30. ● c. and th●eatned such with the losse of Heaven n Psal 15. 4 Revel 22. 15 And the truly godly have kept their Oath though it were to their own hurt as Joshua and the godly Princes Jephtah and others yea 't is the mark of a true Christian that he feareth an Oath o Eccles 9. 2 I have opened my mouth to J●hovah saith Jaepthah and I cannot recal it p Iudg. 11. 35 he was content to put an end to his Posterity rather t●en to commit Perjury And so zealous was Joshua and the Princes having sworn to the Gibeonit●s that when the Army would have destroyed them they cryed out We have sworn to them by Jehovah God of Israel and we may not touch them No though they were a people of the Hevites who were expresly and by name commanded of God to be rooted out q Exod. 23. 23 though they were Lyars Dece●vers and Counterfeits and over-reach●d and as it were derided Ioshua and the Princes by feigning themselves Embassadours from a far Country which they avowed by their vynowed Bread and patched Cloaths clouted Shooes and rent Bottles nay though Gods command of destroying them long preceded the Peace they had granted them of sparing them and though the Oath and Promise they made was with a People a far off for so the Israelites had told them r Iosh 9. 7 If they dwelt amongst them they could not make a Peace with them because God had forbidden it Nay though this Peace was made without warrant from the Lord ſ Iosh 9. 14 nor could they challenge as our famous Historian speaks the witness of the true God in whom they beleeved not t Rawleighs Hist of the World l. 2. c. 6. sect 3. and therefore if ever any man might have saved himself by Evasion or Delusion Ioshua might have done it without Equivocations or mental Reservations Yet to the end saith he that the faithlesse subtilty of man should borrow nothing in future from his example who knew well that the Promises made in the Name of the living God were made to God and not to the dying man he held his Oath and Promise firm and inviolable though they to whom he swore were worshippers of Devils for 't is not as faithlesse men take it saith he that he which swears to a Man Society State or King and swears by the Name of the living God and in his presence that the Promise if it be broken is broken to a Man Society State or Prince but the Promise made in the Name of God is broken to God 'T is him we neglect herein and professe we fear him not but set him at nought and defie him And not only the godly but the very Heathen abhorred breach of Oath and Covenant to men though they swore by false Gods Marcus Attilius Regulus is famous herein amongst the Romans who being taken by the Carthaginians prisoner in the War had leave to go back to Rome on his Parol taking his Oath That he would return again as their Prisoner if he effected not what