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A03764	A second sermon, preached at Paules Crosse, the 21. of May, 1598. vpon the 21. of Math. the 12. and 13. verses concluding a former sermon preached the 4. of December 1597. vpon the same text. By Iohn Hovvson, student of Christes-Church in Oxford.	Howson, John, 1557?-1632.	1598 (1598)	STC 13883; ESTC S121034	36,582	56

the Christians and was zelous ouer his house and his houshold vnder the law but careles of his seruice and seruants vnder the gospel First this is a rule which we learne of him pro mensura delicti Deut. 25. erit plagarum modus as the trespasse is such is the punishment and therefore both in the law of God and man by the quantitie of the punishment we iudge of the qualitie of an offence Now what sinne so seuerely punished euen in the Apostles time as this was Before any Church was built vnto Christ before any law commaunded to giue to the Church Acts. 4. when Ananias and Saphira withheld secretly parte of that which voluntarily they had giuen vnto God for the vse of his seruants they were punished seuerely with sudden death Acts. 4. Presently after the Church was endowed and adorned with riches and pretious furniture Iulian was wounded to death with an arrow from heauen when he had robbed the Churches and scoffingly saide Ecce quam pretiosis vasis ministratur Mariae filio Theodor. hist eccles lib. 3. c. 11. Are these vesselles fitte for the sonne of Marie Theodor lib. 3. cap. 11. And when Thimelicus a dauncer had bought by chaunce some holy vestement and abused it publickly in the open theater Theodor. hist eccl lib. 5. ca. 37. Theodoret affirmes him Subitò expirasse in that very place to haue giuen vp the ghost I passe ouer multitudes of exāples in the primitiue church as also Frederick the second of latter times and Philippe Maria and leaue to your wise and religious consideration the successe of such men as haue been vsed as instruments to ouerthrow the Church in these later times of fresher memory If they which carrie the like affection and cease not to practise the like ill actions to their abilitie Iob. 21. ducunt in bonis dies suos spend their daies in wealth and their seed seemeth to be established in their sight Iob. 21. Iob. 12. if as the same Iob saith The tabernacles of robbers do prosper and they are in safetie that prouoke God yet we say as Optatus said to the Donatists in the same case lib. 1. Opt. lib. 1. An quia cessat talis modo vindicta ideo tibi cum tuis vindicas innocentiam because God doth not now punish you because you enioye peaceably those spoiles are you therefore innocent No no Gloss ord super 12. Iob. the ordinary glosse saith excellently Aliud misericorditer dat Deus aliud habere sinit iratus it is one thing for God in mercie to blesse vs and another thing to suffer vs to be rich in his anger Hesiod lib. 1. oper and heauie displeasure And Hesiodus could make a difference between riches 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 riches which were taken by force and violence and riches which were giuen by the blessing of God and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is good to be rich by gift but ill to be rich by rapine euen an occasion of death of some ill death death to father by couetous hourding and death to the sonne by riotous spending And as it is a rule in Simonie 500. yeares old Spiritualium venditores maiori semper egestate confundi that the sellers of spirituall things are pinched at last with extreme penurie so it is as olde a rule in sacriledge Quae malignè contraxit pater Pet. Ele. ep 10. luxu peiori refundet haeres that which the father hath wickedly scraped togither the son shall more wickedly scatter abroad And it is woorth the obseruing now a daies that of those goods and landes which are taken from God Perpetuus nulli datur vsus haeres Horat. lib. 2. ep 2. Haeredem alterius velut vnda superuenit vndam Horat. lib. 2. ep 2. No man possesseth them long but they passe from man to man from heire to heire from family to family like the Arcke of God which could finde no place to rest in among the Philistines but was remooued from Asdod 1. Sam. 5. to Gath from Gath to Ekron and troubled the people wheresoeuer it came till they returnd it againe to his proper place 1. Sam. 5. Wherefore to conclude this point Honorable c. as God in the former times of Christianity when the church was persecuted Aug. ep 50. would haue that first part of the second Psalme fulfilled Astiterunt reges terrae the Kings of the earth stood vp and the Princes tooke counsaile against the Lord and against his annointed and then after would haue that other part perfourmed Et nunc reges intelligite be wise now ye Kings be learned ye iudges of the earth c. in the time of good Constantine So also seeing in these latter times the former is againe fulfilled Astiterunt reges terrae fulfill also this latter part once againe Et nunc reges intelligite and once againe vnderstand and know you that be magistrates and gouernours and gentlemen c. that God as the very law of nature teacheth and all states and ages of the Church haue practised challengeth an interest in all our goods our lands and possessions that this is paide as a kinde of tribute and acknowledgment of his soueraigne dominion ouer vs That he accepteth them not because he hath neede of them but for an endlesse continuance of religion amongst vs which by experience we finde to decay with them That he hath disposed them partly for an ornament to his house partly for the necessarie vse of his seruice partly for the maintenance of his seruants and ministers That we receiue the possession of them immediately from you and but mediately from him but receiue the right of them immediately from him and but mediately from you who gaue them to God and he vnto vs Num. 18. Num. 18. That he hath blessed those Princes and their posterities which haue thus honored him with part of their goods and promised to open the windowes of heauen and powre downe immeasurable blessings vpon the people that in this respect delt truely with him Mal. 3. Mal. 3. that he hath reuenged himselfe on them that robbed him in themselues and their posteritie cursed with a curse whole nations that spoiled him Mal. 3. Mal. 3. That the time hath been when there was scarcely one Christian to be found so wicked that durst offer violence to the house of God or the furniture of it and therefore the Iewes were hired to spoile it In vita Bern. lib. 2. cap. 1. in vita Bernard That in these latter times it was not spoiled by Wolues Lions such as proudly bid battel to God but by Foxes who by sleight and by holy pretences and by colour of friendship would strip him of all Bern. Sen. 65. super Cant. Psal 77. but as Saint Bern. saieth of such Foxes posteriora eorum foetent Ser. 65. consider their owne end or their posteritie and you wil