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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	sin_n	wage_n	10,905	5	10.9508	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81046	Tythes no property to, nor lawful maintenance for a powerful Gospel-preaching ministry. Or A compulsory maintenance for Christs ministers is contrary to Christs doctrine and example of his apostles and the example of the faithful ministers of Christ, and famous reformers in all ages, as VVickliffe, Hus, and divers others, with an old prophecy written by Iohn Hus, as it is recorded by Fox in his Acts and monuments, commonly called the Book of martyrs. With a discovery of the marks of the false prophets and ministers in all ages (as they are found recorded in the ecclesiastical history) since the apostles days to this very time agreeing with the Scriptures of truth both of the Old and New Testament. Written by a lover of the souls of all men, Iohn Crook.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7214bA; ESTC R29665	16,933	16

Parishioners to help the people with and thus sir saith Thorp to the Biship into over great charges of the Parishioners they pay their temporal goods thrice where once might suffice if priests were true dispensators The Parishioners that pay their temporal goods be they Tithes or offerings to Priests that do not their offfce among them justly are partners of every sin of those priests because that they sustain those priests folly in their sin with their temporal goods if these things be well considered what wonder is it then if the parishioners grudge against these dispensators And he further saith that Paul saith that Tithes were given in the old Law to Levites and to priests that came of the lineage of Levi but our Priests came not of the lineage of Levi but of the lineage of Judah to which Judah no Tithes were promised to be given and therefore Paul saith since the priesthood is changed from the generation of Levi to the generation of Judah it is necessary that changing also be made of the Law so that priests live now without Tithes and other duties that they claim following Christ and his Apostles in wilful poverty as they have given them example for since Christ lived all the time of his preaching by pure alms of the people and by example of him his Apostles lived in the same wise or else by the travel of their hands as it is said above Every priest whose priesthood Christ approveth knoweth well and confeseth in word and in work that a disciple ought not to be above his master but it sufficeth so a disciple to be simple and pure patient and meek and by his example specially of his Master Christ every priest should rule him in all his living and so after his cunning and power a priest should busie him to reform and rule whomsoever he might charitably And he further saith thus There is a Dr. I think it is St. Hierom that saith thus the priests that challenge now in the new Law Tithes say in effect that Christ is not become man nor that he hath yet suffered death for mans love Wherefore this Dr. saith this sentence Since Tithes were the hires and wages limited to Levites and to priests of the old Law for bearing about of the Tabernacle and for slaying and fleaing of beasts burning of sacrifices and for keeping of the Temple c. and other things that pertained to their office those priests that will challenge or take Tithes deny that Christ is come in the flesh and do the priests office in the old law for whom Tithes were granted for else this Dr. saith Priests take Tithes now wrongfully and saith further That Tithes and other duties which priests challenge now are wrongfully called freedom of holy Church since neither Christ nor his Apostles challenged nor took such duties therefore those takings of priests now are not justly called the freedom of holy Church but all such giving and taking ought to be called and holden the slandrous covetousnesse of men of holy Church And further saith in these words viz. Since by the viciousnesse of priests both Lords and Commons are most sinfully infected and led into the worst and because of the Covetousuesse of priests and pride and the boast that they have and make of their dignity and power destroyeth not onely the vertues of the priesthood in priests themselves but also over this it stireth God to take great vengeance both upon the Lords and upon the Commons which suffer these priests charitably And he further saith in answer to the Bishop in these words viz. That a proud priest may be known when he denieth to follow Christ and his Apostles in wilful poverty and other vertues and coveteth wordly worstip and taketh it gladly and gathereth together with pleading menacing or with flattering or with Simony any worldly goods and most if a priest busie him not chiefly in himself and after in all other men and women after his cunning and power to withstand sin And further I find by the Ecclesiastical Histories written by Eusebius mentioning Apolonius against Montanus saith thus mat 10. Luke 9. mark 7. Euseb Lib. 5. cap. 16. That Montanus sed the maintainers of his doctrine with sums of money and great hire to preach which was forbidden in the holy Scripture that prophets should take hire Christ commanded his disciples to take no mans gold or silver or apparel or two coats and saith by their fruits you shall know them and further saith That if hire be taken by a prophet he is then no longer a prophet let all that be false be tried conditional These are the faithful sayings of these men of famous memory who in their time bore a faithful Testimony against the priests in their dayes and other abominations and innovations brought in by those who were in the apostacie since the dayes of Christ and his Apostles which I have faithfully set down that so those who say what is become of our fore fathers who suffered in the flames for witnessing against the superstition and Idolatry of those times in which they lived may see themselves where they are and what they are doing while they ask what is become of their forefathers and yet they themselves found walking in the steps of those men who persecuted and martyred those who they call their forefathers but are indeed monstruous children or rather the children of those who put the martyrs to death as by their practices they make it appear in their maintaining like priests though now called Ministers and their unrighteous wages which their forefathers witnessed against with the losse of their lives Oh! blush for shame to behold thy practices lest thou partaking of their sins do partake of their plagues also and came out from those wayes lest thou fall together with them as thou hast holpen to uphold the enemies of the Lord for as it is truly recorded in the same book of Martyrs in these words viz. Whosoever do receive the holy Order by giving of mony is not a priest secundum rem nomen but to say the truth he desireth to be cal'd a priest that is to be a priest secundum nomen tantum and such a priest wch is a priest in name onely is no priest no more then St. Mary painted is St. Mary nor a false Dr a Dr. but no Doctor and a man painted is not a man but no man and thus such a priest in name onely is not a priest because that all faithful men do firmly believe with St. Gregory that no man buying the holy Orders may then be called a priest as he saith they who buy or sell holy Orders can be no priests whereupon it is written ana thema dandi anathema accipiendi that is he is accursed that gives and he no lesse that takes and those who are now found with the marks of the false Prophets and Priests upon them are as was said then uni voce natura but yet