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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25410	Sacrilege a snare. A sermon preached, ad clerum, in the Vniversity of Cambridg, / by the R. Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews: late L. Bishop of Winchester. VVhen he proceeded Doctor in Divinity. Translated for the benefit of the publike.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1646 (1646)	Wing A3151; ESTC R169	19,082	31

Holy things Ieroboam seemed to intend the Publique Honor for He built Shechem and Phenuel but in blood for it was with the spoile of the Temple and the alienating of the Tithes Tobias furnished himselfe a chamber in the Porch of God for his Profit and Convenience Baltazar for His Pleasure drank out of the Vessels of the Sanctuary all of them were Sacrilegious Finally not only that EPIMANES who ransackt All but Iudas also who was so bold as to thrust his Sacrilegious fingers into Christs bag though content with a Part was guilty of the same crime as was likewise that Sacrilegious Couple who durst invade the Church Threasure and detein but a part of that which had touch'd the feet of the Apostles Every one of these was guilty of Sacrilege 2 Now we must speak concerning the second Sort. A kind of men there is indeed who have a Right but they wickedly abuse that Right You think perhaps I will go far hence to seeke I stir not a foote I move not hence We are the Men and even amongst us there are many too too many who Devoure Holy things For which it is to be feared some of vs do by sloth and Idlenesse to tarry here like Drones to fling away our precious houres to flow in Luxury to be at leasure for feasts and playes and vanities to do these things and yet to fatten our selves with those things which are consecrated to Holy uses this is in our Saviours judgment to Devoure and spend our Fathers goods in riotous Living I will come nearer yet A great part of that former Devouring came from our selves and therefore are Holy things Devoured by others because they are Devoured by Our selves And indeed as lawfull think some for them to gather the Holy Tiths and to neglect the Holy Duties as for Us And truly to tell you my feares they who now sheere the fleece will one day pull off skin and fleece together they who are now gnawing at Church Meanes will consume them at last with open-mouth unlesse GOD chang our minds and manners For sure there is no throat so Holy that it can be lawfull for it to consume the things that are Holy it is lawfull to eat to feed upon them but to Devoure them is not only unlawfull but a high wickednes not only for those Locusts but even for us too May there be heapes heapes of provision but for them that war the Holy warfare let them that partake of the Altar wait at the Altar 1 Cor. 9. 14. But to him that partakes and waits not that spends the Meanes and attends not the work to him it is sin I speak not this that the people may purloin the Preists wages they may no more take from the Shekel of Caiphas an evill Preist then from the tribute of Tiberius a wicked Prince to both they must give their due though they do not performe their duty both of them are the Ministers of God and stand or fall to Him Both take that which belongs to God if they take it with Sacrilegious hands and must give an account to GOD I speak it to this end as wishing Both in a better mind Laity and Clergy Them that for the future they would be quiet and forbear to Devoure Holy things by unjust detention and alienation These that for the future they would labour and forbear to Devoure Holy things by idlenesse and misimploying What it is who they are that Devoure Holy things is now clear I would it were not so clear Him that shall what is like to befall which was my third Proposall now hearken It is a snare That some such there should be who would do it Solomon foresaw and future ages have prov'd too true In truth there is such a cursed holy hunger that there will be Theft there will bee Sacrilege there will be a totall overthrow of all that is called Holy unlesse God Himselfe take order to the contrary by immediate command countermand nay by thunder and lightning and so provide that they be untouch'd 'T is so sweet a bit so pleasant to the Palat so full of delights that you may rend their chops and breake their jawes yet you shall get it from them This is not as it should be Solomon therefore adds Let them eat and drink Holy things if they like them so well perhaps the bait may please but under the bait there lyes a hook which they swallow with it Let them take heed of the bait there is a net not far off let them not meddle with the Field it is an Acheldama a field of bloud Let them not take away the gifts of the Temple for they are wrapt about with the Anathema of Heaven a curse for the spoylers By which word Solomon very aptly and elegantly compareth the whole matter whereof he treateth to Fowling wherein Satan the great hunter of soules for so H. David Psalm 91. 3. so Saint Paul calls him 2 Tim. 2. 26. waiting for his prey layeth out for his bait Church Lands and Revenues but covered over with the Crime of Sacrilege as with a gin or snare There you may see our Clergy-eaters who as Pharaoh thought when he opprest the Church Come let us deale wisely take themselves to be very wise having made a gaine of holy things hasten to the snare with those foolish birds Prov. 7.23 not knowing that it is for their life Fly as soone as the● see the prey to take but are taken and devouring the prey are made his prey who goes about day and night seeking whom he may devoure It is a most true saying that in every sin there is a bait and a snare a bait pretended a snare which lyeth hid The bait some little profit of iniquity or some small trifling pleasure of sin the snare the sin with its sting viz. the fearefull curse of the Law I will not go far hence chap. 5. v 3.4 In wandring Lust the bait the lips of the Harlot distilling nothing but hony the snare the reliques of sin more bitter than wormwood more sharp then a sword Chap. 23. v. 31.32 In luxury and drunkennes the bait the colour of the Wine in the Glasse the tast in the Palat the snare the biting as of the Serpent or Basilisk which with its sting brings certaine death In this very chap. ver. 17. In stealth the bait Bread of deceipt stollen got without sweat the snare sin filling the mouth with gravell whence necessarily followeth the gnashing of the teeth Every sin I say hath its bait and its snare but this in of Sacrilege more and above all other The bait I take for granted the snare I shall shew if you please even in Prophane stories Cambyses who rifled the Temple of Iupiter Hammon found it destructive to himselfe Brennus who robbed the Delphick found it destructive to himselfe and his Crassus who did as much to the Temple at Hierusalem was forced to swallow downe melted Gold with