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duty_n	day_n	people_n	sabbath_n	981	5	9.0818	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69156	The shippe of assured safetie wherein wee may sayle without danger towards the land of the liuing, promised to the true Israelites: conteyning in foure bokes, a discourse of Gods prouidence, a matier very agreable for this time, vvherof no commo[n]ly knovven especiall treatise hath bene published before in our mother tong. What great varietie of very necessarie and fruitfull matier is comprysed in this worke, conuenient for all sortes of men, by the table of the chapters follovving after the præface, ye may perceyue. Compyled by Edward Cradocke, doctor and reader of diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Oxford.	Cradock, Edward.	1572 (1572)	STC 5952; ESTC S109809	192,706	546

that thy barnes shall be filled with abundaunce and thy presses shall burst with newe wine Who trembleth at the voyce of God him selfe complayning that through haynous sacriledge he is robbed and spoyled of hys owne right And yet not onely maketh he ample and large behestes but O Iesu how fearfully also dothe he thunder as it were with his dreadful manaces and threats VVyll a man spoyle sayth he his Gods yet haue ye spoyled me But ye say wherein haue we spoyled thee in tythes and offerings Ye are cursed with a curse for ye haue spoyled me euen this whole nation Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house proue me now here with sayth the Lord of hostes if I wil not opē the windows of heauē vnto you poure you out a blessing without mesure And I will rebuke the deuourer for your sakes he shal not destroy the fruit of your ground neither shal your vine be bareyn in the fielde sayth the Lorde of hostes And all nations shall cal you blessed for ye shall be a pleasaunt lande sayth the Lorde of hostes Whiles then we withdraw that that is due to the Elder of the congregation God accepteth it none otherwise than as an iniurie done to his owne selfe and that no small iniurie neither but as it liketh himselfe to name it a playne robberie and a spoyle And shall we hencefoorth make light of it Shall we fraudulently with Ananias and Saphira conueay from Gods faythfull minister the iuste fruite and gayne of his deserued labour If ye will fullie refuse neglecting good customes and constitutions that are made agreably to Gods will beware I pray you what ye do For if Gods heauy curse do not pull you sodaynely all bare take héede yet to the caterpiller and the locusse and be ye well aduised of the priuie théefe But what of this will some one say for whatsoeuer you haue said hitherto it may be al blowen away with one blast The lawe made for tenthes was ceremoniall Why so For the number of tenne will he say béeing the perfitest number whiles we kéepe nine partes to our selues and giue God the tenthe we protest by this very acte our weaknesse and imperfection ascribing al perfitnesse to God alone So the rest of the Sabboth day signifieth partly that we should reste from sinne that the workes of our owne corruption beeing expelled Gods owne operation and working might take place in vs the more effectually and partely also it betokeneth our rest from al worldly miseries and that quiet hauen of al blessednesse which we shall eniey with God in the worlde to come But what of that will I agayne say Should we not therfore come to the Churche vppon euery Sunday being the seuenth day forbearing al worldly labours the better to apply our selues to Gods seruice But it is ceremonial he sayth surely al things signifying mulle not by by be so taken as ceremonial And if they be shal there no remnaunt of them be remayning shall they foorthwith be dashed out quite and cleane The Israelites hadde water no doubte when they were baptysed as Saincte Paule sayth in a cloude and in the sea shall therefore the elemente of water be condemned as Iewishe in oure Baptisme they had their shewebreade which signified our Sauiour Chryste shoulde we therefore reiecte the vse of bread in the reuerende Sacrament of Christes bodie No not so For the creatures them selues be not abolished but the guyse and maner of their obseruaunce Euen so say I the seuenth day it selfe we will kéepe still and tenthes we will retaine for the vse of the church But yet in the order of our obseruation we will not in all respects follow the trade of the Iewes but we wil do as that spirit doth guyde vs wherby Christ ruleth the congregation Admit they be ceremoniall in some sorte yet doubtlesse absolutely they be not For the celebration of the Sabboth was not onely ordeyned for this ende that it might be a figure of that spirituall rest afore mentioned but there be two causes beside The one was that there mighte be a daye assigned wherein the people mighte come togither to heare the lawe and to do other dueties there requisite of Gods seruaunts The other was that seruaunts liuing vnder the obedience of their masters might haue a vacant time from their labour for their honest godly recreation Therefore figuratiuely and Iudaically we wil no more obserue the Sabboth day yet of euery seuen dayes in the weke wil we picke out one for our assemblies wherin we will méete togither to heare Gods worde to ioyne in hartie prayer to almightie God and to receaue the holy Sacraments according to our Lords institution Yea and we will cause our seruaunts whole familie to do the same All this is morall and appertayneth to our ciuill dutie In respecte wherof we should not without muche impietie let it slippe That which I speake concerning the Sabboth might be sayd in like maner of the tenthes which were giuen in the old lawe For as they signified oure imperfection the supplying whereof they looked for by the comming of our Lord and Sauiour Chryste we will not meddle nor deale with them in any wyse But surely yet there be other causes wherfore they were bothe admitted by decrées and counsayles at the firste and we that come nowe in this latter age coulde not without greate disorder yea I mighte say also greate wante of a due and sober consideration of our own priuate authoritie caste them off For truely of their ceremoniall meanyng which some vrge in the scriptures of the olde and newe Testamente I reade vtterly nothing that they shoulde be instituted of God hym selfe for the reliefe of hys Priestes and Ministers that euen he him selfe testifieth in the place of Malachie before rehearsed saying Bryng ye all the tythes into the store-house THAT THERE MAY BE MEAT IN MYNE HOVSE Whiche cause of their institution remayning still why tithes as the effecte of the same cause shoulde not stande likewise in force I can not see Sure I am of this eue by the doctrine of S. Paule that God now hath as great regarde to the good state of the ministerie as euer he had at any time to the Leuiticall Priesthoode if not nowe also therfore the greater the more excellent our office is aboue that of the Leuites But the Ministers may now haue the tenthes no longer By what scripture proue ye that Truely oure Sauioure Chryst rebuking very bitterly the Scribes and Pharisies for béeing so precise in their tithe-gathering whereas they passed not vppon greater mattiers seemeth to say no such thing For contrarywise he concludeth rather with these wordes These things ought ye to haue done and not to haue left the other And S. Austine purposely making a sermond de ●eddendis decimis alleageth in the defense of tythes the very