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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09838	Against sacrilege three sermons / preached by Maister Robert Pont ...	Pont, Robert, 1524-1606.	1599 (1599)	STC 20100; ESTC S4419	43,712	129

that by the juste judgement of God they are were all destroyed I answer that the cause wherfore the true God of heauen brought such punishments vpon them who spoiled their own false gods was because of the Sacrilegious contempt which these men did to them whome they helde for their gods and so were enemies to their own relicques which they professed that may serue to teach the Sacrilegious of our daies how more seuerely they deserue to be punished either here or hēce who professing the knowledg of the true God vse such profane attempts contrary to their Religion For as to such rake-hell houndes as was Dionysius the tyranne of Sicilia who can but abhor the Sacrilegious spewing out their abhominable taunts Who after his Sacrilege committed in spoyling of his gods hauing a favorable winde in his navigation saide to men yee see friends how favorable the gods be to the Sacrilegious And comming to the Temple of Iupiter Olympius drew from him his goldē cloak skoffing that it was too heauy to him for sūmer too cold for winter taking frō AEsculapius his golden beard saide it seemed not the same to haue a beard the father Apollo to be beardles As also when he took of al the gifts that wer offred to the idols holden vp by their handes pretended that they were willingly holden out and presented to him by the good gods Brennus also of whom I spak before as Trogus Pompeius reports spoyling the temples of Macedonia in skoffing maner said that the gods who were rich ought to bestow on mortall men of their liberall gifts But finally this man in despaire killed himself and the other Dionysius as is reported of him vrged by an evill conscience after that he had sold by publick voice Proclamation that which hee had spoyled from the Temples compelled them to whom such things were sold to restore them to the Temples from the which they were taken But how-so-euer this godles tyrant behaued himself we read how he was casten out of his kingdome being brought to great necessitie was compelled to teach a Grammer Schoole at Corinthus And shall wee think the punishment of such men to be included only within the short time of this life albeit for the most parte such men escaped not the Temporal punishments as the historie of their liues beares record But let vs come to the nearer examples when the Wandals came with a puissante armie against Duke Gabinius as is recited out of Eutropius the Duke sente some of his Captaines disguised to see whither the Wandals reverenced the Temples of the Christians or spoyled them If they spoyle or violate them saith he the God whom the Christians worship whom I know not if he be so powerfull as they saye will not spare them that spoyle his houses and so it come to passe For the Wandals marching forwarde inriched with the spoyle and goodes of the Kirke were vanquished in battell slaine put to diverse torments But Alaricus king of the Gotthes by the contrary hauing won Rome would not suffer his men to spoile the Temple of S. PETER nor touch any person being therein for the reverence he did bere to the place Clotharius King of France likewise as Turonenss writeth presuming most irrelegiously as certaine other Kinges to take the goodes of the kirk into his Thesaurie made an Edicte that all the Kirkes of his Realme should pay to him the third parte of their fruits But being rebuked of a certaine Bishop did retreat his ordinance a rare example indeed For there is a pestiferous maladie whereof few amend by repentance To come yet nearer wee reade of King WILLIAM of England called Rufus who for his pleasure pastime to inlarge his Forrest demolished 17. Parish Kirks and all the Townes about them But in the same forrest being at his game in the very place as some say where one of the Kirks stood was slaine by an arrow shot at a Deere by a certaine Knight there fell down dead immediatly For pleasure procured with the displeasure of the Almightie cannot well profite As for domesticall examples of Kinges of this Cuntrie that were spoylers of the Kirk or Kirk-goods they are very rare to bee found Indeede wee reade of Feredethus who arrogate vnto himself the kingdom of Pictes after the death of Hungus that he toke againe from the Kirk ministers thereof such as then were the possessions which Hungus being a godly king had giuen them Which is reported to haue bin one of the causes wherfore the kingdome of the Pictes thereafter was destroyed But amongst the Scottes Kinges I neuer read of any that tooke from the kirk any possessions So did they abhor Sacrilege howsoeuer otherwaies some of thē were wicked and of licencious life But it is easie to reade of very many that bestowed liberally vppon the seruice of God And more liberally in some respectes then become them yet alwaies godly as they supposed in their zeale And albeit I allowe no superfluitie in the Kirke-rentes but all may serue the king in time of necessitie Yet this may bee esteemed as one of the causes that GOD hes continued his Kingdome to stand so long vncōquished or translated to Forrayne power aboue the continual successe of an hundreth generationes Which is rare to be founde in any other kingdome The Lorde graunt that the corruption of our dayes bring not such an alteration as wee haue not seene nor yet haue heard of before Let vs therefore rather prayse others who by their godly zeale haue advanced the service of God and bestowed liberally of their substance for maintenance of the same In the booke of Exodus wee haue a notable example of the people of Israell Who offered so liberally to the wooke of the Tabernacle that MOYSES vvas forced to cause proclayme throughout the hoste that no man or vvoman should offer any further for the service and building thereof Because there were yuough and more bestowed already to that effect Oh what contrarietie is betweene them and their doings and our men who cannot cease nor leaue off without any hoe to takaway that which hath bin offred by others til almost now there is no thing left behind The like zeal of the Princes of Israel in their offring at the dedicatiō of the tabernacle as is writtē of thē wherto I remit you for shortnes This zeal is commended by DAVID in the Psalme 122. whereas he reioyced at the readines of the people to serue God in his Tabernacle And because I haue begun to make mention of King DAVID and the zeale of the people in his daies Let vs heare what vehement zeale was in himself in this behalfe to provoke others by his example First hee called for the Prophete NATHAN saying vnto him behold I dwell in an house of Ceder trees and the Arke of the Lord is vnder courtaines thinking it an vnmeete thing that his Royall Palace should be