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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74974	De non temerandis ecclesiis, churches not to be violated. A tract of the rights and respect due unto churches. Written to a gentleman who having an appropriate parsonage, imployed the church to prophane uses, and left the parishioners uncertainely provided of divine service, in a parish neere there adjoyning. / Written and first published thirty years since by Sir Henry Spelman knight.	Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.; Spelman, Clement, 1598-1679.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4921; Thomason E335_5; ESTC R200775	67,012	74

sacrilegious wealth not to thrive better Mr ſ Cam●den fo 163. Cambden in his Britannia saith that in the time of H. 8. after the Dissolution of the lesser Houses there were remaining 645 Monasteries Monuments of our Ancestors piety built to the honour of God and propagation of the Christian Faith Learning and the releefe of the Poore as also 96 Colledges besides those in the Vniversity 110 Hospitalls and 2374 Chantryes and Free-Chappells All which except some few Colledges Free-Chappells and Chantryes with all their Lands and Wealth came to H. 8. the Annuall value of the Lands then being very Vast their Goods and Personall Estate exceeding great besides the Plunder of Shrine inestimable when the Pearle Gold and pretious stones of one Shrine filled two t Godwin fo 159. Chests so as each took eight strong men saith Mr Cambden to carry it And although the dissolving of Chantryes Colledges and Free-Chappels in the 37. of H. 8. his Raigne did not yeeld him a Crop equall to the Vintage of his former Reformations yet was his Harvest better then the Gleanings of Ruth though among full sheaves u Speed fol 1011. Speed saith he had 12 Barrells filled with Gold and silver which Cardinall Woolsey provided for the Pope Godwin remembers 118840l he had of the Clergy for their Fine in a Premunire besides the great benefit of Forfeitures that accrued by the attainders of many great men and the multitude of Lones Taxes and Subsidies he received from his Subjects being more saith Mr Cambden and Mr Howes then all the Kings had in 500 yeares before yet all this accesse of wealth added to that Masse of 5300000l left him in ready mony by his Father as appeares by the Close-Roll of 3. H. 8. saith Sir Edw. x Cook Jurisdiction of Courts fol. 198. Cooke could not preserve him from want the certaine attendant on sacrilegious wealth wherewith he is so sore pressed that about the 36 yeare of his Raigne of all the Kings of England he alone Coynes not only base * Non tantum stanneam cuprinamque sed coreaceam pecuaiam solus omni● regum Ang procuders coactus est Tinne and Coppar but Lether mony And it is observed that since the accession of Abbies and Impropriations to the Crowne even the Crowne Lands which formerly have been thought sufficient to support the ordinary charge of the Crowne are now so wasted absit invidia dictis as they will scarce defray the ordinary charge of the Kings houshold And while such bitter streames flow from sacrilegious Wells though digged by Kings Subjects that fin their Cisternes from thence cannot expect to drinke sweet Waters Reynerus y Apostolatus Benedict in Ang. fo 227. 228. tells us and upon good credit that at the dissolution H. 8. divided part of the Church spoyles among 260 Gent. of Families in one part of England and at the same time Thomas Duke of Norfolke rewards the service of Twenty of his Gentlemen with the grant of 40l a yeare out of his own Inheritance and that while not sixty of the Kings Donees had a Sonne owning his Fathers Estate every one of the Dukes hath the sonne of his own Loynes Flourishing in his Fathers Inheritance and that he could have set downe their severall names had conveniency required it Thou maist here expect I should observe the ill successe of particular private men possessors and owners of Impropriations and Scites of Religious Houses but to set downe all would make the porch much bigger then the House a disproportion I feare among other Errors I am already guilty of and to set downe but a few would displease thee while I discover the nakednesse only of thee thy Parents or Friends But doe thou and let every man observe how often Impropriations and Religious houses in a short time change and shift their owners like the Arke not resting either with the men of z Sam. ● Ashdod Gath nor Eckron but wearies them out with Emrods and Mice curses upon their persons Estates but returned to Bethshemeth and Kiriahjearim to its own place to the Priest and Levite not only Obed-Edom but even all Israel is blessed And that thou maist neither doubt nor yet wonder at the insuccesse of Sacrilegious Persons first weighing what David prayed against those that did but say a Psalm 83. Let us take to our selves the houses of God into our possession next remember the many and grievous Curses imprecated by Founders of Religious Houses and those seconded by their spirituall Mother the b 17. E. 1. c. 6. Church she injoyned it by the naturall Parent in severall Acts of Parliament and canst thou hope good from their blessings and not feare evill from their Curses If thou thinkest the Founders Idolatrous the Church Popish and therefore their curses not regardable let that in c Ezra 6. Ezra rectify thy Error where thou shalt finde Darius finishing what Cyrus began the second Temple at Jerusalem then restoring what Nebuchadnezzar had taken all the Golden and Silver Vessell then he gives Cattell Corne Wine Oyle c. for sacrifices and addes this curse upon the violators d Ezra 6. ● And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all King and People that put to their hand to alter and destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem there thou maist observe both an Idolater giving and a Heathen cursing yet is his guift acceptable and his curse prevalent for thou shalt find Antiochus e 1. Mac. 6. Epiphanes his Armies destroyed himselfe dejected and complaining even to death of his great tribulation and misery acknowledgeth that they befall him for his Evill done at Jerusalem for he took thence the Golden Altar the Table of the Shew-bread the vessells of Gold and silver as thou maist read in the 1. Chap. 1. f Mac. 1.1.11.12 Mac. and himselfe dying of a most loathsome disease And shortly after his sonne g Mac. 7.4 Antiochus Eupater is slaine and in the same Chapter thou maist observe Nicanor threatning to burne up the Temple and presently he first after all his Army is slain not one escapeth the head and right hand of Nicanor which had been lift up against the h 2. Mac. 3. Temple is cut off hung up towards Jerusalem Heliodorus is sent to Ierusalem by Seleucus King of Asia to take the Treasure out of the Temple and while in the Temple disposing the treasure he is smitten of God and ready to dye untill Onias the High-Priest at the intreaty of Friends offers sacrifice for him and obtaines his life and Heliodorus returnes to the King and declares what befell him the King yet thirsting for the Money of the Temple would send another and demanding of Heliodorus whom he answered thy enemy or a i 2. Mac. 5. Traytor for if he escape with life he shall be sure to be scourged so certain is the punishment of Sacriledge