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A30255	No sacrilege nor sin to alienate or purchase cathedral lands, as such: or, A vindication of, not onely the late purchasers; but, of the antient nobility and gentry; yea, of the Crown it self, all deeply wounded by the false charge of sacrilege upon new purchasers. By C. Burges, D.D.; Case concerning the buying of bishops lands.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5676; ESTC R202286	78,792	78

No Sacrilege nor Sin TO ALIENATE or PURCHASE Cathedral Lands As SUCH Or A VINDICATION Of not onely the Late Purchasers but of the Antient Nobility and Gentry yea of the Crown it self all deeply wounded by the false Charge of SACRILEGE upon New Purchasers The third Edition Revised and Abbreviated for the Service of the PARLIAMENT With a Post-script to Dr. PEARSON By C. Burges D. D. Rom. 14. 4. Who art thou that judgest another mans servant London Printed by James Cottrel 1660. TO The Right Honourable THE Lords and Commons in Parliament Most Noble Lords and Gentlemen HE that will take notice of the incessant yet groundless clamours dayly emitted in a Rhetorical Dress out of Pulpits and Pamphlets against the pretended Sacrilege of the late Purchasers of Cathedral Lands cannot but see that through their sides those Pungent Verbalists endeavour to gore more deeply most of the ancient Nobility and Gentry of England not sparing Majesty it self who hold more of such Revenues then all other Purchasers set together Did any of these Accusers solidly set forth the true nature of Sacrilege and make it out that those Purchasers are guilty thereof they would deserve regard But that is none of their work It is enough for them Calumniari fortiter that somewhat may stick To which end they passionately take on as Michah against the Danites Judg. 8.22 for spoiling him of his Ephod Teraphim and Graven Image and labour to raise as he did what company they can against all engaged herein to expose them to the rage and fury of the abused-ignorant mutinous Rabble which may put all into new confusions and flames if not carefully prevented by your Wisdom and Care for which you have a Noble President in that Parliament of 1.2 Phil. Mar. 8. most seasonable and necessary to be now again put in ure unless that part of it which concerns the Papal Confirmation by all that seriously intend the Publick Peace If any Purchasers soberly ask those obstreperous Declaimers What aileth you all their Answers are instead of Arguments but a parcel of high words no more in effect than those of the same man to such as had stript him of his Idols vers 24. Ye have taken away my Gods which I have made and the Priest and what have I more To lay open the emptiness of their unjust charge I have revised and abreviated for your better service a late Treatise often threatned but never Answered to let all men see how much those Censurers abuse not You alone but the Kings of England themselves as well as new Purchasers If it should be deemed piacular for a Minister to undertake the defence of this Cause it is humbly answered that he doth it not to patronize evil but to detect their Errour who being Ministers of high rank boldly affirm without proof this to be a Sin and that of the deepest Dye How dare then any Minister that finds this be silent And should I petition or plead for Confirmation of those Sales now under Debate according to the Declaration of You the Honourable House of Commons dated the 8th of May last which cannot be forgotten it were no more than was prayed by all Bishops themselves in the Parliament before cited Yea by all the Representative Clergy of England in Convocation Assembled in 1.2 Phil. and Mar. who of all others were most concerned in a Revocation Yet they in their Instrument and Petition to the then King and Queen recorded in that Act before mentioned say that mature consilio deliberatione and bonum quietem publicam privatis commoditatibus anteponentes c. they most earnestly prayed the Confirmation of all Alienations of Church-Lands even of Bishops Deans and Chapters as well as of others made by King Hen. 8. and Edw. 6. in his non-age All which they did propter multiplices pene inextricabiles super his habitos Contractus Dispositiones Et quod si ea recuperatio scilicet tentaretur quies tranquilitas regni facile perturbaretur c. By this means a Confirmation of the whole was granted in Parliament whereby many Nobles and Gentlemen of the Romish as well as Protestant Religion possess a large portion of not onely Cathedral but Hospital-Lands unto this day This therefore in the behalf of all Purchasers I humbly lay before You according to the bounden duty of Your most humbly Servant C. Burges TO ALL Impartial Readers HAving heretofore been forced hastily to present to a Convention in Parliament a Case touching Sacrilege falsly so called that fell into some bands who threatened to confute it This put me upon the Revising enlarging and digesting thereof into a Treatise which was published before I could see any Answer to the former Case But immediately after came forth Dr. Gauden's huge Bulk of Words in Folio called The Tears Sighs Complaints and Prayers of the Church of England In which Book he is pleased to bespatter me with so much virulency and false calumnies as take up five whole Sheets in all which he hath not bestowed one line in a solid Scholarly Confutation of or distinct Answer to any one part of that Case Indeed in the Front of his 667. pag. he makes this flourish Of the sin of Sacrilege with the nature of it But neither in that page nor in any other which concerneth me doth he afford so much as a word to set forth the Definition of it instead whereof he only spins out more like a School-boy then a Doctor a sharp Declaration full of personal Invectives and gross untruths as namely the charging my defence of Tithes to have proceeded from my desire to uphold two fat Benefices whereas I have had none at all either fat or lean for above these sixteen years his taking up and publishing a false Report that I should offer 1000 Marks to procure me a richer Benefice whereas my witness is in heaven never any such base profer was made by me nor came into my thoughts It is true that a Person of Honour came several times to my house and offered me in the year 1640 a fat Bishoprick which when I refused he then propounded another offer of 1000 Marks per annum for preaching if I would then have done what he would have put me upon This is true and the Lord who knoweth all things knows that Ilye not Then he thinks to pay me to purpose for that I being a Minister c. should plead for such Alienations as he calleth Sacrilege as if this were more improper for me than for him since that to revile and cast dirt upon the Solemn League and Covenant of God which both Houses of Parliament yea himself and which is more his present Majesty had also religiously taken Of which I resolve God assisting to let him ere long hear more he being the Ring-leader of all those foul Pamphlets against the Covenant to intice and tempt those that have taken it to renounce it and so to bring Zedekiah's

Cornubiae gentis Wherefore saith he I Kenulph of the West-Saxons King for the love I bear to God and for the expiation of my sins and also which is to be lamented for some vexation of my enemies of the Cornish people do give c. That is to hire the Monks of Wells to curse the Cornish men which he could not it seems subdue by his sword And verily he had need to do somewhat more than ordinary for expiating his sins according as the Doctrine of those times wherein the all-sufficiency of Christs full satisfaction was concealed ran For albeit in his younger times he carried himself fairly as to the matter of his Government of his subjects for want whereof his Predecessour Sigebert was deposed and he taken into his room yet as for his more private conversation he was a man so addicted to Adultery that his wife not able to bear it left him and betook her self to a Nunnery where she ended her days and he after this large Donation could not be drawn off from that sin of uncleanness but rather grew more bold to continue it which in the end cost him his life For whereas in the 26 of his reign he bestowed that Charter upon the Monks of Wells yet he still haunted a Concubine or Strumpet some call her a Noble Person at a place called by some Meriton by other Merton or Marton or Mariton within his own Dominions and there in the 30 year of his reign was slain not by the Cornish that were in rebellion as was lately conjectured upon the account of Simon Dunelmensis quoted by Speed and Isaacson which Simon being consulted setteth not down the names of the Murderers but as Johannes de Brompton Matthew of Westminster Henry of Huntington Roger de Hoveden Ethelwerd Polydore Virgil and sundry others do all affirm by one Kineard brother to the deposed King Sigebert This is the truth of that sad accident which befel Kenulph and this was his end Thus we see how divine the endowment of the Church of Wells was which was not made a Cathedral until in the year 905. Plegmund Archbishop of Canterbury who by command from King Edward sirnamed the Elder consecrated seven Bishops in one day where none had sate before among which he consecrated Adelme Abbot of Glanstenbury the first Bishop of Wells by which it became a Bishops Sea But it is remarkable that he who gave Lands partly for cursing of others fell himself under the saddest curse to be butchered in that very place where he had so often formerly and then also committed adultery by the hand of him whom he thought he had made sure enough Take another instance in Henry the Third He being pressed by his Nobles Bishops and others to pass the Great Charter so highly magnified and cryed up especially by the prelatical Clergy in the ninth year of his reign himself being then but eighteen years old he was hookt in to grant it thus Henry by the Grace of God King of England c. To all Archbishops Bishops c. Know ye that we to the honour of God and for the salvation of the souls of our Progenitors and Successors Kings of England c. have given and granted c. To which all Bishops and many Abbots as well as others were of Counsel and Witnesses Hereby it appears that this Charter was granted chiefly to merit salvation So as however the honour of God be mentioned yet the dishonour of God and of Christ lay at the bottom of that grant in reference to the foundation laid in the heart of that King by the Prelates The like instance may be given in Edward the third and many more but because there will be occasion to mention some of them upon another account they are forborn here That this was the High-way wherein the degenerate Clergy of England long before as well as since the Conquest constantly travailed take one proof for all out of Gildas sirnamed Sapiens who being a Britain Presbyter sharply declaimeth against the ignorance covertousness idleness voracity thievery of the Clergy of his time which were said to be continued from the time of King Lucius in Britain now England for which God had brought many sad judgements upon the Britains by the Saxons who at their first coming especially being Idolaters continually oppressed and tyrannized over the Britains Yet nothing would prevail to reduce the Clergy to duty Whether he continued till Austin the Monk came into England some doubt others deny Yet Oraeus and others affirm it of which see more in Vossius But it is on all hands agreed that he sharply rebuked the great exorbitancies and abuses of the Clergy of his time Those abuses were some of them such as concern the business in hand which he thus reproveth Britania habet sacerdotes sed non nullos insipientes guamplurimos ministros sed multos impudentes Clericos sed quosdam raptores subdoles Pastores ut dicuntur sed occisioni animarum lupos paratos quippe non commodo plebis providentes sed proprii plenitudinem ventris quaerentes Ecclesiae Domos habentes sed eas turpis lucri gratia adeuntes c. Britain saith he hath Priests but some of them fools very many Ministers but many of them impudent Clergy-men but Thieves and Cheaters Pastors as they are called but in truth Wolves ready to slay and flay the souls of the sheep for that they seek not the good of the people but the crambing of their own gutts they have the houses of the Church that is where the Church met for worship but resort to them for filthy Lucres sake onely And that he might let all men see that he excepted not the Bishops of those times nor such as sate chief among the Clergy nay not the Pope himself he addeth Sedem Petri Apostoli immundis pedibus usurpantes sed merito cupiditatis in Judae Traditoris Pestilentiae Cathedram desidentes They usurp the Apostle Peters seat with unclean feet but through their covetousness they rather sit indeed in Judas his Chair of Pestilence This with much more that old Britain so highly accounted of layeth to the charge of the British Clergy of those times which future ages did not make better For since the Norman Conquest the Prelates and Monks have been higher than before and grasped more Lands into their hands upon the same account of redeeming Souls than all their predecessors Insomuch as the Cathedral Clergy Chauntries Monks and Nuns being not a fortieth nay not an hundreth part of the people had by these wi es and devices gotten as some intelligent men have computed a third part if not two of all the best Lands in the Nation at what time Henry the eighth began to seize the lesser Monasteries All which estates were obtained upon that rotten ground of meriting salvation by giving such large gifts to the Church which false Doctrine they continually inculcated upon the people to