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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10342	A sermon vpon part of the prophesie of Obadiah touching the destruction, as of Idumæans, so of Papists; and meanes whereby it must be wrought: preached at Saint Maries in Oxford by Iohn Rainoldes, on the 28. of October last. 1584.	Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.	1584 (1584)	STC 20623; ESTC S106047	14,278	33

of Pastours Teachers of the Church were husbanded in such sort to the Lordes aduauntage that we need not feare his sentence of y t vineyard m that he wil let it out to other husbandmen Then should not so many raw vntrained souldiours receiue the Lords pay who doo him small seruice in the day of battaile And yet there were lesse cause to complaine hereof if they who bee trayned were procured to serue him But the imprest money wages due to thē the liuings I mean appointed for their maintenāce are so impaired minished that being not able therwith to finde themselues in souldiourlike state they refuse the calling or if they vndertake it they are distracted from it with cares how to supply their need Wherby it cōmeth to passe that n y t Leuites flying ech into his land for lack of their portions the house of God is forsaken And to fill their roomes others are takē who wil be hired for least not according to the Prouerbe Best is best cheape but to the cōmon practise Best cheape is best Who though not to serue the calues of Dan and Bethel yet are made Priestes as those by Ieroboam o of peeces of the people not of the sonnes of Leui. Who if they had the grace p should say I am no Prophet I am a husbandman and returne to that trade which their friendes haue taught them Who are not endued with necessary gifts for the prophets duty and therefore howsoeuer men haue called them to it God hath not called them For whom God calleth vnto anie function them endueth he with giftes to performe it as Bezaleel to make his taberbernacle Ieremie to doo his message the Apostles to preach the Gospel So the flock of Christ is desolate of shepheards and his campe of souldiours while such haue the places as cannot strengthen the weake heale the sicke binde vp the broken nor destroy his enemies with the two edged sworde defend his subiectes A great cause here-of are Patrones of benefices For wheras the interest of choosing the Pastor belonging of old time to the Congregation is now conueyed to them because their predecessours did benefit the Church some way and therefore were put in trust as Patrones of it they a number of them do deale with the matter as Polymestor did with Polydore that is as euill gardians doo with their wardes and turne their patronage into pillage The lust of their hartes hath defiled their handes with the sacriledge of Acan to take gold siluer and Babylonish garments of the spoiles of Iericho consecrated to God Or if not with so foule sacrilege as his was because their Predecessours gaue some of it perhaps yet w t the sacrilege of Ananias Sapphira yea though themselues had giuē it If they thinke to couer their profane dealing with Acans conueyance by hyding the pray or to wash their handes with Pilates pretense that they are giltlesse of it they gaue y ● aduowsōs freely to friends or seruants they deceiue thēselues For God is not mocked And he wil finde thē out in a day when they looke not for him and in an houre that they are not ware of bring them to shame with more dreadfull punishmēt then either he did Acan or Ananias Sapphira Wherfore I hartely beseech the young Gentlemen that be here present all that are or shalbe Patrones hereafter in a religious reuerence and feare of the Lord to keepe themselues pure frō this abomination At least to remember the miserable ende of Richard the vsurper who beeing made Protector of the King and Realme got the realme himself robbed the King of it That if they deeme their patronage to be meerely ciuil the goods of benefices to be as common mens not sacred to the Lord yet being made Protectors therof of y ● Pastors they follow not his fault whose ende they detest Though the very truth is which I wish they weigh too that the Churches goods allotted to the maintenance of Pastors teachers are not profane but sacred and therefore the sinne of them who purloyne them is sacrilege not theft wherein God is spoyled as himself pronounceth Will a man spoile God that ye doo spoile me And ye say wherin doo we spoile thee in tithes offerings Howbeit if church-liuings were impouerished by none but by Patrones the case were not so euill because it is against the law But they are distressed also beside other pensiōs incōbrances by Appropriatiōs as y e lawyers term thē or as they are named commonly impropriations Whereof the condition is the more grieuous for that in many parishes there is not a Vicar well sufficiently indowed to doe diuine seruice instruct the people and keep hospitality which yet the law cōmādeth if it were obeied Iosias in thē eighth yere of his raigne began to seek the God of his father Dauid in the twelfth yeere he began to purge Iuda and Ierusalem from the hye places and the groues and the grauen images and the molten and in the eyghteenth yeere hee sent Saphan and others to repayre the house of the Lord his God Reformations of disorders cannot be made al at once chiefly when the Church hath of long time beene ouergrowen with them as then it had vnder idolatry and hath with vs vnder Popery King Henry the eight a Prince of noble memorie began to sett foorth the holy worde of God And his sonne another Iosias had he liued began to purge England from Images and Masses and Massing-altars and superstitions I doubt not but our gratious Queene and soueraine Lady desireth in the steppes of her father and brother to adde this vnto them that workemen be maintained for repairing of the Church But it lieth not in her Highnes alone to bring it to effect the Lordes and the Commons haue a stroke in it Wherefore seeing now a Parliament is sūmoned to be helde shortly let vs desire God in humblenes of spirit to encline their hearts that although it be with losse of some part of their owne commodities yet they will folow k the zeale of the Israelites for the tabernacle of assembly And as the religious professours of the truth haue shewed that Church-liuinges appropriated to others should in cōscience finde the Pastors of the Church so God graunt that they who haue the authority may see it with a single eye and bring it to passe with an vpright hand Martin Bucer in his godly requestes and aduises presented to King Edward treating of skilful Pastors to be ordained throughout the realme saith that their maintenance ought to be required of them who receiue the profits of the parishes by appropriation or any other way Bishop Pilkinton vpon Aggaeus complayning that the Pope robbed parishes to feed his moonkes wisheth that the Gospell may restore that iustly which he tooke