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ground_n	bear_v	fruit_n	good_a	1,697	5	3.9177	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64583	Good workes if they be well handled, or, Certaine projects about maintenance for parochiall ministers provision for and election of lecturers : erection and indowment of new churches in the great out parishes about London.	Udall, Ephraim, d. 1647.	1641 (1641)	Wing U10; ESTC R10353	6,155	16

GOOD WORKES If they be well handled OR Certaine Projects about Maintenance for Parochiall Ministers Provision for and Election of Lecturers Erection and indowment of new Churches in the great out Parishes about London 2. Sam. 24.24 And the King said unto Aranah nay but I will surely buy it of thee at a price neither will I offer burnt Offrings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing 1 Tim. 5.17 Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor especially they who labour in the word and Doctrine for the Scripture saith thou shalt not muzzle the Ox that treadeth out the corne and the Labourer is worthy of his reward 1 King 6.7 The house when it was in building was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor Axe nor one toole of Iron heard in the house while it was in building LONDON Printed by T. F. for I. S. 1641. The Epistle to the Reader THere is much talke among many men of advancing the Preaching of the Gospell but few doe cast in their thoughts how to effect it unlesse by wayes that may be no cost at all unto themselves nothing being so base in their eyes as the preaching Preachers of the Gospell wherof for bie and sinister ends their tongues speak Magnifically they would have Preachers every houre in their Pulpits but as they have Beggers at their doores cloathed in Rags and bowing downe to them for morsels of bread and their Sermons like so many suites for a farthing their preachers must be all of the mendicant order and above all other orders and ranks of men live upon their Almes and Benevolence that beare no farther goodwill to preaching then as it may be a Shooing-horne to their esteeme and gaine this being their godlinesse and that their God more Churches and Preachers they would have but upon the charge of these they have already by di●iding the mainten●̄ce that is hardly payed to halves as if H●nun when he ha● cut o●f Davids servants Garments to the Buttocks should after have cut them off to the shou●ders as being long enough to serve each of them a man and his fellow they would serve God abundantly but be charged to it very sparingly esteeming David weake in judgement for that Speech God forbid I s●ould serve the Lord with sacrifice of that which costs 〈◊〉 nought True love is liberall Benevolentia and Beneficentia are never severed therefore you may know these sheepe in a feigned shew to be in truth Lyons by their Claw I know the thing they desire to be good and wish the advancement thereof but abhorre Robbery for burnt Offering I wish the Gospell and the preaching of it set forward as much as any man accounting it a worke of Piety but would it should be done in wayes of Iustice and Righteousnesse The price of a Whore God a●●orres in his house and so doth he likewise the promoving of his honour by injustice Vnrighteousnesse cannot advantage holinesse yet I have seene some evils of that nature under the Sunne masked under pretence of love to more preaching while there is little care to maintaine that in honour or to live answerably to that we have already Yet am not I of their mind that would keepe both milke and meate from children because they eat much and thri●e little but would they should be fed to the full knowing if they abuse their Food they shall account for it to their griefe but those that fed and provided for them with joy their labour and care for the welfare of the people being their Liberavi To further therefore this purpose I have drawne a rough Breviate of some things which may promove that that many talke much of but doe little to helpe forward If my Seed fall into good ground it may beare desired Fruit if my Projects come to be managed by good Heads and hearts they may be very honorable to God and profitable to men for they be good Workes if they be well handled God send my Wood to fall into the hands of that worke-man that hath skill to make Mercury of it GOOD WORKES If they be well handled THat the glory of God may be advanced by the preaching of the Gospell and the Salvation of mens soules promoved and love and peace preserved among Ministers and their people these things may be desired as tending that way especially in the City of London to which Meridian my thoughts are calculated onely leaving the provision for other places to men better experienced in them First because in many places where Ministers be willing to preach in the Afternoone as well as in the morning on the Lords day if they might bee encouraged by sufficient maintenance And because where either the Minister is not able or not willing the peoples Benevolence being uncertaine to the Lecturer they make choice of they are forced to humor the people often unworthily and to make sides and Factions against the Minister to his great discontent and discouragement it were to be wished First that in every Parish in London within the walles especially where the Benefices are most of them incompetent that a sufficient and independent maintenance may be provided for the incumbent 1. Because if he be faithfull in his Ministery or otherwise become displeasing to some part of his people a dependent and benevolent allowance will be restrained in whole or in part 2. Be he what he will be it will decay of it selfe in time by the change of Parishioners succeeding men being not alwaies of like affections to preceding 3. When Ministers grow old and have most need of comfort they are commonly despised although their former constant labours of youth strength have merited never so much respect from the Church for the new generation that comes up in their age proves unto them like the new King that knew not Ioseph 4. And because there is great inequality of paying Tythe in London the rich men for the most part paying very little some that are worth many thousands and dwell in houses of 40.50 60.100 l. per annum and some more which pay for Tythe 20. s. 16. s. 10. s. yea 11. s. 9. d. per annum which is a shamefull thing so that the Ministers maintenance ariseth for the most part from the meane●● and poorest people in which respect that little maintenance he hath falls short many yeares in a great part especially in hard or sickly times in which Residence deserves greatest reward 5. And for that it is conceived by the Ministers in London among whom divers are men of approved Learning Piety and Fidelity in their Ministery that the City-sacriledge is great and monstrous and maintained by deceitfull double Leases and other wicked devices not practised in any other part of the Kingdome except London to avoyd the Decree whereby the Benefices within the Walles are meane and poore and London a place where all