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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

of God as the worshipping of Idols themselves Yea God doth so abominate such things that he forbad his people so much as to enquire after the Gods of the Nations how those Nations worshipped their Gods Now then Sacrilege being committed in retaining what is accursed as well as in perverting what is by God accepted and sanctified for his worship and service it can be no less than Sacrilege to introduce or continue any thing in his service which himself hath not appointed and therefore forbidden They therefore that are for adoration of the Host or of material Altars for Christians bowing towards the East for the use of Copes brought in by Antichrist into the Church or of any other Popish or superstitious Rites and Ceremonies in the service of God never appointed by Christ or his Apostles and therefore accursed as Will-worship being a Prophanation of the Divine Majesty may do well to consider and lay it to heart whether they lie not under the guilt of that great sin and whether God hath not justly yet mercifully punished them with casting them out of their places and dispossessing them of their Church-Revenues for using yea preaching up the lawfulness of those accursed Trinkets and persecuting all such as bore testimony against them If any shall plead that what God hath accursed belongs to formal Idols and Idolatry and reacheth not to any thing brought in as relating to the true God 't is a meer evasion and delusion For the Golden Calf made by Aaron to go before the Israelites was not intended either by them or him to be an Idol or false god such as the Nations worshipped but onely to be a visible representation of Jehovah to go before them in stead of Moses whom they now apprehended through his long absence in the Mount to have forsaken them For even the Feast which they hereupon held is called a Feast unto Jehovah in their purpose and intention and though they called the Calf Elohim Gods as the true God is often stiled yet not with intent to multiply Gods or to deviate from the true if they might be permitted to give the sense of their own action which God would not suffer therefore Nehemiah expressing their meaning renders the same speech of theirs in the singular number This is thy God that brought thee out of Egypt c. Neh. 9. 18. Yet even this in Gods account was a worshipping of a molten Image and the changing their glory into the similitude of an Ox that eateth grass for which the Lord would have destroyed them utterly bad not Moses stood in the gap And yet for the same offence Moses himself gave order for the killing of about 3000 men in one day and the Lord otherwise plagued the people that remained because THEY had made the Calf which Aaron made It is then no good Plea to excuse from Sacrilege that what is done is intended to the true God and not to Heathen Idols For when men make an Idol of God it cannot but be an high provocation of the Divine Majesty and a contempt of his Law To such therefore who so do may that of Paul whether spoken by him to Jews or Gentiles be most aptly applyed Thou that abhorrest Idols committest thou Sacrilege It is not thy protestations against Idolatry or Popery that will excuse thee so long as thou borrowest from either what God hath forbidden because he hath not prescribed in his worship If Moses must see that he make every thing according to the pattern shewed him in the Mount who art thou that shalt presume to follow the pattern of thine own brain or the traditions of men 3. Coroll Those Magistrates who are not as careful to destroy accursed things that is all humane inventions in the worship of God do thereby suffer God to be profaned and so are as guilty of Sacrilege as those that aliene or give way to the aliening of what is truely the Lords It is recorded to the honour of the Religious Kings of Judah that they destroyed all such things as in their days provoked the Lord. For so had the Lord commanded to all Israel when they should enter Canaan not onely to drive out the Natives for their Idolatry but to destroy all their Pictures and all their molten Images and quite pluck down all their high places Hence it is that Hezekiah removed the high places and brake the images and cut down the groves and brake in pieces also the brazen Serpent it self that Moses had made when he found that the Children of Israel did burn incense unto it He not onely destroyed the inventions of men in reference to Idols but even the institution of God himself when abused by men to the dishonour of God And how zealous Josiab was also in prosecuting the same work may be seen at large in 2 King 23. from the fourth verse to the 21. On the contrary it is noted as a great blot even to those Kings who had done much for God that the high places were not removed this is laid to the charge of Asa Jehishaphat and Amaziah Which is worth their notice who laboured so much to hold up the late King against the aliening of Church-Lands but never endeavoured to divert him from but rather infused into him strong conceits of the great usefulness and holiness of many humane Inventions and Superstitions in the Worship of God and to put him above all that had gone before him since Queen Mary upon the compelling of all others to practise the same as if it had been a great duty in him whereas David a man after Gods own heart hated all those that held of superstitious vanties and after died in peace But these making Formalities and Superstitious Ceremonies taken from Popery the All of their Devotions and taking their Lesson out of Adam de Contzen the Jesuite for retroducing the very body of Popery notwithstanding the Laws against it ruined themselves and the King CHAP. II. The Lands of Bishops and other Cathedral men as such were never owned or accepted as holy to the Lord nor were either his or theirs by Divine Right THe chief and indeed onely Argument by which many endeavour to prove it to be Sacrilege to sell or purchase Cathedral Lands is this that those Lands were given voluntarily by men unto God and the Church and are accepted and owned by him as holy to the Lord therefore they commit Sacrilege who sell or buy them for private uses as being against not onely Gods positive but Moral Law If this be not onely denied to be true but proved out of the holy Scripture to be false the whole Controversie will soon be at an end In order whereunto take notice that there is not onely no command but no direction or allowance in the Scriptures of the Old or New Testament for the endowing the Church with such lands but rather enough against it therefore