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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	famine_n	pharaoh_n	1,741	5	10.4102	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03763	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 4 of December, 1597 wherein is discoursed that all buying and selling of spirituall promotion is vnlawfull / by Iohn Howson ...	Howson, John, 1557?-1632.	1597 (1597)	STC 13882; ESTC S2747	34,824	48

bee dissolued and if wee shall bee so affected that one state in a Common-wealth will by all meanes endeuour to eate vp another that deformity will grow in the Common-wealth that would happen in the body of a man in the like case for if the legs should challenge and enioy all that nourishment which should goe to the armes the one part would be vnweldy by his greatnes and the other vnprofitable by his weakenes It is well knowen and confessed that the state of the Clergy in euery good Christian Common-wealth hath had his lot and portion not onely spirituall in the Lord but also temporall in the Common-wealth being an estate of men as of the best desert if they do their duties so not to be fed by the ayre as the Cameleons are but by the fruits and increase which proceede from the earth and therefore they haue had allotted them by the law of nature as Melchisedech had by the law of Moyses as the Priests had and by the confirmation of our Sauiour Christ haec oportet fieri these things must bee done and by ciuill and prouinciall lawes in Christianity not onely the Tythes of the fruite of the earth because they haue bellies to be fed and backs to bee clothed Num. 35. and families to bee maintained but they had their Citties and their lands belonging to them among the Iewes and their parts in the sacrifice and offerings and amongst the Christians their demaines and temporalties because that state was not anarchicall or without authoritie and iurisdiction Lastly they had their speciall priuiledges namely not to serue in the tabernacle before 25. Num. 8. yeare old not after 50. their Cities of refuge and Sanctuaries c. In the famine of Aegipt they had an ordinarie allowance of Pharaoh Num. 35. so that when hee bought all the land of the subiects in Aegipt Gen. 47. yet the Priests land was not solde so great were their priuiledges among the Heathen Now if their Christian priuiledges which haue beene many shall be made voide against the rule of the 12. Tables Priuilegia ne irroganto Lud. Charend ad Leg. antiq Rom. let them not infringe the Priuiledges Cassiod lib 2. epist. 20. and against all reason when Theodoricus said Intra regulas constituti iuris non debet munificentia principum arctari the bounty of Princes ought not to bee straightned within the bounds of the lawe if where aequalitas is not aequitas that is equity ioined with equalitie the maintenance of all dignitie and superiority and authority be taken away which will breede contempt for as vertue is discouraged without rewarde so authoritie is disarmed without iust maintenance finally if those necessaries which should maintaine nature which is contented with a little course cloath for the back and course bread for the belly bee retained by force or fine sleight from that state or a great part of it which is ordained as the Sunne is ad continuos cursus to continuall labour and trauaile in the house of God and not onely taken from them but giuen to a nation which bringeth forth worse fruite it is out of all doubt that as when one serpent eateth another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a dragon is engendred which deuoureth all so when one State eateth vp another it bringeth foorth a monstrous and vnnaturall state in the common-wealth and so by consequent a dangerous change So that wee are much to feare that as before the comming of our Sauiour in the flesh the Romane Common-wealth being changed by little and little ex pulcherrimâ optimâ Aug. de ciuit Dei li. 2. ca. 19. pessima ac flagitiosissima facta est so the Common-wealth of England and of Christianitie by this foule sinne of Simonie and Sacriledge before the second comming of our Sauiour of a most religious and well ordered Common-wealth will become irreligious and simoniacall Secondly this buying and selling in the Church of God will make barren and like desolate and forsaken Widowes the two Vniuersities the two fruitfull Mothers and full of Children though now readie to giue vp the ghost and powre out their soules in their Mothers bosomes For if we that bee bred vp in learning suffer in our childhood in the Grammar schooles magnum graue malum Aug. confes lib. 1. cap. 9. a great and greeuous affliction Saint Austin compareth it to the torments of martyrdome and when wee come to the Vniuersitie if wee liue of the Colledges allowance are as Phalaris obiected to the Leontines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist. 53. needy of all things but hunger and feare or if we be maintained but partly by our parents cost doo expend in necessarie maintenance bookes and degrees before wee come to any perfection fiue hundred pounds or a thousand markes If by this price of the expence of our time our bodies and spirites our substance and patrimonies wee cannot purchase those small rewardes which are ours by law and the right of inheritance a poore Parsonage or a poore Vicarage of fortie or fiftie pound a yeare but wee must pay to the Patron for the lease of a life a spent and out-worne life either in annuall pension or aboue the rate of a Copy-hold and that with the hazard of the losse of our soules by simonie and periurie and the forfeiture of all our spirituall preferments in esse and in posse both present and to come what father after a while will bee so improuident to bring vp his sonne to his great charge to this necessarie beggerie What Christian will bee so irreligious as to bring vp his sonne in that course of life which by probabilitie of necessitie quae cogit ad turpia Iuuenal enforcing to sinne will entangle him in simonie and periurie When as the Poet saith Inuitatus ad haec aliquis de ponte negabit A beggars brat taken from a bridge where hee sitteth in begging if hee knew the inconuenience had cause to refuse it 2. Obiections answered But you will say that learning is to be desired and will be desired for it selfe because as the Stoicks say Doctrina est pretium sibi Learning is her owne recompence and the Minister must consider fructum Phil. 4. non datum the good that he doth not the reward hee must haue and therefore though this be a fault yet no danger thereby of decay of learning For the former it is most true that Learning is Lux animi oblectatio vitae the light of the minde and delight of the life and for it selfe to bee desired but of Gentlemen who can liue without it and of Stoickes and Philosophers which had no passions which liued as soules without bodies so farre in loue with the food of the one that they tooke no regarde what became of the other But if Gentlemen onely should bee learned a competent measure would serue their turne the dephts of professions are aboue their endeuours they are so