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land_n	egypt_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	4,186	5	10.7503	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37416	A defensive vindication of the publike liturgy, established ceremonies, and setled patrimony of the Church of England against such as (putting themselves to an ill occupation) have unjustly impeached or oppugned them / by a peaceable sonne of the same church, no way addicted to novelty or innovation.	Peaceable sonne of the same church.	1641 (1641)	Wing D823; ESTC R17218	23,627	39

ceremonies as they are rightly styled by the reverend and learned Bishop of Duresme it is an offence taken not given and he that taketh offence where none is given must answer for it both as the giver and as the taker all that we can do is to be sorry for it that they should be offended without just cause but we may not redeem the offence of private persons by our disobedience to publike Governous for the rule is certain that where lawfull authority determineth our liberty their the respect of private scandall ceaseth and that restraint which proceedeth from speciall duety is Superiour to that which proceedeth but from common charity the duties which we owe to our Governours by way of justice are more strictly obligatory then those which we owe to private persons onely by way of charity as I could prove by many convincing arguments were it needfull For a close and up shot of this point I wish from my heart that men now a dayes had more of the Spirit of conformity and obedience to a In his Book of the three Innocent Coremonies the constitutions and commands of lawfull authority and that they would respectively observe the prescribed orders and ceremonies of the Church according to the Churches prescription which they may do without prejudice to their Christian liberty without danger of idolatry superstition or giving any the least just occasion of scandall and which they cannot refuse to do but they must become guilty of disobedience irregularity and of non-conformity to the b Our ceremonies make the very outward face of our Church as like as may be to the most ancient and purest Churches which yeelded so many thousand Martyrs for the testimony of the truth in their times Iud. A●ol ancient Church in the primitive and purer times who used all or most of these ceremonies which we use in the same manner that we use them and shall we defert and condemn Antiquity to please a few novelists ill affected to the discipline of our Church who under a pretence of hating Idols perswade men to commit sacrilege to rob God of his due service and the Church c Malach 38. Will a man ●ob God yet ye have rob●ed me but ye say wherein have we robbed thee in tithes and offerings of her patrimony which cannot safely be alienated or applyed to any other use then that for which it was principally intended as I undertook to shew in the third place III. It is well known and confessed that the state of the Clergy in every good Common-wealth hath had its lot and portion not onely spirituall in the Lord but also temporall in the Common-wealth being a state of men as of the best desert if they do their duties so not to be fed by the Aire as the Cameleons are but by the fruits and increase which proceed from the earth and other tithes and offerings and therefore they have had allotted them by the law of nature as Melchisedech had Gen. 14.20 by the law of Moses as the Priests had Levit. 27.32 Numb 18.21 Deut. 26.12 13. by the allowance of our Saviour Christ haec oportet fieri you ought to give tithes even of the hearbs that grow in Gardens Matth. 23.23 and by civill and provinciall lawes in Christianity have they had allotted them not onely the tithes of the fruit of the earth because they have bellies to be fed and backs to be cloathed and families to be maintained but they had there Cities and there Lands belonging to them amongst the Jewes and also their parts in the sacrifices and offerings and amongst Christians there demaines temporalties and speciall priviledges yea they had their speciall priviledges amongst the heathen for when Ioseph bought all the land of the Subjects in Egypt the Priests land was not sold Gen. 47.28 that became not Pharaohs And were not men deeply infected with a spice of d Plato saith that the Sacriligious hold one of these three things either that Godis not o● that he regard●th not the ●●ings alone by m●n or that he will be easily reconciled to them that sacrilegiously ●ob him L●b 10. de legibus infidelity they would not touch or meddle with that portion which is allotted to God and his Ministers they would not turn that to private uses which belongeth to the Church or Churchmen they would not desire to reap that which they never sowed nor take away that which they never gave they would not make the Monuments of their forefathers liberalities the eternall testimonies of their sacrilegious robberies it is a lesson set down in the rules of the law quod semel deo dicatum non est ad usus humanos ulterius transferendum that which hath been once dedicated unto God is not any more to be transferred to the uses of men quae recte data sunt eripi non licet and that things well given must not be taken back or be employed to civill or prophane uses Calvin in an Epistle of his to that most Reverend Father Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury complaineth Quod praedae expositi sunt ecclesiae reditus that the Church revenews were made a prey and he calls it malum sane intollerabile an evill or mischief intollerable no way to be endured Bentius in an Epistle prefixed before his Homilies on the Acts saith that not onely Antichrist by his impiety and the Turk by his cruelty threaten the destruction of the Church but those also saith he seek the utter subversion thereof qui occupationibus direptionibus facultatum ecclesiasticarum adolescentes à studio sacrarum literarum deterrent who by invading and spoiling the Churches possessions do deterre young Students from the study of Divinity for although saith he the Church of Christ being built upon a rock doth not absolutely need the aide of externall riches tamen hiqui facultates ecclesiasticas deripiunt in privatum suum usum transferunt depraedationibus suis id efficiunt quo pauciores sacris literis operam dent ad obeunda publica munera erudiantur profecto ecclesiam dei quantum in ipsis est evertunt devastant yet forasmuch as they who spoil the Church of her possessions and put them to their private use do by there spoil and robbery bring matters so to passe that fewer will addict themselves to the study of Divinity or be trained up to the publick functions thereof as much as in them lye they overthrow and lay waste the Church of Christ and this he stiles non ferendam barbariem a Barbarism not to be suffered Gualter on the 21. of S. Lukes Gospel speaking of the poor Widdows two mites cast into the Treasury and our Saviours preferring them before the greater gifts of the richer sort Forasmuch saith he as Christ is wont to behold such things we must remember that he also seeth them qui opes ecclesiasticas sacrilega manu ad se rapiunt who with sacrilegious hands take the Church goods unto