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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08102	A godlie treatise of the Church. Written by Robert Some..	Some, Robert, 1542-1609.	1582-1583? (1583)	STC 22910; ESTC S95257	42,376	122

peece of their study not to benefite the Church which is euery mans duetie but to spoyle the Church of that maintenance which belongs of duety to learned Teachers If the good estate of the ministery be the strength of the land what do they deserue which wil very hardly allow it any good place in the lande If it bee the life of the Lande what friends are they to the Lande which for vyle bribes and cursed pensions preferre corrupt menne whiche for want of sound learning are vnfitte to teache and for want of Godly wisedome are vnfitte to gouerne It may be truely sayd that since the raygne of our gracious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth manye Studentes in Cambridge and Oxeforde are come to excellent proofe If their learning soundnesse in Religion and other vertues bee regarded they are singuler if their wits they are I am sure equal at the least to other mens what seruice they are able to do would easily appeare to Gods glory the great good of the lande if they were employed according to their giftes I meane not siluer and golden gifts which are the best Logicke and surest Rhetoricke to perswade corrupt menne but Gods notable graces and gifts for the which Pharao preferred Ioseph in Egipt Gen. 41. Dan. 6. Darius preferred Daniell in Babilon Is it not a straunge case that in Trinitye and Saint Iohns Colledges in Cambridge whiche are two of the greatest Colledges wee haue not one fellowshippe falles voyde sometimes in a yeere and more Doeth not this speake yea rather cry very lowde that there is little hope of places for younger students that fitte men are not prouided for Possid in vita August 10. cap. 24. A noble man of Hippo in Afrike which liued at Carthage gaue a possession of his owne accorde to the Churche of Hippo where Augustine was Byshop he sealed his deede of gift sent it to Augustine for the Churches behoofe onelie he reserued for his life time the vse and profit but not the proprietie of that possession Augustine receiued the writinges and commended the giuer After a few yeeres this noble man desired his deed of gift againe but sent fiue poundes for the poores reliefe Augustine seeing the noble mans inconstancie was mightely grieued yet without delay deliuered the writinges but refused his almes and by letters tooke him vp roundly for his hypocrisie and exhorted him to earnest repentance c. If Augustine dealt sharply with the noble man of Hippo for calling backe his owne deede of gift how would he shake those cormorants if hee were nowe aliue whiche spoyle the Church of other mens deeds of gift If Augustine refused 5. pounds sent by this noble man of Hippo for the benefit of the poore what accompt would he make of their almes whiche poll the Church and Churchmen would he put it into the poore mans boxe It is certayne he woulde not least he shoulde bee guiltie of giuing countenance to gracelesse men and of giuing Gods religion a grieuous blowe Gods enimies Aug. lib. 8. Confes cap. 5. Socrat. lib. 3. cap. 12. when they woulde ouerthrow religion gaue streight charge that the Christians should not be trained vp in learning so did Iulian the Emperour If I should say that they whiche either poll the Church liuings or for money preferre corrupt men are of Iulians stampe it might seeme a hard speech but it is neither so hard nor strange as their dealinges are For is it possible for schooles to thriue if the vniuersities decay And can the Vniuersities prosper when the learned studentes are not furnished with maintenaunce The Vniuersities of Cambridge and Oxeford are the frie of the ministerie and the seede of religion in England If the good studentes which are worthy of preferment be not prouided for what place shall the younger students haue How shall they grow in studie when for want of conuenient encouragement in the Vniuersity they are fayne to leaue their studies before they be rype and so become pettye schoolemaisters or seruing men or vntimely ministers yea to speake more plainly who sees not if he bee not starke blynd that the want of encouragement for ours the bountifull prouision by the Popish sort for theirs is as a great bel to cal many to their seminaryes at Rome in Italy at Rhemes in France And who is there if he set not Gods feare before his eyes that is not easily moued to preferre wealth before want good maintenance before beggery I confesse their fault is great Exod. 16. which preferre the fleshpots of Egypt before the Lords Manna in the wildernesse Gen. 25. as the Israelites did and which sell their birthright for pottage as Esau did But woe to those Cormorāts whose Churchpolling and brybery is the great hurt of the Church and the spoyle and vndoyng of many a goodly witte But that I may somewhat comfort such studentes as are almost discouraged may it please them to call to mynd two Christian lessons first that Dauid and Moses which were excellent personages chose the one Psal 84. rather to be a doore keeper in the Lordes house then to dwell in the tabernacles of wickednesse the other rather to suffer aduersity with the people of God Heb. 11. then to be called the sonne of the king of Egypts daughter Secondly that our life is more woorth then meate and our bodies then rayment Math. 6. that the foules of the ayre are fed that Lilies of the field are by almighty God more beautifully cloathed then Salomon in all his glory was therefore he will haue great care of godly studentes in such sort and time as shall make most for his greate glorye and their singuler comfort Bonus Dominus qui non tribuit saepe quod volumus vt quod malimus attribuat Aug. Epist 54. 5 Wee may not forsake Gods Churche though there be euill men or blemishes in it THE Apostle giueth streight charge not to forsake the fellowship that we haue amongst our selues Heb. chap. 10. ver 25. as the manner of some is Because forsaking of the Churche was a disease in that time the Apostle giueth them a medicine for it Esay 1. The Church of Ierusalem was greatly out of temper in Esaias time so it was in our Sauiour Christes religion was fowlly stayned and there was great corruption in their manners Notwithstāding the Prophets did neither erecte for themselues eyther new churches or new altars but offered vp prayers in the temple of Ierusalem which they would not haue done if it had byn lawful to haue departed from that Church 1. Cor. 3.5.6 12.15 cap. In the Church of Corinth contention was ryfe the incestuous man was tolerated the article of the resurrectiō was shrewdly shaken and Gods giftes were made to serue the ambition of men not the profie of the Church yet Paule willeth not anye man to departe from that Church Almighty GOD resembleth his Church to a vine