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B22780	Englands deplorable condition shewing the common-wealths malady, by [brace] sacriledge, and want of duty in the people, contention, want of charity in the ministery, perjury, and want of truth in both : and its remedy by [brace] the peoples obedience and liberality, the ministers love and unity, both their repentance and fidelity : briefly declar'd in three treatises of [brace] the ministers patrimony and peoples duty, proposals to reconcile such as are for lordly episcopacy and un-ordain'd presbytery, for popular independancy and upstart antipædobaptistry, and against perjury : also, a petition for the Jews.	E. F.	1659 (1659)	Wing F18	72,509	69

in force still Therefore I humbly conceive that the Ministers of the Gospel ought to live of those things that are given and by devout men consecrated to Gods service according to the Laws of God and man and that their maintenance ought to be according to the greatness of their employment and to the number of Wife and Children in their Families which they are obliged to provide for e Acts 4. 37. 6. 2. 1 Tim. ● 8. Lev. 22. 11 12 as the Priests and Levites did of old with their Families And the Civil Magistrates if there be disorder in the dividing of the Churches Goods or ignorance and slouth in the Ministers or obstinacy and neglect in those that should pay their Tythes and Offerings may command the same to be rightly divided and see it be done as did Hezekias f 2 Chron. 31. 45 c who is said to do that which is good and right and truth before God verse 20. and they may punish or remove those Ministers that are ignorant or prophane even the chiefest of them as David and Solomon did of old g 1 King 2. 26. and 35. and C●nstantine the Great and Theodosius other Christian Princes under the New Testament h Theod Eccles Hist lib. 1. c. 20. lib. 5. c. 19 and cause the Tythes to be paid to the Ministers as Nehemiah did i Nehem 13. 10 11 c. who caused the portions of the Levites to be given and so did the pious Magistrates in our Land who made those Laws above specified requiring all sorts of persons to pay their Tythes on penalty as being due to Christs Ministers both by the Law of God and man Well they knew it was not in mans power to detain or take from God that which God required or by the motion of his Spirit was devoted to him and his Service such Houses Lands Goods under the Law was not to be sold or redeemed it was holy to the Lord k Levit. 27. 28. or as it is in the Original t was holiness of holiness that is most holy in respect of them that devoted them and therefore not to be sold detained or denied l God would not suffer them to redeem it to teach them constancy in all good purposes and words that so in them we may be unchangeable as God is Ainsw Annot. in loc no part of it may be held or kept back without theft that I say not Sacriledge the property being altered after it 's devoted as St. Peter told Ananias m Acts 5. 1 4. both before he sold 't was his own and after he had sold and received the mony 't was in his own power to dispose of it but when he had devoted the whole money to the free use and benefit of the Church to be distributed by the Apostles for him then to keep back part of it and to lay down the residue as the whole and to confirm it to be the whole with a wilful lye for this the Apostle sharply reproved him for thereby he tempted God and lyed to the Holy Ghost and therefore God made him a spectacle of divine vengeance for his detaining the truth in unrighteousness and for his Sacriledge for such a sin there is under the Gospel n Rom 2 22. as well as there was under the Law which is theft in the highest degree which St. Austin compares to Judas treachery o Ideoque Ananias Saphira in cons●etu Ecclesi●e mortui sunt ut Apostolica Atthoritas quanta esset ostenderetur quam magnum peccatum esset quod oblatum iterum ab Ecclaesia retraheretur monstraretur caeteri exemplo hujus castigarentur Aug. lib. 3. de Mirab. Sacr. Script for if he be accounted a Thief that steals goods from a private man how much more is a sacrilegious person a th●ef who dares to steal from God and his Church Qui aliquid de Ecclesia furatur Jurae perdito comparatur He which steals from the Church is to be compared with cursed Judas p Aug. in Evang John tract p. 50. the Heathens abhord this sin therefore we read that Joseph when in the Famine in Egypt he bought with Corn all the Land of the Egyptians yet the Land of the Priests he bought not for they had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh nor sold they their Land q Gen. 47. 22. whence Theodoret saith if wicked men so much reverenced ●hose gods which were not gods so that their Priests Lands given to them for the worship of those gods were not sold nor taken from them what impiety do those commit under the Gospel who will not suffer the Ministers of the living God to enjoy this liberty r Theodor. quest in Gen cap. 27. that so his service may be preserved and continue with them The Heathen to preserve their gifts devoted from the hands of prophane sacrilegious persons engraved on them these words Sunt bona Decrum ad h●c ne quis manum admoliretur s Valcrius max. lib. 1. cap. 2. and the Jews calld their devoted things chosen in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t Levit. 27. 28. Luke 21. 5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wishing and judging them accursed that turnd them to any other use than to that they were devoted unto and so amongst us Christians the most of the Lands in this Island they were given to God and the Church with an execration on those to be separated from Christ and given to the Devil that should alter them or employ them to any other use than by the Donors they were at fi●st devoted unto which in general was the service of God although many in the times of Popery faild in the superstitious observing and requiring of many things which might have been Reformed and the deceased devout persons wills been observed inviolably in the general though not in that specifical service required 'T was so high a crime in the eyes of those that saw only by the light of nature that the Areopagit condemned Aelians boy for this sin u Aelian Hist lib. 5 cap 16. Var Hist God almost miraculously killd King Rufus w See Hoywoods History of the death of King Rufus by an Arrow shot by Sir Walter Tirrel at a Deer He was wont to call that got from the Church sweet-bread but it proved bitter to him at the last when he was slain in his sports in the new Forrest which for his pleasure he had made thereby depriving seventeen Churches of their Revenues and the Ministers of the Churches and also the people of dwellings depopulating those Parishes God had warned him x Prov 20 5. that it was a snare to devour that which was holy and after vows to make enquiry He had at that time also in his hand three gre●t Bishopricks viz. Canterbury Winchester Sarum and twelve Abbies in Farm his Brothers Son also was slain there y Fox Acts and Mon 1 Part

sinful men subject to the like passions and frailties with others yet they have heavenly treasure contained in them q 2 Cor. 4. 7 they being sent to turn men from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God that so they may receive remission of their sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by Faith in Christ Jesus r Acts 26. 18 they are called Angels for their power and honour ſ Rev. 1. and can do more with their Keyes than the greatest Kings of the earth with their Swords for they only can cut off men from the earth and destroy the body t Mar. 10. 28 but these can exclude men from heaven and deliver their Souls over to Satan u 1. Tim. 1. ult which even Theodosius the Emperour confest when he was Excommunicated by St. Ambrose w Theod. hist Eccles l. 5. c. 17 Mihi autem non modo ad Templum verum etiam ad Coetum ipsum accessus perclusus est c. And St. Paul exercis'd upon Hyminaeus and Alexander that they might learn not to blaspheme As the Priests pronouncing a person unclean the people were to put him out of the Congregation x Numb 5. 2 So the Ministers of Christ pronouncing a person unclean the Congregation is to put away from their Society such a person y 1 Cor. 5. 3 4 13. till the Minister doth Absolve him z 2 Cor. 2. 6 7 c. In a word Christ speaks with their tongues from Heaven a Heb. 12. 25 they are w 1 Tim. 1. 20 placed by Christ and the Holy Ghost to feed the flock Christ hath purchased with his bloud b Acts 20. 28 they are Rulers of the Churches c Heb. 13. 7 and the glory of Christ d 2 Cor. 8. 23 Now if their Calling be more laborious and perilous more profitable and honourable than all other Professions Offices and Callings there is no reason nor Conscience but that their Persons should be Reverenced then Wages and Maintenance should be proportionable in some sort thereunto that so their Doctrine may be esteemed and they themselves may have sufficiency both to keep Hospitality which they of all others are obliged to do e Tit. 1. 8 A Bishop or Elder ought to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for they are to belovers of Hospitality and of good men and to buy Books Food and Cloathing for themselves and their Families by which means they may be the better able to perform well their Callings and with the more joy and chearfulness endure their perils and hardship and may with the more gravity reverence and honour and success preach the Word and administer the Sacraments and Censures of the Church to the glory of God and honour of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath sent them and to the greater benefit and comfort of his Churrh to whom they are sent lastly to the et●●nal salvation both of the preachers and of them that are taught by them who are free and bountiful in giving to them in the name of Prophets for they shall receive the Prophets reward f Mat 10. 41 Q●i Prophetam sua largi●ate sustentat quam vis ipse Propheti●m non habet apud Deum tamen prophetis praemium habebit August Ex. loc Ma●th 10. For hereby they shall be fellow-helpers to the truth of God g 2 John 8 and by sowing these temporal things to the Spirit they shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting h Gal 6. 8 Arguit eos qui falso paupe tatem pretendebant ne doctores suos alerent nolite inquite e●rarare novit Deus vestras facultates neque irr●detur tanquam ludibrio dcceptus haberi potest hic enim Gr●ci irrid●ri profalli sumunt Gagnes in loc Now then sith the Lands Houses Gleabs and Tythes are the Ministers of the Gospel in this Land by Donation and Gift God having given them to them by our Ancestors Wills who devoted them as they were moved by his Spirit and they being confirmed to them and their successours for so many hundreds of years for ever and Ratified by many Parliaments both in the Saxon Danish and Norman Kings Reigns and some of them in the Brittains dayes when they were Lords of the Land And sith they have as good shewings Evidences Charters Deeds and Conveyances for the quiet and peaceable enjoyment of them as any other Persons have for the enjoyment of their Manors Lordships Honours or Free-holds Lastly Sith they are theirs by the Law of Nature and Nations and by the Command and Ordinance of Christ under the Gospel whose Law is irrepealable by man he being Lord paramount sith they are theirs by the Common and Civil Law which confirms the Wills and Testaments of dead men deccased sith they are the Hire for their Labour their Wages for their Work the honour due to them from the people they teach I cannot see how any person or persons on earth without destroying Property and committing injustice and Sacriledge can sell these away from them or alienate them to any other prophane or common use or prohibit the people to pay them to those that te●ch them Hearken what the Apostle saith Be not deceived neither by thine own heart which is naturally full of self love and adict●d to covetousness yea deceitful above all things and desperately wicked i Jer. 17. 9 Tam varium est cor versipelle insidiosum quod aestus suos multis i●●olueris convolvat ac tegat ut ne homo quidem ipse fibi abunde notus esse vix unquam queat Ecol in loc nor by others who for self interests or by-ends perswades thee this is no sin out of Pride prejudice mal●ce hypocr●sie or love of the world for God is not mocked nor will he be by carnal reasons and pretences But look in th●s particular what a man soweth that shall he reap If men will impiously make void the Wills and Laws not only of men but of God they cannot free themselves from the guilt of prophanness and Sacriledge and of more than Pagan●sh injustice as the Apostle intimates k Heb. 9. 17. Gal. 3. 11 for the Heathen abhor'd to do it to their Priests though they were imploy'd in a false Worship And therefore Joseph in Egypt durst not buy the Priests Lands lest he should have been accused of Sacriledge by the Nobility or Comminalty l Gen. 47. 22 And they had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh and so had no need to sell them as others had I have heard it reported of certainty That when a Turkish Embassadour came into Spain and was by some Agents from the Pope sollicited to embrace the Christian Faith He beholding the gallantry of the Spanish Court and the rich garments and Robes they wore but withal espying the mean Habit of the Priests and how contemptible they were whom they stiled Christs Embassadours that he cryed out

was desired by the Carthaginians which he being not able to accomplish yet for his Oaths sake though he knew the Carthaginians would kill him on his return he returned back unto them u August l. 1. de Civitat●de● cap. 15 chusing rather to endure their Cruelty than to commit Perjury In such high esteem and honour was the Religion of an Oath even amongst the Heathen 'T is indeed a great sin for a son to break his Promise with or to alter the Deed of his Father but greater for a State Kingdom or Prince to break those contracts made in former times witnesse Sauls breaking the Oath of Ioshua and the Princes though it were 400. years after it was made w 2 Sam. 21. 1 And this I instance in lest any should think Ioshua and the Princes erred in keeping the Covenant with the Gibeonites afore-named which provoked the Lord so much that even in holy Davids dayes God sent a Famine for three years on the whole Land nor was his wrath appeased ti●l seven of Sauls Grand-children were delivered to be executed on a Gallows by the oppr●ssed Gibeonites Therefore we may not think to make void our Oaths by new coyned Distinctions forged Evasions God-mocking Equivocations to swear one thing as my learned Author long before our Troubles spake x Rawl Hist of the world lib. 2 cap. 6. sect 8. by the Name of the living God and to reserve in silence a contrary intent for then the life and estates of Men the Faith of Subjects to Kings of Servants to their Masters of Vassals to their Lords of Wives to their Husbands of Children to their Parents and of all tryals of Right will not only be made uncertain but all Chains where by F 〈…〉 men are tyed in the world be to●n asunder For by his Oath a man assures others that his ●ords are true as God whom he invocates is true and s●cretly or expresly imprecates a Curse on himself if they be not true Therefore saith the Schoolman he is doubly guilty that swears fraudulen●ly first Because he takes Gods Name in vain and secondly Deceives his Neighbour when he sweareth falshood y Pet. Lumb lib 3. dist ●9 Qui c●lliditate utitur jur●mento dupliclier peccat ●uit nousen d 〈…〉 en Vanum sum● proximum dolo capit But he that loveth or maketh a Lie shall be damned and much more he that swears 2 Rev. 22. 15 Psa 15. 4 him z. Let a man use never so great art or cunning in swearing yet God doth value the Oath according to their sense to whom the Oath is made a Isid lib 2 de snm bono capit 13 Faith is to be kept in an Oath saith St. Hierom because we are not to regard man to whom we swear but God by whom we swear b Hierom Com. in Ezek. cap. 17 They are Perjured persons saith St. Augustine who preserving the words with some Sophism deceive the expectation of them to whom they have sworn c Aug. in Gen. Therefore God fore-seeing that in the last days this sin should abound and knowing that mans heart was deceitful above all things and desperatly wicked he plainly commands in his Law that that man that swears should not swear fa●sly d Levit. 19. 12 for thereby he should p●ophane his Name If by an Oath he hath bound himself he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth he shall not break his word e Numb 30. 2 God will surely require it that thou keep thy Oath or else plague thee for it according to thy d●sert for so much the word r●quiring signifies f Gen. 9. 5 Deut. 18. 19 23. 21 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform according as thou hast vowed to the Lord thy God and as thou hast promised with thy mouth g Deut. 23. 21 The Law saith the Apostle under the Gospel is made to condemn such h 1 Tim. 1. 10 and they are given over to vild affection and to a Reprobate mind as the Romans were who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit this sin are worthy of death yet not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them i Rom. 1. 26 28 31 32 compared together Truce-breakers and Traytors are two of the number of those Hypocrites that shall come in the latter days k 2 Tim. 3. 3 4 8 who as Jannes and Iambres resisted Moses so shall they the truth And yet alas though God is so severe against this sin and requires such sincerity and simplicity in all our Oaths and Promises we make to God and Men yet how mightily hath this sin prevailed in these latter dayes amongst us Men making breach of Oaths a mat●er of custom not Conscience under pretence of honest publick intentions and necessity for publick ends violating the Oaths Covenant Protestation Engagements before-named which we promised to observe and keep and to perform the things especially contained in the Covenant of the Three Nations as we would answer for our Perjury at the Great Day when the secrets of all mens hearts shall be disclosed and every man shall receive according to what he hath done in the flesh whether it be good or evil Now for us to violate those Oaths and perfidiously to break any Article therein which is in our power and lawfully we may observe under pretence that good may come thereby will not as the Apostle saith then our damnation be just l Rom. 3. 8. Justam p●nam blasphemis illis Paulus denunciat Beza Annot Hoc peccatum blasphemiam appellat Paul●● abjicit a sensu divinae Doctrinae Amb. in loc The Jews might not break a Ceremonial Precept much lesse a Moral under pretence of any good to come thereby it lost Saul his Kingdom for offering Sacrifice and not obeying Gods command under pretence that the people fled from him and he was afraid the Philistims would come o● him before he had Prayed and craved Gods assistance m 1 Sam 13 12 Vzza lost his life for touching the tottering Ark though with a good intent to stay it for so 't is said the Oxen shook it neverthelesse the anger of the Lord was kindled against him so that he smote him for his Error presently n 2 Sam. 6. 6 7 St. Augustine allows not a man to tell a Lie though it were to save his life or another mans life and he gives a good reason for it for thereby l Gregor lib Mor 18 in Job cap 2 Innocent Tit de Vsuris c 4. he destroyes his own soul o Aug. lib de Mend. c. 6 and Gregory and Innocentius say the same p. otherwise Peter had not sinned in denying his Master And if Christians may not tell so much as an officious Lie for the saving of their own or their Brothers life which is the greatest good can be performed or pretended by