Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	hold_v	rent_n	tenant_n	2,343	5	9.6883	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67637	Suspiria Ecclesiae & reipublica Anglicanae The sighs of the Church and common-wealth of England, or, An exhortation to humiliation with a help thereunto, setting forth the great corruptions and mseries [sic] of this present church and state with the remedies that are to be applyed thereunto / by Thomas Warmstry.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing W891; ESTC R27115	155,583	724

and more excellently conducing to the Salvation of the people and requires at least as much diligence and labour in the Ministers thereof it ought therefore to have at least as large nay a more large and a more comfortable supportance And it is not nor can be so comfortable unlesse it be certaine and setled for no man can deny but there is more comfort in an assured and setled allowance than in that which is onely at pleasure or else why should any man give more for a lease for life or yeares than for a tenancy at will And therefore though in the time of the first rudiments of the Gospell the Church could not upon the suddaine attaine unto such a settlement partly for want of the Christian Magistrate and partly by reason of the afflictive condition of the Church which in those times required and produced a kinde of community amongst those that were throughly establisht in Christianity who brought all as it seemes to the Apostles feet and partly for feare of offending those that were not yet established lest they should be frighted by worldly respects from the embracement of the Gospell Yet where the Gospell is setled and established by the authority of the Magistrate it is most requisite that there should be as a liberall so a certaine and setled allowance unto the Ministerie not onely for their encouragement in the manage of that great charge that they have upon them but also to free them from manifold temptations and snares that tye in the dependance upon the voluntary and uncertaine supplies of the people For first in such a case of uncertainty the Minister cannot likely but be much confounded in the disposing and proportioning of his expences and provisions his Revenues being still upon uncertainties and not onely alterable but quite extinguishable upon every dislike of the people The consequences whereof are like to be not only disturbance of mind and distraction but also a great impediment unto the exercise of his Hospitality and Charity since he can scarce possibly tell how to regulate it For hee that knoweth not what he hath cannot know what he can spare If any shall here reply that the Minister is to depend upon Gods Providence I answer that is the duty of every Christian as well as the Minister and yet it is not held at all unlawfull for the workman to agree before hand for his wages Nor doe those that presse this either hold it or practice it as a Duty to leave it to the wills of their tenants and so to the providence of God moving them what Rents they shall receive from their lands for their supportance The Ministerie of the Jewes was equally bound to depend upon Gods providence with the Ministery of the Gospell and had as cleare promises for temporall things as we and yet the Lord was pleased to provide against temptation by allowing them a certaine proportion But then secondly Thereby the Minister is too dangerously exposed unto the desire to please men and to preach placentia to play that tune that they are pleased to dance left he be turned away without his reward Thirdly it is a meanes to discourage the Minister in the reproofe of sinne when hee knowes that he may not onely lose the Peoples favour but their supply too when by such a course the people are made as it were his Judges and enabled to censure and mulct him whensoever hee doth not humour them Fourthly it is likely to occasion many temptations to discontent and partialities of affection between the Ministers and people as they shall increase or decrease afford or take away their Contributions Fiftly experience teacheth us that this hath beene too fruitfull a nursery of Schismes and Factions and Divisions in the Church As wee may see too clearely in the Divisions of these times which are sufficiently knowne to bee set a foot much more by those if not altogether by those who have had their dependency upon the voluntary supplyes of the people than by others of the Ministery Sixtly this would bee too much encouragement for wicked men to go on in open and scandalous iniquities when they know that they have the command of such a key unto the Ministers mouth c. I confesse we nor they should not yeeld unto any of these nor unto any other temptations But in the regulating and ordering of the publick matters of a Church it is a point of Christian wisedome to provide as much as may be against sinne by setling all things in the safest way against temptations and humane weaknesses on all sides And this is done herein by a setled and competent allowance to the Ministerie And though I confesse there may bee some doubt made whether that very precise proportion of the tenth part be absolutely necessarie in simple and primary consideration now under the time of the Gospell as under the time of the Law Yet first I know no Arguments that they have against it to prove the contrary The best that they can doe I concerne is but to infuse some doubt and ambiguity into the matter and then in a Question of Title between God and us it is much safer for us to yeeld than to stand to the hazzard of a triall with God at the last day when wee should have nothing left to make restitution with but our soules and the forfeiture may be out eternall damnation All the over-plus that is paid unto God God will assuredly restore if we doe it with a Christian heart But if wee hold back any thing that is his due it may be purchas'd to us at too dare a rate both in judgments here as is often seen and the eminent and notable stories collected by Sir Henry Spelman and his sonne Master Clement Spelman and others of Gods revenge against Sacrilege may informe us and if we take not heed in greater judgments hereafter And then secondly it may be some presumption for any to undertake to finde out a wiser way than God himselfe found out as was this way of tithing unto the Ministerie whereby God provided excellently both for the Ministerie and the People 1. For the Ministerie that they should bee free from that enslaving dependance upon the people and yet still learne to live upon the Providence of the Almighty according whereunto their revenue and supportance was measured forth unto them every yeare and that thereby the Minister might bee continually put in minde of his duty and charge over the people from whose hands hee received his supportance 2. For the people who were thereby first secured that their allowance unto the Minister besides their voluntary offerings should bee no more than such as should bear a competent proportion to their commings in since in this course the allowance of the Ministers or Priests increased and decreased according to the increase and decrease of their Estate and commings in And withall the people were hereby continually urged to remember the fountaine of their