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A07312	The golden art, or The right way of enriching Comprised in ten rules, proued and confirmed by many places of holy Scripture, and illustrated by diuers notable examples of the same. Very profitable for all such persons in citie or countrie, as doe desire to get, increase, conserue, and vse goods with a good conscience. By I.M. Maister in Arts.	Maxwell, James, b. 1581.	1611 (1611)	STC 17700; ESTC S120331	125,557	228

fruits and tythes vnto Gods priests are perpetuall to wit that the Ministers of God may bee maintained and not forsaken but more and more encouraged in the seruice of God that God may be honoured with our riches and acknowledged to bee our great Land-lord and good-lord that we may learne to feare the Lord and that he may blesse vs in all the workes of our hands that so our store may be encreased and our barnes filled with aboundance Are not Christians Gods tenants farmers and vassals as well as were the Iewes and doe we not hold all that we haue of God as well as they and are we not bound to pay our annuall rents vnto God as duely and truely as they and what reason haue Christians to forsake their ministers more then the Iewes had and doe not the one deserue as well to be liberally maintained and encouraged in their worke as the other and haue not Christians as great cause to learne to feare God as had the Iewes Finally doe not Christians desire as earnestly as the Iewes did to bee blessed in the workes of their hands and in the increase of their store Wherefore it followeth necessarily that we Christians must not pretend any exemption from paying of tythes and first fruits more then did the Iewes XI The holy Scriptures set downe the paying of these yearely Church-rents amongst morall duties and accounteth of Sacriledge not as if it were the meere transgression of a ceremoniall ordinance but euen the violation of a morall law Will a man spoyle his gods Malach. 3.8 saith the Lord God by his Prophet Malachie yet ye haue spoyled me in tithes and in offerings Prou. 3.9 10. 20.25 Honor the Lord saith Salomon with thy riches and with the first fruits of all thine encrease so shall thy barnes bee filled with aboundance and thy presse shall burst with new wine But it is a destruction for a man to deuoure that which is sanctified meaning that the man who wil not honor God with first fruits and tythes but doth deuoure the holy things and committeth sacriledge bringeth destruction vpon himselfe his soule his body his goods and his house Rom. 2 2● Thou that sayest a man should not commit adulterie breakest thou wedlocke saith the holy Apostle and thou that abhorrest idols doest thou commit sacriledge as if hee should say thou that detestest the honouring of a false god wilt thou neuerthelesse spoyle and dishonour the true God Whereby wee are giuen to vnderstand that sacriledge is not onely a transgression of the morall law but that it is euen a double sinne compounded of robberie and idolatrie and consequently a more detestable and abhominable euill then idolatrie it selfe Leuit. 18.21 20.2 2. King 23.10 16.3 17 17. Ierem. 7.31 For the idolater with his heart his body and substance yea sometimes with the blood of his deerest children honoureth a false god yet thinking that it is the true God indeed he doth thus worship wheras the sacrilegious god-spoyler robbeth the true God of his owne The idolater is carefull to worship some god but the god-spoyler careth for no god at all a false god hee doth not know and the true God he will not acknowledge The idolater beeing misse-led with an erroneous opinion maketh taketh that to be God which is not God that is ignorantly of an idol hee maketh God whereas the sacrilegious god-spoyler malitiously euen wittingly and willingly of the true God maketh no god at all but a meere idol otherwise he durst not be so bold as to rob him of his right For it is an infallible maxime That a man wil neuer rob or spoyle him whom hee loueth honoureth or feareth 1. Tim. 5.17.18 XII The maintenance of the ministerie is very diligently recommended vnto Christians by the holy Apostle The Priests saith hee that rule well are worthy of double honour specially they which labour in the word and doctrine for the Scripture saith thou shalt not mousle the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne 1. Cor. 9.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. and the labourer is worthy of his wages Who goeth a warfare any time at his owne cost who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof or who feedeth a flocke and eateth not of the milke of the flocke say I these things according to man sayeth not the law the same also for it is written in the law of Moses Thou shalt not musle the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne Doth God take care for oxen either saith he it not altogether for our sakes for our sakes no doubt it is written that he which eareth should eare in hope that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope If we haue sowen vnto you spiritual things it is a great thing if we reape your carnall things doe ye not knowe that they which minister about the holy things eate of the things of the temple and they which waite at the altar are partakers with the altar So also hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should liue of the Gospel Now who is he that can say from his heart that to liue of the Gospel is to liue of begging and of popular beneuolences and not rather of hauing by way of iustice the tenthes of the goods of them to whom they preach the Gospel Except we meane to make the condition of liuing by the Gospel inferiour vnto the condition of liuing by the legall sacrifices And it is to bee noted that the holy Apostle prooueth euen by the law of Moses the right that the Ministers of the Gospel haue vnto our carnall things and that vnto such carnall things as both Moses doth prescribe in his lawe and the Apostle himselfe doth mention entreating of this matter comprehending them vnder these two kinds the fruits of the field and the flocks of the fold Wherby it is more then apparant that the Apostle meaned that the perpetuall maintenance allotted vnto the legall priests in first fruits and tythes by the Lawe of Moses was due vnto the priests and ministers of the Gospel after the ceasing and abolishing of the other And that as the Gospel of Christ hath succeeded into the roome of the law of Moses Heb 7.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 17 26. and the Euangelicall priesthood into the place of the Legall priesthood euen the renued order of Melchisedecke into the roome of the abolished order of Aaron so haue the priests of the one order succeeded vnto the maintenance of the other euen the inferiour priests of Melchisedecks renued order vnder their high priest Christ Iesus vnto the patrimonie and prouision of the inferiour priests of Aarons abolished order For as I said before the law of maintenance is perpetuall and common to the priests of both orders though the law of the priesthood bee but temporall and changeable And as for such

ministers as disdaine to bee called by the name of priests but delight in new names and new opinions and would rather want tythes then be called priests to the end they may be vnlike vnto other Churches of Christendome and the Church-men thereof I wil say no more but that it is a great pittie that the Church of God should be troubled with such newfanglednesse and that any of Gods ministers should bee misse-led with such fond and friuolous yea vnministerly opinions As learned godly holy men as they are said to bee or thought to bee they are much deceiued if they doe thinke otherwise but that more learned more wise and holy Church-men haue bin called by the name of priests then they If the whole people of God be called a royall priesthood by the holy Apostle S. Peter 1. Pet. 2.9 Reuel 1.4 5 6 5.9 10. and if the blessed Apostle S. Iohn writing vnto the angels or bishops of the 7. Churches of Asia calleth them priests and if the 24. Elders in heauen call themselues priests finally Heb. 7.15 17 21 24 26 28 8.1 2.3 if Christ Iesus himselfe be called a priest yea an high priest which presupposeth that he hath priests vnder him for as much as euery high priest must haue his inferiours shall any of the ministers of the Gospel then bee ashamed to be called priests or shall any of them bee so fond as to disclaime tythes which are due to priests rather then to bee called by this honourable name of priest XIII And lastly the holy Apostle Paul not onely exhorteth Christians to remember them which haue the ouersight of them Heb. 13.7 and haue declared vnto them the word of God but also in expresse words hee enioyneth him that is taught in the word Galat. 6.6 to make him that hath taught him partaker of all his goods The people must giue a part of their goods vnto their pastours and this part must either be equall vnto the Leuitical part or greater then it or else smaller To giue them a smaller were a most vnreasonable indiscretion a more then beastly ingratitude and if they will not bestow a greater then they must either giue an equall portion to that of the legall priests or else no portion at all Yea the iniunction of the Apostle beareth that the maintenance of the Euangelicall priests ought rather to be more then lesse then was that of the legall priests for they had a right vnto a tenth part of some certaine goods namely of fruits and of flocks but not of all their goods whatsoeuer or of the value thereof in money whereas the Euangelicall priestes ought to bee made partakers of all indifferently And truely 2. Cor. 3.6 7 8 6 10 11. looke how farre the ministery of the Gospel is more excellent then that of the Law so much the more ample liberall ought to bee the maintenance of the ministers of the Gospel then was that of the ministers of the tabernacle O how vgly then is the sinne of sacriledge that beareth neuerthelesse such a sway in this Isle O how horrible an iniquitie is it for men of might to pull out of Gods mouth the diet of the church to put it into their owne and to fill the bellies of their hounds and their horses with the meat of Gods ministers It is a sinne of that high nature that because of it God hath said vnto vs Malach. 3.9 10 11. as once he said vnto the people of Israel vpon the like occasion ye are cursed with a curse for ye haue spoiled me euen this whole nation and that he hath sometimes sent scarcenes of bread Amos 4 6 7 8 9 10. and cleannesse of teeth in our cities and townes sometimes hath with-holden the raine from vs when there were yet three months to the haruest and shut the windows of heauen vpon vs Isa 16 9 10. staied the raine til the fruits of the earth were destroyed with drought somtimes hath smitten our fruits with blasting mildew sent the palmer-worm to deuoure the fruits of our trees Hagg. 1.10 2.18 yea made our singing showting for ioy in haruest to cease made vs drunke with our tears for that the heauen aboue vs was stayed from dew and the earth vnder vs from yeelding her increase For this abhominable sinne God hath sometimes sent the pestilence amongst vs to rage in most violent manner to consume our bodies and the fire to burne and the water to ouerflow our townes lands houses and habitations In one word it is this horrible sin of sacriledge that hath ouerthrowne the strength and glory of diuers mighty and wealthy houses God in his most iust iudgement shutting such from their inheritance as were so audacious and bold as to robbe him of his Iob. 15.25.26 27. The sacrilegious God-spoyler is the man which as Iob speaketh hath stretched out his hand against God and made himselfe strong against the Almightie Therefore God shall run vpon him euen vpon his necke and against the most thicke part of his Shield because hee hath couered his face with his fatnesse and hath collopes in his flankes As if the holy man should say because this God-spoyling anti-god hath presumed to shut God from his inheritance and hath taken from him his tythes and hath made himselfe fat with Gods meate which hee hath pulled out of the hands and mouthes of his Ministers Ver. 29.30.31.32 34. therefore God shal bee auenged on him he shall not be rich alwaies neither shall his substance continue neither shall hee prolong the perfection thereof in the earth Hee shall neuer depart out of darknesse the flame shall dry vp his branches and hee shall goe away with the breath of his mouth His branch shall not be greene but shall be cut off before his day and the congregation of the hypocrite shall bee desolate And who is so great an hypocrite as the sacrilegious Church-robber who being an impure God-spoyler indeed will needs in the meane time be esteemed a pure Gospeller and one of the most precise professors of the reformed Church Hee may well make himselfe merry with the meate of Gods Ministers as prophane Balthasar did with the golden and siluer vessels of Gods house Dan. 5.1 2 3 4 5. Iob. 20.5 6 7 8.9 10. but he shall know in the end that the reioycing of the wicked shall take an end and as Zophar speaketh that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment Though his excellency mount vp to the heauen and his head reach vnto the cloudes yet shall he perish for euer like his dung and they which haue seene him shall say Where is he He shall flye away as a dreame and they shall not find him he shal passe away as a vision of the night so that the eie which had seene shall doe so no more and his place shall see him him no more As if he should say