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law_n	pay_v	priest_n	tithe_n	4,836	5	10.3389	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

spirituall Prince But now vice versa contrariwise the spirituall person is constrayned to pay Tithes to the temporall Parsons The Patriarke Iacob made a vow vnto God that if hee would bee with him and keep him in the way which he should go giuing him bread to eat and rayment to put on he would surely gi●e the Tenth vnto him Whereby it appeares that the Tenth is still reserued by the Law of Nature imprinted by the Diuine character in mens hearts before the Law as a certaine and vnchangeable portion to the instruments of Gods glory his sacred Ministers Likewise by the Ceremonial Law All the Tithe of the Land whether of the seed of the Land or of the fruit of the Tree is the Lords it is holy vnto the Lord. And the like Tenth was alotted of their flockes of Cattell All which God bestowed vpon the Tribe of Leui for their paines care and maintenance in attending his seruice The detayning of these Tithes afterwards from the lawfull Owners procured the curse of God vpon the Land of Iewry as the Prophet protested Yee haue robbed God But ye say Wherein haue we robbed thee In tithes and offring Yee are cursed with a Curse for yet haue robbed me euen this whole Nation Bring then all the Tithes into the S●●rchouses that there may bee meat in my House and proue me herewith saith the Lord of Hostes if I will not open the windowes of Hea●en and powre you out a Blessing that there shall not bee roome ●nough to receiue it By the Morall Law vnder the Gospell where our Sauiour reproued the Pharises Hypocrisie it appeares how iniurious a deed it is to keepe the Tithes from the rightfull Prop●ieta●ies when the Pharise iustifieth himselfe with this point which the English Patrons would countermaund I pay Tithe of all that I h●●e The which the Diuine Wisdom liked as he had told the Pharises before that those things ought to be done and not to leaue the other vndone Neither let them colour their Promethean thefts as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as theeues of the Godhead by abr●gating all the Lawes of Moses as if they were all void at the comming of Christ. For those onely were 〈◊〉 which ●●ood for types and figures of his 〈◊〉 Passon and Resurrection as Circumcisio 〈◊〉 for Baptisme and the Feast of the Passeouer for the Feast at Easter Some other petty things appropriated to that Nation in regard of their hot Climate and natures are also abolished But for the lawfulnesse of Tithes payable to the reuerend Clergy it was neuer questioned for these 5000. yeers and vpwards yea so powerfull a respect did the Frimitiue Church attribute vnto the Lawes of Moses that Ele●therius Bishop of Rome at such time as Lucius King of Great Brittaine or as others think Viceroy vnder the Romane Emperour sent vnto him for some good and wholsome Lawes this holy Prelate wrote vnto him that hee should collect out of the Diuine Lawes what he thought most agreeable and conuenient If this will not satisfie their couetous apprehensions let them beleeue the Apostle S● Paul who confirmed the paying of Tythes after the abolishing of the Ceremoniall Law In former times Priests would take the fattest of the meat but now-a-daies Phinehes and Samuel must catch at the crummes which fall from their Patrons tables In those purer times the Children of Israel offered so plentifully that Moses was faine to restraine their bounties Yea the women offered their Bracelets Iewels and Looking-glasses in which they tooke much delight But now temporall persons must haue a large summe of Aaron and Eleazar for Presentations to buy their wiues Iewels and stately Looking-glasses to view the picture of Pride and the face of Simon Magus In time of Popery there was a Law enacted of Mortmaine to keepe backe and cu●be the charity of deuout persons for feare lest all the reuenewes of the Land might in time be conferred on the Church So freely did men in those dayes dispose of their temporall meanes to aduance the House of Prayer and the Master of that house that they thought all which they possessed to be too little to pleasure their Ghostly Father The Galatians would haue pulled out their eyes to haue done Paul good But now some are so farre from doing any good to their Ministers that they would put out their eyes if they durst Let any of the poore Ministers shew himselfe neuer so vpright● zealous painefull in his vocation if his purse grauity and precise carriage sure not with the Patr●●● humour roundly come off hee will sooner accept of a brutish Dunce that scarce knowes the Canonicall Scriptures from the Apocrypha then of this Elect Seruant of God Nor yet perhaps will he dismisse him so clean but at his departure and after he will besmeare his coat with the filthiest lees of oyle lay an aspersion on his good name and fame that he is a peevish Purita●e vnworthy of his presentation Thus do those Patrons like the Ammonites curtall the skirts of Dauids Embassadours garments playing the Barbers with their Beards vntill God sends his Nemesis his three-stringed whip of Famine the Pestilence and the Sword to afflict them for their greedinesse The Poet Mantuan bewayled the state of the Romish Clergy that all things belōging to the Church were Simoniously exposed to sale as at Mart or Market Venalia Romae Iura sacerdotes altaria c. Lawes Priest-hoods Masses what you will for money For money giuen all sinnes forgiuen as the Popes Pardoner proclaimes From hence arose that prouerbe against a Simoniack Pope who had sold much Church-liuings Vendere iure potest e●erat ille priùs By right he sels what he had bought before It is a farre greater fault to purchase a Bishoprick then for a poore Minister to buy a benefice For the one doth it of an ambitious mind to beare rule ouer his brethren I meane him that gets in by Sim●ny and the other is meerely compelled and driuen as iron by the Patrons heart of Adamant to giue all the temporall meanes hee hath and perhaps more then his owne if his credit serues him to borrow The one might liue contentedly without aspiring to Lordly superiority except he be called gratis or deemed worthy of that Reuerend place But he that inioyes nothing after all his watch fulnes study spending his spirits impayring his health and wasting all his heritage or meanes in food apparell and bookes after 20. 30. or 40. yeeres attendance but is enforced poore man vnfortunate man to compound by some sinister contract with him which makes no conscience to see another periured though himselfe thinke that by a tricke of wit he may auoid it I could willingly pardon him yea and reward him well for discou●ring the necessity of his fortunes and the rauening pillage of the Patron Vntill this cloud be remoued Faith loue and charity canno● set●le in me●s h●arts What wr●ught the ruine of the Romish Church

vnder-ballance of Trade with other Nations that it is high time now or neuer to looke about before wee bee driuen to a narrower pinch The causes in two words of this ouer-ballancing is Prodigality and Pouerty The one brings in by Excesse of Forraigne goods into the Kingdome an ouerballancing The other by the Defect and hauing too little from their partiall Mother keeps our Trading backe in vnder ballance Apollo sighed at the relation and all his Court which fauoured the Protestant Religion both outwardly and inwardly demonstrated great heauines for this Decay of Trade in Great Brittaine that in the dayes of peace vnder a Religious King this vnder-ballance should happen and openly protested that Peace consumed more men and goods in that Kingdom then all their Warres with Spaine and Tyrone Likewise his Maiesty said that if the Noble King Iames had not betimes raised the Iacobus piece to twenty two shillings and his other Gold to the like proportion other Nations had by this time attracted all the treasure of this land vnto themselues and that the riotous flaunting in Apparell with their prodigall Feasts did helpe to vnder-ballance their Trading which together with many other abuses crept into that State hee wished some of the Inhabitants if they had any feeling of their Countreyes smart should present without delay or partiality CHAP. 2. Apollo causeth a Iury to be impanelled out of the Vniuersities of Oxford Cambridge S ● A●drews Aberdine and the Colledge at Dubin to find out those persons which sold Ecclesiasticall Liuings The Pres●ntours discouering some bring them before Apollo His Maiesties censure with his discourse of the Right of Tithes APollo perceiuing that one of the chiefest causes of the miseries which perplexed Great Brittain proceeded from Si●●ny and the enforced Periury of some Ministers who being driuen by meete necessity were faine to accommodate themselues to the iniquity of the times caused about Whitsontide last 1626. a Iury to be impanelled of the precisest Preachers in that Monarchy viz. sixe out of the Vniuersit● of Oxford sixe out of Cambridge sixe out of St. Andrewes sixe out of Aberdine and the like number out of the Colledge at Dublin in Ireland 30. in all integros vitae scelerisque puros men of vnattainted liues and pure from notorious vices These his Imperiall Maiesty appointed to enquire of such Patrons as presumed directly or indirectly to play the Marchants and sell those worldly meanes which God himselfe had allotted to his earthly Angels towards their maintenance and wages in labouring to reduce his astrayed flocke to their true Shepheard Ou●r this impanelled ranke he placed D. Raynolds a man of very austere Conuersation so temperate in his affections that hee made choise rather to bee Head ●● Corpus Christs Colledge in Oxford then to become a Bishop which the famous Queene Elizabeth offere● vnto him About ten dayes after the Inquisitors returned and presented the names of 40. Patrons and so many Ministers which had truckt and bargained for Benefices Likewise they presented that 6. Widdowes whose Husbands had coped and giuen 4. yeers purchase for Benefices were ready to starue some of them hauing seuen or eight children lying on their hands And that before the first fruits were satisfied without receiuing one penny for their purchase their poore Husbands died Apollo moued to Commiseration to see the wretched estate of the Church brought to this wofull plight said that it was no maruell all things went to wrack and ruine in that Noble Iland when the Patrimony of the Church became a prey and pillage to Marchandizing Greedy-guts For how quoth he can vertue harbour in their hearts when the Rewards of vertue are rauished embezeled and turned topsy turuy This inequality compelled many braue Spirits desperately to runne into the gulfe of discontentment This made Campian Parsons Harding Stapleton Creswell Dallison Garnet and infinite others to forgo their natiue Countrey and betake themselues to the Seminary Colledges in Doway in Valladolide Ciuill Rome and other Popish places After these speeches his Maiesty ask't the delinquent Patrons what infernall fury possessed them to wrong the Ministers the selected seruants of their Heauenly Father Why they forced them to buy their owne Right and due The Patrons answered that they held a hand ouer the Aduowsons and Ecclesiasticall liuings in their gifts aswell as ouer the impropriate Tithes Both which being wrested and extorted by the Clergy-men themselues heretofore in time of Popery towards the Religious houses belonged as a lawfull spoile vnto them for ridding the Land of such Lazy Lordanes Abbey-lubbers Likewise they alleged that they could not support their magnifique Port and pompe without making sale of such Benefices as were in their donations To this Apollo replied Though yee haue beene tolerated to detaine the impropriate Ti●hes dare ye aduenture to take money for those Spirituall Liuings which appertaine not vnto you ● 〈◊〉 yee againe deuoure the forbidden Fruit Could not the many examples of them which felt the Stroke of Diuine vengeance for purloyning of forbidden Wares terrify your mercenary minds Ach●n for the wedge of Gold and the Baby●o●ish●ayment ●ayment was stoned to death Gehezi for receiuing the two Talents and the change of garments from Naaman was strucken with Leprosie No ill gotten goods can long thriue with any man Male parta male dilabuntur which yee might obserue by the Crane in the Embleme which hauing a wrongfull prey could not digest it As in like manner it befell to an Eagle which snatching a Coale from the Altar fired her nest therewith Famous are the destructions of sacrilegious persons in all ages Of Heliodorus who was scourged by an Angell for seeking to rob the treasure of the Templeat Ierusalem of Pompey which tooke away the Golden Table out of that sanctified place of the Galles which spoyled the Delphicke Church of C●pi● who robbed the Church of Toloza that gaue an occasion to the Prouerb Aurum Tolozanum which proued fatall to the takers Although these two last serue not so fit for our turne because they were Heathenish yet in as much as they portend fatal success Mal●omē to the rakers of Church goods let men feare to share in Sacred things or in any Commodity annexed to the Spiritualty But now-a-dayes yee are not content onely to exact of the poore Ministers such vnreasonable prizes but yee must get some by humane reasons and vnwarrantable authority to iustifie your Acts training their ouerfluent wits to proue the Word of God to become mutable in matters of Tithe for the ●onfounding of which leprous opinion I will now onuert my speech vnto you my learned Courtiers Be it knowne vnto you that Tithes are due to the Clergy Iure Diuino before the Law by the Law of Moses and vnder the Gospell Before the Law Abraham payed Tithes to Melchised●ch euen the tenth part of all which he had as the Authour to the Hebrewes explayned Hee payd Tithes as a temporall Prince to a