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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

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

Surely that Religion cannot be true where the Professors of it are so brave and rich and their Teachers so poor and beggarly whom they so much undervalue and contemn as not to allow them food and cloathes convenient to maintain them 'T was otherwise with the Galatians who were converted by St. Paul they received him as an Angel of God yea as Jesus Christ himself and were willing not only to impart their goods but if it had been possible they would have plucked out their eyes and have given them to him m Gal. 4. 14 15 such was the true zeal of the godly in the primative times so sincere and servent their love that they not only parted with the Tenth to their Teacher but sold all the Lands and Possessions they had and laid down the Money they received for them at their Teachers feet desiring them to employ it for their own and the Churches necessities n Acts 4. 34 3 c. but this fire is almost quenched this love as Christ foretold o Mat. 24. 12 waxeth cold in these last uncharitable and worst dayes in which as the Apostle also predicted men should be lovers of themselves more than lovers of God p 2 Tim. 3. 4 and pr●fer their pleasures profits honours before him and his service and Ministers although concerning them Christ hath said it who will not lye nor can he repent That he that heareth them heareth Christ and he that despiseth them despiseth Christ q Luk. 10 16 Si legatum principum in terra contemptus ●rimen habet nefas est illo● despicere quos misit omnium nostrum redemp tor Christus rex regum index principum And truly what do men do by not receiving their words but put from them the Word of Life and judge themselves unworthy of it r Acts 13. 46 as the Jewes at Antioch did or by not giving double honor to their persons who deliver their Embassage but ren●er themselves subject to the greatest plagues even to be in a worse condition than Sodom and Gomorah ſ Ma● 10. 14 Therefore let all Kings Magistrates Princes Rule●s and Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce before him with trembling and kiss the Lord Jesus Christ lest he be angry by way of reverence love homage and obedience for if his anger be kindled never so little they only are blest that trust in him t Psal 2. 11 12 c. and receive his Ministers testimony here u 2 Thes 1. 8. the 10 vers compared and obey his Gospel whom they preach and take heed what they do either in putting down the godly successive Ministry whom God in his goodness long-suffering and mercy hath placed amongst us and continued to us which he hath not done to many other Nations which hath been the design of Satan and Erronous persons alwayes although this Ministry ordained by Christ shall continue to the end of the world as Christ promised and St. Paul related it w Mat. 28. 20 21 Eph 4 11 12 c. and was of old prophesied x Jer. 3. 15. 23. 4 Isa 30 20 21 Docet Deus se nunquam suos relictarum esse orphanos quin A doctoribus ministris Dei assidue corrigantur informentur c. Trem. Annot. in loc or in taking away the oyl which should maintain these lights fot if they and the means belonging to them be of God as hath been proved it will stand as hitherto above 1000 years it hath and whoever thou art or ye are that have sold their Means away and endeavour to do the same with the residue ye cannot overthrow it nor perfect the intended work O refrain therefore from attempting such a thing lest ye be found even to fight against God as Gamaliel told the Council y Acts 5. 38 Non remittitur peccatum nisi restituatur ablatum Aug. Let me advise rather all such who themselves or their predecessors have had a hand in the foregoing Sacriledge and stiil possess devoted things viz. Manors Gleabs Lands Tythes or Impropriate Parsonages or the like repent of this their sin and make restitution to the Ministers wronged For I will tell them what devout Augustine saith That the sin is not pardoned unless restitution be made viz. according to the ability of the person guilty And indeed where true sorrow is it hath these Two effects which is Clearing and Revenge z 2 Cor. 7 10 Quienim dolore asficitur cavet ne alieni peccati reus fiat inscipsum pro peccatis sumei ultionem atque alios peccantes in ab errore revocari conatur Haeming in loc which cannot in this sin be manifest where that before-nominated be not performed Otherwise if this my Counsel be slited which in Christs name I give to you desiring you to hear what the Spirit saith to the Church 't is to be feared That as heretofore the Curse of God hath seized on Sacriledgious persons in former times who were made examples for us on whom the ends of the world are come a 1 Cor. 10. 11 may also seize on these For our God is Jehovah and changeth not b Mal. 3. 6 a consuming fire into whose hands to fall 't is a fearful thing c Heb. 10 31 And truly unless such do repent they shall all perish as Christ tells them twice f Luk 13 3. 5 for he is no respecter of persons but be the persons guilty of this sin never so rich wise great many the Lord Jesus Christ whose Ministers and Embassadors they are is richer wiser greater and above them all g Eccles 5 8 He hath rebuked Kings for their sakes h Psal 10● 15 and he reputes what is done unto them as done unto himself i Mat. 25 45 and he will render to every man shortly according to what he has done in the flesh whether it be good or evil k 2 Cor. 5. 10 then the Lord will be the avenger of those Ministers of his who have been oppressed and defrauded l 1 Thes 4. 6 those Riches then they have gotten by fraud or oppression shall be a witness against them and eat their flesh as fire m Jam. 5. 3 yea God may for it severely plague you here as he hath dealt with thousands in this Land for some mens sins go before to judgment for to terrifie and admonish others and some mens follow after n 1 Tim. 5. 24 then they that have given to Christs Prophets and Saints in his Name shall receive to their eternal comfort that blessed sentence Come ye blessed c. o Mat. 25. 34 Ad sinem But they that have done evil shall hear to their eternal torment that direful sentence of Go ye cursed c. for their Sacriledge and unmercifulness to them for those shall go away into everlasting punishment O consider this ye that hitherto for profits sake

because he had no Presbyter before him as Ambrose saith and let the Ordination be with Fasting Prayer and Imposi●ion of the hands of the Presbytery according to the example and precepts of the Apostles Acts 14. 23. 1 Tim. 3. 1. and 4. 14 and 5. 22. Titus 1. 5. Heb. 6. 2. 6. To prevent envyings emulations dissentions which may arise between the Presbyters themselves or any other of the Church let all Tythes Glebes Rents Pensions Oblations Augmentations or any other annual profits whatsoever belonging to the Presbyters of each Congregation as Presbyters there be paid in kind according to Law or be valued by a Jury of men of another Congregation on Oath before a Judge of Assize yearly and let each particular proportion of Land be rated what it ought to pay in lieu of the Tythes c. and the time of payment be by a Law prefixed to be paid to the Presbyters or their Deputies on the penalty of treble dammage according to the Satute of King Edward the Sixth still in force for predial Tythes i and Vide Statut. Edwardi 6 de decimis s●l●e●d let these Tithes Gleabs Rents c. thus valued be paid in unto the Angel of the Presbytery who shall repay faithfully the same according to each mans need Acts 4. 35 in the Presbytery and according to the number of each Pretbyters Family for which by the command of Christ he is to provide for k 1 Tim. 5. 8 Rom. 12. 17 and let the Angel be accountable for his distribution to the Presbyters Thus was it decreed by God amongst the Levites of old they were to eat portion like portion l Lev. 6. 16 17 c. 10. 13 14 Num. 18 9 10 19 Lev. 22. 11 Deut. 18. 8 and this was put in execution by those two zealous Reformers H●zekiah and Nehemi●h m ● Chron. 31. 15 Nehem. 13. ●3 and was also practised by the Primitive Saints n Acts ● 3● 1 Cor. 9 ● 13 14 2 Cor. 8 14 Gal. 6. 6 and unti●l this in Parliament be established let every Presbyter enjoy the profits of their own particular Parish●s as now they do and accept if they please of better livings as they fall in the Congregation by Seniority in the M●nistry that so the youngest Presbyters may have the least and the eldest the greatest Means old age being honourable if found in the way of Righteousness And let all Avowsons 〈…〉 sentations Impropriations Donations Tenths and First-Fruits be taken away out of the Church of Christ as being inventions of Sathan to allure men to simony and corruption which were brought into the Church in the time of Antichristian darkness approved of to feed and enlarge the Popes and Prelates Revenues and sold to others and bought by others for self ends and worldly advantages and hath occasioned abundance of horrid sins to the destruction of many mens souls yet let there be a just and reasonable satisfaction made to the Impropriators for them out of the Bishops and Deans and Chapters or other Church-land as the Supream Authority of the Nations shall think fit in each place according to the proportion of money paid for them or Land given in the Lieu of them and in consideration of the time they have already and are for the future to enjoy them Lastly The Presbyters thus setled and provided for let them diligently by praying in publick and Teaching from house to house as Saint Paul did o Acts 20. 20 gather together the Saints and labour in the Word and Doctrine to convert Souls and to separate the precious from the vile p Ephes 4. 12 1 Tim. 5. 17 Jer. 5. 19 and those that are not scandalous in life or Doctrine but are ready to give the Presbyters a reason of the hope that is in them with meekness and reverence and are willing to own them as their Guides and Pastors and to obey them in the Lord as such q 1 Pet. 3. 15 Heb. 13 7 17 let them be received as perfect members of that Congregation to partake in all the Ordinances of Christ in that Congregation administred But as for such as are ignorant before they be admitted to the Lords Supper let them be first Catechiz'd untill they are able in some reasonable measure to give an account of their Faith and to declare their willingness to walk in Christs wayes and to observe all his commands as Members of that Church and then let them being approved of by the Presbytery with the peoples consent be admitted to the Lords Supper after one or more of the Presbyters have prayed for them and laid their hands on them r Heb. 6. 2 Acts 8. 17. 19. 6 for this Ceremony followed Baptism to compleat Church-members s See Hanmers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which even the Presbyters did perform the Angel or B●shop being absent t Ambr. Com. in Epist. Eph. cap 4. Apud Aegiptum Presbyteri consignant si presens non sit Episcopus as Saint Ambrose affirms Secondly Let the Children of Church-members who are though un-Baptized yet holy u 1 Co● 7 14 Ezra 9. 2 on the desire and profession of one of the Parents Faith be admitted to Baptism as the holy Seed of Israel was to Circumcision the Promise being made not only to the Jews and their Seed but also to as many of the Gentiles and their Seed as are called of God and faithful Acts 2. 39 Gal 3. 7 14 26. who are also Abrahams Seed to signifie which God called his Name Abraham Gen. 17. 6. compared with Rom. 4. 16. But let Baptism be administred if it may be without danger by immersion and not aspersion as it was generally practised by the Church for many Centuries as the most common and landible way of Baptizing w Aquin sum part 4. 66 art 7 Chris Hom. 24 in Iohan cap. 3 and only used unless incases of necessity x Cypr. Epist 26 which caused those so Baptized to be called Climici but as for such as allow not of Infant Baptism contrary to the custom of the Church and gracious Promises and priviledges belonging to them y Gen. 7. 17 and 28. 4 Mark 10. 14 Acts 2. 39 for the Seed are in the Blessing Psalm 37. 27. as Heirs called to inherit it 1 Pet. 3. 9. yet so they hold no error contrary to the foundation of Religion and behave themselves in our Assemblies without farther offence we may bear with them that by the Word they may be convinced or converted we are not rashly to judge them for their weakness but ought to bear with them and not please our selves but them for their good to edification as Christ did But if by holding this Opinion or other of like nature they cause division and offences contrary to the Doctrine received we are to avoid them a Rom. 16 17 In things superstructive which are dubious or indifferent we ought not to condemn or contemn

and to reform to our power the same in others and in reference to the persons to whom and with whom we have sworn le ts observe those Rules of Christ to love them as our selves q Rom. 13 9 Mat 7 12 and to do to every one of them as we would be dealt withal our selves were we in the same state and condition with them q. O le ts not pretend pretences or make excuses or invent Arguments to shift off ●quivocate with or any way to elude these sacred bonds for God will surely require the payment of them Suffer not therefore thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin neither say thou before the Angel it was an Error wherefore should God be angry with thy voice and destroy the work of thy hands for thy perfidiousnesse as Solomon teacheth r Eccles 5 4 5 6 O le ts remember that new Oaths and promises cannot make void the old no more than Zedekiahs new Oath to the King of Egypt could make void his old Oath made to the King of Babylon ſ 2 Chron 3● 13 compared with Jer. 37 5 Ezek 17 15 or a new Covenant or Promise made to a second Wife can make void the old Covenant and Promise made to the first she being alive and she being not put away from him t Dr Saunderson de jurawent lect 2 sect 11 because an Oath hath naturally its obligatory power but constructive only not destructive it cannot take away the Obligation it findeth or impose another repugnant to it and the reason is because by all obligations some right is confered on another for whosoever is obliged is obliged unto another and its most unjust that by the meer act of one the right of another without his consent should be weakned The obligation of an Oath cannot be taken away by dispensations from any third person unlesse the Party be willing for whose favour and benefit it was made to accept of and ratifie the same u Saunders ut supra lect 7 sect 8 as the Doctor sheweth Let us therefore know thus it is with us in our Oaths and Covenants God was called to be a witnesse of the truth and sincerity of our words and hearts who●e mouth cannot be stopt nor hand stayed from executing vengeanc● on those that are Perjured herein he regards not persons ●●r will he take Gifts w Rom 2 11 Acts 10 34 Gal 6 Deut 10 17 he accepteth not the persons of Prin●es nor regardeth the Rich more than the Poor He will come nigh to them in Judgement and will be a swift Witnesse against them for their not fearing him who is the Lord of Host x Mal 3 5 the flying Roll sent by God shall irresistably cut them off y Zach 5 3 which is his Curse for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it The Lord of Hosts saith he will bring it forth and it shall enter into the house of the Thief and into the house of him that sweareth falsly by his Name and it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof Therefore I Conclude that neither Pope nor prince Senate nor Synod no Ecclesiastical nor Secular power hath any right to dispense with or absolve any man from that bond wherein before the dispensation granted he was engaged in as the learned Doctor affirms z Dr Saunders ut 〈…〉 ra lect 7 sec● 4. And ● men against the light of Gods Word and conviction of 〈◊〉 own Conscience will take liberty unto themselves herein ●od will surely no more spare them than h● did King Zedekiah a Ez●●h 17 19 ● c ●us ●● andi viola●o impie●ati● coput est quia omni ex●usatione vacua si● e●usmodi violatio The●d interp in Zachar. For to confirm the truth hereof God swears who cannot ●i● nor Repent to terifie men from Perju●y As I live saith the Lord surely mine Oath that he hath despised and my Covenant that he hath broken even it will I recompence on his own head and the Prophet after shews him his particular doom b Ezech 21 25 26 27 in these words And thou prophane wicked Prince of Israel whose day is come when iniquity shall have an end thus saith the Lord God remove the Diadem and take off the Crown This shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more until he come whose right it is and I will give it him Now this and all the former remarkable Examples specified before of Gods divine Justice related in this Book and others we read of hapned to them for Examples of Gods indignation against th●s sin and they are written for our Admonition as the Apostle saith upon whom the ends of the World are come c 1 Cor 10 11 Wherefore my dearly beloved le ts fle● from this sin lest partaking with those before named herein we also reap of their plagues for unlesse we repent of it we shall all perish by it d Luk 13 3 5 The good Lord prevent us with his Mercy and remove the Judgments hang over our heads and deal not with us after our sins nor reward us accord 〈…〉 our iniquities but as high as the Heaven is above the Eart 〈…〉 great let his Mercy be towards us and the Lord our God pardon what is ●●st and grant us Wisdom to discern and Piety to practise what is required that so the flying Roll that is gone forth come not into our Lands or Houses to cut us off and the blessing of God the Father and the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ his Son and the Comforts of God the blessed Spirit be on the heads and remain in the hearts of all those that tremble at Gods Word e Ezra 9 4 Eccles 9 2 and fear an Oath e. which is the desire and shall be the continual Prayer of your Souls Friend and Servant in the Lord E. F. FINIS