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A62186 A treatise of matters beneficiary by Fra Paolo Sarpi ... ; newly translated out of Italian according to the best and most perfect copy printed at Mirandola, Anno Dom. 1676, wherein is related with the ground of the history, how the almes of the faithful were distributed in the primitive church, the particulars whereof the table sheweth.; Trattato delle materie beneficiarie. English Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623. 1680 (1680) Wing S701; ESTC R9432 97,268 84

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to our Lord he spending the same and buying things necessary for them or else distributing to the Poor according to what our Lord commanded for the day St. Augustin considers that Christ having the Attendance of Angels who Ministred unto him was in no necessity of keeping or preserving of Money nevertheless he would have a Purse to give an example to the Church of what she ought to do and therefore the Church alwayes understood that from his Divine Holyness by his own Example the Form of the Ecclesiastical Money might be instituted N. 5. instructing from whence it should be taken and wherein it should be laid out And if in our dayes we see not this holy institution observed we ought to consider that for our instruction and for our consolation the Divine Scripture relates that then Judas also was a Thief and usurped to himself the goods common to the Apostolical Colledge and came to such a Height of Covetousness that what he stole seeming not sufficient for him he proceeded so far in wickedness that he sold to the Jews the very person of Christ our Lord to make his summ of Money greater And if we either in reading Histories or else in observing things occurrent in our Times we shall believe that Ecclesiastical Goods are in a great Part spent in other uses than Pious and that some of the Ministers not content of usurping to themselves that which ought to be in common to the Church and to the Poor have gone so far as to sell Sacred things and Spiritual Graces to make Money N. 6. we ought not to refer this to a Particular Misery of our or of any other times but to ascribe it to the Divine Permission for the Exercise of the Good considering that the Beginning of the Infant Church was subject to the same Imperfections Indeed we ought every one according to his Degree and Vocation to procure a Remedy and he that cannot do otherwise by his Prayers and he that can hinder the Evil by preventing and opposing the Abuses considering that although Judas had no humane Punishment because those who ought to have punished him were Complices in his Offence nevertheless divine Providence shewed what Penalty he deserved and appointed that he should be his own Executioner for a Document of what those ought to do who are given for Tutors and Defenders of the Church in following Ages After Christ our Lord had ascended into Heaven the holy Apostles followed in the Church of Hierusalem the same Institution of having the Church money for the two Effects abovesaid N. 7. that is for the Need of the Ministers of the Gospel and for Almes to the Poor and the Stock of this money was likewise the Oblations of the Faithful who also making all their Goods common sold their Possessions to make money for this use So that the Community of the Church was not distinct from the Particular of each faithful Man as is practized still in some Religions which observe those first Institutions The Christians in those primitive Times were very ready to strip themselves of their Temporal Goods to bestow them in Almes because they looked for the end of the World to be at hand Christ our Lord having left it to them uncertain and although it was to last as long as he pleased they considered it no otherwise but as being to end then holding for certain that the Figure of this World that is the State of this present Life passeth away wherefore the Oblations encreased alwayes the more yet the Custom of not having any thing of ones own but all things in Common N. 8. so that there was neither poor nor rich but all lived equally went not out of Hierusalem For in the other Churches which the Holy Apostles planted it was not instituted neither did it last long in Hierusalem Whereupon 26 years after the Death of Christ it is read that the publick was distinct from the private every one knowing his own but the money being common in that Church as in others founded in Oblations which placed in Common served for the Ministers only and for the Poor and it was not Lawful for him who had wherewithal of his own to live upon the Churches Stock whereupon St. Paul ordained that Widdows who had Kindred should be relieved by their Relations that the Church Goods might be sufficient for those who are widdows indeed that is Widdows and poor The first day of the week which for that cause was called the Lords day the Faithful met together N. 9. and each one offered that which he had set apart of the foregoing week for the Necessities of the Common The care of these Goods which our Lord whilst he was in this Mortal Life gave unto Judas was administred by the Apostles themselves for a short Time after the Ascension but afterwards perceiving that Murmurings and Seditions did arise amongst the Faithful about the Distributions that were made it appearing to some that they were not so great Sharers of the Common as they willingly would have been and believing that others had more than they ought so as the Common Evil in all Times in dispensing the Goods of the Church the Apostles knew they could not attend this perfectly together with preaching of the Word of God they determined to retain to themselves the Ministry of Preaching and teaching appointing for this Office of having care of Temporal things another sort of Ministers quite different from that which we see done in our Times wherein the chief Prelates of the Church attend the Government of Temporal things N. 10. and the Office of Preaching and teaching the Word of God and the Doctrine of the Gospel is left unto the Fryars or Brethren or to some inferior Priests in the Church But these new Ministers which the holy Apostles instituted for governing Temporal things were called Deacons Deacons for which purpose Election was made of six from all the Body of the Faithful which the Apostles appointed for that Ministry and wheresoever they founded a Church they also appointed Deacons in the same Manner as also they ordained Bishops and Priests and other Ecclesiastical Ministers Fasting and Prayer preceeding and the Common Election of the Faithful following after Observing inviolably this order of never deputing any man to any Ecclesiastical Charge who was not first elected by the universality of the Church which is of all the Faithful together This Custome continued in the Church in such a Manner for about 200 years N. 11. maintaining the Ecclesiastical Ministers and the Poor also with the publick Goods there being no other Stock but the Oblations which were made by the Faithful in the Church which Oblations were in great Abundance because out of Fervency of Charity every one offered all that he could according to what he had so that when the means of the Faithful in one City were abundant for the supplying the wants of their own Church they