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A02351	The humble addresse both of church and poore, to the sacred maiestie of Great Britaines monarch For a just redresse of the uniting of churches, and the ruine of hospitalls. By William Guild, minister of Aberdene.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.; Guild, William, 1586-1657. Issachars asse, braying under a double burden. Selections. aut	1633 (1633)	STC 12480; ESTC S119064	14,302	19

our Saviour because the Harvest was great and the Labourers were few That wee should pray the Lord of the Harvest to thrust out manie faythfull Labourers in-to His Harvest But to this Precept of His our practise now-a-dayes is flat contrarie and contradictour yea absurd and against common Reason where much worke is there fewer Worke-men to bee It was Pharaoh's working-wiselie in-deede to augment the Israelites Taske and to impaire their strength and meanes to performe the same But such policie being voyde of pietie did procure plagues onelie and drew on miserie And as the Kirke to the great advantage of her enemies receiveth as is sayde heere-by a notable injurie what wrong is like-wise done to Learning and Vniversities anie one may easilie perceive Colledges and Schooles the Seminaries of Sciences and Nurseries of Religion like Goshen in Aegypt where the light of the Land is they shall carefullie trayne up and yearlie sende foorth a more and more numerous Off-spring at Parentes large expences like Levi to bee divided in Iaacob to teach the LORDES judgementes and to bee scattered in Israel to teach the people His Law and yet the places which they should fill and live by by a new practise of Annexation of Kirks next unto Kirke-Rents shall be occupied Titulo oneroso onelie for the most parte and taken up by others If this then bee a way eyther to encourage Parentes and hearten Youth or a practise to replenish the Schooles of the Prophets heere-after and so consequentlie bee profitable eyther to Kirke or Policie or rather be not a meane to effectuate the contrarie and make Bethel a Babel let anie indifferent or pious mynde judge The Countrey in like-manner howe with Kirke and Schooles it may manie wayes crye out the apparent scarres of her deepe in-flicted woundes shall heere-after offer them-selves conspicuous make the trueth here-of more than cleare and manifest At the time of that Reformation of our Countrey where rather a Deformation was in many parts through populare and unruelie confusion Greede and not Godlinesse possessing the mindes of many it was not anough then to the griefe of the godlie to levell with the ground deface and cast downe Kirks thorow the Land and other Religious places which might have served beside the Ornament of the Countrey for other better uses crying onlie in the language of Edom Raze them raze them even to the foundation as if against the Law the House having the Leprosie could not be purged but by pulling downe so that as yet in many places there remaineth but the monuments of headlesse Furie seges ubi Troia fuit But also men now-a-dayes and goodlie Professors forsooth thinking that there are too manie Religious places as yet in the Land and Houses of GODS Worship have redacted two till one and made there-by a second Defalcation to abridge the summe It is reported of Hannibal a Captaine of subtile policie that hee saw in a dreame being in Italie which hee intended to subdue to him-selfe a monstrous Image appearing before him at the sight where-of being amazed asked what it was that so ghastlie appeared The Image aunswered Vastitas Italiae But this Image deceived Hannibal for after the sight of his Brothers head sent unto him by the Romanes hee was forced to flee from Italie to Carthage and so frustrate of his expectation It shall proove lyke-wyse but an unluckie prodigie to them the devastation of their Countrey who by laying waste so many Kirkes of goodlie and godlie Ornamentes shall make the same in short time to become like Achan or Absolons Burials heapes of Stones heere and there through the whole Kingdome Our Saviour was much mooved and as a great motive it was also used by the Elders of the Iewes to perswade and induce CHRIST to grant the Centurions petition and heale his Servaunt Because he loved their Nation sayde they and had built to them a Synagogue Where they make there this outward action a sure testimonie of his sincere and in-ward affection towardes their Religion Then what can bee the affection or zeale that manie Professors nowe beare to the Wo●ship of GOD which they professe when in place of building Synagogues or Temples and multiplying their number where-of this Kingdome standeth so much in neede they rather by such Vniting have impaired the number exposed the edifices to ruine and contempt Thus as the Prophet sayeth while everie one of them runneth to builde up his owne house and prepare Galleries syled with Cedar to him-selfe the House of GOD is not onelie left but made forsaken and desolate Civilitie hath ever also beene seene to have beene the Daughter of Religion which as shee pointed out Quae DEI sunt so lyke-wyse Quae Caesaris teaching to bee holie towardes GOD and righteous towardes Man and so to give each one their due and observe both Tables And Experience hath taught where Pietie hath bid Fare-well there Civilitie and comelie Policie hath lyke Ruth inseparablie followed Naomi and godlesse Barbaritie taken up their rowme And where GOD is not feared the King can not bee rightlie honoured for these two lyke Gemini both goe together and the strongest In-forcer is knowne to be the Conscience which where it is not informed no marvell that deformitie of manners and breach of duetie bee both to GOD and Man Now where it was requisite then moe Kirkes for this effect in sundry partes of our Countrey to have bene erected should such a concise abridgement of the number of these beene made which were auncientlie for severall Service appointed and had severall maintenance for that cause allotted as now-a-dayes necessitie flat contrarie requiring two to bee redacted to one especiallie their boundes being become more habitable and moe people now in-dwelling also the same Poore people in like-manner in many places how they are heere-by wronged their grieved hearts furnishing matter of regrate to their plain pleaning tongues and their sad querimonies powred foorth in-to the eares of every man indifferentlie give sufficient proofe when by the toylesome labour of the sixe dayes commanded their bodies beeing worne and wearied they shall be made up-on the Lords Sabbath with grieved hearts and grudging speaches to passe by and desert their owne commodious and kindly Parish Kirks where-in so frequentlie they had received the comfort of the Word and Sacraments and to trudge further to these new made Mother I had almost said Step-mother Kirks where in discontenting amazement after they have heard a Stranger-seeming voyce returning home-ward and backe-treading their tedious and uncouth way after ●●●tuall regrating they may justlie say That they have gotten both Preaching and Pennance together And what scandal and offence it is to those simple ones when they shal see Religion thus so little regarded by goodliest Professors and great men of the Land the exercises of the Worship of GOD in so many places extinguished so many Lamps of

the Candle-sticke of the Sanctuarie plainlie put out Mammon to have subjected mens hearts so to her slaverie that she hath made their hands to pull downe the Lords Houses and Manour-places of His Divine Worship the publishing of His Gospell so to be confyned the number of His Ministers so to be impared the Kirks Patrimonie still to be retained and now eternized as it were to the Posteritie and i● place of Restitution nothing to be eyther had or heard but mockage or railing as if Cham were revived or Shimei set on foote againe If this bee not matter to scandalize weake ones and woe bee un-to him who giveth offence to such or if this bee an examplare perswasion to such who are given moste to followe the example of their Superiours to respect Religion to reverence the Worship there-of to regarde Pastor or Place or to bee un-fallen away eyther in Errour or in meere Atheisme let anie one of judgement discerne Yea I dare boldlie and confidentlie with conspicuousnesse of trueth and equitie avouch Where two Parishes are made one that it had beene more urginglie necessarie of such Parishes that are but one and where-of there is a great number in the Land a division there of to have bene made each one in two or three competent sufficient ample parishes at least the most of such great parishes rather lyke pettie Shyres 〈◊〉 Countreyes in their severall Circuites beeing in the Inne-Countrey and most populous and best in-habited partes of the Land In which hudge parishes of so manie thousandes of Communicantes and of such farre and large extended boundes those that dwell in the utmost and remotest parts there-of are lyke the Iewes who once in the yeare onelie came up from their Borders and Coastes to the Temple of Hierusalem to worship Such is their anniversarie visiting of their parish Kirkes onelie it beeing not 〈◊〉 Sabbath-dayes but a Weeke-dayes journey to goe thither tho not the same day to returne And as Reuben and Gad and the halfe Trybe of Manasseh when they were dissmis●ed by Ioshua and had returned to Gilead the Land of thei● possession were forced for the longinquitie and farre distance of plac● from Shiloh where the LORDES Tabernacle was to build an Altar fo● a memoriall to them-selves even to testifie That they had parte in th● GOD of Iaakob and were not aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel So I say manie one and much people in such parishes a-fore-sayde and in manie partes of the Land have more than great necessitie in respect of their farre and remote habitations from their parish Kirkes to have erected amongst them-selves Temples of GODS Worship and exercise of Religion Seeing that in moste of these parishes the poore people other-wyse remain through want thereof lyke blind Idiots nusled up in Ignorance and Atheisme vvhose reuthful condition lyke that Vision of the man of Macedonia to the Apostle Paul in the Actes doeth pleade for lyke ayde and in-vocateth lyke pittie And amongst whome if our blessed SAVIOVR vvere corporallie as Hee was amongst the Iewes Hee should bee seene with lyke pittie and sighes to complaine and bewayle them because Hee saw them lyke Sheepe wanting a Shephearde it passing the power of anie one man tho never so diligent to discharge a Pastorall duetie no not to the halfe Hence it is that not onelie as by the Prophet the LORD complaineth That for want of knowledge His people perish and pittifull ignorance is seene in their myndes but also that such Barbaritie and vitiousnesse is seene in their manners Hence it is that moe are often-tymes seene in their Kirke-yardes gazing than with-in their thronged Kirkes gathering Hence it is that poore Infantes especiallie in Winter season have died with-out Baptisme before that eyther the Pastor could bee advertised in such a long and lingring way up-on necessitie to come or the Infant by anie meanes quarter way could bee brought And hence it is that manie a poore Soule with-out Pastorall praesence or notice hath died with-out comfort beside the manie fayntinges of poore and sillie ones by a wearisome way vvhich made CHRIST to bee compassionate towardes the Multitude and there-fore would not sende them away emptie For some of them came from a-farre sayeth the EVANGELIST Where other-wyse through putting up and not pulling downe of Kirkes Raysing and not razing Christian Synagogues Pastorall duetie in in-forming Ignorantes Reforming the vitious Comforting the distressed and vvatching over all should this vvay bee better discharged Subjectes and poore people more should bee eased the Countrey and Kingdome more should bee decored the fewer starting Holes ●eft to the subsidiarie Seminaries of the envious Adversaries Popple and Tares in the LORDES Fielde and the glorious GOSPELL of IESVS CHRIST more plenteouslie should abound and shyne in the Land But what shall I say Too dolefull experience of this clayie Age hath too well taught the facilitie of pulling downe but the too great difficultie in their places of putting up of Kirkes and the Ablative hath ever beene in farre easier use with us than anie wayes the Dative Practizing so the first parte of Zaccheus lyfe but not acting the last parte of his restitution and to impede heere-after anie expectation of the same converting nowe by a Retrograde the plurall number of Kirkes in-to a simple singular Yea to speake to such men of building of Kirkes where in such populous a-fore-sayde places there is more than neede or as Salomons Precept is of honouring the LORD so with their Riches a man shall seeme to them to bee a Barbarian whose Language they know not or like Ioseph with his Brethren as needing an Interpreter yea they shall thinke as is sayde of Peter That hee wist not what hee sayde when on Mount Tabor hee would have builded one Tabernacle to Moyses and one to Elias and one to CHRIST or as Festus objected to Paul That too much Learning had made him madde So that they who mynde such thinges too much Zeale hath made them franticke But speake of casting downe two Kirkes to make up one or annexing one unto its neighbour Parish hence-foorth ever to bee but one Cure and in sundrie places as it were alluding to Trinitie and Vnitie to cast three in one they will straight wayes applaude with that of the Poët Vnio divina est c. It is reported of Pericles that being asked by Alcibiades Why so often hee seemed so sadde and pensive Who aunswered Because sayde hee I remember up-on that Account which I have to make for that which I have received to build a Portch to Minervas Temple in Athens But howe few are now lyke to Pericles who mynde how much they are addebted to GOD to builde His Kirke or maintaine His Service or what Account they have to make before GOD and His Angels for the Meanes which they with-holde and where-on the same should bee done But on the contrarie make no conscience