Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07397	The vickers challenge claiming a maintainance as due by proofes out of the gospell : wherein is manifested, that there is a competencie due unto them / by Ios. Meene, vicker.	Meene, Joshua.	1640 (1640)	STC 17780.5; ESTC S2818	46,566	86

divelish is the prophane Impropriatours dealing He uttereth at last this propheticall sentence the decay of the revenues of the holy Church will one day bee the subversion of the Service of God and of his Religion Learned Plowden in his Commentaries writeth of this observation long since by our reverend Iudges how the Monkes perfidious purloining all the chiefe profits to themselves from the poore Vicars ushered in a world of wicked abuses And this is the prophane Impropriatours impious case He addeth as the revenue of the Parish Church decayed so likewise did preaching The Emperour Justinian was wont to affirme that from the beggery of the Ministery followes the subversion of that holy order and consequently of true Religion But herein the notorious Impropriators must be appealed as grievously guilty These sacred horse-leaches which never are satiated Prover 30. they have little regard to the fearefull judgement of God who at length without repentance and restitution will verifie upon them Solomans divinely inspired saying It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy The King will question how they came in hither not having a wedding garment And bids his servantes bind them hand and foote and take them away and cast them into utter darkenesse there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Matthew 22. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne 6. We demonstrate our observation from the recitall of sundry incōveniences which are incurred through defect of its due execution when as the painfull Ministers are deprived of their competent maintenance 1 We set down the decay of true Religion Doctor Andrews a Prelate of famous memory discovereth an indissolvable combination between sacred manners sacred meanes sacred persons and sacred revenues These he accounteth so closely connexed as the devouring of the one is the violation of them all And whiles the Laitie would swallow the last they subvert the rest It may be granted indeed to come for the most part to passe that when the portions of the Levites are not given them they flee every one to his field Nehemiah 13. Alas in their absence where is the teaching Priest but the wants of him bringeth men to be without the true God and witbout Law 2. Chron 15. For Romans 10. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they beleeve in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they heare without a Preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent And how may we presume that the Lord will vouchsafe to send them which bring glad tydings of good things and preach the Gospell of peace unlesse men thought their feet more beautifull and gave them better welcome But verily if this indignation happen then Proverbs 29 There is no vision then the people must needs perish For behold then the days come saith the Lord God that I will send a famine into the Land not a famine of bread uor a thirst for water but of hearing the Word of the Lord. And they shall wander from Sea to Sea and from the North even to the East they shall run too and fro to seeke the Word of the Lord and shall not finde it Amos 8. Monstrous then is the mischiefe and misery of this insatiable and direfull voracitie of sacred revenues so consequently of sacred persons of sacred manners of sacred means And in the execrable ravine of them loe these mysticall Canibals swallow up also humane creatures souls Quis talia faendo Myrmidonum Dolopumve aut duri miles Vlyssi Temperet a lachrymis What stony hearted person would not distill down showres of teares at such a spirituall destruction Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eat bread and call not upon the Lord Ps 14. Honour is the nurse of good Arts Preferment is the promoter of Vertues a liberall stipend allureth the valiant Souldiers unto service good wages attract the greatest labourers best diligence the richnesse of the prize addeth winged speed unto the runners of a race the sufficient furniture of the rack manger doth strengthen the work of the toylsome oxen the plants of the Sanctuary will not well prosper without the waters of the Sanctuary supple and refresh them Ezech. 47. Hezekiah commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the Priests and the Levites that they might be incouraged in the Law of the Lord. Demosthenes told the Athenians how they must not expect to finde such men who to do them service would be willing to undo their own selves Neither is it to be thought that men of excellent parts and eminent hopes can be readily wonne unto this divine profession Master Perkins complayneth whiles the sacred Ministery is so frequently compelled to performe a laborious travaile in the shamefull and tedious path way of beggery and much contempt over-dowdeth the Clergie God in his Law he further sheweth took a strict order to prevent this mischiefe touching the livings of the Levits If he had not so ordained it is like the corruption of men might have driven them to no lesse extremities then are the Ministers of this age who now under the Gospell be left much unprovided although deserving to be best rewarded He commendeth the children of this world meaning the Papists as much wiser in their kinde concerning this point then the Church of God which he affirmeth to be a notorious blemish unto the reformed profession likewise a lamentable eclypse unto the beauty brightnesse of Religion Lest therfore the number of able Pastors should decrease apace and the knowledge of the Gospell among us decay with them as fast hee doth earnestly wish and admonish both Supetiours and Inferiours to be carefull and jealous in their severall places for providing a sufficient remedy against this dangerous inconvenience For Panormitan well observeth Adtennitatem Beneficiorum necessariò sequitur ignorantia sacerdotum An unlearned and disable Ministery is for the most part occasioned from the poornesse of Ecclesiasticall Livings And Pope Alexander the Third blaming the horrible avarice and abuse of many Impropriating Monks addeth this as the cursed fruit of so vile and impious a practice That in those Regions scarce could there be found any Parochiall Priest who had even so much as a small portion of skill in the liberall Arts. From whence Pope Clement the Third truly declared pericula imminent animarum the grievous dangers of humane creatures souls do grow on apace If men held in as deer a regard their immortall souls as they generally do their corruptible bodies then would they never thus basely grudge unto the Pastors of them a liberall affluence of all necessaries so that no want of worthy respect nor of time nor of means might discourage them from making meet and manifold provision to lead to feed to fold to defend their flocks But wheras the needfull springs of these due supplyes become dry