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A26740 Sacriledge arraigned and condemned by Saint Paul, Rom. II, 22 prosecuted by Isaac Basire ; published first in the year 1646 by special command of His Late Majesty of glorious memory. Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676. 1668 (1668) Wing B1036; ESTC R25267 185,611 310

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the Houses and Lands dedicated for the maintenance of the Service and Servants of the true Gods whose Acceptance of such Oblations and consequently Gods Propriety in them we have clearly made out above Chap. vi p. 64. and elsewhere But this is and ever will be the true Character of our Modern Pharisees like the true off-spring of the Old Pharisees Matth. xxiii 24. To strain at a gnat and swallow a Camel To leave them therefore and by Application to turn unto you By this time we may hope that you and all good men not blinded with Schismatical Prejudice or bewitched with Sacrilegious Avarice will be really convinced of the CONCLUSION As for us That which was our Task to make good we have done God be thanked this Text is clearly our own a Divine and Direct Bar against the Sin of Sacriledge 2. And now after all this let the Fanatical Libertines of our Times in their Atheism or Ignorance say still that Sacriledge is but a Fancy with as good reason they may and rather then miss of the prey the Church-Lands haply they would if they durst say as much of Adultery that it is but a Fancy neither or of Idolatry or of Theft or of any sin that it is no more but so a Fancy also for some are grown now such proficients in the Schools of Atheism that they dare affirm Vertues and Vices to be but Opinions But we hope you have better learned Christ You see clearly that in the natural and full propriety of the word Sacriledge is here by Saint Paul expresly matched with all those Crimes As for the gain-sayers either they must admit all the premised absurdities or else which is far better let them in aserious Reflection upon their own folly and vain imaginations and a day of reckoning for them all speedily Repent and Recant these their own wilde Fancies lest if they go on in their earthly sensual devilish Wisdom these are an Apostles a Jam. 3.15 own Epithets of such Wits for so they would be called through Gods just judgment b Rom. 1.21 they become utterly vain in their own Imaginations and their foolish heart be for ever darkened And let them take heed lest by their wilful impenitency and hardness of heart they provoke a just God to pass upon them that terrible and final Sentence c 2 Thess ii 10 11 12. That because they would not receive the love of the Truth that they might be saved therefore God will send them strong delusion that they shall believe a lye that they all may be DAMNED 3. As for you whom God hath blessed with more of that true impartial wisdom which is from above let no man or men deceive you with vain words Since you have heard this truth so abundantly vouched from such undeniable Principles of all kinds from the Law of Nature from the Law of Moses which is the Law of God his Moral Law confirmed by the Law of Christ for no Text in all the whole Bible more plain against Sacriledge then this we have now treated of 4. Since this Solemn Devotion of Religiou● Consecrations whereby good Christians do binde themselves heart and hand and all back again unto God which is the very Nature of Religion d Religio à Religando Lact. hath been unquestionably transmitted to us down from Christ his dayes by the Practice Apostolical and Primitive by whole Juries of several Nations and indeed by the general Verdict of the Church Catholick throughout all Ages all over Christendom and sure in such an Universal sense Vox populi vox Dei one would think 5. Since by all Municipal Laws Civil and Statute Law your own Common Law it so clearly appears that the Churches Claim is no Imaginary Title but as Real as all these Laws can make it Since by them the Church is lawfully possessed of all her Demesnes Praedial as well as Personal unmoveables as well as moveables Houses and Lands as well as Tythes or Rents of Cathedral Lands as well as Glebe Lands which although now and here usually stylo novo restrained more strictly to Lands belonging to Parochial Churches and thence by too nice a distinction maliciously e Cornel. Burges chap. 1. and 4. of his Book for Sacriledge to make way for his Usurpation of the Cathedral Lands doth enter a Caution That he doth not extend his Plea to Parochial Glebes or appropriations of them which Glebes saith he cannot be taken though by his pretended Parliament these were also taken most unjustly from able and fai●hful Ministers by any humane Authority without bordering at least upon Sacriledge Thus he determines it without offering any the least solid proof for the Jus Divinum or for the exemption of Parochial Glebes from sale which may not be retorted in the behalf of Cathedral Lands as where he affirms Chap. 4. That the Glebes were given by men of Quality and Piety for the good of the Souls of the living so far as the Founders of those Churches were able to judge Why may not the same be said of Cathedral Lands He that reads the forms of Donations formerly cited will easily confute him And whereas he there restrains our Ministery only to the Office as he describes i● of truly and faithfully preaching Christ to the people of those places where such Lands were given This assertion is both a gross petitio principii a begging of the Question and also a Schismatical plot with tke pretence of preaching to justle out the publick Prayers of the Church as if the Solemn Office of the daily publick Prayers duly and daily celebrated in our Cathedrals including also Parish-Churches were not worth the naming which Office is by all sorts of Christians East and West all but the Puritans constantly practised and which indeed where through decay of the Primitive Devotion the daily use of the Eucharist is neglected is the only Juge Sacrificium left to the Christians instead of the Jews m rning and evening Lamb Ex. xxix 39. The daily Sacrifice of Prayers and Praises intimated by the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews chap. xiii 15. and so understood by the Ancients which daily publick Office of Prayers and Praises as it is profitable not to one single Parish only as the Office of Preaching but in a diffusive Charity to the whole Catholick Church and therefore for the good of the Souls of the Living so is it not at all as he maliciously would insinuate exclusive of the other Holy Office of Preaching that is Soberly and soundly Expounding the Holy Word of God and that also according to the Ancients whose streams may run clearer as they were nearer the fountain and Applying the Divine Word to the right Information of the Christian Faith and the wholesome Instruction of a Godly Life which to do aright is to Preach indeed an Office frequently practised also in our Cathedral Churches wrested to the exclusion of Cathedral Lands thereby the more plausibly