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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54371	Christianity restored to its primitive purity, or the mercenary church reform'd being an abstract of a sermon, preached at Oak-wood Chappel in Surry, and at the Abbey Church in Bath June the 27th. 1699. Shewing that all true pastors must preach freely. By Jos. Perkins.	Perkins, Joseph, b. 1658.	1699 (1699)	Wing P1546; ESTC R221439	13,701	26

Hirelings because they flatter them but hate the true Pastors because they boldly tell the unpleasing Truth According as the Prophet Jeremiah has said cap. 5.30.31 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land The prophets prophesie falsely c. and my people love to have it so c. The Hireling sells his Sermons at as dear a rate as he can and we say in the Proverb Magis illa juvant quae pluris emuntur Things dear bought are good for Ladies those delicate people that cannot endure the severity of Gods Truth are best pleased with those temporizing fawning Chaplains that sow Pillows and daub with untempered Mortar A Hireling by corrupting the Word of God gets Preferment but a true Pastor like John the Baptist sometimes loses his Life for telling the Truth If Christ whipt out of the Temple such as Bought and Sold there What shall become of them that Buy and sell the very Temples themselves What shall become of them that Sell their very Sermons and Prayers c. What shall become of them that turn the holy Calling into a mercenary Trade for Gain I for my part am no Hireling but a Member of that pure and unspotted Church all whose Sons resemble their heavenly Father in giving Freely what he has freely given them For as God has freely given to us life and being and all things yea and his own Son Freely so does every one of his Children freely impart and communicate to each other 'T is not the Prayers nor Ceremonies nor Articles nor Homilies I Object against but the Pride and Covetousness of the present Church And therefore that Church wherein Preaching is made a Trade for gain that Church wherein Dignities are bestowed by Partiality that Church wherein there is no respect to Learning That Church which forbids Mariage that Church which Beats and Banishes her Pastors for Preaching the same sound Doctrine she pretends to maintain that Church wherein Buying and Selling of Parsonages c. are constantly practiced that Church that takes no Care of her own namely those of her own Houshold I do renounce with all the covetous Desires thereof as being fully perswaded that the nearer to this Church the farther from God Ad Concionatores Mercenarios Presbyter Argento conductus Rostra fatigat Praemia si tollas Presbyter ille silet Illum facundum fulvi spes reddidit Auri Hac dempiâ taciti Piscis ad instar erit Histrio Tibicen Cantores Causidicique Hi vocem vendunt Presbyteriq pij Unicus est Vates contemptus ridiculusque Officium tantum Praemia nulla petit Sol non conductus praebet sua lumina Mundo Et non conductus munere fungor Ego To the Mercenary Preachers In English thus By bribes of Silver Priest is Hir'd to Preach Take away those and ho'll no longer Teach Alass 't is Money makes him Eloquent His Voice is gone when golden Hopes are spent Actors and Fidlers Songsters Pleaders do Their Voices sell and so do Preachers too One Prophet vile and scorn'd yet has regard To th' Office only not to the Reward The Suns bright Flames to Mortals Freely Shine And whilst I Preach for nothing so do mine Loripedem Rectus derideat Aethiopem albus Juvenal The names of some of those Places where Jos. Perkins has Preached Freely Westminster Abbey 1 Lincolns Inn 2 Trinity Chappel 1 Oxenden Chappel 2 Knights bridge about 20 St. Fosters 1 St. Catherine Colemans 2 Wappin Chappel 1 Marabon 4 Hogidon Hospital 1 White Chappel 1 In Middlesex Teddington 1 Brentford 2 Fulham 1 Chelsea 6 In Surrey Kingston upon Thames 2 Peterson 1 Battersea 8 Tootin 6 Epsom 20 Ewill 20 Astead 3 Clannon 1 Oakwood-Chappel 9 In Kent Deptford 1 Woolwich where I was Banished 20 Eltham 1 Hampshire Winchester 1 Portsmouth 1 Kingston 1 Southhampton 5 Pear-tree 4 Abbots Ann 9 Amport 2 Wiltshire West-grimstead Essex Mersea Island Oxfordshire Coggs and other adjacent Places 3 Binsey 1 Hincksea 1 St. Bartholomews Hospital 7 Gloucestershire Wickwarr where I was Beaten for my Pains 14 Addersley 2 Newington 2 A Chappell near Newington 1 Bath Abbey 1 Bath Abbey 1 June 27 About 7 or 8 hundred times in all and yet I am not weary of well doing Ingratium dieas omnia dixeris FINIS The Author of this Book wears a white Scarfe and Girdle as the Badge of his Profession and to distinguish him from all Hirelings