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A45227	A seasonable vindication of the supream authority and jurisdiction of Christian kings, lords, parliaments, as well over the possessions as persons of delinquent prelates and churchmen, or, An antient disputation of the famous Bohemian martyr John Hus, in justification of John Wickliffs 17 article proving by 43 arguments taken out of fathers, canonists, school-men, the supream authority and jurisidiction of princes, parliaments, temporal lords, and other lay-men, who have endowed the church with temporalities, to take away and alien the temporal lands and possessions of delinquent bishops, abbots and church-men, by way of medicine or punishment, without any sacrilege, impiety or injustice : transcribed out of the printed works of Iohn Hus, and Mr. Iohn Fox his acts and monuments printed London 1641, vol. I, p. 585, &c : with an additional appendix thereunto of proofs and domestick presidents in all ages, usefull for present and future times / by William Prynne ...; Determinatio de ablatione temporalium a clericis. English	Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3802; ESTC R8509	98,591	126

c. 4 34 35 37. 1 Cor. 4. 11 12. 2 Cor. 6. 10. and other Texts though now decry'd in Presse and Pulpit as the only Sacriledge when none of these other kinds of real Sacriledge are once writ or preached against by them under the name or crime of Sacriledge which savors more of Passion than Devotion of Avarice than Prudence of Calumny then Verity of Self-interest than Christs interest On whom we may retort that of Tertullian in defence of the primitive Christians against the Pagans who reputed them sacrilegious for not adoring their Idols Tantum nos quos Sacrilegos existimatis nec in facto unquam deprebendistis nec in sacrilegio Omnes autem qui templa despoliant per Deos jurant eosdem colunt Christiani non sunt Sacrilegi tamen deprehenduntur But how are they found to be such to wit by their sacrilegious crucifying and dishonouring Christ through their sins by wresting the Scriptures breaking the sacred Law of Christ by contempt of his divine Majesty by polluting Gods worship with humane inventions innovations superstitions by buying and selling of Orders Benefices Bishopricks and Ecclesiastical Preferments and by mispending the Temporal Revenues of the Church upon their own Pomp Luxury Children Wives Kinred which in St. Bernards judgement is not only SACRILEDGE but likewise A DOVBLE INIQVITY which should cause them both to fear and tremble 2ly That the Popish Scholemen and Canonists themselves define Sacrilege formally and properly to be a quite other manner of sin than it is now reputed Formaliter proprie Sacrilegium est illud peccatum quod persona sacra agit contra ejus Sanctitatem directè That is Sacrilege is that sin which a sacred person commits directly against his Consecration As if a Bishop Minister Monk Nunne not Lay man Clergy man commits Adultery Fornication Drunkennesse or any other sin whereby he pollutes his soul or body which are the Temple of God and the holy Ghost and Members of Christ to the dishonor of his holy function and that Christian Religion and holinesse he professeth Whence they resolve Omne peccatum quod committet persona Ecclesiastica matet raliter quasi per accidens decitur Sacrilegium unde dicit Hieronimus Nugae●n ore Sucerdotis sunt Sacrilegium Hence Chrysologus Serm. 26. thus determines Ebrietas in alio crimen in Sacerdote Sacrilegium quia alter animam suam necat vinc Sacerdos spiritum sanc●itatis extinguit Salvian de Providentia l. 8. and Bochelius Sacrilegii genus est Dei odisse Cultores And Pope Innocentius cited by Alexander Alensis Sum. Theolog. Tom. 2. quest 171. m. 1. Quid sit Sacrilegium resolves committunt Sacrilegium qui contra divinae legis sanciitatem aut nesciendo committunt aut negligendo violant offendunt which Alensis acknowledgeth likewise to be Sacrilege And in verity the Scripture it self resolves nothing else to be properly Sacrilege under the Gospel but the violation of the sacred Law of God by Bishops Ministers or Christians and poluting profaning their souls and bodies which are or should be spiritual Temples of God and Members of Jesus Christ with grosse and scandalous Sins as is evident by Rom. 2. 22 23 24. Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou commit adultery thou that abhorrest Idols dost thou commit SACRILEGE Thou that makest thy boast of the Law through breaking the Law dishonorest thou God For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles thorough you Compared with the 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. chap. 6. 15 16 17 18 19 20. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you If any man defile or destroy the Temple of God him will God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which Temple ye are Know ye not that your bodies are the Members of Christ shall I then take the Members of Christ and make them the Members of an Harlot God forbid What know ye not that he which is joyned to an Harlot is one body for two saith he shall be one flesh But he that is joyned unto the Lord is one Spirit Flee Fornication he that committeth Fornication sinneth against his own body What know ye not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which ye have of God and ye are not your own For ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods Since then every violation of Gods sacred Law and pollution of our souls and bodies by Fornication Drunkennesse and other scandalous sins is the only formal and proper sin of Sacrilege by the resolution of Canonists Casuists Scholemen Fathers and God himself in the Gospel And if as St. Ierom Bernard Alensis others determine those Bishops and Church men Sacrilegium profecto committu●● do verily commit Sacrilege who take the Revenues and Lands of the Church first given in Frankalmoigne to feed and relieve the poor and pervert them to support their own Pomp Luxury Avarice or to enrich themselves their Children Kindred or Posterities I wonder our Bishops and Cathedral men are so mute in declaiming preaching printing against these real Sacrileges in themselves and so Clamorous only against that which really is no Sacrilege in others 3ly The Canonists and Scholemen do generally define Sacriledge to be committed 3. manner of waies 1. Ratione personae as if any Layman lay violent hands upon hurt wound strike or abuse any Ecclesiastical or Religious person and why not likewise upon any King or pious Christian if Psal. 105. 14 15. Zech. 2. 8. be Canonical on whom Popes Prelates can lay violent hands dethrone murder without any Sacrilege 2ly Ratione loci as when any Civil Magistrate or other Officer takes a Thief Murderer Traytor Rebell Fugitive Malefactor or person indebted out of a Church Chappel Churchyard Monastery or other Sanctuary consecrated by a Bishop by force without or against the Bishops Abbots Ordinaries or Parsons consent and why not as well out of any Tenement Glibe House or other Lands belonging to Bishops or Church-men or out of any Hospitals Colleges Scholes dedicated to pious uses 3ly Ratione rei which is threefold 1. Auferendo sacrum de sacro by taking a sacred thing out of a sacred place as consecrated Priests Nuns Vessels Vestments Utensils Ornaments out of a consecrated Church Chaple Sanctuary or Churchyard 2ly Auferendo n●n sacrum de sacro by taking things not consecrated as Money Plate Goods Armour Amunition Cattle hid or laid up in Churches Chaples Chuch yards Monasteries Sanctuaries or Malefactors out of them or taking away any Goods Monies Chattles from Church men or Religious persons 3ly Auferendo sacrum de non sacro by taking any Person or things consecrated by a Bishop out of a prophane place though a Brothel Tave●n Alehouse Inue which consecrated Prelates