1
Cor.
9
chap.
part
of
the
9
verse
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
Oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corne
.
THe
Oxe
knoweth
his
owner
(
the
Prophet
Jsaiah
expresseth
)
I
might
thus
invert
the
words
in
a
mysticall
sense
;
Many
an
owner
knoweth
not
his
Oxe
.
For
if
he
did
take
meet
notice
of
him
as
he
ought
,
it
would
be
a
means
to
make
him
change
the
company
of
his
cruell
muzzles
,
into
competent
maintenance
.
But
as
a
righteous
man
regardeth
the
life
,
of
his
beast
,
so
the
bowels
of
the
wicked
are
cruell
,
Salomon
sheweth
.
These
times
of
Church-robberie
might
in
some
sort
be
said
to
resemble
the
season
of
Iobs
calamitie
;
The
Oxen
were
plowing
,
and
the
Asses
feeding
besides
them
.
It
falleth
out
in
these
dayes
of
ours
quite
contrary
unto
the
discourse
,
Gen.
41.
of
King
Pharaohs
dreame
:
for
behold
the
fat
Oxen
,
the
high
fleshed
Bulles
of
Bashan
doe
eate
up
the
leane
ones
by
devouring
their
due
means
.
How
should
they
then
be
strong
to
labour
,
that
there
be
no
breaking
in
nor
going
out
,
no
complaining
in
our
streets
,
Psal.
144.
Let
us
pray
the
Lord
of
the
great
harvest
,
Luke
10.
that
he
would
send
forth
labourers
into
his
field
,
and
into
his
Barne
,
and
that
they
may
be
liberally
allowed
whatsoever
is
requisite
for
their
painfull
places
.
And
that
through
his
grace
,
the
men
of
this
world
may
be
drawne
and
moved
to
practise
this
divine
precept
:
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
Oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corne
.
Our
Apostle
here
appeareth
like
that
excellent
housholder
in
the
Gospell
,
which
bringeth
forth
out
of
his
treasury
things
new
and
old
:
for
when
as
he
had
alledged
,
what
liberty
hee
might
have
justly
assumed
to
himselfe
in
sundry
other
particulars
;
loe
he
proceedeth
to
a
further
instance
touching
that
freedome
hee
could
also
rightly
take
,
by
vertue
of
his
ministeriall
function
,
in
the
matter
of
maintenance
.
To
warrant
the
goodnesse
of
this
his
claime
and
interest
,
he
seemeth
to
fetch
ayd
and
support
out
of
the
old
Testament
.
For
confirmation
of
this
point
,
to
raise
likewise
fit
supplyes
of
fresh
forces
to
the
same
purpose
out
of
the
new
.
The
sense
of
the
words
,
and
the
severall
parts
of
this
Text
shall
receive
their
dispatch
together
.
Observe
then
first
the
commander
,
secondly
,
the
person
commanded
:
thirdly
,
the
command
it selfe
:
fourthly
,
the
reason
of
the
command
.
1
Touching
the
Commander
.
If
wee
consider
him
as
he
is
supreme
;
behold
he
is
the
eternall
Law-giver
.
But
if
we
regard
him
as
he
is
subordinate
,
then
we
must
remember
Moses
his
servant
.
2
Touching
the
person
commanded
in
the
word
thou
,
let
us
comprehend
in
this
circumstance
,
primarily
the
children
of
Israel
:
secondarily
,
all
people
.
3
Touching
the
command
it selfe
in
this
clause
,
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
Oxe
.
Aquinas
admonisheth
to
understand
this
sentence
:
first
literally
of
Oxen
,
which
Ainsworth
affirmeth
,
are
here
named
but
for
an
instance
,
all
other
sorts
of
labouring
and
usefull
beasts
being
likewise
meant
under
that
terme
:
secondly
,
spiritually
,
of
the
Ministers
of
the
world
,
the
may
in
no
sort
be
muzzled
.
Or
at
the
Chaldee
Paraphrast
rendreth
it
,
have
their
mouthes
tyed
up
with
the
cruell
cords
of
sacriledge
.
The
sense
for
the
Oxen
is
plaine
as
the
words
sound
,
(
saith
Abulensis
)
but
yet
it
is
not
the
principall
;
for
the
sense
which
concerneth
the
Ministers
is
chiefe
,
and
especially
intended
of
the
holy
Ghost
.
4
Touching
the
reason
of
the
command
thus
rehearsed
,
that
treadeth
out
the
corne
;
or
as
others
reade
it
,
when
he
treadeth
,
in
his
treading
or
threshing
:
In
those
dayes
flayles
were
not
in
use
,
but
the
feet
of
beasts
,
Hos.
10.
other
whiles
wheeles
,
sometime
stones
,
Isa.
28.
One
of
the
Hebrew
Rabbines
recordeth
a
law
currant
in
that
nation
,
with
a
penalty
upon
the
offending
person
;
How
the
beast
must
not
be
hindred
from
feeding
in
his
plowing
,
sowing
,
reaping
the
crop
,
treading
out
the
corne
,
carriage
of
burdens
,
&c.
All
which
(
Expositours
write
)
must
be
mystically
reflected
upon
the
Evangelicall
Priests
.
Thou
shall
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
Oxe
,
&c.
The
doctrine
from
the
premisses
may
be
collected
in
this
forme
:
The
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
which
labour
in
getting
out
and
exhibiting
the
graine
of
Gods
word
unto
the
people
,
must
in
no
wise
be
debarred
from
the
meanes
of
their
meet
maintenance
in
that
respect
.
For
proofe
of
this
point
:
first
,
we
will
muster
up
together
the
arguments
of
our
Apostle
in
this
present
chapter
:
secondly
,
wee
will
adjoyne
some
collaterall
places
for
confirmation
of
the
premisses
:
thirdly
,
wee
will
expresse
the
certainty
of
our
proposition
from
the
nature
and
exigencie
of
the
place
of
the
Ministery
:
fourthly
,
we
will
declare
the
truth
of
this
doctrine
from
the
duenesse
of
tythes
by
divine
right
to
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
:
fiftly
,
wee
will
prove
the
poynt
by
discourse
of
the
unequall
condition
of
Impropriations
:
sixtly
,
wee
will
demonstrate
our
observation
from
the
recitall
of
sundry
inconveniences
,
which
are
incurred
through
defect
of
its
due
execution
.
A
threefold
cord
is
not
quickly
broken
,
was
part
of
King
Salomons
Sermon
.
Ecclesiastes
4.
the
same
strength
in
perswasion
befalls
this
sixefold
combination
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
.
&c.
1
Wee
will
muster
up
together
the
arguments
of
our
Apostle
in
this
present
chapter
:
wherein
wee
might
not
amisse
professe
,
how
hee
unclaspeth
a
double
volume
touching
the
case
;
namely
,
the
booke
of
nature
,
and
the
booke
of
Gods
word
.
In
the
booke
of
nature
,
first
we
may
behold
him
arguing
the
matter
with
an
assembly
of
similitudes
gathered
together
from
the
vocations
of
warre
and
peace
,
verse
7.
Who
goeth
a
warfare
at
any
time
at
his
owne
charges
?
who
planteth
a
vineyard
,
and
eateth
not
of
the
fruit
thereof
?
or
who
feedeth
a
flocke
,
and
eateth
not
of
the
milke
of
it
?
As
then
souldiers
have
deservedly
their
due
stipends
:
as
husbandmen
reape
their
answerable
fruits
:
as
shepheards
receive
their
pastorall
profits
:
Surely
so
must
the
spirituall
Ministers
,
the
chariots
and
horsemen
of
Israel
,
the
Captaines
of
Christian
companies
under
the
great
Generall
our
Lord
Iesus
,
have
their
full
pay
and
wages
.
So
must
the
mysticall
husbandmen
in
the
Vineyard
and
Garden
of
his
Church
,
freely
participate
of
the
grapes
and
fruits
of
their
paines
and
plantations
.
So
must
the
shepheards
of
mens
soules
receive
meet
benefit
from
among
their
tended
flockes
,
and
be
fed
with
the
milke
of
nurcing
fathers
and
nurcing
mothers
breasts
.
As
the
Souldier
meriteth
his
military
stipend
,
the
vineyard-planter
his
wine
,
the
Shepheard
his
wooll
:
So
must
the
spirituall
Pastors
(
representing
all
these
callings
in
a
divers
kinde
)
be
thought
to
deserve
,
and
indeed
receive
liberall
recompence
for
their
labours
.
2.
Herein
we
might
see
our
Apostle
making
his
matter
good
from
the
manner
of
other
Teachers
:
their
example
he
assumeth
as
sufficient
evidence
for
himselfe
.
Since
their
practise
was
to
take
of
the
people
meanes
for
their
maintenance
,
and
it
was
a
lawfull
course
for
them
so
to
doe
;
The
consequence
then
seemed
very
good
and
justifiable
for
him
to
use
no
lesse
liberty
.
Yea
being
a
chiefe
Apostle
,
a
principall
Teacher
,
he
appeared
to
have
so
much
the
more
licence
herein
the
sundry
ordinary
Ministers
.
Thus
verse
12.
If
others
be
partakers
of
this
power
over
you
,
are
not
we
rather
?
Dux
milite
major
,
ratem
qui
temperat
,
anteit
remigis
officium
:
If
the
common
Souldier
may
justly
challenge
a
competent
part
of
the
spoyle
,
then
may
the
Generall
well
expect
a
richer
portion
,
a
prey
of
divers
colours
of
needle-worke
,
Iudges
5.
And
if
the
Marriner
can
rightly
claime
any
priviledge
,
then
can
the
Pilot
lawfully
demand
matters
of
more
preheminence
.
So
where
a
simple
Priest
hath
a
sufficient
interest
,
much
more
an
Apostle
,
a
Prelate
hath
a
title
in
a
higher
degree
prevalent
.
2
In
the
booke
of
Gods
word
,
Saint
Paul
doth
assure
this
matter
with
an
invincible
power
of
divine
decrees
.
Say
J
these
things
as
a
man
(
he
expostulateth
)
or
saith
not
the
law
the
same
also
?
for
it
is
written
,
he
sheweth
,
in
the
law
of
Moses
,
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
Oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corne
.
Doth
God
take
care
for
Oxen
?
or
saith
he
it
altogether
for
our
sakes
?
no
doubt
this
is
,
that
hee
that
ploweth
should
plow
in
hope
,
and
hee
that
thresheth
in
hope
,
should
be
partaker
of
his
hope
,
verses
.
8.9.10
.
The
Apostle
here
appeareth
with
a
Prolepsis
in
his
speeches
;
for
he
preventeth
that
objection
,
which
some
might
perchance
oppose
against
these
similitudes
assumed
from
worldly
things
,
because
of
the
difference
of
humane
matters
from
divine
:
wherefore
hee
confirmeth
the
dictate
of
naturall
reason
with
the
determination
of
the
law
of
the
Lord
,
Deut.
25.
The
argument
is
drawne
in
this
place
,
first
,
from
the
lesser
to
the
greater
:
if
Gods
providence
be
thus
good
and
gracious
toward
Oxen
,
surely
then
it
shineth
in
a
more
excellent
manner
of
care
for
the
children
of
men
.
His
statute
touching
Oxen
,
Saint
Ambrose
telleth
us
,
was
not
intended
there
to
stay
,
and
to
stretch
no
further
;
but
it
meant
more
especially
humane
creatures
,
most
of
all
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
.
When
as
then
the
eyes
of
all
living
wights
wait
upon
the
Lord
,
and
he
giveth
them
their
meat
in
due
season
,
he
openeth
his
hand
and
sarisfieth
the
desire
of
every
creature
:
he
giveth
to
the
beast
his
food
,
and
to
the
young
Ravens
that
cry
,
hee
causeth
the
grasse
to
grow
for
the
cattell
,
he
sendeth
the
Springs
into
the
vallies
to
give
them
drinke
,
and
that
the
wilde
Asses
may
quench
their
thirst
.
Hee
appointeth
the
fowles
of
the
heaven
their
habitation
,
which
sing
among
the
branches
,
the
Cedars
to
make
their
nests
,
and
for
the
Storke
an
house
of
firre
trees
:
the
high
hils
a
refuge
for
the
wilde
Goats
,
and
the
rockes
for
the
Conies
,
as
we
reade
in
the
Psalmist
.
Besides
,
the
Sparrowes
,
(
two
of
which
are
sold
for
a
farthing
)
be
under
his
protection
,
Matth.
6.
yea
,
hee
hath
vouchsafed
to
make
a
solemne
law
and
constitution
in
the
behalfe
of
oxen
for
their
allowance
.
Certainly
then
his
pleasure
is
plaine
,
his
precept
is
perpetuall
,
that
the
spirituall
oxen
of
the
Clergie
,
which
labour
in
the
field
of
his
Church
,
must
never
bee
muzzled
from
enjoying
the
just
meanes
of
their
painefull
places
.
If
under
the
example
of
the
Oxe
(
as
Rabbi
Solomon
inferreth
)
a
due
provision
of
sustence
for
every
labouring
beast
is
enacted
,
and
no
unequall
dealing
touching
them
dispensed
with
.
Behold
then
the
Ecclesiasticall
toylers
must
doe
it
in
hope
,
and
follow
their
worke
with
fruition
of
reward
:
yea
indeed
ruling
well
,
and
being
diligent
in
word
and
doctrine
,
be
counted
worthy
of
double
honour
,
for
the
Scripture
saith
,
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
Oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corn
,
and
the
labourer
is
worthy
of
his
reward
,
1
Tim.
5.
Thus
the
bruit
beasts
(
as
Athanasius
and
Chrysostome
also
conceive
)
which
at
first
were
made
for
the
use
of
men
,
are
like
wise
here
mentioned
not
so
much
for
themselves
,
as
most
for
their
sakes
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
,
&c.
2
Our
Apostle
evinceth
his
assertion
by
undenyable
termes
of
comparison
,
or
he
draweth
an
argument
from
the
greater
to
the
lesse
:
Jf
we
have
sowne
unto
you
spirituall
things
,
is
it
a
great
thing
if
wee
shall
reape
your
carnall
things
,
verse
11.
As
if
he
should
have
said
,
if
we
provide
for
your
soules
,
it
is
a
poore
recompence
that
you
should
provide
for
our
bodies
,
because
as
the
soule
farre
way
excelleth
the
body
,
so
the
food
for
the
soule
very
much
surmounteth
the
price
and
worth
of
bodily
sood
.
If
we
of
the
Ministery
bring
you
bagges
which
waxe
not
old
,
a
treasure
in
the
heavens
that
faileth
not
,
wheras
neither
thiese
approacheth
,
nor
moath
corrupteth
,
Luke
12.
Then
open
your
earthly
purses
,
grudge
not
your
transitory
treasures
in
that
manner
which
Almighty
God
hath
commanded
for
our
maintenance
.
If
we
bring
you
Matth.
13.
that
one
pearle
of
great
price
;
that
invaluable
treasure
hid
in
a
field
;
lose
it
not
then
by
sparing
of
cost
,
cast
it
not
away
for
feare
of
charge
,
but
imitate
that
devout
and
wise
Merchant
man
there
commended
,
who
forsooke
and
sold
any
worldly
thing
he
had
,
for
to
buy
that
field
,
to
purchase
that
goodly
pearle
.
Quae
vos
nobis
rependitis
nequaquam
collatis
in
vos
beneficiis
respondent
:
nos
aterna
,
spiritualiae
,
coelestia
offerimus
;
vos
fluxa
,
temporalia
,
caduca
,
fragilia
refertis
.
Alas
would
men
make
an
impartiall
estimate
in
this
matter
,
they
would
soone
then
conclude
with
themselves
,
that
there
is
no
proportionable
comparison
between
those
good
things
they
bring
to
their
Pastors
,
and
those
glad
tidings
brought
by
their
Ministers
unto
them
,
betweene
the
bread
of
the
earth
,
and
the
bread
of
heaven
,
between
the
meat
which
perisheth
,
&
the
meat
which
indureth
.
Quis
ignorat
spiritualia
carnalibus
esse
multo
praestantiora
?
what
is
the
temporall
tythe
which
Parishioners
returne
their
Priests
,
if
wee
consider
the
eternall
truth
which
the
Priests
teach
their
Parishioners
?
what
,
seemes
the
sheaves
of
corne
to
stand
in
any
termes
of
worth
with
their
sentences
of
comfort
?
how
vile
appeare
their
payments
to
the
vertue
of
their
prayers
?
how
poore
are
their
offerings
to
the
price
of
their
orations
?
O
fortunatos
nimium
,
bona
sisua
norint
,
agricolas
!
Oh
happy
countrey
men
if
they
knew
their
owne
advantage
in
this
change
;
if
they
would
well
count
what
huge
and
heavenly
oddes
of
gain
they
get
by
reason
of
this
permutation
!
Let
me
expostulate
a
little
with
them
to
inform
them
aright
.
Is
the
expence
of
corruptible
Mammon
equivalent
to
the
purchase
of
coelestiall
Sermons
?
Is
the
gift
of
glebes
of
answerable
value
to
the
gain
of
godlinesse
?
are
Lammas
profits
of
like
excellency
as
the
fruits
of
Paradise
?
Can
the
contents
of
this
present
wildernesse
countervaile
the
commodities
of
the
land
of
promise
?
doth
drosse
equall
gold
?
will
water
match
wines
?
may
earth
mate
heaven
?
can
vanity
compare
with
eternity
?
Surely
,
I
would
wish
those
worldly
minded
persons
,
which
presume
upon
such
disproportionable
paradoxes
,
to
annoint
their
eyes
with
eye-salve
,
that
they
may
see
,
Apocalypse
3.
Then
they
will
not
onely
soone
discerne
an
infinite
distance
betweene
the
vertue
and
worth
of
these
severals
,
but
moreover
certainly
determine
touching
this
point
,
Rom.
15.
If
they
have
been
made
partakers
of
their
spirituall
things
,
their
duty
also
is
to
minister
unto
them
in
carnall
things
,
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
3
Our
Apostle
fortifieth
his
case
with
an
argument
from
Gods
ordinance
in
this
wise
;
Doe
not
ye
know
that
they
which
minister
about
holy
things
,
live
of
the
things
of
the
Temple
?
and
they
which
wait
at
the
Altar
,
are
partakers
with
the
Altar
?
even
so
hath
the
Lord
ordained
,
that
they
which
preach
the
Gospell
,
should
live
of
the
Gospell
,
verses
13.14
.
What
God
the
Father
primarily
constituted
in
this
case
,
was
not
afterwards
cancelled
by
God
the
Sonne
,
saith
Aretius
,
for
there
is
the
same
reason
alwayes
subsisting
of
conserving
the
worship
of
God
.
And
that
indeed
was
amongst
all
nations
(
he
noteth
)
by
a
publique
maintenance
.
This
publique
worke
requireth
publique
wages
,
Aquinas
writeth
.
Wherefore
some
have
here
supposed
,
how
the
condition
of
this
place
hath
a
twofold
reflection
,
namely
upon
the
Priests
of
the
Lord
,
and
the
Priests
of
the
Gentiles
.
Ipsa
naturalis
ratio
hoc
habet
,
ut
quis
inde
vivat
unde
laborat
:
Saint
Ambrose
affirmeth
,
how
even
naturall
reason
alledgeth
thus
much
,
that
folkes
must
look
to
live
of
that
function
,
wherein
they
labour
.
By
a
divine
law
in
the
old
Testament
,
the
Ministers
had
a
publique
and
certaine
provision
of
meanes
ordained
for
their
liberall
maintenance
,
therefore
much
more
the
Ministers
of
the
new
Testament
,
because
their
Ministery
is
the
most
excellent
.
The
Priests
of
the
Heathens
had
likewise
this
priviledge
;
good
reason
then
that
the
Priests
of
the
Christians
should
receive
herein
no
lesse
,
but
rather
a
large
allowance
.
If
any
would
plead
,
why
pretend
you
the
Law
of
Moses
unto
us
,
who
are
not
now
obliged
to
these
antiquated
rules
living
under
the
Gospell
?
Behold
Saint
Paul
in
this
place
opposeth
against
them
the
divine
appointment
afresh
:
But
if
they
replyed
,
when
did
that
appeare
?
we
answer
,
even
in
that
season
,
when
our
Saviour
Christ
sent
forth
his
Disciples
,
inhibiting
them
to
make
provision
for
their
owne
selves
,
as
most
due
unto
them
from
others
in
regard
for
their
labour
and
paines
:
threatning
also
such
as
welcomed
them
not
in
this
contribution
besides
attention
.
Calvin
here
collected
how
the
Ministers
,
should
not
live
on
those
whom
they
teach
,
as
depending
upon
almes
(
according
to
the
errour
of
the
Anabaptists
)
but
upon
the
Gospell
.
For
the
Lord
saith
Theophylact
,
hath
so
determined
the
matter
,
by
enacting
in
the
new
Testament
.
Lawes
conformable
to
the
old
.
So
that
after
what
manner
hee
had
anciently
set
downe
,
that
he
who
serveth
about
the
Altar
,
must
live
of
the
Altar
.
So
now
hee
likewise
sheweth
,
how
the
Evangelicall
Preachers
,
must
not
live
barely
of
the
peoples
allowance
,
but
of
the
Gospell
,
least
perchance
their
auditours
would
wax
proud
and
domineering
over
them
,
through
aswelling
conceit
,
that
they
had
their
meanes
from
them
,
and
so
were
beholding
unto
them
.
The
maintenance
then
of
the
Ministery
(
it
is
here
manifest
)
ought
not
to
bee
eleemosynarie
,
or
upon
benevolence
:
but
a
setled
and
affixed
portion
:
namelie
the
tith
of
the
increase
of
the
fruites
of
the
earth
.
For
these
seeme
fittest
by
Gods
owne
ordinance
of
them
;
first
,
to
the
Leviticall
Priesthood
,
and
secondly
,
after
the
change
of
that
Service
,
by
way
of
intailement
of
them
to
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
.
Whereby
(
Saint
Chrysostome
declareth
)
the
Priests
which
by
right
receive
them
,
may
not
be
upbraded
;
and
the
Parishioners
,
who
are
bound
to
pay
them
,
must
not
boast
nor
bee
puffed
up
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
&c.
wee
are
now
secondly
,
to
adjoyne
some
collaterall
places
for
confirmation
of
the
premisses
.
I
will
not
bee
tedious
with
instances
,
the
tender
of
this
one
place
unto
you
,
Galatians
the
6.
may
seeme
sufficient
:
Let
him
that
is
taught
in
the
Word
,
communicate
unto
him
that
teacheth
in
all
good
things
.
Be
not
deceived
:
God
is
not
mocked
:
for
whatsoever
a
man
soweth
,
that
shall
he
also
reape
,
&c.
Saint
Paul
in
this
passage
appeareth
to
use
very
significant
speeches
for
the
purpose
.
It
is
not
amisse
to
examine
them
in
a
serious
manner
,
that
we
may
the
more
evidently
perceive
,
what
a
necessary
duty
lyeth
upon
the
Laity
to
render
backe
a
good
returne
of
temporals
unto
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
.
The
first
word
which
hee
useth
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
let
him
communicate
;
by
this
terme
Saint
Chryostome
tels
us
how
he
intimateth
that
there
must
bee
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
vicissitude
and
intercourse
,
a
flux
and
reflux
of
heavenly
and
earthly
things
,
betweene
the
Priest
&
the
Parish
.
Iustice
it selfe
challengeth
thus
much
,
for
men
to
expresse
their
due
thankfulnesse
toward
their
Teachers
,
by
bountifull
recompencing
of
their
Pastorall
labours
with
abundant
supplies
of
all
conveniences
.
Secondly
,
hee
useth
the
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
which
terme
may
be
taken
for
the
delivering
of
any
doctrine
,
by
the
organ
of
the
voyce
to
instruct
others
in
the
mysteries
of
the
Christian
Religion
.
The
Apostle
therefore
in
this
place
,
appeareth
to
put
a
plaine
difference
betweene
the
labouring
and
lazie
Ministers
,
betweene
the
diligent
Bees
and
idle
Drones
,
between
the
industrious
treaders
out
of
the
corne
,
and
the
voluptuous
caters
up
of
the
corne
.
There
must
bee
ratio
dati
et
accepti
,
saith
Arboreus
,
a
true
reckoning
on
both
sides
;
the
Pastour
must
piously
imploy
his
talent
,
and
the
Parishioner
must
profitably
reply
in
his
element
;
the
Minister
must
performe
his
part
,
and
the
Auditour
must
doe
his
duty
:
the
Sower
must
reape
,
and
the
receiver
must
returne
a
croppe
with
increase
.
Thirdly
,
we
meete
with
the
manner
of
communication
subjoyned
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
all
good
things
:
not
in
a
few
,
but
in
all
;
love
,
reverence
,
and
maintenance
,
Athanasius
noteth
,
expressing
al
liberalitie
towards
them
,
Saint
Chryostome
observeth
.
Which
they
may
very
well
fulfill
(
these
Fathers
affirme
)
as
receiving
much
more
,
then
they
can
returne
.
This
is
a
rule
saith
Doctor
Mayer
to
supply
the
Ministers
with
all
necessaries
;
especially
(
as
is
most
agreeable
to
the
divine
Law
)
the
people
are
hereby
injoyned
freely
and
willingly
to
communicate
in
all
those
goods
,
which
bee
the
severall
increases
of
their
fruites
of
the
earth
unto
them
.
Surely
this
verse
seemeth
very
powerfull
against
no
small
number
of
covetous
worldlings
.
Some
will
impart
nothing
at
all
to
their
Pastours
maintenance
,
but
only
perforce
:
some
will
expend
in
this
case
but
a
poore
and
unworthy
pittance
.
Some
besides
wretched
miserablenesse
use
wicked
deceit
&
fraud
in
their
payments
.
They
pretend
ill
trading
,
how
their
corne
is
thinne
,
their
cattle
did
not
thrive
,
their
fruits
were
few
,
&c.
the
times
are
hard
,
their
charge
is
great
,
their
meanes
be
small
,
&c.
But
this
I
say
,
hee
that
soweth
sparingly
shall
reape
sparingly
,
and
hee
which
soweth
bounlifully
shall
reape
bountifully
.
2
Corinthians
3.
These
covetous
Idolaters
carry
themselves
cleane
contrary
to
the
Apostles
precept
:
behold
hee
pleadeth
for
liberality
,
but
they
practise
parsimony
;
he
is
for
sincerity
,
but
they
for
subtilty
;
he
desireth
plain-dealing
,
but
they
delight
in
impostures
.
Let
not
then
men
thus
impiously
erre
in
this
enjoyned
communicatiō
of
their
goods
.
It
is
best
for
every
one
to
take
heede
of
deceitfull
excuses
in
this
kind
,
Anselmus
admonisheth
;
because
although
humane
creatures
may
be
often
deluded
,
yet
the
alseeing
Lord
,
the
searcher
of
the
heart
and
the
reynes
is
never
gone
beyond
.
These
cunning
pretexts
may
coozen
many
men
,
but
the
Lord
doth
easily
discerne
through
the
closest
mist
of
thei
Sacrilegious
falshood
,
Saint
Hierome
sheweth
.
This
sinne
is
much
greater
then
you
suppose
,
saith
Aretius
,
God
is
not
mocked
,
there
will
follow
a
doomesday
booke
,
a
reckoning
season
,
when
as
such
base
minded
Earthwormes
shall
reape
as
they
have
sowne
;
namely
,
for
their
corrupt
and
unconscionable
dealing
,
the
proper
wages
thereof
,
that
is
to
say
,
eternal
death
and
damnation
.
These
Church-robbing
sinnes
,
which
now
not
seldome
minister
matter
of
laughter
to
profane
worldlings
,
and
seeme
but
veniall
in
their
seduced
imaginations
,
will
then
shew
forth
a
scarlet
colour
,
a
crimson
dy
of
a
mournefull
and
mortall
nature
amongst
the
greatest
and
most
grievous
offences
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
Thirdly
,
wee
are
to
expresse
the
nature
of
our
proposition
,
from
the
nature
and
exigency
of
the
place
of
the
Ministery
.
It
is
the
complaint
of
learned
and
religious
Bishop
Davenant
,
Imperita
plebecula
feriari
nos
arbitratur
totos
dies
,
nec
aliquid
negotii
habere
postquam
Templo
pedem
extulerimus
:
The
ignorant
Common
people
imagineth
that
wee
make
many
holi-dayes
,
and
that
wee
have
nothing
to
doe
but
onely
at
Church
.
Neverthelesse
,
our
case
is
cleane
otherwise
;
for
besides
the
outward
exercise
of
our
Pastorall
function
,
behold
,
there
is
,
of
not
a
perpetuall
,
yet
a
daily
burden
of
prayer
,
meditation
,
study
,
&c.
Imposed
upon
our
shoulders
;
so
that
the
truth
is
,
wee
never
loyter
lesse
,
then
when
wee
are
thought
to
be
most
at
leasure
.
It
is
impossible
to
sustaine
these
&
sundry
other
painefull
incumbencies
,
proper
to
our
places
without
sufficiencie
,
and
affluence
of
competent
maintenance
.
The
want
of
this
,
may
well
occasion
the
Clergy
to
impute
the
fault
of
fayling
in
these
duties
unto
the
iniquity
of
the
times
,
and
the
penuriousnesse
of
the
people
,
euen
as
victorious
Annibal
cryed
out
,
negando
supplementum
,
vos
retraxistis
,
how
he
was
perforce
drawn
out
of
almost
Conquered
Jtaly
,
by
the
Carthaginians
pernicious
parsimony
.
If
ver
erat
aeternum
,
per
se
dabat
omnia
t●llus
:
the
golden
age
were
still
in
esse
,
with
a
free
will
offering
of
all
delights
and
necessaries
.
If
bread
and
fish
rained
voluntarily
downe
from
Heaven
,
as
is
reported
to
have
fallen
in
the
dayes
of
the
Emperour
Otho
the
third
.
Were
the
doctrine
of
the
Iewish
Talmud
,
verified
for
the
present
in
this
Iland
,
touching
the
free
and
ready
preparednesse
of
all
manner
of
Victuals
.
Could
wee
attaine
to
have
the
Angels
our
Caters
with
the
Heremite
Or
in
the
desert
of
Thebaies
:
or
with
another
fabulous
bird
of
the
same
feather
Saint
Alpias
,
to
live
a
longer
space
here
on
earth
without
hunger
and
thirst
.
Were
wee
able
to
walke
as
farre
with
bread
and
water
,
as
the
Prophet
Elijah
went
1
Kings
,
19.
Or
might
our
poore
and
small
measure
of
provision
miraculously
multiply
like
the
Widdows
little
cruse
of
oyle
,
and
handfull
of
meale
into
many
indeficient
vessels
1
Kings
17.
and
2
Kings
4.
Or
would
a
few
loaves
and
fishes
suffice
to
feed
thousands
,
and
increase
into
sundry
basketfuls
of
fragments
Matthew
14.
Could
our
cloathes
(
like
the
Israelites
in
their
forty
yeares
travaile
through
the
deserts
)
continue
without
waxing
old
upon
us
,
and
our
shooes
hold
good
without
wast
and
decay
on
our
feete
,
Deuteronomy
,
29.
If
a
Manna
honey-dew
could
still
bee
gathered
,
during
the
terme
of
our
mortall
pilgrimage
:
or
such
a
sweete
showre
did
mellifluously
drop
upon
our
drowping
spirits
,
as
Antoninus
affirmeth
to
have
descended
upon
the
Christian
Host
,
marching
out
of
Antioch
against
the
cruell
Turke
Corbonach
,
whereby
a
cheerefull
vigour
of
minde
and
body
,
confirmed
them
in
all
the
occurrences
of
that
dangerous
expedition
.
Were
wee
Chameleon
complexion'd
to
feed
on
the
ayre
;
or
mouthlesse
like
the
Indian
Astomi
,
to
live
by
odour
;
Then
should
Sacrilegious
depredation
and
spoile
bee
borne
with
more
patience
,
and
not
bring
so
much
harme
and
prejudice
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
Moreover
,
whereas
(
contrary
to
Anabaptists
humours
,
who
abide
no
Books
but
the
Bible
,
&
some
of
them
not
so
much
as
that
)
a
good
Library
is
the
most
necessary
Magazin
&
storehouse
,
for
to
make
meete
provision
of
Sacred
food
for
mens
soules
.
Yea
also
to
discover
and
discomfit
the
wilde
Boares
of
the
wood
,
the
ravenous
Wolues
,
and
crafty
Foxes
;
namely
Tyrants
,
Machiavellians
,
Infidels
,
Heretiques
,
Hypocrites
,
Profanistes
,
Schismatiques
,
which
continually
watch
occasion
to
surprize
,
worry
,
and
devoure
the
Flocke
.
Were
now
as
easie
and
cheape
a
way
at
our
wishes
,
to
get
this
same
needfull
company
of
meete
Bookes
;
as
we
reade
how
once
a
Ship
came
floating
into
Alexandria
of
the
owne
accord
full
fraught
with
Armour
to
furnish
their
wants
.
Or
were
not
the
expensive
precepts
of
Hospitality
and
almes
deeds
,
of
necessity
to
bee
performed
for
discharge
of
dutie
and
example
to
the
flocke
.
Or
would
the
Almighty
and
most
glorious
God
,
the
bountifull
giver
of
all
Majestie
,
riches
and
honour
,
the
benigne
bestower
of
all
pretious
blessings
well
please
and
take
it
,
that
even
not
seldome
in
an
ordinary
mans
house
there
appeares
a
stately
structure
,
a
faire
Cupboard
of
plate
,
a
sumptuous
furniture
,
a
costly
table
,
a
seemly
attendance
,
a
stable
of
good
Geldings
,
&c.
And
yet
will
hee
bee
contented
that
his
divine
house
shall
remaine
,
in
as
bad
condition
many
times
as
a
ruinous
,
sordid
,
and
confused
cottage
;
with
a
course
carpet
,
a
home
spunne
cloath
to
cover
his
holy-board
,
with
a
poore
Parsonage
,
a
beggarly
Vicaridge
,
a
thred-bare
coate
,
a
hungry
table
&c.
With
the
worst
and
most
refuse
tith
for
his
tenthes
;
with
poverty
,
neglect
,
and
basenesse
for
his
Service
and
Ministers
?
Doe
ye
thus
requite
the
Lord
,
oh
foolish
people
and
unwise
:
Deuteronomie
32
?
Is
this
unworthy
and
blind
partialty
agreeable
to
the
due
of
his
glory
,
to
the
dignity
of
Christian
soules
,
to
the
direction
of
Ecclesiasticall
decency
,
to
the
excellency
of
the
Clergies
profession
,
to
the
credit
of
our
Religion
?
Or
were
these
and
the
like
particulars
,
impropriate
upon
our
owne
private
respects
,
and
not
chiefely
concerning
the
honour
of
God
,
the
propagation
of
the
Gospell
,
the
welfare
of
the
people
?
Then
Barbarus
has
segetes
,
we
could
the
better
suffer
with
wronged
Mephibosheth
the
Sacrilegious
Ziba
to
take
all
.
Then
tithes
,
oblations
,
and
glebes
might
bee
detracted
from
the
Clergy
,
with
a
great
deale
lesse
griefe
and
injury
to
themselves
,
also
with
much
smaller
harme
and
inconvenience
to
their
Cures
.
But
now
since
proportionable
meanes
are
the
necessary
nerves
of
proceeding
forward
in
every
function
:
since
money
is
the
requisite
fountaine
,
which
feedeth
with
her
supplementall
waters
each
river
of
humane
actions
and
temporall
affaires
.
Certainely
then
the
Priestes
Office
must
never
bee
grudged
,
nor
depri●ed
of
that
like
provisionall
priviledge
and
allowance
which
indeed
wee
use
not
to
deny
our selves
,
nor
others
in
the
exercise
of
inferiour
professions
of
farre
smaller
consequences
;
yea
wee
ought
to
afford
,
what
is
requisite
in
this
kinde
unto
our
very
labouring
beasts
.
For
,
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corne
.
Fourthly
,
we
are
to
declare
the
trueth
of
this
doctrin
,
from
the
dunesse
of
tithes
by
divine
right
to
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
.
Sundry
well
devoted
children
of
the
Church
,
Clergie
and
Laity
have
religiously
laboured
in
this
laudable
subject
.
Their
lines
to
this
purpose
would
shine
as
most
cleare
and
resplendent
lights
,
did
not
miserable
men
when
light
is
come
into
the
world
,
love
darknesse
rather
then
light
.
Iohn
.
3.
Nothing
hindereth
a
good
cause
more
from
prevailing
,
then
the
perverse
unconscionablenesse
of
covetous
minded
people
,
opposing
the
right
for
their
owne
respects
.
Commeth
not
this
hence
,
of
the
evill
lusts
that
warre
in
their
members
,
Iames
4.5
.
And
because
this
naturall
corruption
,
is
the
very
fountaine
of
sundrie
folkes
wilful
contradiction
,
I
suppose
one
strong
argument
for
the
duenesse
of
tithes
by
divine
decree
,
might
aptly
be
fetched
forth
in
that
regard
.
Surely
,
when
as
men
are
bound
to
honour
the
Lord
with
their
substance
.
Proverbes
3.
But
they
are
bold
to
breake
this
blessed
Commandement
,
and
usually
preferre
their
wealth
in
the
place
of
God
,
I
mervaile
not
for
my
part
,
why
the
Apostle
Paul
hath
named
covetousnesse
Idolatry
.
Although
then
I
had
much
rather
referre
you
to
the
excellent
labours
of
others
:
Neverthelesse
,
since
this
particular
is
propounded
among
the
rest
for
confirmation
of
our
collected
doctrine
:
It
seemes
best
not
to
passe
it
over
in
silence
,
but
to
afford
it
a
briefe
discourse
.
Let
us
then
speake
a
litle
in
this
case
of
tiths
.
First
,
touching
their
primary
intimation
,
and
institution
in
the
old
Testament
.
Secondly
,
concerning
their
posteriour
continuation
under
the
Gospell
.
First
,
touching
the
primary
intimation
,
and
institution
of
tiths
in
the
old
Testament
.
Before
the
Law
,
men
having
not
the
Law
,
were
a
law
unto
themselves
,
and
shewed
the
worke
of
the
Law
in
their
hearts
,
Romanes
,
2.
Many
things
were
prescribed
in
the
times
of
Moses
by
direct
injunction
,
which
were
practised
of
holy
men
saith
Pererins
,
long
afore
that
season
,
by
a
naturall
instinct
and
by
divine
inspiration
.
The
Iewes
(
I
have
read
)
supposed
the
oblations
of
Cain
not
to
have
beene
acceptable
unto
God
,
forsomuch
as
the
eares
which
he
tendered
,
were
penurious
and
not
replenished
.
Tertullian
telleth
that
Cains
offering
met
with
disesteeme
,
because
quod
offerebat
non
recte
dividebat
,
he
dealt
it
not
rightly
.
But
whether
hee
offended
in
the
number
or
nature
,
in
the
manner
or
measure
,
or
in
all
;
I
imagine
not
so
necessary
to
determine
precisely
.
It
is
enough
for
proofe
of
the
point
,
that
wee
must
know
,
even
when
the
Church
was
in
her
Infancy
,
yet
then
before
the
Law
,
Cain
and
Abel
were
instructed
(
either
by
tradition
,
or
else
by
naturall
reason
)
that
a
chief
part
of
whatsoever
the
earth
yielded
unto
them
,
was
payable
to
the
Lords
peculiar
worship
.
The
next
piece
of
antiquity
to
our
purpose
,
appeareth
in
the
memorable
passages
between
Abraham
and
Mel●hisedech
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
The
Patriarch
with
a
hearty
freenesse
divided
unto
him
a
tenth
part
of
al
,
yea
even
of
the
spoiles
;
and
the
Priest
tithed
him
as
having
authority
.
The
conclusion
is
demonstrative
from
the
type
to
the
truth
,
from
Melchisedech
to
Christ
,
for
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
of
the
one
is
transferred
into
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
upon
this
other
.
As
blessing
then
,
and
tithing
were
extant
in
the
Priesthood
of
Melchisedech
,
so
are
they
most
evident
in
the
Priesthood
of
Christ
:
which
shall
more
appeare
hereafter
.
As
all
sinned
in
the
loines
of
Adam
,
so
all
are
tithed
in
the
loines
of
Abraham
,
Lyra
affirmeth
.
Behold
this
Patriarch
who
had
the
promises
,
did
by
this
his
action
bind
all
his
seed
,
both
the
children
of
his
flesh
and
the
children
of
his
faith
.
It
then
we
will
be
happily
taken
up
;
into
his
Paternall
bosome
after
our
bodily
dissolution
,
wee
must
also
make
him
a
Father
of
our
thankfulnesse
:
if
wee
receive
blessings
in
him
,
we
ought
not
refuse
to
pay
tiths
in
him
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
Old
Jacobs
turne
is
next
:
observe
(
as
the
learned
thinke
)
that
his
Vision
concerneth
his
whole
posterity
.
It
followeth
then
(
they
inferre
)
that
his
vow
of
giving
surely
the
Tenth
unto
God
,
is
no
lesse
largely
obligatorie
,
yea
upon
all
the
families
of
the
earth
to
bee
blessed
in
his
seed
,
Genesis
.
28.
The
two
former
points
of
Iacobs
vow
;
namely
,
first
that
the
Lord
should
bee
his
God
.
Secondly
,
how
that
Pillar
should
be
Gods
House
,
passe
without
controversie
to
bee
perpetuall
,
touching
a
generall
foundation
of
Religion
,
and
of
Sacred
houses
for
divine
exercises
.
But
the
third
particular
of
conferring
tiths
to
the
Lords
worship
and
Service
,
meeteth
with
much
exception
against
all
good
reason
;
because
what
would
become
of
the
two
other
,
if
this
latter
did
not
supply
liberall
maintenance
?
The
Lord
saith
Ferus
,
needed
none
of
Iacobs
gifts
,
neverthelesse
the
holy
Patriarch
knew
it
was
his
duty
to
conferre
toward
the
maintenance
of
his
divine
Service
and
worship
;
although
the
precept
of
tithing
was
not
yet
extant
,
yet
the
law
of
nature
did
dictate
that
wee
ought
liberally
to
contribute
unto
these
Sacred
performances
out
of
our
proper
goods
and
substance
.
Hereupon
the
Priests
amongst
the
Gentiles
had
in
all
places
a
liberall
sustentation
and
respect
.
Jacob
hee
concludeth
appeareth
herein
,
to
bee
much
more
piously
perfect
then
we
are
;
loe
he
long
afore
the
written
Law
unconstrained
,
of
his
owne
free
will
,
voweth
tiths
unto
God
.
But
wee
are
so
far
remote
off
from
his
devotion
,
that
in
stead
of
paying
wee
purloine
them
,
in
lieu
of
giving
we
take
away
.
Now
if
any
one
he
addeth
,
be
forward
to
reply
,
That
the
law
of
tithes
did
appertaine
unto
the
old
Testament
,
and
so
it
is
now
abrogated
;
he
answereth
how
the
law
of
nature
standeth
still
in
vigour
,
which
requireth
no
lesse
then
the
performance
of
our
Doctrine
.
Also
he
saith
how
the
law
of
charity
ought
to
bee
of
that
force
,
as
to
give
more
then
the
tenths
in
the
times
of
necessity
:
yea
if
occasion
urgeth
the
whole
for
Christs
sake
,
who
hath
given
himselfe
wholy
for
us
.
Neither
(
as
Doctor
Willet
noteth
)
doth
our
Jacobs
vow
at
this
present
intimate
any
neglect
of
this
duty
in
him
before
,
since
it
is
lawfull
for
a
Christian
to
tie
himselfe
by
a
new
vow
to
performe
that
unto
God
,
which
he
is
otherwise
bound
to
accomplish
,
and
hath
bin
wont
to
put
in
practise
.
For
by
these
meanes
we
may
whet
and
better
our
weake
and
dull
devotions
.
Finally
,
the
question
here
moved
by
some
disaffected
folkes
unto
the
Church
:
To
whom
Iacob
paid
his
tiths
?
seemes
unnecessary
,
and
indeed
not
mannerly
dealing
with
the
divine
word
.
Sem
and
Heber
supposed
by
sundry
to
bee
the
men
,
deceased
long
before
:
But
the
Altars
,
the
sacrifice
,
the
worship
,
the
service
of
Almighty
God
(
who
liveth
for
ever
)
were
the
objects
of
our
thankfull
Patriarchs
pious
vow
:
And
this
hee
performed
unto
the
Lord
,
whiles
he
consecrated
the
tenth
part
of
his
goods
unto
religious
uses
.
Cajetan
and
Mercer
consent
to
this
purpose
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
oxe
&c.
Tithes
and
the
Law
were
not
twinnes
of
one
time
.
Brentius
noteth
them
for
no
new
invention
of
the
Leviticall
Priests
,
but
a
thing
long
before
accustomed
of
the
Patriarchs
,
in
way
of
thanksgiving
and
devotion
.
Yea
the
very
Gentiles
,
some
by
the
light
of
nature
,
some
by
tradition
from
the
sonnes
of
Noah
;
held
this
for
a
principle
:
That
they
were
bound
to
honour
the
al-giving
God
with
their
riches
;
whereupon
many
of
them
paid
tiths
.
Thus
the
Law
was
but
a
confirmer
,
and
Levi
but
an
observer
of
that
maintenance
long
afore
offered
,
and
devoted
unto
divine
Services
.
Therefore
these
tenths
are
fondly
by
some
imagined
to
bee
ceremoniall
,
and
by
others
judiciall
.
The
men
of
this
world
make
them
any
thing
,
with
a
mind
to
pay
nothing
:
but
from
the
beginning
it
was
not
so
.
Matthew
19.
The
first
borne
were
then
the
Priests
,
and
they
received
tiths
due
to
the
Priesthood
.
As
soone
as
that
Sacred
name
is
spoken
of
in
the
holy
Scripture
,
behold
there
likewise
mentioned
the
payment
of
tiths
,
that
calling
brought
on
that
condition
:
the
Priesthood
and
tiths
seeme
things
reciprocate
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
.
&c.
This
same
divinely
inspired
practise
did
afterward
proceed
into
precept
.
We
may
heare
Almighty
God
,
not
in
a
sense
of
generality
,
but
in
a
signification
of
speciall
propriety
,
claiming
them
as
his
owne
origin
all
right
.
Leviticus
27.
And
all
the
tiths
of
the
Land
,
whether
of
the
seed
of
the
Land
,
or
of
the
fruit
of
the
tree
,
is
the
Lords
:
It
is
holy
unto
the
Lord
.
And
concerning
the
tiths
of
the
herd
,
or
of
the
flocke
,
even
of
whatsoever
passeth
under
the
rod
,
the
tenth
shall
be
holy
unto
the
Lord
.
Master
Calvin
upon
the
place
concludeth
tiths
Gods
proper
right
,
and
royall
revenue
.
Hee
hath
a
common
right
most
amply
diffused
in
regard
of
his
creation
and
providence
:
Every
beast
of
the
Forrest
,
and
the
cattle
upon
a
thousand
hils
,
the
foules
of
the
mountaine
,
and
the
wilde
beasts
of
the
field
.
Psame
,
50.
All
are
his
,
and
hold
of
his
good
pleasure
.
But
he
hath
a
speciall
right
unto
tiths
as
his
own
reserved
demeanes
:
they
belong
to
his
Majestie
independantly
:
so
they
were
solemnely
proclaimed
in
Sinai
above
twenty
yeeres
at
least
afore
their
assignation
to
the
Levites
.
Thus
it
appeareth
,
although
he
had
not
appointed
them
to
have
beene
their
portion
,
yet
had
they
beene
still
his
:
he
vouchsafeth
(
Master
Calvins
phrase
is
)
to
substitute
or
surrogate
them
into
his
owne
place
touching
the
tiths
:
hee
addeth
how
Abraham
paid
into
the
hands
of
Melchisedech
,
what
indeed
be
ought
unto
God
.
Our
due
acknowledgement
of
all
fruites
and
increase
to
come
from
the
Lords
goodnesse
,
is
witnessed
by
our
tribute
of
tithes
to
him
,
which
when
he
demandeth
he
requireth
not
ours
,
but
his
owne
.
The
most
gracious
God
hath
beene
pleased
to
make
a
deputation
of
this
right
,
to
such
persons
who
minister
unto
him
in
holy
things
,
throughout
all
ages
,
as
wel
afore
Moses
,
as
under
the
time
of
his
Law
,
moreover
in
the
succeeding
season
of
the
Gospell
.
So
that
what
his
Majestie
proclaimed
,
Numbers
18.
Behold
,
J
have
given
the
children
of
Levi
all
the
tenth
in
Israel
for
an
inheritance
,
for
their
service
which
they
serve
,
even
the
Service
of
the
Tabernacle
of
the
Congregation
;
It
appertaineth
unto
the
whole
company
of
his
Priests
whiles
the
world
endureth
in
respect
of
their
Sacred
imployment
.
Although
God
gave
the
tiths
to
the
Levites
,
yet
did
he
not
first
found
them
in
that
Incorporation
,
but
onely
transferred
his
owne
right
to
that
order
,
so
long
as
it
should
continue
.
And
after
that
expired
,
loe
the
same
right
descended
(
as
it
were
by
entaile
)
to
the
succeeding
ministery
of
the
Gospell
.
Since
then
the
Lords
certaine
right
,
and
demaund
of
tithes
hath
been
openly
confirmed
by
his
owne
publique
Statute
:
And
since
that
his
good
pleasure
hath
solemnly
appointed
them
for
the
holy
Service
sake
,
unto
his
divine
Ministers
in
all
times
.
How
dareth
then
the
contemptible
creature
disanull
the
decrees
of
the
incomprehensible
Creatour
?
What
a
marvelous
impudency
seemeth
it
in
humane
mortality
to
transmute
the
ordinances
of
the
omnipotent
Majesty
?
How
audacious
doth
the
vile
dust
of
man
appeare
,
for
to
vary
and
alter
the
celestiall
Lawes
of
his
unchangeable
maker
?
Loe
,
he
hath
required
the
tenth
,
but
where
did
he
ever
remit
it
?
Hee
hath
bound
us
in
the
obligation
of
his
precept
,
but
where
did
he
ever
cancel
it
?
Why
presumeth
any
one
to
usurpe
upon
an
impious
liberty
,
when
as
his
Highnesse
hath
vouchsafed
no
priviledge
nor
licence
?
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
oxe
&c.
Tiths
seeme
neither
Ceremoniall
nor
Iudiciall
,
neither
typicall
nor
civill
.
Touching
the
former
:
no
proofe
is
made
of
any
repute
:
the
ceremonies
of
Moses
Law
were
so
ordained
,
as
they
did
prefigure
,
and
were
similitudes
of
heavenly
things
,
standing
in
meates
,
and
drinkes
,
and
divers
washings
,
and
carnall
rites
,
untill
the
time
of
reformation
.
Hebrewes
9.
and
they
lived
no
longer
,
then
whiles
Christ
came
,
unto
whom
they
looked
.
But
neyther
had
tithes
any
ceremoniall
institution
,
being
separated
for
the
necessary
use
and
maintenance
of
the
Levites
:
neither
though
they
looked
toward
Christ
,
did
they
breath
their
last
gaspe
at
his
blessed
birth
,
for
then
might
the
morall
Lawes
have
also
expired
at
the
same
period
.
Touching
the
latter
:
they
seeme
no
Iudicials
,
for
they
concerned
properly
the
Common-wealth
,
and
these
were
peculiar
to
the
Priest-hood
:
they
pertained
to
policy
,
these
to
piety
:
they
were
no
Iudges
of
things
Sacerdotall
and
sacred
,
these
had
an
Ecclesiasticall
nature
,
and
a
being
afore
the
order
of
Levi
,
and
the
time
of
Moses
was
taken
notice
of
.
They
are
consecrate
to
God
,
man
may
not
meddle
with
them
,
but
onely
by
vertue
of
his
Soveraigne
right
:
when
men
make
use
of
them
,
as
of
the
Lords
allowance
or
wages
:
marke
then
,
that
this
is
not
for
our
naturall
or
civill
worke
,
but
for
Religion
,
the
divine
worship
.
Wherefore
we
must
not
imagine
the
tenths
as
things
in
common
use
,
but
separate
by
God
himselfe
for
his
spirituall
service
and
servants
,
so
they
ought
to
continue
without
humane
reversall
.
For
what
the
Lord
hath
once
established
,
and
enacted
,
and
limited
within
the
listes
o●
no
expresse
space
of
time
;
Behold
,
that
must
remaine
,
as
the
lasting
of
the
Lawes
of
the
Medes
and
Persians
are
anciently
written
of
,
unchangeable
for
ever
,
untill
the
same
God
himselfe
doth
repeale
them
,
who
at
first
ratified
them
.
Whiles
his
divine
Service
endureth
,
the
tiths
which
are
appropriate
to
him
,
and
thereunto
deputed
by
him
,
must
likewise
keepe
their
course
of
continuance
.
Surely
,
they
which
vainely
suppose
,
that
his
soveraigne
statutes
may
be
dealt
with
like
a
nose
of
wax
,
or
a
leaden
rule
,
namely
altered
and
wrested
according
to
covetous
mens
corrupt
humours
,
shall
verily
finde
him
at
length
to
breaks
them
with
a
rod
of
iron
,
and
to
dash
them
in
pieces
like
a
potters
vessell
:
Psam
.
2.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
Secondly
,
concerning
the
Posteriour
continuation
of
the
right
of
tiths
under
the
Gospell
:
that
may
be
entreated
of
in
this
twofold
manner
:
namely
,
either
by
divine
constitution
,
or
else
by
humane
consecration
.
First
,
touching
the
continuation
of
the
right
of
the
tiths
under
the
Gospell
,
by
divine
constitution
.
It
is
enough
,
Gualter
writeth
to
know
,
that
the
duties
payable
of
old
in
this
kinde
,
ought
to
be
transferred
unto
the
Church
of
the
New
Testament
.
For
although
the
Leviticall
Priesthood
be
abolished
,
and
legall
sacrifices
have
ceased
;
yet
notwithstanding
the
ministery
of
the
Gospell
still
remaineth
,
and
therefore
the
meanes
of
their
living
must
in
no
wise
be
diminished
.
Some
of
the
learned
have
alledged
in
this
sense
,
our
Saviour
Christs
answere
Matthew
22.
When
as
the
deceitfull
Pharisees
sought
so
subtilly
to
circumvent
him
;
Render
(
saith
he
)
to
Caesar
the
things
that
are
Caesars
,
and
unto
God
the
things
that
are
Gods
.
Caesar
must
receive
his
tribute
according
to
the
image
superscribed
upon
the
coine
,
God
must
receive
his
claime
according
to
the
purport
of
his
Law
in
that
case
provided
.
Wee
reade
in
the
23.
Chapter
of
the
same
Evangelist
,
how
our
Lord
Iesus
reproving
the
hypocrisie
of
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
for
making
a
goodly
shew
of
an
upright
conscience
in
their
tithing
,
even
of
the
smallest
particulars
,
when
as
they
omitted
the
weightier
matters
of
the
Law
;
loe
he
doth
thus
at
last
conclude
,
These
ought
yee
to
have
done
,
and
not
to
leave
the
other
undone
.
Saint
Augustine
,
Chrysostome
,
with
sundry
famous
Authours
besides
expound
this
instance
to
our
purpose
.
I
mervaile
then
,
how
a
great
many
miserable
Earth-wormes
most
vainely
imagine
to
mount
up
aloft
,
into
the
heaven
of
blisse
,
comming
very
farre
short
of
the
righteousnesse
of
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
in
this
case
;
when
as
our
Saviour
saith
,
except
your
righteousnesse
shall
exceede
the
righteousnesse
of
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
yee
shall
in
no
wise
enter
into
the
Kingdome
of
heaven
.
Neither
is
their
cavill
of
any
sufficient
force
,
how
the
alledged
place
onely
concerned
the
Israelites
under
the
Levite
Priesthood
;
Because
as
the
Lord
Bishop
Andrewes
observeth
,
whereas
other
Pharisaicall
scrupulosities
premised
in
the
chapter
meet
with
a
brand
of
abrogation
,
this
still
remaineth
with
a
mark
of
approbation
.
Neither
dare
I
suppose
,
that
the
interest
of
the
Lord
solemnely
established
in
the
old
Testament
,
doth
thus
sodamely
expire
in
the
New
,
unlesse
his
owne
selfe
had
signified
unto
us
a
resignation
of
his
right
.
It
is
written
Matthew
.
11.
Verily
I
say
unto
you
among
them
that
are
borne
of
women
,
there
hath
not
risen
a
greater
then
John
the
Baptist
:
notwithstanding
hee
that
is
least
in
the
Kingdome
of
heaven
,
is
greater
then
hee
.
Meaning
,
that
for
so
much
as
Iohn
Baptist
was
next
unto
Christ
in
time
,
above
all
the
Prophets
,
which
ever
lived
before
him
,
his
happinesse
went
therefore
beyond
them
in
that
high
respect
for
he
saw
what
they
desired
to
see
,
and
saw
not
.
Because
also
he
was
of
a
more
worthy
calling
,
for
hee
might
be
reported
to
have
pointed
out
Christ
with
the
finger
of
a
fuller
discovery
,
which
others
could
not
descry
,
but
onely
afarre
off
.
Thus
likewise
those
men
which
succeeded
John
in
this
sacred
Ministery
,
namely
the
Apostle
,
and
their
successours
to
the
end
of
the
world
,
are
happier
in
a
higher
degree
,
and
of
a
more
excellent
calling
then
Iohn
the
Baptist
,
because
living
in
the
resplendent
season
of
the
much
gloriouser
illumination
of
the
Gospell
.
Doctor
Downham
examining
the
particulars
of
the
Levites
profits
,
affirmeth
,
how
they
amounted
to
a
far
greater
measure
for
the
maintenance
of
that
small
tribe
,
then
all
the
Bishoprickes
,
Benefices
,
Colledgelands
,
or
whatsoever
other
Ecclesiasticall
emoluments
doe
yet
remaine
,
yea
although
the
Index
expurgatorius
of
sacrilegious
inquisition
had
not
with
that
extreme
tyranny
invaded
,
and
over-runne
them
.
Why
should
then
the
Evangelicall
Sunne
so
marveilously
surmounting
the
glimmering
Moone
shine
of
the
Law
,
in
the
sweet
of
saving
knowledge
,
suffer
so
missebe-seeming
an
eclipse
in
the
most
disproportionable
meanes
of
Ministerial
maintenance
,
&
not
rather
exceed
the
other
in
necessary
abundance
,
as
it
doth
in
notable
brightnesse
?
If
the
ministration
of
condemnation
be
glorious
,
much
more
doth
the
ministration
of
righteousnesse
exceede
in
glory
.
2
Corinthians
.
3.
when
as
the
Minister
of
the
Gospell
hath
succeeded
the
Levite
in
the
Ministery
,
and
is
the
Minister
of
a
better
Testament
,
what
cause
can
bee
then
conceived
,
but
that
he
ought
also
to
succeed
him
in
the
stipend
or
allowance
?
Quatis
ratio
spraecepti
tale
praeceptum
:
the
Civilians
tell
us
,
it
is
right
that
the
Law
should
not
expire
as
long
as
the
reason
of
it
remaineth
.
Moreover
reason
,
equity
,
and
sacred
Scripture
requite
,
that
the
worthier
wages
belong
to
the
worthier
Calling
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
Further
observe
how
the
13.
and
14.
verses
of
this
Chapter
,
as
likewise
Galatians
6.
will
(
if
well
considered
)
that
the
decree
touching
tiths
in
the
old
Testament
is
not
dissolved
in
the
new
,
but
still
continued
,
and
the
practise
of
the
former
a
president
for
the
latter
.
For
that
same
maintenance
which
the
Apostle
Saint
Paul
in
those
places
maketh
mention
of
,
is
most
aptly
expounded
by
Scripture
to
be
the
tenth
part
.
And
though
the
manner
of
portion
in
them
places
,
seeme
in
some
mens
sight
left
undetermined
,
yet
if
wee
may
explaine
Scripture
by
Scripture
(
as
indeede
such
a
mutuall
intercourse
should
bee
betweene
the
old
and
new
Testament
)
then
doubtlesse
the
cleare
phrases
of
the
one
may
easily
declare
the
obscurer
speech
of
the
other
:
And
so
by
the
context
of
holy
writ
the
tenth
will
soone
come
to
bee
discovered
,
and
Gods
ordinance
there
repeated
by
the
Apostle
,
be
preserved
inviolable
,
and
carnall
conceits
without
warrant
,
be
discarded
,
and
this
divine
Law
endure
in
force
and
vigour
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
.
&c.
The
seventh
Chapter
of
the
Epistle
to
the
Hebrewes
seemeth
a
strong
champion
in
this
case
.
Now
consider
how
great
this
man
was
,
unto
whom
even
the
Patriarch
Abraham
gave
the
tenth
of
the
spoiles
.
And
verily
they
that
are
of
the
sonnes
of
Levi
,
who
receive
the
Office
of
the
Priesthood
,
have
a
commandement
to
take
tiths
of
the
people
,
according
to
the
Law
,
that
is
of
their
brethren
,
though
they
came
out
of
the
loines
of
Abraham
.
But
he
whose
descent
is
not
counted
from
them
,
received
tiths
of
Abraham
,
and
blessed
him
that
had
the
promises
.
And
without
all
contradiction
the
lesse
is
blessed
of
the
better
.
And
here
men
that
die
receive
tiths
,
but
there
he
receiveth
them
of
whom
it
is
witnessed
that
hee
liveth
.
And
as
I
may
so
say
,
Levi
also
who
received
tiths
,
paid
tiths
in
Abraham
.
For
hee
was
yet
in
the
loines
of
his
Father
when
Melchisedech
met
him
.
&c.
Levi
in
Abraham
decimatus
est
,
quoniam
in
lumbis
ejus
fuit
,
quando
decimas
dedit
sacerdoti
Melchisedech
:
Saint
Augustin
hath
left
written
that
Levi
was
tithed
in
Abraham
,
because
he
was
in
his
loines
,
when
he
gave
tiths
to
the
Priest
Melchisedech
.
I
conceive
the
scope
of
this
Scripture
is
to
manifest
,
and
magnifie
the
high
and
honourable
condition
of
Melchisedech
,
and
consequently
of
Christ
Iesus
.
But
one
maine
argument
for
Melchisedecs
admirable
greatnesse
,
is
drawne
by
our
Apostle
from
his
receiving
tiths
of
him
,
whose
off-spring
the
tribe
of
Levi
(
then
in
Abrahams
loines
)
afterwards
tooke
tiths
.
For
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
he
tithed
Abraham
,
taking
the
tenth
part
of
him
as
his
due
,
and
not
given
.
Neither
may
wee
affirme
that
Melchisedecs
admirable
greatnesse
is
since
unhappily
eclipsed
,
and
fallen
into
wane
,
but
rather
he
is
as
ample
and
evident
still
as
ever
he
was
,
because
he
is
the
Priest
of
God
for
ever
,
a
Priest
that
never
dieth
;
and
so
his
Priesthood
and
the
rights
of
it
never
cease
.
But
certainely
his
greatnesse
in
his
antitype
Christ
,
cannot
be
concluded
to
be
still
the
same
,
if
Christ
hath
no
right
to
take
tiths
,
for
this
indeed
appeareth
the
chiefest
,
and
most
urged
of
the
two
notable
arguments
to
declare
his
greatnesse
.
This
argument
of
Pererius
may
bee
said
to
concerne
the
point
;
The
Priesthood
of
Melchisedec
hath
beene
more
excellent
then
the
Leviticall
Priesthood
.
But
Christ
hath
beene
a
Priest
after
the
order
of
Melchisedech
:
therefore
the
Priesthood
of
Christ
is
more
excellent
then
the
Leviticall
Priesthood
.
The
minor
proposition
is
manifest
,
Psalm
.
110.
and
the
major
is
proved
by
Saint
Paul
in
a
twofold
manner
,
partly
because
Melchisedech
blessed
Abraham
,
principally
because
he
received
tiths
of
him
.
What
then
was
due
and
paid
to
Melchisedech
,
is
also
due
and
payable
to
Christ
,
else
he
were
not
a
Priest
for
ever
after
the
order
of
Melchisedech
,
if
he
should
faile
in
something
to
be
as
Melchisedech
was
:
But
to
grant
that
seemeth
absurd
,
because
he
is
after
his
order
,
as
the
Priests
of
the
Law
were
after
Aarons
.
Since
then
tiths
were
due
and
paid
to
Melchisedech
,
doubtlesse
they
are
due
and
ought
to
be
paid
unto
Christ
:
And
so
consequently
to
his
servants
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
,
who
are
Christ
representatively
,
and
in
whom
he
blesseth
,
&
refresheth
with
the
bread
and
wine
of
the
holy
Sacrament
,
&
of
heavenly
consolations
the
faithfull
,
which
are
weary
and
ready
otherwise
to
saint
in
their
spirituall
warrefare
.
Neither
was
Abrahams
payment
of
tiths
voluntary
,
but
of
duty
:
for
were
must
note
how
Melchisedech
was
the
image
of
Christ
&
his
Church
:
Abraham
figured
forth
the
Congregation
of
the
faithfull
.
Although
then
Levi
received
tiths
afterward
by
a
particular
grant
from
God
for
the
time
,
yet
he
payd
them
generally
with
the
Congregation
in
the
loines
of
Abraham
unto
the
Priesthood
of
Christ
,
here
personed
by
Melchisedech
:
which
being
perpetuall
,
and
an
image
of
this
in
the
Gospell
,
may
well
note
unto
us
,
that
this
duty
of
tithing
ought
also
to
be
perpetuall
.
Saint
Chrysostome
conceiveth
Abraham
to
have
been
herein
our
Tutour
;
and
whiles
he
payeth
tiths
,
not
to
a
Priest
offering
up
Leviticall
sacrifices
,
but
administring
bread
and
wine
(
the
elements
of
the
Evangelicall
Sacrament
)
it
intimateth
sufficiently
that
men
must
now
pay
their
tiths
to
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
.
Moreover
,
if
the
order
of
Priesthood
here
spoken
of
be
an
eternall
order
,
and
yet
such
an
order
as
to
whom
the
tiths
are
due
(
which
plainly
appeareth
in
the
Chapter
alledged
)
surely
then
,
let
the
Priest
be
either
Melchisedech
the
type
,
or
Christ
the
Antitype
,
yet
the
same
matter
must
remaine
still
evinced
,
namely
that
tiths
must
alwaies
continue
to
the
end
of
the
world
,
being
the
rightfull
due
of
an
enduring
Priesthood
.
To
this
purpose
may
be
applyed
these
words
of
Master
Calvin
on
the
place
;
The
Apostle
affirmeth
the
dignity
of
Melchisedechs
Priesthood
to
be
for
ever
,
and
that
of
the
Priesthood
of
Levi
but
temporary
.
The
life
of
this
latter
Priesthood
was
one
day
to
be
dissolved
,
even
as
the
lives
of
men
liquid
expire
.
Yet
no
Scripture
speaking
of
tiths
payd
to
Melchisedech
,
saith
any
thing
of
his
death
,
wherefore
the
right
of
his
Priesthood
was
not
to
cease
but
continue
.
The
latter
Law
did
not
derogate
from
the
former
,
the
right
belonging
of
old
to
Melchisedech
,
is
not
now
repealed
by
another
Law
given
of
God
by
Moses
,
whereby
to
turne
over
that
right
unto
the
Levites
.
Saint
Paul
prevented
that
conceit
,
cum
dicit
ad
tempus
decimas
Levitis
solutas
,
shewing
that
tiths
were
paid
to
the
Levites
but
for
a
certaine
season
,
because
they
might
not
live
ever
.
But
Melchisedech
being
immortall
,
retaineth
unto
the
end
what
God
hath
once
given
him
;
namely
the
dignity
,
duty
,
yea
and
the
rights
of
the
Priesthood
,
which
are
declared
to
be
the
tiths
,
&c.
The
13.14
.
&c.
verses
of
this
7.
Chapter
with
some
other
passages
therein
,
will
determine
the
things
spoken
under
the
name
of
Melchisedech
upon
Christ
without
question
.
Behold
then
he
is
the
rightfull
receiver
of
tiths
,
in
his
Evangelicall
Priesthood
,
even
by
witnesse
of
the
new
Testament
.
As
under
the
Law
tiths
were
not
so
much
the
Levites
at
Gods
in
the
Levites
,
they
receiving
them
as
deputed
by
him
to
take
this
sacred
tribute
.
Even
so
likewise
before
the
Law
,
not
so
much
Melchisedech
,
as
the
Lord
in
Melchisedech
did
receive
tiths
.
Now
under
the
Gospell
,
not
so
much
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
,
as
he
that
is
our
blessed
Lord
Iesus
Christ
in
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
,
doth
by
divine
right
take
the
tithes
.
Miserable
then
are
those
wretches
which
dare
defraud
him
,
by
depriving
his
Ministers
,
and
regard
not
this
precept
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
&c.
Although
whiles
Christ
lived
on
earth
,
the
Leviticall
Priesthood
being
not
abrogated
,
had
the
tithes
.
Moreover
he
and
his
Apostles
leading
a
kinde
of
travelling
life
from
place
to
place
,
could
not
conveniently
receive
them
;
yet
intermission
for
a
time
must
not
bee
thought
to
infringe
their
due
right
;
no
more
then
the
suspension
of
circumcision
for
forty
yeares
space
in
the
wildernesse
,
did
disannull
that
.
The
Apostles
also
and
their
primitive
successours
tooke
the
price
of
whole
fields
,
and
possessions
of
those
which
converted
to
the
Church
,
and
professed
the
Gospell
;
whereby
they
had
meete
meanes
to
maintaine
their
owne
selves
,
and
the
poore
brethren
.
That
course
continued
about
two
hundred
yeares
after
Christ
,
and
the
practise
of
it
multiplied
into
a
very
great
proportion
.
Then
the
state
of
the
Church
being
setled
,
the
ancient
Fathers
taught
tithes
to
be
thus
due
,
general
councels
decreed
them
so
,
and
publique
authority
renewed
the
paiment
of
them
.
To
this
purpose
the
Lord
Bishop
Andrewes
bringeth
in
Cyprian
,
Clemens
Alexandrinus
,
Origen
,
Augustin
,
Chrysostome
,
Hierome
,
&c.
Pronouncing
the
detainers
of
tithes
to
be
invaders
of
other
mens
goods
:
how
neyther
lesse
nor
worse
must
be
paid
:
how
the
offenders
in
this
sort
have
no
due
feare
of
God
,
not
true
sense
of
repentance
;
Yea
to
be
voyd
of
all
thankfull
memory
,
of
the
divine
liberality
and
bounty
to
wards
them
.
How
such
wretches
seeme
wickeder
then
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
who
durst
meddle
with
nothing
for
their
proper
uses
,
before
they
had
first
of
all
separated
the
tenthes
,
fearing
else
a
curse
to
fall
upon
them
for
defrauding
the
Lord
.
He
also
produceth
some
Orthodox
Councels
,
which
strictly
decreed
decimarum
pensiones
et
paraeciarum
divisiones
,
the
payments
of
tithes
and
divisions
of
Parishes
:
Also
shew
the
ordinances
of
divine
Lawes
in
this
case
,
and
the
Excommunication
of
refractory
offenders
in
this
point
.
Hee
also
rehearseth
some
instances
out
of
the
Canon
and
Civill
Lawes
,
which
anciently
accounted
Parishes
and
tithes
,
Clergie
and
tenths
&c.
to
bee
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
reciprocate
and
convertible
,
and
they
did
enjoyne
the
true
payments
of
them
under
extreme
penalties
.
Neither
did
sundry
old
constitutions
,
provide
onely
for
honest
dealing
in
prediall
tithes
,
but
also
their
care
extended
to
have
those
which
are
of
a
personall
nature
to
be
well
paid
.
They
had
in
conscience
a
notable
ground
for
this
,
out
of
that
memorable
place
:
Galatians
6.
From
which
Aquinas
affirmeth
,
how
all
things
whatsoever
a
man
possesseth
,
be
contained
under
the
carnall
things
mentioned
by
the
Apostle
,
and
therefore
hee
inserteth
that
tithes
ought
to
be
paid
out
of
all
our
goods
&c.
Thus
much
was
worthily
projected
in
the
raigne
of
our
late
King
Henry
the
eight
,
and
more
largely
deliberated
&
allowed
by
many
of
the
Lords
spirituall
&
temporall
,
besides
sundry
other
eminent
persons
,
when
the
last
Edward
sweyghed
our
English
Scepter
:
who
(
as
Master
Studley
writeth
)
willingly
confirmed
this
religious
,
just
,
and
necessary
resolution
,
for
all
men
of
trafficke
,
sciences
,
trades
,
&c.
that
they
should
put
in
practise
the
custome
of
the
City
of
London
,
for
the
payment
of
personall
tithes
:
Alledging
there
could
be
no
conscience
for
Farmours
,
Plowmen
,
Shepheards
,
&c.
to
returne
the
tenth
,
and
neverthelesse
that
the
persons
of
this
gainfull
condition
would
presume
themselves
to
be
free
and
exempted
.
It
seemes
then
an
imagination
voyd
of
all
true
conscience
and
devotion
(
whether
we
examine
it
by
the
light
of
nature
,
or
by
the
brightnesse
of
grace
)
for
any
people
to
pretend
,
and
plead
an
immunity
,
from
liberall
contributing
to
the
maintenance
of
their
spirituall
Pastours
.
It
is
also
irreverently
opposit
against
the
opinion
and
practise
of
venerable
antiquity
,
and
contrary
to
my
text
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
&c.
Finally
if
the
words
of
a
few
,
otherwise
supposing
Autors
(
whether
grave
divines
or
judicious
Lawyers
bee
well
pondered
)
I
conceive
in
effect
they
speake
to
the
point
,
I
am
sure
to
the
purpose
of
my
text
.
For
all
of
them
unanimously
plead
against
wronging
the
Church
,
and
for
a
liberall
allowance
to
the
Clergy
,
to
furnish
and
maintaine
themselves
and
their
families
,
to
keepe
hospitality
,
to
relieve
the
poore
.
Solutio
decimarum
Sacerdotibus
est
de
jure
divino
,
quatenus
inde
sustentantur
,
saith
Gerson
,
they
hold
them
divinely
precepted
in
these
respects
.
Yea
,
the
Doctor
and
Student
acknowledge
it
,
to
bee
grounded
upon
the
law
of
reason
,
that
every
one
is
bound
to
honour
God
of
his
proper
substance
,
by
giving
a
meet
portion
of
his
temporall
goods
unto
the
Minister
,
to
him
of
things
spirituall
.
That
treatise
further
affirmeth
,
how
there
is
no
cause
why
the
people
of
the
new
Law
ought
to
pay
lesse
,
to
the
Ministers
of
the
new
Law
,
then
the
people
of
the
old
Testament
gave
to
the
Ministers
of
the
old
Testament
.
For
the
people
of
the
new
Law
,
bee
bound
to
greater
things
then
the
people
of
the
old
Law
were
:
Matthew
5.
And
the
sacrifice
of
the
old
Law
was
not
so
honorable
as
the
sacrifice
of
the
new
Law
is
.
For
the
sacrifice
of
the
old
Law
was
onely
the
figure
,
but
the
sacrifice
of
the
new
Law
is
the
thing
that
is
figured
:
that
was
the
shadow
,
this
is
the
truth
.
To
conclude
,
most
of
them
commend
the
old
tithing
course
:
Insomuch
as
no
few
of
these
professe
in
Master
Perkins
speeches
;
doubtlesse
had
not
God
himselfe
in
the
old
Testament
taken
such
strict
orders
for
the
livings
of
the
Levites
,
they
had
beene
put
to
no
lesse
extremities
,
then
is
the
ministery
of
this
age
,
which
is
many
times
so
miserably
muzzeled
,
as
no
mercifull
man
would
suffer
his
beast
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corne
.
Secondly
,
touching
the
continuation
of
the
tithes
under
the
Gospell
by
humane
consecration
.
Admit
as
some
vainely
surmise
,
that
the
payment
of
the
tithes
were
meerely
a
Mosaicall
mandate
:
from
which
men
under
the
Gospell
are
made
free
;
yet
because
nature
hath
taught
men
to
honour
God
with
their
substance
:
and
for
that
the
most
true
and
sure
way
to
performe
thus
much
,
is
by
making
and
rendering
him
payment
in
kind
,
out
of
the
very
selfe
same
tiches
,
which
through
his
gracious
blessing
the
earth
continually
bringeth
forth
.
And
since
that
besides
,
Scripture
hath
left
us
an
evident
example
of
that
particular
proportion
,
which
for
morall
considerations
hath
beene
determined
most
fit
and
meet
by
them
,
whose
wisedome
could
best
of
all
judge
.
Furthermore
,
seeing
that
the
Church
of
Christ
hath
long
ago
entered
into
the
like
obligation
of
tithing
;
me
thinks
then
in
these
daies
this
question
seemes
vaine
and
superfluous
,
whether
tithes
be
due
by
divine
right
or
no
?
Doctor
Downham
accordingly
declareth
that
tithes
are
due
to
Christian
Ministers
by
vow
:
Christian
Common-weales
and
Councels
having
consecrated
them
to
God
,
and
his
Church
:
neither
is
it
now
meet
time
,
after
vowes
to
make
this
manner
of
enquiry
,
nor
to
endeavour
for
to
alter
them
without
divine
dispensation
and
sufficient
satisfaction
.
For
grant
at
the
first
that
it
might
have
beene
imagined
a
doubtfull
and
disputable
matter
,
yet
now
our
case
appeareth
to
hold
a
cleare
correspondence
with
theirs
unto
whom
Saint
Peter
spake
Actes
5.
Whiles
it
remained
,
was
it
not
thine
owne
?
and
after
it
was
sold
,
was
it
not
in
thine
ewne
power
?
Why
hast
thou
conceived
this
thing
in
thine
heart
?
thou
hast
not
lyed
unto
men
,
but
unto
God
.
If
then
it
were
not
lawfull
for
Ananias
and
Saphira
under
pretence
of
Religion
to
sell
their
Land
,
as
if
they
would
have
given
it
to
the
Church
,
and
yet
concealed
and
detracted
part
thereof
,
for
which
we
read
their
horrible
tragedy
in
the
aforesaid
Chapter
.
Then
is
it
much
more
unlawfull
to
detaine
and
withhold
any
part
from
the
Church
,
which
wee
never
gave
,
but
it
was
rightly
the
Churches
just
possession
before
we
were
borne
.
The
generall
current
of
grave
authority
runneth
this
way
,
that
whatsoever
hath
beene
lawfully
given
to
religion
,
can
never
be
taken
away
againe
,
unlesse
redeemed
with
a
greater
price
,
Leviticus
27.
The
reason
is
easily
thus
rendered
,
because
the
goods
of
the
Church
are
holy
things
,
and
therefore
not
to
bee
prophaned
,
which
offence
is
then
committed
,
when
as
they
are
withdrawne
from
the
Lords
Service
.
The
250
censers
of
the
seditious
sinners
.
Numbers
16.
might
not
be
prophaned
because
they
had
beene
hallowed
,
for
by
the
Lords
owne
direction
Moses
appointed
Eleazar
to
take
them
out
of
the
burning
,
and
to
make
of
the
broad
plates
for
a
covering
to
the
Altar
,
alledging
their
consecration
and
offering
up
before
him
.
Neither
can
the
evill
lives
of
some
Ministers
(
much
lesse
incroaching
sacriledge
)
justly
alienate
those
tithes
,
glebes
and
oblations
,
which
have
beene
hallowed
and
offered
up
unto
Gods
Service
.
For
certainely
although
in
substance
the
tithes
,
the
glebes
,
and
other
goods
of
the
Church
,
seeme
the
same
that
all
other
are
,
out
of
which
they
he
taken
.
As
for
example
sake
,
the
water
,
the
bread
and
the
wine
in
the
Sacraments
,
are
all
one
with
other
water
,
bread
,
and
wine
;
yet
in
regard
of
the
use
thereof
,
behold
we
must
conceive
no
small
difference
:
since
they
are
made
holy
and
sacred
by
dedication
.
Therefore
as
it
were
horrible
villany
to
abuse
the
elements
in
the
Sacraments
:
so
is
it
execrable
robbery
to
prophane
the
tithes
,
the
glebes
and
other
goods
of
the
Church
,
and
to
pervert
them
from
the
religious
end
of
their
first
institution
,
unto
secular
(
and
so
sacrilegious
)
occasions
.
The
title
and
right
then
which
man
had
in
any
of
these
things
(
which
seemed
in
his
owne
arbittement
either
to
give
or
reserve
)
before
his
donation
of
them
to
the
Church
,
doth
by
the
act
,
and
from
the
time
of
any
such
dedication
,
remaine
the
proper
possession
of
God
untill
the
worlds
end
,
unlesse
himselfe
renounce
or
releaseth
it
.
Good
reason
it
should
be
thus
,
since
equity
hath
taught
us
,
that
every
one
ought
to
enjoy
his
owne
,
and
what
is
ours
no
other
can
alienate
from
us
,
without
our
deliberate
consent
.
No
man
having
past
his
voluntary
agreement
or
deed
may
at
his
pleasure
change
it
to
the
prejudice
of
another
.
Should
wee
then
wickedly
dare
to
deale
worse
with
our
good
God
,
then
his
gracious
Majestie
hath
permitted
any
other
men
to
deale
with
us
?
When
our
tithes
&c.
might
probably
have
appeared
our
owne
,
wee
had
faire
colour
of
liberty
to
use
and
dispose
them
as
our selves
thought
good
;
but
having
once
made
them
his
whose
they
are
,
having
consecrated
them
to
his
worship
and
Service
;
Let
us
wisely
be
warned
by
other
folkes
fearefull
examples
,
what
a
hainous
crime
it
is
,
even
but
to
wash
and
clip
that
coine
which
carrieth
on
it
the
marke
of
God
,
the
token
of
his
divine
insculpture
.
Hee
reckoneth
all
these
by
the
forme
of
his
owne
speeches
for
his
owne
possessions
.
It
must
needs
then
be
a
most
dangerous
matter
for
the
children
of
men
sacrilegiously
to
invade
them
,
and
to
despoile
his
Ministers
(
unto
whom
he
hath
deputed
them
)
from
the
fruition
of
them
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
&c.
Moreover
it
seemes
a
point
of
no
small
moment
,
and
a
thing
very
worthy
our
consideration
,
that
the
true
meaning
of
all
such
as
honoured
the
Lord
with
their
substance
,
was
to
invest
him
with
the
propriety
of
what
they
dedicated
unto
him
.
Witnesse
the
stile
of
ancient
grants
.
Thus
in
magna
charta
:
wee
have
given
unto
God
,
both
for
us
and
our
heires
for
ever
.
Thus
Charles
the
Great
;
we
know
that
the
goods
of
the
Church
are
the
sacred
endowments
of
God
:
To
the
Lord
our
God
we
offer
and
dedicate
whatsoever
we
deliver
unto
his
Church
.
Thus
the
Lawes
Imperiall
make
some-things
to
belong
by
right
of
nature
,
indifferently
to
every
man
;
some
to
be
the
certaine
goods
and
possessions
of
Common-weales
,
some
to
appertaine
unto
severall
Corporations
and
Companies
,
some
to
be
privately
mens
owne
in
particular
;
some
to
be
separate
quite
from
all
men
.
This
last
branch
comprehendeth
things
sacred
and
holy
,
because
thereof
God
alone
is
owner
.
Nullius
autem
sunt
res
Sacrae
,
et
religiosae
,
et
Sanctae
;
quod
enim
divini
juris
est
,
id
nullius
in
bonis
est
▪
Sacred
,
religious
and
holy
things
can
never
bee
in
the
right
of
Lay-mens
incroachment
.
That
which
is
the
Lords
ought
to
be
free
from
secular
claime
and
usurpation
.
Thus
we
might
read
in
the
Lawes
of
Charles
the
Great
:
There
is
not
an
Act
more
honourable
,
then
by
all
meanes
to
defend
and
amplifie
the
patrimony
of
Religion
:
Nor
any
more
hatefull
and
impious
Constitution
,
then
to
impaire
those
possessions
,
which
devout
men
in
former
times
,
when
they
gave
them
unto
holy
uses
,
were
wont
in
the
most
solemne
place
of
Gods
Church
,
and
in
the
presence
of
their
Ghostly
Superiours
,
to
make
(
as
they
thought
)
inviolable
,
by
words
of
fearefull
execration
in
this
wise
.
These
things
we
offer
to
God
,
from
whom
,
if
any
man
take
them
away
(
which
we
hope
no
man
will
attempt
to
do
.
)
But
if
any
shall
goe
about
it
,
let
his
account
bee
without
favour
in
the
last
day
,
when
he
commeth
to
receive
the
doome
,
which
is
due
for
sacriledge
against
that
Lord
and
God
unto
whom
we
dedicate
the
same
.
Oh
consider
this
ye
that
forget
God
and
his
Saints
,
in
the
frequency
and
senselessenesse
of
this
soule
and
cursed
sinne
,
lest
hee
teare
you
in
pieces
,
and
there
bee
none
to
deliver
.
Thus
the
best
and
most
renowned
Prelates
of
the
Church
of
Christ
,
have
rather
in
this
consideration
sustained
the
cruell
wrath
,
then
yielded
to
satisfie
the
sacrilegious
desire
of
their
greatest
Commanders
on
earth
,
coveting
by
evill
advise
and
Councell
,
that
which
most
willingly
they
should
have
suffered
God
to
enjoy
,
&c.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
&c.
Some
person
may
chance
move
this
question
;
can
the
goods
of
the
Church
,
these
consecrated
things
in
no
case
be
alienated
?
I
answere
,
certaine
causes
there
are
,
wherein
it
is
not
obscure
,
but
the
Lord
himselfe
doth
license
&
warrant
how
we
may
safely
presume
him
as
willing
to
forgoe
for
our
benefit
,
as
alwaies
to
use
and
convert
to
our
benefit
,
whatsoever
our
religion
,
hath
honoured
him
withall
.
But
here
is
an
intollerable
mischiefe
,
under
this
may
be
,
many
things
which
by
no
meanes
must
be
,
passe
for
currant
and
without
controll
in
this
sacrilegious
world
.
We
deny
not
but
occasions
of
many
consequence
may
sometimes
be
incident
,
wherein
the
welfare
and
danger
of
the
Church
bee
also
involved
with
the
Common-wealth
occurrences
.
Wee
also
suppose
the
safety
of
the
people
in
sundry
cases
to
be
a
supreme
Law
.
Wee
know
that
Kings
and
Princes
,
are
the
breath
of
our
Nosthrills
:
Wherefore
Church
&
Common-wealth
must
concurre
in
necessary
care
,
and
loyall
duty
towards
them
.
Thus
the
learned
apply
these
examples
of
Ahimelech
the
Priest
,
giving
unto
David
the
hallowed
bread
,
&c.
Of
Hezekiah
giving
the
silves
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
,
and
the
gold
of
the
doores
of
the
Temple
to
Senacherib
King
of
Assyria
,
for
to
purchase
his
owne
,
and
people
peace
.
Thus
our
Saviour
Christ
,
in
defence
of
his
disciples
plucking
the
eares
of
corne
&c.
alledgeth
the
Sabboth
was
made
for
man
,
and
not
man
for
the
Sabboth
Marke
2.
Thus
Saint
Augustine
did
cause
the
very
consecrated
vessels
of
the
Church
to
be
broken
and
coined
,
for
the
reliefe
of
the
poore
,
in
a
time
of
extreme
necessity
and
famine
.
After
this
manner
the
ancient
Bishop
Acacius
redeemed
seven
thousand
captives
,
out
of
most
miserable
bondage
.
All
which
and
the
like
savour
of
Christian
charity
,
but
they
dissent
from
the
common
course
of
accursed
Church-robbery
.
Finally
,
we
wish
that
those
which
obiect
some
divines
against
the
divine
right
of
tithes
,
would
for
the
safety
of
their
consciences
,
but
faithfully
observe
and
practise
those
honest
rules
,
which
the
learned
men
do
strictly
propound
in
this
point
.
-
1
That
there
must
be
just
cause
of
so
doing
.
-
3
What
is
alienated
must
bee
imployed
to
some
good
use
in
the
Church
or
Common-wealth
.
-
3
There
must
be
reserved
a
sufficient
(
not
a
surmised
)
maintenance
for
an
able
Ministery
and
reliefe
of
the
poore
.
-
4
No
good
member
of
the
Church
,
can
in
conscience
seeke
the
harme
and
hinderance
of
the
same
.
Then
would
my
text
be
better
obeyed
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corne
.
-
5
I
am
to
make
good
the
truth
of
our
mentioned
doctrin
,
by
discourse
of
the
unequall
condition
of
Impropriations
.
Now
as
the
doctrine
doth
induce
this
subject
into
question
,
so
I
intend
my
following
speech
hereof
at
this
present
,
onely
according
to
the
drift
of
my
doctrine
,
namely
,
against
those
unjust
and
irreligious
Impropriatours
,
which
debarre
the
labouring
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
,
from
the
meanes
of
their
meet
maintenance
.
Tithes
(
we
may
collect
)
continued
in
sacred
esteeme
and
possession
some
foure
thousand
yeares
afore
our
blessed
Saviours
Incarnation
.
After
his
happy
birth
passed
also
about
six
hundred
moe
,
afore
the
prophane
handes
of
impious
sacriledge
durst
invade
,
and
violate
these
Ecclesiasticall
rights
.
Then
,
horresco
referens
,
I
tremble
to
relate
it
;
there
happened
a
disastrous
season
of
hatching
hatefull
monsters
.
Behold
Mahomet
acted
the
false
Prophet
in
Arabia
,
Boniface
played
the
Antichrist
in
Rome
,
Phocas
most
cruelly
murdered
his
Master
Mauritius
in
Constantinople
,
and
traytrously
usurped
the
Empire
:
At
which
time
likewise
Carolus
Martellus
in
the
Westerne
parts
under
colour
of
defence
,
incroached
in
this
kinde
upon
the
Church
.
And
notwithstanding
,
his
faire
promises
(
as
credible
Authours
affirm
)
to
restore
the
tithes
,
&c.
lent
and
entrusted
(
we
are
told
)
unto
him
,
during
the
Barbarians
cruell
incursions
,
he
salsifyed
his
faith
,
and
frustrated
the
Clergies
hope
,
by
a
wicked
and
wrongfull
alienation
.
The
old
saying
,
nulla
fiaes
pietasque
viris
qui
castra
sequuntur
,
touch
military
mens
infidelity
and
prophanesse
appeared
abundantly
,
verified
in
this
martiall
and
ambitious
Prince
.
The
city
Tours
upon
the
Loyre
continueth
a
lasting
rrophy
of
his
most
triumphant
victory
.
But
his
high
towring
humour
reciprocating
with
the
Babylonian
beast
for
their
own
respects
,
&
binding
his
soldiets
to
his
aspiring
service
with
the
unlawful
nervs
of
the
Church
,
remaineth
a
notorious
monument
of
irreligion
not
of
liberalitie
.
The
very
Sarasins
whom
he
slew
,
would
have
exclaimed
against
such
evill
dealing
with
their
Priests
.
Sundry
writers
of
that
time
,
suffered
him
not
to
escape
without
sharpe
censure
,
yea
some
of
them
pursue
the
chace
of
him
untill
a
fearefull
vision
of
infernall
paines
and
torments
undertooke
him
,
great
pitty
it
was
that
so
glorious
a
Commander
blemished
his
illustrious
selfe
by
giving
such
occasion
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
oxe
,
&c.
There
was
an
age
when
Christian
Religion
ranne
a
strong
by
as
of
building
Monasteries
,
and
endowing
them
with
large
revenues
:
a
firme
opinion
of
the
piety
and
charity
or
those
which
were
cloystered
in
them
procured
this
ample
benevolence
.
Their
laudable
beginnings
in
devotion
,
hospitality
,
and
sundry
alme●deeds
were
answerable
.
But
in
processe
of
time
;
their
idlenesse
bred
luxury
to
undoe
their
devotion
,
and
their
luxury
ingendred
avarice
to
destroy
their
charity
:
and
then
many
whole
Benefices
seemed
not
seldome
too
few
for
one
Monasteries
devouring
swallow
.
Men
of
no
worth
served
their
Churches
,
and
spared
them
wages
.
These
men
(
saith
one
)
never
of
Gods
making
,
but
meere
creatures
of
the
Pope
,
notwithstanding
his
Fatherhoods
protection
,
and
no
few
opportunities
of
free
corruption
,
did
not
yet
so
deeply
degenerate
,
but
that
one
of
their
utter
enemies
,
Master
Leaver
in
a
Sermon
before
King
Edward
the
sixth
,
&c.
yeelds
them
this
testimony
.
Whereas
fifty
tunne
bellied
Monkes
filled
their
paunches
,
kept
up
their
house
,
and
relieved
the
whole
country
round
about
them
:
There
hath
succeeded
in
their
place
and
generation
of
greedy
guttes
,
devouring
the
whole
house
,
and
making
great
pillage
throughout
a
whole
country
,
yet
cannot
be
satisfied
.
He
mentioneth
also
a
world
of
faire
pretenses
of
good
workes
at
these
Monasteries
dissolution
,
vanished
into
nothing
but
delusion
,
and
depravation
.
Moreover
as
at
the
first
the
Monkes
tooke
but
a
small
pension
for
themselves
,
from
the
appropriate
Churches
,
and
left
all
the
rest
to
the
officiating
Vicars
;
but
reditus
tantum
superfluos
,
a
few
overplus
rents
which
might
well
be
spared
saith
Panormitan
,
quando
fructus
sunt
sufficientes
et
abundantes
Clerico
,
when
the
other
profits
are
abundantly
sufficient
for
the
Incumbent
:
non
amplius
quam
quinquagesimam
partem
,
no
more
then
the
fiftieth
part
,
is
a
rule
in
a
certaine
Councell
of
Toledo
.
So
when
as
they
waxed
exorbitant
and
immoderate
,
their
holy
Father
himselfe
(
as
they
held
him
)
inhibited
and
confined
their
insatiable
greedinesse
,
as
tending
to
the
discredit
of
the
Papacy
,
the
ruine
of
Parish
Churches
,
and
decay
of
religion
in
all
places
.
Hereupon
Pope
Alexander
the
third
,
commands
in
Yorke
and
Worcester
a
reformation
,
and
that
the
Bishops
should
admit
none
of
their
presentation
,
without
a
liberall
provision
for
the
Vicars
uses
.
The
contrary
he
calleth
extirpandae
consuetudinis
vitium
,
a
wicked
custome
to
be
rooted
out
.
Clement
the
third
proceeded
further
against
them
,
and
in
case
they
did
not
provide
and
present
accordingly
,
he
then
ordered
from
them
that
power
to
the
Ordinarie
.
Clement
the
fourth
confirmed
and
inlarged
the
former
decrees
.
Clement
the
fifth
,
whetted
still
a
sharper
edge
upon
the
former
Constitutions
,
and
threatned
Ecclesiasticall
censures
upon
the
persisting
delinquents
.
Moreover
it
is
knowne
,
how
the
Popes
(
for
seare
of
others
negligence
)
had
their
Apostolicall
Conservators
in
the
Vicars
behalfes
.
Neither
passed
any
Appropriations
from
the
Sea
of
Rome
without
speciall
provisoes
for
these
purposes
,
as
Petrus
Rebuffus
witnesseth
.
And
this
text
was
frequently
alledged
against
them
,
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corne
.
You
may
soone
see
then
by
that
which
hath
beene
said
,
how
most
of
our
moderne
Impropriatours
come
far
short
of
the
very
Monkes
and
Popes
in
piety
and
honest
dealing
toward
the
Church
.
That
learned
man
above
mentioned
,
termed
these
sorts
of
sacrilegious
abuses
in
his
time
,
perniciem
et
exitium
totius
Reipublicae
Christianae
,
the
bane
and
destruction
of
the
whole
Christian
Common-wealth
.
Surely
,
if
hee
had
lived
in
this
worser
age
of
ours
,
and
beheld
the
cunning
and
cruell
multiplication
and
increase
of
this
direfull
monster
,
he
would
have
fallen
into
most
bitter
exclamation
against
it
,
and
in
some
manner
have
resembled
it
to
the
abomination
of
desolation
standing
in
the
holy
place
where
it
ought
not
.
Alas
,
it
hath
waxed
apace
to
the
waste
of
the
Church
:
It
hath
quickly
augmented
into
a
viperous
brood
,
no
lesse
deformed
then
ravenous
,
which
make
no
meete
conscience
(
according
to
divine
command
)
of
the
welfare
of
our
holy
mother
the
Church
,
and
of
the
maintenance
of
Christs
Clergy
therein
,
the
spirituall
Pastours
;
but
take
to
themselves
the
houses
of
God
in
possession
.
Psalm
.
84.
with
a
hellish
greedinesse
.
Neither
seemed
the
light
of
this
serpentine
Monster
any
better
aspected
then
this
bodily
composed
shape
:
For
certainely
if
his
evill
eies
had
well
he
held
the
Sonne
of
righteousnesse
,
such
a
gracious
influence
of
supernall
illumination
should
then
have
shined
upon
them
,
as
they
would
never
thus
(
contrary
to
the
light
of
divine
religion
and
naturall
reason
)
have
insatiably
coveted
to
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
painfull
oxe
,
and
suffer
some
slow-bellyed
Cretian
beastes
to
devour
the
graine
.
Nor
allow
the
layterers
the
reward
of
the
labourers
:
nor
starve
the
industrious
workeman
,
and
pamper
up
the
idle
person
with
his
appointed
portion
.
The
rules
amongst
the
best
Lawyers
,
in
this
case
run
with
a
primary
respect
unto
the
Service
of
the
Churches
before
any
others
necessities
.
The
Vicar
which
excriseth
the
Cure
must
be
preferred
above
all
other
persons
,
whither
exempt
or
not
exempted
,
Religious
or
Laicke
,
Ecclesiasticall
or
Secular
,
Cloyster
and
Chapter
,
&c.
be
the
words
of
Bowichius
and
Rebuffus
.
Neither
do
they
suppose
a
bare
sustentation
to
be
sufficient
;
perchance
they
write
,
he
shall
not
be
driven
into
the
extremes
of
want
:
yet
neverthelesse
the
portion
may
be
much
incompetent
,
if
we
regard
a
due
and
decent
fashion
(
according
to
the
conveniency
and
dignity
of
the
Ministeriall
calling
)
in
their
meate
,
drinke
and
clothing
and
other
congruencies
.
It
is
not
fit
they
should
be
inforced
to
feed
fabis
et
aliis
vilibus
cibariis
,
with
course
fare
and
meane
dyet
;
nor
yet
their
garments
to
bee
of
the
lowest
ranke
:
nec
sibi
debent
coquere
,
neither
may
they
want
necessary
and
seemely
attendance
of
servants
.
For
as
that
Benefice
is
incompetent
,
which
doth
not
well
suffice
to
the
maintenance
of
the
Incumbent
,
and
those
which
are
necessary
to
serve
about
him
.
So
these
grave
and
judicious
Authours
affirme
,
that
whensoever
the
Vicars
portion
commeth
in
question
,
considerabitur
in
iis
honestas
,
nt
honoretur
in
iis
officium
sacerdotale
,
the
excellency
of
the
Priesthood
with
the
due
requisites
,
must
be
worthily
considerd
and
honoured
,
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
&c.
Heu
dedecus
ingens
!
Fie
then
upon
it
,
when
the
Impropriatour
boasteth
that
hee
knoweth
how
to
abound
,
but
the
Incumbent
is
compelled
to
bewaile
that
hee
knoweth
how
to
be
abased
;
when
as
the
Impropriatour
laugheth
that
he
knoweth
how
to
be
full
,
but
the
Incumbent
must
lament
,
that
hee
knoweth
how
to
bee
hungry
and
suffer
need
.
This
is
a
most
unequall
parting
of
Saint
Pauls
entire
speech
,
Philippians
fourth
,
and
against
the
tenour
of
my
text
.
It
savoureth
of
no
good
piety
nor
conscience
,
that
the
Priest
like
Plinies
fish
Lutarius
,
should
performe
a
great
deale
of
labour
for
food
;
But
the
Impropriatour
,
like
the
Egyptian
fish
Sargus
,
should
ravine
up
the
meat
.
The
sacrilegious
would
verifie
the
saying
of
the
woman
of
Canaan
Matthew
15.
upon
Clergy
men
;
The
Dogs
eate
of
the
crummes
,
which
fall
from
their
Masters
table
:
And
so
farre
as
they
can
,
transforme
the
Ministery
into
the
Iesuite
Acostaes
poore
fish
Rambos
,
which
is
faine
to
sustaine
it selfe
upon
those
refuse
pittances
,
that
slippe
out
of
the
devouring
mouthes
of
the
insatiable
Tiburons
.
It
was
an
old
and
authenticall
plea
in
the
behalfe
of
the
officiating
Ministers
for
their
preeminence
,
Vicarius
agit
de
damno
vitando
,
monasterium
vero
de
lucro
captando
▪
how
the
Vicars
labour
for
the
good
of
the
soule
,
but
the
Impropriatours
endeavour
for
the
goods
of
the
world
.
What
signe
of
equity
can
then
be
seen
in
so
strange
and
sinister
,
sic
vos
non
vobis
;
for
the
Clergy
Bees
to
do
all
the
businesse
in
collecting
the
honey
and
composing
the
combes
,
and
the
Impropriators
drones
,
ignavium
pecus
,
to
consume
and
devour
up
all
the
honey
,
the
reward
of
the
others
worke
?
For
the
spirituall
Shepheards
to
keepe
and
to
feed
the
flockes
,
and
neverthelesse
,
the
carnall
Impropriatours
to
carry
away
the
fleeces
,
to
reape
the
profits
?
For
these
birds
of
the
Altar
to
sing
,
and
waite
upon
the
Altar
,
and
yet
those
banes
of
the
Altar
to
goe
away
with
the
benefit
of
the
Altar
?
For
these
Oxen
of
the
Priesthood
to
plow
painefully
,
and
yet
the
prophane
Impropriatours
to
muzzle
them
shamefully
?
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
&c.
The
Emperour
Augustus
Caesar
,
hearing
how
cruelly
King
Herod
had
dealt
with
his
hopefull
children
,
affirmed
that
it
was
better
to
be
one
of
Herods
Swine
then
his
Sonne
,
because
Hogges
had
their
priviledge
in
Iudea
inviolably
preserved
,
but
Herods
children
were
tyrannoussy
murthered
,
against
that
prerogative
which
God
and
nature
had
given
them
.
Thus
might
we
professe
in
like
manner
,
that
the
condition
of
the
Impropriatours
oxen
seemeth
much
more
fairely
tollerable
,
then
the
state
and
fortune
of
their
Vicars
and
hirelings
.
Those
have
commonly
their
meet
&
convenient
provender
to
strengthen
them
unto
their
appointed
taske
and
businesse
.
But
the
ordinary
portion
of
these
is
to
serve
&
sterve
,
to
worke
and
want
,
to
bee
earnest
in
season
,
and
out
of
season
,
yet
without
any
due
respect
,
&
reason
had
of
them
in
that
deserving
regard
.
We
may
justly
complaine
at
the
miserable
indignity
of
our
case
,
with
the
words
of
Bildad
,
Iob.
18.
wherefore
are
we
counted
as
beasts
,
and
reputed
vile
in
your
sight
?
or
rather
,
why
are
wee
worse
contemned
and
baselier
reckoned
of
then
bruit
creatures
?
These
pittilesse
sorts
of
oppressours
resemble
Pharaoh
Necoh
,
killing
tyrants
indeed
,
to
grant
these
Israelites
no
sufficient
straw
,
and
yet
to
exact
the
full
tale
of
the
bricke●
,
as
when
they
had
it
;
to
bereave
these
Churchlampes
of
their
requisit
oyle
,
and
yet
to
remit
nothing
of
their
cantinuall
burning
:
To
clippe
off
the
helpefull
wings
of
these
sacred
birdes
,
and
yet
to
inforce
them
unto
a
wonted
flight
of
ministeriall
offices
;
to
cut
asunder
the
usefull
sinewes
of
these
men
of
God
,
and
yet
to
call
upon
them
to
runne
the
race
that
is
set
before
them
:
to
disarme
these
Soldiours
of
Christ
from
their
necessary
provision
and
weapons
,
and
yet
in
praelia
trudere
inermes
,
to
urge
them
into
warfare
,
and
thrust
them
upon
the
front
of
the
battell
.
To
deny
fit
tooles
and
meet
materials
,
and
yet
to
constraine
these
mysticall
Architects
for
to
toyle
and
build
,
as
if
they
had
abundance
:
to
suppresse
the
meanes
of
all
decent
performance
,
and
yet
to
presse
the
practice
of
all
manner
of
duties
;
whith
holdes
no
good
quarter
with
the
rule
of
my
text
:
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
&c.
Vpon
a
strange
surfit
which
some
ill
tempered
Clergy
men
,
once
tooke
by
a
sodaine
overflow
of
outward
prosperity
,
after
a
long
time
of
persecution
,
arose
the
proverb
of
the
Churches
daughter
riches
which
undid
her
Mother
.
Here
was
need
to
reforme
the
disorderly
and
peccant
members
,
but
not
to
remove
the
divinely
appropriate
meanes
,
to
apply
a
remedy
,
not
to
oppose
a
ruine
.
What
an
unconscionable
and
cruell
inequality
is
then
discernable
in
the
Impropriatours
course
,
which
by
one
ravenous
mouth
of
sacriledge
,
do
devour
both
mother
&
daughter
;
spoyling
Christ
and
swallowing
up
his
Spouse
;
robbing
the
Lord
,
and
ruinating
the
labourer
?
What
cares
the
Atheist
for
honest
payment
of
his
tithes
,
when
as
he
hath
despised
all
true
religion
?
What
faithfulnesse
may
wee
find
in
the
Papists
touching
this
point
of
tenths
,
since
that
he
distasteth
our
present
religion
?
But
the
Protestant
Impropriattour
seemeth
to
surpasse
them
both
in
excesse
of
Church
robbery
:
For
he
teacheth
that
a
man
should
not
steale
,
and
yet
himselfe
stealeth
,
he
abhorreth
idols
,
and
yet
he
committeth
sacriledge
:
hee
saith
a
man
should
avoid
adultery
,
and
yet
he
runneth
a
whoring
after
his
owne
inventions
:
he
maketh
his
,
boast
of
the
Law
,
and
yet
thorow
breaking
of
the
Law
hee
dishonoureth
God
,
and
causeth
his
Name
to
be
blasphemed
among
the
Gentiles
,
Romans
2.
Will
a
man
rob
God
?
yet
they
have
robbed
him
in
his
tithes
and
offerings
,
and
so
are
cursed
with
a
curse
:
Malachi
.
3.
This
was
at
the
siege
of
Ierusalem
,
one
of
Iosephus
grievous
expostulations
against
Iohn
and
others
of
the
seditious
;
if
any
man
should
take
from
thee
thy
daily
food
,
no
doubt
,
but
thou
wouldest
account
him
thine
enemy
:
canst
thou
then
hope
that
God
,
whom
thou
hast
deprived
of
daily
Sacrifice
,
will
assist
thee
?
These
Impropriatours
,
which
debarre
the
labouring
Ministers
of
the
word
,
from
their
liberall
maintenance
,
deale
no
better
with
the
Lord
touching
his
worship
and
Service
;
what
favour
then
can
they
flatter
themselves
with
to
finde
at
his
hand
,
without
heartie
repentance
?
Time
and
custome
with
some
colour
of
authority
have
taken
away
the
sense
of
this
sinne
,
and
turned
the
remorselesse
offenders
into
the
brasen
faced
impudency
of
Solomons
harlot
,
Proverbs
30.
Such
is
the
way
of
an
adulterous
Woman
,
she
eateth
and
wipeth
her
mouth
,
and
saith
,
I
have
done
no
wickednesse
.
Some
serpentine
Patrons
of
these
usurpers
upon
the
Clergies
patrimonie
are
content
to
permit
(
where
they
cannot
prohibite
)
a
continuation
of
tithes
still
to
the
Minnistery
,
per
vim
exemplarem
,
by
imitation
of
the
Iewish
state
ordered
by
the
Almighty
;
but
not
per
vim
oblig
ativam
,
by
any
binding
force
under
the
Gospel
.
Our
divine
right
to
the
tithes
is
already
(
in
a
stipulation
to
our
propounded
doctrine
)
manifoldly
made
good
.
But
admit
we
had
(
as
they
saine
and
suggest
)
no
obligatory
warrant
,
but
onely
an
exemplary
vertue
to
plead
for
our
interests
,
yet
this
seemes
enough
to
shoote
such
Iulianizers
through
with
their
owne
shaftes
.
For
where
can
the
Impropriatours
shew
so
much
colour
to
countenance
their
secrilegious
incroachments
?
Did
ever
the
Indiciall
Lawes
of
the
Iewes
afford
them
any
such
exemplary
matter
,
to
maintaine
their
case
with
?
No
surely
,
for
Nature
,
Law
,
Gospell
,
Iew
and
Gentile
,
Grecian
and
Barbarian
have
often
given
the
voyces
of
their
practises
and
protestations
,
against
all
such
invaders
of
the
Priests
inheritance
.
And
yet
,
(
tell
it
not
in
Gath
,
neither
publish
it
within
the
wall
of
Askelon
,
let
not
the
uncircumcised
know
of
it
)
there
are
many
persons
named
Christians
,
who
to
mount
up
themselves
into
the
highest
roomes
of
worldly
Magnificoes
,
make
no
conscience
to
diminish
and
cast
downe
the
Ministers
of
the
word
,
into
the
lowest
center
of
miserable
mendicants
.
No
small
scandall
to
our
Religion
is
this
contumacy
against
the
divine
Injunction
,
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
&c.
The
Apostle
Paul
affirmeth
Rom.
15.
that
the
strong
ought
to
beare
the
infirmities
of
the
weake
,
this
is
a
generall
rule
concerning
all
sorts
.
But
the
Impropriatour
(
whose
brow
is
brasse
,
whose
necke
is
an
iron
sinew
,
and
whose
heart
is
as
hard
as
flint
)
he
regardeth
it
with
the
least
,
although
it
bindeth
him
with
the
most
.
He
rampeth
like
a
strong
Lion
upon
the
prey
of
the
benefit
,
but
he
leaveth
the
whole
burden
to
oppresse
the
weake
Incumbent
.
Wee
are
told
Deuteronomy
22.
Thou
shalt
not
see
thy
brothers
asse
,
or
his
oxe
fall
down
by
the
way
,
and
hide
thy self
from
them
;
thou
shalt
surely
help
him
to
lift
them
up
again
;
yea
,
be
they
the
beasts
of
him
that
hateth
thee
.
Exo.
23
But
alas
,
there
are
too
many
Savage
beasts
in
other
places
besides
Ephesus
.
1
Corinthians
.
15.
Namely
cruell
and
bruitish
men
(
Theophylact
and
Primasius
interpret
the
words
)
which
practise
nothing
more
then
to
oppresse
downe
the
painfull
Pauls
of
the
Clergy
,
and
to
let
them
lie
in
all
extremity
.
We
read
1
John
3.
Who
so
hath
this
worlds
good
,
and
seeth
his
brother
need
and
shutteth
up
his
bowels
of
compassion
from
him
,
how
dwelleth
the
love
of
GOD
in
him
?
Neverthelesse
,
whiles
these
impious
Belshazzars
may
drink
and
quaffe
with
their
companions
in
the
golden
&
silver
vessels
taken
out
of
the
house
of
God
Daniel
.
5.
whiles
this
mercilesse
brood
,
may
with
the
rich
glutton
,
be
cloathed
in
purple
and
sine
linen
,
and
fare
sumptuously
every
day
.
Luke
.
16.
They
have
small
compassion
at
the
Lazarus
of
the
spoyled
Ministery
,
which
want
not
seldome
,
the
refuse
,
that
fall
from
their
rich
Tables
:
yet
they
have
small
remorse
at
the
Lazarus
of
many
famishing
soules
;
sterved
through
the
accursed
meanes
of
their
execrable
sacriledge
.
They
have
small
respect
at
the
grievous
consequences
of
their
corrupt
example
,
because
upon
the
opening
of
this
bottomelesse
pit
,
a
grosse
and
dismall
smoke
ariseth
,
by
reason
of
which
the
Sunne
and
the
aire
are
darkened
.
Apocalypse
.
9.
fugêrê
pudor
,
verumque
,
fidesque
;
in
quorum
subîere
locum
fraudesque
dolique
,
infidiaeque
,
et
vis
,
et
amor
sceleratus
habendi
:
All
true
devotion
and
pious
affection
to
the
Church
consumed
away
;
and
there
pressed
into
their
place
all
manner
of
covetous
circumvention
and
sacrilegious
rapine
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzlee
the
mouth
,
&c.
Behold
from
hence
also
a
swerving
world
of
lesser
Church
theeves
tooke
heart
afresh
to
commit
manifold
spoyle
upon
the
Clergy
.
They
excuse
themselves
by
the
Impropriators
ravening
up
totall
Benefices
,
to
purloine
&
invade
smaller
parcels
of
tithes
and
glebes
.
Like
the
Pirate
,
who
justified
his
robbing
of
the
meaner
Sea-faring
passengers
,
with
a
few
Gallies
;
because
Alexander
the
Great
,
with
huge
Armies
and
Navies
pillaged
&
preyed
upon
whole
Kingdomes
and
Provinces
.
No
mervaile
then
that
this
Impropriation
Monster
,
meeteth
with
so
bad
mention
not
onely
among
grave
Divines
,
but
also
great
Lawyers
.
The
Lord
chiefe
Iustice
Cooke
,
that
late
was
,
observed
out
of
Ecclesiasticall
History
,
how
Iulian
the
Apostata
having
a
purpose
wholly
to
ruine
the
profession
of
Christianity
,
from
which
himselfe
had
fouly
revolted
;
used
not
the
sword
(
as
other
persecutors
did
)
but
tooke
away
the
meanes
of
the
Ministery
,
&c.
This
crafty
Fox
well
knew
that
the
depriving
them
of
these
,
would
necessarily
draw
on
the
destruction
of
the
other
.
And
thus
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
or
diverted
,
Behold
there
the
very
life
of
the
Ministers
duty
,
and
the
peoples
edification
languisheth
.
The
sheep
will
range
and
scatter
up
and
down
at
their
own
pleasures
:
Sordent
quae
possunt
semper
haberi
,
All
their
longing
is
for
strange
Novelties
,
with
unworthy
neglect
of
their
own
Pastors
,
and
so
through
their
sides
they
wound
Religion
.
The
Shepheard
(
whose
living
is
little
better
then
an
Almes
)
is
over-much
loden
with
the
study
of
looking
for
himself
and
his
family
,
he
cannot
care
as
hee
ought
,
for
his
Cure
.
Hereupon
his
owne
pressures
and
exigences
confine
the
precious
liberty
of
his
place
into
obsequious
slavery
.
Thus
whiles
they
fear
to
be
thought
enemies
for
telling
the
truth
,
they
fall
by
flattery
to
trade
for
untrusty
friends
:
they
act
the
fawning
Parasites
in
stead
of
faithfull
Preachers
:
&
not
daring
to
professe
themselves
honest
Freemen
of
Verona
,
they
appear
the
servile
vassals
of
London
and
Placentia
:
because
composed
to
praise
and
please
,
but
not
to
reprove
and
pierce
.
The
sword
of
the
Spirit
,
which
is
the
Word
of
God
,
Ephes.
6.
they
bear
in
vain
,
for
they
have
no
courage
to
cry
aloud
,
not
to
spare
,
to
lift
up
their
voices
like
trumpets
,
and
to
shew
the
people
their
transgressions
,
Esay
58.
Necessitie
insinuates
a
safer
seeming
course
,
namely
,
to
sooth
up
their
sins
,
whose
benevolence
they
always
need
,
and
whose
evill
will
they
are
not
able
to
undergo
.
Thus
they
proclayme
peace
,
and
there
was
no
peace
:
and
one
built
up
a
wall
,
and
so
others
dawbed
it
with
untempered
mortar
,
and
sow
pillows
to
all
arm-holes
,
Ezech.
13.
to
the
dishonour
of
God
,
to
the
ruine
of
Religion
,
to
the
destruction
of
souls
.
Hinc
prima
mali
labes
:
this
pestilent
mischief
sprung
from
the
impious
neglect
of
this
precept
:
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
I
alledge
two
profane
derogation
from
God
,
first
in
his
honour
;
Because
,
when
as
2.
Cor.
5.
We
are
Ambassadors
for
Christ
,
it
followeth
then
according
to
our
Saviours
saying
,
Luke
10.
He
that
heareth
you
heareth
me
,
and
hee
that
despiseth
you
,
despiseth
me
,
and
hee
that
despiseth
me
,
despiseth
him
that
seut
me
.
Earthly
Princes
(
in
respect
of
themselves
interessed
)
be
never
wont
to
dispense
with
wrong
and
disgraces
done
their
Messengers
,
but
expect
in
all
places
their
worthy
entertainment
:
witnesse
David's
revenge
upon
Hanun
the
King
of
the
children
of
Ammon
for
this
abuse
:
Also
for
the
like
offence
,
the
utter
subversion
of
the
famous
City
Corinth
by
the
Romans
.
Surely
the
Almighty
Lord
must
bee
imagined
much
more
sensible
of
contempt
and
injuries
offered
against
those
whom
he
sendeth
,
in
regard
of
his
supreme
Majesty
interested
with
his
delegated
servants
.
Behold
in
his
speech
unto
the
Prophet
Samuel
,
What
he
saith
unto
all
his
Ministers
;
they
have
not
rejected
thee
,
but
they
have
rejected
me
.
He
that
honoureth
the
Priest
,
honnoureth
God
,
and
he
that
despiseth
the
Priest
,
by
little
and
little
falleth
to
this
also
,
that
he
will
use
reproach
against
God
himself
,
Saint
Chrysostome
sheweth
.
But
how
should
this
requisite
honour
be
duly
performed
without
his
meet
and
appointed
Ministers
.
Again
,
how
should
those
Ministers
of
his
sufficiently
attend
their
Function
without
answerable
mayntenance
?
But
sacriledge
despoyling
them
of
that
,
doth
consequently
derogate
from
God
in
his
honour
.
2.
It
derogateth
from
God
in
his
rightfull
clayme
and
interest
.
The
earth
it
the
Lords
,
and
the
fulnesse
therof
,
the
world
and
they
that
dwell
therin
,
Psal.
24.
Consideret
homo
quod
omnia
Dei
sunt
per
quae
vivit
,
sine
terra
,
sine
flumina
,
sine
semina
:
Saint
Augustine
adviseth
man
to
remember
,
that
all
the
means
of
his
life
come
from
God
.
Yea
,
he
induceth
his
Majesty
thus
expostulating
this
case
;
Meus
est
homo
quem
feci
;
mea
est
terra
quam
collis
;
mea
sunt
semina
quae
spargis
:
mea
animalia
quae
fatigas
:
mei
sunt
imbres
&
pluviae
:
&
ventorum
flamina
mea
sunt
:
meus
est
Solis
calor
:
omnia
vivendi
alimenta
mea
,
&c.
Mine
is
the
Man
whom
I
have
made
;
mine
is
the
Land
which
the
labourer
tilleth
;
mine
are
the
seeds
which
the
Husbandmen
sow
:
mine
are
the
beasts
which
be
toyled
and
wearied
in
the
work
:
mine
are
the
soaking
showres
and
refreshfull
rains
:
the
cherishing
windes
receive
also
from
me
their
welcome
wings
;
the
comfortable
heat
of
the
Sun
is
mine
;
I
am
likewise
the
Lord
of
all
the
Elements
wherby
thou
livest
.
Since
then
God
is
the
supreme
owner
of
all
,
and
from
his
free
bounty
flows
our
totall
maintenance
,
the
duty
of
justice
and
gratitude
bindeth
us
to
render
something
back
for
a
token
of
his
Soveraignty
,
and
a
testimony
of
our
thanks
.
Irenaeus
writeth
,
that
it
was
the
use
of
the
Church
through
the
World
in
his
time
,
and
received
from
the
Apostles
;
to
offer
some
things
of
the
blessings
that
they
lived
by
,
as
the
first-fruits
therof
to
him
,
who
gave
these
things
unto
them
.
Now
qui
dignatus
est
totum
dare
,
decimaem
à
nobis
dignatur
repetere
,
God
that
vouchsafed
to
give
us
the
whole
,
vouchsafeth
also
to
require
back
again
the
tenth
.
This
most
munificent
bestower
of
all
the
rest
,
reserveth
only
but
that
part
unto
himselfe
(
for
that
his
holy
Word
proclaymeth
to
be
his
inheritance
,
separate
to
his
service
)
and
a
portion
out
of
the
other
nine
parts
to
relieve
and
supply
the
poor
.
Whosoever
therfore
(
saith
the
same
Augustine
)
is
desirous
either
to
gain
unto
himself
a
gracious
reward
;
or
to
intreat
an
indulgent
remission
of
his
sins
;
let
him
conscionably
pay
the
tenth
to
the
Clergy
,
and
out
of
the
residue
parts
,
let
him
charitably
compassionate
the
poor
.
Oh
mankinde
(
hee
further
addeth
)
empty
of
zealous
devotion
,
but
full
of
perfidious
defraudation
,
since
thou
canst
not
but
know
,
that
all
good
things
which
thou
enjoyest
are
the
Lords
,
what
an
unthankfull
heart
then
hast
thou
oh
unworthy
wretch
,
to
return
nothing
back
again
of
his
own
to
the
giver
of
all
things
demanding
it
?
Lo
what
hee
requireth
is
a
due
debt
and
tribute
:
thou
canst
not
deny
it
,
thou
must
not
diminish
it
,
thou
mayst
not
delay
it
,
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
3.
This
sacrilegious
usurpation
of
the
Ministers
maintenance
doth
derogate
from
God
in
his
wisdome
:
There
are
many
learned
persons
(
and
some
of
their
opinions
extant
in
print
)
although
not
so
resolutely
holding
tithes
to
be
due
by
divine
right
,
yet
they
conceive
no
course
else
so
apt
and
indifferent
for
the
Clergies
provision
as
by
the
payment
of
them
.
And
this
the
reason
which
they
alledge
herein
,
because
every
politike
Law
is
to
be
supposed
the
more
right
and
equall
,
by
how
much
it
resembleth
and
approcheth
neerer
to
the
Law
of
the
same
kinde
,
which
the
Lord
hath
ordained
amongst
the
Hebrews
.
But
it
is
certain
that
the
Law
of
God
among
the
Israelites
was
for
the
payment
of
tithes
unto
the
Misters
which
officiated
in
holy
duties
,
as
well
in
one
place
of
that
Countrey
as
in
another
:
and
therefore
the
continuance
of
them
still
to
the
same
purpose
seemeth
very
requisite
.
Moreover
,
it
is
a
common
maxime
,
Vetus
lex
nulla
antiquanda
est
,
quae
neque
imbecillis
sit
,
neqne
inutilis
;
no
old
Law
is
to
be
abrogated
,
which
neither
is
too
weak
nor
unprofitable
.
When
as
therfore
no
want
of
worth
,
no
waste
of
strength
,
no
wane
of
utility
can
be
discovered
in
this
divinely
enacted
Statute
touching
tithes
for
the
Ministers
.
For
Gualter
on
Matthew
23
,
saith
,
Quae
justior
ratio
excogitari
potest
alendi
ministros
,
quàm
ut
ex
decimis
vivant
?
What
juster
course
can
be
devised
?
what
better
reason
may
be
imagined
for
the
Clergies
maintenance
,
then
to
receive
the
meanes
hereof
by
the
payment
of
tithes
?
Surely
then
it
savoureth
of
no
good
discretion
nor
conscience
in
man
(
as
if
he
presumed
himself
wiser
than
his
Maker
)
to
disanull
this
Law
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
3.
I
urge
that
the
withholding
competent
maintenance
from
the
labouring
Ministers
is
contrary
unto
legall
right
in
sundry
respects
.
Doctor
Rives
observeth
that
both
the
ancient
grants
of
Appropriations
,
and
the
formes
of
confirming
them
from
Rome
run
in
this
manner
;
saving
the
sustentation
of
the
Vicar
,
and
the
right
of
the
Bishop
;
reserving
to
us
and
our
successors
free
power
,
when
as
it
behoveth
,
of
supplying
and
augmenting
the
Vicars
portion
,
out
of
the
tithes
,
&c.
for
his
better
undergoing
the
burthen
of
his
Cure
,
and
charges
payable
therout
,
Yea
,
he
inferreth
out
Ludovieus
Romanus
,
that
the
Solution
of
procurations
was
pro
modo
facultatum
Ecclesiae
,
as
the
Church
hath
ability
to
spare
them
.
For
thus
is
the
minde
and
words
of
the
Law
saith
Hostiensis
,
ut
Ecclesia
ultra
posse
non
gravetur
,
the
visitor
must
beare
his
owne
charges
,
rather
then
bee
grievous
unto
the
Church
.
Moreover
how
the
Lawes
of
the
Land
consent
herewith
in
favour
of
the
distressed
Vicar
,
he
alledgeth
some
Statutes
in
the
reigne
of
Edward
the
third
,
Richard
the
second
,
and
Henry
the
fourth
,
that
the
Diocesan
of
the
place
,
in
the
concession
of
any
Appropriation
should
discreetly
and
piously
ordaine
a
yeerely
summe
of
money
for
reliefe
of
the
poore
,
and
the
Vicar
to
be
well
and
sufficiently
endowed
.
At
length
he
professeth
,
that
he
could
never
know
of
any
Statute
,
made
since
the
Abbey-dissolution
either
abrogative
or
derogatory
,
to
the
Common
Lawes
in
his
case
.
And
when
as
those
monasticall
houses
,
&c.
were
put
downe
,
the
King
and
his
heires
for
ever
were
by
the
statute
to
hold
them
,
in
the
same
ample
manner
as
the
Abbot
then
had
in
the
right
of
his
place
:
And
saving
to
all
persons
,
Bodies
politique
and
their
Successours
,
all
such
right
,
claime
,
title
,
interest
,
possession
,
rent-charges
,
Annuities
,
Leases
,
Farmes
,
Offices
,
Fees
,
Portions
,
Penfrons
,
&c.
These
words
seeme
of
much
efficacy
and
extent
.
I
inferre
from
them
;
a
Vicar
had
at
the
time
of
dissolution
,
right
,
claime
,
and
interest
to
so
much
of
the
Appropriate
Rectory
as
was
requisite
for
his
congruous
,
and
competent
maintenance
:
this
right
is
therefore
still
reserved
to
him
and
his
Successours
.
Had
the
Monasteries
continued
,
this
action
bad
beene
good
against
them
:
and
that
they
well
knew
,
and
thereupon
sought
to
fortifie
themselves
against
it
,
by
the
Incumbents
oath
,
bond
,
and
by
purchase
of
the
Popes
priviledge
.
So
now
they
being
dissolved
,
the
action
holds
still
good
against
the
Impropriatours
succeeding
in
the
Abbots
place
.
The
Diocesan
likewise
at
that
season
,
had
a
right
of
power
,
and
Iurisdiction
in
himselfe
,
whensoever
the
Abbot
presented
a
Clerke
unto
him
for
institution
,
not
to
admit
him
without
a
convenient
portion
,
assigned
for
his
maintenance
.
Which
if
the
Abbot
performed
not
within
the
time
limited
,
then
had
the
Bishop
right
in
himselfe
to
collate
the
Vicaridge
,
and
to
make
a
fit
allowance
at
his
discretion
,
out
of
the
sequestred
fruits
and
profits
of
the
Appropriation
.
And
in
case
of
relectancy
and
disobedience
,
the
Diocesan
,
might
compell
the
Abbot
by
Ecclesiasticall
censure
,
&
if
he
stood
refractory
,
there
followed
imprisonment
by
the
secular
power
,
without-baile
or
mainprize
,
untill
the
order
were
obeyed
.
And
if
hee
presented
not
at
all
,
the
Bishop
then
had
that
right
devolved
unto
him
as
in
case
of
lapse
.
Therefore
this
right
remaineth
safe
unto
the
Diocesans
still
against
the
Impropriatours
:
And
they
indeed
,
as
with
no
good
conscience
;
so
against
just
law
incroach
,
and
usurpe
upon
all
these
rights
.
Moreover
,
it
savoureth
of
a
disposition
both
une
quall
,
and
unmercifull
in
these
Impropriatours
,
to
oppose
a
new
augmentation
of
Vicaridge
endowments
;
because
(
besides
of
many
damnable
customers
defalcations
)
the
rates
of
all
things
are
now
inhaunsed
unto
higher
prices
:
in
which
respect
,
day
labourers
are
allowed
by
Law
to
raise
their
wages
:
Further
,
although
King
Henry
the
eight
dissolved
the
Monasteries
,
yet
hee
continued
that
Religion
still
,
that
brought
the
Vicars
(
beyond
their
portion
)
a
great
part
of
their
maintenance
,
in
oblations
,
altarages
,
confession
,
profits
,
Masse-moneys
,
and
such
like
Fees
.
Seeing
therefore
that
now
a
pious
reformation
,
hath
put
these
out
of
date
and
use
,
just
reason
and
equity
require
a
supply
,
and
recompence
to
the
Vicars
in
lieu
of
them
.
Finally
,
since
tithes
were
given
in
consideration
of
preaching
the
word
,
and
ministring
the
Sacraments
,
unto
the
payers
of
them
:
Beneficium
non
debetur
nisi
propter
officium
,
spirituall
benefices
&
spirituall
offices
should
be
relatives
.
What
Iustice
then
appeareth
,
for
the
people
to
be
driven
for
to
pay
unto
the
Improptiatours
,
the
tenth
which
never
doe
Minister
unto
them
,
in
the
sacred
exercises
of
the
Service
of
God
;
And
those
of
that
divine
function
which
performe
these
parts
towards
them
,
are
put
off
with
so
poore
and
base
a
parcell
;
as
that
learned
and
pious
Civilian-Docter
Rives
hath
in
regard
thereof
,
this
written
wish
;
Our
horse-boyes
wages
are
not
great
,
Would
God
our
Vicars
ware
no
worse
.
Woe
unto
him
that
coveteth
an
evill
covetousnesse
to
his
house
,
that
hee
may
set
his
nest
on
high
:
he
hath
consulted
shame
to
his
house
,
and
finned
against
his
soule
.
For
the
stone
shall
cry
out
of
the
wall
,
and
the
beame
out
of
the
timber
shall
answere
it
,
Habakkuk
.
2.
Let
the
perverse
usurpers
of
tithes
,
glebes
,
&c.
please
their
fancies
and
prevaricate
with
others
,
under
a
misseterme
of
their
turning
into
Chattels
and
Lay-fees
.
If
they
had
quite
lost
(
through
their
forced
alienation
)
the
quality
and
nature
of
Church
duties
and
goods
,
why
were
the
prophane
intruders
upon
them
faine
to
be
enabled
by
favour
of
a
Statute
in
the
three
and
thirtieth
of
Henry
the
eight
,
to
sue
for
them
in
Ecclesiasticall
Courts
,
and
not
have
recovered
them
at
the
Common
Law
?
Surely
then
they
cease
not
their
continuall
cries
against
the
unrighteous
detainers
of
them
,
with
the
stone
in
the
wall
,
with
the
beame
out
of
the
rafter
,
and
with
the
hedge
unto
the
field
;
this
is
not
our
place
,
let
us
returne
,
&c.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
4.
I
object
farther
,
this
prophane
defrauding
of
the
Ministers
in
their
maintenance
,
appeareth
wilfully
to
shut
the
eyes
against
the
light
of
naturall
reason
,
which
shineth
forth
with
the
luster
of
this
conclusion
,
that
the
workeman
ought
in
equity
to
have
his
wages
,
and
the
labourers
deserve
to
receive
their
reward
.
This
seemeth
a
character
so
deeply
ingraven
in
common
reason
,
as
although
the
direfull
hands
of
impious
sacriledge
,
be
shamefully
audacious
to
incroach
upon
the
substance
of
the
tithes
,
&c.
yet
are
they
not
sufficiently
able
to
extinguish
the
stampes
of
it's
truth
.
Namely
,
that
the
excellency
of
the
Clergies
labour
(
being
in
quality
and
industry
,
in
place
and
paines
supereminent
above
others
must
needs
aptly
challenge
the
most
worthy
stipend
and
best
temuneration
.
To
this
purpose
the
Lord
Archbishop
Sandes
,
affirmeth
that
there
is
no
state
(
though
of
that
heigth
,
as
feare
,
honour
,
obedience
and
tribute
is
due
to
it
)
which
may
more
rightly
challenge
a
competent
and
sufficient
living
,
then
the
Ministers
of
the
word
of
God
.
Wherfore
those
which
repine
at
the
reasonable
maintenance
of
them
,
they
seeme
to
have
put
out
the
very
light
of
nature
in
themselves
.
5
Because
this
hinderance
and
detraction
of
the
spirituall
Pastours
portion
is
very
averse
,
and
degenerate
from
the
conceit
and
course
of
venerable
Antiquity
.
For
decimae
erant
ante
legem
sub
consilis
;
in
lege
sub
praecepto
,
post
legem
in
libertate
Spiritus
,
the
payment
of
tenths
,
before
the
Law
seemed
to
subsist
under
counsell
,
and
in
the
time
thereof
they
stood
firme
by
precept
,
and
when
as
that
was
once
expired
,
still
they
are
good
in
the
Evangelicall
liberty
of
the
Spirit
.
As
in
the
season
of
the
old
Law
,
the
affection
of
the
faithfull
people
unto
the
Temple
and
Service
there
spared
no
expences
:
yea
,
some
of
the
chiefest
Princes
of
the
Gentiles
,
Cyrus
,
Artaxerxes
,
Darins
,
Alexander
Magnus
,
Ptolomeus
Philadelphus
,
Antiochus
Epiphanes
,
&c.
shewed
themselves
in
this
sort
exceedingly
bounteous
.
So
since
the
birth
of
our
Saviour
Christ
,
the
pious
munificence
of
Emperours
,
Kings
,
&c.
also
the
jealous
devotion
of
Christian
people
ran
in
the
current
of
continuall
addition
to
the
Churches
patrimony
,
but
not
in
substraction
from
her
propriety
.
The
Clergy
held
their
Lands
free
from
Taxes
and
Impositions
,
their
children
held
their
Inheritance
with
like
freedome
in
honour
of
their
Fathers
Priest-hood
.
But
now
a
long
time
,
since
hellish
iniquity
hath
abounded
,
the
holy
love
of
the
most
part
of
our
Christian
World
is
waxed
cold
:
the
dolefull
tune
of
the
desolate
Churches
Song
is
thus
sad
and
lamentable
,
Isaiah
24.
My
leannesse
,
my
leannesse
,
wo
unto
me
:
the
treacherous
dealers
have
dealt
treacherously
;
yea
,
the
treacherous
dealers
have
dealt
very
treacherously
.
King
James
of
excellent
memory
imployed
in
some
places
of
his
Realmes
,
pious
wisdome
and
power
for
a
relief
of
our
Sions
shamefull
distresse
.
Hee
gave
moreover
many
thousand
Acres
of
good
ground
to
the
Irish
Churches
,
an
illustrious
monument
of
his
religious
liberality
.
Our
now
most
gracious
King
(
God
be
thanked
)
followeth
the
devout
foot-steps
of
his
happy
Father
in
paternall
protection
and
favour
of
his
Clergy
.
His
Majesties
Sovereigne
power
and
sanctified
disposition
is
able
and
willing
with
the
precious
balme
of
heavenly
justice
,
to
cure
this
otherwise
unrecoverable
and
inveterate
ulcer
,
and
to
compell
the
due
practice
of
this
divine
precept
:
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
month
,
&c.
6.
I
alledge
when
the
maintenance
of
the
Ministers
lyeth
at
such
a
low
ebbe
,
it
usually
occasioneth
Schisme
in
the
Church
,
and
Faction
of
the
State
;
especially
(
as
for
the
most
part
commeth
to
passe
)
where
poore
beneficed
Parishes
are
most
populous
.
Amongst
sundry
wise
and
learned
persons
sacriledge
hath
been
concluded
the
prophane
mother
of
these
deformed
daughters
.
It
is
no
lesse
lamentable
then
shameful
to
consider
some
Clergy
men
(
through
defect
of
a
legall
provision
)
being
stung
with
the
,
smart
of
want
,
and
put
to
extremity
,
they
are
forc'd
to
submit
their
necks
unto
a
slavish
yoke
of
servile
dependance
,
and
base
engagement
unto
their
wealthier
people
,
who
are
able
to
succour
and
support
them
.
They
are
bound
to
the
base
peace
of
obsequious
flattery
by
the
cruell
chaine
of
intolerable
necessitie
:
so
they
dare
not
but
quietly
digest
,
whatsoever
these
inordinately
do
,
either
in
conversation
of
life
,
or
by
confusion
at
Church
,
either
in
the
rudenesse
of
their
works
,
or
by
the
irregularity
of
their
worship
.
Neither
durst
they
refuse
to
stand
as
they
set
them
,
for
single
Cyphers
,
and
suffer
them
patiently
to
number
their
summes
(
at
their
own
pleasures
)
with
the
figures
of
such
idolized
Ministers
as
they
most
fancy
,
whether
Paul
or
Apollo
,
or
Cephas
:
yea
,
I
wish
there
wanted
cause
sometimes
to
adde
,
be
he
Martin
Mar-prelate
,
or
Julian
,
or
Iudas
,
or
Satan
transforming
himselfe
into
an
Angell
of
light
,
they
may
scarce
murmure
at
his
preferment
.
Moreover
,
whiles
the
Clergy
remayneth
miserably
oppressed
with
poverty
(
which
contempt
of
their
persons
,
and
neglect
of
their
Ministery
usually
accompany
)
so
long
doth
that
necessity
of
theirs
,
being
of
an
active
nature
,
seeme
to
call
in
many
of
them
a
continuall
scrutiny
of
devises
and
shifts
for
the
succour
and
reliefe
of
it selfe
.
And
because
those
courses
which
swimme
against
the
common
stream
of
goverment
,
and
neverthelesse
carry
an
externall
countenance
of
piety
and
sincerity
,
have
ever
appeared
most
prevalent
for
the
promotion
of
sinister
designes
;
they
palliate
their
subtile
practice
under
this
specious
habit
.
Thus
they
declaim
against
the
corruption
of
the
times
,
and
bitterly
inveigh
against
the
Ceremonies
and
Polity
of
the
Church
.
It
is
their
usuall
property
to
speak
evill
of
those
which
are
in
Authority
:
chiefly
they
draw
our
the
sharp
sword
of
Schismaticall
censure
against
Ecclesiasticall
Superiours
.
The
drift
of
their
whole
doctrine
concerning
them
soundeth
always
With
this
Anabaptisticall
accent
,
down
with
them
to
the
ground
.
They
never
preach
against
Church-robbery
,
nor
presse
in
any
Sermon
the
true
payment
of
tithes
.
But
for
their
own
peculiar
interests
(
without
any
due
distinguishment
of
different
reasons
)
they
perswade
this
Paradoxe
,
how
when
the
Church
is
poorest
,
she
is
purest
.
And
wheras
the
ancient
Fathers
determined
out
of
the
sacred
Scriptures
,
that
God
is
to
be
worshiped
with
some
liberall
return
of
his
own
bounty
.
And
how
hee
must
be
thankfully
acknowledged
for
the
munificent
Lord
and
Donor
of
all
blessings
,
by
a
devout
and
free-hearted
reflux
,
and
rendring
back
again
a
meet
and
sufficient
portion
of
the
good
things
and
benefits
given
us
,
to
his
honour
and
service
.
Such
sentences
they
insimulate
to
favour
of
Popish
superstition
,
and
whiles
they
are
sure
God
hath
no
necessity
,
they
are
as
secure
to
do
him
no
dutie
:
condemning
for
an
errour
in
opinion
to
offer
unto
him
,
but
commending
as
a
mayn
ingredient
of
Reformation
to
take
away
from
his
Church
.
Thus
having
by
these
plausible
insinuations
skrewed
themselves
into
a
world
of
the
peoples
affections
,
unto
whom
nothing
for
the
most
part
,
is
wont
to
be
more
gratefull
and
pleasing
,
then
liberty
of
censure
,
matter
of
innovation
,
disorder
,
singularity
,
and
Religion
at
their
owne
price
(
which
is
next
cost
nothing
)
lo
,
They
get
private
gains
out
of
the
publike
losses
;
&
having
brought
conformable
Ministers
out
of
a
good
conceit
into
an
evill
estimation
with
their
Parishes
,
they
climbe
up
by
their
breaches
,
and
supply
themselves
with
benevolences
arising
out
of
t
he
others
ruines
.
These
crooked
practices
have
already
had
their
dangerous
consequences
:
the
world
hath
seldome
been
without
many
bleeding
witnesses
hereof
.
Germany
in
particular
may
be
wayle
not
onely
her
flain
thousands
with
Saul
,
nor
ten
thousands
with
David
,
but
her
handred
thousands
.
For
Schisme
is
not
accustomed
to
stay
long
confined
in
the
Church
,
but
shee
is
likewise
wont
to
disseminate
Faction
in
the
State
.
Archbishop
Sands
(
of
excellent
memory
for
the
cause
of
the
Gospel
)
preached
at
Pauls
Crosse
,
that
by
reason
of
the
want
of
worthy
wages
unto
these
workmen
for
salvation
,
this
mischief
spreadeth
wider
,
and
regardeth
as
little
the
Throne
of
David
,
as
the
Chaire
of
Moses
,
the
Scepter
as
the
Book
,
the
Prince
a
the
Prophet
,
the
Civill
a
the
Ecclesiasticall
State
.
Thus
as
unity
and
peace
between
the
Soveraigne
and
the
Subjects
,
and
withall
the
people
mutually
among
themselves
,
comprehends
the
true
and
proper
glory
of
earthly
Kingdomes
,
typically
figuring
the
celestiall
unity
in
blessednesse
and
eminency
of
the
Triumphant
Church
of
God
.
So
Schisme
and
Division
of
any
people
into
variety
of
opinions
and
affections
,
is
the
bane
and
subversion
of
a
Church
and
Nation
,
resembling
the
confusions
and
perturbations
of
Satans
infernall
Regiment
.
But
these
will
never
be
totally
suppressed
,
nor
can
there
want
wicked
instruments
to
incourage
the
Subjects
for
to
run
a
course
of
contrariety
and
opposition
to
the
laws
and
personall
practice
of
the
Prince
himselfe
,
in
matters
conversant
about
the
exercise
of
Religion
.
Neither
shall
we
be
free
from
the
hazard
of
perillous
Faction
in
our
State
by
occasion
hereof
,
untill
the
establishment
of
a
proportionable
mayntenance
for
the
spirituall
Pastors
doth
arme
and
animate
them
by
example
and
doctrine
to
teach
and
practice
(
without
pusillanimous
dread
or
dependance
upon
any
man
(
religious
and
loyall
obedience
;
the
giving
to
God
the
things
which
are
Gods
,
and
unto
Caesar
the
things
which
are
Caesars
:
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
and
the
honour
of
the
King
.
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
,
&c.
7.
I
alledge
the
divine
curses
against
bad
and
dishonest
tithing
;
therfore
still
rather
where
a
requisite
supply
and
provision
for
the
sufficient
mayntenance
of
spirituall
Pastors
is
wanting
.
It
is
manifest
,
Malac.
3.
that
as
upon
the
performance
of
this
duty
,
a
marvellous
prosperity
of
the
severall
fruits
of
the
ground
,
a
gracious
opening
of
the
windows
of
Heaven
,
and
the
pouring
down
plentifull
showres
of
blessings
are
promised
:
So
for
the
neglect
and
contempt
of
this
notable
present
,
consider
in
the
same
Chapter
most
grievous
maledictions
threatned
.
Our
Elders
(
Saint
Augustine
expresseth
)
had
a
happy
abundance
of
all
good
things
,
because
they
were
faithfull
in
the
paying
to
God
his
tenths
,
and
unto
Caesar
his
Tribute
.
But
since
that
devotion
of
tithing
waxed
cold
,
sacrilegious
persons
have
by
their
covetousnesse
in
that
kinde
,
defrauded
themselves
of
a
double
blessing
;
namely
of
the
promises
of
this
life
,
and
of
the
life
to
come
.
Other
exactions
arise
to
punish
their
execrable
avarice
:
what
is
stoln
from
the
Church
cannot
be
preserved
in
the
chest
,
what
is
grudged
towards
the
Sanctuary
is
urged
into
the
treasury
:
when
men
murmure
to
give
the
tenth
they
are
made
to
forego
the
totall
.
Dabis
impio
militi
quod
non
vis
dare
Sacerdoti
,
whiles
men
deprive
the
carefull
Ministers
,
they
become
a
spoyle
to
the
cruell
souldiers
.
The
Lord
is
always
ready
and
liberall
to
blesse
;
but
the
wicked
perversnesse
of
man
opposeth
wretched
impediments
to
hinder
it
:
for
he
would
have
God
bestow
all
things
upon
him
,
and
yet
hee
will
offer
nothing
againe
unto
this
bountifull
owner
of
all
things
.
Quid
faceres
,
si
novem
partibus
sibi
sumptis
tibi
decimans
reliquisset
?
What
couldest
thou
doe
,
if
hee
took
all
the
nine
parts
to
himselfe
,
and
left
the
tenth
onely
unto
thee
?
Thus
indeed
he
not
seldome
dealeth
when
as
he
withholdeth
his
former
and
latter
raine
,
to
wither
and
waste
away
thy
wished
harvest
with
a
wofull
drought
:
or
when
hee
smiteth
thy
fruits
with
unseasonable
stormes
of
hayle
:
or
blasteth
them
with
extremitie
of
untimely
Frosts
.
And
so
thou
grievously
failest
of
thy
covetous
and
greedy
computation
,
the
nine
parts
being
taken
away
from
thee
,
because
thou
refusedst
to
pay
the
tenth
which
the
Lord
requited
.
For
this
is
his
most
righteous
course
to
turn
them
unto
the
tenth
,
which
will
not
offer
to
him
the
tenth
:
to
punish
them
with
want
,
which
famish
those
which
worke
.
Witnesse
either
the
proper
experience
of
offending
persons
,
or
else
the
events
of
their
posterities
,
Thou
shalt
not
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
Oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corn
.
The
use
of
the
whole
premises
is
to
admonish
all
sorts
of
Christians
to
practise
the
doctrine
of
my
text
:
to
tithe
and
conferre
towards
their
Ministers
mayntenance
,
according
to
the
rules
of
holy
Writ
,
within
the
compasse
of
their
severall
vocations
.
Private
persons
must
apply
themselves
unto
Christians
patience
:
the
properly
have
no
warrantable
power
to
redresse
and
alter
publike
inconveniences
.
Neverthelesse
they
must
omit
the
duty
of
diligent
,
and
zealous
praier
unto
God
,
who
is
able
and
willing
to
helpe
and
succour
.
They
must
appeare
likewise
chearefull
and
forward
in
any
legall
course
,
to
procure
a
remedy
against
these
sacrilegious
incroachments
and
usurpations
.
They
ought
faithfully
herein
to
ayd
and
further
their
Ministers
by
liberall
contribution
,
and
all
other
justifiable
assistances
,
they
(
poor
men
for
the
most
part
)
are
least
able
to
undergoe
expences
:
And
as
the
nature
of
their
Calling
affordeth
commonly
small
leysure
,
so
concerning
temporall
affaires
they
have
but
litle
skill
and
experience
.
Oh
how
liberally
doe
the
wise
children
of
this
world
in
their
generations
,
see
their
Lawyers
in
matters
appertaining
to
their
outward
estates
;
yea
not
seldome
in
strifes
and
contentions
,
which
come
from
the
evill
lusts
that
warre
in
their
members
.
Moreover
if
a
sickenesse
seizeth
on
their
bodies
,
they
spare
neither
horses
,
nor
Caroches
,
nor
peeces
,
no
travail
nor
cost
for
a
Physitian
.
Is
it
possible
then
that
such
a
multitude
of
them
will
shew
their selves
so
base
and
blockish
,
as
to
grudge
and
repine
almost
at
every
penny
that
they
part
with
,
to
the
heavenly
Physitians
of
their
souls
?
when
as
notwithstanding
the
certainty
is
,
that
upon
the
health
and
happinesse
of
the
soule
,
all
the
good
promises
,
all
true
welfare
of
body
and
estate
depend
.
Let
none
then
miserably
pinch
and
spare
in
cases
of
this
kinde
,
which
indeed
be
Gods
cause
,
and
wherein
the
prosperity
of
their
soules
,
their
bodies
,
their
posterities
be
very
deeply
interessed
.
Personages
of
Superior
place
and
ability
,
as
they
have
the
best
meanes
,
so
in
no
wise
may
they
slacke
behind
in
cheerefull
imployment
of
them
,
in
every
loyall
and
lawfull
occasion
,
to
releeve
and
right
our
holy
and
venerable
mother
the
Church
.
They
will
finde
at
length
,
nothing
to
bee
more
noble
,
pious
,
nor
remunerable
.
Finally
,
I
beseech
all
sortes
,
touching
the
reverend
Clergies
maintenance
,
to
take
into
serious
consideration
;
that
the
God
of
equity
hath
in
his
divine
wisedome
,
and
goodnesse
built
his
ordinance
hereof
,
upon
a
faire
foundation
of
equality
in
all
points
,
and
for
all
persons
.
We
cannot
stray
if
we
swerve
not
from
it
:
wee
shall
not
goe
wrong
,
if
we
regard
this
rectitude
,
and
erre
not
through
the
crookednesse
of
our
owne
inventions
.
The
goods
peradventure
,
of
halfe
the
Christian
world
consist
neither
in
Pasture
nor
Tillage
,
neither
in
corn
,
nor
pulse
,
nor
cattle
,
nor
Fruits
.
A
prophane
madenesse
it
is
to
imagine
such
a
manifold
number
,
&
populous
multitude
to
be
free
,
&
exempted
from
this
manner
of
sacred
payment
.
As
if
they
acknowledged
no
supreme
Head
,
of
whom
to
hold
their
riches
and
substance
in
Chief
,
nor
yet
considered
,
how
they
had
their
soules
under
the
cure
of
his
Highnesse
Deputies
.
Behold
then
both
prediall
and
personall
tithes
,
must
yearely
be
yeelded
to
supply
the
Lords-Service
,
with
the
Ministery
thereunto
,
and
to
satisfie
all
folks
with
a
course
of
indifferency
.
Now
although
the
Clergy
ought
to
endeavour
carefully
,
nor
to
be
overcome
with
evill
,
but
to
overcome
evill
with
goodnesse
.
And
(
as
Saint
Cyprian
chargeth
)
the
Priests
receiving
the
tithes
of
the
increase
,
&c.
ought
not
sluggishly
to
retire
from
the
Altar
,
sed
nocte
d●●que
spiritualibus
inservire
,
but
night
and
day
to
attend
upon
spirituall
things
;
and
that
under
extreme
penalties
specified
in
the
holy
Scriptures
.
For
(
to
remember
us
of
our
duty
,
and
to
cut
the
combe
of
Church-robbery
)
Panormitan
witnesseth
,
Iustitutio
Beneficiorum
fundamentum
suscepit
finaliter
propter
cultum
divinum
,
implicantem
divinorum
ministerium
deservientium
in
divinis
co
loco
ubi
instituuntur
,
the
finall
end
of
the
institution
and
foundation
of
Ecclesiasticall
Benefices
hath
beene
for
the
divine
worship
,
and
the
Ministery
that
serve
therein
,
in
those
places
,
whereas
Church-livings
are
ordained
.
Yet
dreame
not
,
that
the
unworthinesse
of
the
Pastorall
Incumbent
,
will
discharge
the
Laytie
from
these
duties
;
for
it
this
reason
were
currant
,
it
must
in
like
manner
runne
upon
all
other
rankes
in
their
kinde
,
and
so
raise
a
ruinous
confusion
upon
all
degrees
.
Remember
therefore
the
case
is
not
onely
mans
,
but
Gods
especially
.
Marke
how
this
eternall
well-spring
of
mercy
,
and
goodnesse
demandeth
backe
againe
an
honest
returne
of
this
litle
portion
;
and
that
(
without
question
)
not
to
benefit
himselfe
,
but
to
do
us
the
more
good
,
saith
Augustin
.
Oh
homines
stulti
,
quid
mali
imper
at
Deus
,
ut
non
mereatur
audiri
?
Oh
foolish
men
insensible
of
your
owne
profits
,
what
hurt
doth
the
Lord
command
,
that
you
hold
him
not
worthy
the
hearing
?
That
litle
which
he
asketh
,
he
allotteth
to
the
Ministers
of
his
Word
and
Sacraments
unto
us
.
Now
since
these
actions
and
agents
bee
not
of
mans
invention
or
pleasure
to
constitute
,
but
of
his
owne
Divine
appointment
and
choise
;
why
should
we
then
make
any
doubt
or
scruple
,
but
that
his
glorious
Mejestie
will
likewise
have
meanes
and
revenues
,
tithes
,
and
offerings
of
his
owne
reserved
to
himselfe
,
for
to
sustaine
these
holy
duties
,
and
sacred
Officers
.
Have
a
care
then
every
Christian
person
,
(
according
to
thy
estate
and
calling
)
to
discharge
thy
conscience
in
paying
thy
tithes
faithfully
.
Which
Saint
Ambrose
termeth
neither
lesse
nor
worse
,
our
of
thy
Corne
,
thy
Wine
,
thy
Oyle
,
thy
Fruites
,
thy
Cattel
,
they
Garden
,
thy
Trafficke
,
thy
Hunting
,
&c.
Quicunque
recognoverit
in
se
quod
fidelster
non
dederit
decimas
emendet
quod
minus
fecit
.
Whosoever
can
call
to
minde
that
he
hath
failed
in
any
particular
,
he
is
bound
in
conscience
to
amend
,
and
to
his
power
for
to
make
restitution
.
Delay
not
,
pay
speedily
,
Exodus
22.
Grudge
not
,
murmurre
not
,
Deuteronomy
26.
Doe
it
with
gladnesse
:
Ecclesiasticus
35.
Be
a
cheerfull
giver
,
2
Corinth
.
9.
Pretend
no
sacrilegious
customes
for
thy
excuse
:
the
Popes
themselves
allowed
this
for
a
Principle
,
Revocatur
privilegium
,
si
ex
post
facto
incipit
enormiter
esse
nocivum
,
An
abrogation
of
their
own
priviledges
when
they
grew
to
be
very
grievous
and
hurtfull
.
A
wrongfull
possession
cannot
be
warranted
by
any
prescription
of
time
.
What
is
not
right
at
first
becommeth
still
more
crooked
by
continuance
.
Custome
against
the
Divine
and
Naturall
Law
is
no
better
then
corruption
.
Consuetudo
non
praestabit
ubi
per
jus
expressum
reprobatur
:
it
ought
to
be
of
no
validity
,
wheras
it
affronteth
equity
and
piety
.
I
will
not
say
in
the
words
of
a
learned
Civilian
,
All
have
robbed
,
and
therfore
all
are
bound
to
make
restitution
;
but
it
behoveth
every
person
to
put
the
hallowed
things
out
of
his
house
,
Deut.
26.
to
usurpe
nothing
to
the
offence
of
his
conscience
,
to
the
hinderance
of
Religion
:
in
no
wise
to
diminish
but
rather
to
augment
the
Ministers
mayntenance
,
remembring
evermore
this
didivine
precept
,
Thou
shalt
muzzle
the
mouth
of
the
Oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
Corn.
Soli
Deo
,
Laus
&
Gloria
.
AMEN
.
FINIS
.