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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77418	A briefe declaration of the reasons that moved King James of blessed memory, and the state, to erect a colledge of divines, and other learned men at Chelsey. Together with a copy of His Majesties letters in favouring the same. And an addition of some motives forcible to excite good Christians zeale to a voluntary and liberall contribution.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1624 : James I).	1646 (1646)	Wing B4564; Thomason E324_12; ESTC R200614	6,109	8

yet yeeld no help to advance it being a project to maintaine the honour of the State what good subject will not contribute to set forward this project but to touch only the point of Gods honour let us remember the words of the Wise man Prov. 3. Honour the Lord with thy substance Let us also consider what the Lord himself saith 1 Sam. 2. Them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be despised Now who can say he honoureth God that suffereth him by idolatry superstition and blasphemy to be dishonoured will give nothing to suppresse Baals Priests and is content that the Pope be worshipped like the Idoll Bell can Gods honour stand with the superstition heresie idolatry and blasphemy of Papists prophanesse of Atheists fanaticall doctrine of Schismatickes and idle Novelists It is not sufficient for true Christians to professe true Religion but they must with zeal maintain it with heart abhor with hand suppresse idolatry and superstition Who will rise up with me against the wicked saith the Prophet Psal 94. And Psal 139. he saith He hated those that hated the Lord with an unfained hatred The Law Deut. 13. is direct against such as intice us to serve other gods our eye may not pitty them nor may we shew mercy unto them no although they be our brothers or our wives that lye in our bosome An odious thing also it is either to suffer truth to be suppressed or lyes to be received Saint Augustine in Epist ad Casulanum saith It is a fault to hide truth as well as to tell lyes Uterque reus est qui veritatem occultat qui mendacium dicit Chrysostome Homil. 25. in Matth. doth charge him to be a Traytor unto Truth that dare not boldly utter it or defend it Non ille solum est proditor veritatis qui veritatem transgrediens pro veritate mendacium loquitur sed etiam qui non liberè veritatem pronunciat quam pronuntiare tenetur aut non liberè veritatem defendit quam liberè defendere convenit Some suppose that Christianitie and Poperie may stand together and themselves as Newters stand betweene both or as Mediators would reconcile both But can Christ be reconciled to Anti-christ there is no concord betwixt Christ and Belial saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 6. Elias told us there is no halting betweene two Religions no man that honoureth any Creature can say he truely honoureth God for God giveth not his honour to Creatures Asa 1 King 15. was a good King yet it is imputed to him that he tooke not downe the high places The Bishop of the Church of Pergamus Apocal. 2. is reproved for suffering them that taught the doctrine of Balaam and the Bishop of Thyatira for permitting Jesabel to teach and deceive the people and shall the Church of England any longer suffer the Romish Balaamites and the false Priests of Baal maintained by the Romish Jesabel and her Consorts to seduce Gods people The false Priests of Bell used all art and cunning practices to deceive and now will not suffer any religion but that of their god Bell the Pope and shall not true Christians use equall diligence to maintaine truth and suppresse Poperie and all other idolatrous and false Religion Ingemui fateor saith Hierome minus nobis inesse voluntatis ad propugnandam veritatem quam inesse illis cupiditatis ad inculcandum mendacium I sighed saith he seeing lesse desire in us to defend truth then in our adversaries to maintaine lyes This Colledge then being erected for maintenance of truth and Gods true service and a resolute opposition against errors and false worship of God it cannot but please God and content godly men The same will also be a meanes to increase learning and to supply the defects of places haunted with the spi●its of Anti-christ the Jesuits and Masse-priests and therefore cannot chuse but be well approved of all that either desire a learned Ministerie or love learning Finally seeing the Church hath received no greater dishonour by any then by unsufficient and unlearned Church-men I hope this may bee a meanes to recover some part of their lost honour Wherefore whether we regard the service of God or the honour we owe to our King or the love we beare to our Country and the State let us not shew our selves sparing or backward in yeelding our ayd to set forward a worke so religious and profitable for the Church so honourable for the State so necessarie in regard of the malice of our adversaries and the defects and discouragement of our owne forces Other collections have beene either for private persons or strangers or places remote or matters concerning some particular occasions This concerneth a generall good and toucheth every man both in conscience and honour Heretofore we have endeavoured to maintaine Religion and favour others abroad let us not therefore neglect our selves and our owne honour profit and necessary service at home Neither let any man thinke it strange that a worke of such greatnesse should be advanced by this weake meanes or that a project so necessarie should proceed so slowly Almighty God albeit all sufficient yet would have his owne Tabernacle built by the voluntary offerings of his people Speake saith God to Moses Exod. 25. to the Children of Israel that they receive an offering for me of every man whose heart giveth it freely And Exod. 36. it followeth and they brought still unto Moses free gifts every morning and they ceased not untill they were stated from offering King Solomon likewise was greatly holpen in the building of the Temple by the contribution of his Subjects as appeareth by the words of Scriptures 1 King 9.19 further by voluntarie offerings and contributions the Temple was repaired by Ioash 2 King 12. and by Iosiah 2. Chron. 34. and this hath beene the use and practice of ancient times in building and endowing most famous Churches Colledges Schooles and other monuments of Religion and Learning both in our own and other Countries Our Adversaries by this course have had meanes to build many Monasteries and Colledges Schools for Jesuits Friets as it were propugnacles of Superstition Heresie Idolatry and Anti-christs tyranny to uphold and make good their own corruptions in Religion and usurpations upon the Magistrates government and everie Christian mans liberty And this have they done not only in Europe but also in the Indies not one in every Kingdom but in the same state divers and almost in every great Citie one And shall not this flourishing Kingdome build and endow one Colledge for the maintenance of Gods true service and the honour of the whole State It were a dishonour to our Nation and the whole Church and State to thinke contrary The worke we confesse hath hitherto proceeded slowly And no marvell seeing great workes are not easily atchieved Noah's Arke Gods Tabernacle and Temple and famous Schooles and Colledges albeit founded by Kings and great men were