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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21107	The maintenance of the ministery VVherein is plainely declared how the ministers of the Gospell ought to be maintayned: and the true and ancient practise of our Church in this case, shewed to be agreeable to the word of God, and all antiquity. Necessary in these times to be read and considered of all sorts of Christians, but specially of such as liue in townes and citties. By Richard Eburne, minister of the word.	Eburne, Richard.	1609 (1609)	STC 7470; ESTC S100246	159,156	190

to be obteined for much gold Iob. 28. 15. Gold shal not be giuen for it neither shal siluer be weighed for the price thereof It shall not be v●lued with the wedg of gold of Ophir nor with the precious Onix c. Yet seeing God dooth al things by meanes 2. Sam. 14 14. Experience doth shew That mony and goods doo vsually procure learning learning breedeth knowledge knowledge causeth vnderstanding and so oftentimes thorough knowledge and learning procured by mony as by meanes wisedome it se●fe is attained So saluation eternall life is the gift of God thorough Iesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6. 23. and is not to bee atteined of our selues nor to be obteined with mony nor any this worldes goods yet seeing God do●th giue his gifts by meanes seeing maintenance may procure preaching preaching knowledge knowledge faith and the end of our faith is the saluation of our soules 1. Pet. 1. 9. true it is also that by the good employment of our transitorie goods wee may as our Apostle here vseth the Phrase reape at length life euerlasting It is not that goods properly which causeth this but the preaching of the word the publishing of the Gospell which seeing they by whom it must be preached and published vnto bee men and not Angels and must liue not like Chame●eo●● by the aire but as men with ordinarie maintenance hardly can bee had without the laying out of our goods And therefore as Cornelius beeing told that S. Peter should come and speake to him wordes whereby hee and all his house should bee saued knew full well that hee could not haue Peter to speake those words vnto him vnlesse hee would send for Peter receiue him entertaine him which hee did ioyfully and liberallie so in vaine it is for vs to looke to haue the Gospell published the word of God preached the way of saluation opened among vs vnlesse wee will with our goods entertaine those by whom it may and should bee done not standing vpon the charge so wee may haue the thing Looke now which is the best employment Wee see the fruite of the one and of the other What wee lay out vpon worldly vses yeelds vs at the most but worldly profit which of it selfe in time will turne to corruption happely which is worse to destruction to shame and confusion What wee laie out vpon religious vses will yeeld vs at the least the vse of religion of the Gospell of heauenly things among vs happely which is chiefest of all euerlasting comfort and eternall life For the word taught as seed sowen is seldome without good fruite but taketh firme roote in some Why then Seeing wee will not spare to lay out much to get thereby only a little worldly benefit should we bee sparing and loth to lay out but a little to get vs great store of spirituall and heauenly goods As God hath allowed vs sixe daies for our owne labours for worldly works and busines and requireth but the seuenth for his seruice and our spiritual vses so is he content that of our goods we imploy nine parts for earthly purposes for worldly vses and looketh onely that the tenth part his owne portion as the crop and chiefe of our substance be employed to his honour and our owne good If this we refuse and as if we were all body and no soule had hope onely of this life and none of that to come or cared altogether for this earth and d●sp●sed heauen will imploy all our goods wholly and solely vpon the world for earthly profit shall we not shew our selues too vnmindefull of heauen vngratefull to God and 〈◊〉 to our soules And shall not the fault bee onely ours if wee be left without teaching without instruction and consequentlie without saluation For where Prophecie faileth the people perish Prouerb 29. 18. seeing Wee refuse to entertaine such as should teach vs and count the cost and charge thereof as we tearme it better saued It will goe hard with vs at the last day the day of reckoning when euery man must giue account of the employment of all his goods if we shall aunswere that we haue employed all vpon prophane and worldly vses And if being to giue a reason why wee wanted the Gospel and liued without preaching destitute of knowledge and vnderstanding wee bee inforced whether wee will or no for then truth must be vttered dissembling will take no place pretenses and vaine excuses will not serue for God will not be mocked and deluded we be inforced I say to testifie with our owne mouthes It was Because wee refused to imploy our goods to any such vses Let vs not therefore be deceiued for what a man soweth that onely that shall he also reape And hitherto of the former sense 2 Let vs likewise consider of the other sense of the wordes which respecteth the quantitie and intendeth that as a man soweth either sparingly or liberally so shall he reap He that soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly but he that soweth plentifully shall reap plentifullie signifying that benefits are not in vaine bestowed vpon the ministers of the Gospel for they shall returne with greater fruit euen of worldly increase For euen as the husbandman that soweth his seed in the field doth at haruest receiue the same with great increase So they that be liberall of their goods vnto the preachers of the Gospel and ministers of the word shall at length receiue fruite thereof viz. Gods blessing and increase vpon them euen in temporall things Whereas contrariwise they which thinking all to be lost and as it were so much cast away that the minister hath from them and themselues to be impouerished and hindred by imparti●g to them of their goods are therefore sparing and cruell vnto them shal in steed of plentie finde scarsitie and reape according to their deserts and doings penury and want And to this sense seeme our Apostles words verse 9. best to agree where ioyning this particular doctrine of the ministers maintenance with other more generall he concludeth them all in this sort Let vs not be weary of well doing for in due time we shal reap if we faint not As it were intimating That whereas men are loth many times to lay out their goods on necessary and spirituall vses for feare least so themselues should want that indeed such laying out is the very direct way to make the same increase because it is as the casting of seed into the ground which as nature and experience daily teacheth doth and will returne with great profit and increase This sense if we follow as some expositors doe and indeede it agreeth very well with the Scriptures otherwhere the wordes doe yeeld a twofould reason or cause why to be liberall and not sparing this way and that is in regard o● the euent that will follow vpon it euen concerning our temporall estate namely penury and want if we be sparing and niggardly 2. plenty and aboundance if we be liberall I wil