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A93683	A sermon preached in Oxford before the Kings Maiesty, April 19. 1643. VVherein is handled the vnlawfulnesse of non-preaching bishops, non-residents, plurality of benefices, &c. with the utter destruction of images. According to the votes of both the houses of Parliament, scripture, ancient writers, and reason it selfe. By Richard Spinkes, minister of the word of God, and imprisoned there for the said sermon.	Spinkes, Richard.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4982; Thomason E104_10; ESTC R212784	18,404	23

without incurring the great curse and irrevocable sentence of Excommunication and consequently of eternall damnation Here was a judgement preached but too late for to this the Advocates of the King replyed that true it was indeed that the Ministers of the Gospel those that labour in the Word and Doctrine were worthy of double honour a due respect and sufficient maintenance but as for those Locusts and Catepillers those frages consumere nati those Caterers for wormes those flow bellies as Epimenides calls the Cretians who were neither serviceable to God nor man such ought not to be maintained of the expence of the Commonwealth for though his predecessors had zealously perhaps but inconsiderately weakned the kingdome by conferring so much upon them who so ill imployed it his Majesty as he was then Minister of God too and bore not the sword in vaine was bound in conscience to cut them short and to redresse such disorders When the Prelate were demanded what title of Scripture they had to shew that Bishops should intermeddle with secular authority and where did God in all his Will and Testament give to idle loyterers such a claime of great allowance Alas all their skill was in the Canons Cretals and Extravagancies and so being destitute of other arguments it was concluded that the priviledges and liberties of the Church were in the Kings power and that he as the times and meanes varied might augment or diminish the revenues of it Vpon the execution of which Decree great stirres and commotions were made and many buls were ban●●…ed against the King by the malecontents among the Clergy but this being Gods hand he justified the Man of his right hand for he lived religiously reigned victoriously and died peaceably And for ought that I can heare the tertius haeres the third heire God be thanked thrives well enough and the kingdome being sinewed and flesht with the addition of so much new strength and force flourisheth Had it not been pitty that that nourishment which is nourishment and releefe of so many distressed Christians of the recovering of so much ground from the encroaching of Antichrist of propagating the Gospel of Christ into many Countries heretofore captivated with a willing unbeleefe should have beene spent and bezied in the high feedings and surfetted entertainments of Abbeyes and Monasteries Had it not beene pity that all that should have beene bestowed on Mitre or Crosier staffe which will now buy so many Speares and Helmets better a great deale in my opinion bestowed on those men who as it was sayd of Paul and Sylas have hazarded their lives for the name of the Lord Jesus then those who could not speake a good word for him All you therefore that wish the good of the Church and would see Jerusalem in prosperity all your life long if you would heap coales of fire upon your enemies heads and make the sinne of Impropriation Sacriledge be diligent in the Lords worke and then you need not be so loud in calling for your wages for the hire of the labourer which is kept backe by fraud cryeth saith Saint James Jam. 3.4 and the cry thereof shall enter into the eares of the Lord of Hosts The best way then not onely to procure the maintenance but to secure the welfare and prosperity of the Commonwealth is to be diligent in preaching The Prophet Isay a Courtier one that was neere to the King as it was thought both in person and alliance teacheth us this Ecclesiasticall policy Isa 62.67.78 Ye that make mention of the Lord or ye that are the Lords Remembrancers keepe no filence till he make Jerusalem a praise on the earth The Lord hath sworne by his right hand and by the arme of his strength it is the hand and arme in which are the hearts of Kings much more of the common people surely I will no more give thy corne to be meat for thine enemies and the sonnes of the strangers shall not drinke thy wines for the which thou hast laboured but they that have gathered it and they that have brought it together shall eate it in the Courts of my Holinesse FINIS

comming to him in the habit of a Deacon presenting him a cup full of bloud and saying these words Bibe frater Drinke brother And tell me thou that standest here idle in the market-place pretending thou art trading for learning and knowledge thorough thy knowledge shall thy poore brother perish for whom Christ died and shall not that imagination of David wormwood all thy cups when thou art drinking the Annuities of thy Livings is not this the sweat is not this the bloud of those men Bibe frater drinke brother but know for all these things God will call thee to judgement In the hand of the Lord there is a cup too the dregs thereof shall all the wicked in the earth drinke That place of the Gospel would be better considered of a many Marke 6.4 VVhen our Saviour came out and saw much people he was moved with compassion towards them because they were as sheepe not having a shepheard and hee began to teach them many things He had compassion on them the word in the Originall is very emphaticall and is used by Saint Matthew upon the same occasion Mat. 8.36 He had compassion on them Commiseratione ab intimis visceribus profectum so Beza renders it his bowels yerned within him it made his heart bleed to see so sad and rufull a spectacle He that hath promised to be with us to the end doubtlesse seeth us and therefore will undoubtedly one day make their hearts ake whose idlenesse and ambition hath beene the cause of so great want as there is in many places where the maintenance is large enough That great Shepheard of the flockes as Saint Peter cals him will have a day of visitation too in which howsoever now Conformists speed it will be a fearfull one for Non residents else that of the Prophet is not true Ier. 23.2 Thus saith the Lord to the Pastors of Israel because you have not visited my flocke therefore will I visit upon you the evill of your doings 4. Reason They are bound in conscience by reason of the Stipend and meanes which they receive for their Cure as they improperly call them Be not angry and I will speak but this once If Saint Paul hath confessed himselfe a debtor to all Grecians and Barbarians though no Church communicated with him as concerning giving but the Philippians onely Philip. 4.15 Surely then those Ministers are much more indebted to their severall Congregations from whom they receive yearly such large Pensions and Annuities It was the old rule of the Church Beneficium datur propter officium he that will not do the Lords worke cannot with a safe conscience eate punem Dominicam demand his penny at night for he that would not worke should not eate Every idle man is a theefe saith Phocilides And so our Saviour the truth it selfe is bold to call all those that are not good and painfull Shepheards Iohn 10.1 that is as Musculus interprets it goodnesse doe not communicate their grace and knowledge to others theeves and robbers And therefore at the great Assizes and day of Judgement when all others are condemned and cast out of heaven let not sacrilegious Ministers looke to have the benefit of their Clergie will hee respect your persons saith the Lord of hosts Mal. 1.9 all their warrant that Ministers have for that their maintenance by the Morall Law of God the equity of which is perpetuall is deducted out of that Commandement in the second Table Honour thy father and thy mother by our Saviours owne glosse doth not onely consist in a titular or ceremonious reverence but in reall expressions of maintenance So that Paul 1 Tim. 5.4 commands children to requite their parents the word in the Syriacke properly signifieth Use Foenus rependant progenitoribus suis Let them pay use to their parents use I suppose for the charge they had beene at in their education and breeding for Solon the Heathen Plutar. in Solon observing how earnestly some men brought up their children to the great danger and endamaging of the Common-wealth enacted this Law That no sonne should be forced by Law to maintaine that father in his age who had not taught him or brought him up in some Science or Trade whereby he might get his owne living By what law and conscience then may many Ministers demand and exact such large allowance of their Parishioners to whom they shew themselves Fathers in nothing unlesse it bee by disinheriting them In Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel 1 Cor. 4.15 Ministers can be fathers in no other respects to them to whom they are set over but in teaching and instructing them in the word of God The Table of the Shew-bread was set in the midst of the Temple to signifie saith Aquinas quod Sacerdores in Templo servientes 〈◊〉 Templo victum habere de●●●●… that is That these Priests that wait unon the altar should have benefit by it and none else That is a considerable place Numb 18.28 God there commands the Israelites whiles they were yet upon their journey to the promised Land that when they came there they should give the Lord Heave-offerings to Aaron the Priest now Aaron the Priest died in the wildernesse and was buried as it is in the next Chapter which hath caused many Cabalisticall conjecture among the Jewish Doctors but their best Expositors of Scripture the followers and adherents of Rab Ismael doe thus interpret it That the Lords portion was onely to be given to him amongst the Priests who were skilfull and diligent in the teaching and preaching of Gods Law as was Aaron the reversion of his maintenance being rather intayled upon his worth and deserts then to bee chalenged by the hereditary discent of any Loyterer which opinion seemes to be countenanced with the authority of that place 2 Chron. 31.4 When Hezekiah commands the people to give the portion to the Priests and Levite that they might be incouraged in the Law of the Lord not to encourage their idlenesse and that Apophthegme of Rabbi Raccha in the Talmud is very famous among the Jewes that he who gives ought to an ignorant idle prophane and ungodly Priest doth a worse deed then if he should cast it to a Dog or to a Lyon for these creatures may be bettered by such almes they are of Gods family and he provides for them Psal 104.21 But if a Priest who is unworthy eate of the offerings it is his poyson and thou said he art accessory to his death by giving it to him All which he would prove by that place of Levit. 22.9 10. The Priests shall keepe my ordinances lest they beare sinne for it and die if they prophane it if the Lord doe sanctifie it Deut. 23.8 I am perswaded verily that that God who would not have the price of a dog to be brought into his Sanctuary did never intend and would never give consent that the Revenues of the Sanctuary the childrens bread should be given unto dogs So not