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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03763	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 4 of December, 1597 wherein is discoursed that all buying and selling of spirituall promotion is vnlawfull / by Iohn Howson ...	Howson, John, 1557?-1632.	1597 (1597)	STC 13882; ESTC S2747	34,824	48

out of the Temple not onely buyers but sellers also eiecit vendentes ementes and Gelasius affirmeth that dantem accipientem damnatio Simonis inuoluit Epist 1. cap. 23 the sinne of Simon Magus wrappeth vp togither both the buyer and the seller and therefore if you be pares culpa equall in fault you shall bee pares poena equall in punishment in Gods iustice though you bee vnequall by your Statute law And so S. Greg. saith Anathema danti anathema accipienti 1. q. 1. quicunque Cursed be he that buyeth and cursed bee hee that selleth cursed be he that giueth and cursed be he that taketh he that saith Simony in the giuer is heresie saith that simony in the taker is Infidelity subiect to the punishment of Infidelity Greg. lib 9. ep 53. Auaritia in dandis ecclesiasticis honoribus infidelitatis perditioni subijcitur etiamsi tenere fidem quam negligit videatur Couetousnesse in giuing Ecclesiasticall preferments is subiect to the same destructiō whervnto Infidelity although it seeme to hold the same faith which indeed it regardeth not And no doubt if you were not infected with the spice of infidelitie so that you neither beleeue the Scriptures themselues nor the generall and vniuersall consent of the most holy Fathers the interpreters of them in the hainousnesse of this sinne and the certaintie and grauitie of the punishment of it you would not touch the hallowed thing nor sell that which is not yours or that which is worse dare sanctum canibus giue that to your dogs to your hawkes or your horses c. which is the portion allotted to Christ and his Ministers you would not make that priuate which belongeth to the Church or the Common-wealth and in that respect is consecrated pietati fidei Policrac lib. 7. cap. 17. to godlinesse and faith and only committed to you vpon trust you would not reape that which you haue not sowen nor take away that which you haue not giuen you would not make the monuments of your fore-fathers liberalities the eternall testimonies of your couetousnesse you would not muzzell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne either by taking money as a fine for a Benefice or retaining your Tithes as an annuall rent Cic. nat deor 2. In the times of your ancestours Tanta vtilitas putabatur percipi ex bobus vt eorum visceribus vesci scelus haberetur That regard was had of the oxen that trode out the corne that to rob them of their portion was accompted sacriledge they tooke that saying of our Sauiour Christ for Gospell Beatius est dare quàm accipere Act 20. A happier thing to giue vnto them then to take from them If the Priests of Moyses law were thus reckoned of why not wee Wee are not inferiour to them Si quod euacuatur per gloriam est multò magis quod permanet in gloria est 2 Cor 3. If that which should be abolished were glorious much more should that which remaineth bee glorious If the Priests in poperie who eyther taught you not or if they taught you they taught you but vanities were thus reckoned of so that they could liue like Princes on S. Peters patrimonie why should wee which in your consciences preach vnto you the Gospell of Christ sincerely bee spoiled and robbed of that very little that is left vnto vs Is it not sufficient to haue taken from the body of this one state the superfluous rancke blood of so many Monasteries and by their abuse irreligious houses and to haue abated that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fulnesse of blood in our Bishopricks and so farre to haue opened the vaines of the Priests for feare of a Pleurisie by impropriations customes and compositions that for very weaknesse they are ready to faint in the streets but you must draw out that little life-blood which is left by selling your Vicarages or retaining your Tithes Peraduenture you are of opinion as I vnderstand some are now adayes that either there is no Priesthood in Christianity or if there be any wee be all alike Priests because S. Peter saith you are a royall Priesthood regale sacerdotium 1 Pet. 2. and hereof inferre that seeing Tythes are due to the Priest onely and either there are no Priests or if there be any wee are all alike Priests either Tythes are not due or if they bee due they belong to vs all But beloued Christians that text of S. Peter is borrowed out of the 19. of Exodus where God speaketh it of the Iewes as S. Peter doth of the Christians wherefore if all the Iewes in one respect were a Priesthood and yet neuerthelesse had the order of Priesthood distinguished from them the like may holde in Christianitie that all may be Priests yet haue a distinct order of Priesthood and Ministery But by that text you may as well prooue your selues Kinges as Priestes and challenge vnto you the offices and priuiledges of Princes but as the vertue of that text will not defend you from Treason or the punishment of Treason wheresoeuer you bee subiectes if euer you challenge the preheminence or priuiledges of Kinges no more will it defend you from sacriledge and the punishment of it if you challenge the title or priuiledges of the Priesthood Abac 2. But you shall find that Vae that Curse which the Prophet Abacuck pronounced against Nabuchodonosor who enriched him-selfe with the spoyles of the East Vae accumulanti non sua Woe vnto him that heapeth vp those thinges which are not his owne Thesauros quos deuorauit euomet saith Iob de ventre eius extrahet eos Deus Hee shall cast vp the treasures which he hath deuoured and the Lord shall draw them out of his belly you shall finde that this wicked gaine according to the Greeke prouerbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bringeth a rod at his backe you shall finde as it is in Eccles that hee hath touched a Scorpion which no man toucheth without euident danger by reason of the poyson which he hath in his tayle which Galen saith is mole minimum but facultate maximum like the sin of Simony Sacriledge where it is in quantitie small it is in quality haynous you shall find a more grieuous punishment 1 q. 1. Cito ex Ambros as S. Ambrose noteth than the punishment of Idolatry which God putteth downe as very grieuous in the second Commandement which is to be punished not onely on him-selfe but on his seed also to the third and fourth geration whereas Ieroboams selling of the Priesthood turned to sin vnto his house euen to roote it out destroy it from the face of the earth 3 Reg 1● the sin of Gehezi who sinned in Simony and coueteousnes was punished with a leprosie vpon himself and his seed for euer And although you haue liued long in this sinne and in flourishing state and not felt the hand of GOD vpon you ye are