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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93865	An historical discourse, briefly setting forth the nature of procurations, and how they were anciently paid, with the reason of their payment; and somewhat also of synodals and pentecostals: with an appendix in answer to an opposer. By J.S.	J. S. John Stephens.	1661 (1661)	Wing S5448; Thomason E1057_9; ESTC R34604	60,663	159

malè redemptum Haeresium allu vinne Anglicana Ecclesia absorbetur saith the Cardinal But to leave excursions and to come home unto our business this Pentecostal payment seems to me it doth to be at least in the nature thereof to have reference to an Oblation which amongst the Christians in the elder times of the Church was most frequent and yielded much in matter of yearly revenue to it devotion carrying in with a full hand what might well be spared to holy uses 2 Cor. 8.3 and spurring on the people 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to use the Apostles phrase even beyond their power to munificency as conceiving the Churches Chest to be the safest Treasury When the Tabernacle of old was to be built see the people came on to the work with such zeal Exod. 36.6 that Moses was fain to proclaim a Sufficit before the people would leave off to offer So in the Acts of the Apostles we find what the Christians in those times did they even sold their possessions Act. 4. and left them at the Apostles feet And the manner in succeeding times of the ancient Christians also was they offered not the price 12. q. 1. c. Videntes autem but even their Fields and Farms Matricibus Ecclesiis from whence they only received livelyhood and left the rest to be imployed to sacred uses To Monasteries * Et nimio plus obtulerunt Majores nostri nec ullum sibi modū statuer ūt vel finem Monastesteria donis accumulandi Eliens ad Apolog. respons Churches nothing was thought too much nothing too good to be offered such was the devotion of our Ancestors And that works of mercy and charity were eternall and that there could not be any deed more beneficiall to the soul more meritorious then bounty to the Church this was their perswasion So that as all rivers hasten into the Sea Eccles 1. as the Wise-man speaks so all went to the Church yea there seemed to be a kind of pious contention in the people Certatim Ecclesiae populus offerebat Duaren de sacris Eccl. ministeriis Benef. l. 2. c. 1. as Duarenus who should be first to bring in their offerings to this sacred Gazophylacium even Kings and the Great-ones of the world not only the common people brought in liberally this way Of Ethelwulphus King of the West-Saxons it is thus written that he gave the Tenth of his Kingdome free from all tributary charge to the Church Antiquit. B●it pa. 73. And how liberall his Successors divers of them were till the exorbitant excess and inordinate luxurious living of the Monks in this Kingdome accompanied with the extreme neglect of Religion did abate the edge of their dovotion may be seen Antiquit. Britan p. 86. as in an Oration that King Edgar delivered in much passion grief for such abuses to Dunstan then Archbishop of Canterbury Mecum obsecro animadvertat hic Lector si velit sequentia apertiùs intelligere cujus devotionis ac regularis observantiae suerunt ab antiquo Winchelcumbienses Monachi quando ob corum vitae sanctitatem integritatemque quotquot sere in circuitu nostro ruri manebant aliquam portionem de suis frugibus terrae nascentiis sibi à Deo co●cessis Ecclesiae nostrae quotannis in Eleemosynam offerendum voverunt Ve●um quorum in curiâ tantae dev●tionis Census sive redditus primò neglectus sit aut cur illud revocaverint seu amplius non solverint haud uspiā mihi consta●e potuit Arbitror saue quod postquam in coeperit fervor religionis atque devotionis apud ipsos Winchelcumbienses torpere atq●e srigescere sicut accidit uti reo● tempo●e Willielmi de Shcurburnia Roberti de Upwella o'im nostri loci Abbatum Tepuit etiam erga cos aliorum Christianorum devotio Illius igitur rei ob illud ●am m●mini ut posteri videant quantum damnum jacturam rerum juslo Dei judicio in rebus nostris temporalibus tunc passi sumus quando incoepimus remissio●es esse erga sacram observantiam regularem Simulque nobis timendum ne majora mala sint futura si q●od absit in talem remissionem aliquam recidaverimus Eam quoque ob●em sent●o ●●a vivendum ita elabo andum ut novo devotion●s spiritu concepto ob vitae ipsorum Winchelcumbiensium sanctitatem sacram a●ud eos observantiam regularem corum predia ac possessiones oblationesque angeri potiùs quàm diminui de caterò mer●antur Quae autem erat illa Oblatio seu Eleemosyna le Church-seal oli●n nuncupata sequens litera de clarabit c. Lieger book of Winchcomb fol. 43. so also by a digressive animadversion that I find in an ancient Manuscript containing the Antiquities of the Monastery of Winchcombe and the principall Occurrents and Acts of that Abby for divers hundred of years wherin the state of the Abby is much deplored in respect of the irregularity of the Regulars there This at home and to look a little abroad it is recorded of Charles the Great that he offered whole Saxony that he subdued Baron annal ad ann Chr. 804. to St. Peter at Rome and twelve hundred pounds yearly he brought in elsewhere ad servitium Apostolicae sedis besides what he bequeathed at his death to the Metropolitan Bishops for Church and Poor Registr Chronicorum in vit Caroli magn● being two parts of his goods if Registrum Chronicor report truth And what Licinia a very rich and wealthy Matron in the Primitive time did the Tripartite Story tels us Histor Tripartit l. 1. c. 9. that she gave all her goods to the Church of Rome This in foraign parts and to go no further Can. Apostol ca. 40. ca. 41. 12. q. 1 c. videntes c. Praecip●mus Et c. Episcopus q. 2. c. Vobis 10 q. 1. c. Quae cunque res Now all these Oblations the Bishops after the Apostles times had sub clave potestatis to dispose of they being thought the fittest instruments to be intrusted with the goods of the Church to whom the charge of the souls of Gods people was chiefly committed And into * Can. Apost ca. 40. Beda Eccl. Hist Angl. l. 1. c. 27. four parts or Canonicall portions they commonly were by Deacons first under the Bishop in imitation of Apostolical institution and afterwards by a Clergie Steward called in the Law a Distinct 89. c. quia in qu●busdam 16 q. 7. c. Quoniam in c. In nova E. Concil Chalced. ca 26. O●conomus alwayes accomptable to the Bishop divided and accordingly distributed one part to the Priest or Clerks that did service in the Church to which their offerings were brought A second part to the b A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A●●sto●h Schol. in Pl●t Hisunt Th●sau ●i Ecclesiae verè Thesauri in quibus Christus ●●● inquibus Christi fides est Dict.