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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17294	A censure of simonie, or a most important case of conscience concerning simonie briefly discussed not altogether perhaps vnparallell for the meridian of these times. By H. Burton rector of little Saint-Matthewes in Friday-street London.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1624 (1624)	STC 4139; ESTC S107062	105,164	152

Periurie and the forfeiture of all our spirituall preferment in esse and posse both present and to come What father after awhile will be so improuident to bring vp his sonne to his great charge to this necessarie beggerie What Christian will be so irreligious to bring vp his son in that course of life which by all probabilitie and necessitie Cogit ad turpia inforcing to sinne will intangle him in Simonie and Periurie whereas the Poet saith Inuitatus ad haec aliquis de ponte negabit A beggars brat taken from the bridge where hee fits a begging if he knew the inconuenience had cause to refuse it So he Let me conclude it with the wordes of our Democritus This being thus saith he haue wee not fished faire all this while that are initiated Diuines to finde no better fruits of our labour Hoc est cur palles cur quis non prandeat hoc est Doe we macerate our selues for this If this be all the respect reward and honour we shall haue Frange leues calamos scinde Thalia libellos Let vs giue ouer our bookes and betake our selues to some other course of life To what end shall we studie Quid me literulas stulti docuere parentes What did our parents meane to make vs Schollers to be as farre to seeke for preferment after twentie yeeres studie as we were at first Why doe wee take such paines Quid tantum insanis iuvat impallescere chartis So he Honos alit Artes Honor and reward is the maintayner of Arts. But the Ministerie is the Art of Artes. And that which God and Man hath appointed for the maintenance of the Ministerie shall we call it the reward of a Minister Alas God helpe vs if this were our reward which at the most hath no correspondency to the worke of a Minister For if wee haue sowne vnto you spirituall things is it a great matter ●f wee reape your carnall things yea Non magnum sed minimum saith Anselme A very small matter But shall the worke of our Ministerie so infinitely exceede that which in no proportion can bee reputed a reward and yet can wee not haue this poore recompense of our labour though not of our function to sustaine our poore bodies and studies but we must pay as deare for it as he that neuer saw Schoole may pay for this or any temporall commoditie If so then frange leues calamos scinde Thalia libellos Away with learning and consequently away with the Ministerie yea farewell all good Ministers For euery Minister should bee an honest man and no honest man will be a corrupt Minister and consequently no honest Minister will be a Simonist and doth not Simonie tend then to the vtter abolition of the Ministerie And what other Ministerie can be expected in a Church where Simonie reigneth then such as was vnder Ieroboam to whom Abiah King of Iudah said Haue yee not driuen away the Priests of the Lord the sonnes of Aaron and the Leuites haue made you Priests like the people of other Countries whosoeuer commeth to consecrate with a young Bullocke and seuen Rammes the same may be a Priest So Simonie driueth away all good men and admitteth into the Church those that bee corrupt of the basest of the people Master Perkins that Reuerend man of God alleageth this as one of the maine reasons of the rarenesse and scarsitie of good Ministers namely want of maintenance and preferment for men that labour in this Calling And what difference is there I pray you betweene want of maintenance or preferment and the buying and purchasing of them For so preferment becomes a recompence of my mony not of my Ministerie I will relate the wordes of that good man Men saith he are flesh and bloud and in that respect must hee allured and wonne to imbrace this Vocation by some Arguments which may perswade flesh and bloud The world hath in all ages beene negligent therein and therefore God in his Law tooke such strict order for the maintenance of the Leuites but especially now vnder the Gospell this Calling is vnprouided for when it deserues best of all to be rewarded certainly if Gods Law did not binde vs it were a worthy Christian policy to propound good preferments to this Calling that thereby men of the worthiest gifts might be won vnto it and the want thereof is the cause why so many young men of speciall parts and greatest hope turne to other Vocations and especially to the Lawes wherein at this day the greatest part of the finest wits of our Kingdome are imployed And why But because they haue all the meanes to rise wherea● the Ministerie for the most part yeeldeth nothing but a plaine way to beggerie This is a great blemish in our Church and surely I wish the Papists those children of this world were not wiser in their kinde in this point then the Church of God the reformation hereof is a worke worthy the labour of a Prince and people and speciall care is to be had in it else it will not be reformed For doubtlesse had not God himselfe in the Old Testament taken such strickt Orders for the liuings of the Leuites they had beene put to no lesse extremities then is the Ministerie of this age And this reason added to the other makes them perfect and all put together makes a reason infallible For who will vndergoe so v●le contempt and so great a charge for no reward And where there is so great contempt and so meane a reward what maruell if a good Minister be one of a thousand So this holy man By all which we may both see the miserie of the Ministerie of a Church where not onely the one moitie of Church-maintenance is impropriate But the other for the most part is in Hucksters handling the propertie of it as of a pr●ferment and reward of a faithfull Minister being altered by Simonie and as it were made impropriate too and consequently we cannot but feele and more yet feare the ruefull effects thereof both in Church and Common-wealth Againe for asmuch as Simonists are the most doughtie Non-residents making vse of their Benefices as Fishers doe of their lesser fishes as baits to catch the greater fish and so leaue the sweet fresh Riuers at home to goe fish abroad in the mayne Sea because No fishing to the Sea nor seruice to a King whereas they might wisely with the Vine and Fig-tree and Oliue-tree enioy their sweet priuate life in Gods Vineyard feeding their harmelesse flocke and not with the Bramble Abimelech aspire to become as Saint Peter saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not examples to the flocke Doing so what else can come of it but ruthfull ruine as to themselues so to the flocke of God For Simonie doth necessarily imply Non-residency For first a Simonist after the payment of his first purchase is commonly inforced to liue priuately to let out his Parsonage to farme defrauding the poore of