Selected quad for the lemma: money_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
money_n	ghost_n	holy_a	simon_n	1,530	5	10.2233	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47283	Ichabod: or, Five groans of the church: Prudently foreseeing, and passionately bewailing her second fall: Threatened by these five dangerous, though undiscerned, miscarriages that caused her first: Viz. [bracket] 1. Undue ordination, 2. Loose prophaness, 3. Unconscionable symony, 4. Careless non-residence, 5. Encroaching pluralities. Humbly presented to her supreme head and governour, the kings most excellent majesty, and his great council, the Parliament of England.; Ichabod.	Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.	1663 (1663)	Wing K264A; ESTC R22531	49,473	66

according to the qualities of their offences CHAP. III. The Church of England's Complaint against Jnconscionable Simony IN your other courses O ye my Sons fear of Authoritie may deter you Conscience may check you strict Lawes may restrain you a severe over-sight may reform you in this strange in this sad miscarriage of Symony I have made Laws yet you transgresse them I have enacted 31 of Q. E. 6. That if any persons bodies Politick or Corporate shall or do at any time for any sum of money reward gift profit or benefit directlie or indirectlie or for or by rea●on of any Promise Grant Bond Covenant or other assurance of or for any sum of monie reward gift profit or benefit whatsoever directlie or indirectlie present or collate any person to any Benefice with cure of souls Dignitie Prebend or Living Ecclesiastical or give or bestow the same for or in respect of any such corrupt cause or consideration that then everie such Presentation Collation Gift c. should be utterlie void and of none effect in Law and that any person accepting of any Ecclesiastical promotion upon such sordid accounts shall be judged a disabled person in Law to have or enjoie any Benefice Dignitie Prebend or Living Ecclesiasticall Yet still you truck for Livings you market for Benefices still you buy and sell in the Temple this abomination is still forbidden and yet still allowed my Cannons tie from it by an Oath yet you venture You swear thus I N. N. do swear That I have made no Simonical payment contract or promise directly or indirectly by my self or by any other to my knowledge or with my consent to any person or persons whatsoever for or concerning the procuring and obtaining of this Ecclesiastical Dignity place preferment Office or Living nor will at any time hereafter perform or satisfie any such kind of payment contract or promise made by any other without my knewledge or consent So help me God through Iesus Christ. Yet you do it Oh you men of God can you forswear this abominable sin and yet commit it Will you publicklie disown it before God and the Church and yet own it between your selves and your Patrons Shall not God search out this These things you do and God keeps silence you think he is altogether such a one as your selves Ah he he will reprove you he will set your sins in order before you Oh consider this ye that in this forget God! Oh be sure your si●s shall find you out Shall a man take the name of God in vain and be guiltless Shall a man break his solemn Oath and be deliver●d Shall he escape that doth such things Shall he prosper How will you look that God in the face in Prayer whom you have blasphemed in your Oath How can you behold that Congregation that knows you are forsworn What preach the Word of God and regard not the Oath of God! What gain a P●rsonage and loose thy soul To attain to a Preferment shall you hazard more then the whole world 1. Have you never read that in A●ts 8. 18 19 20 21 22 23. And when Simon saw that through ●aying on of the Apostles hands the holy Ghost was given he offered them MONEY saying Give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the holy Ghost But Peter said unto him Thy money perish with thee because that thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money Thou hast ●either part nor lot in this matter for thy heart is not right in the sight of God Repent therefore of this wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thoughts of thy heart may be forgiven thee For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquitie You will say Object You buy not any gift or grace as Simon would have done but some encouragement to exercise your gifts and your graces Sol. Alass is it not the gift of God vou buy are Tythes of God or are they not if they are not why do you challenge them If they are of God why do you buy them of men Shall a man rob God yet ye have robbed me even this whole Nation They say wherein have we robbed God in Tythes and Offerings The Lay-patron takes from God and you take from him he steals from God you receive from him Is it his why do you say Tythe belong onely to Ministers Is it the Ministers why doe you pay him for it why do you justifie his encroachment betray Gods right wrong me and undoe your selves Who goeth to warfare at his own charge You do it Doe ye not know that they who minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and that so the Lord hath ordained that they that preach the Gospell should live of the Gospel Object I deal not with the Patron himself you will say Sol. Oh be not deceived God is not mocked what you do by others you do your selves Simon himself went not to God whose the holie Ghost was but to Peter one of the Stewards of the manifold gifts of God Object I am Civil to the Steward Answ. How read you 2 King 5. 20. c. ●ehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God said Behold my Master ●ath spared Naaman this Syrian in not receiving at his hands that which he brought but as the Lord liveth I will run after him and take somewhat of him So Gehazi followed after him and when Naaman saw him running after him he lighted down from the charriot to meet him and said Is all well and he said All is well my master hath sent me saying Behold even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the Prophets give them I pray thee a talent of silver an●two changes of garments And Naaman said Be content take two talents and he urged him and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of garments and laid them upon two of his servants and they bare them before him And when he came to the tower he took them from their hand and bestowed them in the house and he let the men go and they departed But he went in and stood before his Master and Elisha said unto him Whence comest thou Gehazi And he said ●hy servant went not whither And he said un●o him Went not my heart with thee when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee is it a time to receive money and to receive garments and olive-yards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and men-servant and maid-servants The leprosie therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee and unto thy seed for ever And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow Object Yes let Gahazi look to that Sol. Is it a sin in him to receive a gift and is it not a sin in you to give it Object I onely laid a wager bought a