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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	christian_a	church_n	world_n	5,052	5	4.5521	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37445	The parson's counsellor with the law of tithes or tithing in two books : the first sheweth the order every parson, vicar, &c. ought to observe in obtaining a spiritual preferment, and what duties are incumbent upon him ... : the second shews in what manner all sorts of tithes, offerings, mortuaries, and other church-duties are to be paid ... / written by Sir Simon Degge, Kt.	Degge, Simon, Sir, 1612-1704.	1676 (1676)	Wing D852; ESTC R8884	170,893	368

THE Parson's COUNSELLOR WITH THE LAW OF TITHES or TITHING In Two BOOKS The First sheweth the Order every Parson Vicar c. ought to observe in obtaining a Spiritual Preferment and what Duties are incumbent upon him after the taking the same and many other things necessary for every CLERGY-MAN to know and observe The Second shews in what manner all Sorts of Tithes Offerings Mortuaries and other Church-Duties are to be paid as well in LONDON as else where and as well by the Canon as Common and Statute Laws and in what Courts and manner they may be recovered what Charges they are subject to and many other things concerning the same necessary for CLERGY-MEN and all others to know Written by Sir SIMON DEGGE Kt. LONDON Printed for Henry Twyford in Vine-Court Middle-Temple MDCLXXVI I do Allow the Printing of this Book Fra. North. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND FATHER in GOD THOMAS LORD BISHOP OF Lichfield and Coventry My Lord I Thought to have sent this Trifle into the World without Patron or Authors Name to it but 't is well known how scandalous it is to that Child whose Parent is ashamed to own it I therefore resolved to run the Censure of a Critical World and then observing how antient Dedications have been both by Greek and Latine Authors and that they are continued to this day throughout all Christendom I resolved not to be singular and then considering that this little Vndertaking was performed at the Request of some reverend Clergymen of Your Lordships Diocess and that it was nursed up to what it is now presented to your Lordship there likewise I conceived it could not challenge the Patronage of any other more properly than of Your Lordship and therefore such as it is I here humbly present it to Your Lordship My Lord at first I designed no more but the Second Part of what it now is but observing Your Lordships diligent and great care at Your Lordships Primary Visitation at Derby against Simony Dilapidations and Non-residence the three great Pests in the Church I added three Chapters upon those Subjects and after adding one thing after another it came to make a distinct Part of this Work alone My Lord Your Lordship has had many Honourable and Worthy Predecessors and I cannot forbear to mention to Your Lordship Your immediate Predecessor my Lord Bishop Hacket with what indefatigable Industry did he repair or rather re-edifie the Church at Lichfield which he happily lived to finish a Work could hardly have been performed by any other how circumspectly prudently and diligently did he govern his Church never absenting himself unless in his Majestie 's and Countrey 's Service how constantly did he visit and preach through his Diocess A Religious Pattern for all his Clergy what great Insight had he both in the Civil Canon and Common Laws that related to the Church Government How oft did he sit in his Consistory to see Justice done Nay what did he neglect that became a Worthy Prelate to do and for his deep and profound Learning in his Function certainly few exceeded him if I have any Judgment My Lord I have observed three things perpetuate mens memory to Posterity Children Learned Writings and publick and eminent Buildings he was fortunate in them all he has left a Worthy Son to inherit his Name Virtue and Temporal Estate he has left many Learned Works for the benefit of Posterity whereof some are already made publick and he has made himself no less eminent by his publick Buildings witness his Cathedral Church at Lichfield and Trinity Colledge in Cambridge where he had his Education besides many other Works of Piety and Charity in those few years he was Bishop My Lord God has not yet blest you with Children but may in good time to preserve Your Name and I have heard Your Lordship intends some eminent Works for the Publick and that Your Lordship intends to go on where Your Predecessor left in Building a Palace for Your self and Successors I have great reason to believe having heard Your Lordship so often declare You would do it and having laid Your hand to the Plow in preparing some Materials towards it I know You will not look back Your Lordship is a great Lover of Hospitality Titus 1.8 which can never be so splendid as in a Palace of Your own Building And hereby Your Lordship will make Your self as eminent in the next Age as Your Worthy Predecessour is in the present than which nothing can be greater satisfaction to all but chiefly to My Honoured good Lord Your Lordships most dutiful Son and most obedient Servant S. Degge To the Courteous Reader IT is observed in the second part of Sir Edward Cokes Reports in the Bishop of Winchesters case Co. 2.44 b. that there were two great persecutions of the Christian Religion the one under Dioclesian the other under Julian the Apostate The first by murdering the Priests that by their preaching advanced the Christian Religion the latter by spoiling the Church of its Revenues the former contrary to expectation advanced and not suppressed Religion for it has proved in all Ages that sanguis martyrum est semen Ecclesiae for the patient suffering of so many Martyrs of the Primitive Christians gave the World a sufficient Testimony that those poor Christians had some extraordinary Divine assistance to undergoe with patience so much cruelty that no others durst put themselves to the trial of But the taking away the revenues of the Church Martyred the Priesthood it self and struck at the foundation for when People saw there was nothing left but persecutions no sustenance for those that Ministred at the Altar it discouraged them to breed their Children up to a study that advanced them to nothing but danger which introduced great ignorance of the true Knowledg of God and Religion so that as one killed the Priests the other destroyed the very Priesthood it self And though the Apostle St. 2 Cor. 11.9 Paul got his Living by his labour that he might not become burthensom to his Proselytes 2 Cor. 11 12 14 16. Mat. 10.10 1 Tim. 5.18 yet the same Apostle tells us that the Labourer is worthy of his hire and that by the Law of Moses the Oxe was not to be muzled that treads forth the Corn and by way of expostulation in another place says 2 Cor. 9.7 9 10. who goes on warfare at his own charge who plants a Vineyard and eats not of the fruit thereof and who feeds a Flock and eats not of the milk thereof for he that ploweth should plow in hope and he that thrasheth should be partaker of his hope And again says he is it a great thing that those that sow to you Spiritual things should reap carnal And do you not know says the same Apostle that they that Minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and that they that wait at the Altar are partakers with the Altar for so hath the