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Whiles the rewards of knowledge are diverted to profane uses, God and his heaven is robbed of thousand thousand souls: Oh, pray we, (quid enim nisi vota supersunt?) Pray we, with that most reverend Bishop, That God would rather convert;¹ if not, confound ⟨p. 51⟩those that rob him of his goods, the Church of her right, the people of understanding. But if no contestation of God, nor protestation of men, can stint their swallowing these stolen waters, let some good Nehemiah be revived, to re-enforce from their felonious hands, that ^aholy Rent, which God hath from every Tenant of his reserved: let the zeal of some Phinehas turn away Gods wrath from our Israell. Decimate, quibus debetis, et divites fietis: Pay your tithes, to whom you should pay them, and you shall be enriched. ^bBring ye all your Tithes into the Store-house, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now here-with, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of Heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. ⁴Read and ponder Heliodorus deed and doom, and quake at it. You cannot steal waters from the living God, but they will poison you.

Whiles the rewards of knowledge are diuerted to profane vses, God and his heauen is robbed of thousand thousand soules: Oh, pray we, (quid enim nisi vota supersunt?) Pray wee, with that most reuerend Bishop, That God would rather conuert;¹ if not, confound ⟨p. 51⟩those that rob him of his goods, the Church of her right, the people of vnderstanding. But if no contestation of God, nor protestation of men, can stint their swallowing these stolne waters, let some good Nehemiah be reuiued, to re-inforce from their felonious hands, that ^a