Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

When Kings have taken order for these things, then are they also to furnish the Pastors¹ and Ministers of the word with all things necessary, let them relieve the poor, and look that the Church sustain not by their negligence beggary, or undecent wants. Then let them erect Schools, and endow them with sufficient pensions² for the teachers: let them foster and cherish Students, let them build Hospitals for the aged and diseased, and perform other offices which serve for the maintenance and ⟨p. 526⟩conservation of the Church. But these excessive expenses superfluously bestowed towards the founding of Masses and Oratories, and employed for the making of vessels of gold and silver, rich & gorgeous vestments, in which Papists glory and brag; only serves for a pomp and ambition to corrupt the pure and sincere nourishment of the Church; yea, to choke and extinguish Gods seed, which is the only food by which the Church lives.

When Kings haue taken order for these things, then are they also to furnish the Pastors¹ and Ministers of the word with all things necessarie, let them relieue the poore, and looke that the Church susteine not by their negligence beggerie, or vndecent wants. Then let them erect Schooles, and endow them with sufficient pentions² for the teachers: let them foster and cherish Studients, let them build Hospitals for the aged and diseased, and performe other offices which serue for the maintenance and ⟨p. 526⟩conseruation of the Church. But these excessiue expences superfluouslie bestowed towards the founding of Masses and Oratories, and imploied for the making of vessels of gold and siluer, rich & gorgeous vestments, in which Papists glory and brag; only serues for a pompe and ambition to corrupt the pure and sincere nourishment of the Church; yea, to choke and extinguish Gods seede, which is the onely food by which the Church liues.