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A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man John Jewel…A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man Iohn Iewel…
A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man John Jewel ... ; with an answer of the same author to some frivolous objections against the government of the church.A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man Iohn Iewel ... ; with an answer of the same authour to some frivolous objections against the government of the church.
S.l. : s.n., 1641
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Have patience, if any such be here, as I well know there are, whom these things touch suffer me to speak the truth; it is Gods cause. The livings of such as are in the Ministry, are not in their hands to whom they are due: all other labourers & artificers have their hire increased double as much as it was wont to be: only the poor man that laboureth and sweateth in the Vineyard of the Lord of hosts, hath his hire abridged and abated. I speak not of the Curates; but of Parsonages and Vicarages, that is of the places which are the Castles and Towers of fence for the Lords Temple: They seldom pass ⟨p. 40⟩now adays from the Patron, if he be no better then a Gentleman, but either for the Lease, or for present money: Such Merchants are broken into the Church of God; a great deal more intolerable then were they whom Christ chased and whipped out of the Temple. Thus they that should be careful for Gods Church; that should be Patrons to provide for the consciences of the people, and to place among them a learned Minister (who might be able to preach the word unto them out of season and in season, and to fulfil his Ministry,) seek their own, and not that which is Jesus Christs; they serve not Jesus Christ, but their belly. And this is done, not in one place, or in one country, but throughout England: A Gentleman cannot keep his house, unless he have a Parsonage or two in farm for his provision.
Have patience, if any such be here, as I well know there are, whom these things touch suffer me to speak the truth; it is Gods cause. The livings of such as are in the Ministery, are not in their hands to whom they are due: all other labourers & artificers have their hire increased double as much as it was wont to be: only the poore man that laboureth and sweateth in the Vineyard of the Lord of hostes, hath his hire abridged and abated. I speak not of the Curates; but of Parsonages and Vicarages, that is of the places which are the Castles and Towers of fence for the Lords Temple: They seldome passe ⟨p. 40⟩now adaies from the Patron, if he be no better then a Gentleman, but either for the Lease, or for present mony: Such Merchants are broken into the Church of God; a great deale more intolerable then were they whō Christ chased and whipped out of the Temple. Thus they that should bee carefull for Gods Church; that should be Patrons to provide for the consciences of the people, and to place among them a learned Minister (who might be able to preach the word unto them out of season and in season, and to fulfill his Ministery,) seek their own, and not that which is Jesus Christs; they serve not Jesus Christ, but their belly. And this is done, not in one place, or in one country, but throughout England: A Gentleman cannot keep his house, unlesse he have a Parsonage or two in farme for his provision.