To they entlemen of glamorganfliire. to mourne. Thus then if negligence bee the caufe that a countrey is not furtriftied with fome able Miniflers, me thinke we may awake our hearts by the Word-óf the Lord,& weighing it well,recetuefront him foine better feeling in fo great a matter. But if couctoufneffe be the caufe,& wegreatly given tofequefler that benefit to our felues,f wing onely fotne portion to one to bcare the name,then mark we againe the witnes alto of the fame Scriptures, again(+ vs euen in this. And to face mine own la- bour, my judgement being young, heave I befeech you the proof-es and reafons a- gainfl this 6nne,by a godly and graue Druine intreating of this omtter,laide downe vnto my hands. Firfl, bee alledgeth againft it the defcription of a wicked Prince in 1 son.S.t r. the booke of Samuel, amongft whole culls this is named one , that hee trill take the tythes and gene them to his [truants. Concluding thereon that if the King might not take the tythes to himfclfe,becaufe then they were due to the Priefls by Gods own order and commandement for themaintenance ofhisferuice : furcly no private mart nowmay doe it, fo long as by authoritie the fame are eftablifhed for the Miniflers Maintenance and fupport. Secondly,ifin the Law he was accurfed that remootsed the Deut,27,17, mere flame of the field, becaùfe bee did wrong in fuccefsion rd diners :ten thoufand times more is the reinouing of the Miniflers lining fubie61 to the Lords wrath , bes caufe both prefently,ánd fuccefsiuely it is hurtful! to a n imbeï moe,and in agreater matter. Thirdly, by the Prophet ,tfaachy the Lord complaineth in expreffc termes, vrytai. ;.d that the taI ng away of?ythes and offerings from that end that they were appointed vnto,was a rabbsngsnd fporling of him,yea euen fuch a fpoiling,as he would vi/it with agreat andgreeuous carfe. Now, if it were fo then,all the world mull confeffe,ic is no leffe now,fo long as authoritie ratifieth this intones to maintaine the mindlers : and thereforeaffuredly will haue a (harp revenge. Fourthly in the Gofpell the Iewes al- ledge it voto Chrift as an argument of loue to them and theirNation in the Centu- rion.thatbe bad built them afynagogue, plainely infinuating that they would haue Lukens:I judged the contrarie, ifhee had 1poiled their Synagogue of his maintenance; And Chrifl reprehendeth not this concluíon. Fiftly, if David the King flooding in fo 1.0r0,1.t6: great diflreffe for water, yet would not drinke of the water ofBethleem, becaufe it was gotten with the danger of tome fewmens temporal( lines : fhould it not teach a great confc ience to any man In the world, that talleth of God and his truth , and hopeth for comfort in any otherworld, how het (not needing peraduenture, but a. bundantly prouided for otherwife by the mercy of his God) drinketh & eateth that which is gotten with apparant hazard of eternal! life front the bodies & foules, God ata.9; knoweth of how many ? Trudy (Right Worfhipfull)it lhould,and the power of hell Ga1,6,&c; is not able to deny it, But fuch is themeate and drinke, or other maintenance what- foeuerthat we rcape by the Church,wben it is -due to an other, for another purpofe, and therefore you loom the conclnfion,Sixrly,all thofe places in the Scriptures com- manding and inioining the world to a maintenance, and fufficient maintenance of able Teachers in it, doe plainely proue the fin ofthis,to fequefler to our (clues the li- ning allotted to them vnlcffe Ionic other equivalcnt, or fufficient way bee taken Po/ddex,in for them by authoritie, Againe, if that graue and learned Father Saint Auflen vttaAug,to.a¢ was fohighly offended, and fo fharpely rebuked a Gentleman in his time, for ta- king away his ovine gift, which before her had glum to the maintenance of his Church : would her not haue berne a feuere cenfor againt them, thinke wee, that fhould haue taken away what neither they nor any of theirsencr. gauc ? If the Stories fo commend the Noble Emperour Conflantme for commatinding goods taken from the Churches ro bee reflored to them againe would they not Eufeb.l,ro,c.ç: haue blotted him as well, if her himfclfe had beetle a fpoiler of the fame? If the Tit.Lèuiusl.4a4 Romans fo dealt with . Fuluïur,for vncouering a part of homer Temple to court. an other Temple in Roarewith the fame riles , that they mlfliked him, condemned him,told him Pyrbur, or Haneball would not have done fo,told him it hadbern too much to haue done to a privatc mans houle, an inferiour place to a Temple, and in conclufaonforced him to fend home thole tiles againe: may not fuch asgarnifh either themfelues or their Houles with Church- liuings , and 'cane neither Teacher
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