144 .4Revelation oftl Apmcalypfe. C A I..3: Lute- For the Wort¿-mars is Worthy of his hire ; neither can this diftribu- Warme tion, and communicatingof our goods this way,be any more called a vain Rio- gramme, then any other that is made to him that livethby a ub- riotsLa- Y Y p edicea. leek office. God that made the earth , did fo give it to the forme: of men, that he referved a portion for himfe fe,which he befowedupoia the holy Incumbents, that do earirefiy bend themfelves to fulfill their minilery. And therefore Patrons do not give freely of their own, when they aflign, and alot the Church-revenues to the Pafkours for their labour, but they deliverfuch things,as whereofthey weremilde keepers in truft, and to thofe men, who may claym thereas their due debt. We fpeake not (I lay) of filch fingular perfoñs, but generally of the fate of our Clergy; with whom thecafe fo ffandeth, that the Angel ofEngland,in plain terms,groweth wealthy by begging; neither is he in very truth, nor is tobecalled ought,faveMy Lord Beg r.To att<iis Beggarltnes , is his BlindnerJe to be added, wherby the evill is made farre more grievous. For what more wretched a thing is there to fee to,then a blend beggar, whom neceffitydriveth to leek abroad for his living, and yet want of light will not let him feek ? But this blindneffe here is of the `hind, wherby a man being bereaved 'of all forefight and prudence of mind, cannot provide himfelfe of things profitable, and honeft before God-and men. TheAngel there- fore being defituteof this wífdoín, finneth-'as much inexecuting of his func`Iion, as he did a littlebefore, in his"manner of entrance into ir. Now -this is the woi-f kindof blindncffe that can be, as which for the mot part, dothneither filer a man to acknowledgehis own ig- norance, and folly of mind ; neither yet with patience to abide one that loth detet`f it ; yea, that walking f affeof his , which fhould .helpehim infinding out the wad, and in his walking, that hie taketh up, and letteth drive at him that giveth himwarningofthe danger. And yet for all that I will tell thee plainly of it (O thoumiferable Angel) be thou as froward, andtefie as thou canif. Ir may be, thou maift at laft come tothy fight, and Iearne to be wife ; but if not , yet (hall I at 'leaf by this means be out of the-danger of fo curleda crime, as is theputtingof -afumbling-block béfore the blind, whichl fhoulddo, if I fhould fee a deep Dungeon of défru ion, and one that is blind ready to fall into it, and ihould not tell himof it. And that I may have thee the more equall and better to deale with,I will rather make thy felfe to be fudge, and todetermine how notably (harp-fighted thou art, then convince thee bymine own judgement; though this be unequal!, in a mansown caufe tobe ledge himfelfe, where
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