aftherich Ftm-" 7 ndLazarus: 25 where the pooreare not prouided for , but by begging at domes. `Darsid faith , He neuer ('awe the feedeoftherighteous begge,Pfal 3 y.a5. Dowd neuer fawn it ; and in a Church well ordered, it cannot be feene. The poorefeefball hRUr ul- wRyes withyou,faith Chri /, loh. t 2.8 He faith,thepoore, but not thebegging poore:and thetext of Deater. t 5.4,iscorn. nionlyalledged againft beggers in Ifrael according to the old Latine reading : but that the Ifra:l of Gods Church (houldhaueno fuch in it, may further appeareby theft rca- Sons. The reafons : for fir(l,it preclaitnes the (}gameofChriífi ans,that fhouldprouide for theirpoore iiì other maner,that is,charitabty at home,and not by clamour at doores. Secondly, it openeth a gappe to rogues andvagabonds, who under the colour of begging, will beofno certaine Church or ciuili companie, but innature of Outlawes: and fo as rotten acmes andlcgges, ready to drop from the body,they feeme members,and are not. Thirdly, Gods ordinanceis, that the membersof the Church (hould haue their particular lawfull callings in it, andnot line like wanderers or ffrayes in nocalling.La(Ily, there is not onely a lawe in Mofes, but a flame in England againflit,Elízab.39. Now ifall this be f© intolerable, it mufl needcs be corifeffed,that it is acorrupt timeand 'late, wherein an abufefo iutollerable,is not reformed, Bythis it may be iudged , that we now liue in acorrupt vfe, tiane ofthe Church, though the religion we profetfebe ho- ly and good. For again(' the fla.ute of the land and law of God,uianyare fuffered to begge (not full cffores as Laza- rus here, and yet our fhamefhould begreat ifit were co o- ther waies,) but flrong and flurdy beggers , men and wo- men , who can giue no pod account oftheir wandering life : Yea,many married vnderahedge (ifat all) are fuffered without all (name and good confcience, to increafe the Church and Common-wealths flore with the feede of ba(lardy, and vncleane copulation. Doth not thisboth preach to our earàasand proue toEour faces, that iomewhat r
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