5_..34 Chap.6. dCommentarie rrpo,o proulded for , by let flipends,as by fome foundation, orby the 1 reuenewes of the Church , men arenot bound to conttibute unto them ,.and make them partakers ofall their goods; al- though in regard ofthankfuInes, they owe wait) them turn thew. felue.r,asPaul tenet's Philemon ; but onely luch as hauenot tile wherewith to maintaine themfclues. And we mull confider the reafon why Paul comniandeth all that are intlrufted in the word, to make them that inflrueted them partakers of their goods, to wit, becaufe in Pauls timc,and longafter,theChurch t was not endowedwith lands or goods,whereby the Miniflcrie im Jmight be vpholden , neither had itpublikeChriflían Magi. (}rates, but was vnder cruel! tyrants in perfecution : and there 1 fore bore that were taught in theword,were to maintains their ¡teachers by liberal! catribution , otherwifc they might flame: but taowthe Church geeing greatly inriched , they maywith- rs out contribution be fufliciently maintained of the Church goods. And that it is much more convenient for the .Mini(}ers to be maintained -by fct tlipends , arifng fromgoods proper to the Church , then by voiuntarie contribution, it mayappeare 20 by this, in that it cute off fundrie inconueniences which in vo. luntarie contribtitioits eithercannot be,or are hardly auoided, :r1}, flatterie, and furpitionof flatterie,in beeing thought to haue fonie pens in admiration , becaufc ofaduantage. Se. condly, thepoorer fort are no waydifgraced by thismcanes,as 25 they fhould be in contributions, ex cept they did glue ratably as the reti . Thirdly , dvffetnbling and deceit, in making as though they receiuecl little, whenas theyhaue much, is cut off in a fct fliPend: Fourthly,the culll difpofed wouldnot fo eafily l cafi off their miniver , and (ecke a new that would teach for 3 0 leifc ; or wouldglue nothing at all, ifthey were touched to the quiche, andgalled for theirfinites. Fiftly, oflertation in forte in (titlingmuch, and difdaining thofe that glue letfe. Sixtly, I fctfpition of couetnufties and filthie lucre in the miniflers in i liming to takeof thofe towhome they oughtto glue. Sea. 35 nenthly, ditgraceof the miniflerie , in gathering themfelucs, or reading i others togather the peoples liberalite fromdote to dore. Laflly , a fet flipend comes nearertheorder appoin- ted l,yGcd,in maintaining thePriefhoodvnder theLcuiticali¿ law, In _.._.._ _
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