Mechanick ·E~ploiments. '[hey were fled Cap. J2. every vm: 10hiJfield (that is) they were fain to ---– lhift for themfelves as theycould, there was Neh ·~ · 10, no Pubiick Chqrcl1~1aintenance for them; 11 , 12 ; 13· what cloth 1:\tehemiah now in illCh a Cafe ? He cloth not go · to the common people',· whofe hancl and heart was in it, they would all have cried out, No more tithu ~ no more Prieft!; Eafe us of this charge; The tem... poral things we fow ppon our Priefis are I above all the fpiritual fruits we reap, or ever lDok to r~ap by tlrlem. Cannot Religion be upheld without theft PrieftJ ? cannot thefe Pricfis afford their fervice to God and his Churchgratis, and ot" frer-co{f? or, atleafr, be content to live upon the voluntarieContribution.r of the Church ! He cloth not go to thefe, I fay, Reafon is not to be exffected among the multitude; but he goes to 'the Noblu, andcbi~f R~prefentatives; he conten- ( ded,and expoftulated with them,Neh. J3. 1 I. Why is the Houfe of God forfaken? Sha]l ·our return out of Baby/on be hanoured, and our Reformation bear date and be made famou.r for our ·laying ·a.Gde Subbath_, and ;I'ubli~ Cburch-worfhip , Church-men-, and . Church-maintenance ? Then'I contended with the Nobles, f~i,th he, Why is the Houfe of Goci forfaken ! What areproach will this be tu our Reformation!. The Nobles it feems . were either too flJrward, a~ well ~s others, to keep back and take away Church mainte– nance, or put the people upon· fl1chde:1gns, M; or
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