Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

Stubbs, Philip, active 1581-1593.

Date:: 1877-1882

Credit: Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Sermons at Funerals are very needful, and do great good. [‘Sig. M. 2. back] Ministers ought to have Stipends, so as to be free from worldly business, and keep their families. P Sig. M. 3.] St. Paul says that Ministers who preach the Gospel should live by it. 86 \\.i. Funeral Sermons Good. Ministers should he paid. haue fuch liuely fpedlacles before our eies, of our mortality, miferie, and end, as they be at all other times ? Yea truely at that prefent I thinke godlie fermons verie neceflarie to put the people in remem- brance of their mortalitie, of their great miferie, and frailtie, of their fatal! end, of the imniortalitie of the foule, of the generall refurrec- tion at the laft day, and of the ioie, felicitie, and beatitude of tlie life to come, with the like godlie inftrudtions, that they may the better prepare themfelues to the fame when God (hall call them hence to himfelfe. And although of late fome phantafticall fpirites haue taught that the vfe of them is naught, in that they ^ftand in place of popifli diriges, and I cannot tell what, yet cannot I be eafilie drawne to a (Tent vnto them, for that I fee them in that refpedt a great deale more curious than godlie wife. Theod. Is it lawfull, thinke you, for minifters, and preachers of the Gofpell, to receiue ftipends, and wages for their preaching ? Amphil. Why not ? Otherwife how Ihould they bee able to keepe themfelues free from worldly occupations, and trauels of this life (as they ought) to applie their ftudies for the difeharge of their duties, to maintaine themfelues, their family, and houlhold 5 or how fliuld they keepe hofpitalitie for the releefe of the poore ^ all which they are bound to doe both by Gods lawe, and good confcience. Therefore take away liuings and wages from the preachers, and ouerthrowe preaching altogither, the ordinarie meane to faluation in Chrift. This caufed the apoftle to enter difputation of this point, where he prooueth by inuincible arguments, that a preacher or minifter of the Gofpell of Chrift lefus, may [Salua confeientia, With a good confcience) receiue wages and ftipends for his peines fufteined in the aft'aires of the Gof- pell, and that for the caufes abouefaid. Therefore faith this apoftle : Boui ^trituranti non ligabis os, Thou flialt not muffle the mouth of the oxe that treadeth foorlh the come. Whereby is ment, that he that laboreth and taketh paines in any good exercife, ought not to be denied of his meed for his paines. Againe he faith: Dignus ejl operarius mercede fiia, The workman is woorthie of his reward. And ftill infifting in the fame argument, hee faith : Qui euangelium preedi- cant, ex euangelio viuant, They that preach the Gofpell, let them Hue vpon the Gofpell. And yet further profecuting the fame more at$