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cashire ; towards which pensions, I see no reason but 

 reading ministers, if they have rich benefices, should 

 be charged. 



TOUCHING THE PROVISION FOR SUFFICIENT 

 MAINTENANCE IN THE CHURCH. 



TOUCHING Church maintenance, it is well to be 

 weighed what is &quot;jure divino,&quot; and what &quot; jure 

 positive.&quot; It is a constitution of the divine law, 

 from which human Jaws cannot derogate, that those 

 which feed the flock should live of the flock ; that 

 those that serve at the altar should live at the altar ; 

 that those which dispense spiritual things should 

 reap temporal things ; of which it is also an appen 

 dix, that the proportion of this maintenance be not 

 small or necessitous, but plentiful and liberal. So 

 then, that all the places and offices of the Church 

 be provided of such a dotation, that they may be 

 maintained, according to their several degrees, is a 

 constitution permanent and perpetual : but for par 

 ticularity of the endowment, whether it should con 

 sist of tithes, or lands, or pensions, or mixt, might 

 make a question of convenience, but no ques 

 tion of precise necessity. Again, that the case of 

 the Church &quot; de facto&quot; is such, that there is want 

 in the Church of patrimony, is confessed. For 

 the principal places, namely, the bishops livings, 

 are in some particulars not sufficient ; and therefore 



