Passage in George Herbert (Vol. iv., p. 231.).
—Does not Herbert imply in these lines—
"Take one from ten, and what remains?
Ten still, if sermons go for gains."
that the payer of tithes receives an equivalent in the ministrations of the priest?
S. C. C.
Corfe Castle.
This passage alludes doubtless to the tithe of the parson, and maintains that the tithe-payer is no loser if the sermons for which tithe is paid produce their effects. In fact, it is a paraphrase of Proverbs, iii. 9, 10.:
"Honour the Lord with all thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine."
J. A. PICTON.