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A41852	One out-cry more against tythes unto the chief ruler of the nation of Engand [sic] and all that are with him of God permitted to be in present authority, whether Parliament, Councel or Army; by whatsoever name or title known or called: but in a more especial manner, to such of them as are yet remaining faithfnl [sic] unto the former declared for, and never to be forgotten cause of King Jesus, who are such as have not departed, through sinning against the light of a good conscience, ... And yer notwithstanding, you that are in present power know these things, do even as he did, suffer the saints in your name, and by your power daylie to be imprisoned, and otherwayes afflicted; and that you may not be ignorant thereof, I have been moved to make the same known unto you by way of declaration, which is grounded upon the Holy Scriptures; wherein is contained the manner of our sufferings, and by whom: ... Written the beginning of the second month, 1657. by Isaac Grayes, prisoner for the cause of Christ in the Wood-street Compter, London, ...; One out-cry more against tythes unto the chief ruler of the nation of England.	Graye, Isaac.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1626; ESTC R220318	27,098	37

customs in the Land of those people which the Lord for the same wickedness cast out by which the Land was defiled Lev. 10. 3 c. Lev. 18. 1 Sam. 2. 13 c. Now by what hath been declared it doth evidently appear from the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles which was one Doctrine that they taught the people against their Customs and vain Traditions of the Fathers as they were contrary to the will of the Lord although the Priests of this Nation do make a Trade of maintaining all such filthie customs by which they make merchandize of the ignorant people under pretence of being Ministers of the Gospel although their actions doth witness them lyars to their faces who are proved no other then the Merchants of Babylon and common waged servants of the cruel Beast whose service they promote as by their daylie persecuting such Saints as do deny them and their filthy service wherein they are manifested to be like unto the Leopar which is very cunning in getting his prey as Pline writeth who saith They have such a kinde of smell that all four-footed Beasts are desirous to go after them being allured with the pleasantness thereof but yet the Beasts are so terrified when they see the grimness of their l●oks whereupon it is that when they have inticed them to come near them with the sweetness of their smell then they hide the●r heads and so catch them and pull them in pieces Is not this the manner of the flattering Priests of the Nation and such as are with them confederated who allure the simple by feigning themselves to be the Messengers of God and Ministers of the Gospel by which sweet words they catch the ignorant who indeed are no other then thieves that live by stealing and putting to sail the words of the hol Prophets the Apostles under which pretence they hide themselves from being seen of the ignorant to be such bloody savage Beasts of prey as they are against whom I am engaged by my conscience for to bear witness and also against such Laws Statutes Ordinances Customs and Prescriptions which doth maintain and uphold them which are by Enemies brought in against the Law of a good conscience declaring that they are things void and against Justice which Laws must needs be known and acknowledged by the enlightned of Christ for to be inferior unto the Laws and Ordinances of Jesus Christ who is appointed of the Father to be the true Law-giver unto his people as he is their Saviour who is the Prince of Peace and the heir of all things who is God over all blessed for ever who is the head of his Church whereunto Tythes are not belonging nor forced maintenance permitted she being the Spouse of Christ is free from corruption and sinister affection which the National false Church is not unto which the Priests belong who take tythes according to the Law of their Grandfather the Pope of Rome who first gave their Predecessors Tythes to keep them from corruption and sinister affection under pretence of rewarding of them for their service done for Holy Church as doth appear by the Statute of 24. of Henry the eight chap. 12 by which it is manifest the called Ministers Priests Preachers Parsons Vicars Clarks Curates belong not to the Church of Christ therefore unholy are they who have no right to tythes and upon that consideration ought an evil custom or usage by you the Rulers who profess your selves Christians for to be abolished according to the saying of Judge Cook upon Littleton Now I appeal unto the Saints with you for to judge what greater evil there can be by you permitted answerable to the maintaining of such a generation of men as doth plead for the upholding of such customs and wicked usages as deny Christ and doth command me and all Saints to give Wages unto such as never did nor doth any Work for me or mine surely this must needs be judged to be not onely against reason but against the very being of a good conscience wherein God hath written the Witness of his Eternal Law by which I see all Laws Customs and Prescriptions for to be null and void and are no Prescriptions nor Customs being things void in themselves because against Justice as doth appear in Doctor and Student chapter the second Therefore I say again That all Laws Statutes Customs Usages or Prescriptions which would set up and uphold that which God by Christ hath disannulled and made void is no less then High Treason against God for any of you Rulers for to attempt to maintain that which is against the Law of the holy One of Israel And again The Priests of the Nation who stand by your Power have been both they and their Predecessors so notoriously changing and changeable that they have made nothing perfect and for me to own such as is not of Christ is clearly against my conscience and seeing they are not of Christ nor are found one amongst themselves nor indeed never were as it doth appear by the Laws and Statutes of this Nation which doth declare and manifest they have been always such as did with men and times change according to the wills of such as came to get Rule and Domination over the People unto whom they alwayes became subject as this generation of Priests have done and would again do I am perswaded if an event turn or change of Government should come then would they again quickly appear in their colours or if God should order your hearts that are now in Rule to do his will then would you soon prove what mettle they are made of if you would promise to give every one of them 100. l. a year upon condition they would for bear their preaching as they call it and such as would not should have nothing then I am confident they would be as mute as fish and as dumb as he that never could speak But to hasten that so I may shew and further make manifest that which the Priests can no wayes deny concerning their Predecessors how that they in the time of Henry the eighth some time King of England denyed the Pope and would not own him any longer for to be their chief Head although they had been by him made Priests but yet notwithstanding that they declined him and owned Henry the eight for to be their chief Head rather then they would hazard the loosing of their beastly read the Acts and Monuments of the Church Honors Dignities and Possessions which was brought in and maintained by Tythes And then they again in the time of Edward the sixth made another notable turn and denyed the mass-Mass-Book and received the Book of COMMON-PRAYER at his Commandment And afterward in the time of Queen Mary they denyed the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book and received the mass-Mass-Book And in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth they denyed the mass-Mass-Book and again received the Book of Common-Prayer And in the time of the late old Parliament

this generation of Baalamish Priests who love the Wages of unrighteousness being willing for to follow the example of their Makers the late late Bishops denyed the Book of Common-Prayer and received that Pamphlet called the Directory rather then they would offend their great Masters the late old wicked Parliament who for their service done did grant them an Ordinance for to take Tythe-Eggs Pigs and Geese c. which the true Ministers of Christ never did And what they now own I hope is sufficiently made manifest unto all the children of light vvhich makes them unto me of no esteem they being such as care not who they own for their chief Head that matters not to them vvhether he be called of God or chosen by his people seeing they are Christs Enemies as doth appear by their petitioning of you the povvers of the World for to maintain and uphold them in what Christ hath changed by doing the Will of God who is heir of all things which shall abide in the house for ever unto whom the right of Inheritance doth belong whose gift is free and all that are made Ministers by him are free indeed and as they have freely received so do they freely give by which they are known from the Ministers of Antichrist who are of the corrupt Tree as by their fruits they are known Matth. 7. 15. who are denyers that Christ is to be come the second Priesthood who is the unchangeable one which shall endure for ever although they believed it not who are such as do teach another Gospel according to what they have been taught of their predecessors who as they are were the upholders of that which Christ hath abolished who do also justifie the maintaining of those places wherein the Nations have served their gods in which places they are now found doing the service of their Mistress viz. the Whore of Babylon although the Lord God of Israel hath commanded that those places should be by such as are his people destroyed Deut. 12. 2. by this their service they make themselves clearly manifest not to be of God nor Christ but men of corrupt minds and being destitute of the knowledge of the truth do suppose their gain which is brought in unto them by tythes through the help of the power of the cruel Beast is godliness whose Ministers they are as doth appear by their false Worship also which by them is promoted for which they have neither precept nor example in all the holy Scriptures therefore are they inforced for to get their Wages of Tythes by a popish Law contrary to such as were the priests of the first Covevenant who imprisoned none for Tythes as they do but as the Lord ordained so did they do and continue who were made by a Law as doth appear Exod. 4. 13 14. Exod 28. who had also a command from the Lord for to justifie them in their Ministry whose power they abused not as the National priests do their power which is of the World whose practise is continually to live upon the abuse of that their power by which they stand who never were called of God as Aaron was Heb. 5. 4. neither did they go to the Magistrate for to get Warrants for to put into the hands of a Constable for to take away peoples Houshold-Goods for Tythes upon trebble damages which is 3 s. for one as these of England daylie do by whom the Saints do continually suffer the spoiling of their goods because they are not the Ministers of Jesus Christ therefore do they not own his Doctrine they being of the World neither can they know him according as it is written Joh. 14. 17 who are such as live in pride covetousness and oppression as their makers the Bishops did who in their day with them their under-Clergy were called the body spiritual or English Church as doth appear by the Statute of 24. of Henry the eight chap. 12. and the same Statute doth further declare That the Kings Queens and Nobles of this Realm so called since the time the Pope had his Domination indowed them the false Church both with Honors and Possessions And again saith the Statute The Pope and the See of Rome did in the time of their rule reserve unto himself amongst other things the tryal of the right of Tythes as doth appear by the Statute of the 26. of Henry the eight some time King of England and in chap. 1 it is declared That he and his Successors were the onely supreme Head of this called Church of England Thus have I made appear the root of these Priests and their fhundation have I also made manifest and discovered not to be of Christ but have proceeded from man who have accordingly erected two places for their breeding up of Priests viz. Cambridge and Oxford which are by them called two Eyes for the furnishing every parish in England with able lying seducers where is also by them Churches built at the charge of the ignorant people wherein is also provided for the service of the whorish Priests Funts and Basons for the management and carrying on of what they so gravely solemnise with much pretended seeming zeal viz. the sprinkling of Infants which they say is baptism but they lye for which piece of cheating service they have never a vvord of Scripture besides their Easter-Reckonings and time of Christmas and Churching or else cheating of Women and their Mortuaries and for the smoke going up peoples Chimneys all which Trade bringeth them in much gain Thus through the assistance of Christ Jesus have I according to the Gospel proved the Priests of the Nation to be no Ministers of Christ nor Messengers of God which is my second ground why I deny to pay them or any else Tythes who are such as the Lord God of Israel for their oppression will feed with their own flesh yea saith he They shall be drunk with their own blood and then shall they know that I am the Lord the Saviour of them whom they oppress Read Isa. 49. 26. And thus the Lawyers wth them may also take notice for the same judgement vengeance that is due to the Priests belongeth unto them also because they are the Executors of the power of the cruel Beast who are the guard of his Throne therefore do they spoile the dear Saints people of the Lord Jesus Christ Prince of Peace King of Righteousness whose people for their obedience to him and are with their persons estates by them continually devoured destroyed in their murtherous Gaols and all for want of such Justice and true Judgment for to be executed upon them for breach of Law as was performed by that honest King called Alpheret who defended the cause of the poor and needy and rescued the right of the oppressed from out of the hands of such destroying Lawyers as did live upon the abuse of his Laws he hanged up Judge Hasf because he saved one Trustram vvhich vvas Sheriff