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A77158	Tithes re-mounted and advanced by the VVord of God, for the ministers of the Gospell. Proving, that tithes are due to the ministers of the Gospell, as to the priests and Levites under the law. In answer to a late scandalous and seditious pamphlet intituled, The ordinance of tithes dismounted. Dedicated to the right honourable the Lord Mayor. / By Martin Bovvne. Imprimatur. John Dovvname.	Bowne, Martin.	1646 (1646)	Wing B3889; Thomason E341_3; ESTC R200895	11,819	21

speak in the person of the Messia● to come so O Lord thou hast opened mine ears to hear my heart to understand what manner of worship thou hast in thine eternall Counsell appointed the Messias at his coming shall be performed in these words burnt offerings and sin ●fferings hast thou not required and so forwards in the 7 8 9 and 10 verses so that the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ he set forth his Fathers will what manner of Worship he would have Iohn 4.23 24 25. so here we see what Worship and Service be requireth as namely spirituall Worship and spirituall Service In the 5. Book of Moses there is mention made of many sorts of Offerings especially in the three middle Bookes and above all offerings the burnt offerings are most spoken of as in the 28. Chapter of the Book of Numbers the Lord doth most of all presse those offerings made by fire now what have we to learn by this that our offerings must be spirituall That is our prayers must burne with zeale with ferventnesse and pure affection we must be zealous in prayer and praising God Iames 5.16 Psa 119.7 in uprightnesse of heart our love must bee zealous and fervent to set forth the glorie of God in Jesus Christ zealous of a true justifying lively saving and working faith apprehensively Rom. 3.24 Jam. 2.17 18 21 22 23. to be zealous of repentance to be zealous of obedience to be short that wee be zealous of everie good worke and duty Tit. 2.14 Thus you see what spirituall burnt offerings are and they that have received the Spirit of God in any good measure can and will be zealous and those that have received the spirit of illumination and understanding of Gods Word may and can prove that Ministers of the Gospell ought to have Tithes for their maintenance though it bee in Cities and Townes there it may arise in moneyes But here may very well arise a question how Tithes are to be raised in Cities and Townes not wronging the Parishoners on the one side nor the Pastour and Minister on the other side must the Parishioners pay the tenth penny of their labours I answer No neither are labouring men that live onely by their meer labour to pay Tithes in the Countrey they do not therfore not in the Cities or Towns but if those labouring men or women have a garden or a cow or any thing more then their labour they are to pay the tenth part of it in those Cities and Towns but how must Tithes be paid I answer thus T●● Merchants or Shop-keepers buy in their ware to their shops and then he himselfe or his servant or servants are to attend all the day to sell their ward either by grosse or retaile and then when the night is done that hee hath shut up his shop hee looks in his Cash-box to see what money hee hath taken for that former day and what hee hath sold and what that he sold did cost him then he layes out the moneys it cost him and his charge for his labour and attendance in sale of it to those hee doth employ and layes out of the money for that and then that part that is left is cleare gain● The tenth penny must arise and be paid out of this cleare gaines to the Pastour and Minister of that Congregation and by this meanes those that do in right pay their Tithes shall voyd the curse that is threatened against defrauders of Tithes But there is enough spoken of this before only this All they that shall refuse paying their Tythes to their Pastor or Minister are Church-robbers I do understand there be some that have petitioned the Parliament that Tithes may not be paid unto the Ministers of the Gospell because as they say it is Jewish and Popish O horrible impietie That men should be so gracelesse as to derogate from the word of God and also to abuse the power and authoritie of the King and the most Honourable and Supreame Court of Parliament making it a Bawd to their sinister designes If those Petitioners had petitioned for a licence to rob upon the Road-way their sin had not been so great But you will say this were a grosse sin the Parliament would never have granted such a wicked Petition I answer No and I hope they will not grant this except they meane to procure another curse upon the Land Malach. 3.9 But their vigilancie is better than so for they labour to bring blessings upon the Kingdome and not cursings But such as keep the maintenance of Gods worship and service to themselves do draw on a curse upon their heads as is said before And this is the beloved sin the private sin and the hypocriticall sin that Church-robbers both in themselves and in their posteritie are plagued for And thus wee may see the perverse natures of these cruell proud covetous wretches that make no care or conscience how they get the riches of this world so they have it As for to covet the Tithes is the Lords portion Levit. 27.32 It is his Ministers portion 1 Cor. 9. vers 8 9 13 14. Hebr. 7. vers 6 7 8 9 10. And therefore those private men that do retaine Tithes to their owne private use in possession and do not deliver them to their Pastour and Minister that have the charge of their souls they do procure the curse of God upon themselves Malac. 3.8.9 as is before spoken Howsoeuer the Adversaries of the maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospell will not approve of it by Tithes yet those that do receive the earnest of Gods sanctifying spirit 2 Cor. 5.5 they will with modestie read the holy Scriptures with understanding and moderately to judge the truth of it when as indeed those that are possessed with a proud scoffing and scomfull spirit they will never have done with their scoffing jeering and cavilling FINIS

TITHES Re-mounted and advanced BY The Word of God FOR THE Ministers of the GOSPELL PROVING That Tithes are as due to the Ministers of the Gospell as to the Priests and Levites under the Law In Answer to a late scandalous and seditious Pamphlet intituled The Ordinance of Tithes dismounted Dedicated to the right honourable the Lord Mayor By MARTIN BOVVNE Imprimatur JOHN DOVVNAME 1 Cor. 9.11 If we have sowen unto you spirituall things is it a great thing of we reap your carnall things LONDON Printed for Thomas Bates at the Mardenhead on Snovv-hill neare Holborne Conduit 1646. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS ADAMS Lord Mayor of the honourable City of LONDON My very good Lord I Doe understand and perceive that there is a Pamphlet exhibited unto your Lordship intituled An Indictment against paying of Tithes unto the Ministers of the Gospell and therein are alledged Reasons seeming by their Allegations to prove them unlawfull by the Word of God and therein it doth appeare unto me they speak they cannot tell what or els they care not what J doe therefore humbly beseech your Honour to accept my poore endeavours in this ensuing Treatise which doth concerne the lawfulnesse of paying Tithes to the Ministers of the Gospell and to give it your honourable favour so farre as the truth of the Word of God doth approve of it and no further Your Honours humble Servant Martin Bowne TITHES Re-mounted and advanced BY THE WORD OF GOD FOR THE Ministers of the Gospell In answer to a late scandalous and seditious Pamphlet intituled The Ordinance of Tithes dismounted THere is a great controversie now adayes and hath beene a long time about the maintenance of the Ministers Instruments of Gods Worship and Service the derogation therof hath hindred the propagation of the Gospell and the Reformation of Religion in a most miserable manner And that in these respects First in taking away the greater tithes of manie Parishes in this Kingdome and making manie impropriatitions from the Church where there hath not been maintenance or meanes for a Preaching Minister in those impropriate Parishes so that in manie places there hath not been meanes for a bare reading Minister much lesse for a preaching Minister for Christs Ministerie is a preaching Ministerie and not onely a reading Ministerie and therefore cannot be maintained with a little as some do suppose they may as Brownists Anabaptists Antinomians Familists Independents and such like that have out of pride and covetousnesse devised those errours and broached them in the Church to pester and hinder more the Gospell of Jesus Christ then to further it any way They forsooth will have no tithes paid unto the Ministers of the Gospell but they should labour in some other calling for their living say they as others do and as the Apostles did some were Fishermen and S. Paul was a Tentmaker But I answer there is a difference between the Apostles who had their immediate calling by God and our Ministes who have their mediate calling by God also but by meanes of schooling and thereby to get learning that they may attaine to the Ministeriall function and so consequently by study whose labour is greater then handy-craft trades or husbandry and therefore it is a base opinion in those that said Ministers of the Gospell should labour in some manuall calling I thinke their diligent study and preaching is labour enough for them we need lay no greater burthens upon their backs Againe it is fit for religious people professors of the Gospell to consider that there is difference betweene a setling Church and a setled Church Now the Apostles had worke enough in setling the Church in their time as well in matters of faith as in manners of life according to the truth of Gods holy Word and Will and yet the Apostles doe give rules and commands for Ministers maintenance as you shall heare anon OBIECT But what Tithes did the Apostle receive in that time when they were upon the earth ANSW I answer What Tithes did the Priests and Levites receive as long as they were in the wildernesse It is true God did command Tithes to be paid then but the payment of Tithes was not performed untill the Children of Israel came into Canaan the Land of promise where everie man did receive his portion in possession For the time they were in the wildernesse they had no setled portion in possession to pay Tithes withall for God did feed Priests Levites and People and all in an extraordinarie manner as with Manna from Heaven for as long as the children of Israel were in the wildernesse God was setling his Church what they should do when they came to their promised place and portions for all things commanded was not nor could it be done in an instant by men So the Lord our God in the time of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ when he came he did as it were new mould the manner of Gods worship and service That whereas before in the time of the Law Gods worship and service was by all externall means as killing of Beasts and making of Sacrifices and all Offerings and outward performances in the worship and service of God But now and since the time our Saviour Jesus Christ came upon the earth hee ordained by the will of his Father that his worship and service must be spirituall and internall unto the end When God had made an end of describing the manner of his worship and service as he would have it performed in the time of the Law as we may find in the Books of Exodus and Levitieus So at the end of the Book of Leviticus Chap. 27. the Lord by Moses had reserved the maintenance of his worship and service to himselfe as namely Tithes of those things that are spoken of in the foresaid Chapter And after this the Lord gave the Tithes unto the Priests and Levites as wee may read in the Book of Numbers 18.21 24 26 28. And not only to the Priests and Levites in the time of the Law but also to the Pastours Teachers and Ministers in the time of the Gospell of our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ for it was given for an inheritance for ever If one of those adverse parties should have the inheritance of a peece of land given him I verily beleeve he does expect it as a right to him and his heires for ever only by this title of Inheritance And if any one should offer to take from him this land which hee so holdeth by this title of Inheritance hee would hold himselfe greatly wronged and oppressed You will say it is true Then I say consider the words of our Saviour Jesus Christ Whatsoever you would that men should do unto you even so do you for this is the Law and the Prophets Matthew chap. 7. vers 12. Then consider what you would other men should do unto you so do you unto other men but especially unto your Pastour and Minister who doth watch