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A88103	Exceptions many and just against two injurious petitions exhibited to the Parliament· The one Iuly 16. The other Aug. 4. 1653. Both of them not only against tithes, but against all forced or constrained maintenance of ministers, examined and found many waies faulty against piety and justice, and as such now discovered, by Theophilus Philadelphus.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1653 (1653)	Wing L1878; Thomason E712_17; ESTC R202718	51,137	63

a Vineyard and eateth not the fruit thereof Or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milke of the flock Say I these things as a man or saith not the Law these things also for it is written in the Law of Moses thou shalt not muzle the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the Corne. Doth God take care for Oxen Or saith he it altogether for our sakes For our sakes no doubt this is written that he that ploweth should plow in hope and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope If wee have sown unto you spirituall things is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnall things If others be partakers of this power over you are not we rather Doe ye not know that they which Minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which waite at the Altar are partakers with the Altar Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which Preach the Gospell should live of the Gospell Upon this last verse Even so hath the Lord ordained c. * Mr. Trapp in 1 Cor. 9.14 an ingenuous and religious contemplatour bringeth in this note as from another As they of old lived of the Altar by Tithes so Ministers now how else will men satisfy their Conscience in the particular quantity they must bestow upon their Ministers the Scriptures speak only of a Tenth Let them that deny it shew us another ordinance of God for the maintenance of evangelicall Ministers In the mean time they cannot but confesse that God would hate the Ministers of the Gospell as well provided for as the Ministers of the Law and this by ordinance and that by good Congruity as a Learned expositor though a Papist well collecteth * Si enim Ministris Antiquae legis atributum suit à Deo jus ex suo Ministerio vivendi quanto magis aequum erat idem jus à domino constitui pro Ministris novae legis Estius in 1 Cor. 1.14 If so then it is not in the power of men to cast out what poore Pittance they please they must live of Gospell maintenance and claime what they have of right as by his appointment who might have taken 9 parts for his owne service and left only a 10th to those who deny it or grudingly pay it ‖ Quid faceres si novem partibus sibi sumptis tibi decimum reliquisset Aug. de Tract Serme 219. And what conld they doe more or worse if God should deale with them after that manner Besides the same Apostle sheweth that Ministers should have an honourable maintenance Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially those that labour in the word and Doctrine 1 Tim. 5.17 But if they have no better allowance then Free-will-offering in most places they shall rather meet with double contempt then with double honour and he would not have them only honourably but plentifully provided for else how should they be able to keep hospitality which he requireth 2 Tym. 3.2 where among the qualifications of an Evangelicall Bishop one is that he be given to hospitality which that he may doe the better what he prescribeth to the Galathians must be observed Let him that is taught communicate unto him that Teacheth him in all good things Gal. 6.6 That is not contribute to him as an Almes but communicate as in a way of commerce or exchange of Carnall things for things spirituall as later interpreters after Oecumenius observe As then it is they Ministers duty to make the people partaker of spirituall things so it is their duty to returne unto them carnall things as the Apostle resolveth Rom. 15. v 7. And where both live under an Evangelicall Magistrate the people may be as well constrained to doe their duty as the Minister his I might here urge Heb. 7.26 and out of that place collect a stronger argument for the continuance of Tithes as a right to the Evangelicall Ministry then any out of the New Testament can be framed against them but because that is sufficiently done by a D. Jones Com. in Heb. 1 2 6. p. 161. Dr Jones in his Commentary on Heb. 7.26 and more largely by b D. Slater in his Booke of the Ministrs Portion à p. 18. ad 38. Print 1623. Dr Slater in his Book of the Ministers portion and by the latter so soundly as that he is unanswerable as a Learned Doctor forementioned testifieth of him in this particular especially I will forbeare to insist upon it SECT V. THeir Negative objection answered wee come to the Positive 1. Against piety because antichristian Tithes are so many years Anticristian that they cannot in their originall be Antichristian i.e. so long before Christ that they cannot be from his opposite who was since Christ 2. Suppose the Pope to be Antichrist which diverse late writers besides Papists * The examiners of the Confession of Faith of the Assembly Ch. 25. p. 274. c though I make no doubt of it And Papists who make him their infallible Guide Antichristian and we tooke the practice of Tithes Imediately from them it will not follow thence that Tithes are Antichristin no more then that the old Testament was Jewish because the Ancient Christians had it from the Jewes nor the old and new Testament both of them Popish because we received the whole Bible from the papists since it was an especiall providence of God to make them both keepers and deliverers of the same divine Word by which their heresies are confuted 3. In Antichristian Doctors and Papists we must distinguish betwixt that they deliver as men as Ingenuous Learned and morall men as Christians and as Antichristians First as men they are endowed with the light of nature and naturall Conscience which in a good measure teacheth the difference betwixt good and evill and inclineth to the choyce of the one and eschewing of the other as we read Rom. 2.14.15 2. As Learned and Morall men they have been Authors of many profitable Bookes of Histories and Tongues and Arts Philosophy naturall and morall 3. As Christians they acknowledge the Old and New Testament and diverse of them have made Learned Commentaries upon them 4. As Antichristians they maintaine many errors against the true faith of Christ Now for Application of this distinction though whatsoever cometh from a Papist may before it be tried be suspected yet what they doe or write under the three former notions is not simply to be denied or refused for their sakes but only what may be referred to the Fourth denomination The want of this caution Valentinus Gentilis leave * Quod ecclesiae reformatae adhuc in fide Trinitatis cum papistis convenirent B llar Praefat. in lib. de Christo Toms 1. p. 271 Geneva because he found that they agreed with the Papists in the Doctrine of the Trinity and the want of this distinction and Application hath led many