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A91192	A Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulnes & continuance of the ancient setled maintenance and tenthes of the ministers of the Gospel: proving, that there is a just, competent, comfortable maintenance due to all lawfull painfull preachers and ministers of the Gospel, by divine right, institution, and expresse texts and precepts of the Gospel: that glebes and tithes are such a maintenance, & due to ministers by divine right, law and Gospel: that if subtracted or detained, they may lawfully be inforced by coercive laws and penalties: that tithes are no reall burden nor grievance to the people; the abolishing them, no ease or benefit to farmers, husband-men, or poor people, but a prejudice and losse. That the present opposition against tithes, proceeds not from any reall grounds of conscience, but base covetousnesse, carnall policy, &c. and a Jesuiticall and Anabaptisticall designe, to subvert and ruin our ministers, Church, religion. With a satisfactory answer to all cavils and materiall objections to the contrary. By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq;	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1653 (1653)	Wing P3971; Thomason E713_12; ESTC R203238; ESTC R26600	128,273	175

good men but their curses If these Texts and 〈◊〉 will not move such hard hearted men let them consider 〈◊〉 this precept and promise of God Prov. 3. 9 10. Honour the Lord with thy Substance and with the first fruits of thine increase SO SHALL THY BARNS BE FILLED WITH PLENTY and THY PRESS SHALL BURST OUT WITH NEW 〈◊〉 and Mal. 3. 7 10 11 12. Return unto me and I will retu●n unto you saith the Lord of hosts wherein shall we return Bring 〈…〉 the ●●●hes into the Store-house that there may be meat in mine 〈…〉 me now herewith saith the Lord of Hosts If I will n●● 〈◊〉 the windows of heaven and powre you out a blessing 〈◊〉 there shall not be room enough to receive it And I wi●●●●●ke the devourer for your sakes and he shall not destroy the 〈◊〉 of your ground neither shall your Vine east her fruit before her ti●● in the field saith the Lord of Hosts And all nations shall 〈◊〉 you blessed for ye shall be a delightsome land saith the Lord of hosts What Christians heart though never so covetous and worldly should not these sacred promises of God the last of them recorded in the last of all the Books and P●ophets in the Old Testament they being not meerly Levitical and Judaical but of eternal verity use and evangelical to● excite and engage most cheerfully to pay and bring in all their Tithes and Dues to Gods Ministers now as w●ll as to the Priests and Levites heretofore Christ himself having made like parallel promises of blessings and rewards for relieving and maintaining his Ministers in the Gospel Mat. 10. 40 41 42. Mar. 9. 41. Phil. 4. 18 19. 9. That the due payment of Tithes to Gods Priests and Levites was a great encouragement to them in the law of the Lord and in the diligent execution of their duties 2 Chron. 31. 3 4 5 10. And on the contrary The with-holding of them from them a great discouragement necessitating them to desert their duties and functions witnesse that memorable Text Neh. 13. 10 11. 12. And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them mark the consequence For the Levites and the Singers that did the worke were fled every one to his field Then contended I with the Rulers and said Wby is the house of God forsaken and I gathered them together and set them in their place Then brought all Judah the Tithes of the Corn and the new Wine and the Oyle unto their treasuries And I made treasurers over the treasuries Shelemiah the Priest and Zadock the Scribe and of the Levites Redajah c. for they were counted faithfull and their office was to distribute unto their Brethren Which reason still continuing under the Gospel in relation to the ministers and Preachers thereof Heb. 13. 16 17. Phil. 4. 10. to 21. Is a strong argument to engage all true Christians desiring the propagation of the Gospel and a painfull able Ministry duly to pay their tithes and portion to them 10. That it was the bounden duty and care of Religious Kings and Governours amongst Gods own people when the people were backwards to pay and bring their tithes and duties to the Priests and Levites to command and enforce them to do it by speciall Covenants and Oaths sealed and subscribed by the Princes and people Neh. 9. 38. cap. 10. 1. to the end and likewise by positive Ordinances and Injunctions and to be earnest and zealous in it as the two last recited examples of King Hezechiah and Nehemiah evidence And this was so far from being an unjust and oppressive action and grievance to the people as some now term it that it is recorded of God himself for their Honour and others imitation and so well pleasing unto God that Nehemiah closeth up the history of his acting in this kinde with this memorable addresse and prayer to God himself Neh. 13. 14. Remember me O my God concerning this and WIPE NOT OVT THE GOOD DEEDS THAT I HAVE DONE FOR THE HOVSE OF MY GOD and FOR THE OFFICES THEREOF And will not God remember their ill Deeds in wrath and vengeance who shall do the contrary to what he and King Hezekiah acted in robbing God and his Ministers of their Tithes and setled dues St. Hierom with others affirm That the Israelites had four sorts of ●ithes 1. That which the people paid to the Levites being the Tenth of every thing that was food for man not so much as Herbs excepted and whatever received increase from the earth 2. That which the Levites paid to the Priests being the full tenth or their tithes 3. That which they received for expence in their solemn feasts when they went to the Tabernacle or Temple whereof the Owner and his family were to eat in those Feasts as well as the Levite Deut. 4. 26 27. chap. 12. 17 18. 4. The third years tithes which were then laid up for the Levites and likewise for the stranger the fatherlesse the poor widdow within their gates in the Husbandmans own Barns and Store-houses and not then carried to Jerusalem as the other tithes were Deut. 14. 28 29. cap. 26. 12. 13. Their first and second Tithes every year as they affirm amounted to 13. in the hundred So as the Husbandmans clear Lay-Chattel the tithes first deducted came but to eighty one bushels of Corn or eighty one Pipes or Tuns of Wine or Oyl in every hundred which considering the costs the Husbandman was at in threshing and fanning the Corn barrelling up the Wine and Oyle and carrying them to Jerusalem and the Priests treasuries at their own costs amounted to double the Tithes we pay now and more besides the first fruits paid out of them in kind before the Tithes their Free-will Offerings Sacrifices Oblations and other charges Gods worship prescribed by the Levitical law together with half a shekle every poll for the service of the Tabernable Exod. 30. 12 13 14. yet the Israelites were obliged by God to pay all these tithes which all the godly amongst them chearfully did without murmuring notwithstanding every seventh year amongst them was Sabbatical and free from tillage and the voluntary fruits of the earth then growing were to be for the poor the beasts of the field were to eat the rest Ex. 23. 10 11. Lev. 25 3 c. What would our Anabaptists and tith-oppugners have said and done had they been born Israelites under the law clogged with so many Tithes and expences who now grumble and refuse to pay half so much tithes as they constantly did though they pay no first-fruits Sacrifices and other costly Oblations of several sorts to God as the Israelites did besides all these Tithes I fear their covetuous Sacrilegious hard-hearts would have induced them to cast off not onely Gods Priests and Levites as now many of them do our Ministers as superfluous creatures but even all Gods chargeable Ordinances and Levitic●l forms of worship as intollerable grievances