Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	power_n	3,921	5	4.7466	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49587	A discourse of paying of tithes by T.L. ... ; together with an appendix ...	Larkham, Thomas, 1602-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing L441A; ESTC R41027	20,618	58

the publike meeting-house but do only baptize the children of such as are received and allowed members of the Church and admitted to the Lords Table And therefore this question notwithstanding I conceive taking away of tythes as now payable will no way hinder the teaching of the world but rather as I have shewed further it when Church-members shall be enabled to pay their tythes to their proper Churches CHAP. IV. In this last Chapter you have the Conclusion with humble submission to the Churches of Christ and to the Ministers of the Gospel IT is not my purpose to be either peremptory or prolix I will therefore summe up all Whether they shall read these subitaneous collections that hold that tythes are meer almes which was the opinion of those who were called the Waldenses which doubtless they were drawne to hold upon the abuse of tythes which they saw under the Church of Rome which opinion afterward came to be received and taken up by John Wickliffe and his scholars as you shall finde it to be the 18 Article amongst those against him condemned in the Councel of Constance and by John Hus a Bohemian William Thorp an Englishman as appeareth by their examinations recorded by Mr. Fox which hath also since beene taught by Anabaptists and Trinitaries as may be seene in a book de antithesibus veri falsi Christi Anno Domini 1568. Albae Juliae and is followed by many now that would have Ministers and Church-officers to have right to nothing Or whether they shall peruse what I have written that hold for a reasonable and competent maintenance as due by Divine authority which is the opinion of them of the Church of Rome as Bellarmine declareth Tom. 1 contr 5. lib. 1. and is much received among our Writers of the Reformed Churches cap. 25. Or whether they look upon these lines that hold tythes due by the expresse Word of God which is the judgement of the ancient Fathers from the beginning without contradiction untill the Supreme Authority of the Pope took them away by meanes of impropriations This is the conclusion that as now they are payed by the Lawes and usages of this Nation they cannot be warranted to be well paid which to prove I provoke any Divine Lawyer or other to make good by sound arguments out of the Word of God and therefore that they ought to be taken away notwithstanding all that hitherto I have heard to be alledged for the keeping of them on foot If tythes be due at all it must be either by the Law of God or men if of men either by Princes constitutions or by the Canon Law as I have said in chap. 2. They were paid before the Canon Law was invented and better then since And few plead Princes constitutiōs for their ancient payment in the Church for they are held due in all the Christian world over which no one Prince ruleth And for our late paying of them by Lawes and Ordinances if the Common Law were well applied it would be found to be Malus usus and therfore abolendus Wherefore seeing all that can be said for continuance of tythes is declared to be of no force seeing it is so injurious to the Churches so oppressive to the people of the Land so unwarrantable by the Word of God the taking of them away so much defired by all that are the most considerable that this is the way to have them paid regularly by such as see that truth are so judgemented or else to help them that are for a liberal maintenance for Ministers to be able to do their duty according to their light Seeing wayes may be easily found out for preventing all inconveniences that will come by their taking away I conclude as Cato did his Orations semper diruendam esse Carthaginem So that by any means tythes as now payable of all sorts root and branch are by Authority to be taken away in the judgement of T. L. An APPENDIX to the former discourse by way of Apology for the seasonablenesse of it which some do or may suppose to be otherwise I Am very sensible Christian Reader that I shall be looked upon with diverse sorts of eyes and the most I have cause to think will cast ill aspects upon these few lines I have written touching the Moral duty of giving the tenth of our estates to God the Lord Paramount of all that we enjoy as tenants at will by and under this as it were reserved rent But forasmuch as I judge it to be not only a duty as I am a Minister to bear witnesse to every truth in due time and place but especially to look after and eye Gods call to a work of the time when it should be done more eminently and universally and conceiving this to be such a one I trust I shall not be mis-judged by all nor the most of them that truly fear the Lord if in any competent measure they stand loose disingaged from private interests For otherwise truly I shall be in danger of deep censure such of snares and slurs to the drawing of them perhaps to oppose yea persecute this work of mine though intended for the relief of tender consciences and to make a beginning by breaking of the ice in this thing which taske God hath bin pleased all along my life as I could shew in many particulars to lay upon me Interests are diverse of honour some some of profit of friends othersome and ease and peaceable sleeping in a whole skin as we say will be very techy at such things as cause troubles and stirs in places and countreys as the effectual prosecuting of this truth by the hand of power in regard of the practick part is like enough to do But interests are never so dangerous as when coloured over with pretences of piety justice Religion As we read in Samuel of Saul's sparing of Agag and the best of the flock in order as he pretended to the worship and service of God or in pity to that King but this proved a cause of casheerment to Saul by God and another must take his place The Gadarens upon an interest of profit sent Christ away for they were loath to lose their pigs And Diotrephes upon the interest of honour and preeminence opposeth John and the work of Christ in his Churches Interest of friendship was a great blur and scourge to good King Jehosaphat to wit his joyning with Ahab and Ahaziah I might tell you of the interest of relations which was such a cause of folly in King Solomon who by his wives upon this account was drawn to Idolatry Also do we not see that many publike Preachers like the Pharisees oppose Christ in many of his servants because they are not made as it were little Gods as once they were thus many upon the interest of honour miscarry much that promised better when time was But yet truth at last will profligate all that stands in its way and