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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81121	Lawles tythe-robbers discovered: who make tythe-revenue a mock-mayntenance, being encouraged thereunto by the defect of law and justice about ministers maintenance; and by the cavills and pretended objections against it. Which defect of law and justice is herein fully discovered, together with the frauds and wrongs occasioned by that defect, that they may be prevented by better laws, and more impartiall justice, now in Parliament-time, wherein remedies have always been most speedy and certain. Herein the many cavills and pretended objections made against tythes, and all setled maintenance of ministers are recited and confuted. Herein also, some motives to the higher powers for speedy relief of ministers, by better laws. Together with some humble proposals of means for the rooting out and preventing of those frauds and wrongs. Imprimature, Edm. Calamy.	Culmer, Richard, d. 1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing C7480; Thomason E829_18	47,813	43

all though never so ignorant or scandalous one and all like Hogs at the trough Come and come all said a Minister lately in the next Parish Church and another neer me after he had set up his Altar and Rails said openly in the Church immediately before the Communion Come all up hither to the Manger of your souls And such Ministers to comply upon this accompt knowing the peoples lawless liberty about their Tythes are very wary how they reprove or oppose their sins either publikely or privately I shall never forget what a godly Minister told me touching a Non-resident for whom he preached at Milton in Kent The Curate told the Non-resident that such a chief man of the Parish prophaned the Sabbath exceedingly Tush said the Non-resident Let him alone he payes his Tythes well if you meddle with him he knows what he may do to half undo me in my Tythes 17 Consider that unless the Maintenance of Ministers be more certain but continue arbitrary in a manner as the case now stands there must of necessity follow thereupon an utter overthrow of a godly able Ministery and thereby the ruine of the Gospel it self for want of a certain liberal Maintenance for such Ministers Mr. Stock writing upon Mal. 3. tells us that Julian the Apostate ruined the Church more then any persecuting Emperour before him for they overtherw Ministers only but he overthrew the Ministery it self by taking away Tythes and-thereby overthrew the worship of God which is all one with a liberty left to people to take away or with-hold the Ministers maintenance Lastly consider the blessing of God that comes on those that make conscience of performing this Religious duty touching the maintenance of the Ministers of God whereby the worship of God is upheld read Deut. 14.22 23 28 27. Chap. 16.12 Prov. 3.9 10. Mal. 3.11 12 Think of Abraham the first Tythe-payer as we have shewed before God blessed him greatly and he became great and gave him flocks and herds and silver and gold c. And Jacob the next Tythe-payer we read of Gen. 28.20 God blessed him and his posterity the children of Jacob the children of Israel And on the contrary consider the Curse that follows the neglect of this duty and the judgements of God upon those that deal not faithful therein Those that neglected this duty were cursed with a curse they carried out much and brought in little Mal. 3.12 The holy Prophet Samuel speaks of King Sauls taking the tenth of their seed and of their Vineyards and giving them to his officers and servants 1 Sam. 8.15 what became of him and of all his ruine bloud and destruction followed them The cry of the oppressed servants of God comes up before God who by this sin especially is much provoked to wrath and to poure out his judgments against Princes and people even whole Nations where Gods Ministers are misused despised oppressed for this sin God sent against Israel the King of the Caldees who slue their young-men with the sword c. 2 Chron. 36.15 And what thinke we shall become of those States and private persons who take away or suffer to be taken away that maintenance of Gods ministers especially seeing there is a further obligation now upon us to uphold and pay it Because men of ability have formerly and of late out of their piety charity and bounty freely given and legally setled Houses Lands and Tythes upon ministers out of their own proprieties and estates which they lawfully might do and moreover when they did give and settle that maintenance they laid a curse upon those that should take it away as Histories shew fully The Miseries of Germany began as we have before shewed with the deniall of paying tythes The Prince Elector Palatine took away tythes which were so setled upon Ministers he tooke them away to maintain warres he lost all for neer thirty yeares together the Christian world is full of such examples and in this Nation in private families I shall only mention the sacrilegious practice of the late Bishops here Arch-bishop Laud especially who hindered the maintenance of Godly Ministers which was advanced by the buying in of Impropriations which Godly people did purchase and bestow for the maintenance of such Ministers Those Bishops destroied that worke and persecuted the Feoffees that were imployed in it and had ruined them had not the Parliament come on See the Historie of this in the Historie of Archbishop Lauds Triall But this was the threshold of the Prelates ruine they had a viall of wrath poured upon them which makes them knaw their tongues for pain They have since lost all Honours Maintenance c CHAP. V. ALl this calls for some speedy means and remedies to cure this Disease to take away these Fraudes Wrongs and Oppressions Humble Proposalls for the Propagation of the Gospel and touching the nature lawfullnesse and right of tythes have been incourged and received from meane persons by the Higher Powers of late for this cause of Ministers maintenance is a Gospel-cause tending much to the Propagation thereof It is a cause of publique Interest which all men have some Interest in and are bound to promote Joseph though a slave in Egypt made Proposalls to a great King for the common good to keep off a Famine and he found acceptance I conceive the People-enslaved Ministers in England have cause and inducements now to do the like to keep off a spiritual famine of the Word from all and a temporal Famine or want from themselves 1 Proposall That no Tythe-payer may take or cary away any things tytheable before the Tythe-receiver have notice when the things tytheable are ready to be tythed so that the Tythe-receiver may see the tythes set out if he will if some expedient to this purpose be not found out the laws for tythes or tytheing are to litle purpose Before the Parliament when the Ecclesiasticall Courts and Lawes were in being tythes were justly paid People durst not carry away their tythes or any part of them unlesse compounded for or tythed out by the Tythe-receiver or in his presence or in the presence of his assigne or servant who rode about in harvest and asked the Tythe-payers to have the tythe set out who knowing the danger if they were sued in the Ecclesiasticall Courts and to prevent further trouble would deal fairly either bid the servant set out bough out the tythe himselfe or else appoint him to come at such a time and see it set out which seeing the tythe set out by the Tythe-receiver is a thing just reasonable and possible The law should be imp●rtiall to all parties for them to see they have their owne and to be at liberty to in joy it when they will The Tythe-payers see they have their owne their nine parts why should not the Tythe-receiver who is the other party in this cause see he hath his owne his tenth part or tythes which are his propriety and estate It was one Proposall of the Officers of the Army in August 1652 That the Lawes which