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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91007	The priests routed in their front-guard of tythes. Or an answer to a paper brought in Mr. Naltons name (teacher of Leonard Fosterlane) to some of the inhabitants of that place. Intituled the dreadfull danger of sacriledge, the with-holding of tythes,&c. A true copy whereof is herewith printed. By the shoemaker of Martins Legrand.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing P3453; Thomason E683_6; ESTC R206808	17,657	23

prove your self a lawfull civill Magistrate But because you are not able so to do therefore it is your great grief that you had so little influence upon the Magistrates of this Common-wealth flate So that all things continue out of frame with you except the Magistrates will become your Journey-men to do your Drudgery by compelling all bond and free poor and rich to imbrace your humane inventions and impositions T is strange to see that whilst you had any hopes of this Then curse ye Meros curse ye bitterly because they came not out to belp the Lord against the mighty but these expectations being frustrated then common sense we will not say honesty failed in you For even you that had laid the foundation of the warre and consequently of the late Kings execution seeing your selves disappointed of the ends you aimed at wheel about and nothing would serve the man of sin cloathed with the mantle of Presbytery but a subversion of our liberties by the restauration of the young Tyrant and destruction of our ever honoured Parliament Thus doth pride and filthy lucre cause you to say and and unsay do and undo yea to become the common observation amongst men in respect of your impieties and dissimulations Again you tell us that tythes are due by the laws of the land and therefore the Minister hath as much right to his tythes as the Landlord hath to his rent First we answer that as no Landlord can truly claim any title to the rent of a house unless he hath a property in the house and reserve such a rent from the Tenant that holds it So neither can you claim any interest or right unto tythes hefore you can prove that Christ hath appointed Magistrates to force the people to pay tythes to you as Tenants pay their rent to Landlords for though the same may haply be done by the civil Magistrate as in times of Papacy and Prelacy yet the bare doing of a thing will in no wise justifie the thing to be good unless it be in obedience to some command of God now in force Therefore though there werenever so many civil laws made for payment of tyths yet would that no wayes avail you for we hope your pretended Divine office must have a Divine maintenance and a Divine means to support it else it will follow your office is humane for alwaies he that hath power to appoint the office will in prudence make provision for the maintenance of that office by such means as are suitable to the nature of it and therefore we judge the maintenance of the Gospel is not by such hoterogeneal and mischievous means as you would have it then which all the ten persecutions did never so much hinder and quench the propagation of the Gospel as this Coloquindita of tythes hath scandalized and disparaged it But we know from what sink this water of death had its original from no other verily then the Conclave of Rome by whose Antichristian power tythes forsooth were appointed in imitation of the Jewish law for the maintaining Popish Priests and so hath it run along as blood in the veins in all the Limbs of that hierarchy So that we hope the End viz. support and maintenance of Popish Priests being removed the Means will be also laid aside the first whereof viz. the End hath been so effectually accomplished by our present Magistrates in the abolishing and ampulating one great limb of Antichrist the Episcopacy that we have little cause to doubt of the second viz. the Means namely the total abolition of Tythes And though for present you are permitted to have them yet we cannot believe that the Parliaments intentions therein was to heighten your pride or that you should insult over their friends but rather out of indulgency to incourage you to peaceableness And whereas you frame an objection that tythes are Antichristian and therefore not to be paid any longer We answer herein you speak truer then you are aware and so your own tongue is fallen upon your self But to prove this objection false you raise this argument That which our Saviour injoyned is not Antichristian But our Saviour enjoyned Tithes Ergo. As it is the manner of false teachers to couch their words and phrases in dark and obscure sentences So here the Major proposition is delievered to us to deceive us with doubtfulness of expression for if by the word enjoyning the Author means an approving of what was not then abolished but in force and that then onely to the Iews the proposition is true but if by enjoyning he means a new institution to continue in force under the Gospel the same is utterly false and consequently the Minor proposition included therein Again to make it more evident that the Major is no pillar to lean upon as to the matter in hand Take an argument arising from the same proposition thus That which our Saviour enjoyned is not Antichristian But our Saviour en oyned his Disciples to prepare the Passeover Luke 22.8 Therefore to prepare the Passeover is not Antichristian Again That which our Saviour enjoyned is not Antichristian But our Saviour enjoyned the Apostles not to go into the way of the Gentiles Therefore not to go into the way of the Gentiles is not Antichristian Which argument because it is not so easily apprehended we will onely change the terms and keep the sense and so present it to your consideration Whatsoever our Saviour enjoyned ought to be observed and practised But our Saviour enjoyned the Apostles not to go into the way of the Gentiles Mat. 10.5 Therefore not to go in the way of the Gentiles ought still to be observed and practised How absurd the Consequences of these two Arguments are we doubt not the judicious Reader will quickly perceive but if the Authors major proposition should be granted yet Reader observe tha● Christ is not in this place about to establish a maintenance for his Gospel-ministers but reproveth the hypocrisie of the Scribes and Pharisees in seeming careful to perform things of so small account and leaving undone those things which were of greater concernment besides the Iews being bound up by God under that dispensation to pay tithes it was their great sinne to neglect it and therefore God accounts it a Robbery done to himself in case they did neglect it Mal. 3.8 but what is this to the purpose or the thing in hand seeing it was spoken to the Iews onely as Iews as appears from the words of the text compared with Mat. 23.23 where you shall find the word ye relates to the Iews onely to whom then he spake ye pay tith mint and rue c. see Mat. 23.23 Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye pay tyth of mint and annise and cummin and have omitted the waightier matters of the law see v. the 24. ye blind guids for ye make clean the outside of the cup v. 25. now although these and many other Scriptures did require an