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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70871	The remainder, or second part of a Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness & continuance of the antient setled maintenance and tithes of the ministers of the Gospel wherein the divine right of our ministers tithes is further asserted ... / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq. ...; Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness & continuance of the ancient settled maintenance and tenthes of the ministers of the Gospel. Part 2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4050; ESTC R15632	145,173	195

Counties to the Clergy much heart burning of the People towards them That after a small season or a very few years no Tithes shall be paid them For a plain people will arise gifted by God with such spiritual Knowledge as the generality of the People will decline their Sophistical School Doctrines and wholly adhere unto those who preach God only and Jesus Christ his Son And that they should be so implacable as to continue these and worse threat●nings against all Presbyterian Ministers Presbytery Rectories TITHES and the whole English Clergy ever since this year so far as to portend or ascertain not only their general Opposition by Swordmen the generality of the Nation and their Governours and people but sodain downfall and extirpation Of which all his Merlins and Prognostications surfet Tantaene Animis Caelestibus Irae Doubtlesse the heavenly Stars Planets and good Angels are not so contradictory to themselves or maliciously irreconcileably Malignant against our Ministers Persons Callings Tithes Presbytery as this Arch Cheat would make poor Simpletons believe But it is only the Language and Malignity of his own malicious heart tongue Pen against them because Enemies to his absurd Diabolical lying cheating Artlesse Art of Astrology witnesse his own words I hate Presbytery and hatred and affection as himself writes cause often Errours and Mistakes in their Art and Predictions Art thou a Presbyterian Thou art an enemy to Astrology and weariest thy auditory with invectives against me I desire thee to conform lest a worse thing happen to thee than Deans and Chapters Lands For if thou labourest to root up or pull down this Fabrick which God hath erected then I say in a small season or very few years no Tithes will be paid thee c. with many such like Passages since wherein he reviles vilifies Mr. Calvin Perkins Geree Case Calamy Farmer Gataker Owen with sundry other Divines by name and all of them in general only because they have preached or writ against the vanity falsity of his cheating Astrology by which he gets his living as much as he reviles jeers his Companion Wharton Naworth New rth for contradicting him in his own Science whom yet elsewhere himself and Culpepper too extraordinarily applaud for his exact transcendent knowledge in Astrology though all 3. of them diametrically contradict each other in their Predictions from the Stats or different factions rather This malice of theirs against our Ministers and their Tithes wherein they have proved lying Diviners hitherto and will do so to the Worlds end if we credit Matth. 28 2c Ephes 4. 11 12 13 no doubt is elevated augmented by Jesuites and Popish Spanish Agents the chief Promoters of this Study of Astrology amongst us and very intimate with these Lunatique Star gazing Incendiaries and Time servers it being the expresse advise and project of Thomas Campanella a great Astrologer and Jesuited Italian Fryer much magnified by Lilly in some of his Merlins in his Treatise De Monarchia Hispaniae wherein as he shews the King of Spain the readiest means to make himself Monarch of the whole world and particularly of England Scotland Ireland Holland by dividing them one from and against another by unnatural intestine Wars turning our Monarchy into a Common-wealth dividing our three Kingdoms one from and against another by making them Republicks or elective Kingdoms breaking our naval Forces by the Dutch Fleet and other Nothern Nations fomenting perpetual Divisions and Schisms amongst us thereby to destroy our civil Government Forces and become a prey to the Spaniards atlast so he prescribes this as the readiest way to undermine our Protestant Religion and draw men from the Study Love Practice thereof to promote the Art Study of Astrology and Telestan Arts amongst us to erect Schools of Astrology and Mathematicks and encourage the Students of it with rewards Which I wish all Lovers of our Religion vigilant Statesmen and Lilly with other Astrologasters the chief Promoters of this Design to take special notice of and thereupon to abandon suppress this impious atheal sottish cheating Art grounded upon no Rules of Reason Philosophy Divinity Experience but mer● imaginary Whimsies Figments Chymeraes Signes Houses in the Air of Lunatick cheats and Impestors as all rational judicious Scholars who peruse their Scheams Astrological Conjectures Judgements Predictions Treatises must acknowledge and I by Gods assistance may hereafter demonstrate to the world if there be occasion being not so pertinent to my present Theam The fifth and last Squadron of professed Enemies against our Ministers Tithes Glebes and setled Maintenance are Jesuites and Jesuited Papists and that not out of any Malignity against Tithes themselves which they all hold to be of Divine Right and Institution according to the definition of their idolized Council of Trem Sess 25. De Reformatione c. 12. which thus determines against their present practice and design Non sunt ferendi qui variis artibus Decimas Ecclesiis obvenientes substrahere moliuntur aut qui aliis solvendis temerè occupant in rem suam vertunt Cum Decimarum solutio debi●a sit Deo Et qui eas dare noluerit aut dantes impediunt res alienas invadunt Praecepit ergo Sancta Synodus omnibus cujuscunque gradus aut conditionis sint ad quas Decimarum solutio spectat ut eas ad quas de Iure tenentur in posterum Cathedrali aut quibuscunque aliis Ecclesiis vel Personis quibus legitimè debentur integrè persolvant Qui vero eas aus substrahunt aut impediunt excommunicentur Nec ab hoc crimine nist plena restitutione secuta absolvantur But merely out of malice and design against our Ministers and their Ministry of purpose to starve and ruine them thereby to set up Popery and intrude themselves into their Rectories yea into our Bishopricks and Deaneries too and then they will not only cry up Tithes again with the due payment of them to themselves from the People according to the utmost rigour of this Trent-Canon and other Laws for their due payment by Divine and Human Right but likewise resume all Bishops Deans Chapters Lands if not Abby Lands too into their hands as sacrilegiously alienated from the Church without lawfull power and Right as Robert Parsons the Jesuites Memorial for Reformation written at Sevil in Spain Anno 1596. William Watson in his Quodlibets p. 93 94 144. with the Statute of 1 Mariae Parl. 2. c. 1. for reviving the Bishoprick of Durham restoring all Ecclesiastical and Temporal Jurisdictions Lands Hereditaments whatsoever thereunto heretofore belonging though dissolved setled in the Crown and Town of Newcastle by the Statutes of 7 E. 6. c. 10. and another Act not printed will inform the world and Alfonsus de Vargas de Stratag Jesuitarum p. 203. Now that the Jesuites many hundreds of which Society now lurk every where amongst us under the Disguise of Anabaptists Souldiers Tradesmen Seekers Dippers converted Iews Physicians Gentlemen Travellers Merchants