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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

or so much as to admit or invite them to a Feast or meat within their Houses and then they with all theirs and other poor widows and orphanes must all presently starve and perish by these mens new Gospel Light and Charity because Hospitality and Alms to such are Leviticall and Jewish abolished with the Leviticall Law and Priesthood which abolished all Charity and Humanity out of the world as well as out of these Tith-Oppugners hearts if this their Objection be Orthodox Gospel truth 5. Meer Freewill Offering and voluntary unconstrained Contribution were prescribed by the Leviticall and Judiciall Law both for and towards the Maintenance of Gods Priests and worship of the buildding and repairing of the Tabernacle and of the Temple afterwards towards which the godly Kings Princes Generalls Captains Officer Souldiers and all the pious people of God contributed most joyfully liberally and in such abundance upon all occasions that they gave far more then was sufficient and thereupon prohibited by speciall Proclamation to give or bring any more as in the case of Materialls of all sorts for the building and furniture of the Tabernacle of the congregation and of the Temple towards which many Heathen Kings and their Officers contributed freely and the very cap●ive Jews Exod. 35. 20. to 30. chap. 36. 2. to 9. Levit. 22. 18. 21 23. chap. 23. 38. Num. 15. 3. chap. 29. 39. chap. 31. 48. to the end 1 Chron. 26. 26 27 28. chap. 22. 1. to 17. chap. 29. 1. to 17. 2 Chron. 24. 4. to 15. chap. 27. 3. chap. 29. 3. to 20. 31. chap. 34. 8. to 15. Ezra 1. throughout and chap. 3. 5. chap. 7. 16. chap. 8. 28 29. Therefore Ministers under the Gospel must not be maintained nor Churches and Houses for publick Assemblies built or repaired by Free-will offerings and voluntary contributions being Leviticall Jewish and so abandoned and if not by Tithes nor forced Rates as they alledge then the Ministers must utterly starve and all our Churches fall to sudden ruine as many now do And is this Gospel Saintship and Christianity 6. The Priests and Levites by the Leviticall Lew were prescribed what wives they should marry and what not Levit. 21. 7. to the 14. will it therefore follow as the Papists Votaries conclude Therefore Ministers of the Gospel must not marry and must all now be divorced from their wives as well as from their Tithes and Benefices because the Leviticall Law is abolished and Priests wives Jewish aswell as their Tithes Our beastly Ranters then may seize upon Ministers aswell as the bruitish Anabaptists and Swordmen on their Tithes and Glebes 7. The seventh day Sabbath it self though prescribed by a Morall Law was in some sense ceremoniall and enjoyned by ceremoniall Laws too and therefore as most affirme abrogated by Christs death as Jewish as to the precise seventh day from the Creation and the Jewish rigidities and Sacrifices on it will it therefore follow that it is Jewish and unlawfull for Christians under the Gospel to observe the Lords day every week and render unto God the same weekly proportion of time for publike worship as the Jewes did or to keep any publike Fasts or Feasts to God at all as the Jews by the Leviticall Law were bound to doe If so then farewell all Lords-dayes Fasts Feasts publike Assemblies for Gods worship Ministers Churches God himself together with them aswell as Tithes and let Gain of Money be the onely Deities hence forth adored among us as the Motto stamped upon our our new State-coyn GOD WITH US and most mens practises sadly proclaim to Gods dishonour and Religions intolerable defamation These Answers I presume will for ever satisfie or silence these Objectors with John Canne their new Champion who may now discern their grosse mistake and learne this for a general certain truth That whatever is not in its own nature and Originall meerly Jewish and ceremonial hath a kind of naturall justice equity conveniency morality or necessity in it and had a divine originall or institution before the ceremoniall Law given or the Leviticall Priesthood instituted That thing though afterwards given limited or prescribed to the Levitical Priests or Israelites by a generall or speciall Levitical Law-abrogated by Christ doth neither cease its being nor become unlawful in its primitive or proper use unto Christian Ministers or Believers under the Gospel by the abolishing of the Leviticall Law and Priesthood but may and must necessarily be continued practised and perpetuated among them without the least sin scandall or Judaisme according to its owne primitive institution or naturall necessary divine moral or civil use else Bread meat drink wines clothes religious Sabbaths Fasts Forts Edifices and Assemblies for Gods publike worship Houses Hospitality and Charity to Ministers or poor distressed Saints and People yea reading prayer preaching of the word of God and Magistracy and Government it self should be utterly unlawfull unto Christian Ministers and People aswell as Tithes because given or prescribed to be used by the Leviticall Priests Jews by the Leviticall Law And seeing meat drink food raiment Lands Houses and a competent proportion of all worldly necessaries are as simply needfull for the preservation and subsistence of the Ministers of the Gospel and their Families now as for the Priest● and Levites before and under the Law or all other sortes of men in the world who cannot live without them And Tithes Lands Houses both before and under the Law were originally given to and setled by God and Men upon Priests and Levites first and Ministers since not as meer Types Shadows or Ceremonies but as a just fitting convenient recompence of their Labour necessary Livelyhood habitation refidence for them and their Families and to provide them meat drink Books clothes and other necessaries to live by Why our Ministers under the Gospel should not still enjoy them in this kind and Nature without the least shadow of Judaisme aswell as Melchise dec before the Law or the Jewish Priests and Levites under it or their Predecessors before them even from the first settlment of the Gospel amongst us or aswell as any other Men or the Objectors do their Lands Goods Houses and the other nine parts of their Tithes encrease for their livelihood and subsistence transcends my capacity to apprehend and the ability of all armed or unarmed Enemies of Tithes or Glebes to demonstrate from Scripture Law Reason or the objected abused Text over-longinsisted on to clear it from all ignorant or wilfull wrestings And so much for the payment of Tithes by Abraham and vowing them by Jacob before the Law to justifie the lawfulnesse and continuance of them under the Gospel against all cavilling Exceptions Secondly I shall make good the Proposition from the Maintenance of the Priests and Levites by Glebes Tithes and Oblations under the Law urged as the strongest if not only Reason against them and thusform my Argument That which God himself

farre from being unlawfull that it is a sacrifice well pleasing unto God 3. That Ministers deserve not only obedience but maintenance from the people 1. Because they have the rule over them 2. Because they watch for their souls 3. Because they must give an account to God for them 4. Because it will be a great encouragement to them to discharge their duty with joy not with grief 5. Because the not doing it will both grieve the Ministers and be unprofitable to the people in regard of their soules and spirituall estate and also cause God to curse and blast them in their temporall estates Mal. 3. 8 9 10 11 12. whereas the doing thereof will be advantagious to them in both Powerfull reasons and motives to convince all of the justice of our Ministers maintenance and to induce them chearfully to render it unto them though due by Law as we know it is XIII The very Gospell enjoynes all Christians Rom. 12. 20 21. To distribute to the necessity of the Saints and to be hospitable not only to those we know but even to strangers Heb. 13. 2. And if our enemy hunger it comm●nds us to feed him if he thirst to give him drink and Not to be overcome with evill but to overcome evill with good seconded Mat. 5 44 45 46 47 48. Luke 6. 32. to 37. P●ov 25. 22. whence thus I argue I● Christians must distribute to the necessities and be hospitable to Saints and others who are m●er strangers to them yea give meat and drink to their very enemies and overcome their evi●l with goodnesse Then it necessarily followes they must much more distribute to the necessities of and be hospitable liberall and give meat drink and maintenance to their own faithfull preaching Ministers and recompense their good with good again else they shall be worse then Publicans and sinners who do good to those that do good to and for them XIV This is evident by the practise of the primitive Saints and Christians recorded in the Gospell for our imitation who though they paid all civill Tributes Customes Duties to the civill Magistrates and likewise Tithes and other duties to the Jewish and Pagan Priests under whom they lived yet they likewise freely and liberally ministred and contributed of their substance and temporall estates towards the maintenance of Christ and his Apostles and the Ministers of the Gospell Hence we read Luke 8. 2 3. That Mary Magdalen Joann● the wife of Cuza Herods Steward Susanna and MANY others of our Saviours auditors ministred to him of their substance put it seems into a common purse for the maintenance of Christ and his Apostles which Judas kept wh● provided bread meat and other necessaries out of it as is evident by Joh. 4. 8 31. 12. 5 6. 13. 29. 6. 5 7. compared together After our Saviours resurrection when the multitude of beleevers at Jerusalem were much increased it is expresly recorded Act. 4. 32 to the end 5. 1 to 10. That they were of one heart and of one soul and oh that we were so again neither said any of them that ought that he possessed was his own but they had all things common neither was there any amongst them whether Apostle Minister or Beleever that lacked For as many as were possessors of Lands or Houses SOLD THEM not purchased them as many do now who say they imitate the primitive Christians and brought the prices of the things that were sold and LAID THEM DOWNE A● THE APOSTLES FEET and distribution was made unto every Man therefore to every Apostle and Minister of the Gospell as well as others according as they had need Amongst others Joses a Levite of Cyprus having Land so●d it and brought the money and LAID IT AT THE APOSTLES FEET The like did Ananias with Saphira his wife but bec●use they brought a certain part thereof and laid it at the Apost●es feet and kept back part of the price of the Land which is lesse then to keep back Tithes when due by sundry Lawes and Ordinances and thereby lyed not unto Men only but to God they both fell down dead sodainly at the Apostles feet in a miraculous manner and were carried forth and ●uried And great fear came upon a● the Church and as many as heard thereof We finde in 2 Cor. 11. 7 8 9. That though Paul preached the Gospell at Corinth freely yet HE ●OOK WAGES OF OTHER CHVRCHES at the same time TO DO THEM SERVICE And when he was present with them and wanted that which was wanting unto him the Brethren that came from Macedonia SVPPLIED that in all things he might keep himself from being burdensome to the Corinthians for reasons expressed by him In which respect of not ministring to him of their substance he writes THEY WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHVRCHES 2 Cor. 12. 13. How bountifull the Church and Saints of Philippi were to Paul not only whiles present with them and preaching among them but also absent from them preaching the Gospell in other places and how pleasing this their liberality was to God he thus records Phil. 4. 10. to 21. But I rejoyced in the Lord greatly that at last your care of me is revived wherein ye were also CAREFVLL but ye lacked opportunity Not that I speak in respect of want for I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content c. Notwithstanding YE HAVE WELL DONE that ye did communicate with my affliction Now ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the Gospell when I d●parted from Macedonia no Churches communicated with me as concerning GIVING and RECEIVING BVT YE ONLY For even in Thessalonica YE SENT ONCE and AGAIN TO MY NECESSITY Not because I desire a gift but I desire fruit that may abound to your accompt But I have received all and A●OVND and AM FVLL having received of Epaphroditus THE THINGS SENT FROM YOV AN ODOVR OF A SWEET SMELL A SACRIFICE AC●EPTABLE WELLPLEASING TO GOD. But my God shall supply all your needs according ●o his riches in glory by Jesus Christ Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever Amen And in 2 Tim. 1. 16 17. 18. He makes this memorable Testimony and prayer for Onesiphorus The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain But wh●n he was in Rome he sought me out very diligently and found me The Lord grant unto him that he may ●inde mercy of the Lord in that day And in HOW MANYTHINGS HE MINISTRED VNTO ME AT EPHESUS thou knowest very well From all which precedents coupled together these conclusions naturally and necessarily arise 1. That it is not only the practise but duty of the Saints and Christians under the Gospell chearfully and liberally to contribute to the Apostles and Ministers of the Gospell and that not only whiles they are actually preaching and resident amongst them but whiles absent preaching the Gospell in

14. Neh. 10. 38 39. chap. 12. 44. chap. 13. 5. to 12. Amos 4. 4. Mal. 3. 10. 7. That the detaining of these Tithes from the Priests and Levites was a great sin and Sacrilegious robbing of God himself accompanied with his Curse and punished with scarcity barrennesse devouring locusts blasting of the fruits of the earth c. Mal. 3. 8. 9. 10. a place worthy the saddest consideration of all Tith-Oppugners and Substracters Will a man rob God yet ye have robbed me But ye say Wherein have we robbed thee In Tithes and Offerings Here is the Sacrilegious Sin pray mark the just deserved punishment Ye are cursed with a Curse For ye have robbed me even this whole Nation what this Curse was follows THE DEVOURER that is devouring Creatures as Locusts Caterpilla●s Palmer-worms and Canker worms and the like did destroy the fruits of their Ground their Vines did cast their Fruit before their Times in the Field And God blasted and destroyed all their Corn and fruits with blasting and Meldew and Hail A●os 4. 9. Joel 1. 4. yea They sowed much and brought in little they did eat but had not enough they did drink but yet were not satisfied with drink they did cloth themselves but there was no warmth and he that earneth wages is to put it into a bag with holes They looked for much and lo it came to little and when they brought it home God did blow upon it yea the heaven over them was stayed from Dew and the earth was stayed from her fruits and God called for a drought upon the Land and upon the Mountain●a nd upon the Corn and upon the new wine and upon the Oyl and upon that the ground brought forth and upo● Men and Cattle upon all the labour of their hands when one cam● to an heap of 20 measures there were but ten when one came to th● Presse-fat for to draw out fifty Vessells there were but twenty and the Wine and the figs and Pomegranate tree and the Olive tree did not bring forth Hag. 1. 6. 9 10 11. chap. 2. 16 17 19. O tha● all hard hearted covetous hypocriticall atheisticall detain●ers of and Declaimers against Tithes and Ministers Just settled Maintenance would lay these Judgements and curses of God close unto their hearts that so they might thereby be reclaimed from their robbery and Sacri●ledge against God and prevent and divert these Judgements Curses from themselves and our whole Nation which hav● cause to fear and will doubtlesse feel them to their smart an● loffe if they rob God and our Ministers in such sort as many now strenuously endeavour 8. That God himself annexed many gracious Promise● of giving abundance of all earthly and spirituall blessings t● the chearfull conscientious due payment of Tithes to hi● Priests and Levites for their Maintenance which I shall recite to excite men chearfully to this paractise now Deut. 14 22 23 28 29. Thou shalt Truly Tithe all the increase of th● seed corn wine oyl herds flocks that thou mayest learn to fea● the Lord thy God alwayes And that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in all the work of thy Hand which thou doest Deut. 26. 12 13 14 15. When thou hast made an end of tithing all the Tithes of thine Increase the third year which is the year of Tithing and hast given it unto the Levite c. Then thou shalt sa● before the Lord thy God I have brought away the Hallowed thing out of mine House and also have given them unto the Levite c. According to all thy Commandements which thou hast commanded me I have not transgressed thy Commandements neither have I forgotten them I have not eaten thereof in my mourning neither have I taken away ought thereof for my Vnclean Vse nor given ought thereof for the dead but I have bearkened to the voice of the Lord my God And have done according to all that thou hast commanded me Look down from thy Holy Habitation from Heaven And blesse thy People Israel and the Land which thou hast given us a Land that floweth with milk and Honey Such a conscientious true payment of Tithes as this according to all Gods Comandements without the least Substraction or embeslements emboldens enables every particular man to make such a Prayer to God as this not onely for himself but for the whole Land and brings a blessing upon himself and all the Realm and makes it a Land flowing with milk and Honey and abundance of all rich blessings Besides we read in 2 Chron. 31. 1. to 15. That when godly King Hezekiah had destroyed Idolatry and appointed the Courses of the Priests and Levites after their Courses every man according to his service he brought offerings and Peace offerings to minister and to give thanks and to praise in all the Gates of the Tents of the Lord He appointed also THE KINGS PORTION OF HIS SVBSTANCE for the burnt-offerings for the morning and evening for the Sabbaths the new Moons and set Feasts moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem To give the Portion of the Priests and the Levites that they might be encouraged in the Law of the Lord. And assoon as the Commandement came abroad the children of Israel brought in abundance the first-Fruits of Corn VVine Oyl and Honey and of all the increase of the Field and the Tithes of all things brought they in abundance And concerning the children of Israel and Judah that dwelt in the Cities of Judah They also brought in the Tithes of Oxen and Sheep and the Tithe of holy things which were dedicated unto the Lord their God and laid ●hem by heaps In the third moneth they began to lay the foundation of the heaps and finished them in the seventh moneth and when Hezekiah and the Princes came and saw the heaps THEY BLESSED THE LORD and HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL Then Hezekiah questioned with the Priests and Levites concerning the heaps And Azariah the chief Priest of the House of Zadok answered him said Since the People began to bring the Offerings into the house of the Lord We have had enough to eat and have left Plenty But did the people grow poore thereby no but much richer than before FOR THE LORD HATH BLESSED HIS PEOPLE and that which is left is THIS GREAT STORE Then Hezechiah commanded to prepare Chambers or store-houses in the house of the Lord and they prepared them and brought in the Offerings and THE TITHES and the dedicate things FAITHFULLY over which Cononiah the Levite was Ruler How different was this practise of all the people and godly Saints in those daies in a chearfull bringing in their Tithes and Oblations to the Priests and Levites in abundance for their encouragement which caused King Hezechiah his Princes the Priests Levites and God himself to blesse them from the sacrilegious practice of Tith-detaining Hypocritical Saints and Christians in our d●ies who shall never receive such a blessing as this from God or

them likewise in the due and just maintenance of their Ministers by Tithes and Glebes reserved to and prescribed by that true holy just and righteous God who is not only the God of the Jews but of the Gentiles also Rom. 3. 19. Let any rational Christian now resolve his own Conscience and mine from friends or Scripture Reason or equity if he can God having given us a Land flowing with milk and honey and as fit as able to render Glebes and Tithes of all things in kinde as he did unto the Jews It is a received maxime in our Law Quod venit in loco alterius est de natura Prioris If this be Gospel as it hath been h●ld both Law and reason under the Gospel I need add no more to this Aphorisme to prove the lawfulnesse and equity of our Ministers Glebes and Tithes and to continue as well for the future as heretofore by a divin● Right 8. That all Christian Churches and pious Christians generally throughout the world from the Apostles dayes till now have unanimously resolved both in point of Piety Justice Conscience and right Reason that they are bound to consecrate and render unto God the sel●same weekly portion of time for his publick worship as the Israelites and Jews under the Law were obliged to do to wit one day in seven though they differ in the circumstance onely of the day they observing the seventh day from the Creation every week in memory of the Creation and Gods rest thereon for their Sabbath prescribed by speci●ll Lawes and we the first day of every week in memoriall of our Saviours Resurrection thereon by the Generall Morall Equity of these Laws warranted by Apostolicall practise only without any special Gospel-precept Let then the whole Army of Tithe-Oppugners render me one dram of Reason or shadow of answer if they Canne why all Christian Realms Churches Nations in the world may not should not by the self same rule of Piety Justice Equity and proportion continue and render the like proportion of Glebes Tithes to God and his Ministers under the Gospel as the Jews did to him his Priests and Levites under the Law as well as they render to him the self same Proportion of time for his Weekly publick Service and why payment of Tithes under the Gospel to God who gives us both them and the residue of our Estates and encrease out of his own meere free grace for the maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel and support of his publick Worship on the Lords Day should be more Judaicall Vnchristian Antichristian Superstition as Canne and others stile it than the dedicating and appropriating of the Lords Day to Gods publick Worship and Honour who hath given and allowed us the other fix for our imployments when as he might have justly reserved the nine parts of our Lands and goods to himself had he pleased instead onely of the Tenth as well as the six dayes in lieu of the seventh wherrewith he is content which Divines usually urge men to induce men to the more chearfull Sanctification of the Lords Day and some Scribler● against Tithes as well as others 9. That Christians under the Gospel are bound in Justice Equity and Conscience to give their hired Servants Labourers their due and deserved Wages and not to detain it from them even under the Gospel and that by vertue of Gods command recorded in the Leviticall and Judiciall Law Levit. 19 13. Deut. 14. 14 15. approved in the Gospel Col. 4. 1. and to allow their Beasts and Oxen that plow and tread out their Corn Straw and Provender without muzling up their mouths by vertue of a like precept recorded Deut. 25. 4. twice repeated and urged by the Apostle in the new Testament to prove the lawfulnesse of Ministers maintenance under the Gospel 1 Cor. 9. 8 9 10. 1 Tim. 5. 18. and that without the least suspition of Judaisme or Antichristianisme therefore they may and are also bound in Justice equity Conscience not onely to settle Glebes upon but likewise to pay Tithes to the Ministers of the Gospel as a due Wages Hire and Reward for their Labour in the Ministry as well as the Jews did to their Priests and Levites without the least tincture of Judaisme or Antichristianisme since Christ in the Gospel resolves Math. 10. 10. Luke 10. 7. and 1 Tim. 5. 18. That Ministers being Labourers are worthy of their Meat Hire and a competent Maintenance suitable to their pains and Function as well as any other hired Servants or Labourers in the Fields or as our labouring Oxen or Horses are of Straw and Provender 10. We read it recorded 1 Sam. 8. 11 15 17. That this would be the manner of the King that should reign over the Jews that amongst other things He will take the Tenth of your Seed and of your Vineyards and the Tenth of your Sheep give them to his Officers and Servants In imitation wherof the Kings of England in ancient Parliaments and of late times have usually demanded and received by Grant in Parliament a Decime or Tenth of the Goods and Estates of their Subjects for their Supplies and likewise a Tenth of their Merchandise exported and imported for Tonnage and Poundage as our Parliament Records Histories and Rastall in his Abridgement of Statutes Tithes Taxes and Tenths attest If then our lawfull Kings Princes and Governours under the Gospel may justly demand and receive by Grantia Parliament the Tenth of all our Goods Corn Wooll Sheep Estates Merchandise for their necessary supplies and the Defence of the Kingdome and some who are no Kings and have engaged against Kingship as Tyrannicall do the like without a Parliament being not only a Tenth of all our Estates but a double and treble Tenth of all mens yearly Revenues and Estates and of Ministers Tithes besides for the Maintenance of themselves and the Army without the guilt of JVDAISME or ANTICHRISTIAN TYRANNY OPPRESSION OR SVPERSTITION Why our faithfull Ministers may not likewise demand and enjoy their Glebes and Tithes not onely granted but confirmed to them by our Ancestors in successive Parliaments from the first planting of the Gospel in this Nation till the Reformation all our Protestant Parliaments since the Reformation and by sundry Ordinances in the very last Parliament to which some now in highest Power gave their cordiall Votes for the Preaching and propagating of the Gospel and saving of mens Souls without the like Brand of Judaisme and Antichristianisme let John Canne resolve me when he can who most falsely scandalously and unchristianly brands both the last and all Protestant Parliaments confirming Tithes for Popish Idolatrous Parliaments acting against the Lord Jesus and our Ministry for ANTICHRISTIAN MINISTRY Who certainly was in his Cannes or Cups when he writ and published such palpable Scandalous untruths to the dishonour of our Church Parliaments Nation Religion But such Cretians are alwayes LYARS EVIL BEASTS SLOW BELLIES wherefore they need a sharp rebuke

reviled persecuted defamed we are as the filth of the world and the off-scouring of all things unto this day If all Ministers in times of peace and setlement must be like the Apostles in not receiving ti●hes then they must be like them too even in setled Christian Kingdoms States Churches in all these their particular sufferings and have no certain dwelling place c. And if so Let Canne his new Ministers of the Gospel as they stile themselves begin the president of whom our Ministers may now say as Paul did of the Corinthians in the precedent verse of this chapter v. 8. Now ye are full nowye are rich ye have reigned as Kings without us when as most of them were very poore and farre enough from reigning as Kings or so much as Petty Constables before these unhappy Wars and in dayes of former persecution when Canne himself durst not shew his face in England for fear of a Bishops power or High-commission Pursuivant nor durst reproach our Orthodox protestant pious Ministers and Parliaments as Antichristian Popish and compare their Laws for Ministers Tithes with the very Idolatrous Statutes of Omri and A●ab as he doth now p. 3. for which he might have taken a turn at Tiburn in steed of walking fre●ly in Westminster Hall without being questioned for this his impudent high Slanders both of our Laws and Parliaments as well as Ministry 6. If the M●nisters of the Gospel be bound to imitate the Apostles in all things then they must not have Gold nor Silver nor Brasse in their purses neither Scrip nor two Coats nor yet Shoes but Sandals onely on their feet Mat. 10. 9 10. Mar. 6. 8 9. as the Capuchin-Friars Mendicants hence conclude this being a positive Precept the objected examples of the Apostles c. onely a a President And if so not onely all our Ministers but Canne and all his Administrators must turn Friars Mendican●s too in good earnest who ground their Vow of Voluntary poverty on this Text and the objected Presidents of Christ and his Apostles and so become no Ministers of Christ but Antichrist and as truly Antichristian as these Friars are 7. If our Ministers must all now be like those of the Primitive times whiles under persecuting Heathen Emperours Kings Magistrates then all Saints and Christians too in our dayes and times must imitate and be like the Saints and Christians in those dayes They must sell all their old and new purchased Lands Houses Lordships Palaces and lay the money at the Ministers feet have all things in common like the reall Saints and Christians in the Apostles times Acts 4. 34. to the end and instead of Lording and feasting it in their new acquired Royall Episcopall Palaces and Mannor Houses they must wander about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins in Desarts and in Mountains and in Dens and Caves of the earth being destitute and affli●ted like the Saints of old yea and like them they must be tortured not accepting deliverance have trialls of cruell mockings and scourgings bonds and imprisonments be stoned sawn asunder slain with the Sword instead of slaying plundering imprisoning and sawing others asunder with the Sword Heb. 11. 35. to 39. And when our Army-Saints Officers Souldiers with other Tithe Oppugners who presse this Objection against Ministers Tithes shall lay down their Arms Commands Power Lands sell all they have and become like to all these Primitive Saints and Martyrs of Christ in sufferings in times of Persecution I doubt not but our Ministers will joyfully part both with their Glebes Rectories Tithes and setled Maintenance to sympathize with them in their Persecutions and Sufferings But til● such hard times of Persecutions and they begin to follow this President of the self-denying Primitive S●ints I hope they will not make all our Ministers present Martyrs in their Tithes and setled Maintenance nor enjoyn them alone to follow the Primitive Ministers of the Gospel in those times of persecution and prove greater persecutors to them in these pretended times of Christian Liberty and Justice than the late Oppressing Prelates and High Commissioners who suffered many of them though Non-conformists to enjoy their Tithes and Glebes and not eject or disinherit them and their Successors for ever of their ancient Glebes Tithes and setled Maintenance without any Legall Tri●ll by their Peers or Conviction of any Treasonable crimes against our known Lawes for which they deserve to forfeit them and all under the false petence that Tithes are Jewish and Antichristian under the Gospel which I hope I have sufficiently refuted being established on them by Ch●istian Kings States Parliaments immediately after the Primitive persecutions generally throughout Christendome as the fittest Maintenance of all other and particularly in our Realm when as the abolishing of them will be really such in the Judgement of all Godly Protestants and Patrons of Religion both at home and throughout the World FINS a Isa 45. 15. 46. 9. b Mat. West An. 1055. p. 422. Antiq. Eccles Brit. ● 88 89. c Psal 73. 25. d Act. 17. 28. e Psal 73. 26 f 1 Thess 5. 23. Rom. 11. 36. Psal 139. 15 16 17. g Psal 100. 1 2 3. 1 Cor. 6. 19 20. 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. Job 7. 20. Gen. 48. 16. h Dan 6. 16. i 2 Tim. 4. 17. k Dan. 3. 19 20 c. l Jona 1. 2. m In my Histriomast●x Healths sicknesse Love-locks Cosens Cosening Devotions Breviate Quench-cole Memento Speech in Parliament and other Books n Jude 3. Levit. 19. 17. Tit. 1. 13. o Rom. 13. 1 2. p Deut. 7. 9. Neh. 1. 5. P●a 89. ● 28. to 38 110 4. 11● 5. Jer. 33. 20 21 c. Heb. 5. 17 18. q Gen 50. 5 6 Levit. 19. 12. Num. 30. 2. Josh 1. 17. 6. 22. 9. 15 to 22. Psal 15. 4. Hos 10. 4. Zech. 5 4. Eccles 8. 2. Ezek. 17. 16 18 19. r Prov. 24. 21 22. Rom. 16 17. 2 Ti● 3. 1 to 8. s Revel ●● 1 2. t Psal 20. 5● 6 7 8. u Ps 107. 16. x Act. 12. 4 to 12. y See the Beacon fired and Nicolas Causins the Jesuit's holy Court printed at London 1650. in folio z Psal 146. 7. a Isa 49. 9. 42. 7. b 1 Sam. 7. 12. c Psa 83 4 5 6 7 8. d Act. 6. 10. e 1 Co. 14. 25. f Psal 83. 9. 10 11 c. g Psal 79. 13. h Psal 146. 2. 104. 33. a Ezek. 46. 16. 5● 16. give it this Title b Isa 5. 25. Ezek. 13. 5. 22. 30. c Magna Carta of King Henry the I. and K. John Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 53. 230. 246. 9 H. ● c. 1. 29. 37. ●imes since confirmed in Parliament d Isa 49 23. 60. 9 10. Psal 72 10 11. Rev. 21 24. e J●r 47. 6 7. f A collection of Ordinances c. p. 124. 125. g Mat. 15. 13 h G●l 3. 9. i Gen. 14. 20. Heb. 7. 1 to 12. k Dr. Griffith W●lliams