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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

oppressions and renounced God himself to save their purses and turned Athiest out-right Let them therefore reform this their Sacrilegious tith-detaining practises and opinions lest whiles they pretend to avoid Judaisme they prove worse than the very Jews themselves yea worse than the very Jewish Pharisees who paid tithes even of Rue Annis Mint Comin and all other Herbs and OF ALL THEY HAD Matt. 23. 23. Luke 11. 42. cap. 18. 12. Whose righteousnesse all Christians righteous must exceed by Christs own verdict else they shall never enter into the kingdome of heaven Mat. 5. 20. Nay worse than the very Idolatrous Jews under Jeroboam and his successors who paid their tithes duly even to the base Idolatrous Priest at Bethel and Gilgal who waited on the Service of the golden Calves and brought all the Oblations to their very Calves which God reserved to his Priests Levites and himself as is evident by Amos 4. 4 5. Come ye to Bethel and transgresse at Gilgal multiply transgression and bring your Sacrifices every morning YOVR TITHES AFTER THREE YEARS and offer a sacrifice of thanks giving with leaven proclaim publish the free offerings for this liketh you O yee children of Israel saith the Lord of Hosts Let those Idolatrous Jews and Israelites now shame them to their duties lest they rise up in judgement and condemn them at the last day These Cities Suburbs Houses Glebes Tithes thus settled on the Priests and Levites for their Habitation maintenance and reward of their Ministeriall Function had nothing properly typicall or Ceremoniall in them and being assigned to them by God himself onely for their necessary Habitation and competent Livelyhood may and ought to be continued and imitated in a fitting proportion under the Gospel for the Habitation maintenance and Livelyhood of the Preachers of the Gospel who are to live by the Gospel as well as they did by the Temple and Altar 1 Cor. 9. 13 14. 3. There was another supplementall maintenance besides these Glebes and Tithes prescribed by God in the Levitical Law for the Priests and was properly Ceremoniall Leviticall and quite abolished with that Priesthood by Christs death and that was the Priests Share out of every meat-Offering made of fine flower oyl and frankincense unto the Lord by the people a small part whereof the Priests were to offer up to God upon the Altar and the remnant which was left was to be Aarons and his Sonnes with the breast and right shoulder of every Peace-Offering offered by the people called the Wave-breast and the heave-shoulder given by God to the Priest who offered the bloud and fat of the Peace-offering at the Altar together with the skin of every burnt-offering Levit. 2. 3 10. chap. 7. 6. to 11. and 28. to 38. Exod 29. 26 27. chap. 9. 21. Numb 6 19 20. And from them that offered a Sacrifice whether it were Ox or Sheep this was the Priests DVE likewise from the people they were to give unto the Priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw by Gods speciall appointment Deut. 18. 3. Ezech. 44. 29. 30. which Fee Eli the high Priests Sonnes exceeding and exacting more than was due by violence it exceedingly provokes God and Men to abhor the Sacrifices of the Lord and proved the ruine of Eli and his Family 1 Sam. 12. 2. to the end These Dues and Fees of the Priests serving onely at the Altar had no affinity with the forementioned Glebes and Tenths belonging as well to the Levites ●s Priests and therefore are distinctly prescribed by themselves Now for any to argue that Tithes and Glebes which were no wayes properly Ceremoniall Leviticall or Typical are quite abolished by Christ and incompetible with the Gospel because those meat-offerings Peace-offerings and Sacrifices which were meerly Ceremoniall and Typicall and by consequence the Fees due unto Priests out of them are quite abolished by Christ the onely true meat-offering peace-offering and Sacrifice for us unto God is a meere Non sequitur they being things of a different nature and the one eternally abolished by Christ as the whole Epistle to the Hebrews testifies but the other not as the said very Epistle attests Hebrews 7. 1. to 9. compared with 1 Cor. 9. 4. to 16. 1 Tim. 5. 17 18. Gal. 6. 6. And here I shall beat our Sword-men and other Tithe-Oppugners with their own weapon They tell us for an unqu●stionable Gospel-Truth That Ministers of the Gospel ought to have no certain or coercive Maintenance but onely voluntary Free will-Offerings such as the people shall willingly give them without any Law or constraint though their own unordained Chaplains in the Army and Garrisons have constant pay each moneth out of the peoples Purses to whom they do not speak and are not maintained by the Souldiers free but the people 's enforced Monethly Contributions which practise they should first reform if repugnant to the Gosp●l Now such Maintenance as this is more properly and purely Levi●icall and Ceremonial than Tithes since all Meat-Offerings Peace-Offerings and Sacrifices out of which the Leviticail Priests were to have their Share and Maintenance were onely FREE-WILL-OFFERINGS voluntarily offered to God without any coercion when they pleased Levit. 2. 1. chap. 3. 1. chap. 22. 18 19 22 23 Num. 18. ● chap. 29. 39. Deut. 12. 6. chap. 16. 10. Psal 54. 6. If then Tithes Glebes and all coercive or settled Maintenance for Ministers be abolished and unlawfull under the Gospell though not primarily and purely Leviticall but of divine Morall and naturall Right by the Dictate of na●urall reason as Tyndarus Rebussus and many others affirm in their Treatises of Tithes then much more must their maintenance by the Leviticall Free-will-Offerings Oblations and Sacrifices be such being more purely Leviticall and Ceremoniall than Tithes as these Instances manifest and 1 Cor 9. 13. Heb. 7. 12 13. And if Ministers of the Gospel must have neither a settled nor inforced Maintenance by Glebes Tiths or otherwise as some now plead nor yet an uncertain one by voluntary Free-will Offerings and Contributions they shall have no maintenance at all allowed them under the Gospel whereas the Priests of God under the Law had both a certain setled Maintenance and reward by Glebes and Tithes likewise an arbitrary and uncertain by their Fees and Dues out of the peoples Freee-will-Offerings and Sacrifices and why Ministers of the Gospell may not have a like setled and coercive Maintenance both by Glebes and Tithes and likewise an honorary super-additionall reward according to their pains and merits by the voluntary benevolences and Free-will-Offerings of the People as well as Priests under the Law or as well as Servants and all publick Officers Military or Civill Let their Opposites render me a reason when they are able the Apostle resolving thus of Ministers of the Gospel in opposition to the Priests under the Law Heb. 13. 10. We have an Altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the Tabernacle

at the Altar and first fruits and Tithes themselves so far as they were Ceremonial prescribed by the Ceremonial law for the maintenance only of these abolished Levitical Priests and Levites which is all this Scripture proves when pressed to the uttermost But can any rational man hence conclude The Levitical Priesthood the Ceremonial law and all the tithes and maintenance due to the Jewish Priests and Levites by this Law are abolished by Christ a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck to whom Tithes were due and paid by Abraham before this law and Priesthood instituted Therefore all Tithes and maintenance due and paid to Melchisedeck and in him to Christ and the Ministers of the Gospel under him are eternally abolished as Jewish and Levitical Surely this is a mad inference both besides and against this Text from which all Orthodox Protestant Commentators as well as Papists and Jesuites conclude the quite contrary and learned Nicholas Hemingius in his Commentary on it p. 805. thus determines It is subjoyned that Melchisedeck received Tithes from Abraham which tithes Abraham verily gave of his own accord following without doubt THE CVSTOME OF CONQVERORS Let our Conquering Officers and Souldiers observe and do the like WHO WERE WONT TO CONSECRATE THE TENTHES OF THEIR SPOILES TO THEIR GODS OR TO GIVE THEM TO THEIR PRIESTS But THIS COLLATION OF TITHES nullo meliori Jure Christo Sacerdoti debetur IS DUE BY MUCH BETTER RIGHT TO CHRIST OUR PRIEST WHO AS HE GIVES ALL THINGS TO US OUT OF MEER BOUNTY ita vicissim illi non solum Decimas verum omnia nostra debemus SO WE OWE TO HIM AGAIN NOT ONLY TITHES BUT LIKEWISE ALL WE HAVE Whether the Objectors or Hemingius speak most Gospel Divinity and Reason from this Text let every Christians conscience judge 2. The Apostles words concerning the change and abrogation of the Ceremoniall Law hath no reall coherence with or relation to the precedent discourse concerning payment of Tithes to Melchisedeck and the Levites recited onely to prove the dignity and excellency of Melchisedechs Priesthood above Aarons and of the Leviticall Priests and Levites above their Brethren from whom they received Tithes The ●orce of the Argument reduced into a Logicall form being thus He who receives Tithes for the execution of his Priestly Office is better and greater than he who payes Tithes But the Patriarch Abraham himself the very Father of the Faithfull and Prince of the Fathers paid Tithes to Melchisedech and likewise the Leviticall Priests then in his loins in and by him who yet receive tithe of their Brethren but not of their Father Abraham 〈◊〉 Melchisedech Therefore Melchisedech is better and greater than their Brethren who paid them Tithes And by consequence Christ being a Priest for ever after the order of Mclchisedech who was but a type of him must be better and greater than Abraham John 8. 55 56. or the Leviticall Priests or than Melchisedech himself who did but typifie him This excellency and precedency of Christs Priesthood before Aarons he proves by other Arguments drawn from Melchisedech not pertinent to our present businesse after which he largely argues the change and abolition of the Leviticall Law and Priesthood by Christ a theam of a different nature from the former to which the objected words refer therefore the totall and finall abolishing of all Tithes to which these words have no relation can never be inforced from them being ratified by the former clause as appurtenances to Christs everlasting Priesthood as well as to Melchisedechs and therefore as due to his Ministers under the Gospel as to any Priests and Levites under the Law which were likewise Types of Christ the true high Priest expiring at and by his death 3. The Priests and Levites under the Law had Cities Glebes and Houses settled on them for their habitation and Cattle as well as Tithes by the Ceremoniall Law for their better maintenance and accommodation and that in a large proportion Levit. 25. 32 33 34. Numb 35. 1. to 12. Josh 21. 1. to 43. 1 Chr. 6. 54. to the end chap. 9. 10. to 35. 2 Chron. 11. 13 14. Ezra 2. 70. Neh. 11. 26. chap. 13 10. Ezec. 45. 1. to 6. ch 4 8 9. to 15. If then this Text proves the Totall Abolition of all our Ministers Tithes root and branch as Jewish and Antichristian as some impudent Scriblers and Petitioners against them now affirm It likewise proves the abolition of all their Rectories Glebes Houses likewise as well as of their Tithes as Jewish and Antichristian And so Ministers of the Gospel now shall neither have Tithes nor Globes to support and feed them or their fami●ies and Cattle nor yet so much as an House wherein to lodge and put their heads and be inforced to complain as our Saviour once did of his forlorn condition Matth. 8. 20. and Luke 9. 58. The Foxes have holes and the Birds of the air have Nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head A condition to which some Jesuiticall Anabaptisticall and Athiesticall uncharitable beasts of Prey worse than any Foxes or Harpies would now gladly reduce all our faithfull Ministers and their Families whiles some of them Lord it and lodge themselves in our Kings Princes Bishops Deans and Chapters new acquired royall Palaces and not content therewith would spoil all our Ministers of their more contemptible Glebes and Rectories to enrich themselves and their Posterities and make our Ministers like our Saviour in his voluntary Poverty They may with as much Justice like the hard-hearted bloudy Jews and Souldiers even crucifie them on crosses between such thieves as themselves to make them like our Saviour even in his voluntary sufferings as part their Gl●bes Lands and Rectories among them and cast Lots upon their vestures even before their death when as the Soldiers who crucified our Saviour did not part his raiment amongst them nor cast Lots on his vesture till after his crucifixion by them there being as much Authority Conscience Law Justice Reasen for the one as other seeing none by any Laws can lose or forfeit their Lands and Livelyhood but such who first forfeit their Lives to publick Justice 4. The Israelites were enjoyned by the Leviticall Law Deut. 12. 17 18 19. chap. 14. 26 27 28 29. to harbour and entertain the Priests Levites within their gates and not to forsake them as long as they should live upon the earth and freely to permit and invite them to come and eat drink feast rejoyce and be satisfied with them and their Families before the Lord as well as to pay them Tithes But this Law as they argue is now abolished by Christ with the Priesthood Therefore when our Ministers are stript of all their Tithes Glebes Rectories Houses by our new Reformadoes it must be Jewish and Antichristian for them or any others so much as to lodge entertain or give them any thing to eat or drink within their gate●