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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 all or judgement in their Art learning their Military skill not at their owne but the peoples great costs 3. Learned Ministers both before and after their admission into the Ministry are at great charges to furnish themselves with Bookes and Libraries necessary for their Calling whereas our Officers and Souldiers are and were furnished with all sorts of Armes and Ammunition fitting for their calling out of the publick Treasury only which continually recruites them when lost in Service 4. The calling of the Ministry requires men of far more able parts and eminency of gifts whereby they might gain far more worldly wealth riches and honours in many other callings then they do or can do by the Ministry by which they are commonly losers in respect of worldly gains ●and preferments a thing very considerable then the calling of an ordinary Souldier or most warlike Officers doe as experience manifests and I thinke most Soldiers and Officers will acknowledge and thereupon must admit them proportionable allowance to their parts and work in the Ministry it selfe 5. Ministers when once entred into their callings are alwayes day and night upon constant duty without intermission their whole lives being so taken up with study preaching catechizing praying fasting exhorting admonishing reproving comforting visiting the sick in body troubled in minde resolving doubts of conscience and other Ministeriall duties as well private as publick that they have most of them scarce one spare day or hour all the year to imploy in other affaires for their owne advantage in worldly things Whereas many of our Army Officers and Souldiers lie idle in their Quarters many months if not years of late together without any actuall service and yet receive their full constant pay and those in actuall service and Garisons do that they call duty only by turnes once or twice a week and then but for two or three houres in a day being then successively relieved by others having sufficient time every day and week not only to follow their private Trades if they please necessary usefull beneficiall to others but also to exercise Merchandise and other gainfull worldly imployments and Offices to which they were never trained up whereby most of them are grown richer then most of our Ministers in halfe the space they were fitting for their Ministry before they received one penny profit by it As for our Officers they seldome do any duty have all their men-servants listed under them and paid by the people to do them service only being exempt from duty and how seldome they have been of late times at their Quarters upon their duty as Souldiers but otherwise sitting in Counsell to advance their own power estates and pull down all above them to intrude themselves into their places we all see by experience contrary to the Apostles precept 2 Tim. 2. 4. No man that warreth intangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life that he may please not supplant him who hath chosen him to be a Souldier and to John the Baptists injunction to Souldiers Luke 3. 14. Do violence to no man nei●her accuse any falsely and be content with your wages Which ungospell practises I wish they would first reforme by conforming themselves unto this Precept before they reforme our Ministers or their setled wages a thing beyond if not against their calling 6. The calling of Ministers as it is every way farre more laborious as perillous and full of hardship as that of Souldiers 2 Cor. 11. 23 to 33. 4. 8 9 10 11. 2 Tim. 2. 3 9 10 12. 3. 10 11 12. 4. 5 6 7. So questionlesse it is far more honourable necessary usefull beneficiall to others then that of Souldiers and Commanders for they are the very Embassadors of God himselfe and Jesus Christ the King and Lord of glory the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Prince of the Kings of the earth and only Potentate to whom all other Powers and kne●● must bow beseeching men in Christs stead to be reconciled to God 2 Cor. 5. 20. The Ministers servants messengers of Jesus Christ workers together with him Stewards of the mysteries of God and the glory of Christ 1 Cor. 4. 1 2. 2 Cor. 6. 1. 8. 23. 2 Tim. 2. 24. imployed to preach to sinfull men the unsearchable riches of Christ to turne them from darknesse unto light and from the power of Satan unto God Eph. 3. 8. Act. 26. 18. to rescue their souls from the slavery and power of sin Satan hell death everlasting damnation and make them the sonnes of God heirs and coheirs with Christ of everlasting glory and felicity in Gods heavenly Kingdome through the power of Gods Grace and Spirit working in with by and through their Ministry on their hearts Now the calling of a Souldier though it be honourable and in some cases lawfull and necessary if rightly managed yet it is for the most part sinfull hurtfull pernicious dangerous and unbeseeming the Gospell in respect of the cause managing abuses thereof it being accompanied with murther violence rapine treachery perjury sacriledge cruelty inhumanity profanenesse blasphemy contempt of God of all sacred civill Lawes and Ordinances ambition treason and the worst of sins tending usually like an overflowing Deluge to the subversion desolation ruine of whole Families Cities Countries Kingdomes Churches yea Mankinde it selfe Religion Lawes Liberties Properties turning whole f●amous Cities into ashes and Kingdomes into Golgatha s Acheldamaes fields of bloud and dead mens sculs very wildernesses as the Scripture Histories and experience manifest Hence God styles great Warriers and Armies The rod of his anger a Battle Ax with which he breaketh in pieces the Nations destroyeth Kingdomes and treadeth them down like the mire in the streets and then at last destroyes them in his wrath when they have executed his judgements for their rapines violence and bloudy cruelty Isa 10. 5 c. Jer. 51. 20 c. They being really carried on from one war to another out of vainglory ambition covetousnesse a mad humour of false greatnesse et nullus supra caeteros eminendi modus in sua fata pariter ac publica to their own and the publick ruine yet still under a pretext of publick good and safety as Seneca excellently writes in his 94 Epistle a piece worth the reading of Alexander the great Caesar Pompey Marius qui cum omnia concuterent concutieb antur et cum mult is fuerunt mali pestiferam illam vim qua plerosque nocuerunt ipsi quoque sentiunt And indeed the Profession of a Souldier even in the best of men and warres is so full of danger and pollution that it leaves some scars of sin and tincture of pollution on them Whence we read that though David were a man after Gods own heart and fought the battels of the Lord against his professed enemies by his speciall command with constant successe yet God would by no means permit him to build an house and Temple