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Of the right of tithes a divinity determination in the publike divinity schools of the University of Cambridg / by ... Lancelot Andrews ... ; translated for the benefit of the public.; Theologica determinatio de decimis. English
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Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.
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defendeth their omission of them and which is more to be wondred at doth himself authorize the people to omit them But concerning this of Tithe his words are express Ye ought not to leave them undone Nay which is of more weight yet when the discourse was of matters of greatest importance of mercy and judgement and that in the same Paragraph as I may say he makes a law as for the doing of the one so for the non-omission of the other What seek ye more No man can easily imagine in how great esteem this Argument was with the Primitive Church I shall give you two of many One whereof shall speak for the Greek Church the other for the Latine Saint Chrysostome his words are these Worthily doth our Saviour adde These things ought ye to do for Alms is a Tithe Now Alms cannot hurt possibly For we ought not to do them as observers of the Law neither doth he say we ought But these things ought yet to do For when formerly he disputed of clean and unclean He added not there these things ought ye to do but manifestly he overthrew them Wherefore Brethren he speaketh of Tithe These things ought ye to do but concerning their Washings he speaketh not so The words as you see are a little differing the sense is not differing Now hear Saint Augustine in his Enchirid to Laurentius cap. 76. Wo be to you Pharisees who Tithe every Herb As if he would say Indeed I exhorted you to give Alms by which all things would be clean unto you But wo to you who Tithe Herbs For these I knew to be your Alms think not that I admonished you concerning then And a little after for it would be troublesome to put in all But lest he should seem to refuse those Alms which are given of the fruits of the earth These saith he ye ought to do that is Judgement and Charity and yet neverthelesse not to omit the other that is Alms of the fruits of the Earth I need adde no gloss I study brevity and put you in minde of one thing though there be no need I know ye observed it that Tithes both by S. Chrysostome and S. Augustine are refered to the common-place of Alms. Some are of another opinion I will not greatly contend for I had rather it should be accounted a sacred Tribute then Alms. But this place is safe enough And by it they gain thus much that Tithes ought not to be abrogated I proceed now to the fifth And or I am much deceived it may be concluded from S. Paul That Tithes are to be retained even under Christ In the sixt chapter to the Galathians verse sixt Let him that is taught in the Word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things Which words seem to me to sound like those in the seventh chapter to the Hebrews verse the second He gave the tenth of all like those Gen. 14. 20. of all in all what difference that it may be no light conceipt that the Apostle doth allude to that of Genesis and that he doth covertly insinuate that communication which was used by Abraham who is to be imitated in all things as much as may be by the children of his Faith But what if so That precept which doth best provide for communication in all good things is not to be antiquated And there is no question to be made but that was a Law for Tithe For by that there is a true and if by your leave I may I will say a 〈◊〉 communication of all good things both of Fruits and of all other productions of the Earth of Plants of Beasts you may by your selves make up the rest of the Induction Substitute in place thereof a stipend payment by the Poll or a rate upon Houses there will be many Errors part will be concealed part will be substracted I dare say there will be no communication in all good things Lastly though all possible caution be used the communication of a Pension will be onely Analogical But I have learned long since and nature law and reason perswade thus much that where we may have the Thing it self we should not trouble our selves about the Analogy Wherefore in the communication betwixt the Pastor and his Flock if the truth it self of the Thing of the Communication may be had in all good things and it may be had those stipendiary proportions are not to be sought after or rather for that is too little a great deal are utterly to be rejected Further Let this be a sixt Argument That Political Law concerning Tithes did sometime binde the Church it cannot be denied But it was never made voide Therefore it bindes now too What things were abolished the Apostle sheweth Ephes. 2. 14. Those things which were the middle partition wall first betwixt God and man secondly betwixt man and man i. e. the Iews and Gentiles We are excluded from the first member of the Division for God commanded Tithes therefore they do not displease him And also from the latter for there was peace on all hands in the point of Tithes which the Heathen did pay annually to their as I shall shew anon as well as the Iews to their Priests But that the other part of the Political Law was excepted this may be an Argument because it is esteemed by King David Psal. 147. 19 20. a great blessing And I shall hardly be brought to beleeve that the death of Christ deprived us of any blessing Besides if it were wholly cancelled Saint Paul offended against the Rules of Law when in the 1 Cor. 9.13 he brought a testimony from Deut. 18. 1. that is from an antiquated Law But that controversie runs into another I will not prosecute it But this I will out of the seventh to the Hebrews verse eighteenth which shall be my seventh Argument And it is if I mistake not as a most fair place so most apposite to this Controversie There is verily a disanulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof So that no Law is to be antiquated or disanulled which is not either weak or unprofitable The Law concerning Tithes is a Law going before an ancient Law Let any man shew me either the weakness or unprofitableness thereof I will joyn hands and grant the cause let this Thesis pass the sponge for me But this Law hath strength as much as any Law ever had is like to have can possibly have from the Author consent multitude custome and that lastly not the mute or silent but the express and clear approbation of all Ages And its use too for it hath a long time been imployed without complaint of any to that use to which it was appointed and unless the sinews of it had been cut by certain Improper Proprietaries it had been better imploy'd neither would the Church have ever complained in that point On the other side which shall be my eighth