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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85243	Festered consciences new launced: or, tith-paying defended against William Westup and Thomas Puckle Penned by way of an epistle to every one, who had rather disburden his purse then burden his conscience. By Hierophilus, a young fencer.	Havighurst, Johannes, b. 1701.	1650 (1650)	Wing F828; ESTC R229586	22,857	29

hands and act not to whom should the Minister appeale but to Gods vice-gerent who is and ought to doe according to all the law that God have commanded Josh 1.7 8. He beareth not the sword in vaine but is to be a terrour to evill doers to doe justice to every one to give to every man his due for this cause pay we tribute Rom. 13.6 And certainely if they that are called Gods and are Gods deputies upon earth shall neglect his commands the account of their stewardship will be but a sad one at the tribunall of Iesus Christ When our Saviour CHRIST sent out his disciples Luke 10.10 11. he tells them That into whatsoever City they enter and they receiu● them not that then they should wipe the dust of the City that cleaveth on them against that City Now I would faine know of them when a City is reputed to receive an Embassadour for the Ministers are the Embassadours of CHRIST 2 Cor. 5.20 Certainly it is not when one or two in a City doe give them entertainement but when the Magistrates doe respectfully use them and provide for them so it is with a Nation and therefore that Nation cannot be said to receive the Ministers of Jesus Christ whose magistracy makes no provision for them nor the Gospell neither for the words of Christ doe expresse his Ministers in the first place and they receive you not c. It is no act of particular persons that can be meant in that place for the word City is a word collective and the Magistracy is chiefely included in it when Lidia was converted she and her houshold were baptized Acts 16.14 15. And was this all no then she besought the Apostles that if they had judged her faithfull to come into her house and abide there and the text saith she constrained them a Nation is but a great family Ier. 10.25 And without doubt where God have opened the hearts of the Magistrate they will endeavour to make all under their Jurisdiction of the houshold of faith their superiority is rather higher then a masters of a famity and with Lidia constraine the Ministers to abide with them and compell too those under them to minister unto them as it is no question but Lidia did if they did not freely and willingly But to proceed it is not mine intention to take notice of their extraordinary patience and silence that they mention comparing themselves to Christ who was more obedient to Authority then they are this their Pamphlet and former ignominies that they and their followers have cast upon the Ministers are sufficiently knowne to all that know them But they object which is too true that it is their fault or rather perversnesse that they are not fed with the Flock but they plead an excuse that they have been drawne away by being pushed in the shoulder alas poore men J suppose it is out of joynt and because yee cannot follow your Trades ye would find another way of living and ruled with rigour and made to eate the trampled pasture that is the reason yee seek a new way to Heaven the old way is too much beaten for you to follow and to drinke pudled waters J know not well what they meane by this pushing in the shoulder and ruling with rigour unlesse the Ministers did perform their duty as the Apostle commanded Titus by rebuking them sharply that they may bee sound in the Faith Tit. 1.19 Their teachy Consciences could not suffer a word of reproofe and therefore with a Cholerick man they flye the roome and will come no more there Such ruling with rigour becomes the Ministers of Christ especially when they meet with perverse dispositions They goe on with other Metaphoricall expressions calling the Doctrine of our Ministers trampled Pasture and pudled water This is no rayling nor doe they prove what they say howsoever J cannot but applaud the ability of their parts who are scarce Schollers in Divinitie to judge so peremptory of their Teachers doctrine and of them that are set over them Yet let mee tell them it is not false Doctrine because they say so If J could prevaile with them J would perswade them to leave those broken Cisternes that they have made for themselves and to come to the Fountaine of living waters J suppose their pallates were out of taste or some ill sparkes had blinded their eye-sight they were with Hagar neare the Well but did not see it J wish them to come once againe and try upon my word it may bee the Angell will move the waters that they may goe in and be healed These new Doctors having thus writ a large discourse to little purpose unlesse a man will grant what they grant without proofe like two grave Judges that never heard what the other party could say for himselfe they proceed to judgement and judge it wholly unlawfull for believers being Gentiles to pay Tithes though the Ministry of England can be proved the Ministry of CHRIST which they much question though they cannot disprove for if they could their Booke had been more enlarged for they are not so shame-fac't as to goe backe from their word if they can but have any colour for it Howsoever let me tell them that which they take no notice of with thankfulnesse as they ought how it have pleased God to make the Ministry of this Land a great blessing to it if it were but in the Translating of the Bible whereby they communicate daily of Spirituals even to them and to others to whom the word of God might have been as a Booke sealed up if our Ministers had had no other Gifts then these men have and by the way J desire them to blesse God for Learning which though they contemne hee have made it the Conduit to conveigh water of life to most Nations a meanes to propagate the Gospell to enlarge the kingdome of CHRIST to bring light unto them that are in darknesse and life to them that sit in the shadow of death so that many Nations that speake in severall Dialects can say of the Ministers of CHRIST in generall as the Multitude in the 2. chapter of the Acts did affirme of the Apostles in particular That they heare them speake in the tongues wherein they were borne the wonderfull workes of God In the next place they put their Question by way of Supposition supposing Tithes lawfull yet they would prove that it is unlawfull for them to doe so lawfull an act as to pay Tithes Their two first Reasons tend to one and the same effect and therefore one answer may serve for both Let them be pleased to peruse that Rom. 14. Chapter that they cite once more and they shall see the Apostle did not intend to make the Morall law a matter of Conscience which they have not disproved Tithes to bee but hee speakes of things indifferent which neyther Gods law nor the Ordinances of the Magistrates have made absolutely lawfull For certainly it was not