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A treatise relating to the call, work & wages of the ministers of Christ as also to the call, work & wages of the ministers of antichrist : wherein a testimony is born ... / Thomas Lawson.
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Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.
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be the true Light the Way to the Father the Tree of Life in the Paradise of God and Paul was sent to turn People from Darkness to Light from the Power of Satan unto God Peter exhorted To take heed unto the sure Word of Prophecy as to a Light shining in a Dark Place until the Day did dawn and the Day-star did arise in their Hearts John 1.9 John 8.12 Acts 26.18 2 Pet. 1.19 But Man-made Ministers say The Scripture is the Light Such walk in the Region of the Shadow of Death the Scripture was given out by the Eternal Light a Declaration of it of God whence it came 6. The Apostles preached up the Baptism by one Spirit into one Body 1 Cor. 12.13 as the permanent Baptism of the Evangelical Dispensation the Heart-cleansing and Soul-saving Baptism the Substance 1 Pet. 3.21 Man-made Ministers Sprinkle Infants saying thereby they are made Members of Christ Children of God Inheriters of the Kingdom of Heaven Thus the Visible is inthroned and the Invisible is dis-throned which truly makes Members of Christ Paedorantism that is Sprinkling of Infants came not in till Hundreds of Years after the Apostles dayes 7. The Apostles knew Christ to be the Bread of Life the Soul's Food heavenly Manna here they fed at the Table of the Lord had fellowship one with another were written in one anothers Hearts these knew the Table and Supper of the Lord. Man-made Ministers tell of a Sacrament for which there is no Scripture 't was the old Heathen Roman Military Oath their Communion is in visibles Meat that perishes Christendom Professing this Communion is become as Golgotha a Place of Skulls as Aceldama a Field of Blood 8. True Minsters knew the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the World to be the Everlasting Covenant Glad Tidings to Captive Souls to Prisoners of Hope this Gospel was preached to Adam Gen. 3.15.10 Abraham Gal. 3.8 Man-made Ministers say Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel Their Writings are a Declaration of the Everlasting Gospel Luke 1.1 9. The Apostles preached Christ the Fountain of Life the Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge in whom the fulness of the Godhead dwells Bodily Man-made Ministers say That Oxford and Cambridge are the Fountain Well-spring or Well-head of Divinity the two Eyes of the Nation Though founded in Popish Times for the Propagation of their Doctrine and Religion 10. The Apostles preached the Word which was in the beginning to be the Original which was before Babel many Languages by which the Prophets and Apostles were called and drew others into the one pure Language to know the Virtue of the Everlasting Gospel Man-made Ministers say that Hebrew and Greek is the Original The Hebrews persecuted Christ the Greeks accounted the Cross of Christ Foolishness Pilate who had Latin Greek and Hebrew the World 's Original he crucified Christ Alpha and Omega the Beginning and Ending the First and Last the Original the Author of the pure heavenly Language 11. The Apostles preached the Saints to be the Temple of the Living God Christ the Anti-type reigning in their mortal Bodies Man-made Ministers say That a House of Lime and Stone is the Temple An Imitation of Solomon's Temple a Type fulfilled and ended in Christ the Substance Stephen was stoned to Death for witnessing against the Temple the Figure when Christ the Substance was manifested 12. The Apostles preached Christ the one Offering perfecting forever them that are sanctified Heb. 10. They preached Christ the end of that Priesthood that took Tythe the end of the Law that gave Tythe Heb. 7.12 Man-made Ministers preach up Tythe the Heave-offering Numb 18. the Shadow so deny Christ the One Offering And by the same Rule they may introduce and uphold all the other Offerings of the Aaronical Priesthood 13. The Apostles as Freely they received so they Freely gave Mat. 10. 1 Pet. 4.10 Buy the Truth but sell it not saith Solomon Prov. 23. The Wine and Milk of the Kingdom is to be bought but how Without Money and Price Isa 55.1 Man-made Ministers say They are gifted men but will not part with their Gift but for a certain yearly Sum Wisdom the Gift of God is Free and cannot be bought and sold for Money Wisdom saith Job cannot be ' gotten for Gold nor Silver nor for Coral Pearls nor Rubies cap. 28. Who think to purchase it they are in the Gall of Bitterness in the Bond of Iniquity as Simon was Acts 8. 14. Such as Christ sent they preached That every one had a measure of Light in him leading to Life such as received it the Condemnation of such as received it not Joh. 1.5.9 Joh. 3.19 Rom. 1.19 Luke 17.21 Man-made Ministers deny this Doctrine saying 'T is a Natural Light and belch out Approbious Language against it and that the Improvement of it advantages nothing And all this to keep People in a Reliance and Dependance upon them never to witness the new Covenant the Law written in the Heart the Spirit put in the Inward Parts 15. Paul told the Corinthians That they might all Prophesie that all might learn and be comforted and if any thing was revealed to him that sate by the first was to hold his Peace 1 Cor. 14. This was Order in the true Church Man-made Ministers accounts this Confusion and Disorder for if any should come in and speak while the publick Minister is speaking or when he hath done how cruelly such have been used I need not mention shewing that their Church-members are Branches of that old putred stock that they were of who stoned Stephen to Death Acts 7. 16. The Apostles preached Freedom from Sin Rom. 6.6 7 18. Freedom from the Law of Sin and Death Rom. 8.2 A Sanctified State 1 Cor. 6.11 A Cleansing from all Sin by the Blood of Jesus 1 John 1.7 Man-made Ministers teach another Doctrine That there is no Freedom from Sin in this Life and that a man must carry a Body of Sin and Death about with him while upon Earth 17. The Apostle James owned Christ's Doctrine who said Swear not at all Mat. 5. James 5. But Man-made Ministers plead for Swearing saying The Denyal thereof is an old Heresie yea and many eminent in the Church since the Apostles dayes have born faithful Testimonies against Swearing as Christ did who spake with Authority 18. The Apostles owned Revelation without it God is not known Mat. 11.27 Till this was witnessed Paul was Saul a grand Persecutor Gal. 1.16 Who are of God now they bear witness to this But Man-made Ministers say Revelation is ceased So conclude all to be excluded from the Knowledge of the Living God 'T is true who are in the Will of Man Night and Darkness is upon them the Sun is set Vision and Revelation such know not 19. The true Ministers of Christ preached Present Salvation Ephes 2.8 By Grace they were saved Tit. 3.5 1 Pet. 3.21 Man-made Ministers preach Christ and Salvation at a Distance telling
Sin-Offering Burnt-Offering Trespass-Offering Wave-Offering as for the Heave-Offering in Gospel-days I have shewed my Judgment that Tythe was a legal Type Figure or Shadow peculiar unto the Ministration of Moses and that it terminated with that Ministration I might add the Judgment of many several of whom have been eminent in the Protestant Church who have spoken to the same purpose The payment of Tythes saith Fulke as it was a Ceremonial duty it is abrogated with other Ceremonies by the Death of Christ On Heb. 7.4 Further neither did Christ our high Priest ever make claim unto Tythes nor his Apostles Minister of the Church but only to a sufficient living by the Gospel to be allowed of their temporal Goods to them from whom they had received Spiritual things Fulke on the same Walter Brute a valiant opposer of Popery shewed that Tythes were Ceremonial and that the Law was abrogated by which they were due to the Levites his Testimony is I marvel that you learned Men do say That Christian Folk are bound to this small Ceremony of the payment of Tythes For a Conclusion he saith Seeing that neither Christ nor any of the Apostles commanded to pay Tythes 't is evident neither by the Law of Moses nor by Christ's Law Christian People are bound to pay Tythes but by the Tradition of Men they are bound Fox Acts and Mon. The Quota or tenth part saith Melaneton is founded on the Ceremonial and Judicial Law which Laws are proper to Moses Polity and belong not to us seeing God hath utterly destroyed it De Lib. Christian pag. 303. Epiphanius about the Year 380. intimated that Tythes and Circumcision were a like Ceremonial He mentions Tenths for one of his instances of legal Shadows making them equal with Circumcision Lib. 1. Ord. 8. Oecolampadius on Ezek. 44. ranks Sacrifices first Fruits and Tythes altogether making them equal with Circumcision and calls them expresly Ceremonial The Bohemians sound Protestants in their Testimony against the Popish Clergy said thus They receive Tythes of men and preach that men are bound to pay them but therein they say falsly for they cannot prove by the New Testament that Jesus Christ commanded it nor the Apostles neither did they receive them This Precept of the Law say they had an end by Christ as the precept of Circumcision Christ said Give Alms of those things that remain but he said not Give the Tenth of the Goods which ye possess This is the sum of their Testimony on that account Andrew Willet a stout opposer of Popery in the reign of King James called the Law of Tythes Ceremonial acknowledging That men are not necessarily bound by the Law of God to pay Tythes now Further he saith That the payment of Tythes was a wise and politick Constitution and might conveniently be retained yet it is not now of necessity imposed upon Christians as though no other Provision for the Church could serve but that Willets Synops Papismi pag. 314 315. He acknowledges Tythes to be Ceremonial and proves them ended with the legal Priesthood So that though Maintenance it self be Moral yet the mode or manner of that Maintenance as by Sacrisices Oblations Tythes first Fruits c. may be Ceremonial Hebrews 7.5 12. An absolute Repeal of that Law which gave Tythes as of the Priesthood to whom by that Law they were given To conclude Hales Aquinas Henricus de Grandavo R. de Media Villa Cardinal Cajetan John Mayer Suarez Malder and others said That the tenth part paid by the Tribes to Levi was rather Ceremonial then Moral and wherein the Ceremoniality of it lies the clearly seeing Eye cannot but discern CAP. XVII Of the Clergies Humane Title unto the Exaction of Tythes THe Patriarchal Levitical and Evangelical Claim not securing in order to the property of Tythes not a few betake themselves to a humane Claim as unto an impregnable Fortress and such as have recourse unto man for a ground to justifie them in the Possession thereof their pleas are various Some plead the Decrees Canons and Constitutions of General Councils Popes Bishops Convocations saying That Tythes are due jure Eeclesiastico Others plead the Gifts of Kings and Princes Others plead the temporal Laws of Kings Parliaments c. Others plead the perticluar Gifts Appropriation or Donation of the former Owners of the Land Others plead a Right by purchase I Answer These Claims have been perticularly answered and that again and again So I say in the general How can humane Laws made for the payment of Tythes since Christ came in the Flesh bind the Conscience of any man Seeing the end scope purpose intent and tendency of those Laws are for the establishment of that which Christ put an End unto whose prerogative it is to have Rule Regiment Government in all where the Mystery of Faith is held in a pure Conscience Gods own Law for the payment of Tythes to the Levites being dissanulled by Christ and its burden of typical Appurtenances abolished Who is Man that makes a Law in that place where God dissanulled his own Who hath impowered man to raise a compulsary Maintenance it being Christ's Maintenance for his Ministry was free and voluntary After Austin brought the Romish Faith and Doctrine into this Nation upon what strange accounts Tythes came to be set up and established I have in some measure touched and further and. Athelstane King of the West Saxons about the Year 940 to pacifie the Ghost of his murthered Brother Edwin to whose Death he is said to have consented underwent seven Years Penance built certain Monasteries and made a Law for the payment of Tythes hoping thereby to expiate his Sins Fox Acts and Mon. King Edgar cruel to Citizens a deflowrer of Virgins concerned in the Act of shedding the Blood of Earle Ethelwold that he might enjoy Elfrida his Wife to expiate his Sins about the Year 959. he confirmed the payment of Tythes built and prepared several Monasteries and Nunneries Canutus the first Danish King being guilty of the Blood of Edward and Edmund Sons of Ironfide Heirs to the Crown about the Year 10.6 confirmed Tythes and built the Abbey of St Bennet in Norfolk and in Suffolk and the Monastery of St Edmund whom he dreadfully feared being often affirighted by the apparition of his Ghost for which cause as also to expiate the Sins of his Fathers he Confirmed Tythes See Osburns Case of Tythes Upon such accounts as these and other Idolatrous ends the grand Oppression and Antichristian exaction of Tythes had entrance into our English Church professing Christianity and such Donations as these are pleaded yea and by such as would be accounted Reformers from the Delusions of mystical Babylon from the Dregs of the apostatized seven-hilled City and her Adherents yea and such Donors were and are reckoned as Nursing Fathers to the Christian Church And such as strengthen themselves for the maintaining of that grand Oppression have the Language of Peter in their Mouthes against such as