Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	apostle_n	husband_n	wife_n	2,839	5	7.4256	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30871	The storming and totall routing of tythes wherein is shewed the unlawfullnesse of claiming them by the now pretended tribe of Levy, and both takers and payers therein denying Christ to be come in the flesh / by Edward Barber.	Barber, Edward, d. 1674?	1651 (1651)	Wing B695; ESTC R24192	16,063	22

Fathers loynes 1 Kings 12. 10. And although Henry 8 Edward 6. Queen Elizabeth took away part of the said Orders yet as then the maintenance thereunto belonging was continued and inforced from the people even so now this burthen of tythes still continues and cleaves close unto us and that not only on our temporals and estates but upon our Consciences for if this Popish Ordinance be continued for we can judge it no other being instituted as before shewed for the maintenance of Prelates Priests Monks and Fryers c. If this we say be continued to Presbyters who received Orders from them as to the said Orders before then are we forced still to Popery and Popish Innovations no lesse sinful then the others And whether this be not a breach of our Protestation Oaths and Covenant which we have made with hands lift up to the most high God we refer to all judicious men to judge And whether these are not such as the Prophet speaks of Ezek. 33. 31. 32. 33. And they come unto thee as the people cometh and they sit before thee as my people and they hear thy words but they will not do them for with their mouth they shew much love but their heart goeth after their covetousness c. Again we desire to declare as believers Christians free men of England that the Lord Jesus Christ as he hath ordained another Ministry then that under the Law so also hath he appointed another maintenance for the Gospel-Ministry then Tythes there being not one word in the Gospel for it they being to live upon their own hand-labor as before shewn or the peoples free gift Mat 10. 8. And to eat such things as they have by their labor or is set before them Luke 10. 7. 8. For the Workman is worthy of his meat Mat. 10. 9. Also the first dayes collection 1 Cor. 16. 1. 2. As God hath prospered every man who loveth a chearful giver and for the orderly dispensation of the same he hath ordained an Office in the Church to wit the Deacons who is to dispose of the said free gift as every one needeth Minister or other poor Saint without respect of persons now compare Christs Commission and the Apostles practice with the Ordinance of Parliament and these mens practice in these times and you shall find a wide difference between them And upon examination you shall find that to set up or allow another humane invention for Ministers maintenance then the Lords own who is the only Law-giver to his Church is to frustrate the Deacons Office and so make the word of God of no effect by mens traditions as the Jews did Mat. 15. 6. 9. and so deny Christ to be come in the flesh c. Again it becomes not a true reformation to borrow of a false Church especially such as Rome so main a Pillar as Ministers or maintenance Inas much as Jeremiah saith Jer. 51. 25. 26 The Lord is against Babilon that destroying Mountain that destroyest the earth c. And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor a stone for a foundation but thou shalt be utterly destroyed for ever according to the Covenant root and branch compared with 2 Cor. 6. 14 to 18. The said practice of taking Tythes also introduceth Prelatical pride and time-serving with great men in Authority as Ezek. 13. 1. all the Ministers by that means being lifted up so far above their poor Brethren which causeth unaptness to teach their care being set upon the things of this life as how to get so also to keep the things of this World whereby he becomes a brawler a man of contention as too sad experience sheweth Courts of Iustice Committee for Plundered Ministers Sessions Iustices of Peace by their trouble and daily vexations Sutes through their covetousness can witness which causeth great covetousness and contention for the contending of which as the Apostle saith is the root of all evil 1 Tim. 6. 10. for instead of being given to hospitality these rob the poor that are forc'd to begg taking that by force which others get by great labor and toyl All which is clear against what the Ministers of Christ ought to be yea and must be if they perform their duty as 1 Tim. 3. 2. 3. where the Apostle saith A Bishop then must be blameless the Husband of one wife vigilant sober of good beheaviour given to hospitality apt to teach not a brawler much lesse a plunderer for Tythes not covetous c. And therefore if you will pretend your selves Ministers of Christ prove your ordination by the word and be content with your wages This is clear Acts 6. 2. where the Apostles and Ministers of the Gospel of Christ would not leave the word to serve Tables to wit to supply the want of the poor Saints but gave direction for Deacons to be chosen for that service much lesse would they look after Tythes as these do by compulsion and cruelty A Husband-man one day declared at the Parliament door that he rented 300. Acres of Land and that he proffered the Priest 100 thereof gratis so as that he would manure it but he would not accept thereof now judge ye what a case we are fallen into Again consider how dishonourable it is that such as pretend that they are put in trust with the unsearchable treasure of the Gospel should so dishonour their pretended Master and hinder the receiving thereof by their forcing maintenance from people which themselves confess have not received the Gospel from them nor have they begotten them to the faith so that they are neither Fathers Planters Teachers Bishops c. unto them And yet will they force maintenance from them contrary to 2 Cor. ●2 14. 15. Behold the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome to you for I seek not yours but you for the Children ought not to lay up for the Parents but the Parents for the Children And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you though the more abundantly I love you the lesse I be loved But instead of this I have seen that cruelty exercised by the Magistrate through these mens means already that I never saw in four years waiting at the high Commission Court But why have we not as well a Doctor of Physick and a Lawyer forc'd on every Parish as these would it be any more but the like Monopoly but that we should be forced to pay these men Tythes not owning them nor their work they having been the Priests of the Nation and chief cause of all the blood-shed yet now oppressing cruelly such as have adventured life and estate for the preservation of the same yet this to be call'd Primo Libertatis Angliae when instead of take him Jaylor at the high Commission Court it is said now take him into Custody where is demanded 10. times greater charge Oh Rehoboams Reformation was such proceedings cruel then and