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A04574	The way to glory, or, The preaching of the Gospell is the ordinary meanes of our saluation wherein is shewed what difference there is betweene the text of the Gospell, and the preaching, exposition, and glosse thereof : with a confutation of our aduersaries opinion, that the Popes defining and expounding Scriptures ex Cathedra, is to bee beleeued as vndoubted truth ... : herein also is shewed the dignity and necessity of the office of preaching the Gospell ... : preached in the Cathedrall Church of S. Paules, for the Crosse sermon, the tenth of December, 1620 / by Ro. Iohnson Bachelour of Diunity.	Johnson, Ro. (Robert)	1621 (1621)	STC 14693.5; ESTC S2160	25,362	56

preferre the ministration of condemnation before the ministration of righteousnesse which doth exceede in glory Therefore if their maintenance bee not more nor lesse then Leuies it must bee the same which is the tenth Againe that which God commanded Argu. 2 in his Word and was practised by many holy men and was neuer abrogated by God is still in force But God commanded in his Word tythes to be paid many godly men practised the same and the ordinance was neuer abrogated Ergo the duty of paying tythes is still in force That God commands this duty that fearefull execration of almighty God Deut. 14.22 Mal. 3.8 Nehe. 10.37 Math. 23.23 Gen. 14.20 28.22 by the mouth of his Prophet Malachie in his third chapter sheweth hee commands them to bring his tythes into his house and hee commands them with a witnesse for he subioynes a fearefull penalty a curse vpon the heads of those that neglect this duty and this he neuer abrogated therefore the same is still in force Argu. 3 Againe that which is the Lords inheritance properly and the property and benefite thereof assigned to his Ministers Leuit. 27.30 the places aboue cited Leuit. 27.30 no other man ought to vsurpe and take from them but must be due vnto them But tythes are the Lords the benefit and vse of them he hath assigned to his Ministers Ergo no man ought to vsurpe or take it from them Leuit. 27.30 The Tenth is mine saith the Lord and this hee hath assigned to his Ministers Ergo it is their dues to haue it Argu. 4 1. Cor. 9.7 9.13 The Ministers must haue their wages and maintenance either of right or of Almes not of Almes for that were too beggerly and base for so high and holy a calling Ergo they must haue their maintenance of right and of that kinde which is assigned in his holy Word Argu. 5 Heb. 7.17.7.8.9 8.9 Tythes properly belong to Christs priesthood The priesthood remaines for euer Ergo the maintenance due to that priesthood must remaine for euer The paying of tythes is no ceremoniall Argu. 6 nor iudiciall Ergo a morall duty No ceremoniall duty for they were paid before Abraham and since the ceremoniall law Ergo no ceremoniall duty because a ceremony is but a type of an holy thing to come and it is for a time Leuit. 27.30.31 Tythes are holy things themselues and holy to the Lord Ergo no ceremoniall duty And tythes are no iudicialls for no iudicials were vowed to the Lord as tythes are Gen. 28.22 Secondly Iudicialls are for the ciuill gouernement of men and for things in common-Weale Againe Iudicialls are not holy things Leuit. ibidem and consecrated to God as tythes are therefore they are no Iudicials If then tythes be neither ceremonials nor Iudicials they must needes be morals and due by the morall law of God Obiectio prima Obiections against this truth answered Tythes were dedicated to the Leuites for their seruice in the ceremoniall law but that law is abrogated therefore paying of tythes abrogated Answ The ceremoniall part of the law which was the assignation of tythes to them for their legall seruices pro tempore is abrogated but not the morall duty for that was before Leuy and after Leuy perpetually to continue and is the Lords right for euer Obiect 2 Tythes are due by mans law by the common ciuill and canon law if they were due by Gods law what neede these to ratifie them Sol. Murder whoredome and theft is forbidden by mans law are they therefore not forbidden in Gods law Obiect 3 A competent maintenance is due to Ministers but not tythes Sol. 1 Prooue that position for there is no such word as competency in Scriptures spoken of a fine competent sort of absurdities would follow on this opinion Then we should haue in steed of a Bishop of a Church a competencer of a Church in steed of a parson or Minister of such a Church a competencer of such a Church a proper title Sol. 2 Againe let this competency be granted be it 100 or 200 l. per annū more or lesse who shold haue the Parsonage Lay-men why not Clergy men But how by what law should tythes and maintenance bee due By mans law by Statute law say they But may not that be abrogated and where is that competent maintenance then So there would be no Ministers if there were no maintenance and all the world would grow to paganisme if there were no Ministers or learned men to enstruct the people These are the friuolous obiections of the Atheisticall spirits of our age that would faine finger our Church-liuings because they haue found sweetnesse as they thinke in them already But yet it hath and alwayes will proue ratsbane to their soules and their posterities destructiō And yet these criticall schismaticall spirits vnder colour of zeale and for the maintenance of their owne pride and ambition would if they could In the suruay of the pretended holy discipline banish those Bishops which Christ and his Apostles appointed and would turne all discipline and gouernement vpside-downe Churches into Chambers Bishops into Syndicks and Superintendents Ministers into Bench-Presbyterians and would if they were suffered Pha●ton Ouid. make a new Metamorphosis of the church and Common-weale But here let all those that feare the Lord God of Hostes know that tythes are due vnto the Ministers of the Gospell by a diuine right and learne to giue them their dues lest that angry curse of God fall vpon them and their posterities which is spoken by the Prophet Malachie Mal. 3 To be cursed with a curse for spoyling and defrauding the Lord and his Ministers of their rights and therefore I will conclude this point with Moses blessing Leuy and his substance Blesse O Lord Deut. ●3 11 Leuies substance and accept the worke of his hands smite through the loynes of them that rise vp against him and of them that hate them that they rise not againe 4 Cir. The fourth and last circumstance to bee considered in this text touching this heauenly calling by the Gospell is the terminus ad quem Text. The period and end of al happinesse To obtaine the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ Last position And heere wee learne that the glory of Christ shal be the end and reward of al those that obey the Gospell for hereunto hee called you by our Gospell to obtaine the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ To this purpose S. Iohn saith 1. Iohn 3.2 Dearely beloued now we are the Sons of God but yet it doth not appeare what we shall be and we know that when hee shall appeare we shall be like him for wee shall see him as he is Rom. 8.30 And againe Whom he sanctified them he glorified and here in the text We shall obtaine the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ Quest But how is this his glory

inuention of man 1. Cor. 12.28 but Institutum diuinum an Ordinance of God for they are appointed of God to be Patres nutritij nursing Fathers feeding vs with the sincere milke of the word of God 1. Pet. 2.2 that thereby wee may grow vp to saluation and to be short that thereby we may at last obtaine the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ Appli 1. Seeing then that the preaching of the Gospell is the ordinary meanes that God hath appointed to call vs vnto saluation and since also such is the dignity and necessity of the office of preaching the Gospell that it cōcernes our saluation let al true Christians here learne to giue them their rights dues that belong vnto such men of so high an office and calling both in their dignity and maintenance For their dignity the Apostle saith Videte See that you haue them in singular reuerence for their workes sake and be at peace with them Aristotle was reuerenced by Alexander as his father because that from his father he had but life but from his maister he had knowledge how to liue And truly if Feare the Lord and honour his Ministers be married together then certainely they which dishonour the seruants of the liuing God Eccle. 7. there is but little loue to their maister and little feare of God before their eyes 1. Cor. 4. Sic aestimet nos Let a man so esteeme vs as the Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the secrets of God Howbeit such is the iniquity of our times that as the shaddow went backe ten degrees in the diall of Ahaz 2. King 10.11 so ten degrees do the shaddowes of Christ his Ministers I meane goe backe in their esteeme in the world and as they goe ten degrees backe in their esteeme so they goe 20. degrees backe in their maintenance for the most part of them And that maintenance which almighty God hath designed these his seruants in his word for their wages is now in this criticke age called in question whether God assigned it or no in his word as if God would command his seruants in his word the great worke of preaching and not in the same word allow them also wages for their worke or leaue it to the courtesie or discretion of men to determine by humane lawes a competent maintenance as they terme it for them As touching therefore the seuerall and contradictory opinions about this question in this age An Decimae sint iure diuino Quest Whether tithes bee due by the word of God or not This being within the compasse of my Text I cannot suspend my iudgement but I will briefly determine it And I confidently and vnfeignedly hold and beleeue affirmatiuely against all refractory and schismaticall spirits opposing 〈◊〉 this truth Positio That tithes are due iure diuino by the diuine and morall law of God and that they ought to be paid de iure of right although through the corruption of the times they haue not beene paid de facto as they ought to be And this I will prooue by Scriptures Fathers Councels and Arguments and lastly answer the obiections against this truth First let vs looke on these places of Scripture Gen. 14.20 Abraham and Leuy in Abraham paid Tythes to Melchizedeck The Priest-hood remaineth for euer ergo the maintenance belongeth to that Priest-hood for euer Gen. 28.22 Iacob built an house vnto God and gaue vnto him the tenth of all he had And this stone which I haue set vp shall be Gods house and of all that thou shalt giue mee I will giue the tenth vnto thee Leuit. 27.30 Also all the tythe of the land both of the seede and of the ground and of the fruite of the trees is the Lords it is holy to the Lord. Obiect If men say this is a Leuiticall ceremoniall law and therefore abrogated Answ I answer This with diuers other the like in the book of Leuiticus are morall positions and are not abrogated As in Leuiticus 17.7 They must not offer offerings vnto deuills for that man shall bee cut off from his people is a morall position And Leuiticus 18. How marriages are lawfull and not are morall precepts And againe Yee shall not steale nor deale falsly neither lye one to another Leuit. 19.11.12 Also yee shall not sweare by my Name falsly neither shalt thou defile the Name of God I am the Lord. These are morall positions in Leuiticus Thou shalt not sweare falsly thou shalt not steale c. and therefore not abrogated So is also this law of paying tythes a morall duty as I will hereafter shew and therefore not abrogated For breuities sake I will onely quote places for the proofe of this truth As Numb 18.21 Deut. 14.22 Nehem. 10.37 Malachie 3.8 Math. 23.23 Luke 18.12 1. Cor. 9.7 1. Cor. 9.13 Heb. 7.8 All which places are most pregnant proofes that tythes are due iure diuino by Gods morall law and the obiections which the aduerse patt can extract out of these places to contradict this truth are vaine and triuiall But aboue all in my iudgement these two places in Scripture are very pertinent to the purpose we haue now in hand Yee tythe mint and annise and commin Math. 23.23 and leaue the weightier matters of the Law as iudgement mercy and truth These ought yee to haue done and not to haue left the other vndone Here our Sauiour vpbraides the Pharisies for doing the least moral duties and neglecting the weightiest But yet he concludes Origen homil 11. in Numb that they are all morall duties for they ought all to be done Paying of tithes is heere reckoned as a morall duty and with the morall duties of iudgement mercy and truth which ought both in the time of the Law and the Gospell to haue beene done Obiect If any obiect that in this place tythes ought to haue bene paid in the time of the Law and that Christ here spake of what ought to haue bene done in the time of the Law and not in the time of the Gospell Answ 1 I answer that what is a morall duty and ought to haue beene done in the time of the Law ought also to bee done in time of the Gospell Answ 2 Secondly tything mercy iustice and truth are heere reckoned all for morall duties because they ought all to haue beene done But morall duties ought to bee done in the time of the Gospell as well as in the time of the Law Origen ibid. ergo paying of tythes iustice and mercy being morall duties ought to be done in the time of the Gospell as well as in the time of the Law and this word oportet ought or must implies that they are all morall duties Againe in Hebrewes 7.8 Here men that dye receiue tithes but there hee receiueth them of whom it is witnessed that hee liueth and to say as the thing is Leuy also which receiued tythes paied tythes in Abraham