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A61095	Tithes too hot to be touched certain treatises, wherein is shewen that tithes are due, by the law of nature, scripture, nations, therefore neither Jewish, Popish, or inconvenient / written by Sr. Henry Spelman ... ; with an alphabeticall table.	Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.; Stephens, Jeremiah, 1591-1665.	1640 (1640)	Wing S4931; ESTC R19648	146,054	238

ita ut se patronos tutores ejus praestarent Kings and Princes should give much Lands Revenues and great maintenance for the worship of God and his Ministers attending thereon which promise God abundantly performed by many and great Emperours Kings and Princes in all Countries after their conversion to the faith The donations gifts and buildings of Constantine the first and great Christian Emperour born at York and Helena his mother an English Lady exceeding religious and devout are famous in History together with their buildings and endowing of many ample and beautifull Churches in severall Counties of the Empire Dominicum aureum Nobilissimum Antiochiae templum à Constantino M. inceptum sub Constantio verò absolutum hoc epitheto prae excellentia honoratum insigni Episcoporum populorumque confluentia ejus encaeniam cebrante Hieron in Chronico In Antiochia Dominicum quod vocatur aureum aedificari coeptum Et infra mox Antiochiae Dominicum aureum dedicatur Glossar Spelman pa. 224. Cyrill describing a Church of Constantines building in Jerusalem cals it Cat. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Church all adorned and embossed with silver and gold Eusebius reporting of the spacious and beautifull Church of Tyre which was built anew by the famous B. P. Paulinus says the lustre and splendour was such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as made beholders amazed to behold it Neither did he thus alone in his own persō but he also gave leave to his subjects to doe the like whereby the Church was greatly enriched in a short time C. L. 1. c. de sacrosanct Ecclesiis § Si quis authent de Ecclesia The gifts and buildings of divers other Emperours and Kings as Theodosius Justinian Pipin and Charles the great are endlesse to be repeated When as any doth the like now or repair old Churches formerly built he is by some ignorant people tearmed Popish or Popish affected The grants buildings and gifts of our own English Kings Noble men and Bishops ever since our first conversion are famous in our Histories especially of King Lucius and Ethelbert the two first of the British and Saxon Kings so also of Egbert Alured Ethelwolph Edgar Edward the Confessor and many others in times following after the Conquest no Princes or Nobles being more bountifull then ours in England Their Charters and Acts of Parliament are extant in the first Tome of our Councels by this Authour and many are also mentioned by the learned Selden in his History Now when Churches are built and grants of lands tithes and oblations are freely given by great Kings confirmed by severall Acts of Parliament oftentimes renued and reiterated as by the great Charter thirty times confirmed and many other Statutes since as also by the Text and body of the Common Law which doth affirm Tithes to be due Jure divino as is asserted by that ever honourable Judge and Oracle of Law the Lord Coke in the second part of his Reports L'Evesque de Winchester case fol. 45. Dismes sont choses spirituels due de jure divino Being thus setled and confirmed and thereby becomming fundamentall Laws of the Kingdome they may and ought to be enjoyed peaceably without grudging or repining alienation or spoil without casting an evill eye upon Gods allowance and because he hath given the floure of wheat to make bread for his Sanctuary whereof God himself giveth charge in the last vision of Ezekiel Ezek. 45 c. contained in the last four chapters where he appointeth a third part of the land to be set forth for his Temple Priests and servants besides the portions for the Prince and for the people which vision for performance concerneth the Christian Church and was never fulfilled in the Jewish State as this Author and many others doe shew and there God doth especially forbid alienation selling or exchanging of his Temples portion as being most holy unto the Lord Ezek. 48.14 It concerns us therefore that live in these times of the Christian Church when we see the ancient prophesie fulfilled by Kings and Princes in giving much to the Church to preserve Gods portion entire without alienation spoil or violence The Primitive times of the Church as this Authour sheweth ch 6. as had not been since the very Creation times wherein God opened the windows of persecution and rained bloud upon his Church as hee did water upon the world in the days of Noah during the ten grievous persecutions in the first 300. years after Christ so that no man must expect then to finde setled Lawes for Tithes Lands or maintenance of the Clergy when the Emperors and Magistrates were Heathens persecuting the Church and made many furious edicts for rasing and ruinating of Churches which had been built by Christians in some times of intermission as appears by Eusebius when hee comes to the times of Dioclesian Every good Christian and almost every Clergy-man lost his life for religion no man did care or expect for preferment maintenance or dignity save onely the crown of martyrdome which many thousands did obtain Cap. 6. The Church saith this Author did all that while expose the dugs of her piety unto others but did live her self on thistles and thorns in great want oftentimes necessity and professed poverty Now those men that would reform all according to the pattern of the Primitive Church and the Apostolicall times do not consider that the Clergy must be reduced again to the same condition of poverty want and misery as formerly they were if the pious and charitable gifts and donations of Kings and Nobles in the ages next succeeding the persecutions should be taken away and the ancient patrimony of Tithes abated or subverted by the worldly and covetous practices of them that esteem gaine to be godlinesse The kytes of Satan as this Author tearmeth them have already pulled away many a plume from the Church in severall ages yet thanks be to God there be some feathers left to keep her from shame and nakednesse if the sacrilegious humour of the times prevail not against her And there is the more reason to hope and expect that we may enjoy our portion and tithes quietly because we have so much lesse then the old Priests and Levites received from the people for they had severall tithes and oblations for themselves for the feasts and for the poor wherein they did share in a far greater proportion then is now required by the Clergy of the Gospel The learned Scaliger Selden and many others do prove apparently by instance of particulars that the Israelites did pay out of their increase of corn much more then a tenth even almost a fifth part for severall tithes and duties then commanded to them I will recite Mr Seldens example History ca. 2. § 4. The Husband-mā had growing 6000 Bushels in one year 100 Bushels was the least that could be paid by the husband-man to the Priests for the first-fruits of the threshing floore 5900 Bushels remained

His command to his disciples Not to take ought with them bindeth not Ministers now Sp. 44. His miracle of the loaves how to be imitated by his Ministers Sp. 55 56. His living upon almes tieth not Ministers to the same course Sp. 55 Church its etymology and signification Ap. 11 12. See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There were Churches and Priests and Tithes before the Law Sp. 10. Church-maintenance in the Primitive times what and how imployed Sp. 16-24 No expresse command for the building of Churches Sp. 110. Of the holinesse of Churches Sp. 82. Churches and Ministers necessary Ap. 15. Whether the Church may possess lands and temporalties Sp. 24. c. Of the maintenance of the Church of Jerusalem Sp. 13. Alexandria Sp. 14 Rome Sp. 14. Africa Sp. 15. The Church of England a while ago the most flourishing in Christendome St. 20. Churches in England how many appropriate how many not Ap. 16. See Clergy The miserable condition of the Greek Church R. 26. Church-government why so long in settling Sp. 46-51 Circumcision and sacrifices intermitted in the wildernesse Sp. 47. Why seeing it was before the Leviticall law did it expire with it Sp. 147 Clergies immunities how large once how now infringed St. 13. English Clergy taxed with luxurie Ap. 16 17. How much the present Parliament hath already done in favour of the Clergie R. 1 That it is very probable it will continue their antient maintenance by Tithes R. 2 c. Clodoveus King of France Sp. 178 Committee-men deciphered R. 7.12 Communitie of goods among Christians for how long R. 22 Consecration of things and persons why ordained Sp. 180 Constantine the Great his pious munificence St. 6. Sp. 24 Cool of the day Gen. iii. 8. what Sp. 98. 1 Cor. xi 18 20 22. expounded Ap. 10. c. D DAlmaticae vestes in what reverence amongst the ancient Clergy Sp. 176 Why worn by Kings at their Coronations ibid. Deacons distributers of Church goods Sp. 23. Antienter then Bishops Sp. 50. Of women-Deacons Sp. 51 Decimae or decima whence derived Sp. 67 70 Decimus Decumanut Decimare Exdecimare Sp. 75 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whence derived Sp. 67 70 Deodate's Testimonie concerning our Church St. 20 Sir William Dodington St. 22 Drusius put to hard shifts St. 19 E EAster Sp. 50. concerning the grounds and time of its observation Sp. 149 Edgar See Kings Edward the Confessor See Kings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. xi 12. signifieth a materiall Church Sp. 84. Ap. 1 2. 6-11 Eleven This number signifieth sinne Sp. 73 Enoch's translation an Embleme of the Sabbath Sp. 99 Examples and sayings of wise men a law to posterity Sp. 110 Excommunication exercised by the King of Spain Sp. 181 Exod. xxii 29. Non tardabis expounded Sp. 103. 140 F FAsting practiced and allowed though not commanded Sp. 48. When it was first brought into the Church uncertain Sp. 87. First-fruits or Annates paid to Priests by the law of Nature Sp. 102.108 why then abrogated with the Law of Moses Sp. 144 c. When first imposed on the Clergy St. 12 The Floud a kind of tithing of the world Sp. 99 G GAvelkind what R. 14. Gen. xiv allegorically expounded and applied to the Church under the Gospel Sp. 104 c. Glastenbury-Abbey Sp. 183 Glebeland when letten must pay Tithe Sp. 79 Gods glory the end of all things Introd What duties we ow to him for his bounty Ibid. Ep. 1. He had a portion of Time Place Fruits even in Paradise Sp. 97 Why he requireth the tenth of our goods and but the seventh of our time Sp. 9 See Tenth The best part of every thing is his due Sp. 67 68. and that such a part as implieth the whole Sp. 72. Things offered to him how holy Sp. 82. 168. What may be known of God by the light of Nature Sp. 95. Trismegist's description of God Sp. 70. The Thoes destroyed for their neglect of the gods Sp. 123 Good things though abused by some may lawfully be used by others Sp. 84 c. Ms. Elen Goulston her beneficence to St. John's in Oxford St. 22 Greek Church poore every way R. 26 H Sir Ralph Hare a Benefactor to St. John's in Cambridge St. 21 23 Heathens how liberall to their gods Sp. 114 c. Their examples fit to be proposed to Christians Sp. 116. Their devotion will rise up in judgement against our sacriledge Sp. 117. 127 128 Henry the Eighth's speech concerning Abbey-lands c. Sp. 166. His virtues and acts especially his shaking off the Romish yoke highly commended B. 1 2 Hercules his offering how profuse Sp. 117. 124 Baptist L. Hicks a great friend to the Clergy St. 22 Holinesse of things dedicated to God Sp. 82 Hospitalers A question concerning them and the Templars Sp. 160 Hospitulity being the Ministers duty the people must afford him a certain maintenance Sp. 16 I J JAcobs vow concerning Tithes Sp. 109 Idolatry The rise of it Sp. 43 Jews paid for more to their Priests then Christians St. 9. How forward and chearefull they were in their payments St. 11. They received Priesthood from the Gentiles Sp. 44. 102. The chiefe Judges and Officers among them were Levites Sp. 38 39. Of their Courts of Justice Sp. 40. Their Ceremonies why so long permitted under the Gospel Sp. 48. c. Impropriations See Appropriations John iii. 23. Mystically expounded Sp. 105 Isa lvi 7. expounded Ap. 10 Just It is folly to say a thing is therefore just because the Law of the Land alloweth it Sp. 172 K KIngs Alured the first anointed King of England Sp. 177. His virtues and famous acts ibid. Clodoveus the first King of France that received unction Sp. 178. Kings of Spain neither anointed nor crowned till Jerusalem and Sicil fell to them Sp. 179. The King of England chief King of Christendome ibid. The Papists deny our Kings spirituall power yet was it granted by a Pope Sp. 178 179. The King of Spain hath and exerciseth the power of Excommunication Sp. 181. Kings of England antiently assumed and used Ecclesiasticall authority Sp. 181 c. as appeareth by the examples of Edward the Confessor Sp. 181. Edgar and nine of his predecessors Sp. 182 c. of the Kings of Mercia Sp. 185. Of William the Conqueror Sp. 186. and William Rufus Sp. 188. Kings were wont to seek confirmation of their Lawes from Popes and Councels of their Canons from Kings Sp. 184. Kings have an Ecclesiasticall as well as civill power Sp. 155. Otherwise they could not govern both Church and State Sp. 174. c. As the sword is an embleme of their temporall so are Oil vestis Dalmatica of their spirituall jurisdiction Sp. 175 c. What Kings were wont to bee be anointed Sp. 176. The Kings Chappell antiently under no Ordinary but himself onely Sp. 155. 186 188. Christians ought to be subject to their Kings though Heathen Sp. 174. What was granted to the King by the Statute of Dissolution Sp. 161