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A77137	A defence and justification of ministers maintence by tythes. And of infant-baptism, humane learning, and the sword of the magistrate; which some Anabaptists falsely call four sandy pillars, and popish foundations of our ministry and churches. In which tythes are proved to be due by divine right to the ministers of the gospel. All common objections answered, and divers cases of conscience humbly proposed: with a light to clear them. / In a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to Immanuel Bourne, late pastor of the church in Asheover in the county of Derby: now preacher to the congregation at Waltham in the county of Leicester. With a short answer to Anthony Peirson's great case of tythes, &c.	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3851; Thomason E1907_1	92,679	184

Ministers of Christ are worthy of 1 Tim. 5.17 This truth we may find witnessed in antient Histories and in the primitive Fathers of the Church First for History we will begin with our own British Antiquities remembred by that learned Mr. Pryn in his Gospel-plea proving that the present opposition against Tythes proceeds not from any real grounds of conscience but base covetousness Mr. Prynne his Gospel plea p. 123. cites John Capgrave in vila Joseph Christ Glastoniens Vincent spect Hist lib. 23 cap. 147. cited by Doctor Vsher Brit Eccles Antiq cap. 2. pag. 973. c. carnal policie c. and a Jesuitical and Anabaptistical design to subvert our Ministers Church and Religion Now Mr. Pryn out of that godly learned and worthy Dr. Vsher relates that Ioseph of Arimathea who with Nicodemus took care for the burial of our Saviour in a new sepulchre where never man was laid as S. John witnesseth Joh. 19 21. This Joseph came with some others into England about the year of Christ Forty eight and preached the Gospel to Arniragus a British King a valiant Prince Dr. Prideaun in Rom. Tribun pag. 289. called Hector of Britain who embraced the Christian faith and understanding the purity of their doctrine and holiness of their conversation he gave as the History relates twelve Hides of land in the Isles of Avalon since called Glastenbury in Somersetshire where they built the first Church made as the Historian speaks of Wattle and Reeds and there they continued together preaching the Gospel and living upon this their Glebe now of great value saith Mr. Pryn which was afterwards confirmed to them and the Ministers of the Gospel there succeeding them both by Marius and Coilus next successors to Arniragus whom also they instructed in the Christian religion Thus was Ministers maintenance taken care of by that Christian King here about forty eight years after Christ Dr. Vsher Brit. Eccles Antiq. Spelmanni Conc. pag. 12. cited by Mr. Prynne his Gospel plea. pag. 124 The Poet thus Lucius in Christum credit Christoque dicatos Ecclesias dotat distinctas ordinat urbes c. Again about the year of Christ One hundred seventy six within two hundred years after Christ we read of Lucius our King of Britain that being converted to the Christian faith by Faganus and Damianus Preachers of the Gospel sent to him at his request by Elutherius Bishop of Rome he builded and endowed Churches through his Dominions with Glebe-lands and Tythes and this for the maintenance of the Ministers of Christ long before Pope or Popery was set up in the world And this afterwards the British and Saxon Kings confirmed and enacted more fully I may tell you that about three hundred years after Christ the Christians being here and elswhere restored to peace Gild●s Dr. Vshers Brit. Eccles Antiq. pag. 193. SpelConc p. 36. 45. Cited by Mr. Prynne and freed from persecution by Constantine the Great who was born in England the first Christan Emperor they began to build and repair those Churches or Meeting-places the Emperor Dioclesian and other persecutors had rased to the ground And then were Churches endowed and Ministers maintained by Tythes as well as Glebe-lands witness the antient Writers and Fathers of the Church then and before those times And this long before Pope or Popery and Antichrist of Rome was stiled Universal Bishop and declared Antichrist in the Church I might give you a catalogue of Godly men from those times almost to these very days who witnessed Tythes to be Gods right and due by Divine right to the Ministers of the Gospel I will name but a few And first I begin with Irenaeus Iren. lib. 4. cap. 20. who lived about one hundred and eighty years after Christ and he tells us that the Apostles and so the Ministers of Christ are the Lords Priests that serve at the Altar 1 Cor. 9.13 14. that must eat the Lords part that must have the substance of the Levites not of gift but of right Of them spake Moses And what was the principal substance of which the Levites did live but the Tythes which God gave to Levi for his fervice in the tabernacle Num. i8 2i Therefore certainly Irenaeus witnesseth what was due of right to the Ministers of the Gospel in his time and this was Tythes Again Origen who lived about two hundred years after Christ Sed in novo Testa mento similiter venerabilis est decas c. in his Homilies upon Genesis as in other places he declareth his judgment concerning Tythes But also in the New Testament saith he the Tenth is venerable And because there is one Author of all one fountain one beginning even Christ therefore the people pay Tythes to the Ministers of Christ Thus you see in Origen's time within two hundred years after Christ Tythes were esteemed venerable in the New Testament as well as in the Old and the Christians paid Tythes as of old And this was four hundred years before the Antichrist of Rome was risen up in the Church or made himself manifest in the world Tythes were not then Antichristian nor Popish as the Quakers Anabaptistical Can and others would make men believe Thirdly Cyprian de unit eccles Cyprian who lived about two hundred and fifty years after Christ They did then viz. in the primitive times sell their houses and lands and laid the money down at the Apostles feet for the use of the Church laying up treasure in heaven But now saith he De patrimonio nec decimas damus We do not so much as give the Tenth of our patrimony to God The Father reproveth the Christians for coming short of the Jews in giving God his right But some Quaker or Anabaptist will object Object This sheweth rather that Tythes were not due or not paid in those times of Cyprian I answer Answ Mal. 3.6 7. That is not so For you may read Mal. 3. that the Lord reproveth the Jews for not paying of their tythes and tells them they were robbers of God guilty of that odious sin of sacrilege Ye have robbed me saith the Lord and ye say wherein In tythes and offerings but ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole nation Doth this prove that Tythes were not due then by the law of God or that none were then paid in that Nation Certainly no but rather the contrary that they were due by Gods law yea that they were the Lords and that those whosoever kept them back they were thieves and robbers then as they are now in the times of the Gospel Tythes certainly were due by Divine right in S. Cyprian's judgment which was long before the days of the Pope or Papacie or that Antichrist of Rome in the world Fourthly Hilar lib. explan in Mat. c. 24. Hilary who lived about three hundred and fifty years after that in his book of Explanation upon Matthew Because the

and his Ministers by Divine right and this was two hundred years before the Pope or Antichrist of Rome was born But I might go on with a long Catalogue of antient Writers to the rising of Antichrist yea and since that Antichrist of Rome did exalt himself and give evidence from many godly men in several ages who have witnessed and confirmed by divers arguments the Divine right of Tythes as due to Christ's faithful Ministers in the Gospel by Divine right But I commend those that desire to see many more testimonies D. Tillesley in his Animad on M. Seldens hist of Tythes to that excellent Catalogue composed by learned Dr. Tillesley wherein he produceth about Threescore witnesses that assert the Divine right of Tythes or give arguments to that purpose That they have been and ought to be so paid And I might add the judgement of the godly learned of later times But these before Antichrist's time are sufficient to witness Tythes are not Antichristian nor any popish invention whatsoever the Quakers or Anabaptists or others imagine to the contrary But when did Antichrist arise Object 1 Joh. 2.18 may some demand Doth not St. John say there were many Antichrists in his time 1 John 2.18 I answer It is true the Apostle doth witness that there were then many Antichrists and so there are now many Antichrists many adversaries to Christ and his Ministers now in the world Those malignant Quakers who plot and labor the overthrow of the Gospel established Ministery what are they but the spawn of Antichrist Rev. 16.13 and creeping frogs out of the mouth of the Beast of the Dragon and the false Prophet But the Apostle in the same Chapter and the same verse 1 Joh. 2.18 he spake of another Antichrist that Antichrist that principal Antichrist whom St. Paul describes 2 Thess 2.3 4. The man of sin the son of perdition who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God or as if he were God we may say suffering himself by his flatterers to be called God as some Popes have done that scarlet coloured Beast full of names of Blasphemy As Jewel against Harding proveth to whom the ten Kings give their power and strength to fight against the Lamb Christ as Antichrist and the whore of Babylon is decyphered Rev. 17. Rev. 17.1 2 c. This Antichrist did not arise until about six hundred years after Christ Gregory the Great 600 years after Christ We read of Gregory the Great who was Bishop of Rome about the year six hundred that he foretold whosoever he was that should take unto him the name and title of Universal Bishop he was either Antichristus or praecursor Antichristi Antichrist or the forerunner of Antichrist and this was fulfilled in his next Successor Boniface the Third For when that peremptory proud Centurion Phocas Phocas killed Mauritius the Emperor about 600 years after Christ The papacy began as the great Autichrist had wickedly and treacherously killed his Lord and Master the Emperor Mauritius then Boniface the Third being Bishop of Rome by the countenance of the Murderer Phocas did take upon him that Antichristian name and title of Universal Bishop So fulfilling the the Prophesie of Gregory the Great his Predecessor And this pride of papal dignity his successors imbrace as well as he then laboring by all means to exalt the Papacy yet many hundred years after yea and to this day God preserved some holy men to preserve the Truth and to defend Gods right and the right of his servants As in the days of Ahab and Jezabel God had seven thousand in Israel which had not bowed the knee to Baal Divers Councils confirmed and good Laws were enacted to maintain the Divine right of tythes I shall omit the Councils and give you an antient Law or two for this purpose First King Ethelstan a King of this land about nine hundred and thirty years after Christ by the advice of his Council at that time I do command all my chief Officers saith he in all my Kingdom in the name of the Lord that first of my own proper estate they give the tenth to God as well in my living goods as in the dead fruits of the earth and the same he requires his Bishops Aldermen and others to do Thus he doth as out of conscience acknowledge Gods due And that Law of King Edward the Confessor The Laws of K. Edw. the Confescited pag. 224. 1050 years after Christ who lived about a thousand and fifty years after Christ six hundred years since De omni decima garba Deo debita est ideo reddenda c. Of all the corn the tenth sheaf is due to God and therefore to be paid And if any one hath a flock of Mares he is to give the tenth Foal and if he have but one or two he shall give for every one a penny and he that shall have many Kine he shall give the tenth Calf and he that hath but one or two he shall give for every one a half-penny And he that maketh cheese let him give God the tenth and if he make none then the milk the tenth day likewise the tenth Lamb the tenth Fleece and of Bees the tenth of the profit and so of lesser Tythes of Boss Gardens and other things And this Law you see doth witness Tythes due to God by divine right many hundred years since to let pass Statutes made of later years but I cannot pass over that of Sir Edward Coke that learned Judge and famous Oracle of the Law who affirms That in the very body of the antient Common Law of England Tythes are due Jure Divino by Divine Right and we have declared they were so judged for the first six hundred years after Christ and after that again until the time of King Edward the Confessor about a thousand and fifty years after Christ When the Pope would appropriate Tythes to Abbies ben began the opinion that Tythes were not due by Divine Right the same opinion continued in the Church But after that the Popes of Rome began to be more politick to maintain their own greatness by enlarging the maintenance of their Abbots Monks and Fryers in the Monasteries of several orders devised to maintain the Popes great ness not content with those Lands which out of fair pretence were given to them by men and women religiously Gratian c. 3 q. 2. Leo 4. Cited by D. Carleton in Tythes examined and some superstitiously affected but seeking also to get the Tythes from the particular Parish Ministers to whom they were antiently setled as their proper right which was done in part by Dionysius Bishop of Rome about two hundred and seventy years after Christ Mr. Hanmer his Cronography pag. 577. Jo Canne his second voice from the Temple which was many

A Defence and Justification OF Ministers Maintenance BY TYTHES AND OF Infant-Baptism Humane Learning and the Sword of the Magistrate Which some ANABAPTISTS falsely call Four Sandy Pillars and Popish Foundations of our Ministry and Churches In which Tythes are proved to be due by Divine Right to the Ministers of the Gospel All common Objections Answered and divers cases of Conscience humbly proposed with a light to clear them In a REPLY to a Paper sent by some Anabaptists to IMMANUEL BOURNE Late Pastor of the Church in Asheover in the County of Derby now Preacher to the Congregation at Waltham in the County of Leicester With a short ANSWER to Anthony Peirson's Great Case of Tythes c. Thou that abhorrest Idols dost thou commit Sacriledge Rom. 2.22 LONDON Printed for John Allen at the Rising Sun in Paul's Church-yard 1659. To the Supream Authority of this NATION The PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND By the special Providence of God restored to their TRUST Christian Senators IT is now above twelve years since I Dedicated a larger Treatise to this Honourable Parliament then full of pious Members and full of the Favour of God and high esteem in the World the most wise and powerfull Lord of Hosts the God of all the Armies in the earth having made you hopeful Conquerors over the Adverse Party and given you power to establish the Nations upon the sure Foundation of Truth and Righteousness and not only to confirm the setled Maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel by Tythes according to the Laws of the most wise God and the most ancient Law of this Nation but to have increased their Maintenance in those places where by that abominable Sacriledg of Antichrist the Tythes were appropriated to Abbies Monasteries and such superstitious uses and after most unjustly detained from the right Owners the particular Parish-Ministers by King Henry the Eighth and the Parliament that then consented to him for their alienation by occasion of which in divers thousands of Parishes even since the time of Reformation poor ignorant yea scandalous Ministers have been setled and continued to the dishonour of God our Religion and succeeding Parliaments A light from Christ leading unto Christ Printed for John VVright 1646. multitudes of Souls made ready to perish for lack of Knowledg as they are in too many places at these dayes In the Epistle Dedicatory of that Book of mine presented unto you I did complain of this miserable ignorance as a cause that such a multitude of poor blind Souls did run to the Kings Standard set up at Nottingham and joyn with that Army against the Parliament which was a sad occasion the King did not return Humble Petition presented at York although he was most humbly Petitioned by multitudes of his most faithful Subjects from several Counties in this Nation which if it had been the will of God he had done might by Gods b●essing have prevented those Rivers of Blood which have been shead in these intestine Wars and for my own particular have saved me from that most barbarous plundering of my house and Goods in which I lost with what is still owing me upon the Publick Faith in other respects above five hundred pounds which I hoped I should have received before this having the Engagement of England and Scotland in print that those who were plundered and lost their Estates for their faithfulness to the Parliament and the Cause of God and the Nation then undertaken and continued faithful should have their Estates restored and be recompenced to the full or words to that effect but when the Parliament was Dissolved I gave up my hopes as dead yet since God hath raised you from the Dead again and in his Providence brought you to sit here to perfect the good work was begun I will not despair but both I my self and others may find that Promise of both Nations made good to our comforts in time And yet Right Honourable my Spirits have not been a little troubled to hear and see a Generation of Seduced Souls Quakers Anabaptists and others cry out so bitterly against the Godly faithful Ministers of Christ in the Nation as all Antichristians to be destroyed and their maintenance by Tythes to be taken away Ye to see those inhumane I am sure most unchristian abuses are still offered to too many of us till this day I am afraid lest if the God of Heaven and Earth find it to be with England as it was with Israel when the God of their Fathers sent to them by his Messengers rising up betimes 2 Chro. 36 15 16. and sending because he had compassion on his People and on his dwelling-place they mocked his Messengers and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy therefore he brought against them Forraign Enemies to their destruction the Lord pardon these our sins and prevent those Judgements if it be his will Josh 6. and I fear if Achans sin of Sacriledge the taking away of Gods reserved part be found in England as it was in Israel the punishment of Israel may befall us also that our Army as theirs should fly before our enemies and then how sad our condition may prove none but God himself knows to prevent this to the best of my power I make bold most humbly to present this little Treatise to your Honours in which to the best of my understanding Tythes are proved to be Gods Reserved part and due to the Ministers of the Gospel by Divine right and the unsetling of this antient Right may prove I fear the removing of a house built upon a Rock and setting it upon the Sand or a sandy Foundation which may prove the ruine of the House and of those that inhabit it Upon my studying of this Question had I found Tythes unlawful or the Wages of Unrighteousnesse as my Adversary-Anabaptists in their written paper sent to me did affirm or Theft and Robbery as the Quakers I hope the Lord would have given me such a spirit of Contentment that I should have chosen rather to have begged my Bread from door to door as old as I am now almost Threescore and Ten rather than to have lived and dyed a Thief and a Robber accursed of God and Good men But as worthy Luther professed when he contested against the Popes Indulgencies If any man can shew me a more firm and better way of Ministers maintenance than by Tythes which the Lord himself in his wisdom found out to be the fittest I shall lye down in the Dust and when my Conscience is satisfied change my mind In the mean time not cease to pray the most Wise God to guide your Counsels and prosper you in all your just and lawfull Endeavours hoping of your Protection and encouragement for my self and the rest of my Brethren the faithful Ministers of the Gospel I most humbly Subscribe my self A most unworthy Servant