Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	appear_v	good_a	great_a	807	5	2.3104	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46714	The lawfulnes of tithes demonstrated to the convincing of such of the Quakers as pretend conscience against the payment of them, or, A demonstration for liberty of conscience to the Quakers in the payment of their tithes by W.J.	Jeffery, William, 1616-1693.	1675 (1675)	Wing J523; ESTC R25126	21,989	33

THE LAWFULNES OF TITHES Demonstrated to the Convincing of such of the QVAKERS as pretend Conscience against the Payment of them OR A Demonstration for LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE to the QVAKERS in the Payment of their TITHES By W. J. It is a Snare to the Man that devoureth that which is Holy and after Vows to make Enquiry Prov. 20.25 LONDON Printed for John VVilliams in Cross-Key-Court in Little Brittain 1675 THE PREFACE TO THE COURTEOUS READER Reader LEt me find thee such as I bespeak thee Courteous Be not offended with this little Treatise at the first sight of it being so small upon such a Subject of concern and of the which some Learned Men have writ already It is small because it is design'd for the use of those that are wont to read but small Books viz. the meaner sort of Quakers It treats upon this Subject not that I think to doe any great feats by it but that it may mind those that are Learned indeed to undertake this and such other things wherein the Quakers do disturb the Church proving not only the Lawfulness of Tithes viz. that they may be paid which I do but also the necessity of them that they ought to be paid or at leastwise the Expediency of them that they are best to be paid The aime of such Learned Men as have writ of this Subject already was not the Satisfaction of these Quakers of whom they did not so much as dream but the Confirmation of Princes and Rulers to continue in the Land and Nation such Gospel-Maintenance as was of so long standing and had been so well begun Now these Quakers being to be satisfied if any thing will do it require this Subject to be managed another way if not for matter yet for manner method and stile which I leave to the Discretion of such of the Learned as shall have the Charity to travail with these poor Men with the will of God to reduce and bring them back to the Establishment and Peace of the Church As St. Paul did acknowledge himself to be Debtor to the Greeks and to the Barbarians to the Wise and to the Unwise So I think under Correction that the Learned in the Universities and else-where are Debtors in these dayes unto all the Sects that are among us viz. to endeavour to reclaim them Among the which Sects these of the Quakers if it may rightly be called a Sect and not rather a Rage and a Tumult fomeing out their own shame I say this such as it is is not to be let go in malam rem as desperate as it seems to be Again as St. Paul profest that he was ready to preach the Gospel to them which were at Rome also so I hope our Learned men will not disdain to take pains with these Quakers though they be gone from us as far as Rome The Gain-saying of Tith and crying out Hireling is the main thing they cant withal therein applying themselves to the humor of such as are prophainly Covetous amongst us The more unlearned this Sect of Quaking is the greater learning it requires for the Confuting of it they being not to be wrought upon otherwise than by Demonstrations which I presume Learning Leasure and Libraries may be able to make out unto them by shewing them as a Perpetuity of a Ministry and a Maintenance to it So also a propriety both of the one and of the other and this to be deduced through the whole Series of times and ages the universalities of People and Nations and the variety of Empires and Governments This little Tract was devis'd by me for the satisfaction of a private Man my Neighbour Why I have made it publique I have given an account already namely to mind such as are Learned and have leasure from Weekly Sermons to travail as they do with the other Sects that are among us so also with those poor Men called Quakers I say to mind them for it 's possible they hear not the clamours and out-cries of these Men as poor Incumbents do How good a Work the turning men from the Errour of their ways may be appears by the great Good St. James pronounces to come of it Reader recommend this good Work to whom thou think'st it proper Be Friendly and Farewel COUNTRY-MEN and FRIENDS CALL'D QUAKERS § 1. TO your Question demanding by what Right Tythes become due in the Church of England As a sick man is cur'd of his disease by vertue of a Medicine so is an evil man heal'd of his malice by vertue of the Law Pythagoras Break not the Laws made for the wealth of the Country Justinian Endeavour thy self to keep the Law that God may be pleased with thee Aristot I answer that it is by the Law of the Land which being not contrary to the Law of God ought to be obey'd by every Subject Now this Law of our Land is not only according to the Law of God but also fitted to it and devised by it That there was a Law for Tythes under the Old Testament there is no Man doubts * Lex vetus de Sabbato c. The Law concerning the Sabbath and the other concerning Tythes in the Old Testament do shew that Christians are oblig'd to set apart no less than the seventh day for God's Worship and Service nor less than the tenth part of their fruits or encrease for the maintenance of those that are Christs Ministers Grot. de Jure Bell. Pac. lib. 1. cap. 1. That that Law is still abiding viz. for the Substance and Equity of it under the Gospel That is it which some Men would willingly be ignorant of But I prove it thus What was in being both for Right and Practice before the Law was given by Moses and in that Law was exprest and set forth and hath not been forbidden since nor any way abrogated that is abiding still But such is the Law for Tythes therefore it is still abiding That it was in being before the Law was given by Moses appears by Abraham paying Tythes to Melchisedek Irenaeus l. 4. c. xxxiv and Chrysost on 1 Cor. cap. xvi use this Law in proving the Equity of Tyth under the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He Tythed Abraham i e. he took Tyth upon him viz. of his Goods which implyes that the one was in Duty bound to pay it and the other had a Right to demand and take it The Text saith Melchisedek met Abraham Wherefore to beg an Alms of him No but to receive his Due from him O how fain would prophane Misers have the Clergy brought unto their Alms on purpose that they might deal by them as Judas would have done by our Saviour Christ See Calvin's complaint in this case Abraham did not this by any politick Constitution nor by any Right of Ceremony Therefore it was by the Law of Nature that he did it Gen. 14.20 Heb. 7.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Text hath not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉