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heaven_n	pharisee_n	righteousness_n	scribe_n	3,209	5	11.4035	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09057	Honos & onus levitarum. Or, tithes vindicated to the presbyters of the gospel in a sermon preached at an archidiaconall visitation at Marleborough, in the diocese of Sarum, on the 10. of October. 1636. By B.P.; Historie of tithes, or tithes vindicated	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1637 (1637)	STC 19348; ESTC S100345	26,502	40

and since this paying of Tithes is produced with the rest to prove Christs eternall priesthood Againe is not sacrilege accursed and accursed for sin not only in the old Testament it is a snare to to the man who devoureth that which is holy Prov. 20.25 but also in the New Thou that abhorrest idols dost thou commit sacrilege Rom. 2.22 Is it not punished as a capitall sinne not only in the one Testament in Balshazzar Dan. 5. but also in the other In Ananias and Sapphira Act. 5. For the sinne is so much the more grievous by how much it cannot be committed but against God (o) Tantò gravius est peccatum quantò committinon potest nisi in Deum And so speaketh Beza of Ananias sin To this sacrilege there was added diffidence and hypocrisie And so St. Ambrose (p) Beza in locum whilst he taketh away part of that which he promised he is condemned both of sacrilege and fraud of sacrilege because he deceived God of his promise (q) Dum exeo quod promiserat partem subtrahit sacrilegii simuleondemnatur fraudis sacrilegis quod Deum in pollicitatione fefelle●at Ambr. ser 9. Now if sacrilege which is the taking away of things deputed and consecrated to GOD and his worship being either such things as God by expresse reseruation hath consecrated to himselfe or else such as man hath consecrated and set apart to him be still a sinne under the Gospel still make men guilty before God How then should not the payment of Tithes be a morall duty stand still in force under the Gospel since as for mine owne part I take it God hath consecrated them to himself by an eternall right which right he chalengeth Levit. 27.30 All Tith is holy unto the Lord. At least as no man can deny they are by the Lawes not only of this Land but almost of all Christendome consecrated unto God for the maintenance of his worship and ministery And as the Scriptures are pregnant enough on our side to prove Tithes a morall duty and now to be continued under the Gospel So in the primitive best times of the Church the best of the Fathers and Councels understood interpreted and pressed them so required them as a morall and Christian duty and for almost a thousand yeares it was never held in the Church that they were either judiciall or ceremoniall Origen who was neere to the Apostles times there being but eighty foure yeares between John the Evangelists death and his birth urgeth the paiment of Tithes as a doctrine then received in the Church and binding Christians How doth (r) Quomodo abundat iustitia ●ostraplusquam Scribarum Pharisaeorum si ●lli de fructibu● terra sua gustare non audent priusquam primitta● sacerdotibu● offerant 〈◊〉 Levitis decimae separent●r ego nihil horum faciens fru●tibus terra ●ta abutar ut Sacerdes nesciat Levita ignoret divinum altare non sentiat Orig. homil 11. in Num our righteousnesse abound more than the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees if they dare not taste of the fruits of the earth before they offer the first fruits to the Priests and the Tithes be separated for the Levites and I doing none of these shall so abuse the fruits of the earth that the Priests shall not know it the Levit shall bee ignorant of it GODS Altar shall not perceive it And further there he delivereth his judgement for that point I thinke it necessary that this Law should be observed according to the letter (ſ) Hane egolegem observart etiam secundū literam necessarium puto and expoundeth our Saviours words Mat. 23. These things you ought to have done and not to have left the other undone to bee a precept no lesse binding Christians than Jewes Thus did he hold them to be morall found them in novalege St. Cyprian whofe Martyredome fell about two hundred fifty nine yeares after Christ giveth us to understand that Ministers then lived of Tithes then distributed to them by the Bishops who were the generall Stewards of Church goods (t) In honore sportulantium fratrum tanquam decima● ex fructibu● accipientes Ep. 66. Sportula was the stipend allowed by the Bishop to the Presbyter living faith hee of that honourable stipend with their brethren as they who received Tithes of the fruits of the earth St. Ambrose also presseth this payment and a reformation when fault had been committed afore Whosoever shall call to minde in himselfe that he hath not faithfully payed his Tithes let him now amend that which he hath failed in (u) Quicunque recogno verit in se quod sideliter non deder it decimas quomodo emendet quod minu● fecit Ambr. serm 34. in fer quadrag St. Augustine also can finde footing in the new Testament for Tithes when he expoundeth Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods Mat. 22.21 Tribute to Caesar Tithes to GOD (x) Caesa●i censu● decima deo Hom. 48. tom 10. When he saith againe Set apart the Tithes although that bee a small matter for it is said that the Pharisees gave Tithes And what saith the LORD Vnlesse your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees you cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven (y) Decimas exime quanquā parum sit dictū est enim quia Pharisas decimas dabant quid art dominus nisi abundaverit c. Idem in Psal 146. And it seemeth that this was no new thing done under the Sun in his time by that which he faith againe Our Ancestors did therefore abound with all store because they gave Tithes to GOD and paid their Tribute to Caesar But now because devotion hath decreased exactions have increased wee will not give the tenth part to GOD and now all is taken away that which Christ cannot have Caesar will (z) Maiores nostr● ideo coptis omnibus abundabant quia doe decimas dabant Caesars censum reddebūt modo autem quia decessit devotic accessit ●ndictio fisci nolumus partiricum deo decima● m●dòauté tollitur tetū hec tollit fiscus quod non accipit Christus Id. hom 48. inter 50 ser The time would faile me if I should produce other testimonies out of Fathers Councels Oecumenicall and provinciall lawes Ecclesiasticall and Imperiall all of them acknowledging paiment of Tithes to bee a morall duty commanding them now to be paid to the Church The one of the second Councell held at Matiscon anno 586. shall serve for all (a) Leges divina consulentes Sacerd●tibus Mi●istris Ecclesi●rum pro hareditar● a portione omus populo praceyerunt decim as fruct●●um suorum locis sacres prastare ut nullo labore impedite per res illegitimas spirit●●alibus possis vacare Ministeri●s quas leges Christian●rum congeries longis temporibus custodivit intemeratas Vnde statuimus c. The Lawes of God providing