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A91192	A Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulnes & continuance of the ancient setled maintenance and tenthes of the ministers of the Gospel: proving, that there is a just, competent, comfortable maintenance due to all lawfull painfull preachers and ministers of the Gospel, by divine right, institution, and expresse texts and precepts of the Gospel: that glebes and tithes are such a maintenance, & due to ministers by divine right, law and Gospel: that if subtracted or detained, they may lawfully be inforced by coercive laws and penalties: that tithes are no reall burden nor grievance to the people; the abolishing them, no ease or benefit to farmers, husband-men, or poor people, but a prejudice and losse. That the present opposition against tithes, proceeds not from any reall grounds of conscience, but base covetousnesse, carnall policy, &c. and a Jesuiticall and Anabaptisticall designe, to subvert and ruin our ministers, Church, religion. With a satisfactory answer to all cavils and materiall objections to the contrary. By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq;	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1653 (1653)	Wing P3971; Thomason E713_12; ESTC R203238; ESTC R26600	128,273	175

as to muzzle the Ox mouth that treadeth out the Corne or to detain the Labourers wages or defraud him thereof yea a sin against the expresse commandements of God Deut. 25. 4. ch 24. 14 15. Levit. 19. 13. 1 Cor. 9. 8 9. 10. And so much the rather because their hire and wages being THEIR RIGHT and THEIR OWNE not the meer almes and charity of those who pay it as Christ himselfe resolves Mat. 20. 4 7 8 13 14. V. By Gal. 6. 6. where the Apostle layes down this generall Gospell precept for the maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospell from which there can be no evasion Let him that is taught in the Word COMMUNICATE UNTO HIM THAT TEACHETH IN ALL GOOD THINGS The word Communicate signifieth a free and liberall not base and niggardly al●owance as is evident by 1 Tim. 6. 18. Heb. 13. 16. 2 Cor. 9. 5 6 7 8. Deut. 15. 8. 11. and that to be rendred to them not as to meer strangers but as to those who have a kinde of cop●rtnership and tenancy in common with them not in one or two but in all good things God hath blessed them with as the primitive Christians had all things in common and said not that any thing was their own but the Apostles and Brethr●ns as much as theirs Act. 4. 32 34 35. whence the Contents of our Bibles and Commentators on this Text infer and conclude That every Christian ought chearfully to communicate a liberall share and portion of all the fruits of the Earth blessings and good things he enjoyes to his spirituall Pastor and Teacher and by consequence Tithes of all tithable things and that not as Almes Charity or a free Benevolence but as a just Debt and Duty commanded by this sacred Canon VI. By Rom. 13. 6 7 8. For for this cause pay you tribute also FOR THEY ARE GODS MINISTERS ATTENDING CONTINUALLY UPON THIS VERY THING RENDER THEREFORE TO ALL THEIR DUE Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custome to whom Custome Fear to whom Fear HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR Owe nothing to any man but to love one another Which Scripture though particularly intended of the higher civill Powers Rulers and Magistrates ordained by God yet it equally extends to all Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall Pastors and Rulers over us as well as to them First because they being Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing to preach the Gospell and discharge their Pastorall charge over their flockes as well as civill Magistrates and therefore by way of excellency are more frequently styled Ministers and Ministers of God and Christ in the new Testament then Magistrates are Rom. 15. 8 16. 1 Chr. 4. 1. 2 Cor. 3. 6. ch 6. 4. ch 11. 23. Ephes 3. 7. Col. 1. 23 25. ch 4. 7. 1 Thess 3. 2. 1 Tim. 4. 6. whence their very work and calling is styled The Ministry Rom. 12. 7. Ephes 4. 12. Col. 4. 17. 2 Tim. 4. 5. 1 Tim. 1. 12. Secondly because the Precept subjoyned is universall Render therefore TO ALL THEIR DUE and in the affirmative Therefore to Ministers as well as Magistrates with the like care and conscience And then the inhibition in the close as universall Owe nothing TO ANY MAN Therefore not to Ministers no more then to Magistrates or other men Thirdly because it expresly enjoynes all Christians to render honour to whom honour is due now not onely honour but double honour is due to Ministers that rule well and preach the Gospell diligently 1 Tim. 5. 17 18. to wit Reverence Obedience Love and Maintenance all here prescribed to be rendred in this text to whom they are due Therefore a liberall honourable comfortable Maintenance and reward is both in justice and conscience DVE as well to the Ministers of the Gospell as to the Magistrates and higher Powers and as duely truly and justly to be rendred and not owed detained denied unto the Ministers as to Kings Parliaments o● any other civill Rulers even by this Evangelicall precept from which there is no evasion and that FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE as well as for fear of wrath and punishment vers 5. So as none can plead or pretend the least colour of conscience for detaining or not rendring their Tithes and Duties to our Ministers of the Gospell without giving the Holy Ghost himself and this Gospell Text the Lie and incurring Ananias and Saphiraes sin Act. 5. 3 4 7 8 9 10. for which they justly may expect and receive their fatall exemplary punishment VII The Apostle further clears this truth not only by way of Precept but Reason and Demonstration Rom. 15. 26 27. It hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor Saints which are at Jerusalem Ministers and Apostles as well as other Saints that were poor It hath pleased them verily and THEIR DEBTORS THEY ARE For if the Gentiles have been made pertakers OF THEIR SPIRITVAL THINGS THEIR DVTY IS ALSO TO MINISTER VNTO THEM IN CARNALL THINGS I confesse the Text is not meant properly of Ministers and Apostles of the Gospell but of poor beleeving Saints that were Jewes but the reason and argument here urged extendeth much more to Apostles and Ministers of the Gospell then to poor beleeving Saints and thus I argue from it If the Christian beleeving Gentiles in Macedonia and Achaia were strongly obliged not only in charity but of debt and duty as the Apostle here argues and resolves to make a certain contribution for the poor Saints of God at Jeru●alem who were Jewes and to minister to them in their carnall things when they were in want upon this account that God had made them partakers of their Spirituall things by the Apostles and other Ministers sent or repairing to them from Jerusalem then much more are they and all other converted Gentiles then and now strongly obliged not only in charity but of just debt and duty to make a certain contribution and maintenance for and liberally to minister in their carnall things unto those faithfull Ministers of the Gospell who actually preach the Gospell to them and of whose spirituall things and paines they are made partakers But the antec●dent and supposition is an unquestionable Gospell truth by the Apostles resolution in this alledged Text and is and m●y be further ratifyed by Act. 11. 29 30. Act. 4. 32 33 34 35 36. Act. 5. 1 2 3. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. 2 Cor. 8. 1. to 16. and ch 9. 1 to 15. Gal. 2. 10. Ephes 4. 28. 1 Joh. 3. 17. Mat. 5. 42. and Deut. 15 7 to 12. Therefore the consequent must be granted being the Apostles expresse argument in the very case of Ministers maintenance from the people 1 Cor 9. 11. If we have sown unto you spirituall things is it a great thing if we shall reape your carnall things Now in this reasoning of the Apostle and Gods Spirit in and by him there is a double emphaticall enforcement to prove Ministers maintenance both a just debt and

white already to harvest And HE THAT REAPETH RECEIVETH WAGES and gathereth fruit unto eternall life c. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour c. Which may be aptly paralleld with and interpreted by Matth. 9. 37 38. Then said he our Savour unto his Disciples The harvest truely is plenteous but the LABORERS are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth LABORERS INTO his harvest Which when he did he agreed with them all for a certain stipend by the day and when the evening was come he sa●d unto his Steward Call the LABORERS and GIVE THEM THEIR HIRE beginning from the last unto the first Mat. 20. 1 to 15. as is there parabolically expressed From which Texts and words of our Lord and Saviour Christ himself it is most apparent 1. That the Apostles Preachers and Ministers of the Gospell are and ought to be diligent painfull Labourers in Christs spirituall harvest not idle loiterers 2. That they were not obliged but expresly prohibited to provide gold silver brasse scrips shoes clothes bread meat drink lodging and other necessaries at their own free cost when they were commissioned and sent forth to preach the Gospell as some now would enforce them to for this very reason That being Labourers in the Lords own harvest for the eternall salvation of mens soules they were worthy to receive them as hire and wages from those to whom they preached 3. That our Saviour Christ himselfe at the very originall institution and first mission of his 12. Apostles and after of the 70. Disciples to preach the Gospell thrice one after another expresly resolves in positive termes That they are worthy of their meat hire wages for their Labour in the Gospell and so by consequence all other lawfull Labouring Ministers that diligently preach the Gospell are worthy of the like at this day and neither of them obliged to preach the Gospell freely without any recompence as some Seducers now pretend 4. That meat drink clothes lodging and a competent maintenance are as truely and justly due to the true Labouring Ministers of the Gospell from the people and that of pure common naturall yea Gospell right and justice not as meer arbitrary Charity or Benevolence but as merited HIRE and WAGES as much as any deserved hire or wages are due to any other hired servant or labourer whatsoever by common justice and the law of God Gen. 29. 15. Exod. 2. 9. Levit. 19. 13. Deut. 24. 14 15. Mat. 20. 1 to 16. Joh. 4. 36. Or as well as pay or wages are justly due to the best deserving Officers and Souldiers Luke 3. 14. Ezek. 28. 18 19. and that by Christs own trebled resolution recorded by the Evangelists for the greater evidence and conviction who emphatically by way of reason applies these words only to his Apostles and Ministers For the Labourer is worthy of his meat hire wages they being the most divine excellent usefull necessary Labourers of all others and that in matters of highest concernment in relation both to God and Men Therefore of all other labourers they are most worthy of a honourable comfortable certain hire salary reward for their support and encouragement 5. Hence it followes by necessary consequence and let those who are guilty consider it seriously in the fear of God with trembling and astonishment that the opposing oppressing defrauding the Ministers of the Gospell in their deserved setled hire wages or the detaining all or any part of their ancient just established Dues Tithes or Revenues from them especially out of covetousnesse spite obstinacy or malice against their very callings is as great as crying as damnable a sinne oppression unrighteousnesse and will bring down as gri●vous curses plagues judgements on all those who are culpable thereof as the defrauding oppression of the hired servant or labourer of or in his hire or detaining their wages from them when due as will undenyably appear by Deut. 24. 14 15. Levit. 19. 13. Gen. 31. 7. Mal. 3. 5. Jam. 4. 1 to 5. compared with Mal. 3. 8 9 10 11. Nehem. 13. 10. 11. and a sin against all these Scriptures which all detainers of Ministers Dues and Tithes may do well to read and ponder IV. The truth of this Proposition is ratifyed by the Apostle Pauls resolution who thus prosecutes our Saviours forecited words and seconds his argument in 1 Tim. 5. 17 18. Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially THOSE THAT LABOUR IN THE WORD AND DOCTRINE For the Scripture saith Deut. 25. 4. Thou shalt not muzzle the Oxe that treadeth out the Corn. And THE LABOURER IS WORTHY OF HIS HIRE relating to Mat. 10. 10. and Luke 10 7. forecited In which words the Holy Ghost by the Apostle positively asserts 1. That the Elders and Ministers that rule well especially such of them who labour in the Word and Gospell are really worthy of double honour from the people which double honour Interpreters generally resolve to be 1. Due reverence love and countenance 2. A competent liberall maintenance and reward Or as some conceive a double salary and allowance to what others receive as a just honourable reward for their labour which is here intended by the words double honour extending as well to an honourable salary and reward as to due reverence and respect as is clear by the two Texts herein cited to prove it by the 3 16. verses of this very Chapter and Rom. 13. 1 6 7. 1 Pet. 2. 17. Prov. 3. 9. compared together 2. That the people ought to count them worthy of this double honour and to render it unto them 3. He ratifyes and proves this not only by his own Apostolicall authority but likewise by two oth●r Texts of Scripture the one taken out of the old Testament Deut. 25. 4. which proves that the Texts and Precepts for the just dues and maintenance of the Priests in the old Testament are still in force and not abrogated so far as they are morall and judiciall and therefore may be still aptly urged for proof of our Ministers due maintenance under the Gospell The other out of the new Testament Mat. 10. 10. Luke 10. 7. From both which the force of the Apostles argument stands thus The Elders who labour in the Word and Gospell have as just as naturall as morall legall equitable a right and meritorious due to a liberall maintenance salary reward or double honour as he styles it as the Ox that treadeth out the Corne hath to eat of the Corne and straw he treads out or as any other hired labourer whatsoever hath to his hire they being the best and eminentest of all other labourers with the especiall application of Deut. 25. 4. and of this very sentence here again to them The labourer is worthy of his hire imports Therefore for any people witting●y or wilfully to detain or defraud them thereof is as great an injustice cru●lty sin and unrighteousnesse

DIVINE RIGHT they ow wages to the Ministers of the Gospel And if so then 5. It follows inevitably that there being no other setled way of maintenance particularly prescribed for them in the Gospel and convenient Houses Glebes for them their families and necessary Cattle and Tithes of the increase of the fruits of the earth and Cattle of all sorts being as necessary and requisite for the habitation food clothing support of them their Ministry families and supply all their necessaries with as little charge or trouble as may be as for the Priests and Levites under the Law that Godly Christians cannot pitch upon any equaller fitter juster better wiser rational or convenient way of maintenance for them than that of necessary Houses Rectories Glebes in every Parish and Tithes of all things needfull for food and raiment it being the constant standing setled maintenance which the most wise just and holy God invented prescribed for his own Priests and Levites maintenance amongst his own people when setled by him in the land of Promise and that which all setled Christians Empires Kingdoms States Churches generally through the Christian world have pitched upon as most agreeable to Gods will and word under the Gospel which no wayes repeals nor contradicts his own former prescriptions of this kinde 6. That the Glebes and Tithes of the Priests and Levites under the Law were reserved by God himself the Supream Land-lord of all kingdomes Countries Nations Churches People in the world and the special God Lord King Father Saviour and Preserver of his own people as a Sacred Holy Tribute Rent Portion and Homage due unto Himself from poor Creatures Servants Vassals who are no true Proprietors but onely Stewards and Tenants at will of all the Lands Goods earthly blessings and possessions they enjoy The earth being the Lords and the fulnesse thereof and the Corn Wine Cattle fruits and earthly creatures we possesse not really ours but Gods own 1 Chr. 29. 11. to 17. Psal 24. 1. Psal 97. 5. Psal 50. 9 10 11 12. E●ech 16. 18 19 20. Hos 2. 8 9. Dan. 4. 32 35. Mat. 6. 10. 11. The use and possession of which tribute He allotted to the Priests and Levites under the Law for their maintenance salary and reward of their labour in his service for the advancement of his worship glory honour and his peoples spiritual good reserving the inheritance and right thereof alwayes to himself as the premises sufficiently evidence Now God himself to whom alone Tithes and Glebes were originally impropriated not to the Levitical Priest-hood being unchangeable without any variableness or shadow of turning Jam. 1. 17. Psal 102. 26 27. Mal. 3. 6. and Jesus Christ to whom Tithes were first paid by Abraham in the person of Melchisedeck having an unchangeable Priest-hood and being a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck Heb. 7. And all Christians whatsoever under the Gospel being as much his absolute Creatures Vassals Servants Stewards and Tenants as well as the Israelites under the Law and all their Lands Goods Earthly blessings Corn Wine Cattle and imployments his in right and not their own as well as theirs too why they should not all render to him the self same sacred Tribute holy Portion Rent Homage of Glebes and Tithes of all they have as well as they though the Levitical Priest-hood be abolished they being so specially reserved and consecrated to himself for the support maintenance reward encouragement of his faithfull Ministers under the Gospel imployed in his Service for his honour glory and their everlasting salvation Let John Canne and all presumptuous peremptory tith-oppugners answer me yea this their Soveraign Land-lord and Creator if they can who will one day call them to a strictaccompt for detaining this due Rent Tribute Homage from him and may justly dispossesse and strip them naked of all they have for this their ingrate contemptuous carriage towards him as he hath done many of late by fearfull fires and other judgments as well as heretofore Mal. 3. 8 9 11. 7. That as the Gospel it self succeeded the Levitical Law and Baptisme and the Lords Supper Circumcision and the Passeover So the Apostles and Ministers of the Gospel succeed the Priests and Levites under the Law in their Ministerial function in the Church of Christ by Gods appointment their Ministry and Office being both the same in substance even to worship praise and honour God according to his revealed word and will and instruct exhort direct and guide his people in the way of salvation though differing in some circumstances of lesser moment abolished by Christs death It is therefore most reasonable just equitable convenient they should receive and enjoy the like setled maintenance by Glebes and Tithes as their predecessors did God hav●ng prescribed none other kinde of reward or subsistence for them in the Gospel that any can shew me It is usuall in all Kingdomes States Nations where there are any publike setled offices and Officers for any persons who succeed others in those Offices to enjoy the self same Salaries Houses Lands Fees and Revenues as their Predecessors lawfully received unlesse there be some special Laws to alter their Stipends This we see verified in all Civil Military and Ecclesiastical Officers yea in the times of greatest publike charges that ever befell the Nation those whom most yet call Judges Sheriffs Majors Generals Colonels Captains and Governours of Forts c. though their Commissions be altered in some things and themselves in more do yet receive the self same Salary pay and maintenance annexed to their Offices as their lawfull predecessors did yea to come closer home All our Protestant Ministers since the reformation of Religion have generally enjoyed the Gl●bes and Tithes as the Parishioners enjoy and frequent the Churches as their popish predecessors did before them though the one of them just like the Levitical abolished Priests made it their chiefest businesse and part of their calling to say Masse and offer an unbloudy Sacrifice as they falsely termed it on their Altars both for the quick and dead and the other who succeed th●m make it their principall work to preach the Gospel and administer the Sacraments according to Christs institution Since then the Ministers of the Gospel succeed the Levitical as well as the popish Priests as the Gospel doth the Law and the Christian Sacraments the Jewish and we with all converted Gentiles engraffed into Jesus Christ and the Church of God succeed the Jews who were broken off from their own Olive Tree that we might be engraffed in their places who now partake of the root and fatnesse of their Olive Tree as the Apostle resolves Rom. 11. 16. to 25. Why the Ministers of the Gospel should not likewise succeed the Leviticall Priests as well as the popish in the enjoyment of their setled maintenance by Glebes Tithes being not meerly ceremonial as I have proved and all believing Gentiles who succeed the believing Israelites in Gods Church succeed