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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05097	Hierosulias mastix, or A scourge of sacriledge: in answer to a pamphleter calling himself Anthony Pearson, concerning The great case of tythes. Wherein many gross fallacies and untruths of the pamphleter are discovered and convinced. / By Joh. Reading, once a student in Magdalen Hall in Oxford.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing R447A; ESTC R182394	73,792	98

We may take up the Eunuchs quere Of whom speaks he this of himself Acts 8.34 or of some other man Where is the power of godliness on your part when you broach many falshoods setting up impious doctrines of men instead of Gods oracles Non soles te respicere cum aliis maledicis Is it filthy lucre in us to require the portion which God hath appointed us or in you who would take it from us Gods Word doth evidently enough shew to any whose eyes are not closed by prejudicate opinion That as there was a Legal service to which belonged a legal maintenance a Temple and an Altar service to which God allotted Temple and Altar portions or maintenance to them who there served so by the same Moral equity there is a Gospel service preaching administration of Holy Sacraments c. to which appertain the things or temporal perquisites belonging to the maintenance thereof which is laid down in sundry places of holy Scripture See Gal. 6.6 Prov. 3.6 1 Tim. 5.17 Now if there be a portion to be set out unto God and his Ministers out of all and every the temporal goods of every one instructed in the Gospel according to the sum and purport of these places of holy Scripture and no certain portion or maintenance for Ministers be found in Gods Word but tythes then are tythes the portion and maintenance allotted by Gods Word to Ministers for their service But there is a portion to be set out to God and his Ministers out of all the temporal goods of every one instructed in the Gospel and no other determinate certainty for Ministers maintenance mentioned in holy Scripture Ergo Tythes are the principal portion allotted by Gods Word to Ministers for their service And no reason can our adversaries alleage to make it probable that God would have Gospel-Ministers means of subsistence less certain and definite then the Priests and Levites means was under the Law To conclude a Law for payment of Tythes for the maintenance of Gods publick worship all confess shew us in all Gods Word where that Law was ever repealed Pag. 19. But you say He always took care for such as he sent forth and they never wanted c. And what reason can you shew why they now should I presume not to ask why so many of Christs faithful Ministers have of late been driven into great wants and so are still Your device of competent maintenance doth here but corvis hiantibus illudere They who were sent out by Christ you say reaped the fruit of their labor What proves this but that they ought to do so still Concerning Churches which you say were gathered we say you ought to consider a great difference between a setled or constituted Church and that which in the Primitive Age of the Gospel was setling and there to be constituted Therefore that which was then done cannot reasonably prescribe a maintenance for Ministers of a Church constituted There was besides persecution unadvised zeal of voluntary poverty a Bird as rare to be found in this age as a Phenix or black Swan There was danger of scandal given we know none now except taken not given in requiring our Tithes of such as you Herewith say you let our now called Churches be proved c. God be blessed we have a more just and certain proof then your Lesbian rule to try our Calling by Christ saying By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if you love one another and for the rest The laborer is worthy of his hire This is appointed us by the Lord of the Vineyard by God out of his own reserved part not contracted for or arbitrarily determined by man This we understand that which God knew to be a proportionable honorary not that which fickle man fancieth to be so This is no mercenary wages such as your own party confess are upon Covenant Compact Agreement or Promise Now it cannot appear that ever the Apostles maintenance was grounded on Covenant Compact Agreeement Promise c. but on Gods Providence and Ordinance Mercenary wages is definite particular as to the sum agreed on between party and party so was not the Apostles maintenance in any of the Churches to which they preached Yea say you for their preaching was free Why they took not Tythes you have heard formerly that they had maintenance from the Churches is above all dispute but you would have us preach freely that is taking no Tythes because in the Primitive Church Charity abounding you say it appeareth not that Tythes were paid To which we say be you such first as those Christians were to their Teachers and then talk of gathering Churches and our ceasing to take Tythes In the mean time you cannot reasonably require us to leave our good way seeing you will not leave your evil one of sharking Ministers Wages is or ought to be proportionable to the merit of those that serve by Covenant but the maintenance of the Apostles and Ministers could not can not be such for they Minister Spiritual things and reap Carnal And now Why quarrel you our receiving these supplies of the World to which we Preach And from what part thereof should we reasonably expect to reap but from that on which we sow 1 Cor. 9. God hath determined that we shall live of the Gospel which we preach according to the equity of the moral Law for this one and the same justice is to be observed in the Law and Gospel 12ae q. 108. 2. o. 19. The School-men well note that the Gospel commands no other Moralities then the same which the Law commanded And here you say rulers should have wisdom c. Rom. 13.4 We take you for a pretty Counseller of State and the Apostle saith of the Magistrate He beareth not the Sword in vain for he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath on him that doth evil But in vain carrieth he the Sword who hath not wisdom to direct it And is that wisdom which you here offer our Magistrates for Counsel of State to leave Christ's Kingdom to his own rule What to punish no offenders To cry to Christ as those rebellious Tribes 1 King 14.16 See to thine own house David What would become of such inactive Magistrates and such a Laish For defect of Justice in the due execution thereof Judg 18.7 Gen. 18.25 Ezek. 5.8 the Lord the Judg of all the Earth will do right as he saith because they had not kept his judgments Therefore thus saith the Lord God behold I even I am against thee and will execute judgment in the midst of thee See also Ezek. 11.9 2 Chron 24.23 24. in the sight of the nations So when Joash hearkened to wicked Counsel and did not justice upon delinquents the Lord brought upon Princes and people the Assyrian Army so they executed judgment upon Joash Thus will it still come to pass that for want of Magistrates due