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A90205	An indictment against tythes: or, Tythes no wages for Gospel-ministers: wherein is declared, I. The time when tythes were first given in England. II. By whom, and by whose authority and power tythes were first by a law established in England. III. To whom, and to what end and purpose tythes were first given, and after continued in England. IV. Ministers pretending a threefold right to tythes, 1. By donation. 2. By the laws of the nation. And 3. By the Law of God; examined and confuted ... To which are added, certain reasons taken out of Doctor Burgess his Case, concerning the buying of bishops lands, which are as full and directly against tythes, as to what he applied them. Likewise a query to William Prynne. By John Canne. By John Osborne, a lover of the truth as it is in Jesus.	Osborne, John, lover of the truth as it is in Jesus.; Canne, John, d. 1667?	1659 (1659)	Wing O525; Thomason E989_28; ESTC R203025	30,438	45

of the Heptarchy there was a great Council holden in Mercia by two Legats sent from Pope Hadrian the first wherein as it 's reported Tythes were first established So that the first Law for payment of Tythes came from the Pope and decreed onely by his Agents in the Kingdom of Mercia being but a seventh part of England and afterwards as Popery increased so Tythes also were established in other parts of England by the several Kings thereof who out of an ignorant superstitious zeal being thereunto perswaded by the Pope and his Agents did many things contrary to the Law of God And this leads me to my third particular viz. to whom and to what end and purpose Tythes were formerly given and yet are paid in England It is reported that the foresaid Offa King of Mercia 3. To what end was a man of a high stomack and stoutness endeavouring by wars and bloodshed to enlarge his own Kingdom and after many conquests making Egfryd his Son a King with him in great devotion went to Rome where with the like zeal and example of Inas the West-Saxon King he made his kingdom subject to a Tribute then called Peter-pence afterwards Rome-scot besides other rich gifts that he gave to Pope Hadrian for canonizing Albane a Saint And returning home again about the year of our Lord 795. in honour of the Saint and pretending repentance for his sins built a Magnifick Monastery over against Verolanium indowing it with Lands and rich Revenues for maintenance of one hundred Monks Also in testimony of his repentance for the blood he had spilt and the sins he had committed he gave the tenth part of all his own goods to the Churchmen and to the poor hoping thereby to expiate his sins and to merit Salvation The next in order was Ethelwolph the nineteenth King of the Ethelwolph West-Saxons who in his youth was committed to the care of Helmestan Bishop of Winchester and by him to Swithun a famous learned Monk of that time took such a liking to the quiet and solitary life onely enjoyed by men of Religion that he undertook the Monkish vow and profession and was made Deacon and afterwards elected Bishop of Winchester But the death of his father King Egbert immediately following by great intreaty of the Nobles and partly by constraint of the Clergy he was made King and was by the authority of Pope Gregory the fourth whose Creature he was in both Professions absolved and discharged of his vows In the nineteenth year of his Reign remembring his former Ecclesiastical Profession ordained That Tythes and Lands due to holy Church should be free from all Tributes or Regal Services And in great devotion went himself to Rome where he was honourably received and entertained the space of a whole year new built the English-School that Offa the Mercian King before had there founded confirming also his grant of Peter-pence and further covenanting to pay yearly Three hundred marks to Rome to be thus imployed One hundred to St. Peter's Church another hundred to St. Paul's Light and the third to the Pope It is also said that Athelstan King of the West-Saxons Ethelstan about the year of our Lord 924. to pacifie the Ghost of his murthered brother Edwin to whose death he is said to have consenced did not onely undergo seven years Penance but also built certain Monasteries and decreed that Tythes should be paid by himself his Bishops and Officers but not by all his Subjects hoping thereby to expiate his sins Such was the blindness and ignorance of men in those times being seduced and led away from the truth by the Pope and his ungodly Agents being perswaded in their hearts that the Pope had power to pardon all their sins were they never so great and hainous Edgar about the year of our Lord 959 is said to Edgar have confirmed the payment of Tythes upon as bad a ground as Athelstan did This Edgar was a man of a vicious life favourable to the Monks he displaced the married Priests and brought in Monks of single life to possesse their places He built Forty seven some say and repaired divers Monasteries and Nunneries he was cruel to Citizens and a deflowrer of Maidens The first act was committed against the Virgin Wolfhild a sacred Nun the second offence was against the virgin Ethelfleda another of his lascivious acts was joyned with the blood of Earl Ethelwold that he might enjoy Elfrida his wife And as one saith For the most part such seed-plots were ever sown in the furrows of blood as plainly appears in these and divers other examples Canutus also the first Danish King who being guilty of Canutus the blood of Edward and Edmund sons of Ironside and Heirs to the Crown about the year 1016. confirmed Tythes built the Abby of St Bennet in Norfolk and in Suffolk he with great devotion built and endowed the Monastery of St Edmund which Saint he most dreadfully feared for the seeming Ghost of him often affrighted him for which cause as also to expiate the sins of his Father he confirmed Tythes c. Unto such strange illusions were the Princes then led by the blinde Guides that ever made gain of their devotions Many other such like examples I might produce but the few before mentioned may suffice to shew First When 1. The time when Tythes were first given in England Secondly By whom and whose authority the first Law for payment of Tythes in 1. By whom England was made And thirdly To whom and to what end and purpose Tythes were first paid in England not to Ministers 3. To what end of Christ to preach the Gospel but to Antichristian Idolaters and to a wicked idolatrous superstitious end viz. for satisfaction of the sins of the Donor to maintain a popish idle sottish Clergy to say and sing mass to pray for the souls of the Donors their wives and children living and dead And as at the first Tythes were given to Mass-Priests to read and sing the Latine-Mass So they have for many years been since continued for reading the English-Mass the book of Common-Prayer as may plainly be made to appear by the Statutes of the second year of Edward 6. and the Statute of the first of Eliz. and no Law extant for payment of Tythes to Ministers for preaching the Gospel For although heretofore in the time of the Bishops a Minister preached never so often yet if he refused to read the Book of the Common-Prayer he was by the Law to be deprived of his spiritual promotions Seeing then that Tythes were first established and since continued upon so evil and sandy foundation and to wicked ends Therefore they ought utterly to be abolished and rooted out of this and all other Christian Common-wealths as popish idolatrous superstitious and derogatory to the worship and service of God because God never commanded that Tythes should be paid to any man but to the Priests and Levites

Nature gave Tythes long before the Ceremonial-Law was instituted and that God did afterwards confirm the payment of Tythes by the Ceremonial-Law for the maintenance of the Priests and Levites and that they ought still to be continued for the maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel Whereunto I answer That true it is that Abraham Answer gave Tythes to Melchisedeck of the spoiles of his Enemies but not of all his own proper goods and but at that one time onely and no more And that Jacob vowed to give to God the tenth of all that he should give him is true also but Non ex debito sed ex gratia neither Abraham nor Jacob had a command from God so to do So that it was in them a free offering onely and not of constraint Again If Abraham and Jacob being guided by Nature without any command from God gave Tythes and that God as some say approving the same afterwards gave a Law to the Jews commanding them thereby to pay Tythes to the Priests and Levites and after abrogated that Law Then it is very clear that by the taking away of that Law Tythes are utterly abolished and taken away and men ought not to set them up again until they have a command from God so to do lest they come under the reproof that our Saviour gives to the Scribes and Pharisees Matth. 15. 6. Thus have ye made the Commandments of God of none effect by your own Tradition And I desire all men to consider that as Abraham gave Tythes to Melchisedeck and Jacob vowed to give the tenth of his goods to God long before the Levitical Law So also Abraham and Jacob offered Sacrifice long before the Law was given and so did Cain and Abel also long before them Must we therefore now according to their examples offer Sacrifice because they did so God commanded the Jews onely to pay Tythes in the Land of Canaan which Law ceased with the Levitical Priesthood but God never commanded the Gentiles to pay Tythes in any place Therefore the Levitical Law or the examples of Abraham and Jacob are not binding to us now in the time of the Gospel nor do they make any thing at all for payment of Tythes now but rather strongly against them And how dangerous it is to do any thing in the worship or service of God which he hath not commanded appeareth plainly in the examples of Nadab and Abihu for offering strange fire Levit. 10. 1. So also in Moses Numb 20. 8 9 10. God commanded Moses to speak to the Rock c. But because he without a command from God did strike the Rock therefore he was not suffered to enter enter into the Land of Canaan Saul also for not destroying the Amalekites according to the command of God 1 Sam. 15. 22 23. was deprived of his Kingdom for this was counted to him for disobedience and rebellion Oh that these examples might work upon the hearts of all men not to set up again by a Law that which God hath cast down and we by a solemn League and Covenant have sworn to extirpate as a Relique of Popery and Superstition even that bitter root of Tythes so destructive to the true worship service of God to the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ and so prevalent in promoting of Antichrist and his power and worship it being one of the strong holds and props of Antichrist whereby his Kingdom is upheld Their second Scripture is in the 1 Cor. 9. 13 14. Do 2. Scripture ye not know that they which minister c. And they which wait at the Altar are partakers with the Altar So also for so the ancient translation reads it and the Greek renders it hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel But Doctor Gauden doth not approve of this Translation but he will have it even so according to the last Translation and thereupon he raiseth such a dust to blinde the eyes of ignorant men as that he would make them believe that Tythes are See what Christ hath appointed his Ministers to take for their wages Matth. 10. 8 9 Luk. 10. 8. Especially not in Tythes due by a divine right and that this Even so hath the Lord or dained c. is a Gospel-Ordinance commanding Tythes to be paid to the Ministers of the Gospel for he saith That they do import an Ordinance of God an Evangelical Institution and yet presently after confesseth that his Even so extendeth not to all particulars properly Levitical which are ceased Then say I if his Even so must not hold parallel in all that the Levitical Priests enjoyed then it must hold in nothing for either all or no part of the Ceremonial-Law which typed out Christ is abrogated But the Levitical Priesthood typed out Christ and the Priests and Levites were maintained by Tythes and that Priesthood being abrogated by Christ and that legal service ended the wages also by Tythes must of necessity end therewith For it is said Heb. 7. 12. The Priesthood being changed there must then of necessity be made a change also of the Law The Apostle in that of 1 Cor. 9. doth not say that the Lord hath declared of old and doth now by him renew it as an Ordinance of God but it is the Doctors pleasure to say so they are but his own words and thereby he perverteth the Apostles words and meaning for I do not finde in the New-Testament any such Ordinance for payment of Tythes and therefore non-payment of Tythes is now no violation of Gods Law For where no Low is there is no Rom. 4. 15. transgression And I hope that all true Christians will ingenuously acknowledge that it is not safe for men to make a Law contrary to Gods Law or to renew or establish that Law which our Saviour hath abrogated And here the Doctor having taken a great deal of pains to shew according to his promise a Gospel-Ordinance for payment of Tythes to Gospel-Ministers but finding none he confesseth that the Lord in the Gospel hath not given any direct Precept for payment of Tythes Therefore say I Tythes ought not now to be paid for certainly if the Lord Jesus would have had his Ministers in the time of the Gospel to be maintained by Tythes as the Priests and Levites were under the Law he would no doubt in abrogating the old have established a new Gospel-Ordinance for payment of Tythes But there is not the same reason right or equity that the Ministers of England should be maintained by Tythes as the Priests and Levites were who served constantly at the Altar and were daily imployed in the service of God in slaying beasts and offering Sacrifice to the Lord. For first they were one whole Tribe and if not a full Reason 1. tenth yet near a tenth part of the People Secondly they had none inheritance amongst their brethren in the Land of Canaan for