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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 cannot be happy 2. Or of the blessing and encreases of the Earth out of which God in his bounty feeds clothes every way necessary accommodates us in our humane necessities only reserving unto his own service little more than a tenth part and that for man's good also that by such means a Ministry able to edifie comfort and enform him concerning the Will of God for his salvation may be maintained to which Ministry he hath appointed that his reserved part the tenths to those I say whom he calleth to labour in his service 3. A part of the Earth or land which he hath given man to Till Sow Plant and yield Encrease as he reserved a part of our time of life for our serving him so hath he also a part and portion of our place or the earth on which he will be served for without time when and place where there can be no humane Action That is Church and Churches Houses set a part from all common use to his service and publick worship accommodate So was there a Temple and Synagogues for Israel and Churches among Christians even from the Primitive age 1 Cor. 11.22 Also to the Levites there were Cities appointed out of every Tribe Num. 25. 23. c. even 48 walled Cities with their Suburbs their other revenue being generally provided for them by Tythes Oblations c. out of the whole Land beside Now our Savior released none of these Rights as to the morality thereof that is the equity of his servants maintenance and necessary accommodation in his worship Therefore he avowed the Temple to be his Fathers House and the Prophet saith John 2.16 Mal. 1.11 R v. 8. Mat. 21.13 From the rising of the Sun even to the going down of the same in every place incense that is Prayers of the Saints shall be offered unto my name saith the Lord of Hosts So Christ declared himself to be Lord of the Sabbath and so also is he Lord of that portion of the Earhts encreases reserved to the publick Worship of God and in case of detention thereof Mal. 3. he saith expresly Ye have robbed me in Tythes and Offerings 5. The Law had three branches The Moral Ceremonial and Judicial The first whereof was and is the rule by which all persons at all times and in all places are to compose their lives as to God which is the substance of the first Table The second Table prescribeth the mutual duty of man to man The Ceremonial Law prescribed several religious Rights according to which God would have his Israel to worship him until the fullness of time wherein Christ was to come in the flesh and fullfill all those things for mans redemption which those rights prefigured and under which God's people were to be exercised and trained up all the time of their minority as a Child under a Schoolmaster in expectation of a Savior and Redeemer to come The judicial Law appertained to Israel for the well government of them by administration of civil Laws for the peace welfare and tranquillity of that people therefore these are often joyned together in holy Scripture Precepts Ceremonies and Judgments The first whereof appertaineth to the right forming of holy manners The second to Rights and sacred Ceremonies determining the manner of Gods worship for that time The third to the civil government of the people And these three are as it were the nerves of every well governed State holy Manners religious Worship and due execution of Justice 6. Divine positive Laws or Institutions bound as did moral Preceps though with some considerable differences Some positive Laws were binding only to some particular persons as that Gen. 2.16 Of the tree of knowledg of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it this bound as to the precept only Adam and Eve who were but one flesh Some positive Law Gen. 2.24 as they were temporal having their beginning and ending in time thoug they were binding to a multitude or nation yet were they not so to all men as Circumcision raising up seed to the diseased brother c. which bound Israel respectively until Christ came in the flesh that the trueth of the promise concerning his being of the Tribe of Judah and family of David might appear in that distinction of Tribes So the many Sanctions appertinent to Priests and Levites Heb. 10.1 the Service and Rights which having a shadow of good things then to come were to cease when the truth was come and had accomplished all those things which were thereby prefigured So the judicial Precepts were positive for the time while Israels republick continued and so were binding and still are as they have their ground in moral equity To these are reducible those precepts prohibiting Mariages in certain degrees of consanguinity which positive Law maketh incestuous then commencing when mankind was encreased unto multitudes and societies of men which could not bind in the family of Adam supposing God's Ordinance for the progagation of all mankind by one man and one woman For the Ceremonial Laws they bound not before their institution signified to Israel by the divine Lawgiver neither do they because they are not positive unto this time Therefore that opinion is erroneous and dangerous which saith Naturae lex ratio deposcit precipit Azor. instit l. 6. 25. ut Deo Sacrificia offeramus quibus peccata nostra expiemus For sacrificing was no Law of Nature but a Posi ive Law the Law of Nature was as the Original to the Moral which was a transcript or duplicate thereof and there was a positive precept for Abels sacrificing without which it could not have been acceptable to God as done in faith but now in propriety of terms offering Sacrifice for expiation is no more justifiable than Circumcision Christ hath by his own oblation of himself once offered Heb. 10.10 14 18. vid. ib. c. 9. 12. perfected for ever them that are sanctifyed now where remission of these that is sins is there is no more offering for sin These Laws are now not only mortuae but mortiferae not only dead but a killing Letter Whereas the moral Law in all negative precepts thereof binds Semper ad semper And the Affirmative as may be seen in the fourth and fift precept bind semper though not ad semper So we are all our life time bound to sanctifie the Sabbath but we are not bound at all times of our life so to do because it is not always the Sabbath or Seventh day and we are not bound to any impossibility in Nature 7. The Ceremonial and Judicial Laws as positive had some mixtures with morality and the moral had somthing Ceremonial or Positive for a time Erat partim morale partim ceremoniale 12ae q. 100. 3. 2m Alens parc 4.2 which was the reason why the fourth precept was alterable from the seventh day reckoned from the Creation to the Seventh day from Christs

execution of justice God will come and punish both people offending and Magistrates conniving or not punishing And do you not mark what a parcel of singular wisdom here is presented to Magistrates Neither say you is his spirit diminished that it cannot or will not send forth and fit Ministers for his service or that he needs Vniversities c. That God can fit teachers even by infused habits of knowledg none doubt but from his Power to conclud his Will were but a wide inference His Spirit is not diminished he can make many Worlds Doth this conclude that he will He can do whatsoever he will do Will you thence infer that he will do what ever he can He needs no Vniversities neither did he in the days of Prophets yet had he then his Naioth in Ramah 1 Sam. 19.22 23. a School of Prophets So had he in the Apostles times yet when the learned St. Paul brought up at Gamaliels feet wrot directions to Timothy 1 Tim. 5.13 16. 3 Tim. 2.15 he saith give attendance to Reading Exhortation and Doctrine the fruit whereof he presently subjoins for in doing this thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear thee so study to shew thy self approved unto God a workman that needs not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth All this your party believe they can do without any Analytical order but if the Orator should hear you he would say This is not dividere but frangere But to our purpose again I demand Doth Gods power to give other means of enlarging mens hearts to his service annul his Ordinance in the use of accustomed means What then would the brain-sick Super-ordinarian not conclude against Preaching of the Gospel and use of holy Sacraments Against use of Vniversities you bring an Argument à fine You say Students go thither to learn Greek and Hebrew the original that they may understand what Christ spake and the Apostles preached And do you not think that were worth their time and charge What were all knowledge in the world without this But sure you are not ignorant that our Grammar-Schools send few Students to the Universities without a competent knowledge of the Greek neither that there are many other excellent things besides Tongues to be learned at the Universities As for the Mother-tongue of Christ and his Apostles I suppose you are not to learn that it was Syriac much differing from the Greek and Hebrew both in character and form of words I here remember you that the Apostles Acts 2. after they had received the Holy Ghost as occasion served and need required spake all tongues but writ the Canon and Rule of Faith the New Testament in Greek as the Prophets wrote the Old in Hebrew If they that heard them speak in their own Language could not understand their Doctrine but that it seemed foolishness to them If they had heard them speak in unknown Tongues would they no say that ye are mad 1 Cor. 14.23 But the cause of their not understanding their Doctrine in their own native tongue was because the iudgment denounced Isai 6.9 10. was upon them and because the God of this world had blinded their eyes which believed not So that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ could not shine unto them Knowledge of Tongues none but the stupidly-ignorant will deny to be a shining light Possibly a blinde man or he that winks is not benefitted by it but would you conclude that therefore they who are of entire sensories and willing to see are as you say Nothing the nearer for it What think you that the wisdom of God thought good to furnish his Apostles and Disciples with the gift of Tongues and interpretation thereof was that a vain and fruitless Donation Were they who thereby had the mysteries of salvation written in Scriptures brought home to them in their mother-tongue no nearer to the knowledge of the Gospel The Apostle saith the same which Reason and Experience confirm 1. Cor. 14.11 If I know not the meaning of the voice I shall be to him that speaks a Barbarian and he that speaks shall be a Barbarian to me And are they not nearer to the knowledge of the Gospel who understand the Greek in which it was originally written then they who are ignorant of that Tongue Egyptian darkness quintessence of dunsery Who ever heard of so professed a Purple John as you here personate What was the Scripture written in English or were the Interpreters thereof assisted with such infallibility of spirit even in things less then fundamental that they could not erre in any thing which if you hold not you must confess that they who understand the original must be nearer the knowledge of the Scriptures then they who do and needs must take up that which they do know upon trust Qui benè didicit benè docet And on the contrary he that never well learned can never teach well I may boldly affirm that the want of learning knowledge of tongues and good arts have bred all these Schisms and divisions amongst us which render us odious and contemptible among the Nations at this day and that it was Satans master-piece against unhappy England to beget a contempt of learning by emboldning a rude vulgar to contemn the persons of the Ministers To your Objection again we say That Gods Spirit needed no Vniversities to instruct men but all sober men know that they have need of Universities wherein they may be instructed What then God can make an Ass speak but surely it were not wisely concluded Gods Spirit is not diminished c. therefore we will have no more Universities but such Teachers as that dull Beast shall serve our turns to make us Saints of the new Edition And seriously were all men of your minde at least of which you would seem to be to take away our University bred Ministers by taking away their setled livelihood necessity would so inforce that ere long you must be served by such animals as could onely bray pure nonsense by the glass Hoc Ithaci cupiunt Consider whether this be not a Jesuitical plot whereof I heard one of them say at the very begining of our troubles There is a design set upon you which when you hear will make your ears tingle But you say Our Consciences must be judge who those Ministers are c. Auditum admissi risum teneatis amici Pag. 10. What Professed blindmen challenging Prerogative to judge of colours Ambitious Absolom did but wish 2 Sam. 15.4 O that I were made a Judge in the Land But you plead priviledge Our Conscience you say must be judge And do you not see what a Church and Ministry we were like to have if these men might be judges Think you that they would allow any but such as they knew were surely involved in their Heresie But now speak clearly and mistake not Opinion for Conscience Opinion is grounded on probability or that