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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

who is infinitely and onely wise just and holy did by his special Laws and Edicts institute and prescribe as the most expedient equal fit just rational and convenient maintenance of all other for his own Priests and Levites to receive and take from his own People when once setled in the promised Land for the execution of their function must questionlesse be not onely a lawfull but the most expedient equal fit just rational and convenient maintenance of all other for his Ministers of the Gospel to receive and take from all believing Christians in any setled Christian Kingdome State Church under the Gospel especially if he hath neither positively prohibited this kinde and way of maintenance nor specially prescribed any other way or kind of setled maintenance for them in and by the Gospel But God himself who is infinitely and onely wise just and holy did by his speciall Laws and Edicts institute and prescribe Houses Lands Glebes Tithes and Oblations as the most expedient equal fitting just rational and convenient maintenance of all other for his own Priests Levites to receive and take from his own people when once s●tled in the promised Land for the execution of their Functions and hath neither positively prohibited this kinde or way of maintenance nor specially prescribed any other way and kinde of settled maintenance for them in and by the Gospel Ergo It must questionlesse be not onely a lawfull but the most expedient equal fit just rational and covenient maintenance of all other for his Ministers of the Gospel from all believing Christians in any setled Kingdom State Church under the Gospel The Major I suppose no rational Christian can or will deny except he thinks himself as King Alphonso the proud Atheistical self conceited Astronomer did more wise just holy than God himself and abler to carve out a more expedient equal just fitting rational and convenient maintenance for Gods Priests Levites Ministers than God himself hath done and dare bid defiance to the Gospel precept Eph. 5. 1. Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children The Minor I shall thus confirm in order 1. That God did by special Laws and Edicts institute and prescribe Cities Suburbs Lands Houses Glebes for the Priests and Levites habitation and the better maintenance of them and their Cattle and that in a liberal proportion is apparent by Num. 35. from 1. to 12. where we finde recorded That the Lord spake unto Moses in the plain of Moab by Jordan neer Jericho saying COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT THEY GIVE VNTO THE LEVITES OF THE INHERITANCES OF THEIR POSSESSION CITIES TO DWELL IN and ye shall give also unto the Levites SVBVRBES FOR TEN CITIES ROVND ABOVT THEM And the Cities they shall have TO DWELL IN and the suburbs of them SHALBE FOR THEIR CATTLE and FOR THEIR GOODS and FOR ALL THEIR BEASTS And the suburbs of the Cities which yee shall give unto the Levites shall reach from the wall of the City and outward A THOVSAND CVBITIS ROVND ABOVT And ye shall measure from without the City on the east side two thousand cubites and on the south side two thousand cubits and on the west side two thousand cubits and on the north side two thousand cubits and the City shall be in the midst this shall be to them the suburbs of the Cities And among the Cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six Cities for refuge which ye shall appoint for the Manslayer that he may fly thither and to them ye shall adde FORTY and TWO CITIES So all the Cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight Cities them shall ye give with their Suburbs And the Cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the Children of Israel from them that have many ye shall give many and from them that have few ye shall give few Every one shall give of his Cities according to his inheritance which he inheriteth This positive just command of God was given before the Israelites entrance into and conquest of the land of Canaan And this further positive law then likewise made against the sale and alienation of these Glebes and Possessions Levit. 25. 32 33 34. Notwithstanding the CITIES OF THE LEVITES and THE HOUSES OF THE CITIES OF THEIR POSSESSION may the Levites redeem AT ANY TIME which others could not doe v. 30 31. And if a man purchase of the Levites then the House that was sold and the City of his possession shall go out in the year of Jubile for the houses of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel but the field of the Suburbs of their City may not be sold for it is their perpetuall Possession After this when the land of Canaan was fully conquered by the Israelites and divided amongst the Tribes by bounds and limits we read Josh 21. 1. to 43. Then came near the heads of the Fathers of the Levites unto Eleazer the Priest and unto Joshua the son of Nun and unto the heads of the tribes of the Children of Israel and they spake unto them at Shilo in the land of Canaan saying THE LORD COMMANDED by the hand of Moses in text forecited To give us Cities to dwel in with the Suburbs thereof for our cattle And the children of Israel Gave unto the Levites at the commandment of the Lord mark it all enemies of our Ministers Rectories Lands Glebes and Maintenance these Cities and their Suburbs Then follow the Names and Places of the Cities allotted to the Levites proportionably out of every tribe and how they were divided by Lot amongst them which you may read in the text it self over large to transcribe After which ensues this close of the story v. 8. 41 42. And the children of Israel gave by Lot unto the Levites these Cities and their Suburbs as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses all the Cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel Were fourty and eight Cities with their Suburbs These Cities were every one with their Suburbs round about them These were all the Cities In 1 Chron. 6. We have a recitall of the sons and Families of Levi and the Office of the Priests and Levites with the names of all the Cities and Suburbs allotted to them out of every Tribe agreeing with this of Joshua where those who please may read them at their leisure These fourty eight Cities and their Suburbs as some conceive amounted to the tenth or at least twelfth Part of the Cities and Land of Canaan the Priests and Levites according to their number enjoying in proportion as large a share of the promised Land as any of the other Tribes for their Habitation and Glebes besides their Tithes first-Fruits Offerings and other Dues All which as Dr. George Downham and Mr. Samuel Purchas observe amounted to a far greater proportion for the maintenance of that small Tribe than all the

Bishopricks De●neries Benefices Cathedrall and Colledge Lands Revenues Glebes Tithes and whatsoever Ecclesiasticall Profits and endowments of the Clergy and Schollers in our whole Kingdome and Nation After this when the Temple of Jerusalem was built where the Priests and Levites were to wait in their severall Courses successively by Davids appointment 1 Chron. chap. 23. to chap. 27. 2 Chron. 8. 14 15. chap. 23. 8. and ch 13. 10 11. chap. 29. 4. chap. 31. 2. chap. 35. 2. Levit. 1 5 8 9. they had Houses Churches Lodgings provided for them at Jerusalem near the Temple where some of them constantly dwelt and attended and likewise for the Tithes first-Fruits and oblations brought thither to them 1 Chron. 9. 10. to 35. chap. 23. 28. chap. 28. 11 12 13. 2 Chron. 2. to 13. Ezra 8. 29. Neh. 10. 37. 38 39. chap. 12. 44 45 47. chap 13. 4. to 15. Ezech. 40. 4. to 45. ch 42. 1 to 19. ch 44 19. ch 46. 19. These Cities Suburbs Habitations Churches the Priests and Levites constantly enjoyed without interruption till the revolt of the ten Tribes from Rehoboam and Jeroboam the usurper erected two Golden Calves in Dan and Bethel to keep the people from going up to Jerusalem to worship God there out of carnall fear and suspition saying in his heart now shall the Kingdome return to the house of David if the people go up to Jerusalem to do Sacrifice in the House of the Lord there THEN SHALL THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE TVRN BACK AGAIN TO THE LORD even unto Rehoboam King of Judah ●nd THEY SHALL KILL ME and GO AGAIN TO REHOBOAM KING OF JVDAH 1 Kings 12. 26. to 33. and then we read 2 Chron. 11. 13 14 15 16. The Priests of the Levites that were in all Israell resorted to Rehoboam out of all their Coasts For the Levites LEFT THEIR SVBVRBS and THEIR POSSESSIONS and came to Judah and Jerusalem for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from executing the Priests Office unto the Lord and he ordained him Pr●ests for the High Places of the lowest of the people and for the Devils and the Calves which he had made which King Abijah warring with him after his Fathers death when he claimed the right of his usurp●d Crown they objected against him and the revolted Tribes 2 Chr. 13. 4. to 14. Hear me thou Jeroboam and all I●rael ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the Kingdome over Israel to David for ever even to him and to his Sons by a Covenant of Salt Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat the servant of Solomon the Son of David is risen up and hath rebelled against his Lord. And there are gathered unto him vain men the children of Beliall and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the Son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted and could not withstand him And now ye think to withstand the Kingdome of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David and ye be a great multitude and there be with you Golden Calves which Jeroboam made you for Gods Have ye not cast out the Priests of the Lord the Sons of Aaron and THE LEVITES and have made you Priests after the manner of the Nations of other Lands so that whosoever cometh TO CONSECRATE ●IMSELF with a young Bullock and seven Rams the same may be a Priest of them that are no Gods But as for us the Lord is our God and we have not forsaken him and the Priests which minister unto the Lord are the Sons of Aaron and the● Levites wait upon their businesse c. For we keep the Charge of the Lord our God but ye have forsaken h●m And behold God himself is ●ith us for our Captain and his Priests with sounding ●rumpets to cry allarum against you The issue of this A●●eisticall policy and Sacrilegious deprivation or Spoliation of Gods Priests and Levites of their Suburbs Possessions and Ministry by Jeroboam and his Sons is very remarkable 1. It brought ruine upon his whole Army though double the number of Abijah his host of whom they had a great advantage by an ambushment God himself smiting him and his host so that they fled before Judah and Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter so that there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men 2 Chron. 13. 13. to 20. The greatest slaughter in battle that ever we read of in Sacred or prophane Stories before or since 2. It brought Captivity on his Adherents who were brought under at that time pursued and had their wives taken and plundered v. 18 19. 3. It brought this misery and fatall Judgement on himself v. 20. Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the dayes of Abijah And the Lord strook him and he dyed 4. It became sin to the house of Jeroboam even to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth 1 Kings 13. 33 34. 5. It made all the succeeding Kings of Israel professed Idolaters and most of them bloudy Murtherers Usurpers Persecutors and produced perpetuall successive civill warres between Judah and Israel 1 Kings 14. 30. chap. 15. 6 7 16 32. 2 Chron. 28. 4. to 12. 6. It brought finall captivity ruine desolation in conclusion to the whole Kingdome of Israel and the ten revolting Tribes 2 Kings 17. 20 21 22 23. where this sad story is recorded And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers untill he had cast them out of his sight For he rent Israel from the house of David And they made Jeroboam the Son of Nebat King of which God thus complains Hos 8. 4. They have set up Kings but not by me they have made Princes and I knew it not and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the Lord and made them sin a great sin for the children of Israel walked in all the sinnes of Jeroboam which he did they departed not from them untill the Lord removed Israel out of his sight as he had said by all his servants the Prophets So was Israel carried away out of their own Land to Assyria TILL THIS Day when as the Kingdome of Judah continued above 156 years after in Davids royall posterity enjoying Gods Priests Levites Prophets and Ordinances till their captivity for their sins in mocking abusing his Messengers Prophets and despising his words 2 Chron. 36. 16 17. And then after 70 years captivity were restored again to their Countrey reedified Jerusalem and the Temple and with them the Priests and Levites returning from bondage were restored likewise to their Cities and Glebes of which the Kings of Judah never deprived them as Jeroboam and his Sons and the Kings of Israel who were all Idolaters did whence thus we read Ezra 2. 70. So the Priests and the Leaites and the Singers and the Porters the Nethinims DWELT IN THEIR CITIES and all Israel in their cities Thus

seconded Neh. 11. 18 20. All the Levites in the holy city were 284. and the residue of Israell OF THE PRIESTS and LEVITES were in all the cities of Judah Every Man in his Inheritance and Neh. 13. 10. The Levites and Singers that did the work were fled every one TO HIS FIELD In the Prophesie of Ezechiel written during the Jews Captivity in the Land of the Chaldeans Ezech. 1. 1 2 5. prophesying of the reedifying of the Temple and of the dimensions and whole fabrick thereof chap. 40. 1. to 45. we find frequent mention of holy Chambers therein provided for the Priests and their vestments And chap. 45. 1. to 5. God enjoyns the Israelites by him upon their restitution to their own Land when they should divide it by Lot for an Inheritance That they should offer an holy portion of the Land an oblation unto the Lord the length thereof twenty five thousand reeds and the breadth ten thousand This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about Of this there shall be for the Sanctuary 500 reeds in length with 500 in breadth square round about and fifty cubits round about for the Suburbs thereof Then he addes The holy Portion of the land SHALBE FOR THE PRIESTS the Ministers of the sanctuary which shall come neer to minister unto the Lord and it shall be a place for their Houses and an holy place for the Sanctuary And the 25000. of length and 10000. of breadth Shall also the Levites the Ministers of the House have for themselves for a possession for twenty Chambers In the 47. Chapter verse 13. to the end of the Prophecy he writes of the bounds and division of the land of Canaan after their restitution according to their several tribes in relation to imitation of the bounds and division of it formerly made and recited by Joshua out of which there was a special portion reserved for the Priests and Levites as there was in Joshua's division fore-cited Thus expressed Ezech. 48. 8. to 15. And by the order of Judah from the east side unto the west side shall be the offering which they shall offer of 25000. reeds in breadth and in length as one of the other parts from the east side unto the west side and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it The oblation ye shall offer unto the Lord shall be of 25000 in length and 10000 in breadth And for them even for the Priests shall be this holy Oblation toward the north 25000 in length and toward the west 10000 in breadth and towards the east 10000 in breadth and towards the south 25000 in length and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof It shall be for the Priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadock which have kept my charge which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray after Jeroboam and his calves as the Le●ites went astray And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the order of the Levites And over against the border of the Priests the Levites shall have 25000 in length and 10000 in breadth all the length shall be 25000 and the breadth 10000. And they shall not sell of it neither exchange nor alienate the first fruits of the land for it is holy unto the Lord. From all these Scriptures here recited at large for the Readers fuller satisfaction conviction and ease in turning to them these conclusions undeniably arise 1. That the Priests and Levites had by Gods speciall command and precept oft repeated both Cities Houses Suburbs Lands Gl●bes de●igned to and settled on them by their brethren out of all the other tribes of Israel for their habitation and the feeding of their Cattle Goods Beasts and that in a very large and bountifull proportion And likewise necessary and convenient houses chambers and lodgings neer the Temple when first built and when reedified afterwards which refutes the common errour of those ignorant Simpletons and illiterate New-Lights who from Numb 18. 20. Deut. 10. 9. chap. 18. 1 2. The Priests the Levites and all the tribe of Levi shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire and his inher●tance Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren the Lord is their inheritance as he hath said un to them Conclude That the Priests and Levites amongst the Israelites had no cities houses lands suburbs or possessions of their own belonging to their Office and were expresly forbidden by God to receive or enjoy any among their brethren And hence inferre That Ministers of the Gospel ought not to enjoy any Rectories Houses Lands or Glebes Whereas all the forecited Scriptures directly record the contrary and the meaning of these seeming repugnant texts is onely this That they should have no inheritance amongst their Brethren in such sort and manner as they had set out altogether in one parcell by Joshua and the rest who divided the land amongst the tribes by Lot which would have hindred them from their duties but only a subsequent assignment of certain cities houses and suburbs seattered and divided one from another in and out of every tribes inheritance that so they might perform their offices with more ease and be alwaves ready at hand to teach and instruct the people upon all occasions 2. That the inheritance of the cities houses and suburbs which they enjoyed should not be reputed their own proper inheritance though they enjoyed the possession and profits thereof BUT GODS INHERITANCE as a thing devoted and dedicated unto God and therefore stiled by Ezechiel an Oblation unto God and an holy portion as Histories Divines Common Civil and Canon Lawyers stile all our Rectories Church lands and Glebes with the Charters that first setled them being given and consecrated DEO ET ECCLESIAE an oblation unto God and the Church 3. That these endowments Glebes of theirs were called and reputed Gods own Portion and Inheritance 1. Because given by his specia● command and appointment by all the tribes 2. Because originally consecrated and devoted to God and to his Priests and Ministers onely in Gods right and for his sake 3. Because given to promote Gods worship and for an habitation and support to Gods own Priests and Levites imployed wholy in his immediate service 4. That they were expresly prohibited to be sold exchanged or alienated by the Priests Levites or any others because they were given unto God as an holy Portion and Oblation and to the Priests and Levites for a perpetuall possession whose inheritance was onely in God himself And therefore not possible to be justly and lawfully sold exchanged or alienated by the Priests Levites or any other mortal Powers whatsoever who could claim no power right property or disposing interest in or over them against Gods own Soveraigne and sacred title 5. That these Cities Suburbs and Glebes were ratably set

out in and by every tribe in an equal proportion according to the multitude or paucity of their Cities as a Tenth of their Cities and lands to which their 48 Cities and Suburbs amounted as some probably conceive And yet besides these 48 Cities there were Houses and Schools of Prophets and Prophets children in nature of our Universities in Bethel and in Jericho 2 Kings 2. 3 4 5 7. to 24. chap. 6. 1 2 3 4. which were none of these 48 Cities 6. That none of the Kings and Princes of Judah though many of them were Idolatrous wicked and put to great extremities to raise moneys to pay their Armies and Tribute to forreigne Invaders and Conquerors did yet ever attempt to sell or alienate the Cities Suburbs or revenues of the Priests and Levites to maintain their wars or pay publike Debts or tributes though King Asa Jehoash Hezekiah by way of Lone made bold with the Silver and Gold in the treasure of the Lords house in cases of publike extremity which might be afterwards paid 1 Kings 15. 18. cap. 18. 15. 2 Chron. 16. 2. Yea the scripture expresly records that in the great famine in Aegypt when all others sold their lands to buy bread to King Pharo●h ONLY THE LANDS OF THE PRIESTS BOLIGHT HE NOT For the Priests had a Portion assigned them of Pharoah and did eat their portion which Pharoah gave them wherefore THEY SOLD NOT THEIR LANDS Gen. 47. 20. to 27. 7. That the Idolatrous usurper Jeroboam out of a carnal feare and policy to keep the people from returning to their rightfull soveraign and establish the crown on himself and his Posterity was the first man we read of and his Idolatrous sons and successors after him who cast out Gods Priests and Levites out of their offices and then out of their Cities Suburbs and Possessions which he enforced them to desert though we read not that they sold them to maintain their Warres or pay Soldiers arrears who thereupon repaired to Jerusalem to Rehoboam the right heir and after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came to Jerusalem to enjoy Gods Ordinances and strengthen Rehoboam and his kingdom against this persecuting usuper 2 Chro. 11. 13. to 18. 8. That this casting out of the Priests and Levites from their Offices and Possessions and making Priests of the lowest of the People and suffering every one that would to consecrate himself a Priest without a lawfull call is objected against Jeroboam by Ahijah as a very high crime and provocation against God and the maintaining and encouraging of Gods lawful Priests and Levites in their Offices and setled possessions alledged by him as a certain argument of Gods presence with a King and people and of victory and successe in conclusion against sacrilegious Usurpers 9. That when Gods lawfull Priests and Levites are deprived of their Glebes and Possessions we must presently expect a base contemptible time-serving Idolatrous ignorant Priest-hood Jeroboams Golden Calves with their new Feasts and Sacrifices and a universal inundation of Idolatry wickednesse prophanesse to ensue with all the forementioned calamities which befell Jeroboam● Army adherents subjects Person Family Kingdome which the Lord now set home on all our hearts that we may never be guilty of such a sacrilegious ruinating God-provoking Realm-destroying Church-subverting practise in the least degree as some would now perswade us to in stripping our Ministers of all their Gl●bes Rectories and setled maintenance at one blow which even Pharoah himself and godly Joseph refused to do towards the very Idolatrous Priests of Aegypt allowing them an extraordinary daily portion to preserve their Lands from sale in time of famine Gen. 47. 22 26. whereto they have as lawfull as just as Divine a right as these Priests and Levites had to their Cities Suburbs Houses and Possessions as I shall prove anon 2 That God onely wise did by speciall Laws and Edicts institute and prescribe Tithes as the most expedient equitable fitting just rationall and convenient Maintenance and Reward of all other for his own Priests and Levites is undeniably proved by Levit. 27. 30. 31 32. Deut. 12. 17. 18 19 31. chap. 14. 22. to the end chap. 26. 7 12 13 14 15. Num. 18. 21. to 32. Neh. 10. 37 38 39. chap. 12. 44. chap. 13. 5 11 12 13 14. Prov. 3. 9. 2 Chron. 31. 3. to 15. Mal. 3. 8 9 10 Luke 18. 12. Heb. 7. 5 8 9. which Texts all may read at leisure and are needlesse to transcribe at large this truth b●ing confessed by all Opposites to Tithes who hence condemned them as Jewish and Ceremoniall Rites now abolished That which I shall observe from them is briefly this 1. That the payment of Tithes to the Priests and Levites was positively prescribed by Gods speciall Precepts and Commands frequently recited 2. That Gods own People were specially commanded by him to pay Tithes of the seed and increase af all their Land of all Corn Wine Oyl Fruits yea of Garden Herbs Seeds Matth. 23. 3. Luke 11. 42. and likewise of the increase of all their Cattle Herds Flocks 3. That God gave these Tithes and all the tenth in Israell to the Priests and Levites for an Inheritance as a due Reward for their Service which they serve even the Service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation which all Israelites else were p●ohibited to come into or do Service in Lest they bear their Sin and dye And this was to be a Statute for ever throughout their Generations Numb 18. 21 22 23 26 31. Heb. 7. 5. 4. That All the Tithes of the Land Seed Fruit Herbs Flocks and of whatsoever Annuall increased or passed under the Rod are expressely said to be the Lords to be holy unto the Lord consecrated unto the Lord and an Heave-offering unto the Lord which he gave unto the Priests Levites for an inheritance Levit. 27 28 29 30 31 32 33. Num. 18. 24. 2 Chron. 31. 6. 5. That God enjoyned all the Israelites Truly to tithe all the Tithes of their Increase and not to eat or embesle detain or exchange any of it especially for the worse Deut. 14. 21. chap. 12. 17. Leuit. 27. 33. Mal. 3. 8. And if any man would redeem his Tithes he was to give the full price and adde a fifth part over to it Levit. 27. 31. 6. That all these Tithes were to be brought by the people to the places and Treasuries appointed for them the Corn ready threshed winnowed and the Wine Oyl Fruits in Vessels at the peoples own costs without any trouble to the Priests or Levites and if the place whither they were to be brought was too far off then that they called the second Tithe ought to be turned into money by the Owner and the money paid to the Priest and Levites in lieu thereof Deut. 12. 17 18 19. chap. 14. 22. to 28. chap. 26. 12 13 14. 2 Chron. 31. 6. 12 13