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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49813	A treatise relating to the call, work & wages of the ministers of Christ as also to the call, work & wages of the ministers of antichrist : wherein a testimony is born ... / Thomas Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1680 (1680)	Wing L728; ESTC R34510	85,782	120

dayes Christ the Law-giver to of and in the Church and his Doctrine of Free and Voluntary Contribution was denyed and covetous Practices commanded and allowed by men in the Apostacy were entertained and what spoil and havock hath been and is made upon the Deniers of these Selfish Idolatrous Antichristian Irreptitious Customs who is ignorant CAP. VIII Of the Statute against Mortmain MOrtmain is a French word and signifies a dead hand 't is in the common Law An Alienation of Lands or Tenements to any Corporation or Fraternity and their Successors with the Licence of the King and the Lord of the Mannor Lands saith a great Lawyer were said to come to dead hands to the Lords for that by Alienation in Mortmain they lost wholly their Escheats and in effect their Knight-Service for the Defence of the Realm Wards Marriages Reliefs and the like and therefore was called a dead Hand for that a dead hand yields no Service saith Sr Thomas Ridley in his view of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law Austin the Monk brought the Religion and Doctrine of Papal Rome into this Nation to among the Saxons by little and little strange things came to be preached up as That the pardon of sins might be merited by good Works the Torments of Hell might be avoided and that Tythe was the Souls Ransom and that whoever desired Forgiveness of Sins and the Joys of Heaven should faithfully pay the same and that without the payment thereof these things could not be had The Deluded and Depraved People receiving this as a heavenly Oracle gave not only their Tythes for the satisfaction of their Sins to maintain the Popish Clergy to say and sing Mass to pray for their Souls for Obits and Anniversaries but their Lands also Hence Religious Houses so called came to be built and wonderfully enriched By this Satanical Stratagem and Delusion almost a third part of the whole Land was hooked into the aforesaid Houses and Clergy and there was no cry heard among the Ravenous Cormorants 'T is Enough but rather the Horsleeches Language Give Give Now that all the Land might not be swallowed up in this unsatiable Whirle-Pool a Statute against Mortmain that is against the Alienation of Lands to such and such Uses was provided It was saith Andrew Willet in his Synopsis of Popery a common practice in time of Popery so the Priests might be enriched they cared not greatly though all the Stock of the Patrons and Founders were undone the Statute of Mortmain faith he was made to restrain this pag. 309. King Henry the third in his great Charter to all Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Priors Earls Barons Sheriffs c. enacted thus If any from henceforth give his Lands to any Religious House and thereupon be convict the Gift shall be utterly void and the Land shall accur to the Lord of the Fee Edward the first enacted to the same purpose Henry the eighth confirmed this in the 23d year of his Reign enacting That Assurances of Lands to Churches Chappels Church-wardens Guilds Fraternities Commonalties c. made of Devotion as to the Uses and intents to have Obits perpetual or a continual Service of a Priest forever or for sixty or eighty Years were as Prejudicial to the Lords as if they were aliened in Mortmain so to be void Further this Henry enacted That all Monasteries Abbyes Priories and other Religious Houses of Monks Canons and Nuns c. with their Estates should be given to him and his Heirs forever the Right of Founders Patrons and Donors being saved as also all Lands Tenements Rents and other Hereditaments given for the Maintenance of an Anniversary or Obit Light or Lamps in Church or Chappel to continue forever To say no more herein that Statute against Mortmain prevented the spreading of that foul Leprosie of Encroachments and stopped the heady Current of Idolatrous days in that point CAP. IX Of Exemptions from the payment of Tythes THrough the Seed of Degeneration Ministers in Christian Churches became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lovers of filthy Lucre Covetous such the old Saxons called Gitsors that is sore and eager getters the Popes Doctrine being entertained into a Nation that Nation was divided into Bishopricks Bishopricks into Parishes then the Pope having set up Parishes he enjoyned that a secular Priest Canonically instituted should attend the Service of each respective Parish and that where Tythes were not already settled they should be paid to the Parish Priest notwithstanding any custom to the contrary After People were brought to believe that Tythe ought to be paid they enjoyed that liberty of bestowing the same where they would on whom they would till Pope Innocent the third about the Year 1200. as hath been touched So they were called Free Offerings and Pure Alms but it was no matter of difficulty having perswaded People to pay Tythes to appoint the Receiver the Person or Persons to receive the same Now the Pope having brought in Tythes and appointed the persons that should receive them notwithstanding his general Decree yet he in favour to his chiefest Props and Cathedral Pillars frequently granted Exemptions to such and such Orders whereby they became freed of the payment of Tythes as to the Templers Cistercians Hospitallers and generally to all Lands held by Religious Persons and Houses upon this account who have bought the Lands of dissolved Monasteries c. their plea is That their Lands are Tythe free This Immunity so far as it concerned the rest of the Religious Persons Pope Adrian recalled and limitted it only to the Cistertians Hospitallers Templers and to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem as faith Sr. Thomas Ridley in his view of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law 'T is a pregnant proof saith one that Tythes are of humane Institution and that from the Bishops of Rome also Seeing their Exemptions are in force and observed to this day yea and as I may say to aggravate the indignity of the thing among such as would be accounted to have come out of Italian Babylon and to be great sharers in Reformation Now for the satisfaction of such who desire some account concering the aforesaid Orders this is Knights of the Temple Knights Templers was an Order of Knighthood erected by Pope Gelasius about the Year 1117. at first they dwelt not far from the Sepulcher of Christ entertained Christian Strangers and Pilgrims charitably and in their Armour led them saith my Author thorough the Holy Land to view such things as were to be seen and to defend them from the Infidels at last they grew very Vicious and many of them fell from the Profession of Christianity to the Saracens Pope Clement the fifth suppressed the whole Order and their Substance was given to the Knights of Rhodes and other Religious Orders saith my Author Knights of the Order of St. John in Jerusalem was created for the defence of Pilgrims these Knights and Pilgrims were called Croises from the Sign of the Cross which they used to

wear on their Garments This Order was erected in or about the Year 1120. and had their fi●st Foundation and abode in Jerusalem after they had their residence at Rhodes whence they were expelled by Solyman since their chief Seat hath been at Malta and have done as 't is said great Exploits against the Turk There was one General Prior that had the Government of the whole Oder in England and Scotland King Henry the eighth dissolved this Corporation the Prior and Confreres thereof were prohibited to wear their accustomed Mark the Sign of the Cross The King also was to have their Houses Churches Lands Goods Chattels Debts and all other things of theirs Hospitallers were certain Knights of an Order so called because they had the Care of Hospitals that is Houses erected for the Relief of Pilgrims and Poor and impotent People Bernard a learned Monk of Burgundy entred into the Monastery of C●steaux hence an Order of Monks were called Bernardines from this Bernard the chief of the Monastery they were called also Ci●●ertian Monks Thus Tythes were settled in Apostatized Christendom by the Pope not by Christ nor his Apostles and in favour to his chief Props such and such Orders c. the Pope made all the Lands given unto them Tythe free which so remains to this Day his Exemptions are in force Now read your selves you that Glory in the Name of Protestants and would be accounted eminent in Reformation from the dregs of Popery as you say See the Author of Tythes in Apostatized Christendom and of the exemption of such and such Lands from the payment thereof the Pope whom though you pretend to deny yet plead for his Provision and refuse healing of your Leprosie in Spiritual Jordan the River of Judgment CAP X. Of Frank Almoigne LOcusts crawling out of the Smoke of the Pit Teachers qualified only by Man saith Gell on 2 Tim. 4. have a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is an itching in their Tongues desirous to teach others for Earthly ends Earthly advantage filthy Lucre not fervently desirous to bring them to Life and the Hearers of such have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an itching in their Ears affecters of Novelties Flesh pleasing Doctrines curious Speculations 'T is out of a Natural mans Sphere to have Spiritual and Heavenly aimes he is dead thereto making Preaching as a Trade or Art to pick a Living by Such as are called of God they have better aimes of a more pure and heavenly Nature But to return In the Apostacy the Clergy even spent themselves in the pursuit of Earthly things multiplying Inventions to settle themselves in Pride Fulness and Ease and a Provision Idolatrously Fraudulently and upon groundless Supposition formerly hooked in by the Clergy Man-made Ministers now though pretending Reformation allow of and Dispute for the same A Tenant in Frank Almoigne is where an Abbot Prior or any other man of Religion or of holy Church as they say holdeth of his Lord in Frank Almoigne that is to say in free Alms and this Tenure began first in Old Time when a man seized of Lands or Tenements c. and of the same enfeoffed an Abbot Prior or any Ecclesiastical person Seculer or Reguler to have and to hold to them and their Successors in Frank Almoigne that is pure or free Alms Cook upon Littletou sec 133. All Ecclesiastical persons might have held in Frank Almoigne were they Seculer or Reguler but no Lay-person could hold in Frank Almoigne A notable piece of Policy to enrich the Clergy none must pertake of these Alms but the Clergy the Peoples Charity was limitted by the grand Charter of the Clergies Covetousness to themselves alone And they which held in Frank Almoigne were bound of right before God to make Orisions Prayers Masses and other divine Services for the Soul of their Grantor or Feoffer and for the Souls of their Heirs which were dead and for the prosperity and good Life and good Health of their Heirs which were alive Cook upon Littletou Sec. 136. Thus 't is clear as the Day to the seeing Eye what strange Superstitious Idolatrous Doctrines and Covetous Practices foretold of by the Apostles had a rise in the Apostacy Paul said in his Day We are not as many which corrupt the Word of God 2. Cor. 2.17 Former Translations rendred it We are not as many making Merchandize of the Word Which is very agreeable to the Greek Copy and touches the Practise of Man-made Ministers who as Merchants trade with their Commodities trade with their groundless Doctrines Traditions irreptitious Customs natural Gift acquired Parts Bargaining with People for so much a Year runing from place to place as further Advantage is offered yet pretending a Call thereto 'T was the Judgment of Church-men in former dayes that for a Bishop to remove from one place to another was a bad Custom and to be rooted out Summa Concil Pontif. saying further 'T is very evident why they do this thing seeing no Bishop i● found removing from a greater City to a less whereupon 't is apparent say they that they are fired with Covetousness You that pretend Reformation you have in your Mouthes what was said of Alexander the Sixth that notable Merchant Vendit Alexander Cruces Altaria Christum Vendere jure potest emerat ipse prius Alexander sells Crucifixes Christ and Altars high And Reason good he should do so for first he did them buy And what Mantuan hath said of Merchandizing apostatized Rome's selling of Temples Priests Altars Sacred things Crowns Fire Frankincense Relicks Prayers Heaven and God himself And cannot you see your selves Doth not your taking of Tythes Easter-Reckonings Midsummer-Dues as you call them Money for Marrying of People for Burials for opening of the Earth for Funeral Sermons for Mortuaries for Churching of Women for Smoke passing up the Chimney Plough-Money Garden-Money Augmentations bespeak you Merchants The Apostles acted no such things were not found in the Co-ercive exaction of Tythes not forcing a Maintenance from such as received them not Paul was no such Merchant he mingled not Wine and Water as I may say he was not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a lover of filthy Lucre but content with Gospel-Maintenance which was Free and Voluntary from such as received them and their Message But such as are made Ministers by the Will of Man they apply themselves to man for Maintenance Cicero a Heathen could say That the Gains of Hirelings are sordid or base for their Wage is the Obligation of their Service Tull. Offic. If Antichrist's Maintenance were swept out decry'd and Gospel-Maintenance only allowed then 't would appear whether the Number of Chemarims that is Black Coats increased or decreased When Earthly Considerations opens the Mouth those being taken away the Mouth is shut This is no Reflection against the Ministers of Christ who propound to themselves Gospel ends as good Stewards faithfully dispensing the Word of Reconciliation content with Gospel-Maintenance without recourse to Man