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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	law_n	pay_v	tithe_n	2,459	5	10.1897	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54917	Nil novi This years fruit, from the last years root. The souldiers posture, to the right, to the left, faces about, as yee were. The royall maxime, no bishop, no king. The first-fruits of new prelats, amounting to as much as the tythes of old bishops. All summed up in an impartial relation of the partial proceedings, and uprighteous rumors raised against Henry Pinnel, concerning his endeavouring to get a parsonage. Occasioning a sudden glance upon the true resurrection, present perfection, and perfect obedience. Written in a letter to a friend.	Pinnell, Henry.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2278A; ESTC R221490	41,685	60

not given to hospitality laying aside all for the pride or portions of their children not ruling well their own house ill disposing of the breeches suffering their wives at pleasure to break what bargains they make with their neighbors to the great reproach and shame of their Ministery I abhor to be ranked or reckoned in the number of such men These are my reasons why I did demur upon the matter I know you will demand upon what ground I could and did accept the motion at last However they may seem to you these thoughts somewhat I prevailed with me viz. Having seriously considered Reas 1. and throughly examined the point of scandal I found that it would be onely taken and not given by me for having nothing at all to do with Tythes no nor with the Glebe it self to any private advantage to make a gain thereof to my self there would be nothing but the name onely of a Parsonage left to me and not so much as the name of a Tythe-monger remain to be imputed to me I see not how it should a mount to scandalum datum Nor did I ever as you your self know condemn Tythes simply and as absolutely unlawful in all respects but rather justified the civil right of them onely for my own part I could not meddle with them because of the inexpediency and upon that account I have and do openly implead them I did not rest in my private and single determination but because it was my own case I communicated it to such as I though table to advise therein Wherefore declining the injudicously-affectionate among my friends and giving the hearing onely of their womanish reasons that it was evil in me to accept the people desires because it was evil and that I must not because I must not I consulted with the most grave solid judicious and experienced Christians who not onely approved but urged my accepeatice pressing it as more agreeable to a Gospel-Ministery to answer a general request for publike good rather then to deny it upon the causless and groundless exceptions of a sew there being no foundation of scandal laid in so doing nevertheless hence say you is risen a rumor among the baptized people that a great Cedar is faln I wonder such quick-sighted people who have so profoundly washt their eyes should see no better but take a poor low silly shrub for a great Cedar But. Whether is it a sin Quer. 1. and scandalous practice to preach in the publike place of a Parish at the general request and common consent of the Parishioners If so then why do many of the baptized themselves even those virig egis ipsi capri those zealous Patrons and Champions of that opinion procure by Magisterial power and order liberty to use such places for their Ministerial exercise If it be no sin or scandal then surely they do but dream of the Cedars fall unless the same thing be sin in another which is not in them Ingens personarum privilegium Whether Tythes be precisely unlawful Quer. 2. without reference to a Levitical priesthood or legal institution but payable meerly upon humane and national ordinances If not then the Cedar they talk of stands fast If so then many Cedars in their Lebanon do shake and some of them are already faln For he that shall deny to pay his Tythes which the Law of the Commonwealth wherein he liveth requireth of him to him to whom they are appointed with-holding them to his own private use such a one will hardly escape the censure of a Tythe-taker especially if he exercise as an Officer of the Church in the place where they are payable For he hath no colour to keep them to himself being no part of the purchase which his predecessors or he made when he or they bought the Land out of which his Tythes are to be paid and therefore he doth wrong another and by unjust cavillations rob him of his right unto the which the Law hath intitled that man as well as it doth him to any of his real or personal estate Thus some of the baptized may interpretatively be said to take Tythes which they so much judge and condemn in others I have heard what some of them have objected against Tythes Obs i. e. that it is probable and to be supposed That Tythes were at first the Arbitrary exactions and impositions of Tyrants forcing out of mens estates more then they were willing to part with and therefore ought not to be continued and submitted unto but every man may keep his own to himself I cannot positively contradict yet I answer that probability Sol. 1. and supposition prove nothing on one side when there is as much in probability to be supposed on the other side 'T is not unlikely but that the blindfold devotion and mis-guided zeal of the people in former times might make them as forward to offer as the Prince or Priest were to ask their estates of them Now if it was done voluntarily and not violently there is no cause of complaint for volenti non fit injuria But I answer according to the maxime Sol. 2. De rebus non apparentibus non existentibus eadem est ratie However 't is plain that Tythes are now required by a Law though not by Magna Charta Where lies the Cedar now In whose ground is it faln But Sir I intend not a Plea for Parsons How often have I condoled with you the misery of our Nation exposed to so much contention division strise malice c. nourishing a lazy proud covetous Ministery with Tythes c. and proh gentis reformandae pudor opprobriumque when will the time of Reformation come you cannot prevent my desires not out-do my endeavors to disburden my poor oppressed country of those abuses which corrupt-minded men have laden it withall under pretence of Authority and Law you cannot with more zeal and earnestness seek the ease and edification of the outward and inward man then I shall not by fraud or force but by prayer and practice Another reason which induced me to accept the offer Reas 2. was an assurance of my freedome among the people that they would not expect such customes and ceremenies which I had not liberty to observe Besides Reas 3. I might have supplyed and satisfied many wants and interests For quitting the Tythes an honours crime for which some of the worldly Sanctuary judged me unfit for the place I should have left Master Still to those advantages which he could have made from his interest remaining yet among any of the parish seriously to secure my self from my own secret seruples chusing rather to be accounted his Curate there then to have the report of doing him the least wrong And whereas the Glebe it self alone is too much for a sober man to spend upon himself the superfluity thereof might have flowed into the hungry bowels of many Though it was reported by some Grandees as