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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95364	A briefe treatise concerning the chiefe dispute of this time about tithes. Wherein is shewne, 1. That the tenth or tithes are the clergies right, by the lawes of God, of nature, and of this nation. 2. That no person ought to pay above the tenth part of any rate or charge, imposed upon the whole parish, for his parsonage, tithe and gleabe also. By Bevill Turmiger, Gent.	Turmiger, Bevill.	1653 (1653)	Wing T3263; Thomason E712_13; ESTC R207142	8,447	15

A BRIEFE TREATISE Concerning the chiefe dispute of this time about TITHES Wherein is shewne 1. That the Tenth or Tithes are the Clergies right by the Lawes of God of Nature and of this Nation 2. That no person ought to pay above the tenth part of any Rate or Charge imposed upon the whole Parish for his Parsonage Tithe and Gleabe also By Bevill Turmiger Gent. MAL. 3.8 9 10. Will a man rob God yet ye have robbed me But ye say Wherein have we robbed thee In Tithes and Offerings Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole Nation Bring ye all the Tithes into the Store-house that there may be meate in mine house and prove me now herewith saith the Lord of Hosts if I will not open you the windows of Heaven and powre you out a blessing that there shall not be roome enough to receive it LONDON Printed for R. LOWNDES at the White-Lyon in S. Paul's Church-yard 1653. THe maine businesse now in agitation at VVestminster is concerning the taking away the Tithes from the Clergy and is the subject of every mans discourse wherein two opinions are most eagerly maintained the first and most violent is That Tithes ought not at all to be paid to the Clergy The second is That Tithes or tenth ought to be paid but not as now they are in most Parishes which chiefly consists of Tillage where the Parson receiveth a sixth part in stead of his tenth and yet many times payeth but the tenth part of the Contribution To satisfie both which I thought it not amisse to publish these Collections which formerly I gathered for my owne private satisfaction by which it will appeare against the first sort of people that Tithes are due to the Clergy by the Lawes of God of Nature and of this Nation and against the second sort that no Parson receiveth above the tenth part of the fruits of the Parish and that he ought not to pay above the tenth part of any Rates or Charges imposed upon the Parish for his Tithe and Gleabe also The Clergies right to Tithes by the Law of God of Nature and this Nation and that no Parson ought to pay above the tenth part of any Rate or Charge imposed upon the Parish for his Tithe and Glebe TITHE in old English or Saxon signifieth to cull or choose out and because the Priest might cull or choose his tenth out of the other nine parts the word Tithe came to be used for the tenth for Decima or Decimae is the Tithe or tenth of that we lawfully possesse rendered by us to God by way of thankfulness for the blessings bestowed on us which is due by the Law of God of Nature and of this Nation The Law of God is conteined in the Old and New Testaments in the Old Testament Tithes are fully and often commanded as all acknowledge but some pretend that it obligeth not us since there is no expresse place injoyning the payment of them in the New Yet the same Argument is of the same force against keeping the Lords day Baptizing of Infants or womens receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and sufficient it is that they are plainely commanded in the Old and never fulfilled abrogated or abolished in the New and if the letter of the Leviticall Law be fulfilled by Consummatum est yet the Spirituall and Morall sence remaineth still and that in three maine particulars 1. Piety towards God as being for his Worship and Service 2. Gratitude as being Sacrificium laudis an offering of thankes for his benefits received 3. Justice being appointed by him for the just remuneration and wages of his Ministers 1 Cor. 9.13 14. Doe you not know that they which waite at the Altar are partakers with the Altar so also hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospell should live of the Gospell We owe to God our great Landlord both Rent and Service our Rent is the tenth of our increase Mal. 3.8 9 10 c. Will a man rob God yet ye have robbed me but ye say wherein have we robbed thee in Tithes and Offerings ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole Nation bring all the Tithes into the store-house that there may be meate in mine house and try me if I will not open the windows of Heaven c. Our service must be performed every seventh day 7. is the number of Evangelicall Sanctification 10. the number of Legall Justification as Faith is nothing without Workes so neither the Sabbath without Tithes for they who administer to us the spirituall blessings of the Sabbath must receive from us the temporall blessings of Tithes 1 Cor. 9.11 if we sow unto you Spirituall things is it a great thing if we reape your Temporall things for by giving God the tenth part we put the other nine parts in his protection Much is said of the Figure and Number 10. by the Antient as who please may reade in Sir Henry Spelman the Romans so admired the secret vertue of the number 10. that they canonized it amongst their Gods by the name of Decima the letter X. signifieth commonly the number 10. and the Tithe and Christ and was and is commonly written X s X i X um Christus Christi Christum and X s X i X um Decimus Decimi Decimum X. Exprimit antiquis haec Christum litera scriptis Exprimit partem quam petit ille sacram Ergo citus Christi qua sunt dato munera Christo Caesaris accipiat Caesar uterque suum The X. of old exprest Christs holy name And so the holy tenth which he doth claime Give then to Christ what 's Christs without delay Give Cesar Cesars due and both their pay And as for the Practique the payment of Tithes by all pious men ever since there was a Church Jewish or Christian is undeniable 1 Cor. 11.16 but if any man seem contentious let him know that we have no such custome neither the Churches of God It seemes in Saint Pauls time the customes of the Churches were sufficient to stop the mouthes of any Gaine-sayers the custome of paying Tithes was not onely by but before the establishment of the Jewish Church or Common-wealth for Abraham paid Tithes to Melchisedeck who is held to be Sem Noahs Son and it may well be for he lived 600. yeares whereof 502. were after the Flood and 209. of them with Abraham so as to those of the new World he might well seeme without Father or Mother being borne 100. yeares before the Flood So Jacob and Levi himselfe in the loynes of Abraham paid Tythes 400. yeares before he was borne and although after some robbed God of them Mal. 3.13 and others sacrilegiously amongst the Christians yet was the payment of them never abrogated by any Law but confirmed by all the Fathers and good Christians and never gaine-sayed by any honest single Author till our unconscionable dayes 2. 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