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A91295	Ten considerable quæries concerning tithes, the present petitioners and petitions for their total abolition, as antichristian, Jewish, burdensom, oppressive to the godly, consciencious people of the nation; excited, incouraged thereunto by disguised Jesuits, popish priests, friers, and Romish emissaries, to starve, suppress, extirpate our protestant ministers, church, religion; and bring them all to speedy confusion. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4100; Thomason E767_2; ESTC R15775	4,987	8

London 1608. My Gospel Plea interwoven with a Rational and Legal for the Lawfulness and continuance of the ancient maintenance and Tenths of the Ministers of the Gospel London 1653. others to prove Tithes Due by Divine Right to the Ministers of the Gospel and neither Jewish nor Antichristian nor illegal nor burdensom to the people in the least degree being allowed in all Leases purchases before they be voted down abolished and quite abrogated as such upon their clamorous scandalous Petitions Suggestions void of all truth VI. Whether the present and future pretended ease of the people in their Tithes to their Ministers if effected will not be recompenced with an Augmentation or Duplication of their Monthly Taxes to the Army or in Fines Rents to their Landlords to a far greater value than they now pay to their Ministers and be levyed with greater rigour and harder compositions if deteined than now they are according to Saint Augustines prediction Sermo 219. De Tempore If thou will not give thy Tithes Dabis impio Militi quod non vis dare Deo Sacerdoti Hoc tollit Fiscus quod non accepit Christus Thou shall be sure to give that to an impious Souldier which thou will not give to God and a pious Minister The Exchequer takes that away which Christs hath not received as some Parishes have found by experience to their costs and grief VII Whether it be not a most arrogant high inexcusable presumption for a few giddy-pated Innovators in this Age to condemn censure not only the practise wisedom piety of Abraham the Father of the Faithfull and all the people of God in the Old Testament before and under the Law and of most Christian States Churches under the Gospel in paying prescribing Tithes as the most equal rational just convenient maintenance for the Priests and Ministers of God of all others but likewise of the wisdom prudence providence of God who is a Prov. 8. 1 14. c. 9. 1. Wisdom it self and b Rom. 16. 27. 1 Tim. 1. 17. Iude 21. God only wise c 1 Cor. 11. 25. whose very Folly is wiser than men in instituting commanding such a constant setled maintenance for them in his Word as the best fittest of all others wherein both Minister and people equally lose gain and sympathise with each other which they cannot do with so much indifferency equallity in any other way which human wisedome could hitherto invent VIII Whether it be not an infallable evidence that those have neither the Faith nor Piety and by consequence are not the Sons of Abraham the Father of the Faithfull in a Spiritual or Gospel sence who refuse to do his d Iohn 8. 39 Rom. 4. 7. to 15. works and follow his steps in paying Tithes of all their spoils of Warr to Christ himself a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck Heb. 7. 4. as other Soldiers by his example did both amongst Israelites Christians and Pagans too Num 31. 26 to 54. 1 Chron. 26. 26 27 28. Mr. Seldens History of Tithes c. 1. 3. and endeavour to spoyl them of all other Tithes due from themselves and others too reputing it an eminent degree of their Saintship And whether this their practise be not likelier to bring them into Hell torments than into Abrabams bosome in conclusion if they repent not of it Luke 16. 23. to 31. IX Whether all the Inconveniences objected against Ministers maintenance by Tithes be not rather fictitious imaginary than real arising from the malice covetousness impiety fraud hypocrisie injustice rapine perversenesse litigeousnesse of the wilfull Deteiners Opposers of them rather than from Tithes themselves fince many Ministers heretofore and of late years have lived all their lives without any sutes for Tithes with any of their Parishioners and might doe so still would they make a Conscience to pay them without any sute Whether those who refuse to pay Tithes in kind to Ministers now out of a pretext of Conscience will not upon the same Pretence refuse to pay them any other maintenance that can be invented and make it more litigious contentious uncertain than their Tithes since every Innovation in this kind ingenders new suites disputes when all legal Controversies suites for Tithes have been long since setled resolved over and over both in Parliaments and other Courts of Justice X. Whether the admission permission of those few Commoners now acting without their Fellows being scarce the TENTH PART OF THE HOUSE to vote down or take away the Ministers Tenths or reduce them into one publick Treasury to divide and distribute them at their pleasures though amongst the Ministers themselves at first will not be a dangerous leading President and encouragement to them upon any pretended necessity to dispose of these Tenths and the other * 1 Sam. 8. 14 15 16 17. 18. See I0 Calvini Hom. 29 in 1 Sam. c. 8. p. 155. nine parts of every Mans estate and reduce the profits of them into their publick Treasury for the necessary defence and preservation of their New-Commonwealth and the Armies pay as they did others sequestred estates heretofore because Tithes though * See Mr. Seldens History of Tithes ch 11. The 2. Part of my Gospel Plea originally dedicated as a peculiar portion inheritance and rent-service to God himself and his Church as the Soveraign Lord of all mens Inheritances specially reserved by him for his own immediate honour service homage tribute for all the other nine parts they enjoy by his free grace and liberality may be thus alienated and distributed at their pleasures therefore much more the nine remaining parts alotted unto men alone for their own private and the Publick good over which they have a greater probabler legaller Jurisdiction than over God's own peculiar portion which might neither be alienated exchanged redeemed by any human powers but only by the Priests consents in some special cases for their advantage Numb 18. 20. Levit 27-28 29 30 32 33. Deut. 12. 17. c. 14. 22 23. Mal. 3. 8 9. Ezech 48. 9 to 15. Which if once reduced into a new publick Treasury the Ministers are like to have no other share nor better account of them then of the Tithes of Southwales for som years last past or of the Deans Chapters impropriations for the augmentation of incompetent livings swallowed up for the most part by the Treasurers and their Instruments with little or no advantage to the publike and less to the Ministers by reason of their unfaithfullness far different from those * 2 Chron. 31. 11. to 20. Treasurers for the Tithes and First fruits brought to Ierusalem appointed by King Hezekiah over whom Coniah the Levite was ruler who faithfully brought in and distributed to their brethren the Oblations TITHES and dedicated things as well to the great as the small without substraction or defalcation The Statutes of 27 H 8. c. 20. 32 H. 8. c. 7. 2 3E 6. c. 13. style those evil disposed Persons not regarding their Duties to Almighty God and to the King their Soveraign Lord who out of an ungodly and perverse will and mind detain all or any part or parcel of their Tythes and Offerings enacting strict penalties against all Substracters and Detainers of them How then they can now be reputed consciencious Godly Saints unlesse inrolled for such in the Roman Kalendar is worthy resolution some of them as the Quakers beginning of late to work on the Lords day denying God one day in seven as well as the Tenth of their annual increase deeming both Jewish and Antichristian as they deem our Ministers Ex cauda draconem FINIS

TEN Considerable Quaeries CONCERNING TITHES THE Present Petitioners and Petitions for their total abolition as Antichristian Jewish burdensom oppressive to the godly consciencious People of the Nation excited incouraged thereunto by disguised Jesuits Popish Priests Friers and Romish Emissaries to starve suppress extirpate our Protestant Ministers Church Religion and bring them all to speedy confusion By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Levit. 27. 30. All the Tithe of the Land of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree IS THE LORDS it is holy unto the Lord. Gal. 6. 6. Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things Calvin in Mal. 3. 11. Videmus non esse novum vel insolitum si homines Deo sua officia imputent interea manifest è eripiant ei Decimas quod suum est et ad se transferunt manifest è satis appareat eorum impictas etiamsi velo simulationis sit obducta LONDON Printed for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1659. Ten Considerable Quaeres concerning Tithes and the New Petitioners Petitions concerning their abolishing I. WHether Nine parts of Ten of the present eager Petitioners against our Ministers Tithes if strictly examined by the poll will not appear to be poor mecanical persons of such mean inconfiderable fortunes estates condition without any Tithable lands livings estates as are no ways interessed nor concerned in the payment of Tithes And so fitter to be punished as factious seditious schismatical than thanked encouraged as zealous conscientious well-affected persons by those in present power II. Whether all or most of these Petitioners be not really greater Enemies to our * See John Cannes second Voice from the Temple 1653. Ministers and their Ministry then they are unto their Tithes petitioning purposely against their Tithes in order to the subversion extirpation of their Ministry Function and thereby of our Protestant Church and Religion And that by the instigation sollicitation of those disguised Jesuits Popish Priests Monks and * See My Quakers Unmasked My New Discovery of Romish Emissaries And true and perfect Narrative Romish Emissaries which bear chief sway in most Separate Congregations of Anabaptists Quakers and other Antagonists now attempting the present abolition of Tithes If so as will appear upon an impartial Inquisition whether such persons will not be fitter to be banished as Antichristian rather than Tithes and to be taken into publike consideration before the debate of Tithes III. Whether there be not above One hundred religious well affected Protestants persons of Honor Quality Estate lyable to the payment of predial Tithes and most concerned therein who desire the constant payment and continuance of them for the maintenance of their Ministers to every one of those Tith-payers who now petition against them as a grievance though the Tithes the most of them pay be not considerable If so as is most apparent by comparing the paucity and quality of the Petitioners with those who refuse to joyn with them Whether it can bee conscionable equitable just reasonable * See Claus 28 E. 1. m. 3. dorso Parliamentarie to admit of any debates for the abolishing or altering the payment of Tithes upon the Petitions of so few malecontented Sectaries and unvaluable persons against the wills consents desires of the Generality and most considerable part of the Nobility Gentry Farmers Citizens Freemen of the whole Nation And that during the absence forcible seclusion of most of those Knights Citizens and Burgesses they duly elected to represent their persons and give both their free Votes Opinions Assents and Dissents to whatever publike businesses should be propounded and ordained in Parliament Therefore to this of Tithes which is so universal and so highly concerns both our Religion and Proprieties IV. Whether it will not be an apparent breach of the Great Charter of England ch 1. 29. That the Church of England shall be free and shall have her whole Rights and Liberties inviolable That no Freeman shall be disseised of his Freehold or Liberties or Free-Customs or be outlawed exiled or any otherwise destroyed nor shall we pass upon him nor condemn him but by the lawfull Iudgement of his Peers and by the Law of the Land And of above 40. other Statutes for its confirmation fince some of them in the last long Parliament now revived in pretext for those now sitting to take upon them the debating and voting down of Tithes or altering their usual way of payment in any kinde being the Inheritance Right Liberty Free-hold of the Church of England of every particular Church Patron Minister Impropriator and many thousands of Freemen in all parts of the Nation without any lawfull summons given to them to appear before them to defend maintain their respective Inheritances Freeholds rights interests in them ratified by prescription time out of mind by sundry Acts of Parliament both under our antient * See Mr. Seldens History of Tithes c. 8. Rastals Abridgment Title Tithes Saxon Norman English Kings and many late Ordinances to which those now conyened gave their Votes as fully as others now secluded as well as by Divine Right Institution both before under the Law and Gospel too without any lawfull judgement hearing tryal by their Peers or by the Law of the Land And whether this will be a consciencious real performance of their printed Declaration May 9. 1659 We are resolved by the gracious assistance of Almighty God to apply our selves to the faithfull discharge of our Legal Trust to assert establish and secure the Property and Liberty of the people in reference unto all both as Men and Christians Therfore of all Patrons Ministers Members as well as others unless they repute them neither Men nor Christians V. Whether * See his Second Voice from the Temple 1653. John Canne with other Adversaries to and Petitioners against Tithes as Iewish and Antichristian ought not first to prove them such by clear unanswerable Scriptures Evidences Demonstrations to the conviction of the Iudgements Consciences of the generality of the English Nation and all now sitting And to answer all the Arguments Authorities Scriptures Reasons produced by Tyndarus Rebuffus in their Treatises de Decimis Dr. George Carltons Tithes proved to be due by a Divine right London 1606. Dr. Robert Till●slee his Animadversions on Mr. Seldens History of Tithes London 1619. Sir Iohn Sempil his Sacrilege sacredly handled London 1619. Stephen Nettles his Answer to the Jewish part of Mr. Seldens History of Tithes Oxon 1625. Richard Mountague his Answer to the first part of the History of Tithes London 1628. Dr. William Sclater his Ministers portion Foulke Roberts The Revenue of the Gospel is Tithes due to the Ministry of the word by that word Cambridge 1613. Richard Eburne his Maintenance of the Ministry London 1609. R. G. his Truth of Tithes discovered or the Anatomy of Annanias and Saphiraes Sacriledge