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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86306	The undeceiving of the people in the point of tithes: wherein is shewed, I. That never any clergy in the Church of God hath been, or is maintained with lesse charge to the subject, then the established clergy of the Church of England. II. That there is no subject in the realme of England, who giveth any thing of his own, towards the maintenance of his parish-minister, but his Easter-offering. III. That the change of tithes into stipends, will bring greater trouble to the clergy, then is yet considered; and far lesse profit to the countrey, then is now pretended. / By Ph. Treleinie Gent.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1647 (1647)	Wing H1741; Thomason E418_1; ESTC R204596	25,471	32

adde all those which were under 20 years and unfit for service the number would at least be doubled But the Levites being all reckoned from a month old and above their number was but 22000 in all of which see Num. 1. 46. 3. 39. which came not to so many by 273 as the onely first-born of the other Tribes and therefore when the Lord took the Levites for the first-born of Israel the odde 273 were redeemed according to the Law at five shekels a man and the money which amounted to 1365 shekels was given to Aaron and his sons Num. 7. 47 48. Which ground so laid according to the holy Scriptures let us next take a view of the English Clergy and allowing but one for every parish there must bee 9725 according to the number of the parish Churches or say ten thousand in the totall the residue being made up of Curates officiating in the Chappels of Ease throughout the Kingdome and reckoning in all their male children from a month old and upwards the number must be more then trebled For although many of the dignified and beneficed Clergy doe lead single lives yet that defect is liberally supplied by such married Curates as do officiate under them in their severall Churches And then as to the disproportion which is said to be between the Clergy and the rest of the people one to five hundred at the least the computation is ill grounded the collection worse For first the computation ought not to be made between the Minister and all the rest of the parish men women and children Masters and Dames men-servants maid-servants and the stranger which is within the gates but between him and such whose estates are Titheable and they in most parishes are the smallest number For setting by all children which live under their parents servants apprentices artificers day-labourers and poor indigent people none of all which have any interest in the Titheable lands the number of the residue will be found so small that probably the Minister may make one of the ten and so possesse no more then his own share comes to And then how miserably weak is the Collection wch is made from thence that this one man should have as much as any sixscore of the rest of the parish supposing that the parish did contain 500 persons or that his having of so much were a cheat and robbery And as for that objection which I find much stood on that the Levites had no other inheritance but the Tithes and offerings Numb. 18. 23. whereas the English Clergy are permitted to purchase lands and to inherit such as descend unto them the answer is so easie it will make it selfe For let the Tithes enjoyed by the English Clergy descend from them to their posterity from one generation to another as did the Tithes and Offerings on the Tribe of Levi and I perswade my self that none of them will be busied about purchasing lands or be an eye-sore to the people in having more to live on then their Tithes and Offerings Til that be done excuse them if they doe provide for their wives and children according to the Lawes both of God and Nature And so much for the parallel in point of maintenance between the Clergy of this Church and the Tribe of Levi Proceed we next unto the Ministers of the Gospel at the first plantation during the lives of the Apostles and the times next following and we shall finde that though they did not actually receive Tithes of the people yet they still kept on foot their right and in the mean time till they could enjoy them in a peaceable way were so provided for of all kind of necessaries that there was nothing wanting to their contentation First that they kept on foot their Right and thought that Tithes belonged as properly to the Evangelicall Priesthood as unto the Legall seems evident unto me by S. Pauls discourse who proves Melchisedeks Priesthood by these two arguments first that he blessed Abraham and secondly that he tithed him or received Tithes of him For though in our English translation it be onely said that he received Tithes of Abraham which might imply that Abraham gave them as a gift or a free-will-offering and that Melchisedek received them in no other sense yet in the Greek it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which in plain English is that he tithed Abraham and took them of him as his due Heb. 7. 6. If then our Saviour be a Priest after the order of Melchisedek as no doubt he is hee must have power to tithe the people as well as to blesse them or else he comes not home to the type or figure which power of Tithing of the people or receiving Tithes of them since he exerciseth not in person it seems to me to follow upon very good consequence that hee hath devolved this part of his power on those whom he hath called and authorised for to blesse the people Certain I am the Fathers of the Primitive times though they enjoyed not Tithes in specie by reason that the Church was then unsettled and as it were in motion to the land of rest in which condition those of Israel paid no Tithes to Levi yet they still kept their claim unto them as appears clearly out of Origen and some other Ancients And of this truth I think no question need be made amongst knowing men The only question will be this Whether the maintenance which they had till the Tithes were paid were not as chargeable to the people as the Tithes now are supposing that the Tithes were the subjects own For my part I conceive it was the people of those plous times not thinking any thing too much to bestow on God for the encouragement of his Ministers and the reward of his Prophets They had not else sold off their lands and houses and brought the prices of the things which were sold and laid them at the Apostles feet as we know they did Acts 4. 34 35. but that they meant that the Apostles should supply their own wants out of those oblations as well as the necessities of their poorer brethren I trow the selling of all and trusting it to the dispensing of their Teachers was matter of more charge to such as had lands and houses then paying the tenth part of their house-rent or the Tithe of their lands And when this custome was laid by as possibly it might end with the Apostles themselves the offerings which succeeded in the place thereof and are required or enjoyned by the Apostolicall Canons were so great and manifold that there was nothing necessary to the life of man as honey milke fowl flesh grapes corn oyl frankincense fruits of the season yea strong drink and sweet mears which was not liberally offered on the Altars or oblation-Tables insomuch as the Authour of the Book called the Holy Table name and thing c. according to his scornfull manner saith of them that