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A91192	A Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulnes & continuance of the ancient setled maintenance and tenthes of the ministers of the Gospel: proving, that there is a just, competent, comfortable maintenance due to all lawfull painfull preachers and ministers of the Gospel, by divine right, institution, and expresse texts and precepts of the Gospel: that glebes and tithes are such a maintenance, & due to ministers by divine right, law and Gospel: that if subtracted or detained, they may lawfully be inforced by coercive laws and penalties: that tithes are no reall burden nor grievance to the people; the abolishing them, no ease or benefit to farmers, husband-men, or poor people, but a prejudice and losse. That the present opposition against tithes, proceeds not from any reall grounds of conscience, but base covetousnesse, carnall policy, &c. and a Jesuiticall and Anabaptisticall designe, to subvert and ruin our ministers, Church, religion. With a satisfactory answer to all cavils and materiall objections to the contrary. By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq;	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1653 (1653)	Wing P3971; Thomason E713_12; ESTC R203238; ESTC R26600	128,273	175

oppressions and renounced God himself to save their purses and turned Athiest out-right Let them therefore reform this their Sacrilegious tith-detaining practises and opinions lest whiles they pretend to avoid Judaisme they prove worse than the very Jews themselves yea worse than the very Jewish Pharisees who paid tithes even of Rue Annis Mint Comin and all other Herbs and OF ALL THEY HAD Matt. 23. 23. Luke 11. 42. cap. 18. 12. Whose righteousnesse all Christians righteous must exceed by Christs own verdict else they shall never enter into the kingdome of heaven Mat. 5. 20. Nay worse than the very Idolatrous Jews under Jeroboam and his successors who paid their tithes duly even to the base Idolatrous Priest at Bethel and Gilgal who waited on the Service of the golden Calves and brought all the Oblations to their very Calves which God reserved to his Priests Levites and himself as is evident by Amos 4. 4 5. Come ye to Bethel and transgresse at Gilgal multiply transgression and bring your Sacrifices every morning YOVR TITHES AFTER THREE YEARS and offer a sacrifice of thanks giving with leaven proclaim publish the free offerings for this liketh you O yee children of Israel saith the Lord of Hosts Let those Idolatrous Jews and Israelites now shame them to their duties lest they rise up in judgement and condemn them at the last day These Cities Suburbs Houses Glebes Tithes thus settled on the Priests and Levites for their Habitation maintenance and reward of their Ministeriall Function had nothing properly typicall or Ceremoniall in them and being assigned to them by God himself onely for their necessary Habitation and competent Livelyhood may and ought to be continued and imitated in a fitting proportion under the Gospel for the Habitation maintenance and Livelyhood of the Preachers of the Gospel who are to live by the Gospel as well as they did by the Temple and Altar 1 Cor. 9. 13 14. 3. There was another supplementall maintenance besides these Glebes and Tithes prescribed by God in the Levitical Law for the Priests and was properly Ceremoniall Leviticall and quite abolished with that Priesthood by Christs death and that was the Priests Share out of every meat-Offering made of fine flower oyl and frankincense unto the Lord by the people a small part whereof the Priests were to offer up to God upon the Altar and the remnant which was left was to be Aarons and his Sonnes with the breast and right shoulder of every Peace-Offering offered by the people called the Wave-breast and the heave-shoulder given by God to the Priest who offered the bloud and fat of the Peace-offering at the Altar together with the skin of every burnt-offering Levit. 2. 3 10. chap. 7. 6. to 11. and 28. to 38. Exod 29. 26 27. chap. 9. 21. Numb 6 19 20. And from them that offered a Sacrifice whether it were Ox or Sheep this was the Priests DVE likewise from the people they were to give unto the Priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw by Gods speciall appointment Deut. 18. 3. Ezech. 44. 29. 30. which Fee Eli the high Priests Sonnes exceeding and exacting more than was due by violence it exceedingly provokes God and Men to abhor the Sacrifices of the Lord and proved the ruine of Eli and his Family 1 Sam. 12. 2. to the end These Dues and Fees of the Priests serving onely at the Altar had no affinity with the forementioned Glebes and Tenths belonging as well to the Levites ●s Priests and therefore are distinctly prescribed by themselves Now for any to argue that Tithes and Glebes which were no wayes properly Ceremoniall Leviticall or Typical are quite abolished by Christ and incompetible with the Gospel because those meat-offerings Peace-offerings and Sacrifices which were meerly Ceremoniall and Typicall and by consequence the Fees due unto Priests out of them are quite abolished by Christ the onely true meat-offering peace-offering and Sacrifice for us unto God is a meere Non sequitur they being things of a different nature and the one eternally abolished by Christ as the whole Epistle to the Hebrews testifies but the other not as the said very Epistle attests Hebrews 7. 1. to 9. compared with 1 Cor. 9. 4. to 16. 1 Tim. 5. 17 18. Gal. 6. 6. And here I shall beat our Sword-men and other Tithe-Oppugners with their own weapon They tell us for an unqu●stionable Gospel-Truth That Ministers of the Gospel ought to have no certain or coercive Maintenance but onely voluntary Free will-Offerings such as the people shall willingly give them without any Law or constraint though their own unordained Chaplains in the Army and Garrisons have constant pay each moneth out of the peoples Purses to whom they do not speak and are not maintained by the Souldiers free but the people 's enforced Monethly Contributions which practise they should first reform if repugnant to the Gosp●l Now such Maintenance as this is more properly and purely Levi●icall and Ceremonial than Tithes since all Meat-Offerings Peace-Offerings and Sacrifices out of which the Leviticail Priests were to have their Share and Maintenance were onely FREE-WILL-OFFERINGS voluntarily offered to God without any coercion when they pleased Levit. 2. 1. chap. 3. 1. chap. 22. 18 19 22 23 Num. 18. ● chap. 29. 39. Deut. 12. 6. chap. 16. 10. Psal 54. 6. If then Tithes Glebes and all coercive or settled Maintenance for Ministers be abolished and unlawfull under the Gospell though not primarily and purely Leviticall but of divine Morall and naturall Right by the Dictate of na●urall reason as Tyndarus Rebussus and many others affirm in their Treatises of Tithes then much more must their maintenance by the Leviticall Free-will-Offerings Oblations and Sacrifices be such being more purely Leviticall and Ceremoniall than Tithes as these Instances manifest and 1 Cor 9. 13. Heb. 7. 12 13. And if Ministers of the Gospel must have neither a settled nor inforced Maintenance by Glebes Tiths or otherwise as some now plead nor yet an uncertain one by voluntary Free-will Offerings and Contributions they shall have no maintenance at all allowed them under the Gospel whereas the Priests of God under the Law had both a certain setled Maintenance and reward by Glebes and Tithes likewise an arbitrary and uncertain by their Fees and Dues out of the peoples Freee-will-Offerings and Sacrifices and why Ministers of the Gospell may not have a like setled and coercive Maintenance both by Glebes and Tithes and likewise an honorary super-additionall reward according to their pains and merits by the voluntary benevolences and Free-will-Offerings of the People as well as Priests under the Law or as well as Servants and all publick Officers Military or Civill Let their Opposites render me a reason when they are able the Apostle resolving thus of Ministers of the Gospel in opposition to the Priests under the Law Heb. 13. 10. We have an Altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the Tabernacle

Bishopricks De●neries Benefices Cathedrall and Colledge Lands Revenues Glebes Tithes and whatsoever Ecclesiasticall Profits and endowments of the Clergy and Schollers in our whole Kingdome and Nation After this when the Temple of Jerusalem was built where the Priests and Levites were to wait in their severall Courses successively by Davids appointment 1 Chron. chap. 23. to chap. 27. 2 Chron. 8. 14 15. chap. 23. 8. and ch 13. 10 11. chap. 29. 4. chap. 31. 2. chap. 35. 2. Levit. 1 5 8 9. they had Houses Churches Lodgings provided for them at Jerusalem near the Temple where some of them constantly dwelt and attended and likewise for the Tithes first-Fruits and oblations brought thither to them 1 Chron. 9. 10. to 35. chap. 23. 28. chap. 28. 11 12 13. 2 Chron. 2. to 13. Ezra 8. 29. Neh. 10. 37. 38 39. chap. 12. 44 45 47. chap 13. 4. to 15. Ezech. 40. 4. to 45. ch 42. 1 to 19. ch 44 19. ch 46. 19. These Cities Suburbs Habitations Churches the Priests and Levites constantly enjoyed without interruption till the revolt of the ten Tribes from Rehoboam and Jeroboam the usurper erected two Golden Calves in Dan and Bethel to keep the people from going up to Jerusalem to worship God there out of carnall fear and suspition saying in his heart now shall the Kingdome return to the house of David if the people go up to Jerusalem to do Sacrifice in the House of the Lord there THEN SHALL THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE TVRN BACK AGAIN TO THE LORD even unto Rehoboam King of Judah ●nd THEY SHALL KILL ME and GO AGAIN TO REHOBOAM KING OF JVDAH 1 Kings 12. 26. to 33. and then we read 2 Chron. 11. 13 14 15 16. The Priests of the Levites that were in all Israell resorted to Rehoboam out of all their Coasts For the Levites LEFT THEIR SVBVRBS and THEIR POSSESSIONS and came to Judah and Jerusalem for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from executing the Priests Office unto the Lord and he ordained him Pr●ests for the High Places of the lowest of the people and for the Devils and the Calves which he had made which King Abijah warring with him after his Fathers death when he claimed the right of his usurp●d Crown they objected against him and the revolted Tribes 2 Chr. 13. 4. to 14. Hear me thou Jeroboam and all I●rael ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the Kingdome over Israel to David for ever even to him and to his Sons by a Covenant of Salt Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat the servant of Solomon the Son of David is risen up and hath rebelled against his Lord. And there are gathered unto him vain men the children of Beliall and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the Son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted and could not withstand him And now ye think to withstand the Kingdome of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David and ye be a great multitude and there be with you Golden Calves which Jeroboam made you for Gods Have ye not cast out the Priests of the Lord the Sons of Aaron and THE LEVITES and have made you Priests after the manner of the Nations of other Lands so that whosoever cometh TO CONSECRATE ●IMSELF with a young Bullock and seven Rams the same may be a Priest of them that are no Gods But as for us the Lord is our God and we have not forsaken him and the Priests which minister unto the Lord are the Sons of Aaron and the● Levites wait upon their businesse c. For we keep the Charge of the Lord our God but ye have forsaken h●m And behold God himself is ●ith us for our Captain and his Priests with sounding ●rumpets to cry allarum against you The issue of this A●●eisticall policy and Sacrilegious deprivation or Spoliation of Gods Priests and Levites of their Suburbs Possessions and Ministry by Jeroboam and his Sons is very remarkable 1. It brought ruine upon his whole Army though double the number of Abijah his host of whom they had a great advantage by an ambushment God himself smiting him and his host so that they fled before Judah and Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter so that there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men 2 Chron. 13. 13. to 20. The greatest slaughter in battle that ever we read of in Sacred or prophane Stories before or since 2. It brought Captivity on his Adherents who were brought under at that time pursued and had their wives taken and plundered v. 18 19. 3. It brought this misery and fatall Judgement on himself v. 20. Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the dayes of Abijah And the Lord strook him and he dyed 4. It became sin to the house of Jeroboam even to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth 1 Kings 13. 33 34. 5. It made all the succeeding Kings of Israel professed Idolaters and most of them bloudy Murtherers Usurpers Persecutors and produced perpetuall successive civill warres between Judah and Israel 1 Kings 14. 30. chap. 15. 6 7 16 32. 2 Chron. 28. 4. to 12. 6. It brought finall captivity ruine desolation in conclusion to the whole Kingdome of Israel and the ten revolting Tribes 2 Kings 17. 20 21 22 23. where this sad story is recorded And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers untill he had cast them out of his sight For he rent Israel from the house of David And they made Jeroboam the Son of Nebat King of which God thus complains Hos 8. 4. They have set up Kings but not by me they have made Princes and I knew it not and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the Lord and made them sin a great sin for the children of Israel walked in all the sinnes of Jeroboam which he did they departed not from them untill the Lord removed Israel out of his sight as he had said by all his servants the Prophets So was Israel carried away out of their own Land to Assyria TILL THIS Day when as the Kingdome of Judah continued above 156 years after in Davids royall posterity enjoying Gods Priests Levites Prophets and Ordinances till their captivity for their sins in mocking abusing his Messengers Prophets and despising his words 2 Chron. 36. 16 17. And then after 70 years captivity were restored again to their Countrey reedified Jerusalem and the Temple and with them the Priests and Levites returning from bondage were restored likewise to their Cities and Glebes of which the Kings of Judah never deprived them as Jeroboam and his Sons and the Kings of Israel who were all Idolaters did whence thus we read Ezra 2. 70. So the Priests and the Leaites and the Singers and the Porters the Nethinims DWELT IN THEIR CITIES and all Israel in their cities Thus