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A77137	A defence and justification of ministers maintence by tythes. And of infant-baptism, humane learning, and the sword of the magistrate; which some Anabaptists falsely call four sandy pillars, and popish foundations of our ministry and churches. In which tythes are proved to be due by divine right to the ministers of the gospel. All common objections answered, and divers cases of conscience humbly proposed: with a light to clear them. / In a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to Immanuel Bourne, late pastor of the church in Asheover in the county of Derby: now preacher to the congregation at Waltham in the county of Leicester. With a short answer to Anthony Peirson's great case of tythes, &c.	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3851; Thomason E1907_1	92,679	184

for Christ was faithful in all his house as Moses Hebr. 3.2 But Christ no where forbids Tythes nor serteth any maintenance instead of Tythes and therefore Tythes certainly are to coninue still by the mind of Christ even to the end of the world for would Christ here provide no settled maintenance for his Ministers who were sure to finde cold entertainment in the world For the Apostle that he did not require Tythes of the Corinthians or Galatians nor claim them as due to Christ's Ministers by Divine right nor other Apostles Peter John James or the rest there are good and sufficient grounds reasons good enough to answer this Objection 1. In those days in divers places and especially at Jerusalem there was a community of goods the Belivers sold ther Estates and laid the mony down at the Apostles feet Act. 4.32.34 and what need was there then of any claim of Tythes when all was at the dispose of the Ministers and Apostles of Christ or of the Church and Deacons and they lived of the common Treasuries what wisdom had it then been to claim Tythes 2. Euseb Ec. Hist lib. 4. cap. 25. Again then were times of persecution as you may read Act. 11.19 12 1 2. c. and this persecution against the Church continued to after times above a hundred and fifty years after hrist as Eusebius relateth Melito Bishop of Sardis in his A pology to the Emperor writeth that the godly people were grieved by new Edicts published throughout Asia and suffered persecution yea impudent Sycophants and greedy gapers after other mens goods having gotten occasion through those Proclamations openly rob and spoile day and night therefore he desires the ●mperor that he would not despise them who were greived and oppressed with that shamefull spoile Diverse persecutions were both before and after and was it then a time for the Ministers of Christ to press or claime the Tythes of poor persecuted Christians certainly no. 3. These Corinthians and Galatians and others Churches were but new Converts living amongst other Gentiles who were unbelievers and though the Apostle did claim and argue for his right of maintenance yet to avoid offence and hinde rance of the Gospels propagation in those infant days of the Church he did not use that power and right he had to take maintenance of them but charged other Churches to spare them not that he had not a right or that other Ministers had not a right but it was not then a fit time to require this right and therefore much less to claim or preach up Christs his right in Tythes 4. In a word the Apostles then were travellers up and down the world in several Countries to preach the Gospel and had no certain dwelling place as Paul himself witnesseth 1 Cor. 4.11 and what then should they have done with Tythes or to have claimed Tythes when Ministers were not setled nor was there any quiet state of the Church And these are reasons sufficient to quiet the Quakers quarrelling spirit if they were not restless in their malice against the Ministers of Christ or any moderate Anabaptist that their maintenance is due unto them by divine right Thus did the Apostle spare the Gentiles of any demand or nameing of tythes but when he writeth to the Hebrews then he names tythes Heb. 7. and declareth them to belong to Christ and so certain to Christs Ministers not from Aaron or Levi but from Christ himself who was a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec But some Quakers or Anabaptists it may be Object have found out that Objection as they pretend Heb. 7.12 The Levitical Priesthood being changed there must needs be a change of the Law Therefore tythes being under the Levitical Law and that Priesthood of Levi being changed there must needs be a change of the Law of Tythes and so Tythes must cease in the Gospel as being Levitical and Ceremonial I answer Answer It is true That the Levitical Priesthood is changed and that Covenant of Levi by Sacrifices and Ceremonies figuring Christ the Messias to come that is changed and ended all being fulfilled in Christ for that Law of Levies Priesthood in what respect it was Typicall Heb. 10.1 2 that had but a shadow of good things to come for it was not possible that the Blood of Buls and Goats could ever take away sin therefore Christ cometh and offers his own body and by that one offering once for all he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10.14 so that these Levitical Sacrifices they are all ended by that one sacrifice of Christ But there were divers things which Levi did which were not typical or figurative ceremonies to be ended at the coming or ascention of Christ or in the time of the Gospel As first The Levites did ear and drink and wear apparel for their bodily nourishment and preservation of the life of Nature and this was not ceremonial but nature to be done by the Law of Nature and by the positive Law of God for God commanded our first parents to eat freely of the trees of the Garden Of every tree of the garden thou shalt eat freely Gen. 2.16 and this was not Levitical nor Ceremonial nor to end at the coming of Christ for Christ himself commandeth his Disciples when he sent them abroad to preach the Gospel to eat such things as were set before them Luk. 10.8 And if these actions of Levi were ended in Christ then it was unlawful for any man or woman to eat or drink or to wear apparel which is irrational and contrary to the mind of Christ Lu. 10.7 Secondly The Levites did bless the people this was another action of theirs Num. 6.22 c. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Speak unto Aaron and his sons and say unto them on this wise shall ye bless the children of Israel And the Lord separated the Tribe of Levi to stand before the Lord and to bless in his name Deut. 10.1 And this was not ceremonial neither nor to end at Christs coming for Christ teacheth his Disciples to bless them that curse them Mat. 5.44 And the Apostles and Ministers of Christ do bless the bread and wine in the Sacrament 1 Cor. 10.16 And it was the practice of the Church and Ministers of Christ to bless or pray for a blessing on the corgregation 1 Cor. 4.16 Thirdly The Levites taught the good knowledge of God for which that good King Hezekiah spake comfortably to them 2 Chron. 30.22 And they did read in the Book of the Law Nehem. 8.8 9. and gave the sense and caused to understand the reading Nehem. 8. And these actions were not ceremonial nor to be abolished by Christ for Christ commands his Disciples that they should go and teach all Nations Mat. 28.19 20. And thus Philip did by the direction of the Spirit of God he opened the Prophet Isaiah to the Eu●uch Acts 8.30.35 And the Apostle tells us

weak in the Faith receive but not to doubtful Disputations Besides there are several Disputations in print already enough to satisfie Yet if you John Darker would write your Arguments drawn out of the holy Scriptures to prove what you affirmed yesterday as I apprehended you That the godly preaching Ministers in England are all Antichristian and our Reformed and Reforming Churches Babylon and to be departed from and our preaching not to be heard with your hand and the hand of your cheif Teacher I should God willing give you my Answer And to this I subscribed my name Immanuel B●urne For your wresting and misrepresenting my words and opprobrious terms you give me and false consequences you put upon me I have learned not to give reviling speeches for reviling But I may tell you That you raise a false position like a man of straw and then you will father it on me and fight against me for it when it is a Bastard of your own begetting I pardon this also The Anabaptists Answer Then you proceed in a magesterial way and with a high vapour But Sir say you we must let you understand that those foundation-Principles of the Church of God which we suppose you well know would have been the matter of our discourse hath Scripture as clear to prove them as the Sun at noon day without the help of your consequences or illustrations and you set down divers of your grounds or foundation-principles as that God made the Heaven and the earth Gen. 1.1 That all men are sinners Rom. 3.23 That God made men upright Eccles 7.29 That God sent his Son to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 The Resurrection from the dead Joh. 5.29 Mr. Bourns Reply For Reply These are plain Truths and full proof without consequence But these Truths are not in controversie between us But now you come to shuffle in matters of controversie amongst the rest like a man that mingles corrupt wares among good the more easily to sell them and deceive the people As it follows in your Answer The Anabaptists Answer If I would dispute say you that the subjects of baptism are men and women and Repentance and Faith go before to fit them for it it is clear without dubiousness Act. 8.12.37 and 2.38 And you further tell me The Ana ∣ baptists Grounds of Separa ∣ tion That to satisfie my desire to know the grounds of your Separation and why you look upon us as none of the Church of Christ or Ministers of the Gospel for which in the whole you give three Reasons First Reason 1 Because as you conceive we frame not our Church of right materials that is as you explain your self not of men and women of riper years converted but of Infant children who can make no profession of Faith or Repentance Secondly Reason 2 A second ground is Because as you dream we walk in parallel with those the Scripture speaketh of who make merchandise of the word of God for which you name divers places of Scripture Micah 3.11 Ezek. 22 26 c. Jer. 5.30 31. and 23.14 15. Phil. 3.18 All which you wrest and most falsly apply to the godly faithful Ministers of Christ in England which most truly may be applied to your selves as I have proved at full and made ready to have sent you though now I shall not trouble the Press with it being nothing but your fals Quaking scandal and the like to be retorted upon you which I conceive is unchristian like Reason 3 Your third Reason or Ground of Separation is Because as your opinion is our Church standeth upon these four sandy Pillars or Popish foundations Four sandy Pillars 1. Humane Learning 2. Say you Baptizing as you call it but Rantizing or rather cousening of Babes in their cradles take away that say you and you would have no Church 3. Your Tythes or forced Maintenance the wages of unrighteousness say you after which you all run astray take away that and preach who will 4. The Magistrates sword which the Priests have run to in many Generations take away that say you which hath ever been the fundamental of your livelihood and then you would be in danger of starving amongst them whom you call Christians Mr. Bour●● Reply Now I see friends you have changed your method for before your first ground was admission of Infants to be members by baptism of our Churches And in your four sandy pillars you put Humane Learning before Infant Baptism I shall in like manner take liberty to change your method and for my Reply begin first with that which is your third sandy Pillar or popish Foundation as you may please to term it and this is our Tythes or forced maintenance which you call the wages of unrighteousness Because it is so much opposed and spoken against by too many in these times who are not onely adversaries to Ministers Maintenance by Tythes but to the Ministery it self First let us look into the Book of God even from the Creation read Genes ch 1. 2. and you shall find That howsoever the Lord the Creator of heaven and earth the chief Lord of all the world did and hath entrusted Adam and Eve and their sons and daughters with the keeping and possession of inferior creatures and dominion over them and with the fruits of the earth and the increase thereof yet the Lord hath reserved a twofold right yet in the creature First general over all the world and the kingdoms of the earth and goods therein to dispose of them when and where and to whom he pleaseth This the Scripture witnesseth at full He gave the land of Canaan to the seed of Abraham Gen. 15.18 And Hanna tells us that the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up 1 Sam. 27.8 And the Psalmist tels us The earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof Psal 24.1 So the Psalmist again bringeth in God himself speaking All the beasts of the forrest are mine and so are the cattel upon a thousand hills and if I were hungry I would not tell thee for the world is mine and the fulness thereof as is expressed Psal 50.10 12. And the word of the Lord to Jeremiah from the Lord Thus shall ye say I have made the heaven and the earth the man and the beast that are upon the ground by my great power and by my outstretched arm and have given it to whomsoever it seemed meet unto me And now I have given all these lands into the hands of the king of Babylon my servant as you may find recorded Jer. 27.5 6. This Daniel declares in the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the high tree in the midst of the earth which was decreed to be cut down The decree was for bringing down Nebuchadnezzar himself till he did know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will Witness Daniel ch 4.25 Thus hath God a general right over all the world and

was the Levites portion might but at Jerusalem Thus you may read Deut. 14. Deut. 14.22 23 c. Tything thou shalt tythe or thou shalt truly tythe all the increase of thy seed which thy field bringeth forth and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place he shall chuse to place his name there and if the place be too far thou shalt turn it into money and buy what thy soul liketh and shalt eat there before the Lord thy God and thou shalt rejoice thou and thy houshold and the Levite within thy gates Ainsworth in Deu. 14. This second Tythe might not be eaten any where but before the Lord in Jerusalem as the Hebrew Doctors affirm and is evident from the text This might be Levitical and to end with that Temple-worship Thirdly besides these two Tythes there was in the place or stead of this second Tythe a third Tythe every third year Amos 4.4 Tythes after three years c. which was for the Levite the stranger the fatherless and the widow within their gates as you may read Deut. 14.28 29. This may cease in part as a Tenth but the substance is moral But the first Tythe was wholly for the Levites for their maintenance as the Lords wages or reward the Lord alloweth them for their service in the Sanctuary to continue in the Gospel as after will appear Yea besides the Tythes the Lords portion the Lord commanded that the Levites should have their Cities to dwell in Num. 35.3 4 5 6 c. and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattel and for their goods and for all their beasts and the suburbs of the city shall reach from the wall of the city two thousand cubits round about Num 35. Rich conveniences besides extraordinaries which were very many This was the Levites lawful gain due unto them by Divine right by the law of God and law of Nature as a reward for their labor in the Lords service And this gain they might lawfully seek after every one for his gain from his quarter And this they did when their just portion and maintenance was not brought them by the people Nehem 13.10 11 12. The Levites went every one to his field for his just gain or portion as you may find Neh. 13. Thus did the Levites seek every one for his gain from his quarter to live of his portion of land and tythes at his field when the second tythe was not brought into the treasury as it ought to have been And this was just and lawful for them to do as the Ministers of Christ may lawfully do at this day There is another Objection Object 3 Though the Lord had a part in every mans estate the tenth of every increase which the Lord did give to the Levites the Lords Ministers before the coming of Christ yet now since Christ is come and is not only dead as the High-Priest of our profession having offered himself to God for us once for all Heb. 3.1 2. and is not only risen again and ascended into heaven and liveth for evermore Rev. 1.18 but maketh intercession for us to God his Father and the Levitical Priesthood is ended Now what evidence is there that God hath any part or portion in mens estates or the increases of them for himself or to be disposed of as his own or that the Ministers of Christ have either Tythes or any Maintenance due unto them by Divine right since Christ And then how can it be lawful for them to seek after every one his gain as they do For answer Answer First if it be granted that the Lord had a reserved part of the earth and increase thereof for himself yea that the Tythes or Tenths were the Lords excepted and reserved portion which he had not given to the sons of Adam or to Noah's posterity and that this was the Lords for his service until Christs coming in the flesh Gen. 3.17 c. which I conceive none will deny that truly believeth there is a God that created the world and gave part only not all to Adam or that truly believes the Holy Scriptures to be the written word of God Question Then I desire to know by what Deed of gift the Lord hath given these Tythes his own portion from himself or from his Ministers and servants who once had them Whether he hath released his right and title which in a special manner he had in the earth and the increases thereof to any man and to whom Hath God released his special right in the tenth part the Tythes of all which were once yea which are the Lords own if none can shew a better title to them Let us search the Records in the New Testament and first see if we can find any such Release or Deed of gift from God and his servants and to whom Secondly see what is registred for the maintenance and continuance of Gods right unto them That so we may better answer the Anabaptists who call Tythes the wages of unrighteousness or the Quakers who accuse the Ministers of Christ as if they did seek for unlawful gain the gain of Tythes of that which is neither God's nor theirs every one for his gain from his quarter or people I have searched the New Testament and can find Tythes mentioned but only in four places and in none of these doth Christ deny or give away or release his right to his tenth part or forbid his Minfsters to receive Tythes yea rather Tythes are approved by Christ and his Apostles that speak of them First place The first place is that of our Saviour Mat 23.23 where he pronounceth that woe against the Scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisie Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye pay tythe of mint and annise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law judgment mercy and faith These things ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone It is evident our Saviour doth not reprove them for their paiment of Tythes but for their omission and neglect of the weightier matters of the Law judgment mercy and saith For he tells them plainly it was their duty to pay their tythes even of the smallest things mint and annise and cummin these things ought not to be left undone Thus both the payment of tythes even in the time of Christ and Christs approbation of tythes is witnessed at full in this place No prohibition of tythes evidenced no cessation of tythes declared no denying of Christs Ministers to receive tythes 2. Again a second place we find Tythes spoken of in the New Testament is that of our Saviour recorded Luke 11.42 to the same effect with the former Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees for ye tythe Mint and Rue and all manner of Herbs and pass over judgement and the love of God these ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone You see our