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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	antichrist_n	dare_v	great_a	24	3	2.1239	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96708	Elmston the 9. of the 11. month, 1656. For Thomas Munnings, John Durance, and the rest of the Commissioners sometimes sitting at Canterbury about tythes. The plea and protest of Robert Winter of Elmston in the county of Kent, for his non-payment of tythes.	Winter, Robert, of Elmston, Kent.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3084; Thomason E910_6; ESTC R207506	2,077	4

Elmston the 9. of the 11. Month 1656. For Thomas Munnings John Durance and the rest of the Commissioners sometimes sitting at Canterbury about tythes The Plea and Protest of Robert Winter of Elmston in the county of Kent for his non-payment of tythes May 8 1657 My Friends and Countreymen IN my absence some dayes ago there came a man to my house as I am informed with a Note Paper or pretended Warrant to require me to appear before you as I judge the Commissioners about tythes sitting at the Red Lyon at Canterbury upon the twelfth day of this present eleventh month 1656. But by way of righteous and consciencious Plea and Protest against your so summoning of me I solemnly and deliberately declare and say 1. That Moses the true servant of the Lord who was faithful in the House of God under the first Covenant Heb. 3. in his administration by the infallible unerring spirit of the Lord professed unto old Israel then the church of the living God That the time should come that the Lord their God would raise up unto them a Prophet from the midst of themselves of their Brethren like unto Moses that he will put his words into his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that the Lord shall command him and it shall come to pass that whosoever saith God will not hearken to my words which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him Deut. 18.15 18 19. or he shal be destroyed from amongst the people or declared a Fugitive and Vagabond from God yea and a rebel against him 2. That when the fulness of time was come appointed of the Father he sent and manifested his Son the Lord Jesus Christ born under the Law or first covenant and made subject to the Law yet annointed with the oyle of gladness above measure in whom the God-head dwelt bodily whom with great majesty power and glory he declared and by his faithful and true witnesses witnessed him to be that great Prophet that Moses many hundreds of yeers before prophesied of whom the people under the second or new covenant of life and peace and power were to hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto them upon pain of being destroyed from amongst the people Acts 3.22 23. 7.37 That this great Prophet being so manifested was the real substance of all shadows types and figures in whom and at whose death they all ceased and by which there really was made a change of the first or Levitical Priesthood and so of the whole law wages and maintenance thereunto belonging and so the payment of tythes thereby for ever wholly ceased Heb. 7 In all which regards for me to pay tythes now under the gospel or second and new covenant of life and peace is as much as in me lies to deny the Son of God manifested in flesh and life and power and also to set up again the first and changeable priesthood and so to be a real rebel or a blasphemous Antichrist against the Lords annointed great and true Prophet the Lord Jesus Christ which to do I dare not for all the world though I cause my life and estate thereby And besides by the standing and binding Parliament-Laws of England as the 24. of Henry the 8. chap. the 12. the Rights of tythes are plainly declared to appertain to the spiritual Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical courts Yea By the last Statute as I understand that ever was made in England for the paying to and receiving of tythes by any Ecclesiastical person Vicar Curate Proprieter Owner or other Farmer or Deputy it is plainly declared That they or any of them shall sue for tythes onely before the Ecclesiastical Judges in Ecclesiastical Courts and no where else as clearly appears by the statute of the second third of Edward the sixt chap. 13. But all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction being as I understand for ever in this nation anihilated abolished by special and solemn act of parliament made in or about the yeer 1641. and was never since as I am certainly informed by any act of parliament past since revived And therefore you have no English humane legall jurisdiction to hold plea for tythes before you nor so much as justly to summon me before you to shew caus wherefore J wil not now under the Gospel-administration pay tythes And therefore J hereby solemnly protest before God and Man against your unrighteous molestation of me in requiring me to appear before you who have no English humane legal parliamentary jurisdiction residing in you to hold plea for tythes or trouble me or any other that conscientiously and rationally judge our selves freed from paying of tythes both by the divine declared Laws of God and the humane declared parliamentary laws of England and to-this the 9th day of the 11th month 1656. J subscribe my name Robert Winter and submit my body and estate in patience to your meer wils so far as the Lord thinks fit to give you power over them R. M. A copy of the fore-going paper the said Robert Winter delivered in at the day of his appearance before the Commissioners at Canterbury unto themselves and although they dismissed him then yet they have since caused him and his neighbour and friend Abiezer Bokins to appear before them for the non-payment of their tythes although them have not the least shadow of pretence of any legal jurisdiction nor no more hath any of the called Judges in Westminster-hall or the Barons of the Exchequer to hold plea for non-payment of tythes before them And therefore in their forcing and compelling of people without the least shadow of Parliamentary law to pay them they really commit the same high treason in its kind that the called Earl of Strafford lost his head for which was for endeavouring by the late Kings command or formal commission against law to subvert the laws liberties and properties of the people of England and by his will and pleasure to introduce and arbitrary tyrannical government above law