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lord_n	day_n	keep_v	sabbath_n	47,166	5	10.4175	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91007	The priests routed in their front-guard of tythes. Or an answer to a paper brought in Mr. Naltons name (teacher of Leonard Fosterlane) to some of the inhabitants of that place. Intituled the dreadfull danger of sacriledge, the with-holding of tythes,&c. A true copy whereof is herewith printed. By the shoemaker of Martins Legrand.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing P3453; Thomason E683_6; ESTC R206808	17,657	23

as in Heb. 7.5 no not in those places where the Apostle Paul hath occasion to exhort the Saints to part with their carnall things to them which minister spiritual things either the Apostles had supinely forgot it or else had no Commission either to commend it or command it the first is not like to be true no we believe the Author will not affirm it therefore the second is true Having now finished our answer to your Iewish Tenet set forth with a thundring tytle and proclaimed as with the roaring of a Lyon supposing thereby to amaze and a fright the lambs of Jesus feeding peaceably in the pleasant pastures of his word and ordinances We pray that the Lord may so give us understanding in all things as to keep our feet stedfast in the wayes of truth without sliding and falling upon the slippy Ice of humane inventions and superstitions and that the same Lord will so open the eyes of the blind and turn the hearts of the obstinate that they may not lift up their hearts or voices against the appointments of the most high and that none may be affraid either of the power of the flesh on the one hand or the roaring and threatnings of Satan in a spiritual disguise on the other hand FINIS There is likewise to be sold An answer to this paper here following at William Larnars or at Henry Hils living at Fleet-bridge and Fleet-yard Intituled An Answer to an Outragious Out-cry for Tithes The dreadfull danger of Sacralidge held forth in this one Proposition namely The with-holding of Tyths from a Minister that labors in the Word and Doctrine or denying those accustomed rates upon houses which have been paid to the Minicters successively time out of mind is a great and grievous sin highly displeasing to Almighty God as appears by these Reasons 1. Reas BECAUSE it is a direct breach of the Eighth commandement which saith That thou shalt not steal and directly contrary to the Rule of the Apostle Rom. 13.7 Render therefore to all their dues Custome to whom Custome c Yea Tyths are due to the Minister by the Law of the Land and the Minister hath as legall a right to the Rates set upon houses as the Landlord hath to his Rent Therefore to deprive the Minister of them is a breach not only of Gods Law but also of mans Law and who so breaketh this hedge a Serpent shall bite him Eccless 10.8 1. Object But tyths are antichristian and therefore not to be paid any longer Answ This is a false opinion as appears by this Argument That which our Savior enjoyned is not Antichristian But our Savior enjoined Tyths Luke 11.42 Ye tyth Mint and Rue and all manner of Herbs and passe over Judgement and the Love of God These ought ye to have done that is ye ought to pay Tyths Therefore they are not Antichristian 2. Obj. But we do not come to hear him why then should we pay him since we have no benefit by his Ministery Answ If thou live in a Parish where a godly Minister is seated thou art bound to hear him for he worketh the work of the Lord as well as those of greater parts See 1 Cor. 16.10 If thou do not hear him nor pay him thou addest sin to sin for first it is a sin to withdraw thy presence and then it is another yea a greater sin to withdraw his maintenance 3. Object But the Minister will not give us our Due in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper therefore we may justly deny him his due Answ First The Sacrament is not due to all but only to those that come in a regular way according to the order of the Gospel for all things must be done decently and in order 1 Cor. 13.40 Now the order of the Gospel is this that the power of examining those that are admitted to the Lords Supper belongs not to the Minister alone nor to the Minister with the whole congregation but to the Minister and ruling Elders as is undeniably proved by that singular Treatise set forth by the Provincial assembly called The Vindication of the Presbyterion Government pag. 70 71. Secondly the Sacrament is not due to those that live in any scandalous sin but theft or robbing of God is a scandalous sin 2. Reas It is a sin of a high nature because it affronts God himself Mal. 3.8 Will a man rob God Yet ye have robbed me But ye say wherein have we roobed thee in Tyths and Offerings To rob a man by the high way doth deserve death to rob a King of his Plate and Jewels deserves a tormenting death but to rob the King of Glory deserves the fire of hell 3. Reas It is a complicated sin wherin fraud or cheating is added to theft for the Landlord lets his house to the Tenant at a lower rate upon this account namely that he shall pay the duties to the Minister as for example if the house be worth 21 l per annum The Landlord lets it for 20 l. per annum on purpose that the Tenant may perhaps pay twenty shillings a year to the Minister The Tenant notwithstanding paies nothing but keeps it back from the Minister by fraud and puts the Landlords money in his pocket Here is fraud with a witness 4. Reas It is a sin whereby godly Ministers are discouraged in their work their hands weakned and their spirits broken so that they cannot go on in their Ministery with joy but with grief This is directly contrary to the practise of that godly King Hezekiah whose example is written for our learning Rom. 15.4 for it is testified of him 2 Chron. 31.4 That he commanded the People that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the Priests and Levites that they might be encouraged in the Law of the Lord. 5. Reas It is a sin wherin wherby the Defrauder robs his own Soul of that spiritual benefit and advantage which he might get by such a mans Ministery for it is just with God to say to such a man thou withdrawest maintenance from my servant and I will withdraw my blessing from my own ordinance so that the word preached by whomsoever it be dispensed shall do thee no good at all but rather it shall be a savor of death to thy own condemnation Thy soul shall never thrive or prosper by any Sermon that thou hearest 6. Reas It is a sin that provokes God to curse a man in his outward estate and trading as appears by that forenamed place Mal. 3.9 Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me it is usual with God to pay sinners with their own coin they rob God in tyths and God robs them of their trade livelihood they grudge the Ministers a maintenance and God grudgeth them even bread for their Families so that they usually turn bankrupts or are so much in debt that they are ashamed to shew their faces 7. Reas It is a sin against the 〈◊〉 because it hinders the progress and success of it for such 〈…〉 much as in them lies to extinquish the light by taking away the oil that feeds it it is observed in that excellent book Vindic. Presb. Gov. pag. 81 that Julian the Apostate that cursed enemy of Christ and his Gospel did by taking away tyths do more mischief to the Church of God than all the persecuting Emperors that were before him for the Persecutors took away only the Ministers and their blood was the seed of the Church but taking away tyths took away the Ministery it self 8. Reas It is a sin will not be pardoned upon repentance unless there be a restitution as well as repentance accordiog to that of Augustine Nonremittitur peccatum uisi restituatur ablatum Thy sin shall not be pardoned unless that which thou witholdest unjustly be restored 9. Reas It is a sin that will cry for vengeance when the sinner on his death-bed is crying for mercy as appears by that remarkable Scripture Jam. 5.3 4. Your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against and shall eat your flesh as it were with fire Ye have heaped Treasure that 's of wrath together for the last daies Behold the hire of the Laborers which have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the years of the Lord of Sabbath Now if the hire of the Laborers in mens Vineyard kept back by fraud crieth how dreadful will the cry be of the hire of Gods Laborers in Gods Vineyard kept back by robbers defrauders I tremble to think of it Consider what hath been presented unto you in this paper and the Lord give ye understanding in all things FINIS