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A38604	The civil right of tythes wherein, setting aside the higher plea of jus divinum from the equity of the Leviticall law, or that of nature for sacred services, and the certain apportioning of enough by the undoubted canon of the New Testament, the labourers of the Lords vineyard of the Church of England are estated in their quota pars of the tenth or tythe per legem terræ, by civil sanction or the law of the land ... / by C.E. ...	Elderfield, Christopher, 1607-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing E326; ESTC R18717	336,364	362

And such were some of you But ye are now washed or else had no hopes there but ye are cleansed but ye are purified Apoc. 22. 15. but ye are justified Without are Dogs and evil Doers Thou art apt to condemn a Thief or a Robber the cry of the whole Countrey is against Him What! He that grows Rich by spoil takes another Mans Goods I confess his crime is something more but that a part and his whole sin and wilt thou take the cross to that of the Apostle Rom. 14. 22. Blessed is He that condemneth not himself in the thing that he alloweth Chap. 2. 3. Thou that Judgest another Iohn 16 9. Doest Thou the same thing We are bid to make us friends with the Mammon of Vnrighteousness that when need is we may finde Everlasting succour Sure this by Just dealing at least I believe more by unjust or unnecessary Giving Is not Unrighteousness sin among Christians or True dealing to Give every One his own onely a superfluous part of Goodness Welfare then Achab and Judas 2 Sam. 12. 4 5. That Oppressour had too severe a censure in Nathans Parable for taking away the poor mans Lamb Luk. 23. 42. and the Thief upon the Cross committed a work of supererogation in repenting his theft in the way to his Paradise Phil. 2. 18 19. Saint Paul needed not have cared for Onesimus debt nor the sons of Jacob excuse the stealing of the 1 Gen. 42. 35. Plate if it had been so 2 Luk 19. 8. Zacheus stood forth and out of superstitious piety Gave to the poor and if I have wronged any I restore him four-fold Ono. These vile things of the Earth have Heaven at one end We may make us bags that waxe not old Chap. 12. 33. or lay up treasure in Hel with them as we use or abuse them Mat. 25. 35. c. Christ will pronounce sentence upon Those Dispensations at the last day and if we shall be punished for not being mercifull what farther if we be unjust and injurious Is the Word our Rule Brother Christian Believest thou the Scriptures Act. 26. 27. If thou do stand fast to thy ground 2 Tim. 1. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words as they were delivered and thou didst receive them Make good thy faith also in thy works seen before men let thy life be a justification of thy belief a counterpart or exemplification of Thy book of Religion Be assured of this there is not held forth any where in the world a better picture of An honest Just man then in those sacred leaves is described and painted out to the life Which every believer is bound to be by his Religion Obedience or Exhibition of himself Such must render him the Childe of God such a Just Dealer therewith And thy necessary conformity to that Law shall make thee A Pattern to all the world for Heathen Honesty This is a part of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Transformation in difference from that Conformity to the unjustsinful world before Rom. 12. 2. Dress thy self by this glass and thou wilt not count thy self ready without this habit Adorn thy self by these directions and thou must put on this Moral qualification 'T is a part of the putting on the Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 13. ult nay shine bright in it 1 Cor. 15. 58. abounding in this work of the Lord or thou art no warrantable Christian Shall this be now disputed or doubted Shall I stain the reputation of Christian Doctrine by this that it has not as clear as day that every Proselyte thereof must give every man his due or it may leave me as wilde and conscience less as a Thieving Tartar or wilde Arabian that takes what he can get and parts not with what he can keep I may not sit down with Being just onely for the power of my faith brings about and should bring in all parts of Civil Justice by a Stronger Spring then is to be found again in the world I must doe Right for Conscience sake I must do No Wrong for fear of Heaven seeing me Gen. 39. 9. how should I do this Evil and sin against God as Joseph I must not take or withhold or retain or not give out what belongs to another sub poeua●ignis gehennae under the most intolerable penalty of assured and believed Hel fire Come home yet more near we pretend to our age of Light Have we heard so many Sermons waited upon God so long in his Ordinances Sanctified every returne of his holy Sabbath Wrestled with him as Jacob in daily long Prayers set aside so many whole speciall days for Fasting and Humiliation to seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is not utterly gone to the Indians Tartars or other Nations that yet know not God and shall we arrive at the last with all this pains at this point of persection that we are now come to doubt whether wee may do right or wrong Prov. 23. 10. And Therewith c●mpare what before pa. 37. pa. 244. whether we may equall the injustice of Entring the field of the fatherless whose revenger is Mighty whether we may not invade covet take hold or withhold what has been shewed to belong in Right to another If it Do we will yet have it and hold it and not part with it though if we believe our Bible we know we shall be burned in the soul for it with a coal of Ignis fortis or rather of Ignis inextinguibilis that fire of Hell will never be quenched Do we continue to boast of light from Heaven the Sun shining clear in the Firmament by the allowed use of Scripture and the bright beams thereof dispersing and darting their full power daily from the Pulpit such a long day as has outlasted the years of many generations with so many repeated impressions and dispersions of Numberless Numbers of English Bibles that it hath been an amazement to some that live neare the well-head whence those waters of the Sanctuary flow and others conjecture the Enemy buyes them up to burn them in private sith in publick and for Heretical yet he cannot And shall the English fruit of all this promising seed time be our doubts come out seriously in any of the scandalous ways before or our carnall hearts have admitted no operation to obedience in such clear and undoubted evident matters But alass some part of our Neighbours Due inclosure we would take in and hedge to our own though we make bold with the hedge of Gods Law for it His corruptible wealth we cover His silver or gold we take or withhold or what has equall right His Mammon of unrighteousness as we account we tantùm non sacrilegiously seize upon for our selves and to prevent his idolatry we put it into a private place as it were that we Our selves may worship it We love it we desire it

to the Glory of God since I received your paper you did affirm in the hearing of not few that God might at first have made an Angel or some other creature and by it have made all things How to reconcile one with the other is a thing unfeasible and therefore you must confess that you are not always infallible yea that sometimes you differ from your self and so 't is no wonder if you disagree with others But what shall I take from your present judgement Must your last words stand If so then you have weakned your cause and I may save a labour in returning an answer to that which follows in your paper If the former then you must recant what you last said and I must not here make an end of my Reply to your Major The truth is I honour Reason so much that I should rather prostrate my self to its shadow and appearance then to the best mans testimony and assertion wherefore I shall honour Reason so much as not to pass by without examination that which appears in your paper with Reasons dress on it Your Reason thus runs Now because Creation is a making of all things out of nothing and required an infinite power God can make use of no Instrument inasmuch as God cannot derive and give an infinite power to any creature because no creature is capable of such a Divine Attribute for it would make him God to be Almighty or to be infinite in power Answ I shall not answer to all in this Reason which seems not to be sound doctrine but only so far as the matter in hand requires 1. Though it be true that Gods infinite power was manifested in the work of Creation yet was not the Infinity of his Power manifested fully in that or any other work for he hath more power then ever yet he had need to use or then could in any work be fully declared 2. Your assertion plainly denies the man Christ Jesus to be God Almighty or Infinite in power for you say that God could not give or derive an infinite power to any creature and that a creature cannot be God Almighty c. The man Christ Jesus was a creature how then can that Person be God 3. The ground of your Argument is straw and stubble For infinite power may be manifested by them to whom 't is not communicated and so their proper power As is evident in those that wrought miracles and raised the dead in which infinite power was manifested and yet the instruments thereof were not in power infinite The like might be said of Gospel-Preachers whom God makes his Instruments in mens conversion as great a work as the worlds Creation The same might be said of Christ in his work of our Redemption But enough of this I shall now examine your Minor which was That all things were made by Iesus Christ. This is true Christ being excepted of whose Creatural being I have already spoken Obj. But you will say that in Iohn 1. 3. it is said That all things were made by him and without him was nothing Made that was Made Sol. The words are to be restrained to all those things which by the use of an instrument were made and created In the first verse of this Chapter the creation of Jesus Christ is included and in this third verse he is spoken of as the instrument of God in creating all things and therefore is here to be excepted As when John the Baptist speaking of Christ John 3. 32. said What he hath seen and heard that he testifieth and no man receiveth his testimony it is evident that Iohn was to be excepted Persons are sometimes segregated from others of the same kinde in way of eminency being chief amongst them Thus in Psal 18. 1. where 't is said that David sang that song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul What was Saul none of Davide enemies he was the chiefest and therefore segregated from the rest Thus having taken off the Charet wheels of your Argument the Conclusion cannot advance up by its assistance I Come now to Heb. Heb. 7. 3. 7. 3. I perceive you are willing to gather from this Text the Eternity of Iesus Christ Answ but on this tree grows no such fruit You say that Christ is here resembled in reference to his Eternity to Melchisedek without beginning of days or end of life Pray Sir was Melchisedek Eternal If so then he was God But he was neither the Father nor the Son nor the Holy Ghost whatever some have conceived I hope you will not allow a quaternity of Persons in Unity of Essence And therefore will allow that the words be taken in a figurative sense Quod non narratur ponitur quasi non sit Melchisedek was without beginning of days or end of life in that there is no mention made either of his birth or death in the History of Moses or especially in reference to his Priesthood the time of its beginning and ending being not certainly known So our High Priest Jesus Christ is without beginning of days or end of life YOur next Scripture is Prov. Prov. 8. 22. 8. 22. Answ The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old I was set up from Everlasting from the Beginning or ever the Earth was The meaning is this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Sept. The Lord who is Possessour of Heaven and Earth obtained or created me when he began to work before all his ancient works And I was set up or anointed to have the dominion of all things and that from Everlasting that is from the Beginning before the Earth was The Septuagint have the words thus The Lord created me the beginning of his ways for his works Dominus acquisivit me principium viae suae ante opera ex tunc A saeculo principatum habui à capite ab initiis terrae Mont. He founded me in the Beginning before the Earth was made Montanus thus The Lord obtained me the beginning of his way before his works from thence I had dominion from Everlasting from the Beginning from the beginning of the Earth The thirtieth verse speaks of Christ as having a being before Gods works of old yet so as that it was created one THE Scripture which follows next in your Paper is Zach. Zach. 13. 7. 13. 7. Awake O Sword against my Shepheard against the man that is my fellow saith the Lord of Hosts Answ I suppose that you would infer hence the coequality of Jesus Christ with the Lord of Hosts whose words those are But doubtless when you drew up this Conclusion you hearkned to the sound not the sense of our English word Fellow which doth not always note equality as from Psalm 45. 7. and Heb. 1. 9. you may be informed where the Saints are called the Fellows of Christ from which none acquainted with Reason

despised the day of small things says the Lord in the 1 Zach. 4. 1. Prophet Or who can deny but small things may be of great use and consideration in the greatest sith by Divine appointment Badgers skin and Goats hair 2 Exod. 25 4 5. were offered acceptably to the building of a holy Tabernacle whereby was intended the great God of All should be honoured and sanctified That Lord Dominus 3 Psal 24. 1. cujus est terra plenitudo ejus who 4 Matth. 21. 3. despised not a convoy of the meanest and simplest of beasts for his person on earth seems Still to Need the vile things of this lower world to set forth his glory in this vile and lower world and if any one say ought to the contrary or in froward opposition say still as then the Lord not onely useth but hath need of them His servants though His live yet by bread if men as well as by every word that proceedeth out of His mouth their Lord and God And sith Though Jehovah could not be pulled out of Heaven by extinguishing any of those Lamps that burned to his honour in the Temple of the Lord at Ierusalem yet his wise old servants knew that unless their care cost and love did procure profane oile from Syria and Arabia Those Lampes with his honour would go out on Earth which made them contrive purpose and do accordingly Even so sith the nature of things is still the same unless there be left such loving and discreet followers of his now by whose vigilance industry and care some constant supply may be apportioned and issued forth for the maintenance of the outward part of his honour and support of his Gospel and those servants of his that do his pleasure in holding it forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13. 6. Ministers that attend this very Thing It is not without the compass of manly and Christian fear to be jealous lest the light and brightness of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ now shining in the faces of all men though not reaching to their hearts it is much to be doubted much less returning fruit in their answering upright lives should which God forbid be extinguished upon Earth by our negligence and parcimony though his Deity we trust shine now in Heaven and shall and ever above the brightness of the Sun and beyond all Eternity Wee hold God to be the end of the soul Truth the way leading to it and Him The Church the pillar and ground of truth to hold it out in view to the world this we are sure of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 3. 16. the Apostle tels it us and the publick Ministers are the Churches servants If then these servant shall do that work in holding forth this truth to guide to that end They being Men must not have their daily allowance of Bread withheld from them which keeps them hayl and strong that they may live and be Able to follow their business or if it be the bottome foundation fails and the whole frame must be left to sink and ruine with it for want of sustenance or undersustentation Unless by an unhallowed presumption we dare go on Tempting God in stead of Trusting him still urging him to do and expecting he should do even ordinary miracles for our extraordinary preservation and then daily miracles would scarce be any wonders putting him upon more work yet after his Consummatum est to multiply loaves for his improvident Disciples and leading him once more out of the way into the Wilderness to lead us out of the path of his ordinary course of Providence to expect food from Heaven when there is plenty enough upon Earth Which if and the boldness of our unreasonable presumption rather then well-instructed Christian faith could be content to put upon Him Whether yet his servants who are to do the work and being party to the whole had need of some liberty of choice for refusal of the conditions could be content to accept for enough for their parts and hardy enough to trust to as their sufficient Viaticum for this convoy and their journey may not considering their humane frailty be without some doubt I have led you forty years in the Wildernesse your cloathes are not waxen old upon you and thy shooe is not waxen old upon thy foot Deu. 29. 5 As in the space of forty years to hope for no reparation of cloaths nor to put on a new shooe in half an age and go provided with nothing but naked poverty to carry them through a dry and barren Wilderness where no water is Hungry and Thirsty their souls fainting in them Yes They will questionless This and more if they be called and compelled thereto See Chap. 8. 4 Ne. hem 9. 21. if the enemies of God will deny them the way and the condition of things in an orderly Dispensation of Providence lead them to want as well as to abound But all the friends of God will rather guide and help them in the direct right way to their Canaan Neither denying them bread and water for their money as 1 Deut. 2. 27 28. 30. the cursed Amorites did but were after sufficiently plagued for it nor money if needfull to buy them what they want for their comfort in the way It being one of the most reasonable things in the world that they that give Heaven should not want Earth and They that sow to us Spiritual Things should not but reap our Carnall To all which things answering and well agreeing it was therefore religiously piously and prudently as well as justly resolved by those Councels guided Hen. 8. to diminish nothing here but to keep this settled and ancient Revenue of Gods honour free from the touch of sacrilegious profane and imprudent as well as unjust hands That no covetous Gehezi that loved his gain more then godliness should meddle with that belonged not to him nor greedy unconscionable Israelite with this portion of his Brother Levi due 2 Numb 18. 21. for his service he serves in the Tabernacle of the Congregation and as necessary for the Common-wealth of Israel as Judahs Simeons or Benjamins but when every one has enough he should be free from want and by as good security as any other claims his Right by his Tribe have its Own also not by benevolence but by Right and so have occasion to bless the Lord his God for the good land he has given him with the rest of his Brethren It being among our Divine Oracles agreeable to the Laws of Nature Equity Reason and Civill Commutative Justice that He that gives should receive 1 Matth. 10. 10. Luk. 10. 7. 1 Tim. 5. 18. The labourer is worthy of his reward 2 1 Cor. 9. 7. No one going on warfare is to march at his own charge He that feedeth a flock should eat of the milk of the flock And as He 3 Ver. 14.