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A90244	The ordinance for tythes dismounted, from all Mosaicall, evangelicall, and true magesteriall right. By that valliant and most victorious champion, the great anti-clergy of our times, his superlative holyness, reverend young Martin Mar-Priest, sonne to old Martin the Metropolitane. Commended and presented to the petitioners of Hertford-shire, for their further encouragement, and for provocation of other counties to become petitionary with them against the unhallowed illegall exaction of tythes.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1645 (1645)	Wing O632; Thomason E313_27; ESTC R200481	33,415	43

of working for minishation to necessities has so farre as a man is free from impediment so farre he is bound in duty of working to supply his necessities So that though Paul and Barhabas bad power to forbeare working that they might Freash the Gospel that is improve time in Preaching which otherwise or in such eminens necessity they were bound to work in with their hands to supply their necessities yet for all this they were bound to work even with their bands when possibly they could for Preaching that they might make the Gospel without 〈◊〉 can an utter forbearance or totall dispensotion from working was not in their power without limitation though to Preach they might 〈◊〉 are yet when for Preaching they could worke they might not forbeare i and when their preaching occasioned their forbearance then they were to live on the Gospel then were not their murther to be minuted then were they to beed on the milke of the stick for living on the Gospel is entayl'd on preaching of the Gospel the living extends to further then pretebing for Preaching gives power and Title thereto its essence and being is in Preathing so that it cannot extend beyond that by which it hath its power and beeing for should it it should give beyond its power and beeing and beyond is beeing it can have no Title or be longer esteemed that power so that look how farre they were deprived of Ministring to their necessities through Preaching even so farre they had a right to the Peoples Administration so farre they liad power to eate and to drinke and no further they were not to be Idle six dayes and Preach on the seventh and rely wholly upon the People that was not in their power nor yet in their practise but when they had spare time from Preaching they improv'd it in labouring for their bread and at other times when they were busied in Preaching were content with what was given them receiving no more but for their present necessities they never had or were to have any more then abare livelyhood It is enough that the Disciple be as his Master and the servant as his Lord Math. 10. 25. Now their Master lived in great humility hee had never a Living of 4. or 5. hundred a yeere never had a House like the Dean of Pauls confirmed upon him by an Ordinance of PARL The Foxes have holes and the Birds of the Aire have nests but the Sonne of Man bad not whereon to lay his head he lived in mean condition was lowly and meek hee never was trundled up and down Presbyter-like in a Coach he sate meekly upon an Asse and a colt the foale of an Asse Matth. 21. 5. and his Disciples lived the like life of humility they made no further use of the World then for their necessities giving up themselves wholly to the Gospel and were onely servants unto JESUS CHRIST according to their duties for no man can serve two Masters for either hoe must hate the one or love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other yee cannot serve God and Mammon Mat. 6. 24. therefore his Preachers must not be addicted to the world be such as plunder mens goods and rifle their houses to spend upon their lusts and pleasurs or to be such lazie idle Drones like our Priests who take their pleasure and ease all the week onely give us an house or two of Hodg-podge delusion the First Day No such come not within the vaile of his acceptance but such rather that will both Preach and work that after their Preaching will fall to mending old Bellowes sweeping of Chimneys crying of Brooms or Small-coale or taking any such-like honest course of livelyhood such are most fit to be the Ministers of Jesus Christ yea indeed it is from such that wee receive the greatest information in the mysteries of Jesus Christ in these dayes for indeed they are in his Ordinance follow his Patterne and example of his Apostles Not Preaching for filthy lucre but out of Conscience 2. I desire may be observed That whereas he saith Even so the Lord hath ordained that they which Preach the Gospel should live on the Gospel that from thence no other livelyhood may be concluded then such as the Lord himself had ordained for his Preachers or that Paul himself that had as great a power as ever any of them had did in them words intend a power further then the Lords own Ordination Now the Lords Ordination concerning those that hee sent forth into the world to Preach the Gospel both to the Twelve Apostles and after them the 70. Disciples was Luk. 10. 7 8. to eate and to drinke such things as were given for the labourer is worthy of his hire and into what City soever they entred to eat such things as were set before them by those that did receive them and Matth. 10. 10 11. they have the same Injunction That in the City or house that was worthy there they were to abide till they went thence for the labourer is worthy of his meat And this was all that ever the Lords Ordination provided for their living on the Gospel a power barely for their Victualls or present necessities even such as was given them was their hire and no more they had power given them to eate of their meat for the Labourer was worthy of his meat that was all that the Lords Labourers were to require for their hire or to account themselves worthy of and those that would not give this they were but to shake off the dust from their feet in testimony against them farre different from the Plundering Ordinance for Tythes And no other power then this Paul pleadeth for to the Corinthians for whereas he saith Have wee not power to eate and to drinke hee pleadeth it as one sent from the Lord to Preach unto the world as vers 1. and 10. declareth Now it is evident what power such had to eating and drinking that is of such as was given them of such as was set before them therefore no other can be concluded of Paul but even as the Lord had ordained and so and no otherwise they that Preached the Gospel were to live on the Gospel their necessities were to be looked upon and for necessity sake they were meerly to be relieved for the Lords Provisun was for no more and therewith his Servants were to be content Therefore their Title to it was not simply as they were Apostles or Preachers but as Apostles and Preachers in necessity And thus it is cleer that all the Divine Right they had to other supply then what they acquired by their hands was but in cases of necessity and that was but to matters of bounty So that it is most certaine That the Preachers of our Lord in their supply are but as Almes-men and so they are to live and to be esteemed and esteem themselves to be no other then the Almes-men of the Gospel

Primitive Purity growing more carelesse ignorant and remisse and their leaders more covetous and ambitious it intruded it self through their Policy here and there amongst some Societies prosessing themselves Christian but was not generall but at length through the bewitching subtillty of their Priests the people were infattuated into such a blinde zeal thereof that it became in such an high adoration that men of great Possessions would give unto such a Priest such an Abbot c. the Tenthes of such and such a Possession for his soul the soul of his Wife the souls of his Children or the souls of such and such freinds and after this manner Tythes crept in and overspread most part of this Kingdome of England having their rise oustome and practise first from poore depraved seduced ignorant Soules through the sorceries of their Pollitick Leaders and by them were thus conferr'd upon the Churches by their voluntary Act which Donations at length were confirmed by the Common-Law and a generall exaction thereof through the whole Kingdome established upon the Clergy to be theirs Jure Divino whereby they no longer held or claim'd them by vertue of Donation but by Divine Right and thus by degrees they patch'd up their Goddesse Jure Divino unto their unjust Exaction of TYTHES concerning which the Reader may receive further satisfaction in the perusall of Mr. Seldens History of TYTHES Whence by the way may be observed what a ravening greedy generation our Priests ever have been and this present Generation is as like them as if they were spit out of their mouthes that wee have cause verily to beleeve that at their Ordination in stead of that ridiculous foppery and mocking of Christ in breathing on them the holy Spirit they breath'd into them their own spirit of coverousnes which makes the children so like their fathers so expert at this godly Legerdemaine this Pious Theft as ever their Predecessors were and can as neatly challenge it of Divine Right as ever either the Papall or Episcopall Vermine before them could indeed it is essentiall to their colour they 'l never leave their spirituall thievery as long as their coats are black or their girdles be worne about their midles a cubite below their deserts for why should not black Thieves as well as other coloured Thieves have the recompence of their reward But that we might the more admire their greedinesse let us look back and recall to our memories the Primative time where as wee have given a touch we shall see that all the goods of the Church were devoted to the use and supply of the poore and generall necessities of the Church and were so improved which if we paralell with our times we shall finde a direct Antipathy a vast disparity betwixt them as betwixt light and darknesse We shall finde amongst us greater Ecclesiasticall Donations larger revenues and wealth bestowed though out of an ignorant blinde zeal for sinister ends upon Churches whose proper end being voluntary Contribution is of Primative Institution unto such pious ends as the relief of the poor and the like and amongst us an abundance of Poore Fatherlesse Widdowes c. in every Parochiall Church even ready to perish for want of supply and yet through the mercilesse covetousnesse of the Priests notwithstanding such large provision for them they can never once taste the sweetnesse of such charitable Church-Donations wherein they have aproper Interest of lively hood being members of such Churches for such is the avarice and greedinesse of the Priests that they are become sole Treasurers thereof and cram all into the wast store-house of their ungodly dirty Panches and devoure up the Right of the POORE the Fatherlesse Widdows Strangers c. only sometimes at their venerable Doores forsooth sanctify their Pitchers with a Reverend Messe of Pottage to evidence their liberallity how they are given to Hospitallity and send not the hungry and needy empty away my blessing and benediction be upon you all my dear Birds all but I hope I shall never trouble your doores Further they are not herewith content thus to rob the Poore of their Right but from those their miserable poor members they extort even the Tenth of their penurious increase Here for instance I could fix a second Century of Cormorant Priests in this kind collected out of the heard of Presbyters since the edition of the Ordinance for TYTHES A poor man cannot have 2. or 3. hens and a cock but they will have the tenth tread to be jure divino at least they will have 2. egges for a hen 3. for a cock 2. for a duck 3. for a drake c. But to omit this let us a little further examine the Evangelicall Authority and Injunctions concerning the maintenance of the Evancall Ministery and for this let us returne unto the second of the Acts comparing vers 17. with vers 33 34 35. Which declareth that Paul having sent for the Elders of the Church of Ephesits hee told them saying I have coveted no mans silver or gold or apparrell yea your selves know that these hands have ministred unto my necessities and to them that were with me I have shewed you all things how that so labouring to wit with your hands yea namely the Elders ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give then to receive and to this adde 1 Thes 2. 9. Ye remember our labouring night and day because we would not be chargeable c. and 2 Thes 3. 8 10. We did not eat any mans bread for nought but wrought with labour and travell night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you for even when we were with you this wee commanded you that if any would not work he should not eat From whence is evident that he laid a necessity of working upon them for declaring to the Elders of Ephesus how he supplyed the necessities of them that were with him by the labour of his hands sets himself forth as a Patterne to the very Elders themselves therein and thereupon puts them in minde of his former Precepts in that kind saying I have shewed you all things how that so labouring yee might to support the weak and the equity of this Ordinance unto them hee groundeth upon the saying of CHRIST It is more blessed to give then to receive from whence is undenyable that the Elders or Presbyters were bound to take him for a Patterne in that practice and that from him they had received Order for it as their duties because it was a more blessed thing to give then to receive and this was given to the Presbyters of Ephesus that they should endeavour after the more blessed thing that their hands as Paul did should administer to their necessities and to them that were with them and this was an Ordinance grounded upon the equity of CHRIST'S saying not to be repealed altered added or deminished under the penalty