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A56170	A gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness and continuance fo the antient setled maintenance and tenths of the ministers of the Gospel in two parts, proving that there is a just, competent, comfortable maintenance ... that the present opposition against tithes ... / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3972; ESTC R33924	270,085	347

A GOSPEL PLEA Interwoven with a RATIONAL and LEGAL FOR THE LAWFULNESS CONTINUANCE Of the Antient Setled MAINTENANCE and TENTHS Of the Ministers of the Gospel IN TWO PARTS PROVING That there is a Just Competent Comfortable Maintenance due to all Lawfull painfull Preachers Ministers of the Gospel by Divine Right Institution express Texts Precepts of the Gospel That Glebes Tithes are such a Maintenance due to Ministers by Divine Right Law Gospel That if substracted or detained they may lawfully be inforced by Coercive Laws and Penalties That Tithes are no real Burden nor grievance to the people The abolishing them no ease or benefit to Farmers Husbandmen or poor people but a Prejudice and Loss That the present opposition against Tithes proceeds not from any real grounds of Conscience but base Covetousnesse Carnal policy hatred to and a Jesuitical Anabaptistical design to subvert ruine our Ministers Church Religion With a Satisfactory Answer to all Cavils and Material Objections to the contrary By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Swainswick Esquire a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Mal. 3.8 9. Will a man rob God Yet ye have robbed me But ye say Wherein have we robbed thee In Tithes and Offerings Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole Nation Mat. 22.21 Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are his AUG serm 219. Si tu illam Decimam non dederis dabis impio Militi quod non vis dare Deo Sacerdoti Hoc tollit Fiscus quod non accepit Christus London Printed by T. Childe and L. Parry for Edward Thomas and are to be sold at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1660. To my most High Mighty Great Dreadfull Omnipotent Omnipresent Omniscient Righteous True Faithfull All-gracious All-sufficient Everliving Everlasting Immutable Covenant-keeping LORD GOD the God of my Life Health Strength Mercy Preservation Consolation Supportation Salvation Deliverance Praise O God THE SAVIOUR of Israel of England too antiently stiled Regnum Dei Gods Kingdom Thou art God alone and there is none else Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee In thee alone I live move and have my being Thou art the strength of my heart and my portion for ever My whole Spirit Soul Body Parts Endowments Natural Spiritual are only of thee through thee O sanctifie them wholly for and only to thee to whom alone I desire intirely and eternally to devote them as due to none but thee and that by right of Creation Redemption Resignation Preservation and that extraordinary Tribute of gratitude I stand most deeply engaged to render to thy most gracious Majesty for those many and manifold WONDERS of Preservation Supportation Concomitation Protection Consolation Absolution Vindication and Restauration thou hast of thy free Grace most miraculously extended to me the m●anest and unworthyest of all thy servants in under from all my former and late injurious illegal Sufferings Oppressions Imprisonments inhumane close Restraints Exiles in TEN SEVERAL PRISONS CASTLES some of them at remotest distance from all Acquaintance Kindred Friends and thy publick Ordinances under some Rude Barbarous armed Gardians and Men of blood of purpose to destroy me where thou wast present with me as with Daniel in the Lyons den Paul in the Lyons mouth the three Children in the midst of the fiery Furnace Jonah in the Whales belly to secure comfort and supply me for about ELEVEN YEARS SPACE through the malice and cruelty of mercilesse men Yet blessed be thy holy name for no other cause or crime thy poor servants conscience is guilty of his last close Imprisonments in three several Castles being without the least Examination Hearing Accusation Charge of any particular offence against him or yet declared to him but only for his sincere cordial desire to discharge his bounden duty to glorifie thee in his generation by apposing the dangerous wrath-provoking Errors and corruptions of the age in which he liveth by contending earnestly for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints according to thy Commands and for the setled fundamental Laws Liberties Rights Government of his distracted Native Countrie against all secret Underminers open Oppugners or Subverters of them to the uttermost of his Ability By a consciencious inviolable observation of all those solemn sacred Oaths Protestations Covenants and Obligations prescribed by those lawfull higher Powers thou commandedst him to submit to under pain of DAMNATION wherewith he hath frequently bound his soul not so much to men as to thee who art a most Faithfull Promise-Oath-Covenant-keeping God especially of those Oathes and Covenants wherewith thou vouchsafest to oblige thy self even to meer dust and ashes both IMMUTABLE and INVIOLABLE never violating nor repenting of them in the least degree and obliging men both by thine own example and Precepts to do the like in all their publick or private Oathes Vowes Covenants to thee or men under pain of temporal wrath here and eternal exclusion from thy holy Hill And for not daring to confederate or comply against his Oathes Covenants manifold publick Engagements Conscience Judgement and thy sacred Inhibitions WITH THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE many of whose Calamities and Ruines are sodainly risen and fallen upon them by thy Divine justice even from those they least suspected and most relyed on for Protection for the manifold changes they presumed to make against their Oaths Vows Trusts Protestations Covenants and unrighteous oppressing of their dearest Christian Friends Brethren and thy suffering Servant among others Now all Glory Honour Power Salvation and Praise be for ever rendred by me and all thy glorious Saints and Angles in heaven and earth because true and righteous are thy Judgements and because the deliverance of me thy oppressed Servant without any wound to his Conscience dishonour to thy name or scandal to thy People is exceeding Gracious and Glorious Now know I again and again that the Lord loveth his anointed that he hath heard him and others praying for him from his holy Heaven WITH THE SAVING STRENGTH OF HIS RIGHT HAND Some of his self-exalting Oppressors trusted in Chariots and some in Horses but he remembred the Lord his God they are brought down and fallen but he is risen and stands upright Who therefore ever will rejoyce greatly in THY SALVATION and in the Name of his God will set up his Banners For thou hast broken the gates of Brasse and cut the bars of Iron in sunder Thou hast sent thy holy Angel and knocked off the Chains from my long-fettered hands and made the long-barred Iron Castle Gates wherein I was close shut up to open of their own accord without any enforced long-expected Petition from me Thou hast rescued me from more then 4. Quaternions of Souldiers who most strictly garded me day and night as they did thy imprisoned Apostle Peter and more narrowly than any formerly under the Prelates greatest Tyranny and delivered him

or just as our Bibles Religion Baptism Churches were derived thence and all now living with Canne himself derived from Popish Ancestors many even from Popes Popish Priests Prelates Friars by natural generation as their surnames discover God used the Popes of Rome and their Instruments to convert the Britains and Saxons from their Paganism to the Christian not Papal or Roman Faith which through Gods mercy hath continued amongst us ever since yet mixed of later times with manifold Popish Errors and Superstitions These Errors Superstitions our godly Martyrs and by them our Kings and Parliaments discovering did thereupon by special Acts of Parliament abolish as derived from the Church of Rome together with the Popes usurped power and Gain which they served only to support retaining only the Scriptures Sacraments Soul-saving Doctrines thence derived by succession onely but authoritatively originally from God and Christ himself with such Godly Orthodox Bishops and Ministers who though first ordained in the Church of England when Popish did yet renounce all her Popish Errors Corruptions with the Popes Supremacy and all Popish additional Rites to the form of their Ordination and Baptism which made neither of them void in Substance no more than their annexing of the Apocrypha to the Canonical Scriptures made them uncanonical These afterwards ordained other Bishops Ministers without any Popish Rites in such manner as the Gospel prescribes which Mr. Mason Mr. Yates and others prove against the Papists to be a lawful Ordination though not made by the Popes Authority nor according to former Popish Ceremonies In this Sense onely they write the bare Succession not the Office and Calling of our Ministers as this woodden Canne mistakes was derived from the Church of Rome but their Ministry it self from Christs own Institution And if this makes them Popish and Antichristian then all our Protestant Kings Parliaments Magistrates Judges Officers of all sorts must be Popish too if not Paganish because their Predecessors were such and all Officers Souldiers of the Army and Anabaptistical Saints too who have purchased any Lands Rents Revenues of Abbies Priories Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Archdeacons must likewise be both Antichristian and Popish because their Predecessors who first enjoyed and from whom they do derive them were such at least in their and Cannes repute I hope therefore they will all now renounce these their Purchases to avoid the Guilt and high scandal of Popery and Antichristianism or disclaim this Second Loud-lying Voice against our Ministers and their Ministry as a Voice only from a prophane empty Canne not from a Sacred Temple or Gods holy Spirit But to return from this necessary digression touching the Lawfulness of our Ministers Calling unto their Tithes We have secondly in this Text 1 Cor. 9.13 14. a Gospel Ordinance for their very Tithes confirmed by the old Levitical Law and grounded on its Equity But how doth this appear By these emphatical words Even so hath the Lord Ordained in the Preterperfect Tense That they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel But where hath the Lord ordained this The Apostle thrice resolves expresly that he hath done it in the Levitical Law v. 9. For it is written in the Laws of Moses Deut. 25.4 Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Ox that treadeth out the Corn doth God take care for Oxen Or saith he it altogether for our sakes For our sakes no doubt this is written that he that ploweth should plow in hope and he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope Which he again recites 1 Tim. 5.18 If this Precept concerning the meat and maintenance of Oxen only in the Letter though part of the Levitical Law was doubtless written for and really intended of the Ministers of the Gospels food and maintenance and in full force under the Gospel as the Apostle clearly resolves then a fortiori the Precepts of the Law concerning the food and livelihood of Gods Priests and Levites under the Law by Glebes and Tithes not purely Ceremonial as I have already proved must doubtlesse be intended of them and be in full force likewise in their natural equitable Sence and Proportion in relation to their Livelihood for preaching of the Gospel there being a greater Analogy Proportion between them and Preachers of the Gospel than betwixt them and Oxen. To put it out of doubt he subjoyns Do not ye know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers with the Altar To wit by Gods expresse Ordinance in the Levitical Law which ye know and therefore I need not particularly cite the words as I did the other of not muzzling the Ox c. which were more obscure and needed my former Paraphrase on them but thus mind you of them in the general And then he inferrs and subjoyns Even so hath the Lord ordained to wit by the very natural moral Equity of the Lawes Ordinances he made for the Priests and Levites Maintenance by Tithes Glebes and Free-will-offerings for officiating in the Temple and at the Altar under the Law that the Preachers of the Gospel who now succeed and supply their places though in different services in the Churches of Christ under the Gospel should live of the Gospel even so fully comfortably and in such sort as they did under the Law Or at least by this Gospel text superadded to them by Gods Spirit To make this out more fully and clear it from the censure of Judaism take notice of these four particulars 1. That in the Holy Ghosts Gospel phrase and language there is a Temple among and for Christians under the Gospel as well as among and for the Jews under the Law else Cannes Voice from the Temple if there be no such place must be thus amended in his next Edition A Voice from the Canne or Alehouse and that this Temple is nothing else but the Church and Saints of Christ 2 Cor. 6.16 1 Cor. 3.16 17. chap. 6.19 Ephes 2.21 2 Thess 2.4 Rev. 3 12. chap. 7.15 chap. 11.1 2 19. chap. 14 15. chap. 15.5 6 8. chap. 16.1 17. compared together 2. That Christians under the Gospel have likewise an Altar as well as the Jews though different from theirs Heb. 13.14 We have an Altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the Tabernacle oft mentioned Rev. 6.9 chap. 8.3 5. chap. 9.13 ch 14.18 yea coupled with the Temple Rev. 11.1 Rise measure the Temple of God and the Altar 3. We have Sacrifices to be offered in this Temple on the Altar as well as the Jews in theirs 1. The Sacrifice of Prayer Rev. 8.3 4 5. 2. The Sacrifice of Praise Heb. 13.15 3. The Sacrifice of Charity alms and good works Heb. 13.16 4. Our own bodies which we must present as a living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God by serving him according to his word as rational men not beasts that were both slain and sacrificed