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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47561	The gospel minister's maintenance vindicated Wherein, a regular ministry in the churches, is first asserted, and the objections against a Gospel maintenance for ministers, answered. Also, the dignity, necessity, difficulty, use and excellency of the ministry of Christ is opened. Likewise, the nature and vveghtiness of that sacred vvork and office clearly evinc'd. Recommended to the baptized congregations, by several elders in and about the City of London.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1689 (1689)	Wing K711A; ESTC R213604	49,141	150

Things for him as there lies upon him to provide Spiritual good Things for them and to give him Grounds to Believe they will be Faithful to Christ and to him in their duty upon that account Quest But what shall that Church do who are not able to allow a sufficient Maintenance to their Pastor Answ We have a Three-fold Answer to this Question First If through the Poverty of the Church they cannot provide for their Minister they may make their Case and Circumstance known to other Sister Churches and desire their Aid and Assistance herein but if they can have none and the Church do their Duty to the utmost themselves and yet they are not able to supply his Necessities then he must be contented to suffer with the Church But 2. If God Bless a Congregation with a plentiful Portion of this Worlds Good it is their Duty to make their Ministers a Party with them in their Flourishing Condition and as a late Author saith Considering the Place and Imployment he is in and the Service he attends it would be extreamly unworthy to think they have done enough if his pressing Necessities be answered whilst they themselves abound in Superfluities But if the Congregation be poor and there is no helps to he had then their Minister must and ought to be content to be poor with them yea rejoyce to approve himself a Minister of Christ as Paul did by Hunger and Nakedness if the Providence of God call him thereto but whilst it is in the power of their Hands to provide better for him God expects it from them and let none deceive themselves GOD is not mocked nor will he suffer his Commands to be slighted and evaded without rendring a just rebuke to the Offender For whatsoever a Man Soweth that shall he Reap Yet necessity is laid upon Christ's Ministers and woe be to them if they Preach not the Gospel 3. It may deserve our most mature Consideration whether a People may safely constitute themselves into a Church State when not able to provide for a Ministry especially as the Case may be circumstanced for possibly they might very well joyn themselves to another Congregation near unto them and be a great help to such a Church being Imbodied with them And this we do say For a People to put themselves into a Church State is one of the most weightiest Things in the World and ought with as great Care and Consideration to be done we concluding in some places where there are many Churches near to each other it would be far better for some of those small and insufficient Societies to unite themselves to some other Congregation and by that means the weight of those Indispencible Duties and Obligations that are incumbent on them would with much more ease be borne and answered to the Honour of Christ Reputation of the Gospel and their own Edification Moreover if all Christians ought to consider whether they may or ought to put themselves into a Church State except they have Persons fitly qualified and furnished with Gifts and Graces for the Ministry which if they may not safely do then by the same parity of reason ought they to consider whether they may proceed therein if they know their own Insufficiency in respect of their making a Gospel Provision for their Maintenance unless they live remote from any other Church and so necessity put them upon their so doing Obj. But is not this to build that which you your selves have destroyed viz. Have you not disclaimed against such who Preach for Hire Answ We never went about we hope to destroy any Institution or Ordinance of Jesus Christ as the Ministers Maintenance is as has sufficiently been proved But for Men to Preach for Hire to make that their End we mean in Preaching the Gospel we still utterly disclaim any such Practice and say 't is a low carnal and hase End and Design and unworthy of any Christian Man. 2. We have always disowned or do disclaim against Tythes or the Tenths of Mens Increase declaring that they are not the right of any Gospel Ministers by the Law of Jesus Christ or the due of the Ministers of the New Testament by the appointment of the Lord Jesus being only a Mosaical Rite and that Law to be Abrogated as Aarons Priesthood is 3. We have always disowned and declared against such Ministers who use to strive to compell Men by outward force to Pay them what they call their dues it looking so much like an Antichristian Spirit and Practice and not agreeable to the Gospel of Jesus Christ were Love to Christ and the sence of Duty we find ought to be the only prevailing Argument to excite and provoke every Man to his Duty in this great Case Moreover you must take heed you are not prejudiced against your Dutys from mistaken and false Conclusions because some will not Preach unless you put into their Mouths and so make a meer Trade of Preaching VVill you not answer the requirement of God to those who are the Faithful Ministers of his Word Because some will not relieve their Poor unless they are forced to do it Will you disown your Duty to the poor Saints and not relieve them but Object and say 't is too much like the National practice Or do you not like Preaching after that manner i. e. with a Text Doctrine Reasons and Application because such and such do so whom you disown and cannot have Communion with Let all such weak Objections be avoided and mentioned no more for ever Object You have we fear ever done it for though we do belive 't is the duty of the Churches to allow to their Pastors a comfortable Maintenance who are low in the World and so exposed to the distracting Cares of this Life and thereby hindred in the discharge of their Duty in the Ministry Yet for rich Men who need it not to have an allowance we see no reason for that Answ We Answer It is not an act of Charity to Ministers that are poor we plead for But we have proved it is an Ordinance of God he hath been pleased to Ordain that those who Preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel 'T is their due as they are Christs Ministers He is their Portion now as well as formerly under the Law and have therefore as much right to it as you have to your Inheritance and from hence he willed them when he first sent them out to take no Money in their Purses c. And therefore the State of such you speak of can't exempt you from that Ordinance nor your duty to them besides is it fitting think you that such Minister who have Estates should waste their Substance and injure their Children in their Faithfulness to Christ in Preaching the Gospel and in the services of your Souls For their Work is such that it calls for all their time and uttermost dilligence in a right discharge of their Duty therein and therefore thereby