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The storming and totall routing of tythes wherein is shewed the unlawfullnesse of claiming them by the now pretended tribe of Levy, and both takers and payers therein denying Christ to be come in the flesh / by Edward Barber.
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Barber, Edward, d. 1674?
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excluding others of the like nature but that the same condemnation lies against pretended high Lights above Ordinances spiritualized above Christ above Scripture and what is Written contrary to Pauls advice 1 Cor. 4. 6. to wit not to presume above what is Written thereby winking at iniquity that will not do it themselves but appoint suffer others to do it as sprinkling of Infants take Tythes or contract for Preaching c. Neither will they discover the evil thereof and shew 〈◊〉 Judgement that lies upon the Nation for permitting thereof by those in authorâ—ty contenting â—â—â—…selves with a half-Reformation to wit so far as will stand with their Honour and profit not shewing such repentance as Simon Magus Acts 8. 13. nor those Conjurers Acts 19. 18 19. Who believing confessed and shewed their deeds and those of them which used curious arts brought their Books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of Silver so mightily grew the word of the Lord and prevailed 〈◊〉 Demetrius like verse 24. to the 29. Who made Silver shrines for Diana whâ— called the Craftsmen together with the Workmen of like occupation saying sirs ye know that by this Craft we have our Wealth Moreover ye see and hear that not onely at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people saying that they be no Gods that be made with hands so that not onely this our Craft is in danger to be set at naught But also that the Temple of the great goddess Diana should be despiâ—ed and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all Asia and the World worshippeth and when they heard these sayings they were full of wrath and cryed out saying great is Diana of the Ephesians and the whole City was filled with confusion c. compare with John 11. 48. Where the Jews said concerning Christ if we let him thus alone all men will believe on him c. And if any desire farther Information concerning the unlawfulness of paying or taking Tythes let them Read John Turner on Tythes Tyth-gatherers no Gospel-Teachers Gentil-Congregations no Tyth-payers or the Ordinances of Tythes dismounted and if all this will not serve those greedy Cormorants the Priests of these times to take them off from their ungodly gains let them then expect no quarter according to Zach. 13. 2. 3. Where it is said it shall come to pass in that day saith the Lord of Hosts that I will cut off the nâ—mes of the Idols out of the Land and they shall no more be remembred And I will cause the Prophets and the unclean spirits to pass out of the Land and it shall come to pass that when any shall yet Prophesie then his father and his mother that begate him shall thrust him through when he Prophesieth and it shall come to pass in that day that the Prophets shall be ashamed every one of his Vision when he Prophesieth neither shall they wear a Rough or Inckie garment to deceive or lie compare with 1 Kings 18. 21 to the 24. And Elijah came unto all the people and said How long halt yee between two opiniors If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal then follow him and the people answered him not a word c. compared with the 2 Kings 23. 4. 5. 6. Hosea 10. 5. Acts 6. 8. to the 13. And Stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and miracles among the people Then there arose certain of the Synagogue which is called the Synagogue of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of them of Cilicia and of Asia disputing with Stephen And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake Then they suborned men which said We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God Rom. 2. 6. Who will render to every man according to his deeds c. Revel. 14. 9. and 10. And the third Angel followed them saying with a loud voice If any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and he shallbe tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb Compared with Revel. 18. 23. 24. And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee and the voice of the bridegrome and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee for thy merchants were the great men of the earth for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived And in her was found the bloud of Prophets and of Saints an of all that were slain upon the earth FINIS
against Magna Charta and the Petition of Right and is it not much more in the first year of Englands Jubilee Englands Liberty Again consider the great burthen to the Common-wealth for the free Commones of England do hereby in some places loose the profit of one half of their Land by the year as may be made appear if it be duely considered to wit to the Landlord and the Priest or Parson they only being Gentlemen the rest being slaves and it were well if they were board through the eares that they might know themselves to be so they being under service and oppression worse then the Israelites in Egypt who labour with much sweat and pains hunger and cold wet and dry for that which the other like drones or Caterpillers consume on their backs and bellies c. Therefore our denying the paying of Tythes is not in the least in any contempt against Civil Authority who are Gods Ministers not onely to take vengeance on them that do evil and should cause them to work and eat their own bread but for the praise of them that do well and should see such not to eat that will not work but in obedience to God and the rule of the Gospel given forth by his spirit to all Nations that believe and obey him as before is shewed 2. It is not in contempt to the persons of these men who pretend they are Ministers of Christ But rather desire they might be imployed in some lawfull way or calling to get their own bread that so he that hath stolen to wit Minister or in English Servant as well as Member might steal no more but labour with his hands the thing that is good that he may have to give to him that needeth c. according to the Apostles words Ephes. 4. 28. But our denying the payment of Tythes is first in obedience to God all that do pay them therein denying Christ to be come in the flesh by their upholding those Jewish Rites and Ceremonies which ended in Christ which these self-seeking and time-serving men still seek to uphold so far as they will make for their own ends robbing Christ of his Priesthood poor men and women of their goods and without the great mercy of God of their souls for might they not as well have their Linnen Ephod or Surplus Altars Sacrifices of all sorts right shoulder and the Maw Tempel at Jerusalem none Inheritance for the Priests yea Circumcision killing of Beasts c. is Tythes that so they that take the wages might do the work injoyned for the wages as to feed the Levit the stranger fatherlesse and widow Deut. 14. 29 But if through pride or Lazines they will not do the work which they refuse to do then let them not wrong the people and Nation so grievous as to take the wages for to him that worketh is the wages reckoned of debt not of grace But not to him that worketh not it must be of grace to wit of free gift 2. Their ordination being false and not according to the rule of the Gospel But against the Rule Government and Authority of Christ the Son of God his Crown dignity who is therein the onely King and Law-giver whom they say is their Master yet do they as the Heathen Tyrants of old who clothed men in Beasts skins that so they might be the more eagerly devoured so these make the true worshippers of God in Christ as odious as they can by slanders and revilings under the name of Hereticks and Schismaticks c. Never shewing wherein much lesse proving the thing true that so they may make the Magistrates and common people as those deluded by the Friers and Priests in Germany against the Hugnotes as they called them cry out against them before they see them Judging them to be strange Monsters unhumane Creatures and so do these before they know them c. 3. It being against the known declared Laws of the Land as Statute decimo rertio Elisabeth they not upon every induction into any place publickly Reading the Book of Articles and subscribing it which by the Protestation and Covenant these cannot do except perjured are to injoy no more benefit then if they were naturally dead 4. It being against the Protestation Covenatn Declarations of Parliament and Army that the Kingdom have Generally taken and entred into to wit to uphold and maintain the true Protestant Religion in opposition to Popery and Popish Innovations and as aforesaid they also receiving their Power and Ordination from Rome yet not performing that they were injoyned and for what Tythes was given neither in the time of the Law nor by the Counsel of Lateran as before shewed 5. It being against the Ingagement and Covenant not onely of the Parliament but also the Kingdom in general with their hands lift up to the most high God the searcher of all hearts to Root out Popery Root and Branch and the Government by Lord Arch-Bishop Bishops and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierarchy as these do c. And each one to go before another in a real not a fained reformation it being better not to vow then to vow and not perform c. 6. The Gospel-weapons being not carnal but spiritual mighty through God c. 2 Cor. 10. 4. and 2 Tim. 2. 24. 25. 26. The Apostle saith The Servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle towards all men apt to teach patient in meekness instructing the contrary minds proving if God at any time will give them repentance Compared with Mat. 8. 10. 11. 12. and Titus 3. 2. Rom. 14. 11. where the Apostle shewes we shall all stand before the judgement-Seat of Christ where every one shall give an account for himself to God c. And surely the way that Christ hath appointed for his Ministers of the Gospel to walk by in all Gospel-Administrations is the sword of the spirit the word of God and not the Authority of the civil Magistrate or sword of steel by which Antichrist hath so inlarged his Dominions as Revel. 13. 3. 7. 16. 17. And therefore to escape his punishment verse 10. Let all the people of God shun this practice compared with Revel. 18. 4. where it is said Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues It being very considerable whether the civil Magistrate giving their power as to raise so to the upholding of that state of Antichrist ruling over the bodies and consciences of the people in Ecclesiastical things by intrenching upon the prerogative Royal of King Jesus whereas he would not intermeddle with that which was their due Luke 12. 14. whether that I say be not the cause why the Lord lets the sword remain so long amongst us and other parts even to the depopulating of the Nations of the earth being now even drunk with the blood of the slain amongst us for many years past