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A44793	The great case of the tythes and forced maitenance [sic] once more revived the true state thereof enquired into, before the law, under the law, among the Jews : likewise under the Gospel, the true ministers of Christ, their allowance shown : likewise in the corruption of time since Christ, how tythes have been introduced, wherein antiquity is searched, and the judgment of the fathers of the church in several ages produced, besides the Scripture it self examined : in all which is clearly proved, tythes and forced maintenance, are no Gospel maintenance : the Scriptures answered, divers arguments confuted, and objections answered, which are brought by the ministry of this late age : also the institution and division of parishes and their rise, all which are published for the benefit of all, who desire that Gospel order might be established again in all the churches of Christ / F.H.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; M. L.; Guy, Edward, 17th cent.; Raunce, John, 17th cent.	1665 (1665)	Wing H3165; ESTC R22288	63,807	82

of the Husbandmen and where it is not offered freely they take it violently and by force so now in these latter dayes in the Apostacy the late Priests from that ●●●mple have payed Tythes to 〈◊〉 being as they reckon him Chief Vicar upon earth 〈◊〉 also now since the Popes supremacy hath ceas'd with us in England a late Law hath been made to pay the first-fruits to the 〈◊〉 yet notwithstanding the Possessor was not to spend the 〈◊〉 till he had taken out of these nine another Tithe which he 〈◊〉 the first two years to carry to Jerusalem in kind or to con●●●● it into money adding a fifth part to the value after these 〈◊〉 thus disposed of the remainder was every way prepared 〈◊〉 for common use of the Husbandman Some make a third Tythe but that was only the Tythe of 〈◊〉 third year after the first was payed of every year which was 〈◊〉 up by the Husbandman within his own gates for the Levite 〈◊〉 is within his gates the stranger the fatherlesse and the wi●●● and not carryed to Jerusalem and this Tythe bestowed ●●●y third year was called the poor mans Tythe and that third 〈◊〉 the second years tythe ceas'd to be payed at Jerusalem so 〈◊〉 every third year the Levites at the Temple received not 〈◊〉 second Tythe at their feasts but according to the Law i● 〈◊〉 spent at home in the gates of the Husbandman neither doth 〈◊〉 second Tythe and the poor mans Tythe differ in substance 〈◊〉 only in circumstance the place where the bestowing was 〈◊〉 only the difference as the Septuagint Translates it When 〈◊〉 ●●st ended the tythe of all the fruits of thy ground in the third year 〈◊〉 second tiths thou shalt give to the Levite and to the stranger c. But after the second Temple was destroyed and the dispersion 〈◊〉 the Jews then the laws of first-fruits offerings and tythes 〈◊〉 them ceased for their Doctors determin'd that regular●●● or according to the Law no inhabitants but of the land of 〈◊〉 was to pay any First Because they then wanted their Priesthood and Tem●●● Secondly Because the Law did restrain the payment thereof to 〈◊〉 and herein they all agree Also Eusebius agrees with the Jewish R●bbins herein That tythes 〈◊〉 only limited to the land of Israel How the payment of these tenths was either observed or dis●●●●inued partly appears in the Scriptures and partly in the 〈◊〉 of more trusty over●●●rs in their great Sanadrim or Court of 70 Elders wherein they agreed that the overle●●● should be chosen of more honest men By that which hath been said may be perceived the state of the Jews Tything by the Commandement of God and likewise the Judgment of their own Rabbins and Doctors of the Law which gives a clear Judgment of the practice according as was in use or exercised among them and all do agree that they by a due right did belong to the Aaronical Priesthood and to the Levites and other officers in the Temple and Tabernacle and for the service there according to Gods appointment for hearing the Tabernacle and setting it up and for serving Aaron and his sons and for the better ordering of things they were divided into three parts to wit the Levites as the Coathites G●●shonites and the Marrarites and these did receive the tenths of the people and gave to the Priests their part which belonged to them according to the Law of God in that Covenant and 〈◊〉 the sons of Aaron grew and multiplyed then the Priests were divided into 24 ranks or courses to serve at the Temple of which our Prebends Deans and Chapters take their example or imitation so to serve by their turns at Cathedrals as they are called or else from the Church of Rome but the latter I am rather ●●clin'd to believe because there was no such name of any Minister among the Jews neither in the Primitive Church truly so called but the Priests of Aaron gave attendance to execute their office and to burn incense as their turn and course came And hereupon Zacharias is said to be of the course of Abia. The L●vites that were ●ingers were also divided into 24 ranks or courses of which I believe the present Quiristers or Singers and S●●plice men do have their imitation and bring the Levites for proof concerning their offices but we cannot receive Judaisme for Christianity neither their practice for Apostolical Ordinances in the Church of Christ. But how these things do agree with the primitive practice o● Christ his Apostles and Ministers and the Churches planted by them in their day is easily seen in that which is written in sundry places of the New Testament so called and how it com●● to pass that they which pretend another Priesthood and to b● Ministers of Christ should receive the tenth of all clean and unclean beasts as Pigs Geese Eggs Fowls Turneps Wood and ●●●●is for the fire all which things we do not find mentioned 〈◊〉 some of them forbidden to be offered under the Law and yet they pretend to be Bishops and Elders of the Christian Church so that it seems they cannot distinguish of the time nor yet of the ministration for if so then they would be ashamed to lay claim to Aarons tithes and the Levites and yet doth none of their 〈◊〉 which is contrary to all reason truth and equity for that was given to them that had no portion among their brethren in the land but these Bishops Presbyters and Priests have their inheritances among their brethren and besides have a great part of some Counties and Diocesses for their revenue and their inferiour officers tithes of all things yea of such things as was 〈◊〉 at all tithable in the Law as is said before so what damnable deceit and hypocrisie is this is it any other but the Popes 〈◊〉 an absolute Apostate for hundreds of years and must this be received as Apostolick Doctrine and practice and enjoyned O for shame let it never be made mention amongst them that do call themselves Ministers of Christ neither any who do profess themselves to be Christians who dare not stand to Christs Doctrine and allowance in respect of their maintenance But in the 〈◊〉 of time God raised up another Priest Christ Jesus who was not of the Tribe of Levi neither made after a carnal Com●●●●ment as the first Priest was neither was he consecrated 〈◊〉 the order of Aaron for he pertained to another Tribe of which no man gave attendance at the Altar viz. to Judah he 〈◊〉 a more excellent ministry and of a greater and more perfect a Tabernacle not of the former building he being the sum substance of all shadows under the first Covenant hath thereby put an end to the first Priesthood with all its shadows and 〈◊〉 Ordinances and changing the Priesthood which had a command to take tithes of their brethren there was a necessity also of the change of the

THE Great Case of Tythes And forced MAITENANCE Once more REVIVED THE True state thereof enquired into before the Law under the Law among the Jews likewise under the Gospel the true Ministers of Christ their allowance shown likewise in the corruption of time since Christ how Tythes have been introduced wherein Antiquity is searched and the Judgment of the Fathers of the Church in several ages produced besides the Scripture it self examined in all which is clearly proved Tythes and forced maintenance are no Gospel maintenance the Scriptures answered divers Arguments confuted and Objections answered which are brought by the Ministery of this last age Also the Institution and Division of Parishes and their Rise all which are published for the benefit of all who desire that Gospel order might be established again in all the Churches of Christ. F. H. Printed in the Year 1665. An Epistle to the READER Impartial Reader THou hast here recommended once more unto thy view what as from time to time and from age to age hath been not only the grand Cause of invocating counsels but also hitherto even the ground of great dispute and controversie if thou this Treatise do with a single eye peruse and ballance the same in just and equal scales thou wilt find it of so much validity as will poise thy judgement to give sensure that this is a clear and true demonstration of the matter in hand if thou be serious in thy view sincere in thy heart and single in thy mind as willing to know the radix rise and ground of the matter herein handled then wilt thou find this the very key which will aright and may without scruple open unto thee and demonstrate the very certain infallible and sure testimony as well of their original rise growing begetting constituting settling confirming upholding and maintaining of them viz. Tythes all which that thou mayst be clearly informed may thou finde as by step and step herein traced thou wilt finde their original as first how tenths were given before the Commandment was given forth to the Jews thou wilt also find their growing and their Institutions thou may clearly see and wherefore they were so instituted thou wilt finde them when confirmed and thou wilt finde them when corrupted thou wilt finde them when lawful and thou wilt finde them when not lawful thou wilt find them when they were to be payed and thou wilt find a time when they ought not to be payed And because the Ministers of our age as we have daily from them do vaunt and boast themselves of the Orthodox Fathers of their Church therefore wilt thou find by a narrow search and a single eye in the reading hereof unto which I do advise thee and that in patience and sobriety thou wilt as one unbiassed ballance the same here may thou have their opinions and judgments also and their ancient Fathers quoted thou wilt have at large their own words All which as by this Treatise is intended to inform thy mind and be as a president how they are now in this our age apostatized from what they were and now at length becom'd as usurpation or abused And for thy more full and perfect understanding how they were continued and imposed thou may also read the Orders and Decrees of many great Councils their Opinions Judgements and Impositions from time to time in many ages past Thou wilt see the testimony of the holy Martyrs and their verdict and last of all the Scriptures discussed the arguments confuted the questions answered and the objections razed which the Ministers of our daies do produce or in times past have been produced as the basis or ground from which they inferre and lay their seeming fair foundation these thou wilt all see sufficiently clearly and evidently confuted their structure defaced their painted building demolished their foundation unbottom'd and they themselves if their old root of Covetousness were not so strongly centered in them might be convinced there is not one stone left but all is overturn'd and the bottom ●…wed that thereby this Babels foundation may now be thrown down at the last which hath had so many batteries ●…d assaults against it this as it is the last so it is indeed a weighty peice which if truth might have place and error and deceit which since the Apostacy is crept in once rooted ●…t then needed there not another of this nature for this indeed doth bolt the door and if sensibly felt arightly understood and the truth of it assented unto then would there be no entrance But though all this may not take ●●ld with the worldly Priest yet herein have I hopes that truth therein being so sufficiently demonstrated may take place and footing in every honest Reader so far as that he may not only be informed but convinced and not only so but being convinc'd by this which doth so candidly manifest the same he may in the zeal of his heart own it and stand in the defence thereof vindicating the just cause thereof and witness with his seal that this is true which if unbiassed he peruse it doth evidently appear unto me he cannot but own as he is willing and aminded to own truth One thing more is also in this book inserted to wit the sufficiency of allowance to the Ministers of Christ i● Gospel daies according the doctrine of Christ and the Apostles and it were well if Magistrates and Superiors ●…ld weigh it and that they would with the infallible eye of pure judgement labour to discern the same lest they de●…e or uphold that which in this case they ought not to ●…t Tythes lest the Lord be angry for their so doing it being so repugnant to the testimony of truth And so let every honest Reader weigh and diligently and ●…riously consider whether he ought to uphold truth or er●…r light or darknesse I assume he will say that he ought 〈◊〉 uphold and maintaine the truth and to stand by it and for it then let me ask him a sober question in the sobriety and calmnesse of spirit and I desire that in the coolnesse of the day he may answer it according to the witness of his conscience My question is this whether he doth not believe after that he hath had a serious view of this pie●● that he meets with such valid arguments such clearness of demonstration as may or doth convince him that the imposition of Tythes now in Gospel daies is absolutely out of the Doctrine of truth and ought not so to be And if so convinc'd whether he ought not to side and adjoyn with that of God in his conscience in a testimony of this nature and so partake with truth which is a duty ought to be and is incumbent upon every Christian mans heart which is the desire of him who is a well-willer to Sions prosperity Edward Guy The Great Case of Tythes once more revived and the True State thereof inquired into both under the Jews and also under the

molestation to any man in person or estate in the world eating their own bread and drinking their own water either by labour or by price but alas their way is stopt and Divinations is sought against them the Balaamites are called forth to enchant and divine and curse and they give counsel to the Princes to stand up in defiance and seek by all means possible to stop and hath fram'd many engines to see if that will do to wit forcible laws confiscations premuniries Jayles Prisons houses of Correction fines stockings whippings execrations cominations and excommunications and what not that can be invented by wordly policy and now the battel is set though one party hath no carnal weapon i● their heart or hand and all Nations mark the issue remember the battel and the end thereof and do no more if the Lord do not manifestly say and make it evident one way or other for I dare n●…nit him a way saying as he did of old touch not mi●● anointed do my Prophets no harm to every Kingdom Natio● and People who riseth up against the inheritance of the Lord and if he bring not a rebuke upon whatsoever Nation People o● Family that arises up in opposition against Christ and his people whom he hath redeemed then let all conclude that God is no● among us neither is with us nor hath spoke unto us but to be sho●● in this matter because a few words to the wise is enough and a little councel to the prudent may suffice but in this particular of which I have been treating most what about tythes and Ministers maintenance in this I shall conclude and also assent unto as being the judgment of thousands of the Lords people as that the Ministers of Jesus Christ who are truly so manifest in doctrine and works who sow unto us or any people spiritual things they should and ought to reap of our temporal things But here lies the difference First of all that the spirit of the Lord in our consciences must be our judge who these Ministers are and no other mans direction for to the Conscience were alwayes the Ministers of Christ made manifest and not approved with the reason and wisdom of man Secondly that our gifts may be free and by no mans compulsion and this is according to primitive example and the Church of Christs order in the first Gospel-times which all do conclude was the most purest time And would not this ease the temporal Magistrate of much trouble that he puts himself unto and also be more acceptable to God and man for who hath made him a judge of these things in Gospel ●…es But seeing I have run over the many particular judgements from the Apostles time downward and hath given the best ●…dent that can be given in every age as to this particu●… and seeing divers things are written by other hands 〈◊〉 may be enough to satisfie the Consciences of all who 〈◊〉 scruple in this matter And so I shall conclude upon 〈◊〉 many good reasons and grounds before mentioned which is agreeable some of them in every age unto the Doctrine of Christ and the Practice of the Apostles and 〈◊〉 is a certain and positive truth believed among us which 〈◊〉 is agreeable unto the Scripture That Tythes and for●… Maintenance as to the Ministers of Christ never was 〈◊〉 or shall be counted as Gospel Maintenance neither 〈◊〉 the Consciences of Believers at all obliged in this mat●er Concerning parochial Churches and division of Par●shes and Parish profits COncerning these parish Churches about which there is such heavy stir at this day and for parish pay and an injuction for all to worship there is a very novelty and compared with the Apostles time though it s granted that there were places wherein the Saints did assemble themselves for the worship of God yet no limitting to any such place nor no limitting nor no tying to pay these were but set up at best in the time of Popery and not altogether in the beginning of it neither for as is mentioned before the Teachers was sent out of the Monasteries and religious houses so called and the people did go to worship at any place and at their own free will gave their offerings where they pleased till the year 1200. as before is mentioned as learned Selden hath well observ'd in his exact Treatise of tythes As for the Brittains little or no testimony is extant of any credit that discovers their order in their times but some about the 500 year after Christ was found amongst them for when Da●ritrius was Bishop of South Wales and his See appointed at Landasse divers Churches were erected and oblations and other profits were appropriated to him and his successours likewise mention is made of a Church build in the time of the Romans to the honour of Saint Martin in which Austin and his followers when they came first from Rome made their holy assemblies as they were call'd but Guildas saith that about the year 580. the Clergy having Lordship had resort to them for filthy lucres sake First Parochia or Parae●●● be diversly taken as first it was taken by the Saxons for Bishoprick or a Diocesse or otherwise for a limitted place within that Diocesse called a lesse Parish but it is manifest that these Parishes had no profits at all belonging unto them but only were places where Augustine sent his Monks unto in the time of the Saxons and to preach and receive the offerings and they were carried into a general treasury for the Clergy for then they had all things in common so at that time when they began to grow rich they began to build some houses call'd Churches and to repair the old Temples of the Gentiles as Pope Gregory advised them out of the offerings of the People but now Parish Priests takes tenths and oblations also and that by force and will neither build nor repair these Masse houses and so are worse then the Papists in their time for the conveniency of the neighbouring inhabitants were assigned to the Ministring Priests where they exercise their shrivings but not so limitted that every one was bound to keep his devotion within the limits of such a place or any parish for in the respect of offerings and profits Canterbury was indeed the only limitted parish so it was not material at what place they met or where they offered their bounty so they did it any where and it s commonly received That Honorus who succeeded Augustine at Canterbury about the year 630. divided his province into Parishes as some of the greatest and most learned Writers relate But when the Popes Doctrine was received and devotion grown great such as it was most lay men of great estates desired the Country residence of some Chaplaines or Clarks that might alwayes be ready for their instruction their Families and adjoyning Tenants and then Parish Churches began to builded by them also and the bishops hallowed them as it was called