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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

perswade all turbulent greedy sacrilegious spirits to follow Dr. Gamaliels advice which many of them have much pressed for a publick Toleration of all Religions though now they would extirpate all Ministers and their Tithes root and branch recorded Acts 5.48 49. Refrain from these Men and their Tithes too and let them alone for if they and their tithes be o● God as I have proved them ye cannot overthrow them lest haply ye be found to be fighters against God 5ly Let every of the chiefest now in Power remember those many reiterated solemn Declarations Protestations Votes and Ordinances they have formerly made for the due payment and preservation of our Ministers Tithes and Augmentation of their incompetent Livings out of the Bishops and Delinquents Impropriations and Deans and Chapters Lands for the most part other waies disposed notwithstanding And what an high violation of publick Faith Trust Promises Solemn Engagements and an eternal Infamy and Dishonour it will procure to their Persons Memories in after Annals and Posterities if all these should now conclude in a general armed Depredation Abolition Dissolution or Substraction of all their old Rectories Glebes Tithes Dues instead of new settled Augmentations out of other dissipated Church Revenues formerly Voted for them 6ly Let all Changers and Innovators of our Fundamental Lawes and Ministers Maintenance consider what prohibitions Comminations and Judgements God hath proclaimed against and inflicted upon such innovators and changers in his Word Eccles 10.5 6 7 8 9. There is an evil which I have seen under the Sun As an error which proceedeth from the Ruler folly is set in great Dignity and the Rich in low Place I have seen Servants upon Horses and Princes walking as Servants on the earth but mark the issue He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and who so breaketh an bedge a Serpent shall bite him who so removeth st●nes shall be hurt thereby and he that cleaveth Wood shall be endangered thereby The meaning of which Parabolical expressions is thus more clearly explained Prov. 24.21 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those who are given to change for their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both That is of the Changers their Adherents joyning with them by the revenging Justice both of God and the King My deceased Brother Burtons Sermons on this Text Nov. 5. 1636. are worth all our Innovators reading For which Sermone he and I joyntly suffered in the Star-chamber through our Innovating all-ruling Prelates malice for discovering oppugning those several Changes and Innovations they had made in the Ceremonies Doctrine of our Church and High-Commission arbitrary proceedings contrary to our Laws Little did those Prelates think in that time of their domineering Power and Greatnesse that these changes of theirs and unrighteous censures upon us for discovering and opposing them would have so soon proved the very causes of their unexpected sudden calamity and ruine according to this Text and censured Sermons and of their High-Commission and Starchamber Court too wherein they prosecuted us yet they really found they did so What proved the calamity and ruine of Strafford Canterbury and the old Council Table but their unrighteous exorbitant Innovations and New Projects against our Laws and old forms of Parliamentary Proceedings What brought sudden unexpected calamity and ruine on the late King and Parliament too even by those who were raised commissioned engaged by Oaths Protestations and Solemn Covenants to defend and preserve them but Gods Justice for some exorbitant Changes and Fundamental violent illegal Innovations whereof both were guilty especially in the Militia whereof the Houses endeavouring totally to divest the King without admitting him any share therein which bred the first fresh quarrel between them as their only security and the Kings too And now God hath made that very Militia the ruine of them both and to assume both the Regal and Parliamental Military and Civil Supreme Authority and Government of the Nation and united Kingdoms too wholly to themselves and to dash in pieces that new minted Mock Parliament Power and Government themselves at first created for those many notorious injurious Changes Oppressions Innovations of all sorts whereof they were deeply guilty And what other fatal Changes God may yet suddenly effect to the Calamity and Ruine of those who have been chief Instruments in all these Changes if they ring THE CHANGES still till they have turned all things upside down as the Potter doth his clay and our very Ministers setled maintenance with all Fundamental laws for the establishment of their and all others just Rights and Liberties I leave to their own saddest Meditations these Gospel Texts of Rom. 2.1 2 3. and c. 12.20 21. which I hope neither will nor can offend any Professors of the Gospel Therefore thou art inexcusable O man whosoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self for thou that judgest doest the same things But we know that the judgement of God is according to truth against them who commit such things And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them who do such things and doest the same that thou shalt escape the Iudgement of God Be not High-minded but fear For if God spared not the Natural Branches take heed lest he also spare not thee being a Wilde Olive Tree And when they have meditated on these Texts I shall further importune all such of them who like the little Horn in Daniel 7.24 25 26. that should be divers from the FIRST and subdue THREE KINGS and being elevated with that successe should speak great words against the most High and wear out his Saints and think to change Times and Laws advisedly to consider what there next follows That though the Laws and Times should be given into his hand yet it will be untill a time and times and the dividing of times And the Judgement shall sit and they shall take away his Dominion to consume and destroy it unto the end And then our Ministers need not fear their Ministry Tithes Glebes nor the People their Iust Rights and Liberties which otherwise are like to be lost subverted destroyed in the long bloody costly Contests and Wars for their Defence and Preservation Now lest any should pretend matter of Conscience or Reason against the Christian Magistrates enforcing of Tithes true payment by coercive Means and Laws in these Tith-detaining sacrilegious times or for the speedy Repeal of all our fore-specified Laws and Ordinances yet in force to compel all Detainers of them to pay them duly under the several penalties therin prescribed I shall endeavour to give a full satisfactory Answer to all Arguments and Cavils of moment usually made against them which are reducible to these four Heads Object First That there is no expresse Precept in the Gospel nor any such penal Laws enforcing the payment of Tithes to be found in the Primitive and