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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70871	The remainder, or second part of a Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness & continuance of the antient setled maintenance and tithes of the ministers of the Gospel wherein the divine right of our ministers tithes is further asserted ... / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq. ...; Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness & continuance of the ancient settled maintenance and tenthes of the ministers of the Gospel. Part 2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4050; ESTC R15632	145,173	195

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 Judgement 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 purest times for 500. years after Christ Therefore they are unlawfull oppressive un-evangelical tyrannical antichristian as Canne terms them in his thundering empty voyce Answ To this I answer first That there is no expresse Precept or President in the New Testament for any strange High Courts of Justice Martial or other Courts of that Nature for any Articles of War or penal Laws to put Souldiers or any others to death or inflict punishments for any New High-Treasons or Offences whatsoever No Precept nor President that John Canne a late Excise-man as divers report can produce for the imposing or levying of any Excise Impositions Taxes Customes Crown-Rents Tonnage Poundage Contributions by any Distresses Forseitnres Imprisonments sale of Goods billetting of Souldiers on the People and armed violence now used by Souldiers Excisemen Collectors and other Publicans sitting at the Receipt of Custom whereof I hear Iohn Canne is one perhaps to Excise the Alehouses and Cannes there used for names-sake all puny to and less warrantable by Gods Law and Gospel than our Ministers Tithes The Objectors therefore must find express Gospel-Texts for all and every of these publick Duties and the present wayes of levying and enforcing them or else disclaim them or their Objection against Tithes 2ly I have produced expresse Gospel-Texts warranting in the general coercive Laws Sutes Actions to recover Ministers Tithes as well as any other just legal publick or private Dues Debts Rents Lands Possessions whatsoever Therefore the Objectors must either disclaim their Objection or renounce all penal Laws Sutes and coercive Means whatsoever to levy or recover any other civil Rights Debts or Duties whatsoever and introduce a lawless Anarchy and Confusion amongst us for every one to cheat defraud rob oppresse disseise spoyl defame wound murder one another without any penalty or redresse except only by Club-law instead of a peaceable just and righteous Government 3ly The reason why there were no coercive Laws for the payment of Tithes or Ministers dues in the Primitive Church for above 500 years was this because Christians then were so zealous ready forwards to render them with an overplus and to sell their very Houses Lands Possessions Estates and lay them down at the Apostles and Ministers feet to maintain them and relieve their poor Christian Brethren witness Act 2. 44 45. c 4. 34 35 37. c. 5. 1 2. 2 Cor. 11. 9. Phil. 4. 15 16 17 18. Rom. 15 26 and that memorable place 2 Cor. 8. ● to 5. where Paul records of the first Churches and Converts in Macedonia how that in a great Tryal of Affliction in times of heavy persecution their deep Poverty abounded to the riches of their Liberality for to their power I hear them record yea and beyond their power they were willing of themselves praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the Gift and take upon us the Fellowship of the Ministring to the Saints c. The New Testament records the exceeding readiness of the Pharisees to pay Tithes of all they did possesse and of the smallest Seeds and Garden-Herbs of all kinds to their Priests or Levites which Christ himself approved commended with a these things ought ye not to have left undone And Philo a learned Jew who lived under Claudius in the Apostles daies records as an Eye-witness on his own knowledge That the Jews were so forward in paying their First-fruits and other Dues to their Priests That they prevented the Officers demanding them paid them before they were due by Law as if they had rather received a benefit than rendered any both Sexes of their own readiness bringing them in with such courtesi● and thanks giving as is beyond all expression they are his very words And were they then lesse forwards think you to render due Maintenance if not Tithes and First-fruits to the Apostles when they turned Christians Surely no for the forecited Texts in the Acts declare they were far more bountifull than before both to the Apostles and poor Saints selling all they had to support them The like zeal even in the heat of persecution under bloody Pagan Persecutors continued in all the Primitive Christians next after the Apostles who though persecuted driven into Corners imprisoned banished and spoyled of their Goods Lands by plundering Officers Sequestrators Souldiers as Eusebius and others record yet every one of them out of his deep Poverty contributed every Month or when he would or could some small stipend for the maintenance of the Ministers and Poor when they had no Lands to pay Tithes out of of his own accord without any coercion witnesse Tertullian