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A88653 The tythe-takers cart overthrown or, The downfall of tythes. Proved that they are not to be payd now, either to the appropriate or impropriate parsons or persons. Pen'd for the general satisfaction and easement of all the people of England. By D. Lupton, servant of Christ Jesus in the work of the Gospel. Lupton, Donald, d. 1676. 1652 (1652) Wing L3495; Thomason E1380_3; ESTC R209388 17,631 52

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13. What faces have our Presbyterian Rabbies to fly unto this for shelter and maintenance for their taking of tythes of the People now in these Reformed Times Well we hope we have removed their old confidence from this Law of demanding tythes Next in order Argum. 7. Seventhly We having them now upon pursuit let 's not leave to follow them a little closer If we will believe them though they can get little or no comfort from Moses or the Prophets yet they have other holds as from the Canon Law the Civil the Casuists and Schoolmen Is' t possible that these men who profess Christ so strictly and Reformation too and exclaim against the Pope and his Adherents will yet flee unto Rome to a Conclave or Consistory of old musty and rotten superstitious Writters who to uphold their Seat and their State patch up their Tenets with Judaism or the Turkish Alchoran who to please their Father subscribe all their Judgments to his Verdict and either will not or dare not print directly what 's truth for fear of his Excommunications and thundering Anathema's But must we be kept hoodwink'd still and must be forc'd to have their sayings obtruded upon us and pinned upon our sleeves for truths though never so false Who knows not how they have juggled with the Text it self terming it fabula a fable What great Confidence in or from these men What hopes to find truth in the very Chair of lying and seducing What if they say Tythes are due Jure Divino and threaten all such with Bell Book and Candle who dare speak or write against it are they therefore so In such a case as this is must Antichrist be chosen Judg and Umpire Oh ye Ministers of England if yet ye be so may we not tell you herein as our Saviour told that young man who said he would follow him whither soever he went The Foxes have holes and the birds of the ayr have nests Have you yet lurking holes from the Popish Canonists and nests too amongst the Popish Lawyers Alas Priests we know have but little skill and of late as bad success in making and trusting to Canons It must not be the Civilian nor the wrangling sophistating Schoolmen who must be Judges in this Point and therefore knowing and hoping you will not foul your mouths with these Rabble of Deceivers we tell you we appeal in this particular to Gods Word if they speak not according to that it is because there is no truth in them Isa 8. We are not willing to mention this dissembling Crue and politique Cheaters who to uphold Peters old Chair and to fill their own bellies and purses too will say and unsay any thing yet for conclusion this point in agitation amongst us at present is yet unheard of and untouch'd amongst them at Rome We therefore intending to be as brief as may be go on and say Argum. 8. Eightly There is not one Iota or line directly for the payment of Tythes in kind not in all the New Testament We 'l deal plainly with the world there are some which carry a shew which we intend to answer because some have made use of them contrary to the meaning of them that spoke them The first is in Mat. 8.2 3 4. concerning the Leper unto whom Christ said Go shew thy self unto the Priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a Testimony unto them Some concluding that Christ stood for payment of Tythes himself according to Moses Law but let 's a little examine the matter and it will make nothing for our Tythe-takers now for first Christ was not then glorified secondly the Jewish Clergy was then in power and being though miserably corrupted and that party who was healed of that Nation and so liable to payment and therefore Christs Injunction was both equal and righteous at that time Another Text too is used for payment of Tythes and that is in those two men who as our Saviour says went into the Temple to pray the one a Pharisee and the other a Publican amongst other particulars which the Pharisee boasted of this was one that he gave Tythes of all that he possessed Luk. 18.12 See say our Tythe-takers the very Pharisees did not deny Tythes and so hold out to plain people that those who deny to pay Tythes are worse then the Pharisees We reply Did he pay Tythes 't was his duty to the Command then being in force and he a Jew and one that pretended to be the strictest Observant of the Law Now as the Apostle Paul saith Thou that boastest of the Law through breaking the Law dishonorest thou God Rom. 2.23 It had in him at that time been not only a breach simply of the Law but also a dishonoring God and yet we have but his own bragging and boasting word and some suspicion may be moved concerning his doing as he said for for all his boasting this did not justifie but in the last place this was not a real history but a Parable for the text saith And he spoke this Parable Luk. 18.9 So neither of these doth any thing help the cause of Tythes at this present Well we come now to the main Refuge that large and copious Text of the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 9.7 8 9. to 14. wherein say our Tythe-Takers the Apostle hath sufficiently warranted tythes even now under the Gosel we will take some pains therefore about the true opening of this Text The Apostle vindicates indeed his own liberty and power though he says he used it not at all vers 15. He speaking of eating and drinking and leading about a sister a wife vers 4 5. forbearing to work at his Trade vers 6. Urgeth his lawfulness of doing from three similitudes 1. from going to warfare at a mans own charges 2. from planting a vineyard and not eating the fruit 3. from feeding a flock and not eating of the milk of the flock vers 7. Brings an Argument from Moses Law too from muzling the ox that treadeth out the corn vers 9. fetches confirmation of this from plowmen threshers and seeds-men vers 10. proves his doctrine from an Argument called a Majori ad Minus If we sow to you spiritual is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things vers 11. from the practice of others v. 12. therefore as well to him as to others proves it also from those who ministred about holy things in the Temple and waited at the Altar both lived of and by it and so concludes this subject that so hath God ordarned that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel an Argument a pari if they lived on that these on this and this is Gods Ordinance We have not omitted any thing we would not willingly in this large Text of Scripture which seems to be the Tythe-Takers safest and uncontroulable Argument if it be not throughly examined But we shal make it appear that this Apostle even in this place doth not