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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05097	Hierosulias mastix, or A scourge of sacriledge: in answer to a pamphleter calling himself Anthony Pearson, concerning The great case of tythes. Wherein many gross fallacies and untruths of the pamphleter are discovered and convinced. / By Joh. Reading, once a student in Magdalen Hall in Oxford.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing R447A; ESTC R182394	73,792	98

abilities will stand up to defend the Church-rights and so these blasts of Jesuites and other Sectaries designs and practises against the Ministers shall prove but as winde shaking trees and thereby causing them to take the stronger root Sure I am that such pernicious pieces as this against Tythes have in other cases formerly awakened good Authors and occasioned them to write many things for the necessary defence of the Truth and Rites of the Church of Christ so that the Adversaries thereof in the issue proved but as those Geese which gave the Alarum to the Court of Guard in the Capitol whereby both that and the City were preserved Of these things let the prudent Reader judge and the good Lord God open all our understandings that knowing the Truth consenting and obeying we may be happy in the God of Peace and Vnity our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen ERRATA Page 4. line 35. read preached the Gospel p. 6. l. 7. now ere p. 8 l. 2 not certain p. 9. l. 15. nay but do you not know p. 11 l. 10. Pharises and Scribes p. 12. l. 14. as received p. 13 l. 20. which could not p. 16. l. 30. where they pleased p. 17. l. 7. notoriously faulty p. 18 l. 9. deserens ibid. l. 5. Nicene p. 19. l. 33 when you mind but. p. 21. l. 11. Mr. Selden p. 29. l. 3. at nunc p. 31. l. 27. hives of drones p. 40. antepenult would gladly p. 51 l. 31. captions p. 53. l. ult to the faithful Moses p. 55. l. 14. Minister p. 56. l. 28. Josh 2.1 p. 57. l. 15. levity of the Greeks ibid. l. 23. arrangeth p. 59. l. 11. proportion between p. 63. l. 30. not unwillingly grudgingly or p. 64. l. 27. as honesty p. 66. l. 28. concerning whom we only say p. 68. l. 3. alta pa● p. 74. l. 7. laws p. 78. l. 16. unhappy p. 81. l. 11. faithful Ministers ibid. l. 13. and all Ministe s. The Great Case of Tythes Stated TO the Countrymen Farmers c. The Author very considerably addresseth this Pamphlet to those who are as Marchant-men to men of War where he may probably expect some purchase and not many knocks It is for your sakes c. Job 1.7 2.2 1 Pet. 5.8 Satan might have said as much to sinners and Pharisees to their Proselytes for whose sakes they travelled not to save but to destroy them Are they not much beholden to you There is but one God one truth which whether you or we follow let the prudent Reader judg when he hath seriously considered what is here objected and answered You might be truly informed Be but sincere to make that one word truly good and I will have no controversie with you Of all that I could find written c. I on your side I do not conceive that you would be so tenacious of your error had you but so diligently read the truth which many have clearly written on this subject More than two years last past You see me to confess either much want of apprehension or will to understand any but those who were of your party and opinion It shall be acceptabl to me to receive it on which promise I offer you this following discourse The state of the question in hand understand thus Whether Tithes for Gospel Ministers maintenance are due to them by the unchangeable morality of Gods Law This we affirm hence we claim to this what ever you object we shall endeavour to answer against this law no reason can conclude no authority or decrees of man be of value To your objections now you say of Tithes But they were for the Levites That the Priests you say received no Tithes of the People for these belonged to the Levites whence if you would infer that Tithes belong not unto Gospel Ministers succeding them it were a meer caption to beguile your Reader for we are to know that first Priests were Ministers of the Lord Joel 1.9 13. 2.17 and next in that Tithes are confessed to have been due to the Levites they must be confessed to have been due to the Priests for all the Priests were Levites though all the Levites were not Priests The Priests were of an higher order and dignity in the service of the Tabernacle in which they were to Minister the Levites were to bear the burdens of the Tabernacle when it was to be removed to prepare the wood water fire vessels and instruments for the Sacrifice and holy rites c. Now the Priests as they had a more excellent Office so had they a more honorable Portion For first they had the Tythe of their brethren the Levites part the tenth part of the Tythe of all the Land which because they were but few as I shall shew anon was a large allowance unto them So that as the learned Mr. S. Nettles observeth it Ans to the Jewish part the history Tythes it appears by practise that the Priests received Tythes as well as the Levites So much doth Chimki intimate on Mal. 3.10 He commanded the people to pay the tenth of their yearly encrease unto the Levites and the Priests and this is plainly taught by the Apostle Heb. 7.5 For verily they which are the children of Levi which receive the office of the Priesthood have a Commandment to take according to the Law Tythes of the people c. which by Lyra is explained thus Levitae generaliter recipiebant decimas à reliquo populo inter Levitas autem illi qui erant majores illius tribus videlicet Sacerdotes summi filii Aaron non solum accipiebant decimam cum Levitis à populo sed etiam de parte Levitarum recipiebant quae vocabatur decima decimae Num. 18. And therefore by all this it is evident that the Priests received Tythes of the people and not only the inferior Levites Hererto add that in the general grant of the tenth to the Children of Levi for an inheritance in respect of their service in the Tabernacle Num. 18.21 The whole Tribe both Priests and Levites are included Here it seems the Pamphleter followed Mr. Selden too close and caught some knock which made him forget his own words pag. 12. when he comes there to speak of the Popes working under colour of Jewish lawes he saith By which Tythes were given to the Levitical Priesthood dic sodes How given to the Priest-hood if no Priest received them Truly Priests were by their vocation more honorable then the rest of the Levites as being to perform the holy ceremonies within the Sanctuary therefore they received a more honorable portion than the rest of the Levits for they had the tenth of their part of the Tythes of all the land Now because they were but few in respect of the whole Tribe of Levi of which were numbred above 22000 Therefore considering the first fruits and their fees out of the Sacrifices and other offerings Num. 3.39 43. besides their part of the Tythes