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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81692	A defence and vindication of the right of tithes, against sundry late scandalous pamphlets: shewing, the lawfullnesse of them, and the just remedy in law for them, as well in London as elsewhere. / Penned by a friend to the Church of England, and a lover of truth and peace.	A Friend to the Church of England, and a Lover of Truth and Peace.; Downame, John, d. 1652,; Nomophilos Philotolis.	1646 (1646)	Wing D2074; Thomason E339_7; ESTC R1318	21,705	42

golden viols in their hands full of odours which are the prayers of the Saints And besides this scorn to render him more odious to the people which is the studied designe against many good men at this day he is reported by the Pamphleter to be a contentious man a sower of strife and debate c. as great an opposite as can be to a godly Minister of the Gospel as I hear he is being also a man of whom I cannot easily be induced to thinke any ill having his education from godly parents and a religious School-master and under as Orthodox pious and powerfull a Ministery as was at that time I knew him in Northampton-shire And thus have I as briefly as I could vindicated the lawfullnesse of Tithes and the paiment of them to Ministers under the Gospel sufficient I hope to satisfie any reasonable man that makes godlinesse his gain not gain his godlinesse especially such gain as taken from the Church and Church-men will prove to the possessours of them like aurumTholosanum the gold of Tholouse which beggered all those men and their families that had any of it Numb 5. or like the bitter and cursed water to the guilty woman which caused her belly to swell but her thigh to rot a very emphaticall and significant expression noting a successive curse upon posterity thigh intimating so much in a Scripture phrase as to give one instance for all Gen. 46. v. 26. where it is said that all the posterity of Jacob that came with him into Egypt came out of his thigh even so though the revenews of the Church shall cause a swelling in their estates at the first yet it will bring upon them their posterity and estates a rot and consumption at the last according to that experimentall saying of Charles the Great In Cap. Carul lib. 2. c. 104. Novimus multa Regna Reges eorum propterea cecidisse quia Ecclesias spoliaverunt resque eorum vastaverunt we have known saith he many Kingdoms with their Kings brought to ruin because they spoiled Churches and made a prey of their revenews Much more might be said in confirmation of so well approved and so ancient a truth as the Right of Tithes which I do for the present purposely forbear for that I am loth to call into question so solid so setled and so well principled a verity in so vain so fickle and so uncatechised an age which at this day brings into dispute the most fixed Principles that are a thing so abhorring to Aristotle though but a Heathen that he would have such kinde of contentions to receive confutation verberibus non verbis baculis non argumentis Besides the eager contestation about Tithes falls out at this day amongst such kinde of men as are not so conversant with learning and reason as with ignorance and clamour of whom Tacitus gives this character which I will leave for others to english plebi non judicium non veritas ex opinione multa ex veritate pauca judicat I shall only for conclusion desire these men to lay aside that gall of bitternesse with which they have hitherto overabounded as incompetible with that spirit of meeknesse that is required in true Christians to suspect alwaies that truth which is not accompanied with peace those men that have bitter envying and strife in their hearts are in the judgement of the Apostle James 3.14 lyars against truth so that to strive against peace is to lye against truth to consider the infinite poverty and confusion that would be in the Church of England if it should be quite stript of its ancient endowments and lastly to remember the example of the Emperour Julian who in the begining of his reign gloried in nothing more then in the profession of Christian religion in so much as he became a publike reader of holy Scriptures in the Church and never fell into apostasie till he fell to Church-robbing whereby his persecution of Christians was accounted far greater then that of Dioclesian who though he put far more Ministers to death then ever Julian yet he did not occidere presbyterium he slew not the Priesthood is Julian did by depriving the Church and Church-men of their maintenance whereupon in the opinion of Theodoret after he had robbed the Churches of all their plate and in a scoffing manner asked whether those were sit vessels for a Carpenters son to be served with God wounded him suddenly to death with an arrow shot from Heaven exemplum audisti cave supplicium I have told them the example let them take heed of the punishment I began this discourse with the Law of the Land I will conclude it with the Law of the Gospel being likewise the Law of Moses and the Prophets mentioned in the Gospel of St Matthew cap. 7. v. 12. being the words of our Saviour in his Sermon on the mount whatsoever ye would that men should do to you even so do ye to them for this is the Law and the Prophets The people of England would think themselves much wronged if Ministers should preach against their property of goods and is not the same wrong offered to Ministers when the people speak and write against their patrimony of Tithes the same Magna Charta that confirms the one establishes the other Do is ye would he done by is the Law of Moses and the Prophets Render to every man his due is the Law of Christ and his Apostles Quod tibi sieri non vis alteri ne feceris is the Law of Nature and Nations triplici nodo triplex cuneus and such a three fold cord is not easily broken if it should I tremble to thinke of the misery and ruin that will fall out to a people or Nation at such a breach The Lord make us all wise and just in an age so wilfull and wicked FINIS