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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	concern_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	32	3	8.9367	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43226	Tythes no maintenance for gospel-ministers, or, A seasonable discourse concerning tythes wherein it is fully proved that those that urge the payment thereof for their maintenance are no true gospel ministers, but antichristian, and do concur with priests of the Leviticall order and institution ... / by T.H. and T.R.	Heath, Thomas.; Rosewell, Thomas, 1630-1692.	1652 (1652)	Wing H1344; ESTC R32342	26,306	36

example for our practise of paying of tythes for you rencouragement And concerning the Justice of God whereas you say It is just with God to withdraw his blessing by reason we cannot pay tythes for your maintenance We may justly say it is just with God to draw his blessing from your end eavours and that upon good ground by reason that you go on in an illegall way contrary to precept or example to urge that as your due which never was and to presse it so hard on the consciences of any so that you have intrapped multitudes into your snares and gins but this be sure that instead of a blessing your speak of you may fear the contrary least that the curse of God will light upon you and all your proceedings that seek to d●…hrone the Lord Jesus Christ and to set up your own power and to nullifie his Lawes and to enact the Law of Moses or rather the Law of men but as the foundation of that Law is sandy having no more weight but antient custome as you falsely assume time our of mind so the fall of it will be great when your sins are ripened and the time is come of your downfall and then your griese will be more and more encereased But now we shall proceed to your fifth reason to examine what weight that hath whereby to work forth our consciences to this point of yours concerning the payment of tythes to Ministers of the Gospell Reas It is a sin say you wherein and whereby the desrauder robs his own sould of that spirituall benefit and advantage which he might get by such a Ministery for it is just with God go say to such a man thou withdrawest maintenance from servant and I will withdraw my blessing from my own Ordinance so that the word preached by whomsoever it is dispensed shall do thee no good at all but rather it shall be a savour of death to thy own condemnation thy soul shall never prosper or thrive by any Sermon thou hearest We admire to see or hear from any man such rash inconsiderate censures when as our Lord and Master Christ Jusus hath lest us such a warning piece in Mat. 7. Judge not least thou beest judges For matter of fraud or cheating we think we have sufficiently proved the Priests we mean the Presbyterian Priests are the greatest defranders therefore we shall not now touch any further upon that but to shew in this particular your cunning cautelous wiles wherein you lye in Wait to deceice But we are exhorted not to-let any man beguile us We hope the Lord will still support us with the assistance of his Spirit to discern all your wiles and especially this of your injunction of Tythes But you go about to fright us with the justice of God and you measure Gods Justice which is an attribute in himself unchangeable by the Justice of men who are mutable in this you shew a great presumption to meddle with Gods Justice but in this you are rash and censorious as in all the rest of your reasons But for answer we have already proved that Tythes are not maintenance for Ministers under the Gospell but were to Priests under the Law therefore it would be sin to perform any unlawfull action for the maintenance of any though you were Gospell Ministers but to pay Tythes is unlawfull therefore no sinne to deny the paying thereof for the maintenance of Ministers for that God hath not commanded if we make it our duty though commanded by man it is will-worship as worshipping of Angells c. colos 7.18 19. and God may say who hath required this at your hands Esa 1.12 It is not then our pleading Authority commanded us will acquit us at that day thoug in civill action we ought to be obedient to the Anthority in being but tythes was a ceremony of the Leviticall Law as well as Circumcision which are both abolished therefore how can you expect a blessing from God upon the work of your Ministery so long as you plead for any false worship it is all one as if you pleaded for Baal which was idolatry So tythes being that which is abolished is now in opposition to the Gospell therefore idolatry and heresie which is a sin highly displeasing to God and for heretiques we are not so much as to eat withali Therefore you may not marvell why you are abandoned by so many people whose consciences are tender concerning the worship of God by reason that you do maintain a false worship But concerning Gods blessing which alwayes accompanies his own Ordinance many thousands of this Nation have had great and large experience of We mean such as are not of the Presbyterian Order but such unto whom God of his infinite mercy hath made known his truth and discovered the darkness of those who would be called Presbyterians who indeed are zealous many of them in their profession but their zeal is blind in many things as in this of tythes which makes them like Saul to breath out persecution against the Saints to disquiet their peaceable being yea they will take hold of the sword of the Magistrate to prosecute their designes But we hope as the Lord hath overthrown their designes against the peace of this Commonwealth so he will also in this great designe of disturbing the peace of his people of this Nation who are indeed the pillars upon which the safety of the Nation lieth and take away the pillars the house must needs fall Oh that the Pareiament would consider this and stand for the liberty of those that have spent their lives and estates for the liberty of this Nation and that God would put it into their hearts to take off all heavy burdens and even this unsupportable yoke of tythes from this Nation Againe we conceive you have somwhat inlarged your self in saying by whomsoever it is dispensed the word is dispensed but shall do thee no good at all but rather a savour of death c. You seem here by this argument to reach all Ministers as well true as false and so long as the people abstain from paying tythes to the Parish Priest beare with us if the title Priest be put in for tythes imply you appropriate Priesthood to your selves though they do hear a Minister rightly constituted yet no benefit shall accrue say you to their soules but on the contrary a curse this is a very sad and lamentable condition that such a poor soul shall be in we mean that such a man who thorough tendernesse of conscience doth refuse to pay tythes to the Priest that ministreth in the Parish where he lives shall receive no benefit from whomsoever he heareth But this we absolutely deny For first of all if he shall refuse thorough the tendernesse of his conscience desiring only to be regulated by the Word to hear you he doth well for that which is not of faith is sin and a man ought to be perswaded of what he believes to be